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Ba tes 1 ee | Sbe orld, ESTABLISHED BY JosEPH PULITZER. } Pudliehed Datty Except Sunday by The Press Publishing WW Company, Nos, §8 to 68 Park Raw, New York, H } RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 68 Park Now, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 69 Park Now, JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCTAPSD PRESS. Fhe Amociated Prem is exclusively entivied to the use for reyublication paper @f All news despatches credited to tt or not ofherwise credited in this "GE Also the local news published herein, AS A PASSENGER. T the very opening of the Genoa Conference Lloyd George got warning: bs in a good natured “Let M. Tchitcherin finish this voyage and go home with all he can carry; then we will wel- come him on another voyage when we know what kind of « passenger he !s.” What kind of a passenger does the Soviet repre- 4 sentative prove to be? ' A charming deck companion. eomes to doing business together? Take only one thing: The Soviet idea, as expressed with engaging frankness by M. Rakovsky, is that Russia can own property in capitalistic countries, but indi- viduals in those countries gan claim no property, past or future, in communistic Russia. Foreign capital is welcomed, even demanded, by Russia, but foreign capital can buy only concessions. The Soviet Government keeps hold of the tangible assets. If other countries feel uncomfortable about this difference, they have only to nationalize their property and be like present Russia. Then there will be no difference. The Tchitcherin charm can’t sugar that pill. Nor can earnest academic efforts to see the best in Sovietism persuade people in other countries to throw overboard all their own notions of what constitutes economic justice and stability. If that is the only basis on which M. Tchitcherin a will do business, he's not the kind of all-round passenger for a reconstructive voyage. But when it Epc steocnante: Sets ea eee — a ‘ Mayor Hylan’s \ of India rubber. jandate” seems to be made It stretches, *THE EONUS BILL GOES TO MACNIDFR. |N theory a Federal law is enacted by agreement ; of the two Houses of Congress and the ap- 3 _ proval of the President. In the early days of our Government this was _ frequently the procedure. Of late it has become Present procedure explains a special despatch to the New York Times yesterday, reporting the + progress of the Bonus Bill in Senate Finance _ Committee: _ ° “& tentative draft of the new bill was sub- 4 mitted to-day to Hanford MacNider, Commander ~. of the American Legion, and Robert G. Wood- i -~ » side, Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.” Later in the day an Associated Press despatch said representatives of veterans’ organizations had | “virtually accepted” the latest proposals. The bonus is the latest’ example of shotgun legislation. The organized minorities have come to demand a veto on measures they espouse. It is a pity, all the more a pity because the shotgun held to the head of Congress isn't loaded Congress is being bluffed. Mr. MacNider can’t “deliver” the vote of the American Legion, much less of all the! veterans. A little plain, old-fashioned courage in Congress BN could put the blijht on all this special pleading "legislation. It could end the reign of the un- constitutional veto. A BLOW FOR JO!N COE. } nga John Doe got into the Supreme Court last Monday the Judges looked down their noses in disapproval and Chiet Justice Taft threw John out. John is a hard character—worse even than Richard Roe’ John has a long criminal record. Murder, robbery, arson, burglary, and every other crime have become an old story for John. He is no fit associate for the Honorables of the Supreme Bench. He sis an international crook and scala- wag, and it did not help him that in the present instance he happened to be representing the ancient and honorable State of Massachusetts. The Judges held that if Massachusetts wanted justice Massachusetts must appear in its proper legal person, not as a rough character like John Doe. Judicial traditions die slowly. John will prob- ably survive in the courts as a personal malefactor in spite of the fact that a simpler designation of a “person unknown” would serve. j But as a representative of a sovereign State + John will no longer do. SOVIETISM IN A SILK HAT. ‘OVIET delegates have dined with royalty and have worn silk hats. Tchitcherin's linen is as | spotless as Barthou's. ' The surprise such simple facts arouse casts an _ interesting and significant light on the business _ of government and the formation and growth of \ Political theories. It accounts for a good many , of the shortcomings of democracy. _ ‘Tehitcherin’s good manners are in no way a rec ' @mmendation of his policies. But the fact that ‘we many people aressurprised by his manners gives a key to the all too common use of the word “Bolshevik” to describe those with whom the speaker disagrees. If Communism was bad, a Bolshevik was a person one would not care for as a friend. The Next step was a simple reversal. Every person personally distasteful was a Bolshevik. The real features of Communism as distinguished from other forms of political organization got lost in the shuffle, As a matter of hard-won experience, it is un- Safe to judge political doctrines by the personal appearance of advocates. If careful grooming and the surface form of good manners were an indication, Henry Cabot Lodge would be a safe guide and Warren G. Harding would be a better President than Abraham Lincoln Tchitcherin’s silk hat doesn’t make Sovietism less dangerous. It only makes Tchitcherin more dangerous in the way that Lodge and Harding are dangerous. THERE'S A LIMIT. OW the Transit Commission takes the action of the Board of Estimate on the long-held-up subway contracts is put by Chairman McAneny with clearness and point: “As the matter now stands, the commission, after careful explanation to the Board of Bsti- mate, made in its letter of April 5, that the delay in the case of the 14th Street line would mean & continuation of the loss of $2,000 a day that Is now entailed, and further delay in transit relief, is advised that the Board of Estimate ig willing to stand for this added ex- pense for reasons best known to itself. “There is clearly no probability that they will act on this particular lot of contracts until they are readvertised, no matter what addi- tional waste may follow. Therefore the com- mission will readvertise them. “So far as the Board of Estimate is concerned it will mean merely one more item on the bill of loss that has characterized its treatment of the 14th Street subway for the past five years,” In the mean time the Hylan Administration has something else to explain. When the Mayor says the statement about the $2,000 a day charges on the city’s $17,000,000 in- vestment in the 14th Street subway is “all bunk’ when he throws a fit of self-righteous horror over the thought of approving contracts “not in accord with current prices’—what has he to say about the loose way his own Administration has let other contracts involving millions of dollars of tax- payers’ money? What has he to say about the $10,000,000 con- tracts for the construction of piers on Staten Island—which contracts, as The Evening World has pointed out, were Iet in 1920 without bid- ding? ‘ What about the tv2nty-five millions the Mayor was eaget to spend on buses to displace existing transit facilities, regardless of whether the city could do without what he proposed to destroy? Was there ever any cavilling about cost when the Mayor was ready to rush in with grand-stand plays that somebody told him would boost him “with the people”? Did he ever worry about taxpayers’ money when the “pressing need” was the one it suited bis pur- pose to urge? There are signs that Mayor Hylan’s own pet public is beginning to see through him. They are sick of hearing him boast about the 5-cent fare they are NOT paying. Pretty soon they will revolt against being taxed to prolong their own transit sufferings in order that a Mayor who pretends to love them may make faces at a Transit Commission. There's a limit. Befo' th’ Wah a Southern gentleman dis- tinguished between loyalty to the United States and loyalty to his own State. The latter was more important, This seems to be somcthing Hke the position Attorney General Daugherty takes in the case of W. O. Watts. Loyalty to Daugherty seems more important to Daugherty than loyalty to the Nation. ACHES AND PAINS «A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, The Farrar furore ought to interest the few folks who dwell in the dull little village of Paris Hilti, Me.,, four miles from the railroad, where Geraldine lived as a small girl years ago. How Maine has turned out the song birds!—Annie Louise Cary, Lillian Norton, Emma Eames, to say nothing of G. F. . Charlie Chaplin's latest is called “Pay Day—A Conedy.” It is a joke for a good many of us. . It ts astonishing how “millions” vanish in Walt Street and how they always come back again, * Fresh eggs are selling at 29 cents a dozen. Just as the hen does her best she receives the least encourage- ment, . The newest dictum is that fashion is the enemy of art, What about the Art of Folly? . Every few minutes a crisis arises at Genoa and the headlines shriek. Why isn't it possible to have them all at once, like the measles, and be over with it? s For a non-military country China seems to do an extra lof of fighting. \ ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922, Ke <0 eping It Closed! peneubeectistoaedes From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readabieP Ien’t it the one that gives the worth ot thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying te ay much in tew words Take time to be brief. Ont of Proporti To the Editor of The Eveniag World: ‘To-day by accident I had occasion to walk across City Hall Park, and there suw the new statue of Civie Vir- tue being erected. I was astounded. It is not necessary to go into the merits of the group as to its symbolism or its worth as a piece of sculpture. I re- frained purposely from informing my- self of this, as it was not completely set up. This potnt is not the question at all, The question is this: Shall the rem of American architecture, the City Hall, be ruined by its obscura tion by being dwarfed by a statue out of proportion and scale to its sur roundings? In all art, as in all life, the propor- tion and relativity of things count, [p plain English, whether the statue is « most remarkable and great work ot art, it is simply not in the right place whether or no. FRANK H. G. KEABLE. New York, April 21, 1922. Prof, Frend. To the Editor of The Evening World: In your issue of April 12th, Dr Quackenbos makes the statement tr speaking of psycho-analysts: ‘They go on the mistaken notion of their patron Freud—himself abnormal tp sex matters." I beg to say of my own personal knowledge that this statement is grossly libellous and untrue. On the contrary, Prof. Freud is a respected member of the community in Vienna. holding many honorary positions. Even his bitterest scientific opponents end their disagreement with his teachings by asserting him to be a man of the highest personal morality and integrity. He is happily married and {s the father of six children. In view of the fact that all this is well known and can easily be verified, there is not the slightest excuse for Dr. Quackenbos's false statement. L. B. April 20, 1922. The Bible and Science, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Some who have studied the so-called science of the present day and have the reputation of being amdéng the wise men of the earth, look very learned and tell us with much assur- ance that the bible and science do not agree; therefore the Bible cannot be true. Indeed! The Word of God op- posed to science! Before being fooled by any such al- legation, we shall do well to remember that the only place there is any science, scientific institutions, instru- ments of science or scientists, is where there are Bibles. Will the scientists who are discounting the Word of God and substituting their own opinion about things, please step to the front and explain to the large audience who wants to know, why this ts? it hes been my privilege te visit several parts of the world where, until quite recently, the untutored natives who live there had never heard of a Bible; and to many of them it was still an unknown book. But I did not see a single scientist who was a native of the place. I saw no factory making the thousand and one delicate instru- ments by which science is able to work out the intricate problems which they are continually solving. Some of them did not know enough about science or civilization elther to make or to use a knife, fork or spoon, They ooked their food in a dirty pot and clawed it out with their fingers. The only place on this planet where it is fit to live Is where the light of God's Word shines. The Bible is the foundation of all science, and is in harmony with all true science, even though it discounts the guesses and speculations of those who presume to substitute their opinions for the clear statements of Jehovah, GEORGE B,. THOMPSON. New York, April 21, 1922, ‘They're Not Pontoons, fo the Editor of The Evening World: The discovery of the use of wood for wipe storage and transport ts due to the winemakers of Mlyria and Cisalpine Gaul. Maximinius, when beseiging Aquileja, A. D., 238, knew the value of wine for his soldiers, and had large quantities stored in casks, and the empty casks were then used to build a bridge In the shape of pon- toons. Now these vessels were called cupae, and the worker who fashioned them Cuparius, hence the German word ‘‘ufer and our English word The discovery and the use of hip- pockets for wine storage and trans- port is due Indirectly to Volstead who fashioned the Eighteenth Amendment. If Volstead were placed in the pre- dicament of Maximinius, he would have a hard time building a bridge with hip-pockets, HJ. M, Brooklyn, April 20, 1922, er From “Strong-Ar Editor of The Evening Worl: ave read what a member of the Police Department had to say about gangs and crime. It is a good sug- gestion. But there are men and boys who stand on the streets who like to have a chat with their friends who cannot go to their friends’ homes or bring them to thelr own homes under existing circumstances. These same men and boys can give a good ac- count of themselves, There are men who work late, who stop to have a bite to eat and a chat on the sidewalk in the fresh air. This kind of men and boys will not run away from the police when they know Pad ge have done no wrong, and it be © Gerrible thing 40 oee a| Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening By Press Pub, Co ‘By JohnC assel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ABILITY MUST BE BUILT. 1f you want to have ability you have got to make it. There is no other way. You are not born with it. Nobody can teach it to you. Talent you may be born with. can acquire. by others. But ability, ableness, must be of your own building. And if you expect to have enough of it to command atten- tion, you had better start the work of construction right away. Don't fancy that you are going to have an easy job. Don’t imagine that, even if you work hard and untiringly, progress will be smooth and steady, You will have set- backs and disappointments. There will be times when you think you have mastered your business or profession, but they will be followed swiftly by times when you will discover that you know really very little about it. Just when you believe you are getting good, you will see somebody at work in the same business who has at- tained an ease and a sureness of working that look utterly impossible to you. No man ever got to a really important position in life without disappointments that sometimes amounted to heartbreaks. No man was ever able to impress others with his ability till he had spent years in acquiring it. The lawyer who has spent three years at law school {s about as ill-fitted to try a lawsuit as he was before hé began his studies. Seldom does he get to be a first class lawyer before he is forty. Usually he is just beginning to be known as a good lawyer when he reaches his fiftieth birthday, There are so many men in the world distinction, that only those who are willin hours and laborious effort ever attain it, The genius can do from childhood things that other men can never learn ke do at all, But even he will never learn to do well wh meant him to do without painfully building up feel This is not meant to be a discouraging article. Bet when you begin your life work it is well to know that it is not going to be easy and successful at the same time. You must choose one or the other. And you can never have even fair success unless you carefully build your own ability, Book knowledge you Mathematics and science can be taught you » all striving for g to put in Jong ———_———_E= Arm Squad rush up on a lot of} about Poe people and belt them with a stick and then apologize after the the ears or be blown to fro by the breeze. ana The American term, ‘y c. 8. M, undoubtedly damage 18 sane ao dean, derived from this, is more distinctive, New York, " however, and not only related to the bobbed hair but to the general man- ner of dress, primarily short skirts and sleeveless gowns, Aside from the absurdity of the un- becoming haircut, the warning should “Flapper.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In response to a query anent the origin of “flapper,” In your issue of ‘April 17. be given that the tresses will never “Plapper” is the name of the short,| grow again as long as they were unbraided halr worn by English originally. In flowing locks there is ‘and this term has been so used| beauty and strength and health for girls, by them, prob-|the women. . 1 ee a pouion Abas ft may Bap Hew Tore, agrit2g, nay OT EVOLUTION The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World) by Pi XIV.—ENVIRONMENT AND MAN. I have planted sweet pepper seeds, raised on Long Island, in Mexico, and seen these seeds, after threo plant- ings, produce hot peppers, They were kept apart from other peppers, so the sofl and climate caused the change, Some years ago an Englishman took a flock of white sheep to Sierra Leone, in equatorial West Africa, where these white sheep gave rise @ breed of black-headed sheep, with-. out ever coming in contact with any native sheep. Clearly, the African, habitat turned the heads of the gn- born lambs black. In like manner the * tropics darken complexions, whereas colder climates produce blondness. From the Poles to the Equator blond~ ness shades the black, color being only skin deep, a matter of pigmenta- tion, Every human skin is underlaid with pigment cells, or cells which contain coloring matter. In the trop- les, due to excessive heat, humidity and vegetable foods, together with constant perspiration, more pigment ts produced than in higher altitudes. In human beings, however, color yields very slowly to the influences of en- vironment, In order to contrast the influences exerted upon man by tropical and temperate surroundings, let us assume that at a time when the human brain was smaller, more plastic and more impressionable than now, groups of low-down savages, belonging to the same stock, found themselves simul- taneously in equatorial Africa and in Europe. According to de Quatrefagas, those creatures were at the time parted company: ‘‘Redhaired, yellow skinned and proganathus; the red being a russet brown and the yellow a yellowish brown." Food effects would first be noted. The Africans would not need to eat meat to produce body heat, because the temperature of the atmosphere averaged about the same as human blood. Cooling foods, containing starch, sugar and vogetable proteins, could be obtained in the jungles with- out the exercise of sagacity or cour- age. Clothing would not be needed The Africans had nothing much to do but feed from hand to mouth, to sleep, perspire and marvel at the manifestations of nature. And the effect produced by what Buckle calls the general aspects of tropical nature upon weak-minded Africans was sim- ilar to that produced by a spectacular hippodrome . performance upon the minds of children—so dazzling that they could not hope and would not try to understand the es, Having no need to procure meat or skins, the Africans would avoid jafigle foes;un from them. In the struggle for) ex- istence. therefore, the .beat runners would survive. Instead of mastering nature, nature mastered the Africans. The Europeans, on the other hand, needed meat and skins to keep thelr bodies warm. They had to fight for a living, to exercise their brains and @? muscles every day of their lives. In- stead of simply marvelling at the manifestations of nature, they learned to inquire as to the causes. In the struggle for existence, not the most cowardly, but the most capable and sagacious survived. In the tropics, mankind turned black and the brain remained childish, imagination growing faster than any @ of the other faculties. In Europe, mankind turned white and matured a hold, sagacious brain, over whose jar- ring faculties the reasoning faculty gradually gained ascendancy, From the African mind came magic, obeah, sorceries, fetichism, taboo—su- perstitions born of imagination. From the European mind came civilf- zation. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 159—CABAL, There is an interesting story of British politics tn the troublous time of Charles Il. tn the word “cabal.” A gang of royal favorites had laid firm hold on the powers of govern- ment and were exercising those powers for their own discreditable purposes. ‘Che names of these reprobates were Clifford, Ashley-Cooper (Lord Shaftes~ bury), Buckingham, Arlington and Lauderdale. The initials of the first names of these gentlemen were used, for convenience, to designate che sys- tem under which England was groan- ing. ‘Those initials spelled the word “cabal.” The made up word was @ much, needed token to express @ secret, un- scrupulous and selfish ring of poli ‘The reign of Charles II, ture From the Wise Flirtation i# @ circulating WW brary in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume, —N. P, Willis, Must one rash word, the injfirm- ity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?—Addison, The higher we rise the more isolated we become; and all eleva- tions are cold.—Boufflers, The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.—Bowes. You cannot by all the lecturing a in the world enable a man to make © choses SRN ed 4 ee Th