The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1920, Page 38

Biorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOBEPH PULITZER. Dally Except Publishing Company, Nos. 53 York. © Ravn Pcuitzen, H SJ. ANGUS SHAW, Ti 63 Park Row, 9 | SOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary. 63 Park Row. i . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Pa hig ie) fein Vie feral “newt pobllaned “THAT SORT OF THING.” PEAKING at Akron, ©., last night, Senator Harding said: “America wants to join the nations of the world in promoting and preserving peace. T have said 1 favor that sort of thing; I say it now.” Exactly. + The Republican candidate has ail along been try- ing to seli himself to American voters on the sly, half-hinted suggestion that if they elect him‘he will get them peace, an association of nations and “that Sort of thing” in a way that will let them off cheap in the matter of pledges and obligations. He says again: “IT have not prescribed the spectfic thing, because I have not yet come into authority 1 do not pretend to prescribe the specific thing myself.” No. but just put him into the White House and he will get somebody to put through a deal that will Save the United States any such silly price as that which forty-three other fool nations have been will- ing to pay for the safeguarding of peace and “that Sort of thing.” No such infamous proposition was ever before made an implicit part of an appeal to the American electorate. hereim, TOWARD AN AUTOMOBILE CODE. HE August Grand Jury appointed by Judge Mcintyre to investigate traftic conditions in the Borough of Manhattan has brought in its report. N | It is authoritative and convincing and gives evi- dence of careful study of the problem. Tu brief, the report is a tentative outline of such fin Automobile Code as the Evening World has advocated. * The Jury recommends the creation of the office of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles separate from ‘und with greater power than the Secretary of State now has; more traffic policemen; restriction and amination of licensees; provision for suspension and revocation of licenses; prohibition of “jay-walk- ing,” more and larger Traffic Courts, and other Pertinent regulations. The Grand Jury is to be congratulated on so admirable a report. But before it finishes its work disbands it might well do one more service. Jury might properly dfaft and present to the lic a proposed Automobile Code modeled on lines of its report but in language suitable for Presentation to the Legislature next winter. ) Probably not even a Jury which has made a painstaking study of the situation could formulate “a perfect code which-could be passed. It could, Be eves, make the first proposal and present it for ferutiny and criticism by the public, the tratfic magistrates and by automotive experts. The Jury has done a good job of constructive friticism. Wilt it not favor New York with an even better job? Let us have a first draft of an Automobile Code. BLACK SAVES WHITE. Gratifying in ttself and because of its novelly ts the report from Newport News of a pre vented lynching ander circumstances in which the usual race relations were reversed, A white man driving an automobile ran over and fatally injured @ negro girl. A mob of negroes collected and attempted to lynch the automobilist. A negro preacher, R. H, Green, is reported to have held off the mob and per- mitted the white man to escape Newport News ts far enough South so that , the coler line ls more sharply drawn than ip _ the North. Race tension tn the city was in- tense because of recent trouble with the police. Mr, Green showed courage of the first order in stepping into the breach. His example com- pares most favorably with other ministers who are content to limit their influence to talk or even to silence on the race issue. Every man who prevents race conflict, be he black or white, is a better man than he who incites trouble, or permits troublemakers to go unrebuked. If every Southern preacher had the courage of his negro confrere there would be few lynch ings and the demand for Federal anti-lyneh legislation would not be a menace to the South a PROTECTION FOR BRAWNY INFANTS. NITED States Steel Corporation earnings for the third quarter of 1920 amounted to more than $48,000,000, after all the usual deductions had been made. This sum was materially larger than for the previous quarter or for corresponding quar- ters in recent years during which steel prosperity” has been phenomenal. ” Activity in steel has always been considered one of the most reliable business barometers. However, coming just, before election the state- t is particularly significant when compared with tor Harding’s comment on protection of zinc and wool. The Steel Corporation report recalls that only last week in the steel district of Ohio the Republican candidate stressed the need for. protec- of that industry, ‘The “bigger and bétter than ever before” profits account of the company is the clearest possible comment on what “protection” means when Sena- tor Harding talks about Ht. Zine mining may be in a bad way, but Evening World readers have not forgotten the enormous profits mulcted from the public by the American Woolen Company. If Candidate Harding believes that the American people are anxious to “protect” the swollen profits of the Steel and Wool Trusts he is sadly mistaken. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. A Party That Abjures Its Past. 1900, “The American people are neither poltroons nor pessimists.” “Whatever may be in store for us in the new and unbeaten track upon which we are entering, we shall not be found with the ‘unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.’ “Our way t# new, but it is not dark. “In the readjustment of world conditiona, where we must take our place with the other great na tions of the earth, we shall move with caution, but not with fear.” “The fathers of the Republic accepted with courage such responsibilitics ae devolved upow them.” i “The safety of this Republic must ever rest in the courage of young heurta and the vigor of a no ble manhood “Youth is buoyent and hopeful. “No snarling criticism, or gospel of a little Amer- tea, or prophecy of despair, will find response from hearts that beat full and strong with courage and with Saith.” From the keynote speech of the Temporary Chairman (Senator EB. 0, Woleott of Colorado) at the Twelfth Republican National Conven- tion tu Philadelphia, June, 1900. 2 . . . “We atand on the threshold of a new century big with the fate of mighty nations, It rests with us now to decide whether in the opening years of that century we shall march forward to fresh trt- umphe or whether at the outset we shall cripplé ourselves for the contest. “Is Americafa weakling, fo shrink from the world- work of the great world-powers ? “No. The young giant of the West stands ono continent and clasps the crest uf an ocean in either hand, Our Nation, glorious in youth ond strength, Woks into the future with eager eyes ond rejoices ag a.strong man.to run a race, "We do not stand in craven mood asking to be spared the task, cringing as we look on the contest. “No, We chatlenge the proud privilege of doing the work that Providence allots us, and we face the coming years high of heart and resolute of faith that to our people is given the right to win such honor and renown as has never yet been vouchsafed to the nations of mankind.” From the speech of the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York at the Twelfth Repub lican National Convention in Philadelphia June, 1900. , | . “No party creed defined the cuurse you (Preai- dent McKinley) were to follow “Courage, foresight, comprehension of Amerv cun interests, both now and in the uncharted fu ture, faith in the American people and jn their Ainess for great tasks, were then your only guides and counsellors, “Thus. you framed ‘ and put in operation this was the Presidency to vote for. | FROM EVENING | that gives you the worth of a thous! There ia fine mental exercise y Sqn to Die be Wrentug World an independent voter who, 1 an at the beginning of the campatgn, undecided which candidate for After WORLD READERS: great new policy which has made us at once mas- tere of the Antilles and a great Eastern power, holding firmiy our possessions on voth sides of the Pacific, “The new and strange ever excile fear, and the courage und prescience which accept them always arouse criticism and attack. “Yet a great departure and a new policy were never more quickly justified than those undertaken by you. * From the speech, at Canton, O., July 12, 1900, in which Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts officially notifed President Mc- Kinley that he had been a second time selected by the Republican National Convention as iw Presidential nominee, “I cannot conclude without congratuiating my countrymen xpon the strong national sentiment which fnds expression in every part of our com- mon country and the increased respect with which ) thorship of which ie attributed the American name is greeted throughout the; he,authorebip of which is attributed) world university Presidents and other “dis- “We have been moving in untried paths, bul our steps have been guided by honor and duty. “There will be no turning aside, no wavering, no retreat.” careful consideration | have decided to support the Democratic caadidate, chiefly om account of his utand on tca’a present greatest opportunity. The camphigning metihvds used by the opponamty of the Teague seem to me to be unfair, unpatriotic, par- tisan, On Oct. 14 there was bsued a statement by a group of support ers of the Republican candidate whe call themselves “A Group of Thirty One Advocates of iniernational Co- operation to Preserve Peace.” This the following day. In tt Gov, Cox was grossly mi®represented, The Governor at once, in a gentiemanly manner, asked for an explanation. So far the only answers that I have jseen in the papers have been oniy wiggles and wabbles Evidently the kind of peace that these men desire is the kind that the Kaiser wanted in 1914—« peace tained by conquest Kroup of advocates who signed this statement, Ungulshed thinkers.” ‘The statement, as printed in the japer, at a first reading appears to be an argument for the League, but on a carefit read ng of the statement it bec dent that there is no pro-lLeag kument intended. An averag ea) 7 v1 the deception, He would not dare to We will. perform ribet fear every national ond use such deceptive argument in his international obligation. | debate contests for fear his coach or ° . of F the judges would rule out his a Prem the spaacdy Bb Canton. 0}, dhby: 18, {ment on the grounds of “dodging the 1900, in which Presiglent McKinley accepted tion” or “arguing beside the his second nomination for the Presidency elie ete: ree ot Harvard, ex-President 1920, “1 DO NOT WANT TO CLARIFY THOSE OB LIGATIONS THEM, IT 18 REJECTION, THAT I AM SEEKING.” I WANT TO TURN MY BACK ON NOT INTERPRETATION, BUT Words in which the Republican candi- date for President of the United States in the year 1920, defines his attitude toward the covenant of the League of Nations that embodies the greatest peace ment in history. EVERYBODY'S DOING IT. move- lt only remains for Col, Harvey to explain how shocked he is now at the sacrilege of the cartowp he printed in his own Harvey's Weekly, 2 ogee 1} and oth ake of ‘their country a an important campaign issue Is before the ple \tor discussion, to think for them instead of having a shrewd, tricks lawyer to do thelr thinking for them They surely must have known before signing thelr names to this statement that Mr, Root, or whoever it wa: that wrote it, Intended it as a decep~ tion to cateh Independent voters who favor the League and are about to decide to vole for Gov, Cox on ac- ” » Is advocating the League. Mr. ‘Root, in trying to deceive these voters, is ‘evidently not advocating the League which was submitted July 10, 1919, by President Wilson to the League of Nations issue-Amer- , statement wag printed in the papers | P year high school student could detect | nt of the manly manner in which | What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one and words in a couple of hundred? and a lot of satisfaction in trying 0 aay much in u few words gTake time to be brief League that are suspected of having written by President Wile ving been written by others and approved by him, are, from the point of view of this “group of thirty-one advocates," allt wrong per ee and} should be omitted. They seem to be opposed to the President personally on account of @ rime which, from | their point of view, he twice commit- | ted— tie awful crime of allowing him- selt to be elected to the Presidency on the Democratio ticket, been elected on the Republican ticket, | every sentence that he wrote or every sentence that was wrigten by others | and approved by him would have been accepted by this group of advo- ates, In other words, these “think- n, In their Jealousy and im- © hatret of the President on vunt of bis not being a member of thelr party, are putting their party jabove their country. | ver the chief leaders of a} 1 party make such an assump- | » that party has lost its useful- | hess; it is time for it to die, Whua the | Republican Party of to-day ts in need | of is a man of power tn the party to| rise and smash it—a Theodore Koose- | velt to rebel againat it, as the Creat | Leader did in 1912, Root, Taft and |other members of the Chicago steam. | jroller gang of 1912 seem to think that wince their dreaded enemy, thin leader of the rebel Republicans of that year, is dead they are now out of danger, But they are not out of danger; for the spirit of this Great Rebel, like Hamlet's ghost, still walks abroa and will guide many a “silent voter” ‘op election day. JACK BROWNIN! 3100 Broadway, New York, Oct. | 1920. =< mo} 0 Brening World T neard Gov, Cox speak at the Gar- den and was thoroughly convinced that the League of Nations is @ yood | Ming. But what is to stop England from tia Cassel rriors ates of the Bible UNCOMMON 'SENSE By John (Copyright, 1920, by Jo ‘The m Pree Os, corre nde Ney” York ‘Breine Wert. | No. 4—Jephthah, the Great Partisan Fighter. If a couple of Intelligent young street Arabs should read the story of Jephthah their verdict concern ing the hero ‘would probably be that he was “-ome guy.” Without accept+ ing the vernagular of the gaming, our conclusion js that Jephthah was an Intensely interesting personage. | ¢Jephthah was a waif, his mother |heing one of the lowest of the iow, | Ht n nature was the same that | largely is to-day, and the waits mise fortune Was construed inte personal eulit and he waa driven away by big | father's legitimate sons An exile and an outlaw, Jepht betook himself to the wild, marauds ing life of the border, where he be« poame a sort of robber-chieftain, the heed of a band of freeboaters whe d caravans, swooped down om and played the mischief gens erally in this way Jephthah rapidly be~ toe an expert in the tactica of arfare as it Was then generally cate In his military methods ne well be said to have been the ‘oy of the early Bible times, Ife was always ready for any emer gency, Was bold and lightning-like tm his inovements and fertile in t j Ways and means of whipping t emy, He was a born organizer, @ tural leader of men: and bis fellow jexiles, gathering at the sound of his trumpet am the clansman did inter om j at the cali of Rhoderick Dhu's whistle, were prepared to follow thelr picture esque chieftain to any length In the inean time the opportunity wan Approaching for the outlaw leader to do something that should jreally be worth while. | The Ammonttes, the old hereditary \enomles of lerael, wero pressing thei bagd, and the “Elders of Gilead” in=™ 8 tvely turned to Jephthah for the salvation. Jephthah’s bol@ ful tactics as a lance had marked him out e one man who might be able to save them from. i} J h consented to undertake © job of attending to the Ammo- ites provided the Elders and People would solemnly agree that he should Headman after he had tho agreament was ‘nefore the Lord’? Jepht teristic ¢ nen throug! ut the parte favorable to him and eoms the new forces with hie old ore ation, went for Ammoe S for {te prey rreat slaughter, taken from them ceased to be a menace te extra hape of Enbratn, because ask them to Join ty Ammonites, dect hut Jephthans. fgtting ow at the boiling poin® d the Ephoaumites wors@ 4 the AMmnmtess. something rk did not fighting the war on him; blond was id b r an Ephraimite?® they said to hin eth.” If he nal e unable to sound was sinin. “And there ume of Pphraim forty ousand,” great blot on Jephthah’a sacrifice of hin daughter: right to remember that Blake. | a Biake,) in the ut it i@ on, Jephthah WER’ Te rl ; eer ay belonged to a S INDOLENCE IS A PLEASANT COMPANION BUT A belonged | to wemi-ban BAD BO ally Unkaown, “and “when the of human sac id no Laziness wrecks more homes than liquor. {t fills more seem ao odious ae It aid ‘a alae poor houses than illness, vice, Laziness is the besetting »: The man who is free from it is exception that he is invariably ost men who have been successful will admit that they would be more successful or would have succeeded sooner If they had not been too fond of idling. Incompetence has many fo It is always at a man’s side brain fag on his job, and can do it better after resting for a space. It is always pointing out that this is beautiful weather for golf, or that it would be as so many entertaining things to do at home, Everybody likes to loaf, particularly workers, who have so little time away from the gri On vacations and after w pleasant companion, It is in th refreshes his strength for the ni The most industrious‘of men enjoy loafing—doing abso lutely nothing with their minds But the minute you stop ta! begin taking it as a beverage, y Work while you are work chance mix them up, and never be as extensive as your workin: Indolence, like all pleasan master, Once get in its power as destructive of your future. attend continuation school. Is this fair?) With prices sky-high, in the average family it takes more than the wage earner makes to pay |rent and keep from starving to say buying the vote of @ small nation in the League and through this black- mible men, and) fond (?) of and so be able to press the | but h |strength of six votes against the bluckmatied country, whieh has no de- \fense? A nation loses tts yoting power when ifivolved in an affair to he voted © | upon, according to Gov. Cox at Mad- ison Square Garden. SIDNEY SINGER. | 26. 4 New York, Oct. Compulsory Kddea Tv the Editor of The Drening World: How ean the Hoard of Education compel children to go to school until they attain the age of eighteen years? sy graduate before that age it @ continuation school for | thom not believe in child labor but I nothing of shoes and clothes we must | wear, | L have in mind also a crippled boy. Her son ts compe » to school. What ts that woman to dg? Starve, just to satiafy some | patty official drunk with auth | JOHN B, ST | Up From Slavery. ‘To the Pitor of The Hevaing Workd | I have just read a letter tn The | Evening World by “Northern South- erner,” and 1 would like to say that I would consider it an honor to be & personal friend of Booker T. Wash- Seton, It “Northern Southerner” thinks little of Mr. Washington, let {him read hie “Up From Slavery" and |1 believe he would then change his | views on the subject sORNHARDT, the United States Senate for ratifi ve a child sixteen yoars A cation; he is advocating a league yuld be through with acho Jamaica, Oct. 26, 1920. which does not in any way show|graduat@n unless the parents want 0 work of Presid x to high school. | Not An an Arbitrator, aire of the wo of President | tge child to go to high echo BE Pyle Ss adh, ‘The parte of the covenant of the & acribe living in Leliport, BARL 4 pm “ It keeps the courts busier than while you are loafing, and loaf hard. habit that ig harder to break than the whiskey habit, and just Ip rea emcee tater aeeeeanaeeeaeaana aaa TT that even if she graduates she must |expressed his views in a local news- | times. ‘The story of this unconquemble | fiwhter may be found in Judgem in of the whole human race, chapters x! and xi an exception, so much of an successful, rms, all of them attractive. , whispering that he isygetting und of the Congregational Chure | oventry, Conn, Was inser! jwith the fact that it was hame to work when there are memoration of “ nd, vorking hours, indolence is a ¢ hours of idlencss that a man ext day's job, and “resign y @ sacrifice to his country’@ liberty, at New 17%y | aged ‘twenty-two, | . Major John Andre was arrested om Sept, 23, 1780, by the three patriot John Paulding, Isane Van Wart pt} David Williams, near Tarrytown, N, | Yo but he was not executed til! and bodies, king indolence as a tonic, and ou are gone, 2 ‘following, at T (T . ing, and work hard. Loaf $)N.¥. Nine days aches" wos eheaey But never by any jhim, while Hale was hanged within , u : 3 twenty-four hours of his capture. H. let your loafing time begin to } | wag buried meme enn ee, He g time, which formed his gibbet, His sovereign especiaNy honored the memory of Andre by ordering w notable mural monument to be ereet= ja in Westminster Abbey, near the | Poets’ Corner, of statua: about 7% feet in height.” Lae, 3 ie ye > nt companions, is a very bad , and you will have for.:ed a Upon @ panel on the Andre monus,¢ ment is inscribed: “Sacred to the” memory of Major John Andre, whi raised to the rank of Adjutant ¢ per this wise: eral of the British Army, In America, oa fevling that ina League! 224 employed in an important and hazardous ‘enterprise, fell a sacrifice az dreamed by Mr. W s zeal for his King and country, A ates would be on the 2d of October, A. D. 1780, emie -paw in every|nently beloved and eatees y Kuropean dis we were | 4 ae in which he rhe at | : calied upon t bitration In a | mente n by his foes, ' His gra- di bety hoe Italy and Frence an. vereign, King George the we i with the latter nation? M is caused this monume: would the million of Italians in this| be erected SEN ae country feel about that eqs ee | Now, our Bellport seribe must con-| After the removal of Andre's re. sider that the members of the pro-|™#ins to England, the following was posed League of Nations are to act|S¥t Upon the base of the pedestal: aa a world’s jury, sworn to act ima{ "The remains of Major John Andre partially when called upon te arbl-|Were, on the 10th of August, 1831, re~ trate the differences between two|Meved from Tappaan by James nations, Should France have griey- | #uchanan, Eaq., his Majesty's Consul, ances against Italy it will not be lett | ®t New York, under instructions from to the United States alone to settle, , His Royal Highness, the Duke of The entire League will have a voice, | York, and with the permission of the Both France and Italy would be re. | Dear “nd Chapter, finally deposited quired to make such concessions as |!" % &'ave contiguous to this monus decided by all the League as the | Ment on the 2th of November, 1821.% action necessary to the reaching of ° a to force | And wh was glorified after his de: e Hale's memory was neglect settlement without recourse of arms, in which case both France| With the ashes of ec the Ameri and Italy would thank their stars) .,, 0% Oy that America had a part in it, a|/ RU" oting beneath the soi} of New York City--Manhattan Bor it was very appropriate that what might be termed a loving testimonial, in the statue of him, was er ne City Hall Park, point made clearer after the League had “cleared away the smoke,” | H. NOR, lL Bayville, L, L, Oot. %,