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| | i if runs the risk of getting severely hurt. + PRO LF Ms he 2 Sy SS |Z ESTANLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to Row, New York. Park Row. RALPH PULIT: President, 63 J. rviaity s ew accsurers 63 Park Row, JOSEP PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Kow, MEMBER OF THP ASSOCIATED PRESS, 4 ead Are Bah rely ,entitied, to, the, pes for jeathin of afl oars i8"this paper and’ aleo Ue local news jnbusbed VOLUME 60 — —_—————=s 0. 21,251 WHOSE STRIKE? HO are to be held responsible for a situation which threatens a strike of 400,000 miners in the bituminous coal fields—a strike which, as the President says, represents “the most far-reaching plan ever presented in this country to limit the facilities of production and distribution of a necessity of life and thus indi- rectly to restrict the production and distribution of all the neces- sities of life.” There can be but one answer. The element responsible for this colossal menace is the same element that has been trying to,seize the leadership of organized labor in other industries preparatory to seizing the industries themselves. Tt is the same element that persuaded foreign-born steel workers to precipitate the steel strike. It is the same element that now etands at the elbow of the work- ingman all over the United States, tempting him to forget his Ameri- ean principles, to scorn honest work, reasonable hours and fair pay, to violate his contracts and turn his back on arbitration—even to shut his eyes to the present and future of his country, as he knows it, and give himself up to lurid visions of violence and revolution in which ugly shapes of lawlessness, license and irresponsible tyranny are dis- gaised under fine names. Cail them “Bolshevists,” “I. W. W.’s,” “Reds,” “radicals”—the forces that are reaching for the control of organized labor in the United States are everywhere essentially the same. Disappointed of success in the steel strike, they strive to score in the coal fields a vietory which may react to their immediate advantage not only in the steel industry but in others. Their propaganda is unmistakable. It begins by fomenting dis- |. content, discourages hope of remedy by conference or agreement, makes light of contracts and pledges and leads straight on to conflict. It only half conceals its ecorn of law, its indifference to the general Patience! a eens ei o, yw York Krening World.) "welfare or safety and its readiness to overturn anything in its path, ineluding the Governments, * For months such forces have been at work among the coal miners’ _ ‘unions—particularly among the alien miners—preaching soviet gov- ernment of the mines, preaching repudiation of the contract entered into by the United Mine Workers of America with the Fuel Admin- istration, by which the present wage agreement was to remain in force “for the continuance of the war, but not beyond April 1, 1920.” The promoters of this strike cannot count on public support based on public distrust of the coal operators. In the present dispute the latter have consistently offered arbitration, insisting only that coal production shall continue during the negotiations. The Presi- ent of the United States declares his readiness to appoint a tribunal to investigate all facts and uphold all rights. The country is therefore solidly behind the President in his warnings that “any attempt to carry out the purposes of this strike and thus to paralyze the industry of the country, with the consequent gaffering and distress of all our people, must be considered a grave [2° moral and legal wrong against the Government and the people of the United States,” and that “the law will be enforced and means found to protect the interests of the Nation in any emergency that may arise.” ‘The plain truth is that sooner or later the one hundred million people of the United States must come to stern grips with the radical forces that are trying to stampede organized labor into a mad rush that shall end with the overthrow of American institutions, Such labor unions as refuse to see the difference between con- tending for their rights under the Nation’s laws and fighting the Nation itself under leadership that has no respect for the Nation’s lawe or the Nation’s Government must be MADE to see the difference a at whatever cost. _ In facing a strike like the threatened céal strike the country _ Maust first settle the question whose strike it is. Once radical promotion and leadership are established, the Gov- * emment should proceed against the leaders as against conspirators and open enemies of the United States. ' And any part of labor that forswears its Americanism to join i an anti-American conspiracy should be plainly given to understand Some stiffer line has got to be drawn between labor that stands by the country and labor that stands ready to destroy the country— even if, at certain times and certain places, it must be a line of ceeapuiblicecintehiand u 0 And now for War Time Prohibition to its illogical limit. ‘ Take « good look at what the Sixty#ixth Congress of the United Ty States is doing nearly a full year after the cessation of hostilities a “to conserve the man-power of the Nation and to increase 3 efficiency in the production of arms, munitions, ships, food and clothing for the Army and Navy!” a “The Constitution of the United States affords organized labor a peaceful method of redressing its grievances.”—Samuel Gompers. Post that in every labor union headquarters in the country. By “peaceful method” Mr. Gompers should mean also a method which recognizes the freedom of ALL labor to conduct itself and its bargaining as it sees fit. Se ee An American woman in Parliament may exert no more z., | ~*~ 4nftuence in British politics than has been exerted by several a From Evening World Readers Why the Evening Wor to get the same buses as on Fifth Avo- u nue or if not at least something to ‘To the Piitor of The Evening World: resemble them? I think I ought to tell you what.I FRIEDA COHEN. think of The Evening World: Prohibit People may disagree with your prin- Binckisn.0cu. se | ciples and policies, but 80 long &8 YOU | Ty the Editor of The Evening World: | continue your policy of education, no| ‘The idea of writing to candidates | for election to the Assembly to state fault canbe found with yeur paper. | For a busy man, the editorial page, | their stand on Prohibition is a very ~ You \Know Column,” “The|Kood one. It lets tho voters of th iolamn, “Famous Women,"| city know where the men they are) haracter Analysis” and other in-|4sked to vote for stand. I suggest ing and educating features will be] that you try the same method in re- popular. Kispecially worthy of prais: |#4td to how these men stand on in- fe Herman J, Stich's “Two Minutes {crease in carfare, which means so of Optimism.” A man may feel ti much to the people. 1 understand that an attempt will be made at the) lext session of the Legislature to | slip through @ bill of this sort, and | as your paper did so much by its| timely publicity of the slush fund for the same purpose last year, I) think you would be the proper one to do this. Follow up the good work you have started in the inter- ests of the people and of good g0v- ernment. CHARLES A, WOODS. but if he reads Mr, Stich's article on his way home he feels as If an op- eration had been performed on his interstitial gland. Keep it up, Yours is the kind of aper people appreciate, P ple SSMANUEL COHEN, Our Duty to Uphold League. Pleasantville, N. ¥., Oct. 2 ‘To the Editor of ‘Tho Evening World: 1 am so thankful that your paper is in favor of the League of Nations, Mheucahassa as.” It is with a feeling of sadness that epg a ga I read of those Senators (needless | aE . to name them), men who will only be | 7 "he EAkor of the Evening f . remembered in years’ to come as). If all the magazines should move those who fought for partisan rea-| Petrograd and all the vaudevillians sons and were trying to break up| take @ year's vacation we would con- the League of Nations, They are a tinue to be entertained by the pro- disgrace to their own party. \fessors. While Iam still warm about We must have faith in the moral) it 1 want to say just a word on the purpose of our people and other peo- of one Patten, so atractively ples. They are weary of wars, d to-day in the Daily Magazine Partisan ,feeling should be blotted | ion of The Evening World, out, The ‘twentieth century, as never man who would succeed,” says before, is awakening intelligent, con-| Professor Patten, “must be a long- selentious women and men to al faced man." “The long-faced man fecling that. We are our brother's {nd the round-faced woman are na- | keeper, and can no longer live selfish ture’s foreordained winners.” “These men have more mental vigor and moral control, That settles tt, of course, But does it? According to Patten we must class as failures, as of lower mental vigor | moral control, men like © League was framed by men had the world's welfare at| who \hear!, and it is our duty to uphold {t, not oly for this generation, but as a legacy of peace and good will to future generations. MRS. LEANDER HALL. The Bu Theodore 5 Joseph Choat Joth L. Sullivan, Bob Inger- New York City, Oct. 2%. | soll, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Mc To the Editor of the Evening World Graw, rk Twain, John D, Long, | Allow me to say a few words about John Bunny, Augustus Thomas, the buses, I being a yictim of them, They are a great advantage and on | the other hand they are a great dis- advantage. The advantage in having 4 them is that they are New York City, Oct. 24. than the car. If a stre ~ | To the Editor of The Evening Workt; aded, they pass through another one,! As one entirely outside of political whereas the car Would have to wait, [influence I would like to voice the The disadvantage is that they are | feelings of the masses who are simi- entirely too smal! for the public of the | larly fixed, masses who make up the Fast Side, The first thing you know | ®ssregate of our great population, in before you realize where you ure is; Tesard to the Prohibition Jawa, that you have become a victim of a|, In the ‘first place there is little use rap on the head from the top of the |t? Write to our representatives in the ¢ you can get a seat you aro | State or Federal Government which lis the regularly prescribed thing to do, ‘They seem to harken only to the | political end of the situation and follow in the stream, George Cohan—I could string the list out a mile, F, J, FORBUSH, The People's Voice. Another advantage of the bus ts that you become acquainted with the people in the bus before you leave |‘pny tress ie the oe it. The bunking of shoulders, the step- | which ay voice Meamitaent One ping on somebody's feet, the falling! hardly ever sees intemperance among only out of Parliament. Ss Saath welt ¥ into somebody's lap every time the | users of light wines. Why not shut car speeds up a bit, and many more | off the non-essential and’ high per- | things all have to do with the becom- centaged liquors and let the humbler The Office Force : By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Bobbie’s Humor Gets on Spooner’s Nerves, and the Boss Is Cranky Too. c 18S PRIMM, private secretary ‘ere again, e 8 to the boss, put aside a news- paper she had been reading and swung around in her chair. “What is a blackjack?” she asked of nobody in particular, “Johnson, the prize fighter, is a black Jack,” chirped Bobbie, the of- fice boy, “Oh, don't be silly, Bobbie!” said Popple, the shipping clerk. * Then to Miss Primm: “A blackjack is @ weapon thugs use, I was ruck with one about six years ago-" ‘On the head?" asked Bobbie, “Yen, “I thought #0.” “Oh, for the land's sake!” chuckled Miss ‘Tillie, thé blond stenographer. Popple was mad. “Now listen, kid!" he said. “If you think you're going to insult people around here and get away with it, you're away wrong. “Who struck you?” asked Miss Primm of Popple: “I was being held up," he replied. “Were you that full?” asked Bobbie solemnly, The Funnel Users. “You know what I mean,” snapped Popple. “Liquor hasn't touched my lips for seven years.” ou're another one of those funnel 3, eh That's an old one,” said Miss Til- “| heard a fellow spring that in a show at least ten years ago.” ““Bobbie loves to tell old jokes,” said Miss Primm. “People who haven't heard them befare thinks he originates them. I think he's a little fool.” said Spooner, the mild er, “Let's all try to be pleasant this morning, There's noth- ing in fighting.” “Tell that to Jack Dempsey,” said Bobbie, “Who's be? ‘asked Spooner, Popple laughed. “Well, what do you know about that! Dempsey is the champion prize-fighter of the world: He knocked out Jess Dandy in three rounds.” “I thought Jess Dandy was an actor,” said Spooner, meekly, “You don't mean Jess Dandy, Mr. ‘opple,” said Miss Primm, sweetly. you mean Fulton.” IT meant to say Jess Willard,” said Popple. “Popple is all right,” sang out Bob- bie, “It was Willard. My father went to the fight.” “Which side did he take?” asked Miss Tillle. “Ring-side!" \ “Great heavens!" groaned Miss Primm, “That boy hasn't got good se.’ I wish we had an office boy vith brains in this place.” “Yes, #he place ought to have at least one person with brains,” said ng acquainted with the people in the and reasonable populace enjoy their cara. light i Ms ‘ines? per er te ae vie and harmless wines nome Bobbie, “As it is now, I don't be- lieve’ Spooner thought it time to inter- “L was going to interrupting Bobbie, I wrote a-new song and sang it last night up home at the piano, What do you think it was called?” Plenty of things, I guess, if you've t neighbors,” said Bobbie. Very good, Bobbie!” said Spooner, smiling. “I ‘called it. ‘I'm in Love With Ireland.’ 1 had an Irishman there to hear it.” “You tried it over on the Harp, eh?" suggested Bobbie, “Aw, forget it!" said Popple. “Let Spooner tell about his song without hampering him with your bum humor,” “Later 1 wrote a secomd verse as I lay between the sheets of my bed,” said Spooner, “Sheet music, eh?” came from Bobbie, At that point Mr. Snooks, the Boss, came in, He was feeling sour, “Haven't had much sleep,” he said. “Some fellow across the court from mo was singing a fool song all eve- ning, I'd like to get my hands on m."" The Boss continued on into his pri- vate office and a hush fell over the office fo: ‘The silence was broken by pebble, “Where do you live, Mr. Spoo: vid he asked, * saad “You go to the devil!” Spooner. Then he check up a report." snapped Went outside “to 0. DAY IS). [ANNIVERSARY | Columbus at Cuba. On Oct. 27, 1492, Columbus discov- ered Cuba, After the astonishing event of discovering the New World, landing on the island he called San Salvador (one of the Bahamas), coast of India, the great and tri- among these islands, planned to seek the city “Quinsai,” which Maj the capital of the world, After sev- eral days’ delay from head winds, Columbus arrived in elght of the great island which we call “Cuba” to- day on the 27th of October, As he approached the shores he was struck with the extent and grandeur of its features; its high mountains, fertile plains, its forests and its promon- tories. He landed and gave the island the name of Juana, in honor of Prince Juan. The spot | but out What E ABOU SO By Sophie OME: people think heaven is sit S long. appetite to eat his dinner. Those who are forever fighting the Just because a girl wears a long ye! (Part Two.) Copytieht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. locate it down in the wine cellar. Some people are mere bubbles; only they remain in the alr too ve Said ME PEOPLE Irene Loeb ° (The New York Evening World.) uated somewhere above earth; others - Some women have not the heart to run a man down, but they have the Some people are jewels in the wrong setting: If you must run the race/ be your own stop watch, world's conventions, decrees and doc- trines in their actions are never happy. Enough of anything is plonty, but plenty to some people is never enough, il is no reason to believe that she has just stepped out of an automobile, We are what we are, not what we think we are. rhe Jar By Roy L. + | as “ec HE children were telling me you have a new phonograph, said Mrs. Rangle, who had dropped in for a friendly call, during Whicn she intended to say a few eel, tees; but oh, my dear, Mr. Jarr has beon so extravagant buying those expensive récords of all the Grand Opera stars! Sul, one must have them for the culture they in- culcate,” replied Mrs. Jarr in) a grandiose manner; ‘but I really feel such song records are too dear for many people of modest means”—this was @ slam at fer visitor—"“who can- not afford them." “Oh, those high priced opera rec- ords are to attempt to dignity the squeaky things,” said Mrs. Rangle, whose tightened lips acknowledged Mrs. Jarr’s dig. “I do not say that phonographs are not amusing, but—" Not Sold for a Song. “Let me put on one of the Caruso songs.” said Mrs. Jarr, “they cost $5 apiece and we have six and they are just grand!” Mayon won't mindg if T say ‘NO’ frankly, will you, my dear?" replied Mrs, Rangle, icily. “The fact is T go to the opera so much—a costly pleas- ure, seven dollars a seat this season —hut thea-I want the real thing or nothing—that it seems a desecration to me to hear those gr. voices sounding tinny on phonog ‘ “Oh, you are prejudiced, my Gear,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “I admit { am," said Mrs, Rangle. “ nevor hear one of the sereechy things but what L think of those penny aracde places filled with all sorts of impossible people where phonographs were first used." “Of course T never frequented such places,” said Mrs, Jarr, “but should not let the faét that you hays | heard those penny machines-years ago prejudice you. Why, dear Mrs, Ran- AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA NARA AARRADADASADAPADARARI ADDR ADA AAARARA DS As Regards Phonograph Music Mrs. Rangle Goes on Record things that maybe Mrs. Jarr would | ¢ you | r Family MeCardell Copyriaht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World.) > » gle, you might as well say you couldn't Appreciate @ pipe organ obligato be- cause you have listened so much to strect organs!" In her own mind Mrs, Jarr thought this a crusher for the fous thing. Well,” said Mrs. Rangle, stify, aa she tugged at her gloves, “it wasn't My oWn taste for those sort of things I was deprecating, except to say that Tam impulsive and condescending aid make friends of people I should kecp at a distance.” Old Friends’ Gradges+ “Never mind that, dea sald Mra, Jarr with a bitter smile, will show you whom to avoid. But, as the sub- Ject must be embarrassing to you, we'll change the subject. As I was saying before, the best people, the royalty in fact UL on tho se ‘Lucia now, where is that record?" intend getting a planola,” re- marked Mrs. Rangle, “Of course ye can get two of those talking n for whut a ‘pianola costs, but, with a planola you hav ething worth while, “Wo said Mrs. Jarr, “E a planola docsn't And since your —I mean since must tell you Chat make music of itself piano was taken a you sent it awa “We are going to get a baby grand,” said Mrs, Rangle hoatsely, "I believe in real, not canned music!" Then they drifted from the danger- ous ground, as women will, Kissed euch other vodby, beg, for mora Mx and “came agains.” and parted ith mutual satisfaction at having pd as Was sent th given as Th started up the children's higher art in music tloris were gr ‘Gay Life of mm Cap Cuttle As the Pivot 2 in on the 7.55 A. M. from Paradise, “W-e-l-1," replied Doc with a draw “it all depends upon old Capt Cuttle, as I call him. In national elections it used to be ‘As Maine goes so goes the country,’ and then New York and Indiana got to be the pivotal States, in our county force is old Cap Cuttle, gyho as you may imagine, has only one arm.” “How did he lose it?" inquired Mawruss, ’ “He lost it in various ways," sald Doc, ‘The first time he lost it was the election coming asked the Newcom' and the crew mutinied and he put them down single handed, but the mate cut his arm off with a cutlass, The next time he lost it was out West in the Indian campaigns, He was captured by the Indians and they were going to burn him at the stake, The fire burned off bis arm, and when he walked out of the flames the Indians fell down and worshipped him as an immortal being. Armed for Several Frays, “At other times, according to Cap, | his arm has been blown off by dyna- | mite, shot off in the Civil War and bit off by a bear." “would not regard him as a man of veracity,” remarked the English- man, who gets on at Horse's Neck, “If you were out in my section and interested in politics; you would,” said Doe, “or you'd lose out oftener than you won.” “Which party doe# he belong to?” asked Newcomer, “Sometimes the first one that sees him and sometimes tho last; some- | times, to show that he is fair to both which he took to be islands off the |sides, he splits up bis votes ffty-fitty. I think he's with us this year, but I can tell better a littie later when he umphant discoverer cruised further |cymes around to vote that things are His fancy going fine or that the other side is wound up to the highest pitch, he spending more toney than we are. ‘And how is @ man expected to deliver fitty or sixty votes without being Polo had declared to pe |anie even to offer the boys a little 75? Then it is a case of put up for egitimate campaign expenses or let the Cap's bunch of votes go to the other side--providing he isn’t fooling the other fellow.” ‘How does he get away with it?” asked Newcomer, A Confidence Game, “He's the sihoothest talker in the where he county; he speaks three or four dia- landed is believed to be the coast to lects and he always beiongs to tho the west of Nuevitas del Principio, same race as the man he's talking to. Cuba” broke upon Columbus vision. “One could live th ever!” he cried, ke a He certainly has the confidence of his for- followers—but then politica is a kind of a confidence game anyway,’ ot Doc as they were coming |, the pivotal | at sea, He wis captain of the ship| a Commut er By Rube Towner Coprright, 1919, by The Pre Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl!) 7 . > al Force in the Paradise Election. “L used to have confidence in hin It," Doc continued, “until Tt ge Chat to the th eon he put mo wise. hat, you w, is an old re and has been Justice of the aco out he since the days of Capt, Kidd. The Judge and Cap Cuttle always worked politics together, and in the old days we never got any returns from their precincts until a the others were in and it was definitely known just how jmany votes were needed for the ticket supported by the Judge and Cap tr win, The fellows in the city wi were manipulating politics used to think they were smart, but either ons of these old-timers ‘as politicians could make the city boys look like tennis pi@Yers. They could take their returns and squeeze ‘em like a lemon jand the majorities would just oozu lout. We were always suspicious of ‘em, but never could get the goods on ‘em until they had a falling out and Cap ran against the Judge and beat him, pil Shakespeare Was Right! “Just after this I was talking to Judge Chat one day and he asked mo who Dogberry was. I told him was one of Shakespeare's Justic but I had to explain because tho Judge had never heard of Shake speare. So one night I took him to the city to see a Shakespearerplay. It was Othello and the Judge was intensely interested. “He took a violent antipathy to Tago from the first, and several thmos 1 heard him muttering under his breath, ‘the son-uv-a-gun! Well, tho damn liar!’ “Once or twice I thought he was going to get up and interrupt tho performance and I had to pull him back in the seat, especially where Iago by his fantastic liev is inciting Othello to jealousy. “At the end of the act we went out to get a drink, “How do you like the play, Judge?’ I asked. ‘Say, Doe,’ he sald, ‘if that fel- ler Iager had one arm off, by heck, | Ud swear it was Cap Cuttl | “How is politics coming on?” Doo added; t's all up to Ing > OF COURSE, HORT, the hotel manager, and Jobby, a manufacturers’ agent, were talking about their respee- tive business interest. “I say,” remfrked Jobby, “how do you use such an enormous quantity of pears and peaches?" “Well,” replied Short, “we eat what we nm and what we can't eat we said the other, “We do about thg same in our business.” “How ik that?" “We sell an order when we can sell it, and when wo can’t we cpncel tt” Edinburgh Scotsunan, * rt