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St, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘ted Press is exclusively entitied to phe uso for repu' despatches credited to It or not otherwise credit sa ‘and sige the focal news published herein. = —————_—— NO KEENER EYE. HERE may be some of the inevitable round- aboutness of a “bitter ender” in Senator Borah’s method of approaching the European economic problem. But there is nothing roundabout in Senator Borah’s recognition of the reasons why the prob- Jem must be approached: “We are travelling in a vicious circle. We enacted an emergency and also a permanent tariff bill. Nevertheless, the cry of distress from the producers of the country Is even more piteous than at any time since the war. The farmer can find no markets abroad for his products, and without a market for his surplus products it is impossible for him to realize the value of that which he produces. “We now propose to @nact a Ship Subsidy Bill, but there are no cargoes to carry and no markets to supply. If we should give our mil- Mons in the way of subsidies It would not open a single market nor supply a single cargo. These things are not produced by subsidies.” When Senator Borah talks of foreign policy in some of its larger aspects, his limitations are ap- parent. But there is no keener eye in the United States ust now for the economic facts. ' Republicans to Give Smith Free Hand in ‘Trangit—Headline. Now if he could onty hope for as much from the Democrats! . MISS M'COOEY’S WORD FOR IT. HEN Miss Margaret’ McCooey started work in her new office of Assistant Superinten- dent of Schools, she revealed to an Evening World ,feporter her view of the reason for her selection. Said Miss McCooey: \ “Of course it takes political favor to get a job like this or any other job. Political pull ‘.elped me, bat you have to have something besides pull. Youhave to have qualifications.” ‘That statement is honest at least. But it dif- fers broadly from the tenor of the remarks made by various members of the Board of Education when they announced the election of Miss McCooey. Commissioner Ferguson, for example. moved that nominations be closed and said he had Known Sohn H. McCooey for twenty-five years and be- lieved him incapable of using his. political iifu- «nce to further the promotion of friends and rela tives : Miss McCooey has known her brother for sev- eral more than twenty-five years and she says “po- litical pull helped me.” Ass McCooey is frank to the point of cynicism: The only thing that can be said for the Board of Uducation apologists is that they haven't the cour- iige to shun hypocrisy Whatever Miss McCooey’s qualifications for her new post may be, it is fairly obvious that they are better than the qualifications of the members of the Board of Education who have not even the backbone to face the music. Motorists who'haven't provided themso!-os with 1923 motor plates will deserve littl: sym pathy when they are caught in the last-day Jam. They haye had six weeks to do their New Year's shopping. SLUGS IN SUBWAY TURNSTILES. HE Interborough is beginning to press its campaign against those who cheating the turnstiles by using slugs nickels, To thoughtless people this may seem a rather petty policy that savors more of persecution than prosecution. Five cents isn't very big when com- pared with the annual income of the subway sys- tem. The sympathy of the crowd is normally with the under-dog and against special officers of cor- poraiions, and in particular a corporation against which every subway patron has a host of justifi- able grievances. But this is the wrong way to look at it. The petty action is not on the part of the corporations, but rather cn the part of the person who tries to cheat with slugs. To the individual. the money difference between honesty and dishonesty is not preat To the Interborough the loss from a | of slug passers is serious ,. From purely selfish spotives the sympathies of have been istead af subway patrons should be with the Interborough. If the fnterborough collects more nickels and fewer slugs, so much the better chance for the regu- latory commission to require purchase of new equipment and adequate service on the subway lines. The slug passer cheats the paying patrons as well as the company, . A CHRISTMAS BOMBSHELL. EPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW of Georgia is / 4 Prohibitionist with the full courage and logic of his convictions, Mr. Upshaw flatly tells the House of Represen- tatives that he would have ‘State Governors, led by the President and Vice President of the United States and all the members of the Cabinet, walk out in the open, lift their hands before High Heaven and take a new oath of allegiance to the whole Constitution and the American flag.” “Let them sacredly declare that, regardless of what their tastes and practices have been, they will never again build up a bootlegger'’s * barbarous business by drinking any form or any amount of illicit Hquora at any dinner, at any function or in any ballroom or any back alley. “Let every member of Congress and every United States Senator follow suit.” That particular bombshell was bound to burst sooner or later in the halls of legislation. Readers of The Evening World will remember this newspaper has long insisted that hypocrisy could not forever conceal the justice of knowing how far lawmakers personally practise the Prohi- bition they inflict upon others Just before the election last month The Evening World sent the following telegram to each of twelve United States Senators who voted for the present Volstead law and who were candidates for re-election: In voting to enact or uphold present Prohibi- tion Law you have voted away a personal Ub- erty of millions of people who never abused that liberty In view of the peculiar nature of thts law and the moral arguments advanced to support it, do you believe the people upon whom you tm- pose Prohibition have a right to know to what ertent you personally practise Prohibition? If you do not delieve they have @ right to such knowledge, on what grounds do you deny thetr right? Only one Senator out of the twelve saw fit to answer. Now the forbidden question rears up at last in Congress itself in the form of a Prohibition de- mand that Officers of the Government and Mem- ters of the Legislature shall not do in private what yhey publicly profess to condemn, Once raised, the question will not down. It happens to be raised at a time when the Na- tional Capital is reported well supplied with Christmas “booze” at falling prices. It happens to be raised at a moment when the Additional Grand Jury in the County of New York presents a gesolution calling for a repeal of the Mullan-Gage Enforcement Act in this State because of the huge waste of time and money in vain efforts to secure convictions or even indict- ments for alleged violations of this law. The futility of present Prohibition enforcement has hecome a State and National worry. Ine corruption bred by present enforcement jaw has become a civic menace. And now consistency points a legislative finger a the fact that present Prohibition law weighs most lightly on many of those whose sworn duty is lo execute, interpret and enforce the Nation’s laws, How much more confusion, demoralization and shame are we from this law modify 1 to suffer With eight theatrical productions opening in this city Christmas evening, the “popular first nighter” will need to transform himsolf into a regular crowd, The shortest day of the year doesn’t seem so to postal workers and department clerks. store ACHES AND PAINS. banker is @ person who lends somebody banker?” asks @ correspondent. A else's money ond takes the projit for himself. ° Seenicaily spe proves New Yc ng, @ tittle soft coat smoke It mellows the sky tine, gives the 1 wntlone Old Ed Mowe of Atchison Is kicking all the time me Of Us Whe feel our out And work ‘em off in rhyme At lie seems to think\ns addlepate Because when notions tingle We take our fountain pens in hand And set them to a jingle It's Just a bluff, I tell you now As you may well suppose Heeause when he has such a He hides his song in prose! JOHN KELTZ. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922. Copyright, 1922, (New York tvening World) Press Pub. Co. Ry John Cassel ey, Slipping Forward! By Ransome Sutton CPT Wei bree ru one XVIIL—THE STORY ZOOLOGY * TELLS. . OOLOGY telis of the lives, rela! Z. tionships and behavior of ani mals. It is the sciencs whic! first charms children, The story con tains five chapters, covering five lon; periods of time—the so-called “Ages” —named after the five kinds of ani mals that havo successively domi4 nated the earth, THE AGE OF INVERTEBRATA began when life first quickened in point of protoplasm. Prior to that time nothing was alive. The waterd Wore as lifeless as the rocks. Bacteria came first, single cells of naked pro4 toplasm, which were not of a vege+ table nature, like yeast germs, nor of an animal nature, like amoebae; they were neuter, being antecedent to ani4 mals ag well as plants. These germs drew their nourish4 ment directly from the surrounding water.—~They subsisted on ocean dusty But there camo a time when, due to some peculiar food condition, certaid kinds of germs took to feeding upon other germs, or upon substanées pres duced by other germs, Then began the greatest cleavage in nature; for the descendants of or= ganisms which continued to draw their nourishment directly from the waters became plants, whereas those that acquired cannibalistic habits be + camo animals. Fundamentally, tie difference between antmals and plants has resulted from thelr methods of feeding; plants draw thelr fou directly from the soil, water and aly animals find thélr food already pres pared in plants, . Another great accomplishment of the first Age of Life was the accum Jation of single-celled organisms intr many-celled organisms. Then there originated many varieties of food’ flesh, of a Kind typifled by mei lusks, or oysters. These shapeless magses of cells secreted the calcareout waste products found in their wate; foods which, adhering to thelr bod! formed shells, than an external of that ago possessed internal 3! tons, or bones, Throughout that age it would seem that nature was working by trial and error to fashion flesh into more effi cient form, Star shapes were clearly errors; their senses, for example, in tead of being centralized, are diffused through the five arms, As each arm acts according to the impressions 4/ From Evening World Readers Cary lint star tor = ome 2 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. hundred ? There is fine menta) exerc.se end a lot of sat: fo eay much in few words. Take ime to be brief. Who Bites Babbitt? To tho Editor of The Evening World In her letter on Sinclair Lewis and Babbitt, Miss Marshall falls into the error common to the Sinclair Lewis cult. Sho rightly says that “if any figure in the American scene needs to be bitten by the acid of satire It is Babbitt." The error comes tn assum Ing that Sinclair Lewis is succtss’u! in driving home his satire. Actually he is anything but that. Babbitt. | he reads about himself, dismisses Sin - clair Lewis as ‘one of those dam: B isheviki" and lets it go at that. The ‘Main Street’ idea isn't t bite and masticate. The “everything wrong-with-America’’ cult does not bite and then masticate, It bites and swallows, is a sort © mental iil-humo The result UNCOMMON SENSE jjvsistei nor | cause running lengthwise of the body THE MAN WHO KNOWS. the work of a fool or a fo:xer ur both, seem to be a y trivial sub, ” | 5 4 ae 4 gave rise to the whole ordef of fishes eral." The right to use the title)$} 4.4. Adee, held his pos:tion through seven administrations. has assumed control. Obviously, no during which time certain kinds of taries could lean. Adec was,that man, only such of the mud-fishes as man~ efute S as ©'Meara's " “ + ” See en ctak mecetianet These are the men who are kept through “hard times pathing ability that had saved thetr pany, MED, the, PPReMmOn/s TOTAAL given out, are most likely to get them, in chang- indigestion and ‘Toward the end of this Age a queer y By Jehn Blake was a layer of cells which, In its The title “Competent Military Au- Governments come and go, but always, with every inject into a ussion of epoch- F every k { creature that som, as the bearer of it is Mor and of every kind o} For, in the office of the State Department, there had to whatever his rank in the army fish, living in shallows and marshes, In industry, as well as in Government, there are indis- aged to survive the droughts pro- attack on the Irish Republican Army lives. Millions must have perished, (one of the bitterest opponents of che . . : Mi i F | For without taking a living interest in the business and little finger of flesh, called an as- faction n -rying A . lance-like descendants, the lancelets, thority’? is not one that can ve cac- change, there are officials that stay. making chang yet the lancelets within the bounds of the country, or ses a bacicbone. be some one with continuing experience, some one who knew ) Ireland, would attempt to arrogate learned to oreathe the air, For the and. pensable men, who hold their positions because they kuow duced succeeding generations, to Men fighting for an ideal can never and are advanced while other men stand still. one that survived, but this Irish Republic) pays frequent test.- without having a sincere desire to see it prosper, they could cidiau, appeared. It was queer, be4 (Copyright. 192%. ty Joke Blake) hardened into a notocord, It would red around like “‘Colonel” «1 “Gen- An Assistant Secretary of State for the United States, }} (@mplioxus), by reason of nocacntde ction of the country, over which he 2 OF FISHES followed, all the precedents, some one on whom the incoming Secre- ) himself such a title outside of Ire- marshes occasionally dried up and Tt would be a waste of words to]% the routine of the business. which they transmitted the alr- be guilty of murder or rapine or rob- They are the men who, when partnerships are to be ited gradu mony to the cours and chivalry of r-bladders into lung: iter BO working Itself off via the typ A om thes: long-suffering fishes Sinclair Lewis doesn’t hurt Babbitt »the I. R.A ; never have learned as much about it as they have learned. RARE vdimeonded! coreanitan q 4 m o con- bat elp suspecting that 1 ‘ * nie a Die HOUOr Ot: Che ypleray Gn Like/con re y had ata Aily The clock watchers and the time wasters are never in neh, awhile in water, were trary, reaches out to the Carol Kenul- | “Seumad yi intimates if he suvc]§ the office long enough to.know what is going on Adults to live on land. Sued 3 wh r a " e} er by I, sub- ic olhee long ¢ 0 s . a bs ‘= cotts who are earnestly trying to im- | Identified by his intim he sut lice long ry going ania Rais. fo i gas dae scribed himself plain AODH UA h-UALLACATIN, prove the Gopher Prairh nd with a degree of success, Sinclair Lewis preaches a gospel of despair, As an item in contrast here is a squib the Herald reprinted from the News-Record, published at Lindsborg, u little town in Kansas; “Owing to the fact that all,the em- ployees of the banks In our city are members of the Bethany Oratorio o- cloty and will accompany tho chorus to Kansas City the three king To them it makes no difference whether the concern gets a contract or not or sells a particularly profitable bill of goods. What they are after is their pay, and they want to give for it just as little of their time and attention as is possible. Because there is always a shortage of men who know, these fellows may hold their jobs for their lifetimes, and even gain, promotions, But they never go very far, were we not privileged to see tod poles emerge from the water to tiv on the land. As they develop, their nidimentary fish seales become skin~ like, their fins feet-like, while their gills artophy and thelr bladders be- gin to function as lungs. The wholo series of changes may be witnessed F w York Aquarium. the emergence of marine creatures upon the land, animal Ifo What Rabs the Fart To the Editor of The Evening Worid: Now that your “What did you see?" page has proved such tremendous suc- cess may I suggest your starting a rubs your fur the wrong department? Here are two starter, And they are always sub- houses of this elty will close all day] Why in the name of common ject to dismissal when a change of business conditions brings entered upon a new and more thrit Butarday’? Se YT 9 not the large about a decrease of profits and a necessary’ curtailment of $}ing stage of development, which wilt TAniabo! ia try to do—ang | theatres in New York City in expenses. be discussed in the next article, Sa Sees WHOSE BIRTHDAY? D AMES EDWARD OGLE. 5 clent system of landl by . . I RARMUALG WAL pac ecleate a Seorfiksnimash, anes To know a business-—any business—-a man must study holiday eve- it, and think about it, and interest himself in it. making a good effort Oberammergau does for tho drama. ‘anes ave Lindsborg has excited intrest and|clally on Sunday and some degree of emulation all through |fings? One theatre ai pertes r es If he does that, he equips himself for his work, and the THOT tender of orgia, wi tho Middle West. If left anne te PvE A eee at oinymant Been fact that he is a valuable man in one firm makes him always 3} orn in London, England, Dee. 2 Carols “bite the Bubbitts mor ef- |Tualificatior ‘or employ eems Carole ‘bits t tuaithey should be under a hundred |$ desirable to the firm's rivals, 1496, and died there Jan, 89, 1785. He of the “young officer, served asi * of the largest centres |Pounds, Yet they expect these girls Long years of experience are not necessary to such an Lda eee Uke ninent. Car Anieeae hs. [to cope with a public consistin equipment, But intensive study is. It is the man who has ra, and in 1782 secured a grant of every type of human pelng Hom 113 enqugh interest in himself to be interested in his work and A ean (ho punienel Of eat blahine y Hae ee oeeuinly Is a patueia | to know it, who keeps his job till he gets a better one, and mny for unfortunate debtors, tn Bt letter makes in-| sight to watch the effect one nour of who is likely to keep on getting better ones till he either owns reached America and foundetl Savannah, Ga, The settlement wi fairly prosperous. and he induced a teresting reading, though doubtless |this has on the girls, and that they that firm or gets a salary which amply compensates him for his remarks will not be welcomed by|ean be © nous certainly smacks of A ; working for it. + Peceneier Bae Ue ore some of New York's residents, To] rigorous discipline. It seems un y 2: is mune aa eas a a Prteaten i fs tho uninformed there is a ring of [that no one has thought of using the seek © r ament, being = - 4 egular the- well pleased with the settlement, mado truth In his letter and a semblance] system in vogue in the regular th well leaned with the seltiemnent sala justico In his protest e, Le, numbered seats at desig- eunno, to ‘exceuto'’ meant to carry|® i $50.00 urt} N loevoh i give {ue evil ils due: |Srica perorna heen WHERE DID YOU GET|™"0. ', “esceute’ monn (0 coy tenor. In 1741 ‘Ostethorpe ‘cam: i e " Hi sis t t - tox! a ed expedition rains! > no evidence has as yet been adduced] Jt is a far ery from this topic to the RD 9 example, (from the Latin ‘ex, Bonen Boe ionta ne a A ieuwe to show that the letter signed "Com. | “Lan but recent newspaper HA é “out,! and “sequor,'' "to follow.) ne LU WESA rae at ap Retentalilitary Aushoritys [rah He; binaues have dlenuetsy stAFIIng ie But in the last analysis language his colony r ie ze ye is an tack publican Army" was written or ts-] president's term on January Tin teu 242—EXECUTE. ls made, not by. the lexicographers ing year his colony w atlas successfully by a Spant returned to England tn 1743, where, My idea of lost motion an office for sued by any ond having the remotest connection with the Irish Republican of Mareh 4. e. In Is to have @ man occup democru: Purtsts cavil at use of the word}nuy by) uw words. other y ? sally | language in 1752, he resigned the charter of Army. It might reasonably be said] even twenty-four hours after he has] ‘execute’ in tho senso of legally ore "otter onal Fe Penis badd Seed Pnectisites Ferny 4 ty thet Although eo” originally | Georg.a to the Crown. In 1745 Ogle Ke lanaiouel tor have the cdlur that} part 1 would like to see every occu | PMNs Lasdenscneinid chieany SBS) cant to carry kind of sen-|thorpe was promoted to the rank ust neces attach {tacit to. the leat sublic oftice delogated as as. |Purist right actically the¥]tenca, or even a legal paper of any] Major General. His conduct in eon thor of loon 1 tot for the unex The ex mn of Louts|#ort, In ponular usage the word began] nection v th she! Soottian ‘rebeliian ies ul the & r t Loe ald on the legal putting to de t ear ject of in to bear to have meas WEN piensa! tag: f ‘hel man, whether aqling or ¢ losa t by courtmartial. However, he wee ui RA, vote tor GP ve b. ump of authority trious murder ‘ 1 acquitted, and in 1765 was raised to fo my mind the document ts either cessor’s approval, Originally, and in its stymologipal wo at that, the rank of General, , at