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J ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | @wtimed Daily Except Sunday by The Proae Pudlicbing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr.. Seer 3 Park Row MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Associated Prem ts exclusively entitled to the use OF Gf news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credit: nd also the local news published hereto. ter od tm this NOTHING TO SAY? “ PROTESTS multiply against Ambassador Har- oey’s assumption of the right to insult the League of Notions in the name of the American people. The Women's Pro-League Council in this city edopted resolutions last night declaring such policies @ Col. Harvey voiced to be “a betrayal of millions of volers who voled for Mr. Harding believing that his election assured a workable League.” But where are the protests of Republican leaders who used that same belief to justify their own support of Harding and to ask for the oles of other pro-League Republicans? Where are the protests of Hughes, Hoover, Root “""dnd Wickersham, who last fall signed with twenty- * ‘gaoen others the appeal which now becomes either the su omeme of foolishness or the deepest-dyed hypocrisy in -the light of the Harvey speech? Have they nothing to say? A NEWBERRY INVESTIGATION. HERE will be some sort of Senatorial investi- gation of the Newberry election scandal. Just what sort of an investigation will depend largely en public opinion. Republicans are not happy over the Prospect, ut something must be done. If the courts will pot pass on Newberry’s unfitness for office, it is «,\evident the Senate must. But the investigation is not likely to be thorough- going or conclusive unless public opinion demands a full and free hearing. Otherwise, Newberry will be spared afl the publicity possible. For the sake of its god name, the Senate must fe through the motions of investigation. If the gab-committee really wants to find out the facts in oan expeditious and conclusive manner, it can go to ‘the court records of the trial in which Newberry ‘was found guilty. P s)0\.Then, if the Senate cares to go back on the prin- ciples it attempted to write into the law which the e Court overthrew, the voters will get a new light on what Senators think of each other. PARTY ANARCHY. HE two key votes in the Senate on the Navy , Appropriation’ Bill give a fair measure of how “tittle our political parties mean toxlay. , , On the Alameda naval base vote Monday the Republicans divided 26 and 19, the Democrats 4 and 21. On the question of naval personnel the Republi- cans were divided 31 and 13, the Democrats 14 and 10. _ For the purpose of exposing the lack of funda- mental policy in both parties, it is unnecessary even to examine which side the majority of either party espoused. The fact is both were completely fit. Divisions were so nearly even that neither "wing of either party can assume to speak for the Naval policy is a subject large and important enough to form a definite plank in a party platform But it doesn’t. Neither party has a distinctive ppolicy on this or any other important legislative question. Party lines are dmavén on patronage only, mot on policies. Republican tariff making is not a policy. It is only a variation of iMe spoils system of appointments. To-day a leader in one party is entirely likely to find himself more at odds with other leaders in his -@wn party thap with half the leaders of the opposition. Worst of all, we have not even leadership by the President, the titular leader of the majority. Political independence is highly desirable, but it 3s impossible in Washington now, because neither party has any distinctive and certain principle with which an independent may disagree. “What we have in Washington pow is not party government but party anarchy. LO, THE POOR STUDENT. KLAHOMA UNIVERSITY has decreed that no student may “maintain” an automobile. Possession of a motor car is deemed “detrimenta! not only to the individual student but to the best interests of the university.” “Reasons for such an order are fairly obvious. From the academic standpoint, the “midnight oil” \ of the student and the midnight gasoline of the | joyrider have little or nothing in common, QOkla- hom University is “co-ed.” Boys, girls and motor cars do not form a studious combination. But why should Oklahoma have made this dis- | covery at this particular moment? “Economic determinism,” so dear to professional minds, supplies the answer. When $3 wheat was } the rule, almost any father could support a son and a motor car. Now that prices have dropped, this is not so easy. But the habit, once acquired, clung. __ , Pride and the spirit of competition made the students reyabilestion Dapea THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 26, eapamenren eae e want to keep their cars. Possibly some of the fath- ers hinted that a general ban on the automobile would be the easiest way out. Other co-educational institutions belt may find Oklahoma's example w: in wheat th following. THE PRESSURE. if ANY limit to be placed on the invasion of | private rights and the flouting of older consti- tutional guarantees under the Prohibition enforce- ment laws? Judge after Judge has sternly scored the police for entering people’s homes without a proper search warrant. Yet the invasion’ of private premises oon- tinues and is certain to grow worse as police as- signed to ferreting out infractions of the Prohibi- tion laws are goaded on to make “records.” Where will it end? County Judge McMahon of Brooklyn said this week: “I think it is a great wrong for any officer to take upon himself the authority of entering @ man’s home without a warrant. It is a dan Berous procedure and might result seriously. While the law may be a good one, it must be enforced legally. Officers have no right to be come belligerently offensive and pernictously active. There 1s too much of that in this coun- try. Men get into power for a day and they are not satisfied with the power the public has conferred upon them. They begin to abuse thelr power.” Liquor ts not the only thing that makes men drunk. The Anti-Saloon League of New York spent close to $350,000 last year further to intoxicate itself with the sense of power over others. The Anti-Saloon League talks confidently of what it will have Congress and State Legislatures do to tighten its grip. The Anti-Salobn League already looks with authoritative disapproval upon public officials and Judges who are not avowed supporters of Prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League even speaks arrogantly of its interest in having a new Chief Justice of the United States to its liking. All this is the effect of power gn men whose craving grows as it feeds. It is the pressure of this power upon the exist- ing agencies of government that is making the “belligerently offensive and perniciously active offi- cers” to whom Judge McMahon referred. It is the pressure of this power that is pulveriz- ing confidence in constitutional safeguards. It is the pressure of this power that, if it con- tinues, will reduce Americans to a flaccid, jelly-like state in which their rights will be but memories, their liberty a legend and the one controlling force in their civic existence—Prohibition. THE NAVY NOT ENDOWED. GROUP of sixty of the principal universities and colleges of the country have been cam- paigning for new endowment funds totalling $150,000,000. Nearly three-quarters af the amount, it is an- nounced, has been raised. One hundred and ten millions of dollars seems a good round sum to be given voluntarily for any cause. It is, But it shrinks somewhat when we re- flect that it amounts to almost exactly one dollar Per capita for the conntry. It shrinks again when we compare it with a Navy Appropriation Bill four times as large. And again, this diminishing sum grows smaller when we stop to think that this endowment once raised remains intact and that the interest provides running expenses for a continuing term of years, while in large part the Navy Bill provides exten- sions and expansions which will need new and great appropriation each year to provide running expenses. Is such a policy worth while? TWICE OVERS. “ce HE war is over. We must return to the ordered freedom.” Postmaster General Hays. * ‘S . ‘ i N the last forty years there has been only one re- corded case of a Princeton student who died of overstudy. There is no such case at all among the faculty.” —Dean West of Princeton. * “B UILDING material combines are all-power- Jul. It is still possible to reach the little fel- lows, but the biggest and most dangerous of them ap- parently’ are already above and beyond the law as it stands.” Samuel Untermyer. . ce Y ea defendants (masons' building mater- ials dealers) have pleaded guilty to a mis- demeanor, the lowest grade of crime known to our law.” —Justice Davis. * * . * * . 66 JT is indubitably settled by the lessons learned that the next great war, if there be one, will be fought with weapons which will prove destructive to the haman | race.” —enator La Follette From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There te fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in @ few words. Take Coal Operating Profits. ‘No the Editor of The Evening World coming out even and most of them are operating at a loss, holding on to maintain their organization at the mines. They are still at war wages. Reports from Washington last week showed a reduction during the past year of over 43 per cent. in whole- sale prices of commodities. What about the reduction in retail prices? That is what we consumers are vitally interested in. Possibly Miss Sophie Irene Loeb could find a fertile field of investigation in tat direc- tion that would interest all of your readers, AR. J Greenwich, Conn., May 21, 1921, ing Baltimore, dously popular, as thousands can at- test that have taken this inconvenient Dut interesting midnight journey. Perhaps 90 per cent. go to Washing- ton, but the historie City of Balti- more is well worth a yisit and has a charm all its own. Its revered Charles Street is one of the famous streets of America, On Charles Street, at Mount Vernon Place, is the imposing Washington monument, In the Westminster Churehyard at Fay- ette and Green Streets Edgar Allan Poe is buried. In Baltimore Harbor is Fort McHenry, the bombardment of which by the ‘British in the war of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Druid Hill Park is one of the finest parks in the country and covers over 600 acres, Chesapeake Bay is a para- dise for tho lovers of aquatic sports, and on its broad waters can be seen ships from all parts of the globe. HENRY BNGELKEN. Paterson, N. 1921, May Should Mankind Be Wiped Oat? ‘Ty the Editor of The Krening World There have been made successful experiments by scientists to rejuven- ate the human body, worn out by axe, and to prolong the life by planting new glands of animals in it This achievement of human intelli- gence is little short of a miracle, At the same time the same mankind stl believes in the righteousness to settle disagreements between the natioas by war. Other scientists do their best to invent and improve means for de- struction of human lives. On one side one old man's life is prolonged for a limited time, on the other side men selected, young, strong and healthy, are t out to kill one another by the millions, Modern warfare is no fight in the older meaning, but h sale slaughter by machinery, 3 this not show a mental disarrange. ment? [tue progress of civilisation is im. ceca remeron 9 a | To the Ed ng Wold The weekly excursions to Baiti-/| more and Washington are tremcn- AO RON CE LL ACL EI —— Coprrieht, 192 re Brews Lili 1, By Jo hn Cassel aN Peeere 2 eee it time to be brief. petuous. It was reported that our de- partment for chemical warfare has a In an editorial you say that the} new poisonous liquid, three drops 5 “ © soytt sufficient to killa man. The plan is co y sho ofl i industry should “deflate.” “cut' ty nave a great number of aeroplanes prices and get back to work. let the precious fluid rain down and I venture to say that right now in a few hours a whole army can be not one in fifty coal operatora is #nnihilated. Other nations are not idle and have similar improvements. That is a misuse of the intelligence g ven by God or Nature, or whoever Bave it, to these beings misnamed human. ’ Would it not be a fine thing if somebody could: invent machinery able to wipe out the whole human race at one stroke? If that is done, gorilla and tiger will be the “crown of the creation” and our earth will be a better place for them to live on, Most people will agree, then, that my proposition is only the “logical conse- | quence of further development in this direction, A SIMPLETON. For Better or for Worse, | Some people thought the loss of booze World be a dreadful thing, ‘Twould take away their They couldn't have their fling. berty, They couldn't drink wine, Likewise the green and red, Nor wake up with a dark brown taste And wildly throbbing head, the sparkling ‘They fouldn’t rush the old beer can, They couldn't “shoot” the “duck”; They thought unless they fought for booze They'd lack the proper pluck. They couldn't stand up at the bar, Acquire barmaid’s knee; ‘They said if booze was lost to us ‘The country wasn't free. ‘They even said, they loved it so, That, if the place went dry, They'd beat it to a better land, Or else lie down and dis. It may be right, it may be wrong, But be it thus or so— 1 know a million wives and kids Haye joyed to see it go. BERT ADAIR SEELHOFE, Bellerose, N. Y¥., May 22, 1921. More Scotch. of The Brening Workd, .’s" letter in to-day’s Evening is of many words, but “it doesn't mean anything.” m 1 am a native born American and mighty proud of it, and am of Scotch descent, but never thought there were any of the race as ignorant as “G. BR.” seems to be. First he says the Scotch are a moderate drinking race, and then cites examples of two cousins who were descendants of many generations of hard drinking ‘ and English squires. Pretty inc tent, I think, My grand- father and great-grandfathe we wary heavy drinkers and died of o Blications due to imtemperange, My World preemie UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyriaht, 1921, ACQUAINTANCES. Big institutions need two kinds of men for their high- ons—executives and salesmen, s are usually born, Certainly they must be in- est salaried po: Executiv: tensively trained. Salesmen m And they develop their effectiveness through acquaintance- ship. A salesman is not merely o1 goods. He is a man who dis. paign, of anything which his institution desires to spread abroad. Any intelligent man, with a fair business training, is al- most invaluable if he has a wide acquaintance. Such an ac- quaintance must be the right sort, of course. founded on-confidence, and confidence can be founded only on ability and character. There sequence is very highly paid f He belongs to no politica against any political party. B great issue gains many adherents because‘he advocates it, for the reason that he knows timately, and everybody kno: F His estimate of a man's | Another man, lately retu his former position no longe: changes. certain line of endeavor, As positions on the sole ground personal friends in every tow: these can carry the message the most good. Cutivate pleasant acquai yourself in their affairs. , in Amecica, a political writer whose opinions are followed carefully by millions of people, and who in con- cause he knows what he is writing about. He had a very wide acquaintanceship among men in a was at liberty he received six or seven offers of important One of these he accepted, and has been of tremendous value to the firm that employed him. He has half a dozen names and how they are pronounced and spelled. Acquaintanceship is capital. And if your interest in mer is genuine and sincere your acquaintanceship will not only 3] be profitable but extremely enjoyable. j Coen | by John Blake.) HIP IS CAPITAL. ust be made through training. a man who disposes of stocks poses of ideas, of plans of cam- It must be ‘or what he writes. | party. He never writes for or ut the side he espouses in any public men personally and in- s that he knows them. a character is worth while be- rned from the war, found that r existed because of business soon as it was known that he of his acquaintanceship, n in the country, and through of his firm where it will do intanceship. Remember men’s Interest father drank heavily until he was middle-aged, when, after losing # fine position and wrecking his home, he was brought to his senses, went away and cured himself of the habit, and to-day, although he did not alto- gether approve the methods employed in its passage, he is a strong advo- cate of Prohibition. For eight years now he has not touched alcoho! in any form and is never sick, having as strong a stomach as any one ever had—something he did not have when he was a drinker. If you can do with- out “booze,” "G. R.," get some one to before it is too late I | Amer of th existing, who could bea e hard- ships than G. R. himself, It was simply @ case of @ civilized pace con- |quering an uncivilized one with the} products of civilization, aa firearms &c. Any incident in history wher the Indians came into possession of firewater shows, not that they became civilized or stronger, but that they became more blood-thirsty and treacherous, often turning on those who gave them the etuff. In our engineering department we have a real imported product of Scotland who is supposed to stand| against fatigue, climatic changes and| the other things G. R, says, b' matter of fac is 6 h pneu- for one| }the sun and the plancts revolving e| miles; The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff Cocerigtt, 1921, by The Press Pubtichieg: ine Sew York Prening. World). IX—THE MAN WHO FIRST MILKED A COW. It is possible to base upon the speculations of scientist tie Hibern- fan conclusion that the first cow ever milked by man was a reindeer. To begin with, the reindeer was man’s first willing or unwilling ally among the lower animals. Then, again, the breed of cattle that inhabited the cradle of the race—whether it wae the savage water buffalo or the equally ago aurochs—would not have readily lent itself to the blan~ dishments of the milkmaid, even if her fuuctions were attempted by the | hardiest of hunting male On the other hand, the reindeer 1» @ comparatively gentle animal. In ages past it inhabited the entire northern region of Europe, Asia and their former territorial contiruation, the North American Continent, One species of the reindeer (known to scientists as the Rangifer tarandus) has been in a domesticated state for time out of mind. This species the Laplanders of t- day use as their only source of meat and milk as well as for transporta- tion, These Laplanders, with their herds of reindeer, constitute a pro- jection of the reindeer period into our own time. But in that period these hardy ant mals were not confined to the north- ern strip of Europe, Asia and Amer- ica, They range as far as the south of France. ‘heir bones and imple- ments made fro:n their bones are to be found in the Lake-Dwelling of Switzerland as well as in the pre- historic caves of France. Reindeer lived in Scotland as late as the twelfth century of our own era. At first man only hunted the rein- deer and made no attempt to make friends with him. It would appear that the first friendly office extended to the reindeer by man took the form of an attempt to guard a herd of this food supply on the hoof -rom the at- tacks of marauders who disputed pos- session of the deer with man, If we can imagine such a herd driv— em into some locality where it coula® de held indefinitely by a tribe or a party of hunters encamped at its narrow entrance, we can obtain an entirely reasonable picture of the first “cattle” range. In such a game preserve the bunt- ers first drove off their principal rival, the voracious oritinal ancestor to the dog, and then took steps to supply the reindeer with food in the form of moss in order » keep the animals in condition until they should be wanted for food and for hides. Finding himself with animals to feed, we can further imagino the reindeer man as exerting himsolf to collect and store fodder aga'nst the time of need. Here in this reindeer inclasure,. probably first provided by uature, but later certainly reinforced and made permanent by man, we have the beginnings of the domesti- cation of an mals. We can see this herd, thus cut off, gradually becoming accustomed to its surroundings and by degrees submit- ting to the approach of man, at least when he was laden with fodder. From this quasi-friendly relgtion be- tween the captured and theif captors arose the opportunity which the orig- fnal milkmaid—only it was probably | milkman—eventually grasped, to ex- tract the white fluid from the dis- | tended udder of some particularly do- eile doe. This initial! act of milking was of fur greater significance than the mere | supply of an important article of food thus obtained would imp! It marked the beg nning of settled habits, of the principle of property, of systematic and sustained thought for the morrow. It marked the founding of social order—the order on which the entire structure of civilization has been built up through the cen- turies. The footprint of the man who milked the first animal stands out clearly on the path of progress, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD" 30.—GOD. There is widespread impression that the word “God” is etymologically related to the word “good.” Such is not, unfortunately for mankind, case. ~ Although the Dutch word for “good te “goed” and the Gothic and Danish equivalents are “god,” our designa- tion of the Supreme Being is related not to these adjectives but directly to the Dutch noun “god,” the Gothic “guth” and the German “goth.” ‘Other reasons besides etymological ones make the assumption that “God" ena “good” are allied words unten- able. The chief of these reasons ts that im the early conceptions of the Deity the quality of “goodness” wag re- moved ae far as possible from “God.” ‘Among all nations and certainly among the peoples that contributed to~the origin of the creation of the English language—"God” was a being to be feared; a being who dwelt amid lightnings and thunders, devising pot how he might bless but how he might most effectively and cruelly punish. ‘The effort to bring about an ap- proachment between God and “good” is comparatively new among all rages and in ali religions. By the progress of that approachment of ideals and conceptions is civilization largely to be measured. “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick | Sere wendte ‘The name June is derived from Juno, a Roman divinity worshipped ag the queen of heaven, While the term |s applied to ‘Yhe month, tt is also coming into frequent use aa @ feminine name. . . by the Preas York Rrening . A woman 5 feet 8 inches in height should properly weigh about 165 pounds. 4 One 5 feet 9 inches tal could reasonably weigh 163 pounda, ° Our own solar system consists of around it. Mercury, the neares 88,000,000 miles dis 000,000 miles; the Mars, asteroids, Jupiter, | ompty Go out and treat yourse! drink of H-2-0, xan iS reiting SNC ic i