The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 30

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULIT! Pudlimed Daliy Kxcopt Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 83 (0 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Proaident, 64 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park Row. & JOSEPH PULITZOR, Secretary. 63 Park Row. ss MEMPER OF THF AgsOnIATED PRESS The Associated Prem le exclusively entitled to the wre for republication Of all news doepatches credited to no! otherwise credited In this paper fund also the loca) mews published herein ‘ LOWER FREIGHT RATES ORDERED. T seems probable the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed its decision to “leak” to President Harding and Senator Watson at least | j ihe ‘There is also too much evidence of political pres- sure in the timing of the announced cut in freight rates. e Nevertheless, the reduction is in line with the best economic opinion. Taking 10 per cent. off the freight bills will not of itself revive business, Thur it will help. If the stimulation of business yZAmounts to 11 per cent. it will balance the cut } sand keep railroad incomes constant. The com- _ Jnission predicts progressive decreases in oper- eating expenses and hopes this will in large measure "“€ancel the increased costs of moving larger tonnage. * = The commission is certainly right in holding ~ that it must fix rates with an eye to probable | gq feture conditions of business rather than on past «performances. © Railroad executives threaten to challenge the Yates and test the powers of the commission by Yppeal to the courts. The railroads can delay the few rates, but the court is almost certain to sus- * ain the commission. If the railroads seek a test “they would be wiser to accept the rates under sprotest and then go to the courts. If the facts of “operation reveal errors in the judgment of the i @éommission the court might order the old rates | ““festored. __. But until lower rates have been tried no one i *"€an be sure that they are unreasonable. The lower tatés may mean better business for the country “and better profits for the railroads. Give the new schedule a trial $ SHRILL NOTES. e EPUBLICAN “keynotes” from the Indiana aa Republican State Convention are pitched 2 Bligh. © According to Senator Watson,’ the Fordney- ®t Cumber tariff is splendid, the ship subsidy “Mi to the good, the President is going to sign the “Hill for a soldier bonus which will be paid by bending the Allied debt and, if the civil service “can be made to stop “sheltéring men opposed to the policies of the Administration,” the country Mill soon be dripping with prosperity and com- | jipletely delivered from “the evils of eight years tof Democratic misrule. | This is pretty shrill. We fear it is so shrill as to be beyond the range of a good many ears ‘heretofore counted Republican. Recent signs in Perinsylvania and Indiana in- ~ dicate that it is going to take a deeper note, a more progressive tempo and a newer tune to set votes marching in the desired directions next fall. It may be that some of the talk at Indianapolis ‘was more in the nature of loud whistling to keep up the courage of the Old Guard as it draws near a particularly dark wood. That would account for the noise in celebra- tion of a tariff that is preposterous and of a onus bill favored by few save those ewho ex- t to get money or votes out of it. After all, Republican leaders could hardly yoake their campaign music out of what the coun- try thinks about this Congress. i | That would be too dismal for mortal ears. at WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT. Inquiry into the affairs of the American Cot- ton Exchange ought to cure the suckers. But it is doubtful whether the lesson will stick where it is most needed. One bit of testimony is a priceless gem. A former operator on the Bxchange claims he said to the President of the concern: “Ite a fine thing when a bunch of crooks can't stand together when they make qn agree ment.” This is the sort of thing the public learns when thieves fall out. As a general rule, they do stand together, Then what chance has the + sucker? “TO NEW YORK.” TATISTICS on the passenger business of the railroads serving New, York City, compiled by the Merchants’ Association and published in {The Evening World yesterday, were astounding jto any one not familiar with the facts ! Last year 138,897,981 persons came to New ;York by railroad. The figure is too big to grasp swithout some comparison. The population of the nited States in 1920 was 105,710,620. In other jwords, if there were no repeaters, the whole pop- fulation of the country could have come to New tYork and a third of the population could have jmade a second visit. | The daily figures are no less interesting. The railroads serving this city transport daily a popu- jlation larger than Cincinnati, the seventeenth » jlargest city in the country. } Of this 405,000 persons arriving each weekday, "(307,789 were listed as commuters , Each morning the réilroads add to New York the population of Indianapolis, and each after- noon Indianapolis is subtracted and sucked into the suburban towns . Such comparisois emphasize the magnitude of the task. It grows year by year To further subdivide the commuters, it may be noted that about two-thirds arrive either at the Pennsylvania or Grand Central terminals. The other third come to the west shore of the Hudson and are forced to change their means of transportation, continuing by ferry or by tube, with a loss of time and comfort These figures emphasize the need for better long-haul transit facilities. It is easy to imagine a great subway loop to provide facilities for routing Westchester, Long Island and New Jer- sey commuting trains to deliver commuters in the vicinity of their business without the tire- some, tedious and expensive process of changing to ferries, tubes, subways and elevated ‘lines. All this is in the future, but the problem be- comes more pressing every day. MASTER AND MAN. HEN Mr. Hearst sailed for Europe last Tuesday he designated Mayor Hylan as his first and only choice for Governor. Here are Mr. Hearst's very words: “T think Mayor Hylan can be nominated and will be nominated, and I refuse to discuss the candidacy of anybody else, including myself, until that is definitely settled.” Two days after Mr. Hearst's departure, Mayor Hylan goes over to Staten Island to talk to the Stapletonians and breaks forth thusly: “There is a great deal of talk about me run- ning for Governor. I want to set that matter straight right now. I am not a candidate. If they gave me a certificate of election to-night and handed me my railroad transportation to Albany to-morrow, I would not accept the job." At first glance, this might look like rank in- subordination. But only the young and innocent will so interpret it. It will be noted that Mr. Hearst refused to dis- cuss other candidacies until the question of the Hylan candidacy “is definitely settled.” If Mayor Hylan settles it the moment Mr. Hearst's back is turned, why that's that There are only two “friends of the people” fit to go to Albany while there is a traction trust to smite. They happen to be master and man If the man elects to stay in this city as per orders, who's left to go to Albany’ but the master? You can't guess wrong, Attorney General Daugherty’s resignation is due and overdue. “Putting Mr. Harding over” earned no special license for putting his Ad- ministration in a hole. “FINDIN’S KEEPIN'S?” HE case of the pearl in the clam reported in the newspapers yesterday recalls—be- cause it is so different—the old fable of the Judge of the ancien regime in France and the quar- reling fishwives. The two women came before the Judge with aclam. Each claimed it and petitioned that he decide between them. It is related that he did With all the wisdom of a Solomon and the dis- crimination of an epicure, he examined the ex- hibit in the case, opened it, ate the clam and gave to each fishwife a half of the shell Times change. ‘To-day it is the maid in the household of a wealthy Atlantic City family that swallows the clam. She finds that the clam con- tains a pearl and she claims it for her very own, leaving only the shell for her employer. ‘The case presents a nice legal question, but the chances favor the maid in her possession of the jewel. Once the King claimed all treasure trove, At a later date the courts or the state would have established title ‘o-day in most democracies the doctrine of “findin’s keepin’s” has strong popular and legal support. Special Deputy Police Commissioner John A, Harriss, traffic expert, and Commissioner En- right are going to Europe together The former is taking some ideas with him. It jg hoped the latter will bring some back, ACHES AND PAINS Senator Watson of Indiana in a “keynote” speech declares that the Administration will stand upon ite record, This will require some rare balancing, To us the “record” looks like a tight rope swaying the chasm of Niagara? across “M" stands for Miller, Head of the State, He's up and doing, Barly and late! . The course of justice at White Plains is sometimes as mysterious as the Westchester tragedies, . A sage policeman at City Hall yesterday was asked the meaning of a crowd centred about the steps where. on was posed a gentleman in a green jersey, “some nut i¢ running from Washington to New York and ig peing received. Great bu being Mayor of this town.” . “Bucketing" is “larceny.” Belling “shari smart business. . Justice Cropsey does not seem to believe that a receiver is as bod us a thief. wv JOHN K the adage 'THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1992." Working Under Di GEG! onzitsiteuw By John Cassel ||||EVOLUTION fficulties © By Press'Pub. "co y J = | |]| The A BC of This Famous Epoch-Making Theory By Ransome Sutton Copyright, 1822 (The New York Mvening World) oy Press Publishing Company. XXIV.—FUTURE MAN. This being the last article of the ser I should like to crowd into it thoughts which readers will remem~ ber To obtain an idea of man’s future, we should note the changes going on r : in man; for in the same way that we fe becom have changed, as compared with our ancestors, our descendants will differ from us. Physically, primitive man was stronger than our strongest ath~ letes; mentally, he was weaker than modern mediocres, So man's body, is refining away, but his brain is growing greater. While building up man's brain evolution is getting rid of all his useless parts, just as if obliterated the tail. Jawbones are growing smaller, and we have already lost oné set of molar teeth and are now losing the four wisdom teeth, Cooked foods have rendered them ob« solete. Few persons cut their wisdom teeth before middle age, and a large percentage of human beings never cut them at all. Toothache was unknown to our bone-gnawing ancestors, but ‘dentists will be busier than ever dur« ing the next millennium. Hair is going; it will soon be gone, Fats and clothing make hair useless, There are more bald-headed men to day than ever before, and man sets the pace in evolution, women being more conservative, One joint of the little toe has dis- appeared, indicating that man's foot is going the way of the horse's foot. The muscles that used to wiggle tho ears have atrophied. Surgeons are assisting nature in obliterating the vermiform appendix; it will not trou- ble our descendants. And of what use now is the large intestine? The small intestines do most of the di- gesting. In the waste products of the large intestines the microbes breed which produce the old-age A glass of buttermilk a is said on great authority, mize the ravages of the old- age microbes and prolong life, but the old-age microbes will continue to get the better of the microbes which cause milk to sour so Jong as the large intestine encumbers the body. The stomach is not yet obsolete, bub it ts obsolescent. according to Metch- nikoff of the Pasteur Institute, Savages can see, hear, feel, taste and smell better than civilized man, showing a weakening of the percep- tive faculties, but other faculties are coming into the brain, just as the inventive faculty, appeared, which will give to It undreamed-of powers. Hyp- notism, mental telepathy and all such mental manifestations are but the stirrings of new faculties. So ‘the signs all point toward a superhuman weakling who will wield Jove's thun- derbolts. Animal instincts are now UNCOMMON SENSE __ |\ss:'o2sba The oceans are drying up. What- ever creatures dominate the earth By John Blake when the waters disappear will not (Copyright, 1 From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te @y much in few words. Take @ to be brief. look like modern man. But evolution has been preparing living substance for the future. For there was a time by John Blake.) People Want ‘Temperance, the people in general do not desire the BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS. when every form of life existed within ‘To the Editor of The Evening World repeal of this nefarious law. a the waters, Then the amphibians half I wish to ask BE. J. A. (see Eve-| He fails to note the following facts There are men who build automobiles for you and men 3 emerged upon the land. After them in rebuttal: That in Brooklyn, when Judge Reuben Haskell ran for County Judge on a clean-cut anti-Prohibition plat- form he carried the county by over 81,000 majority, running ahead of his nearest ruaning mate by over 43,000 votes. That in the Thirty-seventh Con- gressional District a 30,000 former Dry majority was almost wiped out by Judge Irvine in an election held recently. ‘That the State of New Jersey in the last election recorded a gain of twenty Assemblymen against Prohibition. ‘That in the late primaries held in Indiana, in almost all cases where an anti ran against a Dry candidate, he ning World letters May why he is so much in favor of Prohibition, and describes a woman who dares express herself contrary to his views an “idiot” and “nut” and condemns ne Evening World for its honorable stand against Prohibition He appears to be one of the highly paid reformers who helped put s called Prohibition over on the Amer- fean people, Is any alcoholic content at all in beer or wine true Prohibition? Why 1-7 of 1 per cent, alcohol’? BE. J. A. and his kind know the Fighteenth Amendment and Volstead act are deliberate lies! Can you ex- plain why 80 many politicians either voted for them or absented them- selves, and why so many of these males drank and still drink intoxt- cants tb excess? His kind do not dare put it squarely up to the people to vote on These reformers never have been able to explain, if the majority of people want Prohibition, why it h: cost. our Government and people so many millions of dollars in attempts to enforce it! So “Prohibition ts here to stay Wait until the people really express themselves in future elections. After you will be out of a eal Americans want not Prohibition. WILBER B. GRAHAM. After a Trial, ‘Yo the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Mr, Prohibitionist, in your letter to The Evening World dated May 16, 1922, you have conceded that Mr. who repair them. Both are necessary, but the builder is the g]came the reptiles which could do man who makes the most money. PERDUE WERE ION Seer ach © T . And now the mammals can do with« There are doctors who cure you when you are ill, and out water still longer. Indeed there te other doctors who by their advice and counsel keep you from one mammal living in deserts, the gelting ill jerboa, which is said to be able to i aus ? et along without water. Is it think- Both are needed. But it is the latter who is most valu- $ {hie that it might survive man? Yea able to you and who, as a rule, is most highly rewarded. it has ever been evolution’s method to In every great city there are lawyers who can go into $]Utilize humble creatures in building court and fight lawsuits, and other lawyers who seldom go }{UP new dynasties. Lemur-like jung into court but who make a practice of showing their clients todons, were used in the making of how to keep out of court. The latter class of lawyers are $|man the ones who receive the largest fees—and deserve them. ASA OAL RONG Fhe nattonay Saas As long as the world and the people in it are extremely }|*\Y*8° tribes wil! become extinct, just imperfect—and they will be for centuries to come—the re- few years ago, and as certain Indian is pairers will be useful members of every community, tribes are becoming extinct. Govern~ won ‘ ; 7 " ; But they will never be worth so much to the wor! ments are changing. The maps we These are only a few of the num- : u . fi 5 world bid studied as children are obsolete, What beriess instances indicating resent- the builders——-whether they are builders of nations or build- does it all signify? ment, if not positive antagonism.|3 ers of wheelbarrows. y ‘ against the Volstead act, and point 7 Low-down savages lived in packs or unerringly to the fact that the people It is of course far more difficult to be « builder than to }|troops. Later, savagery put packs to- in general are tired of the sham and be a repairer, for the repairer merely learns from the builder ¢|8*ther into tribes. Early barbarians pretense of a law which does not i inited tribes into confederacies, like how a house or a machineor a City Government is con- $ |” shes function and in which they, have no 3 that of the Six Nations of the Amer- faith. structed, and then, when it gets out of order, restores it as ican Indians. Later barbarians con ‘And, above all, they presage a'de- closely as he can to its normal condition, solidated confederacies into nations, sire which will find utterance in an Doctors, although repairers, must first learn how the $|°¥il!@98 As, Soerelon nations tome Undeniable demand for rellef at the human body is constructed; and as it was constructed by Yen Saas ge ree apap jon: - ; ae: 2 ) r e. 's Lea: next eer uM BMeT EE, God, and not by man, this is a difficult business. Of all the } of Nations and a United States of Bus New York, M 1922. repairers they are the most important, for their task is’ the rope. most difficult. Certainly, if we may judge the fu- eh) . A A . a | ture by the past, human society is We are not secking to bring any repairing work into moving toward a world-wide kingdom disrepute, for it is all negessary and highly valuable—and if of brotherly love. For fear, hat well done is highly paid. jealousy ond international distrust, But the great men of the world are builders, not re- } {While stil! rife, no longer completely ; ; sontrol the affairs of nations. Com- pairers. It is they who must reconstruct Europe, shattered \$| mere ele No Dice tn John, XLX. Lo the Editor of The Evening World May I say now that there is no Buch thing as dice mentioned in St i merce, railroads, steamships, tele- John, xix., 28-24? I tried for ten} Menthe estimate of 13.600 FSuuane| 3 beyond reconstruction by the most terrible war in history. graphs, wireless stations, international NaN aes Fee a ine tanoue Garden anti-Prohibition meeting was It is they who have done the original thinking and the marriages, Looks, travel—a thousand i het has bhovaht the w ie. forces—ave obliterating boundary lin original work t s e world on its way toward § {ana bringing peoples together.” ‘The civilization. ited States alone has Americ Incidentally, their work is so difficult and requires such eave million Negroes. saninen se ices WHOSE BIRTHDAY?! MAY 25. — EDWARD GEORGE .WER-LYTTON was born on 1803, and died at Tor- 18, He graduated in 1826 and received a ree there in 1835.. Against probably nearer the correct number ur own, Thi ' john E, Bruce kindly explain hina oe ana Hs ari oe eae te aah 29, «| a Prohibitionis , ; 0 New. Fer, Mariah Again, however, you were wrong genius that their profession will never be overcrowded Presage # Change. when you ‘Questioned The Evening Most of us will be content to. be repairers, to do the ‘Yo the Editor of The Evening World World's stand against the Volstead I note that “Prohibitionist” act on the ground that the people are petulant exception over my strictures] not in favor of the repeal of the act. of his report of the Madison Square From the writer's personal inter- Garden meeting, and while proclaim-| views and observations, which cover a ing his unimpeachable veracity, con-| period of three years and are still ——_—— ch oOcocacawewwmww’wgwmneseee tinues to make wild and extravagant] being pursued, he has found that the MONEY TALKS be used as a quick reserve fund: and twins, but‘ could not find it. Will He most honest jobs of repairing we can, grateful if we can help to mend, if we cannot make, nations or cities or automobiles, statements, entirely out of tune with| smouldering sentiment of the country the third part into mortgage, Govern. | te Wishes of his mother, he married the facts. as well as of the city is overwhelm- ERBERT BENINGTON. ment or other first class securities, Rosina Wheeler in 1825, but they He states as @ positive fact that half| ingly against national Prohibition ang|_ 8Y 4 LOE wert petcing werd) a wera separated within a few years, of those at the meeting were curiosity] the insanely cunning Volstead law. Copy hts eae, Publishing. Company. F; 0 th Wi In 1831 he secured an election to Par- seekers only and not in sympathy] In 1919 he undertook to obtain SURPLUS. rom e Ise liament, where he served for years. with repeal; he must have interviewed| natures for a protest against Pro- the tatire assemblage to form tha hibition conducted by ‘The Associ; A good hysbanduan will faeecens ) Our senses will not admit of any- conclusion, otherwise how would he|tion Opposed to National Prohibition’ |0!5 Surplus money to remal thistiv.| ti"g extreme; too much noise taow? and within two weeks’ time he haa|@uctive. He will first map ou lus} COnfuses us, too much light duzel He declares that one quarter were| secured 15,000 signatures, This frac-|ins costs so there will be a surplus) |) Uy [ zzles Prohibitionists like himself; that| tional part of the total showing of the|@nd then invest the surplus, not In . i would make over 3,000, As the Pro-| protest included names from almost {questionable enterprises or highly We may give more offense by hibition vote throughout the country]every State in the Union, speculative stocks, but in good, sound in the Inst elections was practically How foolish it is to try to prohibit |investments. negligible it is doubtful if there are] something which cannot be prohibited. In order to secure a diversified 3.000 out-and-out Prohibitionists in] Prohibition has had a tong and fair} be will divide his surplus Into three! rye world which took six days to the greater city enough trial and it has surely failed parts 5 7 % He points with ur 1s satisfaction| % JOHN LYNCH The first part he will put Into Ute make is like to take 6,000 to make to these facts as ample testimony that | ie malay ; #he seeond, into « bank, to out-—Biz T, Browne, He was not a strong debater, but several of his speeches were effec. and eloquent, and he was a prominent and suo- cessful man in public affairs, Hig ability as q writer showed itself at an early age and throughout his lite he continued to be mpst prolific, His works showed great thought and mastery in plotting the construction of his themes. Among his works are “Duchess of La Vallicre,” “Rienzi,” “Godolphin,” and “The.Lang our silence than even by imper- | finence.—Haazlitt