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TAR ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Dally Except 8u the Prems Publishing Company, tt Fark bow New fore ' RALPH PU President, 63 Row. J, ANGUS NHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSRPH PULITANI, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park How, ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PR MEME nas. elt STE AI PUN Se Go Ter te LAL SN | WILL SANER REPUBLICANS STAND IT? HAT does the country think of Senator Lodge now? Only a few days ago the Senator from Massachusetis was promot ing hia personally conducted treaty ecandal with load protestations that his honor was involved in keeping secret the names of the persons who showed him a copy of the treaty. Meanwhile Elihu Root betook himself to Washington and of his * own free will and accord told the Senate Foreign Relations Com é * mittee yesterday that he had had in his possession for several weeks) & copy of the so-called treaty sent him by Henry P. Davison, Chair- man of the War Council of the American Red Cross, who got it in ' Burope, where such copies were and are public property. | And Senator Lodge admitted to the Senate committee that, “as @ matter of fact, the copy 1 saw was the one shown me by Mr.) Root” (1) ‘ All the late sensation and mystification of the Lodge charges—‘o} what end? That Senator Lodge might, if possible, embarrass the President and the State Department by a stroke no different in kind from * that of a ward politician who explodes the first scandal bomb he can ; find on the theory that however little truth there may be in it, it * will epread a certain amount of confusion in the enemy’s camp. Such tactics are no longer as common as they used to be even _ . , im sordid «trata of municipal politics. It is a sad spectacle to see Y them disclosed in the United States Senate as part of the policy and _ 4 practice of a Henry Cabot Lodge. “a What were the feelings of Senators Lodge and Borah, we wonder, | __ ag they listened to the testimony from Mr. Root, whose Republicanism cannot be impugned? : What do they think of Mr. Root’s clearly expressed view that _ \ it was not legally incumbent upon the President to send the treaty »-to the Senate? What about the Root opinion that bankers and other “financial interests” have as much right to a paper as any one clase “when the paper is public”? If Mr. Root, as a Republican, is right, then Senators Lodge and Borah and their Republican following in the Senate have put the — Pemilican Party in a highly false and foolish position by all this clamor about a treaty leak alleged to have furnished favored interests with the treaty text. ei ‘These eo-called “interests” are not devoid of enterprise. It has D2. all along been clear that they were perfectly capable of obtaining for | themselves an important and desired document which was being » freely sold in Europe. ‘As to the actual publicity of the peace treaty in its present incom- . plete form Mr. Root ig quite clear: mr th “The papers were presented to the Germans carly in May ‘and they almost immediately made them public in full and in detail. They thereupon became public property. Where there are two parties to a negotiation, if one make the matter public S it is public, The German Government having a right to make it public made it public, and it is public.” ‘ In fact and common sense this is undoubtedly true. It dors not, however, alter the absolute correctness of the President's official d _' attitude in adhering strictly to the pledges of the Allied and Asso- _ ciwted Governments, and maintaining that it is “highly undesirable _ to commfnicate the text of a document which is still in negotiation ~ amd subject to change.” . a F damage was done”—of the gross diplomatic error and bad manners “ h treaty text which is not official or final. time is becoming blind and desperate, . nitely delay this Nation’s participation in the full and final settle- ment! Do the Republican leaders in the Senate ever look behind them | these Jays to see what they are doing to their party? Maybe Mr. _ , Taft could tell them. Bi 4 Some day soon the steadier majority on the Republican coach | may cut the traces and let these wild asses of the anti-everything- ~ thait’s-Wilson element plunge on to their own destruction, oo Two serious ship collisions in the fog that bangs over the North Atlantic coast. Thanks to wireless, steamers and tugs speed to the rescue, quick word of men saved is passed ashore and these accidents out on a fog-bound sea seem hardly more remote than would the colliding of buses on Fifth Avenue. Commonplace, of course. But for a generation that can think back twenty years this commonplace has not yet ceased to be @ matter for wonder and thankfulness, —+-_____. ‘The wire strike is claimed as a victory by both sides and the public notes no special change in the service. Something mew in the strike line—likely to prove less unpopular than better known varieties. +> Nor does it alter the fact—despite Mr. Root’s opinion that “no] where so many of us fall down. EDITORI Thursday, Jd AL PAGE ume 12, 1919 Her Big By Sophie 119, ‘The Co. (the Row Fork Brentog Word.) Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright. 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), She Suggesteth Twelve Reforms, Which Shall Make P the World a Bétter and Sweeter Place for Ha- manity—and the Hohenzollerns—to Live In. ERILY, verily, my daughter, the world is filled’ with reformers and cults, and sweetness and light! And every little Uplifter hath a hobby all his own. ‘ Lo, the Prohibitionist would abolish alcohol, and the Radical would do away with work and make respectability a misdemeanor. The Vegetarian Would substitute swiss-chard for meat, and the Mental-healer would cast out all pills’ and powders and Iiniments. F The Bolshevist cryeth for free speech, fred verse and free lunch, dnd tho Altruist would abolish all money. ee Some would exterminate all the germs, and others would exterminate all the Germans. And eyery one among them promiseth thee the millenniumf But I, thy Mother, am only a womasy which is accounted less than a cigar, Therefore, am J meek and long suffering, and ask only these things. © Even that the Sages and the Wise Met shall pass a few little laws, providing: * 4 For the imprisonment (for not more than one thousand and not than one hundred years) of the man who invented the tight skin. _ For a curfew for husbands, which shiall insure that they be at bome not later than ten, and in bed not later than eleven o'clock. That no golfer shall be permitted to boast for more than twenty min- utes at a time, concerning his latest feat of prowess. i For the abolition of noise from all motor-horns, and the abolition of the sardine from all table d’hote dinners. For the prompt punishnient of all sentimental grafters caugh' hearts and kisses, at the summer resorts. ‘That no jazz band shall contain more than seventeen pieces of brass and less than one musician. | | By J. H. Cassel | . less ealing That there shall pe at least two noodles in every plate of noodle soup one-half potato in every order of hash-creamed potatoes, and one teaspoon- ful of ice cream in every jce cream soda. For the abolition of all summer blondes, grass widows, flappers, vam- pires, confirtned bachelors, married flirts, and other menaces to love, secur- ity, and the pursuit of a husband. ‘That ali men must say “I love you!” at least once, before trying to kiss a summer girl. ‘, That the inventor of the “Shimmy Dance,” and the inventor of summer furs shall be tried along with the Kaiser. ‘That no movie actor shall heave his chest and shake his head, as a sign that he is falling in love with the girl. That all married men be enforced to keep away from the refrigerator; to provide themselves with at least TWO collar buttons, to have and to” hold; to wear blinders at the cabaret show; to pay the household bills with- out growling; to clean their own safety-razors; to take the doggie for its evening stroll; to smile at least once, at the breakfast table; and to make at least one pleasant comment upon the dinner. Verily, verily, until these reforms be accomplished, and these measures adopted, of WHAT avail shall be Victory, Prohibition, Woman Suffrage, or the League of Nations? Therefore, let us right these wrongs, Beloved, and make the world a sweeter and better place, for Humanity—and the Hohenzollerns—to live in! Selah. Moment Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Press Puolishing Co, (The Now York Bvening World). Building Strong HE other day I was talking to a woman who told me an occur rence—a crisis in her lifa It gave me an tuea that might prove helpful to you and me and all of us. I reflected that in the scheme of life one of the biggest things is to be able to measure up tc @ big moment when it comes, That is ‘We cannot “rise to the occasion” and the stuff of which we are made is of the United States Senate in putting into the Congressional Record] readily disclosed. Old Colonel Re- morse is a most tantalizing monitor, and “if’ is one of the saddest words 4 ‘The truth appears to be that Republican leadership at the present) in the English language, In fooking backward on something that we might have done and didn't do. Senator Lodge’s scheme to discredit the President having missed| Here is the story: fire, Senator Knox comes forward with a resolution aimed to wrench » , the League of Nations out of the Peace Treaty and thereby indefi-| her that he cared for another woman. It seems that a short time agy her usband caine to her and frankly \old She did not ery out or quarrel, or have a scene, She merely answered, “You myst feel terribly over it under the circumstances.” In a flash the woman saw the whole situation, She weighed it quickly but surely. This was the father of her beautiful children, She would do nothing rash, She would wait. He should have his chance. She was going to be “dead sure” that the thing he had told her was an event and not a mere episode in his life, Time wold tell. Sbe herself years ago had been fas- cinated by another, but soon the time of comparison came—comparing him with her own husband, when the other lost She felt her husband was in a sim- ar boat and she wanted him to be certain it was more than a passing thing before taking any step that both might regret. In @ word, she met her big moment like a soldier his battle, True, she might invoke the law and go through al) the trials and tribula- tions that such a case entalis, and in the end gain nothing but misery, And, sure enough, the husband ts lalready beginning to sum up the Is Building Big How many broken marriages and broken lives could be averted if the person aggrieved would make less haste in having the so-called wrongs righted. How many rush to the courts for a relief that only adds to their woes. If the history of the divorce courts could’ be written, many a matrimonial craft could have been saved if the signal of distress had been withheld from the public gaze until the gale had been weathered by patience and perseverance, A lawyer friend of mine has told me of many instances where women have hurried for separation or divorce, on the spur of the first pain, later to wish that they had waited and the thing would have adjusted itself. After all, we are only human. ‘There is constant opportunity for meeting other people. Many a time flirtations and fascinations are but temporary, and will pass over, leaving a finer appreciation of the wedded ones. But the trouble is that the wife or husband aggrieved so acts as to un- duly enhance the value of the tem- porary thing and so force it Into a permanent one. ‘When on the other band, if either one had risen to the big moment of forbearance, adjustinent would have come as they wished. In other ingtances besides this it is the big soul who knows how to meet a big moment. It may be sacrificing money for a just cause. It may be josing advancement of self to ald a good friend, It may be stepping aside to make way for a weak sister or brother, But in the end there is nothing that brings such exultation of spirit and satisfaction of set than the knowl- edge that you have met your big moment in a big way. Even if you fail at that time to get the desire nearesy your heart, suc action will stand you in good stead AT LAST! closed and the entire population was “Weill, | am an old man, but I have value of his wife, and I am confident it will result in a new wooing, The union will be more firmly welded and & Gner and more enduring happiness penerenee es Mrner ig when @ more crucial time comes, You have built strong. photaaiaiA du. URING the influenza epidemic in San Francisco, when all public meeting places were compelled to wear masks to prevent the spread of the disease, a drunken. man was overheard muttering: lived my time and am ready to quit. I have lived to sea four great thin, ‘the end of the war, the saloons left open and jed,"—~Karl J, The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World). |Mrs. Jarr Meets an Interesting Literary Gentleman RS, Jarr, all alone at home, had sat down for a moment to rest and muse when a po- litely persistent ringing at the bell— j not from the hallway below, but from ithe door at the landing to the apart- |ment—aroused her from her reveries |of daye of wealth to come, when she could go shopping and buy everything she wanted, It being Gertrude's day out, Mrs. Jarre answered the polite but persist- ent ring at the bell, There stood an urbane and well dressed man of thirty-five, all smiles and suavity, The Inquigitive children hurried also to the door to see who the caller was. “Ah, good morning, young lady; a beautiful morning, is it not?” It was not. “Will you kindly tell your mother that a gentleman des{res to speak to her?” Mrs. Jarr had framed her lips to y that she was her own mother, or words to that effect, but the suave caller anticipated her, “You the lady of the house? Now, Miss, really you are joking! I would not care to contradict a lady—you have read Dickens, of course—it is seldom we meet in real life the char- actor of Dora, the child-wife in "David Copperfield.’ Of course you are a young lady of more decision of character; I can tell that by your firm yet classical features, “Why have I my foot against the door?” continued the caller, as he saw Mrs, Jarr’s gaze was downward, “Ah, habit, habit! We are slaves to habit, It comes from the dance, the popu- larity of the danée, the grace of the tango, even the rhythm of ragtime. Constant wearing of dancing pumps, you know! These potnts we endeavor to keep turned up, and so we get the habit of pressing the points against solid objects, Now, speaking of liter- ature,” continued the caller, although no one had spoken on the subject till now, “reminds ot Stevenson’ classic, ‘A Child's Garden of Verse, And you the mother wf two children— such cherubs”—here his gaze fell to the children—"it is almost impossible to believe, Yet I remember when in college—ob, yes, graduate of Harvard, some years ago to be sure, but still fond memories of alma mater linger— I fivst read ‘A Child's Garden of Verse’ How swectly those rhymes recall ‘My Bed Is Like a Little Boat. Excuse me. When I see dear little ‘Hall, | children, and especially such flowers How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune / Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Brening World). NO. 46—JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, Who Solved the Mystery of the Forests. ECAUSE he was homesick for the wilderness of his native land, an American youth threw away a brilliant art oareer in Paris and came back to the United States on what his friends called a crazy venture. The youth was John James Audubon. His father had planned for him the career of a soldier, under the ‘ great Napoleon. But he found the boy had no desires in life except to wander, out into the forests and McCardell revert to the literature that uplifts, literature as it obtains in connection with happy, happy childhood!” Mrs. Jarr was just about to ask the caller if he was a book agent, but he read her thoughts before the words were spoken, / “There you mistake, my dear Mies— I should say, Madam,” he smilingly continued. “I am a literary emis- spend his days and. nights in the study of birds and sary, not a book agent. Our firm, animals. for I am a member, is introducing To cure young Audubon of this idle whim his ‘ father sent him to France to study art, He rose rapidly in his profession asa painter, Then just as fame seemed within his grasp he dropped his work and came home. Marrying, he settled on a farm in what was then the almost trackless wilds of Pennsylvania, But here he was as unwilling to settle down to farm life as, in Paris, he had been unwilling to settle down to art. He would leave home for weeks at a time., With no companions but his dog and his gun and his painting kit, he would plunge into the wilderness and vanish from human sight. The neighbors thought him shiftless and a little insane, His wife knew better, At that time she was the only person on earth who understood and sympathized with his secret ambi- tions, She kept the farm going and segt her absent husband food and money when he bad no’ time to return home for such necessaries, During all the months when Audubon whs supposed to be loafing in the woods, he was really busier than is the average financier, He was working every minyte, although “his work” was of a kind that often kept him sitting Py be motionless for hours at a time. 4 He was solving the mystery of the forests, He was making a scletitié study of the birds and beasts, especially the birds, He was learntyg elt tiny detail of their habits and motions. He spent his evenings im wetting out careful ahd copious notes of all he had learned. Here, too, his knowledge of painting came to his aid, For he, pkofe ped the birds in their most characteristic poses and colored these sketches in exact copy of nature. ash Perhaps nowadays this achievement may not seem remarkafle) That is because Audubon's work has made the world familiar with’ ndture rets which until then were closed books, There had been a tow so-called ‘atural Histories” written. But they were laughably incorrect*and they were worded in @ stiff and stupid way which tended to put their readers to sleep. aye rN Audubon wag changing all that, He was learning natural histor} as never before had it been learned, He was writing the results of his studies in a clear and entertaining way that was to change the wns Haltsiee scientific Nterature. He was setting down on paper, with ht¥ color bd and brushes, the precise aspect of the feathered folk of the wodit#, 0! bor From Pennsylvania to Kentucky he wandered in his qubste1 fear after year he continued his researches, ‘iat! last good, One stroke of bad luck after anotheg mad reared obstacles in his path. He had overgome them all. His book was complete, He way ready to give it to the world. Mat He had no influence, almost no money. He was a stranger in a continent of eminent scie! is. Yet as soon as he showed his book to Huropdin scholars his fame was assured. Everyone saw at once its tremendous value, And 170 people subscribed $1,000 each for copies of the work. Tha The book was called “Birds of America.” Audubon had classified and painted 1,065 varieties of birds, and had described them in five large volumes of fascinating description. From that moment John James took his among the cultured classes in this In- formal manner a work that should be in every home where high ideajs and refinement are the main resistance de force, as the eminent philosopher Freud has so fittingly said. “Np, Miss—-Madam, there is no charge. We will feel repaid to know that our Handsome tomes are further spreading “The light that never was by sea or land’—I refer to the light of Uterature in homes of grace, refine- ment and cultivation, These hand- some volumes are given away with- out charge—co-education and self- help to higher things is the ideal that actuates us. A nominal fee to cover cost of compilation, publication and introduction, Thank you, I wil) come in and sit down,” And he held them with his glitter- ing eyes and came in and sat down, “The price? There is no price! With an epitome of this sort issued for and introduced solely to the cul- tured and fashionable there is 20 price. Ibsen, Tolstoy, Nietzsche of the modems; Shakespeare, Thomas a Kempis and Herodotus of the classic ancients, were all men of books Hke myself and would have scorned to haggle over literature You simply pay a dollar down and a dollar a week, and you sign here. Yes, | have a fountain pen, Do not hesitate, it ts unleakable and will not stain even such dainty fingers. The dotted line here. Thanks. And now { must depart.’ And he was gone before Mri could realize she was out a do! had not gotten a word In edgeways, But she evened up matters when Mr, Jarr came home. J y ‘and |{ The First Good Natural History, essai << WHEAT FROM AUSTRALIA, HE Australian Government bas arranged the sale of 30,000 tons of wheat to India and 11,000 to England, according to an announco- ment made by Senator Russel for thi Commonwealth. The price to India fs about $1.31 per bushel, CO, Melbousne. The price to England, in- + bis great life work was done. He hed «nade Te 1826 he carried his notes and sketches to Europe to be publishba, subscription sts were headed by the kitgs of France.and of England. ; : Lani abe Ae ia naelathataey. baie atid