The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pees aly, I Na hows New Yous RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. p Feria. boneees 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. communications to THE EVENING WORLD, Sesaes ¥ Remit by Express Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter. ‘“Cireuiation Books Open to All.” FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922. Forse noe Gera Be ch ON ey “ao e #8 Fi ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents; by mall 60 cante. > BRANOH OFFICES. Maman ae ee ata, | WASH me wre Bits.) MRE OT a S| DETTE FARIS, 6¢ Avenue do Lopes mgr LONDON, 90 Cockspur 6% Saee OF THE gratin a cpr eC aa Ea Sse CONCENTRATE ON COAL. t Bo HE first touch of real winter, with snow and | ice hampering transpottation, brings the | coal problem acutely to the fore. f New York is told that further supplies of soft : coal are on the way from the mines, and that { while present reserves have dwindled there is no | cause for alarm, as some of the shipments in- | tended for New England may be diverted to this The fact remains, howeVer, that it is not easy to get even soft coal from city dealers. Also the threat of increased prices hangs constantly over the consumer's head. t The people of this city and Commonwealth H would gladly believe that the State Fuel Admin- istration is doing everything possible to help meet the situation. Unfortunately, rumors of changes and resigna- * tions among Fuel Administrators due to the change of Administration at Albany have not been conducive to confidence in a steady, continuing policy of dealing with the coal problem. The sooner all doubts are set at rest by the cer- tainty of’a State Fuel Administration that will f stay on the job and see us through the winter, the better for everybody concerned. Houséholders are showing commendable willing- , Ress to learn how to burn soft coal and substitutes. ie Landlords are being taught that the Health De- __y partment is not lenient toward failure to keep tenants warm. With the public and all its regular authorities _ o-operating, there should be only competent, con- sistent and unrelaxing work on the part of Fuel Administrators. | sine we PR ‘ Our idea of the least desirable job {s that of a traffic cop on a day like yesterday. THE HENRY M. LEIPZIGER FOUNDATION. NDER the auspices of the League for Politi+ U cal Education, the Henry M. Leipziger Foundation is to be launched this evening at Town Hall. The meeting brings honor to Town Hall. It is in the spirit of the best that New York may hope from the Town Hall once the building debt is cleared and the League released from the need of renting the building for commercial purposes. It may be questioned, however, whether the auditorium of one of the public schools would not have been a more appropriate meeting place. For it was in the public schools that Henry M. Leip- * Ziger served as a one-man league for political education. / It was in the public schools that the “University of the People” was launched. Whatever success the Leipziger Foundation May attain—and it deserves the widest success—- the great and lasting memorial to this remarkable man will be the continuing support and expansion + of the public lecture system in the schools. The aid it gave to the start of that system is one of the proudest memories of The Evening World. It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Leipziger did the pioneering for the League for Political Education. He showed the way and the response which might be expected This city and the League for Political Educa- tion both owe an enormous debt to Dr. Leipziger They can discharge that debt only by continuing what he started and by working toward his goal of making New York City the most patriotic and best informed city in the world. It was a pity Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts couldn't have lived to see one more New Year's Eve made gloomier by his efforts. DETECTIVE STORIES. IR* BASIL THOMPSON, former head of Scot- land Yard, talked to New York policemen and advised them to read detective stories However, the advice was qualified. Sir Basil said: “Watch how the author works out the solu- tlon of the-crime—and then do exactly the oppo- site, This becaise detective stories place the orime to suit tho author, while the criminal does not.” This qualification may in turn be qualified, Sir Basil himself has writicn some of the best detec five stories of recontpeare—true stories. The ther does his advice apply to a whole class of detective and mystery stories in which the facts are lifted direct from the daily press. More than one story of this general type has resulted in moral if not legal conviction of the criminal. Still another exception must be made of the de- tective stories of fact'that run serially in the news columns of the daily newspapers, the recent Becker murder as an example. Perhaps the average detective can not and ought not to follow the methods of either Sherlock Holmes or Philo Gubb, But detective stories are of almost infinite variety. Some have lessons for practical detectives, TOPSY-TURVY! H, what a change is here, my countrymen! Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, presents through Senator Lodge an almost plaintive yappeal to the Senate to mind its own *business and not embarrass the Executive with the Borah resolution for an international economic conference. This is the same Warren G. Harding who de- voted a big share of his Presidential campaign to denouncing Woodrow Wilson for pursuing foreign policies without remembering to walk hand in hand with the Senate! Warren G. Harding, President, warns the Sen- ate against meddling with foreign relations be- cause such meddling would be “equivalent to say- ing that the Executive branch of the Government, which is charged with the conduct of foreign rela- tions, is not fully alive to a world situation which is of deep concern to the United States.” Warren G. Harding, candidate, assured his fel- low-Americans in 1920 that the Senate could have been “harmonized that year into a completely use- ful agent, if it had not been for the interference of the Chief Executive, who Was not satisfied with running his own end of Pennsylvania Avenue.” And Candidate Harding declared then: “Reactionary and old-fashioned as it is, I am going to consult and advise with the United States Senate.” “Two years have gone by. The tables are so turned that we actually have President Warren G. Harding protesting against a proposal of Republi- can Senators to hustle him into carrying out Wil- son policies. ' Instead of Woodrow Wilson overriding the Sen- nate, “giving foreign peoples the impression of an _Authority which did not exist” and “exciting hopes which could not be satisfied’—the very phrases Charles E. Hughes used in the 1920 campaign—it is now the Senate that must be warned by Presi- dent Harding and his Secretary of State against “conveying false impressions to Europe.” Being President must bring more and more be- wilderment to Mr. Harding. Here is a Senate further than ever from consent- ing to be harmonized by a Chief Executive who was sure he could harmonize it. Here is a Senate unwilling to be convinced that an Administration that does nothing toward solv- ing foreign problems is nevertheless “fully alive” to all it might do.. Worst ofall, here is a thankless Senate that turns everything topsy-turvy by threatening to talk and act like Woodrow Wilson. Was ever President worse treated? 4 No, it’s not surprising that the “Chairman of the Board of Direetors” of the Ku Klux Klan is réady to abate his prejudice against Catholics, Ten-dollar bills are legal tender, whatever the source—if you can get them, ACHES AND PAINS Ku Klux, So do hens. . Now that it ig not respectable tu drink, many re. spectable persons have taken on the habit Thy boa are becoming betler and the cood worse We fear Senator Borah vores the Administration at Washington. John W. Owens in the New Republic declares that Senator La Follette has “come back.” Where from? The doctors say Coue is a menace—to doctors’ bills? . The headlines say La Savoie breasted waves ninety feet high and that the gale blew 120 miles per hour. The rule o' thumb at sea is that waves rise half the number of feet recorded by the velocity of the wind, A piece of the “true cross” has been presented Pres- ident Harding. Hitherto gifts have been confined to the double-cross, Tennessee marked farthest north in the lynghing line this closing vear, * Tn a Side Street, Little Jew shops with cluttered wares, Faces lined with many cares, Moodless children skipping rope Ang slattern mothers void of hope. JOHN KEETZ, Copyrti (New York Birthday Thoughts! WoovROoWw wieson’s ‘| DWRTWDAS = cae’ From Evening World Readers What Kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the ene that dives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? ercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to b. brief. There is fine mental to say much in a few words. ‘Veo Many “Arks.” To the Rditor of ‘The Evening World Arrivingeat the Rector Street sta- tion of the Ninth Avenue morning recently I noticed the num- bers on four of the six cars of which the train was comprised were as fol- 9—72 and 107, Now no excuse of lack of equipment justify placing “Noah's Arks"* on one train. of accident there would be nothing fert/ot them but kindling wood. HARRY BARRY, New York, Dec. 26, ly sitting in their stocking feet smoking in the same kitchen. Buddies of the A. KE. to you all is, “sit tight and pretty." If you're married try and make the best of it, as becomes a former soldier. you're single, hold it, and let the for- eigners do the marrying, and may, the Lord have mercy on their souls. When we were over on the other side we stuck together to the last let's all hold off from being "* now, Let the girls spend the money that’ they are tak- ing away from us, boys by down jobs. that we had before we en- tered the service and did not regain upon our return. RICHARD A. BANKS. Here's How. To the Editor of The Evening World: After careful study I have worked out What seems to me the only logical solution to the Prohibition question. Mr. F., my advice! $ so little, And because 1.» mation that was put there in college sion that the college lid the boy no good. But if Mr. Edison will go into the great wheat fields in the West in harvest time he will find in the ripened ears none of the rain that fell on the plants in the spring. Dry and yellow they will be, with no outward indication of the moisture that they absorbed. But because of the moisture they will be full rounded + grains—the bread of to-morrow for Mr, Edison’s hungering countrymen, And if he could really look into the brain that has been well trained, either in college or in business, he would find that it has been rounded and developed by the absorption of information, though much of the information may le bled for ‘sucke: Vruit or Vegetablet Editor of The Evening World: I would like to ask the answer to the following question: A says that a tomato is a vege- t a tomato is a fruit. the tra who has ever tasted alcohol in any form, either as a beverage or as a meticine. This would put everybody behird prison bars except William H, Ander- son, Wayne B, Wheeler and Willlam Jennings Bryan. Result, there would be no one to produce food for the prisoners and they would consequently all starve to This would naturally solve the » Prohibition question and leave he Girl Marrte I have read with Interest the letters from your correspondents, ax-Lieutenant’ Doughboy,” relative to thelr opinions of the average American girl. I served overseas for F., and while I was » girl I became y that claimed position to collect their he handed me is that if you want all the expensive , clothes, and such like, th other fellows who take over the deal My experience uivation Army of their lives reforming each time to at the moment, take them to a show and a dinner at a good restau- rant after the theatre. It is unusual not to hear during t : “TL was out w night, and you diamonds he lat is the significance of tie Ku , the gospel of Emil Ccue, rience, New Thought, Why do people find that with God without they can commune notte) By John Cassel Press Pub. Co. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE RAIN AND THE PLANT. He asks them questions that they cannot answer. It is “not the facts that a man carri ing that he got in taking in those Facts are often not what they see Edison is discouraged because college boys know does not find in their brains the infor- he draws the conclu- in his head but ts that makes him fit for life, even for life in one of Mr. Edison’s manu- facturing establishihents. Able intellects are constantly proving that much of the information ab sorbed by the men who went to college twenty years ago is really misinformation, A great deal that Mr. Idison’s engineers thought they knew about electricity when they were students in technical schools has proved to be wrong. Suppose they gave all the answers that were deemed correct in college to a questionnaire in modern clectricity ? . Edison would rightly deem them a parcel of dunces, No memory ought to be loaded with statistics that can easily be found in books. A man may haye forgotten the name of the capital of Tibet and still be able to perfect an improvement on an airplane that will treble its speed or commercial value. The world needs the new work that such a brain does. It already knows the capital of Tibet, and whatever by being given it out of an individual's memory. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, And if a good deal of the knowledge is forgotten, it at least helped de velop the mind while it was arriving in instalments from the books and the professors. van gain nothin XVII, THE STORY OF Zi (Continued). E AGE OF AMPHIBIANS, ee / EF © began at a time when minrine — creatures, such as ‘cogs, . salamanders and, their ailics, tat learned to live on land, This is only another way of savinat that, as soon as certain water-worn animals developed organs which én~ abled them to live in the air, a new Age was ushered in which lasted as long as the amphiblans dominated the earth: Pictures of the floral forms which flourished dufing the Age of Amphiblans are found tm~ presse in coal. For ‘tt was during this Age that the coal measures were laid down. The pictures:show that | wherever coal now exists exceedingty, dense forests existed, since out of the debris of those forests the coal waa a formed. f} Under those foul forests, the am~- phibians perfected thelr tangs and de- veloped feet. The queer tracks thelr unfinished feet produced in the coal- \ forming products of vegetable docay, may yet be seen on slabs of coal in museums, just as tracks “made Im moist concrete may be seen on side~ walks. ‘After long domination, the ampbi- bians gave way before a new order of creatures, wherein the feet and lungs were completely adapted to land conditions. These new creatures were What we call reptiles. THE AGE OF RE gave rise to creatures which would sow be regarded as frightful. At home on the land, they could wander far away from the water courses with- out, as in the case of their emphi- ; bian ancestors, having to live with e one foot in the water. . As the reptiles multiplied and spread over the earth, nearly all the amphibians became eytinct. For one whole Age, reptiles ruled the jungles, there being no higher creatures then in existence. We may assume that tne-earth af that time, including all regions tying between the Arctic and Antarctic ¢lr= cles, where reptilian bones have teen found, was not very different from certain tropical habitats where lin. @ gering representatives of the great orders still survive. ‘The building up of bone snd brawn, rather than of brain, appears to have been the purpose of the forces at worl: during the Age of Reptiles. Some of the orders were nearly one block long, yet among them were creatures with smaller heads than a dog" those small heads consisted largely, of bone, leaving very little room. for brains. When those prodigious masses of flesh labored, they did not bring forth living young; they laid exgs! It elephants laid eggs, they would not long survive modern conditions. Serpents are the least ypical of all surviving reptil they have greatly, degenerated. That serpents once had legs and feet and walked the earth did the others of their tind is demonstrated every time an intant boa-constrictor is hatched, for its legs are clearly visible. The reptiles were cold-blooded animals, some beiag herbivorous and o¥hers carnivorous. c four limbs, which reptiles tn- herited from their amphiblun ances- tors, were variously used; dinosaurs used all four feet for walking, where- as the pterodactyls used on y the hind feet for walking, and the f-refeat Lar balancing themselves while walking, or jumping, somewhat as a tope- walker uses a gan. Away down the centuries, the pterodactyls, or flying reptiles, gave rise to birds. (This subject will be discussed in a sulse- quent article). In tyo ways plainly tho reptiles were Rescopiivis of ‘mprovement; they needed largpr brains and a tet- ter method of producing thelr young. In an insignificant species, toward the end of the Age, the improvements first began to appear. That species, called monotremes, laid its eggs halt- hatched in an abdominal pouch, wiierein the mother sweated a mill- like fluid which the prematurely born infant absorbed. Those little ¢reat- ures were of much greater importance than tae rise and fall of continents, since they were changing egg-laying organs into wombs. Without ¢hem the mammals would not have been evolved. 1 This article should have preceded ae that on Marsupials and Mammals. * Ry an error in numbering tt was mie- placed in this series, pees is 2 WHOSE BIRTHDAY? DEC 29—-WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONB, famous English states- man and author, was born-in Liver~ pool, England, Dec. 29, 1809, and dieg May 19, 1898. After graduating from Oxford, in 1831, he was elected to Parlament. He soon became Junior @ Lord of the Treasury and was made Vice President of the Board of Trade > and Master of the Mint, and in 1852 became Chancellor of the Exchequer. A the death of Lord Palmerston, Gladstone became the Liberal Leader of the House of Commons, and in going to church? the beginning of the end of the Chris- you know that he has four automobiles, and he is simply » but mother does not like him, so I don’t think I shall both- er with him except to have ag How interesting to one will ina few moments be * a good United States ten spot and a tip for entertaining the lady in Just as in the past great races and religions have flourished and passed so Christianity is doomed. Christianity has served {ts purpose and in its stead we will have another preaching the gospel, that we are all 1 , that we do not need to look/way in the distance for God, yod's consciousness Although it now means a coward, a base, contemptible fel- worss than @ to lle abed Strange to say, the word poltroon 1s derived from thé word bolster, meaning an article of bedroom ‘fur- You weren't bluffed by the and why fall for this of humbug from any r own home town? that you are wasting your: good hard- earned money and time upon when in eats most of her th covered was! with the male members of her timme- There will be no more war, for we will fully realize we are all brothers there will be no pover- ty, for greed will be a thing of the no more sickness, for we will we are all divine, and will not In the Italian language, {n whith ward “noltrene" WHERE DID YOU GET same sense as poltroon, the wo ? erived from ** Of course, the man given too much 244.—POLTROON. to the habit of repose on the s not apt to develop ether energy bravery. Hence the word “poltroon" 1 its modern meaning a bolster. ‘a dastard, acqui poltroon originally was no] coward, 2 who liked too well pat Fame is the flower of Ouida. Old age is the repose of the reat that precedes the rest eoeure tm (fe that remains,—Robert Collyer, oltre," from the Ge bed is day, | ment that dies when the nert sun rises. life; 1868 the Liberal majority in the new Parliament made him Premier, Dur= ing his term of office numerous im- portant laws were passed, among them legislation affecting Ireland, an extension of suffrage, and a reform of the civil sefvice, His vigorous ad- vocacy of Home Rule for Ireland re- sulted in an adverse decision by the people, and he was succeeded by Lord Salisbury However, Gladstone's lead ip of the opposition in Parlia- ontinued and yesulted in the formation of the Gladstonian Party whose principal tenet was Home Rule for Ireland, This issue was sub- mitted to the people in 1892 and again brought Gladstone forward as Prime Minister, but he soon retired on e6~ wount of moor health and eld ema or a