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: aia 20 ; ’ ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Company, Now. 63 Park Row, New York. 4 RALPH PULITZER, President, i 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 6 _/OBEPK PULITZER Jr., Secret! \ MEMIFER OF THE ASSOWLATED PRESS. | F aun aseecie at aD news deepatches credited to ft or mot otnerwioe erwurtea tn tam Ga also the loca! mews publishea herein THE NEW POPE. Pied Datiy Rxcept Sunder by The Press Podlishing Prom ts exoitmivety entiuiea to the ws fer repubiiea! ARDINAL RATTI of Milan has been elected Pope. The compromise choice of the conclave is dis- tinctly favorable to the peace party is a known liberal. Cardinal Ratti He was backed by Cardinal Gasparri, who could not himself have been elected. Cardinal Gasparri represented the policies of the late Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict's death that if he lived the last the old hostility between the Vatican and the Itali Government would be dissolved. Therefore, Cardinal Ratti, who comes from t most progressive part of Ital, in a policy of liberalism which promises further ir It was predicted before of an he is a logical successor m- provement in the relations between the Vatican and the Quirinal. He is an Italian, with nothing to lea im of the subtleties of Italian psychology and politics. He is sixty-five years old, but he has the vigor a mountain climber. and kindliness as well as learning. of He has a record of humanity The Pontificate of Pius XI, which is the name the new Pope takes, should prove one of broa mindedness, progress and peace not only for Ita but for all Christendom. If the New York Legislature fails to extend the life of the Lockwood investigating com- mittee, who is going to investigate the Legis- lature to find out why? NOT HOME MISRULE. OV. MILLER, in his speech before the Real E: d- ly ‘s- tate Board, landed a body blow on Hylanism. “Whenever an effort is made to drag the slimy trail of politics through our schools, then the time has arrived for the State to say, ‘Stop.’ Goy. Miller expressed himself as favorable home rule. tween this and the words quoted. . | Home rule is one thing. Home misrule is ar other. to There is no necessary inconsistency be- Ne ; The city has powers delegated trom the State. $o long as the city rules in a tolerable manner it @hould have wide latitude in the discretion of imms- @ate ways and means. Brate misrule. Justify a plea for home rule when it is in reality plea for home misrule. But the State cannot tol- | The Municipal Administration cannot | a ' The Transit Commission and the Port Authority controversies are examples of the effect of misrul The schools may easily become a third. e. If Hylan favored home rule for anything except campaign demagogy, New York would have chance to gain home rule. a But when Hylan demon- strates nothing but home misrule, New York may expect an increasing measure of interference and supervision from Albany. r Yes, the letter “I” is doubled in Hollywood: MORE IRISH THAN THE IRISH. OURKE COCKRAN, who depends on 100 per cent. Irish oratory to Keep him afloat in poli- tics, assails the Five-Power Naval Treaty which agrees to limit naval armament. In the light of his record, it is not hard to find t reason for the Cockran attack. he The treaty is “an invasion and’ breach” of the powers of Congress, according to the Representati from New York. ive The reason for this assertion is plain: Great Britain is one of the signatories. man who ought to be in the Dail instead of in Oon- gress, Mr. Cockran is opposed to any dealing with England. It’s a habit with him. tion is a substitute for thinking. Emotional opposi- But, as a matter of fact, the time for this super- Iishism in American politics has passed. No Irish- man seeking American votes has reason to be more (rish than the Irish, as Mr. Cockran is. * It must not be forgotten that Irishmen have only recently entered into a treaty with Great Britain ene creating the Irish Free State. MOONSHINING EVOLUTION. ROSCRIPTION of the theory of evolugjon by the Legislature of the State of Kentucky may have an entirely unexpected effect. _ The mere fact that such a proposal receives serious consideration is a pretty clear indication that Kem tucky schools have not functioned particularly w in the past. tolerate such nonsense. Evolutionary theory has not made good progr in Kentucky. But what is likely to happen if teaching of evolution is barred? vell A well-educated electorate would not OSS the Some young Kentuckians go beyond the bounda- ries of the Blue Grass State for education, In past these students have not paid any more att collegian. In future, knowing that it is barred home, Kentuckians are likely to have a lively curi- Kentuckians will flock to classes in evolutionary science to disoover what they have sity about it. . been missing. the tion to the theory of evolution than does the average at | ' | i As a good Irish. | Again, the Legislatye only proposes lo bar these | teachings from schools supported by public money. If evolution is barred in public schools, are we not likely to have Kentuckians sending to the book shops for copies of Darwin, Huxley and the later-day critics? Back in the hills the wild young devils who want to do something different from the others will {urn from distillation of corn liquor to evolution. Moonshine classes of eamest seekers after anthropoid ancestors will search for the missing link. If they are unable to find it elsewhere, they might go down to the State Capitol and look in the Legis- lature. There are some queer specimens in that august body. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. He has Nation-wide Prohibition affected bu:i- ness? The Evening World put this question to fifiy rep- resentative business men from all sections of the country. The answers may be read in Mr. Roger Batchelder’s article printed elsewhere in this issue. Only eight of the fifty hold that Nation-wide Prohibition has been unqualified benefit to business. In the opinions of the other forty-two, Prohibitivi: has either hurt business or has done business ae good. Resultant evils have outweighed advantages. Nation-wide Prohibition has accomplished nothing that States and communities could have not equally well achieved. While few Americans want the saloon back, there is growing demand for moditica- tion of the present law. . These views represent a fuir cross section of the country’s practical business thought. They significant. Significant also would be answers from ieading lawyers and Judges to the question: What has been the effect of Nation-wide Probibi- tion upon respect for law? No American who has not been asleep for two years can doubt how a majority of Judges and law- yers would answer, if they answered with no though: but for plain truth. The seriousness of this side of Prohibition wa: strikingly emphasized last week by no less an au- thority than a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In a speech at the annual dinner of the New Yori Law School alumni in this city, Associate Justice John H. Clarke of the Federal Supreme Bench said: “The Eighteenth Amendment required mil- lions of men and women to abruptly give up habits and customs of life which they thought not immoral or wrang, but which, on the con- trary, they believed to be necessary to their reasonable comfort and happiness, and there: by, as we all now see, respect not only for that law, but for all law, has been put to an unprecedented and demoralizing strain in our country, the end of which it is difficult to see.” Those who forced that law upon the country would now haye mission! A third question: How has Nation-wide Prohibition promoted tem- perance? Unprejudiced help toward answering this should be obtainable from the statistics of the big life insur- ance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has just reported that deaths from alco- holism increased 50 per cent. in 1921 as compared with 1920. : ‘ This accords with a recent statement of Dr. M. S. Gregory, who has charge of the psychopathic and alcoholic cases at Bellevue Hospital, and who, re- porting 2,381 alcoholic patients for 1921 as against 2,091 in 1920, says he has to deal now with far more serious types of alcoholism than in the days before Nation-wide Prohibition. Dr. Gregory is “against the corner saloon in al! its phases,” but believes “beer and light wines well regulated by the Government would temd to solve a difficult problem.” Business men, jurists, doctors who are closest to that problem—all refuse to have their minds mana- cled by the Anti-Saloon League on the specious plea that law is law and must not be questioned. How long will other Americans stay bound and gagged? of are reason sit silent and learn sub- The Regulars. We've nothing but regular soldiers Serving for so much pay: But we've never flinched and never sarled, Though paid but a dollar a day! We're not out after a bonus Because of duty done— We're nothing but regular soidiers Serving from sun to sun. We have no friends in Congress Nor elsewhere as we know, Bie nothing but regular soldiers A@® not a part of the show. The @@hunteers get all the cheers And the coddling aud all of that— But we, the regular soldiers, , Ave the omfW@kot go to the bat! DON C, ababdd. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1922, ! ‘From Evening What kind of letter doyou find most readable? the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | that giv Copyrteht, 1929, y Evening World) ublishing Co. (New By John Cassel | Y 4 | | AME RICAN HISTORY World Readers isn't it the one There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of satisfaction in trying te say much in few words Fight re With ec. le Editor of The Evening World I have read the article in Thurs- jday's World containing Dr. Royal | Copeland's remarks regardiny medical jethics, and what a mos: |germ laden institution the ‘profession has allowed itself to be- come. Also how he thanked God he |was not a member of the Academy of Medicine, in so much as he would then have to remain silent about disease and {ts cure. More praise to the Commissioner. He has the right idea, and the pro- gressive members of the prof agree with him, that the medical p fession in general is being pressed to the back and trampled upon, while the cults, isms and quacks ‘Hourish, There is something wrong with the system that makes it im- possible for the sick or crippled per- son to know that he can be cured. And the fault is with the medical profession, which has been unwilling to advertise what it can do We are told that-quacks aie suc- cessful. We are also offered various sorts of remedies, but never are we told to fight fire with fire, for that would be unethical you know. Suppose we offset the advertise- ments of the quacks, the culturists, pathists or what not, with a list of the reputable physicians of the com- munity, published without comment. That would be fighting flre with tire. | Dr. Copeland is right, and if by |making the remarks he did it will \cause the medical profession to wake up and make them realize that they have oa responsibility of not only curing disease but of preventing it by letting the people know that they can cure it by scientific knowledge, then we shall begin to eradicate disease from the face of the earth and in a short time put out of business the cults, isms, &c. \ What ts unethicz! ing? Advertising ethical. Only whe unethical, or the wa ‘Advertise to the ma the press what to do in the | fracture. When the horse s ‘a shoe the driver does not go to a covered, medical about advertis- cannot be un- you say can be jeigar stand—he goes to the horse- shoer. Common sense. Our friends the people go to the juacks, the cultists, the pathists and jwhatnots, Th have no sense, ‘Neither have we, the profession, for |we let them go and do not teach jthem the better way, Fighting fire with fire does not mean washing your hands without wetting them. To fight fire you must {stamp your foot hard upon the ground. To fight fire you must get out into the open and fight, tight, jactually fight. Only then shall we extinguish the cultists, ¥ thysters, charlatans and wh But, who dares? 1 am voicing the opinions of many: day along with my other expenses out Take time to be brief. physicians Who if a move ment was started would abandon the, time-worn, moss-covered medical eth and Jet the people know how, when and where they could be cured | at the least expense and with the best | possible treatment | More power to Copeland, | should appreciate your printing my com- munication, and, if possible, devot space to a discussion of the subj in hand, I am sure the people as ans in the country | interested in this | well as all physi would be vitally subject. THOMAS W. EDGAL, M. D New York, Feb. 2 ‘ More Hons To te Faiior of Die Evening Woy On the front and heading of your paper of Jan, 31 is, "City Needs 40,- 000 Move Houses. At the rate things are being grafted’’ we shall need 400,000 more houses, not only 40,000, Why, sir, it's enough to make « man with a family ‘‘cuss."’ In fact, what is really needed is a ‘‘vigilant’’ society to get up and tell the com- founded landlords or houselords to go right square to —. What's the use of more houses | the rents are impossible to be paid? My married son positively bad to get out of thelr New York flat—could not pay the repeated increases in rents They moved to New Yersey, but had to return to New York owing to his work and now have had to share an apartment away out on one of the streets whose number is beyond 3000, They pay $84 a month, besides carefare to town G Do you wonder at the overcrowding, and sickness there will be a-plenty this summer—caused by overgrasping houselords? We want lower rents as well as more houses, It is worse than highway robbery, this rent rob- bery. Thank you for what you are doing through your noble paper. Hit them again, sit. FATHER, New York, Jan 31,1 Tips and Wages. Yo the Editor of The Even ‘After reading an paper about Miss Hill, a waitress in a, railway restaurant, refusing tips from | her patrons, and as a recompense ceived $10,000 in cash and 1,000 acre of Nebraska's best grazing land from | one of them, [am a wait so, in the New York Grand Central Station [ would like to know how much she ved in wages that she could af- My wage is 50 cents a day out of that goes to the bus boys for ing out the dirty dis an average of about 8% cents To pay carfare of that is more than I could do with gio tips. M, 8. % 5 : SENSE By John Blake \ MAN WHO RLEUSED TO GROW OLD To the day of his death the late Viscount Bryce was a young wan, ‘he writer remembers him in Washington, ten years ayo, when he was seventy-four, swinging briskly up Conneeticut Avenue on Ins morning walk, At the corney U Strect he stopped daily to feed a squirre) of his acquaint- ance whose home was ins tree in a large private door , Every morning at 9 the squirrel was waiting on the fene rail. Promptly at five minutes past 9 along came the white- bearded Ambossudor with a pocketful of peanuts, He and the squirrel conversed for a few minutes while the latter had his breakfast. Sometimes the squirrel, still hungry, would hop to the statesman's collar and explore his pockets for further nutriment, ‘The Ambassador would wait patiently for his little friend to discover that his breakfast was strictly limited to what was good for him. Then, with an admonition to be pa- tient till the next morning he would resume his rapid walk up the street, Many things that might have aged other men happened in the ten years that followed. Viscount Bryce saw his eoun- try plunged into war and took an important part in her coun- sels, His advice was sought and followed in the peace nego- iations, It was disappointment to America that he did not come to the Peace Conference—for of all Britons Bryce knew the most about this country and had the deepest understanding of it. The cable despatches say that his mind and body were active to the last day of his life, which those who knew him can well believe. Prodigious were his mental achievements in his lifetime. Through sheer hard work rather than genius he rose to a very high place in the world of literature and diplomacy and never was a misdeed laid to his door. He lived long and remained youthful because he was not afraid of hard work and kept his mind and body busy. At seventy he could outwalk most men of fifty and ontstudy most men of thirty, His heart was always the heart of a young man, because he retained a young man’s interest in all reated things, from squirrels to Kings, long after his hair and beard had whitened. Read his ‘American Commonwealth” for a complete un- derstanding of the United States Government. Read his biography for an unfailing rule for continuing to be young through a long lifetinn ” was only twenty-seven years old when he won his naval victory on Lake Frie; and Paul Revere (1736-1818), who has been pictured as a youth, “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick [covyright 1¥2a (‘Tae New Tork Rrening World) | eae Publishing Co. colonists on his famous ride to Con- cord and Lexington, Mass. is the name some- 7 “Field of Lies" given to the battle fought, in near Colmar: in which Louis le (814-840), while fighting ‘inst his three sons, was deserted time: A tablet on the front of Christ Church (‘Old North''), Boston, Mas: commemorates this event: ‘The sig- nal lanterns of Paul Revere, displayed in the steeple of this church, April 18, 1715, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lea- ington and Concord." Debonnaire, by his own army oe ¢ Oliver Hacant Perry (1785-21819) . ‘ was aged forty when he roused the | Liberators Treland By Bartlett Draper Copyright, bie yes ote Ward) X—ONE OF THE MEN WHO WERE HANGED, Gross materialists might say that Robert Emmet belongs. to romance jand not to history. But he sprang from a romantic race; and the man- ner of his sacrifice has furnished to the story of the Irish people a pace which never can be erased or for- gotten, The son of an Irish physician, Rov- ert Emmet early rebelled against av- thority as represented by the Lord Chancellor of ‘Trinity College, in Dublin. A brilliant student in that institution, Emmet resented the fn auisitorial methods of the chanceitor in his examination into the political views of students. His resignation from Trinity Co! |lege before be had obtained his de gree excluded him from the proves- sional life for which he was admir- ably adapted. The rebellious spirit which cut hia academic career short impelled bin into the struggle of his people. At the beginning of the nineteenth jcentury we find him in Paris |Uating for the liberation of 1 | with the adventurous Napoleon I. and his crafty Minister of Voretgn Affairs \de Talleyrand, | Assured by these two gent! that all that Ireland needed to do obtain the aid of France was to lune) another revolution, Emmet in 1803 tc turned secretly to his native land 4 set about starting the required heayal. Owing {o several unlucky circum stances—including the accidental ex |plosion of a wevolutionary powd: magazine—Emmet began his mare! upon Dubdlin Castle with only four score or a hundred followers. The savage munier of an Irish per hom some of his followers dragge n his carriage, and a similar ou! mitted upon an army office happened to be passing by, at ed the young and scrupulo leader of a forlorn he Attacked by the regular guard, he ¢ wer 4” those who survived { my of the soldiers—quickly dis persed, Emmet, clothed in a gree and-white uniform, found refug the Wicklow Mountains. Thene: hoped to make his way to the 1 ;ropean Continent or to America | But his romantic nature inte with the success of his plan. W trying to pay a parting visit to Sa the daughter of Jon Philpot Cus to whom he was affianced, ;was captured. His trial, conviction and sent: ifollowed quickly. Condemned to \he walked firmly and without gret to the British gallows on + |following day, Sept. 20, 1808. The revolution which he trict lorganize on the advice of the a itious Emperor of the French anil ! fac Minister proved comp abortive. But the spiritual values the man and his trag’e adventnr not to be measured by mate results. At his trial Emmet said: "Tet the |be no inscription upon my tom) no man write my epitaph; no + an weite my epitaph.” Emmet’s epitaph was not writt It was written by ¢ | and the English peor nto the treaty that created the Itis | Free State. Psychoanalysis | You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON XUI—WHY DO WE RUN TO FIRES At the whistle of a fire engine or thé booming of the fire bell we all rush 1: windows and sometimes don hastii our hats and coats and run to the fir At the slightest Inkling received |) some one that an aceldent has hay pened, a crowd congregates. The mor serious the accident the more unman ageable the crowd. Curiosity, some call it. A natury Gesire to help, according to othe: Curiosity, but hardly a desire to help For the mere announcement of a c lamity in the dally paper causes us read that part of it first If there was any Kindness in the c1 riosity that draws us to the scene © the excitement, or which impels us tv devour headlines, what would our a! titude be when the fire is simply to a curtain which is easily torn 0! and thrown away, when the man tum bled over by an automobile picks him self up and walks off unharmed, &c. We should go away profoundly ve lieved and manifest our pleasure over the happy termination of the inciden| On the contrary, analysis your own feelings and listen ta the comments of the bystande! . “Tt didn't amount t +: that fire was a fizzle; I hay Laas be time; that fellow didn't loven get a bruise: he just got scared, lac. All these things are said with tone of disappointment, if not anger | we never mention the fire or the ac \cident to any one; we never expres any joy. On the other hand, how prou: we are when we have witnessed a rea | catastrophe. How important we tee! | How we exaggerate the horror of it Why? because every one is at heart « Jealous brute who enjoys whateve’ dumage is inflicted upon some one else's person or property. We are in competition with every ether human being, and we Ike to believe or to expect the worst, When- ever another being is down" we feel more keenly that we are “up.” Fires, accidents, scandals, gossip, are al! things which diminish in some way those they touch and leave us relative ly more powerful, wealthier, healthier, superior in some simple, cheap, effort- lens fashion. (Copyrighd by United Feature shemeats> ~~ Oe oamsaeiaialiieg