The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 22

yesterday: “He ran away April 15, but we instituted no search for him, expecting he would return at any time.” ° No search, no warning! A madman and potential the country until after he had shot and killed one of the most useful and distinguished among citizens! Such laxity on the part of asylum authorities seems scarcely credible. Experience has assuredly taught that gentle as a paranoiac’ may seem it is thé pablic, not he, that must have the benefit of the doubt. The tragedy of St. George’s should have a far Teaching effect in stiffening the responsibility and in- ‘ creasing the watchfulness of all who guard the insane. ng Workd editorial calling attention to the filthy unsanitary conditions prevailing in public comfort of sutway and elevated stations, mmissioner Copeland allows the Interborough me weck to clean up for Inspection, Thereafter the | Bealth inspectors are to see that these premises are Rept clean, | Dr. Copeland reports that previous warnings have ‘unavailing, and says, “A more drastic line of ction is necessary.” ‘Public opinion will approve any line of action how- drastic. The police powers of the Health De- iment are broad enougin to make such action ef-|- CUT ‘OUT THE SWAGGER. the “Swaggering Skilled Workman” appeared jin The Sun &c, One paragraph read as follows: The white collar boy who never had touched the fire box of a locomotive, never had seen the inside of a locomotive, hopped into the tender, and after a few moments of instruction stoked | Since Commissioner Copeland has taken this com- mogul locomotives in the railroads radiating to act as auxitiary inspectors and notify the helped to run the trains by dozens, scores and | th Office if conditions persist after next Monday. hundreds. ' oe a +See apa ate be unneces! As an example of dangerously provocative non- — disagrecati ata | sense this ranks close to 100 per cent. : The Evening World has not failed to appreciate the efforts of the volunteers in the outlaw strike. However, it does not harbor any such delusions as obsess The Sun (plus). FAIR PLAY BOTH WAYS. N OLD principle of the common law holds that he who pleads for relief in a court of equity ular paranoiac was last confined, is quoted as saying slayer of human’ beings left to’ wander unimpeded over | N editorial entitled “The White Collar Boy and | | Mendable stand, # will not be amiss for traction pa-| around New York—stoked the locomotives and | wer + ree THE EVENING WORLD, TU ESD. seaman ere TE a ee “come with clean hands.” general it is a desirable principle. What are the faots? | the recent rent laws so much is left to the dis-} Many of the volunteers were technically trained men n of magistrates that they function virtually as] who knew considerably more about locomotives than of equity. regular firemen. Others were graduates from the cab mds who have come to court with fingers tie . and tender. Others were engineering students who have learned this to the’ . Ege pleted know both theoretical and practical firing. i ' The same principle should apply to tenants. | |_| More or less definite threats of a “rent strike” on| Even so, it was the custom to put from two to B y 1 have been,made, Tenants threaten to refuse | four men into the tender to do the work of one reg- x : “Pa at all. * Jular fireman, ay not too soon for magistrates to issue solemn] jt js entire! i i ly safe to assume that if the strike had that summary evictions will follow any such | not heen broken the early enthusiasm soon would | i ; ay keep their hands clean of any desire have waned and the volunteers would have insisted | defraud their landlords. that the railroads secure regular substitutes without | Tenants should recall that a tandlord’s “We want all | delay and at any price. sh opp largely instrumental in causing the Finally, the trains ran largely because the most present relief measures, illed men—the engineers—stuck to their posts and A Similar proof of unworthiness of tenants might pain to work a the volunteer fi = | em A © firemen. | ; Pair oe J on both sides, -with the magistrates The white collar boys helped to beat the outlaws, | __-®sreferees, is a far better way. but their part’ was unimportant compared to the ef-| E Caruso has signed up for the Havana opera i { Season at $10,000 @ night. Cuban opera promot- ers can enlist a full cast of thirsty “supers” et) ‘ trom the U. 8. A. by offering expenses and $0.00 Ee! © per night. | regular unionists. The white collar boys deserve praise for their part. The “Industrial Plattsburg” idea has a great oppor-| tunity to stabilize industrial affairs in the public utility * field and protect the public from unauthorized strikes fi TIPS TO AMATEUR OVERALLERS. by employees—or by employers as in the Staten Is} 7 VERALLS may be divided into two general| land transit muddle. classes—those that have been washed and those a Pe diferent chiractristics of [M2 YETY serious difcuities to be met, The white two, a few thints to purchasers Ho glungs ict collar boys were successful because enough of them i_In buying the garments it should be borne in mind |Knew how. they shrink. Fathers who purchase snug-fitting| They did not learn “in a few moments.” : 3 oa phe winged face gal the first washing they} They did not completely cope with the emergency. ae £ ly for the son. , Few ht trains move i fs 5 A natty, form-fitting, spring bricklaying uniform for a Sep to anya a ee — hee nn | Mayor Hylan would not be too large for District At- “CO Nad le A ete aoa ney Swann after a trip to the laundry. and the force of the loyal labor leaders. iM Another property of new blue denim is its ten- If the public is to have a competent “one big union” to “crock.” A handsome $20 cream colored | it must prepare and not delude itself with such self- silk shirt wom under overalls on a warm day will] satisfied nonsense as the Solarized New York Herald come out a sky blue with cloud effects. offers. _ Into the finer points of attached or detachable sus- Penders, arrangements of pockets, removable or riv- - @ted-on buttons, and the question of whether coat tails should be worn inside or outside the trousers a to enter. Personal taste must govern. » But— Buy ‘em big enough, and roll up the legs and sleeves. , Wear old shirts you expect soon to discard under- IN PAJAMA LAND. a EAVEN’S choicest blessings on the patricians of o the City of Brotherly Love. 4 NOT WITHOUT ITS LESSON. The mighty reverberations of the overall crusade : Se Shocking tragedy of Sunday in St. George's | have disturbed even the somnolence of Philadelphia. \ Church, which cost the life of one of the coun-| And mark the effect as reported in news despatches, try’s leading surgeons, seemed at first view to have Philadelphia is with the rest of the Nation—part way tésulted from one of those insane acts against which | at least. Overalls may be rather too abrupt a change, Precautions are vain. but Philadelphians are willing to give up the use of In the fight of later facts learned concerning the i evening clothes as a protest against the High Cost of Tunatic who did the shooting there appears, however, | Clothing, tp be a distinct lesson for the community, This crusade has one striking virtue at least. It ~ + | The madman who shot Dr. Markoe had been re-| Will not tend to increase the price of necessary overalls featedty confined in insane asylums, from which he to mechanics and farmers, escaped, The movement for the abolition of what is vul} Bepeatedty s gar. { The paranolac symptomrs in his case were suffi. : known as {he “two-tailed coat” has the highest pos- Gently marked to show any allenist that this man, at| sible indorsement. Two former Governors oy large, must be a dangerous menace to public safety, (he Innovation, They are willing to go the limit— , Yet there is no indication that the institutions from ete with reservations, ~ which he escaped made any extra elfort either to] They are willing to quit wearing evening clothes— iestrain him In the first place or to recapture him after} “except In private homes at strictly social functions.” the got out, Ho-huns! Philadelphia night life promises to revert On the contrary, the Superintendent of ihe Eastern|to the traditional pajama costume of Rock-a-bye-baby A GOOD TIP ON THE MARKET. UY Liberty Bonds and hold for a rise. At present Prices they beat the savings banks by a large margin. : forts made by the law-abiding, contact espetng | | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kina of letter do you jind most readable? Isn't it the one sep mE KBD. ——s that gives you the worth of a hundred? to say much in few words. Take An Economy Slogan. To the Editor of The Evening World Why not this slogan? “Don't be ashamed to wear your However, there is no use in shutting our eyes to| 4 clothes or overalls.” You know what the denim manu- facturers will do to the price if you ntake only overalls fashionable, Not content with greater sales, they will boost their material to Mars. @ry this slogan. I think it will be ore populars A. G. MARKHAM. ‘April 19, 1920, A Difficalty. ‘To the Fittar of ‘The Brening World Would like to join the overall crowd, but since paying for my new spring suit and top coat, I have not enough left to buy the ae 640, West 160th New York, April 18, 1920. Better Than Overalls. ‘To the Editar of The Bvening World: Permit me to congratulate you on the stand you take against the high cost of living, But permit me to offer my suggestion to improve the Overall and Gingham (tubs, which you have admitted will only increase the prices of thos articles due to this concerted demand on the part of the public. “Old clothes” clubs are to my mind a considerable improvement. But the most important stop is to shape the minds of the public so as to feel proud of wearing old clothes. There y nature, patohed and mended, brought to a level, Minate the making of in this country SAM, New York, April 19, 1920. in the Sabway. To the Baitor of ing World: Mr. A, J. G.'s letter about “uncouth posture” is true and I quite agree with him, Not all the “ladies” that sit in trains with legs crossed are the ones he means. You will notice that in nine cases out of ten these “ladies” are immodest and it is precisely for attraction and “temptation” that they so act, A modest lady will never sit in that posture, but on the other hand it is the female with chameleon-like paints on her face that crosses her legs in trains and subways, G. H. K, Immoden ‘The Boy's Spe: To.the Editor of The Prening World; T would like ‘the opinion of other parents with regard to the amount | of spending money a boy of sixteen yeara ought to be allowed./ My boy is sixteen years old, and has had all the advantages of a boarding school education, ital at Willlamsburg, Va., where this partic- land, ~ Ho has secured a position at $12 8 jz and the intereste aoe a thousand words in a couple of There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. of economy, I insist that ae pay $4 for room and board, place $4 in the | Savings bank, allowing himscif $4 for | spending money He thinks that is a tremendous | hardship, in spite of the fact that he | makes possibly $1.50 a week on an average for overtime. He says other boys in like position have more pocket money than he has. Will a few parents inform me through your columns what they consider a fair amount for a boy's pocket money? When I was his age, 1 was allowed | 25 cents a week spending money, but I lived in the country and earned only $4 a week, and the standard of living was different; no movies or theatres, and my chief amusement as fishing and baseball in the sum- mer, and skating and sledding in the winter, That was all there was to do. ANXIOUS TO BE FAIR West 135th Street, April 19, 1920. A Workman's View. To the Kavtor of The Breaing World: Permit me, a common laborer, to write a few lines to you on the recent police vice scandals. When vice is licensed under State and medical control then, and only then, will graft, corruption aad dis- ease be reduced to a minimum. JAMPS WEBB, Mills Hotel, April 9, 1920. High Cost of Moving. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World. The new rent bills are all right— BUT The reason— Moving van . | Piano van as metre | Blectricity \ . 10 | : $120 Car fare is 4 cents a day, but rather that and getting up an hour early than spend almost a month's salary to get nearer the city AVENUE 0. Flatbush, April 19, 1920. Explains the “Outlaws.” To the Editor of The World. I can explain our so-called “out- Jaw" strikes. The reason we have them is because our own delegates are afraid to pull a strike, The ma- jority of companies are forming ‘unions of their own and settle all dis- ‘putes among themselves. The A. F. of L. knows this and the leaders ‘want to keep on the right side of the dig companies or (he ‘big companies l'wit do the same as the majority of other companies are doing. and our Dig headed delegates will have to work for a living (if thoy are abl | NOT IN THIS STRIKE. New York, April 15. Get the Big On To the Biitor of Tim Evening Wi A great deal | | fore the change of namo to ‘The| { am at present living ‘way out in Patched and Pleasure Club" would] the wilds of Flatbush—and recently cover both male and female clubs! I advertised and found a flat not far | and help frame their minds, from the Long Island depot and was | It should be a pleasure to wear] all ready to move on the first of the | patched clothes and the people| month—when I tried to get a moving | should be brought to that stage| van to’ take what little furniture we | whore they will feel pleased and| possess to the new house. I've now roud to wear shoes and clothes of | decided to stay 'way out in Flatbush. la being said b wary | toad of pikera (ae in the caas of one | New York, EIB a8 mathe tna re cA eam en ee By J. H. Cassel Sn ene UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright 1920, by John Blake.) .E DISCOURAGEMENT WON'T HURT YOU. Everybod} who is worth anything gets discouraged now and then. Getting discouraged won't hurt you. aged is what makes failures. James M. Barrie, who comes pretty near being Eng- land’s best writing man, used to suffer intense discourage- ment every time he read a page by Robert Louis Stevenson. Such mastery of English as Stevenson had seemed to the younger Scot impossible to attajn. But Barrie’s discouragements made him all the more determined, and by continued effort he became as great as Stevenson, greater in many respects, for he had a finer im- agination and more real genius. Every great man who has ever lived has had periods of discouragement. No man was éver more discouraged than was Wash- ington at Valley Forge. Only Lincoln's colossal courage kept his friends from discovering his discouragement during the dark hours, of the Civil War. The man who is never discouraged, who thinks always that he is doing as well as he can do, and better than any other man could do in the same circumstances, is merely a conceited coxcomb. He is capable of nothing great. Discouragements are bound to come. They are really valuable. They set the determined man to taking stock of his endeavors, of correcting his mistakes, and of resolving to do better in the future. Many a brilliant success has been founded on a black hour when success seemed impossible. Determination will find a way out of every discourage- ment. Failure after failure may come, each hurting your pride and your feelings. But you can profit by each, and keep on till you get what you want out of life. A LITT Staying discour- bn rr little done to alleviate the suffe caused by the high cost, of Ii {at a time introducing the idea). ne} it these days. sincere in what they say about bring- We have a “Flying Squadron” which | ing down the cost of clothes, &c., why is very active in nding up the|do they not, with the assistance of so-calied “profiteers.” ‘They are/ your valuable paper, set a day, say swooping down on the small store- keepers and are trying to * make] invited to Wear something that looks things uncomfortable for them in-| “last year” on its face. Between now stead of getting after the big fellows and the first, the State or city could who are really the cause of it all, issue buttons to be worn conspicu- Let them confine their efforts to the big trusts; the men who are directly responsible for the high price of com~ modities such as sugar at 30 cents a pound, potatoes at ten cents, poultry at 80 cents, butter at 90 cents, &c. Let them get down to the bottom of the trouble and get the men who are the real profiteers; those who are making millions of dollars for them- selves and their ociates, Then they will be doing something worth while. M. REUBHINBAUM, profiteers into bankruptcy, sible, such a button a two or three hour fii r New York, April 19, 1920, priches Saueer, 020 pel Hise 1 bie jage bird. Since the dintancse akin Mnke HC Unanimous, and. there ‘are mailions like ‘me. | work’ are sonsidembly Teese nse Tee To the Editor of The Brening World Nhe cost of the buttons would !there appears to bey ona Renin No man of any account, or woman | amount to less than the various city |this regard. In moat i Le ae either, is willing to take the initiative |and State Departments would spend | tights from fire. tenting aren aH to come into his office with patched |in an hour on high cost investiga-| headquarters would be sonata an” trousers or last year's hat, whereas it everybody followed this rule in a body we would all feel like heroes in- buttons made up. April 19, 1920, , the State, or even the city, is May 1 next, on which everybody is ously, which buttons would indicate that the wearer is a member of the army hell-bent on putting clothes if pos- I am positive that if this method were adopted, the attempt that: the | few who are now making at beating the profiteer would turn into a really effective fight, instead of a novel fad. 1 for one would be proud to wear In conjunction with tions, even though they had a million P See (f birds would be particularly great Will the Future -* Develop Animal Higher ThanMan? Prof. Edwin Conklin Says Man Has Reached Highest . Point in His Evolution ; Little Change in Past Ten Thousand Years. By Fay Stevenson. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Os, | (The New York Broning World.) ‘[_JAS man's physical and mentet H development reached its high- | est goal? Can man attain a higher physical perfectness? Can he attain a higher mental de- velopment? Ly ‘These questions are ably although rather pessimistically discussed in a lecture entitled “Has Human Evo- lution Come to an End?” by Edwin Grant Conklin, professor of biology In Princeton University. “For at least 10,000 years there has been no notable progress in the evo- lution of the human body,” says Prof. Conklin, “The limits of physical evolution have been reached in the most perfect specimens of mankind, There is no prospect that the hand, the eye or the brain of man will ever be much more complex of perfect than at present. “By selective breeding the general level may be improved, just as .t has been in domestic animals, but there are no indications that future man will be more perfect than the most perfect individuals of to-day.” Concerning man’s mental develop- ment Prof. Conklin says: “There has been no progress in the intellectual capacity of man in the past 2,000 or 3,000 years, and it seems probable that the limits ot intellectual evglution have been reached in the greatest minds of the race. Even in the most distant fu- ture there may never appear greater ,geniuses than Socrates, Plato, Aris- totle, Shakespeare, Newton and Dar- win,” Although Prof. Conklin believes that man, as an individual, has reached his highest development he says: “But if the evolution of the human individual has come to an end, certainly the evolution of human so- ciety has not. In social evolution a new path of progress has been found the end of which no one can forsee. “Society lasts from age to age, while individuals come and go; society pre- serves the experiences, acquirements, wisdom of the past and hands it on to the future, so that each age builds upon the preceding ones; thus society has advanced from savagery to ‘bar- tarism and then tocivilization and the end is not yet.” But as to mererman himself Prof. Conklin concludes: “There's no prob- | ability that a higher animal than man will ever appear on the earth. No longer any doubt’ prevails among scientists that man is descended from the animals, that he is a vertebrate, a mammal, a primate, But the limits of progress are fixed by nature, Even if the dreams of eugenicists should | come true the most that could be ex- pected would be that the standards of the race as a whole would near'y approach the most perfect specimens ot humanity which now exist.” RET REEE (Play the Game of ‘What Do You Know?” VERY entertaining and in- structive game for a gathering | of friends can be made from the “What Do \You Know?” ques- tions. A suggestion for rules to be followed are given below: Give each person’a sheet of blank paper and a pencil, Instruct them to put down the numbers from 1 to | 36 in vertical columns, leaving. three jinches between the columns. Take | three sets of “What Do You Know?” questions and make the following |statement; “I am going to read 36 jquestions, When I read a question write down the word that answers lit after the number, Every ques- | tion can be answered by @ name, word or number. Only five seconds will be dilowed to write the answer for each question, If you do not” know the answer go on to the next question 5 soon as it is read. len I have finished write your name at the bot- tom and pass your paper to the person at your right.” After the papers have been passed read the right answers and have them mark each wrong or omitted answer. —_—_ Pigeons Used in Fighting Western Forest Fires. URING the recent severe forest fires in certain sections of the West, carrier pigeons were suc- cessfully employed to convey mes- sages from the fire-fighters “at the front” to headquarters, says American Forestry. The test of the birds for this use was on a limited scale, but has encouraged the Forest Service officials to believe that they can be employed profitably on a larger scale, ‘The experiment lends special inter- est to a plah which is being consid- ered for co-operation between the De- partment of Agriculture and the Navy Department, under which carrier pig- cons and equipment of the latter de- partment may become available. To establish a successful carrier pigeon system it will be necessary to lay Plans during the coming winter, to have the posts properly located and get the birds acclimated and degin |their training. Flights of 600 miles in a single day have been made, while a distance of 140 to 200 miles means would be consi less than fifty miles, The manatee in mountainous regions where érayel tg dificult,