The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1920, Page 38

RESET 1 Ag gap MARR N ceat ANE Se, pockets the fire-traps and keeping as well as safety to each and all of us. A PARTY THAT ABJURES ITS PAST. £& WONDER Senator Harding and other Re- publican speakers In the present campaign do not choke over their own words when they try to make the Republican Party appear the natural A TEST FOR MR. TAFT'S FAITH. ENATOR HARDING said yesterday: "J will have no man's vole upon @ misunder- standing.” “I understand the position of the Democratic can- didate and he understands mine, as his own words plainly show, notwithstanding the recent pretense that my position has not been made clear, It is that he favors going into the Paris League and I favor staying out.” “It is not interpretation but rejection that I am seeking.” * Mr. Taft wrote two months ago: “I hope that President Harding will ultimately conclude it to be wiser to enter the League with the Lodge reservations than to attempt to carry out the same purpose through a new form of association.” is faith, in politics, the power of believing that You must register before 10.50 to-morrow © wight, If you fail to register you will have no ‘ pote in an olection that should express the will ef the American people regarding one of the biggest issues in their history. If you have not (@iready dono 40, regiater to-night, Don’t put it Off Vill to-morrow. GUIDE FOR BLIND SHIPS. HEN the destroyer Semmes made the trip through Ambrose Channel with canvas cover- the windows of the bridge, it was a real path- and pioneer of commerce, f° Demonstration of the practical utility of an elec- trically charged submarine cable as an aid to naviga- ‘tion through fog-shrouded waters is a veritable triumph of modern engineering. Only recently the whole Port of New York was tied up by fog for two whole days. Thousands of people were inconvenienced and delayed. Money Joss from idle piers and ships amounted in a few to that which connects Ambrose Light and “Quarantine. If the new Invention proves up to present pros- pects, the development will be as important to sea traffic as was the block signal on railroads, It takes no great stretch of imagination to see every dangerous spot on the coast guarded with [ ewes submarine cables supplementing light- houses and light-ships, or even in some instances ) supplanting them, The cable “sings” to the navigator, according to ons somewhat poetic description of the new safety device, From the days when men first went down to the sea In ships, the romanticists have told of sirens who led mariners to their death by singing 0 siren. The song that Science sings Is a song of Safety and security. The “Real Estate Interests of New York” are attacking the new rent laws, If the Real Estate Interests of New York had realized that their own interest lay in something beside unre stricted greed and grab, if they had put a check of their own devising on the rent-gougers, if they had not approached the housing problem from firat to last solely as obstructioniats, there might have been no need of new rent laws FIRES AFFECT RENTS. vent fires. To-morrow is the special day for | "the work. It ought to go on every day of the year, ‘+ There is a huge job for fire prevention, It would ~be easy to print statistics to show that the United States is wasteful and careless and so Incurs a stag- gering loss in life and property each year which might easily be prevented if people were careful. Statistics, however, are dry things at best. Mr. __Average Citizen abhors them. They mean little ) to him, Perhaps it will he simpler and more effective to point out the very direct connection between care- lessness and high rents. Every so often the whole city is excited over making of the budget and fixing the tax rate. Every one is interested because high taxes are passed on in the form of high rents. Every tax boost justifies a rent boost. What Mr. Average Citizen falls to realize is that a high fire Insurance rate has the same effect on rents as high taxes. cording to the comparative risk of fire. For the whole city the rates vary according to the number of fires the preceding year or years. Fire insurance companies arrange rates to cover losses and still yield a profit. More fires mean higher insurance rates. Fewer fires mean lower insurance rates. Lower fire rates will keep down rents in the same way that a lower tax rate does, _ Cautlen and prevention mean money in the FE the coasts and in dangerous places. Science is | ] | | TO-MORROW is the day to clean up and pre- | Fire Insurance rates vary between buildings ac‘ advocate of national Isolation. The party of Theodore Roosevelt and the Pan- ama venture, the party of the McKinley Adminis- tration, the war with Spain, the annexation of Hawall, the conquest of the Philippines, Porto Rico and Cuba, now posing as the stay-at-home party of prudence! No wonder Mr. Wickersham charged the Repub- lican League-wreckers In the Senate with seeking to commit what he termed “the party of great national and international ideals” to a complete reversal of its principles. Turn to the report of the Twelfth Republican Na- tional Convention at Philadelphia in 1900, where the war with Spain was celebrated as the splendid Republican achievement of McKinley's first term. Listen to the Permanent Chairman of the Con- vention—none other than the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge: “Fresh glory han come to our arma and crowned our flag. It was the work of the American people, but the Republican Party was their Instrument.” “The President boldly took the islands (the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico), took them knowing well the burdens and responsibil- , ity; took Liem from a deep senee of duty to ourselves and others, guided by a just fore- sight as to our future in the Bast and with an entire faith in the ability of the American people to grapple with the new task.” “Our pathway bas never lain among dead issues, nor have we won our victories and made history by delving ia political grave- yards.” “We will not abandon our task. We will neither surrender nor retreat.” Hear the Convention’s Temporary Chairman, to a sum which would provide many cables | Senator Wolcott of Colorado: “If counsels of fear do not prevail, this generation will see the American Nation gird- Ung half the globe with its flag, extending its foreign commerce to the uttermost parts of the earth, and taking its place among the great world-nations, a power for good, for ‘ peace and for righteousness.” Accepting the renomination, President McKinley reminded his party of his words to the Peace Com- mission before its departure for Paris: “The march of events rules and overrules buman action. Avowing unreservedly the purpose which has animated all our efforts and still solicitous to adhere to it, we cannot be unmindful that without any desire or de- sigu om our part the war has brought us new duties and responsibilities which we must meet and discharge as becomes a great nation, on whose growth and career from the begin- ning the Ruler of Nations has plainly written the high command and pledge of civilization.” No “burdens” to be dreaded, no “counsels of fear’ to prevail when the country was to be ushered into a new place of responsibility among nations under Republican aus pices! The wider reaches of internationalism were to hold no terrors for the American people when it was a Republican Adrninistration that pushed them into the larger fiekd. And now leaders of ‘this same Republican Party are trying to keep the Nation out of the greatest peace movement in history because that movement began while the country was under a Democratic Administration! The shameless hypocrisy of it! The Republican Party of this canipaign is a parly that abjures its own past. If it would damage Woodrow Wilson, we believe Senator Harding and Senator Lodge would now try to present the Republican Party as the original and lifelong promoter of Free Trade. TWICE OVERS. | €€ CENATOR JOHNSON informs me that he will be ready to jump into the fight for Harding | ‘and remain in it until the campaign ends.” — Senator New, CET HE figures of the census show that, for the first lime in the country's history, more than half the entire population is now living in urban territory.” —Census Director Rodgers, * « 6c W* will win the series.’—Tris Speaker, “7 HE series will be very close.” —Wilbert Rob- ingon, city BuvGer DEMANDS Jump OF / || $151,799,600 = ane er What kind of letter do you And most readable? Jen't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in @ couple of hundred? There ia fine mental excercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to aay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. — cent.; Republican-Labor (synonymous in practice with Sinn Fein), #25. or %5 por cent; Nationalist (anti-Brit-| ish), 170, or 6 per cent.; Labor, 87, or 1.1 per cent; Independent, 62, or 1.6 per cent; Unionist (British), 386, or 11.8 per cent. In the face of there official figures, showing unity of national sentiment Unprecedented in any country, 1 amt what ls demanded of Ireland? A unan- In the Kaletdoncope. To the Mitor of ‘The krening World Will you permit me through your valuable paper to tell what 1 saw in the Republican kaleidoscope? It was really wonderful, First appeared Harding, the ever changing candidate; then followed Senatora, then much a anging bills. | What Impressed me most w how! imous vote before you agree to the plainly G. 0. P. atood out in the back=| sort of government the Irish people Frond. At [aded Guim ly a oonsvey.| desire? Are there not political dit. yen appeared owl a Thon tBtiowed the voter, the bese poll | ferenoes in every country in the world? Do Republicans and Demo- crata, Socialists, Prohibitionists or Farm-Labor men e? Why insist trom the Irish people what is not in- sisted or expected from any other people on earth? Would the people of New York tolerate the dictation of an insolent and bigoted minority of 15 por cent. over the will of @ per cent.? Not for one moment. And You know, as well fas 1 do, that they would not, In the Light of our present-day in view of the npetrated on the unarmed reland, the Briti#h ig not a Government, The misdeeds of her “Black and Tan” murderers, incondiarists, ravagers, looters and marauders find parallel only Dark Ages. The army of profe: killers who have been set upon fenaclons | populace | with machine guna hand grenades, rifles, motor tanks, armed aeroplanes, kerosene and petrol tanks and the torch out- run the stvageries of the Indians of the Weatern plains in the early days. And yet, despite repeated [Indictments |Uelwn and the Presidential candidate | "I closed my eyes and shuddered, be- jeause I bad tied to be a Republican. A WOMAN VOTDR New Rochelle, Oct. 7, 1920. he Law Covers This Case, 'T) the Kaitor of The Hrening World Your paper . has much to help the unfortunate tenants, but what about the innocent landlord who has been made to suffer with the guilty through your sweeping advice? I call to mind one, a widow, who this last year Invested ber little sur plus in a house, thinking by making room for a tenant she could meet the tainly done civilization and atrocities people of, civilize expense tmpomible to Inst winter ind it utterly yarn comfortable a Sho asked for the rooms when the year expired, giving them six months notice, They took your advice and “eat Ught,” e shanged cir. rooms herself. 4 will find many more we to me there sh mpartial writers, and evon by ap nade for such cases tial section of the English | READER politicians ke Greenwood New York, Oct. 6, 1920. Law, Carson, Lioyd George and herson, and military bullies and he stripe of French, Mag- ‘udor and Wilson, brazenly world of barbarities that have med the “Black Hane " of the Romanoffs, i# the simplest and mildest truth to say that Britain's oppres- sions in Ireland shame and disgrace cur common humanity and outrage | the olviigation of the recent years. 8. J. DONLEBAVY Freeport, N. ¥., Oct. 5, 10920 the lead anti-[rish publications and propagandists in discussing the Irish question, With Viscougt Grey you find that the heart of the trouble ts in th ferences between Irishmen | uh jand overworked falsehoods of the ro-Britieh craftamen, Let us see how much truth is in these alloga- tions First, at the first general election, held after the World War, and under the fe rocedure of British an 80 per cent. of the declared against con- he British connection. ‘at the #eeond general eloc- tion, held this year, for county, dis- trict and rural councils and poor law Kuardians, that is, all the local ad- $1.2 per cent, of : Broaden Opportanity. ‘T> the Balter of The Prening World I am one of thousands of young men who, baving graduated from high | school, find themselves at a hone as to thelr next stop, Unwilling or unabl to spend another four years a5 college, | they seek @ position, only to be re- fused for lack of experience. I belleve that though this may be/ a , th © cogniged the au thority of th n Ropublie the greatest educational city, it ty counell (h Leinster, Munater|1# still not doing enough for education, nna c reonally, I am & would-be law Sonnaugnt pledged its allegiance | Tomoye ‘there ta no college which has room for me nor for thousands | like me. I would be willing to take a commercial law course, but where) | DrocHitish | There ls no free couree and those that Hy.407 eats! haye openings are far those financially country the Independent. B and ¢ to the Ke. Of the 66 councils voted against the R Of 206 rural ne 19, or 92 per ‘Of the grand contested In the whole British eeoured only 346, oF 11.8 per Lat ue have bigger and better edu- cent. cational opportunity. An analysts of the fiures shows: ALFRED B. AHRZS, Ginn Fein, 2,467 soats, or 717 per No, 1877 Avenue A, Oot, 4, 1220 6 Ireland only UNCOMMON SENSE’ By John Blake. (Caprtiget, 1990, My The Ball Myadiente, tne.) WHEN NECESSITY WAS BOSS. If you think your boss is overexacting, reflect for few minutes on the Pilgrims, who landed at Plymouth three hundred years ago, and became model Americans the day they landed, Necessity was boss in those days, And necessity is never an easy boss. Supplies brought along were exhausted shortly. Every- thing the new immigrants ate had to be grown. And grow- ing food on the soil of New England is never Half the colony had to be on guard against hostile iniliaps while the others tilled the ground and hunted and fished. Winter in a more severe form than they had ever known it made conditions still harder, ‘ There was no time to form unions or declare for shorter ours, The members of the colony began to work as soon as it was day and kept at work till after dark. They had to cut wood, to bring water from the springs, to attend to their gardens, to kill animals and catch fish and very soon to spend much time in nursing the sick, for illness soon began to decimate their numbers, It was, perhaps, the hardest job Americans bad ever undertaker, But they'kept at it, day in and day out, and at last succeeded in their enterprise. With about a tenth of the industry that these men put forth almost body can succeed to-day, There is no boss in the employing business who has the power of life and death over his employee. . Yet necessity, denied obedience, not only holds such power but exercises it very freely. Think of the Pilgrims the next time you are dissatisfied with your working conditions and fancy you can't pogsibly get anywhere under them, A little reflection on what they had to endure will do you considerable good, Incidentally, it will show you that success comes from the stuff that is inside a man and not from the conditions that surround him. HO ceived the name of the “Heare Straat” or Gr Highway, and, later, the appellation, Broad Way. gia | Grants of land were first made and deeds given in 164%. Previous to that time settlers had been al- lowed to occupy land as they saw fit, and lMnes and boundaries were established by chance, or by the exercise of one’s own desires and aweet . The first lot granted on De Hoare Straat, In 1643, was to Martin Creiger (or Kreiger). This lot ts Dow known as Nos. 9 and Li “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick . 1080, ty ‘The Press oo ommiate soe th Tene” Wort The United States flag was first saluted by any foreign power om Feb. 11, 1778, at Quiberon Bay, France, Admiral Le Motte repre- senting the French Government, firing the salvo of weloome. The flag was carried by the Ranger, commanded by Capt. Paul Jones. “The Star-Spangled Banner” wae first carried around the world on the Columbia, Capt, Robert Gray commanding. . oe ‘Te lower part of Broadway, facing Bowling Green, in common with that upon the east side, was originally simply designated as the “Market-flekd.” Afterward ™ re Broadway, New York City, ee In an extract from a letter writ- ten by Dr. Bolomon Drowne, a sur- nm of the Revolution, from New ork on July 13, 1776, it te atated that “the famous gilded eques- trian statue of ye British King, tn thie city, was levelled with ye dust; his head taken off, and, next morning, in a wheelbarrow, car- ried to His Excellency'’s Quart 1 was told. There la a large quan- tity of lead about it which Is to be run into bullets to destroy bis Myr Primer of the League of Nations By Richard Linthicum xX ¥ This instalment, the ninth, treats of the abrogation of scoret treatica, of other understandings that are t with the Covenant and the Monroe Doctrine. Question—What provisions ere contained in the Covenant of the League to pring about “open, just end honoredle relations between nations” as deciared in the pre- ambie to be one of the gurpesse of the League? Answer—Aside from of information concerning armaments (Article the following provisions are made (1) Putting an end to Plomacy and substitut! plomacy and publicity. @ reoonsideration of treaties whieh do not longer existing conditions. (Article 19.) (3) Abrogating (making void) all treaties inconsistent with the ) Presser iy make no treaties “ creeing hereafter inconsistent with the Cove- nant, Q.—How is scoret diplomacy to de adolisheds A—By putting an end to secret treaties. ‘Every convention or international Secretariat and shall as as pos- sible be publi: my by 1 No an national engagem (Article 18.) The making of secret treaties has been a prolific cause of suspicion among and friction between nations. .—Whidh body of the League deci with the vavislon ef eoteting treaties? A—The Assembly, whioh may ad- vine reconsideration of treaties whieh have become inapplicable. (article 19.) Under this Article the Assembly may also advisg the consideration of international cdnditions, of which the continuance might endanger the peace of the world. This gives the Assem~ bly a wide latitude as a peacemaker. Q—ly members of the Leagua new have treaties or agreements inconatatent with the Covenant of the League how will they be abro~ gated? (made vojd.) A—They are automaticaly abro- ed inter se (among themaelves) by Covenant. The motubers of tho | League solemnly undertake that they ‘will not hereafter enter tuto any en- gagements invensistent with the terms ‘of the Covenant, If they have under- taken obligations before becoming membern it becomes thar duty to take Immediate steps to procure te- lease from ali such obligations. (Arti- cle 40.) Q.—Do the terms of the Cove- nant apply to treaties of arbitra- tion or understandings for secur: ing the maintenance of peace? A-—No. Such treaties and under- standings are specifically excluded, because arbitration and the main- tenance of peace are fundamental principles and policies of the League. Q-—Do the terms of the Cove~ nant apply to the Monroe Dec- trine? A—No. When the Covenant was drafted some persons contended that it abrogated the Monroe Doctrine, and in order that there could be fo ground for controversy over the matter Article 2lgwas adopted, which reads: “Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements such a8 treaties of arbitration or regional up- derstandings like the Monroe Doctrine for securing the maintenance of peace.” The Covenant not only officially recognizes the Monroe Doctrine, but recognizes it as “an understanding for securing the maintenance of peace: Q.—Wes the Monroe Doctrine ever before recognised by Euro- pean powers? A—No, This is the first official Pei bt of the Monroe Doctrine by any European power or powers. Q.—What is the Monroe Doo- triner A—The declaration of President Monroy trine, is contained in a mi je by him ‘to the Congress of the United States Dec, 2, 1828, The exact words are us followss “We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amical Ing between the thome powers (European powers), to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hem- lsphere aa dangerous to our peace and safety, With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have pot interfered, and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence, and maintained ft, and whose inde- pendence we huve, on great consid- eration and on just principles, ac- knowledged, we could’ not view any {nterponition for the purpose of op- pressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power, in any other light | than as the manifestation of an un- friendly disposition toward the United States.” In other words, we guaranteed the sovereignty and independence of the Latin American Republics, just; as Article 10 guarantees the sovereignty und independence of all nations in the League of Nations, Q—Hes the Monroe Doctrine proved to be an understanding jor the maintenance of peace? A—Yes, Since its declaration the United States has not been compelled to fre a shot to uphold it, (The next statement will treat of mandatories for weak and enall poopica freed by the wary