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A oF EDITORI THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1919 AL PAGE ESTARIASI Published Daily Except Sunn VT PULITZER, on Publishing Company, Noa 63 to x ‘ark Row. rk Row, Park Row. ng Daa NO. 21,205 R, President, 63 1» Prearurer, 63 2 Jr, Secretary ER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, ly entitled to the wee far rembtication 1B Unis paper and also the local news Arsocinted Prem ix to It oF pot others VOLUME 60.. | IF THIS BE STATESMANSHIP ! N A NUTSHELL, what Senator Lodge with his forty-five amend- | ments and four reservations is this: We will have nothing to do with the League of Nations unless it is rewritten so (hat the United States may have all the | benefits without incurring any of the obligations. The League will not prevent war anyhow. So, leaving honor aside, “Ameri- can independence and American sovereignty” will be best served by getting all we can out of the thing, giving only a “perhaps” here and there as a guarantee that we will do any active co-oper- ing toward its success. We being the big power we are, these other nations will be only too grateful for even our “perhaps” and wij “take us on our own terms.” In any case time is no object. | In this noble document evolved by the Republican majority of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate at a] crisis involving the welfare of mankind there is also room for sarcasm | directed at the Peace Conference, spiteful stabs at the President, a charge against “certain great banking firms” in the United States who have selfishly desired an early peace and a dig or two at Lloyd George and Great Britain. © : The report presented to the Senate yesterday immediately takes & pre-eminent place among the most paltry, petulant and unworthy} productions with which legislators have ever in the emallness of mind , or motive sought to impede the settlement of great issucs. If this be Republican statesmanship, God save the G, O, P.! a Trailer Hi Johnson of California hastens to tell the people of Indianapolis that the United States has lost the respect of the 7 world, ming from the Senator from California this is, of course, a boast. ee’ THE BOSTON POLICE STRIKE. : HE police strike in Boston forces upon the country a formidable issue—an issue as to the profound seriousness of which there can be no two opinions. , If members of a police force in one of the oldest communities in * the United States, a body of workers employed and paid by the z public and under special oath to maintain order and protect property, can all at once forget that oath, quit the job, leave the public unpro- tected and profess allegiance to another authority working for its own special ends, then self-government in the United States faces a new and imperative problem of providing for public safety. If it has come to a point where the influence of an American ,, community with a body of its employees, sworn to uphold its laws .is less than the influence of a national labor organization greedy for *, more power, then there has got to be a drastic stiffening of standards among public servants. ' The City of Boston has not had to protect itself by what amounts to martial law from sudden menace of lawlessness and plunder because the Boston police had no way of getting better pay save by putting _ the people of Boston at the mercy of thugs and thieves. The shameful, unbelievable situation now existing in Boston exists because organized labor is bent upon extending its rule to lasses of public workers with an absolutism that sneers at their pre- vious oaths to serve first the public. - The American Federation of Labor would rather see the Boston police forswear their oaths to the public under a Federation charter than win all they ask for by dealing with the public without Federa- tion aid. ; , But the American Federation of Labor invites the lightning when it tampers with police and exposes great communities to rioting and looting. It is trying conclusions with fundamental institutions upon » which the people of the United States haveebuilded their safety and , hope of progress. As between those institutions and the American Fedegation of Labor, is the latter anxious to force a choice? —————_-4-______. “As Prohibition is here to stay, and as it will have to be not « only dealt but lived with, &e."—William H, Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, For depth and intensity, is there anything that beats the joy offa fanatical few gloating over a prospect of legalized tyranny that curtails the rights of the many? it Newest Notes of Science Non-combustible linoleum of Euros, 4 pean invention includes in jts compo- sition a chomical which gives of &/use daily Jovomotive burning pulverized in Pennsylvania for more flame-quenching gas should ': be 48-|than a year without losing any time nited. wa niles ia for repair, i The fibre of the Angentine guato ° plant having been fouhd suitable for| The Insular government ts trying jace manufacture, a lace factory will |'y Produce cheap sugar and alcohol be established in that country, Pine kes islands having more than 100,000 acres Japan's trade with the Phillppines | of the trees, ‘jp increasing rapidly. ‘The total) 8 amount of Japanese exports to the| The Argentine Government has re- Islands in 1918 is sad tc bave|quired railroads to heat their cars in “been $30,000,000. Passenger trains as a health measure, . Pag’ | oy Dewy’ In Madagascar the natives make @| In the interlor of China natives with many uses by beating the eggs by itch both hen and due! byrying them in luk “He'll Gain Nothing by Be be Pese. 4, Fs Pay A ek Nemeniid ne (nV d (94.00 pre eos A TORIES = By J. H. Cassel, ing Roug Core ES Vb ee _| THE SENATE J is PLEASING THE : i TW ‘Ss The Girl Secretary + By Sophie Irene Loeb 66] T is most astounding how little | a girl realizes what it means to be a secretary,” said a prom|\- nent business man who employs a number of stenographers and secre- taries. young lady sten- ographer came to me very well rec- ommended and stated she wanted A secretarial post- Ation. She wrote a number of letters i “For example, | fore for my signature, I be- wan signing one after tho other, 4 was my custom, and shé was gur prised, saying, ‘Why don't you ? them? “Why should I? I asked, ‘aren't they correct?” ‘Oh, yes,’ she faltered ‘but there may be some mistakes, me Peele inane Lome will lose your position,’ I answered, ‘If I can't rely on you to look over your letters and be sure you have made no mistakes, I might as well hire somebody to see that you do your job correctly,” Thfs man went on to tell the trials he had to endure because of this faulty work. “Many stenographers go on theory that they e not the authority on the subject on which they are writing or the thing that they are doing and that somebody has to be over them to see that their work is finally the perfect protiuct. “The energy and effor: and super- vision that thus wasted can never be estimated, If every young man and woman would only understand the coal as an experiment has been in} that his or her standing as workers is always and forever decided on how | much they can assume and perform properly, without supervision, better they are and can command.” | This man speaks the truth. the more they Sev- | to letters from young women who | would succeed I have set forth the | one big demand in the business wo! | to-day—the person who can take re- sponalbility It cannot be repeated too often, | Whea you are not responsible for your work and know that some one last | the | Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishthy Co, (The New York Evening World), takes go by, knowing that they will be corrected, In these days, when most stenog- raphers, especially girls, are aiming to be secretaries, this one fundamen- tal principle must be thoroughly ap- preciated, ‘Th. more she ‘can lift from the shoulders of the person for whom she is working, the more in- | dispensable sho will become, | Resides, being a stenogxapher and a secretary are entirely two different things, One deals in the main with the business of writing, transcribing, &o, But the other, the secretiry | and put them be-| work, means taking a keen interest | the doctors say the inflvenza may jin most every angle of the business | attack older people this winter. of the employer, In fact, It means MS being a part of it, and how large a part some secretaries actually play in the success of the business 1s evi- dent on all sides. An elemept of prime importance is when @ request is made to do some- thing that the secretary take the 1f I learn there are mistakes you | burden of it ana follows it up until it {8 accomplished, In other words, to be reminded that a thing isn’t done, As a general thing, means that tne |secretary has not taken the proper responsbility, The girl who when told to do a thing goes through with it and re- ports on it, even though the em- ployer may have forgotten about it, \48 bound to put hersclf in the line of advamcement, If you are not able to take a message to Garcia without asking who Garcia Is and where he 1s to be found, and how will you get there, you are adding to the troubles of the |person who asks you to take the me , and he would rather co it himself, It all hinges on the willingness to go through with a thing and be lable for it, If it cant be done, of course, {and you have very good reasons, you will be excused |from the Philippine nipa palm, the | eral times in these columns in answer Hut to make the effdrt and to try |to get the thing accomplished never | tails to win approval, A secretary is not merely a high- sounding name, 1§ means that hav- faithful over a few things you will be made ruler over many.” This the progressive twencieth century spirit, > -— ELIMINATING ALCOHOL. Apparatus invented hy a Chicago ing been is going over it to fx up mistakes) man is clatived to reduce the alcohol | PRO-GERMANS, BOLSHEVIK, Yow EB SENATE, PLEASING THE The Jarr Family ° By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). She Should Have a Sensg of Responsibility and|When Pain and Anguish Wring His Brow, Man Is| Lighten Employer’s Burden. No Angel to Minister To. R. JARRK glanced at himself in we M hall rack mirror as he hung up his bat, and‘remarked that he did not look any too fine and fit. “Oh, dear!" replied Mrs, Jarr, the desire that is in all women to worry rising strong within her. “I hope you aren't getting influenza. The doctors say another epidemic of it is due.” +“Oh, it's the young fellows that get the flu," replied Mr, Jarr carelessly, m over thirty.” “Oh, that's always the way with you,” retorted Mrs, Jarr, “You never will worry about anything. And, beside: But you won't listen to me.” “Haven't I taken your advice all my life, eh?” came back Mr. Jarr, No, you have not, and you'd be better off to-day if you had heeded what I said,” replied Mra. Jarr, “But, come now, take @ five-srain quinine capsule and let me make you @ hol lemonade, Maybe if you took a hot mustard foot bath and some aspirin you'd feel all right in the morning.” “Look here, dearie,” said Mr, Jarr, “do you think dope ts going to cure that ‘tired feeling?” “Dope?” echoed Mrs, Jarr. do you mean?" “Oh, you know!" replied Mr. Jarr, yu women are always complaining and taking pills and powders and dosing yourselves, I'm not going to do it ‘There's nothing wrong with me except I've been working hard at the office and I'm tired.” “Ite because you're getting stock that you feel tired," affirmed Mrs. Jarr, “and boing sick is very danger- ous this time of year, As for taking m Jicines, there isn’t any one takes less than I do, Porous plasters are best when you feel a cold coming on. 1’m sure if you have @ dull ache tn your back porous plaster would fix you up in no time," she added, “It won't fix me up, no time, no- how, nowhere!” answered Mr, Jarr. “po you think I'm going to let you play paperhanger with me and put , gummy old porus plaster on my back that curls up at the edges every 1 take @ bath and drives me “What | | time 1, well, if you are going to be cross as @ bear I won't bother you," said Mrs, Jarr, “But T know “Oh bother what Mrs. Kittingly Says!" ‘retorted Mr. Jarr, “I don't mec. anything; I'm all right, My throat hurts a little, that’s all.” “And that's enough,” said Mrs, Jarr, anxiously, “That's how ton- sillitis begins. Now, why don’t you be reasonable and take five or ten grains of quinine?” ; “And have my head buzzing Ike a beehive? Why should 1?” asked Mr. Jarr querulously, “I tell’ you, there's nothing wrong with me, i feel tired, and I've got a headache, and my throat hurts me a little, but there Isn't anything wrong with me.” “Your eyes look feverish,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Now, you do as I say, take ten grains of quinine and a hot bath and go to bed.. If you're not better in the morning I'll eend fe the doctor.” “From the way you talk you'd bet- te: send for the undertaker,” replied Mr, Jarr impatiently, Don't I tell you I'm all right? I wish you'd let me alone!” “You wouldn't be 60 cross about nothing if you weren't sick,” Mrs. Jarr insisted. “Maybe if you took some calomel”"—~ “I won't take anything!” shouted Mr. Jarr, “And if you don't stop pestering me I'll go right out.” “Tf vou are trying to pick a quarrel! with me as an excuse to leave me alone while you are out with your friends, you won't have it,” replied Mrs, Jarry, and ehe withdrew and went to bed. Some hours later she was awakened by hearing Mr. Jarr fum- bling with the bottles in the medicine closet. “What are you looking for?" she asked, “There! You've broken the camphor #ottle! I can smell it!" “Doggone it!" growled Me, Jarr. “rm feeling as sick as a cat! I'm trying to find the aspirin, but much you care! You could see I was so sick I couldn't stand up, and yet you went off to bed and left me without a word!” Whereat Mrs, Jarr arose and dosed him so well that the next day he was sick, And everybody was isfied, satisfled, A NEW POTATO PLANTER, A potato planter invented in Eu- rope through which the cut tubers are fed fa little quinine or asperin will cure e * ons made in the ground rm rice, it is a natural impulse somehow to content of beverages, preferably be yeu right away, Mrs, Kittingly | into excavat 4, slip over things and even Tet mis-/! without. affecting their flavor. says" — by blades on the sides of the wheels, x at 5 £. wil niall inicio te: «HH ow. They Made Good » By Albert Payson Terhune Copyrieht. 1919. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) No. 84—Washington Irving, Who Made Our Literature Known to Europe. UR country was young. Hardly had it won its independence and gotten fairly upon its feet. We were a new people, with our nation to build up and our material future to shape. We had had scant time for the so-called “finer things of life;” for the literature or art or science or music, such as had made the old world famous, Burope had been settled and civilized for many centuries. And men had had time there to cultivate the various arts. We had not. Wherefore Buropeans looked down on us as uncultured; as people who understood only the rougher and more necessary phases of existence, A big-headed young man with quizzical dark eyes and a shock of curly hair changed all that. He was Washington Irving, a well-to-do New While other young Americans were fitting themselves for careers of business and the like he was fitting himself to begome a writer. Born just after the close of the Revolution, he was the first writer of any special And he had the goad sense to write about the rm" “things that were familiar te him, ‘Therein—and in his | 3. First Book at unique way of looking on life, through his work—lay i Twenty- Six. | ® When he was only twenty-six Irving produced his | first book. ‘This was in 1809, The book was called “A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of written in the manner of a real history. but was really a sublime burlesque, It caught the public fancy at once. The old Dutch families of New York were vastly offended at the way it.guyed their eccentricities. But the The “Knickerbocker Papers” and other works of the young author found their way across the Atlant{c. And all Europe opened its eyes. Here, from a land of supposed semi-savages, was literature that received the literature known to Europe and had wor for this country a new respect and admiration. . Next he “carried the war into the enemy’s country” by going to Burops dried tradition depicted them, but as seen through the keenly alert eyes of a new world traveller. And he published the results of this Yorker. . } talent that our new republic produced. his ‘chief charm. the Dutch Dynasty.” It was signed “Dietrich Knickerbocker.” It was country at large howled with delight over it. plaudits of the whole reading world! Washington Irving had made our and making a first-hand study of its people and customs. Not as cut-and= took the world by storm, Europe and America alike hailed the youthful genius as one of the foremost literary lights of the century. Washington Irving had made good. He had shown the whole world the kind of Iterature our country could produce, Nor was he a mere dabbler or humorist. Makes History in Literature, innumerable sketches had won him a world fame, he settled down to gain After his a wholly new reputation along a totally diff ‘This he achieved by his monumental “ Piece of biography and a classic. “This,” says his biographer, “was his last and grea! : test work. It wis brought out during the final four years of his life, when he was a venerable, alte pelted gentleman past three score and ten.” i en Irving died, in 1859, there were many other A 5 59, merican authors to carry on the torch of genius and to prove our country’s worth in Literature channels. Rut th , eternal fame. ‘ere Was none to take Irving's place or to eclipse his TheGayLife of aCommuter Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise By Rube Towner Coprrigt, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, erent line, Lite of Washington,” a master« (The New York Evening World). The Escape From Paradise. HEN Sam, who is an old friend} Doc's car was supposed to be wnit= | of Mawruss Pleasantman's,|ing at the door, but when they gob came all the way from Wash-|outside it was not in sight. This ington to spend his vacation in Para- | necessitated telephoning to try to lo« dise, he made a double hit with the |jcate the car. Sam insisted upon calle bunch, who received him with en-|ing Bill Baldwin's Ford-Royce, but thustasm and parted from him al-|Doc allowed that no friend of hfs most by force, . could ride to the station in any car To begin with, everybody, was | but his. Pleased that a jolly good fellow should| The telephone conversation was Journey in a series of sketches that is featured by hollow wheels! come from such a distance to spend 4 vacation in Paradise when he might have gone to any one of a hundred more famous places as a summer re- , sort. In the next place, Sam was doubly welcome because being in doubt whether or not Paradise Mad ratified the wartime Prohibition act, he had brought along a supply of “dark sherry” from a stack that was | exceeded, in quantity by that of few} Congressmen in his home city. | His'stay was “one continuous round of pleasure,” as the Paradise News | truly said. Hé visited the Paradise Yacht Club and got more political in- | formation than he could in Washing- editor of the Paradise News and caught more fish than any visitor ever caught before because the editor flavors his “chum” with the same sort of stuff the Paradise bunch uses to flavor its breath; he saw the High | School Building and met Gus, the | Harbor Master, which is enough to furnish excitement for one day in Paradise. Doc and Newcomer took him in charge @ part of the time and showed him how to make the latest }Paradise highbali which can be served in the best society without arousing suspicion that it is not unauthorita- tive loganberry juice, But Sam's vacation came to an end, as everything dv cs—except Senatorial discussion of the peace treaty, Doc and Newcomer and Mawruss took him out,for a “good time,” all being loath to part from him, About an ho before train time Doe put in operation a brilliant idea he had to keep Sam over another day. Unseen he handed tho barkeep a sleeping powder and told him to slip it in Sam's highball the negt round. It was some time before the round was served, and when it came Sam ‘drank it, smacked his lips and de- clared it was the best one he had had that evening. Instead of going peace- |tully to sleep, however, he became | talkative and argumentative, and | ‘then Doe mdde the discovery that there had been a change of barkeep- ers and the first one had evidently \forgotten to tell the other, | Watching his opportunity, Doe handed a sleeping powder to the sec- ond barkeeper with instructions, but when the round came Sam was djs- \eussing the League of Nations, and having taken offense at something that had been said on the other side of the question he refused to drink. Instead, he looked at his watch and Jannounced that it was time to start for the train, Everybody was apolo- getic, but Sam insisted upon starting, |I can hire that can beat that train to ton; he made a fishing trip with the |” oth notch, ar the city Sam passed the Para |dise local and Doe gave up hope, - well-timed, and when the car finally reached the depot the Paradise train” had just pulled out for the city, There would it be another train for an hour, which would be too late for Sam to make his connection with the last train that night for Wash ington. ¥ “Well, you'll have to stay over Hil to-morrow.” said Doc; “! awful sorry.” “I know you are,” sald Sam; “T never knew any one who suffers as much for his friends as you. Now I'm going to put your friendship to the test. ‘There.ts no car in Paradise New York, but your car can, If you ea friend of mine you'll drive me to New York; I've got to be home in the morning!” Doc demurred on the ground that he didn't know the roads well enough. “All right,” said Sam, “change seats with me and give me that wheel; my car at home is the same make as this and I'll show you what these cars can do with a second Barney Old@eld driving.” It was a ride all will remember, Sam might have made better time on an inclined track, but not on the wind- ing highway. “Are you sure you're on the right road?” asked Doe between gasps for breath, “All roads lead to New York!" de- clared Sam and opened her up an- When Sam bade them goodby on the train platform in the station he srasped Kige's hand strenuously end exclaime: “Doc, I never can thank you enough for your kindness to-night in not let- ting me miss this train," Baa ean INTERNATIONAL CABLE CODE PRINTED IN NINE TONGUES. 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