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i ‘4 r ESTABLISHED BY JOSBPH PULITEER. Pwritea Dally Breopt Gunday by The Prom Publishing Company, Nos. 52 to 68 Park Raw, Now York. RALPH PULITEER, Preaident, ¢3 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, FOREPH PULITZER, Secretary, @ Park Now. = MEMBER OF TICE ASSOCIA PED PRESS. "Teo Associated Pree ts exctustrely entitled to the us fer republication fll news despatchen credited to 1. oF not. giherwise crwiited tm this pager 04 aso the Jona) mews published herein. ASK THE NORTHWEST. ROM time to time inspired statements from the White House assure the Nation that President has a plan to settle the coal strike. fhen the time comes the President will bring forward this plan and everything will be lovely. ‘The Nation isn’t to feel the “pinch.” The “best minds” will fix things. ‘This is comforting philosophy, but unfortunate- ly it isn’t true. In a considerable section of the country the pinch isn’t felt until long after the jaws of the trap have closed hard and fast. In all the region of the Northwest, normally— but debatably—Republican in politics, the coal supply moves by way of the Great Lakes. It moves cheaply and in the slack season. It moves all summer. Even a few weeks of suspension after navigation opens means a short supply of fuel in that region. All rail movement of coal for this settion is. expensive and uneconomic. If President Harding is waiting for a “becom- ing” time to start things, that time has already passed. Let him ask the Northwest. | AM New York admires the courage and alert detective sense of Patrolman John F, Smith, hero of the fight against a trio of automobile thieves. All New York will be wishing for the jromevery of this plucky policeman. { Shootfng left-handed after his right arm ‘was fdisabled, and pursuing the thieves in spite of ‘three serious wounds, is the sort of devotion ‘to duty that merits high esteem. “Such exploits give the rank and file of the |New York police force fair claim to the title “The Finest.” DESCENT OR ASCENT? I’ attackitg the theory of evolution William Jennings Bryan centres his big guns on the im- plied-descent of man from ape. Hetdefivered what he evidently supposed would be a ‘crushing broadside when he asked Prof. R. C. Spangler, a biologist of West Virginia Univer- si answer the following question before col- leqting a prize Mr. Bryan offered for a statement retonciling Darwinism and the Bible: | “Are you willing to put in writing and to * sign a statement declaring that you believe you ate the descendant of an ape?” As-a biologist who knows more of his subject than Mr. Bryan, Prof. Spangle: confessed that he dig not believe himself descended from present- day ape forms. Mr.:Bryan’s best fighting point cvapqrates under informed judgment. ut assuming an affirmative answer, would or should the admission of anthropoid ancestry im- ply. degradation? 1s an ape forefather necessarily 1 disgrace? A proud boast of Americans is that the child of he humblest family may rise to the highest dis- iriction. How much more of an achievement it would “eam to a man if he believed his ancestors have isen_to manhood by successive and progressive <tepsefrem the ape! Mr. Bryan's mode+of thought provided the saekbone-of the aristocratic cult. Royalty rested on{ faith’ when it rested from the test of physi- “ab ericounter. The “Divine right of Kings” pre- _ Upposes a creation under which royalty came tom: nobler clay than Mr. Bryan’s boasted “mud.” Isn’t this a peculiar contradiction coming as it ” from the self-confessed “Commoner”? Britain has reduced the budget. The United ‘States budget estimates were reduced, but Con- gress isn't paying much attention to the reduc- ‘tions. RELIGION IN THE BALKANS. \ISSENSION, suspicion, mistrust and rivalry in Southeastern Europe have been so much he rule that the coined word “balkanized” is venerally understood as a synonym for political haos. ~ “Balkanized” has usually referred to political offairs. In the Balkans it would apply equally sell to religion. A religious map would show the ame conflict and lapping of religious beliefs as hg more familiar maps showing racial distribu- ion «ad contesting claims to territory. There are at least as many well-defined and or- hized religions in the Balkans as there are states. {hj Jugo-Slavia alone there are Roman Catholics, (greek Catholics, followers of the Russian Ortho- lox faith, Mohzmmedans and a few Protestants, et to mention the more or less independent patri- enchates of Albanian, Montenegrin and Bul- vatian origins and sympathies. The religions have played a part in politics. In the Macedonian region the few inhabitants who save lived there long have found it expedient to religious forms whenever the territory has aed hands, t in religion has made “balkanization” chaotic, © The “Little Entento” is apparently anxious for See Te ee peace and reconstruction. It is entirely possible that the political leaders might welcome a reunion of churches under the Roman Pontiff. It might prove simpler to bring all the “balkanized” faiths to Rome than to attempt to reconcile them to each other, THE BASIS FIRST. ECRETARY HUGHES'S reply to representa- tives of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom contains a timely re- minder of American attitude toward the present Government in Russia: “Political recognition follows the establish- ment of a sound basis for intercourse. Polit- ical recognition is dependent upon the exist- ence of a Government that is competent to discharge and shows a disposition to discharge its international obligations. This whole mat- ter is in the control of those who dominate the affairs of Russia, We are most desirous to do what we can to aid in Russia's recuperation, but they must establish the basis for such recuperation.” The United States ought to be saying this as an active participant in the Genoa Conference, where its influence could have full weight. Even semi-official utterances of the sort in Washington may help, however, as a useful cor- rective of academic tendencies to find so much good in Sovietism that a Soviet Government is encouraged to believe the rest of the world is coming round to its views. The Genoa Conference is now trying to find a way by which foreign property rights in Russia may be recognized without requiring the Soviet Government to renounce its principles as they apply in Russian territory. That is a very different proposition from, the earlier Soviet idea that other nations should na- tionalize their property in order to remove diffi- culties in the way of doing business with Com- munistic Russia. ‘ Reasonableness toward the Soviet regime need not laek firmness. There should be no doubt that States looks at Russia with both the United The stronger the Irish sentiment favoring the treaty the more necessary it is for the De Valere followers to fight if they are to have their way. But this theory has a limit. can't have their way. is ‘worse than foolish. Perhaps they In which case fighting SETTLE IT IN LIFE. “THE legal tangle likely to follow the death of a Richard Croker is another excellent example of the need for some agency to certify that a testa- tor is competent to make a will. The Evening World has urged the creation of such a branch of the Surrogate’s office. If such an agency had existed, a man as shrewd as Richard Croker most assuredly would have used it. Mr. Croker anticipated a contest by his chil- dren. He did everything possible to transfer his property before his death. He hoped to defeat any effort to break his will. If he had lived longer he might have been able to do so. As it is, the question of his competence to trans- fer property is already in the courts. The law- yers are already milking fees from his estate. The case is before the Supreme Court of Florida now. Judging by other celebrated contests over property, it is likely to go to the United States Supreme Court—perhaps more than once. The lawyers will profit. There should be an agency to settle such dis- putes while the testator is alive and able to be heard. Teapot Dome is simmering on the grill anu is likely to boil over soon. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Reports from along the Hudson indicate an im- proved run of shad. Once they Were so plentiful that hired men insisted on not being compelled to eat them more than three times a week, . Let us not wish the highway ever fair ‘With sunbeams dancing in the ambient air; Better the road be darkened now and then With rain and tempest if we would be men! ° We compliment our contemporary, Harrict Monroe, in at last getting some good verse in Poetry, the mag- azine she keeps alive in Ohicago. “Along Old Trails,” by William H. Simpson, and “A Portrait,” by Mildrea Weston, are the engaging lines, It is explained, how- over, that Mr, Simpson ts the advertising manager for the Santa Fe, while Miss Weston lives in Pitts. burgh, B. W. Howe, in his current Monthly, relates a tale that would have delighted Baleac, A wife deserted hor husband for another man, who treated her it, Bhe returned home with the tale of abuse, wheroupon the wronged ewhalf hunted up the paramour, roundly rated him for Ais conduct toward the woman—and shot him? [The Optimist atalino RR World) = = ee ee The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton eee seam met + ar Me XVI. THE NATURE AND GROWTH OF MIND, Is mind, or soul, or spirit, or con- science, or whatever the sentient part ol man may be called, something that resides within the body without being & part of the body, or was it evolved jasong with the body as a function of ‘ne body? 1 speak of mind and soul as’ generally synonymous, although mind is the more inclusive noun; it includes the sentiments, emotions and feelings, of which the soul consists, a8 well as the intellectual faculties. The belief that mind, or soul, and body are separate entities, which live together for a time then part com- pany, is based on faith alone. No shred of tangible evidence, such us would be accepted in a court of law, has ever been produced, so far as Iam aware, whereby the truth or falsity of the faith can be tested. If any reader of The Evening World knows of such evidence, I sincerely trust he will call my attention to it. Tho photographs which Conan Doyle is exhibiting and the ghosts which are thrown on the screen in moving pic- ture shows are illusory. Why? Be- cause everything that can be photo- graphed is substantial and, being sub- stantial, weighs something. We know {nat a corpse weighs exactly as much as! the living person weighed; henco a spirit leaving the body at the mo- ment of death would not be of a substantial nature and could not, therefore, be photographed. ‘To men and women of open mind I submit a few bits of evidence which indicate that mind and body were evolved together. We know that the human body starts as a single cell of protoplasm— the ovum, which\divides into two cells, the two divide into four cells, the four into cight and so on unti! growth ceases. Meanwhile, the an- cestral impulse which caused the ovum to divide also caused the mul- Uplying cells to divide among them- selves the labor of living, as a result of which different groups of cells have acquired different functions. But every cell in the body can be traced back to the same starting cell, which is very like the single celled organisms fotind in tainted water. Do such lowly creatures manifest mentality? Certain bacteria are the nearest things to nothing that can be called alive. Having neither stomach nor mouth, they Imbibe and digest particles of food about as a drop of water absorbs and dissolves a grain of sugar, What there is of mouth and stomach are diffused throughout the body. In like manner the undifferentiated senses—feeling, hearing, tasting, seeing and smelling —are diffused throughout the tiny mass of protoplasm. Now, if a grain of salt be inserted under a slide of stagnating water, bacteria will be seen circling around the salt area; it is injurious to them, and‘they know enough to avold it. If the salt be removed and an air bubble be inserted in its place, they will immediately swarm into it, the oxygen in the air being helpful to them. If a slide containing amoebae be placed under a microscope the largey amoebae will be seen pursuing smaller amoebae. Were the lurge amoebue cats and the small ones mice, we should certainly regard their behavior as indicative of sense. For unless they could perceive one another, how would it be possible for one to pursue and the other to flee? Plants have never developed brains; but, as protoplasm in any form may receive and retain impressions, mind materials exist in plant protoplasm There is a mimosa plant which, like Venus’s fly-trap, lives on insects. Its leaves huve to be tapped three times, not by drops of rain but by the feet or wings of insects, before they close. If something akin to memory were not present, how would it remember to close at the third tapping? ‘The mind and body of a child, origi- nating in an ovum, grow simultane- ously until mature, then deteriorate together, senility being a sure sign of old age. MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) ‘by Preus Publishing Co. ACORNS GROW. Who among us would not like to be the possessor of even @ small for- tune? On the other hand, how few of us ever make an attempt to plant the seeds for such an achievement, Charles H. Fletcher, who be- came famous as the maker of Cas- toria, through his ability to save in early life, furnishes a worthy example of what can be done with a small sum of money. At the age of thirteen Mr, Fletcher began work as an office boy in a manufacturing chemist’s shop. By diligent saving he was able in 1872 to purchase the formula for Cas- toria from a practising physician, and the same year organized a company for the manufacture of the medicine, ‘To-day we see on every hand the fruits of his early thrift. ——————— From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn’t it the ene that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in tryimg to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) YOU OUGHT TO KNOW WHAT YOU CAN’T DO. Mr. H. G. Wells probably made trouble in the lives of a gathering of London drapers’ assistants the other day & Something Wrong With the ital for the promotion for all time of Schoo y the moral life of the Republic.” As defined by Webster, ‘‘morals'’ means ‘‘conduct, course of life in re- gard to good and evil.” The menace arises, as always, through the fact that we are not deal- ing with sympathetic citizens endowed with reason and conscience, but, as your editorial pointed out, they are persons who claim the right to do cer- tain things but cry for punishment ainst others opposed to them who seek to do some of the very same things, as in the case of agitating for repeal of the Prohibition statute. To the Editor of The ening World: Something seems to be wrong with the curriculum in our grammar schools. ‘Yoo much attention is given to minor things, burdening the chil- dren's minds with useless details, while essentials are neglected. Chil- dren are required to learn the names of State counties and county seats be- fore they know the names of the countries and world capitals. They are taught the names and locations of The Methodist Book Concern issues small rivers in the United States,]@ publication with this sentence ‘| staring one in the face: when they do not know about the | "G08 Os on tit gton said, “The basis great rivers of the world, They are of our political system is the right of expected to know where the White the people to make and alter their Mountains are without first learning | Constitutions of Government.’ : The Prohibitionists claimed the about the great mountain system of | 4 2nt to change the Federal Constitu- the earth. They are taught the unes-| 115": the Antis claim the same right, sential facts of American history and|and any attempt to Interfere with this little if anything of the big, outstand. | right will bring mutiny. As a further ing tacts of world history. In arith. ]exmple of consistency the same pub- metic children of ten are doing frac- tions when they have not been lication states that once Prohibition thoroughly grounded in simpler prob- of the land it must If this is true, why lems and rules, ‘They are expected to Ce tie benny En even eine know the names of local Mayor and] 4)" is to stand “forever?” Aldermen ae we aged nothing} "Let us keep well in mind that part abou diy. re Is it any wonder that with such af Or the {ite OF Cite post ited sone system our university undergradu-| anything may be taken from us, even ates are ‘stumped’? when asked about! our most cherished possessions— such essentials as the solstice, the] there is no field tyranny cannot in- only British possession in Central] vade, If every citizen who values his America, the chief port of Argen-}indiyidual freedom will do some tina, &0-7 coms to me, is not] Moughtful thinking and some reliable Tedhing, ®, is not} investigating. he will learn th unlike painting a picture: Birst sketch devilishecee of this thing called Pre the outlines, block in the picture as] pipition. MARIE DORAN. a whole in broad masses, put in the outstanding objects and then gradu- ally add the details. In fact, the ‘de- Richmond Hill, L. 1, April 26, “Every Man to His Trade,’ tails may be left for tho child to add $ himself as he goes through life. Our To the Editor of The Evening World: The Board of Purchase has been school system reverses this method and begins with the details. liberal to Commissioner Enright in A eArirer, | &f@nting to him thousands of dollars vce “| to buy high powered cars to run down highwaymen. It’s about time the tax- payers woke up and give Enright some advice in policing our big city. Every car purchased takes nine men from the sidewalk, three every eight hours, for one car, and with all the cars in use crime is on the increase, Is Enright aware of the fact that he could put a couple of hundred police- men on the sidewalk to do actual police duty which the taxpayers are paying them to do instead of doing work that many ctvillans with fam. tiles to support can do, elvil service ruling that all positions be filled from competitive examination for all positions in city departments, ‘Tho list for patrolmen was created to do police duty only, but Enright tg- norea this ruling and details men tn uniform to do work as carpenters, by telling them that his inability to be a successful dry goods’ salesman made him a novelist. The author said he lacked the patience and the courtesy and the industry to work behind the counter. Therefore he turned to other work and at last achieved a high position as a writer, It was not Mr. Wells’s lack of adaptability for the dry goods trade that made him a novelist. The forces that made him a novelist were working long before he was born, He couldn't have helped writing any more than Dick- ens, who began life as a stenographer, or Keats, who was an apothecary’s apprentice in his boyhood, could help being writers, Talent for writing and for drawing, and for many other activities is born in men. If you have it you will find it out without being told. A great deal of harm is done by encouraging young men of no particular talent to take up lines of work in which no one without talent can possibly succeed. In this world millions of men get along without writing or* drawing or painting. Indeed great financial success comes most often to men who can do none of these things. Do not imagine because you happen to be a dry goods clerk that the only way to escape the counter is to write or to draw. Look about you and you will see vast department stores and other business estdblishments, most of them owned or controlled by men who stayed behind the counter until they learned the business. Trade and commerce are of just as much importance in the world as art and literature, and following them is just as honorable a calling. Without talent you will never either write well or draw well or play a musical instrument well. But there are many other things you can do by merely developing the ability you have. The sooner you forget the rewards that are reaped by genius and remember the rewards to be gained by industry the sooner you will begin to progress toward independence. You may not know_in the beginning what you can do, but you surely ought to know what you can’t do, “Pablic Morals.” To the Editor of The Evening World ‘As recalled by your editorial, we have recently seen the hand of Boss Anderson steering through the Metho- dist conferences resolutions calling upon the Department of Justice to poke Into the statutes and dig out one with which to scare The Evening World and other newspapers which are opposing the Eighteenth Amendment. Possibly it is folly to expect reason to radiate from the brains of profes- sional Prohibitionists, Equally, most of us know that the Methodist Church is committed to National Prohibition; this sect operates under the title, ‘phe Board of Temperance,. Prohibl- tion and Publio Morals,"’ with head- at Washington; as in constitution, it ls manont Its ¢ an imbecile, who was much hounded by the boys. One day he chased a set of his tormenters into a house and broke two stocking-frames. Whence the leader of these rioters was called eneral Lud," his chief abettors 6é rd ’ That’sa Fact * Lia eet a By Albert P. Southwic bagaites.” Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. painters and pipefitters. He also has sergeants doing various work at trades instead of the work for which they took the examination. Enright should be compelled to dis- pense with the services of these men by placing them on the sidewalk to do police duty, These policemen are ac- tually laughing at their'brother of- ficers, The Federation of Labor should call on the Civil Service Commission and ask who placed these policemen to do work that men on a civilian ctvil fervice list should be doing. “Live and let live," but every man to his trade, A CARPENTER ON THE CIvtt SERVICN LIBT, “Vice Emperor” is a name ocea- sionally used with reference to Bugene Rouher (1818-1884), who was Prime Minister of France under Napoleon mL (1868-1870). The ‘‘Luddites'’ were riotous work- men who went about the manufac- turing districts of England, in 1811- 1816, breaking the ‘‘time-savers," under the belief that machinery throw men out of employment, The term arouse from Ned Lud of Lelcostershire, “A mackerel sky” ts one in which the cloudy have the form denoted olrro-cumulus, that 1s, broken Into small flecoy maswes popularly gup- poued to foretell rain or per- ie In the Nation's eap= a ee ee