The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1920, Page 22

taki i WORL THE’ EVENING was Imperfect. It Is Imperfect now. It is nprob- = "saaaiiiaainiamiaiaiamsainmmmamensenmmns —— —— = “i able that it ever will be perfect. But the critics of £5 ROR Aline co By John Ca The Business Men it Woodrow Wilson, the man and the Democratic idstacton Breaiag Word — — Be I ie — of the Bible |} lead i ; en ler, were ready fo, Cony Covileation aise : | > ioe B. y sort or degree” that might be associated with rahe, 1820, ty The, Prem, Pupisbing Cal his name, j | tthe New York Breaing World), The Covenant was the result of compromise. Certain provisions seemed to be opposed to the in- i terests of certain racial groups in Europe. No Cove- |, "THE PHANTOM LEAGUE. nant was possible without sacrifices. The partisans Sg 7 ITH one of the candidates for President pledg- | harped on the sacrifices and inequities. They ap- fh ing early entrance into the League of Na- pealed to racial groups and selfish interests, They fions and the other warning against “super-govern- carefully screetted from vision the larger promis@ mént by a foreign couricil,” it would at first glance | of the League's full purpose, dem that the issue is joined on clean-cut lines, So doubt and hostility’ crept into the hearts of _, © Such is not the case. men. There came td be isolated outbreaks of op- i ' a is not advocating the policy which Harding position to individual parts of the League. By mag- J opposes, nor is Harding opposing the policy which nifying and nursing opposition to a paragraph here No. 10. Simon, the Prestidigi«. tator. ; Simon the Sorcerer (Acts, chapter VILL) made a deep impression upon - j' his time and stamped himself pretty)) thoroughly upon the thought of suo- ceeding generations, He has given his name to the oldest and most diss gusting win of the church and hag succeeded in getting himself damned!’ along the whole line of literary his+ tory. The theologians have cursed him for thousands of years, and the great poet of Mediaevailsih put him in the lowest and hottest of the cir cles of hell, ‘ “4 Simon was bofn in the little Sa+ om 4 |Maritan village of Gitta, but early im 7 Cox advocates. or a paragraph there, partisans were able to manu: ‘life left his rustic haunts and struck - ™ The two candidates are talking at cross purposes, facture opposition to the League as a whole, , ; a this fact is largely responsible for the “apathy” Then, with this foundation of misunderstanding, aS Which observers report. the creators of the Phantom League began to en- a ‘The plain truth is that Cox {8 advocating one large their efforts. They went to work to persuade ‘ thing and Harding is opposing sométhing entirely John Smith that if his friend John Jones was op- different. posed to the League, Smith ought to oppose it too. ; 2 Cox Is for the League of Nations as constituted This sort of campaign was effective because Smith FH the Treaty of Versailles and as accepted by forty- | had not taken the trouble to inform himself, He : ‘en nations of the world. He is advocating partner- assumed that Jones had gone into the matter, when Ship in a going concern, not perfect, nor as yet at in fact the League-wreckers had. merely showed Ag vil full power, but an organization of infinite possi- | Jones one little part of the Covenant which he did out, like the precocious and hustling youth that he was, for the great City of Alexandria, Egypt, the centre of” about everything that was worth while in the world of that time, Alexandria was .he focus of every kind of thought, every species of ¢ cult, every form of chartatanry, every existing type of trickery and fraud: § jand the simart young man trom Gitta was not siow in getting acquainted with them all, ’ Armed cap-a-pie with all the kfown ways and means of humbug- ging the peopie and of raking in the = shekels, Simon started fort to make for himself fame and fortune, ‘a Swinging around the circle with hia sleight-of-hand and his various; bites. not fike and had told him that all the rest was as |Grougnt* vp in nis oid home region In" \ Harding, on the other hand, ts not clearly on one | bad. It was easy to make Jones believg this if he rival there's howling success, 10 $e or the other of this proposition, was already prejudiced against Woodrow Wilson. Lue aet oe many looked upon him ag a sort of & \ god. He was aimost worshiped by the, gaping, adoring rustics, {im the midst of Simon's success, his popularity steadily growing and. also his purse, there came along Philip, the evangelist, a misstonary of the thea new and strange Christian faith. i Many weré converted and baptized, Simon antong the rest, and Simon, “beholding the signs and great mi © What he is opposing is a Phantom League of And so the phantasmagoric character of the Phantom League expanded. In many minds clouds ‘This Phantom League has no existence, in fact. of hate, suspicion, prejudice, racial antipathy, mis- ‘The Phantom League is not even a “scrap/of paper” representation and falsehood did their work, The feague. It is a mirage, a nightmare, a mental ilu Phantom League obscured the Real League. By ft Is like the image the hypnotist suggests to constant repetition the critics led more and more cles wrought, was amazed.” Simon, hypnotized to influence the latter’s action, of the people to believe that this bogey was the real hiceceuen ty wan de rare ge |) Go discover the beginnings of the Phantom | thing and ought to be defeated. ‘Leigue, think back fo the days when It did not exist | _ To-day-Senator Harding is crusading against this ven 2s a delusion, when all America was one In | Phantom League. a thought and:aim, when the United States was more Many men are governed by custom, by party hited than ever before, Think back to the sum- | regularity, by blind faith in leaders. This force, mer of 1918, when all/ Americths were watching, which might be turned to good, has been diverted to ’ ! 4 Praying and working for the success of American | ¢vil. The fabricators of the Phantom League have of quiet thinking just then about thowe * “signs” and “miracles,” and right im the midst of his reflections there ap~ peared upon the scene Peter and John, who ‘laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this power that on whomscever I ; my hands, he may recetve the Holy Ghost.” Now it begins to appear why Si~ ‘ vb doll D ch quick Bi, soldiers created a hideous nightmare from stray sentences mon hed been ‘ne fines h “had : a - L rst, last an | J At that time America was possessed of an In- | nd paragraphs of the Real League. These they the time 'buatnese “shan 1 ws y to busin hat he was E. nitely fine national spirit. Despite all the burdens, have presented out of their context and without the * Converted. and baptised, ana yay > wh ferent aan usiness i Nation was inspired with a wonderfully co- | modifying provisions to be found elsewhere. “ nae that he made his offer to Peter abéut { . consciousness, a will to win the war, a tri- They oo appealed to the baser emotions instead a ee arena. hi the oly. Ghoul rust sre tne, «ye tatty | oe lier Thy velit tar vie ||| FROM EVENING WORLD READERS|||| UNCOMMON SENSE | |igiteiiiVik 3% 3 O esubotinl : A ‘ piece cof-hand, io , ‘ ork it his fortun ‘Fe faith that out of this war would arise some agency there 1s no reason for fear What kind of letter do you find most readaWe? Ien't it the one By John Blake he could lends, “Would Peter, sell ‘to “end war” or at least to make a recurrence of They have played on hate rather than on, good- that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? eb ER peg cede eed the knowledge which would enable >) war improbable. will, on suspicion rather than frankness and Yair There és fine mental exerciee and a tot of satisfaction tm trying |} YOULL NEVER SUCCEED IN A JOB YOU’ HATE. { |repertoire? 1190, the price was ready } z 7 a to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. ihe ; ; for him. : * There was no partisanship in this, Hearts opened | dealing. If you despise the work you are doing get out of it. Suatiy, trgant at Simon'a mon: ! ti C i id ineee ¢ Speaks For Itvelf.”| ual whose body ts here and his soul You'll never succeed in a job you hate. strous proposition, the Apostle said fo hearts as never before. After two years > some- They have created a mental illusion by repeated | mm titer ut The Eeoring, Word tn Mteene lh have pethine bot ene You may think it is the only job you can get, but it tent, $|t2 himy “Thy silver periah, with thew of both The|tempt, and I would like to ¢hasten | 9 . t because thou haat thougt thing else it is difficult'to write of this earlier period | Suggestion, And it is this iltusion—the Phantom $ ems dally.’ Morning and The Evening World and thelr ‘return to’ the homeland. One | Somewhere is work that you will like todo, unless you }|the gift of God with money: 1, L n 4, rt yO e erly w: 7 Poor Simon! He was like a lot of Without being charged with “sentimentality.” It 1s | League—from which the Republican partisans and | after reading the many letters from Nations 9 give mutual protection and fre Sg! Utte Bly pune lana: other people of his day, like a multl- % ‘ different sections of the country I yequce the possibiliti t a4 Spend your leisure time looking for it. fude who are living now, who are Gnly by thinking back that one can recognize the | the candidate, Senator Harding, are offering to | would like to have Boy conave Seer to Be good enough for any ‘person Get acquainted with people who are doing that kind of }] fools enough, to think that money c © exp ar J ae can buy anything and he feality of that earlier enthusiasm. save the country! ciation gt your, editorial policy, | 1) Ren ree he eeitas Grr, thoes! york, ae agie ee on ; that cannot, be bought with money tow only wish your paper could go into 4 other eve as the: Tell them that you wou ike to do the same thing. are not worth bothering about. They | = Of course, there were exceptions, but to a re- Turn the light of truth on the League, the Real every American home during the re- Sy tare IR aakaeetiaes Ateeter 12. Gish alias atereated ia you, BS Go not _know not only, that ‘money nder of the present campaign, 40) }yapal ° oartt a you. 2 ‘ ‘nnot buy the gifts of God, but thal tarkable degree citizens of the United States were | League, the whole League’ and nothing But the that every Voter could see the, Re- Got aitliuse be tee Cente eh Coane You may get less money for a time by changing jobs. $ | sn" the money in the grorid, if ends * - “pte, Wea publican politicians in their true light. Na os ; ; sw x sj 4 it, could not buy Phe wag of @ flinking in terms of “wé, the people.” League, Dissolve the delusions and the prejudices. p This coming November election wil Cr Mennns OO. te sation Oby They anes ela NG who. cages Jone ft aaaa’t oor dog's tail. bis * 5 ¢ the sixth Presidential campaign In|are allowing thelr political prejudice ut the money you get now doesn’t count. every- st ae EIR | ‘Then partisanship began its disruptive work. | Forget that Woodrow Wilson had any more to do which 1 have voted. During these|and not thin hondet wonviktiens to/% body sought the work that promised the most immediate rg- (a ‘ -four years that L have been| die ee Democratic partisans were not free from fault. But | With the fashioning of the League than he will have | voting 1 have supportea both Demo- |°""tne only’ sensible way our ot this| $ MF there would be few successes. Ten-Minute Studi ! is De sheng Rebubl with the functioning of the League after March | (ita tnd, Republicana, but this time] mags of campaign rubbish Is to read | Thomas A. Edison could have gotten more nfoney as a en- Minute les ; Because the Democrats were in power, Republicans a b bai tesccusert aettokecmmane bine ae covenant of the League of Na-|$ day laborer than he got when he began life as a telegrapher. of New York City f ena-|tions prayerfully and carefully and | i sean icity | Were impelled to snatch at any issue they could | 4, 1924. tor Harding worthy of the support of jee vous comacivoe he the eal eutde But he knew his future was in electricity and he made 4 ~ any sincere person, There is no doubt| you ¢ 2 oo: ifice ' ‘ d. 5 fd or faba, Their oe aim vas to prove a | Read and study the Covenant ofthe League of | iy od genie une tem rer| ae of whit gu ct imoran"Exi| |" "When you-hear'a man bewailing hi Hic becmuse’ he i Government. F - " Joti i 3, i “ de of the Republican candidate, but thelr | jo) : ) J 3 bs ain Administration, and specifically one | Nations itself, Every American should do this, In method "of reasoning is, beyond my | Priticians color thelr arguments 28) % forced to do work he dislikes you know that in youth he = cS so far ask ibl comprehension. .. |welf to wet at the truth of this mat-|$ has been too lazy to find the kind of work he is fitted to do. By Willis Brooks Hawkins. bi Jemocrat, Woodrow Wilson, hopelessly wrong. S's possible he should do so after an honest | "ir men like Ex-President ‘Taft, Ex:‘er, “the Document speaks for {tselt | rly wen Whe ealie cnioel whas thes aielanina ia Ales the abeses test aetiie. at | Manifest errors of the President were magnified, | effort to revive in his mind and heart the spirit Of | scores of others dared expreay them-| “nd settles & murtiinas of femurs.) § Coed” Vou can't succeed unless you are interested, in your, }| Syiintruye ihe malarive ome ‘ * | selves as they would like there is no| white Plains, N, ¥. Sept. 29, 1920 crs Rag ay ine cy ; * Udministrative and jegtsative TAN " Even before he sailed for France the tongues of | the.summer of 1918, when the horrors of war were | fount bat that they would be num. e » N. pt. 29, 1921 job, and you can’t get interested in a job that you hate. cers and boards of the New Yor! A m - — City Government, nN r ’ Set real. bered among the strongest supporters| 4 Fireman's Widow's Pension. Far better miss a meal now and then, and put up with it - * : hate were wagging vigorously in anticipation of a : of Gov. Cox, They do not like the |e ths tater The Krening Worl few clothes at the start, than keep lugging at a task that is dnidipoa om id haf ee har s November, 1920. Methods and manners were Thils Is the way to dispel the Phantom League at |fandidate on the question of. the| msproud Uke to contradict you in a) $ never going to get you anywhere. sich siaetnane «HOt lag . ae ; ata the quostion of the/matement printed in a recent news PB te Lie sygph Abidin cara E BAS ied Gpestioned far more than was the thing he was do- | which Senator Harding would have the country | league of Nations and it is impowsl.) joie in The Evening World which asa a ly Be i agie.¢ rate cay enn a nee Ae Hid ‘This Bureau pt the Department of, t ‘ A ; shudder, t ch hypocritical utterance 3 |Says that the law aljows the widow a DY. LT ERES AE 8 On FOU Ces Health is responsible for the regib~ e ing. All America was anxious then for a working e proceed’ from the mouth of their| of ® New York fireman half his sal- you will have lost your adaptability for a more congenial }| tration, sanitary supervision and 4 / 7, ss ul senth v5 a < ary a8 pension, * , J : League of Nations. Exorcise deception with truth and common sense, | “'e trying to please the two factions|, I'm afrald you have been misin- Job. ; / ou % necessary care f all cases of infec= * But even then there were bitter partisans willing The Phantom League is a wicked and shameless |of his party the Senator is taking on| formed, for @ fireman's widow re- Don't complain that your position is irksome. If it is 3} tious diseases in both men and 4 2 = hile bend Hibs Bea the role of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyg ger pear from the! 4 irksome quit it, There is nothing in toiling day after day $| beasts; the necessary disinfection of fo weaken the influence of Woodrow Wilson, | Phantasmagoria which has well nigh robbed America [ond cgoupying, is Shine: fn Sramek | the event of her Fe mnarryige can |¢ in a sullen mood, feeling absolutely indifferent to your }|infected premises and goods; the ad~ Bresident of the United States, for the sake of less- | of ils soul. aa ee aging the iseue| five You two inatanees of firemen’s|¥ duties, |ministration of tuberculosis clinica I The power of Woodrow’ \ |whenaver possible, ‘This man, who qa| wutows Tecelving #00 ner, year pen It takes courage to quit a job that earns you a living }/ 8nd day camps and the Tuberculosis ig the power of Woodrow Wilson, the man — —— | United Staten Senator twice voted|in fire quarters. ‘They do not rec and find one that doesn't earn a living—at the start. But $jauce of. W @iagnostio to have the League fastened upon]: \ ‘om the elty for their duties aig vhile 6 . a cli -rable ies and clinic and party leader. TWICE OVERS. |the American people, now repudiates | iy matrons, bul are Pald by the men everything that is worth while takes courage, Get out of Gliniess S209 me See seat ipapeaae : PP ANI ater his own work and would have us be-|/) {he houses oUt of thelr salarle the unpromising place and get into a promising one, It i prilon ; « As the Covenant took form, certain imperfections «atom lieve that we will glaily any|}'\ t Pedal pciteg 8 ° S$} the supervision ofgpfectious diseases i : 9 66] CHALLENGE those who have been able to |tarcign pollcy he and hie itis band | yd bs crater! to you If you would) § the only way you will ever amount to anything, in all institutions the investigation red, Critice“Were justified in pointing out |pumlleh this porrenhon, 80 as. to ler 1h 4 disposal of dog bite complaints J pe 4 slop further progress in the State to find fault |" viank’ checks so to npeak, when he| “UT Teasers know the fo d the maintenance of a staff of these defects. No work of human minds ever vi : will fill in after the electte ° : ; physicians who diagnose cases of in~ i‘ . with what I have done and to make their excuses for \“'sokator ‘Iiurding ‘is posing é Jamaton, 3. T, ~ = —TH]| districts of New Netherland, and |fectious disease and a corps vf feld feached perfection. Many of these suggestions, ad- po led to help." —C pur undefiled American. Feem a Van Striker, \é6 ’ 9) || the vigilant, Magistrates resolved [nurses who do supervisory worl Wanced by Republican leaders like Lodge, Lowell ving failed to help.” —Gov. Smith. he with his consent | 1 the Eaiior of The | at sa act to raise up the palisadea to the “|throughout the city ri ‘ q ican leaders like Lodge, Lowe! a8 9 of height of at least ten or twelve For the purposes of this Bureau the: h p< a ee 1 liscontented native | “tal fo et yy yeli Fire oh ’ : ‘ick ||| feet to. prevent the overloopen |etty is divided into eighteen districts, up prughes and Taft, were adopted by the draft | err HROW up your hands and don't Jin support 0 acy, In, Sone | By Albert P. Southwick |}) (uying over) of the savages.” [each a separate unit, with its clinica 13 of the Covenant. ¥ lon't move or | Ot this | point to the numero! dent of [Nie nite aot “Breciee Wendie | sac 8 and. office, where all matters. cons iming 600 un . we'll plug you full of holes.” —C man societics throughout the country n, © The palisade ockade, _ | nected “with infectious diseases are Meanwhile, the political schemers magnified the plug you full of Common day pledging their support to him, returned to work. I challenge him to he Palisades, or atockade, ex- | handled. ; ‘ and night salutation in the City of New York. ¢ Presidency of the United States| produce them: in Madison Square| One of the latest memortais to the | Hear the present head of Goonies Japon pq eoule 2, Harris 1s Director of imperfections, ignored the progressive accomplish- A " ce . {is the hy 4 ad Cpa be moneeee Garden ted meet our union an heroes of 1775-83 is that at the | giip, on the line of Pearl Street, od po vag ae pa! 7 upon an American ‘citizen, bu pe-| gates. The van owners are hiring (6% pa * ™ crossing the 7 . ee te Be ad ment. iS lieve that to be en American without] ctrincbreakern, which they told the| Dutch Collegiate Church, Fifth | crossing the folds to the for \ uarters, No, 505 Pearl Street, Mane % 4 66 CENATOR HARDING has heard me discuss |the hyphen and still rembin a private | public they would not do, They are| Avenue and 48th Street, erected by | (yy ir fn tae Rutseml morn Bide of Once the Treaty was Signed, the campaign 5 citizen is in reality @ greater honor ing the public, their homes and| the Daughters of the Revolution on | 140 along the Hudson to the Fore <== = a hig the subject of the League of Nations inthe Senate {God forbid that 1 should ever be y in strikebreakers’ hands to| April 25, 1900. TDeP MBER Tap PURER RED | gcadiak asta: gal cee i hanged. Then it was that the Phantom League Sep ep Vicaay ib ae Jidaad ya guilty ¢ voting to send a man to rob ar gems Buch men are not Merentrette te ey ee as kde eaten | Sena cad ote toptentocn “have , | understands my sition White House fit to enter any zen's home, ie nits re 895 she . ~ - <tr Was bor, . ay teh a URC proas himself In lanwuag told the public he ave #00 Increase Newaan Street was briefty’calted, | £it¥ MAP of 1606 shows the line of | been made from thess relice. - Aly. . understood; and, far in May to » forge’ 0 ad re , § y : + Seeds of suspicion had been planied. By this | rbid that we as Aa that he Taised his rates from $1.25| oMisinally, Plewoman’s Street, but 8 e New York was called North Vir- : ) at we ie A citer an loariae per hour to $1.60, bringing the van| its complete designation was “The In digging the foundations of the | ginla before the Dutch had named Hime, the harvest was under way. As one crop | g¢ m ATTY insists that baseball still remains a in moany.|owneta & aloe profit over the reise.) Btreete that leads by the Fye | De" joliwey. “a large number af | ne ee 8 remai: man, Italian | The strikers are only asking for a “ . b= oudway, & © number o! y + | Woman's. : thatured it was used as seed for another plar % : ‘ other foreigner who has be- | living wage and square deal the old posts of the palisades were No, 19 Broadway, which had two Partisans J fla ‘tne Pe ning clean game in spite of the disclosures of Come naturalized and at the same| 1 hope you will publish this letter, A ees found, many feet beneath the sur- fine stones lions at the entrance, n harped on. th WS. venan! ” time Americanized 1 have the most ‘A CONSTANT READER. On Sept. 80, 1655, a foray of In- face. | Although nearly 250 years | was once for a brief period the {aan 1 it wafting players. '—Mrs. Christy Mathewson, profound respect, but for the individ- ;Brooklyn, Sept, 27, 1920, dians was made in the ol old, the portions found were in an | residence of Daniel Webster, . pba os ™»