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j } | i | | i H i ; | IRE camer Laiinpiieicanca icici ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podiished Dally Excont Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preatdent, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Trenaurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITS! rotary, 63 Park Row. — one «s MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. he Associated Pree ts exciitelvely entitied to the tse fer republication Gf al! news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tm thie paper and also the local news published NO EXCUSE, THIS YEAR. AST year the Tax Exemption Ordinance hung fire in the Board of Aldermen for five months. This year the ordinance renewing tax exemption was accepted without objection on the day after the Governor signed the bill. Last year Mr. La Guardia, President of the Board of Aldermen, fought it bitterly. This year President Hulbert recommended it by an emer- gency message to speed its passage. Last year Mr. La Guardia was ablé to delay its progress in the Board of Estimate. This year there is no reason to fear that any member will care to draw criticism by obstruction. = Last year The Evening World felt it necessary to canvass the Board of Estimate in order to fix responsibility in event of failure. Asa result two *members casting six votes changed their attitude overnight. No excuses will be acceptable if obstruction develops this year. “I am not interested in any anti-smoking movement."—Representative Volstead. Surfeited with enjoyment of harm already done. WHERE'S THE OLD GUARD'S OWN * BROOM? LD GUARD influences in 4he Republican Party are assiduously fostering the report that Henry Ford is backing the opposition to Senators who must face the voters with the rec- ord of having voted for Newberry The inference is that Ford is a rich man out for revenge and willing to beat Newberry’s friends by: lavish use of money, even as New- berry beat Ford. No proof is brought forward, but the basis of an appeal for harmony is evident. In New Jersey, in Michigan and in Wisconsin Newberryism is already an issue. It is having an effect in Indiana. It may enter the campaign in other States. It ought to be an issue wherever a Newberryite asks re-election Actually, these propagandists are anything but complimentary to their own part Even though the Old Guard is in the saddle, there are many Republicans who condemn New- berryism. It is a slur on this decent element in ‘the party to suggest that it needs the help of Henry Ford in cleaning its )wn house. If the Old Guard asks for harmony, the pro- gressive element should accept—providing the harmonizing comes from the Old Guard and re- sults in elimination of Senators who are tarred with the Newberry stick. Police Commissioner Enright announces that he will soon haye policemen rolling about town in Ford cars to run down robbers. Js this an- nouncement for the reassuranc@ of the public or the convenience of the robbers? . MORE MARCELINE CAPERS. WED in Chicago on the anti-smok- ing ordinance fiasco, Hizzoner said “I do not believe that Commissioner of Police Hnright issued any such order as that reported stopping women from smoking in cafes and restaurants last night. Some one is evidently trying to play a joke on some one.” - Mayor Hylan will probably never be able to Tealize how completely true that last sentence is Mayor Hylan is the first “some one.” Any citizen of New York may properly consider him- self the second “some one.” Enright is the joke, “a practical joke on some one’s part,” as the Mayor phrased it. We have described Hizzoner as a “Marceline Mayor.” Ile has also a Marceline Police Chief, who, like the clown, always does ihe wrofg thing. When the city is overrun with thugs and gun- men, when the homicide record amounts to an average of more than one a day, when hold-ups and robberies are so common that the newspapers list them in one long story, then—then is the time that a Marccline Police Chief chooses to de- tail policemen to enforce an ordinance that never passed, of doubtful constitutionality and unim- portant in any event This is no time for Marceline capers in the Po- lice Department. Clowning by Enright is a bitter pill for the butts of the practical joke— the citi zens of New York THE NEW EAST SIDE. 111. Downtown Chamber of Commerce an- nounces a “Boost the Last Side” campaign of education and enlightenment. It is planned to carry the message of the Last Side of New York to the rest of the community and to the world in general. ‘It will tell of the industrial, social and civic activities which have resulted in changing the character of the district The last five years in particular have wit- messed surprising progress in the East Side. The sweatshops are practically gone The tenement house laws have prevented new construction of slums. Many of the old buildings have been de- molished to make room for business places and “new law" developments. The few remaining “slum” buildings will have to go by condemna- tion whenever the housing situation permits, All these are material facts. But the “Boost the East Side” movement is in itself a spiritual proof of what it seeks to demon- strate. When the East Side shows pride in itself and resents misrepresentation, it establishes its title to respect When the East Side was, in fact, a stum dis- trict, it was more or less content in its squalor. It left the exposure of conditions to the “intel- lectuals” and social workers. Now that the dis- trict is speaking for itself and developing a com- munity pride we may expect the East Side to improve even more rapidly than it has in th last few years. Communities are no different from individuals. Ambition apd pride may carry them to almost any heights. COSTS. ISCUSSING "The Money Cost of Pro- hibition” in the current issue of the At- lantic Monthly, L. Ames Brown thus summarizes the data: In 1921 the Federal, State and City Gov- ernments were deprived of approximately $472,000,000 of revenue derived from Mquor. levies. An expenditure hardly less than $25,000,000, but possibly much Jarger, was made for inadequate enforcement. If we deduct $65,000,000, to cover soft- drink taxes and Federal fines and seizures, and still refuse to consider debatable and un- certain items which might unfairly augment our total, we have a minimum Prohfbition cost exceeding $400,000,000 to put along- side the economic gains which may be attrib- uted to the movement—a sum greater, per- haps, than the taxpayers will be saved in a year by the Hughes limitation of armaments proposal. That is the dollars-and-cents element in the balance against Prohibition. Will anybody attempt to compute the civic cost? " Is there any measure of value we ean put on losses that must be reckoned in weakened respect for law, in outraged reason, in what a Justice of the United States Supreme Court has character- ized as the “unprecedented and demoralizing strain” put upon the country by Nation-wide Prohibition? The money. cost will go on multiplying, The moral cost will do worse. It will eat further into the foundations of sound citizenship. It will replace pure loyalty with alloy. It will turn patriots into cyn No American with his eyes open can deny that these evil processes are already under way. ‘The signs are too manifest On both the physical and the moral side the same result is evident To the “poison” it pretended to take away, Nation-wide Prohibition has only added other poisons far more potent and dangerous Will the country sit supine while they creep through its veins? “Man F Who Wsear World No homicides in New York were reported by the morning newspapers. It looked for a few hours as though the “murder a day” schedule had yielded to the gentle influences of spring But it developed that the gunman had only delayed his work until 5.40 A. M, after the papers were printed, ed a Year Ago Killed by Assassin s.”—Headline in to-day’s Evening morning a ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. pee Stephen Leacock says, the pun ifs the favorite vehicle for British humor, This may explain the trouble they are haying in the Punjab, . Ralph D. Blumenfeld, editor of the London Ex press, who migrated to England from Milwaukee via New York, is paying us hig first visit in sixteen years. He finds the town changed somewhat! * Hizzoner seems to have devised a Presidential plat form upon which he can stand wilh both feet and not hold on to anything. . Nd Howe, who saw Mr, Harding at Miami, is th twenty ye all teeth, ys he first good-looking President he has seen in ars. Meaning thereby that Roosevelt was ‘aft all fat and Wilson all jaw Will Civie Virtue and dames go out together? moking by the . Now set hens. . Hizzoner’s triumph in Chicago is complete. He has been given the Freedom of the Stockyards! . Everybody seems to be trying to make the Fouy. Power Treaty a one-horse power affair, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 239, 1922, Copyright, 1922, (New York Bvening Wor ty, by Press Pub. Co. @ By- John Cassel What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ian’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a coupie of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to *ay much in few words. Take time to be briet.« it has been unable to prod Congress argy on this question, ‘Then came the concentration on the the opposition brought forth the ery of help for the To-day’s news throws Mr, Harding on the screen, showing much concern about the disabled and actu- ally going about the matter in a busi- the legion has of years for is d by the same out of its let World since Immediately deeply intereSted in your special fea- as the stories on *! Mexico are familiar to me : ’ Pen tara atti been fighting a coup! apace now brought to a h number of months of bonus fighting. is pushed hard enough the legisiators will be forced baptized in the Pres- byterian faith and for the first si years of my life listened to the ortho- dox teachings of a stern but cultured y impressions were very pro? certificates will only give a breathing That the forceful lines writ- and where will the money come wholly new tine of thoug be due to his trea doctrine that was fixed was possible-of argument. value of the afticles, I feel Evening World shows a very publishing them, and [ to follow them to their ion, even if for the pur- pose of disagreeing wih them. t must either!” Big ntoney and capi and for incre: 4 hew avenue must be opened, LIGHT WINES lized industry Most of the trails have in my mint AND BEER With the disabled taken care of and use by every one, hope to be abl and wine for logical conelu: be inelined to more patient in regard to a bonus. New York, March Ordinary ordinary might imagine. . Despite the fact that sign posts are set up from one en of life to another, a very large portion of the population are continually taking the wrong trails and the air is filled with their complaints and lamentations when they are forced to retrace their steps and begin anew, One of the greatest lacks of the average man is the y for us all to learn from the Evening World: suppressed f¢ en to take exception to this to suppress it st opposition say that any endeave will meet with my « ‘The devil through all the been represented as @ man fussed over it; accepted Tt as very apt and cor- power of observation, It is easy success or failure of others, But we pay no attention to the ress or failure of others, We insist upon learni own experience, a thing wh pect to make any worth while advance, World T have always found that it ts rather human erhuman attri it is Hable to err, as all human ® getting to be Insuffer- It does not re- neither does it improve ening World cartoon of in its demands sirange that ag recognize that fact Prohibitionist March 24 is ex; Others must obey. Others are depraved Others must be suppressed, And still we drink, and wet it if men to encourage the world will be without sex script—and the universe upside down. ELLA BENEDICT BURKMAN, March 25, 19 Amht Wine and Heer, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) FOLLOW |THE SIGN POST, Lewis and Clark did not find, they Md DE the Oregon Probably no human being—not even an Indian—had ever before made the complete journey from ¢he Atlantic Coast to the Columbia -River. It was a long and wearisome business. Little informa- tion was to be gained from the savage tribes along the way. There were no maps to follow. Mountain ranges continually rose before them, and over these it was not always easy to find passes that could be travelled. Yet the two pione they had fin chose to foliow, There is little pioneering to be done now—either across continents or through the mysterious thing we call Life. been found and marked. know from the testimony of other men which is the way to prosperity and which is the way to ruin, . Every biography marks a trail. tells us where we may go safely and easily, where we shall have to toil over obstructions, and where we shall be plunged in ruin, Ordinary intelligence will enable us to read these signs. intelligence ought to force us to follow them. But telligence is not so generally distributed as one If you will follow the sign posts tif] you are forty you safely do a little pioneering, provided you don't get too fu. off the trail. But you must keep your e rs stuck to their job. And when hed it the way was blazed for any one who Every book of history g by our ch is impossible if we ever ex- cs open and your ears alert. Te sign’ posts will not shout at you. You must watch for them or you will miss them and go wrong. ‘To the Editor of The k numerous complaints r Bonus may be ifled, but it must be admitted that nt agitation by the Amer! Legion is resulting in notable achieve- Staten Island unpatriotic as to consider it unpatri otic on the part of our soldiers who gave up so much for us to accent t gratitude for if | ee ¢ndered; very’ few—the By Albert P. Southwick. vote proves that Copyright, 19: Secondly, referring to the the Soldiers’ om a Former Friend, For the past several years 1 have ertain object un-| founded on common s some of the editorials 1 have of late bam forced to alter politics it is nece the issue and, second, New York City, to raise up a more of a In the first plac the vole is being You intimate that}the argument that we hay simply what are edisling. there aie tew ical Americans go New York, March Uatu recenuiy proposed World) lary for the Mayor of - i city, you suy we shall ox “Nushka!" meaning ‘look,’ 000 Mayor than @] cry of young men and wome Doesn't this leave reem fr) of the North Amer probably ,000 Mayor now and are only sim $15,0002 A good worker] bol of wedlock wives the best that is in o 8 diews of whether, bis salary] Nasnas 1s an ape which the Arabs efort or not) ban’ that} maintain was once a human being. ee A NUS ROOTHR "Con 4923, vont «1 That’s a Fact w York Bvening, bilahing Co, they find a red car of maiz lin Tampon" is the nickname of @ 2wies as Joho Bull is of an Bog: | inhabited by the Kurds, EVOLUTIO The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening forid) by Press Publishing Company. IV.—ORIGIN OF BACKBONE AND LUNGS, Beginning with simple sacs, or cells, of nearly naked protoplasm, evolution produced, during the so-called Age of Invertebrates, slugs, sponges, radiates, corals, mussels, snails, bivalves, oysters and mollusks in many varie- lies, Nearly all had external skeletons, or shells, none internal bones, All were senseless, shapeless, spineless. They could not see, hear, taste, ke smell, save in a very diffused manper; they could only feel. To create sense and shape mass around a spinal cord seems to have been the aim of evolution throughout this age, but the ocean floor was liter~ ally strewn with worthless models be- fore the dream of the age came true. But, finally, the surf at low ti revealed a queer little ascidian whi differed from the mollusks in that it had a right and left side, an upper and lower surface, and a suggestiom of something that had never beem seen upon the earth—a backbone, Perhaps it should not be called backbone, for at best it was only @ line of cells running lengthwise of the body. In no other creature, however, had that line been laid down before. Very feebly it served the purposes of a backbone. In descendant species the line off cells was lengthened and strength- ened and finally, in an amphioxus on lancelet, the first unmistakable back= bone appeared. The ascidian may be said to have been almost a fish; the amphioxus, a very primitive fish. Through these creatures, evolutio! started life upon a new plan. S shapes and shelled masses of flesh had been tried out in vain; now creatures were to be recast on a bi- lateral plan, with a right and left side, a place for a head and tail, an@ a backbone from which body bones could grow. From the lancelet descended long lines of differentiating fish, some which chose the littoral as a habit: while others chose the deep. During the Age of Invertebrates, innumerable plant forms had been evolved and a primeval flora had spread over the land, Those un- tracked fern-like forests, wherein nests had never been built, began al- juring littoral fishes into swamps, where they suffered many hardships, Sometimes the sands sucked up the waterg, leaving whole schools gasp~ ing for a tidal wave to come to the rescue. Only those that could live the longest out of water survived and transmitted the qualities that had saved their lives. Generation after generation being subjected to the same breathing tests inherited and passed on those life-saving qual~ ities with ever increasing vigor, 80 that gradually gills were changed into nostrils, air bladders into lung# and scales into skin. It was a long and painful proces: 2 but the outcome proved worth thi effort, for, finally, away down the marches of time, from larvae spawned by a fish mother a swarm of fishlike tadpoles hatched. Born in the water, they must still spend their infancy with fish as fish in the parental pool; but, growing older, they could rise out of the water and live upon the land, From such creatures descended the amphibians, animals whose life~ cycle comprised two periods; gill breathing and air-breathing. | Who~ ever doubts evolution’s method of transforming marine creatures into land animals should study frogs, During the Age of the Amphibians, when no higher forms of life existed, vegetation in its rankest, densest and most voluptuous varieties flourished over all the earth. The remains of those towering evergreen jungles are preserved as coal beneath the dust of the ages. Wherever coal exists, there the primeval forests existed under which amphibians fashioned carth'm® first feet. } WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 149.—IGNITION. ’ The name of an Aryan god lurks img the word “ignition.” It is the nme of Agnus, the god of fire. In ther course of the transmission and adop+ tion of ideas that has helped to de+ fine and propagate religion, the Aryan conception of Agnus war adopted by the early Romans, wit a modification of the name to “ignis," the Latin word for fire, From the original Aryan wordy s the Latins derived the verty to kindle or set on fire, The, tnelish ‘ignition’? is an adaptation, @ through the original Roman invaders of Gaul and Britain, of the Latim past participle, “ignitu nitor,” the name of a contri- vance for the powder in a torpedo, iw thus of prehistoric origin, back to the childhood gods of Aryan race. lishman, Brother Jonathan of am American, and Monsieur Crapaud of a Frenehinan ‘he word ‘satin’? and the fabri, to which it is pplied as a name, aree both of Chinese origin, The nearest, approach which ordinary type will en abl one to make to the Chinese pro. nunciation is “sz-tun. ; * 8 8 The Mohammedans state AY Ju was the mountain on which the ari reated, The word is a corruption of the Kurdu, 80 called because it