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ESTABLISHED OT JOSEPH PULITZER. Puriished Dally Bxcept Sunday by Tho Pros: Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 68 Park Raw, New York. PULATZER, President, 63 Park Row. 3. rope hg ‘Treasurer, 63 Patk Row, JOSEPH ‘dr., Sectetary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOclArzD PRESS wt Associated Press ts exctustyely entitled to the use for republication news despatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this papa polly the local mows published herein. A SIGNIFICANT STRAW. REPUBLICAN plurality of 29,750 years ago cut to 3,087 this year Democratic candidate on a four-square Demo- cratic platform, with a downright anti-Volstead law declaration figuring as chief plank That was the result of yesterday's election in the Thirty-seventh New York . Congressional District. ‘ Judge Irvine, avowedly “wet,” with modification of the Volstead law as his strongest plea, carried every city in the district, including Elmira, Corn- ing, Hornell and Ithaca, all of which voted dry in the local option elections four years ago.’ - That is what a courageous, straightforward | candidate asking for votes on the issue of sensible thinking about present Prohibition law can do in | a dgy section after two years of Nation-wide Pro- | hibition. There is mighty little comfort in it for the Anti- Saloon League. ‘ On the other hand it is fhe strongest sort of | encouragement for the forces that are trying to get ) back toward freedom and real temperance by » legalizing light wines and beer. Judge Irvine was not elected. But he well nigh wiped out an old “normal plurality” that was both Republican and dry. " “His fight has proved a point and heartened a great cause. P : ~.. De Valera’s willingness to meet and talk with it | leaders of the Free State is one of two bright CS se in the civil war cloud now hanging over . land. t The other is the movement for a vigorous 4 Labor Party pfdtest against militaristic substi- tutes for peaceful election. Perhaps Dé Valera has seen the dangers of his policy and is prepared to throw his waning fluence toward a policy of moderation and the “self-determination” he has advocated so fer- * ~Vently. . The peaceful ballot is the only real means of se!f-determination. TOO BIG AN ITEM. OV. MILLER has grave doubts concerning } the so-called Untermyer-Metropolitan bill, which authorizes insurance companies to invest in . home-constructing. during the housing crisis. This is, the greatest constructive item in the | programme for relieying renb payers. A veto would overjoy the leasters. “The prospect of new homes for half the surplus population scared the two by a | profiteers. The competition would force all rents lower, no The Governor doubts the constitutionality of the measure, With all respect to the Governor's ability as a constitutional lawyer, The Evening World bélieves the question ought to be left to the courts. The time for interposition of constitutional doubts was when the bill was under consideration. ~The Governor cannot be expected to utter consti- tutional warnings against every bill introduced in the Legislature. But this particular measure was one of the major achievements of the session. It affects half the people of the State. The Gov- ernor’s duty was to guard the interests of New York tenants while the opportunity offered. Under the circumstances, Gov. Miller ought to sign the bill and let it run the gamut of the ‘courts, where the compelling force of the emer- _gency in housing has had full recognition in the ‘validation of other measures which would not be tolerated under other circumstances. “¥ If Dan Costigan had been trailing the Mayor— 4 And— ™ If @ goat were all the evidence needed-— Then— i Dan would have had the goods on Hizzoner. ij RADIO CAMPAIGNING. LTHOUGH a few men in public life have already broadcasted radio speeches to con- ‘stituents, the wireless telephone is not likely to ‘play a great part in the coming fall campaign. | But if radio outfits multiply as they have in the ‘last year, if the manufacturers of equipment meet ithe demand, the radio is likely to play an im- ‘portant role in election of the next President. + Radio may almost revolutionize campaigning, ‘For years candidates have been swinging around ‘the circle. But even with the most arduous work, aspirant to the Presidency cannot address than a small fraction of his constituents. | “The custom has been for the candidate to fe- 3 his speech, introducing new material every y for newspaper broadcasting. But if speeches y be broadcasted direct to home telephones to amplifiers in halls, these repetitions will no serve. The candidate will need to prepare speeches. He can go into details on each “mbject as he treats it. + Radio would make it possible to address a whole section of the country at once. It would make possible a direct appeal to a considerable ‘ of the voters, ‘Jt would make possible historic clashes such as the Lincofn-Douglas de- bates. These are )possibilities—almost probabilities— of 1924. Political affairs would benefit if this development comes. Candidates couldn’t dodge issues so easily, Oratory and ideas would have an opportunity to come back into their own as moving forces in public life EVERYBODY'S AND’NOBODY’S FFICIAL prognostications are that thé Tariff Bill reported to the Senate yesterday will be passed about July Some of the wise old birds in Congress hint at possibilities of further delay The bill itself lends color to these doubts, It has the earmarks of a campaign document rather than an earnest effort to make a new tariff The Senate revisions have made the bill worse than the Bordney House. proposals, that came from the The single exception is the dropping of Fordney’s American valuation plan As it stands, the bill is a sort of omnium gath- erum for election purposes. It is a good deal like a circus tent, with room for every one who ever voted a, Republican ticket. It is Everybody's Tariff—and cengequently Nobody's. Republican Congressman facing election can go home and point with pride to one, two or half a dozen provisions favoring the special in- terests of his own locality, The campaigners will be discreetly silent concerning thé hundreds of other provisions whose workings would harm his constituents. —* % NN The bill is grotesque, so grotesque as/to brand it as campaign propaganda If it were enacted and put into effect before election, voters would be thinking more of the bad effects revealed than of. the special favors conferred. A good guess is that the bill will be discussed and postponed until after election. Then it will have served in the campaign and can ‘be whittled down to a closer semblance to reason for final passage. And the safely re-elected candidates can alibi themselves with “Well, anyhow, | tried.” On the other hand, the Agricultural bloc is in the saddle. The members of the bloc are new hands vat tariff-making and there is mo telling how an excess of new-found power may go to their heads. DRYING UP PHILANTHROPY. > S$ a man unlit to help his fellow-men unless he believes in the Volstead law? Friends of the Salvation Army were sorry to see Commander Evangeline Booth take the stand she did on that question. They hope Miss Booth will realize the justice and wisdom of the view reached yesterday by the Citizens’ Executive Com- mittee for the Salvation Army Drive, that James Speyer can be Chairman of the committee even «though he'continues to be National Vice President of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The work of the Salvation Army has been noted for a humanity both broad and deep. It is about the last organization we should have expected to find assuming the attitude that if an American wishes to do a good deed -he must pass the Anti-Saloon League test before he can be found worthy to associate his name with organized forces of philanthropy. The only logical conclusion of such reasoning is that a man is unfit to give food to a starving baby if he believes it should be lawful for him or any other man to drink a glass of beer. ‘ This test of worthiness may suit the Anti-Saloon League. But if atten*pt is made to apply it generally, many springs of philanthropy in these United States will also “go dry.” ACHES AN! PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. ee Patriotism is often pillaged—never paid for. eer Commend us to Waynesboro, Pa. The local Cham- ber of Commerce proclaims these Marpesboro facts: Population 1920, 9.780; bank resoures of reni estate, $10,000, tw interurban trolley lin humber of employees, $15, value $20,000,000 capital invested’ in Waynes: Ir annual factory output, 5.0 boro Indu 15,000,000; ‘number of local stockhoide:s, 1,900; an 3,000,000; value of annual. trult crops, raliroad tonnage for 1010, 130,446 .| $41,000; fifteen churches, five opt office receipt school houges, school population 2,096; pure mountain water assembled Beyond the limit of settlement, — / Some toWn! . The City Corperation of Cork has granted a site to Henry Ford for a flivver factory in that troubled Irish town. It ought to be a corker! ‘ . Much is made ot the appearance of the Russian representatives in Genoa wearing high hats. ‘This looks darkly diplomatic to one Wio has paraded Pic- cadilly. If April showers bring forth May flowers, what will its unusual sunshine do? . Dr. A. Conan Doyle's etherial spooks promise to do well on the lecture platform. Will he explain how second wives are disposed of in the hereafter? THE EVENING WORLD, WEDN “Well, Guess I'll Go to Work” I~ Blas TS From Evening ESDA PRIL 12, 1922 eee a NRE EA TTT TITAN! (VA Copyright, 1 York Rvening W ne. World) Pub. (New * by Press World Readers What kind o? letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that giv 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 briet. Genesia 1. or Genesis 1 To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The writer has read with keen in terest and great benefit all of the articles on Evolution, by Ransome Sutton, thus far published The Evening World. The paper is to be commended for putting before its readers articles so forcefully and lucidly written on so great a subject, and of such interest at this particular time The writer is particularly interested, in a letter on this subject written by Allen Lowe, which appeared in The by Evening World March 29, 1922, for, like Mr. Lowe, he was also “baptized in the Presbyterian faith.’’ In fact, if it were not for the last nine words in Mr, Lowe's letter, the writer could have signed it. Why do not these “stern but cul- tured teachers,"'@who speak with an air of superiority and authority, call our attention to the fact that the sec- ond chapter of Genesis not only con- flicts with but contradicts the first chapter? Here are two widely dif- ferent accounts of the Creation. Which is correct? If an Omniscient God inspired one, He certainly did not dictate the other. Will some one please advise ‘which of these two chapters of Genesis was inspired? GARDNER YERKES. Brooklyn, April 8, 19 Soda Prices, To the Editor of The Evening World A recent complaint on soda prices is justified intevery respect. I would advise him to avoid such places and have his friend do so also A certain shop on upper Broadway rates courage enough to list a chicken sandwich at 40 cents, ham 20 cents, ete.; sodas, 25 cents, and to pay a soda man five dollars below the ecale. Work is @ mere matter of 12 noon to midnight, or sometimes 1 A, M. Get in bed by two and back at noon next day, Easy life, eh? In all fairness to the man in the white coat I would suggest a kind word, as it goes a long ways. It is customary for a soda man to act as a middle man between boss and cus- tomer in taking call downs and abuse- Remember they are human te SODA CHAUE Brooklyn, April 9, Ho Bréw in the Home. Yo the Editor of The Evening World That Prohibition is driving intoxt cating liquors into the homes is recog: nized by every one. The maa who im the old drank — oceasionally drinks now regularly. If he does not smuggle the stuff in, then he makes days it himself. His wife helps him to make it, his children help him. And everybody is doing it! Last evening + friend sent me a quart of fine old bourbon. While 1 was having some my son, aged six- teen, produced from the cellar a bot- tle of home brew that he was making. I should have scolded him, of course, but to have done so would have been both illogical and unreasonable. He could quite rightly have answered: ‘‘What harm is there? You make it yourself."” Of course, all this is wrong—as a temperate man I recognize it to be so —but there can be no help for it un- der present conditions. It is the re- sult of depriving the individual of his personal liberty. ‘That it is a breach of the law does not weigh with any one. You cannot respect a law that is tyrannical. Such laws must be broken. We have ex- amples of this in our Revolutionary history. But the pity ts that our children are being taught to drink and to make home brew and we cannot prevent ¢hem. ‘The onus is on Prohibition. TEMPERATE. Brooklyn, April 7. “Dow'ts.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: You will oblige me very much by inserting the following ‘Dont's’* your valuable paper: Don't think a cop can give good service under the present system— one day off in twenty-seven days. Don't think a cop is not human, Don't expect a cop to do 100 pe cent. patrol when on his short swings it means sixteen hours on patrol out of twenty-four hours, Don't §gke away the one day a week which {s allotted to every working man, Don’t expect crime to be reduced when the cops are treated as above, Don't think it would be advisable for me to sign my name. ONLY A CoP. in Public School"Scholarsht, To the Editor of The Evening World: Your ‘editorial in the issue of April 6 on Public School Scholarships al- ready has caused much favorable talk by parents of Washington Heights, who are intensely interested in higher education for deserving high school graduates. Without executive sanction by the George Washington High School League, I take the liberty to thank you for this “boost” of our work, ‘The parents and teachers who com- pose the league have been untiring in their efforts to advance the boys and girls of this community, and 1 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyiga., 1922, by Jobu flake) HARNESS YOUR TEMPER Niagara was a mass of angry waters until engineers put a harness on a part of them and set them to work manufactur ing electric light. The time will come when the angry waters of the ocean and the angry winds of the heavens will all be contributing their energy toward the comfort and progress of mankind. Anger-is simply exploded energy, which lets go all in a bunch and%is wasted in creating useless waves in the ether. At Schenectady, N. Y., Dr. Steinmetz is now studying methods of harnessing the angry lightnings by creating artificial lightning and seeking to put it under control. If you are one of those quick-tempered persons who are continually “blowing up’ you will do well to think this subject over a bit. , i You create within yourself—or rather your bodily machinery creates for you—a certain amount of energy every day of your life. , + If this energy is hurled out of you in the form of a violent rage it is gone. Do what you will, you can never get that particular bunch of energy back again. If, however, you learn to check your anger and to dam the energy up inside of you, it is there where it can be used by and by for some good purpose. The old practice of making a furious child run around the house until his temper subsided released the energy that he might have spent kicking the varnish off the dining room table, but the energy was nevertheless wasted. Better to have set him piling wood or raking up the front yard. Then his temper would have been sensibly harnessed. Whenever you find you are about to give way to an angry fit, try tackling some job which requires more muscle than thought and working your anger off on it. This kind of a job is preferable, because you don’t think clearly when you are angry. But by and by the anger will have been translated into muscular work. ‘Then you can resume your mental labor. Remember always that energy is worse than useless if allowed to explode. But it can be harnessed, and in harness- ing it you not only learn to control it but you get out of it useful and permanent results. know they appreciate your interest. EDWARD C. SOUTHARD, Secretary. “That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick (Copyright, 1922, (The New York B |" _"World) by'Press Publishing Oo. Republic or Extinctio To the Editor of The phages World: Were {t not so dangerous it would be laughable the way your paper keeps pounding, pounding, pounding on the League of Nations, disarma- ment, &c. At the same time you must tell of a new uprising every week Russia, India, Ireland—in fact, here, there and everywhere. You talk of the Irish Free State, while all over our city the Irish are flying the flag of the Republic, saying there isn’t and never is going to be a Free State, Republic? Yes, and if it takes every Irishman in the world It means republic or extinction of race, “The British Legion” was the name given to a body of soldiers raised by Lord John Hay, Col. De Lacy Evans and others to assist Queen Isabella of Spain against the Carlists in 1835, The Legion defeated thom at Hernani in 1836 and at St. Sebastian in Oc- tober of the same year. The custom of drinking healths ts said to have arfsen at an entertain- ment given by Hengist in the Fifth Century to the British King, Vorti- A GOOF, inh se Sree Or ng ot om The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton pratt Se tas eter IX.—MAN IS AWARE OF HIS MAMMALHOOD. Animals that suckle their young are mammals, As all the races of man- kind suckle their young, all the races of mankind are mammals. But as many ‘honest minded per- sons still belleve that man was spe- cially created and should not, there- fore, be classed among mammals, I am ‘going to present reasons for be- lieving that human beings are sub- consciously aware their Kinship with inammals. If man were not Instinctively, con scious of relationship with one class of animals, his altitude towaid all classes would be the same; he would of regard them all as aliens. Is not the contrary true? Do we feel differently toward a croco- dile and a chimpanzee? Which should we rather take by the hand? Our feelings may be tested in various not ways, Ont way is to think of our selves as killers cnd of different kinds of animals as victims. Now the farther back along the line of human descent one goes, one kills with. de- creasing compunction. Oysters. for example, lie close to the bottom of the line, Because they aré so remotely related to us, we can sprinkle the: with salt, pepper and horse radish, stick forks into them, tear them [vom their shells and swallow them alive, without # touch of pity, without even wondering how they may feel. Men laughingly plunge living lob~ sters into boiling water, but it's no laughing matter to drown even such pestiferous mammals as kittens and mice. No one gives Fone fish the stroke of mercy with whith men put an end to the agony of wounded mam~- mals. Anglers never differentiate t- tween male and female fish, but hu- man hunters frequently shoot the buck and let the doe go free. There is a dignity, a sort of ectat, hunting man-eating mammals; the hunter realizes that the carnivores are crafty and that while hunting (hem they may be stalking him, Unconsciously man attributes his own passions and propensities to beasts and interprets their conduct in the light of his own. Seeing a she- panther carrying a fawn through the wilds, he assumes she has been hunt- ing and is taking her kill to her cubs. yen among mammals man differ- entiates In favor of those standing in the ancestral line, From the limb ot a tree on the Orinoco Delta I once shot a monkey which was watching my movements curiously. When it fell ut my feet its plaintive cries aroused in my mind emotions uite different from those with which I viewed the death of a tapir that same day. The Akeley party has recently re turned from Africa, bringing back the skins of five gorillas to be stuffed ‘and mounted in the American Mi: of Natural History for tie cc y of mankind. The gori cir own home !sad , a member of the part quoted as saying: "'W for © shot Miss has ate Christmas dinner in the jungle. It was an odd meal, a bit of gorilla some elephant flesh and a lion heait as well as beans. .I didn’t like the gorilla, my conscience seemed so cannibafistje. If Miss Miller had heen cor scious of human kinship with govi!la why should it have segmed more eur nibalistic to eat gorilla flesh than eic phant steak? hurt me, it Of what kind of creatures do we make pets? Certainly not of oyste:s fish, frogs or reptiles. We do birds, which are reptiles gone to wins but we do not companion with them as with horses, dogs and cats. And if we do feel a fellowship toward mammals generally, and especially 1 ward those in the line of human de- scent, which we do not feel towart othe ante! a feeling of feliowsNip grow ont. of a sub-conscious realization of our owa marimalhood? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 163.—SLAVE. The odious word in the sense in which it was used in Amer- ica until thé proclamation by Presi- dent Lincoln that abolished it, was originally the name of a great branch of the human race, That branch was the Slavs, among whom the Russians, the Poles and the Czechs are num- “slave,” bered. P In the early. wars between the Germans and the Slavs, the Slavic captives were fsed much as the Ne- groes were used in parts of America prior to the Civil War. Hence, a hondman was designated as a “Slav” of slave by the Germanic con- querors. By way of an offset to this con- temptible designation of the Slavs as “slaves,” it {8 only fair to point out that the Slavs trace the derivation of thelr race name to “slava,” or glory. beautiful daughter of the nost, knelt and presented the wine cup to the King, saying as she did so, “Lieve: Kyning, was hael” (“Dear King, your health"). €or" The “King of Beggars” was a title bestowed upon Bgmofylde Moore Ca+ rew (1692-1758), a notorious English vagabond and adventurer. He ran away fgom hee when a boy and joined a band of gypsies, who elected him their king. Ty ae *Melchizedek was a King of Salem and “priest of the most high God,” mentioned in Genesis XIV. 18-20. Me met Abraham on bis return trom his victory over Cherdorlaomer and gave him blessit receiving tithes in re. about,