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S PAID Ttorihr, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, } Published Dally Bxcopt Gunday by The Press Publishing Company, Now. 68 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, Park Row, 1 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treawurer, 68 Park Row. ; ee PULITZER, Gecretary, i MOBMOOER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES, bi {The Assoctated Prem ts exctusieely entities to tbe wee for repubitestion Of qil news Geepatches credited to Mt or not otherwise credited im this paper and also the local news published herein. THE SIGNS IN INDIANA. ee what has commonly been considered the most politically minded State in the Union, the returns from the Indiana primaries were un- accountably slow. j It must have been a case of suspense long drawn for the Republican leaders in Washing- ton—particularly for the President. Senator New hasn't been a bad kind of Sena- tor, for the kind of Senator he is. He was a regular 100 per cent. apostle of “normalcy.” He was a “best mind.” He has been for the G. O. P. organization first, last and all the time. He has been a politician rather than a statesman. More- over, he has been a close friend, confidant and adviser of President Harding, both in the Senate and in the White House. If any Senator repre- sented Hardingism it was Senator New. Reports received in the first twenty-four hours after the polls closed indicated a substantial ma- { jority for Beveridge and a heavy stay-at-home 1} vote. In politically minded Indiana both are sig- nificant. Even if Senator New had regained the lead, the result could only be interpreted as a rebuke to Administration policies. The Indiana primary was an almost perfect picture of the Republican Party. It is split, hope- lessly split. The issues of 1910 and 1912 have got to be fought over again. The next test will come in the Pennsylvania primaries, two weeks hence. Results in Indiana will hearten the Pinchot forces and will steel the supporters of “normalcy” to a last-ditch fight. “Normalcy” has always run strong in Penn- sylvania. The odds are in its favor. But a sub- stantial show of opposition by the liberal wing will give reason for new chills of apprehension in the White House and on the Hill. * § 5 | ‘ ; ; MORE TRANSIT CLOUDS BREAK. HE Interborough’s acceptance of the Transit Commission's orders for improved service is not the only new and hopeful development in the situation. The plan authorized by Federal Judge Mayer, which provides for a refinancing of the Inter- borough on the basis of modified terms of the ,, Manhattan Elevated lease, is understood to be submitted to the Transit Commission in a spirit of co-operation toward bringing about the com~- ‘| mission’s larger plan of transit reorganization. a Moreover, it is declared that “by keeping the Interborough system together without a receiver- ship, the continuation of the 5-cent fare over the entire Interborough Rapid Transit system is assured.” Thus does light shine forth while clouds dis- if rolve, - . ‘i Contrary to dark forebodings, the 5-cent fare, : rehabilitation of the Interborough and the Transit s Commission plan no longer appear ,as three in- i compatible, irreconcilable things. It begins to look as if each one of the three might discover natural aids and affinities in the other two. SAFEGUARD FUMIGATION. EDICAL EXAMINER VAUGHAN of Brooklyn thinks the mysterious deaths of Mr. and Mrs, F, M. Jackson were due to cyanogen gas used in fumigating a neighboring apartment. He goes further and expresses the be- lief that at least four other deaths in Kings County within the last year may be traced to In congested New York fumigation is essential. Disease and vermin must be rooted out when they appear. Examiner Vaughan has gone far enough : to create a lively fear of fumigations and retard the work. 3 If fumigation under the prevailing system has | been fatal in several cases, the system must be revised and the work supervised. 7 This seems to be a matter demanding imme- diate and energetic handling by the Health De- partment. New York must have proper fumiga- tion. It must have safety in the process. And the fears of the people must be allayed by suita- ble explanations and safeguards. DOES HE DRAW THE LINE? RESIDENT HARDING does not approve of “theatrical parade” as an accelerator of legislation. President Harding refused to entertain the “Children’s Crusade” and does not propose to be influenced by Hearst's spectacular sales-tax cam- paign masked as a bonus plea. The President is well advised. Both are mis- applications of the right of petition. Both seck to win through their nuisance value rather than on merit. Both are examples cf “propaganda.” Both seek to magnify minority sentiment into formidable proportions. But the “theatrical” quality of these stunts is their smallest danger. The real menace is minor- » ity influence wielded as a club. Minority influgnce is even more sinister in the ae secret of committee rooms—when, for instance, the spokesman of the American Legion gives order. It masks as privilege when an oil grabber influences an executive officer. It strikes in the open on the floor of the Senate when a boastful “bloc” demands and gets class legislation by threatening obstruction. “Stage stuff” makes the President frown. It is inconvenient. But what does he say of the “stuff” that goes on when the curtain is down? That is dangerous. UNSILENCED. EN THOUSAND persons went to Madison Square Garden last night despfte the rain to join in orderly protest against. present Prohibi- tion law. Speakers and audience included men and women of highest standing, whose standards of personal character and citizenship are matters of public record, These men and women approved resolutions calling for “the immediate repeal or thorough- going modification of the Volstead act in order to bring it into harmony with the limited scope of the Eighteenth Amendment, and thus to protect the people from the multiplying iniquities which are wrapped up in this vicious law, and to restore, if not completely, at least measurably, the liberties which have been so precious to our fathers.” * * *¥ The day before, the attitude of reason toward present Prohibition law was voiced by no less re- spected authority than that of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts in his annual report’ to the Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Convention in that State. Said Bishop Lawrence: “Hundreds of thousands of working men who found solace and comradeship after the day's work in what they felt to be their innocent glass of beer had it snatched from them, and thousands of reputable citizens found their per- sonal liberties and domestic habits broken in upon, “Surely it is competent for every citizen to speak, work and do everything consistent with the law to have a law either amended or rescinded.” Yet the Anti-Saloon League and some of its Methodist allies would have us believe that those who lift their voices against the Volstead law as it stands are either rum-hounds or fomenters of lawlessness! . How long can a law last if it has neither the approval nor respect of citizens whose mental and moral soundness is unassailable? No wonder Prohibition zealots want to get out the gags, chains and thumbscrews when they face that question. T isn’t surprising that Staten Island and Brook- lyn contingents cheered Mayor Hylan when he voted for a Staten Island tunnel. Staten Island has wanted a tunnel so earnestly and so impatiently that anything bearing any re- semblance to a tunnel was bound to create enthusiasm. No one, least of all Mayor Hylan, seems to know the purpose of the Narrows tunnel. Orig- inally it was proposed as a combination freight and rapid-transit tunnel. As a freight tunnel -it ‘ould be connected with the Baltimore and Ohio, so it might result in that railroad getting entrance into Brooklyn at small expense to the railroad and at heavy cost to the ¢axpayers. The Transit Commission, with due regard for safety first, refuses to countenance mixed freight and passenger transportation in underground or underwater tunnels. So the Hylan tunnel is not likely to be incorporated in the “comprehensive plan.” i In which case it will be a typical example of Hylan transportation by slogan: Here to there For a 6-cent fare. “Here” being no place in particular, and “there” being equally inconsequential. To get anywhere it is necessary to pay another 5-cent fare. That sort of a tunnel would be only an expen- sive hole in the ground—provided the courts allow the excavation to proceed. ACHES AND PAINS Henry Ford's autobiography, which starts in the cur: rent McClure’s, states that the five millionth Liesie has just deen placed inthe museum maintained at his motor works as a milestone of progress. At the not unreasonable profit of $100 per L., this would mean a tidy bundle of $500,000,000 to the good. Fliv and let live is Henry's motto. e The headlines charge that Angora has made a secret treaty with Italy, Again the goat! . We wonder if Murphy is really afraid of Hearst? Perhaps he loves him, . The proposed Staten Island tunnel promises to be a good deal of a bore. . “Beveridge beats New for Matena Republican Sen atorial nomingtion.” Perhaps his name did it, ° What better spot than Kilkenny to fight out a civit wart Recall the cats! . “Hedley must reduce headway.” Quite proper. So is big Read reduction. | By John Cassel EVOLUTION The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory "By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1922 (The New York fvening World) by Press Publishing Company. com AN Meaning Borie By Press Pub. Co. The Latest Edition! XVII.—IMMORTALITY. Single-celled organism never die natural deaths, When their short life-cycle has been run, instead of dy- ing they divide, the daughter or- ganisms beginning life over again, Nor do the daughters die; they also divide and thein daughters, repeating the Process, go on living. So animals and plants which consist of a single, cell of protoplasm are in truth im® mortal. In an amoeba to-day lives the same substance that lived in the first amoeba that ever divided. In animals which consist of many cells only one class of cells remain immortal. These are the germ cells, or reproductive cells, An egg. 18 @ germ cell, containing a large amount of yolk upon which the unhatehed bird feeds. A bird lays an egg and \ dies; the egg lives on, and from i comes another bird. That bird lay more eggs and finally dies, but the), life that existed in it survives in de- scendant birds, The germ cells in animals have nothing to do but reproduce the spe- cies, The other cells are all working \ cells. Some serve as muscles, some as glands to provide secretions for di- gesting food and lubricating the parts of the body, others dissolve food par- ticles in proper solution, and blood stream distributes the solution among the entire community of cells. But the royal germ cells simply sub- sist in seclusion, reserving all their energy until the moment arrives when they are to pass on into an unborn in- dividual the immortal substance which came to them from pre-existing germ cells, It the whole colony of cells com- posing the human body may be likened to a swarm of bees, the function o@®. the germ cells would be analagous to V that of the queen bee. The working cells, like the working bee, do their duty and die, without leaving descen- dant cells to take thelr places. But the germ cells, like the queen bee, pass on their living substance to suc- ceeding generations. Working cells are dying in the body constantly, the living and the dead being amazingly intermixed. Certain parts of our bones, for example, are as dead as stone. The cells at th lipr of our finger nails and toe nails have died, and the elongated cells forming the hair on our heads, are also dead. The cells which constitute the outer surface of the human skin are constantly dying. It has been estimated that about one-seventh of a living human body, in the prime of life, is already dead. As old ago comes on the percentage of dead matter to living matter increases. It should be gratifying to us that the dead cells, which have served their Purpose and been discarded from the hody, cannot be resurrected. It should likewise be gratifying to every parent in the land that the immortal strain ot living protoplasm, which originated 'n the primordial organism, was possed on by him to succeeding gen- erations. Whoever impairs the purity, +f the strain, through habits which disease the germ cells, injures thi cause of evolution, whereas those of clean habits, who improve the strain of inheritance, further the processes of evolution. wee netioenseg eae Cae oar Sa eines tel se: eet tmer ew ts ere arene core nano; From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Ien’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 tryiag te ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) WHAT IS PROGRESS? Selfishness caused the World War. Selfishness cursed America with African slavery. Selfishness is responsible for child labor. Selfishness is back of every illegal monopoly. P Selfishness is behind the age-long struggles of mass against class. Progress is measured by the success of the attempt to eliminate selfishness. Men can never deal justly wit? one another until they reduce selfishness to a minimum, Wherever that is done the employer and the employee come into agreement, and nations sink ancient bitterness and conclude lasting treaties of peace, If it had been possible at Cannes or Washington or Genoa to put selfishness out of the reckoning the world would now be well started on its return to prosperity, While selfishness is still predominant in human nature no legislation can ever cure the evils from which nations are suffering. It is selfishness that fills the halls of lawmaking bodies with lobbyists and the mails with letters full of bluster and persuasion to the men who are elected to make the laws. It is selfishness that causes the disagreements between the merchant and his clerks, and the housewife and the girl who does the upstairs work. The long fight for progress, which has really succeeded now and then, is e battle to eliminate selfishness, One of the skirmishes in this battle wrung the Magna Charta from King John. The greatest of wars taught a self-glorifying military caste that they could not impose their wills upon the whole world. The Greek Republic began the work of moderating selfishness, & work whose fruits were destroyed “in the Dark Ages, when selfishness again reigned supreme. In comparatively recent years that work has been taken up again and is slowly bringing results, It has, however, only begun. The enemy is deeply imbedded in human nature, and the individual seldom recog~ nises it for what it is, ¥ Some day he will be able to analyze his own motives, and then selfishness will begin to disappear, Those who foresee such a time call it the millennium, As the Majority Prefers. To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: In addition to “Tired Mother's” Protest against the daylight saving law, allow me to add the protest of a tired father. : We have five small children, the oldest past ten, and it is our custom to get them started off to bed at $ P. M., getting them all safely tucked away before nine. Under this new arrangement it is clear daylight at 8 and next to im- possible to get the kiddies started until 9, making it close to 10 when quiet reigns throughout the house Now the only time for chat, read- ing, getting cleared of the odds and ends of the day’s left-overs is be- tween the kiddies’ bedtime and our With this new arrangement it ly about 12 P. M. when we can call it quits and hit the hay our- selves. Maybe it hits a lot of people the same way. Why don’t our Aldermon find out how they stand on passing this law. A little referendum at the next election might open their eyes. Of course, if a majority want it (a real majority, not a ‘Prohibition’ one) then I am for it with the rest and will put up with any ineonven. fence, but I think the least we could do is to find out if the people want it. Brooklyn, May 1, 1922, J. A. 8, at large only means the peevish and overscrupulous Prohibitionists. Under any condition the individual should have the right to exercise his self-control. | Surely there were enough laws before the advent of Prohibition to curb those who inju- diciously went beyond the bounds of ordinary decency. JOHN LYNCH. Brooklyn, April 30. | Psychoanalysis | You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON Spoils In Civil Service. When citizens take civil service ex- aminations for city positions and be- come eligible and are placed on the eligible list, do you think it right and proper for a party leader or captain of any district to place men \.ho are not qualified for these positions be- cause they are his friends, thereby breaking the rules of the Civil Ser- vice Commission? i For instance, a man takes an ++- amination for a position as machinist or machinist's helper. His nam> ap- pears on the eligible list, but he is not employed for the sole reason that the leader or captain ‘of his district has the Deputy Commissioner appoint another man (a friend) who perhaps does not know one tool ‘rom the other. Such men are called emergency men. There are several of them in the garages of the Street Cleaning Department where good reliable m« chanics are needed to repair and keep in working order the tractors and automobiles of the department. If money is appropriated for the employ- ment of men to fill such positions why not appoint them from the list of eligible civil service men? Brooklyn, May 1. M.S. THE MEANING OF ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. Laboratory experimentation on animals has made many obscure de- tails of human psychology remark- ably clear. Psychology and physiol- ogy are inseparably linked. To every thought, feeling, emotion, there cor- responds some ‘physical phenomenon which the physiologist can observe and at times measure quite accu- rately. A Russian scientist, Pavloff, at- tached to the stomach of a dog a small test tube which enabled him to measure the quantity of gastric juice secreted while the animal was eat- ing, In fact the gastric secretion be- gan to fill the tube as soon as the dog was shown a piece of meat, The sight of appetizing food makes not only our mouth water, but our stom- ach too, For a number of days Pav- loft set a bell ringing while the dog was eating, stopping the sound as soon as the dog had éwallowed the last morsel of food. Then on several occasions Pavloft rang the bell without giving the dog any food. As long as the bell was ringing, gastric juice flowed out of the dog’s stomach into the test tube, as though the dog had been seeing or eating food. It simply means that a food-bell association had established itself not in the “mind” but in the nervous sys- tem of the dog. His stomach, accus- tomed to secreting gastric juice while a meal was served and a bell rung, would consider the sight, odor and taste of the meat and the sound of the bell indicating one and the same thing. Any one of these sensations The Real Saffere ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: What is American opinion regarding the continued:confinement of the po- litical prisoners at Leavenworth, Kan., whose wives and children made such a deplorable figure in New York City last week? I am not losing sight of the offenses committed by these prisoners, but it does seem unfair that these women and children should have been sub- jected to such hardships and want without some assistance from the proper authorities, Surely it was no fault of these little ones, who are the real sufferers after all. FAIR-MINDED AMERICAN, Automatic Fire Alarm System. To the Editor of The Evening World. The fire alarm corporations have in the olty some 7,000 subscribers pay- ing extortionate rates which aggre- gate $1,000,000 per annum, The entire basis for their nervice is the Fire Department, with which each subscriber is connected. The cost of {euch connection to the city ts about $70,000 per annum, and notwithstand- ing this,the fire alarm companies have for years refused to pay a franchise Probi To the Editor of The Prohibition is a law which has taken th MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. From the Wise haracters sufficient to start the process of away from the people a personal lib-}tax to the city. 4 man haa three cl was ‘ erty théy were formerly allowed to] The Mayor insists that such com- ch he evhidits, that digestion in hie stomach, enjoy. Through the distasteful domi-| Pan! Pay a tax of $10 for cach} ~~ and which he. CHARACTER, ‘What we must realize clearly in nation of others, it has deprived these | master box in subscriber's prem.| whioh he has thes bak this connection is that the dog Shving Is one of the greatest build- ers of character, To make a mental agreement with one’s self to lay aside a certain amount of one's income at stated periods is easy, but when a desire for geome com- fort tries to break the agreement de- termination is required, The $10 saved each of the y ines, which would produce a revenue erm Alonenee _ of $70,000 per annum. A resolutioy to this effect has been on the Boare of Estimate calendar for some weeks but has been postponed. It comes up again on Friday, May 5, in the Board of Estimate chamber, City Hall, and we want fire alarm users and realty owners fo be present and urge the passage of the resolution. STEWART BROWNE, President, United Real exe’ Association, KNEW very well that although the bell was ringing, his meat had not been brought im Consclously hé did not associate the two things; uncon- eciovsly however, he acted as though his food had been there, ‘A thousand absurd and morbid acy tions of our life are determined by associations of ideas of which we are not conscious and which enslave us until self-analysis returns to us our freedom. vig | (Copyright by. United Feature, Syndicate | ee citizens of an equal right to which they were born; namely, the right to indulge in alcoholic beverages without being molested py maquisitive and petulent prowlers after unlimited goodness. They, therefore, have A clear, more! and sacred right to de- mand its repeal a» soon as possible, However, It is a rather dublous question whether indulgence in alco- holic liquids has ever become threat- ening to the welfare of the community @t large except when the community thinks he i consists infinitely more eit onme than in the puntsh- ‘ment-—Bacon, 1 habits gather by wngcen do grees; oF brooks make riers, rivers run to seaa.—Dryden. A learned man is a tank; @ whee man ied spring.—-W. R, Alger, a at the end not only amounts to $520 plu it, but also te a milestone ép the building of your character, " — iene = =. abe