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World. cs { ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | 1" Bi to 68 Pate Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ‘J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | & & S0skPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. ations toTHE EVENING WORLD; ullding, Park Row, New ¥. ui y Order, Dratt, Post Office Or: “Cireulation Books Open TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1922. SUBSORIPTION RATES. | | Bene SEMIS ahi Sald Senter New Sk: a One ‘Year Six Months One Month World. S19, oo Cy 4 +38 t Weld Ooty 10.00 5.00 85 ay 400 3.25 “5 } “A 1.00 ‘World Almanac for 1923, 85 cents; by mail 60 cents, BRANOH OFFIOES. 1898 B'way, cor. 88tin, Sth Bt. Hi Ph Ave, neat INC, did Be adoth Be, eee wi Bt. oh peean MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ted Preas ie, exclusively, entitled to the use for news despatches credited to It oF. the news published y 817 MORE DIPLOMACY IN THE DARK. HEN Senator Ladd charges that there is “a close understanding between American il companies in Mexico and the Department of Btate to disobey the laws of Mexico in order ‘that Mexico may be forced to revoke domestic legis- lation and be compelled to sign a treaty distaste- ful to its legally elected officials,” he is talking of matters whereof the people of the United States know nothing whatever except by hearsay. When he charges that the Government at Wash- ington is “using recognition as a bait with which to fish for commercial advantages” he is stating in public what many have suspected but nobody outside of Washington has been in a position to prove. Never in the history of diplomacy has diplo- macy been more secret than in the recent rela- tions of the United States with Mexico. Just what Obregon may have done or refused to do that merits continued excommunidation by the State Department has never been revealed, even by implication. Just why the morals of this country would be imperilled by an official ad- mission of his existence is one of those things, evidently, that cannot yet be told. Unless it is that he has not made his peace with Wall Street _ and American oil interests no reason has ap- peared why Obregon and his regime should not be recognized. It would not do, of ‘course, to make that par- ticular reason public. But if the best excuse Mr. Harding possesses for failing to recognize Obre- gon is one that he‘has not the courage to pub- lish, the only honorable ‘course for the Govern- ment is to come through with recognition. One feature of the heavy sailings for Europe makes the shipping men smile. After they've spent most of their money the tourists will cable home for enough cash to buy return Uckets. | | | EE STAGING THE “STREET.” N tender solicitude for the sucker crop, the New York Stock Exchange has issued a “drama” by J. Edward Mceker, “economist” of the institution, entitled “Smith’s First Invest- ment.” The “dialogue” is delightful. It gently points out the peril of the “bucket shop,” sagely lauds the “reliable” broker, shows skilfully how the ) most money is made on “common” stock and proves beyond doubt that “interests” do not buy \ | stocks; which is very true—they sell! The “drama” explains that the “buying” is widely distributed. It surely is. If it were not | the Exchange would dry up. j Mr. Meeker writes in comedy English, with | plenty of snap. Meant to instruct the guileless, his “drama” shows up in clearest form the methods by which stock gambling loots the coun- | try. We hope it will be widely circulated, | No one needs to write a Wall: Street tragedy. ' They are produced automatically and unend- ingly. | ing) | If Aroostook County achieves its ambition to separate from the State of Maine, New York City will pick up hope. A Senator from the State of Aroostook would, we assume, favor a high tariff on potatoes. PICNIC TRUCKS. T EVERY resort and park and out along the country roads that traverse “picnicky” stretches of country, it is a commonplace to see the Sunday-excursion-going motor truck loaded with one or more families, a sccial club, a school group or a Boy or Girl Scout troup. This is one of the merits of the motor truck. This points one superiority of the motor truck as compared with the horse-drawn vehicle it has supplanted. The truck can play on Sunday, ‘The horses needed rest. The kind-hearted father who is glad to give his children such an outing is the type of man who in other years was kind to his team and gave them their day of rest. To-day mother and the chiidren can look for- ward to the week-end picnic with certainty With the horses it was always uncertain. If a vhard rainstorm imposed a Saturday of rest, , father was more likely to accede to the demand STRGgRRRRNNTIRE TREE eet ie end soe a for a Sunday picnic. But rainy Saturdays fol- lowed by sunny Sundays are not dependable sources of recreation. But now we see them, jolly, noisy, happy par- ties outward bound in the morning and chug- ging homeward at night. The Sunday excursion truck is a great and growing institution. Long may its horn honk with the joy of the picnic parties. THE PLAIN LESSON. HE filibuster excuse has been dropped by the Republican tariff leaders. At first the Democrats denied the charge. They may yet claim the honor and “point with pride” to the campaign of education that delayed and may yet defeat the Fordney-McCumiber bill. The “black sheep” charges Senator Caraway made against the wool Senators are one valuable lesson in the campaign of education. An in- vestigation by the Senate (with a subsequent whitewashing of the black sheep) would not be half so important as the publicity given to this easy lesson in the mechanics of tariff making. The tariff lobbyists we have always with us. They are always seeking for special privilege. The poll list of voters is constantly renewed and the new voters have to learn the ways of the tariff before they can be expected to oppose it intelligently. That has been the history of recent tariffs. Selfish interests intrenched at Washington have written one high tariff bill after another. When the voters have learned the how and why of the tariff they have voted out the tariff makers, It is thirteen years since the Jast Republican tariff was enacted. In thirteen years the poll lists change. There are always nearly as many voters between the ages of twenty-one and thirty- four as there are voters older than thirty-four. In this particular thirteen years the number of new voters is three times greater than usual be- cause the women have gained the vote. There are at least two who have never voted on the tariff question for every one who has. It is these new voters who have been enlight- ened by Democratic opposition to a. tariff of ex- tortion. It is a question whether the education has been sufficient to overthrow this tariff in advance. It may be the protectionists will go on in the face of public opinion and enact the law. But the new voters are learning tht sordid machinery of log-rolling, of personal interest of legislators, of favoritism to a few at the expense of the many, If the bill is enacted it will not endure. The new voters who have never before balloted for or against a tariff law are observing and making up their minds how to vote on the subject at the next opportunity. GROWING STRONGER. Hey BOLAND, De Valera’s lieutenant and for a time his personal representative in the United States, was captured yesterday after a struggle in which Boland was seriously wounded. Boland was typical of many of De Valera’s followers. He possessed an attractive person- ality, made friends readily and was!a leader of sorts. He won a following by his deeds of dar- ing in evading the English net. He helped to create the situation which led British ministers to offer the broad measure of self-rule embodied in the Free State treaty. Boland made the mistake of following De Valera in a bad cause. The fanatics went con- trary to the sensible self-determination expressed at the polls by the majority of Irishmen and confirmed by subsequent support of vigorous Free State measures against the irregular revolt. It speaks well for the Free State support that it is strong enough to move against the more popular leaders of the irreconcilables. The Free State is in better position to sup- press revolt and establish order than the British Government ever was. Irregular leaders find it more difficult to stay “on the run” because most Irishmen are supporting the Government as it gains strength day by day. This is the significance of recent news from Ireland. The Big Ireland is winning. ACHES AND PAINS The inventor of the ukulele, the favorite musical instrument in Hawaii, is dead, He was a Portuguese, The name is native, however, and means literally— “the louse that skips.” It ig delightful to learn from slow old Philadelphia that as the outcome of a taxicab war the noble sport of “jousting” has been revived. The cabs butt each other on the streets, us the knights of old breasted on the lists, It must all be very gay! And to think of its happening in Philly! . It is pleasant to know that Marilynn Miller ts mar- ried, Hope the experiment will prove lasting. . “When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.” Looks as if they were getting ready to take on some outsiders, . The sensational news comes from Washington that 15,500 pounds of rubber bands will be needed to care for the red tepe requirements of the Post Office De. partment. They have the merit of stretching . Sir Thomas Lipton is planning a No. 5 Shamrock, Should think he would adopt the 4-leaf clover instead, JOHN KEETZ, Romances | of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. 1022, (New York Evening } by Press Publishing Oo. “Better Get Together! XXXV.—PIERCING THE HEART OF A MOUNTAIN. One of the most dramatio enginesr- ing feats of the nineteenth century is connected with the names of Adolph Butro and of the famous Comstock Lode, the Aladdin's cave of fortune. By 1864, after several millions had been dug out of the lode, water had become a serious obstacle to further operations. Adolph Sutro, an tmmi- grant from Germany offered a solu~ tion of the problem. That solution was a tunnel to plerce the heart of the mountain. The tunnel was to be four miles long. It was to furnish an outlet for the water, as well as to serve as @ back entrance to the mine for mea and materials. Sutro formed his com pany in 1865. But it took him six years to get the work started, because of litigation caused by signatories to the contract who thought they had put their money in a venture that would not pay—and who figured, too, that they were saving $2 on every ton of ore dug before the tel was i opened. i Sutro startéd the dire ¢ytm~ tn Sep- a tember, 1871. From that time until | ON pee ees July, 1878 jhe fought the forces of Ve" nature as persistently as he had moar ie? fought litigants prior to 1871, The —+.pentin, Ss progress was distressingly slow. In ee ene oe =, the absence of modern machinery the omg: borings advanced only 6% feet a day even when everything was going on swimming In the meanwhile the recalcitrant signers of the contract were taking $9 from the company’s future earnings for every ton of ore taken out of the e ; ; mines while the tunnel was being con+ i ; i y Re Bi structed. i uN i y The invention of the Burleigh drift In 1874 multiplied the progress of the diggers by four. But then a new enemy appeared—heat so intense, in the bowels of the mountain, that even the mules rebelled. By 1876 the temperature had risen to 83 degrees Fahrenheit. That was not so bad; but in 1875 the men were working in a temperature of 96, and by the spring of 1878 the heat stood at 114 degrees. That isa littie higher than the temperature of the hot rooms in some turkish bath houses. Despite every effort to supply fresh ir by every mans known at that period, the air grew frightfully foul. Sutro fought doggedly on and his men with him. On July 8, 1878, only a few feet of rock separated the bur- rowers from the Savage Mine. A blast from the mine broke the barrier and Sutro, panting for breath, strode into s the mine, his face blackened, mre clothes in tatters, but tho light of triumph tn his indomitable eyes. In the face of almost insuperable difficulties, both of nature and of men, he had accomplished the great- est feat of tunnel digging up to his day. From Evening World Readers What kind of letter de you find most readable? Ien’t it the one UNCOMMON SENSE pa ei Ra that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? By John Blake There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ae 2 | #2 eay much in few words. Take time to be brief. TRROERIC MARE. Famous Military Training. Prohibitionist wants these things pro- To the Editor of The Evening World hibited, what would be more natural In a recent issue of your paper Mr.] than to express these beliefs in a J. Rice declares military training ne to cere trite a feaapoli . a t to write rom the standpoin should be stopmed at the C. C. N. ¥ | oe an anti would mean that a call for I belleve not. From experience 1 Antennae are wires, inside og outside a building, set up to catch radio messages. The messages fly through the air—everywhere. They are in the room where the reader has opened this newspaper. Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN Copyright, 1923 (New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. proof would be forthcoming. Some ea a know that that training is the best|onc would be sure to say, “Show me They were whirling about him as he went to business or thing possible. In case of war those} Where the great body of Prohibition- sat at his desk. XIIL—M OSES MENDELSSOHN ists has ever made any such absur: demands as these.’ Awkward, eh? Well, then, says our writer to him- self, “Ul write it from the standpoint who have had military training are rapidly advanced as officers and saved from the tedious kitchen But unless he was equipped with electric ears he could not hear them. A delicate and ingenious machine takes the radio waves (1729-1786)—LIFE’S GOAL PERFECTION OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALS, work," which is the lot of untrained], {, pronibitionist and then every-{3 from the antennae and puts them together again into a According to Mendelesohn’s pbi- Heeey thing will be lovely.” human voi the sound of an orchestra or the tooting of osophy, the only worthy end of human If attacked the United States must] “peaking for myself, I believe that oice or the 5 c or the IES sy ped pemtenontnsscry bers ak defend itself and needs good men.| pyohibition has been a hardship in a steamboat whistle. Military training stops stoop shoul- ders and other such deformities, It makes a fellow rely upon himself Military training is a fine thing and J am sure Mr. Ric of a very few who, perhaps, are too lazy to go through the drills. Keep up the military work. It's fine. All of the good, up-to-date, in dustrious and live-wire fellows want it. R, E, HARRIS. New York, July 24. fection of human Individuals ‘Hu- 1 manity’’ 1s @ mere dead, fixed ab- etraction. ‘*Sclence,"* merely as such, 1s likewise an empty abstraction. The prime requisite for the attainment of human happiness is a knowledge of human nature, which {s gained only by a careful psychological in vestigation. This investigation must be conducted, first of all, observation- wise. Reason (the reasoning faculty) of itself {s Hable to err, and must be controlled by the more primitive un« derstanding, whose material ts sensa- . tions and intuitions. The final crite- rion of truth 1s practical need—the heart Between and co-ordinate with knowledge and desire lies feeling, which is either pleasurable or painful, A pleasurable feeling results from the idea of perfection, a painful one from the opposite. A feeling produced by, perfection in a sensible form its a good many cases. It is not easy for 4 man who has been accustomed to drink to give it up. Neither was it easy for the poor soul you see on Wel- fare Island to give up his daily ra- tion of coke. It was a thousand times more “necessary? to him than booze s to the average booze drinker. -sut public policy forced him to do with- ut. Don't put too much trust in these 1eports you receive about the ghastly ‘mounts of liquor being consumed by the younger generation. Its the y- unger generation who \-Il reap the Please allow me to protest against} ienorit of this new order of things. the letter by ‘A Believer in Decent|Surely a sacrifice 1s justified if it is Tavingt for them. . Oe. And don’t put too much faith in As @ belfever in the eventual tri-| vriters such as ‘A Believer in Decent umph of Prohibition, I denounce that | rjying."” 8. M. Hf. letter as a fraud upon those who be-| Jersey City, July 25, 1922. lieve as I do. Its deception ts transparent, it is true, but the whole get-up of the The same sort of machines, one on either side of the head, catch sound waves from nearby and build them into words or the clanging of cars or the barking of dogs or the ten thousand other noises that we have come instantly to recognize, The human ear is more wonderful than the electric ear, yet it cannot do one thing which the electric ear can do. It cannot select from a mass of noises one particular sound and listen only to that. It cannot “tune” itself to one particular wave length, catching the most instructive and interesting of the mes- sages in the air and excluding all the others. But what is impossible to the ear is possible to the mind. Somewhere in the brain is something we call intelli- gence, which can send forth into life ears far more mar- vellous than the electric ears of the radio apparatus. From all experience and all history it can choose what is most profitable for it to learn, ; Shutting out all other messages, it can concentrate on one at a time till it has gathered all the value. Suspects Anti, To the Editor of The Evening World; Manly Men and Womanly Women. To the Editor of The Evening World: 4 sensation of sensible beauty. ‘The tm- thing fe such au to giadden tho heart), There® nothing: avid nina It is such a mind, trained to listen attentively to what {3 $|pulse toward the realization of the of one who {# not a Prohibitionist, }Josue azainst women smoking, nelther}$ profitable, that distinguishes the able man from the dullard. $| {dea of perfection is tho fundamental and, naturally enough, such a person|!s there anything therein against All men can gather knowledge. The mind that can ]impulse in human nature and the isn't going out of his way to question| chewing tobacco, nor specifically highest law of our will. SELECT knowledge is the mind that will bring distinction and importance to its owner. Such a mind is a glorified electric ear—listening to all that the world has to teach and remembering what is useful the likelihood or uniikelihood of such a letter, Its insulting alr of superiority, its swaggering assumption that the only against many other modes d'hommes. If everything on earth were gov- erned by printed rules it would be a Moses Mendelssohn proves almost axiomatically the existence of God nd of the immortality of the soul. Hoe argues thus: “Now, the exist~ intelligent people in the country are|qull, weary old world, but we have = fs ence ot God follows for us from the an those who believe in Prohibition, tts} thinking power, which we ¢hould ex- and worth knowing. idea of the most perfect being: the expressed admiration for Vollva—all] 1.) in discriminating good from ba¢ idea is self-contradictory unless conform to the type of mind witn |crcise 12 discriminating good from bad God be. The being of God follows, which the ant! would have us believe] I have ete meet tho ag ~ further, from the contingent nature every Prohibitionist 1s endowed (or]| thinks more of any woman, be she 3 ha ane worlds hat tue acaicie ioe at mS PoRIUay . bias sister or sweetheart, because of her WHOSE BIRTHDAY? ernment to blockade the Confederate om 1 follows from such case ; No We do not think that “ail| prowess as a smoker, AUG. 1—RICHARD HENRY DANA]Ports. Dana gave up his law prac-Jion. ax that: Nature knows no Went this Prohibition talk is extremely tir-| It {8 erroneous for women to seck|was born in Cambridge, Mass., on|tlce In 1878 and devoted the rest Of} initiation; a rational being, striv- ing to the really intelligent readers{eomfort in the thought that because + 1815, and died in Rome, Italy, | Ms ie to wendy Bak travel. He wrote ing by the neccssity of its nature poder eu awa Aone hallave husbands or other men do not He entered Harvard | several works which IDS NOIY 00s | Oe ne eotion | enna eaves ape inhabit the big cities et to the habit they approve it 31, but at the beginning |" “Two Years Before the Mast sonar mart eoHal faunal | Taken: “haven't sense enough to vote on a]f know at heart they do not—they junior year an illness affected |The Seaman's Manual," which was|ably be hindered’ in its destiny; th uestion as big and noble as this|merely tolerate tt. his eyesight and he was obliged to|long the highest authority on the[Tationt! meccasiy, of retribution | |s aie Wa don't believe in a tan onl Sen. beoaus y are men, are per-| suspend his studies. In 1834 he shipped | legal rights and duties of seamen; ‘To /Dil SUS Ot le Pune exlttence: Sunday amusements--tobacco smok-|mitted many things that we should be |b mast for California and re-} Cuba and Back,"’ and “Wheaton’s In-|Withon’ the Hope of lmmortality hu- ing (1 woo Lady Nicotine m: f—Iam|sorry indeed to see imitated by those] mained at sea for two years, He re- ternational Law fe cumany gaceeir, — a mupetacs tting furious puffs of smoke at thia| whom we should be proud to have des-Jentered Harvard, completed his course - oo epair, Bu soul seer ; ; Slignated as the ‘gentler sex."’ nd then attended the Harvard Law| Im old age we understand better |endures, so must its chief attributes, me don't want Voliva at the heaa} I belleve in men being manly men|Xchool, He was successful as a law-| how to avert troubles; in youth shought ont will; and its existence of our Government, These are phan-Jand women womenly women. That|yer and served as United States Dls-] pow to endure them man he © beppy ont, vine If 1 tae \ Pine Fi ; he charm and power of Jirict Attorney €or Massachusetts dur : jossible that God, the tusms conjured up by the arts of one] which makes tl Schopenhauer. cor destin: 01 v mpg tr been impressed with th nie woman, that for which she is created,}ing Lincoln's Administration, In thi Op a mld destine it for eternal wretched. that to be a Prohibitionist means that ]is as distinctly feminine as that which office he won before the How long does the night seem che has given up every desire with| makes the charm and power of men is|Court of the United States the f A Kiem La oshadiia/weananin aaie The philosophy of Mendelssohn te which the average man is blessed masculine AARON F. BELLIN, [prize case of the ‘Amy Warwick,” cnet a lofty one and at the same time prage Having convelvod the idea that the| Brook!) a. which vstablished the right of the Goy- jaurin, | tical, if

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