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mterr. nT aa rer arene ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podlished Dally Except sun by The Press Publishing Company, Nos, 54 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Trensurer, 6 JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 1 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, he Aswoctated Prem la exclusively entitled to the use for republication @f all news dexpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper And also tho local news published herein. “THE PLAN'S THE THING.” N a speech full of incisive truths regarding the transit situation, Gov. Miller did not spare the traction companies, Said the Governor: “The companies say that they cannot render improved service without an increased fare; and they have suddenly discovered that the Mayor was right In asserting that the (Transit) act was unconstitutional. Well, if they cannot render the service which they are under con-\ tract and franchise obligations to render, there is an alternative, and that alternative is the acceptance of a plan of reorganization under which maximum service at minimum cost can be rendered. “By confessing that they cannot now perform their contract and franchise obligations, the companies put themselves into the position in which their rights are subordinated to the pub- lic need, to the public interest.” This accords with what The Evening World maintained last month when the Interborough was again clamoring for higher fares on the plea that for the past three years it has found a 5-cent fare “insufficient to yield reasonable compensa- tion for the service fendered.” The Evening World said then: The more the companies hold back and whine for higher fares the stronger they make the argu- ment for a speedy trial of complete transit re- organization along the lines of the Transit Com- mission plan. - The fate of the plan ought not to hang on the companies. The fate of the companies ought to hang on the plan. The plan's the thing. That is plainly the Governor's view. United States Senators are reported to be dis- turbed over the large quantities of liquor im- ported into the country for diplomats under » “diplomatic immunity.” There is an easy way to put ~ stop to such importations and at the same time pay flatter- ing homage to the Anti-Saloon League: Declare no representatives of foreign coun- tries acceptable to the United States unless they are teetotalers and persons whom Representa- tive Volstead finds congenial. GO ABOUT IT DIFFERENTLY. AYOR HYLAN did right to veto the gas cut-off ordinance. It deserved no better fate after the way it was rushed to passage. The ordinance bore all the earmarks of a Tammany grab in favor of a few of “the boys.” ‘The result would have been reflected immediately in rent increases. The Mayor's hearing revealed strong opposi- tion. Chief Kenlon' of the Fire Department did not get a fair hearing in favor of the ordinance. He was howled down even when he protested that it meant the sacrifice of the lives of firemen for a few dollars. Chief Kenlon deserves a fair hearing. If he can establish the need for a gas cut-off, New York will not “match money against life.” ‘The sponsors of the cut-off should now seek to educate the public on a subject that affects every one. If the need is established, it may stir inventors to provide a more economical device. Perhaps the Board of Standards may find it possible to approve other and cheaper apparatus, and stimu- late competition. If a gas cut-off is necessary let us go about getting it in a seemly manner free from suspicion of political pressure and political rake-off. A DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHO DOES NOT SCOFF AT CRIME. ISTRICT ATTORNEY BANTON deserves a lot of credit for his vigorous efforts toward making New York insecure and unpleasant for criminals. With the aid of the new criminal courts and the new prosecutors authorized by the Legisla- ture, Mr. Banton and his assistants are bringing criminals to trial and disposing of cases in a man- ner that should bring fear to miscreants. The Judges, too, are co-operating. And in the present temper of the bench, the District ‘Attorney is fully justified in accepting pleas of guilty in lesser degrees when evidence is questionable. To cope with crime the Judges are inflicting heavy sentences and are driving the fear of the law into the minds of thugs. e NO HOUSING SURPLUS YET. LANS were filed yesterday for the biggest “walk-up” apartment building ever proposed for New York. This is encouraging and casts doubt on the dire- ful predictions of those who opposed the plan of allowing insurance companies to invest in housing. We were warned that if the insurance companies entered the field private capital would withdraw. That is not likely to be the case so long as investment in housing promises reasonable returns. The pressure for housing will be relieved by a ‘ f Peter Oleson and would be so identified, big building programme. But we are a long way from a surplus of homes For several years the condemnation of old tenements has been virtually suspended. A good demand at fair prices’ will exist for a long time. The exorbitant rents are coming down, but the building field never offered greater inducements to investors who will be satis- fied with a fair return The tragic death of a mother and her two chil- dren who moved in, paid rent and “camped out” in an uncompleted building in Washington Heights on Tuesday is a real reflection of the con- tinued pressing need for housing AS IT WORKS OUT. LOYD GEORGE has good ground for his belief that Germany and Russia did not spring their separate treaty with the idea of break- ing up the Genoa Conference. Having set off the fireworks, Germany and Russia are immediately conciliatory and ready to make concessions. As the row quiets down it becomes more and more plain that what these two hard-up members of the family conclave wanted to do was to stress their at least potential importance. The simplest way to do it was to proclaim an economic brother- hood, let the Allies feel the risks of strengthening that brotherhood by outlawing it—and be ready to take any advantages that turned up in the general excitement. So far as creating the excitement was concerned, the plan worked to the Queen’s taste. Now it is a question of gathering in whatever benefits may be had without putting too much additional strain on Allied tempers. Be sure neither Germany nor Russia wants to cut itself off from Allied trade and Allied capital in the economic rehabilitation toward which every- body is groping. But the hint that at a pinch Germany and Russia could flock profitably together and render it uncomfortable for the rest of the family is calcu- lated to make the rest of the family a shade more thoughtful and forbearing. The Russo-German treaty was that hint—a broad one. Turning to the faithful Bartlett and his “quotes” for condensed comment on Mayor Hylan’s answer to the Governor in Brooklyn last evening, the nearest thing was Byron's: “And whispering, ‘I will ne’er consent,’ consented.” *But that wouldn't do, for the Mayor didn’t whisper. He shoutéd in Hylanese and—con- sented. WHERE PETER COUNTS: INNESOTA has an amusing complication rising from the entry of women into political affairs. Mrs. Peter Oleson, wife of a schoolmaster in the little town of Cloquet, plans to oppose Senator Kellogg in his campaign for re-election. The Attorney General has ruled she must make the race as Annie Dickie Oleson. If this ruling is upheld it will prove a serious drawback to Mrs. Oleson. She is well known all over Minnesota as Mrs. Peter Oleson. Minnesota has thousands of Olesons, probably hundreds of Peter Olesons. But Mrs. Peter Oleson is Mrs. The other Mrs.’ Peter Olesons haven't ventured into public life. Perhaps some of the members of the Lucy Stone League may harbor contempt for Mrs, Peter Oleson. They may belieye shg should have made her way as Annie Dickie. But fundamentally Mrs. Oleson’s problem is the problem of the Lucy Stone League. It is a question of a woman’s right to choose and use the name under which she has become best known to the public, ' ACHES AND.PAINS A Disjointed Column by’ John Keetz. We have received from the office of the Owensboro, Ky. Messenger, a neat brochure setting forth “A Humitiating, Confession After Forty Years” on the part of Urey Woodson, celebrated as Democratic Nationat Committeeman from the dark: and bloody ground, who asserted that “the hoy’s eye was sot” for Bryan, when it was—but not the way he meant é und owner of the \ paper. The nud of the “Confession” seems to be that Urey went to Owensborol four decades ago with “a few dollars” in his pocket and still has them. . Didwt Napoleon say “Scratch’a Russian ang you find a Tartar.” . Overheard in the B, R. T.: “she's'a nice girl, but her mother talks a lot—too explosive.” “I know it and don’t mean to be trapped.” Another voice: “He's pullin’ himself up by pushin other fellows down, I don't cali that changin’ levels.” . Civic Virtue is at last in place—on a pedestals * Good old Uncle Sam has agreed to lend $5,000,000 to the Republic of Liberia, There is somthing dark about thie—an African im the woodplic—so to speak, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1922, From Evening Blast 3 3-3 World Readers What kind ot letter do you 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 te say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Recommends the Golden Rule, To the Editor of The Evening World: Almost daily I read quotations fro the Bible in reference to the Eighteenth Amendment. This seems to be a favorite metho of refusing to use logic and reason. The Bible is full of conttadiction, as anyone who has read it thoroughly ond with an open mind knows. The Bible was not written. by God, but by humans, and it must be ad- mitted that humans err. Modern civilization requires a dif. ferent Bible thun our uneducated forefathers were satisfied with. Small town people, with small town minds, and small town knowledge, are satisfied that the Bible is the idea! medium to settle opinions, It is this class of people who were instrumental in passing the Eighteenth Amendment. It is this class who try to reform us, to tell us what to drink, what to pray, what to wear &c. Briefly they are over- zealous fanatics, and are detrimental to religion. I cannot condescend to the level of these fanatics nor believe in their beliefs, nor the djrect or the indirect cause of their beliefs. Adherence to the ‘Golden Rule” is a quite sufficient religion for the best of us, and if a few of these re- formers had a mind more than one inch wide they would heed these few words: ‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." J. B. MANDRILL, New York, April 17, 1922, Work as To the Editor of The Evening World: The principal root of the crime wave is the possibility of living with- out work, Money may be acquired by work, theft, cheating, gambling, inheritance. Show money and it’s all right, In wartime we say: The existence of the country is at stake, everybody has to learn and to practice the kill- ing of people never geen before, whether he likes it or not. For those not in the armed forces there was a law demanding a certain number of hours to work weekly, That means in principle the duty to work was recognized. Is not the existence of the country in peace time just as important? How jong could the country get jong without work? Work in the broadest meaning, from Edison, Steinmetz and Lorenz down to ditch digging, type- writing and coaling ships, The duty to work and the right to work ought to be recognized, even if @ new conception of “liberty”? is necessary, By teaching the growing youth less to admire war heroism (the most successful killers), but in higher degree peace heroism by and by gen- erations will rise, proud to work and despising parasites, Then the laws for work duty will become custom and the living up to them wil become human nature. Begging, graft, theft, profit, fair returns on invested capital will be no possible means to make a living and crime waves will have disappeared. But we cannot do those things be- cause then we would be “radical.” Perish the thought! Better let it go until something happens that will make what we call radical now look very moderate. ~ A. SIMPLETON. New York, April 16, 1922. The Modern Girl, To the Editor of The Evening World: I am a modern girl, eighteen years ef age, and who would like to air my views on the several criticisms I have read regarding the modern girl. If the people who are so unjustly criticising her will only think of the styles that were worn and the many different habits and customs that prevailed a few years ago, I am sure they will agree that from every standpoint the present styles and habits, manners, &c., are entirely better and a decided improvement. It seems no matter where you pick up a paper or a mag- azine or any matter of literature, one can read articles on the modern girl or ‘‘flapper,"’ he is called. As for these “petting parties” and “necking parties’ there is not much foundation to them, The real true flapper doesn’t go on such parties. It in those girls who are trying to copy them who go to extremes and get themselves talked about. This hurts the genuine flapper. I¢ the people would do less talking about the flappers, perhaps they would listen to some sound advice then. But, as you all may know, the moresyou talk about a thing the more it will continue to go on, The mo- ment you stop, it will stop too, be- cause there 1s no attention being paid to it any more. This may sound pretty silly coming from an “eight- een-year-old,” but let me tell you this much, I consider I have more in my pobbed head than lots of those who are talking so much. We're all right, we'll get along, we'll be here when you're gone. PET FLAPPER, New York, April 15, 1923. Unthl Enright Goes. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: There will eb no diminution of crime in this city unt! Enright goes, and Enright will not go so long as Hylan, Hearst and Murphy can keep him in. What we need ts a Vigilante Committee. ‘WwW. W. ROOMB. ew York, April 17, 1923, 1 aa “ / UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ONE WORLD AT A TIME. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, distinguished ph author of the absorbing Sherlock Holmes stories, has come to America to talk about the unseen world. Dr. Doyle does not mean to speak of revealed religion or of the life hereafter that most of us are secking to fit ourselves to enjoy. His unseen world is a world of spirits, which he says are all about us, listening to our very thoughts. They are the same spirits that the medium talks of when she goes into her trance. Many intelligent: and carnest people, including Sir Oliver Lodge, the great British scientist, believe as Dr. Doyle does about thg other world. None of them, however, supplies proofs that are con- vincing to the ordinary mind. Nor is it wise for young men and young women who have not yet learned to find their way about the world in which they are placed to waste too much time in speculation about a world which they cannot see or understand. The mysteries of life as it is are enough to keep most of us busy through an ordinary lifetime. Science, painfully studying nature, finds itself baffled at many turns, and only now and then does it find an answer to the oldest of riddles. There are some mysteries which will probably never be solved in this life of ours. Why, therefore, devote time and fruitless thought to speculation about what is going on out of the range of our senses? Why, when thére are so many things to learn, so much that must be done before we can ever fulfil the dreams of a real civilization, take years out of our lives to propound questions to which no satisfactory answers will ever come? Education must first be got out of books, which teach us what men have already learned. After that it is added to by original research, of which there is a vast amount to do. In philosophy we know little more than did the Greeks, Most of what we call our progress has been merely adding to our physical comfort. We know there is much to learn, much to do, before we can'make the world war-proof and hunger-proof and misery- proof. It is necessary to devote our best thought to that, and not to explore the unknown until we have mastered and tamed the known. : en AAA AAA NARAARA RANA NAY WHERE DID YOU GET From the Wise “paith is the subtle chain that us to the infinite. : bine —Mrs. E, Smith, THAT WORD? 157.—GY MNASIUM. All over Germany, and Buery parting is @ form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.—T. Bawards. Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne. —Quarles. As riches are the mother of pleasure and delight, #0 untimely thrift te the nuras of sorrow and calamitics—Iaocrates, high school, in every country where the German system of education has been adopted, a gym- nasium is not a place where athletes train but an institution of learning of a somewhat higher grade than our Originally, however, the word gym- nasium meant,a place where athletes train after having stripped themselves. In the classic Greek, the word ‘‘gym~- nase,’ from which ‘gymnasium’ is Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. COPeatta uy Frese Publishins Oo XIL—HOW CHILI SAVES THE WORLD FROM STARVATION. On the roof of Chili, about 14,000 feet from its ground floor—sea level— is a mine that saves the world from starvation, It is a nitrate deposit, without which intensive farming— the only kind of farming that counts in @ overcrowded and hungry world—would be impossible, Of the product of this mine Chill ships no less than 2,000,000 tons year, This fertilizer is bought every civilized country in the world to make its soil yield crops at ull commensurate with the need, How did this nitrate get there, ef , all places in the world? Nature did the hard work. First it heaved up this region of » few squafe miles,’ out of the bottom of the ocean, by some volcanic force. With the peaks rising out of the, depths, industrious nature lifted im~- measurable deposits of seaweed. . Then, in an atmosphere amazingly lacking in moisture and a climate im which rain is unknown, nature set other forces to work. ‘These fotces are known to science as “nitrifying bacteria,” There have been trillions of individuals of this germ at work on the nitrate beds for perhaps millions of years, They have done their work well. They have converted the decomposed material into sodium nitrate—known as saltpetre, Saltpetre probably will not be im so much demand for the manufae- ture of explosives, let us hope, now that the Arms Conference has re- corded the results of its labors om the tablets of mankind. But the world's demand for nt- trates for the enrichment of its ex- hausted soil ts growing and will con- tinue to grow. To mect this demand. there is an estimated reserve of abou 240,000,000 tons in Antofagasta, the Chillan province that makes this rich contribution to the néeds of the human race 1s called, Saltpetre mining is an interesting Process, The rock is first blasted. Then the broken rock is taken to the “oficina,” the recovery plant, where the saltpetre is obtained by the chemical process called “leachins,* The process has been improve industrial tte the waste minimum, One of the by-products of this re- » covery of saltpetre is fodine, which is a constituent of the seaweed from which the “nitrifying bacteria” have developed nitrate, has been reduced to You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON Is THE ls XLVIIL—DREAM LIFE SIMPLE LIFE. A dream i# always a visio:. There may be in our dreams other sensa- tions but visual ones. The vi however, is the thing. We may no and then hear sounds, perceive odors, &c., but no dream is ever bullt around a sound or an odor. It is always built around a scene which we are beholding with our eyes. In fact, we seldom hear sounds im our dreams, unless they are actual sounds produced in our immediate environment and which reach us more or less distorted by our imagination, The people who address us in of to communicate their » thoughts to us directly without any auditory medium. Seldom do we taste or smell things in our dreams, On the other hand, we translate ° every stimulus reaching our senses during our sleep, be it sound, smell, touch, taste, &c., into a visual prea- entation. This process is to be com- pared to the gesticulation of primitive or ignorant individuals who attempt to visualize everything they deseribe to us, indicating the length, width or bulk of objects through more or legs ~ appropriate mimicry and who convey the idea of a bad odor by holding their nose, of pleasing food by caressing their stomach, &c. As in the movies, we see overything enacted on the screen pf our mind. We are not told that a crime has © been committed. We see the crime committed before our eyes. Pleasures of the eyes are probably stronger than those vouchsafed by the other sen: On the other hand, pain affecting the nerves carrying sensations of sight causes as much shock as that result. / ing from a tremendous injury to the ~ organism. The most uninteresting parade will attract thousands. Tllus- trated lectures appeal to more people . than unillustrated addresses. Adver- tisimg relies more or less upon inter. : esting illustrations to catch the eye. of the prospective buyer, ti) In dreams we use no abstract rr cepts such aq length, weight an@ warmth, Each concept is represented by: something long, heavy or warm, ¢ weight and warmth being always- made ‘visible’? through their effects. Dreams stand to real life in the. same relation as the movie stands to the printed play. This is why to thes trained analyst the dreams of his pa- tients are infinitely easier to under- > stand than the actions of their wak- ing hours. ¢ (Copyright by United Feature Syndicate.) Se derived, .meant Iiterally “to trate naked" (from “gymnos," naked), |# Just as the athlete divested himself of physical impediments béfore he be- gan his training work in the ancient gymnasium, so in its modern counter. part a8 @ school {t behooves the pupfl to get rid of all preconceived notions © or seen tye ny ideas that would inter., tere wit @ proper training of #) ee a ke NOME Ee engineering gentus unt! u