The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1922, Page 26

BSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘Pwiieded Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer. 63 Park Row. \ JOSEPH PULITZER, Becretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication (Of GD news Geepstches credited to It or not otherwise credited tm this paper 26 also the local mews published berein. UNTHINKABLE! AYOR HYLAN flaunts a Hearst banner in Tammany’s face and proclaims that the Governorship or any other high office to be filled next fall is calling for “such a man as William Randolph Hearst.” Tammany can agree or take the consequences. Up-State, Hearst organizers are laying plans to capture the Democratic State Convention for anything Hearst wants. The Hearst platform, if he needs one, will be built of the old buncombe of protecting the people against the interests, with all the vicious foment- ing of class feeling at which Hearst is by long practice adept. ‘Will self-respecting Democrats in the State of New York permit the outrage? Here is a time when sound Democracy through- out the Nation has extra need of cohesion, cour- age and principle to take full advantage of oppor- tunities already falling to it. At such a time is the Democratic Party in this great commonwealth to sacrifice its prestige and fritter away its strength on the demagogic clap- trap of a Hearst candidacy? | Unthinkable! ‘What's in « name? Well, the Majestic steaming up the Hudson yesterday carried its own description. CHILD LABOR LAW. HE Supreme Court decision on the Child Labor Law was something in the nature of a “safety first” move. The tax provision of the bill was openly ad- mitted to be a device to whip the devil around the stump and so get around a previous adverse court decision. The Supreme Court frankly admitted that this particular demon, the employer of child labor, ‘deserves a sound thumping. But if the tax stump once qualified as a whipping-post, it might be wuséd for the punishment of angels. The devil of child labor needs punishment. ‘But it is evident the punishment must be admin- istered in some way other than by Federal Statute. Three ways rem » Rouse public opinion against the exploiters of ichildren. A boycott of child-labor manufactures ‘might help. \ Work in individual States for improvement of ‘Child-Labor Laws and to hold all that has been gained in child protection. _ Submission of a Child-Labor Amendment to ‘the Constitution is the third. The first two, pursued with a will, should ren- der the third unnecessary. Europe should offer a substantial prize for the statesman who first frames an invitation that the Harding Administration will accept. NOTHING LACKING. TTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY is to have all he asked to further prosecution of war frauds. .. | It is up to Mr. Daugherty to make good. If he fails, he should be held accountable, * This prosecution starts under peculiarly favor- able auspices. Politics plays a much smaller role than in most Government investigations. Two » Republicans forced the Department of Justice to take action. Mr. Daugherty made a broadly Slanderous attack on the previous Administra- tion, promising to show that Democrats connived and participated in frauds. Democrats in Con- and the Democratic press have urged the ‘Attorney General to proceed vigorously, no mat- ter who may be hurt. Mr. Daugherty has the money he asked. He thas a Grand Jury to co-operate. Now let him Heliver the goods. Collect fines, recover fraudulent payments. Nail the guilty without regard to party or politics. ' 7 ee Ambassador Child is discovering how closely a diplomat’s words must be woven to conceal what others may think are his thoughts. BY ECTOPLASM. EN mundane affairs grow too complex, men are driven to appeal to other sources ‘of inspiration and explanation. This fact and the complexities of Democratic itics in New York State account for the re- kable discovery that The Evening World has " & trained and friendly Ectoplasm. It rises from the radiator in moments of stress. To the Ecto- we propounded certain questions The re- hopes of improved communication and under- standing. Ectoplasm was asked concerning the opinions Mr. Murphy held in regard to Messrs, Hearst, Hylan and Conners and their opinions of Mf. Murphy and each other. The only reply was a violent rocking of the typewriter desk, followed by automatic typewrit- ing of such signs as: ($#$$. X----, d--- $$$§ H-h, Hea--- hel-, $$$$). This was followed by a sound resembling the opera- tion of a cash-register and a loud, jeering laugh. Ectoplasm withdrew to the shelter of the radi- ator in what appeared to be a state of acute ex- haustion. We consulted eminent interpreters of psychic phenomena and gathered the opinion that too in- tricate a question had been propounded. If Ectoplasm was not completely worn out, we hope for his return to answer simpler questions in more coherent fashion. The recurrent dollar signs are comprehensible when carefully considered in the light of Mr. Hearst's bankroll. The sound of the cash-register jingle also fits in’ with much that is common knowledge regarding politics. The abbreviated and hyphenated words are more troublesome. We have hopes for greater enlightenment as a result of a return visit from Fctoplasm. A STAGGERER FOR NORMALCY. St bead tlh way the final balance turns, Pinchot won a smashing victory in Penn- sylvania. If the complete count of the ballots gives Pinchot a majority over Alter, the personal victory will be the greater. Either way, the blow to “normalcy” will be the same. Win or lose, Pennsylvania revolted yesterday. Pinchot stood for something different in Pennsyl- vania politics, Pinchot may not be the most progressive and enlightened of leaders, but he was by far the better end of the choice before the Pennsylvania Republicans. Pinchot's victory—even though he loses by a narrow margin or is counted out—strikes the key- note for the next Congressional campaign and for the election of 1924. Voters are dissatisfied with “normalcy.” They are thinking forward, not back. They are show- ing independence.. If the old parties want these votes they will have to bid for them with forward- looking policies. Reaction or a do-nothing programme will not suffice. THE GREAT SUBSIDY-GETTER. HIS Nation, the cradle of aviation, has lagged in giving aid and encouragement to the development of flying. The army and navy have been “ynderwinged.” Commercial aviation is not yet sufficiently ad- vanced to fly by itself without some of the Gov- ernmental help extended in other nations. Limited appropriations for mail service have not given much encouragement. The aviation enthusiasts have almost worn themselves out in trying to devise a method of approach that might result in Congressional appropriations and air subsidies. : There is reason to think this era is passing. There is hope for a Federal aerial, programme. A rum-running aeroplane took a nose dite in Westchester County Monday evening, not so many miles from the home of William H. Ander- son. If the aviation propagandists are clever, they will take advantage of this mishap. There is rum-running on the ocean. We have a Prohibition navy gathered at the behest of the Anti-Saloon League. If the bootleggers have taken to the air, the natural reaction of the Prohibitionists is to'de- mand a Dry air fleet—and at any expense. If the advocates of the encouragement of avia- tion are quick-witted, they will appeal to the A. S. L. The A. S. L. is the only sure-fire appropria- tion-getter in Washington. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Amy Lowell says Japan was overcivilized 900 years agg. Where, then, were Amy's ancestors? ° Ann Cobb, the poetess of the Oumberland Moun. tains, praises in lyric “corn pone and vinegar pie,” This last comestible is a new one, . “Before you love,” reads a Turkish proverb, “learn to run through snow leaving no footprints.” Was the wily Turk who wrote it thinking of breach of promise suite? ° Hard job, isn’t it, trying to establish an affinity be tween his Whiskers in the State Department and the Hirsutes of Moscow and Petrograd? Why not call in @ barber? . Perhaps they'll be shipping hooch by wireless by and by. . It will surprise readers of Mr. Kipling’s Rikkt-tikkt- tavi to learn that the mongoose is barred from the U, 8. A. by our immigration laws. The mongoose is an expert snake killer and we have no real jleld for Ms talents, which would be apt to turn to chicken coops. “Ta From Evening What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that dives the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satistaction in trying to cay much in few words. Take time to be brief. . Elevated Express Service, To the Editor of The Evening World: While they are investigating the elevated railroad it would be well to inquire why they cut off one car from the Ninth Avenue express trains from Rector Street at night? Last night I could not even reach the first express to leave the station, as there were enough passengers left in the station to fill @ new train. This is the first station on the Ninth Avenue express line, and if they pack the cars at this station what chance have the passen- gers at the succeeding stations? Tt was not a question of getting a seat, only a desire to get in the train and get home. As this {s a dail, occur- rence and I ride to 145th Street, I am sick and tired of it. It's almost the same at 145th Str.et in the morning coming downtown, as {t 1s impossible to board a Woodlawn train and sometimes even the trains leaving 155th Street have very few seats vacant when they reach 145th Street. Tam an old New York man and saw the first train run on the Sixth Avenue ted raiiroad and have seen the jc expand until now it {s out of bounds. ‘We know the road ts handicapped in some way, but leaving off a car on an express train during rush hours Is pre- ventable and only done from a point of economy—that {s the pay of one guard on each train ts saved and hundreds of passengers are discommoded. This could and should be avolded, YY BARRY. HARR’ New York, May 13, 1923, “More Than Fair. To the Editor of The Evening World: Iam writing to ask if you did not make a mistake In placing the letter captioned “More Than Fair” and signed “A Woman” (which appeared in to-day’s issue) in the correspond- ents’ column rather than in the sec- tion devoted to comic stories. I pre- sume it was an oversight, for you have never printed anything more humorous. It is easy to understand that the communication in question was written by @ woman, and a wild one at that, or one who has be- come so due to the forcible curbing of her unholy passion for strong drink, There are always two sides to a question, although such idiots as your correspondent refuses to ac- knowledge it, so I presume that we will have to accept her views as final. I was surprised to note that you printed the letter signed ‘‘Prohibition- ist'’ in Wednesday's paper, for he cer- tainly nailed some of your stories con- cerning the Madison Square Garden meeting as deliberate falsehoods. The daily news reports justify the atate- ment that Prohibition is beginning to function to the utmost, and no one can truthfully deny that claim. , Your futile attempts to belittle the tatement of Bishop Manning are comic ts the extreme. It is easy to visualise ke Your Choice!” World Readers what your treatment of his remarks would have been had he agreed with you. One could see how you would nave played it up with a strip of pic tures across the entire page. Your attempts to create an argument. in your favor over the difference be- tween the words “‘respect’’ and “‘obe- dience’ In the Bishop's remarks are nearly (though not quite) as funny as “A Woman's" letter, the writer of which entirely overlooks the fact that The Evening World is first a news- paper and as such must give ear to both sides of every question, no mat- ter how painful to “‘nuts’’ such as she, In concluding, permit me to say that it is mearly time for The Evening ‘World to awake to the fact that Pro- hibition is here to stay and that all its vituperation cannot alter that fact. Time alone will tell. E,J.A. A Collariess Man. . To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘With summer coming on, why don't the men be sensible for once and leave off their collars? I have found it very comfortable for the last few days going without mine and {t has not been warm yet. A thing like this would need only a few to start it, although we would have a lot of people, including the collar makers, trying to discourage it Just turn in the band on the shirt and it makes a small V; no one should object, with the girls going around with their waists cut half way down. H. W. F. St. Rose's Cancer Hospital. To the Editor of The Evening World; I have read a list of charitable in- stitutions that have received large amounts according to the amount of service given by them. There ts one, Mr. Editor, conspicuously missing, that, in my opinion, should have headed the list. It is St. Rose's Can- cer Hospital. Some years back you yourself were the means of drawing attention to and raising # large sum for this hospital that makes no distinction in race, color or creed. The only passport to it 1s poverty, for it’ will not accept any gne able to pay, It is supported entirely by volun- tary contributions, and the services of those cultured ladies who have left homes of wealth and comfort to min- ister to the unfortunate victims of that disgusting disease are beyond price or comprehension, Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, all are on the samo fovt- ing and receive alike. Yet they are often in want of actual necessities, to the shame of generous New York, There is no work equal to theirs. Will uu not call attention of the proper authorities to this injustice? E, COSTELLO New York, May 18, 1088, { THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1999. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 199%, ty Jobe Biekn) BE 100 PER CENT. ALIVE. average. unheeded. of the news. morning. upon most of the dwellers of the earth. their lack of early education. ready to give to the human mind. a new dreadnought. study it. unusual, one. A shooting star or a comet, for example, will excite any The fact that all the stars are sweeping about through space at terrific speeds, and all of them in orderly and reg. ular motion, is not held worthy of the average man's at- tention, Perhaps being 100 per cent. alive will gain you no more money or fame than being 50 per cent. dead before you are in your grave. But it will certainly make life far more worth the living while you are here. “Old United States” and the more Popular Grant” U. S, Grant received from the initiais of bis name during the Civil War. While Lieutenant uicknam 6 “no 49) “That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P- Southwick | rly og’ Erese rank. s #8 jew York Bvening lishing Oo. Christians the civil and religious rights. eee “(nconditional Surrender were by-names which Gen. early Greek dramatist, General he was od Old Thres Stars,” im al» bean To be 100 per cent. efficient is past any man’s power. He who is 100 per cent. alive is far ahead of the Talk to the men around you—even those who are rated as intelligent and successful in their individual lines—and you will discover the most of life is passing over their heads Half-reading the newspapers, they get but a smattering They miss altogether some of the most im- portant tidings that are brought to their doors every Half-observing the world, they know next to nothing of the miracle of life about them; of the growing trees and flowers; of the marvellous process by which the soil renews its fertility; of the water that nourishes life, moving con- tinually from the ocean to the skies, from the skies to the mountains or plains, and from there back to the earth again. Even human character—perhaps the most interesting thing in all life, for it is life’s highest manifestation—is lost There are thousands of people who frame their likes and dislikes of others upon race, or the color of the hair, or To be 100 per cent. alive is to keep the senses alert for all the manifold impressions that life and natures are always It is to be awake all the time that one is not actually asleep—to be ready to observe anything that is new and interesting, whether it is an oriole hanging his hammock nest to an elm tree bough or a crew of shipbuilders erecting One would think that there was enough of interest in the world to keep every being on it constantly intent to Yet most people take the most astounding miracles for granted and are only astonished by the bizarre and the luston to the three stars indicating his ‘The “Edict of Milan” was a procla- mation by Constantine after the con- quest of Italy in 313, “to secure to restitution of their “The Father of Comedy” was Aris- tophanes (440-380 B. C.), a celebrated | a who is the only writer of ancient Greek comedy of whom any complete works have presented to posteri EVOLUTION The A B C of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1923 (The New York oh x Srentes XXI.—TWO RECENT BOOKS, “God—or Gorilla,” by, Alfred W. McCann: . This book will doubtless long be quoted by these who denounce evolu- tion. A hero of 207 libel suits, the author runs amuck, “ripping the heart out of things.” He accuses (page 156) the venerable Haeckel of putting a human head on an ape embryo, of cutting off the tall of a macacus monkey, and of photograph- ing the mutilated exhibits as proofs of evolution. Naturally, we don’t be- lieve it. Like Don Quixote and his phantoms, Mr. MoCann assails the theory that mankind descended from gorillas—a theory no student of man- kind has ever maintained. For the gorilla is as far removed from the parental primates as man himself. Why contend so violently that man was formed out of slime (p. 141), when evolutionists agree that life originated in protoplasm, which is one kind of slime? On page 157, he says: ‘Haeckel, off guard, describes ‘living human races who still live in trees,’ ’’ Haeckel was not off his guard, for I have myself seen a tribe of low-down Indians, the Wauraus, living in prim- itive abodes built high up in the trees, These beings have splay toes, the big toe being shorter than the others anéd turning inward, like an ape's. ever will wade through a jungle about six miles inland from the little mud village of Pedernales, on the Orinoco Delta, may also seo the Waurau tree town. Mr. McCann notes ‘a tendency to return to the chronology of the Bible, according to which the Jews reckon that 5,682 years have elapsed (1921) since the creation of Adam,” al- though on pages 245-6 he speaks of the ostrich as “‘the degenerate de- scendant of birds that used to Sy, millions of years ago." Among many very startling state- ments he declares “‘that out of the Catholic Church itself came the idea of evolution.”* Yet they printed 340 pages of such statements. “The Growth of the Soll,” by Knut Hamsun: ‘This book might well be entitled “The Evolution of a Home.’ It ts that, beautifully. Into a wilderness of no man’s land comes a man with & pack on his back; he builds a hut and clears a patch of ground. Then into the hut comes a woman. Together the man and the woman struggle to exist, but the struggling strengthens and ennobles them. Before the story ends we think of these two toilers of the sol] as of characters in the Bible. Children appear upon the scene and the hut grows, room after room, into ®@ great wilderness home. Meanwhile the goats have multiplied into a herd, sheds have grown into barns, scythes have been supplanted by mowing ma- chines, and horses now carry the burdens. “Corn waving on the moorlands where naught but horsetail grew be- fore, bluebells nodding in the fells and yellow sunlight blazing on the ladyslipper flowers outside the house. And human beings, living there, move and talk and think and are there with heaven and earth. Here stands the first of them all, the first man in the wilds. He came that way, knee-deep in marsh growth and heather, found a sunny slope and settled there. Others came after him, they trod path across the waste Almenning; others again, and the patch became @ road; carts drive there now.” The son of every settler, the chilé of every man and woman who helped evolve a home—the unit of human society—can understand evo- lution as taught by Knut Hamsun. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 166.—CALCULATE. The word Calculate originated with @ pebble, In the Latin language the word “calculus” means a pebble or stone, We can imagine the olf Roman— the Roman of ah age antedating the republic—sitting down to calculate with the aid of pebbles which he transferred from one side to the other in keeping count of things. It took man many generations to learn how to count beyond the lowest numbers. Vilhalmur Stefansson is authority for the statement that some of the Eskimg tries cannot count higher than nine in our day, From the old Roman pebbles wa haye progressed to dizzy heights of counting—from reparations to the number of miles that separate the earth from Mars. But the origin of all these calculations is the pebble WHOSE BIRTHDAY? MAY 17—ALFONSO XIIL, King of Spain, was born on May 17, 1886, a few months after the death of his) father, Alfonso XII. At his birth hel was recognized as King of Spain, under the regency of his mother, In 1906 he married Princess Ena of Battenberg, niece of King Ed ward VII. and granddaughter of Queen Victoria. As they were return- ing from the wedding they narrow- ly escaped assassination in a bomb explosion. Many bystanders and mem~ bers of the rayal procession were killed and injured. Alfonso ranks as progressive sovereign and has shown great interest In the bettering of his country, particularly in mani. festing interest in industrial develege aoe! alk.