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THE EVENING SUN. BALTIMORE, MONDAY. JULY 2C. 1920. 8 THE EVENING SUN tbe future is incubating ia Europe, ia which America will eventually he drawn.

Bayard vs. Lionheart The Forum By H. L. MENCKEN. called Doukhobors.

now residing in Canada, have no marriage ceremony Trt they are the most peace-Ml' and most aseful people that we hear Before tbey atarted for this side of the workt some yean ago, they cell, a rope put about his Beck, tbe drop is sprung, the pinioned body drops, the neck cracks, a brief struggle, and tbe show is over whst a ghastly spectacle for a civilised country No eriticism of tbe Talbot county authorities is here meant. From all accounts, tbe eierutioa of Fountain was well managed, as such things go. All too many times hangings have beea bungled, and the tortures of slow strangling or maiming beeo tbe result. Nor do we argue agsinst capital punishment That may or may nut be the right and proper way to punish certain crimes, such, for example, as Fountain's foul offense or tbst of the judge's son in West Virginia, wb slew hi wife snd tbelr unborn child, snd was lynched for It after he had been given a life sentence by a or that of tbe Chicago former army officer who murdered his wife snd unborn child to get money. Ilut why should Maryland, or suy other Htate, still retain the mediaeval, barba-i rous custom- of hanging as a method of Tbe delay of tbe I'nited Htate ia enter ing tbe League will, ia sD probability, be paid for in death, agony and destruction sooner or later.

CUP CONTENDERS MERE RACING MACHINES Fear A 25-Knot Blou) Which Would Delight Skippen Of Sturdy 30-Footeri. Vtttm Ul Kw Turk Tiaut, The derision to call off tbe yacht race on Saturday waa by agreement of both parties. Doubtless tlia reasons were convincing. If, as slieged, the sailing of Resolute and Shamrock ia a 25-knot wind would have endangered not merely spars and bulla, but possibly the tire of tbe sesmen on board, then it was both prudent and humane to give up the race. Hut in the very art what a confes sion is involved liere we nave coo-firmed in the most striking manner tbe belief wbich many yarhuiuen bsve long beld namely, that tbe cup contests have resulted In developing-, bote in challenger and defender, mere racing machines, "tender" and fragile in the extreme.

They dared not go out in a blow which would have been only a delight to skipers of well-built ISO-foot er. Marhlehead awl Newport must laugh conauuiedly at what napiwnea on Hat-urciay off Handy Hook. The old argument for so altering the conditions of the America's cup rare as to rail for sturdy ocean-going contenders is ower-fully reinforced by ha turd ay's postponement. A change would tie better both for sport and for yacht building. POSED AS DRY AGENTS Bandits Ctl 150 Case Of Booze En Route To Seaside.

frost sa Atlantis Cltf Dispatch to the Philadel phia Bsconi One hundred and fifty cases of whisky. valued at about SIO.OOO, were corralled by bandits ea route to the snore late ri- day afternoon, and the county authori ties, beaded by Mien 11 ferKins. nave failed thus far to hs-ute the bandits or the stolen liquor. Tbe bandits posed as Federal prohibition agents, two boldly driving the seised truck through Hum- monton and otber lanidrn county town, while tbe driver and hi companion followed in a touring rar surrounded by four of the bandits witb drawn pistols. The truck driver and his companion hud a legal permit for delivery of the liquor to an Atlantic City man privileged to sell at wholesale to drug stores.

While running between Kolsom and ljurua Vista a touring car carrying six men drew up in front of the truck and commanded the driver to halt. They displayed credentials as Uovrrninent anejilH and tbe driver and his companion obeyed without protest an order to alight anil enter tbe touring car. Near Atco the touring car turned into tbe woods, the truck continuing on its way. and the four bandit bound the hands of their captives witli adhesive tie and tiiie waa stretched across their eyes, blinding them. The car then proceeded farther into the and awaited the return of the truck.

It came back empty within an hour and tbe two prisoners were thrown into the back and covered with burlnp. The truck waa driven to an abandoned farm near Berlin. There It whs left with ifs two helpless occupants while all six bandits rode away in their touring rar. The victims managed to free themselves In half an hour and drove bark to lliuldnn Heights, where they gave the alarm. SCO TS A RE INCREASING Marriage And Birth Rales High And More Boys Than Girls.

From tendon PUpatch. The more outstanding features of the vital statistics of Hcotland in the first quarter of this year, says the Morning t'osr, are a nign mrtn rare tone in marked contrast to those of war time), a high marriage rate and a low death rate. The number of births registered dur ing the quarter was 37.T4S males, females 1H.4.ST. This is the largest number gistered in Scotland in any quarter since the institution of national registration. It is flti.l per cent, more than that of the brst quarter ot tne orevious year.

The birth rate was cor respondingly higher than those of all first quarters since 1S91 and higher than those of all quarters subsequent to the second qnsrter of the year Marriages registered miring me quarter numbered 11.7M, and the marriage rate was f.tl. Hotb the number and the rate exceed those of all first quarters since tbe institution of national registration. The deaths of the nuarter numbered and the death rate was 15.5 per I.tRSj. in only one previous nrst quarter 1918 was a lower death rate re corded. FAMED CAVE AS A HOTEL Robinson Crusoe's Quarters May Be Made In Lodgings.

From a Honohun CsMk Robinson Crusoe' rave mar soon be converted into sleeping quarters for globe-trotters, according to iTof. W. A. Brvan. vice-president of the Hawaiian Historical Society.

The Uhilean Gov ernment. Mr. Brvan said recently, is con sidering creating a national park and tourist resort on the Island of Juan Fernandes. famed as tbe abode of Daniel De Foe's literary character. Modern hotels and other attractions would be erected on the island, according to plans being considered.

The beantv and verdure of tbe island, Mr. Bryan says, is similar to tbe oldest park of the Hawaiian Islands. Two nixhts were spent try iTofessor Brvan recently in Robinson Crusoe's cave. The professor is St present in tne South Seaa svekina Drool of his theory of an immense submerged continent in the I'aaiiC; Hit H. C.

JL Solved. Trim New Toe Dispstrk. George Ellison, "the village black smith." of Hempstead. has tem- norarilv found a solution of the nun cost of living. When be went to his shop vesterday morning be was surprised to discover a huge turtle lying beneath a rear window guarding a nest of egxs.

Ellimn sent both tbe turtle and the eggs to his home, and as soon ss the eggs hatch be plans to stork his larder with tbe ingredients of turtle soup snd steaks for several months. It is believed thst tbe turtle came down stream in the freshet of Friday night. Harding Reminders. msa 4b rbiladaloaat Saratd. Senator Harding's acceptance speech crests two things.

One of these is Oliver Wendell Holmes' katydid: Thou sayest aa undisputed thing In aneh a an 1 Bin if. The otber is the cautious sportsman who aimed to "bit it if it's a deer, and miss it if it's a calf. Defining Friends. Froa the Dttmit Fit Pssv Friends are the oeonle that some fel lows expect alwsys to get them out of trouble. rWiia tmr, Watt-Oar THE A.

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A poet suggest that anyone "learning wisdom at the feet of Gamaliel" nowaday is in danger of frostbite. Tbe next Presideut will be forever fighting temptation to get out on eitra of tbe Coigi rional Record. One of our leading lady polltleiaua and prospective navigator of the Skip of Htat finds time, according to the dispatches, to make pantalettes for ber pet 1 Bar not that we have no modern osanterpart of lloratiua at tbe bridge. Consider tbe aged Governor Huleoinb, Connecticut, holding back the bota of feminism. According to anriie recent figures, the railroad of the country, during tbe lint Ave month of tbia year, did 8 per cent, morn passenger business and 43 per cent, more freight business than for the corresponding period in 1010.

If the figure are correct, the; furnih a good reason for the transportation jam. Man a well-managed private business would be swamped by auch an overload. The Fly. The common bouac fly, so little praised, no universally condemned, 1 not with out commendable trait. Industry is counted among the virtue.

Tbe Industrious man i not an altruist, however. He labor to get a profit for himself, and bia industry prove no more than hie aelfiahneaa. But If Industry is 'indeed a virtue, tbe fly must share in ouf praise. Tbe fly" first interest, like that of man, to fill his stomach. To this end he begins the day before-the sua has put in an appear ance, and bastles steadily until the shades of evening fall.

True, be accomplishes no greater good than the feeding of his face, but the average man ia not tat position to cry "Shame While engaged at the task of getting a. living, tbe fly frequently causes pain asd annoyance, as do men; but the fly does not work secretly and hide his question able practices behind a smug mask of respectability. He busses ia the broad light of day, giving warning of his approach and bis intentions. The fly distributes' disease germs. It ia true, and endangers the- lives of too innocent; bat men distribute dangerous ideas that are more deadly than germs, sad permit the -employment of little children.

The fly oat He has deter-aai nation. If his heart is set upon drilling for oil at a certain spot en tbe oater surface of a aortal, nothing but death can persuade him from his purpose. He faces an enemy vastly superior ia strength and wit, meets force with guile, retreats as a matter of discra-tJsa only to return again and again until his purpose is accomplished or death claims him for Its own. Doubtless flies that die while thus engaged are honored by their surviving brethren. They give their lives to the sacred cause of getting a profit, and from the beginning of history nations have honored men who died while engaged Is an organized effort to steal another people's property.

YVary Hkely the first lady who is elected Governor win be called a governess. fir would be an easy matter to stop profiteering if government could borrow the brains of the profiteers. "Hanged By The Neck Until A cowering wretch in a jail cell, listening for days to tbe work of erect ing; a gallows upon which be is to die, reaching finally such a erase of terror that he tries to slash his throat with a rtsor blade and strangle himself with trips of clothing other ignorant and superstitious prisoners listening to the gruesome hammering in the corridor 1 where the gauows is going up, nervous and panicky, begging the condemned ne gro not to haunt them; quivering and sleepless, they pass tbe night ia which (he execution is to take place; they bear the guards and the visitors who are to witness the way the law is to be vin dicated come and go; many eit'usens gather inside and outside the jail In tbe eerie darkness that precedes the dawn fkt black ejretch is dragged from bis Whit Slavery. To the Enrroa or The EwwrsG Bcw. baa beea beld by the United States Supreme Court that wherea young man took a week-end trip from Frisco to Salt Lake with a are, self-supporting and eager to go thV girl wa.

a "white and the man therefore guilty under the Mann say's The Evesiso Sp in itt editorial, and now we know why Judge Harlan denounced the most dishonest piece of legislation that ever was conceived in the mind of man. lsn it awful to think that in a country wnien ealla itself free a man or woman should be subjected to such barbarous persecu- lions ior exerrwuij unit i. ----t-Slavery? Why. the Mann act establishes white slavery under the pretext of preventing it Tbe Romans, who were experts on slavery, would have been surprised to learn that Christian civilization has discovered a new process for enslaving mankind, the process of morality. The Mann act ignores the fact that where tbere is no coercion there is no slavery.

Call it free immorality or call it what you will, the points covered tv this law have nothing to do with white slavery, green slavery, blue slavery or purple slavery. It i nothing more than a reflection of our national dishonesty and ghastly hypocrisy. Baltimore, July W. H. Jokes.

But Is It Not Hard To Draw The Line, And Who Is To Be Tne wen-aor? To the Editob or The Evening Sus Sir I am in hearty agreement who the sensible person signing nerseit "Flopsy." Any visitor to our fair city that happened to go out to Gwynn Oak Park for a little diversion would be far from favorably impressed with a view of its dance pavilion denizens. Instead, they would be absolutely disgusted with tbe sensual, demoralizing burlesque that parades at Gwynn Oak under the name of dancing. It is not tne transient pare or iue crowd that is responsible; it is tbe same good-for-nothing bunch that inhabit and degrade the beautiful ballroom of the Academy of Music during tne winter months. Flonsv looks to Farson to maintain some sort of respectability a waste of time, he best remedy would ne to get somebody in charge of the resort dance pavilions that has a true understanding of the word decency and compel a simi lar understanding of the ignorant com mon bunco of every-nighters that give the place its obnoxious atmosphere. IHESTKKFIELD.

Baltimore, July 2f. A Union Man Defends Organized Labor. To the Editob of The Eveniso eir flea.se allow me to answer "Obersver," in the Forum of July 21, in regard to unions. I have been a union man for 15 years and intend always to be one, and I have never surrendered my liberty or abandoned my right to inde pendent action, as he says we do when we join a union. I don't know of any nonunion man or woman being called "scabs" except when they take the place of strikers.

At no other time are thev called "scabs," and then they are mostly called tnat by onlookers, more tnan by union men. You say we receive excessive wages. Take the freight handlers' case43 cents an hour. S3.44 for eight hours. and a mule's work do you call that ex cessive wages lor a man with a large family at the prices of today? And I suppose you say he is one of the causes of high prices.

Take the advertisements of the papers nowadavsand answer them and see for yourself, Mr. "Observer," if ynu would care to live on the wages tbey offer. And they follow union wages, for they did not they could not get help. I think you had better get into a union and learn something about them. When vou talk of the one big union that vou say we talk about, you have the industrial workers of the World and the American Federation of Labor mixed up.

And I hope the middle class starts that one big union you speak of, and I'll bet that every union man and woman will join it: at least, I know of one who will. Why don't you take a shot at the upper millstone, as you call the profiteer, or are you afraid to raise your voice against him in the press? You say if the workingmen were sensible they would have saved during the war and the distress of this country and not bring the shame to attention now. If that is the case, how about yourself? You seem to be doing a lot of kicking; then go on further to state that you sat with a clergyman of a railroad town, who told you of his congregation having automobiles and money in the bank. By your talk I suppose a workingman has no right to own an automobile or have a bank account by hard saving, which you stated he should have done. You state that labor unions limit production, and that we claim that we can produce more in six hours than we can in eight or ten.

I have never heard of a union man making that remark, nor do I believe one ever did. As for limit of production, if a union man or woman does not turn out the amount of work that their boss thinks is right, he has a perfect right to discharge them and no union compels any employer to hire or keep any certain one. You say yon have talked with union men, and they are not in accord with their chiefs. I want to say this for them: They are pretty poor union men, for if they don't like what their chiefs do they should go to their unions and call them on the carpet and not talk on tbe streets, for their chiefs, or leaders, as cajl them, are in the employ of the union, and tbey do as the union tells them and not tbe union do as they say. If that body should vote to work nine hours instead of eight hours, as you stated about the miners, then those radical officers could have done nothing but let thern work, but the majority voted to work only eight and the radical officers enforced the rule; in other words, they are business agents.

A U.mos Man. Baltimore, July29 Divorce And Marriage. To the Editob of The Evening Sun Sir Thank you for giving in your issue of July 19 the views of Attorney James Fluegel, Equitable Building, on divorce. He tells us there is a "Society for Upholding the Sanctitv of Marriage" in New York, backed by ministers. Of course, so-called "sanctity of marriage" comes through ministers, who allege that they are God's agents in the marriage ceremony and that what God, through them, unites man must not put asunder.

These ministers, one and all, so far from being God's agents, are God's enemies. They are precisely of the same stock that crucified Jesus of old. Every detail of their lives corresponds with SS who "Away with Him. They are educated in theological seminaries, not in tbe school of Christ They themselves and their churches are growing in disrepute. Births, marriages and deaths are three pf the ministers' stocks in trade.

Like the Jews of old, they are very cere-monious, and. like them, they have been the habit of impressing "the common people with awe and reverence. But the people are fast waking to the deception and from the "world church movement down are disowning what once they worshiped. If marriage is all the great part of Christianity that the ministers claim it is, Jesus would most certainly have per-i'r marriait'' ceremony at Cana Himself and would have an through all time the exact procedure. Instead of so doing He conteirM vi'mruirij inim- had dninlT bwt ine the guests it is reported that the religious sect under him in trembling, and he came down with a thump that left him on his back until death delivered him from all hope and caring.

III. It seems to me that this fear of ideas is a peculiarly democratic phenomenon, and that it is nowhere ao horribly ap parent, as ia the United State, perhaps the nearest approach to aa actual democracy yet seen in the world. It was Americans who invented tbe curious doc trine that there ia a body of doctrine in every department of thought that every good citizen is in duty bound to accept and cherish it was Americans who invented the right-thinker. The fundamental concept, of course, wss not original' Tbe theologians embraced it cen turies ago, and continue to embrace it to this day. It appeared on tbe political side in the Middle Ages, and survived in Russia into our time.

But it is only in the United States that it has been extended to all departments of thought. It Is only here that any novel idea, in any field of human relations, carries with it a burden of obnoxiousness, and is in-H stantly challenged as mysteriously im moral by the great masses of right-think ing men. It ia only here, so far as I have been able to make out that there is a right way and a wrong way to think about the beverages one drinks with one's meals, and the way children ought to be taught in the schools, and tbe manner in which foreign alliances should be negotiated, and what ought to be done about tbe Bolsheviki. In the face of this singular passion for conformity, this dread of novelty and originality, it is obvious that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life. Ue may slide into office once or twice.

but soon or lste be is bound to be held up, examined and incontinently kicked out This leaves tbe field to the intellectual jelly-fish and inner tubes. There Is room for two sorts of them first the blank cartridge who has no convictions at all and is willing to accept anything to make votes, and, secondly, the mounte bank who is willing to conceal and disguise what be actually believes, accord ing as tbe wind blows hot or cold. Of the first sort, Harding is an excellent specimen of the second sort. Cox. IV.

Such tests arise inevitably out of democracy the domination of unrefiective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob emotions. In private life no man nf nu man of sense would think of applying mew. i uo uoi estimate tne integrity and ability of an acquaintance by his flabby willingness to accept our ideas we estimate him by the honesty and effectiveness with which he maintains his own. All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admfre men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But whm a candidate for public office faces the voters be does not face men of sense; be faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental men whose whole Vbinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what tbey cannot understand.

Ho confronted, the candidate must either bark with tbe pack, or count himself lost. His one aim is to disarm suspicion, to arouse confidence in his orthodoxy, to avoid challenge. If be is a man of convictions, of enthusiasms, of self-respect it is cruelly bard. But in be is, like Harding, a numskull like the idiots he faces, or, like Cox, a pliant intellectual Jenkins, it is easy. Tbe larger the mob.

the harder the test In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by the force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chief ly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, tbe most devious and mediocre the man who can most adeptly disperse the no tion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. Aa democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.

On some great and glorious day tbe plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. SALLY IS A POOR SHOT Fires At Maud's Head And Clips Off One Of Her French Heels. Froa tha FHUcfclptua Kwi Just because she lived on Kater street, Sallie Hibly, colored, thought that she could lord it over her hated rival, Maud Massey, also colored, who only lives on an alley. Every time Sallie met Maud she reminded her of the fact that she ia only "black trash," because her abode ia on a byway. ljast mgnt tne battle of words turned into a real fight Sallie ran home and got her husband's revolver to take a few pot snots at aiaud bead, fortunately for Maud.

Sallie proved a poor shot She merely shot off her rival's French heel The shooting, which occurred on Kater street between Eighth and Ninth. caused an uproar in the neighborhood. Detectives McGinn and Sehad put an end to the trouble by arresting Sallie and her husband. Major. Deadly Campcign Stuff.

Jay K. Hoax, ia Um Philadelphia Pufclie Islatr. Meanwhile we offer another suggestion to the Republican Press Bureau. Let it start the story that the Coxes keep a butler. Tbe American people are willing that their heroes shall live in comfort A candidate for an important office may even keep a rbawffeur and appear occasionally in evening dotbes.

But they aimnlv will not stand for a butler. Of course, if the desire were to infuriate the people, a story to the effect that Governor Cox ia served by a valet would stir tbe nation more quickly and to a higher pitch. But that would be a dirty trick and one not in accord with tbe best ethics of politics. I. QNE discerns in all tbe current discussion of MM.

Harding and Cox a certain soor dismay. It seems to be quite impossible for any wholly literate man to pump up any genuine enthusiasm for either of them. Each, of course, is praised lavishly by the professional politician of his own party, and compared to Lincoln, Jefferson and Cleveland by the surviving hack of tbe party press, but in the middle ground, among men who care less for party success than for tbe national dignity, there is a gone feeling in tbe stomach, witb shooting psins down the legs. Tbe Liberals, in particular, seem to be suffering badly. They discover that Harding ia simply third-rate political heel-horse, witb the face of a moving-picture actor, the intelligence nf a respectable agricultural implement dealer, and the imagination of a lodge joiner, and that Cox ia no more than a provincial David Ilnrum witb a gift for bamboozling the boobs.

These verdicts, it seems to me, are substantially just No one but an idiot would argue seriously that either candidate ia a first-rate man, or even a creditable specimen of second-rate man. Any State in the Union, at least above the Potomac, could produce a thousand men quite a good, and many States could produce a thousand a great deal better. Harding, intellectually, seems to be merely a benign blank a decent, harm less, laborious, hollow-beaded mediocrity perhaps comparable to the late Harrington, of Maryland. Cox is quicker of wit but a good deal lesa honest. He belongs to tbe cunning type; there is a touch of tilt shyster in bim.

His chicaneries i the matter of prohibition, both during the convention and since, show the kink In his mind. He is willing to do anything to cadge votes, and he includes in thst anything the ready sacrifices of bis good fnitb, of the national welfare, and of the hopes snd confidence of those who honestly support bim. Neither candidate reveals the slightest dignity of convic tion. Neither csres a hoot for any dis cernible principle. Neither, in any in telligible sense, is a man of honor.

II. But it is one thing to yield to virtu ous indignation against such individ uals and quite another thing to devise any practicable acheme for booting them out of the synagogue. The weakness of those of us who take a gaudy satisfaction in our ideas, and battle for them violently, and face punishment for them willingly and even proudly, is that we forget the primary business of the man in politics, which is the snatching and safeguarding of bis job. That business, it must be plain, concerns itself only occasionally witb the defense, and propa gation of ideas, and even then it must confine itself to those that to a re flective man, must usually appear to be Insane. The first and luBt aim of the politician is to get votes, snd the safest of all ways to get votes is to appear to the plain man to be a plain man like himself, which is to say, to appear to him to be happily free from any heretical treason to the body of accepted platitudes to be filled to the brim with the flabby, banal, childish notions that' challenge no prejudice and lay no burden of examination upon the mind.

It is not often, in these later days of the democratic enlightenment, that positive merit lands a man in elective office in the United States; much more often it is a negative merit that sets him there. That negative merit is simply disvulnerability. Of the two candidates, that one wins who least arouses the suspicions aud distrusts of the great masses of simple men. Well, what are more likely to arouse those suspicions snd distrusts than ideas, convictions, principles? Tbe plain people sre pot hostile to shysterism, save it be gross and unsuccessful. They admire a Knosevelt for his bold stratagems and duplicities, his sacrifice of faith aud principle to the main chance, his magnificent disdain of fairness and honor.

But they shy instantly and inevitably from the man who comes before them with notions that they cannot immediately into terms of their everydoy delusions; they fear the novel idea, and particularly the revolutionary Idea, as they fear the devil. When Roosevelt, losing hold upon his cunning at last, embraced the vast hodgepodge of innovations, some idiotic but some sound enough, that went by the name of Progessirism. they jumped from DIDN'T SEE "LFL ARTHUR" Crowd Of 2,000 Negroes Disap. pointed In Chicago. From Chicago Dispatch, Two thousand negroes gathered at the depot today to welcome Jack Johnson bark to Chicago after a voluntary exile of eight years, a fugitive from justice in foreign lands, but "Li'l Arthur," idol of the South Side, failed to appear.

rederal officials removed Johnson from tbe train at Joliet and hurried him to tbe jau there when they learned tbe sise of the welcoming throng here. ben tbe train rescued Chicago tbe waiting negroes stormed tbe gates in an effort to see the former champion heavyweight of tbe world. Police reserves from two precincts were forced to beat the crowd back with their clubs to clear a passage for Iucille Cameron Johnson, white wife of tbe former pugil ist wbo appeared wearing a bright red hat and a blue serge suit and clasping Mexican hairless dog to her bosom. Policemen loaded Mrs. Johnson and her eight suitcases into a brace of taxicabs and assisted ber out of tbe crowd.

No Corsets. Says The Deoine Sarah I ron a Puts Oabl. If you want to remain young, don't wear a corset says baran rternnarat. Also she gives a few more "tins" on how Ia re! in vnnthfiil arilitv. Inasmuch as she intends to go to the United States at tne end ot Una year, aitnougn sne is nearly 80 years old, ber advice has some merit "Moreover, eat onlv what vou like, hnt rat moderatelv of everything, and feed yourself just enough to keep healthy.

"Take a good rest frequently during working hours, and do not worry about anytning. "Drink only wtter." HAPPENED on some old cuttings the otber day, among them a curious piece of research work apropos of the weight of music. It was from some foreign musical periodical, and I recall that I once printed it ia this column. As there are dogbtless a great many students at the Peabody Summer School who have never seen it it is such a grateful thing to read in tbe dog days! it seems worth repeating at this time. It will, at all events, furnish food for discussion.

Apparently one might almost move mountains with tbe amount of energy pupils expend in tbe interpretation of the masterpieces of piano literature. It seem that tbe weight of music, not the weight of the folio on which music is printed, but tbe actual weight that must be brought to bear upon piano in pounding out a piece of is a subject that few, if any, musicians have ever stopped to consider. Yet it is one that offers much food for reflection. 1 have never been able to find out the source of this article. It waa one of those stray dippings without a date or a name that suddenly appear on one's desk but the writer of it points out that tne minimum pressure ot tne nnger ror one note is equal to 110 grammes.

This experiment, we sre told (the writer is addressing a British public), may be car-tried out by anyone. Take a handful of English pennies and bold them in a column immediately over any key of tbe piano, and it will be found that between 9 end 12 pennies are required to produce a sufficient weight for the note to sound. As three pence are equal to one ounce, and one ounce equal to 28 this experiment confirms the above calculation. The note, however, will only vibrate gently. To play it fortittimo a pressure equal, at times, to 3.000 grammes is required.

Therefore, if in place of a coin we had a balance attached in front of each hammer, the blow given on that balance when a note is played fortissimo would suffice to lift an object weighing more than six pounds. Strange to say. we bring to bear almost as much force in playing one note as in striking a chord. What this force represents in an entire piece of music is startling and suggestive. For instance, in Chopin's last study, in minor, there is a passage which takes two minutes anoY five second to play.

Tbe pressure brought to bear during this short lapse of time is equal to a grand total of 3.130 kilogrammes, and would be sufficient to raise three tons of coaL A good pianist can strike such an enormous number of notes in so brief a space that he can bring to bear a total pressure of something like three tons in two minutes. In Chopin's "Funeral March" there is a nassaae which takes a minute and a half to perform on the piano, and yet it is only estimated at weignt ot Kilo grammes. At this rate it will De seen that it would require only four or five minutes to move J.uov BUUKramuirs or one According to the two examples given, the total tonnage of one hour's DUTinr vanes trom 13 to tons. although selections from Wagner would probably run up much higher. II it were only possioie to narness mis power and accumulate and store the force a pianist possessing comparative fneilirv brines to bear, we should have the principle ot tne geyooara appiieu to machinerv and even tne weakest could.

in a short time, tap out of the points of the fingers force enough to move the heaviest obstacles. fieorre At. Cohan will produce "The Meanest Man in the World," the play which Augustus Mat-Hugh has written around1 Everett Ruskay's stories of the same title, at Atlantic City next week. The cast will include Allen Dinchart who nlaved the leading character tne snorter vauaevme sseicn or wo ten tae new piece is an elaboration Frank Otto. Peyton Gtbbs, Virginia Mann.

Frederick Karr, Frances Morey, Louise Dyer. Donald Meek. Arthur Ashe, Robert Hyman. Edward O'Connor, Spencer Charters and Saliie Bergman. Atlantic City will also see the pre miere of Jjneus "Americans in France," in which Leo Ditrichstein hones to play all next season.

The cast includes, addition to the star. Blanche Yurka. Edith Lyle, Madeleine Durand. Jenreys 1tstrange Millman, Wayne Arey. Frank Kingdom.

Alfred Shirley, Franklin George, William Bain and Master Kiciiard tupont. In addition to Gilda Varesi, tbe cast of "Enter Madame" will include Guilo Conti and Dolly Byrne, Jane Meredith, Gavin Muir, Sheila Hayes, Michelette Buroni, Minnie Milne and William Hallman. The Washington theatrical season will take on a new lease of life the first week in August when the new Hatton com edy, "The Checkerboard," is produced tbere on tne Zd. -J. o.

1 OPULENT RETURN NOT TO CARLSBAD One-Time German Watering Placo. Now In Czechoslovakia Wails For Clientele B. I. CraUohaak. in the Inndm Daily Mail.

Carlsbad is like a quaint travesty of the Castle of the Sleeping Beauty. It seems a little pained that the prince is so long a-comiug. The prince one figures as nothing more romantic than the adipose and perspiring middle-aged English man or American, witb mountains of corded luggage and an unquenchable thirst ror tne elixir viue winch gushes out of that favored earth. This is not to say that Carlsbad has been in a state of suspended animation since the iron curtain fell in front of it in 11114. There was always the steady pilgrimage of tbe valetudinarians and the obese from the central empires and the neutral States.

But in going up and down the steep streets of the town one sees these golden legends: "Hotel Bristol." "Konig von Englsnd" (onsint medley this "Englischer Hof." "Hotel ivondon, oentlemen Hairdresser, "The Derby Hat." One cannot restrain a flicker of surprise that these blazoned inscriptions should have survived the clamorous animosities of the last five years, Tbey bridge the gulf between the present and those far-off days which have been so vividly brought to mind by the faded Carlsbad newspaper which has just been put into my hand. It bears the date of one of those summer days of 1914 when an unwitting Europe was making holiday on the brink of the precipice. There is a list in it pages long, of "recent English and American visitors." Poor little souvenir of that golden summer which ended in calamity 1 They tell me. too, Ujat the ho-telkecper are industriously engaged in writing to what they call, in that Jargon peculiar to hotels, their former clientele, (me hopes that they will make it quite clear that Carlsbad is situated in the Republic nf Cxecho-Slovakia, a friendly and an Allied state. Carlsbad represents the bilingual comedy of the republic at its brightest To the German population it is still Karlsbad, but the Czechs insist upon calling the town Karlovy Vary.

It is useless pointing out to them that tbe prince will never recognise it under that name, ivt-rograd was an easy change to remember, but Karlovy Vary! planned that no cuiiur to them to unaensw wo u.vu.H pioneer year, ana iucj There are no marriages in Heaven, and if "Thy kingdom come" is the order for this world, the question is, when will begin? iiuubu Baltimore, jmy A Cynic Again bays neat mean Things About uur uoveiy uina. To the Editob of The Evening Sim Sir In regard to the letter written by Mrs. A. M. Hoover, I am not the least mt the wav our dear female sex has tried to cover the letters written by myself and also, the one signed "A Rounder." 4.

x. Mrs. rioover htub miua moi have been disappointed in life, because I can find fault with the married women. As I am brought in contact every day with about 300 or 400 of her sex, I caa very easily judge them. I have often heard them remark, "Oh I had a wonderful time last night why, he is a great sport." And this line they usually use after finding a poor sucker.

I would advise Mrs. Hoover to visit one of the large resorts and see just how many married women are there, but minus their husbands. xim Hoover seems very nroud of her self for being such a good and true wife during ner nusouiiu a uuskhkv. iv is something to be proud of, as there are so few good women that if the good did not hold up their heads we could not tell them apart. During the war I was manager of a cafe, aud I can easily say that there weue always at least 10 married women in the dining room with gentlemen friends, but Mrs.

Hoover calls them true. Take our good daily Son, which keeps i tmieh with all that is going on. and you will find something of our female sex. A yOUUg lauy is arreaieu lur ruuuiug her emplover, and, of course, ber plea is "It's his fault." It seems that is the only plea they know. i riuay niguc i was smuuuig in a corner drug store, when I heard the following: A young lady was asking a young man if he would take' ber on a straw ride which was to leave this I heard the young man say it would be too late when they gqt back, that her mother might object but as usual, the lady fixed this part herself by telling the young man to call her mother up and tell her they would be back by 12 o'clock, which he did.

Saturday morning I heard that the young lady's father had tried to have a warrant isauea fr the young man. The young lady had returned at 3 A. and rather than take the blame she had told her father the young man bad kept her from coming home. It is always the girl's plea that it was the fault of a man. PAUL C.

D. Baltimore, July 18. The "Grandeur" Of Casement. To the Editor of The Evening Sun gir As the years recede and the passions engendered by the horrors of wartime abate, a calmer influence' shall direct our judgment and we shall look with a clearer and juster perspective on many phases of that period unbiased by tiie fury of the immediate conflict and with a fuller and more sympathetic understanding of the great underlying tragedy and pathos of it all. There are basic truths to be brought home to us again as they have been brought of old to our fathers and orgot-ten by them and by us there are facts: to be impressed again upon us which stand out so vividly, so nakedly simple, that our recarring disregard of them constitutes the most positive proof of the errancy and fallibility of our species.

We are to realize that there is no law of out-nature which makes us inimical to others of our kind, which sets nation against, nation, carrying forward a struggle of hate from generation to encration, which makes certain years which we call years of peace merely years of repressed fury. covering concealed plans of preparation to break forth at almost regular intervals in all the barbarity of open warfare. The spirit which sets loose the murderous instincts of one people against another, which works upon the noblest sentiments of man to provoke that distorted result, which makes the claims of home faith, fatherland serve as subterfuges for tbe crudest separation of the loved ones of tbe immediate family for the tearing np of the holiest and tenderest concepts of the sacred life, for the destruction of the temples, the ancient and venerable buildings, the marts, the shops, the 'factories of a country, even the poisoning and retarding of the Roil development this' is a spirit of evil incarnate, and if the evil and injustice i man did not so preponderate over his better qualities, the influence of this spirit would be vain and impotent. Cut through constant falling and failing we may attain a final security of understanding of tbe simple truths which it seems we are fated to learn only through great tribulations. And it seems even In our present defective period of evolution there stand out bristit and glorious instances of individual and group magnificence of action which may be prophetic of future high attainment to be achieved by alL And it may be that, emerging through the heavy veilings of prejudice, racial dislike and the errors of a general judgment not deigning nor desiring to distinguish the possible virtues of a course apparently opposed to our conceptions, the figure of a man who died the most igno- 1 minimis death that the laws of England could deal out to a malefactor, with the passing of the years Rhall attain a splendor and magnitude of presence, recalling to us, even to those of us who applauded the destruction of his mortal being, that here a man bath been among us and hath passed on.

There can hardly survive through all the memories of wartime a more romantic, a more impressive recollection than that of that noble knight, truly a Knight of the Grail rigidly clean and spotless in his personal life; simple, sincere, devoted even unto death. England had given him honor for work honorably performed all bis hopes of material success, state preferment, wealth, position, lay with England. And. on the other side, what bad bis native land, his loved Ireland, to offer? Struggle and bitterness of the days, and contemplated false judgments, the tauLti and the sneers of his enemies, and, worse than all, the suspicions and disparagement of his own countrymen all of these, and work, hard work, and tm remunerative, except in the reward of bis own soul's happiness. And constant travel and danger, and finally the death.

The dealh not the ignominious deafi that England believed it had dealt him. ut the glory of tbe scaffold which has iome to attain in the Irishman's heart Jjd mind the supreme dignity and honof if the Cross on Calvary. In time there shall stand out in slm-)le grandeur one inspiring figure of the, wartime one whose life was a dresm. perhaps, but a consecrated dream and s-hose death was a failure but how iften du we read in failure a splendor that the most wordly successful of lives an never supply. Apart from the rancor of little, national antagonisms, the human mind bows before the dignity of high unselfishness, of absolute effacement in the pursuit of an ideal, the sncred-ness of dying for what is the best within us.

And in that time It will not be reqnN site to erect a material monument to perpetuate his memory. Sir Roeer Casement shall survive in the hearts of me and women who love liberty, nobility of mind and life, and the and grnndchr of soul which m-cepts death as pleasing sacrifice. Jontt Hopkins. getting rid of prisoners? There are so many simpler, easier, less gruesome, more! humane ways. The electric chsir is not a great improvement, think, for there is sir the shockiug paraphernalia, the steel cup to be adjusted, the buckling down of the poor wretch, the flash, the squirming of the tortured body.

There seems to be a popular aversion to blood, but a bullet through tbe heart or. the head is a quicker snd legs horrid death, it seems to us, than strangling or elec tricity. Hut other death-dealing meth ods could be devised for example, chlo roform or a drop of prumic acid, which killa almost instantaneously, or a merciful death by laudanum. In medieval day the, theory was that public hangings bad a salutary moral effect on the spectators, aa showing tbe dsnger of crime and the results of sin. Hanging were gala occasions in England lesa than a century ago, and in the time of Blackstone there were nearly 200 offense punishable by death, among them poaching.

We hare recovered from the cruelty and tbe falseness of that old doctrine, but we retain its barbarous method of killing people. Hangings are the same as in Blackstone'a time, except that they are not so public. Is It not about time that we changed the method? If criminals must be executed, why cannot Maryland adopt some simple Snd civilised way of doing it? The chief fault of governmentby the people ia that people won't take much interest iu government. 1 1n Bolivia, it is said, the more and the longer the skirts a womnu wears the higher her social position is cou sidered. In this country welli we have no auch old-fashioned idea as Bolivia.

v. One reason why America can't solve her problems ia because she wastes too much energy trying to solve problems that are none of her business. Still, one can't expect much better from an age addicted to jasx and ouija. At Brest-Litovsk Again. While the Third Internationale meets in Moscow and plans to extend communism over the earth, Eenino enters into negotiations for an armistice with when, in the opinion of some, his Red Army has a good chance to overrun and "sovietlse" the Polos and reach the borders of Germany for further extension of his doctrines.

It would be interesting to know just what are the reasons which lie behind this apparent leniency on the part of Lenin, It is reported that the armi stice negotiations are to be held at Brest- Litovsk, where that treaty between the Bohdteviki and Germany was made, in which Russia was apparently turned over to the tender mercies of Junker- tum. At that time Lenine boasted that be was forced to sign the treaty, but bad no idea of keeping it, and. In fact, be did not. Perhaps be has the same ideas about any agreement he may make at Brest-Litovsk this time. But why the armistice? Is Lenine playing for trade relations with Great Britain? Hat he been warned that if he overruns Poland there will be no trade? Does he fear that England and France will send troops and munitions to tbe rescue of the Poles, and that his Red armies cannot complete the job? Or has he some more subtle and sinister motive? Tbe enemies of tbe League of Rations are pointing to tbe wars in Europe as proof that tbe League does not function.

Few have ever expected it to be the real force for peace which it could have been made with the United States as, the moral leader of tbe nations and tbe big balance wheel of the League. Tbe League without America is like tbe play of Hamlet" without namlet, or the motarboat without the motor. For example, who believes that Poland would have taken its little excursion Into imperialism had the League of Nations, with the TJnited States at its bead, warned it to leave Russia alone? How far the little wars and fighting; in Europe and tbe Near East could by this time have been composed if the TJnited States had entered heartily into the League and not drawn back into its shell in selfish isola tion can only be conjectured. But it is plain enough that another great war in.