The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 22

PSTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pwriimed Daily Except Sunday v Prem Company. Nor, 62 to 43 Park Row RALPH PULITZER, Prealdent. 63. Pi 4 J ANGUB BITAW. T rer, 6% JOSEPH PULITZER, Becretary, 63 Park Row, A in thle pape publ THE MAYOR STUDIES TRANSIT. HE growing popularity of the Transit Com- mission's unification has at last forced Mayor Hylan to come out with an outline of a transit programme Mayor Hylan’s transit statement published this morning includes some constructive features. The Mayor no longer proposes to rely solely on the motor bus as a means of transportation, He has finally come out with an alternative proposal that Merits consideration and criticism. He has got to the point of at least promising an alternate plan instead of contenting himself with unintelligent obstruction. For this much we to thank the Transit Commission, It has educated the Mayor beyond blind reliance in buses The Mayor's alternative is as yet only in out- line. He presents a schedule showing when and at what cost—including bonuses—certain long line transit routes can be recaptured by the city. He promises plans to demonstrate how, with new con- necting links, these can be pieced into a system to compete with the privately owned lines. Until the Mayor fills in the outline more fully it is futile to make comparisons. However, the Mayor now seems to be groping toward a policy that will offer real issues. Briefly, it raises questions of municipal versus private operation; political control versus eco- nomic control; settlement of deficits from fares or from taxes; competition in public service versus controlled and regulated monopoly. Details of the Mayor's plan will be awaited with interest. We may find some points on which both the Mayor and the Transit Commission can agree. Perhaps ’it will be possible to go ahead with sub- way building that would fit into either scheme, leaving the determination of operation policy until these questions have been fought out at the polls. The city welcomes any evidence that the Mayor is taking interest in the transit problem and has abandoned a policy of mere silly obstruction. scheme have A GREAT RACE. OME 40,000 persons, among whom every State in the Union was represented, saw Morvich, the marvellous three-year-old, win the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs last Saturday afternoon. It was a great race, run under perfect condi- tions. The winner won by a clean two lengths after doing what he was asked to do with the com- bination of speed, steadiness and ease that delights the eye and stirs the pulse of every true lover of a fine horse, regardless of which way bets must be settled. Following the big event, Morvich'’s owner got $46,775, also a $7,000 gold cup and service offered by the Kentucky Jockey Club and formally pre- sented by the Governor of Kentucky. Morvich doubtless got a rub-down, a straw bed and some feed and was perfectly satisfied. We are not suggesting for a moment that looking after a colt like Morvich doesn’t cost money. But in return for comparatively little kindness and care what wonderful things a horse will still do for his friend man in the way of keeping alive a noble sport. Automobiles now get millions of dollars that might have been spent on horses. But a Morvich bears no grudge for that when he feels his feet on arace track. His job is to see that the country does not lose interest in Kentucky Derbies, And how willingly and well he does it! ‘Whatever happens to Pinchot in Pennsylvania to-morrow, the old machine will not be all that it used to be, BOOSTING ARBITRATION. HE plan of the Arbitration Society of America, launched Jast Friday at the Lawyers’ Club, is ambitious. But it rests on a broad foundation of experience. More arbitration in the future is to be expected, because limited triaJs have proved the worth of the principle. Already many trade associations have arbitra~ tion tribunals. In these trades law suits are a rarity because the experience has been that both parties fare better in arbitration than in court, where costs mount rapidly and delays are costly and vexatious. In the associations where arbitra- tion has had a fair trial the man who resorts to the courts is viewed askance. His fellows are likely to believe that his case is not good enough to trust to impartial and expert judgment based on justice; that he hopes to win by the tricks of the law. That is the fundamental of arbitration. It seeks justice rather than possible evasions or loop- holes through the law. The trickster and shyster will not favor arbitration because technicalities play no part If the arbitration, rts realize the hopes of their sponsors, they will have their effect on the Sw courts. Whery two parties go to court, the ar republication THE jury will wonder why. The man who refused arbitration as a means of settlement will have prejudiced his case The statute making the decisions of arbitrators binding in New York State is good law. The Arbi- tration Society is doing a good work in its effart to popularize this means of settling disputes. ON TO THE HAGUE. HE Russian problem has not been solved by Clear the decks, lay a new course and take a fresh start toward solving the Genoa Conterence the Russian problem Vhat is the spirit in which most of the na- tions represented at Geona are taking their prime failure. And their chief hope for the new start is that the United States may consent to partici- pate in a proposed conference on Russian affairs to be held at The Hague in June The present Administration at Washington can- not refuse such an invitation without carrying to a strained extreme its policy of non-co-operation in Europe. The proposed new conference would be confined to specific questions of possible relations with Russia, which are as much a matter of concern to and which could be kept clear of wider political discussions which the Harding Administration professed to fear and avoid at Genoa Having used its declaration of Soviet principles to destroy the chance of any concerted action that might embarrass it at the Genoa Conference, the present Government in Russia is now waiting to see how many nations are ready to deal with it separately on its own terms This is the moment to show the Soviet Govern- ment that on terms it get what it needs or a thousandth part of what it wants. Private capital will show no eagerness to pour into Russia while Lenin and Vrotzky are parading the doctrine that revolutions cancel all debts and that Sovietism is above the necessity of giving guarantees political or economic The United States can give great aid in demon- strating to the Soviet leaders exactly where they stand It can make this clear, if need be, in advance, along with an acceptance of the invitation to take part in The Hague Conference. It can make it clearer still at the conference by putting the influence of America at last frankly and effectively where it ought to be On to The Hague. the United States as to other nations those can't Franklin D, Roosevelt seems to be a glutton for trouble. First he offered to preside over the Senate wrangling. Now he is willing to spank EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY’ 15, 1922. the building trade when it goes wrong. BY NAME INSTEAD OF NUMBER. HE decision of the Fifth Avenue Coach Com- pany to identify employees by name badges rather than by numbers accords with the intelli- gent policy of fostering courtesy and pleasant rela- tions between employees and patrons of the Fifth Avenue bus lines. Will Hays made the same innovation with the Post Office. Every clerk at a window displays a name card, and many patrons use them even if the transaction is no more than the buying of a stamp. Chain cigar stores have long followed the custom of posting the names of the manager and clerks on duty. In many banks the man behind the wicket is identified as Mr. So-and-so, instead of merely as the paying teller. Many retail shops and large offices have adopted the plan, which scems to be spreading. Perhaps the time will come when the idea will move to the other side of the counter and cus- tomers will seek courtesy and consideration by introducing themselves in the same simple, ef- fective way. The city is big and impersonal. !t needs cour- tesy and cordiality as lubricants. If knowing a man’s name makes it easier to be considerate and kindly, why not make names more common? ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. “It ts very strange,” once remarked King Charies 11, “that every one of my friends should keep a tame knave.” The same thought must occasionally occur to President Harding. * Exvoursions to Buffalo via the Barge Canal are prom- ised for nert year, So much money and ingenuity have deen expended on speed that there {s room for a comfortable reaction in favor of going slow! . “We have the word of an anti-pep philosopher that the bogyisms of the elders are needed to offset the errors of the young. Checks and balances again! . The Orient continues to furnish opposites. Here is the Trans-Pacific Magazine proclaiming that “Manchu- rian Industry ie based on Beans.” In Boston they ave the foundation of Intellect, . An agitated Australian writes that his country must de quickly Alled with white folks if the yellow ave to be kept out. Who wants to go and bea plug? . he veteran J. Rankin Towse writes thot the Kve ning Post was not as virtuous as many thought in the last years of the revered William Cullen Bryant, No, Dut if-tcas respectable enough to do anything! From: Evening What kind of Jetter 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 tryimg te Take time to be brief. «ay much in few words. “Ain't 1€ Greatt? ‘To the Editor of The Kyening World Stand by daylight deception, ‘That's right. Let us keep on turning the clock forward. Let us call Thursday the first day of the week, or Sunday Let us call the month of June “De- cember"—it will help Christmas to come quicker and be of benefit to the merchants who have presents to sell, Let us improve on the scheme of sell- ing ‘morning’? newspapers the streets at 7 P. M. by having them on the streets at 1 P. M, or earlier. Let us sell ‘afternoon’? pavers at 2 o'clock in the morning. The scheme of sell- ing the Sunday colored comic supple- ment with the Saturday afternoon paper can also be Improved upon by selling it at 3 A, M. every Tuesday. Suppress the opinions of readers who want to protest, by throwing their letters in the waste basket, But don't forget that the reacer may have kept a carbon copy of (ne letter so that his ideas and protest are not dead or discarded. Then let us change tye year into @ period of thirteen months for the financial benefit of profiteering land- lords and usurious pawnbrokers, Then, after such a heavy propa- ganda of turning things upside down and calling black ‘“white'’ and white “black,” and 11 o'clock in the morn- ing ‘noonday," let us express surprise and horror that the Anti-Saloon League was able to put over their blue law bumcombe. Gee! Ain't it great to be crs 3. ALN The Garden Meeting, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worldt I read with amazement the letter of the party signing himself “Prohi- bitionist,"” relating to the Madison Square Garden protest meeting The entire communication teems with falsehood and misrepresentation and in this respect, the writer, like most of his type, runs true to forth. In tho first place, The World ald not state that there was a small at- tendance, and that this was due to on the rain; on the contrary, jt stated that there was an attendance of over 9,000, with an additional 1,000 outside of the Garden, who stood in the rain and listened to the speeches trans- mitted through the sound amplitters. Secondly, his statement that there were only 7,000 in the Garden is not horne out by the facts ‘The entire main floor and the boxe: and the gallery hack of the same were entirely filled The two upper galleries, !ncluding the upper gallery at the Fourth Ave- Tuning Up! Bontne Worst fork Press Pub, Co. Worid Readers rnd of the 1pied As the Garden when filled to capa- city Accommodates 15,000 people, and as the two upper galleries, both nar- row, will seat about 1,000 each, and the Fourth Avenue section an addi- tional 500, the total attendance on a night decidedly wet and disagreeable was more like 12,500 than the 9,000 conservatively set down by The World. As for the high character of those who attended, it is hardly to be ex- pected that this fact would be pressed upon the mind of one whose sense of observation would be dulled and soddened by a form of mediaeval bigotry, and whose heart would be quaking with apprehension of what the near future held in store for those responsible for this pernicious law. » FRANKLYN M. SMYTHE, New York, May 10, 1922, auditorium, were un- m- Care for the Insane, Vo the Editor of The Evening World: In your editorial of even date en titled “Care for Curable Insanity,’ you quote Judge Hoffman as saying: “There is no institution in this coun. try that has for its object the taking care of men, women and children who are for the moment deranged in mind.” The Judge is in error in this statement, as the State of Iowa in the University Hospital at Iowa City has established such an institution and for the purpose mentioned in the editorial, GRAHAM. Kingston, N. WIHIL Vell for It. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Dr. Frank Crane writes in one of our evening papers that union labor should devote its efforts toward music instead of crying for beer. Under the same head describes a musical production of Balfe's ‘Bohemian Girl."* A loom hand took the part of Florenstein, a laborer was Count Arnheim, the chorus and dancers all mill workers He also states these working people are all good union members. The re- sult is good fellowship and refreshing democracy 1 would ask, could any more devo. tion be shown to music? the doctor As to © - No such thing as Doctor he true American never cries, He feels as the banker, clerk, butcher and shoe maker. They too are being deprived of their American rights, Should the learned docte say ‘yell it would sound more appropriate. I might add that the Volstead act has caused my sic to lose its charm, The writer and UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE LEADER MUST KNOW THE WAY. You do not hire a guide to conduct you through a path- less forest unless you have reason to believe that he has been throngh that forest many times before. You would be uneasy on board of a ship whose Cap- tain was crossing the sea for the first time. The leader must know the way, or he is unfit to be a leader. The desire for leadership one of the commonest de- sires that lays hold of the human mind. Ask your able and intelligent friends their ambitions. You will find that most of them would rather be leaders of men than to be anything else in the world. Yet the struggle for leadership is mostly a struggle to stand at the head of the procession, rather than a con- sistent effort on the part of those engaged in it to know where they ought to lead those that follow them. It is often said that republics are ungrateful—that few men are ever permitted to remain long as the leaders of the people. Yet study history and you will find that most of the leaders who have been deposed lost their way at last, and by their actions indicated that they no longer knew whither they were going. There have been exceptions of course. But the rule las been that the men who were sure of their course, and persisted in it, kept the confidence of their followers. If it is your own ambition to lead, it will behoove you to remember that leadership, whether it consists of captain- ing a football team or becoming the head of a great nation, is a serious responsibility. You can lose your own way without important conse- quences to any one but yourself» But when the mistakes you make plunge others into defeat or misery or bewilderment you will be held sternly responsible. Do not think that being an executive consists in having your name-in gold letters on an office door, or that being a political leader means merely getting elected to an office. You must know the job you intend to hold, or even though you may succeed in getting it you will not hold it for long. neem those of us who want our beer will t crying for it, ane tree ts J. FORREST. New York, May 10, 1922. Helped “Tell Tal To the Kditor of The Evening World: I write to eatend very hearty thanks and appreciation for the co-operation The Evening World gave through its columns in making ‘Tell Tales,"* the production of the Mask and Wig Club, University of Pennsylvania, a success in its recent New York performance. Your efforts did much to bring togeth er the fine audience that greeted the hoya at the Metropolitan Opera House last Wednesday night SUZETTE G New York, May 9 1922 STUART. From the Wise. Great men are the true men, the men in whom nature has suc- ceeded.—Amiel, Great thoughts reduced to prac: tice become great acts,—Hazlitt. The man who has nothing to boast of buf his illustrioug an- cestry is like a potato—the only good belonging to him is the under- ground.--Sir Thomas Overbury. Lurury ruina republics; poverty, monurchies,—-Montesquieu, The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory _By Ransome Sutton XX—WHERE DID THE INDIANS COME FROM? In Chapter XIII, I stated: ‘The first men moved In groups, or troops, over extensive hunting grounds, sel- dom remaining long in any one pl Some of the groups, following the mi- grations of game too far afield, never found theit way back home, but strayed on until new hunting grounds were found in other regions. By such lost tribes the continents were peopled before seeds were sown or animals tamed.” | This statement has been called in question by a writer who believes that the Indians were evolved in the Americas; that they did not wander out of the Old World into the New My answer is that, if the Indians were evolved here, the other races were also evolved here. Why? Be- cause all the races belong to the same species, homo sapiens, and no one de- nies, so far as T am aware, that all the varieties, belonging to the same species, originated in the same an- cestor: Every halfbreed in Oklahoma affords living proof that the red men and white men belong to the same specie: for the test of species is the ability to interbreed and produce fertile off- spring. Having descended from tho same ancestors, there must have been a time when those ancestors inhabited the same locality. If that locality were in the Western World the teach- ings of science and religion are both clearly wrong. According to the Bible the races originated in Noah's tent, near Mt. Ararat; according to students of man- kind, somewhere near the shores of the Indian Ocean, in Northeastern Africa, or Asia, That the centre of dispersion was in a region accessible to Europe is evidenced by the fact that the cave men lived in Europe at least 90,000 years before the Indians arrived in the New World. For fossils of cave men have been found embedded in cave deposits with bones of animals which have been ex- tinct at least 100,000 years, whereas no human remains have been found in either of the Americas which ci possibly be older than 10,000 year Nor has any prehuman mammal from which mankind could have descended ever lived in the Americas. Let us accept facts as facts, and study the geography of the earth 10,- 000 years ago, when the Indians ar- rived, in order to ascertain how and from where they came. There was then only one possible route, namely via Alaska, The chain of Aleutian Islands was then a broken mountain ridge, the islands serving as stepping stone: Bering Strait is to-day, after ten thousand years of current en- croachments upon the land, only 30 miles wide; on a clear day one may see across it. Row boats frequently make the trip. Before landing in Alaska, primitive Indians were hunters; they followed the migrations of game, especially the reindeer. As the glaciers receded, the reindeers also receded northward Reindeer hunters would in time find themselves in Eastern Siberia. To them the unhunted forests of Alaska, and its mild coastal climate would be time for a people to spread over two continents, yet the white race spread over these same two continents within 400 years after the first settlers landed, In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of sts, Dr, Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, demonstrates conclusively that the Indians are of Asiatic origin. He shows photographs of natives, now living on both sides of Bering Strait, and the Siber' cannot be distinguished from Alaskans. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? . 165.—BOLOGNA, Although the sausage which we call “bologna” is assumed to be of Ger- man origin, such is not the case. The Italians, who were accom- plished cooks when the Germans were eating raw meat and the English were scarcely more advanced in the science of the kitchen, originated the ‘‘ho- logna.’” They called it and still call it “‘aalsiccia d! Bologna,’’ or Bologna sausage—from the place where it was first made. From Bologna the gausage made of bacon, veal and pork suet, chépped fine and enclosed jn a skin casing, made its way to France. Then it travelled to the rest of Europe, in- cluding Germany and England, The name of the Bologna sausage is a reminder of the extent to which we owe the outward assets of civiliza- tion to the Roman Empire. pte ES WHOSE BIRTHDAY? MAY 15—FLORENCE NIGHTIN. GALE was born in Florence, Italy, on May 16, 1820, and died in London, Aug. 18, 1910, Early in life she mani- fested a desire to relieve the suffer- ing. Shortly after her presentation at the English Court she made a tour of the Continent, visiting and In- specting all the hospitals. In 1851 she went to Kaiserswerth, Germany, to study the profession of nursing. When the war broke out between Russia and Turkey she immediately set out for the war zone with thirty-seven trained nurses and established mili- ‘ary hospitals. At one time she had 30,000 under her charge and the su- pervision of all the hospitals on the Fsosporus. Her intense devotion to the work undermined her health, and when she returned to England at the close of the war she was forced to lead a very quiet life, but managed to take chargé of the Nightingale Home, for which $200,000 was rates by public subscription. She was con sulted officially during both the franco-German War and the Ame: fean Civil War, and in 1907 recetvet the Order of Merit from King Edward vit. the very alluring. \ Ten thousand years seems a short)