The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1922, Page 22

_. THE EVE - @he ‘ee lin aon dudaly eacete sunday, BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PULITZER, Secretary. 63 Park How. “Clreutstion Books Open to All. MONDAY, DUCEMRER Firtered gt tue * SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Post Oftier at New 2 ork as Socond Cless 24 tue United Siates, outshle Greater New Sot Ope 2 oar Six Monins One ota” $10.00 $6.00 §, a tee, BRANCH OFFICES EUR: 1392 B'wey, cor. pow | WASHINGTON. Wyatt Bidgy ay 7th Ave, v4th and ¥ Ste a120uh St, Hotel Theres. nid! oprRoMT, 822 Koni Bide BUON, dio Eo tanta Be, woes CTICAGO, 608 Meliers Ride, BROOKE Washington @t.| 18. 4/ Avenue dc ‘Opera, LONDOL 20 Cockspu: Ot SOCIATED PRESS. 2¥ fad 517 Pulions at MEMBER OF THE 4 sociated Pros Ix exclusively entitied to the usc for repels Gf alt nome deapesches crecited ia It 3 not othorwiac pie ta Sr d nows publl:bed hereto, LAW EVASION. “It may be that a clever, uble and adroit law: yer who lends lis talents to evading and avold- ing the positive provisions of the law for the purpose of enriching his clients and himself ta n greater menace to the community than the or dinary {Uiterate criminal who robs or steuls from the individual, But we meet the proposi- tion that the mit and extent of the statute had not been fixed or placed."+—-Prosiding Jus- tice Jobn Proctor Clarke in the Hettrick case decision, How many “clever, able and adroit” there in this city who are not under suspension, but who deserve to be, according to this ruling? What other reason is there for the existence of powerful firms of attorneys representing corpora- tions and individuals, who by their cleverness evade and avoid the “positive provisions of the law” on behalf of their clients? Jt would be easy to name a score whose practice comes under the inhibition so strongly and cor- rectly expressed by Mr. Justice Clarke. But who is to bell the cat? Who is to take up the fact that law in New York City is mainly an adjunct to big business, whose practitioners, if they cannot bend the stat- utes to their ends, go to Albany or Washington and have them mended to suit? Subordination of law is a great American indus- try—one of the worst. Protected, as lawyers are, by code and by each other, it is refreshing to have a Judge reprehend, even if he cannot remedy. The Sixty-seventh Congress glides from a special session into a regular one, and the “fillum"” will now grind on to the final “fade- out.” A NEW JERSEY farmer has just sold a branch of an apple tree for $5,000. Recently a Michigan. farmer received $25,000 for a straw- berry plant that bears all summer. In each case the buyer was a trained horticul- turist who knows how to care for the wonderful plant so purchased. Luther Burbank and other experts get remark- able results by intelligent and patient plant im- provement and by cross breeding. Occasionally Mother Naturestakes a short cut and produces a “sport” such as the Mood apple or the ever-bear- ing strawberry. There may be fifty undesirable “sports” that are killed, but it is highly important to preserve every accidental improvement and so enable future propagation of the new and better variety. Experts bought these two plants and will guard them against destruction. In the course of a few years grafting, budding and other methods. of multiplication may make the fruits common on the market to the benefit of everyone. It is fortunate that these accidental bits of good fortune are well advertised. This will encourage others to report desirable “‘sports” as they occur. The finer the fruit or the grain, the more impor- tant that it be preserved and encouraged to repro- duce. A $5,000 APPLE TREE BRANCH. Mayor Hylan issues a warning that, to con- serve anthracite coal, New Yorkers should burn soft coal wherever feasible. One of the advantages of burning soft coal is that such a lot of it comes back to you, Collect it from the furniture and clothing and burn it again. Do it cheerfully, coal famine. A THOUGHT FOR NEW YORK. pine a long experience of “drives” ks’ Anything is better than 4 and and propaganda movements for this, that, and the other thing, the City of Minne- apolis has very sensibly decided to do something for itself and this week is to be “Minneapolis Week” in Minneapolis. Enlightened self-interest is the key to the propa- ganda directed at the citizens, by citizens, for citi- zens. It is summed up in this brief statement: “Mkmow your city, agree on the things it ' meeds, then go out and fight shoulder to shoul- der to get them.” “Knowing” a city of 400,000 is a big undertak- | ing. Agreement on what is needed will prove even more difficult. But every step in that direction will help. If we must have propaganda, drives and “weeks,” no city can do better than to have the propaganda deal with home affairs where ci zens can check up for themselves. Some time, perhaps, New York will follow suit and take a month or even a year for a similar campaign on a greater scale—and ban all the other “Weeks” while we are doing it ISN'T IT TRUE? 1D you ever consider the chief reason why so many people are hard to talk with? The reason is this: In so-called interchanye of ideas, one person out of three is far more intent on hat he is going to say than on listening to what is being said to him. He may be silent while you al the time, y lips that his mind is are talking. Dut you can see by his and movi And the moment he begins to twentieth wandering eye on his next words. speak, vou realize he has not heard part of what you have been telling him. There are a lot of people who have made up their minds about most things social, moral, polit- i Their ears do not open easily to facts that disturb their settled notions. Discussion for them is merely the pleasure of hearing themselves repeat, when it comes their turn, phrases they ‘habitually use to escape the wear and tear of exercising their thoughts in new directions. ‘heir brains never open new roads to traffic. This habit of converse is not confined to indi- viduals. !t gets a hold on nations. It is perfectly possible, for example, for a self- sutficing nation to arrive at a state‘where 90 per cent. of its diplomatic interchange with other na- tions consists of complacent reiteration of high principles upon which it prides itself—leaving only 10 per cent. of its outward attention for ac- tual, concrete happenings, changes, momentous developments and crises, which, if it gave its full thought ta them. might suggest new duties as well as new advantage or profit. in its present attitude toward Europe, the United States is much in the position of an indi- vidual who, recently startled half out of his pre- conceived notions of what he owes to others, is now settling*back into’ his chair, summoning the good old phrases and, whenever it is something that urges him into unaccustomed paths of thought and action, only pretending to hear. Some of our own statesmen have told us that as a people we are not internationally minded. What that means is that, as a Nation, we are exactly like the man with whom we individually find it impossible to reason because he never listens to anything that gets in the way of what he “has so often said”—and is going to say again. In private conversation we shun him. In inter- national conversation we take him for a model. Isn't that the truth of it? When a Greek court sentences a Prince to exile, he probably thinks “the sooner the safer.” Turkey hash is pretty well disposed of now- in America, not in Asia Minor. LINCOLN ON KU KLUXISM. To the Editor of The Evening World: A newspaper article recently quoted a New Yorker as saying that the Ku Klux Klan was 100 per cent. American, He maintained that this organization punishes wrongs that the law cannot reach. But LINCOLN, the 100 per cent. American, sald in one of his speeches (“Our Political Institutions’ “When men take it into their heads today to hang gamblers or burn murderers, they should recollect that in the confusion usually attending such transac- tions they will be as likely to hang or burn some one who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is.” He also said: “Thus by the operation of this mob- ocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad, the strongest bulwark of any Government may be effectually broken down and destroyed. Whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands and burn churches—throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleas- ure and with impunity, depend upon it, this Govern: ment cannot last.” Do not these extracts from Lincoln prove quite effectually that if he were Hving now he would neither approve of the Ku Klux Klan nor consider it 100 per cent. American? ELAINE BOYCE. Englewood, N. J., Nov. 28, 1922. ACHES AND PAINS. In Tokio, not tong since, an army offtces’s spur caught a woman's dress in @ trolley car and tore the cloth. Such an outery foliowed that the Japanese War Office has ordered spurs removed when the men are not on duty. Seven officers talking loudly in pub- He carned a reprimand for being too noisy. The War Office has ruled they must hold their tongues in pud- lic, Some reaction!" The coat shortage nay not ve altogether a misfor- tune if it tends to otop the toaste of fuel. Bight tenths of tts value goes up the flue or out of open windows in top sloors where heat ascends too liber ally Py Bet thao Horry Daugherty’s “inpeachs @ soft one. ent will be . The murder New Jersey. om foot habit (s getting worse and worse in Ita celebrated justice has taken on tead- Greece seems to have become the Mexico of Kurope, . . The newly wedded heir to the late throne of China never saw his bride-to-be until the ceremony, Raved Kim) the weor and tear of courting, JOUN KEMTZ. NING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1922. Copyright, 1929, rk Hivening by Dress Pub. Co. Cann From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the on: that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in tryirg | $0 say much in a few words. Take time to bo brief. UNCOMMON SENS: By John Blak (Oopsright DRAGGING Brakes restrain ene Inasmuch as unbridled in the world, brakes are An automobile without brakes could not be 1022 Ny Johw Riaka? BRAKES Business Women. To the Editor of The Evening World Ex-Captain’s letter to the effect that the young women of to-day are “little if any use In the world or to society"’ is not only an insult to the feminine sex but Is evidence that he is a rather ignorant ex-Captain. I am twenty-seven same relative place in history us does the tiger if he continues to destroy ?7— the next war being one of gas and germs and other civilized agencies would so Indicate, May it not be suggested that while the tiger was armed with teeth for destruction, the principle involved was “Do others, or they'll do you"? Ary we headed in”the same direction? If so, We must expect the same answer. energy would do infinite damage necessary. allowed at lar; A stationary steam engine, without the brake applied by the device called a governor, would “race,” which means ri hing at such a rate that the flywheel would burst into f ments, years of nge end am on Ste cer of # large corpora- |" Hoes not the last war suggest the Most Jaws that nations pass are in the nature of brakes ales posh iy ae agth aon opening chapter of the dark ages, and meant to curb human energy run wild. Moner ch, OF sirls comprising 90 Der lay the pages were turned, was not the The self-control that individuals exercise acts as a breil cent. of our office force. Of all our) story the same and with the promise ; , A ; Pane Tooatea throughout tel ceithe same andiag? on eee propensity, born in them, to do ill-considered vv ates, we do the largest and reckless ings. volume of business, Compavarieaty Burely: the! TiQ00 608, maalority sea ATE their leaders, would seem to say so. if we can judge by numbers, for does not the history of the world show us to be in tho same old rut since that great day, November 11? But brakes, like all other mechanical applica mist be so arranged that they are not a necdless and harmful drag on energy. The man or woman who overdocs the brake power called Speaking, and this is due entirely to es, the efficiency of the girls. They are of the highest moral character, and I challenge any one to say that they are pf little use in the world. MISS NEW YORK. Without another great war the caution is likely to get nowhere on the road that is to in world can never retrace the steps it travelled 4 Bus Smoker, has taken since that date, but will It is just as important to avoid a brake drag as to have the cure be worse than the disease? Must we then say, as did the Mac! rodus, “The operation was success- ful but the patient died’? To the Kaditor of The Evening Worl: On my way to business this morn- ing I took the stage across Chambers the brake ready to be applied when necessary. Too much thinking about this or that consequence to action will effectually prevent action. Street to the Municipal Buen: ni the seins way, sine ie seth If every business man sought absolutely to eliminate The vehicle was very crowded and] of time, cycle upon cy has brought rivic, zs steal we saiewiia at 7 th ssengers were two fire-| destruction to nation after nation be- fow great industric Ms ould ever be bui oh) oa among the pai ors ¥ A tay emah outa Life is all visk, of one kind or another, The important men in uniform, who occupicd seats] Cause they must needs reach out in , in the rear, and against the back|thelr greed for yet more wealth and thing is to avoid the more hazardous and to hiye the brakes stood a tough looking character with v but because they knew no always ready to clamp down when an unexpected danger a lighted cigaret in his hand. The Aes Heda eee bei sie turns up in the path. r remonstrated with him and —but ask ourselves where Is Bik tale i . tah Wi , sng Sporn smeared. With, Ning 56 et eis tie ant But to go through the world with brakes always drag bes N too, following in thelr foot gin —to be constantly hampered by overeaution is to limit conveyance to the effect “No smok- e@, too, ing itly m 0 ing allowed.” He be ourney so that it is not at all worth the taking. and dared them to take is 8 Week top, Taok !f-control is the best brake, and it always ought to be away from him or Interfere in any rar Hye one ning reanen ud tat od order and available for instant use y, though it was.lighted. do the facts tell us JP, ssi trap cbiinibentenanine y some WGt course the firemen, like mysctt,| Kensington, N. J., Nov. 29, 1922 But the fear that this or that enterprise may somehow rl . aed be hazardous, and is therefore not to be undertaken, con were on their way to business ° merely wished to enforce thy Not a Futile Effort. stitules a dangerous brake drag, ordinance. Several of To the Lditor of ‘The Eventng W Remembering that progress must be made, and that it became alarmed and om One of the silly and* recurring is always attended with visk, is the safest course, provided akc conor is he arguments dgainst the repeal of the} the brakes are in shape to be put on when the risks turn ovt ep nN Sommences,”” This is how | Eighteenth Amendment ts that ail to be greater than there was reason to suspect when tly talk about su . This journey was begun, misleading statement seems to have been deliberately handed out the the panic begins which ends ia loss a thing is futl of life, and this is why we have so many needicas fires, because it is so dificult to enforce compliance with i 2 of prote *rohibitio he rules and regulations of the Wire | 8le burpose of protecting Prohibition) wiicn ihe National Prohibition Act{ be well again in this fair land of ours. Department. R.¥. D. through the medium of delay wus idopted and by simply reversing OHN LYNCH New York, De If the 8 themselves had ever|the ering policy of the drys. Brooklyn, Nov. 28, 1 Adagta bility on Watiantion thought that it was futile to make an] ‘The 0 mhika ante yr ss Sb % ee ia . rev “ ye f fallible or all-powerful, and they prob- FE h Wi To the Baltor of The Hvening Worlds ser to raven: tin sale and manu hace Si wa ao that rom the Wise In keeping w ith your cena) tne facture of alcoholic beverages they fundamental purpose of the There are people who, like new of argument on the responsibility for} would not have conscientiously |Highteenth Amendmont laa not been! 4440, are in vogue only .for a a * ‘ supposed faults of the Nation, a —Rock . " " lsh thelr pampore , the heading “Adaptability,” expound. | Plish (holy pampered aim. Was tt fu-](¢ wan intonded to achieve, tt hasl Time hath often cured the ing the theory that the sabre-tooth tiger, lacking that quality, became extinct, and the subject suggests a question, Doon not thut theory hold good fo: tility for them to do so? To-day the injured wotm occupy a eomowhat wimilar position to that of we arya fn thelr early days, and it produced grenter vices in the coun- try than were eyer known before Prohibition has surely had a long enough and fair enough trial to show ~—Seneca Nature hat) wound which reason failed to heal. appointed the twol- they remain falthful to their worthy| what It « do, No one can por- ' the same type of mankind who, fot-}und righteous eatss It will not re- the magnitudes of ita| Mont aa o bridge to pase out o, lowing Washington's advice tn regard | quire nearly s¢ fo annul} harm or the pubtia diserace of tts] day info nigh . Fuller to “foreign entangtoments,” demon-| the Ki it did/ attempted enforcement, Fooly leara nothing “un the strates that he also lacks the power | to estal Why prolong the agony? fepeal] |) meee er et le of adaptation? This ce cunh|the Kighteanth Amendment ag soon] We mens Bet ae al inate WH not men, int ovenpy the ftie som: BS by'ne We poeslbie'$a ap go auld oi) # much from fools--Lavator, sortie iil taaaeia iia eae pongene - ~ ae By Ransome Sutton ‘Copyright, 1022 (New York Evesing World), by Press Pub. Oo, IX.=THE EARLY EARTH, ‘The earth was the sixth planet pro+ duced by tie sun. ‘The five outer planets are older, Mcreury and Venus lying between the earth and sun, whe younger. At first the curth was as fiery and 48 gaseous us the sun, but, being smatler, it cooled more rapidly, Dur- ing the fiery period, the electrons bet ean clustering together as atoms of the elements, the lighter atoms, such as hydrogen, forming first, then the heavier atoms formed, the heaviest Uelng presumably formed last, , the atoms were finding and chemically uniting; chemistry travailed and brought forth the substances of earth. When the temperature of the atmosphere felt below the boiling point, hydrogen and oxygen gases began to combine, the result of the union being water. Wor a long time the water was suspended in the poisonous atmosphere, but there came a time when the rains felt upon the steaming surface. Nothing more awesome can be imagined than the aspect of that world. Before the oceans could find their beds a thin erust had to form, following Molten tide the moon ux day, und) cracked lated, rumpled the crust, and the fragments, drifting here and there on th seas, must hay ambled great floes of drifting jee. Those fragments were almost, bot not quite, red hot. Due to the fact that the speed of rotation Was greater at the equator th lay Mloes drift- nu Settled: to- than at the p ed toward the equ or gether in a broad belt which is thought to have completely girdled the Jobe, Gondwat land the surviving fragments of that broad belt are called. The enlarged part of that land, which formed over what ts now the Indian Ocean, has been named nin and wind started disinte- gration on the sur of the voleanie thereby creating soll, ‘The seeds of life, lying in that soit, faally s ed. probably in Lemuria, and spread over the whole Gondwand-tund belt During Permian © Nowerless fern-like fle imilar to the plants fou ied in coul, spread vound the eurth militon: fore the frst flowering? ply At that time the part of Gondwana died Lemurit, must have re: bled in many ways the Deltas of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers to- lay. The low-lying kinds were partly, submerged, so the fern forests were rooted in ooze. those for- exts, however, no animals prowled. Car the earth's fauna developed much more slowly than its tl Birds did not uppear till toward end of the of Reptiles. ‘The reptiles did noi ear till toward the end of the Age nd s were only hen Gondwana-land was re at a Mae Jobe was Jieginning to erust does not }x © ended and r Len ‘ 3 continent und the 4 and will 1 guing eds © recent volcano getion in @ht effecting some ¢ the winds are wearing down the mountains; tho rivers are ci ng ores chang Toere was onve u Kimberley, in Afries, whic deep hole, Diamond m moved the mountiuin and dug the hole nN man has cut th 1 the land. at Panaina and » Sepa- ntinents which were forme Mountains at the Inch cach century dusty Aisap earth's internal aganies F over great leveling process, in which man has taken a hand, is now ing On; BO if we should revisit the earth a mil- lion years from now we would not recognize {t u# our former abode, ——— Whose Birthday? DEC. 4. —- THOMAS CARLYLE eminent uthor, was born in Britivh Keelefechun, $ nel dived be London, 1881, After uttending local schools, he wont to Edinburgh University with the intention of entering the ministry but afterward studied Law and finally took up literature as a professior H first «€ tributions were to th ‘“Kdinburgl Eneyclopaedia,” and. t the Edinb teview. In 1823 his celebrated “Life of Schiller” up- peared, und two er a revises) edition, which was highly praised, He removed permanently to Chelsea, Len don, in 1834, and three years Mater published his “French Revolution,’ the fret work that bore the author name, In 1813 Carlyle’s masterplobe entitled: Oliver Cromwell's Letters,” appeared, which most successfully demonstrates his greatness as. an essayist and writer. Between 1858 and 1860 his ‘Frederick the Great’ was published. The style of Carlyle's writings {s remarkable in its power and graphic effect, though somewhut abrupt and eccentric, But he is rated ‘mona the beat moral forces of) tha fant y und bis writings on/the yiution, German literature, \