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— ie ESTABLISHED BY JOSKPH PULITZER, Dally Wasept Bender by he Fase Fupushing Company, Noa 68 to TANGUS SHAW, treasurer, 63 Park Row. NGU Josie FULITARR’ dry Becretary, 63 Park How. ScnEER, OF FER AspoCt A: ATED PRESS, Be herds ct Sa iS a ead Sis a onal ome Peele bee VOLUME 59..... -NO. 21,079 THE FIRST REQUISITE. FT WAS clearly indicated that the most momentous treaty of peace ever drawn would be likewise the longest, No doubt now remains that it is aleo the most comprehen- “give, the most uncompromising, the most drastic. | ® Persons who have been haunted by a fear that Germany would how be let off from paying full and adequate penalties can put aside their misgivings. The terms which Germany is required to sept reach a reassuring total of just severity. While not a few of these terms have been known in advance, their final massing together in the complete and formal treaty constitutes 4 what will go down in history as the most formidable sentence civiliza- has ever passed upon a nation guilty of outraging her laws. “a If any part of the German people still thought the German dele- had gone to Versailles to “negotiate” a peace, the awakening fist be a rude one. ” .© For German ears the treaty is a stern instrament of dictates and z = _ -* Restore Alsace-Lorraine to France; cede Belgium 989 square ms of territory between Luxemburg and Holland; surrende: the Basin and Danzig; give most of upper Silesia, Posen and West to Poland; recognize German-Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Péland as wholly independent; give up all German colonies; renounce all German territorial and political rights outside of Europe. ' Cat down the German army to 100,000 men, including officers; reduce the German navy personnel to 15,000 and the German navy ix battleships, six cruisers and twelve torpedo boats; build no more ines nor, after Oct. 1, airships; abolish conscription; raze German forts within fifty kilometres of the Rhine; demolish the it German naval base at Heligoland; open the Kiel Canal to all ; turn over the fourteen German eubmarine cables to the iated Powers; stop all importation and exportation of war if =. + Deliver up those Germans who have violated the accepted laws of- civilized warfare; agree to the trial of the former Kaiser by an ational high court. - And pay! Pay all civilian damages, beginning with an initial nt of 20,000,000,000 marks; pay shipping damages ton for ton; for all damages to Allied and Associated Governments and j total bill for reparation to be determined and pre- “gemted not later than May 1, 1921. The total will be arrivod at _ jnatty. Sign in blank. ! Boiled down to bare bones, the parts of the treaty that dea) with and what is required of Germany make a long, grim cata- of imperatives, the number and severity of which furnish a final jive measure of the defeat a militaristic Germany has suffered of the iron grip in which a wiser world is minded to hold mili- henceforth. _. @o the League of Nations Germany must subscribe in principle it without membership. This carries with significant clearness the tion that Germany is signing a dictated peace which puts her hi , ‘Again, the Treaty provides that Allied troops shall remain in} pie? parts of Germany until complete reparation has been made, ‘but that the extent of occupation may be reduced at the end of each af three five-year periods if it proves that Germany is regularly ful- ‘filling her obligations, Here, as in the stringent provision for a return to earlier trade, "ama tariff conditions and for freedom of transit through G»-man; guaranteed to Allied and Associated nationals, can be, the post-war position of Germany as a nation that has its long; ‘way to make back to a plane of anything approaching equality or| |g No human document ever deserved more careful reading and Nevertheless the first question with millions of people on both tiles of the Atlantic will be: What does the Treaty do to Germany? Eyen a hasty scrutiny will be enough to convince these millions the Treaty does to Germany enough to make Germany the most oughly beaten, humiliated, strictly watched and guarded nation “that ever found itself condemned for its crimes to years of reparation. 4 And a Germany in that state is the first requisite of what the makers have said they were working toward—“a firm, just and peace.” —_——-+-—____. The President has summoned Congress for a special ses- EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, training echools of New York City for the profession of teaching was 2,039, In 1918-19 the number has fallen to 1,206. This, according to the report of a sub-committee of the Legis- lative Committees on Education and Cities in the State, is only about one-fourth the normal training school registration in former years. Why are there fewer and fewer school teachers? The reason is not far to seek. The United States Commissioner of Education, Dr. P. P. Claxton, thus states it: “Teachers are now paid less for their work than any other class of workers, and the increase in their pay in the last few years has in no wise been in keeping with the increase of pay of other workers or with the increase in the cost of living. “While the cost of living has increased approximately 80 Der cent., salaries of teachers have increased only about 12 per cent. Many of the better teachers are leaving the schools and their places are taken by men and women of less native ability, less education and culture, and less training and experience. Many of these places are not filled at all. “As an inevitable result the character of the schools is being lowered just at a time when It ought to be raised to a much higher standard. The only remedy is larger pay for teachers.” At the late session of the New York Legislature two bills were passed providing higher salaries for public school teachers, One of these bills was inadequate in that it (1) left out teachers in high schools, where 40 per cent. of unfilled vacancies in teaching although the other schools of the State are suffering greatly for want of teachers, The other, a State wide bill, covers both elementary and high schools and carries an appropriation of $5,300,000, of which some 4 per cent. would come to the teachers of this city. Increases of salary sre provided for every grade of teacher from kindergarten to hig school, with equal pay for men and women teachers. sion beginning May 19. Bringing Congress to Washington to si * work is like leading the horse to water. The uncertainties are i i} ie e w ———-¢-___ TEACHERS’ SALARIES. EVENTY THOUSAND public school children in the City of New York are now deprived of adequate schooling through lack of teachers. Whe present shortage of teachers in this city alone is at teast| iene the clearly established. { The first of these measures, the Lockwood-Fertig bill, was dis approved by Mayor Hylan yesterday. The second, Senate Rill No. 1919, is now in the hands of the | Governor for his signature, } He should sign it: (1) Because it is fair to all teachers of all classes throughout the State; (2) Because for New York there can never be true economy i) jany short-sighted policy which discourages men and women of the highest type from entering a profession upon which the State depends for the instruction of its children and the high standards of its|what poet? That sounds like « apace Only 531 students entered these training schools last Septeniber. | staffs are reported; and (2) applied only to New York City schools, ¥ May 8, 1919 Magazine By Roy L. ‘How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World. No. 31—HENRY BERGH, Founder of the S. P. C. A. HIS is the story of a New Yorker who made good in a crusade which most people branded as absurd and im- practicable. He’ was Henry Bergh. Bergh taught man- kind the love and kind treatment of enimals. And ths odd part of the cage was that he personally could never overcome his own distaste and fear of animals. So he was working in accord with his conscience and not of his inclinations. His biographer writes of him: “Alone, in the face of indifference and opposition and ridicule, he began a reform that is now recognized as one of the beneficent movements of the age.” Bergh left Columbia University before the end of his course and spent the next five years in Europe. There he started a diplo- matic career. He was secretary to our Petrograd Legation, and a brilliant future stretched before him. But he threw over his legation work and camo back to New York, announcing that he was going to “devote the remainder of his life to the interests of dumb animals.” In Europe he had seen sick horses gored to death for the amusement of bull-fight audiences or driven to death under heavy loads. He had seen dogs tortured not only by heartless masters but by Devoted Hie Life tot Vivisectioniets, He had seen sights which burned Dumb Animals. { nee aes themselves into his memory and led him to spend his whole future in lessening such evils, Here, except for the absence of bull-fights, he found helpless beasts little better treated than in Europe. In not one State of the Union was there a single law against the wanton ill-treatment of animals, Unaided he set to work at the task of awakening the public con- science, It was an uphill job all the way for the first five years. But Bergh kept at it. His rewards were the ridicule of his friends and the curses of brutal drivers and dog-owners in whom he tried to instil kindness to their victims, , Bergh went into his work with no maudlin sentimentality, He brought to the task a keen brain, a high education and a tireless energy. He wrote and lectured and interviewed politicians and spent his own private fortune in the cause, Very slowly but very steadily he began to make the public see the right side of the matter. The New York branch of the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed. The New York Legislature enacted laws, drafted by Mr. Bergh, for the compulsory better treatment of animals, By means of a lecture tour Bergh carried his gospel of humanity into other parts of America until State after State copied New York's 8. P. C. A. statutes. A Frenchman living here—M. Louis Bonard—bequeathed $150,000 to Bergh’s work. The turning point was passed. The 8, P. C. A. was on its feet, carry- ing on its mighty mission of mercy. Bergh had outlived the scoffings and indifference of his fellow-men. He had made good. If Te Roving | But he was not content, He continued the work, | Levi Yeah broadening its scope along every line. His officers Sanrnrnnnneny, received legal right to arrest offenders who mul- treated animals. He persuaded the Episcopal |Chureh to set aside one Sunday a year wherein its clergy must preach against cruelty to dumb beasts. Bergh’s rescue of a little child from hid- cous injury, in 1874, led also to the founding of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children. He was not able to destroy the practice of vivisection—that barbarous medical orgy whereby live dogs are roasted and cut to shreds and other- wise tortured to death in the supposedly “holy” name of science—a foul practice which many physicians condemn as useless and which many more confess to be “of doubtful value.” But he bettered vastly the condition of {animals in countless instances. Wealth began to pour .n on Bergh’s society. But Bergh himself would |not touch a penny of it—not even to reimburse his own heavy expendi- ltures. He continued to work on harder than ever and refused any salary for his labors. It was enough for him that he had made good and that he | had done much to destroy one of our worst national abuses. he Jarr PfPamil y| Bachelor Girl Reflections McCardell Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Mr. Jarr Scrambles a Few Quotations and Mrs. Jarr Takes a Few Notes. 'M not going to worry any more, let the chips fall where they may, if it takes all summer, for it's a wise child that has no turn- ing!” remarked Mr. Jarr, as he set- tled himself to read how the baseball clubs were coming along. “I've been thinking about what you said the other day, and I've come to the con- clusion you are right. What's the use to worry, whether the left hand knows its own father, when it comes ‘home to roost?” “I don't know what you are talk- ing about, but I do know worrying brings wrinkles, especially if one is thin,” replied Mrs. Jarr, ‘Wasn't it Lora Byron who said ‘Fat is fatal to youth and beauty?” “Why, no, I think it was one of Mr. William Woodrow Shakespeare's plays,” replied Mr. Jarr; “yes, you will find it in ‘Uncle Tom's Two Or- phans.’” “I think you try to talk such silly nonsense just to tease me!” said Mrs. Jarr, “But we were not talking about fat, We were talking about worrying, and then you started trying to be funny!” “Yes, I know,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘But if you worry you don’t get fat, and yet if you worry to keep thin you get yrinkles.” “Oh, I know you're enough to worry one and keep one thin!” remarked Mrs. Jarr, “I might be fat and jolly not that I want to be fat, though— but for you.” “Fat and jolly?’ repeated Mr, Jarr. “I know some fat people who are the greatest of fretters, Then, it is popu- larly supposed that fat people are good hearted and lovable, I've known scme fat guys—beg pardon, I have known some stout men—who were the meanest, slyest, crookedest, most de- ceitful bighbinders. Taik of being two-faced! Come to think of ty a lot’ of fat people are not only double- chinned, but are two-faced as well.” “Well, I am sure I would worry if I were getting stout, and when one worrles it affects one’s disposition, So if fat people are often deceitful, who can blame them?” Mrs. Jarr replied, “What great poet was it who said “The fat are getting fatter, the poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer, the old are older’—— “Poet?” interrupted Mr, ee Jerr, from breakfast food and rubber hee! | and chewing gum advertisements. Do you get your ideas of art from the same source? Say, those lady-like young men in the collar advertise- ments make me sick!” “When you talk that way ft is no wonder I have the trouble with our Willie I do!” said Mrs, Jarr. “He wants to be rough like a soldier or a sailor or @ marine, he says. He won't wash his neck, and he hates the very | sight of little Claude Featherington, and attacks the child every time he sees him on the way with his music roll, going to take his piano lessons.” “Good for—I mean our Willie shouldn't do that,” said Mr. Jarr. “But we got off the subject. We are talking about worrying.” “You were rude to me when I was quoting from the poets,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, “So, I should worry.” “You should worry, is right,” de- clared Mr. Jarr, “I should worry that I should worry, too, Worry is thinking about something thats GO- | ING to happen, and then you worry because it doesn’t, Worry is hope turned inside out. “We sit down and worry about what will happen after we are dead, and we are not dead yet. We worry about the note that is coming due, and it isn't due yet, We worry about losing our job, and we haven't lost it. “We do die and nobody worries about it and neither do we. The| note comes due and we pay it, get it extended or let it go to protest, and the world wags on just the same, We lose the job and maybe get a bet- ter one—anyway, we quit worrying about the chances of losing it after it ts lost.” “Well, I'm giad to hear you say so!” said Mre. Jarr. “But you'd better be careful about how you speak of not worrying about anything. Would you worry if 1 told you I got a couple of very interesting notes from a very dear old gentleman, and that my in- terest in them"—— “Oh, I'm not jealous!" interrupted Mr. Jarr. “Those are Victory Loan notes from Uncle Sam. That's what 1 was worrying about—that I can't afford all I'd like to have of them!" “And that's what 1 was worrying ‘about also," Mrs, Jarr confessed; “those are the kind of notes one likes to meet.” By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by va Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). UY a Victory Liberty Bond—and pin a D. S. C. on your pocketbook. If you don’t, you may have to fasten a wound stripe on your bank account when the income tax comes ‘round! Petter a good invest- ment than a bad conscience! With every fresh transport rapturously greeted, New York looks more and more like “The Port of Kise- ing Men.” Never take a man ¢eriously so long as be talks in glittering generalities, Remember that the spuri- ous candies always come in the box marked in- definitely, “Fine Confections.” If a woman holds onto her opinions she loses her husband's love—and if she holds onto his love she loses her identity. In these days. if a waiter concedes to treat you as an equa) you feel almost as though you had broken into society. To a man of twenty, a kiss 1s a sacrament; to a man of thirty, an em periment; to a man of forty, a sentiment; to a man of fifty, an amusement, and to a man of sixty, a compliment. Perhaps. if you asked the best and wisest man on earth what reward he wished to receive, he would confess that he wished more than anything else for the chance to be foolish and wicked for just a little while. Certainly, a good photograph of a woman should look at least five years younger than the one she had taken ten years ago. If SHE hasn't improved in that time, at least photography should have! Next to the person who tries to read the back of your newspaper across the aisle in the street car, the most obnoxious being is the person who won't let you read the back of his. _ This Good Old Town Of Ours. EARLY 173,000 patients, without | Lovelace secured permission to butld means to pay for their care,|a tavern next door to the Stadt were treated free in New nue (this city’s first City Hall) and York’s hospitals last year. fo Connect the two buildings by 9 Pier 86 North River, bullt by the city at a cost of more than $4,000,000, and taken over by the Government last year, is one of the most per- fectly equipped steamship piers in the world. Its upper deck is used as & sub-post office, devoted chiefly to handling soldiers’ mail, Theodore Roosevelt was torn at No. 28 East 20th Street. Only a short distance awry, No. 34 West 2ist Street, was the home of Chester A. Arthur shortly before he became President. Se a ‘Flu’ Masks Adom Players and Fans at Ball Game. Deu the influenza epidemic in The New York Clearing House handled its first exchanges on Oct, 11, 1853. southern California, the specs tators and players at a ball game presented a most ludicrous ap> pearanc A phot aph in the Popus lar M aeine shows Livny swathed in lu" masks, even the The first really substantial side- walks in Manhattan were laid on the west side of Broadway beiween Vewwy and Murray Streets about the year omens COKE, FUEL OF NEW TRUCK. An Bngtish Javenion sis Es umpire shouting his decisions pa ay A Spe of $0 was the penaliy r removing the masks, even when the game call for en! 1781, In 1670, soon after the English took