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SETAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ee Darian 3h 8h ark Row, New York PULITZER, President, /RKNGUS SHAW Treneure Gober PuuTZER. Jr Becreiary. 08 Park Row, ‘MEMEER OF THE ANSOCIATED PRES. THE CAMPAIGN. The Supreme Issue. HER the greatest, and heretofore the most progressive and peace-loving of ail Republics, the United States of America, shall or Shall not join the existing, functioning League of Nations, to the Covenant of which forty-three “ teading nations of the earth have already agreed = ith the following specific purpose: to promote international cooperation and to arhiove international peace and security; by the acceptance of obligations not to re ~~ sert to war, yt dy the prescription of open, Just and hon “ — orable relations between nations, fe: by the firm establishment of the under ©) gtandings of international law as the actual ~~ pale of conduct among Governments, and nn. by the maintenance of justice and scrupu- lows respect for all treaty obligations In the dealings of organized peoples with one an- eter, “wri What Made It an Issue. 2 The League of Nations should never have been er . “an issue in a political campaign. “2 What made it so was the fact that the greatest ‘Swar in the Nation’s history was successfully fought “from beginning to end under a Democratic Admin- " Suistration and a Democratic President, and that the r. Lodge of Massachusetts. |< With an irritable energy and vindictiveness due 7 etm part to his age and in part to resentment that a international peace programme growing out of the ‘ee leader- eewar seemed to a dominant faction in the 2 ship of the Republican Party fair game from which to secure needed Republican capital and prestige for “Yan approaching Presidential campaign. Rood Senator Lodge. When the plot {¢ wreck the League, discredit ~~ “=Preskitnt Wilson and Republicanize the Peace |S treaty was launched, Republican leadership in the Senate was in the hands of Senator Henry Cabot great war and a great peace should have escaped edounding to the exclusive glory of the Repub- _ “Hican Party, Senator Lodge led the Senate attack «0 the League and on the President. © The once respected senior Senator from Massa- * eta { . meghusetts deliberately chose to sacrifice national “honor and interest to a partisanship he hoped would eipass for patriotism. He will be remembered for it. Borah and Johnson. A warrower but more honest opposition to the ‘League grew out of a genuine mental attitude. From this point of view any interest or co-opera- a ericans in affairs outside Bgawen on the part of Am in affa boundaries of the United States takes on the * aspect of dire peril. ; this genuine and = “Little Americanism” of “extreme type has been exemplified from the first © in Senators Borah and Johnson, © It has been a factor with which Republican ‘campaign leaders have had to reckon. They have. found a certain amount of support in it. , They have also found it stultifying and trouble- * #y The Straadle Plank and the Two-Faced Candidate. The Republican League-wreckers in the Senate up against a deadlock. * The plot to discredit the President and Republi- ") eanize the Peace before election broke down, The campaign against the League had to be cautiously carried to Chicago—cautiously because © certain oro-League Republicans loomed large as | Dinfluences, though their power in inner party coun- sills was small. ~The Republican platform plank on the League “) was smoothed and rounded until it had no édges 7 apd meant nothing. ~~ Boles Penrose, Reed Smoot and the rest of the Doges of the Old Guard picked a candidate who ould be trusted to say anything he was told to on ay, to straddle anything he, was told to straddle. ‘The two-faced puppet, Harding, was put forward “to smile both ways at once—toward League-haters, elke Borah and Johnson, and toward League-lovers, Wks Taft and Hoover, The Cowardly Hint. Worst of ail, Harding went before the country with the half-suggestion that, if elected, he could c* Secure some sort of peace league ne }) | that would tet the United States out of such obli- gations as those which forty-three other nations had been willing to assume. He has made an implicit appeal to the kind of American who more or less privately maintains that the United States ought to contrive to get all the protection against war a League of Nations provides, without paying for it. . “They'll take us on our own terms” bas been used by Republican leaders to bid for the support of an element whose sordid and cynical attitude toward the League is an everlasting disgrace to their country. The Appeal to Hyphenates. The Republican candidate has also been used by the Republican Party leaders to flatter and -propi- tiate such hyphenate elements as still persist in the United States, Harding's anti-League attitude has been exploited to make him appear the friend of Germans who still cherish imperial German instincts under the cloak of American citizenship, and of Irish who hate England more than they love America. Harding has been all things to all men—and women—who have votes, Shrunken Republicans. This false campaign, with its issue that should never have been an issue, has produced nothing somier than the shrunken figures of pro-League Republicans like Taft, Wickersham, Hoover, Root, and Hughes. These Republicans have decided to put party above principle, and will now vote against their own convictions on the issue ranked a year ago by Mr, Taft with “the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the issues of the Civil War.” These are Republicans who have not been able to bé as big Americans as they—and others— thought they were twelve months ago. The national honor they were so jealous of then is not much after all. It is only a Republican President they feel the need of now. The Other Kind of Republicans. On the other hand there has been no more reassuring feature in the present campaign than the courage. of those pro-League Republicans who have struck. off their party fetters and announced their determination to vote for the candidate who stands for national constancy in carrying out the purpose with which we professed to be acting when we sent our soldiers to fight and die in France. In this respect the campaign has been a test. ‘Natlonal history will have an honored place for the kind of Republicans jisted on the long roll head- ed by Herbert Parsons, These Republicans fairly and squarely placed prin- ciple above party and announced their of Gov. Cox as the only League of Nations candidate before the voters, Moral Obligations. The' last week, with the controversy centring more definitely than ever on Article X. of the Cove- nant, has seen the campaign concentrating on what is really the paramount question: Are a majority of the American people by Instinct, education and outlook, tapable at this Stage of their national development of measuring and accepting moral obligations which make them as a Nation 2 more active and fesponsible factor in the forward movement of civilization? Have they the courage of what declared to be their convictions? They have lauded peace, invoked Peace, expressed undying devotion to peace Now are they willing to give Pledges for peace? Are they ready to pay part of the cost of peace? More than any question of party or candidate, next Tuesday is going to decide whether the Nation recognizes the moral obligation of living up to its own professed standards and aims, they have long —_—_—-. SOLDIERS’ LETTERS ON THE LEAGUE. (The originals of these latlers are om file at headquarters of the Veterans’ Cow-Roosevelt Clud, Melvin D. Hildreth, Executive Secretary, Murray Hill Hotel, New York.) Steuben Sanitarium, Hornell, N. Y. 1 want to tell you of my speech on Sept. 26, 1920, I told them tt was the 26th, and asked them if they remembered what it meant two year ago. They said they did. ‘Then 1 asked them {f they would recoguize the League of Na- tions and step off tn the right direction or if they still wanted continuous warfare. They agreed they did not want any more warfare. 1 said, “If you vote for Harding you continue it; If you vote for Cox and Roonevelt, you stop it.” I got quite & cheering, almost as much as when 1 landed in Hoboken when we came home trom France. 1 am stilt booming and firing for Cox and Roosevelt. Sergeant, First Class, with 807th Infantry, (This man's right arm was torn off by @ shell in the Argonne. His brother, a Corporal, wae killed by @ sniper.) A SOLDIER'S OPINION OF THE WILSON TYPH. A Maine veteran, disabled in action, writes: When [ think of the sincere expression on the President's face when he took us all by the hand while we were patients in Dr. Blake's hovpital in Paris and aid a few words of good cheer to us, I'm saying there wasn't a damn one of us that wouldn't have done the same thing over for Americans of the ‘Wilson type.” Real, honest, to-God, sincere Americanism, that’s what he is, ‘and that's what he has stood for all along. | | facts to the public. And to offset the FROM EVENING WORLD REA What kind of letter do you find 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 sutisfaction to eay much in a few words. Take Article x. ‘To the Mittior of The Kyven\iag World: By this time no doubt every think- ing voter has classed Messrs. Taft, Root and Harting. But even tn view of the large number of thinking vot~ ors it requires two thinking voters to offeet ohe vote of the non-thinking voter, and it meema,to me that in spite of all your efforts through your edi- torials and otherwise, and the efforts of Mr. Linthicum, « few of the non- thinking voters have not yet had the actual facta of the league definitely put before them, particularly in refer- ence to Article X about which Mr. Root and Mr. Taft have made such a howl As I see it, and J belleve my inter- pretatjon ts correct according to many of the league supporters, Article X. is not an agent to destroy all the prin- ciples for which honest citizens stand, and is truly the principle which Mr. Root and Mr. have long cha- pioned. While they state that Article X. wii! draw us into war,*every time they say it thoy deliberately misrepresent the Ml effect of their statements, 1 per- sonally believe it would be well to make a clear and as simple as possible statement of just the effects of Ar tole X. so that every ono, however! uneducated, might upderstand. For) this purpose I suggest the following: Article X., though represented to be | an agent to draw this country Into} Kuropean wars, ie truly the fore: which will keep us out. For instance, suppose Germany and France were to| “un lift arma, According to the| rma of the league, it would be tl jeague'n duty to support France, First wouk! come the © onic amd mona) boycotts (which under the present trado relations would naturally not be very effective, but as soon as the Jeague in working in proper fashion would be very effective), which we all know would be very effective; but suppose even these boycotts did not prevent war, then It would be up to the League Council to advise action The representatives Leing the most in- telligent minds of the several countr es: members of the Coungil, naturally the Council would not recommend that every member of the league lift arms againat Germany, but it would be nat- ural for the Council to recormend that possibly Great Hritain and Italy assist France with men and arms, wiile the United States and some of the more distant members would be called upon to furnish funds and such other materinis and war neceanities as may be required, Then, ana finnl re- sort, as in the late war, if hostilities continued for three or four years, the Council might recommend ‘that this country and Brazil and Canada and oh some of the furnish men and DERS | in trying time to be brief. . was to have some difficulties with Ar- gentina, which had a tendency towanl war. After investigation by the League | Councll, suppose the finding were in| favor of Hrazil. ‘The Council would then probably recammend that the United States and Canada furnish arms and = muni to champion Brazil's cause (which is only carrying out the provisions of the Monroe Doc- | trine), while England, France, Italy, | &c., might be called upon for financial and such other support as they might possibly lend. It would be folly to Assume that thia country would be immediately called upon to lift arma in European wars and the Buropean countries be immediately called upon to send men and arms in Western Hemisphere trouble. I belleve this interpretation would set at rest many of the doubts of some of the people who are truly Interested in the league but still misunderstand ft. SCHNEIDER. New York, Oct. 26, 1920, Bdivon's Kveriasting Entities. Ty the Editor of The Evening World Perhaps your readera may de inter- ented in a few comments on Thomas A. Edison's opinions on jife and death, eapecially concerning a rather Misleading statement regarding fin- ger prints. Mr, Edison's quoted as stating that “Mf you burn your thumb sufficiently to destroy the skin, the new skin will be precisely the same as the first one.” While this in correct 9 far as \t pertains to the cuticle, it must be remembered that a ac: ms from a print same." Mr. ¥ change thelr they aro treated. Life ia indestructible, but is con- tinually char from’ what, to our eyes, Im ite wry for lose a finger our blood no it nor do our nerves ul electrons, entities or come A part of the soll or an insect or_worm, The human form changos—-the nove, | mouth, hands and feet, the colar oi | halr and eyes—practicall ything about our person; won- derful then met that the little known papillary, ridges found only on the skin of our Ihands and feet never change, except through injuries, from the patterns visible at birch ROKRDRT C. DE VOR, Member International Society for Personal Identification. Brooklyn, Oct. 26, A Bones for Fighters Only ‘Th the Exlitor of The Drening World Why should all those veterans who never went over the ea cet a bonus* I heantily approve of giving a bon to those who actually went to t firing line and did the fighting, but to those who stayed at home and who | never knew wh any othe: possible, ‘Then there would hesitancy on our { i pencsaliesiuaaiinnadalh or on je part of any of the Teague ‘wrecker Port i 4 B. COOPER, ‘he other Band, suppose Brasil!” The persons to whom the bonus 142 Broome St, Aug JL 1968 be lke, ors (most of whom ocean), never wasn't there given enouxh ! ow i is AVG REPUB CONTINUE ‘THE DISSENSION OVER THE LEAGUE - TE TO LICAN UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake | (Copyriabt, 1030, by John lake.) ' KEEP YOUR PROMISES AT PAR. Nothing is made carefully, so casy as to make promises, If they are 3) they are easy to keep. Made hastily and thoughtlessly, they are impossible to keep. And the promiser who does not make good is held of little account in gagement. Chinese post-sages undreamed of | Attributed to No Sho, Pu'r Fish, Po | Lil Chile, Sai Wen, Chu Pep-Sin amd Halling the Haggard Heroine... [Of the tide in current fiction are ad Vised of the advent of the | heroine. |filis the title role in” | (Doran) and she is the | Stephen Jaleo Sonia, {ehe has velvet b: \ Ups and hair ¢ | disorder. | @oclal occasion; o . orenee as Imported-.. | | this world, | Nothing should be so carefully considered as a promise. } | And as a rule nothing is so little considered. It is so easy to put people off by promising to do some- thing at a certain time; to pay back a loan, to keep an en- Yet, when the time comes round, nine times out of ten it is either inconvenient or impossible to fulfil it. And the man to whom it is made instantly sets you down as insince: thereafter only Far better re or incompetent or both, and considers you as a person to avoid, surprise people by being better than your promise than by falling below it. Far better it is due. repay a loan before it is due than long after Far better da more for a man to whom you have prom- ised a favor than less than you said you would do, The business man who is successful is sparing of his promises. If he is not sure that the goods he sells will be satisfac- tory he makes no promises about them, But, once ht has given his guarantee, he must live up to it or he will soon find himself in the bankruptcy court. If you are working for a salary, the fact that you accept it is a promise That prom hold your job. to earn it. ise you niust keep absolutely if you are to If you expect promotion yon nfust more than keep it, for nobody is going to pay you more than you are getting unless you are Think not promise before the letter, worth it. only twice, but six or seven times about a you make it, Be sure that it can be kept to Then keep it, and your reputation will be a big help to your success. should be given are the ones who and maimed forever. ere wounded Why should the wutomnobiles to the! r ness” at 10 in the morning tll 3 in the afternoon, who never knew what want a drink of water or of clothing, get a bo- about the soldiers who nus? are in th living about street toxd: wl | Kraven acrons the ocean? Are they for- wotten? They are should get a bonu them are not a 1 toward erecting monument that thelr memory might live. New York, Oct. 25. 4 Th the Radlitér of The Hr oning Worl? Please suggest q name for a club of eleven boys about fourteen yearw| knowledge, Of age, of Jewish religion, on 1 and al the members of my club m hand to mouth? se who lle in their gold e to claim it, give * who went In place of “bual- “That’saFact’ By Albert P. Southwick errs New For Peary Ward Oy a 8 Cabin John Bridge, near Washing- 2 C, has the largest stone arch in the world, 200 foot, It wan built jay, ped Ving and What the ones who | Davis when Secretary of War. His and if some of ture. some worthy ee A RPADBR ‘The greatest private laboratory in in which experiments of any kind, with anything ma end with precim . { which we ‘ave any be made npeodily 1 will look In the under the administration of Jefferaon | Hame has been erased from the atruc- | the world is that of Thomas Edison | | | | jt Orange, N. J, completed tn 1987, | It conslats of several large bulldingn, | = re NO Tho grentest a in the there were POS Of: emg) world is that of rincl- among the buitie clouds, And Soe in Londen, England, it had si Cw 0,000 in ny it ite the nae id [he might feel inclined to “xo back to | his |The Soul of a Fighting Flyerese URNING THE PAGES EW. Osborn, | Tt has remained for Christopher, Morley to discover a noble band of among the merry villagers of Con- fuctus Land. Some geme of thought © Bot appear in the pages of one and Seek,” Mr. Morley’s new volu of poesy (Doran), and on his assur- ance that the translations have been carefully compared with the notes on ‘his heat Celestial laundry slipa, we Quote & few fragments, thus: Ladies classify husbands Into two classes: Thote who are “attentive” And those who are not. 1 fear 1 am of the latter, For I never can remember My home telephone number But my friend Chang Jo Fee knows his home number e calls wp 40 often to sa “My dear, ¥ 1 Will not de home to dinner evening.” x bed Never try to tett t Dales People anything They knot it already, Even then, It te well to fefrain. One of the penaitics Of being a human being da other human beings If you haven't any ideas Don't worry, You can get atong without them Many of the nicest people do. Uf only the mechanism of sociati Were aa simple as a typewriter, And the management of affairs . Could be transposed From Capital to Lower Case BY pressing a shift key! Ca AC Readers desiring to keep abream Cy She is Lady Barbara. Lady MeKen: Best ck eyes, very t blows easily inu We read of her pone on a Barbara was standing by the fire Place, & coftre pot in her hand talking to Violet Hunter-Oakleigh Blonder and tall, m study in bimck w hs and. arresting ted bh Bi Her dress was raven ic an Yer, not unlike the one that sl ‘worn at Croxton; there was a gicaming band around her hair and sliver heels to her shoes. And the keynote to Lady Barbara's character: “I expect a great many peopie thought of it, but 1 was the only one who did it.” Of such stuff 4g the daughter who worries ti) British Mother. A, tow aphorisms from Fools,” and London; My views on y bubject tan stated Jn five words: “I disagree with most yp * Thig ik no Proof of inawnity, For yeara 1 have auffered from the affiction of telling the truth Convaicse In ple I am not inclined that every wormnn be at h ocelver Bhe only thinks that other woman is If we could always permit ou) selves never to lous It would be a beautiful wo To express jnughter <diou but when « woman lnughs it ts an expressive “He! H We adinit herewith th that Mr. Harding is © should be a tariff wil . : Yankee Skipper aud Que There were things a ha Frederick O'Brien missed when § was gathering “White Shadows | the South Seas.’ A Safront-Middie ton, auth of “South Sea i (Doran), 8 found fresh on the far-off island tratl. other author, for inutance, the Marquesan Queen, Lo! Vaka hibited proudly Uile_ way A contract reading kerment is to certify that Martin Smith of Wooloo- mooloo, New Sarth Wales, has from the dated day of this dokerme: Feb... 1861, aw fil Lol Vakumon of nl several more fslen to the sarthwards, 0 foresald Quee. agrees to hand over all ty ite trom Jd John ng on whilst the a tin Smith rema Capt. Smith, we take it, belonged to that order of on rprising Yankee akippers which has vanished from the main, We note with interest a reser vation to his league with the Queen #0 worded ax to glve him the right 1 quit the job of being king whenever Mar lawful Martin Merica,” The conduct of foreign rel a simple matter to an ¢ arch of the decks and deepa, Capt. John Martin Smith, eee misaus, Matilda Smith of Kansae Sarah City ‘The question camw wp, aceordin, UP, According te “The Blue Room," Cosnio Hamilton's new romance of New York after the war (Little, Brown & Cod, of the force impelling the figh to hin high Jedburgh, an | My sort, t made train up of to dlseip) 1 the idea of ry, sNury bul IP earying out onde down thr n m Initiative ¥ routine the danger tof the brie? HOUle BOL woe worshipper of the hills ill agree that ponseasion of one’s own soul is wreak onater at.