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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. \ Published Daily Company, Nos. 53 to PULITZER, ae 3 SHAW. 63 Park gosata ? iTZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PueEss, Ampetated Pree ts excinstvety entitled to the se for repubitication (ef i mame Genpatchee credited to It or wot otherwise credited im this pacer (206 Glee the local sows published Berein, THE PRESIDENT'’S STAND. "3, T HERE is no softening influence of spring in the 4 "President's stand on the Peace Treaty and the * eovénant of the League of Nations: H “I think it imperative that the party should ia at once proclaim itself the uncompromising ' ghampton of the Nation's honor and the advo- | ate of everything that the United States can 4s in the service of humanity; that it should therefore indorse and support the Versailles ‘Treaty and eondemn the Lodge reservations az utterly inconsistent with the Nation's honor and destructive of the world leader ship which it had established, and which all the free peoples of the world, including the great powers themselves, had shown them- selves ready to welcome” Democratic Party gatherings, State and National, conference of Democratic delegates at Albany last week, will understand the kind of Democratic Jodg- ‘ng the President condemns. How will this latest expression of the President's , wmyielding demand for the treaty, the whole treaty % “and nothing but the treaty, strike the country at large? Last March, when the Senate vote on ratification was impending, a growing number of thoughtful, patriotic Americans, irrespective of party, had be- ~~ ome convinced that a qualified ratification was bet- ter than no ratification at all. To these Americans it seemed that the best service the United States could do humanity would be 10 ~ put itself promptly into the League of Nations—even “with such concessions to rabid Republican partisan- ip as proved unavoidable onder our constitudgonal of treaty-making.. Other nations party to the proposed contract a readiness to understand the nature and necessity of such reservations as might be required to assure the necessary mumber of votes in the i United States Senate, Once the United States ratified the treaty and be- came a member of the Lgague of Nations, it was felt * that the pressure of public opinion could be counted Republican rancor and jealousy might have scrawled ihto its indorsement of the treaty. ; It was a sad disappointment to these Americas that, the President's obstinate and uncompromising attitude helped to make ratification impossible. The reasons for ratification—even with reserva- tions—are as valid and urgent to-day as they were two months ago. Commerce, business, finance— national interest no less than national honor—are suffering Severely from the failure of the United - States to take its proper place in peace and in’ the League of Nations, But there is to-day this difference: ~ | Partisan opposition to the treaty and the covenant has descended to levels lower’ than those of last March, \ The United States Senate is now urged to make a separate peace with Germany and to treat the League of Nations as an extraneous experiment from which this Nation will find it shrewd policy to extract the benefits withgut incurring the risks of partnership Against this.shameless proposal a new stiffening of national conscience is imperative.: 1 The stiffening impulse can come from no one ‘more properly than from the President. The country has seen more than one moment in the treaty wrangle when a conciliatory tone from the White House might have made ratification possible. “+ it may see such moments again. At a moment, however, like the present, when treaty wreckers are trying to bend the Senate to a yet more flagrant course of national faithlessness and self-seeking, it is better the President of the United States should bend backward than that he . should seem in any way to encourage so deplorable a slump from national iniegrily and uprighiness, A STRONG SOCIALIST CANDIDATE. UGENE V. DEBS is probably the best choice of a Presidential candidate the Socialist Party could make. ace eS certain ‘to stay in prison would be apt to poll a farger vote than any Socialist outside a cell, Socialist strength has always come largely from the “protest vote” AGAINST the other parties and not FOR Socialism. Many of those who protest will feel safer in vot- ing for Debs, who cannot possibly hold the office, than for one who might conceivably be elected. With the allegation of the Socialist orators in regard to the sad state of the old parties The Eve- ning World fs in general agreement. In fact, It Is willing to go,even further. The distinction between an Old-Guard-ridden Re- publican: Party and a Tammany-dominated of Bour- bon Democratic Party on the one hand, and the even more” boss-ridden and autocratically managed’ Socialist Party on the other, is nferely one of degree. Of the three, the Socialist Party is worst by a comfortable margin. Probable Socialist gains thls year may tend to purify and uplift one or the other of the old parties, Nothing in sight now promises to make the Socialist Party more savory, reputable or worthy of support. A CHANCE FOR MEXICO. HETHER Carranza Is or {s not a prisoner in the hands of the Mexican revolutionists, his political power is at an end. There is ground for hope that with him may go a policy of reaction, narrowness and inveterate mistrust of the motives of the United States which has been the worst influence south of the Rio Grande. To maintain that the revolutionist leaders who have broken the Carranza grip on the coming Mexi- can elections are all men with enlightened views as to foreign relations and with a specigl friendliness toward the United States would be to claim that Mexican militarist instinct has completely changed | over night. | Nevertheless, there have been welcome signs that eed Roe AAA EP SARS PEL Ae POR ‘ee re GMAT AR? 0 A oy hy? the Mexican Generals who have freed the July elec- tions from Carranza dictation are for the most part | in favor of a reconstructive movement that shall | avoid bloodshed, keep to constitutional methods and improve rather than damage the standing of Mexico*among other nations. | The downfall of Carranza clears the way for a long step toward liberalism in @ government where liberalism has been: sorely needed, The people of the United States will watch with deep interest the course of readjustment in Mexico. Every Mexican element that stands for educa- tion, progress and a higher place for Mexico in the esteem of the world should try to make itself caunt heavily in the election results. AN EDITORIAL FROM THE HEART. HIS letter, written in a cramped schoolboy hand, tells its own story. It has an appeal more direct and moving than the most learned study of urban congestion. | The Evening World reproduces it, without cor- rections, and indorses the sentiment whole-heart- edly: * To the ‘Editor of The Evening World: This Cily of New York is rot Jair to its young. citizens. The other cay I and some of my friends went to a park to play ball. We went toa place where there was no grass or any people walking there, yet a policeman chased us away. We then went in the street and played with a soft ball and again we were chased by a policeman, T hope Mayor Hylan would make parks or something tor boys to play bell in. A YOUNG CITIZEN. TRIBUNE-BUILT. | HE prize sample platform compiled by three editors of the Tribune is of more than passing interest, because it seems to parallel the effort whith Chairman Hays of the Repyblican National Com- mittee is making. Chairman Hays has appointed a frequently ex- panded Platform Advisory Committee to enlist the best talent of the party in platform-building, in draft ing planks, in answering questions, The Tribune threw the field wide open, Any one could contribute. But the platform as accepted was not a cross-section of public opinion. It was not an average between the extreme views. The platform was made up to suit the idéas of the Tribune editors. Popular “voting” on the planks to be included referred merely to the titles of the planks. The a'l- important subject matter of th inks remained in the hands of the three judges chosen from the edi- torial board of the Trib) Even so, it was finally found necessary to include additional planks. The “vote” omitted a protective-tariff plank, without which no platform could be recognized as Repub- lican, The Tribune platform is not a popular platform. li is a Tribune platform. The wor side the Tribune office. by the Tribune, Here, on a small scale, is what is to be anticipate 1 at Chicago. This plank and that plank may be accepted as 2 pl. ie pl came from oui The sentiment was decid 2d As a candidate in prison he will have a stronger than any member of the party outside of in fact, any Socialist candidate reasonably esteramen recat. 4 written by this progressive or {} tand-patter, but the instrument as a whole will be the voice and | travellung having reasonable hours and wages Get Back in the Road! ty The Treat tales Ca (The New York Evening World) By J. H. Cassel What kind of a letter do you fi that gives you the worth of a hundred? There is fine mental exercise « to say much in few words. Take _ _ To Help the LR. T. To the Editor of The Evening World: I agree with Bronx regarding the important announcement to the pub- lic in the “L and Subway Extras.” I thought that it would announce that the stealing slot machines were to be, chopped up and thrown in the river, and the pennies that were stol- en from éthe public would be given to the orphans, but I was mistoken. [am sure that the people of this lit- Ue town ought'to feel very sorry for them, They have to sell their property to pay their debts. How about the poor people? They have to starve to pay theirs. . About half the comfort stations are out of order because they are too poor to hire men to repair them, If the workers who ride in their cars would volunteer ‘to clean the windows at |night or Sunday/ see how much the FE public would save for them. With this saving in repairing and cleaning the money could help to pay some of their de « ALSO FROM THE BRONX, Our Leader. ‘To the Editor of Phe Fvening World I have just been looking at one of the world masterpieces, the picture of “Christ before Pilate.” In that picture the people looking for a leader refused to be led by the’ one, the only one able to de It seems the same to me now..P a leader now, again refuse to be led by the only human being capable of it. leading’ them—our own President, | Woodrow Whison. A CITIZEN 1920. Astoria, May 10, Shave to % To the Editor of The Evening Worl As my hair 1s falling out at a fast rate I am thinking of shaving my head with the hopes of eaving what remains. Perhaps some of your seaders will be kind enoug! to state their experiences in @ Any advice will be ap prec y tt WORLDITE, New York, May 10, 1920 ‘The Traction Crista, community for the benefit of the car out companies who are money, honestly if they but make it anyhow, we are dev 1» phase iserism inimical to government and by the people, car companies fight thelr em ployees when the peace of the com- munity as well as the safety of the public depends on to enough to meet the ¢ creasing cost of living, and then general’ contempt of the people com pels them to look to the ¢ to see their rights are pre The citizens of this city should nstantly in oted. sentiment of the Old Guard, as in previous epn- stand by Mayor Hylan in his demand that the 5-cent fare cluuse in thei; contract be o! ple looking for | commictely | To the Faitor of The Evening World rmy of $0,000 men When one con- The Richmond traction erisis pre- Me RECA ED ME Beek MOU Rents a Coneien Eye Nor will th rdians of thi. missioner, In theory rep 4 al be retained on foreign duty ‘ ; ser thi will t iB Aslive. public but actually the traction in. |# nae on Rit lM py A deliver teregts, can raise fares and tax the their nd most readable? Isn't’ it the one thouasnd words in a coupie of and @ lot of satisfaction in tring time to be brief. | compantes will not meet their obliga- tion then let the duly elected city officials take charge and run the cars to accommodate the people and tax the land values to meet the expense, instead of robbing the working men, women and children to further enrich the too highly: paid officials whose management of public affairs has dis- graced this city and bidg fair to make the metropolis a third rate munici- pall , _ ALEXANDER LAW. 252 West 37th Street, May 10, 1920. | The Navy Club. | ‘To the Exiitor of Thp Brening World | | The recent activity on the part of New York people to raise funds for the Navy Club prompts me to ask a question or two, | | Why shouldn't an ex-Navy man be! Jallowed to enter the building at 13| Gast 41st Street without a member- | Up ticke ur ay, nt to the club (for the first time in| when the fleet came in, I ie my life) and started to look for my friends, und I noticed that ‘I was watched pretty closely by re |lian, who Anatly approached me and gave me to understand, politely but round | { forcibly, that I wasn’t wanted unless 1 hi 1a membership pin of course I think a lot of the » und I may join it a later date, I think that but they should be a |little more Gordial tow the ex- | gobs as well as those in service now. | AN -GOB. | Gane for Armenia. pventiig World ’ h men as ex-Am- und Rabbi Wise ai |so hear d with the movi }ment.to urge an acceptanc of t mandate over Afmenta by th Jnited States should be heartenin h who advocate this move, tem, which appeared in The Evening World on May 3 gives but a ske' outline of the proposed humanitar sm which will en our martyred ally to regain her fee no serlous ob- \pmenia gun) nd ammunition sufficlent to equip an Ital and into the hands of the recog authorities there. hich shall it be—deliverance of the Armenians by America or delivery of Armenia to the Turk? It NALD DOUGLA Street, May 114 Kast Pick Live Chicken, To the Editor of The Evening World Why does the law allow men to piek the feathers off a live chicken? n| To-day I saw, ata chicken station on -|Park Avenue, four men pick a chicken while it was alive and by the time they were through the ebicken 4| was almost dead, then they cut it 4| across ;the mouth to finish it, Isn't r there some lav that will prohibit inhuman treatment? it should 1 oa > —~ \ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) { THE LITTLE DIFFERENCES COUNT. In this world there are more than a billion and a half people, most of them 80 per cent. or more like you. They have eyes and ears and arms and legs. They need the same kind of food, and take the same kind of methods to get it. They love and hate, and fight and quarrel, and laugh and cry. They marry and have children, They see the same sky and the same sun and the same moon and stars. They are subject to heat and cold and pain and sorrow. What chance have you got to rise above that deac'y average? , ; A very excellent chance indeed. For 20 per cent. of you is unlike that of the rest of humanity, and that 20 per cent. is in your brain. The head of Darwin and the head of the man who made his shoes were not so greatly‘ different—OUTSIDE. But they were tremendously different—INSIDE.., It is the difference between you and the rest of the world that will lift you above the avérage— ‘ou are to be lifted at all. If the difference is in your favor, ft will count. And_ it need not be a great difference. If you work while the average man loafs, you will sur- pass him. If you think while his brain is idle, you will sur- pass him veay rapidly, The disposition of most people to loaf, to idle, to cul- tivate bad habits, is in your favor. If you do none of these things you cannot help stand out as an unusual man or woman, If in addition you consciously try to do better in all things than the-average, you will succeed in doing so. Remember that out of that fifteen hundred million there are only a few who will be your active opponents. Those few will gi ou real competition, but competition is the food that success is made of. Be better than the average. Similar as you are to most men on the outside of your head, try to be different inside of your head. It will not be easy, but it will be worth doing. not be allowed. , Your paper seems to do more for the care and attention of/ and customs id dumb animals than any other ands American people perhaps can see that this condition| We are getting lonesome in poll will stop, M. XIOUS. Wew York, May 6, 1 money to Germanize the polities langui of |fecept Senator | tion to ‘don't quit, Wadsworth's iny ne back--if he does. Please Mr, rman Brewer, be in New York City, "Al" ed him so well on ac-| a at he did when he was) running them, We thought it was so fine. of him when the Food Act vfore Congress for saving sugar and grain to have Mr. Penrose step forward on his behalf, as he always dovs, and threaten “by filibuster to| prevent the adoption of any food act at all unless we let him continue to use the Migar and tte grain to nmke beer We liked him because of th delightful saloons he owned and op- erated in ull our cities, They were | stitution by nullifying it, such a help to the pegple. We liked| vide us with beer; it him because he comBined wth the| noble Germans of us all Kaiser's organization in the” Unites ARTHUR JACKSON States America and Now York, May 10, 1917, times that he wants a upon you. over to you two of dollars which he people are now but we would be out to you, We like you because you are patri otically endeavoring “to of paper” of the United Yes without him and we hope he will cause if yu do it is just going to break up the Tammany orginization wants you back even though he has said a dozen referendum We are anxiously waiting to turn nd one-half billions spending for the necessaries of life and saving the surplus in our banks, willing to shell it makes such | Chart of Shelis . A Souvenir of R. L. Stevenson ‘|South Sea Relic a Valuable Addition to Museu Curios. SEA-CHART made of sticks A and shells forms one of the curious exhibits to be seen in the South Sea island Mall of thy Anferitan Museum of Natural Ifis- tory, They were formerly uscd os guldes by the skilful and daring navigators of the Marshall Islands, Additional interest is lent to tho chart in that it Is the gift of Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1890, the same year in which he began tho four years’ residence in Samoa which was to mako up tho last chapter of hig Ufe, Stevenson voyaged in the steamer Janet Nichol among t!» Istands of the South Seas. Mrs. Stev- venson and her son, Lloyd, accoi- panied him. In her “Cruise of thr Janet Nichol,” published in 1914, si makes reference to the charts of the natives as follows: “These charts are very curlouy things indeed, made of sticks, som curved, some straight, caught bei» and there by a small yellow cowry |The cowrles represent islands, th |stioks both currents and winds and days’ sailings, The distances between the islands have nothing to do wit) |uilles, but with hours only. Thos jcharts are very little used now, on one old chief knowing how to maj them, bit the time was when young chief must pass his exami tion in the charts, knowing them jheart, as they were never taken f sea But kept at home for referenc | and continual study.” f | In spite of many differences of |opinion regarding the correct inter station of the charts it is generally ved that the cowry shells rep | resent islands, Mr. Hall of the Uni of Pennsylvania Museum ation of the sticks is thu nt currents, as Mrs a moro accurate in terpretation would be far more in volved, owing to the procession from the four quarters of the sta of four distinct se! the seo }san of ne The, bi | havior of clbsely servations wern |{ncorporated in the charts. | Mr. Hall says that tt has beer stated on good authority that every chief had his own system for. pri {paring charts and this system was kept a close secret. He > pre sents the theory that the charts wern the outcome of visits of white men to | the islands, The savages had seen the charts and diagrams used by the white sailors in making their wav | over the waters, and being unable to draw charts with pen or pencil they Gevised guides of sticks and shells Through elaboration these became too large to be conveniently taken into the canoes for the voyages. Se they were studied at home, unt) | learned by heart, by those who werr |the chiefs and leaders of the fleets Rr. cwiag to the limitation of their | preparation and u to a small and privileged class, they became symbols lot secret knowledge and of power | and were invested with a glamor of mystery Which still remains, For the Marshal! Islanders, quick in a | things pertaining to se anship, | have learaed to use the mat: bmethods of the white man their small vessels, built on | models, are guided by }and other devices of the FE j And daun ropeans. the day has passed when the tless natives setting seaward in | open canoes, undertook jong voyage» | guided only by one man’s memory 0: |‘. strange chart of sticks and stones fut visiting the Museum and looking on such a primitive chart, one ts filled with a sense of admiration ana of awe at the spirit and the confi dence of the Marshall Island navisa- tors of a few generations ugo. —<—_——_— Our Diet Changing. HETHER !t is becnuse of the changed, decause people'a tastey have the fact remains that Americans are eating eight per cent less than they were twenty ‘This is disclosed in at urvey made by meat § ago dietary cen United States Department of Agric ture, in this survey 2,000 dietary records each covering a period of seven days » collected from 1,425 familie institutions in forty-six later Sixteen nationalities and many occu pations and incomes were represent ed, as were also both urban andrural ) lities, om a summary of 600 of these family records it appears that lust year the average c of food per man per day was 46 cents, with an urn in food value of 3,225 figures are the dietary used in diseussif'g such problems as general nutrition, A comparison of the foodstufts | aurchased by the $00 families with the 8 Phese cord ordi Amounts of the same food purchased |py 400 families about twenty years ago shows that the amount of meat A an dict decreased about 8 per cent, and the products about 1 People are eating more and cheese than they were two dec for the amount of dair: < hos inere r per cent m | vegetable nt more f Ws being eaten now WHAT ACCIDENTS COST IN DUSTRY, | There are 2,000,000 industrial. acct- dents in the United States annual, | Each of more than 700,000 industrial workers loses more than four weeks 3 y a result of industria accidents. There are at least 22,500 industrial deaths annually in this count id our industries turn ou each ¥ from 15,000, workinen sufferin permanent disability, — Th figures are given to the Journal of t American Medical Associate M. 1 of the Safety Ins' a, New York, The tes Bureau of Labe 000,000 days" 4 year by the 50,000,000 works country om account of