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Ps q i" ‘influence of American suggestion. mnt @ Che PNA World, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, y " Poblished Dally Except Sunday by he, Frese Publishing Compeny, Noo. 83 te, RALPH PULT President, 63 Park Row, | J. LET ES KITAW Treasurer =; Bank Row, JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr. Secretary rk_ Row, MEMNER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, | fhe Associated. Prem ely, entit neat endl SS Pree Le ets eal SY Sih paper ‘and aioe" local wewm plated y A cpanel VOLUME & . NO. 21,037 SORT THE BOUQUETS AFTERWARD. EPORTS from Paris that the covenant of the League of Nations has been amended and clarified in various portions of the text are doubly encouraging for one reason: Whatever the actual changes prove to be, Senator Lodge and his Republican colleagues in the Upper House of Congress can now start a jubilant campaign to convince themselves and the country that they have taken the proposed League of Nations away from President Wilson and therewith rendered it an altogether different proposition—cound, safe and worthy of the Nation’s support. For Republican Senators the fatal defect of the covenant has been from the first that the Republican Party could make no capital out of it &s it stood save by opposing it. And opposing it too far has begun to seem even to these Senators, as they have studied popular sentiment, a ticklish business The Senatorial “thirty-seven” of the bold “round robin” will heave thirty-seven sighs of relief at any prospect that promises them a chance to point to revisions in “We did it, therefore we can vote for it.” To a majority of the people of the United States the propo ne covenant and say q covenant has presented itself in no such aspect has not considered whether it contributed to politi Republican or Democratic. That public h en in only an attempt after four years of terrible human experience to bring the chief nations of the world t The larger publi al ends either the covenant se rether in a co-operative plan—.| involving inevitable concession and compromise —to reduce the futur probability of war. | A majority of Americans have been willing to helieve the cove nant as it stands or stood could be strengthened and made morc desirable from the special point of view of the United States the same time they did not and do not believe the United States should keep out of a League of Nations unless the Constitution of | such a League be dictated by this Nation wi to its own interests. Wherever those interests can be specifically considered and guarded in the covenant the American people hope to see them so | considered afid safeguarded. On the other hand they do not expect | something for nothing. ‘They do not expect the benefits of a League of Nations without assuming some of its responsibilitic In short, when they are asked what is really the test question: Shall the United States refuse to enter into any covenant rather than accept one which falls short of giving it the utmost that Ameri gan Senatorial critics demand—their answer is: N case an immeasurably greater good which is worth minor sacrifice. With this feeling the people of the United States await with interest positive evidence of how far the revised covenant shows the To the thoughtful it has been | plain that the surest way of getting into the covenant’ more of what the United States desired was to let criticism come from this sid> of | the Atlantic rather than for the President publicly to emphasize, | even when he was in this country, changes which it would 1 his duty personally to urge upon representatives of other nalions at the Peace Conference. The country will feel more than amusement, however, in the spectacle of Republican Senators scurrying into position to hail revised cov.uant as “just what the Republican doctors ordered.” ‘ Every day the news from Europe prompts a yet more urgent |! call for an immediate treaty of peace and for a Te of Nat to watch from the start over the new national adjustments and be; pings which that peace must involve. ‘ Hungary given over to Bolshevist revolution, insurrection abl. ‘in Egypt, Germany giving more and more Proof of its plan to pl off Bolshevism against the Entente—in the face of all this } cannot move too fast toward peace. Treaty and League must find the Senate of the United Sta'os | ready. It matters little what party claims the credit so long as the | vote is sure and prompt. Partisan jeulousy can squabble over afterward. | The first and imperative need is Peace—with the ? Nations to guard it. a paramount view o. There is in this yo ue ons Ta ——+-___—_ CLOSE-UPS OF BOLSHEVISM. Confiscation of bank deposits was one of the first decrees of the Sbviet Government in Hungary, How would a move to confiscate the $: de- posited in the savings banks of the United States strike any 10,000,000 one of the 11,600,000 depositors? ee eer eceecepinnenreenentare oe Haat Letters From the People w vit Red Cross Deb say for a Red © driver who we ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Pe: , ie 4 “4 Baba b ine T have read all your editoriuls since ume with no feeling of slachlr my return to America last ‘Tuesday on — the Agamemnon. I agree with them ; nv ist ood for the returned THE BEGINNING OF THE UM that nothing is too good BRELLA soldier. H how i# it I never hear a word H fret umbrella eve #040 mew bow | P| America was the property of a about the returned Red Cross driver Baltimore man who carried it With ail other transportation men in the | in Hupiic for the first time 149 years¢ Ted Cross, I was physically unfit for! ag, The contrivance excited much the army With my exemption papers nd for me years the use I applied for and obtained my passport Was considered effemi- 16, 1918, and left New York on| nate, first person who used an 1918, umbrella in the streets of London was Du my return nobody suid let's help |JONA# Nanway about the middle of the eighteenth ntu The um this man to a job and here |* bonus | | i jeg ‘ MM Bven when J applied for a ro-| Foe is Of ancient origin, und was newal of WIT chauffeur license the | Probably first used by t hin clerk said { must pay $5, as though it | Spain, Italy and France had umbre w a firet license instead of a ve-| las a century before they were used newal. in England and Ame The early TI took my chances with the rest. European umbrellas had ribs of cane peepeere the big sane Fone. 3 a”, | or whalebone, and were heavy, un- mesarey S00: 8 stile. snd ly articles, The hackney couch- near the divisional mark of the Army | S4iDl¥ artic he hackney. 901 et @ecupetion. men of London made public demon- Bhould I not at least be able to get | Stations in 1778 against the umbrell & renewal of my license the same as a| Which, they feared, would make p: sobdier? Let's hear what you have to! ple disinclined to use their vehicles, on - active business world, and one woman worker The Wealthy By Sophie Copyright, 1919, YOUNG wor n writes calling my attention “to an everyday con- dition at present existing in the which uncommon in New York, even times of « not n these prosperous the She goes on to tell about # young wom- office, of a tractor; the daughter wealthy con- that this pin-money, and says that the friends and * _ acquaintances — of VE en er iis girl “60 not | even know she goes downtown to busines: She also says. “Within the next office theré is also employed a middle-aged Ne has the labor situation been so critica as to-day, especially among women. When millions of our men were calle: from their ordinary channels of in dustry, women were asked as a patri bs the Prows Publishing Co, (The New York Hvening World.) The Question of Pin-Money Versus Bread-Money. |Mr. Jarr Has an Experience of Trafficking in the! Home Market. an who works in her | girl spends all the | money she earns tor er in the history of the world} EDITORIAL PAGE day, March 27, 1919 Conyright by The Prone Pubiiabin (rut New York kreaivg \ ” i € r a Mar Say \< Sook DACYOCVAND ow They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World j ‘0, 1I83—ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Who Invented the Telephone UE telephone is lacking in commercial possibilities. Ten thousand dollars is much too large a sum to risk on marketing an instrument that at best can never be more than @ source of amusement!” So declared a wise capitalist to whom Alexander Graham Pell offered a sixth interest in his telephone invention in return for an advance of $10,000 to put the instrument on the market, Thus, too, did the aforesaid wise capitalist lose a chance to turn his $10,000 into un- countable millions. | “Throw Bell and his silly talking machine out of the window,” a Senator ordered his clerk, “if he comes around here again trying to interest me in the fool thing.” Next Bell knocked at the doors of the Western Union Telegraph Com- ;Pany, begging that concern to take a goodly slice of telephone stock and to launch the scheme, The President of the Western Union sent out word to the inventor: “What use could this company make of an electrical toy?" hone Company jumped in less than two years from $10 a share to $4,000 a share and that stockholders reaped $4,000,000 divi- dends in less than eight years it seems incredible Copynaht | | | “Throw Bell Out } of the Window.” that the solidest and most astute business men in Carr America could not foresee any future gor it when they were entreated by the inventor to put up @ | few dollars which would bring back as many millions to them. Bell came here from Scotiand in 1870 to act a school teac | of deaf mutes. With him he brought over the beginnings of | tion on whioh he had been tinkering for three years | mitting articulate sounds over a wire by iv did not realize at first the r toa cliss a queer inven an invention for trans- He himseit ns of e He mighty possibi of the idea. planned it merely to help him in the teaching of the deaf ‘ |. ‘Then graduaily he began to evolve a wider use for the invention, foresaw its boundless powers for tulking across space, and he sct to work | with this new plan in view. He had faith in himself and in his schen But no one else had faith in either, He had no money. | be put on the market, So he began the infinitely harder task of floating the telephone com. pany he had just formed. Everywhere he was rebuffed. The London Times vommented on his invention as “the latest American humbug And without funds, the Jephone could not Nobody cared to invest. lesser man would have g ven up tl gle. But Bell did not know low to fail. He kept on— enn > und he made good. A Scramble to ald] He owed $ to; « he had bought, Telephone Stock. His creditor 5 npcuously, to acespt Garr fifty shares 0 ck in payment of the de Had the creditor had the ie to accept | the shares they would hav 10,000 on his $600 investment netted him “omething like $2 | But Bell's importunity and the success of one or two demonstrations he gave finuily impressed a little clique of Boston men who, as a “flyer let him have enough money to put up a t mile line between Somerville | and Boston. | Phat was the start, ‘The line's practi | one of the greatest discoveries of the ages had just been m There was a wild scramble to buy telephone stock. Lines went up everywhere, Shateg rocketed in value as never did “war-baby" stocks. Bell's fame and fortune were assured. He had made good—to a vaster extent than he himself had | dared to hope. | New York City’s first telephone book, by but a single small pasteboard card, dated 1 its subscribers on one side of the card. Ti seribers, working convinced people that the way, was no book at all, 9 and bearing the n: re were just 252 mes of 2 these sub- Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New’ York Evening Work.) MODERN woman's path to happiness appears to be strewn with the wreckage of an old-fashioned man’s ideals. Working Girl Irene Loeb ' By Roy L 1919, by the Press Publishin Copyright otic duty to replace these workers. Many of them always had depend- | f ents, and accordingly bettered their) 66 AH, company?" cried Mr. Jarr, positions advancing toward his, good | With the returning soldiers thou- wife with upraised band in | sands of women must now step back | the attitude of a trafic cop defying | in order to make way for the replace- | an automobilist who is stating he is |ment of those who fought at the @ personal friend of the Police Com- front. missioner, There is bound to be idleness as a) A bewhiskered, stoop-shouldered result |man, who stood in the dining room | Many of these soldiers being away | beside a large sack of bedticking, |from the homes have not only de-| from which protruded several pots pleted the family income, but there /and pans of enamel ware, regarded jhas been no saving against @ rainy | Mr. Jarr in alarm. |day during the war period, | The sacrifice of the soldier has thus | yin't no company; I'm in business for also entered into the economic situ- | mygei¢i ation of many a family, [cabow sniaaaes malnd’ your) own herefore, it would seem to me as) qi). + |much a patriotic duty for women who | : |don't need positions to make way for those who do. ntlemen,” he said softly, “it ate said Mrs. Jarr coldly, as sie dumped an armful of Mr. Jarr’s last | year's (and the year before) suits on jthe table, This is a man who comes J}woman, in the capacity of a stenog-| In other words, one who is inde- ; lyapher, ‘This woman'y husband 4s @| pendent of income should be willing|We!! recommended by your friend practising aftorney, with an office in|to play her part against taking the | M avinsky, He has thirteen ehil- Janother part of the c She com-| place of some one who actually needs | "en, two of them twins, and the old- mutes from a neighboring State to) a livelihood, est boy sells papers and goes to night this city every morning, and carries} Just a8 much patriotism may be | School, and two of the girls are finish- sway her ‘pin-money’ every Saturday; manifested in this reconstruction | ers in a hat factory, but this is the ufternoof to her home-town. | period as in the thick of the battle, [dull season.’ “Neither of these women has any| The question of pin-money versus} “W has that got to do with me, children or dependents, Is this a] bread-money fs certainly one for the} lady bird, that I should be bereft of just condition of affairs? individual girl to think over, |my blue serge suit, and my snuff “What is to become of the poor, de={_ What matters a few gew-guws | brown suit, all of which, while a lit- erving New York girl who is at this, OTe st less if you have Ma Way | Ue disfigured, are still in the ring?” glial gle ed the streets,|4 4 Place for some one who needs) asied Mr. Jur m office to office, in many cases | S°tusl necessities | “The lady it should be all right; I se annie imi how is she to} 2¢ 18 @ very small sacrifice to make} pay best prices for cast-off gar rpete with those others who can|'" te common cauac ments," began the stoop-shouldered Lin a preference, and for half the} ¢!# one, however, that must be left | man, We PS Rera sian WLS an *} with the conse.ence ef her who would | I aaidto-him right of enn inp ; iH truly patriotic and who has the! don't want any of that cheap enamel hea yd joe sid basic tll j}Wave, It chips right off.’ So he said Can you @ nin twixt the that, beeause we were friends of the Womun who works for pin-m for Inventions of the Dav |iavianhy , wha came frum where he her oWn iT pain and the orl = did the old country~ang ind yo : na ne PF '! An English inventor has patented a | Ud Ip ; Mund debe Woman who goes so the business of jhe was married first and came out to process for so treating the edges ot | livelihood every day H super money that, when placed in this country and then sent for his Now, this is a free country, anaj >? oS ee ee | wife and children, although they have ‘phonograph of his invention, they oo opportunity is naturally open to! sauce words attesting their ge: {had seven of the children since"— every one in the work-a-day wor! t peagacts Ons i thelr Bend- | trow could I paid the ship tickets While no law or ilation could - 2 ua jfor all 1 have now’? interposed the just the situation described, yet the ‘ro prevent dust being drawn tnto |#ealer in cast-off garments, “I'm a is something to be sald in connection! the back of an automobile when ite |POor man with these workers for “pin-money."| ton wn, an inventor has patented | "And so he is going to pay me re mmething they owe tol, curtain to be suspended behind a {®4*l, and 1 want a dollar’ humanity at large which probably | car, so shaped as to deflect the dust venty-five cents," replied the y have not stopped to think about. | ojouds, dealer, “Where is the profit?) They cially is this the case now. | @ ee ain't ali wool, and they have been pressed and scoured and relined may- be, Seventy-five cents, and 1 lose money. But I will give a stew pan and a fry pan and @ pie pan"--— “A dollar for each guilt, Not a cent less will | lake!” said Mis, Jette ‘To lessen the smoke and gas in tun- 1) nels, Swiss railroads are equipping | their locomotive stacks with lds to 1} be closed when a tunnel is entere, ~'steam being exhausted beneath the + engines ° Jarr Family ais McCardell ng Co. (The New York Brening World.) |“ am a ruined man. 1 have thir. teen children, A dollar will I giv |for them all, and I rob myself!” “What?” crial Mrs. Jarr. “A dol lar for three good suits of clothes | One of them with two pairs of trous: \ers, only I cut a piece off one 1 | patch something"—— | “Hold on, Jarr, should leave me naked to mine en emies Now please don't: interfere!” re “Cormorants? ‘Thi here! | plied Mrs, Jarr. idea! | packing my closets with moths? | “With moths, is it? the merchant. Should I pay a doila' | for mothe? | starve mit | “There, moths?” you see what you hav | done!” cried Mrs, Jarr, turning to Mr. Jarry, “Ll wish you would not’ inter. fere where matters do you A “But, dearie, listen!" pleaded Mr. two pairs of white duck pants shrunk too small for me, and my dress sult, these Jarr, “Except my dress euit, clothes are all I have.” You must get some new clothes,’ Mos. Jarr firmly. Those are ali right. They sui! remonstrated Mr, Jarr, Pirst clays enamel ware will give—a nice stew pan, but mo money. | Money for moths should I pay?! in Westfield, Mass. in 1815, and was) devising ways and means of getting Never!” j educated at Wesleyan University. At! somewhere within reach of the fire “1 won't take .kitch@ware,” said | the age of twenty-one he made @ tour] ing tines, BEVaaDGCAARGh SARTREE Mis. Ja “Heventy-fve cents ‘a {@f the South and Southwest and set-| unknown during the Napoleonic wara, suit, not a cent loss.” {led for a time in Louisville, where! Wien Napoleon returned from Biba “But, . begged Mr. Jar jhe was engaged a8 @ newspaper re-| _wyj, was 104 years. ago—sev« “Now ase let us be!” wepilea| Porter. Later he went to New Or-| erat London and Paris ne spapers at= Mrs, durr, ‘These clothes ure not | fans and edited a Whig newspapers tempted to “cover” his movements, and good enough for you to wear, andj nd In 1845 he founded the Baton) renorters were sent out for this pure | they are too good to throw awa Houmas conservator. een the United | POX: ‘The Emperor did not relish such | “A dollar and a halt for the lot," | gigtey and Mexico broke out, Thorpe| °*P/onase, and sent the reporters pack ia the merchant. Moths! Yow! | gnisted in the army. Ay @ soldier his| ‘P& ‘The gentlemen of that profession Moths! Ia that a business?” fared even worse with Weillagton, who | “Seventy-five cents!” declared Mrs.| way promoted to the rank of Colonel, | YOl*d vigorous objections to their Jarr firmly, “Seventy-five cents! pho instincts of the journalist were | Presence. | piece.” ill strong, however, and he could The profession of war correspondent | “My children should starve,” plead- | not resist the impulse to turn report- reached its period of greatest glory in ed the dealer, ifty cents I give yo for each suit, and a stew pan,” “I don't want a stew pan, you,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “Oh, take it!” cried Mr, Jarr. wear it Sunday as a hat.” And as he retreated the dicker wa: I tel still on, with prospects of Mre, Jarr getting 60 cents and two stew pans, ‘or each suit? cried the dealer. | toy interposed Mr. | “Are you cormorants that you I'm tired of al! these old duds Yow!" cried Is it my children should not cohcern a} A The root of most matrimonial failures is the average man’s tendency to look for a girl who will carry him off his feet, instead of trying to find one who will keep him on them, Alas, when Prohibition arrive man will no longer be able to cure his hearta by the usual simple method of going out and acquiring a headache a | 108 e han £ even Womiano A woman doesn’t mind admitting to her friend? that she is “getting fat;” it's when she actually hag te admit it to herself that she winces. | a ‘There be these three—Fate, a lover, and a pawnbroker—which, having found the least you will accept, will offer you just a little less. Ergo, put a bigh valuation on yourself, of A man seldom demands that a woman be square; he prefers the kind | that he can get around without knocking against the sharp corners of - | her principles, No doubt @ man figures that a woman believes such a small portion of what he says that if he doesn't “lay it on thick” there won't be any/ thing left. ‘ r Never part with your wedding presents, They are one of the sweet things about marriage ‘hat you can be sure will last forever. 6 Most men picgire the “ideal woman” as surrounded by the four walls of a kitchen, with st-cap for a halo. Keep your ideals bright and shining. They are the windows through which you are fated to look at life, and the world. The Pioneer of War Correspondents HOMAS BANGS THORPE, anj Although Kendall was the pioneer American journalist, wag one] of the profession of war correspondent t of the pioneers to follow the| and is so honored by dificult and hazardous and lately | those T| more or less thankless profession of ( war correspondent, Thorpe was born| a majority of harassed gentlemen of all mae ns who during the war which hag Just ended spent their days and nights gervices were so meritorious that he the American Civil War and Franco. Prussian conflict, when many journale ists immortalized themselves In the war with Russia the Japanese kept the correspondents in the background of affairs, and the example of Nippon was followed and made even more uler whenever opportunity offered, His | ‘'stories” of the war were published 1/in many newspapers and afterward collected in boak form, Cieorge Wil- kins Kendall of New Otleans, who also reported the Mexican War, is usually called “the father of war cor- respondents,” but he shares that] drastic by all the nations engaged maw fame with Thorpe. ‘the latest and greatest of wars, ,