The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1922, Page 30

ESTABLISHED PY JOSEPH P Wetted Dally except sunday vy 7 + Company. Nos. 53 to G3 Park Raw ll mews dexpa:ches credited to It or not otherwise credited a tile paper And iso ths local mews published herein, SLIPPING AND SLOPPING. HE G. O. P. caucus action on the bonus leaves President Harding in an uncomfortable positién. Mr. Harding experimented with carrying water @n both shoulders in the League of Nations con- froversy during the campaign. He was elected Since then he has made a specialty of water- carrying. But.it isn’t a safe course of procedure Even if the carrier does not stub his toc, some one will trip him On ‘the bonus the President has followed his @wn precedent. Whatever he does now is certain to conflict with what he has said in the past Even though there are only two sides to the question, the President seems to have contrived at least three conflicting positions In carrying water on both shoulders the slip ts sure to come. Slop follows slip The President has been for a bonus worked against a bonus. He has favored a bonus eventually, but not now. Also the President and Congress have gone through the motions of erecting a budget system They have boasted that the effort has been successful. : . Secretary Mellon is casting doubt on this claim but if a cash bonus is adopted the doubt will vanish. A bonus is an absolute denial of the budget He has Yesterday was Mayor Hylan'’s own personal “decoration” day. Gov. Miller, former Comp troller Prendergast and Lady Astor practised on him. Probably Hizzoner didn’t care, for in Hylanese these respectively represent: “The In- terests,” the Mitchel tradition, and Great Britain. One thing hurt. In the house of mutual friends, Al Smith, beloved of Tammany, deliv- ered a stinging slap. If all the friends of Al Smith begin to doubt the jnfallibility of Higgoner’s Port Authority prejudice, how long wil! his other fictions manage to survive? A GOOD START. . ILL HAYS went a long way toward justify- A ing his employment by the motion picture imdustry when he put a check on the exhibition of Arbuckle films. For the good of the movies it is to be hoped that his injunction will be made permanent. A jury finally cleared Arbuckle of the charge ef murder. In a remarkable, if not admirable, statement it sought to clear his clouded reputation That is not so easily done. The American people have formed their own opinion of Arbuckle on the basis of uncontroverted evidence, the worst of it eut of his own mouth. Exhibition of Arbuckle films now would be nothing but a capitalization of notoriety. If Arbuckle films proved profitable, it would be be- eause Arbuckle is notorious, not because he is” funny. We are not ready for an official censorship of amusement based on the private character of per- sons involved. But the movies stand a much bet- ter chance of escaping such a censorship if Mr. Hays succeeds in imposing a working censorship within the industry on the general lines he has taken in the case of Arbuckle. NO ASSET. OME Democratic politicians in Washington are disturbed by Woodrow Wilson’s de- nunciation of Senator Reed. The politicians fear the row will result in the loss of a Democratic seat in the Senate. That may be the way of the politicians, It does not represent the sentiment of the rank and file, still less of the independent vote that swings elections. To gain control of the Senate, the Democrats . Would need to gain thirteen seats in the coming campaign. This is unlikely in the extreme. But with Reed out of the party, there is a bet- ter chance to gain seats this year and finish the everturn in 1924. Granting that a Republican may succeed Reed, the party will be stronger for a housecleaning— in the primaries if possible, in the elections if necessary. Reed is neither a good Democrat nor a good Senator. He is only Jim Reed. As a matter of party expediency, to put no higher plea of public duty, Reed should get no help from the party organization. He should be read out of the party. The sooner the better OMINOUS. HE Federal Prohibition Department now i holds that even under the Volstead law a man may have two homes, keep a stock of liquor ~ in each and move either stock from one home to _ the other if he obtains the necessary permit. “This is most disturbing. What will the Anti- FF pi dt mt a maximum cartailment « it be that the Volstead act do falsehood and fanaticisn Can ) enough ran keep his legally acquired liquor in one place and drink it there like the abandoned, ostracized wretch he is Must Prohibition put up with the insolent in- subordination of citivens ¢ g to claim more than one place of residence There's something serio one will be undermining ¢ & Next some Volstead lie that liquors containing more t -half of one per cent. of aleohol are intoxic 8 When that august false! ‘Mes on its foundations, the Anti-Salor may well dread earthquakes SLITTING THE RAG-BAG. ae Greater New York Charter provides Chap. V.. sec. 122 7 may be re moved from office by the Gore in the same manner as sheriffs, excet Governo ay direct the inquiry p ed by law to be lucted by the Attorncy Gene d after the charges have veen rece the Governor he may, pending the snvestigation. suspend the Mayor jor a period not exceeding thirty days Gov. Miller was not ygestur in the air when he declared yesterday that the sort of conduct pursued by the Hylan Administ on in obstruct- ing the extension of transit facilities “may, if per- sisted 1n too long, become suc of offict @ gross vtolation duty as to justi need be, to tideed, tf require, more drastic action The keen edge of the Governor's words cut to smithereens the whole shoddy fabric of Hylan opposition to the Transit Commission plan. The fake “5-cent fare’ issue, the bogy “traction interest plot,” the “proposal to scrap facilities of which there was public need and to substitute others which there was no means to provide” --the whole Hylan rag-bag was slit open and scattered With unerring hand the Governor finished the Job and left the Mayor sitting in the rubbish facing the specific question: Why has the Board of Estimate held up con- tracts for completing the badly needed 14th Street subway, “while $2,000 a day in interest is being added to the cost of investment, to the cost of con- struction on the city’s already invested $17,000,000 of money?” “The duty to pass on those contracts,” declares the Governor, “is ministerial.” “I have no doubt that a taxpayer, cer- tainly a party to the contract, could compe! action.” * * © But here the Governor accepts his own re- sponsibility for action—“drastic action.” Behind Gov. Miller are the Greater New York Charter and the plain fgcts of an intolerable situation ss What's behind Hylan and his busted rag-bag? Installing “Civie Virtue” on a pedestal seems to be a bigger job than moving a piano. HARD LUCK ON THE HOMESTRETCH, i@ the damage to their aeroplane proves irrepara- ble, the Portuguese aviators who have made such a brave and plucky effort to cross the At- lantic will have the sincere sympathy of sportsmen all over the world. On each “jump” of their long journey the odds have seemed to be against their reaching the next goal. Each time they have arrived. They traversed the third and most dangerous leg only to damage their machine in a narrow and ‘dangerous harbor, With so great an achievement behind them the remaining flights looked easy and comparatively safe. The accident at St, Paul's Rock must have been heartbreaking. Aerial fans everywhere will hope for a new flight and better luck next time. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, Quite Rico seems to be a good deat of a volcano. . appropriately, Gov, Mont Reily of Porto Why not refer Ex-Senator Hollis's divorce to tne Genoa Conference? Haven't the Bulgarians made 4 an international question? . . Lady Astor says we must rebuild Burope, and the esteemed Secretary of the Treasury estimates coming deficit at a billion dollars, U. 8. A. needed some saving. . our Looks as if the Now they say a new cable will soon be ready to carry 49,000,000 words a year aoross the Atiantic, Lots of Americane will have an @xtra dose o7 ear. ache when they hear this, We want more words from home and not so much importing, ° The Indiana used to plant corn when the leaves on the elm trees reached the size of G mouse's ear, The weather must have been more reliable in aboriginal times, The newest get-rich-quiok man 44 the inventor of ‘pakimo Pie." Yet the Makimos do not eat pie, . If Me polioe do not hurry wp, Goo, AiHer'a dattation of criminatoonvioting Judges sill outfoot thom, THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 19229, | Try ‘Em on the Burglar, Commissioner «: Copyright, 1 by Press Pub. 922, w York fvening World) Co. From Evening World Readers What kind of 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 “ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. Enright or ¥ t To the liditor of The Evening World Whatever the Republicans do, Democrats get the blame. Why blame the Police Commissioner for all the robberies and hold-ups go- ing on in New York? Why not place some of it upon President Harding? The cause of the present crime wave in New York is the unemployment situation. Has Mr. Harding done anything in relieving this terrible condition? No, he has not. Then why place all the blame upon Mr. Kin right? Another reason for hold-ups is the fact that people are not Gc fearing. I believe that if they hid the fear that God would strike them down if they did what's wrong, they wouldn't commit crime. I have written this letter because 1 believe that The Evening World and other New York newspapers are going to excess In demanding Mr. Enright’s removal. FAIR PLAY, Staten Island, April 14. the Critictses “Evolution.” ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World: You are to be congratulated fur your business sagacity in choosing Mr. Sutton to write a series of articles on evolution ota time when the pseudo-intelligentsia are tiring of psy- cho-analysts, spiritists, &c., and are turning their minds, perverted and distorted, toward the study’or rather the perusal of the transformation theory. But that is all a common- sense man can congratulate you for, The credulity of man can bear an awful burden but these articles sur- pass the maximum belief and conse- quently like Cleero we can ask, “When, oh when, Ransome Sutton will you cease to practise your wiles on our spiritual intellects which were made to seek for truth and which can recognize truth and which can detect falsehood ?"* Far be it from me to accuse Mr, Sutton of moral untruth. Nay, nay; but the absence of logical truth tn his present outburst is perceptibly ab- sent, Statement after statement runs from his non-paltering pen, There (gn't a vestige of proof in anything that he says. His so-called historical tacts are mere hallucinations; his so- called accepted facts are denied by most scientiv' imagination runs rampant and he leads us into logical not ontological realm: You have printed several letters from people who are oulogizing tho articles, This class {s twofold, name~ ly, the learned {gnoram! and the ordii- ry man, Tho former are harmless and invinetbly {gnorant, to wpoak paradoxically, Of the Intter class most have had no actentifo edu- cation, are virtually Unabie to think for themselves and, pulllble creatures that thay are, they aooept without over # doubt the trrationa! statements of phantesmal authorities, To this latter class my advice ty to read books on the other side, compare facts and see if Mr, Sutton shall be put in the stocks for making irrelevant state- ments, In justice, Mr. Editor, don’t you think the other side should have » protagonist who should have use of your paper to expose his thoughts. How interesting it would be to con- duct a debate along the same line as the Hillquist and Ryan debate. Then the commonplace man would have a chance to forma reasonable judgment, whereas now he simply ove whelmed with statements, true and untrue, GRORGE HAWLEY. New York, April 16, 1922. Police and Peddler. To the Editor of The Evening World Because of the hold-up men, burglars and stick-up men, the people are elam- oring for Commissioner Enright’s re- moval, If Commissioner Enright Would notify his Captains to no- tify the policemen to lay off the poor peddlers who are licensed by the city to peddle their wares and go after the hold-up men and burglars, there would be less crime committed in New York, : A policeman arresting a peddler takes him to the station house and then to court, taking up the Judge's time and losing three to four hours’ time. Then you ask why there ts so much crime. It is easily explained, The cop 1s in court on a minor offense safe from the gunman or burglar, New York, April 15, 1922. G, M. A Mistake in Emp! To the Editor of The Evening World: Police Cqgmmissioner Wnright evi- dently has experienced no little dim- culty in the proper administration of the Police Department or he has de- lberately and maliciously # neglected his obvious duties. Crime of every deséription is ram- pant throughout the city with no signs of its ending; nor will we have relief until the Commissioner takes cognizance of the situation tn a truer, or more exacting light, Never in the city’s history beforo Prohibition has a corti wave obtained such a strangling hold upon {ts citizens as under the t administration. To the thinking public all is ap- parent. The enforcement of Prohibi- tlon seems to be more of a general policy than (te prevention and detec- uon of crime, Devote less attention to the saloon yy more attention to the highway, Btatistion conclusively prove that crime does not emanate from the aa- toon ta such outlandish proportion us from other well known sources of the present duy—then why detail o many able patrolmen for the benefit of hounding those engaged in @ practl- eally and comparatively harmless en- terprise? A. CITIZEN, By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1 WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A DAY? Neither Rome nor the work, Just because you can accomplish Woolworth no great thing in a day, however, is no reason for moaning “What's the use? when you get out of bed in the morning. You will discover, if you will only cultivate the babit of planning, that a great deal can be done in a day, pro- viding it is all done with a definite purpose, and that each day’s work is directed toward the accomplishinent of some important achievement. The ability for sustained effort is what makes men turn out masterpieces, Most people can make a done, . rush at a little job and get it But to go at the same job day after day, and keep at it, always with one end in view, until the end is finally accomplished, requires an extraordinary persistence, . The engineer in charge of the building of a great bridge can tell you before the foundations for the piers are set up about how far the work of see NS Building nor the Eiffel Tower was built in a day, but they all consist of day's construction will be carricd every day for perhaps two years, Accidents and unforeseen contingencies may upset his reckoning from time to time, but losses of time are usually so well made up that the date of completion is seldom far away from the date set at the beginning of the job. It is his knowledge of what can be done that ke: eps him interested and makes his work fascinating. He would soon weary of it if it were a desultory proceeding, with no limit set for completion. Also it would be impossible to obtain capital for any such job, Time means money, and the men with money to invest want to know what the cost of a job is going to be before they finance it. Your life work, whatever it may be, is just as impor- tant to you as is the great bridge to the engineer who ib building it. You ought to know just day and just how far along you will be at the period of ten days or a month or a year, Then you will have data bearings, and you can know or failing. Consider every day as a working unit in a big job. Tf you will do that, 1 50 per cent. more work out of cach day make it an effective unit. what you can do with every end of a by which you ean keep your whether you are succeeding sar » YOu can get and many hundved per cent, more satisfaction out of your life, See LAI et MOAR, Ee ee 0 MONEY A ton. h yw York Evening World) Copyrieht,, 1088 Ce*Bupliening Co. PROFITS. ‘As an example of good invest- ment the following’ case 1s excellent in that it shows how, by watching opportunities and faking sure they re sound, one may secure @ maxi- mum income combined with safety. On Aug, 5 last a certain high- class security was selling at 115% per share, At the same time It wan paying dividends of $10 per year, A 4 ,|™an who had a litt! © money {, bank bought five shares for sors and paid $100 cash, the balance to be 9 Re has actual including the first teal eta same time he has received dividends and to-day aye 4818.08 on the shares valued at $700, Walle ‘they are Pe cerned From the Wise. Tuke my word for it, the saad dest thing under the sky 4s a gout incapable of audneas, —Mme. de Casparin. EVOLUTION The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory | By Ransome Sutton (Copyright, 1922 (The New York Ln Pubtishti XIL—HOW PRI MANHOOD. Hebrew writers have told us that on the banks of the Buyhrates lay « ATES ACQUIRED miraculous garden wherein homo sapiens sprang godlike out of the ground; that the first human patr having been created perfect and im the Image of their Maker, multiplied and spread until the flood came and drowned all but one family; that after the waters subsided, from three brothers three races arose; that there after the father of the three cursed one of them for not concealing his drunkenness,,gand that, because of the curse, all the Hamites turned black and became the servants of the other races, Dr. Hillis of Plymouth Church, in his great sermon on “Twentieth Cen- tury Man and Evolution,” suid: man reads the story of Adam and Eve in Eden and how they lost their para- dise, and reads it with his affection and conscience, it is a beautiful parable, full of meaning, full of in spiration; but if he takes it for pure historic fact, the flower is turned io thorns, while Adam and Eve and thelr children yecome Laocoon ani his sons, caught in the deadly colls of a serpent, slowly crushing out_the very lifeblood, \Plainly, the men of e Middie Age# overstressed the story of Adam's fall! Nor does Dy Millis or any other studious bel in the Bible think that racial d ences grew out of Noah's curse. More modern historians have held that somewhere in Asia, the orthodo: land of human origir Bactria, o ver on the slopes of the Caucasus Moun tains, ur among the Siwalik Hills, or elsewhere, but 8 in Asia—the white and y black race t» have originated in Africa. Only a few recent writers continue to contend that, wuse blonds are ound in northwest Hurope, the white Noviic an shores, on Scandinay apart from tl —as if it we to have formed in and to Jitioi reptiles and mammals into sind of man! “This contention pleasing to Theodore Ro were true.” T t cannet b proved by the presence of hal and mulatt®&s, For if the va evolved in segregated regio! would have developed specific diffe ences and could not inter-breed. That the races are merely yar species, and not t eoles onstrated every tme a hybr sorn, Belng of one bre ull differentiated from rental stock which enec common habitat. 4 spe vanity,” oa it remark $ eties of 0 a occupied 4 How did the manhood? At ¥ velopment should we ce: r mates anthropolds and bes u m men? test; for many, if not all, mamme communicate with one another through ¢ Is, whieh all the ecies understand are words to he e, claimed ¢ If language ts Ww ican Jui ehimpanzee birds be men. yy does manhood depend upon t! for apes can be tay to uge simple tools, It is the iayen of the tools that distinguishes m: Man alone inven i kn Albert P. Southwick. (Copyright, i ols, ¢ New Yorit Evening World) awney" is a name sportively used 1 Scotch hy the English to designate man, It is a ruption of He (o Sandy), which Is Hkewise a corrupted form of Alexander, a popular nam among the Scotch. The word, ‘sas ney,” also means a simpleton, ‘ . . The Bonnet Rouge (“Red Bonnet") was the red’ cap of liberty worn during the French Revolution by the insur- rectionists. It 1s supposed to be an imitation of the rian cap, which, among the Rom: was the emblem of liberty, and was assumed by slaves when manumitted. The term Bonnet Rouge is often applied to a red or radical republican, both In Vrance and elsewhere, | The word “vignette” is from vines, a vine. ‘The capita! letters in anciéht {iluminated MSS, were so called trom their being ornamented w flour ishes in the form of vine branches 0} endrils. tend: AL he Obelis! was a name con- ferr upon Allen G. Thurman’ of Ohio by The New York World during the campaign of 1888. He was also called the “Old Roman,” and by his admirers the "Gladstone of America,"* . It ts & peculiar fuct that the nick name ‘George Washington” was be stowed on Major Gen. George H ‘Thomas (1816-1870) by his associates at West Point ‘from a fancied re semblance {n appearance and char acter to the great patriot.” ieee a “Not lost but gone before” are words quoted in a collection of epitaphs by Pettigrew, published by Lackington early in the nincteenth century, Th: tomb on which they are chisolled Is that of Mary Angell, widow, who died at Stepney, England, in 1693, agod woventy-two.