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a ae 2 The new community proposes to practise com- munism. We fear thoy will suffer di Ve lusionment, as Berkman and Miss Goldman did. Right, at the start they made the mistake of thinking it neces- sary to travel to Siberia to practise communism. They could have done so had they preferred to remain here in the United States. Several colo- nies organized on communistic lines have failed in the United States without the burden of Soviet rules and regulations. We hope, however, these remarks will not dis- courage Other I. W. W. colonists from joining up and leaving for Siberia. The United States can spare several supplementary parties if the Soviet wants them and they want the Soviet. GENOA. ’ E Genoa Conference opens to-day. : Pessimists have been having a happy time with the prospect. If the world allowed itself to be duly depressed by all the headshaking and gloom, it might as well draw a curtain around Genoa and leave the conference to fizzle out in its own alleged futility. But a wise world will do nothing of the sort. WATABLISHED BY JosHPH PULITZER. Dally Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President. 63 Park Row. «J. ANGUS SHAW, Trensurer. 63 Park Row. PULITHER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. _ MEMWER OF THE ASSOCIATAD PRESS, EE arwocnstes Pres te exctusicely entiticd to the use for republteation Gempatches credited to Mt or not otherwise credited im this paper the local news published herein, THE WHIRLWIND. HER the Irish Republican extremists have. formally deposed Eamon De Valera is not so important as the realization that the anti-Free State revolt has got out of control. * Apparently De Valera hoped to overcome the Free State by doctrinaire insistence on a formula. But having raised the forces of hate, suspicion and mistrust he could not control them. His less intellectual followers are hotheaded fanatics and are out of hand. ‘ De Valera probably did not want civil war, but he is none the less responsible for the blood- shed. Nominally he is head of the Republican movement. Practically the movement can be furthered only by force and terror. Perhaps it will be a good’ thing if De Valera ousted by the firebrands. It may help to bring { It will persist in having hopes of Genoa. And ‘ eet renaerate followers to tieir senses. these hopes will be based not on international | nt ‘De Valera has given the world LS classic example idealism but on an intensified national perception rm . woth Spied il ate ie Sa a A of individual self-interest as something that has ‘ i { ; GROUND INTO IT. got to be studied in the light of common interest. E Jefferson Day dinner of the National These nations gathered at Genoa are like assem- By Democratic Club gave James M. Cox a | bled members of a far from harmonious family. et “chance to characterize the “hermit” foreign policy | They have a hundred differences, jealousies, ran- of'the Harding Administration, to which anything | cors and rivalries of one sort or another that they bi saan connected with the League of Nations is could squabble over. But they also have a para- Why gee said Mr. Cox, ‘Nis not statesmanship; it Oe Te te ta f i Wtavuticism.” It is nearly mree years since the Treaty of i ~ “Day by day its effects are fastening them- Versailles was signed, and they are all alarmingly i selves upon the impressions of our people. lean. In fact, they are threatened with the worst ¥} BT eM E aGehctsn scence ta ate ace. kind of economic starvation unless they can find i nomic life are moved by prevailing forces else- a way to begin to circulate some economic’ food. f : dap hleoey ant teat pend To put it colloquially, the question that will j %€ Republican Administration is opposing laws drown out all other questions at the Genoa family i | oor ek ma a 3 no Ke ora Xf, oppinite conclave is: “When do we eat?” i a tis, getty Sabie, Sbaspan: oats she Thanks to the insistent dominance of the eco- . € bags and unaffected by the distress of others.” nomic “eat®’ problem, there is good reason to hope i i “if realization of prevailing forces in the eco- | other problems will range themselves in such Ly | nomic life of the world can be more deeply and | fashion that they can be handled withéut breaking i { hq kopante iy es hoa me up the meeting. The-main need is too immense i! F aly, results inthe aA may eee and urgent not to have its effect upon those in- | through and durable than any that statesmanship | ‘lined to push conflicting claims. | “could achieve. Therefore, don’t be too sure the Genoa Confer- 1) "Phe present generation of Americans seems des- | ence, despite the unfortunate absence of the tined to have more than one lesson ground into it j by suffering under the hard heel of fanaticism. at ~ Harvey Dinner Criticised.—London cable to iq Chicago Tribune. j Why is the comb! United States as an active participant, will not confound the pessimists by wrangling through to actual accomplishment. Don’t be too sure, for instance, it will not start a definite move toward stabilizing exchanges—the tion of Col. Harvey and a dinner table so luctive of trouble? as a first requisite for restored currents of trade. | THE DUTY OF PUBLIC SERVICE Don’t be too sure it will not prove to Russia ; COMMISSIONERS. that acknowledgment of national obligations and the regaining of other nations’ confidence is the only sound basis for Russia’s economic salvation. Also don’t decide in advance that this Genoa Conference is no good because Lloyd George has i ‘ E Federal Court mile laid down Saturday by District Judges Hough, Hand and Knox ex- _ cles the city from participation in the telephone rate suit. . P ff the city has facts to present, it must present | either through the Public Service Commis- or the Attorney General of the State. } his rule emphasizes a condition to which The Bening World has frequently referred. !t points oy of Public Service Commissioners to mark ll the words “Public Service” in their title, in recent years there has been a tendency for Pablic Service Commissions to assume the func- | tidns of a court, judging between the representa- | my of corporations and municipalities. } | in England, far as the other kind, to establish his complete unselfishness at the door. Give Genoa a chance. It was Koko in “The Mikado” who “had his little list” of those who “never would be missed.” 7 The Gilbertian plan is followed by the poet Maeterlinck in reply to a quéstionnaire as to the five persons he would save in the event of @ great world cataclysm, 2 Maeterlinck prefers to answer by naming those he would sacrifice first if he had oppor- tunity, The Kaiser and Gen. von Bissing head his list, n Belgium doesn’t forget.* f the municipalities cannot take their cases to the highest court over the heads of the Public Sérvice Commission, it puts the commission under obligation to be less a judicial body and more an | advocate. The corporations may appeal. The Pablic Service Commission must stand ready to | spéak for the Public and to render Service in | arding the rights of the Public, | tr the Commissioners have the office-motto | habit, we suggest one something like this: “Remember, we are PUBLIC SERVICE Gom- missioners.” ACHES AND PAINS TE site i ge A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, I, W. W. PILGRIMS TO RUSSIA. { FY paying capitalistic passage money to a | ; capitalistic steamship company, sixty-four members of the I. W. W. pooled their resources, with the exception of $2 each, and left the United States to welter in its own capitalistic cash, fThe United States will probably be able to ruggle along without these sixty-four pilgrims to fast becoming a second Belfast. Irish Republicans should feel quite at home, . play as it were, ; The radio promises to supersede the pulpit, several times over. x to permeate the golf inks with gospel? More probably the United States will never . Seems to be O. K. to fire first. z rid of them without paying passage money j . id following the dangerous precedent of deport- ing them by “Ark.” | These 1. W. W. pilgrims are setting out with $i intention of colonizing a mining area in ia. They have signed up for two years and | > Ihave agreed Signs of spring grow. and the grass is getting green. . to obey Soviet rules and regulations. | one of his own agents to sit down, ’ been able to turn it to his own political account Disinterested co-operation doesn’t always get as There’d'be few conferences if every conferee had With so much promiscuous shooting New York is The newly-arrived Though keeping out of the Genoa Conference, Presi- dent Harding sends a Child to “observe” it—child’s shrine of Communism in Russia. If the |.) service for the whole community 1s feasible, ‘The | ins the use of kerosene atter draining} Wil. os a Ty rien ei Rac Now he is President and he owes his promotion to no- $| youth, Innit | 7s oe aemmennd nited States so desires, it can admit immigrants | ‘vu can stay at home and have thelr All er fare the erank C0 ne ces < April 7, 1922, body but himself, He never thrust anybody aside on the ${PUrtAN TOY nt tin was «com . : ous sad rosene 8 educt % ; ee a 1 7 i ii i" i‘ from Soviet Russia to replace the absent ones | through the atmosphere, But how will it be possible lubricating value of new oll pg ‘The Contingent Fee Evil, limb up-rindeed, he helped many another man to tise. His mon, uncultured, filthy mind. j fe no means are provided for draining a miss them or else will congratulate itself on get- The Oklahoma Code" 1s quoted in defense of the |them, Consequently tho kcrosene|50 per cent. of the verdict when rep-| and. procests 10 proted them: from latest sensational shooting case in that vivid State, | mixes with the old ot! in the troughs|resenting some unfortunate who has i Eggs are cheap, bats are dear Brother Anderson says in one breath that the Wet mass meeting was worked up and still had room for Copyright, 1922, (New York Bvening World) ~ Ry Preas Pub, Co. VI. — HOW .MAN’S ANCESTORS LEARNED TO WALK ON TWO LEGS. Tt ts supposed that man's ancestors during a long stage of prehuiman de-~ velopment lived in trees. In many, respects’ those ancestors probably, re- sembled the femurs of to-day. ‘Without assuming an arboreal ex- istence for man's ancestors, It Is very, difficult to account for many of our physical characteristics and for many, of the instincts with which our minds are saturated. No other hy- pothesis accounts for the ape-like grip of infantile hands; for a baby’s fear of falling and its joy im climbing stairs; for the rock-a-by motions of swaying bough which put restless babes to sleep; for the instincts which inspire the plundering of birds’ nests; for the prehensility of new-born feet; for the untaught ability with which all cbildren can climb trees; for the falls we all have in dreams; for ihe lull- ing effect of the ‘Rock-a-by baby on the tree top’ song. Many, lessons have to be learned, but our old ar- boreal experiences only have to be re- membered. Before taking to the trees the Jemuroids probably began learning to’ walk on two fect. How did they ac- quire that peculiar ability? The answer is not wholly specula- tive. For, according to one of the great laws of life, every child must repeat, during the period of its growth, the stages of development through which its race has p This is called the biogenetic law, Now what may we learn from chil- dren respecting the genesis of bipedal locomotion? Children begin crawling from place to place on all fours; hence there must have been a,time when their ancestors walked on four feet, when the man-making manimal was @ quadruped. After children ® have been cgawling for ‘a time, they begin reaching for objects higher than their heads, and learn at length to pull themselves up to tables and chairs in order to obtain tempting objects. As a result of many tum- bles, they finally learn to stand on their feet, to take one, two and more steps, and thus the little quadrupeds, passing quickly through an anthro. poid stage of development, grow more and more manlike. In the wilds of Lemuria the buds, berries and birds’ eggs, upon which the Kttle lemuroids fed, were always hanging just beyond the reach of their jaws. How natural for hungry creatures to strain after them. A dog will stand on his hind jegs and beg for a bone, In the wilds, as well as in Yellowstone Park, bears are learn- ing to walk on their hind legs while Picking berries from bushes which are higher than their heads, If the biogenetic law holds true, therefore, and if mankind learned to walk as children learn, it was the presence of tempting objects, hang- ing just beyond easy reach, that tan- talized pre-human creatures into a semi-erect attitude. Reaching probably led to climbing and resulted finally, after the least fit of many generations had fallen to the carnivores, in the adoption of an arboreal habitat, where the little lemurold brain ggquired gibbon-like proportions, From Evening World. Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand wo._s in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ‘ (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) IT CAN BE DONE, The very prevalent idea that pull is necessary to suc- cess is spread about chiefly by failures, It makes a, very plausible excuse. r We receive many letters fram dissatisfjed young men who accuse us of seeking to make readers believe that they can accomplish the impossible. Said one of these letters: es “You ought to know by this time that the young man in a big concern has no chance. He is simply a part of a big machine, doing one little thing. If he does it well it is to his employer's advantage to keep him doing it. If he does it badly he is fired. Only some chap who is known to the boss gets the promotions,” . If this sort of thing were not disproved every day there would be more reason’for its very general acceptance than there is. It might even We easy to believe that employers would be idiots enough to stop trying to seck intelligent help in their own establishments, as in truth some few of them are. But every day boys who began without any help and without any acquaintanceship are quietly .stepping into the important jobs in the country, They do not do this from small beginnings, of course, but the fact that they can do it at all shows that the merit system is really a necessary part of successful business. ‘The Dead and the ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: On Sunday, in Brooklyn, the United States paid a final tribute to the 1,065 heroes whose dead bodies were recent~ ly brought from France on the Cam- bral. ‘We read in newspaper accounts what an impressive ceremony it was. We read how the heartstrings of the people were touched by the prominent speakers in eulogizing the efforts of our heroic soldier dead. We read that the affair was graced by the presence of the Congressional delegation con- sisting of five Congressmen and five Senators. ‘We read in another part of the same paper, possibly on the same page, that a crippled ex-service man has committed suicide because he did not have the means to exist longer. And nothing is said about this poor untor- tunate, Or if anything {s said, it iw “just another suicide," or perhaps “what did he do that for? Look at Drain this and then refill with new oll. | JAMES J. JAEGHR, Néw York, March 380. Mr. Davey’s Real Thought. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘My attention is called to the letter of Mr. H. A. D'Arcy in your issue of March 7 in the course of which he expresses interest as to my personal “looks.” ‘ It probably would suit this gentle- man's conception to find out that I lam of fiend-like appearance, com- pletely equipped with hoofs, horns and fangs. The reason for this suspicion is that he does not hesi-, tate to furnish for publication a ven- omous letter repeating a gross mis- representation. While I suspect that this gentle- man is not himself particularly in- terested in the truth, nevertheless once again I furnish you with @ statement which the press, represen- tative who first gave out the mis- representation has accepted and which he assured me would be car- ried boxed on the front page of the “paper which he represented in order all'the glory he had.” But GLORY yh 3¢ go far as possible, the harm alone won't Keep a man alive, done by the misrepresentation might ‘We also read on the same page that] be corrected. the ex-soldiers who want a bonus are] ‘The statement 1s as follows: Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind f BY ANDRE TRIDON XLIL—PROFESSIONAL PURI- TANS. . The professional Puritan who is constantly declaring against vice, ex- posing powder and rouge, silk stock- ings and low cut gowns, is with very few exceptions an oversexed neurotic. Instead of taking those people seri- ously and allowing them to pass upon the morality of our art and terature, courts should commit them to the psychopathic ward of special hospitals to be treated by psychotherapy. When the late Tolstoy, for instanc, suggested that Beethoven's Kreutzer ed ? Sonata be destroyed ax it suggestet eecenny the Bowery Savings Bank, one of the biggest a thoughts, the only conclusion institutions Sf tne kind in the United States, needed a new to be’ drawn by any reasonable person practically robbing the country by “Due'to a misunderstanding of my their insidious demands. And then|real thought and position, I have we wonder if the prominent speakers} been represented as maintaining: really believe wh@t they said, And ifjrather an unfailing attitude toward the Congressional delegation really be-|the victims of poison ‘bootleg lieves what was said. whiskey’ and charged with being in- different to their fate. This was, of President who had the ability to look after its deposits of more than $160,000,000. This institution could have commanded the services of men from many great banking establishments, It turned, however, to William E. Knox, a man, still was that Tolstoy's mind was umbal- anced. It may be that the beautiful composition suggested obscene thoughts to him, but it was his fault, not Beethoven's thought. ‘To the pure everything {s pure, but to the Puritan everything is impure, As a matter of fact, these honored war dead are far better off than their}course, an absolute misrepresenta~ young, who had started in the bank as a clerk thirty-five jeirapeds OA wey wm py mo ‘half-starved “‘associates,*| tion of my real position. My reall% +, We can easily one thought was not that we shoula tet|$ Years before. sexed as Tolstoy and Who could be who are looked upon as thieves, puun- derers, pilferers and what not, just because they want a square deal, “Oh, grave, where is thy victory? Oh, death, where is thy sting?” Pd, Te disturbed sensually by a@ musical selection would, being otherwise hon- est and religious, try to protect the whole world against that artistic pro- duction. Normal people, on the other hand, can listen to that sonata a hun. dred times without ever receiving from it any lewd suggestion. Normal people can go to museums and admiro nudes without any indecent though} in their minds. Such paintings and sculptures may suggest to them ar- tistie enjoyment, physical beauty, Knox had no pull whatever, The work at which he was first put was very ordinary work indeed—work tnat any in- telligent and industrious boy could have done. But he knew the value of putting a little extra effort into the job, and because he worked a little longer and a little harder than the other fellows did, he learned a little faster. Presently he began to learn a great deal faster. That sort of thing is always observed by somebody. The bank officials “found Knox out’ and promoted him, them dje’ but that we are ‘powerless to do anything but let them die.’ “The evil would seem to be one of that class that is so perverse in its foolishness that we are compelled to stand by and let it work out its own remedy. This does not mean that we are indifferent to the fate of those who have been victimized, or that we are lacking in sympathy for them or their friends, but that we are helpless to interpose where the force to be dealt with is the individual Kerosene and Lubrica To the Editor of The Evening Wo In the Automobile Section of The Evening World of last night I find an article by the President of a well known manufacturing concern advis- promotion to one of the biggest banking positions in the world is a lesson in four words: “It CAN be done.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Why do lawyers charge such ex- ‘The Puritan being constantly beset by physical cravings/fmagines that every individual is likewise affected engines, filling the crank case the splash troughs to be fille: causes d—but orbitant fees? Why do they ask for dangers which are dangers for him a ; tna alone. The Puritan shoul be an ob- e gave him $1 for the trip. He ject for pity instead of a censor of @ nation’s morals, Many Puritans are morbid but hon- lost an arm or leg or maybe both? The lawyer suffers no physical pain, and yet he gets as much if not more than the injured person, and remains to dilute and reduce the lubricating value of the new oil While there are no splash troughs in force feed and full fore of one of the ladies at his table until the day before the steamer made port,|was very profuse in lis thanks, ‘but when his attentions to her became|whep he went outside he sho it teed lubri- tems, pockets are ofto INJURED ONE, to one of hig friends, saying: “Look }est, Many are merely shrewd neu- Set reine Avmeraltien el ting faye ae ft an at the same table said: |What she gave me." ‘The friend asked, | roties who, obsessed by a desire for vided 10 retalo. ol for the lubrigatiog Fn ea eee aan ene inn [ieee li RuO T? "Prom," says |cheap publicity and easy power, set Merosetio may be trapped, me World L hope, madam, you re Not £INE) George, “from the poorhouse, I should | out to persecute thelr fellow beings im mer going South the waiter|to tip that Negro. He is not worth }ya EMELINE Al A. [the name of purity, The proper method Wash out the old of with a quart of frogh gil, was wotic -bly indifferent to the wants it the way he has weated yoy" est Nyack, April 4, 1921, ACopyright by United Feature diyndicate,) . {