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! } ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Puvilehed Daily Excent Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 52 to 62 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. Preeidont, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, . + MEMBER OF THE asfoctariD ™ "be Assodh ced Prese ta exctustvety entities a } Gewpatches credited Mt oF not other ‘the! Joval news publ a hes THE SHINING EXAMPLE. HE old German diplomacy is not dead. It still “packs” a torpedo or two. ‘ About the last thing the family gathering at Genoa expected to have sprung on it was a Russo- German treaty. Yet here is such a treaty brought to a happy Easter conclusion, the Germans an- nounce, “after several months of negotiation.” It is a beautiful treaty, conceived in a spirit of brotherly love. Germany and Russia “recipro- cally” agree to wipe the slate clean of all money claims between them. Also Art. 5.—The two Governments undertake to give each other mutual assistance for the al- leviation of their economic difficulties in the most benevolent spirit. The two members of the family whose credit is lowest, who are the worst “broke,” link arms and propose to go it together. | Yet despite the consternation produced—par- cularly in Prance-it is by no means certain ermany meant this torpedo to blow up the Genoa nference. The commotion may have been rather designed call attention to a shinirig example of mutual forgiving of debts—albeit, between debtors the Most straitened—in the hope of softening harder arts in the family group. Also there is the rgument that anything economically good for rmany and Russia should be also promising rcapital—and collections—in the view of the st of Europe. | For the moment, the water thrown up by the plosion confuses the eye. When things quiet wn it may appear that nobody was hit, that Ger- any Meant it only for a demonstration, that the enoa Conference ship is still afloat and—with me tightening of discipline aboard—will stay t. i { Isn't it passing strange that when Congress finally drove him to a show of action against war profiteering firms, the oue particular case Attorney General Dauglierty picked to prose- cyte was a suit against a bankrupt concern? i ‘Doesn't It almost scem that Mr. Daugherty doesn't want to make recoveries from firms who can pay—and who consequently could mal contributions to the party campaign fund? HE NEEDN'T EVEN SAY “WE.” OV, MILLER is frank in his praise of the Legislature and its achievements. It may be observed that the Governor did not w this bouquet until he had finished his work d disposed of the bills passed in the closing days. This was entirely appropriate. For all prac- ical purposes Gov. Miller was the Legislature rom the opening day until the end of the thirty- lay period after formal adjournment. Gov. Miller refers to the Legislature gracefully ough. Indeed, there is no reason why he should hot. The Governor owes the Legislature some- thing because of the opportunity it affords him to make a modest and proper appraisal of himself and his achievements as Governor. _ When the Governor admits that the Legislature was good, it is a becoming fiction. What the Governor really means is that New York has had a strong Governor whose acts have the approval of Nathan Miller. : ; That is the way the Governor's statement will tead—the way it ought to be read Woodrow Wilson's denunciation of Jim Reed errs on the side of moderation, Reed is a thor- oughgoing demagogue and political blather- skite. Words cannot do him justice. Jim Reed and his machine may win the pri- maries from Breckinridge Long. If so, every ‘~~decent Democrat in Missouri ought to vote for the Republican nominee, No one could be a p“worse representative of the State than Jim | Reed has been and is. \ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922. ——————— Temptation” goes down like a ninepin when temptation hits it. After it has picked itself out of the mud, the town decides there is too much smugness and softness in its virtue. It changes its motto to “Lead Us Into Temptation.” “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg” is a great story. Every man, woman and child in the United States ought to read and re-read it now just to see what the older idea of American char- acter was like. The new breed that has taken charge of the country would condemn “The Man Who Cor- rupted Hadleyburg” as a pernicious tale. Read it-if you don't already know it—and you'll see why. “LARGEST NEW YORK.” HE population ‘statistics made public by the 1920 Census Committee are a source of pride to New Yorkers. The report also suggests a point of view to which New Yorkers must accustom themselves. Let us hope Mayor Hylan will study these figures that appeal to civic pride and read the lesson of what the Census Committee identifies as “Largest New York.” The Census Committee finds that Greater Lon- don and Greater New York are not comparable. Greater London has an urban centre and a sub- urban fringe. In this fringe there is a shading of authority. Autonomous municipal organizations have surrendered police functions to the organiza- tion that polices the urban area. New York also has an urban centre and a sub- urban fringe. Some of the fringe is an organic part of the urban centre and governed as a part of the city. Other suburban areas are entirely dis- tinct, some under a different State Government. Only recently New York has legalized the shading of some functions among the communities of “Largest New York.” The Port Authority is a power comparable to London's police force, to Boston's organization of a metropolitan water sup- ply, to the flood control and irrigation projects of which we have numerous examples in the United States. Another example here is the Vehicular Tunnel Board. We need a vision of “Largest New York’ and its possibilities. “Largest New York” includes a goodly share of the population of New Jersey. The chances are the consolidation of certain mu- nicipal functions in interstate boards will con- tinue. [It does not take great imagination to dis- cover that it would be desirable to have unilied control—perhaps with free transfers—of the means of communication by which New Jersey com- muters come to work in New York. Vhere is no place for jealousy and the limited view. Instead of regarding himself as Mayor of Greater New York, would it not be better for Mayor Hylan to see himself as the principal Mayor of “Largest New York”? That is a bigger job and offers bigger possibilities. THOSE, PARAMOUNT .LEMONS! oO” of the amusing incidents of the campaign of 1920 was the pilgrimage of Southern Cal- ifornians to the “Front Porch.” Somebody summed up the goal of this crusade as: “The duty of the Republican Party is a duty on lemons.” y The McCumber version of the Fordney bill allows a duty of 2 cents a pound. The present tariff is one-half cent Hiram Johnson has announced that he will sup- port the bill even if he isn’t entirely satisfied with some of the other acts of the present Adminis- tration. Once upon a time the second largest Bull Moose in captivity lambasted Mr. Taft because of an “indefensible” Payne-Aldrich tariff. The duty’ on lemons in that bill was one and one-half cents a pound. F rom Even in g World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ian’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. Ask Them Why. To thd Editor of The Evening World: It is only a little while ago siace President Wilson vetoed the Volstead act. A number of our Congressmen found it convenient to visit New York, It was passed over his veto. What reason had they in visiting us at that time? Was it for lack of work or just a vacation to rest up after a hard session? There must be some reason, and the voters at the coming election ought to know before they cast their votes. It was a wonderful plece of legis- lation, In a thousand different ways. Wonderful in the expense it caused and is causing the Government. Won- derful in the way it made millionaires out of ragpickers, junkmen, boot- blacks, peddlers and others too nu- merous to mention. Wonderful in the way it is enforced and the pationce ot the taxpayers who foot the bills. Wonderful in the way it fills grave- yards and makes undertakers rich, from decoctions sold as whiskey. The whole world looked on, first with amazement and now with amusement that such a law could pass in the most wonderful country of the world. Are wo to be ruled by a few pald reformers to tell the people what to drink and what to eat, or by rep- resentatives of the people who believe in the moderation of those they repre- sent? Take time to be briet. friends, William H. Anderson and William J. Bryan, we remain, Yours very truly, JEFFERSON L. NUT JR. New York, April 11, 1922. Maybe He Will. To the Editor of The Evening World I have been deeply interested in Ransome Sutton’s articles on evolu- tion. I have also been interested in questions asked by correspondents whose letters you have published. Why doesn’t. Mr. Sutton answer these questions? Why doesn’t he explain, for exam- ple, how animals found their way across many miles of water to islands, which they would have to do if all animals spread from a single centre, Is Mr. Sutton afraid to attempt an answer to this and other questions which Have been asked and to which he has made no reply? A. M. GROVER, New York, April 11, 1922. Treth and Authority. To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to Sceptic, the critic of evolution does not reason but accepts authority. Give me rather truth for authority, not authority for truth, Task again, Why a creator? Mat- ter was and is indestructible. It al- ways was, therefore creation has no place in the universal scheme. He claims there was a creator, yet the Bible tells us no man had seen God and lived. How can we reconcile UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1922, by John Blake.) (Copyright LEARN TO BOSS YOURSELIT An intelligent and well trained superintendent recently lost his job on a big farm. He couldn't understand why he was discharged. He had learned agriculture in a well known State university He understood all about soils and the rotation of crops and the use of modern machinery. The farm didn’t pay, but it never occurred to blame himself for that. or poor soil. He thought it was weather conditions When he went to the owner, who also was a trained scientific farmer, to inquire the reason for his discharge, he was told: “T had to let you go because you never learned to boss yourself. on this farm. I can’t be bossing you all the time. I don’t live I can't leave other work that I have to do to run over here and tell you that a tractor needs to be over- hauled every six months; that a barn that isn’t painted regularly will soon fall to pieces; that apples will only stay will rot and become useless. a certain time in storage without sorting over before they “You knew these things as well as I do, but you must be continually told them or you don’t remember them, The man who works for me has got to know how to be his own boss. There is a future on this farm for any man who is trained for the job and knows how to give himself orders and take them. I don’t think you are that kind of a man.” It happened that this particular youth was able to break bad habits, so he asked for another chance and got it, This time he bossed himself. When he saw that a fence was down he fixed it himself or had it fixed. When he saw that a crop wasn't doing well he ploughed EVOLUTION The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Suiton Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World) by ‘ess Publishing Company. XI.—THE DISPERSION OF THE PRIMATES. The highest order of mammals ts called primates; it includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and man. They are ranked in one order, because muscle for muscle, bone for bone, nerve for nerve, feature for feature, they differ only in degree and not in kind. Lemuria, the home of the early pri- mates, did nov sink in a day or a cen- tury. Sections may have submerged quite suddenly, but the continent as a whole settled beneath the waters very, slowly, quite as Florida is sinking to- day. As the rivers and inlets backed up and spread over the lowlands, the native primates retreated, along with other maimmals, into the rising lands of Africa and Asia, where varying conditions were encountered. Thousands of generations must have perished before the widely scattered bands finally established themselves in new hunting grounds. In all the lands which bordered on the lost cvn- tinent the remains of primates have been unearthed, and age after age the remains appear more and more man- like, A list of tho extinct primates thus far discovered is given In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, eleventh edition, Vol, XXIL, p. 336. A comparison of the remains re- veals deep-seated résemblances, to- gether with specific differences. The’ resemblance are easily understood as having resulted from a common par- enthood, but it is not so easily un- an ‘ why groups that settled in Africa, for example, should have de- veloped differences, so distinct from the groups that settled in Asia, Yet it is a matter of common knowledge that soil, climate, foods and sur- roundings generally cause creatures to vary away from the parental type and group to vary from group. Tue differences between groups become so, great in time that they scem to be unrelated. Already, in the United States. Northerners and Southerners are dis~ tingulshable, despite their common * origin, common language, common customs and common flag, If a Chinese wall had been built along the Mason and Dixon Line during the colonial days and Northerners and Southerners had been kept apart their differences would have been no greater. Impassable barriers, such as moun- tains and oceans, separated groups of primates that originated in Lemuria, and after long lapses of time the characteristics acquired in differents) regions became fixed py heredity. 4 Assuming that mankind grew out off a highly favored race of anthropoids, the question has been asked why all the ape races have not acquired man= » | hood. ‘The answer appears, I think, in the fact that they have never had to struggle herolcally to exist. The pris mates that retreated out of Lemurite along the Equator, westward into Africa and eastward into Malaysia entered the same kind of supe erm-laden jungles thet tl cated. To the influ they had already responded was no new influence in the new hone to thrill them into higher beings. As Jungle products they w finished What the anthropoids of the Exodus were, therefore, the apes 1 to-day, save that enough newness was en countered to Equatorial Africa to build up chimpauze and gorillas and in the Malay Archipelago to differentiate gibbons and ourang-outangs A group that settled in Java rose at least half way up to manhood's lev The skeletal remains of one of the creatures was dug up by Dr. Dubois» in 1894. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning the upright standing apeman. ‘ ‘The discovery proves beyond perad- venture that a chinless, bent-kneed family of super-simians, which were more than apes but not quite men, having brains one-third larger than a gorilla’s and one-third smaller than bushman’s, lived during the pertod, just prior to the appearance of man on the Island of Java. peieelr eta Passed by the Boarders, It was the prune so succulent, And then the beans so evident, ‘And frequent turnip redolent, ‘And onion still more strong of scent, ‘And cabbage all too prevalent, And fish so over permanent, And greasy sausage opul And hash of many flavors blent, And buckwheat odors imminent, ‘And cheese of far too old descent, ‘And sauerkraut rare but not absent; Q Brooklyn, April 13, 1922. it up and put in a late crop of something’ else that promised ‘That made the boarders all give vent “~ | A GREAT STORY. SKED why he is opposed to the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment, Stuyvesant ‘ish of this city replies that it is because he was n a free American citizen and doesn't propose have his inalienable rights taken from him. | “We neither demand nor desire the saloon,” says r. Fish: “Saloons are bad. They are abolished and should remain abolished. But there ought to be some way of getting a moderate amount of alcohol in the shape of light wines and beers, which are not injurious, and which are actually required if the stamina and morale of our peo- ple are to be maintained at a high rate of of efficiency.” Mr. Fish is one of those old-fashioned people believe the best American character was by self-control and self-restraint rather by cotton-wool protection applied by offi- fanaticism. Mark Twain was another such old-style n. Mark Twain wrote a story that has long been a favorite with us. It is called “The Man Who pted Hadleyburg.” In that story a self- } towm whose motto is “Lead Us Not Into . He's forced by public clamor. If any one wishes to try Gen. Semenoff he wil! have to take him to Siberia, it now appears. Off agin’, as the celebrated Finnigin observed. . Commissioner Enright’s apology to tho police for asking them to work has the true bureaucratic tone. Wonder who he thinks he is working for? e Did Dr. A. Conan Doyle employ Sherlock Holmes while investtgating the hereafter? . “Joe” has certainly led a Tumultuous life ever since he took his pen in hand as the expositor for Ww, w. e One effect of Volsteadism is the increasing interest in grape culture among the suburbanites. New arbors dot the landscape everywhere. A fresh boom for Omar Khayyam. . Shad sell at 25 cents a pound in Washington Market, Used to be 25 cents apiece, Charge it up to the Standard Oil Company. Big business may be doing badly but minor bus}. nesses are faring pretty well. There ts little unemploy- ment in small towns where local industries can meet home demands, They are being “protected” by high freight Intellectual Expoanders, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; "1 see by the papers” that certain scientists” are convinced that the proverbial “missing link” can be dis- covered in the virgin soll of Pata- gonia. . ‘What fools we mortals be!” ‘They have thrown together a mass of so- called facts and miscalled it “the theory of evolution.” Wiillam Jennings Bryan and the rest of the believers In the Creator as against the teachings of these “nature fakers,” are called “ignorant.” If we are ignorant, then may the Lord help our intellectual expounders of Dar- winism. WILLIAM REID. Bronx, April 12, 1922, Spolling the Fun, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; For why do you keep up your agt- tating and making funny pictures on your editorial page, knocking us Pro- hibitionists and making us such a ridiculousness? Haven't you got It any sense the head in to sce that you are trying to spoil it our business? As it 1s us bootleggers are working quite @ lot of overtime for which we ret it plenty of long green. Why do you insist upon trying to knock us out of our honest living? I cannot it understand. Hoping you will stop your funny business in the near future, and with best regards to our God's wisdom with the misery and carnage that confronts us every- where? That ts why evolution is the watchword, Man's efforts, in har- nessing the forces of nature, getting at its laws, will bring about the dream of the peasant and poet, ‘Peace on earth and good will to men.’ Wireless telegraphy is one of the evidences reason, not faith, should be our guide. SIMON BERLIN ' Doyle the Spirtte. To the Editor of The Evening World It is comforting to have the assur-}* ance of no less @ personage than Sir Conan Doyle that which hitherto was considered somewhat of a mystery is now an open book. He tells us that he has seen and talked with twenty friends and relatives in the spirit land. While their description of conditions over there is lacking in detail, It is interesting to know that when his ac- quaintance Is further extended more information will be available. In England, where Prohibition ts unknown, things are seen and heard that are denied us in America. It is not for me, a humble seeker of truth, to’ doubt or question, yet with defer- ence I may believe that Sir Conan has wandered far afteld. That he comes to advocate—not in quest of coin—in- dicates his sincerity, R. H. MOLONEY. Brooklyn, April 15, 1923, = : a. ee to thrive better in that soil. And he is now on his way toward a partnership in the farm. 9 No matter how well you know your job, you have got to know how to be your awn boss, to make yourself ldo things that need doing without wailing for some one else to tell you. You can never successfully boss other men till you can boss yourself. You can never he anything more than a “wage slave” if you have to be told when and how to do your work. From the Wise Make yourself an honest man and you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. —T. Carlyle. 4 woman who throws herself at a man’s head will soon find her place at his feet. —Loutis Desnoyers. Woman already controls by not seeming to do 30. Talk no more of her rights.—Oulda. If lucky be not proud; if un- lucky do not despond.—Antonius. MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON, Copyright, 1922 (New York Event by Press Publishing Gone Wo" HEAD WORK, Benjamin Franklin said: “Put your money in your head,” meaning spend both time and money in the development of your mind so it will have @ greater earning capacity. Any form of skilled labor com- mands a higher price than unskilled labor, The difference between them is education, The high salaried ac- countant has a greater knowledge of accounts than the bookkeeper. It cost him many hundreds of dollars and much time to get this better ‘To something more than discontent, And so their tones were vehement, And even the most diffident ‘Was very nearly violent. They firmly and with one consent, Established then a precedent, By passing all such nourishment, ‘The head of the establishment, , Could not by any blandishment, Or any sort of argument, Or vouching of her good intent Achieve a happy settlement And since she could no food invent By any new experiment, That would supply the nutriment, And not perfume the firmament, Ghe too used language eloquent, And not exactly reverent, And certainly not negligent, For it was far too pertinent To pass as merely sentiment. And now we hear without lament Her boarding-house is up for rent! BLANCHE ELIZABETH WADE. education, yet It is an investment which is yielding high dividends, Also a skilled mechanic earns more than his unskilled helper No one would advocate putting al) savings into education but the e are small in comparison with ¢ yield—like & $1,000 bond which yields $2,000 in @ year,