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BRONX. 410 E. 149th Bt. near] CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bld BROOKLYN, 209 Washington 8t.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de Oper Bnd 417 Fulton st "**| LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESB. | msociat Press is. lustvel: titled LA, use for repubii- a ail news eopatches credied to {tor Wot otherwise credited Daper, and also the focal news pul herein POOR MAN VERSUS RICH NATURE. ROM the Department of Agriculture is spread what should be glad tidings of great joy. Crops in thirty-one States are above the normal in promise. In New York State a yield is calculated averaging 9 per cent. above the record of the past decade. The composite of ail crops the country over !s figured in present conditions at a half of one per cent. over the last ten-year average The July rains, at which so many of us pro- tested, were worth a half-billion dollars to the growers. Indeed, so far as growing things are concerned, every prospect pleases Only man is for the moment irreconcilable. Against our trade prosperity, which abundant €rops ought to insure, promoters plot at Wash- ington by means of an export-killing tariff. Against the means of distributing even among our own people the generous yields of field and orchard, circumstances conspire through conflict of the railroads and their men. Against the comfort of coming winter evenings —comfort easily to be purchased in normal sea- sons with the proceeds of good-times trade— stands the persistent menace of the coal strike. Everything in our land, save humanity itself, is ready for a high wave of plenty in the bless- ings that labor and industry can impart. It is so much of a pity as to seem a crime that men cannot in this hour bring themselves to a work- ing and thriving alliance with a nature so richly laden witlf divisible wealth. Especially as the only element necessary to perfect the getting-together ‘s that easy and ancient one—a litle common sense, tempered by an admixture of mutual and kindly considera- tion Tae Bar Association favors Pistol Prohibition without even the half-of-one-per-cent exemp- tion, RENTS COMING | DOWN. HE organizations of tenants in Chicago are spreading the glad news that rents have passed the meridian and are coming down, that landlords have moderated their demands and that new leases are more favorable to tenants. Chicago tenants may have a better publicity THE WEEK Delightfully TEMPERATE WEATHER for the dog days, but not much reflection in the news, A relieving note is approaching PEACE IN THE COAL STRIKE and the resumption of mining soon. But here in New York the Coal Commission asks newspapers to use big type to spread the slogan, “BAVE ALL KINDS OF FUEL.” The RAILROAD STRIKE seems to have gone from bad to worse with temperamental walk-outs by some of the “Big Four” unions in strategic railroad cen- tres. Neither men nor managers regard with favor President Harding's second set of peace proposals. In New York a terrific EXPLOSION IN A LOFT on Washington Street is a mystery, but the presumption of crime is strong. The liner Adriatic is LIMPING TO PORT after explasion that caused serious apprehension, ‘The “DvADLINE” CAME TO LIFE when a Jewel Tobbery below Fulton Street " reported, Hast Side gunmen are taking innocent bystanders into their quarrels. The bystanders provided most of the casualties in two particularly. ATROCIOUS ATTACKS. Four of these thugs travelled a mile and a half througa a densely policed district and then vanished in the vicinity of the Vanderbilt Hotel. But it isn't all so bad.~For example, William Jen- nings BRYAN GOT A HAIR CUT, thereby making the great Commoner more like other people, or, In a word, commoner, And Harold F. McCormick removed a load of in- ternational UNCERTAINTY by his marriage to Ganna Walska. ACHES AND PAINS Cork seems to have been rather cleverly uncorked. * The painful announcement is wade that New York faust burn wood for fuel. A lot of heat can be gen- erated in chopping the ayticle. . Chief Justice Taft has announced the discovery we thought he could make—that Judges work in Eng- land, He appears much impressed by the discovery. . WRe littic busy bee continues to do stunts in the , am Of wrecking autos. It is hard to preserve one's { { agent, but much the same applies here in New York. The peak has passed and the wise tenant will not rush into new leases, He will bargain carefully and hold out for reductions, The New York landlords are whistling to keep up their courage, but they know the situation. Until Oct. 1 they may stick together pretty well, but after that date they are going to compete for tenants on terms that will fill the apartment houses. Tax exemption and new building are the secret of it. There has been a big building boom in the suburbs that will take thousands of families out of the congested districts and into modest one, two and four apartment homes Manhattan, Brooklyn and the older parts of ght, 1022 | Sony enue World By John Cassel | | Copyright, 1039 (Ne Worlt): by Proce Pu iitahing ore ee this ie home! A And will de mine to mabe what I can of tt, Mine for the reat of my We. Mine— Down to the Oity I dreamed about Up there in the quiet hills under Blue Mountain. Mine—well, maybe it ts, As the old woman said when she marked her pies; ‘T. M.—’Tis mince, the Bronx will feel the effect T. M.—Tain’t mince,’ @ You can’t tell which st te. Just one in— Red brick after red brick, row after row, All one streetful of windowe, That look like they were threatening you. FLEXIBLE AND NON-PARTISAN. HERE is a right way and there is a wrong way of making the teriff flexible to fit’ changing conditions. President Harding's plan 1» the wrong way Senator Walsh is abundanuy’ justified in his fear that an “unscrupulous political leader” might capitalize “influence in the White House” and use such a law for “fai-frying purposes.” But the idea of flexibility in the tariff is de- sirable if properly executed To take the tariff out of pelitics and make it scientifically flexible would require a non-parti- san board of ekperts free from both executive and legislative pressure. “Tie nearest approach to such a body we have now is the Federal Re- serve Board. The President can influence the Reserve Board by appointments in much the same way but in greater degree than he can int!uence the Supreme Court. Congress can influence the Board only by legislating it out of existence, or by prescrib- ing broad new policies for our currency system. Neither Congress nor the President can dictate details. The same general idea seems practical for reg- ulating the tariff. A non-partisan board armed with the necessary power could make the tariff flexible and take it out of politics. This need not mean an undeviating tariff pol- icy. When Republicans are in power Congress could prescribe the protective principle as the basis for tariff-making, directing the board to levy duties to cover the differences in cost of production in the United States and abroad and specifying the general classes of commodities to be protected. When the Democrats gained power they might enact the tariff for revenue principle, directing the Tariff Board to raise a given sum of money with the least possible hardsnip to consumers and producers. Unfortunately this sort of tariff policy is wide- ly at variance with what President Harding rec- ommends and with anything Congress is likely to pass. But they ain’t the same as we cownt neighbors Up the River. As far aa I can see, just women W me, Waiting for their men to come home, Waiting till they have toe call the doc- tor For another baby, Waiting, like I waited wp the River For Len to come home and take me Dowon to the City, My head all full of toonderfat things, Like a girl’sis . . So, in ‘Down the River, "to be pub- shed by Holt in September, Roscoe Brink sings of Belle, the country girl who comes down to the city when she marries Len, The Cat in the Afr Raid --- G. B. Burgin tells in his ‘Memoirs of a Clubman’ (Dutton) of the diffi- oulty of writing in Paris under the German air raid. Then he says My cat, on the other hand, treated bombs with lofty indifference and seemed to imagine they were at J works let off tn his honor. One night, when the cat and I were alone in my “den” during a raid, the cook, a very nervous, hys- terical woman, was incoherently saying her prayers in the kitchen She suddenly came back from hea- venly to earthly comfort and tear- fully besought me to sit’ with her benath the safe shelter of the kit- chen stairs until the danger passed Nothing loath to enjoy himeelf. the black cat accompanied us t that happy haven. We placed two chairs in our refuge and a Mghted candle on the floor and the cat, tak- ing the centre of the stage besid: the candle, urbanely began to wash himself. Every time a bomb fell the cook screamed, “Oh, my! Oh-h, my-y! Oh-h-h, ‘my-y and’ bumped her head against the stairs above us, In the middle of one prolonged and anguished “Oh-h-h-h my-y-y-y !!"" she suddenly caught sight of the cat placidly licking himself with min- ute particularity and shrieked. “Look at that in-u-man cat!’ And the cat merely sneered at her and contentedly listened to the crashing of another bomb. It should have occurred to Mr. Burgin that the cat sneering at the cook revealed the poise under peril of him who may look at a king. o 8 Giggles and Bootleggers --- Turning the pages of the sun From Evening World Readers What hind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words {n a couple of hundred? There ts fine me.tal exercise and « lot of satisfaction in trying fe say mach in a few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON, SENSE By John. Blake (Copyright, by John Blake.) TOO MUCH PEACE, An exhibitor at the Merchandise Fair says the 45 per cent. of the women wuo buy gar- ments are “stouts,” and that there are more of this class in the country than in the city. The explanation is easy enough to anyone who has inspected city kitchens. A “stout” can’t squeeze in and has to stay out and starve until she is small enough to get in and do the cooking. Smart Set, we find this from the of H. L. Mencken: Certainly, the old American king for free discussion, general toler- ance and a fair fight was gone by the board, and with it the old Am- erlean independence. The American of to-day is not » free individual, as his forefathers were; he is an ignominious goose- stepper. He is told what to do, what to think, what to feel, anii,% nine times out of ten he obeys with § out question. It ts imp Bridges Versus Tunnels. every town gathering up orders in To the Editor of The Evening World: dribbles, The cost of a new bridge over the] ‘The merchant were he to buy his East River would be, say, 25 per cent, | 00d» without a commission to sales men would still have the overhead more than a tunnel for the same tran-| spread between his cost and the con- sit efficiency. The maintenance and] sumer price by his outlay for adver- operation of the tunnel might cost altising, which to-day is a big item shade more than a bridge, but there}@ven to the country merchant. Why not promote merchandise fairs for the must be added to the cost of the! junc and eliminate the department bridge 30 per cent. for its approaches, | stores style of selling? plus 3 per cent. perpetual loss of taxes Eve Producer would simply re- on latter, and destruction for all time] Plenish daily what was sold at the of taxable realty values, where a tun-| ‘#!"—n° high cost buildings, no adv 1d tising expen very little clerk hire, nel would increase taxable vallies.|no salesman. Do you think it could / Peace is an excellent thing for nations, but a bad thing for individuals. Every countryside is filled with peaceful villages that remain peaceful and of little use till somebody wakes them up. Then, whether the arousing forck is a Chamber of Com- merce, a Rotary Club or some live-wire official, they begin to grow and expand and invite industry, with the result that most of the people prosper. The sleepy, placid village is lovely to look at and pleasant to spend a few weeks in But too much peace makes it’an unfit habitation for wide-awake, energetic human beings. The same thing is true of a business organization which has lost the intelligent energy of its founder and settles’back into any place the rest of the business world permits it to occupy. Such an organization needs a shake-up of some kind If it doesn’t get a shake-up, it soon expires. It is natural enough for most people to think that they want peace, that they crave to be let alone, to pick their own working hours and to take things as easy as may be, avoid ing friction and difficulty everywhere. Let any man worth while try that for just one week and he will tire of it and long for a chance to get into some kind of a battle—not with fists or firearms, but with brains. Perhaps the majority of people are mental peace lovers who will do anything to avoid trouble. But the majority of the people are not those who accomplish much in the world or who get amy of the prizes it has to offer. It is the fighters—people with restless energy, who are continually seeking competition—who make names for them- selves, and these people are not peace lovers. — Too much trouble is unpleasant and burdensome, but it is far hetter than too much peace, which destroys ambition an@ limits production and makes a useless cumberer of the earth of the man or woman who becomes its victim. sible to imagine the frontier Americans of Jackson's day submitting to Prohibition; thelr des- cendants of to-day, when they op- pose it at all, oppose It not with arms in their hands but with gig- gles. Not so much with giggles, Mr. Mencken, as with bootlegging. Giggles pay no profits oo oo Accurate Tersenesses - - > A few epigrams from ‘‘Tatlings”’ (Dutton), the new work of Sidney ‘Tremayne: An infallible way of acquiring @ host of friends is to be a host your- self. Some people succeed in preserving youthful appearance, but they show their age in their opinions. Men do not try to escape tempta tions; their only fear is that som: temptation may escape them. If you start making a man give up things you are almost sure to end by being one of the things he gives up. At Washington they are investigating the PRICE OF GASOLINE. If all other reasons fail it will be easy to | The increase in the latter would prob-| be done? conclude there are too many filvvers. ably pay for the debt service on the] If the manufacturers and jobbers And, speaking of filvvers, Henry FORD WAS | cost of the tunnel plus its approaches, [had to wait for the business to come STUCK in the mud in one of his own make. Mayor Hylan has properly said wel Very jong) VouunS Pe in Pusiness In New York tae theatrical SEASON OPENED | must have Pe more Sieve heey, _ You, Mr. Editor, can write on pol- and Will Hays opined that the motion picture indus- | come down. ‘The objection to the! ities and such, but don't try to put try might be expected to improve as it grows older. | elevated applies equally to bridges. fae bieme Zar tne BDISEA Off prices Bee The MERCHANDISE FAIR and allied shows and | Tey both destroy property values in| ends diesen. Where did. we conventions drew thousands of buyers from all over | *¢#d of Gaede eee come in when the manufacturer and the nation, New York, Aug. 7, 1922. = storekeeper were reaping big profits? The Senate decided NOT TO TAX boots, shoes and leather, Will some one start a fashion to sub- stitute hip boots for heavily taxed woollen trousers? The census reports that residents in the United States Hive longer than they used to. They have to in order to pay the tax bills. Bootleggers did a rushing business. One com- plained that the police were STEALING HIS STUFF. * ‘The Prohibition office proposes to concentrate all Mquors with a kick in ONE WAREHOUSE. Appli- cants for the job of watchman will please form a line to the right. The Old Guard candidate won in the OHIO SENA- TORIAL PRIMARIES. But 80 did Senator Pomerene. That was the way it was stx years ago. “Now you've got it what are you going to do with it?” is what the Wall Street traders are asking Char- Me SCHWAB who BOUGHT control of STUTZ, It was a cruel week for the baseball fans here. Both the Giants and Yanks slumped to SECOND PLACE. St. Louis is correspondingly nappy, but the joy may be shortlived. Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1 ‘The Salesman’s Side. To the Editor of The Evening World: The article ‘The Merchandise Fair’ was hastily written, without forethought. You say ‘both buyers and sellers lose time."” Many small-town merchants make weekly trips to the jobbing house in Military Training. To the Editor of The Evening World In a previous letter I did not say that the English and French were directly responsible for the compul- sory military training at C. C. N. Y. However, I will say this: England and France came to this country and thelr locality to replenish stocks, but} pegged us almost on their knees to the salesman is always welcome.|hejp them (England and France) or They cannot afford to leave their} they would be lost. home, to come to a fair unless induce-} wall Street became shaky and saw ments are made in reduced fares and} to \t that the United States boys went hotel accommodations. . over, Why? So as to protect the Salesmen by the tens of thousands} four billion dollars that travel this broad land to show thelr] py said Wall Street to wares in every town and hamlet, but] France. nobody speaks for them for reduced D. Anderson did his “bit for the fares and hotel expenses, protection of his own fireside The hotel man in Oneida or Kala-}as for that of England and F mazoo wants a big price from the}] did not kn¢ any time that our traveller for his night's lodging, and] fireside was at all in dan, the town is benefited by the constant] was the dirty, rotten propaganda cir- stream of salesmen culated to excite and arous You also say, “All this is charged to] of patriotism through the consumers in the net of overhead’’| our hearths —the spread of prices between pro-| dang ducers and consumer All bunk. | now, i. e., af > war What has the saleman's small com-]| 1 wish Mr. Anderson would not mission, out of which comes his trav-] blow his trumpet so much about being elling expense, got to do with the}an American and about having done When Johanna Drove the Car « « - In the New Republic is the tale of the Westons’ cook, Johanna, who, to make her contented 36-miles north of New York, was taken to the movies, supplied with a hired beau for danc- ing and consulted as to having guests. At last, son Bobby taught her todri 7’ the car. And then: She drove to market, she met people at the station, she oarried them into town, she did all the er- rands. She suggested taking them on tours and when she was supposed to be dusting the parlor would be found instead cleaning spark plugs in the garage. Before long, the driving occupted * her so completely that Caroline was obliged to give up all her time to housework. Johanna drove so well that the ' owner of the village garage hired her as a chauffeur. Curiously, Johanna, who had re- as loaned ngland and Sabot, WHOSE BIRTHDAY? | Among his poetic works are “Joan AUG, 12.—ROBERT SOUTHEY|°f Are,"" “The Curse of Kehama, was born in Bristol, England, Aug.| “Roderick, the Last of the Goth: 12, 1774, and died March 21, 1843.|and "The Battle of Blenheim. After attending several private| Southey possessed an immense schools he entered Oxford University, |library, numbering some 14,000 but was dismissed for writing a paper| volumes, and he devoted himself to on school punishments which he had reading and writing with almost me- published. But he was readmitted | chanical regularity. and remained at Oxford until 1794, 5 ; From the Wise a feeling composure at the steering wheel when a bee lights on the face or hand with @ purpose in his sting * see differently While attending college he came in) close contact with Coleridge, ana when, after leaving college, the two/ There seems to be too much explosiveness loose te z iti ‘ fund to weer e maid's dress and doth on land and sea, What good is a safe and sane |®?"t24 % prices to the consumer? [his bit. What did he get for it?|friends married sisters they fet Jed) Every ambitious man is a’cap- | [ured to meer s ped ‘ ane y le and san It is only when a retailer buys a| Did the men get back their Jobs? Arefin a country home near Keswtus. By) five and every covetous oné @ | sport clothes, fairly horied ina Fourth of July if the results are to be offset the way | job lot that the public share in a bar-| those unable to work being properly | his prolific pen Southey was able not! pauper.—Arabian Proverb. Pea heal | they are? gain, The expense of keeping sules-|ecared for? Why did those in the yo-Jonly to support his own family but! She looked exceedingly trim in the «| . men on the road to-day no more] cational schvols call for 1 mass meet-|to assist in supporting the Coleridge| You hardly make a friend in a gray Norfolk suit with Wildwood | , i than it was before the war, the only| ing \to protest against longer houes?| household. Southey was made Poet| year, but you.can easily offend | \erese on the visored cap, and she The week is gone, I know not whege, ar, ’ ea iy, | eee you. ye te difference is the salesman works] Where are the little flag wavers now?| Laureate in 1818, refused a baronetey.| 6.6 in an pour.—Chinese Proverb. ' Neither do I greatly care; harder and le I would advise Mr. Anderson tofbut accepted a Government pension a , Wasn't it the folly fit for Bobby i} Another week will come instead Large firms like Marshall Field &] talk to some of the boys of C, C, N ) annually, His prose works The purse must shed its con- |youth? Co. and would ni have] Y. und get their yiew of the hated Brown were it not for having salesmen} and disgusting military triir constantly viciting the merchant in| J. RICE, » “Life of Nelsor “History Peninsular War,"’ ‘History of | ‘and “Book of fhureh. H| Converting a once singular probl& of domestic service into ap effals Italian Proverb, six oylindesa? To take the place of that which fle JOHN KEETZ, tents to insure the continuance of the lady's smiles. « ’