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|\SHR EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER trent fund, constituting “a public gallery of art to’ which the entire public shali forever have access,” will perpetuate the Frick name in this city and give New York a yet higher place among the recognized art eee “Ratify the Treaty!” Bu, By J. H. Cassel Uncommon Sense By John Blake foro, efalnita Wivsio. ea @he EST RD PY Josern PrLiTzcn Datiy Except Sunday by the Press Ju ‘Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, tow, J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, mark Tow SOSRPH PULITZER, Jr, Becretary, 63 Vark Row. Y ——— , MEMNER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESA, ‘The Amociated Prem is exclasively entitled to Lhe vse republics @f Gil news despstches credited to it or not otherwine croaited in (his GREE And Also the local news published herein, HE Federal Attomey General announces that the General Scale Gommittee of the United Mine @ — Workers of America will hold a conference to- suorrow in Indianapolis to consider a proposal from J President Wilson “looking to a speedy terminatior of » } the strike situation and an adjustment of the entire controversy.” Acting President John Lewis and Sec- tetary-Treasurer William Green of the miners’ organ- ization are expected to urge the men to accept the I’res- ident’s proposal. ' To-morrow will be the ninth day of December. | On the twenty-fifth of last October the President of the United States issued a statement in which he _ offered his immediate aid toward settling the questions issue between the coal operators and the coal miners. (The miners rejected the offer, They also disregarded ithe President's solemn warning against “one of the {eravest steps ever proposed in this country affecting the economic welfare and the domestic comfort and {health of the people.” | ‘The coal strike became a fact. Despite the Govern- | ment's prompt action declaring it illegal, the coal strike ‘continued a fact. No terms since offered have brought majority of the miners back to work. Nor have offi- \eers of the miners’ organization shown more than per- functory compliance with the law in the reversal of their strike orders. a After forty-four days the dispute itself comes back practically to where it was when the President made his first offer of mediation, Back, that is, so far as the ¢oal miners and the coal operators are concerned. But what have thirty-eight of those forty-four days done to the country? What suffering and what loss Tave they brought upon millions of Americans utterly innocent of blame for troubles in the coal industry? ‘What lightless nights, what heatless winter days, what embargoes upon freight and shipping,what paralysis of business and industry are still to be inflicted upon the ‘American public because of the last six weeks? ; + ‘The President’s proposition which the mine work- “eas will be asked by their leaders to accept to-morrow ‘eam contain no terms of, settlement which could not ‘have been arrived at in forty-four days without the ‘Joss of one day's output of coal. If they agree to what the President proposes, the ‘miners cannot demonstrate that they are getting one jola more than they could have gotten equally well without forcing a coal famine. "These weeks of idleness in the soft coal fields have bein colossal, needless waste. The time has come any such waste should be looked upon as a na- reproach, an arraignment of American compe- ‘fence, a black mark against American progress. |) A supreme, infallible arbiter of industrial disputes y not be found in a minute, But the people of the States have arrived at a stage in their develop- when they have a right to expect from those to they entrust their Government concerted, con- effort toward establishing some tribunal ca- of dispensing a justice that both capital and labor respect. ' What are national legislators for? Its indifference and inaction during these weeks of coal production involving cumulative men- to the country will not be among the ‘least of the remembered against the Sixty-sixth Congress, ed Shall we now have @ war in order to force \. Consular Agent Jenkins back into a Mexican Sail? THE FRICK WILL. NDREW CARNEGIE’S idea of stewardship was to give away millions while he lived. Henry Clay Frick kept most of his until he ‘died—maybe that he might be different from Mr. Car- ‘megie. Nevertheless it is plain Mr. Frick considered shimself equally a steward. The famous coke-burner willed nearly $120,000,000 of his great fortune in pub- ‘lic benefactions and left his family only $25,000,000, “Only!” Compared with $150,000,000, one-sixth ‘of the amount sounds modest. Some persons have ‘even pitied a widow and children who, “after living a a scale based on $150,000,000, have to come down \te standards conforming with $25,000,000.” That is, of course, nonsense. No family, short of royalty with an army of retainers, ever lived up to $150,000,000, |The income of $25,000,000 at 5 per cent. is $1,250,- 000, which will keep up more houses, maintain more automobiles and permit more personal comfort than any one who has not tried it might think, Mr, Frick » bought pictures at figures which ran quickly to mil- ‘ons, But the total of his living expenses probably G4 not much exceed the income he leaves his family, Mr, Prick’s plan of reserving his public gifts until Hig \death now produces an aggregate of munificence centres of the world, i The trolleys having won their strike in Toledo, how long will it be before the Octupus succeeds in driving the Hybus from the streets of New York? SIGN AND DIG. The Supreme Council in Paris is reported to have modified certain terms of the protocol which Germany is required to sign before the peace treaty goes into effect. 9 German war prisoners are to be returned directly final ratifications of the treaty are recorded. The ques- tion how much material Germany can afford to deliver in payment for the German war vessels scuttled at a Flow is referred to The Hague Tribunal. Threats withdrawn, This should put a stop to German charges that the Allies are “deliberately planning the destruction of Germany.” There is to be no more destruction. What the world wants to see now are peoples everywhere ca- repair the enormous losses of the past five years. Germany has her debt of reparation to take care of, She needs all the energies she has left. “Sign and get to work” should be the German watchword. Pretty soon we shan't be able to see Italy at all except when d’Annunzio stoops, { “SAVE NEW YORK” SCORE EW YORK may regard with pride and rejoicing the success of the “Save New York” movement which has arranged for the transfer of the ac- tive centre of the needle trades industry from lower Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. Preservation of the Oharacter of the Nation’s most famous and imposing thoroughfare is a game at once sentimental, practical and profitable. Fifth Avenue and the city will benefit, but no more than the manufacturers and their employees. The manufacturers will profit from reduced rentals and will occupy quarters perfectly adapted to the work in and. The new buildings will be models of their kind providing for efficent arrangement of machinery and light and healthful quarters for workers, “Saving New York” is a remarkable example of what can be accomplished’ when men of vision and initiative get together and sink differences and rivalries in a common effort to attain a mutually beneficial end, Success involves many temporary inconveniences, Bitter competitors and business rivals had to co-oper- ste and find a common basis of agreement which may cause minor gains and losses in comparative position but which will prove profitable to afl in the long run, Eventually the resulting savings in cost will prove profitable to all who use the products of the needle trades, ,That means every one. IT’S WORTH A DIME. ‘OMEN STUDENTS at Wellesley have a novel W variation of the many schemes to improve the quality of English “‘as she is spoke.” Cuss words such as “darn” and “damn” are under the ban. Of course such expressions are not considered quite the thing. They do not qualify under Victorian tests of ladylike language. But they have crept in along with cigarettes, silk stockings, decollete gowns, rouge, face powder—but there’s really no end to the list, In ordinary conversation “darn” and “damn” are su- perfluous and ought to be abolished, Neither is “worth a darn”—let alone a dime. If a system of fines will eradicate common use at Wellesley, then let the fines be assessed. Let the purified Wellesley example spread over the land. But there are times when a system of fines will fall down, When a hammer slips and bruises a fingernail; when a “run” appears in a black silk stocking at a rarty; when the motorman runs by without stopping; when the cat turns over the bottle of cream saved for fudge; then fines will fail. A mild “cuss” suddenly rises in value, It is worth a dime just as surely as a safety valve on a boiler is worth what it costs. In such cases any but a hard-hearted judge would remit the fine, THE SONG OF OUR SHIRTS, Tom Hood wrote @ song—a sorrowful lay— Of @ seamstress who toiled for pitiful pay— Working some twenty-four hours a day— Making shirts, “Twas sad and true at the time ft was writ ¢ And made for the moment a very big hit; But now it doesn’t begin to fit— Nor the shirts! What's worst of all—and here my heart fails— Thourh say it I shall, no matter who rails— They have gone and cut off the beautiful tails— Of our shirts! Not so long before and much shorter behind—~ And this is the thing mostly I mind— Because tt is truly unfair end unkind— Aro our shirts! of applying further military pressure to Germany are | | pable of making a maximum of constructive effort to) Fro ‘To the Editor of The Drening World: Now that Senator Fall has been to the White House, has shaken hands with the sick man there and has been forced to admit that the President is mentally alert and capable of forming sound judgments on matters of public policy, is it not in order to revise the translation of ‘Veni, vidi, vici?” The modern version might read, with greatly altered meaning, “I came, I saw, I Fall." Another old aphorism that 1s ap- plicable is, ‘The higher they get the barder they Fall.” Likewise, “Pride cometh before a Fall.” Geems to me that | recall something in Milton sug- ting that the Devil had a Fall from radise, but that Soap not fy very well here, It was Sine a ee ich the sno Soe wiueh SCHOLASTICUS. “Keep It Up.” ‘To the Kaitor of The Evening World: I have read your paper for a great many years and find great pleasure im it Why? Because it speaks the truth and is just and kind to all, Your paper is deserving of great credit in your fairness toward the attacks on our noble President. You surely think the right and kind way on conditions as they are to-day, HPRaident Witnon will get wall. to heip us again as he has helped us be- fore. Your editorials are great, so true to the dot. view of things and let me see the right way to think, Keep it ee . c. BB, Wants Action on New York, Dee. "To the Waiter of The Hvening World: I am in absolute accom with “Cor poral 8th Artillery Corps” and “F. 1919. Congress is neglecting the boys who fought in France, Why don't the “higher-ups” in Washington get wise to themselves and start action on the numerous bonus bills before the House? I served in France for nineteen months and was wounded twice, When I came back to this country I found hundreds of slackers that made “hay while the gun sbone.” In other words, while the cream of the country was “over there" doing the dirty work these contemptible slack~ ers were coining money, They are better off now than any returned voteran will be for two years to come, YOUNDED PRIVATE, “ihe Wood Boom. Montclair, N. J., Dec, 6, 1919. Go He Diitor of The Drening World: Having just returned to the city prised and amused by the Presidential ‘They give one a different] o! m Evening World Readers to the East, I discover that Gen. Wood is receiving almost exacUy the same sort of treatment, and that the word has gone out in organization circles that Wood is a good man and that the ‘West is booming him in particular. How is this to be accountéd for? Is the Republican organization working for Wood and is this conflloting situa~ tion a result of a regular form of Propaganda? Are the machine politi- cians trying to elect Wood or are they doing this lukewarm advertising in an effort to kill his candidacy by Jarousing the sectional Jealousies that lexist in the party? Is Wood the real |choice of the party leaders or is he |merely a stalking horse put up as a ecreen for the Lodge reactionaries who hope to nominate their man? These questions are worth watching. The answer will appear intime. The South Dakota selection of Wood with Cool- idge as a running mate has not helped to clear the situation. L WONDER. ‘= League of Mothers Not Nation New York, Dec. 6, 1919. ‘To the Bltitor of The Bvening World: I have been reading your editorials urging, the ratification of the peace treaty, including the League of Na- tions. Just what good will a League of Nations do America? For, after all, although some people lose sight of that fact, it js only America that we are interested in. Altruistic motives are very fine, but it is too late to change the world into a Utopia, It is part of Europe's nature to be al- Ways seething with jealousies and erences, and no mere document is going to change it. The League as it is formed plainly shows that strong nations have been deferred to, Eu- ropean and American ideas are not the same. Our own George Washing- ton realized this, and since we have become the greatest country in the world by following his advice and minding our own business, why W.| Should we change now? A League of ©., 106th Intuntry,” and think that| Nations that dooa not include every country in the world does not live up to its name and will foster war rather than prevent it, I am a young busi- ness woman, intensely jealous of the welfare of America, and as such have sounded the sentiments of practically every one I meet, with the result that I find most every one against the League—the women especially, the women whose sons were privates in the war just ended, who bitterly re- sent the idea that their sons may be sent to the four corners of the world to fi other people's battles, T 2 is talk of putting the League of Nations up as an issue to vote upon, ‘That would be the best thing that could happen, for it is the people who would have to work out a League of Nations and it is the people's right to say what they want, Although, goodness knows, few people wanted Prohibition. We have done so much for Burope that Europe bas grown to depend on trom a long Western trip I am sur-|us, and in a League of Nations it is practically certain that whenever e Love Stories Great Novels By Albert Payson Terhune No.22—** DAVID COPPERFIELD,” by Charles Dickens. IHRE were two girls in the life of Dayid Copperfield when Re reached the age when a youth goes wooing, One of the two was Agnes Wickfield,¢whom he had known from boyhood and who, no doubt, would have won his heart if he had got chanced to meet Dora Spenlow, Agnes was a wise, grave-eyed girl; sweet and strong of soul, self sacrificing and noble. In short, she was the kind of a girl a very young man looks up to as his ideal’ of womanhood; but whom few such youths have the good sense to fall in love with. If Agnes loved David, at that time, he did not guess it; but thought of her as his truest and dearest friend, which he was content to be. For she knew his boyish ‘heart was given elsewhere. f From the instant David set eyes on Dora Spenlow he worshipped her, Dora was pretty, foolish, fluff-brained, She knew nothing of life and its grinding struggles and its need for economies and hard work. P She had been brought up in luxury and had received a vast deal of vastly useless education at a high-priced foreign school. As a result, she was ignorant and frivolous; the last sort of a practical wife for a poor man, such as was David. Dora loved her poor and hardworking young husband. Earnestly she of her own or through lack of earnest endeavor; but because she lacked ter how he might practice, Nor could a man with one lung and no palate wife or helpmeet. She wasted David's oysters, she bought a whole barrel of them, and served them for dinner, counts) figures made her cry. They wouldn't add up, shé said,” crippled baby, For a time, he tried to educate her. He might as well have And for this forbearance he had reason, soon, to be grateful, For Again Fell in Love With « mere gith she died, like and dainty and adorably impracti- stodgily competent women are seldom mourned. sorrows of others to ease the bitt ache at his heart, Yet, after a frantic wooing, he won her and they were married set in a period of genuine pathos. sought to teach herself to be a fine housekeeper and an economist and to be @ comrade, intellectually, for him, She failed. Not through any fault the ability and early training. ‘ A heavyweight truck driver could not become a ballet dancer, no mat- become a second Caruso. Neither could The Cook Book Made pathetic little Dora learn to be a house- His Wife’s Head Ache. scanty income in crazy fashion, For example: Hearing him say he liked unopened. Said David, describing her failures: “The cookery book made Dora's headache, and the (household ac- To the eternal credit of David Copperfield, he was as gentle and as patient with his loving but brainless wife as he would have been with a sought to educate her pet dog, Jip. So he guve up the hopeless aftempt and did not let her know what a chagrin it all was for him, Dora was as fragile of body as of mind. The roughnesses of life were too much for her, And, while she was still : David was heartbroken, He mourned Childhood Sweetheart, ver. as men mourn only for the child cal women whom God sends into their lives, and @s thelr worthily and He left England and wandered miserably across the Continent, striving to forget. He came back and threw himself into his work and into the And, at last, he took up life where he had left it off; for the world does not wait for those who mourn, L r Then Copyright (The New WHILE YOU'RE AWAKE BE WIDE AWAKE. ATURE requires you to spend a third of your life . asleep, But she doesn’t require you to spend the other two-thirds of it half asleep. You have a mind to think with. You use it about half of the time and only half use it then, Now and then a blunder or the realiza- tion that you are not getting any- where gives you a shock. Then you use all your mind for a while and are astonished at your progress. If your attention wanders from what you are doing, if you hurry through the job with one eye on the elock, if getting it done some how instead of getting it done well is your motive in doing it at all, you might as well go back te bed. Work haif done had better be left undone. A man half asleep might as well be fully asleep, While you're awake it will pay you to be wide awake. Use all your mind instead of a part of: * and it will develop as your biceps develop when you begin to exer cise them. Without muscles constant use your et flabby. Without Steady seWivinant your mind ts bound to rust. In most people are possfbilities they never suspect. Gen. Grant was going to seed in®an Illinois tannery before he was waked up by the call to war. It took abogt a year to get the cobwebs out of his brain. You know what he did after that, and so does all the world. : All America was half asleep tm 1914, lost in a dream of content- ment and self satisfaction. She began to yawn when the sound o the big guns came over the ocenp. She was fully awake in 19%, which was fortunate for her amd for the rest of the civilized werk. A jolt will waken any man, But it is dangerous to wait for oom Better sound your own reveilje before you get too much in the habit of hating to get up in the: morning. The difference between the mam: who gets aloug and the man who doesn’t is in a large measure a difference in degrees of wakefal-: ness, Give two men equal mine and the one who uses his eam stantly will succeed. The other will not, Doubtless you know dozens ef talented men who are failures! and dozens of mediocre men who: succeed, Even a dull mind em ployed fully is better than a liant one not employed at all, Competifion is too keen to-day }$for the man who is half asleep. He needs all the intelligence, all the energy he has got all his wak- ing minutes. Wide awake you will be a better map to-morrow than you are to-day and a tenfold better one next year. And in this race where the best man always wins it is worth while to be wide awake, WHERE GERMAN LABOR LS WISE. First place in a recent issue of the New York Dock Company Courter, which elrculates among employees of © the New York Dock Company, is given an article written by Walter 8. Devereux of Chicago to be read by American workingmen, In this article we find: “Instead of striking and demand ing higher ‘oages ‘and shorter hours, the German workingmene organizations are holding meetinge in all large cities and labor com tres to discourage and atop strike and are asking for @ ten-howr day instead of six or eight hours, Te gether with thia action, they amp making @ request for miktary pre tection fran the agitators. German labor evidently has common eeare enough to know that nothing but the strongest effort om thelr pare can bring back the commeroies Prosperity of their war-strickes land,” “4 es 2 “wre methods of our labor oe ganizations are all wrong becouse they imaist om revenge against a few individual profiteers, thereby bringing suffering to millions @f mon, women and children outeide of their circle, They do not seem to care that many people in other classes are nearer the actual wang than they are themselves.” Ae aur “What a‘ patriotic difference om the part of our recent enemies, who receive less than one-half’ ti ex paid to workmen om this of the Atlantic Occan! In dowg as they are doing they show oom. mon sense They say that a oe or eight hour day 4s @ bar to their economic desire to regain the im strial place which Gi oo. pupied flve years ago. They rei © the Jact that millions of hande, troops would be called upon America Then it was that Agnes came into his life once more. Wiser with age, | re ule during the i >” ¢uch as the country has seldom seen at one time, Hos-| Can't something bo done for us luckless males | Boom centring around the name of en./would ‘have to furnish the largest |ne now saw her strength of character and her sweetness as he” had ‘not| lien" aston he She egal l F ' | Leonard Wor n tho West the or-/quota, There ie always the old plea, h the gloriously days of youth produced again 4 +/ / © pilals, universities and various charities are richly re- Won't some one or other list to our walls heer a hen byl But ered! uiwaye the old plea.) seen them in the gloriously insane days of you Be fepraauces ogaie t exdip ¥ Bs And soon bring back to us all the tatls— hodox Republican papers rega: [lar rer mf ct Bay Pratt He fell in love with her, But it was long before he dared ask her to) {0,mthe the buuing fore preaun, ¢ membered, While a 50,000,000 art collection housed ae ane ’ Wood with favor, but let 1t be under-! in o¢’ england, for one, is just the kind|ecome his wife, When he summoned courage to speak the words that| tion was destroyed by the adeno ; p with a $15,000,000 endow. | Ve Hood that hia principal strength ts in who can make the most of auch « plea,| would ho longer go unsald, Agnes made a whispered answor: Something for organized laben te | ya GMITZ, {eho Meat, Now thet & have returned “I beve joved you all my fel”, die United raven 4a cine aban | , oy ‘ . \ \ j Are hea 2s ARG suew naples we ee a ae waste * , sil ei