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i acme : jindefinitely out of the League of Nations. + the steel strike be postponed until after the national industrial con- ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPIE PULITZER. , soe LMR Fees Whiten alt STE skeen oer Lake TEUUME Oss cicccusecscctocecs cocccccccceeNO, O3,081 |Forei n Matter! EDITORIAL PAGE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1919 LET THE COUNTRY, TAKE IT UP. T IS NOT surprising that even President Wilson’s extraordinary physical endurance has given way temporarily under the strain > put upon it. | We can think of no living man who since the beginning of the War in Europe has had to take upon his shoulders « more continuous 4nd cumulative succession of responsibilities. Ministers in Great tein and France have changed since the fateful summer of 1914. the Chief Executive of the United States has remained the same fhroughout the war. | More than that, the President of the United States, both before end since this Nation declared war on Germany, has played a part in world politics that might well have tried the nerve and physical staying power of the strongest. After the signing of the armistice, when the fighting in the field ‘was over, it was work and another kind of fighting for the President uring seven months in Paris. After his return to the United States it was work and fight through the summer in Washington, and the Inst few weeks have found him carrying the battle for the Peace Mreaty and the League of Nations across the country to the Pacific. Even among the most inveterate of the President’s opponents _.@nly the most contemptible and mean-spirited will voice anything but _Tegret for his illness, with the hope that he may be speedily restored to fighting trim. : His trip through the West has amply demonstrated that millions of Americans are demanding ratification of the Peace Treaty without either amendments or reservations that would convict this country of sordid selfishness, make a mock of its earlier professions and keep it | However it may seem to perfervidly partisan Republicans and anti-Wilsonites desperately bent on digging up issues for next year’s Presidential campaign, the people of the United States as o whole are becoming more and more impatient to see the treaty ratified * and the way cleared for a quick plunge into the great post-war activi- ties of trade and commerce which promise quickened production and Prosperity. As long as the treaty is held up there is the more encouragement for agitators and organizers who tempt labor to throttle industry, who work not to increase production but to slacken it, who sow the ‘seeds of disruption and discontent that always sprout fastest in a perjod of uncertainty. The President has had to pause in the fight. Why doesn’t the whole try take it up forthwith and begin & serious and systematic bombardment of telegrams, letters and petitions directed against Republican obstructionists in the United States Senate? | Let the people demand in tones which can be heard that the Senate ratify the treaty and give the Nation a chance to attack its | ¢¢ domestic problems on the vantage ground of national self-respect, , unlimited opportunity and hard work. Strike to Be Called in Paris Theatres.—Cable. ¢ “Go to it and get it over,” is Broadway's experienced ONLY ADVISORY? RB. GOMPERS told the Senate Investigating Committee little about the grievances of the steel strikers which the public had not already heard. But Mr, Gompers’s testimony further revealed the new position of Mr. Gompers among the controlling forces of organized labor. Mr. Gompers admits that, following the President’s request that oon) _terence which begins a week from next Monday, he, Mr. Gompers, advised the union committee that the strike be deferred. This Clearly implies that Mr. Gompers believed the steel workers had no grievances that they could not trust to the impartial judgment and probable recommendatory action of the industrial conference. It was not Mr. Gompers, however, but Chairman Fitzpatrick of the Steel Workers’ Committee—who has*never visited the steel plants —who had the final say as to what the steel workers were thinking and what they would do. Mr. Gompers is President of the American Federation of Labor. Tnder radical pressure, has that office, having lost first ite authority and then its influence, become at last purely advisory? a “Knowledge is power.” We hope a lot of it has turned out to be money, too, the way the colleges and academics are campaigning among their alumni for funds, | for five cente? Not even in low-wage Methe Editor of Toe |Bugiand, Not even on the much While I am a long-time reader of | vaunted city-owned lines of Glasgow, your Evening World, I believe it was|scotiand, or Manchester, England. on Friday lant 1 rend the editorial on| Manchester City lines are cut in two, fhe raising of streot ratiway fares. 1) namely, Albert Square and Plecadilly. ed to hear that the Phila- | One of Manchester's longeat lines 1s @eiphia Kep'd Transit Company was) trom pric ity to Crown Point, Den- Pparrying passengers for a Ave-cent lion, and is divided into eones: Motal- By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell Coprright, 1919, by The Frese Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). hd In a Time of Emotional Stress, How Comforting Is a Dollar’s Worth of Soothsaying ! OW, my dear Clara, you know T'd just love to go with you, Dut it’s the girl's afternoon out, and"-—— “And of course you won't go with me!" cried that now lachrymose young matron, Clara Mudridge-Smith, breaking in upon Mrs. Jarr’s reluctant excuses. “Nobody loves me! Nobody cares for me! I wanta die!” And she took out her gold vanity box from ber bejewelled gold mesh bag and started to repair her com- plexion while yet her tears were flow- ing. “It's getting late in the afternoon,” Mre. Jarr continued soothingly. “Really I think it's too late to go to a fortune-teller’s to-day. And per- haps your husband will be sorry he bas treated you with coldness"—— “He'd better be sorry!” flared the weeping young matron. “He'd better ‘he sorry! He has broken my heart, and if he were to beg for forgiveness on his bended knees—only he has rheumatism go bad his knees won't dend—but he doesn't care, because you do not need to bend the knees much dancing the modern dances, such as the shimmie, and, anyway, he hag quit dancing—although he has been cruel, cruel!” “But why go to a fortune teller?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Although I do hear that Mme. Zingara telis you the most wonderful fortunes for a dollar, and for $2 she predicts good luck” — “But I want to know why my hus- band’s love has turned cold to me,” sobbed Mrs. Mudridge-Smith,* “And I think it real selfish of you, Mrs. Jarr, that you won't chaperon me to either Agrippina the Inecrutable or Zareff the Occult!" “I¢ you wish to go downtown, don’t mind me,” spoke up Mr. Jarr, ‘The children are over at old Mra, Dusen- berry’s, and as the old lady is mak- ing cookies for them, they'll not want any supper, except some milk, And I could manage for myself, and you can have tea somewhere, after Mrs. Smith is through shopping”— Hare. White there are @ few fre trans) ing point to Ardwick Green, 2 cents; fer points (very few), you will 84 | &4 Cloves Street, 2 cents; to Retrieve, Phat if you want a transfer you Will 3 cents; to Plow ang Harrows, 2 cents; Pay three cents for it, For their long |t, Crown Point, 2 ‘cents; total about “rides you will pay unother fare. Hut, | #1 miles, Hoping you wil give oe BRB 2 Bane pubdiicit ife the five-cent fare basis, tell us| Joy mout Puulicity as you have given tru, Is bijondl pornos fi ee 160 Evergreen Avenue, where can as Sept. Mr. Jarr had been standing in the doorway, He knew Mrs, Clara Mud- ridge-Smith wasn't going shopping, but, as he afterward explained, “If Mudridge-Smith out and saw them down the stairs and eafely on their way to consult the necromancers, Mr. Jarr whistled. And that wretch Dink- ston came softly down from au up- stairs fight of stairs, where he had loitered until the coast was clear. “Where are they going?" asked Mr. Dinkston, “Old man Smith got up enough courage to give his bride a bawling- out about something, or else he's shut off the financial backing. Anyway, she can't understand it, and she's gone to consult a fortune teller!” “What bookstore is she making for?” asked Mr. Dinkston eagerly. “When a bookle gives her the once- over, and her wearing all those Shep- ards, he'll gure believe he's next to a good Thirty-eight, and he'll sting her tor @ grand at least.” “What kind of chatter is that?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Are you making up that language as you go along?” ‘Me?” asked Dinkston in surprise. “No, but in the course of an eventful career I have been a dealer in dest!- nies myself. I only spoke the language of the cult, Let me explain. A ‘book- store,’ or a ‘library,’ is the cant term for a fortune teller’s office or studio. A ‘bookie’ is ‘a fortune teller—yes, I know there are racetrack bookies or bookmakers, to “And Shepards’ and ‘Thirty-eights’ and ‘grands'?" asked Mr. Jatr. “‘Shepards' are diamonds,” replied Mr, Dinkston; “A ‘Thirty-eight’ ts a ‘come-on,' a client—a victim. A ‘grand’ is a thousand dollars, And by the way, a ‘leaf’ is a hundred dol- lay “I didn't know it was a crook's game. Let's follow the womefi folks and warn them," said Mr. Jarr. “Don't worry," said Mr. Binkston, “the ‘bookies’ work slow but sure, Be- sides, the ladiee may only be going to consult an old ‘shut eye.’ That is what they call a 50-cent card reader or palmist that doesn't graft the ‘thirty-eights,” Besides, I don’t think astrologer or ‘bookie,’ do you?” “No,” replied Mr, Jarr, the fortune tellers could take any money away from her, hurrah for the fortune tellers!" ‘ ‘Then, as he let Mrp, Jarr and Mrs, oracle of Mrs, Mudridge tendant on penetrating the ¢uture” aoe Mrs, Jarr can be robbed by any fake “In the first place she insists on a pleasant present and a rosy future for one dollar paid in hand, and tn the sec- ond place she is going to consult the mith, who wili have to pay all the expenses at- The Love Stories Of Great Novels Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). By Albert Payson Terhune No. 1—PETER IBBETSON; by George Du Maurier Prone IBBETSON’S childhood was passed in a quaint old French town. There bis chosen playmate was a little girl named Mary Seraskier. ‘The two children loved each other dearly. psychic bond between them. Thea the Seraskiers moved to England, and the youngsters dropped wholly out of each others’ lives, Mary grew to exquisite womanhood and was married to the dissolute Duke of Towers, who made her life a burden. Peter's parents died and the dreamily, impracticable young fellow was sent to London, where his rascally old uncle, Col. Ibbetson, undertook to make a man of him. Peter and his uncle got on badly together. The youth was wretchedly lonely and miserable, and poor, His only happiness lay in his memories of Mary Seraskier. Once, in a queer dream, Mary appeared to him. She explained that it was possible for two people to “dream true.” In other words, to put them- solves in such a frame of mind that when they should fall asleep they could meet in dreamland and could go back together to any scene of their past. While their bodies were asleep and miles away from each other, their minds and souls could meet thus and could carry on a life of their own—a life separate from the flesh. His meetings with the long lost Mary in these visions lightened young Tobetson's bitter loneliness and eased his dreary everyday life. But pres- ently came a catastrophe which changed everything and There was a strange Ibbetson which threatened to finish that life on the gallows. V Col. Tbbetson insulted the memory of Peter's dead ery mother. Peter, in a fit of maniac rage, killed his uncle. Lonel: The slayer was tried for murder and was sentenced to life nely. imprisonment in an asylum for the criminal insane. ‘Thus, in the first flush of early manhood, Peter was condemned to spend the rest of his existence in cell and prison yard. He would have pre- ferred death. The future seemed to stretch out before him in a vista of endless misery. Yet the happlest part of his life was just beginning. Almost as soon as his prison term commenced, Mary Seraskier ap- peared to him again ina vision, She told him she loved him and had al- ways loved him, and that henceforth they were to go through their wonder- ful dream existence together as lovers. Henceforth, every night as soon as Peter's body went to sleep in his narrow cell, his soul rushed forth to meet Mary's. Soon, his daily routine Mary grew to be far more of a reality than were his waking hours. Together he and and his sweetheart roamed through their wonderful dream world, supremely happy in each others’ love and compantonship. ‘All the marvels of the universe and of the centuries were open to them. For by will power they could transport themselves to any land and to any period of history they chose to, And so the years passed on. Their mortal bodies grew Dreams old and ugly. But in their dream life they were still : gloriously young and beautiful. Disturbed Then one night Mary did not appear at the trysting Him. place where Peter awaited her so eagerly, The Duchess of Towers had that day been killed in an accident, at loss of his dream-sweetheart Peter went violently insane. But a night or two later her spirit came to him, bidding him be patient, and telling him he was soon to Join her in a life infinitely more beautiful and blissful than their dream world, Bustained by her promise he took up the burden of his prison days once more in calm cheerfulness. captive died, his jailers wondered at the look of utter rapture on his withered face—not knowing that he had gone at ins: hp loved. And é / Lincoln to recommend me.” 6 ee “I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer mauling rai just what might happen to any poor man’s son.” oe “Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed,if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.” . v-~9 “Capital has its rights which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is and Probably al- ways will be a relation between labor and capital producing mu- tual benefits.” “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside of the family relation should be the one uniting all working peop! nations, and tongues, and kindreds, Nor shonid this upon property or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labors property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise, “Let not him who fs houseless pall down the house of an- other, but let him work diligently and build one for hi by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” FOOL is the A A fool is one who puts all his trust the one, “I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy popular relations or friends What Eve Said ABOUT FOOLS By Sophie Irene Loeb TOE ha low who introduces his best girl to his best friend. ‘ool and his money are easily parted, but at the time of b is termed @ “good fellow. rarer hs to Labor at work on a flatboat— all lead to a war elf, thus ABRAHAM LINCOLN. in the one woman and finds she isn't A fool {8 one who, having fought for @ friend, is told by him to mind his own business. i A fool is the host who ts forgotten the next morning. A fool rushes in where angels fear’to tread, but if he gets wings to fly gut he is termed a “wise old owl.” A tool is a peacemaker, and, somehow, a peacemaker is never forgiven. A fool is he who not only fills a want but wants to fill it. A fool there was, is, and always will be world without end. Amen. Gay Life of a Commuter By Rube Towner Copyright, 1 ), by The Press Publishing Company (The New York Evening World.) The Rival Cut-Ups of the Neversink Yacht Club OR a long time there has been intense rivalry between Doc, the versatile genius of Paradise, and Charlie Wagg, the local wit and cut- up, for the practical joker champion- ship. Doc, who understands law, medi- cine, theology, politics, sleight-of- hand, ice-boating, ventriloquism and Senator Knox's reservations to the League of Nations, has usually had the honors in those lines, but Cha Wage, who is of a mechanical and scientific turn of mind, put one over on Doc the other night which leaves him in second place until he thinks up @ new one. The rivalry began when it came Charlie's turn to give the regular Saturday night dinner at the Never- sink Yacht Club. Doc had planned to go to the city that night and had arrrayed himself in the regular “soup and fish” costume which @ tyrannous capitalistic social system exacts from its slavish followers, but at the last minute he changed his mind and went of prison seamed to him like a mere dream, and his nightly dream life with | to Charlie's dinner. After Doc had had enough appe-) tizers, etc., to be off his guard, Char- Le’s inspiration began to function. Doo was served with Charlie's favor- ite concoction, Neversink Nectar, in a particularly tall glass. Doc at- tempted to sip it, but only succeeded in wetting his hitherto spotless shirt front; the second and third attempt had the same result; the next time he got a teaspoonful in his mouth and a couple of tablespoonfuls on his shirt. ‘Then he discovered that Char- lie had given him the celebrated “dribble glass” with holes bored all around it, concealed by the decora- tions. Capt. Bill loaned Doc @ cruis- ing shirt to replace the @oaked one, which he accepted good-naturedly, trut got gore when Charlie told bim to keep his shirt on and he would lend him a slicker, Doc's counter move waf at the next club dinner when he adroitly led Charlie into a discussion of ice boat- ing, the favorite winter sport in Para- dise. “If I knew as much about ice boat- ing, Doc, as you think you do, I would write a book on it," said Char- lie with bis best sarcasm. “T have already ddne 60," eaid Doc, “a book of 500 pages. The sporting editor of the Paradise News said it was the only book on ice boating that could be read understandingly with- out any previous knowlodge of the subject. I'll give you a copy. “Thanking you kindly, just the game, I'll buy @ copy,” said Charlie | whose previous experiences with Doo | had made him cautious. “It's out of print," said Doc; “whole edition. exhausted right after ib was put out,” The following morning when the | Paradise bunch were bound cityward on ‘the 7.55, Doc produced a carefully wrapped package, which he handed to Charlic, “Ilere's my book on ice~« boating—the last copy I've got. Keep it and band it down to your children; it bas already saved the lives of many people who think ice-boating is w Sport instead of a winter clinic. Charlie took off the wrappings and revealed @ handsomely bound Wlume with the title “What 4 Know About Ice-Boating, By Doc,” But the surprise of all that Doo had become a technical author was quickly dispelled when it was dis- covered that the 500 pages were blank. But Doo deserved some credit, for he had labored more than a month to produce this truthful work. And 80 the exchange between the two went on, until the climax was reached the other night when Charlie drove Doc home from the club. Half way up Weed Hill the car stalled. Charlie made half a dosen attempts to start it up without eny success. “I might have known it,” gaid Doc, “I suppose now you'll tell how you made me a walking delegate in the Chauffeurs’ Union of Paradise.” “We're nearly out of ‘gas,'” Charlie, making an examination. Doc took the pocket searchlight and looked in the “gas” tank. The supply was too low to feed on that grade. “Well, I'll walk,” said Doc, “and you can turn around and go ‘home; you can rup downhill all right.” “ll rum her uphill," said Charlie, “That car can do stunts that no other car in Paradise can do.” “It can't be done,” said Doc, after another inspection of the “gas” tank. " gaid Charlie, Bid Doc. “Get in,” eald Charile, Then turning around, he re his levers and ran smoothly uphill, and again turning, ran on to Doc's house. “You ought to change the title of that book of yours,” was Charlie's parting shot, “to ‘What I Know About Automobiles’! John Doe. “cc PLL, we'll call him John W Doe,” John must stand for a multitude of sins, The subject of every, discreet scandal, he also buys more pecks of potatoes and sells more apples than even the Brown and Jones combination in the old arithmetic. John Doe and his cousin, Richard Roe, started way back in the reign of | Edward III. in England as a result that provi for the production of to joim the woms#, witnassoa at every criminal trial. The! whose name’ is unknown, i | Setitious names “John Doe, plaintiff, has appeared in court ever sincth, , Py How It Started By Hermine Neustadt and Richard Roe, defendant,” were used to represent the interested par- ties, As almost all litigation in those days was to settle some dispute over land these names came to be @ part of every process of ejectment. About the middie of the last century a law was passed in England probib- iting their further use as legal terms, it prescribed that on every writ of ejectment should appear as well as description of the pr-perty in ques~ tion “with reasonable certainty,” the actual names of the litigants. For some reason Richard Roe was forgotten. But John Doe has been And when, not long afterward, the aged! of that clause in the Magna Charta| adopted by American law to indicate any plaintiff, defendant or witness And la . B