The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1922, Page 26

Pudllahes Dally Kroopt @unday by The Press Publishing ‘Company, Nos, 58 to 68 RALPH PULITZBR, Park Row, New York. 1a also the local mews publismed hereta. MORE 10-CENT FARES. O-DAY’S inauguration of a double fare on the New York and Queens County Railway and the Steinway part of its lines is against the ' advice and The com warning of the Transit Commission. mission decided not to issue a direct order suspending the double rates, but will appeal companies to the section of the Transit Law requiring transit to file new tariff schedules with the Transit Commission thirty days before they are to go into effect. Commissioner Harkness holds the receivers and officials of the New York and Queens Company have violated this law. Meanwhile some 20,000 more people in Greater New York are forced to pay 10-cent fares where ; they formerly paid a 5-cent fare. Here is another sharp reminder of the need of transit reorganization under a unified plan. The practice of splitting lines and doubling fares is one from which the public has had no | complete and thoroughgoing protection. This is not the only case where the city has been power- Iess to prevent extra fare schedules. ‘The brightest hope that has yet dawned for a uniform, permanent, city-wide 5-cent fare is the unification programme of the present Transit Commission, The “hand out” of “canned news" from the Republican National Committee at Washington iH is authority for the statement that “California H Claims Hottest Known Spot in United States.” ‘This is in Death Valley with a maximum re- corded temperature of 134 degrees on July 10, 1913. ‘The Weather Bureau has no instruments for measuring the heat of emotion when citizens It is higher than 134 degrees, probably nearer boiling point. ETAILS Sha carried him Mr. - vil ‘sary, for the “ons of 1 ‘sary for the : < lines at a Is the M te disouss the inaction of the present Congress. RICH MEN SEEK LARGE INSURANCE. of the estate of Henry P. Davison have not been announced, but it is known _ that life insurance will amount to a substantial _ percentage of the total. : In so arranging matters Mr. Davison gave fur- ther evidence of the excellent judgment which so far in the financial world. Considering insurance purely as an investment, could havé ‘turned his money to a higher rate than the computed yield of¢ ‘insurance. As a matter of safeguarding his fam- ily against absolute want, insurance is not neces- of great wealth. Earlier gener- inanciers did not invest largely in policies for wealthy men are the rule these as the result of taxat Inheritance and taxes have the requirements of Jorge fortunes, “insure” his estate against liquidation under circumstances and to preserve favor- long-time investments, it has become neces- man of wealth to have plenty of life insurance or else to accumulate many standard ties for which the market is stable, Davison was able to get insurance for 0,000 in one policy divided among several This was exceptional, but the reason exceptional is that not many wealthy men now pass the tests provide for + companies would assume the risks. ired. Other financiers taxes if the in- THE MAYOR ADMIT IT? R. M’ANENY'S reply to the transit state- ment Mayor Hylan issued last Sunday pre- a clear and distinct disagreement on one as a part of its plan. Under this the people are to take over the ad, wornout, dilapidated, broken down surface test of about a half billion dollars.” Mr. McAneny in his reply states: “Phe tentative valuation of $465,000,000 placed ‘ly the commission's engineers upon the transit aystem relates not to the surface lines alone as the Mayor declares, but to the entire transit ays Js the Mayor right, or is Mr. McAneny/ ayor wrong? 1s he ever wrong? Jf the Mayor is right, will he prove he is right? If he is wrong, will he make a public statement that effect? _ TREASON the Charles Town, W, Va, “treason” trial, AGAINST WHAT? fo enter the district, has testified that showed no antagonism to the Regular and that without Blizzard's aid “it have been a ticklish job” to disarm the evidence completely clears the miners of against the United States: Blizzard, how- -Awlal for tyeason against tha Stato of ‘should, if necessary, make it difficult to send . ment and other city officials to get together, as ~ ah West Virginia, If Blizzard is convicted, the dis- tinction established by this evidence might pre- sent a nice point for appeal to the Supreme Court. Treason is exclusively a crime against organ- ized government, In the Constitution it “con- sists only in levying war against them (the United States), or in adhering to their enemies, giving aid and comfort.” Attorneys for Blizzard might plausibly claim that the crime charged was impossible, because no Government existed in West Virginia ‘against which treason was possible. Blizzard helped to levy war against a nominal Government and is only nominally guilty. thout a legal Govern- ment treason is impossible. This sort of question would be inconvenient for the Supreme Court. But it ought to be threshed out. The Constitution does not recognize a Gov- ernment of, for and by mining companies. It guarantees a “republican form of government.” The Supreme Court might be unwilling to make the distinction, but the Court of Public Opinion rejects an oligarchy of industrial employers as a Government against which workers can commit the crime of treason TOO MANY PISTOLS IN NEW YORK. HERE is far too much “gun-toting” in this city. * Policemen who go after thugs and criminals in the present crime emergency have to be prepared for out-and-out battles of bullets. Scarcely a day passes now without its list of patrolmen and detectives shot or narrowly es- caped being shot in revolver duels with armed crooks. Every thief seems to carry an automatic. All thugs are plentifully supplied with revolvers and cartridges. There is hardly a criminal these days who is not ready to do murderous work with a pistol to escape capture. Where do they get the guns? Without even having to go beyond the metro- politan area. If the Anti-Weapon Law in New York bothers them, ferry or tube will take them in a few minutes to Jersey City, where firearms can be bought as easily as collar buttons. There is something radically wrong about this. The sale of firearms in New York was restricted largely because of the inevitable size of the crimi- nal element in a great city of 6,000,000 people. What's the use of the restriction if it can be evaded by merely stepping back and forth over a State line? The State of New Jersey should be willing to help meet New York’s need of making it harder to obtain deadly weapons, Federal authority such weapons by mail into New York. All present permits ought to be at once carefully re- scrutinized, It was time for the Mayor, the Police, Depart- they did yesterday, to see what can be done about this grave menace, Fusillades of bullets in New York streets are becoming altogether tod frequent. Neither the policemen who bravely face them nor the public whose safety is endangered by them should re- main without whatever additional protection law and co-operation between States can give. According to Anthropologist Wissier, the Mayor's criticism of the Rough Guy should have started at the head instead of the feet. EUROPE'S RADIO PROBLEM. OME of the European nations are seriously concerned over the possibilities of radio broadcasting. They fear neighboring nations may flood their countries with propaganda which censorship cannot shut off. This phase of radio development is distinctly a European problem, Here in the United States we will have trouble enough to avoid interference in broadcasting. Europe will have that too within each country. Outside the European countries national regu- lation will not help. In Europe it will be as though individual States of this Nation had power to regulate. In this country we were wise enough to apply Federal radio regulation at the start. Sooner or later the European nations will have to adopt regulation by international agreement. The United States is large enough so that na- tional regulation will serve. Europe isn't. Radio regulation must be dealt with in terms of conti- nents, National boundaries do not serve. Silent motorcycles would be valuable as curi- osities If for no other reason. TWICE OVERS “ HE proportion of consumers to producers is too large and the energies and talents of too many people are engaged in the process of distribution.” —John E. Edgerton, President of National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers. kee ik ee R WELLS has parformed at least ons re- markable feat; he has interested the average intelligent reader in history. No prpfeasional his- torlan now living has eoor done it or could do it,” — Prof, J. Salwyn Shapiro, City Collage + * * 66 J SHOULD agree that Civic Virlize a3 he #4 s2ds would not be mentally competent to vole if alive.” vbr. Clerk, WW aslo, Anthro polagisl et Prone Publishing Oo. .,2..44 By John Cassel 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 @y much in few words. Take time to be briet. ‘The Happy Hour. ‘To tho Editor of The Evening World: T have been reading quite a few letters about “daylight saving "’ and of all I have read, few are in favor of it. What is the matter with the people? Do they like to stay inside of the office or shop and get the “re- flections of the sun," or get out un- der “God's blue sky and get the real benefit of it''? b In last evening’s paper a “Reader” says ‘‘daylight saving’’ cost, him $100 for doctors, Well, “Reader,” you are the first one I ever heard of that the sun made sick. As for getting up at 4.30 instead of 5.80 what is the matter with » you? Haven't you brains, enough to set your clock uhead one hour and. go to bed one hour earlier? T have, to get up at 5.45 and also 900 other men employed ig same shop und only one out of the ,900 is not for it. Well, 'Reader,'’ get out in the sun to-night, and you will derive two hours of benefit out of the one hour, and save $100 on the'doctor, J, M. Brooklyn, May 6, 1922. A Ques To the Editor of The Evening Worl In the days of the early publication of the essays on ‘Evolution’ by Ran- som Sutton, you printed several let- ters commending The Evening World on its open mindedness in affording an opportunity for the exploitation of his very advanced theories. If I 1 member rightly, one correspondent a Presbyterian jn faith—ended his comment with the words, “even if f the purpose of disagreeing with him. The letter I refer to was made the subject of another, also by a Presby- who said he indorsed the com- fon but objected to the nine ity. I take it, meant that one who s raised on the doctrine of pre- destination, resurrection and a defined future state wholly indorsed Mr, Sut- ton's views on evolution. T have just finished reading the con- tribution fn the fasue of May 4, un- der the caption ‘Immortality’ and am fully convinced that my protest against the terribly subversive doc- trine therein set down will be only one of many from your readers, lite too sacred and vast yubject for me to discuss, but let me point out a few thoughts: ‘The immortal lines of Shakespeare in the soliloquy of Hamist, idolize the general line of thought on suicide: “Or that the Everlasting hud noi his cannon ‘galnat self :inugh- tor’ and also: ‘To die. esp; to sleep! perchansoe to dream: ay, there's the rub, for tm that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil."" It is these thoughts, I believe, that have deterred many a weary soul from prematurely lifting the curtain that separates us from oblivion. In the words of a Victorian era poet: “If were this gtay world our only rest, living or dying none were blest."’ ,; Thus if Mr. Sutton's theories are to be believed and the balance of our six- sevenths of living body join the sev- enth already dead, where do all the hopes of eternal life rest and to what end does our passage through this sordid existence lead? JOSEPH DIXON. May 4, 1922. Reform at Home. To the Editor of The Evening World: It is_with some surprise that [ not The Evening World's admiring refer- ence to Mr. William Chandler Hale's tirade against the South and the Fif- teenth Amendment as a justification for advocating the legitimate efforts to change the law of the land, While betng-a full believer in the right of every group of citizens to try by legitimate means to change any law, I cannot but feel that this is going tangent. ‘ice, safe little indoor sport shot at a people and a sec- tion a long way from here. In the South the people have a “condition, not a theory’’ facing them. There are injustices done. There can be no doubt of that, But why is there so much venomous elo- quence spfiled over them when there are just as many like wrongs enacted here to your proportion of population, which means more in actual number’ Such tirades only show the more judiclal-minded the real reasons why the Southern people knew they could trust no one in the North to play fair—save Lincoln—and they had no means of knowing him save by his vociferous following. The efforts of the New York news papers to reform the Sduth have ridiculous angle, in that they have consistently failed to reform the City of New York, where there is more and revolting crime than in the whole South combined. Cc. FOSTER. ms yo the Béltor of The Bvening Wo: No doubt many will recul! that at one time the merchant ships fying the American flag and carrying sup- plies for our armies and those of the ‘Allied nations rendered a very im- portant service to obtain the desired results, The United States Shipping Poard had sent posters calling for American citizens to man the ships under their control, to which there was a wondeiful response ‘Although there has beon continued ee | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake opyrigitt, 1922, by John Blake. LISTENING IN. We listen in to the radio concert because invention has supplied for us a mechanical device that enables us to hear the voices and music in the air. They have been there—in the air—for more than a year, broadcasted, In almost eyery civilized country they have been They are present in every room in every thickly populated section, yet only those who are equipped with receiving instruments can hear them. The wonder of it all is not so much in the fact that we can hear them with the aid of the antennae, which collects ee from the air, and the delicate devices which interpret the m to our ears, but in the fact that they are constantly about us all the time—band concerts, weather reports, lec- tures, even bedtime stories for little children. Yet the amplifiers and receivers and honeycomb coils which combined make the radio apparatus will not do nearly as much for us as the instruments we create by developing the ce}Js of our brains. Throughout all time has information and knowledge and amusement been “in the air” all about us. Yet only those who have trained their minds to hear and understand it have been benefited by its presence. Everybody who can read can go through the works of Shakespeare or Herbert Spencer. Not one one-hundredth part of the number will see much in them but words formed into sentences, with here and there a phrase which is force- ful enough to impress itself upon any mind. The word “understanding” is applied to human intelli- gence for an excellent reason. Only the trained mind is an understanding mind. No brain that does not do for its owner what the radio set does for the man who operates it can catch the messages that are all about, broadcasted through the air as the radio concerts are broadcasted from central stations. For him who will see or listen there is education on every side, But seeing and exercise of the functions of sight and hearing. listening are not merely the They are the transmission of these impressions to the mind and ‘the bestowing upon them of the thought. which teaches what they mean. Every man can build within his head his own receiving set, if he chooses, and with it catch the wisdom and the intelligence of all the world. —_— rendered their services. to our country during the World War, there seems to have been a total absence of any consideration of the services rendered by those men who sailed with the frolghters of the United States mer- chant marine, ‘This seeming Jack of interest {s undoubtedly not intentional, but probabiy due to the fact that no organization for recognition has been formgd by those men who served in this branch which could voice their opinion in certain important matters of the day, In view of the fact that the United States Government and various States dein New York’ have dsasued medals in gencral to those who served im the army amd navy during the World War, would tt not be fair and just to consider those who en- listed and served aboard ships fiying the American flag as deserving of recognition? Were not their services valuable and satisfactory? ‘Those men who enlisted for the service Wave not been favored with apy of the above-mentioned medals. Could it not be arranged that their services be acknowledged, say, by awarding them these medals as also being ex-service men? The men who manned the ships of the United States merchant rine seem to have been forgotten even though they passed through many hardships and Mew Sore, May 0,-1022, .~*¥? The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1982 (The New York ventas XIX.—THE PREHISTORIC RACES OF EUROPE. | T have been accused of presenting theories without the evidence upon wiiich the theories rest, The answer is that the limited space allowed for these articles does not pormit of elab< orations, In this chapter I shall pre~ sent four human facts and leave the theorizing to the reader. FACT 1, In 1907 the lower jaw of @ human, or nearly human, being was found in ancient river sands, at @ depth of 79 feet from the surface, near Heidelberg.’ Among the same sands were found the bones of animals which, according to geological time, existed in Europe some 260,000 years ago. It is a powerful jaw, adapted, for tearing hide from carcasses and for gnawing bones. The receding chin, powerful muscular attachments, small tongub space and enormous grinding teeth, are very ape-like. It is not theorizing to say that creatures haw« ing jaws more human than anthro+ poid lived neur Heidelberg during the springtime of the Second Interglacial Period. FACT 2. In 1912 Charles Dawson discovered at the bottom of an old gravel bed, near Piltdown, England, a human skull and lower jaw, the same gravel bed being littered with the bones of animals that have beew extinct over 100,000 years. Rude flints, or eoliths, were also found im the gravel pit, which appear to have een handfidked on one side, The skull walls are about twice as thio ag modern Englishmen’s, the brata capacity being almost equal to thas Jof Bushmen, and more than twice the size of chimpanzees. The throat cav~ ity is sufficiently roomy for partially developed organs of speech, It isnot theorizing to say that about 100,000 years ago, when England formed an integral part of Europe, such crean tures gs the so-called Dawn Maw lived near Piltdown, FACT 3. Between 1848 and 1916 several complete human skeletons and a considerable number of skeletal re mains were discovered at twenty-one different places, principally in caves. The age of the deposits, wherein the human, bones were embedded with the bones of extinct animals, indicates that the cavemen settled in Burope about 75,000 years ago and remained there until about 25,000 years ago. Concerning the cavemen, Theodore Roosevelt wrote: ‘They were squat, burly, big-headed, thick-skulled sa’ ages, with brows projecting ov cavernous eyes, knees permanently, bent and jaws almost chinless. Their brains were of good size, but the portions which represent the higher intellectual attainments were poort: developed The most primitive of all the Neanderthal, or cavemep skulls, was discovered at Gibraltan mean that this race ene rope from Africa vie the wraltar land bridge. CT 4. During the Jast half certs tury thirty-eight skeletons and many, skeletal parts of the so-called Cro~ Magnon race have been discovered int various parts of Europe. This race spread over Europe from Asia og Northern Africa and before its ade vance the cavemen disappeared, save for a few survivors in out of the way places. The Cro-Magnons were hunters. Some of the wonderful pice tures they scratched and painted og the walls of the caves from which they ousted the cavemen are beautin fully reproduced in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bones of animals have been found with arrow heads In them, showing that the Cro-Magnons used In time they alsd disappeared before other races having been evolved “somewhere Asia or Africa,’ were spreading oye# Europe, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 164.—ASPARAGUS. Despite its superficial resemblance to the corruption “sparrow grass," the word asparagus has nothing i® common with that plausible phrase. , It is directly deriv “asparagos,"”” from DATABSO, ; and anybody familiar with strong prickles with which some of the species are armed will readily exe plain its derivation from the word “te tear.” * Both because of the correct wordy and from the grassy nature of the ob« ject which it designates, our foree fathers of the illiterate sort applied te it the words “sparrow grass.’ In this respect, the word is an in« teresting illustration of the way tg which the low-brows reduce high+ brow, designations to their simplest terms. ‘ Who's Birthay? ANNE ROBERT JACQUES TUR~ GOT was born in Paris, France, ou May 10, 1727, and died there March 18, 1781. The first office of impore tance he held was as prior of the Sone bonne, Soon after he wag given ofe” ficial charge of the Limousiu Prove ince, where he introduced the culti- vation of the potato, improved bridges and highways, and greatly, extended commercial and industrial enterprises. Louis XVI. appointed him Minister of Marine tn’ 1774 and was 80 pleased with his services that he was in the same year promoted to the Ministry of Finance. Turgot’s administration was. of great financial value to France, since he placed the country on @ substantial basis, pro- moted public works, encouraged im- provement in agriculture, reduced taxation and provided for the impore tation of grain free from duty. The reforms of Turgot were supported the people, but met with from the nobles and statesmen, finally the King ylelded to his enes 1d dismissed him from Revolution would have been ave: bad Turgot'’s reforms -been gurthexs