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HSTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITERR. [Pabtuned Datty except ‘Company, Nos. RALPH en Preata ose bor SHAW, Treasuter, Park Bi } PULITZER. Jr. Secretary, 68 Park Row. ~ | ‘ a ea) ‘MCE OF THE ASSOCIATED rnmss. at ‘Pree Ye Geciustvely entitied to the une for Sauk «i rvdited bey eid . ‘@redited to tt or not é TH SAME INTREPID SPIRIT. news published berate, é67PCHIS venture is simply inviting slaughter upon vall the foolhardy young men who have + been eugaged as riders.” \ The quotatiga is'not from a 1920 critic of an aerial coast-to-coast mail service. It appeared in a Pacific ‘Coast newspaper in 1860, when the opening of the “Pony Express” was announced. Yetedespite the warning, the Pony Express ven- sture succeeded in performing a great service -umtil supplanted by the telegraph, ‘Even then the West- emors were loath to have the service abandoned. Aerial mail delivery is a twentieth century parallel to the’Pony Express of 1860-1861, as a brief sketch of Pony Express hjstory will reveal. In 1860 the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell determined (o open the service. In two short months they arranged the route and provided equipment for the 1,966-mnile ‘trail over the. wilderness of prairie, desert and mountain that separated St. Joseph, Mo., athe Western terminus of the telegraph, from Sacra- te this paper ° ‘ mento, Cal. ‘ ra * Dotted along this stretch of wilderness trail were | : 3 frontier ‘relay stations at intervals of from ten to | ; fifteen ‘mils, where the speeding riders changed £ . mounts and hastened onward astride a fresh horse. iF ’ Bach rider covered a distance of from seventy-five is to 125 miles, much of the way on a dead run. : Previous to 1860 the time of the fastest mail ‘stages had been about three weeks. When the ser- vice opened the schedule of the Pony Express al- lowed ten days in summer, twelve in winter, to cover the 2,000-mile trip.” This was later cut to eightyand ten days. At first there were 190 stations, 400 station men, eighty riders and 420 “ponies.” As a matter of fact, few “ponies” could qualify. Most of the mounts were of well-bred racing stock and cost !an average of $200 each, a high priée for period. 4 Readiftg a history of thé PonyExpress is well | worth the time of any American proud of the deeds that made possible the development of the West. - Riders and.station men endured dangers well nigh | unbelievable. But the Express went through on | schedule, This came to be almost a religion to the | men in the service! ® It is a matter.of proud record that only one mail was lost in sixteen-month YJfe of the service. Only one rider was killed outright by Indians while carrying the mail. This was not from any lack of hostility but because the fine quality of the “ponies” enabled riders to escape Indian pursuers. Station men and riders off duty did not fare so well. They had to stay and fight it out. More than one Ader, seriously wounded, stuck to his mdunt he reached a station where another man could speed the despatch bags. In sixteen months the riders travelled a distance of 650,000 miles at break-neck speed. The fastest time ever made was seven days seventeen hours, in March, 1861, when the riders carried the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln. Russell, Majors & Waddell lost about $200,000 before the service was discontinued, in October, 1861, when transcOntinental telegraph servicewas established. The air mail is dangerous, byt in many respects not as dangerous as the Pony Express. The object is the sdine, to expedite intercommunication. Pioneer work in this field has always been dangerous. Yet always it has been done. It is America’s proud | boast that nowhere has effort of this sort been more persistent or more successful than in the broad Teaches of the*United States. | Whether battling with Indians or with the ele- ments, Americans have always been ready to take daring risks to speed the news. ‘The Mail Flyers of 1920 are following the intrepid example of the couriers of Revolutionary times, the Pony Express riders, the frontier telegraph linesmen and the railroad builders, They are worthy successors, co s eral r A GOOD-GOVERNMENT CHAIN. | A* ENDLESS chain of feminine campaign workers is an ingenious device by which Re- publican managers propose to enliven the campaign. If only the scheme could be made to work, it mg would insure Republican victory. If each woman enlisted would and could enlist five others and these five others apiece, and so on, the country would soon be solidly for Harding. But the “if” encounters the probability that the chain may soon taper down because of apathy and opposition. But the endless chain idea is always fascinating. Why not an endless chain of good citizenship in- stead of an endless chain of Republicanism? Why not an endless chain the object of which shall be to ‘insure complete registration and full ballot boxes? ~ Would it not be an. excellent idea for any indi- doterested to start a chain by pledging him- seit {o,sallist two friends to register and vote accord. j aa aN 0.3 | ing to conviction and without regard to party align- ment—these two in tufn to continue the chain. The only duty of members of such a chain would be to register and vote and make sure that his or her . | two friends registered, voted and checked up their two friends, and so on, A Good-Government chain has a field at least twice as large as any mere party chain could hope * for, ‘The results which would ensue from universal and conscientious use of the ballot would be a revelation in the possibilities of representative government. MAINE A CHALLENGE. AINE is one of the States where the Democrats win only when the Republicans have worn out public patience. There, in a nutshell, is the political truth to which the Republican sweep in the Maine State election yesterday bears eloquent testimony. The independent vote and the women's vote in Maine went largely to the Republican candidates for {wo reasons: (1) Because the normally strong Republican yuie in Maine attracts wavering votes from all other parties or elements whenever the Republican Party is appealing to the country at large with promises that are not based on its own administrative record. (2) Because the Democratic leaders in the pres- ent campaign failed to reckon with this tendency and provided no adequate organized effort to fight it, It would be poor Demogratic policy belittle what has ‘happened in Maine. On the contrary, the Democratic Party should regard the result in Maine as a measure of what has got to be done between now and November in the way of educating voters—and_partioularly women voters. ; In the face of the figures from Maine, where the League of Nations has beet a leading issue, it would be the height of folly to assume that enthusiasm for the League is already strong enough among American women in general to withstand the pull of other party leanings and insure a majority of the woman vote for the Democratic candidate, Education, education and again education, must be the watchword among Democratic workers who are trying to persuade Americans to appraise the } League for what it is rather than for what some one tells them it is. Late in organizing, withoyt the “money-diggers” amd the millions with which the Republican Party expects to buy the Presidency, the Democratic ‘Party has a nvan's job ahead. Maine is a dhallenge. A TEXTLESS TEXTBOOK. HE Republican Campaign Textbook has beéa issued. \ The volume is for the directiGn and information of speakers and campaign workers. ” ‘The book does nof contain the text of the Cove- nant of the League of Nations, No more illuminating illustration of the desires of the Republican leadérs could be imagined. , Republican leaders are glad to have the followers informed on what Harding, Lodge and the others have said ABOUT the ‘League. Questions and answers on th. League AS IT IS are unsought and unwelcome, In sober truth the leaders are wise to keep the blind followers away from the contamination of “the Wilson League.” * e If the followers read the text they might have their eyes opened. Omission of the League text indicates the willing- ness of the G. O. P. for a “referendum” on the League of Nations as distinguishad from the Repub. lican Bugaboo. TWICE OVERS. “ce HE vole in the Monday election does not indicate the strength in favor of the League of Nations in Maine.” —Sec'y of the Naty Daniels. ‘ ‘ “ N@ that the amendment has been granted, women should vote. and cole intelligently.” —Cardinal Gibbons, . * Wie 66] sometimes suspect the taking over of the rail- roads was @ore impelled by the thought of modifying our Government policy than the develop- ing of better service for the conduct of the war."’—Sen. Harding. 7 wonder if I can't set my aim at fifty-five home runs for this season instead of only fifty.” Babe Ruth, * * . + * * €6 J hace lived, ealen and slept with this housing problem."—-Goo, Smith, t,) 66 Jcarnestly hope thal the Legislature of Connecti- cut will promptly ratify the (19th) Amend- ment.’ Senator Brandegee. | | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | | Wit kind of letter do you pn A Poastble Explanation. ‘To the Kdlilor of The Evening World; Allow me to add my appreciation for your Mditorial “Puny Americans’ to the Intelligent expression of Mr Catherine Walsh, I believe that it ntght be a good ting to analyze the possible reasons for Mr. Hearst's antipathy toward the League. While I do not beljeve that the Hearst papers have much influence on the country as a whole I find that many peopig are misled by thelr false, hypocritical discussion of the Leagug by clever but dishonest writers. It is a pity that many pedple so soon forget that the Hearst papers, which were pro-German before the war and wer barred from sale in| many places during the war, cannot | have become thoroughly reformed 80 Soon. Mrs, Walsh in her letter calls at- tention to the fact that unanimous consent {s neceasary for the League to declare war and that any one of the. ttle Central or South American Republics by withholding consent could prevept war. Now it is gen- erally known that Hearst has immensely large interests Ia Mexico and while posing aa an apdatle of peace is constantly suggesting a war of conquest on ico. Mr. Hearst boing @ very selfish individual would not show the same consideration for American mothers and their sons as Mexico and in the event of victory take her territory, making Mr. Hearst much wealthier, Assuming the posaibilities of Mex- loo boing later admitted to the Le: It ina foregone conclusion that the republics towthe south of us as mem- bers of the League would properly oppose any unjustified war of con- uest on our southern neighbor. ‘These thoughts may also be roottd in the puny intellects of some of our Republican statesmen who also are so ready to make fwar on Mexico at any and all times. 1 ou Will continue your ef- w up the shallowness of | forts to si ‘The Text % the Best Argument. To the Kalitor of The Pretlng World he now pretends wer® we to war on | rue | 4 most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be dries. instnificant clauses frown Articie X, Int notorious New York papers. Offtimes, after I had argued useless- ' ly with my various acquaintances, | I had finally, in exasperation, handed | them 4 copy of the League covenant to read, They advance the arduments that Arthur Brisbane advances to the public og Article X. They show no apparent knowledge of Article VII, which fakes the manufacture of mu- nitions out of private hands, thereby reducing probability of wer; of Ar- ticle X., which really is intended to safeguard the independence of small nations; of Article XI, which Is in- tended to preclude even a rumor of war; of Article XIL, which, makes arbitration compulsqry, and of the numerous other articles, which tend to reduce probability of war. The reason for this lack of knowl- edge is that those who expect profit ‘by the Isolation of the United-+States from the rest of the world choose not to let them kn I therefore urge upon you, as @ duty, not to any class or party, but to the world and humanity alone, to publish for those misled people to whom ! ers of The Evening World as 4 whole, the full text of the League covenant as the surest means by which to ring before the people the greatest document that has ever been formu- lated for the benefit of humanity in ite (rue ght, ‘AUREA MBDIOCRITAS, | “Pany American y Ube Editor of The Breoing World: Since the editorial “Puny Amert- cans" appeared la The Evening World a few evenings ance I have looked in vain for @-word of appreciation from some reader for the extgemely clear which you disposed of the abominable lies circulated against the League of Nations, already accepted by all tho great nations of the world 1 for one am glad to thank you most heartily for it; it should open the eyes of many who accept these lies as truth, if you would publish occasionally “The League of Nations—Lest We Forget,” it would be a valuable clip- ping for@eference at this time. I have this day read a letter trom one of your correspondents urging you to give full publialty as to what the League of Nations t all about. Your anawer 1s, “We are trying.” True! But may I suggest one Sure method which, I am sure, will do more good than your numerous praiseworthy editorials? ‘As has oft been stuted” those who have never read the covenant are the first to enter an argument against American participation. ‘Those who jare against American participation and those who have read the cove- nant take theli stand from « political Kindly send mea copy of The Eve- ning World containing "Puny Ameri- cans" for a friend misinformed, AR. R. New York, Sept. @, 1920. Strikers, ‘To the Bilitor of The Bvening World T having read the statement of Louis Fridiger, counsel for the B. Ru. strikers’ union and having heard « conversation on one of the B, R. 'T, cars of a passenger and a policeman assigned to ride on the cars, ‘Phe pabwenger said he was one ot the strikers and had worked on the cars for ever thirty years. Although point \of view. It is just for that |reagon that ffearst and Brisbane have never dared publish the |covewant, or even extracts from the Neti ar | eacept perhaps \acomplete, have re-| ferred and for the benefit of the read- | and entirely satisfactory manner In} UNCOMMON SENSE we By John Blake (Copyright, 1820, by John Blake.) GOOD HEALTH IS N life. afflict mankind. tained by intelligence and by chine. erable time on the effort to be mind on what you are doing. you. can, pletely fagged out. Exercise every day. If two hours indoors. Bathe daily. kind. But there is no germ of good health, Chew your food thoroughly. Never eat when you are worried, or when you are com- When you take exercise don’t overdo it. you are healthily tired and then quit, JER “CATCHING.” If good health were contagious this would be an easy All you would need to do would be to expose yourself to it daily, and you would be immune from all the ills that It must be main- hard work, neither of which is any too plentiful in this world. Bad health, which is the cause of more failure than any other one thing, comes almost iavariably from neglect or mishandling of the marvellously complicated human ma- To be healthy you must think about being healthy every day—you must try to be healthy, aad spend consid healthy, When you eat you must eat intelligently, with your Select a diet that agrees with You will soon learn what you can’t eat and what you Never eat ia a hurry. Exereise till the weather is too bad for walking or any outdoor exercise, do exercises in the house,” But remember that half an hour's outdoor exercise is worth If you can't stwad cold baths take tepid ones, but take hot baths never more than once a week. Careful exercises will make a man or woman who has no organic trouble reasonably immyne from disease, course it is never wise to expose soutes Of self to tafection of any We speak of good healig to-day because without it you will be handicapped all your fife. wants to work because he enjoys his work. ill health has to drive himself, and the energy that ought to be expended on his job gues to keepiag him at the job. The harder you work the better you will get along, |} but you can't work your hardest or your best, and you can- not think clearly and consecutively, unless your body, which contains your thinking apparatus, is in as nearly perfect condition as you can make it. The healthy man The man in } ‘ No.6.—Jonah, the Professional Prophet. TY would emphasize the word | fessional,” Jonah was a prop! profession, Proghesying was his Bai ness. be nt I do not mean that Jonah Was ouw simply for the shekels. There is noth ing to show that he was avaricious: constantly saying to himself: Jonah the prophet; watch me!’ saat] It was that state of mind brought Jonah all his tribulatl He thought more of his business & Prophet than hp did of obeying” Jehovah regardiesd of conseqi He. prided hi the thought ailing even o} | his prophetic work was wo! and gall to him. So when Jehovah ordered “go to Nineveh, that great cityyuandl cry against it,” quicker than ning he thought to hdmselt, “Wy I should go to Nineveh and teil what Jotovah is going to do to tht and then Jehovah shouldn't do ity what a fix that would leate me lots People would laugh at me, body would be saying, ‘Ah J ure a great prophet, you are. Jonah was ike the dogtor wie thinks more of his theories than he: does of the lives he should be trying, | to save; like the theologian ‘wit | thinks mere of his. dogmas than~6! {the souls “he should be comfortiay. |The Prophet put his profeseionab | vanity and pride above the truth), |wbove the great Righteousness, And so, for fear of a loss of pred.” | te as a prophet he resolved to rum’ away from God—and he “went dow | to Jopp nd found a ship going \Tarshish,” the present Cadiz in, tho’ | South of Spain, ‘ rebld | Of course it was idiotic in Jonah ty try to-run away from God, lt cai, be done, and at last God overtook Jonah and made him do his duty— made him go and preach the truth ite | wicked Nineveh, with the result thai} Nineveh repented of its wickeMTage and began to do bett Of course Nineveh's caused God to forgive th nah's prophecy went up smoke, Had jot said, in the very heart of Yet forty days and Niwett off. callg the y profet is “in the soup.” discredited and disgraced! It is intensely interesting to read the first and second verses of the fourth chapter: "It displeased Jonuly, jexceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed unto the Lord and said, f pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying when i Was. yet in my edun~ try? Therefore [ hasted to fi to ‘Tarshish: for I knew that thou arta gracious God, and fait of compassion, \slow to anger, and plenteous in merch, d repentest thee of the evil, ‘There- fore now, O Lord, take, J besherh \thee, my life from me: for It Is better fot me to die than to live.” reas It is the old, old story—the old. oft crithe of sacrificing truth to theory Le and righteousness to ritual, Nineveh perish," thought Jona%t, long as my standing as a pro maintained.” | ‘That's wht “divine right perivh; let them remain in thelr squat- or and ignorance—that is a smallmat ter—but let us forever maintain the sacred principle: ,“The King from God, the law from the King.” It is the old, old story of the 1 tyrdom of man, the, martyrdom « truth and right to the professionals of every type, who prefer “shop. fmik,” to facts and the “magnitying” of Tigve office to the all-round uplift of hu- manity j Ten-Minute Studies of New York City By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the twenty-cighth artlcle of a series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative . ayiicers and boards of ve Wew | rk City Government, Ws it DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ¥ The Board. of Health, composed the Commissioner of Health, the > Mee Conynissioner and the Yteutth Officer of the Port of New Yorke «(é State official) is the head of the aig ; ment of ulth of New Wowk ; s*the Sanitary oC ce health orders aN owers in all mutteyis issues eme gene has very broad Affecting public health. ’ ‘fhe Commissioner of Health, who ix appointed by the Mayor and oimex officio Presiddit of the Board yt Health, is in direct charge of theye- |raycement of the Sanitary Code ‘and other health laws and is responsible for the administration’ of the Departs ment of Health. ‘ The work of the department $s ear ried on by nine bureaus—the Bured. | of Administration, the Bureau, ,of Records, the Sanitary Bureau andethe Bureaus of Preventable Disgaaes, Child Hygieye, Food and ‘Brae |Dwboratorics, Hospitals and Pybie Health Education. } The detailed work of these bupewt’ wil] be defined in future articles» of! | this series. { Dr. Royal 8. Copeland is the Comi-| missioner of Health, His salary ip $7,600 a year. Dr. Frank J. Monaghan is Deputy Commissioner and William 'T. Fetherston is counsel to the de- partinent, Their offices dre in the department hefdquarters, at No. 506) Ores | Parl Street ae SH He asked the poltceman's advice about going back. / The policeman answered him, say- ing-that he was not interested wheth- not he went back to work, but was in the striker’s place and after such long serviceshe would re- turn, ag he thought the strike was lost, It ig too bud that Mr. Louis Fridiger 19 90 fgnorant as to believe all he says he hears. It is also very well for him to call such beautiful names as da: tardly dogs of policemen when he speaking to‘his victims, who support him and labor leaders. 3ut let him come out in the open he was very anxious to go back to work, the umton would not allow him to aud he realized hig job was gone, f und face “the dastardly dogs" with that remark, I have been 4 union man for four- 1 teen years, and ‘n that time I have) line. I am taking the liberty to wate been on stril found the fellows he calls “dasts doga” fair to both sides, and advice was right nine times out of ten The policeman knows more about strikes than either employer or em ployee knows, because he hears both - 1¢| for one ear of corn, or $2.40 per dozen. sides and also from sympathizer more people took the advice of po! men this city would be better off. A UNION MAN AND CI'PIZEN New York, Sept, 12, 19 Re tt Profiteeri Do thy Rditor of The Hrensniy World I hope your efforts to stop profiteer. ing in foodstufs will succeed, You paper is trying to do good along thi : . » three times and have |you to seo if there 3 any one, Iycan ily Meir| Write to and show up the priées charged for food in some of the New York restattyants, m One chain of restaurants chargé d0e, Corn retails for 35 to 40 cents a dozen, and I pay 15 cents for about threa- quarters of @ small tomato; here they sell for $1 to $1,60 a crate (about thpee~ quarters of & bushel), 1 could go on indefinitely, not only with this pia but other restaurants where [have my lunches, It seems to me thes’ lic should make some effort to {these high prices. H. & BUSHNELL | 8 068 iifere i# much to show that he inordinately vain, as though he Ww 4 }