The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1922, Page 30

} t orld, HED BY JOSEPH PULITZER vy The Pres Publishing Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Pre 69 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITAER Jr., Secretary, 6) Park Row | Ohe ESTABI Published Daily Company, Nos, . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCTATED PRESS. The Associated Press lx exclusively entitied to the use fer republication Of all news despatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited im this pager ocal news published 1 canteens Nites tase NOT A SHRED OF EXCUSE. | OES the Board of Estimate mean to do its part toward providing transit relief or does it mean to go on blocking transit relief just to spite the Transit Commission? Chairman McAneny of the Commission sent a letter to the Board of Estimate yesterday protest- ing against the latter’s failure to approve contracts necessary for the completion of transit lines already partly constructed A costly instance is the unfinished 14th Street- Eastern District route, on which the city has spent $17,000,000 and which is now piling up interest charges at the rate of $2,000 a day while con- gestion at Canal Street grows worse. Must the people of New York actually be taxed to provide extra and longer crowding on their transit line: The hostility of the Board of Estimate toward the Transit Commission has become pig-headed- ness pure and simple. : There is not a shred of excuse for depriving the public of such relief might be secured by the speedy completion of new transit routes already constructed in part. Che Board of Estimate exists for something mofe than to serve Mayor Hylan’s silly rage against the Transit Commission. Public pressure should be applied to the board to get these contracts approved. “WHOM TO HOLD RESPONSIBLE.” In a letter to District Attorney Banton, Gov, Miller lays down certain requisiies for making the City of New York “a safe place in wih'ch to tive.” The first of these requisites is: -*An efficient police force, properly Jirected.” . New York’s police foree cannot be efficient if it fs improperly directed. The first step toward efficiency is to free it of Enright direction, _ If Mayor Hylan won't see a plain duty, can Gov. Miller ignore his own power to act? “We shall now know whom to hold resporsible if it (New York City) is not made safe.” "The Governor himself has sati ‘t. « MINDFUL OF THE PUBLIC. AT the Administration is trailing and not leading public sentiment is clearly indicated by the action of the House Committee on Labor in asking operators and unionists to confer under its guidance next Monday. “It is true the Admfnistration requested opera- tors and miners to confer. But these requests had no force. The invitation was not backed by a threat, as was the case when a railroad strike threatened. The House Labor Committee's invitation is al- most automatically armed with a threat. If either sidé disregards the invitation, the Committee has the Power to introduce legislation looking toward the regulation of the coal industry, fhe miners have already accepted conditionally. The operators will be wise to fall in line. The longer a fair settlement is delayed the stronger will the sentiment become for drastic and radical inter- ference in an industry so closely concerned with the comfort and well-being of the industrial and home lives of all the people. It is true that the first steps of such an interven- tioh are more properly an executive than legisla- tive function, But if the President fails to take such steps, then Congress must. The House is facing an election and is mindful of the demands of the public. Secretary Denby is out with 2 “Red” scar, | veminiscent of Mitchell Palmer days. It's now April, and May Day is coming, wien rantcals will lay off working and bureaucrats wil! lay | off reasoning f The principal effect of the Denby warning will be to rouse the curiosity of the always vyenturesome navy men _ “What is all this Sovietism the worrying about?” Jack Tar ig Itke “Is it anything like the Shifters?” Old Man ir to inquire PUBLIC SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS. | SHE George Washington High School League's plan of raising an endowment fund to pro- vide university scholarships for worthy graduates of the school is a desirable outgrowth of the in- terest of parents in the schools New York's public high schools rank with the best of private schools public school should not cultivate its traditions as carefully do many of the private schools. In many of the latter scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of merit and not on the more demo- cratic plan of helping to meet tuition expenses in the cases where help is most needed. Many public spirited parents who realize the benefits they and their children derive from the schools will be glad to contribute to so worthy a cause. Such a fund once started is likely to grow. Students who benefit from the scholarships may be‘expected to show gratitude for the assistance No reason exists why each THE: Interest shown by parents of pupils will inspire teachers, who are always glad to see their own work supplemented and sorry to see bright and capable children forced out of school because of lack of scholarships. The George Washington Iigh School League is setting a good example for associations of parents in other schools. NOT ENRIGHT'S POLICE TIS grossly unfair to the New York police that their reputation for efficiency should continue to suffer through lack of public confidence in the man who is their official head. The police of this city are not Lnright’s police They are New York's police. They include thou- sands of brave, capable men The service these men perform day and night they perform for the people of New York. They should be able to perform it under direction that gives it full scope and earns it full credit. cannot so perform it now. Enright, as Police Commissioner, has forfeited public confidence in two ways: 1, He has pooh-poohed complaints of crime in the face of the most glaring evidences of crime. He has boasted of the safety of the city when the He has tried to be- little what it was his business to prevent. They city was notoriodsly unsafe. 2. His handling of the force itself has constant- ly suggested ends personal rather than public. He has demoted good police officials and filled their places with favorites. He has flouted the principle of promotjon for merit to a degree that would de- moralize any police force on earth. If since the war a wave of criminality has broken over great cities of the world, all the more reason New York should be able to meet the wave with a police morale and command up to the high- est standard. There is crime that cannot be prevented But that does not condemn the City of New York to a Police Administration that smugly smiles at crime and strives only to conceal it. If this is really an epoch of rampant crime in big cities then there is tenfold argument for speedily ridding New York of a’ Police Commissioner who has lowered the protective value of the police, lost the respect of the public and made the city a mag- net for crooks. It is useless to expect Mayor Hylan to remove Enright. Gov. Miller, who can remove Enright and should. New York cannot get back the true efficiency of its police while they remain under Enright rule. Continuance of that rule is just neither to the force nor to the city. But it is not unreasonable to look to How's the steering gear on the Warren G. Harding? Does it wiggle And wobble as though it were trying to dodge a bonus ques: tion? We refer, of course, to the Shipping Board's passenger ship recently rechristened DON’T TRUST AN ART ARTIST. 1 WAS, of course, music to the ears of Mayor Hylan to hear a feminine constituent suggest that the model for a revised statue of “Civic Vir- tue” should be “the man who has cleaned up the city.” The Mayor blushed appropriately Perhaps the Mayor will accept a kindly word of warning against the dangers involved in such a proposal. If this suggestion were accepted, the Art Com- mission would have the right to name the artist to do the work. The Art Commission is notoriously partial to “art artists.” Surely Mayor Hylan has not forgotten the con- troversy that raged over art artist Barnard’s statue of that earlier friend of the people, Abraham Lin- coln? How could the Mayor control the form of sym- bolism the new sculptor might adopt? Suppose the artist should decide to fashion the Hylanized Civic Virtue in a Marceline, of help-and-hinder fame? But, no! The thought is too horrible! pose suggesting ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. bd * Doing us good is now the rage In each mail comes a plea If seems the purpose of the aye To uplift att but me! . some Democrats have come to life in Missouri, ac cording to town election returns. Others will probably be discovered elsewhere before fall by later contributing to the fund when they are out in the world and able to repay the obligation Such a fundtwould improve the school itself . If only Civie Virtue could be sometii than a lump of stone! . We should think there was shootin rout all Wall street buying revolvers . New York, it appears, is not alone in Dear old Lunnon has @ full supply . Old King Coal is not sueh a mer fler | not at afound $15 a ton and more EVEN ING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922 ies ak :~ By John Cassel | Spring Housecleaning! -:- «. Copyrignt, 1922, York Evening World) by Press Pub. EVOLUTION The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton right, 1922 York Bvenit Ward by Preve Publishing Company. VII.—MAN’S PREHUMAN HOME, Having visited Madagascar, I be« lieve I have looked upon the largest remaining fragment of a vanished continent which was man's prehuman homeland. “It is now generally admittes wrote Professor Alexander Winchell, i f : ; who believed his Bible but read it in- 3 f : ; f be j |telligently, ‘that man’s birthplace ; was in’ a region covered at present by, : the waters of the Indian Ocean." The Indian Ocean islands were once ; the highlands of earth's first contin- rh ent, which geologists have named ey ’ ‘ ae |Lemuria. That the widely separated islands were anciently connected by, land is evidenced by the fact that plants found upon »ne of the islands are found on all, some of the plants being peculiar to these islands. As the newer continents rose, Lemuria sunk, leaving the Madagascar Mountains and the peaks of lesser ranges stand4 ing as horsts. About one half of all the mammulg marooned upon the island of Mada+ gascar are lemurs. The lost tinent was named after them. These semi-apes of marsupial descent, ing the earliest of the primates, ura of great interest. Having remained in the home habitat, they have never been obliged to adapt themeselves ta changing conditions, so that physie4 Ny and mentally they have degen4 erated rather than progressed. composite picture of the lemur tribes would fairly, well represent the ental type. Madagascar lemurs have tails; they, live in the trees and, unlike most mammals, they hunt by day and sleep at night. con bes par As bearing upon the evos lution of nails, it is significant thaf lemurs have nails on their thumbs and big toes, but on their other fingers and toes typical claws remain, al4 though the claw on the third fingen has become quite flattened. Only, one child is produced at birth, over which the mother keeps careruf watch. With its arms about her necs and its legs around her waist, she goes trooping through the trees with the family to which she belongs. Being sociable creatures, the lemurs live in small troops and hold concerts covery evening, wailing cries which to them probably mean song. They teed on fruits, buds, eggs, birds and insects. During the time that semi-ape@ were developing into true apes, the jungles of Lemuria were very like those of the Orinoco Delta today—a wiiderness of evergreen trees, burs dened with vines and parasitic plants; the atmosp‘ere foul with decaying exhalations; the jungle floor slimy with stagnating water through which monstrous amphibians floundered; the heat and humidity almost. stiflin; soul, AS. A Wana From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Not Pimheadn. beginning the whole elaborate scheme ROCKY RESEN I MORESOT OUR EAST, Saat Bysdine: Wous {and machinery of His creation, just The time to consider your past is while you are mak- Asan all year round reader of your!as an architect has a previous con- 3 } } the interior alive with frightful ine ing it sects, the whole effect being untede- valuable paper I beg to refer to Lucy Jeept or ideal of his building, the : ' ' i +i ; a ; painter of his pieture, the sculptor of What you did yesterday is likely to be a cause of regret luvian, The birds of that time wera Moxey's letter of the 22d inst. INV nig statue and the poet of his woem [3 unless you bore in mind yesterday that you were making }]#lso grotesque; they had teeth im which she states that she has been {pefore they are produced. our past ‘ k their bills and the scales, inherited sung irrevocably over to the side of) ‘This shows the mind must first i rgatien . from their reptilian ancestors, had ‘ A : Panoaldaibatoraithe hand Stand on the shore of a stream and watch the current not yet been glorified into feathers. the reformers Gue te the pinheaded> ine mind must create D thing|$ rushing by. The drift that is now far above you will soon be ‘The evergreena wero flowerlens, ale ness of a “still larger proportion of fyerore the thing have any swept down stream. There may be in it something you 3]*pough great patches of bloom bright- our citizens’ who would get andJoxistence. Thorefore, the ideal is the/3 would like very much to possess—a stray canoe or firewood ${ened the Jungle roof, but as the drink the forbidden drink foundation of the real 1e invisible Tiel Selle heewalnatl math ea flowers came from lianas, or vines, 1 wonder if the lady is the starting point of the visible, which will be valuable to you if you are a camper. the trees were burdened with a beauty, wasn't for the “pinheaded” reformers and the unseen mental creation must Seize it when it passes and it is yours, Let it go and it which was not their own. Within the luomy intertor, however, wherever ndrils could cling, orchids grew and out of the fetid atmosphere and gloom precedeany visible material creation No house was ever built, no temple erected, no picture painted or poem is gone foreve You will always be judged, and rightly judged, by lot with that this not now she her condition has cast would might ask, too, how it would What wv, ea me 4 iy ‘ ne i | ee aaa Riritten until there want An ida wh aut you have done. The man with achievement behind they drew the rainbow colors which hibiting the manutacturing of candy {creation of the same in the mind of|$ him is sure of the future. their petals revealed. (just as injurious as beer and wines) [the builder, painter or poet. But the achievement must be there, in’ plain sight, Such, in general, is supposed to aw uomathinn! /¢ that her being} The starting point of all construc- where ii can be exhibited to the prospective employer. have been the appearance of the old force and creative homeland, wherein the lemur-like for= bears of monkeys, apes and man re tive energy is in eh? nak phe ould ge anol manta rept a sci Consider to-day when you go to work that you are e me: concept and cor Ss vO- } } are or drink the forbidden” article in|the mental concep 1d conscious vo. lition of an invisible, spiritual and making that achievement—that you are forming the past $ | sided. ne ane ele known a number of peo: mental power. Therefore mind is the upon which your future depends, s i ~I beginning of all things and virtually ’ . Hf Kol 2 ii ca ple who have been using beer and]ine end of all thin See Rue eatn Don't worry if you are not making a great deal of MONEY TALKS light wines moderately for a num- money the while. Better to do the job carefully and to do it rht than te try to get rich out of it. ity al fact of lite f 1 last not the r Brookl anc matter, is By HERBERT BENINGTON ber of years and who would "get and n” if they drink the Hos. 1 nd they r from ter The practice will be useful. and you will sell the ability Copsights ies (Phe New? Sane Bienlae (deta OTE eT: ws you are piling up to-day fo* good prices by and by—pro Moria) hy Brees Publish la gi Corpeny eee tian C Gely Onk (ho. lady | mectne maker er tus Reenan ret CLOTHING, and her associates to criticise fairly aey Cuan elnemagaynitariiian One of the savings banks in a pro- in reference to those who have not| 31, 20 a moral right to drink when. posed budget allows $45 a month fow reformed (7) and to wateh te Fosi| ever he feole:like it, If this were not people vote, among|s0 each and every one of us would the “boys who were|not have an occastonal craving for clothing in.the case of a single man vided it is real, useful ability. If you begin making « past now with the idea that it is to wors for you in the future you will make the right kind ot one, sult of t n C ie 7 : ‘a i AEA TERA: If you think that everything you do will, like the words $}or woman with an income of $250 whom will be of a witness, be used for you or against you later on, you month. over there” but who a ow “over! voter, milk, will be a little more careful. Ten thousand dollars invested at coffee or some other i EDDIE VICKEL Mareh 31 5% per cent. per annum yields $550, or a little more than the clothing al4 lowanc r twelve months. Four dollars a week saved and invested at 5%_ per cent, compound interest will amount in twenty-five years to more than the sum required to capitalize the expense of clothing. here.” The present is merely the past—under construction. Brooklyn, Build flimsily and the structure will always be there for men to behold and to deride, Build solidly and carefully and the edifice will inspire men with respect for you aud with confidence in what you can do in the future. You can live on your past, if it is good enough, never can live on your future. kind of soft drink, Even man's system has a burning desire for when 4 beer, wine or ne EV Life strong liquor } Editor of T To the same natural and moral right to In your writer claim cent once the satisfy it so make a beast of himself the ads from he explain island) evol articles on that life > How animal on long as he does not You doe a single of hundred HELEN on of m MAI Because a very insignificant prop. of an estimated population tion slaved her through his various neus 108,917,000 drink to exc in the rotie complaints. H Mpites cla site air He Need WO iy mer niet eee eee Senn a hea hives Uallckteoteen ents a Taian Thee k the majority should have r hap, can vent our dissatistuctio: ¢ consciously ered his poor “i ms mtv wu eng ee | PRYOR ocareCel SEs pi Shwe ie sm: Rac i toing ei ho fn Be aN rie ; Sve why” the jeiat Ane aeed Peale’ of | You and Your Mind re sok ainiuckaaed| Baier EM a HM “the most remarkable phe-| tect the unfortunates or those related] {L : ee} |NOVEr feels safe at meal time} yorite food and panacea against all nomena may ben Bi ange to them Didhititpalate nna-dierGor]| MC =TaAT) TERRIBLED RESTAU: unless he partakes of the home fare.] ills, by the way, being milk, to the world In+many of those ‘home bodies’ A jealous husband who had always than we 1 ernment are really So solicitous about 4 anianen bs the phenomena of the rulio telephone] ernment are really so solleltous abou RANT FOOD. soon discover a violent craving for the|!wnched down town began to develop Would have seemed fifty us protectin sib ows and thelr : ary few ‘nervous’ peo- terrible gastrie pains. Nothing but Psychology is new dom: dependents why do they not e are ver domination of some other human home food would do for him and he iy unexp! it hany| the individuals themselves or check] ple who are not troubled with semelyeing, generally of the person who] wasted almost three hours everv day rprise in store casy| profiteering to the fullest exient at} stomach complaint. A large Proper=| prepares the meals going home for lunch ent to me to imagine that A time pace! tart fe tion of them like to attribute thet I had a patient who could neyer|>Y¥ his Bayan ie finally was led clence will be abl i ate u ar lakes more: monuy ¢ uities to the fact that tor 3 can 1 to confess that he had suspected his the difference betweer ind] the people's pockets than all the sa SE et eee to cht in fade ete ee TIM Place Of | rite tor quite @ wulle of teakiie tungh Kpirit and prove bey hat | loons, distilleries and breweries A ng while they had to ¢ S-Jemployment was only four five|q little too often with a friecd of the latter does. r xist | world and gives in retu mht nd thus “ruined t di-]} blocks from his b Restaurant pis, His nervous pains were really When the forme rat fil priced and che | food always “upset” and he could | q good excuse for watching her a4 | i ple ha Y 1 never enjoy a meal unless the meal{ noon time, When his friend left sud4 Hist al ye OW t ore 1g) Coe ie ed by aig Phat Genly for South Amevica, my patient's ii 1 JOHN i | o man had always been depenitent on | pains disappeared entire creation. He bad plu ua the Brooklyn, Nov, Apr qi food su 1s cannot, his mother and had absolutely en HK (Copyright by United Feature Syndicate) y S108 —- co meter D) aves ae ay 2 : i