The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1922, Page 26

Che Biorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Datly Except Gunday by The Press Publiching Company, Nos. 58 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZBR, President, 63 Park ‘Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. 708EPR Becretary, 68 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Ansociated (of all news deapatches credited to 1 or not otherwise eredit And also the local news published herein, A LIE IS A LIE. IHE New York Methodist Preachers’ Meeting is stung by criticism which “several of the newspapers of New York City” directed against the Methodist Annual Conferences “for their re- cent resolutions respecting newspaper utterances about Prohibition and its enforcement that, in fact, constitute an attack upon the Government.” The Methodist preachers hotly disclaim high- handed tactics toward “legitimate effort to change the law,” but denounce as attempts at nullifica- tion all moves to wipe out the enforcement statute or to “mutilate” such statute “in such manner as in fact to defeat the prohibition contained in the amendment against the sale of all liquor which is intoxicating.” The hypocrisy of much of this alarm lest the Eighteenth Amendment be nullified, in the light of what the South for a generation has been do- ing to the Fifteenth Amendment, is admirably dealt with in a letter from an Evening World reader printed elsewhere on this page. The Evening World has already paid its re- spects to what it calls “The New Treason.” For the moment it has only this to add: When, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, Congress enacted the Volstead law defining intoxi- cating liquors as liquors containing more than one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol, Congress en- acted a lie. If calling a lie a lie constitutes nullification, attack upon the Government, assault upon the Constitution and incitement to lawlessness—as the Methodist preachers seem still to imply—The Evening World is beyond help or hope. Tammany ‘wouldn't object to a voting ma- chine that looked and worked like a cash reg- ister. AGREED ON THE ANALYSIS. Saperoent HARDING'S coal strike settle- ment plan is still incubating, we are told. It isn’t ready yet, and may not appear for several weeks. By indirect quotation, it is reported that the Harding plah is based on this fundamental principle: That the coal industry must be made less seasonal. Production must go ahead at a steady rate throughout the year, thus affording fewer men employment but assuring those remaining steady work. Distribution from the mines must also be kept at an even flow. To accomplgh this the Government must direct that the sur- plus coal mined in the sumimer be stored in centres of industry and population to await the demands of winter. This is admirable—as far as it goes. But it doesn’t seem to be going far or fast, considering that thé coal strike has been in progress for more than a month and that months of warning pre- ceded the actual strike. This kind’ of statement would suggest that in this, as in other matters, the Administration is a long way behind the march of public opinion. The Evening World is only one of hundreds of newspapers and investigating agencies that have summed up the situation in substantially the same words. The public accepts the analysis. What the public wants now is a plan of action. Serious constitutional difficulties are manifest, but a way out of the tangle must be found All may be quiet on the Potomac, but the murmurs from the banks of the Wabash will carry all the way to the White House and Capitol Hill, MUSIC WEEK. HE pressure for special “weeks” is getting so heavy that we have four or five for this particular seven-day period, even if we exclude two or three straight advertising propositions. The congestion and overlapping of the efforts is unfortunate. “Music Week” alone or “Clean- Up Week” alone would be well worth while. With so many claims for publicity it is hard for the press and the public to do justice to each. Music Week deserves a clear field and first con- sideration. This year it follows an unusually successful musical season. It falls into line follow- ing successful Music Weeks in other years. No one who has watched the growth of musical apprecia- tion and patronage in recent years can doubt that the country generally, and New York in particular, is enjoying more and better music than ever before. The campaign is bearing fruit. In other years The Evening World has looked to Music Week to add impetus to the movement ’ for summer music in parks and open auditoriums, In recent years the amount of good summer music has increased materially, but it does not begin to meet the demand, Music Week virtually finishes the winter con- cert season. What new advances will Music Week, 1922, record in the field of summer music promotion? ca Adequate musical programmes for Central Pres ts exctusively entitied to the use for Nealon . oan ah WILL IT GET TO TH2 ESKIMO COURTS? THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1922. Park are lacking. Neither privafe philanthropy nor municipal initiative seems ready to supply this need, -Restringing the Harp — «ezie Is there not a field for co-operation between ‘the two, something after the manner in which the Public Library is financed and managed? ORDERS FOR THE I. R. T. HE Transit Commission's orders to the Inter- borough make the best reading New York straphangers have had for many a long day. Briefly those orders are: Improve non-rush- hour service by operating 360 more trains daily in the subways—246 additional trains beginning May 31 and another 114 after Sept. 18. Prepare to increase rush-hour service, until new subways can be built, by placing at once an order for 350 new cars. Have the present operating reserve of 300 trained men at work May 31. Have 300 more trained and ready for work Sept. 18. These orders are clear and specific. The issue in the case, as Commissioner Harkness says, is not whether the present service is inadequate: “Tt concerns the extent to which an unques- tionably inadequate service can and should be improved at this time," The commission finds the financial condition of the Interborough materially better. Prices of ma- terials are going down. Interborough employees have taken a 10 per cent. cut in wages. Now is the time to test out the ability and will- ingness of the Interborough to live up to its obli- gations to the public. While relief cannot be immediate or complete, 246 trains added to the subway schedule during the vacation months are certain to be felt in in- creased comfort. After Sept. 18 an increase of 400,000,000 car seat miles per year in the sub- ways should mean some relief, even in the most crowded seasons, The Transit Commission's orders to the Inter- borough are said to be the most drastic ever served by a State commission on a public service corporation. They are no more drastic than public need requires. This great city of 6,000,000 people is more than ever thankful that some one ha’ at last applied a strong, firm hand to the transit situation. Mayor Hylan can now attain the summit of Marcelinian impudence by declaring the strong, firm hand is his. The Bonus Senators are planning to refer their bill to President Harding for suggestions. And only a few years ago these same Senators ‘were deeply offended by Executive interference in legislative affairs! NLY a few weeks ago it was the name of the “hot dog” that agitated Coney Island. The season has changed and now it’s the question of “Eskimo Pie.” “Eskimo Pie” is the trade name of small ice cream blocks coated with chocolate. It is the sort of novelty that responds to advertising, and it has been well advertised. The idea is so simple that everyone who watches the sales is moved to self-pity.and disgust. “Now, why,” is the common question, “didn’t I invent that myself?” tions. In reply, I wish imitators. The trick is easy and almost anyone can invent another name and share in the profits, If the imitations could be kept off the market the inventor would profit hugely from royalties }built those and ‘concessions, The possible profits are so big that the case is wonderful courts. The trade name will undoubtedly be pro- tected from infringement. The Eskimo Pie pro- moters want to protect the process. It promises to present a nice point of law. and the printing press. acience,"’ the Bible. April 26, 1922, Approva ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. criticising your editorials, Our esteemed contemporary La Presse of Montreal refers to James of Dayton as “lancien candidat demo- crate a la presidence, M. Cow.” It has a far away aversions, can’t stand sound! Overheard on the B, R. T.: “She loves to hear herself talk, 8o let her.” wool over -their eyes, . Sing we no more of Tuscan wine Or jocund Horace and his vine: Anathema! Such thoughts begone And pipe of William Anderson! . continue his good articl to their full value Our esteemed autograph seller, Thomas F. Madigan, offers this bibulous note from James Buchanan, once President of the United States: “| hasten to answer your letter and to enclose you ‘a draft of $100 for the hundred bottles of wine. Be so good as to wend me two baskets of your cham. pagne at $14 per basket as you propose.” The old soak! much per wall, Some one without a heart must have faced Civic Virtue with his broad back turned to the City Hati, the Federal Government. work? a ator Teller and the silye Senators from the Says General Wu States. To General Chang There are tc-day in Congress forty Pu Pu or fifty perjured beneficiaries of erimi- G'lang! nal nullification of the Amendment, Why are they mot sa nee ae ena BE pacenenat From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou 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 to Take time to be briof. «ay much in few words. The Bible and Science, To the Editor of The Evening World: In your issue of April 2 Thompson claims that the Bible is the foundation of all science, and conse- quently where there is no Bible we find no science or scientific institu- pelled and placed behind prison bars where they properly belong? its existence to ‘the fact that it was ratified by the Legislatures of South- ern States who were elected through nullification of the very Constitution which they undertook to amend, This amendment is the product of an un- scrupulous fraud. one have the brazen effrontery to ask us to respect a fraud? . A 5 to remind Mr. The result is that Eskimo Pie has a host of |Thompson that the Egyptians had no Bible, but they knew enough about science to build the pyramids, which disclose a knowledge of engineering, in many respects equal to ours. The Romans had no Bible when they has properly rebuked these clerical parasites whose Prohibition followers in the South go to church on Sunday morning and lynch Negroes in the afternoon, who have given their con- sent and approval to any old kind of nullification, red shirt terrorism, bal- lot box stuffing and the infamous grandfather clause, so long as the Negro was prevented from registering and voting, as the Constitution de- clares he has the right so to do. whose ruins still remain, and those roads that are even now in use. The Chinese had no Bible when they 7 i Napea built the Great Wall, fifteen hundred fairly certain to be fought to the limit in the }mues in length, nor did they have a Bible when they invented gunpowder Few as these examples may be, stilt I think they are sufficient to show that the Bible is not ‘the foundation of all nor is science dependent on B. remains the accomplice and protector of criminals who nullify the Fifteenth Amendment in the South, all this talk about respect for the law and the Con- ‘stitution is neither more nor less than Tq the Editor of ‘The Evening World: ‘A number of letters have appeared|No. 125 East 114th Street, New York I certainly commend you on your pluck and ability to state the truth and uphold that which is right. It is very evident that some people, because of their personal whims and To the Editor of The Evening World: began in Europe, and we as an Amer- ican people ought to have backbone enough to have the standard time in our country. Do we, as a nation, have to copy what Europe does? when it is put u; to them, yet they s are narrow-minded enough to allow him whom all these criticisms and noises are made about to pull the I give The Evening World editor my hearty sipport and hope he will haps some day people will wake up READER. “Enacted by Fraud,” To the Editor of The Evening World: A swarm of paid propagandists and political parasites are running about the country and wailing about respect for the law and the Constitution at 80 For the benefit of theso gentry I should like to submit the following indisputable facts: For over forty years the South has nullified the Fifteenth Amendment with the full consent and approval of that time only one President, while his stony stare rests on the maelstrom of Mait [rie te uphold ne wget teworth Street. Why could he not have been placed s0 he could |enforce the Constitution, South peek into Hizzoner'’s witdow and see the real goods at |as North, and his efforts came to , naught through the defection of Sen- Old Habits Underlying New Problems By Maubert St. Georges. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) ‘by Press Publishing Co. LANGUAGES. According to the latest Inguistie survey of India, no fewer than 147 languages are reported as vernacular throughout the country. This, per= haps, more than anything else, haw been the main factor in keeping India in a disjointed state. As a matter of fact, with the exception of a sort of language of the camps made up of Hindi, Arable and Persian, the only commen tongue by means of which the Inhabitants of one district cam communicate with those of another ts English, and only two millions out of $15,000,000 can speak it, Of the Hindu languages, Sanskrit is the oldest and, from a philological point of view, the most interesting-an@ important, for it undoubtedly bears he closest resemblance to our owe tongue and is probably the nearest to the language of our Aryan fore- fathers, This Sanskrit is the classl+ cal language In which all the sacred books were written. Although a dead tongue for many centuries, it Is still used by the Brahmin priesthood, just as Latin was used by educated people in Europe in the Middle Ages. From this Sanskrit there has descended a large number of modern languages used In Hindustan, the northern part of India. In the Deccan, the peninsula proper of India, the languages belong to what is called the Dravidian group. These are the languages descended from the language spoken by the original tn- habitants of India, the Dravidians, who were pushed into the southern part of the country by Aryan invad- ers. Some of these are highly devel- oped tongues, Tamil, for instance, is peculiarly rich in grammatical forms, und Telugu is commonly known as the “Italian of Indi ‘There is also a tyjrd group known as the Tibeto-Burman group which 1s composed of languages known as “Isolating."" This means that in these tongues a sentence is not made up as a coherent whole expressing only one idea, but consists of a series of words each having no connection with the other and whose collective meaning must almost be guessed at. For in- stance In ordér to state that “the warm weather fs coming" it would be necessary to say ‘heaven... air... hot... come... begin. These languages are spoken mostly in Far- ther India and some northern terri- vories. With such a bewildering diversity of tongue it is no wonder the Hindus have found it so hard to come to an The Eighteenth Amendment owes interest. in subse Why should any|3 saw the light. Iam glad that The Evening World accordingly. So long as the Federal Government nauseating rot. starting time. WM. CHANDLER HALE, i City. “Down With Daylight Saving!” I don't see why the Américan peo-}$ another. ple stand for such foolish time, It fortune. The Daylight Association claims that it benefits the poor, but it does not in any way benefit them, The daylight saving time cost me last year over $100 for doctors’ bills and medicine, besides not being able to work all the winter, I get up in the morning at 5.30 and next week I suppose I will have to get up at 4.30, and I just feel as if I can- not do it. It also hurts our church, only one- half of the regular ones are present, and anything against the church can- not prosper. A READER, want to go. as it departs. From the a; \eeaee Gaee ce Hunters and gamblers are poor economists; they kill time, a spe cies of game that cannot be repro- duced,—H. W. Shaw. A single talk across the table with a wise man is better than ere study of books. bi —Confucius. A Bonus Plea. ‘To the Editor of 'The Evening World; Amid all the anti-bonus clatter, methinks I hear some soldier, with a still, small voice, comparable to the Pleasure can be supported by voice of slumbering conscience almost! jnysion, but happiness rests upon eons from long neglect, speak to the truth.—Chamfort. t of the American people: The irresolute man flecks from “Pm not «asking you to sacrifice your arms and legs, and perhaps your one egg to another, so hatches ten years’ life, us you asked me so far buck in 1917. 1 am only asking for w litte money, which I need, oh, so much, co ye ORR get a new start in life." One docs not 9 yi LENA M. CHAPMAN, be lulled to sleep,—Chesterfield. f ' nothiag. Feltham, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) RUNNING FOR THE TRAIN, The man who runs for the train sometimes catches it, and sometimes gets tangled up with the wheels and loses ent developments. It is important to catch a train, but nonearly so im- portant as it is to continue in this life with all one’s limbs and facial features in the condition they were when he first It may be gathered from the foregoing that this is an editorial on procrastination ; which it is. Now the gentleman who is running for a train does not look like a procgastinator. Yet if he were not a procrasti- nator there would be no need for him to run for a train, Trains start on schedule time, not whenever the con- ductor notices that he has a load of passengers aboard, One who contemplates a journey has abundant oppor- tunity to look at the time tables and to make his plans » No matter how busy he may be, if he really wants to make a particular train he can do it. If the loss of the three or four hours that will elapse whose bottom presented a checker- before the next train starts for the same place are important #| bard design. All the fish but one to him he will do better to be on hand in plenty of time to get himself and his baggage comfortably disposed before — Otherwise he may slip on the steps and, although he escapes with his life, do himself more harm than the loss of that particular train could possibly do. The catching of trains was chosen as the subject of this article because life is, figuratively, just one train after A great many years ago Shakespeare wrote about the tide of affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to There were no trains in Shakespeare's time, Opportunity, which is not so rare a,visitor as the proverb would have us believe, is much like a train in that, if taken deliberately, it is an easy way of going wi Try to rush it and it either gets away gether or leaves the aspirant floundering on the platform amicable agreement with one an- other. Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON THE MEANING OF IMITATION. (Copyright by United Feature Syndicate.) Old husbands and wives who, as pictures taken at the time of their wedding show, looked quite different from each other often resemble each other after fifty years of life togethi Members of one profession, be it clergy or the bar, members of the , same trade, have a curious likeness which has never been satisfactorily, explained. Experiments made on fish by, @ French scientist called Pouchet throw a strange light on the process where- by we imitate our environment and after a while look like our environ- ment. Pouchet kept for a number of months some fish in an aquarium showed traces of that pattern on their scales. The only specimen which had kept its original color was care- fully examined and found to be blind. The experiment was then repeated with six blind fish and six with normal eyes. The normal fish all imitated’? the pattern of the aquar~ lum, while the blind ones remained whitish grey. This reveals to us another function of the sense of sight. The shapes we see day after day gradually form us or deform us, iinprove us or cause us to deteriorate. Colors do too, as Pouchet’s further experiments with tinted aquariums proved. It may be that some day discoveries of the same type will be made in regard to the other senses of the body. Not all of us can live in an ideally beautiful environment but all of us can in simple, inexpensive ways beautify the environment in which we are compelled to live. Some peo- ple, neurotically inclined, have @ WHERE DID YOU GET |':230°% 0 oot es me THAT WORD? here we alto- their inferiority as keenly as they, would among suiparior people or beautiful objects. ey should be roe 162.—-COPPER, helped to understand themselves and interesting page of the history | their complexes that they may event- of our civilization lies concealed in| ually seek models for imitation which the word Copper, Europe first knew| Wil! impart to them the superiority this metal as an importation by the| they lek oF Imagine they lack. Sy ery hy y Those in charge of the you: the prising merchants of Phoenicia.| weak-minded, the Insane should The Phoenicians got the mineral] ponder carefully the import of Pou- from the Island of Cyprus, We fnq|chet’s wonderful experiments, Inthe Roman language in the thira] re century the word “cuprum,” an ab-| had an carly opportunity to become breviation of “Cyprium,” directly A iphdn iis fa e y hoeniclan navigators visited Corns rived from the famous island that] wall when the world was very first gave copper to rope, tu obtain from its mines—which arg It is Interesting to note that in the| still operated—the tin which they Gaelic language the word for copper| used in the production of bronze by is “kopar.” The inhabitants of the] alloying it with the copper from the British Isles, including the Gaels,| mines of Cyprus, ‘i a Ra!