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EDITORIAL PAGE UESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919 FSTARLISIED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Ontiaea Daily cept Sund: by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to Brcept Bune hark Row, New York. WLATZE President, 63 Park Row, RAL, by SH RW akeasuters 63 Park Row, JOSE ZER Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED anne en lated. Prem ie exctosivety eatitied to the jse for reyubtica waft Aagpclated Prom te, excturively eatin 10 Mule cel aes alates Bete, VOLUME 60. «NO, 21,231 ——. wise Tie a eee % DO THESE SENATORS REPRESENT NEW YORK? HE PEOPLE of the State of New York—how do THEY stand on the question of prompt ratification of the Peace Treaty? The two SENATORS from the State of New York have made THEIR stand on this issue a matter of record. dn the first test vote in the Senate last Thursday on the Fall amendments, among Republican Senators who voted FOR these ‘amendments, which would have sent the treaty back to the Peace Conference, were: . SEN. W. M. CALDER (REP., N.Y.) SEN. J. W. WADSWORTH JR. (REP., N.Y.) _, Js this true representation of the people of New York? “| Are a majority of the voters in this State, or even a majority uf Republican voters in the State, in favor of rejecting the treaty or of so amending it as to keep this Nation indefinitely out of its rightful place in the new era of peace? i Are a majority of the people of New York in favor of pro- uncertainty which encourages the agitation and unrest are at present disrupting industry, strangling production and increasing the cost of living in the United States? Are a majority of the people of New York ready to sacrifice honor and repudiate earlier national pledges and pro- fessions in order that misleaders of the Republican Party may _. discredit the President and fabricate fake issues for next year’s Presidential campaign? 3 gels the State of New York among the would-be treaty “wreckers? If not, why are the people of this Commonwealth not . DOING something to SHOW how they feel about the treaty? # Why do they let their two representatives in the United | + States Senate obstruct that treaty unrebuked—almost unnoticed? bes If a Republican Convention in Massachusetts can tell Sen- j , ator Lodge in no uncertain terms that Massachusetts Republicans demand prompt ratification without amendment, surely there is | + active patriotism enough in the State of New York to put a sim- ' ilaginjunction up to Senators Wadsworth and Calder. There are pens in the State with which to write letters and . felegrams. There is paper in the State on which to draw up and sign petitions. There are halls in the State where the people may gaflier and make manifest their wishes. — Oe eee ee ee i j ; ¥ Here is one of the greatest issues the country has ever | faéed—an isdue which is holding up national confidence, enter- prise and initiative at the door of unprecedented opportunity. ‘ Can the 11,000,000 people of this great industrial Common- ‘wealth of New York AFFORD to be indifferent as to what hap- pens to the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations? ; Where are the mass meetings, parades, etc., to show how, ~ ievespective of party lines, thousands and hundreds of thousands ‘of citizens really feel about the imperative need of ratifying the treaty and giving the Nation a fair start in the‘rush for post-war trade and prosperity? Are societies and factions OPPOSED to the treaty—lIrish, Socialist, Bolshevist, I. W. W., Soviet and the rest—to make ALL “A WEEK?” — 0 iM a By J. H. Cassel . The Great Need of no tion trict ; Swann of York, he will not take official action in connection with the case, saying: ‘I don't see that I have any juris- diction In the matter. Mr, Keneally, provides means of un- tangling the situa- in which a man already mar- ried is alleged to have married again in another nearby Btate, According to Dis- Attorney New ena treaty come out and WORK for the treaty. together in that State. It looks as ae . : , though the man who married the ‘ eglet their first line of action be the direct one: woman in Stamford legitimized the the noise? “Let the people of this city and State who believe in the Outspoken demand for ratification—straight from the people of New York to the address where the people of New York have first + WM. M. CALDER and JAS. W. WADSWORTH JR., pe pe Lett claim to be heard: TO NEW YORK’S SENATORS, U. S. SENATE, WASHINGTON, D C. ers ‘ the prosecutor! of Stamford, told me that a man already married could get married again in Connecticut without committing bigamy unless they lived child by going through that marriage ceremony and that he cannot be Prosecuted for bigamy.” The Prosecuting Attorney of Con- necticut also stated that he had no evidence of the parties having lived together in that State and he could | not compel the individuals concerned | to come to Connecticut as witnessen. The New Jersey authorities where the man lives frankly admit they know of no evidence that would jus- tify a prosecution, Thus this matri- From the People : On With the Dai Prof, Ei fs 4 oe P95 Decors rof, Erskine's suggestion that danc ing be taught in the colleges. It makes the issue of the Columbia Spec-| clear minds and healthy — bodies, of Sept. 28, Prof. John Erskine MA eee ee a pol ee eperemens of Rogieh, Colum-) Oct, 2, 1919 146K. Sith Streot, | ment. ¥, Goplores the apparent Votes vs. Salarics. fmebiity of Americans to find proper ment for thelr ever increasing of leisure and suggests that @ Femedy lics in tho art of dancing. He thinks it would be well to teach @ancing in tho colleges. Permit me, a. your paper, to voice my ap- of Prof. Erakine's suggestion. | police and firemen twelve years | ago _ A managing director of two largo| was $800 and that the salary of the places, I have been in a post- | POUaae inaperter was for some tine to observe the of. | ey Bessy poten d @f dancing on the masses and'| Mite the bullding nego while the building Inspector 40 not hesitate tu any they have |colves the paliry $1,200, The question: een highly beneficial, Dancing in i ‘ 3 foe fair? Ra dy ri There are environments Improves U votca of loo firemen and Provides innocent diver. Oe only $03 votes of building inappetors, ' BURLDING To she Ealtor of The Evening World It is almost daily that you publish in your valuable paper letters from the people as regards salary in- creases to police and firemen, True, they deserve the $2,000 scale, but rec- monial tangle alleged jurist of high standing 1s somewhat in statu quo, and it laws to involve a is said that the only action that may confront the man in the case is possible disbar- affecting the ridiculous This case brings forcibly to the | foreground the great importance of having uniform |few prime human relationships that the boundary line of a State does not really change, but which by the ex- isting laws assume different interpre. ords will show the entrance ealary of | tations. For example, tt is somewhat nearly approaching the man should be married in one State. And not married at the same time in another It ts equally ludicrous that he can be divorced In one State and not di- voroed in another during the same that a By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World.) ND now the public prints ang Y full of a marriage entangle- ment in which prominent peo- ple figure and where the law in three States Uniform Marriage Laws may be regarded sane in one State and insane in another at the same time. In other words, in a few hours’ ride, | or at the most four days (which it takes to go from the east coast to the west coast of the United States), at least jn the above three mattors, it is possible for him to change his standing by leaving the State. ‘While it is necessary by geographi- cal boundaries and local conditions, to have laws in various States differ, yet in the course of human events there are a few things at least that, though the laws differ, actually are not changed by a man going from, one State to another. | Certainly, when @ man Ss tnsane in| one State, he is just as insane when | he crosses the boundary line to the next State, The same js true of divorce laws. While it is a merciful thing for some persons to seck relief from a union that is intolerable, and a difference in laws in such cases proves a God-! sond, yet when it comes to the matter’ of marriage and the duties that are in- | volved especially toward children, these differences in State laws have proved great hardships and most often the innocent are the sufferers, One of the great evils in this con- nection is the matter of desertion, A man in one State may marry a woman and have children and then run away and leave her, going to an- other State from where it is diMfoult, if not often impossidie, to return him to his responsibluity, It should be possible to return to the State from which he has fled under such circumstances by the simple expedient of the authorities of one State notifying the authorities of another. Another great evil is the differing ages whereby young people, espcolally girls, may thoughtlessly assume the bonds of matrimony to their later re- gret, to say nothing of the laws that differ as to the age of consenteot a girl, Too often does the marriage tie mean freedom in these variegated laws affecting the happiness and sometimes the very lives of people, especially the little children, Speed the day when etatutes will become more humanized in that they will not permit of #hirking responsi- period, others Alwo it le paradoxical that @ man! consequently the \ . NO RAILWAY MAN IM GREAT BRITAIN SHALE RECEIVE LESS THAN Np erre e aid A gL eT , ms cian phen te RE te ORT I Byam ee arae, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Mr. Jarr Is Spared From ‘‘ Mournful Numbers”— by Telephone THINK I ought to send a tele- gram to Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins of Bast Malaria, “that we ex- ected them to dinner this evening,” said Mr. Jarr as he was coming home with his wife from downtown. “Why not telephone them?” said Mrs. Jarr; ‘it doesn't cost as much.” “Telephone?” replied Mr. Jarr. “Life is too short to telephone the way the service is these days. Any- way, it may be just as well not to bother at all. We gave them the in- vitation and surely they'll remember it.” “I don't want to chance it,” said Mrs. Jarr. “It's terrible to have a lot of company when yu only keep one girl, and I've borrowed some cut glass from Mrs. Kittingly, for I wouldn't want thosd Jenkinses to see they ee wouldn't come.” “So do I," said Mrs. Jarr. are your friends; they bore me!” seo us?” venomously. don’t show up,” said Mr, Jarr, made?” gasped Mrs, Jarr. yt ame ae 3y Marguerite | Maxims of a! | Modern Maid Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Frening World.) When a woman puts onthe robes of Grand Inquisitor some men lie, same deny—and the rest FLY. College gives a boy his A, B., but his really liberal education is given bim by the college widow. “Pleasant sins,” to a man’s notion, ate almost any that will never be found out. A/d horrors of peace: The war liars. @ small wages endanger a girl's morality, they protect that of @ man. To be a confirmed bachelor, a man must have been baptized by the fire of many a love affair. Faith moves mountains—and occasionally moves a woman to believe her husband's excuses for not coming home to dinner. The whole duty of the successful siren consists in charming @ man without alarming him. What the all-conquering uplifters are paging most busily just now is a new temptation to demolish, In the love-life of a man there seems to be four seasons—Pro- priety, Variety, Society and Satiety. As the Greeks raised ‘an altar to the unkypwn god, the young man burns his incense of dreams to the Unknown Woman No man can understand why his wife should be hurt because he doesn’t remember their anniversaries—if he “remembers” band- somely after being reminded. ‘The eternal youth of man’s heart is man’s oldest tradition. He who loves and rides away Lives to love another day. Mooers No. 3—The Lady or the Tiger? . By Frank Stockton ‘ I'm tired and I wish the Jenkinses “They “Great Scott!" exclaimed Mr. Jarr, “didn’t I hear you begging and beg- ging them to make a date to come to see us? Didn't you tell Mrs, Jenkins you were so fond of her and you'd be real hurt if they didn't come over to “I hate the cat!" mid Mires, Jarr, “Well, let's go home and hope they “After all thé preparations I have “after the things I've ordered in, after what I paid for the French ice cream and had a new fern dish and after I bor- lived any better than we ‘lo. And, anyway, I must say that their dining- room is furnished fn wretched taste. I wouldn't have that awful looking oak sideboard in my house and their parlor is full of gilt chairs and good- ness knows"— “Chop, chop!” interrupted Mr, Jarr. ‘Don't you ever know when to stop when you get to roasting people? Ain’t women the dickens, anyway?” “If they wero half the silly gossips men are you might talk!” rejoined Mrs. Jarr, “I've heard how you talk when you are together, that this man is a dead one, and the other is @ crook and so-and-so is down and out—not only gossiping, but using such low, common, slang expressions rowed Mrs, Kittingly’s cut glass?" “Oh, all right, I'll telegraph them not to forget,” said Mr. Jarr, “No, try to telephone them,” said Mrs. Jarr, “even if it is in the sub- urbs, maybe you can get them—they have a telephone, haven't they?" “I'm not sure,” said Mr, Jarr, “But Y'd rather telegraph than hang on a telephone trying to get a suburban number these days!" “You are just lazy!” said Mrs, Jarr, “It won't take a minute to look in the suburban telephone book at any drug For—in a refinementeof cruelty—her father had told her beforehand behind which door crouched the tiger and behind which door the two doors. Princess sat. him toward one of the doors. Should the tiger be waiting behind tt the youth must be torn to death. On the contrary, if he should open the door which hid the lady, then the jealous Princess must see him become the huss. band of another than herself. the Princess had indicated, and then flung it wide open, The Love Stories Of Great Novels Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World.) By Albert Payson Terhune OMEWHBRE in the East, long ago, dwelt @ semibar- — varic King, who had one beautiful daughter. This Princess had inherited much of her father’s flercely proud and jealous spirit. Thus she did not submit meekly to the idea of making conventiohal marriage with some neighboring monarch. She wanted to live her own life in her own way. And she proceeded to prove this trait by falling desperately in love with a young soldier of low social station. ' The youth adored her, and for a time they were ; blissfully happy in their mutual love. Both of them realized that this love was worse than hopeless and | that the semi-barbaric King would never consent to the © marriage of his only daughter to a man of the people. They knew, more- over, that their love would almost certainly mean the young fellow’s death if it were discovered that he had presumed to lift his eyes to the daughter ; of his sovereign. ‘ But love and common sense seldom go hand-in-hand. The couple con- Tinued to tempt fate by meeting secretly, And theirs was a love that cast out fear—even the fear of death. Fool- * ishly they hoped they might be able to | keep any one from guessing their secret— , forgetting that to conceal a love affair in- definitely is about as easy as to hide the © Loved One Another.- statue ot Liverty in a two-car garage. | And presently word of their intrigue was brought to the King. Tho, monarch flew into a mad rage. He loved his daughter too dearly to punish her—except through her sweetheart’s sufferings. But he resolved to put the lover to death with terrible tortures. ‘The youth was seized and flung into a dungeon, there to await the executioner. The Princess threw herself upon her knees at her father's feet and implored mercy for the man she loved, Gradually her tears and entreaties softened the angry old King’s heart —Just a little. He would not set the captive free, but he consented to give him an even chance for his life and liberty. Being a man of lively im- agination, the King hit upon a scheme whereby the lover might have this chance at freedom and whereby the court might also have a bit of amuso- ment. Incidentally, his plan was a roundabout way of punishing bis daughter. ‘The King arranged that the prisoner should be led into an arena and that he should be bidden to open one of two closed doors in front of which he stood. He was told that a hungry and ferocious man-eating tiger crouched behind one of these doors, ready to spring out and devour him. Behind the : other door stood a beautiful and rich Peculiar Entertainment maiden who, with ner fortune, was to . ve become his in case he should open that or the King. door, The youth was not told whieh oor concealed the tiger and which door -concesled the heiress, He was informed that he must take his chance. The seats above the arena were filled with courtiers. On « dats gat the King, with the Princess at his side. The Princess was ghastly pale. The King’s Daughter and Soldier ly was hidden. His guards left him facing the: He stood there, hesitating. ‘Then he glanced up to where th Into the arena the prisoner was led. With an almost imperceptible nod of the head the Princess direste The captive did not hesitate for an instant. He stepped up to the door. Which came out to meet him—the Lady or the Tiger? store, and you may get a connection right away.” “What's the use going to all that trouble?” asked Mr, Jarr. “There's a telegraph office over there, We could have had a@ message to Bast How It Started By Hermine Neustadtl , on soil or sea his native land amd allt for which it stands. “To My Flag.” as well! Women aro not half the trouble-makers and gossips and tale- bearers and tattle-tales men are, Men come home and tell everything they know to their wives in confi- Malaria in the time we have deen di: cussing the matter.” srams,” dence, and the women, of course, | ram and*I wasn't. home and the spread it broadcast, and there You] house was shut up and the boy didn’t are!” leave it under the door, and I didn't “Au right, let It be as you say,” said Mr. Jarr, glad that his good lady had paused for breath again. “But, if you will remember, we were talking about sending the Jenkinses a telegram not to forget their engage ment with us to-night when you wan dered forty miles from the subject just because you love to hear your- get it till late at night.” house,” said Mr, Jarr, Jarr, prise. self tal open a telegram because it might be “Me?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “Just|bad news, 1 know I let Aunt Janet's Jisten to the man! If you're not the|lie unopened till you came home, biggest old talker I ever heard of!/and I was that nervous! Because I bility, not only for the best interests of those immediately concerned, but suffer by such acts and community at large. Me?” “Never mind these mutual! compli-|the expense of sending a tel mogita,” aid Mr. Jerr, “Personally, unless it's to send you bad sewal® ws “I tell you I don't believe in tele- said Mrs, Jarr decisively. “One time Aunt Janet sent me a tele- “Somebody's home at the Jenkins's “But if Mrs, Jenkins gets the tele- gram she may not open it,” said Mrs, “Why not?” asked Mr, Jarr in gur- “Because all women are afraid to know one’s friends will never go to He hears ring-! UR doughboy has his &tars and O Stripes; Tommy has his Union Jack and the Poilu the Tri- color of France. In the particular piece of bunting which he calls his own each one holds ing in his ears the national anthem! that sends him springing to his feet! lifting up his voice in song. Before it he feels, surging up within him, love of country, conscious patriotism, the pride of race. Truly a thing te ~ conjecture with is the flag. Py “Mr, Jenkins is home; I'll chance} Before man had a nation he hed « tt,” said Mr, Jarr, tribe, which fought other tribes, an@ “You shan't send a telegram," said|each, when marching into battle, bore Mrs. Jarr, “I'm going to telephone |at its head a distinguishing ensign. them right from the house as soon as| As their standard in the field the I get home. 'll ask ‘Information’ for|Goths carried upon their spears thal thelr number in Kast Malaria, Or | heads of horses which they had eacrs caiber won oan!” ficed to the God of War. ‘The ancient But when they arrived home they |Phrygians were represented by a eowy were tickled to death to find that Mr.|the Flemings by a bull and the Row and Mrs, Jenkins, afl smiles to-night, | mane had their eagle. ‘The Goth had arrived before them. after their conquest of the Romam ‘And wasn't Mr. Janr glad to see | Empire, carried a stuffed bear. them and to be spared telephone| It is a far cry from the gory torture of trfing to get a number he | of a horse aloft on a spear to [didn't know, whioh ts nearly as hard * | 0 get as a number you do know! as we know them to-day, but how it started! hy