The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 20

‘Wo ‘elleve that the United States has an duty, but we do not believe in internationalism. ‘The Republican Party has favored and still favors the immediate ratif- cation of the treaty of peace, but with such res- ervations us will safeguard our traditions and interests. We are not opposed to » League of where international law may be codi- disputes arbitrated, but we are unalter- opposed to the League of Nations in its ‘present form. The interests of the world and ourselves demand that we continue our policy of avoiding entangling alliances—First Prize Plank in the Tribune Prize Platform. HE Tribune idea seems to have been that a per ‘T fect platform plank must be planed down Until no sliver is left which might scratch the temper of trouser seat of any one who may be willing to sit © on—or hide under—the platform, If s0, the first prize plank selected is pighly de- Li serving. As written, it will offend no one who pro- © fesses any shade of Republicanism. For partisan pur- ul i > poses the result is letter perfect. . But—it doesn’t mean anything. « At present the Republican Party as a party does * not know where it is bound in the matter of foreign 2 relations. ‘The paragraph quoted expresses’ the fact ») but without wounding any tender susceptibilities. Once adopted, this plank could be interpreted to suit any shade of indorsement or repudiation of inte;- national obligations. *® William Howard Taft could take exception to pe Rothing therein, though he might wish for a stronger, clearer statement. The same would apply to Hiram ~ ** Jalmnson, Senator Lodge, Gen. Leonard Wood, Sen- ‘tor Knox, Senator McCumber, President Lowell, ‘ty Herbert Hoover or William Randolph Hearst, Barring a more positive plank as impossible, this “" would satisfy Sinn Fein and George Sylvester ny Viereck. “Time was,” says the Tribune, “when a national platform was largely planned by one man—a Resolu- tions Committee sat through a few hectic days— hastily revising, rewriting the submitted draft.” Haste sometimes prevented the production of per- fect and sliverless planks, In the short time the plane > might not take off all the rough spots. Possibly no > tired politician could find a word formula sufficiently ®° ambiguous to offend no one, The ‘Tribune offered its services In threshing out a mass of meaningless phrases to arrive at the pre- S cise combination which would sound best and mean oy least. = bo op Fg} s, « ,» WHERE THE PARCEL POST CAN HELP. JD) EPORTS of the volume of business done. by the oe parcel post in the days when express service ©S was disorganized by the outlaw strike are suggestive. ee Dairy products, fruits, vegetables and meat were “rushed to the city in quantities which taxed the re- ** sources of the service. ‘® This was a sudden diversion of dealers’ shipments “4 on quantities which ordinarily come more cheaply by 4* express. But the dealers made a profit after paying the differential, The consumer paid the parcel post © plus a dealer's profit. : Wf the consumer were in touch with the producer 4 ihts profit could have been divided with mutual ¢ oy saving. »» Parcel post service is in new position because of the_ no new cost of living. Middlemen collect a percentage profit for their ©» services. When the first cost is greater their per- centage amounts to a larger absolute sum. On nmany commodities this difference now ue amounts to enough to pay the low parcel post rates __g. im the first and second zones and leave a surplus for Rs "the consumer who buys direct. ei ae WHAT WE OWE THE I. R. T. G RESIDENT HEDLEY’S honorable Pittsburgh P friend who mailed a “conscience fund” check to “make good what your company lost in carrying me about the city” has suggested a means by which regular riders can ease their consciences. The 1. R. T. should erect “conscience booths” at Grandi Central and Times Square so that subway ‘© travellers who feel the obligation nay discharge ib ~ convenientty. Receipis would probably render unmecessary fur- ther announcements “of great interest” relative to Tealty sates. - Straphangers might work out a conventional and The list which follows is merely suggestive and is incomplete: ‘When 4 passenger stands all the way home and so does nat bag his trousers by silting down, he should divide the tailor’s pressing change with the Inter- borough, say 10 cents to himself and 15 to the com- SS pas i te Wiesdet tits cot heen find straps, the consequence that passengers , VIA chest evry sop mt sak, No set rate can be fixed, as the value depends on the benefit to the individual In Increased temper control. Benefits from ‘physical exercise of climbing stairs at stations, 10 cents per day. All shoe dealers and chiropodisis should divide profits resulting from I. R. T. custom of allowing Passengers to stand on éach other’s shoes and corns. Scenic features of trip, a bargain at 1 cent per mile. Educational value of advertising cards, 25 ceniy per thousagd read by passenger. Subway Sun press might prepare convenient blanks for entering accruing conscience debts and sell them at a profit. THE MASTER STROKE, | DISTINGUISHED American jurist, Biihit | Root, will shortly sail for Europe to assist in the creation of a Permanent Court of Internation,’ Justice, the chief purpose of which is to reduce {!: future probability of war. The establishment of such a court was one of the primary aims of a recently formed organization called the League of Nations, of which most Amer!- cans have heard. i BVENING Wo RLD, This League of Nations was the direct result of a war of such magnitude that even subsequent immer- sion in more profitable pursuits has not been able to dismiss it from the minds of ALL the people of the United States, When the conflict was at its worst it seemed worth while to sacrifice thousands of American lives and spend" billions of dollars of American money with the professed aim of strengthening any human plan or agency that might lessen the chance of another such catastrophe. When the immediate danger was over, however, it appeared that the one realizable plan insuring the prompt co-operation of nations chiefly concerned had an insuperable defect: It failed to provide leaders of the Republican Party in the United States, supposing the plan were ac- cepted, with anything that could be turned to Re- publican accourtt in a Presidential campaign. Obviously, therefore, Republican statesmanship had no choice but to demonstrate by every principle and precept of patriotism that a peace programme in formulating which a Democratic President played a leading part could bring only humiliation and ruin upon the Nation. It became the duty of a Republican majority in the United States Senate to persuade the country that reducing the possibility of war is of no pressing mo- ment once the disagreeable necessity of fighting is over, | It was thought the great majority of the American people could be counted on to shrug their shoulders, go about their business and forget the issue until votes were wanted next fall. Meanwhile, if Republican ingenuity were able to Suggest a scheme whereby the United States without assuming any responsibilities might come in for al the benefits of a\peace which other nations had con- tracted to guard—that would be a Republican stroke to delight the Nation and knock the whole Demo- cratic notion of national obligation and honor into a cocked hat. That is the stage at which we have now arrived. Senator Knox has proposed the scheme. The Ser- ate is asked to approve it and let the question of membership in the League of Nations go by the board. hier 3 re MONDAY, MAY ptaene wee What king of a leiter do you in thas gives you the worth of a hundred? Must Pay for To the Lditor of The Evening W: After reading Mr. J’, B.'s letter of April 29, I feel that I will have to tell them a few things that he doesn’t know. | In the first place I am against com- Twenty-eight other nations are already members of the League. They seem to mean business. What- ever they do toward preventing war will be along the line of what we have always said ought to be done and what we have professed ourselves ready to do. If we refuse to do it, now we have the chance, that’s our affair, Later on, if it appears we can get more’ out of the League by going into it, we can always change our minds, Isn't Elihu Root going to help set up this Perma- nent Court of Intemational Justice? Isn’t Eihu Root an Ameriean? ‘That proves they need us as individuals. Present!y> they will need us so much as a Nation that, as Sen- ator Lodge long since pointed out, they will take us on any terms, Professions? Pledges? Sacred duty of ¢o-oper- ative action to safeguard the world’s peace? That was what we SAID. THE DEMAND FOR BOOKS. A publishers are more optimistic than John Murray of London, who recently pre- dicted that book publication would soon cease be- cause of rising costs. American book prices have risen and the publishers expect further increases, but they are optimistic be- cause of the demand for books, Two out of three leading publishers interviewed are hopeful because they are selling more books than ever before, which results in a decrease in the heavy “overhead” on each volume, Mere numbers of books mean little enough, but it is a fact that several recent books of real merit, solid worth and serious subject matter have been listed as best sellers. This in itself will encourage publishers to venture with works just as good as the public will purchase, While press and pulpit find a myriad of reasons for criticism of the present generation, it is encour- aging to find that publishers observe an increasing market for books. A bookish nation is scarce likely to become a wicked and sinful nation, ‘The library is an excellent antidote for the cabaret. pulsory military training as much as any one, but am strong for military training when it comes by the volun- tary eulistment in the Regular Army, which is the only place you can get a thoroughly good military training. The objection that I have to com- Dulsory training is that by it we will be losing another ono of our free rights that we have guined by hard fighting for the past few centuries. Sonera that we have lost enough of them. The thing that we want and need je an army that pays enough money to the enlisted men and officers to be an inducement tagget men of brains to follow up the army game. Think of the Regular Army officers who have® resigned their commissions since the first of 1919, Why did they resign? Simply because they could go back to civilian life and get more money than they could in the army. To get men of brains Jn the army we will have to pay them, and to get en- listed men we will have not only to pay them more money but give them more of an inducement in the way of crafts. A SIX-YEAR REGULAR. New York, May 6, 1920. National Army Records, ‘Te the Biksor af Toe Drening World: Those Regulars are all over this bonus—those supermen who won the war. Mr Bernard Olcott claims “We Regulars licked the ‘Jerrys’ at Cantigny, Solssons, Cha- teau Thierry, San Mihiel and the Argonne.” I wonder what the Na- tional Guard and the National Army were doing in France. The War De- partment figures are: Regular Army Divisions, including Marine Corps, in National Guard, 11; Na- tegulars and Marine Corp easualti 85,840; deaths, 18,043; National Guard casualties, 100,199; deaths, 18,243; National Army casual- tes, 61,480; deaths, 11,920, ‘Those fig- ures speak for themselves, Mr. Olcott. The Regulars are entitled to the bonus; no one ought dispute their claim. But why class the profess!onal soldier with the civilian soldier? Wake up, Mr. Ex-Regular, remember the war brought you fellows an increase of $15 per month in pay. I am for the bonus, NATIONAL GUARDSMAN, 1695 Third Avenue, New York City, May 4, 1920, Net Like Chatr Warming. Bator of ‘Te Brening World: ‘The question, “Where is our patri- otism?" asked oy F, B, in The Eve- ning World, April 29, moves me to un- “het” up action, 6; tional Army | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | | months jd most reudublef Isn’t it the one i thousund words in a couple of i There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to%suy much in jow words. Take time to be brief. — definite as to the present whereabouts MY patriotisin—iet it suffice to, say that whatever goes there has to be dead first, When war was declared, my “patri- otigm’ led me to pay out of my own pocket for a major operation to put me in fit condition to enlist. My patriotism and I survived the opera- tion and I enlisted, The disillusionment has embittered my whole life. In all those long black months, from the day I enlisted till I finally secured my discharge, nine after the armistice’ was signed, never once was I out of sight of the Woolworth Building. I have here in my desk eleven of the re- quests I put in for foreign service— 1 narrowly escaped a court-martial on account of the bitterness of one of them, And now the war is over and I am ‘back in civil life. If I live to be a hundred, I can never look the world squarely in the face without a feel- ing of shame. It wasn't my fault; n> one could have trieg harder than I to do something really worth while, ‘but no one stops to think about that side of the question, Iam ashamed of myself, my record, the uniform I wore, and my citizen- ship in a country that under the mask of democracy aliows the absolute des- potisin of our military organizations to kill the last vestige of patriotism in the hearts of its young men. Patri- otism! Do you wonder that I “sec red” at the mere mention of the thing? MISANTITROPE, Brooklyn, May 5, 1920, Sceptical of Gratitude, To the Kadttar of The Hrewing Work; Why all this ballyhoo about the bonus? Two and one-half years ago when we marched down Fifth Ave- nue with a famous New York regi- ment crowds jammed both gides of the thoroughfare and overflowed far down each side street, Men, women and children crowded each and every window, while thousands clung to perilous positions far up on high buildings, ‘The continued and en- thusiastic cheering tingled our hearts and made us feel proud that we could go forth and fight as their representatives in battle, After two years of fighting in prac- tically every {mportant battle, to the accompaniment of “Jack John- and the ever present cootie, the slimy chalk trenches and wonderful (7) grub, with buddies being “knocked off’ here, there and everywhere, the uttered prayer in one breath and the snarling curse in the next, the groans, &c,, &c—the dirty job was finally finished. To quote fro Gen Persh- |ing’s official report, Finally, the |memory of the unflinching fortitude and heroism of the soldiers of the line fills me with greatest admira- tion. To them I again pay the su- burden my soul on the subject of military organization, The Dvening World is ap eminently [respectable paper, X cann-t be too preme tribute. Their devotion, their sons" machine guns, “whizz bangs," | by valour and their sacrifices will live forever in the hearts of their grate- ful countrymen.” na 9) UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jobn Biske.) KEEP OUT OF THE HUMAN JUNK SHOP. To-day’s hundred dollar suit will be offered for fifteen dollars in the second-hand clothing shop before long. The big shiny motor car that cost a small fortune will end its days working for a vegetable peddler. The new mahogany sideboard that the family has saved so long to buy will some day feed the kitchen fire in the form of kindling wood. Only a few of our purchases escape the junk shop. And second-hand values are very low. Go into any office and you will find many second-hand men working for second-hand pay. I know of one establishment where there are at least five men in subordinate positions who used to be the im- portant executives of the same or of similar establishments. One of them is an assistant bookkeeper. Another is a doorkeeper, They are very valuable lessons—those men—to the other employees in the shop. Merely to look at them, knowing what they used to be, is a warning that ought to keep other men on the upward way. Going down is easy. The descent into the junk shop can be accomplished in a couple of years. Just make a few slips, and you will soon be there. Hard drinking, gambling, late hours, laziness, all will bring you there in time. And of all these perhaps laziness is the most prolific producer of junk shop material. Tt is not pleasant to think that you can be catapulted into this human junk shop so easily, It is distressing to reflect that your wages can be reduced 90 per cent. and your comfort reduced to nothing. But it is salutary. It is worth thinking about. Like the wolf ‘at the door, it keeps a man in a wholesome state of alarm, Whatever your value to-day your value in the junk shop to-morrow will be no greater than that of the man who is now miles below you in brains and achievement. Think that over for a while this morning, and every morn- ing hereafter. It will do much to keep you out of the human junk shop. WAAR RRR ERPPE DDD, ROR N Well, we returned to this grate-| thereby losing one-half billion of dol- ful (?) country, The tirst thing im-| lars per year revenue, and Big Busi- pressed upon us was that somebody|ness is now declaring dividends of had “put over" Prohibition, in which | from 200 per cent. to 400 per cent. We had no voice. Then our grateful (?)| exempt from tax, of course, which is country handed us $60 wherewith to| very nice for Big Business, outfit ourselves and start life prac-| ‘Their attitude, Buddy, of “Hurrah cally anew, while stay-at-homes | for me, to Hades with you, the war is made a minimum of $60 per week,| over,” makes me think wonderingly sufe at home, three thousand miles;of that proposed Zeppelin raid over fram the firing line. GRATWIPUL,| New York, and of just who would be iow come? he loser if the fortune of war had ‘gone the other way. In conclusion Jet me gay that the ex-soldier {s an casy-going cuss, but the puasyfooting, asinine | and Now, when the bonus question is proposed, our grateful (7) country-| men respond with hearts full of enthusiasm—in this manner: The U. S, Chamber of Commerce records | squawking grateful (?) countrymen weainst the bonus, Merchants, Wall|have got his goat. If Congress, Dig Street and Big Business are agrinst| Business, and the country in general it, ‘They ure pulling wires with Con- | knew the feeling of 90 per cent, of the gresemen, crying economy and the|ex-service men they would sit up and orgy of spending that would ensue if! have something real to worry about the bonvs is granted. Orgy? Jump-|As for myself, I would like to state ing catfish! what flacoldity, here in black and white in plain sol- Some 23,000 new millionaires were! dier talk just where they could place made during the war, and innumer- | that “thred cheers thing,” &c, Able thousands made almost as much. ington papers please copy: Recently an obliging reme Court | EX-SERGEANT A, B. F, exempted stock dividende from tax, | New York, May 1, 12% 4 Wash- 4 — Albert Payson Terhune Plas eg A 9 al No. 80—THE TEN-YEAR TEN- ANT, by Sir Walter Besant. Montagu Jekyil was barely in mid- dio age, Yet he had lived for 264, yoars. But for his love for a woman he would still have been a young man. Here is his incredible story: Back in the seventeenth century he had been born—to be exact, in the year 1615, i He was the eldest son of a rich and noble English family. As a mere youth he became interested im the ! | study of ancient magic; especially in} the search for the secret of proiong-" ing life indefinitely. t Jekyll belleved he wished to pro-* long his own life, merely for the pow- | er to study out the best ways of aid- ing humanity. So he associated him- 4 | se with a famed philosopher, who at ; |1ast was induced to teach him the{ secret of living forever, This teacher instructed him in thee mystic art of remaining always at ; | the same age. Every ten years, how- { ever, it was necessary to go through | & certain course of occult treatmen in order to remain at that age fo® , | another ten years. If he should neg- lect this, he would at once grow ten years older, In the mean time, he was immune from disease and from all forms of death save of that by violence, Eagerly, Jekyll learned the secret. ‘Then he set himself to the study of! helping his fellow-men, But he was still young; and in his | veins still burned the fires of youth. And he found it increasingly dificult to fix his mind wholly on his studies. Jekyll was thirty-flve when he en- tered upon his heritage of perpetual ; youth, After many adventures, he. fell deeply in love with an. eighteen- year-old girl, daughter of a clergy- man. It was the one great love of hig long life. “She was gentle and true,” he said | of her, a century later, “her temper , was the sweetest; her face the love- liest. She loved me. Never, ne again, shall I meet any one like he They were married. And for eight gloriously happy years they lived to- gether in perfect happiness. Jeky! forgot his high mission of endless work for humanity, He forgot every- thing except his beautiful girl-wito and their wonderful love for each other. If ever he felt a moment of sorrow it was when he realized that be was practically immortal; and that tn time she must grow old. But she did not grow old. Bight years after thelr marriage she was) stricken with a fever and died. Jekyll was heart-broken. His own , life seemed to him worthless, And when the time came to renew that life's youth, ho let the opportunity slip. For he hoped to die and to re- join his lost wife. : ‘Thus it was that time went on and ; he became a middle aged man, befors he could bring himself to go through the process of renewing his ten-year term of life. ‘ And then it was too late to bosome young again. He had to stay at the age he was when he made the occult renewal. On and on fp lived, until. the last half of the nhieteenth cen- tury. Always he postponed the beginning of the studies which were to benefit / humanity. And as the decades wore , on, he became increasingly fearful of death by violence. i ‘At last such a fate actually over took him. He clipped while crossing ‘ a muddy etreet and was run over and killed by a hearse. News Flashes From Around | The World | ———— | Value of Crops. The value of crops produced fm the United States this year | is nearly three times greater than the average annual value during the five years preceding the outbreak of the Buropean war, according to the report of the Secretary of Agriculture. “On the basis of prices that have recently prevailed,” says the Secretory, “the total value of al crops produced in 19%9 ts $15,878,000,000, compared with $14,222,000,000 for 1918; €13, 419,000,000 for 1917; $9,055,000, 000 for 1916; $6,112,000,000 for 1914; @n@ $5,829,000,000 for the five-yoar average, 1910-1915. ee ° Shipping in Japanese Ports. It ts reported that during the month of September, 1919, 2,424 steam vessels, with a tonnage of 8,565,170 entered Japan through the ports of Yokahama, Kobe, Nagasaki and Moft. Of these 657 were foreign vessels, inctud- ing 55 English and 24 American, In the same month 2,228 ships cleared from these ports having @ tonnage of 2,583,808. Among them were 25 American and 58 British steamers, ee . Manfla Automatic Telephones, The work of installing the new automatic telephone exchunge in Manila is practically com- pleted. The first section of the city to Be served automaticalty will be Binondo and Santa Cruz, the bdusiness district, About 2,000 telephones wilt be equipped with the automatic calling method, and should the aystem prove successful 4t win be extended to the entire city. | _— eet