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| SS Zs The Coening World, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pwlimed Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. Hi J, ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, Park Row, QO8EPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park MEMWER OF TIE ASSOCIATED Press. Whe Ansootated Prem te exclusively entitled to the use for republication OF Gl Dew: denpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tm this paper BRE also the local mewn published berein, PROVE OR DISPROVE. HE mystery surrounding the Federal bond forgery and duplication charges must be cleared by thorough investigation. Perhaps it is fortunate that Representative Johnson's charges seem to cut Democrats as well as Republicans. It is well that the cases are being pushed by a member of the party in power. This will tend to make investigation less a matter of Partisanship and more an honest effort to restore public confidence on the basis of exact information. Under the circumstances, Representative Camp- ell is mistaken in his. fear that investigation ld weaken the hands of the Government. _ Representative Johnson presents evidence’ to show duplications and forgeries. Secretary Mellon denies that forgeries and dupli- cate bonds are abroad in the land. One or the other is wrong. The condition is too serious to pass Over without investigation. Public idence cannot be regained without frank and conclusive exposure of the facts. The mystery of the discharge of employees in the” Bureau of Printing and Engraving is com- ly overshadowed by this larger question of validity of securities, | Congress must investigate. The country can- it rely on the word of a single man or any group men. Representative Johnson's charges must sifted to the bottom and proved or disproved. No possible embarrassment to the Government could be so bad as uncertainty. NEWSPAPER KNOWLEDGE IN A NUTSHELL. » The only public-spirited press in this city is the press of William Randolph Hearst, which | alone appreciates, or pretends to appreciate, Hylan. >> It Hearst should go back on Hylan, New York would have no public prints fit to read. That would be awful. Thus, in consulting Hearst's lightest wish, Hylan is guarding the city against a journalistic, calamity. ‘Therefore the Mayor {s more than ever a public protector and champion. QED. . ral ‘WEST VIRGINIA “TREASON.” E very seriousness of the crime charged ‘ ‘against the West Virginia miners now on trial at Charles Town is an impeachment of the good faith of the prosecution. » ‘Greason, in the minds of many Americans, is a more serious offense than murder. Ip seeking prosecution on this ground, it may be questioned whether the prosecution is not bid- ding for a “hung” jury. f In spite of precautions, it is hardly to be ex- pected the jury will be able to’ agree on convic- tions, The definition of treason necessarily ih- __ yolyes political opinion. In West Virginia opinion _” “Gs divided on the question of law enforcement by mifte guards and deputy sheriffs paid by the “i ing companies. The chance for conviction have been better had the prosecution . murder in the second Gegree, rioting or racy. Ip bringing the charge of treason before the et the prosecution lays itself open to the sus- picion that it is merely endeavoring to widen the division in public opinion, intensify the hostility the two factions and so win support for extreme res against future efforts of the mine to exercise their constitutional rights of speech, assembly and safe passage in regions the Federal Constitution is flouted and law has ruled. 3 ‘It is significant that before the case went to ~/ trial the prosecution, assisted by representatives ‘of Jhe operators, whittled down the number of ‘defendants to a small fraction of the original number. That does not bespeak good faith | ; ; : i Nex week has been proclaimed National Bicycle Week. It is also Music Week. “The two ideas are harmonious. The bicycle | doesn’t inflict the jazz of the motor cut-out or the discordant rattle of the tin-can car. NICK CARTER. S of the death of “Nick Carter” interested a far larger circle of readers than could be by most authors of higher literary eh ing the sad story of suicide many a reader transported in a flash to the haymow of the swimming hole, an empty packing box in k yard or a half-lit corner of a dusty gar- the rain beating a steady tattoo on the ch were the places chosen*for the reading of Carter.” The yarns were “yellowbacks” of yellowest, the sort of books forbidden by its and teachers and therefore doubly attrac- to small boys: Almost every man of to-day THE EVENI has gone through the period when nothing would substitute for the “dime novel.” That familiar epithet showed how little parents really knew of the matter, for “Nick Carter” weeklies sold for a nickel, and were handed round from boy to boy until worn out. Frederick Van Renssclaer Dey, who created the character of ‘Nick Carter, will not go down in his- tory as one of the great names of literature. But Nick Carter probably didn't do half the damage to the youth of America that was debited to his account. Nick was always virtuous, and virtue always triumphed in the end—the very formula of the Pollyanna school of writing. Mr. Dey is not likely to have a successor for sustained output and quantity. The “dime novel” field isn't what it used to be. The movies have cut into the business. Probably the real tragedy of the life of Nick Carter would be in- ability to turn his fertile imagination to the service of the scenario buyers. LET’S BEWARE OF IT. ibe EST reports encourage the hope of an attempt to reconcile Barthou French policy at Genoa with Poincare French policy at Paris and Bar-le-Duc, Poincare appears to feel his own presence at Genoa might put him at a disadvantage with his Political enemies at home. But Barthou could go to Paris and impress upon the French Cabinet and the sabre-rattlers of all parties the injustice to France of letting French politics break up the Genoa Conference. Barthou has been on the spot and knows the need of concession. He has the forebodings of Lloyd George's latest speech to lend point to what ought to be said in Paris. But there is another injustice to France, There is the injystice of assuming that because Premier Poincare is setting himself a pace that will keep Tardieu off his heels, the whole French nation is bursting for a militaristic Marathon. The United States ought to be the last country on earth to need explanations of what party poli- tics can‘do to national foreign policy. For Americans to assume an attitude of self- righteous condemnation toward France because’ some of her political leaders balk at new inter- national agreements and talk of “going it alone” would be one of the colossal hypocrisies of history. Let's beware of it. » AN OLD HORSE IS LUCKIER. fee church is the poorest employer of labor in the world, Dr. Charles L. Goodell says. It is easy enough to gather statistics to prove the case. Average salaries of ministers are admit- tedly low and do not provide even a’‘minimum of comfort for the ministers and their families. In this connection it is interesting to recall the case of Clover, the oldest horse in the world. The World told the story of Clover and revealed the poverty of his owner, a minister. Kind-hearted individuals sent in contributions to insure continued care for Clover. He can live in comfort until he dies of old age. If The World had embarked on a project for making comfortable the last years of aged min- isters—well, it would have/been another “drive,” and people are tired of drives. But isn’t it a pity that old ministers cannot evrect to fare as well as an old horse? The Bum Sports Club has a new and active thirty-third degree member. i David H. Blair, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, qualified for membership when he ruled that contributions to the Wilson Fund are Hable to income tax, although Rapsevelt and McKinley Memorial Fund donations are deductible, ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, 4 The French are finding fault because one-fifth of the divorce cases before their courts are Is this the boasted Gallic gallantry? . American, It is announced that the great editors of the U. 8, A. have formed an association to uplift themselves, tugging at the boot straps. . As, forlornly The woman in black Turned from the graveside Where dust Had gathered Unto dust, To face the world, I thought of the kindly Hast Where they burn'd widows! . More Despatches say the Free State forces have captured the town of Mullingar in Ould Iretand. Wonder if this is the place the Mulligan Guards hailed from . Lady Astor asks women to forget sex in politics, We hope they will not forget to be ladies and will continue to make politics more gentlemanly, . With Hanford MacNider in charge of the Senate, the American Manufacturers’ Association will have to awaig their turn. The people never get a look in, NG WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1922. / Shy a Winni Copyright, 1093, Sew Tork Brenig Word “ty Press Pubs Go. ssc By John Cassel Crveees ; SAM re: eter, emsteesee anne va -0. att GENoa ~~ eo PITCHER... _. eee CaTcHER-{ENGLANI lle ne GLAND] Ist Base -|FRAINCE| 2 Base -/. {i TA'LY) ( E ing Pitcher! From Ever.ing World Readers What kind ot letter do you find most readable? len’ t it the one that gives the worth ot a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying te @y much in tew words Take time to be brief. Approves Arbuckic Ban. To the Editor of The Evening World: All hail to Will Hays! May he keep up the good work started with the elimination of the Arbuckle films: Who wants to see such characters in pictures? Get after the other licentious living actors and actresses who seem to think the easy public must condon: such conduct and pay any price the theatres see fit to ask to see them. Have the enormous salaries reduced to normal and they will not have s much money to spend in riotous living. and perhaps it will bring them to theli senses, if they have any left. A BROOKLYN READER. Brooklyn, April 22, 1922. When Outside A’ ved Balttan ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: The conflagration of 1904 which de- stroyed the heart of Baltimore, caus- Ing an estimated loss of $125,000,000, was checked by the aid of outside help of which the New York Fire De partment was well entitled to the highest honors, The fire started on Monday morn- ing, Feb. 7, 1904, at about 10.30, and raged furiously all day and night, funned by a strong wind and the weather bitter cold. Outside help was sought in every firection and early the next morning the New York Fire Department sent nine powerful engines and a ladder truck on a special train over the Pennrylvania Railroad, The fire de- partments of Philadelphia, Newar! Wilmington, Washington, Cheste! York, Harrisburg and Altoona also sent apparatus and helped to conquer the flames, and by Tuesday noon the fire was checked after consuming 2,600 buildings in the area bounded on the west by Liberty Street, on the north by Lexington Street, on the east by Jones's Falls, and on the south by, the Basin of the Patapsco River, the best part of Baltimore. Outside aid had saved the city, and none were assigned a more difficult task than the firemen from New York, who were given full credit by the citl- zens of Baltimore. HENRY ENGELKEN, Paterson, N. J., April 21, 1922, “A Wartime Hardship.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Who are the Aldermen in this city who care so little about the over- wor 4 mother and housewife that they have passed this Daylight Sav- ing Law to add to her burdens? The first one up these cold spring morn- ings is mother, Who heats up the house for the comfort of others? Mother, Who must rouse up the family an hour eartier while the sun is not yet warm? Mother. Who must remain up nights until all the family @re accounted for? Mother. Who mi deny herself the extra hour's rest in the morning? Mother. = We cheerfully endured and labored during the war, but why must a war- time hardship be continued? Even if ‘one lives in the suburbs it is harder Extra fuel is needed for the heat an¢ sometimes light. Children stay up at hour longer nights, and instead of the family working in the garden, they are off pleasuring, leaving mother home, I think all housewives should know who Is responsible for this con- tinued hardship, I am sure that our men, will not want their womenfolk to carry any more burdens than they already do. TIRED MOTHER. “Let the Parents Moderntse.” To the Editér of The Evening World: “Pet Flapper’’ in a recent issue is absolutely correct; the modern wom an is not gofmg to the “bow-wows”’ by any means. I should like to offer a few suggestions to her assailants. Calling the American young woman sf to-day wicked because of her ac- tons ts putting the mother of to-mor- row on trial for her life, something no woman should do, nor any mere man attempt to. The whole misun. derstanding is that too many parents are still followers of the doctrines of | the stone age when they were chil- dren, and, from some comments, it seems that a great many never were children. The remedy ts up to the parents of these children, for unless they live and learn, and think and believe the same as the younger ones, and with them, they will be so badly eclipsed by 1930 that the advantement at- tained by the younger generation then, will, in all probability, capse their .nost human and everyday do- ings to be looked upon as nothing short of criminal in our elders’ eyes. Come, mothers, show your daugh- ters you believe in them, by believing in them, Remember you were young yourselves once. “FLAPPER'S FRIEND. New York, April 22, 1922. We Drink, To the Editor of The Evening World: Mayor Hague of Jersey City is to be commended on letting the light in on what went on at the Isolation Hospital in Jersey City. If our prohibition friends would work to get @ law passed making it compulsory for hospital attendants to keep patients supplied with plenty of good drinking water they would be doing some From what I have observed, I be- lieve there is'a great deal more sut- fering caused from the lack of water than from the demon rum they are so fond of howling about. Let them come-down to earth. ELIZABETH REER o (Copyright, 1922, with you. get you anything. you tell them, it is that you think has done you feel about it. way you have been acting. justed. “But be sure it is a is possible to adjust. tice. sometimes because the boss be friends or relatives. You happy unless you do. the matter. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake BETTER FIGHT THAN BROOD, Grievances are dangerous things to carry around The person who broods over a real or a fancied injury destroys not only his happiness but his usefulness. \ Fighting isn’t pleasant or enjoyable, but it is preferable and more wholesome than brooding. ~ If you think that you are ill-treated in your place of employment, going around with a scowling face will not People will.get used to your looks by and by and put them down to a sour disposition. Nobody can find out what you are gloémy about unless The best thing to do is to go to the boss, or whoever That at least will get it into the record and explain the If you have a real grievance it will probably be ad- You naturally must expect a certain amount of injus- If there were no injustice in the world, it wouldn’t be the world—it would be Heaven, People are going to be promoted over your head, worth more than they, sometimes because they happen to But if you are really imposed upon, if somebody else is getting the credit for what you have been doing, the only_sensible way to do is to speak about it. Then, if the injustice continues, quit. Never think that by going about with a sad expression on your face anybody will come along and ask you what is Remember that other people are too busy trying to insure their own happiness to bother about yours. Just go talk it over. State your complaint. ‘your rights, if you must, but don’t brood over them. Brooding will often unbalance a good mind, and always will impair its capacity, Get what is troubling you off your chest, and you, will be happier by and by, even if in the getting rid of it you precipitate a temporary row. by John Blake.) you wrong, and tell him how real grievance, and one that doesn’t know that you are can't help that. You won't be Fight for nalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON LI—DREAMS OF NAKEDNESS. Every one of us has had a night- mare in the course of which fe saw himseif attending a banquet, recep- tion or formal function of some kind attired in very insufficient clothing How can such a dream be the fulfil- qent of a wish? Of course fj jon from clothes is a very human craving. Adam and Eve were naked and un- ashamed in the earthly paradise, Children love to run around naked. Sculptors often represent even mod- ern heroes undraped, The Freudians. who are very literal people, have in- terpreted those dreams as dreams of exhibitionism, I disagree with them om account of the attitude of the on- lookers in such dreams. Whether we sit at a banquet in our nightgown or ‘ross a drawing room minus our trou- sers or parade up and down the street In our underwegr, no one seems to notice us. We try to drape ourselves in the table cloth or to stand behind an armchair, but curiously enough EVOLUTI. ‘ The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1vaz (The New Tork Mventng World) by Prose Publishing Company. XV.—CIVILIZATION, Bridges; books, pictures, institutions and great empires do not constitute civilization; they only evidence civill~ zation, For civilization is a mental state, subjective, not an external con= dition. If a plague should strike every, American dead, historians would write ‘he Americans were civilized, because their ruins show that they, were civilized.” What took place in the mind as @ first step toward civilization? As was suggested In chapter XII., It was the stirring of the faculty of invention, Man alone invents. The first flash of inventive genius gave to primitive man a club. Prior to the exercise of invention, capable anthropotds had doubtless been using sticks and stones against carniverous foea,. but the sticks and stones would be used ex< actly as picked up In emergencies, without any effort to improve their But the first anthropoid that deliberately stripped cumbering branches from a stick, in order to render tt more serviceable as a weap~ on, exercisetl invention, expressed an Idea in wood, and thereby ceased to be an anthropold and became a man, He bad done the only thing mankind can do, which no other kind of animal had ever yet done—exercised inven- tion. Fortunately the arithropoid min@ had grown large enough to profit by, the Invention of the club, to appre- ciate its significance. If the racial mind had not been ready for the club {t would have fallen flat. When gun~ Powder, for example, was ‘first tn- vented by a forgotten Chinaman, the Chinese mind could not grasp the significance of that black powder, otherwise the Chinese would be reign~ ing In the lands from which they now are banned. From beast-like savages with clubs in thelr hands, the human race has progressed as a result of the accumu- lated changes produced in mankind by @ few revolutionary inventions ind discoveries. To say that the history, of civilization is a history of inven- tions sounds startlingly simple. The evidence may be found in Morgan's “Ancient Society."* After man-like apes had invented the club, ape-like men Invented lan- ‘mage and raised themselves out of bestiality into savagery. Then say- age genius, ‘Inventing the bow and ar- row, the pointed pole or spear, the fire-drill and pottery, softened sav- agery into barbarism, Tribes that have invented nothing new still re+ main in savagery. Northern barbar- jans, however, discovered that wild unimals could be tamed, that planted seeds would yield, that houses could \e built of adobe bricks and that trom ore could be smelted and turned tnto weapons and tools. After semi-civ- (ized barbarians invented the phogetie ulpfiabet, the tribes and peoples that «ppreciated the significance of that invention should be called civilians tather than barbarians. What have civilians invented com- parable to the achievements of sav- agery and barbarism? The white race re-invented gun- Q powder and with It conquered the world; they invented the mariner’s compass and made possible the dis- covery of the New World and ocean navigation; they invented the printing press, whereby the hard learned les~ sons of experience may be preserved und passed on from generation to gea- eration, so that sons may begin where their fathers left off; they invented steam and electrie machinery, by, rveans of which the nations have been connected with ratlroads, ships, tele- phones and telegraphs. What will the next revolutionary, invention accomplish for mankind? WIll It have to do with the conquest of the air, or of the ether, or will it be of a chemical nature and domesti- cate the wild forces contained tm molecules and atoms? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 160—SINCERE, Superficially viewed, the word “sine cere’ does not seem to bear any re- lation to “wax.” And yet “cera” (the Latin for wax) is probably one of the component parts of “‘sincere,” preceded by the particle “sine (without). On that theory the original Latin word “sine-cera” would mean “with- ."" Honey “without wax" of course, strained honey, honey without an admixture that would have to be got rid of— honey that would be pure, the best om the market. ‘This derivation of the word des. ignating purity of purpose and free- dom from pretense may sound far- fetched, but there are words of equally ingenious origin that answer every test of etymology. ' a i the embarrassment is all on our side, Such dreams cannot be dreams of ex- hibitionism for they are never accom- panied by the wish that some one should see us, nor do we ever derive any pleasure from our exposure, I consider nakedness dreams ag very symbolical dreams, Every pa- tient who brought me such dreams to ~ analyze was laboring under some secret which he was afraid of reveal- ing. A bank clerk guilty of petty graft attended, in a dream, a 4 ing of the bank's officers, clad tn his bathing suit, but no one ‘to notice his presence. It is not the exe ¢ posure in itself which constitutes the wish fulfilment but the happy ending of the dream. Our shameful secret has escaped detection. We are concealing something “low.” Everybody knows the symbolism of high and low, right and left, which is common to all races, | | qoopyrtant by United Featuy : © @ |