The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1920, Page 20

MEMBER OF THR ARROCIATED raess. Prem te exclusively entitied to the um for repwbiicrtion Ail Bows deapatehes credited to ft or wot otherwinn credited tn this parer aise thie local news published bervin. | ONE OF AL SMITH’'S NOTIONS. 66] AM going to Albany to go to work. The of- fice of Governor is big enough to take every minute of time a man has, aside from that he feels he should give to his fami That's what Alfred E. Smith said just afler he was elected Governor two years ago, when he nounced he would accept no invitations to dinners or other public gatherings chiting the two months following bis inauguration: “This may be a departure from custm, so fer as the Gevernorship is concerned, but 1 ama unable te understand how e man can be i Governor of the State and be making public j speeches and eating dinners away from Al- ' bany three or four nights a week, 1 don't be- t. lieve I was elected Governor for that purpose.” | ' PF This was one of Al Smith's notions of the Gov- f { ernorstip, \ He has stuck to the notion through his term. ij J Whatever his ambitions may be, nobody has seer } | fim boost them at the expense of the Common- | swealth that elected him. From tris conduct as Governor it might be as- sumed he rated no political office in the United | States more important than the Governorship of : the State of New York. | State Interests, State economies, State improve- ments have claimed his full thought and energy. | hard, consistent, practical work for the welfarg of the State is a measure of polltical ambition, then ‘Alfred E. Smith ranks among the most ambitlous meri in public life. The people of New York, however, cannot afford to lose a Governor whose ambition works that way. : They would be cheating themselves not to re- dect him. | MACSWINEY DEAD. HE long expected death of Terence Mac- Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, cannot fail to fhave its effect all over the English speaking world, His hunger strike so long sustained has further em- Wittered the feud between the English and the Irish without in any way polnting to a settlement, ~» MacSwiney’s slow starvation has, however, helped to focus the thought of the world on the English-Irish question. Everywhere there is a more insistent pressure on England to find some way out which will sattsfy both the Irish and the other peoples of the world. ' On the one side of the quarrel MacSwiney {s _ enehsined as a martyr; on the other he is criticised asa misguided zealot. . The Immediate political effect of his death is @oubtfl. “The tuck of Lloyd George” scems to hold. In England fhe coal strike holds the centre Hf the stage and nothing else can compete in public ittterest. The clagh of pubtic opinion and criticism / * of the Cabinet is not likely to be so sharp today a5 it woul@ have been a month ago when the public aind was not so fill of other troubles. PN rer HIS ONE DAY. ITH Elihu Root and William Howard Taft id on one side and Hell-Roaring Hiram ani Bloody Bill Borah on the other, it must be admitted that Candidate Harding is in a pathetic position. In this campaign of 1920 we have the strange of a man running for the exalted Office of President of the United States and yet un- * able to say anything or do anything which his fol- lowers will not Interpret away or accept with +» reservations, Anything Harding says to-day will be explainal ; away by one or the other party of his supporters \ to-morrow, | But a time is coming when Senator Harding will have an opportunity to assert himself if he desires. A day is coming when he can hold the whip-hand. On Nov, 4, and only on Nov, 1, will ft be pos t sible for Senator Haniing to have any real influence on the balloting | | On Nov. 4, if the candidate is so inclined, he can | state his policies, if he has any, and appeal directly to the voters on their way to the polls, At the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour he can speak, and his supporters wil! not have time fo explain away his views, ; THE SHRUNKEN. NN THE London Dally Chronicle, G. H, Perris writes: 1 “Unless America can be brougit back tntu the common council, the process of recon | struction will be so spoiled and protracted “that we shall run a grave risk of a genera! Buropean collapse.” Not much mupre thah a wear ago a distingulshed | d fa _TES in said in the columns of the New York “We have been ghe living spring for this last contury and a half from which thesd ulcas have sprung, and we have trlumphed. The world to-day, except for 9 comparatively few reactionary and communistic autocracies, democratic, and we did tt, “A man who taker a wife and blesses the world with several infants caanot go airay and leave them on the clatm that thera was no legal marrtage.”’ “To abandon the covenant now means that the treaty tteeif will collapse.” “Having gone in with our eves open and with a determination to free ourseluce and the veat of the world from the dangers that surrounded ws, we connot now pull back from the job. “It is no wae to hold a great revival and then go away leaving a church for continucd terviers half done.” The Ameri of (he above was Mr. Her- bert Hoover— lied with Hiram Johnson in supporting a candidate who says covenant: "1 do not w lo clarify ¢ want to turn my back on them. tation but rejection that | am of the League 2 obligations, ! It is not interpre- eeking.”” WAKING UP! HERE no mistaking the cordiality and enthusiasm of the greeting which New York City extended Saturday to Goy. Cox and the League of Nations issue—to the Man and to t Message. The Message Is greater than the Man. It is greater than any group of men, greater than.any political party. Nothing else acoounts for the notable sub- ordination of partisanship in the great meeting at* Madison Squire Ganlen. Gov, Cox’s speech was admirable, It was an excellent plea to have in the newspapers of the country on “League of Nations Sunday.” The re- Sponse of his hearers was more sincere than boistérous. Gov. Cox synthesized the winning appeals he ha been making in recent speeches. He laid stress on the simple yet complex economic factors which are forcing America info the League. He went to new lengths to emphasize his willingness to concede and corciliate, and so eliminate partisanship from the consideration of the questions involved, There is no mistaking that the tide has turned Gov. Cox's prospects are Infinitely brighter to-day than they were a month ago or even a week ago. The tide has turned. What the advocates of the League have hoped for is transpiring. America is waking up! While Senator Harding has retreated to (lie Front Porch and feebly prates of a bygone age, Gov. Cox is driving home the facts in simple and effective fashion. His appeal is tp both the intelligence and the conscience of his countrymen. The voters are rousing. They sre comparing the straightforward Cox stand with the wiggle and wabble of the Front Porch Candidate as exposed by his rival supporters. America, the Giant, is stirring in its sleep... There remain eight days. The election depends on how fast the awakening progresses. Eight days is at least a week too long from the standpoint of the Republican managers, bd SOLDIERS’ LETTERS ON THE LEAGUE (The originals of these letters are on file at headquartera of the Veterans’ Coml Melvin D, Hildreth, Brecutive Hill Hotet, New York.) osevelt Club, Kecretary. Murray “Holyoke, Mans. “Tread today a newspaper headline tn a local journal: ‘Sixty Thousand Women Voters Fall to Respond to League of Nations Lure.’ Thte, mind you, was a head on & news article relative to the Maine election. “Tt Ia ‘lure," fm it? Then T maintain that the World War was as lure—it was a lure that fooled the world, and today Germany aughs. She laughs because she won. She laughs because she sees her conquerors are not hig enough to co operate In peace as they co-operated in war; they will not co-operate to save lives as they co-oper- ated to lose them. “IT savy the horrors of war. I appreciate the sordidness, the utter folly of it all. I saw dead Germans ,who believed they had fought for the same {deals as our allies and ourselves, Do you imagine for a minute that the fair-hatred young peasant boy lying there in the gutter, blood stained and mud-begrimed, had any oth idea than that he was fighting to save the Fatherland He was drafted to serve under the chosen eon of Gott, and the letter he carried tn his pocket from hin mother asked him when Ne thought the tor rible war would end, so that he could con and york on thetr farm boy Unpatriotic We rightly ex tered the war linve entered it sooner. What was odr beat reason for entering the war? We were told that It was to stop future wars. “Remember the posters, remember the speeches “Yet faith?” © bac I suw it, and 1 saw the rt sontimer Not we might well member the songy. remember the promis what have we done as a nation t For the Right Until the End, A Texas voteran writes “1 am an overseas roldier, and was wounded T stand firmly for the League of Nations and want what I fought for, and I am going to part in getting what T fought for, It tan't any tiing but right, and Cam for the right thing untt the end.” f (To Be Continued.) EVENING WORLD, MO Pye kes ate { PAWE IAG wie a ee sacar) What kind of letter do you find most readabie? Ten't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satinfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. Proht To the Balter of The Having been a redder of The World for years, [ am naturally intere: tunately Gov. Cox appears to me to have the worthy attributes to fill the hichent oMfce in the gift of the people yur country your readers’ column, and very much NERS aegis so during the last year and a@ half, t TAY Neate tara GOLRE during which time we, the people ¢ my count Ae a man \a free nation, have been forced to ait thinketh in his heart, so Is he. | diy by while hypocrites like Ander- | R. BEDLEL | / have taken advantage of ws. New York, Oct. 19, 1920 a big part of our voters were “ forward their ti A Northern southern To the Beat Wart Tre to B. Mortimer George's letter 1 would suggest that | | he go dowr and ale his y voting repressntat Twas born w York ¢ | iypocritical and wh t/ put lived most of my Jlte in the South, | Jof office at th and I know whereol T speak respect to Probfhition, < “) While {don't advocate a practt lank Anderson o few questions |the Ku Kiux Klan, yet {1 Will Anderson tell us how a Pro-| jtsatt gy good ting In toany ine hibition agent can lye on $1,500 4) when a negro has attacked a white year, or about §29 waok ? | » in the Sout It han put a | 2 WHI Anderson t us how any into them better th anything saloonkeeper can pay ead €X-Selse could have done, The Southern penaes, buy high priced motor cars) people have put up with a great deal m or be independent on the sales of im- tation beer? I] think Andefwon’s pet {dea has been given the chance he yelled for and that it fa a ein Mo far Hs | from negro, but one thing that twill make them np en masse (« the protection of thelr white womer va't know what kind of a yuth~ Jerner B. Mortimer Georg: but cer- prohibiting anything or doing anybody |taidly he is not a real one when he ‘any good. | speaks of “Hooker T. Washington, T've #eon a pretty good letter to-| who was a personal friend of min day, wk “Wiliam Maher," asking | He further states that perhaps the nerossmen and acial idens is only 4 tor the Bigheont: Tam afraid it Is only too| and the Enforce true ‘Act, This isa step in the r Again 1 state, let B. Mortimer thon. I would also aurgent th George go down’ South, among real add the names of those who fa! Southern people, and’ express his vote or absented thomacives, na they | views, Lam sure he will be accorded uw hot reception. A NORTHERN SOUTHERNER, furtherance of tha, why not start or Anti-Prahibition Party to} reon | Jare in the same boa, I nee tt, In | | cantking bo used the oa used his? of Met interest w's experience chase theatre t Sophie Nobens The ¥ ainte iunens Lams we stand | Kubens wan : od, Ok ind every one in Antwer a rh age the house vhere | deavor Rubens was bore VICTOR BAUYRNS, | speculator ia eS Anna Bee Newark, | Without a doubt a menace to the the 190, 1920. t }atre and amusement world, As a | matter of fact, the theatre ma: to blame for this highway robbery; they ex We ticket specu! te are solely ° ynctiiation, ce for Vacilt rth: M4 Vhe Byenina Wort t mig hen # few play openw out of town | we matter ty luve a vacillating id the tleket apectlatos : the executive head of aw nok the 1 Advancing, good nation ‘Dusineas 1 States ok of went f nate ave | run, and th mana 1s! willing to turn his tickets over to tt woulators provided he gets his price. manager cares nothing about the theatregoing public who step uy to! the box office and are willing t ay | Wilson's Hut suppose a President proved to be vaetilating { feel cont | dent it would not be wholesome for| their good money to witness his pl |the Nation, It surely is not whole-| only to be informed by the box office me in businers Jd out,” thereby forcing the | Aw @ citizen of this glort try 1 for one will vot jernor of Obto to head our splendid and be compelled to pay the c Nation for the next four ye lrequisite for a man to t purposes in his work and duty tt ft bor Jo gratter demands : You bre unabl ut the box office ¢ 7 i the tloketa, © purchase tickets r the reason that NDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1920. SP Sina, {them call the | atre leetven pe agente ets ae x a rss aay UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake, (Copsriaht, 1929, dy John Make) IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? This is a question discussed by philosophers, who reach different conclusions, the most interesting answer being the joke, quoted by William James, “it depends upon the liver.” To o man in ill health, and beset with troubles, or bowed with grief, the answer seems ta be “no!” But iil health mends, or one can learn to endure it, as Stevenson and Pope and many important men have done. ime dulls the edge of grief, and temperament enables . @ pan to rise superior to it. And, whether life is worth the living or not, we have to live it, so we might as well make up our minds at the beginning to make the best of it. The only alternative is < suicide, and it was Shakespeare who made Hamlet say that it was better to “bear those illy we have than fly to others that we know tot of,” As a general thing, life is pretty much what you make Your individual life is inside and not out: You ean shut out troubles if they harass you, and find pleasures in reading and in reflectron, and in association with the people who love you and are interested in you, And who so poor but can find a few faithful, loyal friends? Life is most worth the living when one has something useful to do, something in which he is interested. To do well a job that is part of the world’s work is far The hap- The unhappiest it more entertaining than any pastime ever devised, piest people in the world arc the workers. are the idlers, Unless you are unusually ill or sinned against you can make your life not only tolerable but enjoyable, Get something to do. Get an honest ambition, which is ambition to help others, and not,to walk to success over their heads, Divide your work and play time so that you can rest when you are tired and work when you are fresh. But be sure to assign by far the longer hoursato work, Then can you e your life worth the living, and when it is over n fecl that you were not sent here in vain, you ¢ the t mn" You go — ——— Ho +++ into an ylels or Ucket lee es aaeitclen tickets and if, |] S a ’ errs anda for donee and 1° That's @ Fact theatre on the pho’ and get them, The Treasurer ts hold- ing out a block for the specutator, and | Py, “ when you pay the rafters price he | |” Mee ‘Now Tomko’ wane «ives you ® printed order on the the. | 's= ~ for the seats, ‘The Treasurer re-| smiles and hands the, O98 of the. finest State mottoes is non the “4t Of Kansas, “Ad astra per a pera’ (To the stare through ali di fieulties), while that of Colorado, sine numine’ Nothing without Prov dence), breathes a religious sentimen: Artaona’s "Sitat Deus" by Albert P. Southwick stood between Ni Treasurer that} receive & definite the box office the speculate the att amount money (Founded by In reading Mr. Root's speech dell’ ered at Carnegie Hall on 0 one is not surprised to jae thy easy manuer in which an experienc @dvocate can turn his powers or gument to such purpose as he ma’ find moat agreeable. Having in the past gone on reco; Practically in favor of the particul covenant under discuraton, and hat ing committed himselx through ai ceptance of m position on the cof miaston for organikation of an Int national Court under ite provision he still Ia not dismayed, when it party loyalty is ft stake, at the ¢ of squaring himeel¢ with his p declarations To the ordinary straightforwardy} straight-thioking citisen the tas! ii reoms impossible excopt at the cost o! previous statements and niongi | stultification or direct retraction But that is not necessary in tho o of an advocate of the long experienod and facile mind and tongue of Filly Hoot, Ho takes the document whi he had previously prained and 6u; ported, with a few deft phrases turn its passages from right to left, a: behold what was good haa lost it virtue and what wag going to be boon to humanity becomes an ob, of suspicion and even of dangero import. He would have a loagua, yet will have no league ke this one, must provide for justice, yet must # powerless and see its justioe ignor He believes in international law, y his international law is to be an id in the abstract, with no concrete a tion to back it "up. Mr, Wilson is usually accused idegiism, yet here is tle practical M) Hoot carrying us into the realins 0} the Utopian period when a thing | to be Because it should be, He and other critics of the League repcate jly way that war can not be prevented) lyet they turn upon themselves and ‘advocate some sort of intangib! thing which is to pronoun interna tional law without any definite piag of enforcing it and thereby preven| a war, What is International Jaw without! an organization behind it to make I good? Is it anything more than |v | ternational good manners? And whe: gome nation decid to ignore thos RovG Wanuer O14, what is Koln to stop it? We have seen the v attempt of the Hague Tribunal ite Ephemeral Court. Oh! ye practical) men who point the finger of scorn a4] » dreamer Wilson! What do you » wague an ‘em yoe whiel will be an effective instrument to pres vent war or don't you? There to ndf logical middle ground. Wy The critics of the Leaguo, and 3 " supports them, say that ¢ | Covenant ts a league war and thag it is an aillance among certaln na | tons, although he admits that th | neutrals are invited in, Yet Mr, Roo knows that there ls a very differen? provision for the entrance of Ger? many and her allies when they provd themselves Mt and ure willing to Joins As for ite being an alliance for wad that can only be characterized as a deliberate misstatement, Article X. the instrument b; ‘which the world will be policed. Mi pro thre months’ consideration of controverst subjects, and as he says: “iM trat, apo delay to afford Ume for {nvestigatior and for passion to cool and sober juds} ‘and “three othe! things taken together to prevent war, all of thix with his approval. Then bh saya, “Thore was also a provie: standing by itself quite outside of general scheme of the league * * and forming no part of that sch: but creating, independent of it, a han and fast alliance amoung the member of the league.” Then he vrings his bat teries of an advocate’s rhetoric to bend upon Article X. Let me ask Mr. Root: If all the ons of the earth were included w | that eliminate his fear of an wwue without Artic! | had been in force in 1914, what wou lit have availed against an tnvasion Mut ita le X. had been in fore n Germany surely would ha paused before ehe brought down ,¢ her the wrath of the civilized wo With tt we could have had “delay afford Ute for investigation and Without, It was bi war overnight. Tell me, Mr. how you are going to have dewey wit out Article X Where is your inter national law and world court with an army and navy? Answer me aa lawyer and adyooate: Where is ‘h of any court without # abo iff and militia? The intention of Article X tn » the small nations such as t tkans in order. Lf we had such 4 lekreement among the nations | Rurope @n 1914, the Balkan nituat! | woulu have been settled without t | big war, Our quota would have 2,000 troopy at the mort instead two million, and five liv | would have been saved, E ‘And yet Mr, Hoot, the advoca says that the League ts made get us into war! The Balkans have always bei huown as che tinder box of Europ ‘And why? Because the large ni u of Bi * eat around in diff ent camps suspicious of each oth and watched their bickerings. Ei dreaded the ottier’s, interfering cause fearful of losing som futul advantage, But had there existed well formed agreement among the all, with no alliance on one side an [ententes on the other, the Balkan ni fon would long since have bed minated from the world's probiein: That situation can be compared several families whose children sta: fighting and ultimately drag the parents into the brawl, On tho oth hond, with @ small police force ti children are kept from fighting an (the families remain friendly. Mr, Wilson is right. Article X the boart of the treaty or coven: and without It any assoctation, wo | or what not, of Internatio: | j.|law falls to the ground and fails t.jits purpose, By its action it w |prevent war and, | a million 2 f- 11 | court, nd he gets it or the specuiator 44) 8 similar, and New York makes |sophistry of tie great get hin tickets. ‘This evil is, t8@ indisputable claim of “xcelator.” | knows tt y th anager, speculator ad = casket sonia) and the Treasurer, and there should| | Among “great holy cities” are Al- t norther: Point Fi be a ne taken to wipe It out. [lababad, of the ‘indian Cindtay | eg meter tnsee” heat ee The ning World Is tho paper) Mahometans; Benarea, of the Hindus fsiand, Alaska; the most that can help to do It, and I sincerely | (Hindoos); Cuzco, of the ancient incas cd immediately to! (Peru); Jerusalem, of the Jews and Mecca and Medina of the trust it will pro take steps to bh public T p the theatregoing | Christi Mahom a8; nodans (Turkey apd Arabin New York, Oct Unlied States ls Quoddy Head, Me. routh Key West, Fla. Tho, geograph centre ie, therefore, about 420 m\ | north of the raphical or nort boundary of Monten nh , e should be a law in this State| and Moscow and Kieff, of the Rus-| never seta on the soll ting the sale of a theatro ticket | sans States. When it 1s 6 v'alonk at Att tts printed face value. n 29.8 Yeland, Alaska, !t is 9.36 A, M. thi Y. BILLING The most eastern point of the nost.day on the eastern coast off Maine, i]