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ne See Ona President, R 7 c selene sa Fu beoremer, peck | money or that there is reason to expect that such a CURR ING ! Go ONG Wee STAND BY Ket Ske oct Passed yd F oriey fie to believe that income will Bo A.unice rete REGULAR Oe continue to increase and that operation expenses are byte 9! VACATION SPoRT, as X Bye shadow of another swiftly oncoming cloud | « With the guns of the Russian Red armies al- | | ‘BY JOsrPH PULITZER. Sunday by thé Press Publishing TF eea. a0 te 63 Pare Row, New York. TOO LATE TO AVERT IT? | begins. to darken the world. ready battering the forts of Warsa®, with the Soviet Government refusing Allied proposals for a truce, it becomes apparent that Lenine and Trotzky mean to secure the full measure of prestige that military success can win for them. And what then? ‘ If the Reds take Warsaw, will Lenine use his advantage to lessen the hostility of other nations Or has the Russian Revolution, like the French Revolution before it, entered upon the phase jin which ambition for world conquest ‘is already gne of its'strongest motive forces and in which its leaders are already dreaming Napoleonic dreams? Suppose the victories of the Russian armies inflame the fanatic spirit of the Communist Party in Russia to undertake what has always been the latent aim of afl Communist movements—the im- position” of Communism upon every nation and people that can be reached by force or fear. Suppose restléss elements in Germany, who are only too ready to seize any pretext for repudiating the heavy obligations laid upon Germany by the Treaty wf Versailles, are encouraged by Russian successes in the field to ally themselves with Soviet : ; ; THAT CAN ITOUCH YOU FOR “SV ONY TWENTY THOUSAND. Russia against the nations that are exacting justice | and he will maintain that this is the one thing he is PROSPEROUS] [TEN THOUSAND FoR Sk bee rg CUMiieee “1 be soba wea _, | demanding, LOOKING MAN] INS’ PET KITTENS . OROE nce ar tdi ea A hab Judge Baldwin, former Governor of Connecticut, HARITYD ¢rafiily prepared to use the zeal and force of the Communists to dismay the Allies—in the belief that in authority-ridden Germany, Communism could be choked to death when it had served the Junker purpose. \ “Bolshevism is internally aristocratic and ex- ternally militant.” This striking phrase from Bertrand Russell's first- hand report on conditions’ in Soviet’ Russia printed in The World yesterday is full of significance. It reveals the sinister possibilities of at least a temporary alliance between Soviet Russia and what is left of Prussian militarism. *Russia’s millions of man-power directed by sav- agely revengeful remnants of the German military regime! A dire combination—against which neither Allied nor American statesmanship has taken due precau- | cut from the old 20 per cent. level. expensés and the relation of this sum to the total income. It is admitted that Interborough profits have been It has not been demonstrated that the corporation is actually losing now near the peak. If income has lagged for the | last year or so there is reason to believe that it will overtake and pass expense within a short time. | Until the Inferborough is prepared to demonstrate thal the five-cent fare is inadequate and will con- | tinue inadequate the public rightly refuses to be | moved by the I. R. T, whine. | ' GO TO THE SOURCE. BCLARING for the League of Nations in downright terms that only the dishonest can pretend to misunderstand, Gov. Cox says: “We hear it said that interpretations are un- feel that in signing the treaty there should be no menta] reservations that are not expressed in plain words, as a matter of good faith to our =| associates.” Reduced to. lowest terms, what is it that every honest reservationist is seeking? What is it that even the most rabidly partisan teservationists have professed to seek? To safeguard the Constitution of the United States and the processes to which the Government | of the United States must, under its Constitution, | adhere whenever it becomes a question of using the | armed forces of the Nation against another powér or | people, ! Get almost any reservationist down to brass tacks said recently regarding reservations: “The main one is to make it clear that no obli- gations, legal or moral, exist which would force our Government into war without due action by Congress. “Theoretically, foreign nations are bound to | take notice of the terms and effect of the Con- stitution of the United States. Practically, the mass of their people do not know about our Constitution except that we are a Republic.” Goy, Cox speaks from much the same point of view when he says that in order to reassure many Americans and to act on the level toward nations who will be our associates in the League, it may be | wise to put implied reservations into plain words. As available tor the purpose, consider the fol- | | \ ! ae ‘ ma , necessary. That may be true, but they will at | HAVE ABARREL by some great act of magnanimity toward the Poles least be reassuring to many of our citizens who OF OU ER ANONY HUSBAND HUSR END Y€s, HE OWNS A PowDERED SUGAR MINE IN CUBA IS RICH Too 2 | || FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | UNCOMMON § SENSE By John Blake 20, by Joka Blake.) DRESS YOUR OWN SHOW WINDOW. If you have something worth selling, let people see it. It may be merchandise—it may be talent—it may be tion or prepared adequate defense, lowing: ' The Congress shall have power | that gives you.the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ped TSEL F THE L To declare war * . * There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying 5 GIVING I LIE. i . Te raiend t p ass to say much tna few words. Take time to be brief. HE opening words of the New York Tribune's 7 begat Saal villa é | chief political news report on its first page @ provide and maintain a navy. Im Praine of the Hal h, cal talks and practical demonstrations, | | Te the Buitur of The Brening World : the difr betw. 1 : } v Sunday, Aug. 8, 1920: . : : To make rules for the government and reg- | 1 am ao girl 20 abate cuss but Til/ and right. At least in ao far as morel|% ability—it may be pla’ industry. DAYTON, 0., Aug. 7.--In the event of his election, ratification of the Treaty of Versailles would be the, first duty of his administration, Gov. James M. Cox declared today in accepting the Democratic nomfnation for President. The first words of the Tribune's leading editorial the same day: _ Those who expected Gov. Cox to speak out concerning the League cherished a vain hope. His three<column contribution does not contain a single plain and unequivocal declaration. So what the Tribune offers its readers for truth in its most conspicuous news column it brands as a lie on_its editorial page. BOLT AND BE BLESSED. ulation of the land and naoval forces. admit that 1 get put across my| © These words are from the Constitution of the |™other's knee and get a good, old | United States, Article 1, Section 8, / presents the essential facts any more convincingly? | The need is to render clear what the United States, when it comes to joining other nations in war, can or cannot do under its Constitution, For this purpose, we are told, plain words miist be sought. Then why not go to the source for them? HIGH FARES CHECK OCEAN TRAVEL. | Spanking when [ am wild. used to being spanked that I meee ime y ionist js | mind it and sometimes I think it is| Quotation tn my letter. Has any reservationisi proposed a paraphrase that Pee) | |brush to me? time of your young ives when you | miss a spanking. 1 believe we should | wet a good old-fashioned spanking cach night before retiring. = sion. the better I Ike it, sorry when spanking days are over,| spankings often. Tam so; What le & spanking with a bair-| Girls, you miss the) Many mothers who should have | ven thelr daughters’ more spank- ings are now paying for the omis-| So the harder 1 get spanked and 1 will be We wild girls should get our The more spank- Wrongs and rights are understood by a half-civilized world. “And to-day she is a @redit to the | man who is to marry her.” I'm almost ashamed to inciude the Comment ts nearly superfluous. How long since} has it been that we held the view that @ daughter was a “credit” to the man who is to marry her. I have yet to see the man who was a “credit” to! ‘his wife. Poor daughter of J. F. ¥. and poor daughters of all the J. F. F. Brought up to consider themseives t handmaiden of some man—holding their beauty and virtue—just to be a | “eredit’ to a man, and worse yet— forced by physica! coercion. F. W. FALKENBURG 1920, ¢ ——— What hind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one Aug. 5, Flivvertzed Gotham. To the ilitor of The Brening World: After noting the painful effort of 2 Whatever it is, it will not be purchased till it has been exhibited. . You must display your wares intelligently dow dressers need brains—and experience. Your window dressing is very infportant. Don't do it ia @ hurry. Study the art of doing it. It may take you years to learn to conyince others that you have brains that are worth a good price in the brain market. But what of tha Once you have them convinced you can get what your brains are worth, and that is all anybody ca expect. If you know you can do anything well, say so. than that, LOOK AS IF YOU COULD DO IT. A genius who can weite a great novel or play superbly on the violin doesn’t need a good appearance. His show window is his novel or his music. i But if you have merely ability to sell, you must look like a man who has ability, You must dress well and care- Show win- More ¢ ARLY in the spring the trans-Atlantic passenger ‘ings we receive the better it is for |'one of the new taxis operated by the lines were flooded with applications for pas- | us. When my mothet says, “Come | 66D EED May Bolt on League Issue,” says a City of New York to get started a: headline. fully. You must look prosperous. The shabby man is heavily handicapped in seeking a With "ee ium of * sponse. “Bolt and Be Blessed,” is thé second and more soundly reasoned sentiment. Democracy does not aspire to lave a Hiram Johnson, Gov. Cox made no bid for the sort of ‘harmony which would encourage Senator Reed to “stigk.” With Reed out there will be just so much more toom in the party for the sort of Independent Pro- gressives for whose support Gov. Cox is calling. ‘the higher fate propaganda put out by the 1. R. T. The higher cost of coal, increased wages, higher taxes,.the new level of construction costs are construction cost more, edge. That is common knowl- Passenger rates were jacked up to fit the demand. The raise amounted to 50 per cent. on several Classes of tickets. Now the same,lines complain that they are not doing enough business to pay Higher fares are not the only deterrent to travel, but who can doubl that the greed of the steamer owners has had its influence on checking European visitors? Who will sympathize with the owners who cannot keep their ships filled because they ask a prohibitive price for the service? | | | The increased price would be a | greater deterrent to those whp do not have much money to spend for the trip to the “old country.” | plan gf work written out with full directions for fear. | you may be held responsible for what you have not done’ |boundary line between the atates of | indignation and amusement know a good, old-fashioned spanking is for my own good. Wake up, mothers you think we need it. MAY OF WEPHAWKEN Aug. 6, 1920. hays | Spank us if A Credit to a Man. | T the Bitar of The Brening World After reading the letter’ by you correspondent “J... F." entitled “Spankings” 1 found myself on the When a child és in*that age when its faculties for logical thought have not reached their working stage may be wise to administer a punieh- impression-—t find, unfortunately, that 1 must slap his Uttle hands But, ob, the folly of “J. F F who by the City of New York. The driver of this particular car | succeeded, after taking up ten min- utes of the official passenger's timo, n starting the stubborn motor (wicit the usual filvver clatter and rattle), | not aware that the two rear tires were | in bad need of inflation. | I notice from newspaper accounts that at the time Mayor Hylan re- viewed the taxi Ineup from the steps of the City Hall, two of the taxis gave an excellent interpretation of "Maude" the mufe, |. €., refused ments, Why pick on the pride of so vast a metropolis is more than I can account for, It would certainly be a pretty picture to have our worthy | while crying tor economy, I am sure | would much rather behold their pub- lic servants conveyed to and fro in4 3 i > 7 ” T-cannot re- sage. Evi _ it see wa . | here, May, and bring the hairbrush," | the Municipal Building, ne a4 A : eat ant Be Toatir pl Ne: tie ature! iret: Te: net eryone, it seemed, wanted to go to Eu: [it 1s @ happy mpment for me. ‘The! frain trom expressing my views of position, He will be judged ¢ . pe. | more. L get thé better I feel, for 1| the recent vehicular acquis'tion made out a good appearance he will Learn to talk clearly and and profanity. Talk like an those to whom you want to pressed. to get on a bargaiaing ba: w it will get a better price even Learn a lesson from prov: that attractive packages sell to make their yalue known. If they are.not impressed you will never be able “Dress your show window intelligeatly und carefully. Devote time and thought to the jub. you have something worth a high price for the market, method of packing them in bulk and trusting to their merits irst by nis appearance. probably never get a hearing. convincingly. Eliminate slang intelligent, educated man, and sell your brains will be im- ith them. Tt will repax you d for ordinary goods. * ision packers, who have found goods far faster than the old of its government now turn M. PET¥R COLUCCT. No, 1736 Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, Aug. 6, 1920. Fess i 4 4 ting . . mee ae e poten jment that appeais to the physica!|city officials escort the various for- Parking Cars, stressed from time to time. The inadequacy of the WORK THAT TALLIES WITH THE PLAN, element, 1 could argue ail day with}eign commissions and dignitaries in | Te ivtor of Tue Ewing Worls five-cent fare is always with us. Rea Crom, the Hi Netoe Chronicle.) my two-year-old, aon not to tovoh| black and red fllvvers 1 would like to make @ suggestion Are you on . 9 u : We need no proof that wages, coal, taxes and y never’ want & | ny ooks, and, eave absolutely no| ‘The people of the City of New York| ich I think, if carried out, would stop the thefts of aytomobiles. I notice as | travel about the streets of the city hundreds of unattended au- Inadequacy of the five-cent fare is the one thing When you have @ piece of work to do, It ought to be jsays he used the hairbrush on his|ine execution of their duties in a tomobiles We og te Sons buid- aes ‘ your principle to make it aB nearly perfect as daughter till she was twenty years of tahlaica: ‘The |8#. OWned no doubt by business men the 1, R. T. does not try to prove in concrete form ine F Dom | uge What right has JF, [mone yer tems. Geapansanle: ,car, “| who leave their cars in front of their and with detinite figures. This is the one statement which mos| needs proof from actual! operation tigures. Expenses have grown. Granted. But so, too, has income. More passengers ride each month. The justice of a higher fare does not rest on any, It depends on the total of all sible Of course, this can not be done without concentra- tion, dif you care more about looking out of the window, flay dreaming or talking—chattering about last night's dance or the peach of a girl you saw just before you came in—you can not concentrate and pro. duce work which \s perfect, And then you wonder why your worth is not recog- nized, or any one else for that matter, to use physi- cal foree to punish a son or daughter for misdeeds? Is he still 60 far steeped in superstition that — he clings to the fool idea that a ehiid ts responsible to the parents? Did ou enildren ask to be born or were che | cost“would be trivial when compared with the service rendered by @ car | of a better make, and cost of opera- tion no higher, at the same time as- wuring the city decent transportation. jor its many officials, The many de- (for \the Most part) mere accidents? 1am inclined to believe thar the latter is true in 99 cases out of every 100. And. because this 18 the case, it is the duty of the parents to teach, by logi- partments of the City of New York ‘have time and again expressed pride when the topic of equipment was places of business. ‘The parking of cars, except in locations set aside by the Police Department, 1 have been inférmed, is a violation of an ordi- pance, for which a sdmmons is served and upon conviction very often a fine imposed. Allowing unattended cars to remain in the street is an invita tion to an auto thief, and no matter touened; ‘but New Yorkera at lanito can blush at the manner the whole | ec aearentageeammmmmmmaan te eee ba what kind of @ lock is used, the car js stolen, and afier @ while the insur- } . ance is collected and a new car re- places the old one. tlons no alarm is felt by the loser of a stolen car. I really believe the thett of an automobile ix sometimes wei- comed. 1 believe if the following is carried out it will prevent losses of autos: I would suggest that the Police be more alert and serve more summonses to owners of cars who leave them in the street unattended; that the insur- ance companies be | notified whe, summonses are served and the cour Gisposition; in the first case a warn. ing to the insured by the insurance company to the effect that should the insured be served with a summong the second time the snsurance will be can- celled and not reissued on said auto. ” THE I. R, T. WHINE. i a It is pitiful to read of the doings o¢! to budge. . ‘$ ; “ Ra ah Enola Did aad The lack of patronage, it is reporied, is most pro- | person who, although probably! It is all very well and good for | $errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerereerrenr , 6s“ FIVE-CENT tare is no longer adequate,” nounced in the third class or steerage classification.~ | ¢therwise learned, hax no reasoning| Commissioner Whalen to Introduce This is the note constantly reiterated in This is natural. ; | powers. efficiency in some of the city. depart- | were to get together on this propost- tlon there would be few losers, as the owners of cars would be more careful and see that thetr cars would be un- der observation at all times, or they would pub them in the city's parking UFFEUR, paces. ac New York, July 24, 19) 2 |ger’s heart at the well (but we may be confident that “as ghe sunflower turns to its god when e sets the same look that it gave |when he rose,” Moses remained. to the very end faithful to his first » From my obserya- | 1 think If all the insurance companies ':, The Love Stories of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory tie en YockRcelne World). | No. 4.— Moses and Jethro’@ Daughter. OSES, the Abrapam Lincon off Jewish history, who freed Ise rael from the Egyptian bonds age and put tiem in the way of bee coming a great people, was a starte ling combination of oak and P strength and tenderness, logic sentiment, * ‘The oak in Moses is shown tn thé way he treated the proud, tyrannical [j Egyptian he saw in the act of putting | | the lash on the bare, quivering shoul- J} ders of @ Jewish slave. That slave ‘was Moses's countryman, and in hot indignation he killed the man whe was degrading him. ‘ And now tor the vine, as seen tm, the story told in Exodus, 3 “ And when Pharaoh heard this thing |(the slaying of his official), he sought | to slay Moses. But Moses fled from | the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well, Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came ands drew water and filled the troughs te water thelr father’s flock, And the sheplierds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock, And when, they came to their father he said, “How is it ye are come so soon to-day?" “And they eald, “An Egyp- tian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover, he drew water for us and watered the flock. |And he said urfto ts daughters, “Ang where is he? Why is It that ve have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter. And’ |@he bare him a son, and he called his |name Gershom, for he sald, “I bave; |been a sojourner in a strange land.” Very ‘beautiful was the strong |man's chivalry as depicted in the |story, but the episode did not end |there. Among the seven maidene by, the well was one whose beauty had enthralied the strong man’s heart, and when offered a reward by the father |for his gallantry to his daughters, Qroses said, “Give me Zipporah.” Moses spent what may be called hig jhoneymoon in Midian, acting as the |keeper of his father-in-law’s sheep, jand we may be sure that as ie | watched his flock by night under the loig bright stars of those cloudless jeavens he had by his side his ‘be« |loved Zipporah ae assistant im big | vigils, It was indeed an idyllic extetence jand should have lasted forever! But |the stars up to which Moses looked there in the desert were about to call him to wider fields and a larger des- tiny. While watching over his flock one day at the buse of Horeb, the Eternal called him to the task of de- livering Israel from the Bgyptian bondage, and he did the work as oriy a great man couhl. It was one of the heaviest jobs that man ever had to do, but {t was done with compieteness. But midst the excitement and re- sponsibility of his great-task, Moses did not forget his Zipporah.. “And foses took his wife and his sona nd set them upon an Rss, and returned to the land of EB Later on, after the Red Sea had been crossed and Moses and hie people were well into the wilderness, Jethro overtook him, doubtless b; Moses's orders, “And he said un Moses, 1, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife and |her two sons with her. .And Moses ‘went out to meet his father-in-law, | land did obeisance, and kissed him.” |We may be sure that there were other kisses—for Zipporah and her | sons, This is the lag@t glimpse we bave of the maiden who smote the stran- in Midian, love, THE MESSAGES. From Marton, Ohio. “Lafayette,” the note falsetto goes aa quiver®#g through the spaces— “We have quit! |We're convinced of our firat duty to ourselves, to save our faces, So we fit. You will understand that promises we made while in the fighting, Over there, In the atress of party strategies and plans, ideals blighting, Cannot wear. Once we shook the handy of knightey hood, bound to savv an Old World quaking | | | | | In the toils, : Now we face a great enlightening, and | it’s honor, that we're shaking | For the spoils.” | From Dayton, Ohio, “Lafayette’—the word goes ringing over earth and over ocean— | “tit we're nere? And the faith we pledged in blood, within our hour of tense devotion, | Hold we dear. Party spile, that held ihe Senate haft and blocked the full fruition | Of world peace, Finds against it all the forces of the \ sound heart's intuition And shall cease Gainst fhe banner of desertion, with it folds of evil luriny, * Ay our troth! We fling out in full contding, ovr greag | flag of Right Enduring, | For our oath,” ent