St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 20

ST. LOTUS POST -DISPATCH, MONDAY EVENING. JTILY 23, 1921 20 I REVISION MUST BE DOWNWARD. I1 erlseL Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson has ta- asaBSSBawss1" imm sisssssSwassssBS sessssasssSi bbsbsssbssbsb The usual old bankruptcy yelp the er cfentea noise, smoceiess gun wH wca tie Mississippi Ya2ev, Southwestern aad Southeast- cut which win shoot a missile that Interstate Commerce frenetrates a threeniuarter-ineh armor plate as If it era railroads to the order of the Interstate Commerce SI LOUIS POST-DiSflffCH Jodd 5y JOSEPH PULITZER Dec 12.

173. PSlithft by the Pulitzer PuilUhixg Co, Ttcelfih and Olive slab of cheese. The principle applied ia ar- were Commission for the removal cf historic discrt tiena ia freirit rates to points affected by potential POST-DISPATCH CIRCVLATIOy Average water competition. The roads contend that the dis- tiEery. says the inventor, win hurl a five-ton projects from 206 to 300 mEes.

vie wing the wonders of modern Invention has become the tritest exercise of the schoolboy essayist. But the profound est of our philosophers are beginning to reckon the time when civilization most gaeetzy Average SfiTJ?) crimination mast be overcome by a leveling bp of the DA1LTAXD SUXDAY AVERAGE. J9Zr nthfT tvAa tT a leveling down of the i hirher ones, if they are not to planged iato re- FLAT- POST- DISPATCH THE ceivershipi. break under the weight of its complexity and increasingly tmgovernable mass. The ccnisiissica cnquestlonahly is justified ta ordering the removal of a discrtaiaation which wai 1 pcea "-St r.ever rtrnt and which was Invoked to stifle river FORM.

I know that my ivtfrrrnrnt mfB make no difference ta its cardinal principles, that It will always fight for imnji and reform. Bever oJ-erate iajastJce or cormptlon. always fijjtit demagogues of all parties, nev-er belong to any party, always oppose privileged and pobtVr plunderers, nerer lack sympathy wttn the poor, always restate devoc-ed to the pblc welfare, newer be satisfied with merely print tar news, always be drastically Independent; never be afraid to attack whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PULITZER. April 19, 107.

competition. And. if it is assumed that present general freight rates are stiJScienfcy Jostled to be per-maneEt, the roads would be justified In raising their Talley rates to the level of the interned late or interior tariffs. Bat present general rates ear. not be permanent, nor is it reasonable to believe that they are so adjusted as to yield the greatest possible retarns.

When farmers, as related in many instances, neglect to bring their rrods.ee to shipping points because railroad THE WAYNE COTTSTT WAT. Good-feeds literature, is enriched by the story which corses from Wayne Connty, Mii where a highway improarement was opposed and came near being defeated bexaase a plan was worked out for getting it done at Tanmlnal expense to the county. Under the plaa the county was to pay one-third of the cost. The estimate of the cost approved ty the State and Federal authorities was HS3.G0O, bnt Wayne County experts figured that the thing could be done for USt.OOG. A plan was worked out to build rates consume the bulk of the proceeds, there is some- thiar the matter with rates which caa be remedied only by a revision downward.

the road for that and credit the amount saved oa the county's share of the cost. Which shows that they know how to drive a bargain in Wayne County. The Government and the State said all right, If they could build It according to specifications and save Henry Ford has shown the way to the only immedi LETTERS FROM TEE PEOPLX Where Credit Smashes Hard Time. ta ECtar oc tie Pwt-DtPX "T'WICE each year I make ths trip by ate hope of railway relief. By putting the Detroit.

Toledo Ironton, of which he is owner, on what he terms a "factory" basis, by displacing railroad office money, go ahead. Which showed that the Government and the State knew a good trader when they saw one and were nox loath to encourage thrift. methods which have been standard for 30 years with a modern efficiency organization, by taking his It might have been supposed that there would! freight solicitors off their old job and setting them to work Improving service, he is enabled to offer a redaction of 29 per cent ia rates. have been wild enthusiasm throughout Wayne Cocnty over the prospect of satring all of that money, tut there wasnt. A cry was raised by good roads opponents that It was not treating the Government and Not only will Ford thus win against competition.

bat he will stimulate traffic, which has not been able to withstand present miaous freight rates. Thns the State right. The hullabaloo reached Jefferson; City and Washington and balked the project for; he win soon overcome in segmented business what 1 aatomcbE from New Tork to Los Angeles over the Santa Fe trail. I am a Callforuiaa. "saAafdeao cf Los An-gel.

I ass a booster for Soathera CaS-foraia aad I am going to tell yon why. possibly la a different way frota what yea hare heard befor. Everybody from California boosts for California. I aax not throwing- stones at your merchants, remember. I ara just rr-ng comparisons.

There is bo ether city to-tie Uaited States today that is building hoases aad pablic buildings day aad might as Los Angeles is doing. There-Is aot eaotter city la the world whsra merchants tnsst their customers like Lea Angeles. We ran ear baslaess aad our country a credit and co-opera-tioa. Oar manufactarers grant ths retailers ail the time they want on their purchase orders. Oar retailers pat their roods out oa credit.

There is aot an te sacrifices ia lopping one-fifth off all his freight awhile, but finally the conditions demanded by the local opposers for the protection of ths Government a a ams sr. rw r-w 'jaafw-M ml. cm were complied with and the work is to proceed, and if Wayne County road wizards can shave the cost (K Wayne County and its good-roads subscribers will Iv th at mticT IV a vr-a frvrrritv wfTT Tav miles of new road at tie ordinary cost of one mile. The Wayne Countyites who opposed tie saving will bds. If Ford en do this, why not other roads? It is bet a matter of pumsg out of the rut of obsolete methods and away from the false assumption that pre-war retnrns are possible ender post-war conditions.

The day for Increasing freight rates for any reason, special or general, is past. Leveling of discriminations must be a leveling downward. By forcing improved methods of administration and stimulating traffic, this course win redound to the benefit not only of the public, but of the roads themselves. It Is an absolute condition of the general restiacita-tion of business. probably enjoy driving over it as nrcci as anybody.

'1 ri-wir'Tif ftf acrmjssWv A A -tpa nuu9 el-. other city ia the world where three-e- Mit tfcera dresa oa credit, hie ia Los Angeles, of say IS down, aad $1 They called attention to Wayne County's economy and let others know that good roads can be built economically. week far year after year. I know oae credit clothier house la Southern California which has 19,930 credit buyers oa When the gamblers failed to play fair ball, the al its books wha pay II a week; sa.9 m. week! leged White Sox tribe takers declared a striie.

FOHZX TEXXt SHOBT. It bow appears that Charles PonzL who professed to XTj xxtjx trg-rrm wvj KT.rrr speculate In international exchange in behalf cf his Tfciak ef tha enormous bank loans mi i i to carry oa this credit plaa. oa clothin. oa house on land purchase, ea our manufactures, etc It does one howercr: it keeps money ia circulation, it keeps ur factories busy clients, had the right idea. Iwit did not carry if far enough.

A traveler Just returned from Central Europe reports that a fortune can be by buying Jugo So the Ka Kfcn KTair. which has been operating extensively ia Oklahoma and Texas of late, is to be cleaned up from within. Other aggregations which appropriate tie prestige and commit the crimes which! are attributed to the Klan. are to be comfcatted. The i slav dinars, converting them Into unstamped Austrian THE NEW PE0P.

aad oar labor employed and safacieat money la drcaiatioa oa these credit plans, so that we caa carry oa our business, torn ever our stock, build more aew homes for our rapidly iacreastar kronen, converting the latter into German Reichs- back marks, and then taking the marks to Bangkok, population and eflminaf industrial ldl Slam, and buying Siamese ticais. aess and unrest. "Imperial wizard" of the klaa says so. Which some- how reminds us of what the Good Book says about reaping what you sow. The klan.

tie "imperial wizard would hare It: understood- is a nf lt.v i A sporting obstacle to this traffic is added by the fw for my comparison: Hers in your JUST A MINUTE Written for the POST-DISPATCH Bjf CZtzrk JfcAdasts fact that travelers and their baggage are searched at eoantry your banks woat take a chaaoe and loaa money to your dothinr nana TA MIRRO I OP I ON ri column (a dertfeed to trpeedac ssssssf bioj tke latett comment By leadtaj peas and periodical tke gtiMgs et tXe day. every frontier for paper money. GOOD LAXD LORDS. The Sheriff who Is their rival la business Is the LL landlords are aot profiteers. kind the moonshiners hare cause to fear.

factiirers, who are roinr to sen oa credit aad kac terms, to ths retaEers. who re reins to sell to the consaaier oa rredlt of. say. 15 dowa aad II a week. People caa afford to buy clothing; at 1 5 down aad II a week where they woat even think of spending; Hi or 143 cash for a new salt ail at one time.

The That woaid be scaaaed. AH are not? Thea aot one is a profiteer. 1 4 i I1 I4 r7 MTSACCXOtrS A20 MTyACDfG. The peculiar physical power which has been found ganization. which Is devoted to the law and aims at nothing but the regulation of society and the suitable chastisement, ta an unconventional way, of those who do things of which the klaa does not approve and who are deemed by it to be worthy cf chastisement.

That these unconventional chastisements are unlawful Is unfortunate, but It cannot be helped. The klaa ia so keen about law enforcement tha cheerfully violates the law la order to enforce it, Bnt now. it seems, members cf the kia. stimulated to lawlessness by the klan's example, but lacking "DISGUSTED AVD CHA T1J-" From the Philadelphia Record. GEORGE STLV ESTER VIERECX; wis claims to have influenced a mi-ion er tee tt Genaaa-Americans to vote for Harding by the remarkable scientific experiments of Dr.

Charles Rnss, the eminent British bacteriologist, to emanate from the eye may never turn mill wheels or Eght cities. But the mere fact of Its discovery carries a significance as deep as the roots cf civilization. Coolidge last fall, rises to remark ea 1 ttm i th.m ses resolntioa tust siraed bv the PrwldesC 4 which is a violeat wresting of the trath. What I mean to say aad do bow say is that XOT ALL landlords are profiteers some are. AH are not not all are do yoa catch the distinction? Please let us not misplace our modifiers.

Well my lease expires soon aad my land-lard has Informed me that he would aot Increase the rent. I expected he would raise it some, aad he knew very well that I would cot move just to avoid a raise about equal to the cost cf moving. He knew that yet he continues the present figure, which, everything considered, as not exorbitant. Therefore, my landlord ts aot a profiteer, and I want you to know It. He is a gentleman aad a scholar literally aad truly he is aad has a heart.

I have no doubt there are a few more as good as he. or nearly as good. Fiat Juetitia, let justice be done. July 25. PLrSTHOCRGOS, "The peace resolution doe not make pease Oe Knox-Porter resolution is futile la that Mkd neither as nor the Germans.

It will aot ehtage a wait the commercial or dlplomao relatlsst between the two republics. Coming, as tt without grace er generosity, after tiftrfte -erinar am on- picayune politicians, latsnoad ti MR. AX opixiox. tie kuans high and holy purpose and throwing off the restraints which the klaa is supposed to exercise, are doing things which even tie klaa cannot commend, and others, not members cf the kta-n, are starting little klaas of their own. The thing which tie klan began has got beyond Jtts control.

It is bad enough that klaasmen. srowltiar tfrf HAT aa opportunity Mr. Harding has!" Hr. Aatwxae said. "The wcrtd wfl go aa far as the United States will go to- breackel make as disguise more sinister motives for the cromise of the Reoublicaa party te rd disaxraameat.

and Mr. Hardiagr caa take immediate peace with Central Europe, tt us further thaa anyoae else. restraint, break loose aad do some regulating of aa disgusted and disenchanted. It will be next la order for the same with your house building; aad your automobiles. We haTs proved by fir-urea and profits ths past II years that only per cent of all credit dealing are loss.

will take oae of your own people from St. Louis here, take him out to Los Angeles, sell him a loreJy $4890 baara-low for lis a month, sell him a Till of rew clothing for himself aad family for IS dowa aad II a week, sell him a new aatoasabUs for IS dowa aad IIS a month, aad I wtU grant him credit la every coaceiTable manner to make things better for him. I do two things by that: I gala a steady customer and I make a sew citizen for California, for back here la his own heme town, where he has grown up aad Bred all his Hfe he cannot begin to get the advantages of ETtdit which we have extended him eff-haad oa his arrival la oar country oat there, and we dont require a mile of red tape and It bank references before wo extend that credit and cosrtesy, either. Oar prices on every aad any commodity yea want to name are lower than you caa match them here. We did not have to force oar merchants, theater owners, real estate people to return to a pre-war base of prices.

They did it entirely oa taesr own account, co-operation, stimulation of business, etc. Everything- here ia your country ts still oa a poet-war ta riam aad ixareM their their own. hut rival regulators are out of the question. What Is to prevent them from kn klaxing some of the ku kluxers! Something must be done and the klaa is going to try to stamp out opposition. It may find that it is one thing to start a prairie fire and It is aa exceedingly delicate power cf which nothing yet Is known except that It exists.

Proof of such existence by laboratory demonstration, however, seems to account for a magnetic fascination long recognized to exist in the human gaze but heretofore supposed to be of an entirely psychological nature. Ths Inclination of a person to tarn around in response to a feeling that he is being stared at from behind and the ability of any normal person to discern even from a considerable distance that a pair of eyes are In exact geometrical opposition to his own though the deviation cf the angle of the eye by a hair's breadth would correspond to a foot or two in the location of the object of vision these manifestations denote a force long taken for granted, but which there had been no known attempt to confine as a physical force until Dr. Russj came along with aa idea aad a faith which it took ISs genius three years to gsatify. With the discovery of radium at the close cf the riaeteenth century, says Henry Adams, the fistorian. science experienced a revolution.

It had to lay a new foundation upon which to build its theories of the uni WHERE BIRDS SPEXD THEIR WESTERS. Investigations on the status of birds la their winter homes have beea uaderfgkea ty the Bureau of Biological Survey. United States Department of Agriculture, la connection with administration of the treaty with Great Britaia for the protection cf birds migrating between another tr.frrg to stop it. with the present admiaistrattoa. What see done for the freedom cf Ireland? George veys speech of May 1 la one answer te last question.

Sooner or later all those voters who were Cammed laet year into deeertiag their eal psry allegiance by specious appeals ta their pds" lar prejudieea win learn that they were bancs. Nothing will be done to make good the sreasssw thea so freely offered. The German AjaarloMS have already discovered how they were trtessfc The way to stop it is to clamp the law en tha whole Ka Klux SZaa scheme. Ia ths gusto with which tie House voted dowa the import duty on oil there was a suggestion cf the tribulations of the Giwerite. "If he win lead the way boldly, tie division among tas as to the Leagae of Nations win disappear.

The people who supported the League because they thought it promised aa end to war win gladly joia any parade going ta that direction. At the last they will as Jubilantly applaai Sir. Harding, if he is to lead them, as they would have applaaded Mr. WCeoa. "The personal equation was terribly exaggerated ia the matter ef Mr.

WCsoa and the Leagae cf Jfations. There Is always a great element of humankind which will follow aad appiaad aay movement away from war. Sir. Wilson aa tar-ally enjoyed the support of this element, and Mr. Harding caa enjoy it.

He has a greater opportunity thaa Hr; Wilson had becaase his party controls Congress. It was the lose cf Congress by his party that defeated Mr. WHson. as the same political disaster at this time would defeat Mr. Harding.

1t ought, therefore, to be Mr. Harding's judg-raeat to push the disarmament movement and bring it to whatever suceeea It caa gain while his party is safe from partisan interference ia Congress. Otherwise, he may get caught as Mr. Wilson got caught. "The maa who brings the national together in aa international society is goiag to make his name the greatest ia history.

That is not the sort of thing one wants to ask for from one's political opponents. WOMEN AVD SHORT HATS. From the Nation. FOR the moment the Nation te gets st Its fight fsr free speech, free thought. the Uaited States and Canada.

That many of these birds winter la South America may be surprising to some, but it ia known to be the case. Valuable material collected by Dr. Alexander Wetmore of the survey. recently returned after a year's absence la Argeatiaa. Paraguay and Uruguay, during which he studied the status of oar migratory birds la thee countries, will throw mach light oa the subject.

Among our more famdar birds that Dr. Wet-more observed ta South America was the well-known barn swallow that range with flocks of native swallows in opea eoantry. Many of the species encountered were shore birds found through the marshy pampas er oa the coastal me nrst suitasie step toward "purifying" tie Ku basis of hi a prices. Every merchant ts for himself, no co-operation, aad credit verse, cf matter and cf motion. Since then new appli Klux Klan would be ta chasr it nam w.

free Haiti, aad eater the lists a the cations and new economies of farce have been in history for lawlessness and termri T- keaoed of free hair. Several buaiaeae crme. the Aetna Life Insurance Co. cf Kartfsrl. 1 engines c.

aes traction tave would be to disband the orgaaization. announced that they will no locier employ haired women. Is aot this aa ttawarraatable A SCBJECT THAT OESXT WORRY HIM AT TT. fringement ef personal liberty? Is there a ia the Dec lara tier of Independence er the stitutioa of the Uaited State to justify thousand times, no. Ia fact, short hair for i ea.

aa aay honest aad Intelligent person the shortest route to life, liberty aad the suit of happinea (if Dot always to beestr) the right ta it is affected neither by raea nor aay previous condition of ervttad. moaial or etherwiea. Lt it aot be said eoantry ef the free aad the brave that aay I ta CHOP SUET. Gaze thirsty readr. at what they the drtakeriea at Toronto, lean woman ever miad being ecoaomlcalSr dependent by a haire breadth or length! SLOE GTS CREME DS MEN THS IMPERIAL ALE CHURCH ATTENDANCE.

From the Sioux Gty Tribaa. THOSE with the interest cf ttirUKia8T heart caaaot bat be trouhll by twe op meat to which attention ha lately to the great hamaa public, without collateral, ts unknown among? yea back here. Te are successful, have no tad astral tarnation, bar of money la cir-calation. ear population Is increasing fe Southern CaUforaia at the rate of a men tii and oar bank deposits are to creasing- at the rate of (S per cent per ananas. Is ear system riht? Are we foolish ta co-operate? Eo yoa won-t why everybody, man, woraaa aad child, boost for Southern Ca2for-nia? They receive more there than they ever got ia their own home town, for take aa interest ia them, trust them sal are trusted ia tarn.

We hare the greafeet automobile club ergaahatioa In the world ta California and oar club erterwla its assistance and beta clean across the Caited States ea the Santa Fa Trail. Seventy-two per rent ef matomobile owners ia Southern CaSferata are women aad fa the city Los An re See, 14 automobiles out ery If are dtvea by women. The transcealitteatal aatomobCe tourist travel this year ever the Santa Fe Trail is Ct per rest women. Oar women la California are mors facie driver and know aaere about aatomutnles then yetrr rasters; men, who drive altogether back here. Our automobile sales ta the city of Los Ange'e for new cars average lit a day.

aad per ceat of those sales are ea credit. Our need ear sale average IS a day in Los An-relee aad per seat ef them are sold ea credx. Ia the West it is factories colas; faB blast, everybody employed, stock tura-evers every 19 days, money freely circulated, prices back to pre-war basis. v-erybedy buying, building; boera so great tbat we mast build both day aad sierat boss ear popaiattoa. rae ea cred-T 9wH la, bat that's the answer ta bard tirt.es.

EARLE STKtLE. eeXed. First, fully 11)4 Protea-axt pulpH vacant throughout the eeaatry; seceod. ha beea a failing off la the attecdaaos at eetaat theoloctcal semlaart-a The csaae Si 1 mud flats; some were foand to winter well north la the tropica aad others to travel aa far oath as the Straits of Magellan. Among oar game birds seea la JCgentina aad jew here were the golden plover aad pectoral sand piper.

That Federal protection of migratory birds ia proving a succe.se ia recognised by the majority cf sportsmen aad nature levers. Dacka, geese aad other migratory game birds have not only increased ta number, bat nave reappeared ta sectioae where they had aot beea eea for many years. Recently there have beea a number of inquiries as to the poswlhility of arranging treaties with roan tries in Latin America far protecting migratory birds, similar to that with Great Britain. Oae of the objects of Dr. Wetmors's trip was to secure Information as to the feasfhUlty of such action.

Maybe Ireland win ITr to return the favor te her wH-wthere ia this country by bringing about peao tn USaota. STWCTJRXTT. HATE yoa a poee? Do yoa fool yourself? Can yoa really tall me what eae knew Of the thoughts yea think ta their work-day etothee. No Sunday beet. No rainbow ttat? Truth would have la the plalaeet prist.

Tea cannot col Nor yet caa Hard as I try. Troth comes not so. We prink aad prase each word aad leek. To fool earselvee, yeo, me aad each. We preach! The emly esse that truth Ciee free -Za when we cry in agony.

MART STERTJVq. fold. Mlaistars saiarie a a rale hardly to keep tn wolf from the daor. Ths are tamed away from the pe'pi The "UberaT Saadar. which has ba tsed" that the eharxh ha bat Utti pave te a eeatrtbatta; factor ta keeptsg the down aad keeptag th eoegrecwSoe For information how to reach Toronto, eaU at oar face.

We advise yoa to get there early bring your own bottles. Ladies and Gentlemen: We have with as today Yvonne Sraythe. the Greenwich village freak, whose delicate poem. "Song of a Hungry Soul." won the Alfred Noble prize for architecture. Alaa Dale savs: -While tMs delightful chirp to purely heterogeneous tt tends te the superfluous." We quote from oae ef ear leading magazine soxg or a rrcxcRT son.

The sua rtsee Like a great Fried Egg Aad shines down Oa the brows Prairie Looka Take the Egg's Reflectkm Oa one ef Mamma's Pi a rosea. Maggie, Pass the Sardmea, -ELWOCZ CLLMAX JB. mAtr the ministers themeetvee are partly far thia. Bat perhape the tact which ot sneet te th spread ef a very reed ta all Ceid ef hamaa thought. ahaekte have beea east aside te a large There are manv aewadavw wne rafa that th4r salvation dsaeetd epo adhes'sacsi aay parUeeiar creed.

It te a fact C3 while the etrlctly ctariaa eamtjiarUi are c7 tag decree eareUateet. Union ta New Tork City, aa intrdaoe" tteaal InatitaUen. shew a gain. Jt sny Mt bere we have the symptom that tadlcei Ustt- ft. Joeepa yews-Pr tea.