The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 8

————— = THE LEAGUE. BRITISH EMPIRE FRANCE _ ITALY BELGIUM SPAIN POLAND NETHERLANDS SWEDEN DENMARK NORWAY. SWITZERLAND PORTUGAL CZECHO-SLOVA KIA ROUMANIA JAPAN GREECE BRAZIL CHINA ARGENTINE REPUBLIC CHILI PERU COLOMBIA GUATEMALA BOLIVIA SALVADOR PARAGUAY VENEZUELA \ URUGUAY PERSIA PANAMA "LIBERIA SIAM HAITI HEDJAZ ~SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE ‘STATE The above THIRTY-FIVE NATIONS are mem- bers of the EXISTING, ACTUAL, FUNCTION- ING LEAGUE OF NATIONS established under the Treaty of- Versailles. Cuba and Nicaragua have ratified the Treaty and will become members’ of the League as soon onan as their ratifications are formally deposited and /tecorded, These THIRTY-FIVE NATIONS which belong * to a League of Nations that is ALREADY A WORK- i | i Site way reer tote + ons ad &) Bae ve woy “ Fong 4 foolish proposals to draw up another covenant and ING RBALITY represent populations which-amount ein the aggregate to upward of 1,100,000,000, OR NOT FAR FROM TWO-THIRDS OF THE ESTIMATED TOTAL POPULATION OF THE EARTH, , This actual League membership also embraces the greater part of that world population which is rec- ognized as tie MOST HIGHLY CIVILIZED AND THE UNPTED STATES GERMANY AUSTRIA . RUSSIA TURKEY MEXICO The status of this latterZroup needs no explana- “tlon—nor does the shameful fact that the United States is found in it. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALRBADY STARTED AND IN ACTION was not evolved out of any man's inner consciousness. ~. It was not conceived and brought into being by any one Government, ‘ Its covenant was drawn up in extended cortffer- ence and debate between representatives of divers nations. - It is as much an instrument of compromise, of give and take, of adjustment of conflicting plans ‘and praposals to one common purpose, as was the ‘Constitution of the United States, It is not ‘perfect. Neither has the Constitution of the United States come down to us without amendment. - No effort to gather human beings into larger ve aunts co-operating for a common good has ever ? started at perfection, Co-operation among nations ___ to lessen the probability of war is no exception. » set: Thirty-seven nations have scrutinized this covenant sand decided that it is the best and most practicable plan that can be agreed upon for safeguarding peace. Tius fact.alone is an annihilating argument against try to start all over again. The great. convincing truth about the Versailles ‘League of Nations is that jt is THERE AND MOV- ING, with the larger part of humanity behind it. A LBAGUE ALREADY LAUNCHED IS WORTH A DOZEN LBAGUBS IN SOME MAN'S HEAD. DON'T BELITTLE THE PERCYS. ROM Los Angeles comes the news that Mrs. Percy Fisher Browne has induced her husband to change his name. He is now John Fisher Browne. The reasor, the bride assigns for getting rid of the “Percy” is that “my husband is not the Percy kind of fellow.” - ‘But what is the “Percy kind of fellow”? ” By turing to the encyclopedia, Mrs. Browne could have gotten a very different angle on the Perey name. ‘ Perey is the oldest established name of the Eng- While royal family names have William the Conquerer. A Percy was one of the Committee of Twenty-five Barons appointed to see that King John observed the provisions of Magna Chaita. When the Percys were made Earls of Northum- berland, it is a matter of history that the first four holders of the title all died on the field of battle, not to mention Sir Henry Percy, called Hotspur, who woukl have held the title had he not died fighting. After an unsuccessful rebellion the title was for- feited for a time, and great Warwick, the “King Maker,” bestowed it on his brother, but the turbu- lent populace of Northumberland refused to be ruled by any but a Percy and the Percys were restoréd, If Mrs, Browne will but make a cursory study of English history she will gain an entirely new view- point on what has characterized the name of Percy. The “Percy kind of fellows,” had they lived in California in the days of the “49ers,” would have earned the title “bad man,” which was an abbrevia. tion of the descriptive ‘phrase, “He's a bad man to start anything with.” NOT PROVEN. Reppert on the B. R. T. strike yesterday, Louis Fridiger, counsel for the strikers, said: "We are at least glad that they are out in the open now. It is plain their real plan was to force the strike in order that they might attempt to crush the Amalgamated.” 7 This is not the first strike in which similar state- ments have been made. In some cases the evidence has supported the strikers. When the strikers have been able to establish their case, it has usually en- listed the sympathy of the public. Certainly, in the present trouble, public opinion would turn against the B. R. T., Receiver Garrison and Judge Mayer if it could bg proved that the company had “forced the strike.” Every oné who has been forced to walk or to pay from two to twenty times the regular fare to get to work would resent such action by the company. Frequently labor leaders have been unable to sat- isfy the public that the™strike was forced by em- ployers. The orthodox alibi is that the “newspapers don’t give us a fair show. They don’t tell the truth. They will not print the truth when we give it to them.” Suchi a defeise will Hoi sland in the present trouble. Mayor Hylan is more than anxious to prove that the B. R. T. forced the strike. If Counsel Fridiger has the proof, he has only to take it to the Mayor, who will only too gladly give it full publicity. Without proof, such:a statement is no more than lying demagogy designed to stir up figtting spirit. It should be judged for what it is worth and con- trasted with the passages from the Amalgamated Constitution quoted by Receiver Garrison to prove that the strike was called in defiance of the rules of the union itself. One of these provisions {fs that —"the question of a strike shall be sub- mitted to a secret vote of the entire mem- berehip of the local division.” Such a vote was not taken. Other provisions of union procedure have been openly violated. ’ A THRILLING STORY. HE rescue ‘of the crew of the Submarine S-5 makes a tale that alternately chills and thrills the blood. “Navy luck,” as the sailors say, accounts for the rescue. Navy luck brought the General George W. Goethals steaming to the scene. Good judgment, ingenuity and the fortunate presence of necessary equipment on the rescuing steamer effected the re- lease, but none too soon, Tales of the survivors will constitute a wonderful (ruman document of what men think and do in their last hours. For after thirty-five hours with no re- sponse from the outside world, the irhprisoned men must have all but given up hope. But (he fact that the floating buoy did bring res- cue in the long run will bring cheer to evéry subma- rine sailor in the future, The navy learned from the F-4 disaster and men Wevised the telephone buoy which saved the crew of the S-5, In the same way the navy will learn from the present mishap. In future there will be less danger in the submarine. TWICE OVERS, 66°F HE demand for luxuries and semi-luxuries has everywhere fallen off.” —Federal Reserve Board. . ° . 66 JF she (America) remains a creditor nation, she must in time arrange to take more goods from outside.” —Dr, H. Clapham, British Economist. 66 AM of the opinion that after the first election or so.only a small percentage of the women of the country will aoail themseloes of the privilege of voting.”—Cardinal Gibbons, * . « 66° HE theory that men addicted to the use of alcohol have become candy eaters since the advent of Prohibition is based entirely upon wrong premises and is not logical.” —W. C. Hughes, National Confectioners’ Association. U ATURDAY, 3EP _By'J. H. Cassel _€.W. Osbort, ; went a-marketing— Ar Bhe ight a little fish; There is fine mental exercise « ‘The KR En Culprits. ‘To the Bititor of Krening | Talking about rent profiteering, the | landlords ure dishonest enough, but estate people. While prices are high they are trying so hard to sell thetr property, especially old houses with | old floors and bad plumbing—whiel: | are really not worth any more than $2,000—for $10,000. Think of the taxes any one would have to pay on @ $10,000 house, which has always teen taxed for $2,000, How much longer ts it going to be allowed? A TENANT. New York, Aug. 31, 1920, Bitter Against the Strikers, ‘To the Editor of The Eroning World: Your editorial in yesterday’s issue regarding the Brooklyn strike de-| serves another qualification than that as “indefensible.” It ds offensive in high degree, It is a shame that 7,000 ‘or 8,000 profiteers shall carry out a holdup on a population of 2,000,000 people. | What have they accomplished but | wasting gasoline, whose price will certainly go up and swell the pockets of the 8 O. magnates? During the strike there will be use of gasoline that will surpass the| normal consumption of one month at least. What do the men of the B. R. T. want? More pay, shorter hours? And when that is coneeded they ask for More and in that way they take advantage of the lukewarm manner | in which those strikes are considered | by those who ought to take strong measures for preventing that 8,000 who try to eq more and more money for less and less work. Is this the land of the brave and the free? Where « few rule the ma- jority? Let the corrupt and faithless be doomed to failure and demonstrate to them that a community of 2,000,000 people cannot be handled like a herd. Your paper, which has at ali times shown public spirit, is one that could stir the city government to protect the rights of the people, Brooklyn, Aug. 31, 1920, oO 8. Feol-Proof and Judge-Proet, ‘To the Raiiior of The Brening World: T am going to give you a sample of Justice as dispensed by Judge Car- roll, at the Fifth District Municipal Court, Brooklyn, Iwas with a hold-over paper by the owner of the apartments which I am renting, and appeared before Judge Carroll to obtain a stay. I procured a letter fromuany physician stating that my wife would require his professional attention in a short Ume, and that it would be dangerous to move her under the circumstances, Judge Carroll gave me d stay of three In addition he voluntarily fixed @ 25 per dent. raise to my pres- ent rent, notwithstanding the fact What kind of letier do you find most readuble? den't v¢ the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? that the rent lifld air | lan" the worse profiteers are the real gant, dding | ud @ lot of satisfaction in trying to @ay much in a few words, Tuke time to be brief. by the same own which makes the totul raise 08 100 per cent. in two years, If thi it to injurv I don't . \ Now, the stay which Judge Carroll) magnanimously donated expires furt | when my wife requires medical at- | tention. I tried to tell him so, but he} impetuously broke in on the conver- | sation and rendered the dec sion. He simply would not listen ¢ but seemed to be in a feverish hurry, to clear the court-room as soon as ‘h» possibly could. Do you call it justice that a woman should be compelled to look for other living quarters just at the most crit!- cal period of her life? Did this Judge | ever take time to contemplate what the aftermath of his decision may be? I um sure he did not, because he did Not seem to be temperamentally adapt- ed to his calling, by reason of an impulsive disposition. ‘The excuse offered by the owner of | the house for getting us out was that! we had six children, although she has admited that my children were well-! ving @ little Ing the training of my kept in close touch with jidvren, I have oir teagh- | by them flat that al wishes tie place for a! furnished room ‘house. T understood that the rent laws were promulgated in order that the avarice of a landlord would not cause disruption of tamlty lite. It \» high time that the rent laws were revised and made fool-proof, and | I should lke to add, Judge-proof, I am telling my story through the medium of your newspaper as T wax not allowed to do so in the Hall of Tustios. JAMES A, BCOTT. B, 15th Street, Brooklyn, N. ¥., Aug. 80, 1920, A Paramount Insue. ‘To the Baltor of The Brening World: At times your paper deserves more} than praise for coming out with the| truth by protecting the Interests and welfare of the public, and at times to be criticised, due to the fact that It Is promiscuous with such issues as to make you believe that The Evening World 1s merely a political paper looking after the interests of certain political parties. Lately in your edi- torlals you only discuss the benefits derived by the League of Nations when about 75 per cent, or more of the people are not interested tn this obscure jument, The only para- mount problem of Interest to-day 1s the remedy of reducln, e H.C. of L. Whether Cox or Hai be elected is of minor Ismue, as both parties ha had sifMficient representation in Government to produce good results, but have failed, Brooklyn, Aug. 31, 1920, “cull “breaks.” the game thereby. If Babe Ruth makes a home ru to be three men on bases, another “'b: “Breaks” do wii games. ball was batted the Brick walls did not exist; Leonard Lit upper 4 draggled bit of lane, incompetent. through sheer luck. So d In the end, as we league wins ‘the penn aint. “That’s aFact’ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Coprright.~19%, by John Biske.) THE BETTER TEAM. GETS THE “BREAKS.” Baseball games are won, often by what ball players If a fielder stumbles when about to catch a batted ball the team at bat gets the “break” and perhaps jhard work and thorough preparation nd use an oppestunity when it comes. not come. If s the incompetent half organized re But remember that unless a clear into the field tne first “break” wouldn't have been made, and unless Ruth was able to make home runs the second wouldn’t have occurred. It is the tyam which knows better how to play the game that gets the most breaks. end of the seasda is the position to which its ability en- titles it. There are “breaks” in life, plenty’ of them, will notice that they help the competent far more often than An_ opportunity You may not have-expected it, you may have done nothing to bring it to your door. are not able to make the most of it that particular break will do you no good whatever. There is plenty of luck in the world, But it is of little assistance to the ill prepared or the shiftless. Geniuses can whake thejr own opportunities. gifted men seldom can. But any ore b can be ready to sei Of course it m out and look for it. But before you do that, be sure that you have a healthy body, a trained mind, atid enough hard common sénse to improve it. The lazy, incompetent, untraimed man may and often does, baseball team. But to ‘reither of them is the “break” of any value. have said, the’ best ball team in the And in the end the man who works and thiaks and) knows how to employ his abilities finishes far ahead of his competitors, even though they may have had more “breakis” thon he has, ‘ And its position at the And then she gently took ¢ And dropped it in the stréa A Fairy went a-marketino— lored birds. It gang the sweetest, shrillest ‘hat wver ad heard ; Bhe gat deside its painted chd And listened half the day, And then she opened wide the And let it fly away. So runs the first half of one ‘numbers in “Fuiries and Chi (Doran), a book by Rose Fylen “poems for those who see th with the magic eyes of chtid Our excuse for printing these Verses is that we like both the way they go and the simple | they say. | We would sooner | these light-hearted liges th: | Chicago-hog-butoher - of - the «, |contraption of Mr. Can Sund@ Indeed, our one best hope for Poetry lies in the fact that Miss J Lowen can write it as simp grown-ups a8 Mise iyleman the Old for children. ‘ oes Palm Trees Versus the Last “It {a good thing.” sald sage, w sage, lto now the Et but it Is a the truth and shat palm: trees There should & of the irrelevant seldom run the into its .infinite used to do, but, “01 ng rstading, the victory. led to the one who is freee stand for logic to settle anyth! . After re have i ‘ ‘These wordg of counsel m eye as we turn page 94 of the J. Edgar Park's book of (Houghton-Miffiiln) on “ B sults of Good Habits.” ‘The palm idea, if generally accepted, may ® great burden of conversation. from the weather. And yel Parks has but borrowed fron sage the same wisdom which, case of Lewis Carroll's Walru ed the time to talk df ‘shoes and sealing wax,” to say in cabbages and kings. All right when it's @ quest! dodging the last word—ae on.a Porch: But the palm-tree idea, not far in a discussion o issues 1) getting the money, | and the League of Nations, eee Before Tobacco and According to the reporta it Adam did not smoke. ‘ In one of the papers m his second volume of “Boo! eral" (Aifred A Knopf), J. C. of the London Mercury re that Buddha, the Pharaohs, © tophanes, Caractacus, Rabeldll Henry VIII. all died without |alse that Assyria never kne kah and that Rome declined without suspecting that ite woth Sexe snuff. Says Mr. Sq haunches, around their shoulders, moke own without disco what to do with thelr hands” mouths, But if tobacco was delayed start among civilized men its try eventualy was “swift and dous.” Whoever introduced |t European cousins, whether or Walter Raleigh's was the piel pipe, “tobacco on fire was soon. lke a house on fire.” Fram . "Social History of Smoking'! yist gathers stringe facts... ™ knights in Parliament, in 10 sought to prohibit the weed be comimon ploughmen had taken it) ‘That a colonial law in Cor once restricted the use of any but bona fide travell could have one pipe if he wen miles, but never two pipes in & That on undergraduate of Trinity} sent down for smoking a, ci chapel, and that a boy at Etongaa flogged for refusing to smoke, "am taking place in 168, when tol was considered a defense agains! Great Plague. That in seven century Russia the smoker have his nose cut off. 1 ‘Tobi met and defeated ite \ aren there happen ak" scores four runs. But you may come to you But if you § “antis” with the cigar, the and the briar pipe. Wherewith it be equipped against the “D crusader who shall follow the pred of the ant!-saloonatic? 1 ee 6 oo The Right Way to Lie Awaked Almost any wiseacre can t dozen ways to get to sleep, bat « quite Ikely that none of th will work. The technique ‘of | comfortably, even profitably aw has been the subject of few advielty writings. 4 ‘Turning the pages of the Sept ber Seribners, we find Mrs, Wind Scott Moody giving the erous, possibly helpful, considera ‘The prepamtions for sleeping we learn, are matters largely @f p Less it doesn’t, you cam go t “breaks” may, . he h a reading Aamp e i A 0 and an. electric. waren in the The jepenard. of Broadway then was whi to a sudden ending wher Street is now, against & set Up this lane, in the early mo and down {tem the late afternoons, went cows that feasted in hupury on the Lisponard Meadows, | ee Their aristocratic stables wore over on Pear! and Nassau and Wall Strects, but they were genuine bo- vine parlor boarders, sleek, and comfortable looking, with muh of the same placidity as the Dutch maidens, and the melancholy dong- ing of the cowbells, a dull, sad droning sound, was the only orohee- tra of those days. - Gramercy Park, originally a hit, thad the shape of a hooked knife called, gradually corrupted into the pres- ent name, though tion says it was derived from the French words, “grand” and “merci.” The ie in necting forty-one cities. If possible, for sleepless Patt easily. No by ties timepiece of any kind. No counting of hours—in “{mmense restfulness to be | voluntarily sllpping the leash o@ ti and sending the mind out tog! \ae it were, In eternity.” Use of |reading lamp Is, of course, a maf of choice. If your mind is to be sent out, not fixed in a book, Ipful th may be “to bind th ide do lightly with silk pads to prevent stark staring of open eyes and to them the light-pressure which soothe the nerves.” Sounds good. And we hate to pect Mrs. Moody of an ulterior d But how ts a body to be sure ef ing awake under al! these fluences of the absent mind present soothings? in Dutch, krom~messje, another explana- >| ¢ r atest canal in the world ina, 2,100 miles long, con-