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{ee « nalall ccodmoi THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 38, 1922. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘North Dakota Celebrates! »:sin- By John Cassel rial to soldiers who died in the war. They were of no one class. They belonged to no aesthetic aristocracy. They would be the last to see any- thing incongruous or unworthy in a memorial that included something to bring relief and happi- ness into the lives on which the crowded city presses cruelly in hot weather. Let us discuss the war memorial from every reasonable angle, also the plan for using the Cen- tral Park reservoir site. . But let’s drop the view that either memorial or park must be defiled if the people get some new, simple, direct good therefrom. That is civic snobbery. Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Copyright, 1922 (New York Bvening jority: by Prese ‘Publishing Oo. t PULITZE! J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. ‘ JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Address all communications toT ME EVENING WORLD, Pulltecr Bullding, Park Row, New York City. Remit by Express i Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order of Registered Letter. HOlreulation Bookr Open to All.” MONDAY, JULY 8, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. te be th Ogp, Zeer Str Menthe Moat “THE PERSIANS.” Lecky, in his ‘History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Ration- alism,” says: ‘Combining the three great influences of eloquence, poetry, and painting, the drama has probably, done more than any other single agent to produce that craving after the ideal, that passionate enthusiasm of intellect, out of which all great works of imagination have sprung. It has been the seed-plant of poetry and romance, and it Has exercised a con-(> siderable influence over oratory. This amusement, which has ever proved one of the chief delights, and one of the most powerful incentives to genius, has, at the same time, the rare privilege of acting with equal power upon the opposite extreme of Intellect, and is even now almost the only link connecting thousands with intellectual pursuits."” If this pronouncement is true, as we believe it is, then a very high fame belongs to Aeschylus, the ™ “Father of the Drama. Aeschylus—born at Eleusis B. ©. §25—fought at Marathon and Salamis in the heroic struggle against the Mede, and returning home, full of the divine enthusiasm born of the immor- tal victory that had been won, wrote and put upon the stage “The Per- sians,"’ just a pamphlet, as it were, in length, and yet that pamphlet created the drama—the great thing | upon which Lecky bestowed his high | encomlum. Before Aeschylus there was a some- thing that called itself the drama, but it was such only in name, sines| {t consisted almost entirely of the’ chorus, with rhapsodic recitation. To begin with, Aeschylus added the. second actor, thereby establishing the dialogue as the main feature of the action. In all, Aesch¥ius wrote some ninety ‘plays, of which only seven have been preserved, among them being “The Persians" and the !mmortal “‘Prome- theus Bound.”” ‘With those plays began the drama, which from having been largely scenic and emotional began to be intellectual and to make their appeal to the ideal, out of which, in the words of Lecky, have come “‘all the great works of imagination."* In introducing action in place of the perpetual chorus, and dramatic @ dialogue instead of the long and tire- some narrations of his predecessors, Aeschylus did the work that wan never to be undone, and paved the way for Shakespeare, Moliere and Booth, It Is true that his actors are Titans, gigantic heroes and gods oftener than they are men, and the logy grandilo- quence of the language corresponds with the dramatic personnel, but through {t all Aeschylus was bridging the way to the modern stage—the stage as {t 1s to-day. When You Go to the : Museum : THE WONDERFUL HAIDA CANO 00 35 cents; by mail 50 cents. BRANCH YFFICES. sway, cor. 90¢h. Marnie Wyatt Bids, bs (Pactome’ Bldg | pETROrT, bm Ford Bide. + 140th Bt. BEE] OHTCAGO, 1608 Mallers Bide. rashington @,| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opers. ion ox. % | TONDON, 90 Cockepur Bt. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. aod Site Sere shee CIVIC SNOBBERY. Agent the outcry against using the old reser- voir site in Central Park for a war memo- i tial that shall be not only a monument but a place | bo attract those on whom summer in the city bears hard two objections are loudest. typ 2 is claimed: : | C1) That a swimming pool as part of the pro- posed plan would Coneyize Central Park. } (2) That popular comfort or amusement can- * not properly be combined with the dignity of a memorial to the soldier dead. Neither of these claims stands the test of com- mon sense. Neither rests on a true conception of how the civic feeling of this great community can most genuinely be expressed. To maintain that a municipal swimming pool must turn Central Park into a Coney Island is rubbish. A swimming pool on the site of the old reservoir could bring incalculable relief to hundreds of thousands in hot weather, without permitting a sign of the booths, barkers and beach-lizards out of which the Coney Island bogy has been built. If it seems best, restrict the Central Park pool to children, Surround it with vigilant protection against all undesirable features. Spare no ex- pense to keep it fresh and sanitary. Whatever it cost, it would still be a public blessing of the kind most modern cities aim to provide. St. Louis has lately opened a big municipal — swimming pool. Syracuse has another. If we are not mistaken, Boston recently turned over to its children on hot days even the Frog Pond of its sacred Common, Acres of Central Park are now used for base- ball, tennis and croquet. Nobody thinks of find- ing fault with skating in the park in winter. Why WHAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS. M. JEWELL, head of the Federated Shop B. Crafts and chief spokesman for the striking railroad shopmen, says: “When this situation is cleared up it ‘wil be done in conferences between the railway mana- gers and the men. The Railroad Labor Board is out of it. The board is only a Wall Street scheme to crush the unions, and many members of Congress know it. It was evident from the start that the six votes in the public and rail- way groups would work together and they have confirmed that view.” This kind of talk may sound all right to the shopworkers on strike. But the public is not so ready to see the Railroad Labor Board pushed aside. The public knows perfectly well that to say the board is “a Wall Street scheme to crush the unions” is bosh. The Railroad Labor Board has done nothing to lose it the backing of the United States Government or the respect of the public. The present strike is not primarily against rail- way managers, It is against representatives of the people. The public is not going to be bluffed into be- lieving it anything else. t ' A THOUGHT FOR THE FOURTH. The Fathers of the Declaration, had they been prophets, would have written the clause on securing men’s “inalienable rights” to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Anti-Saloon League.” - A SENATOR WHO HAS TRULY SERVED. N EW YORK has many members of its Legis- lature who could be better spared than Senator Charles C. Lockwood, who has announced that he will not seek renomination and re-election. It is rare indeed that a man retires with more valuable public service to his credit than is al- ready associated with the name of Lockwood. As Chairman of Joint Legislative Housing Committee, Senator Lockwood is most generally and gratefully known as the sponsor of the Rent Laws and the advocate of legislation to curb abuses in the home-building business. Much of his programme has been enacted into law, and From Evening W orld Readers What kind of letter de you find most readable? Ian’t it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying i te eay much in few wor: Take time to be brief. ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright. 102%. by Jobe Biska) ANGER IS A VICE. - One of the first objects that strike Evolution. to-day’s issue ‘‘Unseemly, and Dan- doubted! ill be d at fy . the eye—and the !magination—of the ~ | more undoubtedly wil enacted at the next |70 the mattor of The Evening World: gerous."” The law is fair. There are people who seem to enjoy being angry. A 3] visitor on entering the North Pacific all the fuss over a proposal to use the old reservoir | secsion, To many people there seems to be} Is it the fault of the United States u 5 < distinguished editor once said of a very prominent po- litical leader: “He functions best when he is angry. He is not happy when he cannot work himself into a fury over something or other.” Of this particular man this may be true. But his anger sprees leave him the next morning with the same feeling of remorse that follows the carouse of the alcoholic. The man who finds himself becoming an anger addict had best be careful. Scientists tell us that anger generates poisons in the system which do a great deal of harm. It is well known that men who are given to violent fits of anger often become apoplectic. The excited brain demands blood in unusual quantities from the heart. The heart is overstrained in supplying it, and often the brain gets more blood than it can stand, with sudden death as the result. As a matter of fact, anger, like excessive drinking or the use of drugs, can become a vice. Indulgence in one fit of it makes indulgence in a second easier. Soon it becomes a habit, and a very costly habit. Fortunately, each individual is so insignificant in com- parison with the mass of individuals that surround him that he does not dare to go too far with his anger. It is held in restraint by his discretion, which in turn is founded on experience with the effect that his anger pro- duces on other people. But now and then a man in a position of auth = velops the habit and is able to indwect without Persil “ That man soon becomes of very little value. Nobod: ean think clearly with a blood-flooded brain, td space for a swimming pool? We are tired of hearing Central Park talked about as if it were chiefly a piece of landscape to be preserved for the view from Fifth Avenue mansions during the brief periods when their windows are unboarded. If Central Park is for anybody, it is for jhe millions who have to stay in the city through the hot weeks, when the Fifth Avenue dwellers have long been “summering” in the coolest places to which money will take them. That is why Central Park needs something more than landscape. It needs turf strong enough to bear the feet of children—thick enough for tired adults to sit and lie on. It needs band stands and places where people can sip drinks and listen to music. It needs playgrounds for young and old. Central Park needs a swimming pool far more than it needs a municipal art centre. The func- tion of a park is fully as much to provide the public with healthful exercise as to provide it with masses of brick or marble to gaze on. As to the claim that popular pleasure should not be combined with the plan of a war memorial, we ask: Would it mean nothing to be able to draw Hall, on the ground floor of the Mu- seum Qf Natural History, is a huge canoe that looks like a Viking ship, It 1s called the Halda canoe, and on board are wonderfully accurate, life- size figures of a party of Chilkat Indians on their way to a “potlatch” ceremony. One of the criticisms levelled at the poor in great cities is the enormous expenditures they make on the fu- nerals of their dear ones. The Chil- kat Indians had the same tendency before the “paleface” appeared on this continent. The party in the Hnida canoe is on its way, with the medicine man in command, to perform rites for their dead which will reduce their sub- stance considerably, The canoe is made from a single tree and is 64% feet long and eight feet wide. es & gross misconception concerning|that the people take chances against “evolution” and Darwin's theory.| Setting shut out on account of the uota? They think the two are synonymous.| "ho we ask them to come? It really is not so. To whom do they, pay, thelr passage Evolution is a fact. Darwin's hea “Ss ne tikat to-doostand ‘ou bought a ticket to Eng! theory is just an attempted explana-| .., ‘United States ship and for some tion of this natural phenomenon, reason or other you were not allowed An analogy will explain this better.] to land, who would you blame, Eng- We see a man in New York. Some] land or the steamship company? time later we see him in Boston,|, Why don’t you put the blame where it belongs, on the steamship com- How did he get there? He might! panies? They are the ones who bring have gone by airplane, by boat, by| them over. We have enough to do on train or by foot. Your conjecture] this side of the water without going over there looking for trouble. tries to explain how he arrived there.| "ets hear what others have to say. You are not positive that you are I came over myself some years ago. right. I know the ways of the ship com- So it is with our particular prob-| panies. Ask them what means they lem. Darwinism may fall down; it} use to advertise their respective lines. may be disproved, as parts of it al- ARTHUR JOHNSON. ready have been, but s-.ll evolution stands as a known fact. Order or Revolution, Many scientists believe in evolution, | To the Editor of The Evening World: but not in Darwinism. They plare] Prohibition is radical and revolu- their confidence-in other theories that] tonary, it forward. have Deer Fie. has taken place, We} Moderation is sensible and orderly. know it by comparative embryology.| 1s our Government going to be rev- Embryology deals with a gradual evo-yolutionary or orderly? That is the lution of an individual with all the| question, characteristics of a mature animal! All Governments went “crazy” in from a single cellular ovum. the enforcement of revolutionary ‘We know evolution has taken place|laws, The United States is hea“lax by experimental genetics. Prof. Mor-|the same way, saying to its citizens: gan has got by interbreeding some|‘'Do as we order, never mind what 300 different species of files from one] we choose to do.” TV: P. pair of ordinary files. New York, June 29, 1922, The value of this service to the community is immeasurable. Mr. Lockwood has stood generally for fair and progressive legislation, but the measures on which he may look back with the greatest satisfaction are probably the bills raising and equalizing the salaries of teachers. The results of the Lockwood educational bills will be cumulative in their effects on the Coming generation of school children and school teachers. New York can ill spare Senator Lockwood, but it would be ungrateful to grudge him the time for business and family responsibilities. When, as happened last Saturday, there is trouble in the subway, is there no way of in- structing guards to let people out of the trains wherever it is feasible and safe? During Saturday's block, when express trains were switched to local tracks, people had to swelter in those trains even alongside local station platforms because the guards refused to open the doora, * Why? ACHES AND PAINS Speaking of Moorish words, we are further re- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 183.—WHISKEY. The word whiskey is now only of historic interest, as it is obsolete in the English language as spoken in America. It 1s of historic interest, however, .. to recall that the word is a corruption of the name given to the commodity It is highly important in the rearing of child by the race that invented it—the ren to minded that our beloved “tari” comes from a little | Evolution 1s proved by comparative teach them that anger will get them nothi Gaelic. The word in i i i ff lving animals. We Drinkers to Excens. ing and may be " Hf i people in great numbers to the place where the | town at the entrance to the Straits of Gidraitar, morphology Po TAME PENNY: tee | a iths RA oe oe eres Mee) y Gaelic form is ‘‘ulsgebeatha,” which i memorial stood? * Would it mean nothing to have associated in their minds with the purpose of the memorial a attended with unpleasant personal consequences, Well, also, for the individual to bear in mind that he is not a pleasant sight when he is angry, and that he is certain to be sorry the next day for things that he Says and does where the Saracens took toll from ships trading into the Mediterranean. They were sometimes called rob- bers! means water of life. There is a species of cactus grow- ing in Southern Texas, which ts call- ed whiskey-root. Chewed, and its three inner bones of the ear from the] Probably the masses of the pzople cartilaginous jaws of the shark; We]of this country feel the injustice of can trace the evolution of the compll-| being deprived of theli cated four-chambered heart from & is Cap of their liberty to take iati ; the | # glass of wine or beer when they feel while in a blind fury. juice swallowed, whiskey-root pro- R sense . appreciation for a very real and present ‘The heartiess editor of the July Harper's has left aie ood Vaeeetl ee et sl iis annie: tart: I-erarviote wad Eliminate pated from human beings and you will eli duced effects similar to those ses * ee benefit out all the comfortable jokes in the Drawer and given |trom the air-bladders (hypostatic or-| the common sense, strength of char-|$ nate much crime and violence and a great d ried | pecnamie epetrleg Ala i Is a monument to the memory of the dead in- | tne space up to a shirt tale by Albert Bigelow Paine, | sans in thi: case) of the dipnoid MM: | acter and manhood to resist drinking)’ which falls mostly on the people hohe eal of misery, a pr LH NE Lrgper 4 compatible with increasing the happiness and | We hope something deserving will happen to the |The examples are innumerable, to excess, the Eighteenth Amendment not learned to Lcditates Svolution is also supported by mticey (the study of fossils), |®nd Volstead act would never have and by classification of species (there | been thought of, but these poor weak- is no hard and fast line of demarca- | minded swell-heads who drank to tion between species), But, mind you, show off as sports and toughs unt!) evolution does not explain the origin] they acquired a craze for it made of the primordial living thing. Evo- | these laws necessary. jution says, ‘Given life, all other} ‘This latter class are doing more for forms come from it." the cause of Prohibition in trying to Evolution does not explain the orf- | make it appear that they are so nu- gin of life, It ts a phenomenon which] merous and that drink has crazed {s explained by various theories, such | them so that they “drink all kinds of as those of Darwin, Lamarck, Welss- | poison and dle like files," “leave the man, orthogenesis, and mutations. | country in droves," "90 per cent, are control their tempers. —_—————— iconoclast. wyalty of the living? i The higher criticism that looks upon Central 4 Park as a masterpiece of landscape gardening that the masses should be content merely to admire is apt to forget New York is not an Athens. rs This is not a community of elect, served by slaves, with a leisure that long ago brought popu- lar tastes in art to a common high level. j The sincerest efforts to provide New York with . The Irish Republicans certainly have the courage of their convictions, but sometimes an oversupply of convictions is an embarrassment. Py In the face of his defeat Senator McCumber con. tinues to be as cool as a cucumber, . of law at Middle Temple, London, in 1767, He was admitted to the bar in 1772 and elected to the Parliament of Ireland in 1775. In 1780 he entered \ ennnnnnnnnAnAAAAAAARAAAANAANAAA RANMA NNR nnn “That’s a Fact” By Albert P, Southwick rian, 1922 (The New York Evening Congriahss by Prees Publishing Co. to a portion of the mountal: in distri of Erz-Gebirge, in Saxony, aeraaay, and so named on account of the se- verity of the climate in winter, * 6 « Tyburn was the place of ex ecution for London from 1196, when William The earliest known cookery book Pitavatert; cr Longbeard, was hanged wane sted at Ventoe, Italy, in 1476,| ‘re, until 1763. ‘The frat execution It is in Latin and had a very lengthy in front of Newgate was on Dec. 9, upon a plan to separate Ireland from England, and in 1782 he led a revo- lutionary movement for Irish inde- pendence. A gift of $260,000 was yoted him by the Irish Parliament and many distinctions were accorded him for his public services. In 1800 he became a member of the Imperial News that the Mary Powell ts being broken up at Kingston should bring a sigh, yea, even a tear, to all Parliament, and in 1806 he was elect- beautiful and worthy monuments must not he oldti ho loved to see her lead th Neither one explains it. A combina- | making their own poison," &c. iy 1788, a ‘or Dublin and again advocated the tiful an ys i not over- the oldtimers wi a € fleet of tion of all may do it If any part of these tales ts true, | °U* a ee er iah insatonaeeGL etal Yook the fact that utility, comfort, pleasure are | river boats up the Hudson. Her grace and speed witt HYMEN COHEN. | the drink habit 1s very much worse| Gnorries were first brought into WHOSE BIRTHDAY effort to bring about the Feesiomiar ‘often desirable helps toward giving the city’s vast lve long in memory against the tin bores that have Brooklyn, June 28, 1922, than it was formerly supposed to be} Cher (principally in Italy) trom 1 his country was made in 1820, but his ‘ ‘ i "| replaced her on the tide. and it will b> necessary to make en-| urope (pringimally ch ot eussia,| JULY %— HENRY GRATTAN|death occurred before material results many-minded population a genuine, lasting in- . “ 4 Dangerous.” foreement more rigid so that no more Lapeer aboutnEnc a was born {a Dublin, Ireland, July 3,| were effected. Gratien was noted for terest in works i i : To the Editor of The Evenlig World. may be reduced to this condition, h : 1746, and died June 4, 1820. He|his interest in the Ifish cause, power- in wor undertaken as public memorials. Congress has taken a siz weeks’ recess. Much |" ajiow one of your readers to make G. M. B. cee entered Trinity College when seven-|ful oratory and ability to arouse ~ Surely this applies with special force toa memo- | odliged! JOHN KEETZ, & protest against your editorial in] Mrooklyn, June 27, 1922, “@axon Siberia” is the name given'tcen years old and began the study |enthusiasm. ; _- Z ‘ ‘ “~ 1 f . Ww —_—— iOS “ Alt ees.