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ee ne ee orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER y by The Press Publishing 8 Park Row, New York. RALPH . 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 61 Park Row. \ JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row, Puriimes MEMBER OF THE ASSOCtATED PRESS. The Associated Prem te exclusively entitied to the use for republication Ff all news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper nd sis the loca) mews published herein, EXPERTS. AYOR HYLAN went up to Poughkeepsie yesterday to explain what “the plain people” of a big city want. Take it from Mayor Hylan All they want is a Mayor and a Governor who will pat them on the back, call them “the plain people” and beat tom-toms to ward off evil spirits known as “‘interests.’ If you chuck “the plain people” under the chin and say “Five-Cent Fare” and “Home Rule” to them, they won't care how many 10 and 15 cent fares they actually have to pay or what kind of home rule gums up their municipal machinery and impedes their municipal progress. Call them “the plain people” often enough, in just the right tone, and you can get away with anything, If what you do for yourself leaves them with broken down facilities and higher taxes, don’t worry. Stroke ‘em again, tell ‘em about the wicked “in- terests” and the subsidized press and they'll eat out of your hand. Take it from Mayor Hylan. He knows. So does Mr. Hearst. They told each other. ‘They experts. . CONSERVATION AND ITS FOES. i a death of Judge Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle at just this time is something of a dramatic climax. Judge Ballinger lived to see the triumph in the Pennsylvania primaries of Gifford Pinchot, his adversary in a quarrel which has affected all the subsequent political history of the Nation. On the surface this would) seem a closing com- ment on the principles which Ballinger upheld. But Judge Ballinger has lived to see another political event. He has seen Albert B. Fall occupying Ballinger's chair as Secretary of the interior. And Fall is one of the ablest and most outspoken of those who have followed the Bal- linger idea in dealing with the public domain. Ballinger undoubtedly approved the Fall poli- cies in regard to Alaskan coal, the forest reserves and oil leases. Much that Ballinger sought to do, Fall has been able to accomplish. Conservation sentiment ebbs and flows, but the opposition is always awake to take advantage of opportunities that offer. It is difficult to judge how far the Fall policies are responsible for dissatisfaction with the present Administration, but they are playing a part. LET TAXICAB FARES ALONE. HE present move to increase iegai taxicab rates is not so obviously unfair as some of the other recent efforts sponsored by the same organization. The new insurance bonding requirement means a levy of $45 a month against taxi operators, who assert that a 5-cent increase in fares would not make up for this new expense. On the other hand, it is well known that many taxicabs are operating at rates materially lower than those laid down in the city ordinance. The rapid increase in the number of taxis would seem to indicate a paying field at the rates allowed. It is also known that the lowest fares prevail in taxis operated by companies that had already assumed the insurance charges prescribed by the new law. Before the Aldermen permit higher fares, it would be better to give the present schedule a longer trial under the new conditions. If the number of taxis is reduced, it will tend to show that profits are not adequate and that a higher rate may be justified. In the mean time taxi operators might turn their efforts to devising some system by which the security insurance may be cheapened. Why not a mutual company and a general agreement on more careful driving to cut down liabilities? SEVENTY.TWO YEARS OF SERVICE, NE feature of Columbia University’s com- mencement exercises was as unusual as it was appropriate, Columbia conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Science upon Dr. Stephen Smith. Co- lumbia was as much honored by the ceremony as was the recipient. Dr. Stephen Smith, the well loved “grand old man” of the medical profession in New York, is in his hundredth year, It is seventy-two years since Columbia conferred the medical degree which permitted Stephen Smith to take up his work for the public welfare. Few men have achieved more broadly and more unselfishly. Few men have earned a larger measure of regard and affection than Dr Smith, Commencement orators are given to ex- aggeration. Not so was Dr Butler when he ad- dressed Dr. Smith as ‘Foremost in planning nieasures for the protection of public health and for the care of those unfortunates wio are the State's de pendents; winner of distinction on @ hundred fields of professional endeavor and public service; walking with steadiness, with calm courage, and with powers unimpaired, down the long highway of a hundred years, the most interesting figure in American medicine and in American public service to-day,” New York hopes that Dr. Smith will be present at the 100th anniversary of his graduation in 1850 and will still be the moving force for good that he has been these seventy-two years. NO LABOR CASTE IN AMERICA, T IS hard to discern from Mr. Gomper’s re- | marks on the Coronado decision just what position he thinks labor should occupy in rela- tion to the country at large. Apparently he wishes labor to become a free company, at liberty to combine, defy or destroy as may be most con- venient, with no regard for other interests, in- cluding Law and Order We do not believe this will be the outcome, nor do we believe that organized labor can ever become a dominating force in the United States. This is because we have not and should not have a permanent working class. The son of the workman of to-day may be the employer of to- morrow. There is no such rigid holding to the lines here as there is in England, for example, where an almost iron caste keeps the worker and his line in the same order. No one would want this less than the American workman. Without it, however, no such power as Mr. Gompers bespeaks is possible. Why, therefore, would it not be wiser for labor to take itself under the protection of the law in- stead of persisting in remaining without, and by incorporation, by the establishment of courts of labor, the codifying of labor laws, enjoy the ben- efits for which it already pays but from which, by its own policy, it receives the least return? LIVE AND LEARN. “You can say,” Attorney General Daugherty told newspaper men, “that there never was a time when I would have given thirty cents to get the office of Attorney General, but I wouldn't take a million dollars for it now.” “THE GREAT HEALER.” NATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE lent some of his well-known cheer and sunshine to brighten the annual banquet of the Savings Bank Association of Massachusetts at Worcester, Mass. Said Senator Lodge: “The prospects for the future are bright— brighter, in fact, taan at any other time since 1914. We have just passed through a period of great pessimism, but the clouds are lifting. Approximately 2,000,000 persons are unemployed in the country to-day, compared with 4,500,000 a year ago. Gov- ernmental expenditures have been and are being cut extensively. Retail prices were reduced 25 per cent. during the last fiscal year. Time is a great healer. It can do more to improve business conditions than any amount of legislation.” Ihe clonds have lifted enough to encourage a Republican Congress to get busy with the pre- posterous Fordney-McCumber tariff which will put retail prices up again and dig deep into the pockets of people who, having got back to work, thought they could see a little-blue sky ahead. How does the country feel about a “prosperity” that threatens to boost cost of clothing, shoes and other common commodities in the sacred name of protection? “Time,” says Senator Lodge, “is the great healer.” 5 How much time would be required to heal the new wounds the Fordney-McCumber tariff is prepared to inflict on the pocketbooks of Amer- ican consumers? ACHES AND PAINS To the rescue comes the “League for a Living” with a plan for a new Utopia, which is, briefly, that all able-bodied citizens shall hustle at collective labor for fifteen years, beginning at the age of eighteen, At thirty-three, under this system, he or she would have piled wp in a storehouse of some sort the $43,000 needed to provide (estimated) the needs of an aver- age life of fifty-three years. After that he could loaf or work for the fun of it. Sounds sweet! . By this plan, the unnamed author observes: “Poets would especially benefit. © * * Those mild lov- ers of beauty (heaven knows what their number may be), little geniuses who now spend their lives in dusty toil and never have the chance to be themselves. How many of these little birds are trampled under foot! It is a pity they never come to flower!” This is certainly a sympathetic view to take of us. ° New York and its environs continue to beat dear old London for size, What a fat boy we are, to be sure! Only a Lord Mayor ts lacking to make the com- parison majestic, ° The Republican “Old Guard” has been beaten again —this time in Iowa, It will probably revive in season to collar the campaign fond. Mormonism now claims a membership of 516,000. They atl go to church. . The newest municipal menace is a $15,000,000 arr centre, which proposes to plug up the park end of Sev enth Avenue. Will they put Civic Virtue in itr JOHN KEL THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922. — ey <n ntn e y —aa E by john Cassel Never Seen Em So Bad!" Famous Philosophies Their G st in Simple Words By LOUIS 'M, NOTKIN Copyright, 1922 (New York Bvenit World), by Prese Publishing Co.» Copipright, 12 (New York World), by ireas Publiahin "THE EPICUREAN PHILOSO- PHY”"—PURSUIT OF PLEASURE, Epicureanism is s> simple and transparent a principle that it scarcely needs an interpreter. The best way to understand it is to let Epicurus and his disciples speak for themselves, The gist of plourug> teaching is contained in the follow. ing passages: “The end of all our actions ts to be free froth pain and fear; and when once we have attained this, we ful- fil our purpose In life. We therefuca call pleasure the alpha and omega of a blessed life, Pleasure is our first and kindred good, From it is the commencement of every choice and every aversion, and to it we con! back and make feoling the rule by which to judge of every good thin, “When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal, or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood by some who are either ignorant and prejudiced for other views or are inclined to misinterpret our statements. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking feasts and of revelry, not the enjoy- ments of the fish and other delicacies of @ splondid table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasonin, searching out the reasons for every choice and avoiding and banishing those beliefs through which great tumults take possession of the soul.” Yet while pleasure is thus of the mind, it by no means excludes the pleasures of the body. Bpicurus say: “Tam unable to form any ce ame) of good from which we have elii nated the pleasures of eating a: drinking, the pleasures of music and eloquence, and the pleasures of shape and pleasant movements. . “And since pleasure is our first and native good, for that reason we do not choose every pleasure whatsoever, but oftentimes we consider pains superior to pleasures, and submit to the pain for a long time when it is attended for us with a greater pl Epicurus is altogether without fear about death, which he disposes of with a very simple, and, from the point of yiew of his psychology, very satisfactory reason: “Accustom thyself in the belief that death is nothing to us, for good and evil are only where they are felt, and death is the absence of all feeling; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes enjoy- able the morality of life, not by add- ing to years an illimitable time, but by taking away the yearning after, immortality. Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because tt pains in the prospect. Whatsover causes no an- noyance when it is present causes: only a groundless pain by, the expec- tation thereof.” When You Go to thO Museum MAN AND APE FAR APART. Man may have developed from a monkey. But the earliest part of the skeleton of a man yet discovered in- dicates a degree of physical develop- ment higher than that of any of the »rimates now known or unearthed. “/ One of the most primitive men yet discovered is the “Trinil,"" or ape man of Java, whose indeterminate r acter is indicated by the name “ape A reconstruction of the head of a ‘trinil’’ at the American Museum of Natural History shows a degree of development of forehead which is em- phatically more marked than that of either the gibbon, the orang, the chimpanzee or the gorilla, designated as “anthropoid apes" because of their resemblance to man. The restoration of the skull and head of the ‘Trinil,"’ or ape man, is based upon a discovered brain case and two teeth of this early inhabitant of Java. We know little about this ‘‘Trinil,"’ or ape man, but the scientists have found an important difference be- tween him and any of the now known apes. That difference lay in the fact that he walked upright. Even in that remote period of his development man had begun to aspire, [aca leaceieaeemanen From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hund:ed? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few word: Take time to be bi . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Public Sentiment. To the Editor of The Evening World: Has it ever occurred to you that the Teading public, especially the laboring men, get very tired of seeing the same old story in print time and time again? In your editorial Thursday evening you say that if the railroad workers strike, they must bear in mind that public sentiment will be against them. That if they do strike it will be not a strike against the railroads but against the Government, and there- fore public sentiment must be with the railroads. Did it ever strike you very forcibly that regardless of the fact of how many times the railroad companies defy the rulings of the Labor Board, public sentiment is never arrayed against them? The poor old public and its senti- ments are only brought into play when the laboring man has enough courage to fight for his just dues. The railroad worker is not seeking favors. He wants a decent living wage and that is all. But when he has nerve and courage enough to say he intends to fight for these things then he is reminded by the daily press that Old Boy Public Sentiment 1s against all such actions as these. Be a good fellow, Mr, Editor, and dig up some better excuse to scare the railroad workers, for I am very much afraid that the average railroader {s way past the sentiment stage, whether it be public or any other kind, I really don’t think that there will be any sentiment against you if you print this; honestly, 1 don’t. JOHN C. BROWNING, Order Railroad Telegraphers. New York, June 3, 1922, ference of rank is theoretically repu- diated in America, and yet they prob- ably thought that they needed the in- fluence of foreign prestige to raise their families and themselves above the ordinary, class to which they still belong. ‘To these unfortunate titled women permit me to say that the mercenary and generally, useless noblemen seem to have far wreater respect for the value of the American dollar than they have for the empty titles which were handed down to them through the exceptional courage or personal worth of their meritorious ancestors. Of course, such women, especially when they are repentant, have a per- fect right to visit their native coun- try. They should not, however, ex- pect to enjoy the same hospitality and courtesy as they were formerly en- titled to receive. It is not true human nature to say ‘Thank you" when some one insultingly slaps you in the face. In fact the American people have been altogether too lenient and mag- nanimous with these business bar- gainers. The country is better off without them. To these social deserters of home and country one may venture to re- mark that a true American is second to no one and that {f American money can buy prestige abroad, what should the honor of being born on American soil be to a man wih even an ounce of American blood in his veins? JOHN LYNCH. Brooklyn, June 5, 1922. GET EVEN—WITH YOURSELF. Revenge may be sweet—but so is sugar. them is particularly good for a human being. If the reader feels called upon to get even with some- body, he will do well to select himself as the person with whom to get even. He is a very remarkable reader who owes himself no grudge—who has never done himself an injury. Every time he indulges a bad habit he is doing some- thing for which he ought to get even with himself by and by. Every time he yields to the temptation to waste time or )energy, to spend money foolishly, to overeat, to under- exercise, he is laying the foundation for what ought in time to be a good, healthy grudge. If he nurses a grudge against another man, he may spend years waiting in vain for an opportunity to pay it off. Even if the opportunity comes and it is paid in full, he has gained nothing but a little sorry satisfaction whose in- dulgence he soon comes to regret. But if he nurses grudges against himself he will be the gainer each time he pays one of them, for each payment will tend to discipline him so that he will be less likely to commit the same sort of injuries in the future. It is possible for a man, by arranging for himself a series of fines and penalties—which he rigidly enforces—to be- come in time his own boss, which is a very important thing indeed. - To every human being comes the frequent necessity of doing disagreeable things, of performing drudgery, which, however helpful it may be to character, is far from pleasant in the performance. If he finds he has fallen into the very common habit of neglecting his work, he can impose an additional working sentence on himself by way of getting even. If he has been excessive in catering to his appetites, he can be a little extra abstemious for a few days, which will give his outraged nervous and digestive systems an oppor- tunity to catch up. We could go on and catalogue a list of little mean- nesses which some people commit, and the penalties that could be attached to them. But we take it for granted that our readers have no little meannesses, It is well to forget revenge on others and the desire to get even with them. Getting even with ourselves is a form of revenge that will really be sweet in the end. Neither of WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JUNE 8—ROBERT SCHUMANN was born in Zwickau, Germany, on the 8th of June, 1810, and died near Bonn July 29, 1856. He first studied * law at the University of Heidelberg, but his ambition to excel as a pianist induced him to devote himself to A Ballymena Affair. To the Editor of The Evening World As a constant reader of the Morning and Evening World I wish to draw your attention to the highly amusing and ridiculous article in this evening's paper headed “Admiral'’s Wife Handled Yacht and Rifle in Ulster Naval Fight.” As a native of Ballymena I claim to have a little knowledge of the geo- graphical position of Ballymena Castle, which is situated about eleven miles from a stretch of water suffi- cient to even hold a rowboat, If you peruse the map of County Antrim you will see Ballymena is sit- uated in mid-Antrim, A. L. O'ROWE, Astoria, L. 1, June 3, 1922. Harsh Critictam. To the Editor of The Evening World All of the so-called American women who have married foreign noble- men deserve the utmost condemnation of every true-blooded American, They ire not people about whom one can feel justly proud. The mere fact that they have ac- cepted a title of nobility through mar- rlage plainly shows that they have no sarthly use for the country of thelr birth or tts great and glorious institu- ions. It is also a contemptible ad- of one of his fingers whereby he was compelled to devote himself excl sively to composing. In 1840 he mar- ried Clara Wieck, who made his music highly popular in Europe by playing with marked success in many of the leading cittes. In 1843 Schumann was made Pro- fessor of Composition in the Con- servatory of Music at Letpzig, founded by his friend Mendelssohn, and in 1850 he became musical director at Duesseldorf, In 1863 his mind became Latin name is Hypericum perforatum. The “icum" of the first term is the Greek, “a phantom," from its sup- posed charm against ghosts and evil “That’s a Fact”’ Such snob- very Is even an acknowledgment to 3 cu | nission that American men are not | By Albert P. Southwick spirit, wee affected and he was confined in a hos- good enough for them, altheugh their Copyright, 1922, (The A epushing Os. pital near Bonn where he stayed until ‘uccesaful and splendid fathers were |, 4 Record for the Mauretauts, [PePrworid) by. ing Coutin Baok de an cetapienment nln ann, in tha game tine stout To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘ London, England, which’ has been used by the royal family since the = = aad Your issue of June 8 states that] «yohn,'* the herb, is also called St ‘he world thot their family connee-|the Mauretania made a record run|Johnwort, devil-fuse, heal-all, $s. It] time of Queen Anne, | ma pliner areas -reputatien) for lons at home were not of the high=|of five days eleven hours thirty.}18 mentioned by P\iny and Dioscorides, *Quashee’ 1 ma’ aomatimnes th are st kind, and if this were not so th . The Lusitani pal NMNd dev TUSe Rea ues ee cent wee reaie Wee Tenet “New. Albion'? wamithe ti ven would not Have been carried away by] OM mnie: sitania made} onosed to ( charm against evil] given to a West India Negro. ne New BN ame gi he outward display of monograms,|the same run twenty years ago in| spirits, Culled “heal-all” for the rea-|term is said to be derived from} by Sir Francia Drake to the Pacitie oats of arnis, co! functions and|five days seven hours twenty-|son that it was at one-time, con-|Quassi or Colas, a black man of Sur- | Coast nov include a orthern Call- other European nonsense three minutes P. J. MAHER, |pidered a panacea both for external}inam, who prescrbed the bark of the| fornia, Oregon and Washington -and~ ‘These know full well that a dif- _ New York, June 8, 1922, injuries and internal complaints. Its} quassia plant «s 4 remedy for fever {some of the region to the northward, a e ' ’ oy -