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4 : . ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, : ce Ones Fark Row. Now Toes Comoeny, Hon 6 to ode EMR Prams ee Tew MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Press, eee See eh Sealey cL o,f cecion of emp terrace YOLUME 60 READY TO GO THROUGH WITH IT? VENTS have proved that there are not a few people in the United States who are far more willing to undertake great national tasks than to see them through. lf President Wilson were at the present moment to announce a poltey of non-intervention in Mexico we should observe a singular phanomenon. United States Senators and others who have fought tooth and nail to keep this Nation from assuming new obligations as a er in the League of Nations would promptly clamor for war Mexico without a thought of obligation or expense involved. No'national responsibility would be too heavy provided it could be assumed against the President’s wishes. ©%f the United States should intervene in Mexico it would of cougse do so only with the fullest pledges and proofs that its motives _ Were disinterested. It would disclaim all desire for territory or spoil. ‘The most zealous supporters of intervention would be first and loudest im their protests that this Government was only trying to help Mexico «te @eure footing of democracy and that Americans were prepared to iy, © t any length to serve the best interests of the Mexican people. ‘§ The time seems to have come to remind Americans again of facts the Mexican people and of the lengths we should have to go to @o them any considerable good. As in the case of the League of Nations, some Americans might be enthusiastic for the principle and ward cool down and see only difficulties when it came to taking @ s@siained national part in applying it. ®Mexico has a population of upward of 15,000,000. When it * ‘beogmes a question of finding “the Mexjean people,” however, one is pizzled to know whether to look for them first among the 3,000,000 Who can read and write or the 12,000,000 who cannot; among the 00,000 whites, the 5,000,000 Indians or the 6,000,000 halfbreeds; ‘M@Gng the: 3,500,000 who pay taxes or among the peons, some of whem have never seeh a piece of money. last year there were only 439 newspapers and periodicals pub- ~~ Vitdhed in Mexico. As 80 per cent. of the population’ could not read w them, it is evident that Mexican “public opipion” based on even _ fedimentary information as to affairs domestic and foreign is ex- ly limited. . ¢ Americans who have lived in Mexico and studied the Mexicans t even among the “submerged 80 per cent.” there is much ess and simple hospitality. Yet along with these qualities go gaveterate distrust of foreigners and passionate jealousy of Mex- yes of litical factions, In “Mexico To-Day and To-Morrow,” by E. D. idge (The Macmillan Compafly, 1919), we read that two and a hall ‘million families in Mexico have incomes of from 35 cents to 75 certs a day. The average Indian laborer’s mind “could not think more than 50 pesos’ worth ($25).” “The laborers, although accus- Uff} WY iy EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, DECEMBER 1,1919 ack! Copgrigte. 1919, ty The ties into (The New York Evening C9, ) By J. H. Cassel naa anh PIT: f eo By Bide She Finds the Combina tomfed to farm work, have been purely mechanical units all their lives, and would,”in most cases, be quite helpless if turned loose to work a outitheir own salvation on a piece of land.” 4 m The tendency in Mexico has been toward the concentration of _ great land holdings in fewer and fewer hands. “There are in Mex- ieof Mr. Trowbridge tells us, “one hundred estates which are credited with over a hundred million acres of land, or, on the average, over a acres each. The Terrazas estate, mainly in Chihuahua, but ing over into adjoining States, is said to contain 13,000,000 acres of more than twice the size of the State of Massachusetts.” © saphere are in Mexico abgut 11,000 of what may be classed ‘as large propertics—properties of 2,500 acres or more—as ‘against 25,000 such properties a hundred years ago, While in other countries the number of individual holdings has greatly increased, in Mexico the number has steadily decreased.” The truth is that, despite its seven-year-old system of primary ac ion, which provides 209 schools for 13,616 pupils, despite its i Te ccctintice and universal euffrage, Mexico is only slowly emerg- oe, ing,from a state of political and indystrial feudalism, Its Govern- ies ‘eath still depends more upon military strength and political manoeu- Intervention in Mexico means more than conflict with a regime. Tt gnean conflict with resentful Mexican patriotism in a hundred yi ow forms and factions—with patriots joining rebels in mountain strongholds, and a whole country ablaze with anger and defiance born of ‘utter incapacity to understand that the United States can be attacking anything but Mexican sovereignty for the sake of Mexican ne 1t means conilict to the death with Mexican backwardness and orance. Verne job can be done. But if the United States undertakes it in thé only spirit in which the United States can consistently take on gueh,a task, it will lead to nothing short of the complete conquest and ) modernization of Mexico by enlightenment—enlightenment the 5 ie*t costs of which this Nation will pay. ‘ _ €©This is a huge order, a gigantic piece of national philanthropy ter mtmeasuring anything the United States has done in Cuba or | Philippines, certain to cost lives and money to start with, and CX ly can say how much more money and worry later on. Better to think it over now than start in haste and balk at carry- ‘Phrough. The country can thank Senator Lodge and his fol- WONDPR,” Waitress, as the Friendly Pa- tron dug @ suspender button out of his apple pie, “if any of these inventors of patent anti-Probibition said Luelle, the “ Nostruins have found you ye “Can't say that they ha’ plied, i “We had one in here this mornin{ Lucile went on, “He had some sort of @ preparation that would surely redeem the country for the wets, All you had to do was pour it into a gal- lon of water and bingo—you had a gallon of booze." “Sounds fine, one. “Yes, better than it tastes, I sum- marize,” Lucile said. “But let me tell you what happened, After he gets his ham and beans he‘ says to me; ‘Ever drink anything, sweet- heart? * ‘Say,’ I says, ‘where do you got that stuff?" “Oh, you've heard of my invention, eh? he says, “IT mean that “sweetheart” stuff,’ I tell him—you know, just a little bit rough-like. ‘No man has a right to call me that, let alone you.’ “He laughs one of those embar- rassed ones and says: ‘You're an un- plucked rose, I take it” “‘Sure, I says, ‘and I got my thorns, too. So revers friend, or you may get stuck for the drinks.’ “Well, sir, here I am trying to in- sult him and ho likes it. “Any time I'm stuck for the drinks, he says, ‘I'll be right vhere with the liquid refreshments, 1 got my invention, you know,’ “Fine, I says. ‘Now lesmme and ‘you pool our mental strength and try to pick out your desert.’ “‘How's the aliced peaches? asks, ‘Well,’ I says, ‘the slices are all right, but I can't give no letter of recommendation with the peaches,’ “He thinks that’s lovely and just laughs like a paid bunch of rooters at a show's first night, “Bring me some peaches, Peaches,’ he says. “I have to take it from him because he means it as a compliment, the poor simp. 80 I get the peaches and said the Friendly he Lucile the Waitress Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co. Flattery Costs Money. Pe SESTRV Dudley (The New York Evening World.) ! ® ion of Prohibition and “ ‘Listen,’ he says, as he pulls a Httle bottle from his pocket. ‘I got in this the essence of joy juice. Mix it with water and drink jt. You'll want to do the Highland Fling.’ “ ‘Listen, Mister,’ I says, ‘there'll | be no flings flang around here, Just put your essence of bug juice back in your pocket and don’t be trying to send me to the dippy factory with} delerious tremonts.’ “ But,’ he says, ‘Just imagine your- self at home with the toothache and no liquor to drink. Or just think how horrible it would be if a snake bit you and you had no booze to counter- part the poison -with,’ “t had to laugh, “Phere hasn't been a sné eat joint since I started to deal ‘em off the arm here. If one showed up we'd trap it and have eel soup. ig I says, in this “‘Now this essence of mine,’ he says, never letting me stop him one fosta, ‘only costs 25 cents and it'll ko a quart of fine booze. ‘Tut!’ I says, disdainful as a dog with a imitation bone, “It will bring roses to your pretty cheeks,’ he says. And that's the way he goes on, Gosh! but I have a hard time getting rid of him.” “Those patent whiskey mixtures are a rule,” said the Friendly 8 what Lucile. I was thinking,” Here she drew sinall bottle, "Do me a favor, will you?" she continued “Take this home and see if itll make @ quart of the stuff. Oh, don’t grin I stuck till he said 1 was the swellest dame he ever saw and then I just had to fall. It was only a quarter and he slipped me at least four dollars worth of compliments. re- from plied her apron pocket o AS\ONS By Roy L. Copyrlent, | ie at h early in the ked Mr. are dolling u , aren't you? r merrily, as he gianced helpmect) at a rather early super-toilette, “The Prince of Wales | hus sailed away, but go to it!” | Mrs, Jarr had in mind an arduous | day before her and, womanlike, viewed his merriment ag ill timed. "Oh, it’s all right for you to be 60 cheerful!” she exclaimed. “Mut if you had the day before you that I have!” “But haven't I the same day before me that you have, my dear?” Mr. Jarr she replied. r Thanksgiving and thins for Christmas! And you tell me you won't have any tra money for ime for two or three ‘8, and then the stores will be so ed with women fairly tearing os off one's back! Oh, dear, hy a e xo selfish, never think- ing of anybody but themselves! And those poor shop girls, too!” “LT could let you h mas shopping m faltered Mr. Jarr, “but I've a big insurance to pay this 'weck—last days of grace!” Well, it's always something like that!” whimpered Mrs, Jarr, “I sup- pose you expect me to pay your old insurance. I think you are very un- kind. At this time of year, when I have so many things to get for so many people, to put me off because of r insuran ir Christ- for you and the children ything happens to me,” ex- plain Mr. Jarr. It means more than a fyw Christmas presents.” The Happy Second Wife. “It will probably mean more for your second wife,” said Mrs, Jarr, ‘I don't see why I'm to deprive myself of holidays and deprive my children of The Minstrel Show. HAT the now popular minstrel show is an institution of Amer- joan conception is to assumed, for the negro as a character is of course the product of America exclusively, But that the impersona- tions which have sung and laughed their way to popularity all over the world were the oulgrowth of a man's sentimental fancy, years before the Civil @¥War, is not generally known, nor the peculiar circumstances of its beginning. For yea! later world famous as the originator of the min- be How It Started — one hap day in the year just for By He mine | Neustadtl erations of negrocs in America, In the spring of 1342 at a hotel in Buf- falo he suddenly proposed to the pro- of the establishment that he some darky impersonations for the entertainment of the other gu He had come unprepared, but. w the assistance of the proprictor's son and another young man, some burnt cork and a banjo, violin, tambourine and bones, he gave his darky show, It met with so much favor at the hotel that he repeated the perform- ance once or twice every day for several months. That summer he received his first theatrical offer, which was speedily followed by national and interna- tional fame for the novel entertain- strel entertainment, nursed a heart- felt desire to portray to the North the life of the Southern darkies, their when I come back he's all set for me waddle by maven Ueda. laintive songs and dances that had boon banded down through the gen- ro ae ment that was an exact representa- tion of the most important instituuion \of our then great South; so important, as we know, that the greatness of the South went with it, 1Y, by The ress Publishing Co, RRA AAA RAR AAPA AR OP CORPODOON Mr. Jarr Looks Into the Future and Sees There'll Be No Christmas Spirit in Him This Year. The-darr Family MeCardell (The New York Byvning World.) | 30u tv put money in something that Will do me no good.” “But it will do you good,’ “Something may said Mr happen, you Jarr know, “Nothing wil ever happen you,” re- plied Mrs, Jarr; “nothing ever ‘does. And I have scen'it many a time before this—-the first wife slave and work and deprive herself and help get a lot of money together, and after she has Killed herself with work to have a second wife come in the home and abuse her children and wear her jew- elry and live jike a queen on’ the money the poor first wife killed herself jto save, Look at the Dinglebecks; |didn’t that Dinglebeck marry again j 4nd his wife hardly dead three years, and look how the second Mrs. Dingle: beck goes out in her automobile! Did the first Mrs, Dinglebeck do that?" But the second Mrs. Dinglebeck had a lot of money,” said Mr, Jarr, ‘and Tom Dinglebeck was as poor ax @ rat till he nfarried a second time, and, besides, there were no children.’ “Well, the principle is the sam sniffed Mrs. Jarr. “If Tom Dingle- beck had had money, and if the first Mrs. Dinglebeck had left children, I'm sure te would be aa I say; so I'm not gying to slaye and deprive my: no second wife!’ etre myent ter uf Goins downtown with me? Mr. Jarr, thinking it 5 hey pabiker’ ie best to c “Yes, Tam,” sald Mrs, Jarr, you'll ‘have ‘to let me money, "And have some _f am simply determined to do my Christmas shopping early this year, at least! I want to get Uitte tokens for those I lover in time, "ve got to do something for yor Cousin Emily. I hate that woman but If I don’t buy her something ex- pensive she'll go around talking about me, although, goodness knows! she es now. ‘And I'll have to get Clara Mud- ridge Smith something fine, She al- ways gets me a tacky bit of trash that’s no good for anything, and I have to get something nice if for nothing else than to make her ashamed of herself, ‘And I'll have to get Mrs. Stryver something fine because she's so rich she gets nothing but fine presents, and 1 don't want her to turn up her nose at my gift, although she never sends me anything but a Christmas card, and I suspect a last year's one she got and kept clean for a poor friend like me, for of all the mean people at Christmas the rich are the meanest!" Gee whiz!’ cried Mr. Jarr, “I'm glad Christmas only comes once a year, if that's the way you feel weeks beforehand! “Well, Edward Jarr!” cried Mrs, Jarr in astonishment. “I'm surprised at you! Have you no sentiment or holiday spirit In you at all?” “Not since Prohibition,’ replied Mr, Jarr sadly. “KN ‘there are numerous grades, Of cour: What E About Everyday Life by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World.) Copyrisht, 191 By Sophie If you have a flower to giv: even get the seed therefrom. D If you must say horrid things about people, pick out the dead ones. «They won't care. Know that while the first impression is not always a lasting one, yet # lasts until the next one—which sometimes does not happen. A real bridge at hand is easier to cross than ten bridges of a It is the everyday prescription of kindness that keeps the heart alive. Satisfaction is the salt that seasois each day and makes it palatable. Perfection is not found in this world, and he who would be happy will accordingly bear and forbear. Friends are made by doing the right thing at the right time. Some people can climb rungs of a 1: steps. © what you want to have done rather than what you want to do. ve ‘Said Irene Loeb give it before you die, and you may ighs. adder, but most of us have to have Gay Life of a Commuter By Rube Towner Copyright, 1919, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) The Commuting Quota Is Two Shy on Mexi- can Intervention. HE 6.20 P, M. was turkey-trot- 8 ting and shimmying toward ite ultimate destination of Paradise and everyone, except those in the heart game, was deep in the evening papers to learn whether we were going into Mexico at once or manana (to-morrow) or manana en la man- ana (to-morrow-Iin-the-to-morrow) as they say in that land of sun, sund and sin, “Ig that the place where they make pulque?”’ asked Newcomer of it is," replied Mawruss, en there, before Doc could ty'ever drink it?" what is it like?” this stuff they call asked Mawruss, and ‘Setting Hen?” Newcomer shamefacedly admitted that he had, ia “Well, that's American pulque,’ said Mawruss. “But they have other drinks down there, don't they?” asked Newcomer. replied Mawruss, “they've got a drink down there they call aguariiente that makes you feel like a mule kicked you with all four feet with new shoes on em,” “Who op: yelled Newcomer, who bad a couple of methyl alcohols and prune juices aboard; “then I'm for intervention.” “Oh, what's the use?” asked Doe, who had been listening intently, “it wouldn't do us any good if we took the country, The Anti-Saloon League and the Rev. B. C. Dinwiddie and Bill ‘Anderson and that bunch would come along afterward and put formalde- hyde and creosote and stuff like that in everything and we'd be as bad off as we are now.” “Thash right, thash right,” re- marked Newcomer thickly; “go on and spoil everything; I'm going to write to Gen. Pershing to-morrow and tell him 1 can’t go.” Newcomer snuggled down in the seat, rested his head on Jim Moose'’s shoulder and fell into a slight slum- ber, broken occasionally by a demand that Mexico be invaded forthwith. the way,” said Doo; ing for intervention for months, and now that it’s a pos- sibility he wouldn't go on a bet.” Just then a man in the seat ahead of Doc got Up and went aoss the e and said to another commuter: | thoi “I'm Mr. member me?" “Oh, sure, I remember you now; sit . down; I'm’ glad to see you; you're living out this way, I assume.” Highboy; don’t you re “Yes, I'm living out at Rushing now; out on Swellfoke Avenue.” “That's a very aristocratic section, especially in these days when an egg costs as much as a drink used to cost in the old days of personal lib-, erty.” “Mr. Broadwall, I'm glad to that the high cost of living doesn’ bother me any more; that was not” the case the last time you saw me, but I've had some opportnnities since then-and I took advanage of them.” “Making money, eh? well, that’a “ good; I'm glad somebody's getting tt besides the Internal Revenue collece: » tor; I manage to struggle along, but ! sometimes I get so hard up I don’t know where my next thousand dol- lars is coming from.” ts “I can truly say that I am doing very woll, indeed,” said Highboy with a smirk and smile intended to « impress Broadwell, who ot his money at wholesale. “Business was never #0 good with me.” Doc, who had been listening to this conversation, remarked to Mawruss: “There's another guy that will never see Mexice.” “All uckets; show your tickets , everybody, please!" called faithful » Old Bill, who has been running on the Paradise Division’since Adam was the President of the company. ‘When he came to Highboy he called out: “Fare, please!” * ‘ve got my_ticket—commuta- announced Highboy. “Your commutation only gocs to Main Street; we've just left there; ,. next stop Swellfoke Avenue—fure 6 cents.” “ “What's the odds? It’s all Rushing, commutation; what difference does make at what street I get off?” “Five cents in this case.” : After more haggling and a general denunciation of profiteering railroads, Highboy paid the extra fare and at Swellfoke Avenue said good-by to Broadwall and got. off. “What does that fellow generally get oft?” asked Doc of Old Bill when he came. back that way. “Main Street; he lives right there je the track.” What did I tell you?” asked Doc of Mawruss. n’t that Mr. Broadwall?” Charlotte Copprtaht, Chorea or St. using the term “St, Vitus’ Dance" I am immediately able to bring before my readers the pic- ture of a girl attracting the attention of those around her by peculiarities of muscular movements, facial twitching, irritability of manner and) a condition of general unrest. There are many forms of this disease, and it is receiving a good deal of atten- tion just now. Some day it will re- ceive even more attention, I be- Heve, because it seems to me that if we knew more about it, and es- pecially more about girls, we woukl discover that in it we may find the underlying causes for many strange and impulsive acts that govern the behaviour of some girls during the formative period of life. The term “St, Vitus’ Dance” does not mean anything to the scientist; we cling to it, as stated above, be- © it expresses to the lay mind a group of ‘symptoms which phy- sicians now think should be applied only when these symptoms are more or,less of a hysterical nature, The real disease, chorea, is far more serious than is generally known, and more should be written upon it for the enlightenment of the public. Chorea is a very complex disease, showing itself in many forms, all associated with the nervous sy. tem, It usually appears in the female sex, but males are not entirely exempt, The age varies from four years to twenty, sometimes even older, It is not a disease of maturity, Between a slight attack and one that ts grave in genuine, pronounced and sud chorea, in which the patient Is stricken severely and at once inca pacitated by the gravity of the symp- toms, wanderings, mysterious acts anc the like do not oceur, but in cons ditions of slow onset, that come of almost imperceptibly, a sudden nervous impulse may lead one far astray. Investigatgrs now believe the dis- ease to be an infection due to the presence of one or more organisms; they believe it is akin to, related with and possibly a form of’ rheumatism. Just as in acute articular rheuma- tism, so in chorea, the tonsils are thought to be the gateway of inya- sion, and this calls attention anew to" «Motherand CWwest MD. 1010, by The Prete Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Child eer Vitus’ Dance disregarded by parents, yet they may constitute the beginning sympYoms of this disease. Intense fright has been | known to bring on the condition, and it is quite plausible that in a highly nervous child, a mental shock may light up the disorder. It is, however, most frequent in school children who are laboring under a nervous strain from one or many causes. The foilowing advice is given to pa- rents by notable authorities, as to their conduct toward rheumatic chil- dren, which it is said may well be extended to ohoreic children and, I may add, to all children: 1, The importance of proper cloth ing. 2. The care of sore throats, & The necessity of attention to “grow- ing pains.” 4. That nervousness, clumsiness and night terrors are of-, ten warnings of chorea. 5. That pa- rents should be warned that the signs of heart disease are few and that shortness of breath is far more com- mon than is pain, 6, Much evidence should be laid on the need for pa- tience when a child is recovering from disease, 7. Parents should be told « that rheumatism and chorea are liae ble to return, Ellen Richards, Chemist. NTUITION Is the headlight put In woman's forehead uniquely for her when woman lost common sense in Eden, Just a few females have been able to clutch at the skirts of common sensé, and to retain tts hard-pan usefulness, ‘These have plunged into hard-pan studies, ani the crucible have evolved some pte be things ‘for the world. Among the’ number stands Ellen H. 8, Richards, * chemist, born in 1842, died in 1911, a * skilled instructor in the Massachu-° setts Institute of Technology, Not only was Ellen Richards a chemist, . but she was a pure food expert. Hor books and’ pamphlets are .valuabless’ Among their titles are these: » .” “Conservation anitation,” “The Cost of Cleang. ." and “Home Economios.” o or to you, Ellen Richards, whe ™ Chemistry of Cooking, by the ‘danger of neglecting throat and mouth hygiene in children. Growing’ pains -are’ often “entirely - pursued the hard paths of practical output unadorned by the jessamineg/’ of romance, 7 , i