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ee ee ee ee } | Sorin, ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Patty Mxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, @ RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 6 i ac PH PUUITZER, Jr., Secretar. 63 Park Row. YEMNER OF THR The Assoristeo Prem ls exclusively emtiied to the use for reyabiication at all news despaicnes credited to It or mot oterwise credited im this DADS And ain the loal Bewe published herein RE-ELECT AL SMITH. O the voters of this State want a Governor tested and tried in one two-year term at Albany, who has proved in all ways equal to the job? If so, they will vote to-morrow for Al Smith. Do the voters of this State want a Governor who knows the laws, the needs, the legislative and ex- ecutive processes, the machinery of public business in the State as few men have known them? If so, they will vote to-morrow for Al Smith, Do the voters of this State want a Governor who has shown that practical service to the Common- wealth that elects him is his notion of what will best serve a man’s ambitions, whatever they may be? If so, they will vote to-morrow for Al Smith. Do the voters of this State want a Governor whose record proves that concrete programmes of social welfare, labor adjustment and economic jus- tice are his idea of progress within State lines? } If so, they will vote to-morrow for Al Smith. Do the voters of this State want a Governor who has kept himself one of the most popular men in the State of New York without losing one iota of his reputation for straightforwardness and independ- ence? If so, they will vote to-morrow for Al Smith. Do the voters of this State want to keep a capa- bie Executive where they can continue to get full value out of him? If so, they will re-elect Al Smith. A NEW MEXICO. MPENDING recognition of Mexico’s Government by the United States will be a source of satisfac- tion to most Americans, In spite of the activities and propaganda of the professional “Mexico-hating and Mexico-baiting groups, the great majority of Americans are sin- cerely friendly to the Republic south of the Rio Grande and are anxious to live on terms of peace and international good-fellowship. Agent Pesqueira’s letter is reassuring in tone. The Mexico from which the United States has held aloof for eight years has afforded ample reason for Buch treatméht. The United States may take credit for patience in handling relations with its unruly neighbor. Vhe Mexican agent speaks of “a New Mexico.” It is at least a different Mexico. The nation is now in the hands of officers elected in accord with law. These officers propose “happiness and justice” with- in the State and observance of international rights of life and property. i Secretary ‘Colby says “The new Government of Mexico has given indication of stability, sincerity, and a creditable sensitiveness to its duties and their just performance.” This is the report which America has been wait- ing to hear ever since Diaz surrendered control. “The welcome which New York Republicans gave Gov. Coolidge wag heartfelt and richly de served,” says the Tribune, A part of that welcome was “Three cheers for Al Smith!” given before the Union League Club. The cheers also were “heartfelt and richly de- served.” It is too bad the Republican ticket fe such a kangaroo affair that the standard bearer is not a man more like Calvin Coolidge or Al Smith, WHY AFTER ELECTION DAY? WELL defined shadow across the Republican State ticket is the candidacy of James A. Wen- dell, nominated for State Comptroller, Inquiry into the bond purchasing methods of the present Comptroller, Eugene M. Travis, has un- covered a scandal in the State Comptroller's Office. From this scandal Deputy Comptroller Wendell could best hope to clear himself by promptly taking the stand and explaining his own connection with the bond deals in a spirit of complete frankness. Instead of which, Mr, Wendell’s counsel main- tained that in justice to Mr. Wendell the latter should not be placed on the Witness stand before Wednesday of this week. It a candidate for public office has nothing to fear from the truth, why not have the truth as well be- tore as after Election Day? WAGES AND PRODUCTION. ANE will watch with interest the workings of the made by the British Gov- ernment and the representatives of the striking coal miners. The outstandin emphasis put or making. This is an encouraging symptom of reconstruction feature of the agreement is the ‘production” as a factor in wage- in England, High wages for high production is good business for all concerned. It is economicaily sound and economic just. With few abnorinal exceptions, production always has governed and always must govern wages in the long run, But all too cientious employ- eés and scrupulous employers have been the victims of vicious “sweaters” and “drivers” among the em- ployers and of shirking and loafing employees who have contrived temporarily between In effect, the British ag often cor to destroy the balance es and produc ment is shmilar to the ee fe er avowed aims of the so-called “scientific manage- ment” or “efficiency systems” in American Industry. In theory, scientific management is flawless, In practice, labor has good reasons for suspicion, All too often unscrupulous employers have subverted the ostensible aims to their own profit and to the loss of the workers. With the British Government exercising supervi- sion on a national scale it is to be expected that abuses of the incentive to high production will be avoided. If so, the whole world will be the gainer from an experiment which recognizes and empha- sizes the importance of higher production as the basis for higher wages. AT REPUBLICAN RATING? HE Republican candidate ends an historic ef- fort to muddle the mental attitude of the American people toward the greatest of all peace movements, on the following note: “The issue as presented by the Democratic Administration and its representatives in this campaign is eimply the question: Shall we enter the Paris League of Nations, assuming among other obligations the obligation of Article X.?”" “The answer of the Republican Party and its candidate Is, No.” “IT would do my best to unite America behind ® plan for an association of nations which we may join with safety, honor and good con- science, but without selling our birthright for ® mess of military pottage.” Under cover of these high-sounding words— “safety, honor, good conscience’—the Republican candidate ends on the sly appeal with which he began: Elect me President, and I will contrive that the United Slates shall not have to pledge for peace whdt forty- three enlightened and leading nations of the earth have agreed to pledge. The Uniteg States wants the peace of the world safe- guarded; But when it comes to pledges or obligations to that end, the United States is in a position to drive a shrewd one-sided bargain. “Safely, honor, good conscience” first! Does the Nation accept itself at this Republican rating? If today's weather holds, the forecast is for @ light golf vote, THE ASSEMBLY ELECTION. EW YORK voters have never had a greater obligation to use discrimination and sober thought in voting for Assemblymen, Maintenance of representative government is the dominant issue in the Assembly elections. Neither national issues nor State issues should cloud the vote in the Assembly elections. The issue is largely non-partisan, It hinges on the ouster of the duly elected and duly re-elected Socialist Party members, It is highly probable that most if not all of the ejected Assemblymen will be returned a third time by their constituents, Judging by the second ouster there will be a third unless there is a material change in the membership of the chamber. Assemblymen who knew they were wrong voted wrong a second time in order to be consistent. Speaking generally, all the Assemblymen who voted to oust the Socialists deserve to be defeated because of their attack on our system of Govern- ment. There are a few whose services otherwise have been so meritorious that the balance is in their favor, and they should be returned. Each voter should inform himself on the individual record of his representative. The leading part in the second ouster played by Assemblyman Cuvillier, Democrat, of the 20th As- sembly District, marks him as the one New York County Assemblyman whose defeat is most de- sirable if New York is to uphold representative goy- ernment, SOLDIERS’ LETTERS ON THE LEAGUE, (The originats of these letters are on file at Neadquarters of the Veterans’ Cor-Roosevelt Club, Melvin D. Hildreth, Executive Secretary, Murray Hill Hotel, New York.) Service Fellowship Club, Detrolt, Mich. We are a veteran club of 235 members and went on record on Dec. 18, after a long and sharp debate, as favoring the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations, and are will- ing to do all in our power to have it ratified by the Senate. STANDING BY THEIR DEAD BROTHERS IN FRANCE. Buffalo, N, Y, We Americans must stand firm; also stand by our dead brothers that lie tn France. Hoping our victory will be won here as it was in France. THE LEAGUE IS CRYSTALLIZING SENTI- MENT. a ‘ Chillicothe, 0, The situation here ts getting brighter every day, and sentiment ts crystallizing in favor of the Cox and Roosevelt ticket. The League of Nations issue seems to be the crystallizing force, Senator Harding's stand, or rather lack of stand- ing, on this most importer’ as well as other issues in this campaign, is driving many Repub- lican votes to the Cox-Roosevelt standard. We have adopted as our motto: “We Have Won the , Now Let's Win the Peace and Let's Keep Faith With Our Dead,” }» i | sl ele aillbe ot sidlebladinnnn scala = a bar EVENING WORL r D, ———— mane 920 7 ar g MONDAY, NOVEMBE Cuprrig’t, 1920, oy Tee Proce sbhish Toe Now York Evenin | FR at hand, but betwee present international eal contrary to ever, a mora Preamble, not become Time | cide, But of kn obligation? hy |to BOV while. the us to might awl Into United Never! Get [next Tucsda the burden JT mean to peramount tation was taken, obligation ts embodied ign rights herself in fear, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: The Presidential election {a close The voters must choose, not between candidates and partles— though there ts enough difference— idealism n principles: versus materialism, ls the United States to take her place as the moral world? If go, she must repudiate her company and assume moral obligations to mankind in com- pany with the other forty-three na- tions who are striving “to promote international co-operation and achieve prosperity” through the League of Nations. Every one who has read the ‘| fast. lende peace and our will. al obligation. these th are United old have a baby the moral on the Wa of make Presidential OM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind of letter do you find most readabler Isn't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousund words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to aay much in a few wot r of Covenant knows that there is no le- obligation that could bind us ‘There is, aca It may be found, not in Article X, but in the from which the above quo- ‘The actual moral therein and|™anner in which he has’ shown up will always remain as such to every! Harvey's Weokly as regards ite “Im. Jcivilized country, whereas what \8, maculate Conception’ earteon, “Tm |now considered ‘a moral obligation | aye cary . junder Article X may, In future years, | ‘oon brings back to memory cease to be such, ‘Though we were | the famous or infamous “3 Rs" which deeply indebted to France for the in-|helped so mu . valuable assistance she rendered us | ich to defeat James @. in the War of the Revolution, It did | ‘a moral obligation for|timers who look back to those days us to repay her until the recent war. determines questions us to our moral obligations |wilh always be a matter for us to de- ings, The President has sald in this con nection, “If our moral judgment dit- fers from that of the world" we are at liberty to reject its Judgment. there so many pairs Knocking together over this Why did not the present members of the League also hes! enter, leat they should lose t Liberia entr herself to the justice of the League States withholds Can the reason for *h a policy on ovr part be analo- that of the n't marry because she was afraid that world r oven and be bu to death=-moral cowardice? States a The voters must decide J. HUDSON WARD. New York, Oct. 28, 1920, maid who coward? |To the Esitor of ‘The Krening World: Much to my deep regret I just fall short in reaching the are at which ‘its own courts of justice and ite 1 could effectively express my opin-| police force to carry out the deci. mae ha! “But ta repre: tween natony we nile our a But as @ representa- | tween nations we must settle our dif- tivo of that generation upon whom | ferences by war and bloodshed? What eorganization rests, this my earn every fair and broad min: Issue. Tuke ttme to be brief. , deny that ts to be false to your own inner perception of the truth. The American people want a league, and to deny that Is to be false to those ella) ted ld their lives in bh belief that that pu: 3 be fulfilled. puree itn Tae people are beginning to reah- ‘ze that they have been misled by the false, malicious misrepresentation of the Covenant and that the broken faith of the G. O. P. has become alarmingly conspicuous. The lssue 4s clear, Harding means to stay out and turn his back to the League. Cox means to get In with any ren- ervations that will clarify and eim-| plify our intentions, | The tide is turning toward Cox and the League. The American peo- | ple are awakening at the eleventh| \hour, Get on the wagon, boya, and; J. JENNINGS MAHRAN, § Fulton St, N. ¥. C., Oct, 28, 1990, Am Echo of “3 Ra. ‘To the Wititor of The Brening World: I wish, through The Evening Wortd, to thank Allan A. Ryan for the able the her | Blaine, away back tn the 80s. We old wonder that a man like Mr. Hays, Who has the presumption to lead Harding to the White House, could ‘olerate such a picture, Hays says he js sorry. Blaine was also sorry. Let us hope the cartoon xu bring the same results as the| 3 Rs" and help elect James M. Cua. | T, G. and Brooklyn, Oct. 28, 1920, Pertinent Questions, ‘Ty the Raltor of The Prening World: As a constant reader of your paper Permit me to congratulate you on the splendid work you are doing in behalf of the League of Nations. Allow me @ suggest that it might be a good plan to invite questions from your rendors; perhaps you can answer me these, Why do the people who say they want a change vote for a man whose particular clique is now in power at Washington and who boasts of the fact that he will be guided by them? Why ts tt that while lying in this civilized age, when every country has | irned The is the fundamental difference? Are, it we the country to advocate the latter | d ‘course simply because we are too selfish to bear our proportion of the burden when #0 much is to be gained for our future generations? the = Surely best fitges ea to To whether we should join this league 4 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyrtent, 1920, by Joun Blake.) GET A CONDITION METER. “I can always tell when I'm in condition,” said a golfer, “by my score. “If I've been keeping late hours, or eating too much, or drinking, or worrying, my nerves get shot to pieces. Then I can’t play. The measure of my condition is always on my card after I have finished a game.” Golf is an excellent condition meter. It is not always possible to tell whether you are doing your work to-day bet- ter than you did yesterday, There is no exact measute of efficiency. But you know, if you are a golfer, whether you go around the course in 100 or 80, and you know why. A man plays, as well as works, with his nerves. And he does well to find some means of testing them accurately, Golf, tennis, any recreation that can be scored will tell him. All athletes know when they have finished a game or an exhibition whether or not they are in condition. Mental workers know to a certain extent, though never fully. "The same bodily condition that makes for athletes’ effi- ciency makes for mental efficiency. Make as many tests of your bodily efficiency as you You will need them. If you find your golf score falling off, stop the late hours and the eating or drinking or smoking that is re- sponsible, Then you will be in far better trim for the day's work, whether it is done with your hands or your head. Machinery is carefully tested and the tests are repeated. Your bodily and mental apparatus is the most delicate ma- chinery possible, and is capable of being injured by very slight disturbances. Keep as careful watch on it as you can, and when you find it failing search for the causes and cor- rect them. can, are the men who have been or are at present the head of this Governm L refer to ex-President Taft and Presl- dent Wilson, who has practically given his fe for this noble cause. Add to these Elihu Root, the greatest international lawyer of thls country; Judge Hughes, Herbert Hoover, At- torney ‘General Wickersham and the| teachings of the Bible, the prediction Chambers of Commerce in ail the|in the Book of Revelation, of tho loading cities in the United States.| great millennium or “Peace on earth, All these have indorsed this League| ood will to men? at some time. On the other hacd we] What are tho churches doing to have two obscure politicians, Senators | Promote these doctrines? Johnson and Borah, whom our op-|_ [am a disgusted Republican with ponents hold up to us as the brains| four boys, HARLAN CRANDALL of the country. These two gentlemen Roosevelt, L. I, Oct. 28, 1920 are trying to misrepresent to the people that all of these great men are fools and that our President to- gether with 160 of the foremost statesmen in Europe, with the hor- rors of war still fresh in their minds, dellberatoly wrote this League of Na- tions for the express purpose of pro- moting more wars, It is a oad thing ttrat this big en- terprise has to be settled by people who Will not take the trouble to look Into the facts themselves and are I only too willing to forget the past and trust to luck, putting their faith in Mr, Harding, who adinits “specific plan” for our country’s fu- ture. Shall we continue to pay ex- cessive taxes that will be spent In building up an army and navy to ex- ceed the combined forces of the League of Nations, or forty nations of the world? Does Christianity belleve in the Harve: To the Fditor of The Evening World; It is @ ploasure to learn that in this sorely tried country of ours there oxists such @ man as Mr. Allan Ryan, Too much praise cannot be given him, 1 hope all Christian voters will re- member, on Election Day, the insuit put upon the Catholic faith by Har- lyoy’s Weekly. wish to thank Mr. Ryan for calling the public's attention to it. MRS. M, A. M. 1928. he pas ne! New York, Oct. 28, ~ Poo ae How They Started | By Appleton Street Covrright. 1920, by Press, Publishing the” New York_"ning World). _& JAMES A. FARRELL The President of the United States Steel Corporation started as a day taborer in a wire mill. There are me- chanics and foremen who remembor the days when the steel President was ® young husky with them in the rank and file of industry, and to them he js till im” as they are to him “Tom” and “Joe” and “Jerry.” James A. Farrel was born in New Haven, Conn,, in 1863, the son of @ sea captain, His father took the boy on several voyages when he was y lad, and this early awakaned an in est in foreign lands and peoples—| interest that worked out to pract) ends in later life when he devely, the enormous steel export busings*® | James A. Farrell was born in ‘Ne lege, but one day before his eixteerith birthday his father sailed away never to return, That put an end to school- ing and college plans. The youth ap~ piled for a job in the New Haven Wire Mills and was taken on as @ common laborer. In fifteen months jhe had risen to the status of me- jchanic. From New Haven he went | to Pittsburgh, and by the time he wae twenty-one he was foreman over @ foree of 300 men. In the meantime the young me- chanic had been nursing an ambition }to be a salesman. At nights he was ‘studying the history and organiza- ‘ton of the iron and steel industry! and famillarising himself with the) | general conditions affecting it. Het ' confided his ambition to bis superiors | and soon they gave him an opportun- j ity to try bis hand at selling. Withia five years of his beginning work tn. Pittsburgh in overalls the Pittsburgn” Wire Company of Braddock made him its sales manager. This took him to New York, where the sales offices {were, and the twenty-five-year-old | executive soon came to be known as a coming man in the rising steel in- dustry. In 1893 the company called him back to Braddock as general manuger, But the year of Farrell's rise to the | headship of an industrial plant was @ | difficult one. No sooner was he ins stalled than a financial panic burst upon the country. Many companies |failed; the bottom dropped out of f | business; tt was a gloomy period, Bur Furrell decided that even if cond! tions were discouraging in Améit there must be a market for wire prod: ucts somewhere; so he went out into the foreign field, and found new buy ers in Europe and elsewhere. By the time trade revived at home he had built up an entirely new line of cus- tomers abroad. This achievement at- tracted wide attention all through the steel industry, ‘Then came the iron and steel con= eolidation. Farrell's company we merged with others into the American Steel & Wire Company of New Jer- sey and John W. Gates called him ty be foreign sales agent ofthe en- larged corporation. Two years later came the vaster merger which re- | sulted in the United States Steel Corporation; Farrell's export record mada him the logical choice of the management to develop foreign busi- { ness for the bigger organ.aation, When the export activities of the | corporation were centred in the United States Steel Products Com- pany in 1903 {t was James A. Farrell who was made president of the new \nubstdiary. Finally, in 1911, when + Charles M. Schwab retired, Mr, Far- rell wag elected to atcceed him a | president of the United States Steal Corporation. Mr. Farrell was the leader In or- ganizing the National Foreign Trade Council, India House, and other export organizations, He lives in | Brooklyn and hag a summer home ( in Connecticut, His principal recre. ation is railing—and he Js skipper of { his own boat. chide eae ‘ | | “That’saFact’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyright. 1920, by Tee Prem "For Rreatee World) Massachusetts derives its name | from three Indian words, “‘massa,* | “wachu” and “ett,” “the place of great hills," which contradicts the state« ment of several books, Kansan {6 an Indian word, meantmy | “smoky water." <A tribe bore that | name Arkansas ig a French word “ | (Pronounced, according to a resolu- ‘thon in the Legislature of that State in 1879, “Ar-kan-saw"). This name was also applied to a tribe of Indians, The similarity of the two words tm orthography, Kansas and Arkangae, has led to such inaccurate statementa | as that the latter word is formed from “arc,” @ bow, used a» @ pref to Kansas. eee New Year's was not observed as # Christian festival until the year 187, jand thero 1s little mention of it im the records before the eleventh cen= tury, It was not included ta the lite urey until 2650 A, D. ‘Time waa when it was considered « sure sign of death before the next New Year to see your own shadow in the moonlight on’the 1st of January, Ping were invented in the sixteentis century (1543) at Gloucester, England, They immediately became a popular New Year's present, but later money for their purchase, called “pin money,’ was given instead. . 8 In the days of our Europeat bears It was believed that unless mis fortunes were courted no one shou! leave the house on New Year's Day till some one had entered; and the visitor, to bring a fine brand of good luck, should be @ dark-haired, man, . Black cats, generally thought to be of extremely evil omen by th stitious, are considered lucky on a New Year's Day, ° In Wales, in the country distric fires are freyuently burned on Jan, to purify the house for the entrance of the new year, and the'ashes of these fires are often kept most sa~ oredly from year to year. They ara supposed to possess special medicinal virtues, being particularly efficacious against “falling sickness,” or fits. u ° Hero of Alexandria flourished trom 267 to 212 B.C. He resolved eh max chines into the mechanical powers- vig, the lever, the wheel and axle, the wedge, the screw and the pu . Charles Rrockden Brow 1810), the “pioneer ‘American aneee r Int" was the first author tn Amertce who supported himself herature, Hi wholly by ie ‘ ' ma amar hee trate $