The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 30

} } } i } ; ‘ ‘ = ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH Published Daly Wxoopt Gunday by The Press Publishing Company. Now, 68 to 62 Park Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President. h 5 Park J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Ri ry JOSHPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Prevs ts exciosively entitled to the mse for republication ‘of ail ntws deapatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper ‘tnd also the local news pubilahed herein, A TAWDRY TARIFF SHOW. H™ you a cuckoo clock in your home? If so, were you simple enough to pay $22 for it? Have you a pearl necklace imported from Bisse tites: France for $12.35 and resold to you at $150? © Have you a “gold-brick” in the parlor used to “)prop open the door on hot evenings? & Af you have all these, plus large holdings of beautifully engraved wild-cat oil stocks, you are welcome to the G. O. P. tariff show. You have the type of mind adapted to that sort of enter- tainment. If you don’t let the tariff makers take away your money, some one else will. Chairman McCumber's exhibition was about as * tawdry an affair as ever travelled the “medicine show” circuit under the blazing gasoline torch. For the most part the articles shown were non- essentials. Cuckoo clocks, pearl necklaces, roulette wheels, pipes, bird cages, toys, games, pocket- knives, laces and the like figured prominently. These are things we can do without if we must. But we cannot do without sugar. And just be- “fore the Senate staged its show it raised the sched- ule of duties on sugar enough so that the house- wife will get about four pounds less for her dollar than she does now, ~ McCumber’s smoke screen is showy but spe- cious. Doubtless there are many dealers willing “to sell novelties at 2,000 per cent. profit if they can get suckers to pay such sums. But in the staples of the market where competition is keen such a spread in prices is impossible, unless the Depart- ment of Justice is lax in prosecuting conspiracies. It is on the staples that the tariff hurts. Here’s Prohibition in a most undignified — ~ mess. The sale of liquor on American ships was going on peacefully enough until some. ‘body called attention to it. Now there's no » end of a pother—with the Ship Subsidy Bill involved. Why all the row? What's a little hypocrisy among Prohibitionists? |. WHO STAND\IN THE WAY? NS for the $9-a-rbom apartments in“ two groups totalling 50 houses and 8,250 rooms it’ Long Island City and Astoria, the same being _part of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany’s $100,000,000 home building project under -the new housing laws, were first given to the pub- lic by The Evening World yesterday. The size and arrangement of She rooms, repre- ‘senting the best that architectural skill can con- trive for combination of comfort and convenience at rental figures to fit modest incomes, will be ‘atudied with deep interest. The architect, An- drew J. Thomas, seems to have realized that women’s advice would be his trustiest help toward turning out a masterpiecé of apartment planning. So he sought that advice and profited by it. ~ Comptroller Stabler of the Metropolitan Life Company reports that the work of building these apartments will begin directly “the prices of ma- terials come down.” - This is in significant contrast to his warm praise of the spirit in which union labor has come for- ward and assured him of its co-operation with “a full day's work from every man” until the job is finished. Here is a chance to turn the spotlight squarely on profiteer dealers in building materials and make them face the responsibility and odium oft holding up a great public welfare project for which capital and labor have joined hands. From the brick dealers down—who are they that stand in the way? It has taken Westchester County a month to convince itself that the way to clear up a homicide mystery is to get the facts from those who know them. MONEY IN PRIMARIES. OMMENTING on “Campaign Expenses,” the Times goes about as far wrong as it could. After contrasting Newberry’s record with the primary campaign expenses reported by Col, Brookhart of Iowa and referring to the $120,000 Pinchot spent in Pennsylvania, the Times ex- claims: “In the name of the Prophet, figs! The neo- reason, fudge! Nothing could be more false and shortalghted, It is entirely concoivable that a candidate might Be A person of such magnetic personality that | phwsande of voters gongaibuge amall sums THE from pure friendship and admiration. Such a fund, however large, could be used to good effect if properly spent. Such a fund would be no menace to popular government. But if the candidate himself contributed.a huge sum for the payment of “workers,” for the corrup- tion of voters, for a barrel for the “boys,” then the danger is real. 1! ame applies to corporation or individual contributions advanced in expecta- tion of future favors. It may be difficult to set a legal limit to what may be and may not be spent in a primary cam- paign, but when it comes to the “moral difference” the voters have been quick to see what the Times denies. The courts have decided that as a matter of law Newberry is not a criminal. On the moral issue, Newberry’s seat is by no means safe even now. The new Senators may unseat Newberry as they did Lorimer. . THE TORCH. HE ‘Yevised Constitution of the Free State of Ireland may satisfy Lloyd George on the one hand and Arthur Griffith on the other, \It may be in full accordance with the treaty and at the same time, as Griffith says, permit Ireland “to control and develop her own resources and to live her own national life.” Nevertheless, the revised Irish Constitution still prescribes for every member of the Pavliament of the Irish Free State an oath of allegiance, part of which is as follows: 5 “I will be faithful'to His Majesty King George V. and his heirs and successors by Jaw and in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland and \. Great Britain, and her adherence to and mem- bership pf the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations.” _Passionate refusal to take such an oath has been the chief brand used to keep burning fires of irreconcilable Republican fanaticism in Ireland. Will the new phrasing pass with De Valera? Will he extinguish the torch? Mayor Hylan says Chairman McAneny and Commissioner Harkness should resign from the Transit Commission, Maybe he could get Gov. Miller to appoint William Randolph Hearst and David Hirshfield to the vacant Commissioner- ships. FLOWERS FOR THE SICK AND SHUT-INS. HE flower booth at the Grand Central Station, opened under the auspices of the United Neighborhood Houses and the National Plant, Fruit*and Flower Guild, is an enterprise that de- serves the widest possible support of the public The plan is not to sell but to receive flowers. It is planned with the idea of helping people to be generous without cost or inconvenience. Those in charge of the booth ask commuters to bring fresh flowers from their gardens and leave them. The Neighborhood Hoises organization will dis- tribute them to settlement houses, hospitals, shut- ins and others who will appreciate the bit of out- doors and the beauty of the gardens. ° If the garden isn’t doing well this year,-most commuters can find wild flowers within easy walk- ing distance. j The idea has the beauty of simplicity. It isn’t the ordinary drive. It is more personal—and without expense. The flower booth deserves wide patronage. It is to be hoped similar booths can be opened at the other commuter terminals. The plan fills a real need for a service. It con- nects those who have beauty and blossoms to spare with those who have neither. It is feared the falling off in income tax re- ceipts for this district will prove so great as to cause serious inconvenience to Uncle Sam. Well, there was serious inconvenience yester- day for many a taxpayer. They just know how it feels, . If hotels actually discharge all bootlegging bell boys some of the patrons will wait long for ice water. ACHES AND PAINS. The Subway Sun proudly calls attention to Mr. Hedley’s “running.sohedules” for ball games. What most of us want from Mr. H. is home runs! . We hope Marconi will not get into wireless touch with Mars, It will mean another world to conquer, and the Martians are considered more advanced than we, They might douse us with wireless gas or do something equally ingentous, Knowledge is power, but it is also the cause of a heap of trouble. . The Prohibe will find it a very hard jod to keep @ ship dry, Wet ts ite element. . The greatest traveller in the bird world is the tern, Its annual round trip to meet the shifts of climate ta 82,000 miles. ° Poor Warren G, he cannot sce ‘There is no show for a subsides! ° Mr, Bryan (a joaded wp wlth #0 much moral re aponaidility that he will require the wings of an aeroplane whew he finally goes aloft, y JOUN Kunrg, eth hate ade l EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE i6, 1923, From Evening WorldReaders What kind of letter do you find most readable? that givesthe worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine chental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. to say much in few words. The Standard Of Living. To the Editor of The Evening World: In answer to your queries as to the “‘American Standard of Living,’ may I suggest the following? 1. The requisites which go to make up the “American Standard of Liv- ing’’ are: A. The absolute essentials of exist- ence assured. B. Enough of the luxuries change mere existence into “‘life.’’ C, Opportunity and means for the enhancement and expression of self. D. Opportunity and means to be- come and remain a useful cog in the social machinery. 2. This standard is best typified in New York City in that district be- tween Central Park West and Colum- bus Avenue from 69th Street to 96th Street. READER. New York, June 14, 1922. to Poor Nathan Hale. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘With decreasing toleration for some one's taste, footsore I have followed the journeyings of Nathan Hale about City Hall Park. I first came upon the patriot in the original position of em~ placement; the grass plot to the south of the broad esplanade tn front of City Hall facing Broadway. ‘This was not at all a bad place for Nathan Hale. But when the Broadway subway was built, the Con- tinental schoolmaster and martyr was moved to the asphalt of the esplanade, \ewhat to the east of the City Hall. ‘his was @ very poor place in which to set up so fine a work of art, but it was, at least, a position which per- mitted one to obtain a perspective of the statue. © Now, at last, Nathan Hale has been) set up over at the spot at which omee was a drinking fountain. It is just at the edge of the northern grass plot. ‘Will you tell me, if this is possible, why such @ place was selected? The spot is one which is always passed by pedestrians on a sem{-run to or from the subway station, pr otherwise bent and in the same hurry, Who will ever see Nathan Hale now? Who will eyer have the courage to stem the Broad- way tide for a moment's) contempla- tion of the statue? It seems that now the whole thing will be lost to New Yorkers in the grey blur of an object swiftly F. passed. New York, June 14, 1922, World: A short time ago in this column pointed out that the people of this country have had a chance to express themaelves upon the question of Pro- As result of this three letters have sihoe been printed from wets in reply, in which 1 am Isn't it the one roundly denounced as “fanatic” and am accus picturesque language of J. A. 8., of “making grotesque misstatements easily refuted by any schoolboy,"’ yet not one of these word-arti: pre- sented a fact to controvert my state- ments or dared to deny them except by implication. Permit me to repeat that a large proportion of the people of this country have had a direct chance to vote upon the question of Prohibi- tion. Twenty-eight States have been. voted dry by the people at regularly conducted State-wide referendums in which the question of Prohibition was placed upon the ballot. In the rest of the country voting on Prohibition has been by means of local option, im which counties and townships vote Individually. When the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect over 90 per cent. of the United States, containing three-fourths of the population, was dry territory as a difect expression of the will of the people. The fact that the foreign element in a few large cities was wildly op- posed is not conclusive argument against Prohibition. The twelve largest cities contain not 70 per cent., as Mr. Morley declared, but less than 16 per cent. of our population. Mr. J, A. 8. asks me to name Senators, Congressmen, &c., who were elected after “‘signifying their intention of furthering the cause of Prohibition to the country at large.’’ I refer him to the men who voted first for the Eighteenth Amendment, later for the Volstead act. A large majority of these men were re-elected after not only expressing their intentions but registering their opinions in favor of Prohibition’ in recorded votes, and at present they cbdnstitute a majority in Allow me to conclude,with a word of advice, The gentlemen who answered me evidently found it easier to call me a lar than to prove me one. To verify my statements they have only to consult the files of The World Almanac. If they will in the future pay more attention to fact and less to invectives they will accomplish much more, ARTHUR BARNHART. Princeton, N. J., June 12, 1922. Come on, Competition, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: The papers state that another new taxicab company is now being formed, to operate at a lower fare than ts at present in vogue in Néw York, Lon- don or Paris. One can now travel three miles In this city for one do. in any of the thousands of splendid cabs equipped with a green flag metre, and operated by the most skilful and intelligent chauffeurs in the world. jm eo far as Dear ‘Ol Lannod” is him out of the picture. Bowery in New York. last arrive. preparedness. fence. speeding toward him. tragedies. Nobody is without get a chance. rior righteodsness. them. concerned, I assume they are able to look after their own affairs without assistance from any one who con- templates engaging in the ‘hacking’ business in our fair city. ‘As an old ‘hack’? man of this city (born and raised here), let me respectfully remind the gentlemen, bo- fore they sink their good American dollars in taxicabs, that I have seen twelve good, strong companies go ‘pusted” trying to paint this town rea through the medium of the lowest fares in the world bunk. ‘Come on with your competition, the mere errier. ite RICHARD BANKS. Now-York, June 12, 1922, \ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake * (Coprright, 102% by Joke Blake) REVERSING THE TELESCOPE. The anticipation is usually bigger than the event. A recent newspaper cartoon pictures a gentleman at- tacked by a bulldog and greatly worried about it. But when he turned on the creature a telescope he car- ried, reversing it in the process, the dog was diminished to the size of a toy terrier and the lately terrified man kicked O. Henry, whose stories contain more philosophy than is taught in most of the schools, wrote a story about a youth who was insulted by a rough person during a ramble in the Resenting the insult, he proceeded to thrash the offender roundly, Next day when he discovered that the man he had pummelled was the world’s champion prize fighter the lad was overcome with terror. It is a common habit to magnify future troubles, and pleasures also, for that matter. Magnifying troubles gives people a large and unrea- sonable amount of worry, which merely partially paralyzes the faculties needed to overcome the troubles when they at It is just as well to be prepared, but fright is very poor If a man is crossing a pasture where there is a savage bull, it will pay him to note the easiest way to the nearest But it will do him no good whatever to stand and tremble at the thought of annihilation while the bull is In every human life there is certain to be a number of unpleasant happenings, many griefs and perhaps a few enemies who will harm him if they Sometimes the most virtuous have the most enemies, because evil-minded people are prone to hate those of supe- Inasmuch as these troubles will come, it serves no good purpose to make them seem larger than they are. If we can Jook at them through a reversed telescope some of them will disappear altogether and others will seem of far less magnitude while they approach. And if we feel our ability to overcome them all, we are sure to overcome at least a very considerable number of From the Wise The chief requisites of a cour- tier are a flewible conscience and inflexible politeness. —Lady Blessington. The vessel that will not abey her helm will have to obey the rocks.—Proverb, Votes ought to be weighed, not counted.—Schiller, He loves but lightly who his love can tell.—Petrarch. [STRONY Epoch-Making BOOKS © | By Thomas Bragg Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. | Five hundred years before Christ, in the bloom-period of thought, the period of Aeschylus, Phidias, Pericles, Socrates and Plato, appeared Hippo- crates, one of the greatest names jm history. Quietly but thoroughly he broke away from the old tradition, developed séientific thought, and laid the foundations of medical science upon experience, observation and rea broadly that his teaching remains to this hotir among the most precious possessions of our race. - Thus speaks Dr. Andrew D. White, in his monumental work, “The War- fare of Science with Theology.” _ ‘Before the time of Hippocrates-- tributed to supernatural causes, Peo. ple were made Sick by an angry god or malicious démon, and the thing to do was to placate the god or demon by certain rituals or incantations. This ancient nonsense was brushed aside by Hippocrates. In the “Prog- nostica’’ and othet writings, Hippo- crates sent out among men the thoughts. which were destined to completely revolutionize thé science and practice of medicine. To the sick man Hippocrates said, “The gods are not mad with you, the demons are not after you; you or your ancestors, near or remote, have violated some law of ake; and as @ consequence there is something the matter with you. I will examine you and find out what the tronble is, and having diagnosed your case, copoeia something that will help you."’ The “Father of Medicine’ was gathered to his fathers. Greek civili- zation perished, to be followed by the anarchy or barbarism and the igns- Trance and superstition of the Middle Ages, but the truths that Hippocrates lad spoken lived on through the Ions , night of more than a thousand years, and when the morning of the revival of learning dawned began to work again in men’s minds with its old- 1 energy. To-day, the sclence founded so long ago by the grand old Greek is work- ing wonders. It is quite: true that there are still superstitions in medi- cine, but if Montaigne and the authors of “Gil Blas" and the “Anatomy of Melancholy’ were in our midst it is much fun with the medical practi- tioners of to-day as they had with those of the olden’ time. They would find lots of “pra ers,” however, who are maki of money and lots of notoriety py “healing” people thro other than natural means. Superstition is stiil rampant in spots, but !ts doom is sounded Scientific medicine, founded #0 years ago by the ‘Man from Cos’ 1s steadily gaining ground and will eventually drive all its competitors froin the field. When You Go to the Museum THE NEANDERTHAL RACE. For thousands of years Hurope was inhabited by a race of which the original discovery was made in the Neander Valley, near Duesseldorf, Germany, in the middle of the nine- teenth century. From the place where the first discovery of a relic was made, this race of men are named the Neanderthal race, or Neanderthal Man. Practically complete skeletons, or scattered relics of this European type of man have been unearthed in France, in Spain and in the British Isles. What became of this low-browe: but distinctly human race, once so widely scattered? It vanished, pe haps under the pressure of a supenwr race coming from another part of the world; perhaps under stress of weather in the fourth and last glaciat period. This lost race was contemporan- eous with the mammoth, whom «ie apparently accompanied into the lim- bo of extinction, A bust of the Neanderthal Man is a feature of the anthropological 2x- hibit of the American Museum of Natural History. WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JUNE 16—SIR JOHN CHEKE was born on June 16, 1614, and died Sept, 18, 1557. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and while there was converted to Protestantism. In 1540 he was elected to the ehair of Greek at St. John’s College, where he introduced a new method of Greek pronunciation which at first was met with opposition but finally adopted. Cheke also took part in public life, serving in Parllament for a number of years and as one of the Secretaries of State. He was appointed Secre- tary of State under Lady Jane Grey. Because of this, Mary, upon becoming Queen, caused him to be thrown into the Towér.. He was released but later again confined, Terrified by tho threat of the stake he was forced to renounce his religion and accept the Church of Rome, but upon hie release he was #0 overcome with shame and remorse that he soon died. ? son, and laid them so deeply an@ 460 B. C.—disease was everywhere at- , L will try to find in nature's pharma’ 6 om ass fi certain that they would not have es ~