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and degenerate individuals who may become dan- gerous at any moment. Many ‘revolting crimes are traced to those who have been in police courts repeatedly for less serious offenses, yet have never had competent examination and observation. Many of these do not belong in asylums, but they should be under control. They should be cured if possible. “There is no institution in this country,” Mr, Hoffman says, “that has for its object the taking care of men, women and children who are for the moment deranged th mind.” There should be such an institution. It should deal with the two classes, the temporarily de- ranged who do not belong in asylums, and the borderland cases now at full liberty. ‘The law has lagged. It is far behind the ad- vances in psychological knowledge. Broader ap- plication of recent developments in this field would be of benefit both to society and its unfortunates. 4 BSETABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pubitatied Dally Bxeept Gu: ‘br ‘The Press Publishing ‘Company, Nos. 58 to 68 Park Raw. New York: RALPH PULITZER, Preeident, 63 Park Row, And also the local news published berein. NOT MORE FIVE CENT FARES. ue (AYOR HYLAN'S Sunday suggestion for new if subway construction was entirely in acéord } with previous efforts. His policy appears to be “Five cent fares and many of them.” Said the Mayor: “Any new subway lines that are constructed should be operated by the city itself. The In- terborough and the B. R. T. must not be per- mitted to seize these lines and subject the people to the extortions and the indecencies which have characterized their operation of existing lines.” The Transit Commission’s plan for a unified system doesn’t contemplate handing over any lines to the Interborough or B. R. T. The Commission is working for a taking over of all the transit lines (including the two companies named) to be oper- ated by a Board on which the City will have equal representation after the first trial year, and on which the City might have had representation the first year but for the Hylan policy of obstruction. ayor Hylan is perfectly correct in his descrip- tion of the way the Interborough and B, R. T. have treated patrons. But competing operation by the City is not a cure. ‘Under the Mayor's plan the new subways to be operated by the City would be distinct and would not have transfer privileges. When passengers changed from’one line to another it would mean another five cent fare. New Yorkers know how that goes in changing from the Interborough to the B. R. T. at Times Square and Borough Hall. The Transit Commis- » sion is seeking a way to eliminate these doubled REVIVE IT. S good a Harding Republican as George W. Wickersham still believes in the possibility of “co-operation or association by the United States with the existing League of Nations without ac- cepting the covenant or becoming a member of the League.” ; As.against this, we have the categorical declara- tion made by Ambassador George Harvey a year ago this month in London that the present Gov- ernment of the United States “will not have any- thing whatsoever to do with the League ‘or with any commission or committee appointed by it or responsible to it, directly or indirectly, openly or furtively.” President Harding never publicly repudiated the Harvey statement, whatever he or Secretary Hughes may have said about it to Col. Harvey privately, Hasn't the time come when it would be a good thing for Mr. Wickersham to revive the famous Thirty-One Club of 1920, formed of prominent Republicans who urged votes for Mr. Harding as votes for the League? The Harding Administration has had fourteen months of security in which to forget campaign clap-trap. Col. Harvey has quieted down, and even “bitter-enders” in the Senate have taken a few lessons in international co-operation. Why don’t Mr. Wickersham, Chief Justice Taft, Secretary Hoover, Elihu Root, Oscar Straus and the rest get the old club together again and see if it can’t exert a little influence? Secretary Hughes was a charter member. May- be even he has not wholly forgotten the club principles, ; —— New York is already paying too many five cent fares. New York needs more free transfer points, new fewer. New York needs unification of transit. THE C. OF L. SALUTES-THE TARIFF HE Federal Department of Labor reports that FE the cost of living increased in March. The was not great but it contrasts unfavorably __ {The figures are not surprising. There's a reason, |. About the time these increases went into effect ~ the Senate Committee of Finance was showing re- _ newed interest in a tariff bill that had ‘been side- _ tracked for months. The members of the com- * mittee were conferring with manufacturers and im- _ porters seeking “enlightenment,” as\ Senator _ [tis certain that the manufacturers and import- ers did not give themselves any the worst of it in “enlightening” the Senators. And when the Sena- tors were properly “enlightened”’ and these busi- “ness men had time to comprehend all that they “might expect, what could be more natural than to «go home to factories and warehouses and boost Prices a little? They were only discounting what is sure to hap- pen if the tariff goes through. Chairman McAneny of the Transit Commis- sion is wise when he refuses to take time to point out all Mayor Hylan doesn’t know about the transit situation, The town doesn’t want to wait ten years while transit relief ts being re- explained in terms of Hylan ignorance. NO RUST ON GEN. WU. Pp note the highly modern, civilized and polished manner in which Gen, Wu defeats Gen, Chang in China. ‘ Associated Press despatches inform us that when Gen. Chang's Second Cavalry Division-—the last organized body of his forces—surrendered near Tientsin, the defeated men were given new clothing and $5 each, allowed to retain their horses and promised transportation to-their homes, We take it Gen. Wu must be b student and ad- mirer of Gen. U. S. Grant. At Appomattox Grant left Lee’s men their horses which they would need for the spring ploughing, Gen. Wu's generosity does\ credit to its great American model. Meanwhile the victorious Chinese General is described as quartered near the Tientsin Central Railway Station in his private car, from which special telephone and telegraph wires transmit his orders. So far he has been scrupulously careful not to molest foreigners. Thus is highly up-to-date warfare conducted in the midst of China’s 400,000,000 population. Again we wonder how many off the 400,000,000 have taken the slightest interest in the row. District Attorney Banton seems to be show- ing qualifications as @ rapid transit manager. ‘His specialty is the express to Sing Sing, A TRUCE THAT STRENGTHENS AS . IT LASTS. “extending the Irish truce, freeing prisoners, and continuing negotiations looking toward ; elections next month, the rival parties are "following the course of the gréater truce which led - to the Anglo-Irish treaty and the authorization of _ the irish Free State. , 5 Once the truce was established it had to be con- tinued, Neither party can afford to be the first to ‘return to the barbarism of civil war. The faction responsible for renewed hostilities puts itself in the ct --In-this instance a break is unlikely to come ex- cept from the Republican followers of De Valera. Extension of the truce until after the elections ‘would suit the purposes of the Free State Party, ‘as was said by the six Republican army lead- _efs Who refused to continue the war on their broth- ‘the majority of Irishmen favor the treaty and within the British Empire. TWICE OVERS. FET ELL, ses or no depends on how you say yes or no, M.° Barthou has had a lot of experience in saying yes or no.” —Lloyd George. * * ca SE TAZ E hed the thege oh there, doa week, and intend to keep them 0.”—District At- torney Banton. * . © SETHE employers ore to be shou thot it is a belter policy to arrange their work s0 a3 to heep their employees busy the year round instead of only at certain seasons.” —Sidney Hillman, President of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. * . . “é ISSOURI cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot (Senator Reed).”— Woodrow Wilson,’ LISSIONER COLER and former Munici- pal Court Justice Hoffman charge that persons whose mental condition is only tly insane. is at least enough truth in the complaint d attention. Persons may be commit- e . * S67 T'S war from now on between the League of Women Voters and other like. and myself. They have been trying to long omoeh —eenane Alice Robertson of Ohkla- ‘ * . . 66 LZOUNG girls of to-day are shallow and irre- loonsible.””—Jenry Klas oan Heel. “Let’Er Burnt’ Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) By Press Pub Co, From Evening World Readers| What kind 0: 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 te ey much in few worde. Take time to be briet. War Prisoners, To the Waltor of The Evening World: May I say a few words in reply to the statement in behalf of the war Prisoners made by ‘Fair Minded’? Notice that £ call them war prison- ers. They are not political prisoners in any sense of the word. They did all that they could to prevent the United States from winning the World War, They are Americans and any American doing such a thing is not a politica] prisoner but a traitor, Tam sorry for their wives and chil- dren in the same manner as I am sorry for the wives and children of the men confined at Sing Sing, But for the good of society they are con- fined and for the same reason these “political prisoners" should be con- fined, The trouble with. too many people ig that they have a misplaced sense of justice. : No “political prisoner’’ was sent up without a trial and in every case of conviction there were at least reason~ yes, and deported to some count where they can breathe their doc- trines. America ts not the place tor them and it is a disgrace for honest, patriotic, American citizens to have to support them in a Federal penl- tentiary. It “Fair Minded American” will have more faith in American instl- tutions and less misplaced sympathy, better results would come forth. Give a thought to the dead in France and a thought then to the men who failed to support the boys who died for them—political prisoners—no, traitors. A BELIEVER IN AMERICANISM, New York, May 7, 1922, Say je Is Poetical, To the Baitor of The Evening World: Your correspondent who cites a few arguments in, refutation of the claim that the Bible is the foundation of all science might have mentioned @ great many others. Notable among the great achievements of nations) that had no Bible were those of the ancient Mexicans. There were also thone of the Aztecs, whose famous Calendar Stone may be considered es @ monument to their scientific knowl- edge, Indeed, not only in solence but in art, which, being more spir- {tual, may be placed before solence, these ancient “‘unbtblical’’ peoples (the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, the Mexteans) were fer more capable than those who possessed the Bible, ‘The Israel- ites, whowe historical legends const!- gute the frst portion of the Bible, were a poetic and highly imaginative people, but they accomplished little. if anything in either science or art, and not until after their sojourn and tuition in unbiblical Egypt. For scientific facts the Bible can- not and, indeed, should not, be re- ferred to as proving or disproving anything, for its. statements and its point of view are purely poetical, As an example, there is the assertion that, after having made the earth, God made the sun, the moon and the stars; an assertion which it does not require any knowledge of science to disprove but which is essentially po- etical, especially since the Israelites were here beginning their story on earth. In the same way their ac- count of the creation of a single man (Adam), from whom they were to trace their descent, concerned itself solely with poetic history, even at the expense of ignoring the ancestors of Cain's wife or else of implying the continuance of their race through incest. The same sort of poetically scientific assertions will be found in the AEneid, where the beginning of the Roman people !s sung. As a source or foundation of sci. ence the Bible, as a whole, is erro- neous, and to claim that it Is not de- tracts from its essence, which is not scientific truth but poetry, which will not be bound by science, A great deal of unnecessary dogmatic discus- sion (including Mr, Bryan's tirade against evolution) might be avolded if we would only take this view of the Bible. C.,T. MASON, Brooklyn, May 5, 1922. The Protest Meetin: "To the Editor of The Evening World; The World apologizes for the small attendance at the Anti-Pro- hibition mass meeting “at Madison Square Garden by stating the rain ‘kept the crowd away. As far as J recollect it was only a light drizzle and I didn’t even take an umbrella. Last July you said that the reason only one-tenth of the number expected to take part in: the Anti-Prohibition parade turned out was because it was too warm and the other nine-tenthy went to the seashore, Now the thing is this: Where do you get the idea that the people want the Volstead act repealed? When people want anything they don't let rain or warm weather hold them back, Also, T fatied to nétice the 9,000 you claim were in the Garden Wednesday night, as the Garden only holds 13,000 and was only @ ttle more than halt filled, There were only 7,000 there, Also, what do you.mean when you way the audience was above the aver. oge that attend mass meetings? Do you mean financinily or intellectually? PROHIBITIONIST, Jand Brown was teken to Charles To UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Ooprright, 192% by John Blake) BALANCE YOUR MENTAL RATION. Long before the chemist learned how to analyze food products men were taught by Nature to balance their rations. From the flesh of animals. and the substance of plants and the waters of the stream they took the many ingredi- ents which in combination make up the human body. They ate and drank because their instinct taught them to eat afd drink, and, moreover, taught them to eat and drink what their bodies needed. To-day, when their taste is overdeveloped, they over- eat and drink what is not good for them—or at least take their food requirements in the wrong proportion. Then they get ill, and the stomach specialist with his knowledge of chemistry teaches them to balance their rations about as the primitive man balanced his. Instinct, however, stops with the building of the body. There is no instinct save that of selfypreservation which does much toward the development of the mind. Education does that, and by education we do not necessarily mean college education. ‘ Indeed, college education sometimes puts the mental ration out of balance, with the result that the mind becomes that of the pedant, which is not a mind that takes a man very far along the road to progress. The omniverous reader usually balances his mental ration.by reading everything he can get hold of and allow- ing his intellect to select what it needs. The untaught reader will do well to exercise a little careful choice in the matter—to mix history with fiction and philosophy with humor. If he become overfond of reading about the past he will find it useful to read in the newspapers what is going on in the present. If he is too devoted to humor it will be worth his while’ to turn to serious matter now and then. The mind learns by reading and by thought. many elements to make it healthy and productive. fully balanced mental ration will develop it. ration will too often leave it dull and inert. It needs A care- A one-sided WHO'S BIRTHDAY? JOHN BROWN was born at Tor- ‘ington, Conn., on the 9th of May, 1800. He prepared for the Congre- rational ministry but was forced to 6 it up owing to poor eyesight. After making Several attempts in dit- he finally set- ted with five of hie sons in Kansa: Barly in his youth he conceived a great hatred for the institution of slavery, and when the conflict began where he was tried, convicted of “treason and murder of the first de- sree,” and condemned to be hanged. ‘The sentence was carried out on the td of December, 1859, From the Wise He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten ita cause, -—H. W. Beecher. The greatest mtracle of love tw éo eradicate flirtation, ~La Rothefoucauld, There's many @ good bit o’ work done with a sad heart, George Eliot. fugitive slaves could take refuge. with eighteen men he captured the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and established his stronghold, But two days later the arsenal was roe Toa Ee Age-Bound India| Old Habits Underlying New Problems By Maubert St. Georges. Go, t, 1922 (New York Evening World) ‘by Prose Publishing ‘Co. RELIGION. There are many religions {n Indie, The most important are Hinduism, Mobammedanism and Buddhism, Three-fifths of the people profess Hinduism, 75,000,000 are Mohamme- dans, and 10,000,000 are Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Parsees;Ani-+ mists, however important they may be from any other point of view, are nu- merically a mere handful. 57 Hinduism {s so complicated, so it~ regular, so multiform that it would take volumes to describe it. It Is @ development of Brahminism, {tself, only a development of Vedism, which is roughly the worship of natural forees and phenomena personified ip the shape of gods, The strange thing about Hinduism as a religion is its on- the lack of an ethical element. In it religion and morality are absolutely, divorced. As a resuit,the faith has degenerated into mere superstition where obscenity, murder, theft may assume the character of a religious duty. Yet 200,000,000 Hindus are en- chained to this degraded form of wor- ship, the practising of which we would ~ punish severely in an individual, This is due partly to the fact that their laws and customs, both religious and civil, are so.closely bound together that they, arg thoroughly convinced that to change anything would be to sink the nation into barbarism and anarchy. It is in the Hindu priesthood that «<7 the religion finds its strongest sup- port. The priests, although too en- lightened to believe the follies they instil into the minds of their Ignorant countrymen, are all tle more zealous in encouraging belief in the absurdi- ties which procure them their livell- hood and which maintain them in the high -estimations and positions’ which they undeservedly occupy. Very different in every way to Ce Hinduism is Mohammedanism, Its stern, severe, lofty Theism which makes hospitality a religious duty, in which drunkenness becomes rare, gambling is forbidden, modesty and chastity are prime virtues, must be granted spiritual grestness even by the most prejudiced. Islam of cou: has not escaped the influences of it surroundings {n India and has adopt- ed many euperstitious practices. It can be said, however, that almost without exception the finest, strongest, - most manly, most progressive, most devoted to duty of tio people of India are the Mohammedans. The great importance of Moham- medanism is its ever increasing in fluence on the present religion of the majority of the people. Western civilization is undermining Hinduism. That cannot be denied. Nor can it be denied that slowly but surely India Is drifting toward Islam and not toward Christianity. Just as in Africa the Moslems can show mil- lions of converts for the thousands of — | the Christians, so in India it is to- ward the earnestness of the Mo- hammedan message that the Hindu turns &ind not to the rationalism of the Western mind. Of all the religions of the Hast, Buddhism is undoubtedly the most in- teresting to the Western world. It iw followed by 450,000,000 people as the noblest ideal of which they have knowledge. Tho 10,000,000 Buddhists in India are the people of Burma or Farther India. The principal part of this faith is the doctrine of the trans- migration and ‘Karma’ which teaches that man is really the net re- sult of his virtues and his falilts, and that this net result is “Karma.’’ pis Nandi nr WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 163.—TANDEM. The word Tandem, applied to two or more horses or other animals har- nessed one after thé other instead of abreast, originated in a college pun. In the Latin language “tandem * means at length, or after a certain interval of time, When the method of tandem har< nessing was first used in England It attracted the attention of Latinists tn Oxford University and furnished them with an opening for a little ac- ademic humor, ‘A team of three or four horses strung out—each one harnessed to his leader “after an interval of time” was an arrangement that lncked name. Hence the college pun quickly came into general use. Oa shae cs By HERBERT BENINGTON; t, 1922 (New York Evening World) Cony FEN. press -Publiships Co. SAFETY ROAD. ‘The time to begin anything is when one is young. In this respect saving !s no different from walking or talking. Once the habit is formed it becomes an effort- less process, The seeds of thrift planted in @ child's mind will prove invaluable to him in later yegrs. By starting the infant with a bank account you are assuring him of @ fair start In life and at the eame time properly guiding his mind on a very important subject. One dollar a week deposited at compound interest in @ savings bank will amount to $53.85 the first year. By keeping this up for him until he ‘understands the process and the rea- gons behind {t yoy are starting, him on @ safe and sure read, ket | { CPF: rd