The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 26

¥ | | consideration. Results speak for themselves. ESTAPLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZ Pwiiehea Daily Except @unday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 62 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITAER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Prem te excturively entitied to the use for republication | GD news Geapatches credited to It or mot otherwise credited im this paper GRE also the jocal news published herein, FORCED TO PLAY ON. gel of the Hughes note regarding man- dates issued by the Supreme Council of the League of Nations applying to islands in the Pacific and particularly to the Island of Yap is in the following: “As the United States has never vested * either the Supreme Council or the League of Nations with any authority to bind the United Gtat=s or to act on its behalf, there has been BO Gyportunity for any decision which could + be deemed to affect the righta of the United «©. This is neither more nor less than President Wil- son and Secretary Colby said to the Council of the League in defining the position of the United States ‘as a power that had neither ratified the Versailles Treaty nor accepted the League. If the United States had become a party to the ‘peace treaty and a member df the League its in- Muence in the nratter of mandates could have been effectively exerted from within. In that case this Nation would never have been reed into the unworthy position of an outsider carping at the decisions of an alliance with which it ‘was glad enough to act in war, but with which it F to take counsel or co-operate for peace. The United States could have been a far more beneficial force shaping the policies of the League (as a member of the League, than in its present char- acter of League baiter and peace obstructor. But it was the latter role that suited the purposes of a'Republican Senatorial band bent on turning out a Democratic Administration—and that is the sorry ole the United States of America has been and is sit compelled to play. Pad “HIS MASTER'S VOICE.” “Mayor Hylan WILL run again next “~ fall."—Mr, Hearst's Evening Journal. re SAVE BABIES. A LETTER from Miss Mabel Choate printed in d another column presents in concise form the case for maternity care and for the Stitt bill, which would empower cities in this State to finance ma- ternity centres. ‘There is no other side of the question worthy of So long 2s the absolute value of scien’ ‘ic instruc- flor, advice and care of expectant mothers and young infants was open to question, it was right amd proper that private rather than public funds ‘and initiative should be used in demonstration. This no longer applies. «It is clearly the duty of cither the city or the » igitt to a fair start in life. a service to society which honor bound to recognize. HUSHED? HE day before the day that elected Harding President the voice of one Herbert Hoover _was heard clear and bold from California: “To reopen the Treaty of Versailles for re- negotiation would bring complete chaos to Europe and calamity upon us from it, “The stability of the whole of Europe hangs upon the maintenance of the treaty, and the economic situation in the United States de- pends upon maintaining the stability and Sradual, recuperation of Europe's buying power. Therefore, the logic of the situation } drives this constructive programme to the necessary modification of the present cove- mant and ultimate ratification of the treaty ‘with modification or amendments,” Does President Harding’s Secretary of Commerce speak out tius in Cabinet meeting when it is pro- posed the United States shall give the Versailles Treaty and League the go-by? Or has Secretary Hoover adopted a new logic that can reason away “chaos” and “calamity” where they once threatened? . BONUS BY STATES. T THE election Tuesday, Michigan placed itself om the list of States which provide bonus funds for veterans of the World War. State action has virtually wiped out the case for va Federal bonus. Perhaps the best way out is for service men to abandon all effort for a Federal bonus and work for State bonuses in the States “which have not yet taken action, « Otherwise we shall have double bonuses and a double burden on taxpayers, arid a condition of un- ‘equal payment to men who have borne equal risks ‘amd equal sacrifices. » When the States have acted it will be time for he Federal Government to step in and deal fairly with individuals not included by States, as, for SN et ee ees ae example, the New York soldiers who have moved to New Jersey and so disqualified themselves under the New York law. A TRUE PROPHET. FE, SAINING his support of the Haniing candidacy, William Howard Taft, Repub- lican and former President of the United States, declared three months before Nov. 2, 1920, his hope and expectation: “That President Harding will ultimately conclude it to be wiser to enter the League with the Lodge reservations than to attempt to carry out the same purpose through a new form of association.” Explaining why he could not support or vote for Harding, Herbert Parsons, former Chairman of the Republican Committee of New York County, said, a month before the election: “The issue to the American voter is be tween going into the League with reserva tions and not going in at all, “Harding is and will be for not going in at all. “Harding’a real policy will be to do—not what honor or tho peace of the world re- quires but what he will be squeezed into do- ing by the opposing pressures of the conflict ing forces supporting him. It may be nothing” e at all so long as it serves as a compromise to! preserve harmony in the Republican Party and make possible continued Republican con- trol of the Senate." Yesterday’s despatch from the Washington cor- respondent of The World contained the following: The President's discussion with the news- Paper correspondents was reasonably long and frank, and the outstanding matter re- vealed was that the Treaty of Versailles as + brought back by Woodrow Wilson has been scrapped and that neither the Administration nor the so-called Senatorial oligarchy has yet evolved any substitute plan for a permanent peace treaty or League or Association of Nations. Mr. Taft and Mr. Parsons were both pro-League Republicans with equal opportunities for appraising Mr. Harding and forecasting his foreign policy. Mr. Taft followed his party and is the victim of fils faith. Mr. Parsons followed his conscience and finds himself a true prophet. Considering Alderman Falconer'’s limited knowledge of Who's Who, would it not be wise in future to introduce resolutions ex- tending the freedom of the city before the visitors arrive? Mme. Curie will visit America soon. The Hvening World suggests that some Alder- man introduce at once a resolution to confer upon her a similar honor, without attempting to force immediate adoption. Under such procedure Alderman Falconer would have time to spare himself the em- Darrassment of asking, “Who is Mme. Curie?” IT WILL ECHO. HY not shoot and get through?” is an- other vivid and forceful phrase for which the Nation must thank Charles G. Dawes. Congress meets next week. One of the first things it must consider will be the recommendations of President Harding’s special commission of in- quiry into the care of ex-service men. And, as Mr. Dawes expresses it, “The essence of the whole thing is speed.” The preliminary recommendations of the com- mittee indicate that the complete report will satisfy both the service men and the civilian population. If Congress fails to get quick action, the mem- bers will hear a deafening echo of Mr. Dawes’s forceful statement. “Shoot and get through.” ee TWICE OVERS. 66 THE fact that the United States has not ratified the Treaty of Versailles cannot detract from the rights which the United States has already ac- quired.” —Secretary of State Hughes. * + + €6€J AM absolutely opposed to sending a legislative committee fo New York to gun for Hylan.” Jacob A. Livingston. * . 66] DIDN'T want to get 'em out of the way, but Mr. Johnny said, ‘It's their necks or your's.” —Clyde Manning, in the peonage murder trial. . * * MAN'S home is his castle, but it is not his brewery.” —Deputy Police Commissioner Leach. 66D THINK we should inaugurate disarmament as rapidly as possible. This is a good time to take it up with the rest of the world. The whole world is taxed to death now.” —Representative Campbell of Kansas. * 66 F a man tells you we need a large navy to do our share in policing the seas of the world, don't lelieve him. The navy is for one purpose—to fight.” —Rear Admiral Sims, i Wi t i) “HT NONCOMMITAL Safe! But "Getting Nowhere! a) FOREIGN PoLicy KNOX RESoLvTion! Nature in The Bible lone, Rev, Thomas 8. Gregory 1021, by the Prree Pobliahing Ca Yori: Evening Wi No. 9RIVERS AND LAKES, Without its waters, its lakes, rivers, seas, earth would pe a dreary place ndeed. Even if it were possible tor us to live without the waters, their absence would mean the desolation of view that would break our hearts and take all Lie poetry out of life, It fs no small thing, then, that the Book of Books is tull of the ripple and sheen of the eloment that makes it possible for us to live upon the earth, and to live in the midst of an indescribable loveliness. Palestine, owing to its geography. geology and limited area, has but few lakes or streams of any importance, butelt has ite Jordan and its Lake of Galilee, around which cluster the holiest history and most compelling reflections that ever challenged the attention of the mind of man. The Lake of Galllee was the centre of the life and labors of the greatest \ spiritual genius that humanity has ever produced, “whose pierced hands,” to employ the words of Jeaa Paul Richter, “lifted the gate of em- pire off its hinges, turned the stream, of centuries out of its channel and still governs the "his little Lake of Galilee, only thirteen miles long and six broad, with its sweet, cool, sparkling waters and pebbly shores, is, morally and spiritually speaking, the centre of the world, Around its shining waters the Great; est of Teachers began the work which is ultimately to bring about the “ong far off Divine event to which the whole creation moves.” And that river—that Jordan —how utterly insignitic in som rigon with it are all other s Tho Alpheus, the Iilasus, th the Buphrates, the the Tt parta, Athens, the British of Ameriow —do they not all stund for the “things which are while the Jor ands, “things that se “eternal”? By the w: » think hi » famous Bible river Ife of maa on this earth? It in a dark, cavernous region he foot- hills of Anti-Labanon, flows with y windings through beauty and 200 miles south and seg itself in the Dead Sea, a of water, if water it may be across which no bird flies and upon the desolate shores of'which no port has ever risen But Infinitely than the Jor- dan was along its shore and was baptized in its waters. The Jordan, at vhe end of its course, 8 into the Dead Sea, and so far stream of the as mere human sense goes, life fin sort of a p'inge—into ath; but He whose name ever associated with the Scriptural stream says, “No! Not toward the sea of death Lut toward the sea of life—tife eternal—does the stream of your life flow. fo say much in a few words. Take Maternity Care. To the Palitor af The Evening World, As President of the Maternity Center Association, may I call atten: tion to the Stitt bill, which is now before the Legislature? This bill per- mits the various communities to ap- propriate funds for maternity care, and has the full approval of the Ma- ternity Center Association of Man- hattan, ‘The need for such maternity care as this bill proposes is tremendous not only in Manhattan but in the en- tire country. In Manhattan alone last yeur one mother died for every 205 babies born; one baby born out of every 26 died under one month of age, a total of 2,145; and one baby out of every 21 was bern dead, a total of 2,854. In the whole United States 17,000 methers die annuaily from causes incident to childbirth; 100,00 babies die under one month of age, and another 100,000 are born dead. The Maternity Center Association | has proved by {ts work that two- thirds of these mothers and one-half J on, proved by such physicians as Dr Dr, Haven Em Kosmak, Dr. Ralph Labenstine, Dr, William B, Stud- diford and Dr, Herbert B. Wilcox. The fact that the Maternity Center for over 11,000 babies last year 1s en want and need this care, At the present time the twenty maternity centres in Man- hattan and the staff of doctors and nu are entirely supported — by voluntary contributions, ‘This should not be. The care of mothers and babies Is distinctly a city or State responsibility, New York City failed to appropriate funds for the sixty- clght pre-natal nurses asked for by Dr, Josephine Baker last fall, so that private individuals, realizing great need for this care, have been obliged to support the work which properly should belong to the city: Should ot every effort be made to induce the legislators to assume the responsibility of providing ‘adequate care for expectant mothers and their bie. me a] MABEL CHOATE, New York City, April 6, 1921. Clifton Edgar, Dr. George W. mothers proof that Rallrond Conditions, ‘To the Haitor of Tho Brening Work! As we view the condition of the railroads to-day our minds go back to a little over a year ago, when the employees of the railroads were de- manding an increase in wages. Just about that time the bill wa: | Congress concerning the sold \nus. Great influences wi to bear on Congress, one bod feeling that the paying epending of #0 rs’ be brought y of men, out and From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundrear There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. keep up high prices, sending a petition © Congress urging them not to pas the bill. A few months later the rail- ‘oads received from the Interstate Commerce Commission permission to raise passenger and freight rates in order to meet the demands made by their employees, Thus it was that the two Dillion dollars, just the amount asked for at that time for our soldier boys, went to the railroads and our soldier boys, who had fought that we as a Nation might be pre- served, received no reward. But we do not feel that we should cali the paying of two billion dollars to our soldiers a reward if we had given it to them, but rather an expression of our gratitude and thanksgiving be- cause of being delivered from a fate such as befell other nations While our soldier boys were across the sea fighting and in thousands of cases laying down their lives, men here at home were receiving fabu- lous prices for their labor, Our boys were taken from the ordinary walks of life, transplanted to strange lands to witness such scenes as it |never was thought possible for men to look upon. When the work which they started out to accomplish was finished they were brought back, fei JOU a nauny of them so badly wounded tnat o ans bred ) take up old familiar tasks was im- ing up the family and placing thet | pomaible, Life for them meant a children in Lee ft i v4 jcomplete transformation; they must Imperative to give to the mother ade: !take up new and untried tasks, For Statements have been thoroughly ap-| aay montha the public has been sti ip ying to the railroads and their em- oyees, through increased passenger and freight rates, vast sums of money. It would seem fitting, now that the roads are contemplating a eral reduction in wages, to also the passenger and freight This money could then by. as taxes to our Government, allowing the passage of the and the publi would pay in the course of a fe ears to our soldier boys its debt of gratitude. H. B. New York, April 4. pala thus Soldiers’ Bonus bill, Rall Playing In the Park, To the BAltor of The Evening World. Saturday afternoon I went over to Central Park for a little recreation in the form of playing ball on the meadow at West 100th Street, It was the first time of the year, I sup- posed ball playing was allowed, as 1 played last year many a time and nothing ever was said, I met two strangers, young men like myself, who were simply lobbing the ball around to each other. Neither had a bat which would pos- sibly drive a ball and burt anybody. I joined them, ‘Then we heard a police whistle, followed by a com- mand to get off, We immediately complied with this and started to t our couts, and were on the side- alk when a plain-clothes man.came lp to Ws, flashed his shield and hsked us the reason of our being on the grass. We explained to him in a good-natiired manner our ignorance money would | of any law forbidding ug op this pub- t \ - > UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 2921. by John Blake.) PITY THE MAN WHOIS the man who is afraid to fail. The mental hazards in life, moral coward and the victim of vanity. If you are afraid to fail, you are not likely to succeed. The golfer who gets nervous when he has to make a drive over a pit that he would make unhesitatingly over a level stretch of sward is a prey to his own vanity. shot, he is thinking that people will laugh at him if he drops his ball into the depth below. The man who is afraid of a failure in life is afraid nine times out of ten not of the failure but of what people will Instead of thinking of hi say about it. Instead of being a hindrance, failure ought to for it is one sure way to discover what not to do, It was repeated failure that taught Shackleton how to discover the South Pole. It was repeated failure that taught the allied armies how to win the war, There is no success worth talking about that has not been founded on a number of failures. The man who moves through life from one success to another has a very unstable foundation, and is pretty sure make one, to make a disastrous failure when he does For failures, after all, are only through mistakes that we learn, mistak, Don't worry if failure brings ridicule and hurts you tem- porarily in the opinion of unthinking people. make you stronger if you profit by it. But be sure of one thing, and that is to analyze every failure carefully and never, by any chance, to make the same AFRAID TO FAIL, The mental hazard on a golf course is a terror only to which are far more numer- ous than those on a golf course, retard the progress of the Each one will Such is the great thought that i associated with the little Palistinean river, and it is the inspiration born of this thought that draws to the shores of the Jordan pilgrims from all over the world. len Who Made New York By Irwin Thom Coperignt, 1931 Oo, _ ihe! 7, he Prem Iiuidighing New Yor Preniig Wort) NO. 11—WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, (1723-1790.) William Livingston was of Scotch Presbyterian stock. To this fact is due much of the greatness of Colum- bia College. ‘The need for an institu- tion of learning had been felt for a long time in New York. Harvard was turning out men of letters in the North. In Virginia, William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, were some men who were to make history for several decades, In New York there was nothing. The city, it is true, had talked about a college. About $17,000 had been raised by a lot- tery sanctioned by the Legislature William Livingston was one of the trustees, He stood alone in his belief that the institution should be non- sectarian, He discovered the plans were to introduce the Book of Com, mon Prayer for all religious services, Livingston warned hin associates of the course they were following and protested vehemently against their going ahead without the unanimous consent of the Legislature, His repu tation was that of a fighter and his ability as a lawyer second to none of his time, The two attributes com- bined to make him a formidable op- ponent of the close corporation that be a help, And it is kind of a failure twice, could not sec the future as he did. or held views at variance to his own, It was sald that his success was due i to the accuracy of his knowledge and , | he soundn of his logic ~ lic lawn, that we had played on and | d F * ; hundreds like us played on last year W h W Moreover, he was well liked and ad hundreds Like us played on ast year) WOFdS Krom the Wise mtu He hind 8 wonderful resend I received a summons to court for ; 2. Slight of figure, thin and gracefuh, FE eae uy Raned ae Misfortune® comes on horse- | young and han la wore a pow- whatsoever. back and gocs away on foot, dered wi velvet coat Why were we not entitled to at least —Fr the Fre with rut ‘ nd gold buckles one warning and then let go? And Sanen From the French, on his shoes. When he found he was n wo cheerfully complied Some people undertuke the | up against a dead wall he started @ we all given subpoenas dificult task of teaching others and every ba Jependent iene Why are so many police and plain ; Bae ate : nd every Week printed an article ex- othe men put on auch petty jobs in| 80 f make easy money, for the plan of the trustees of Central Park while the lack of a better way of carning King's Collere. They retorted he was over running the City of Ne a living.—Louis M. Notkin, hue vo wreck e whole enterprise. Which is worse, playing ball, or : SaseaV abs ut Livingston —won out payee and thievery? Beauty is eloquent even when igauinst the great Delancey, the clergy Many suffer from the same| — silent.—-French proverb, ef the Chureh of England and the” tyranny, Is it any wonder there Is one jaymen who wanted a sectarian in- a orime wave? M. J.B Our philosophy depends on | stitution. When King’s College was SY AAW-ABIDING CITI our state of health.—Chauliev, | chartered It was as Willlam Living. New York, April 4, 1921. Matrimony-—the high sea for |Ston wanted It, He was one of the which no compass h a8 trustees renamed in the charter, Fish and Fishermen, ic pass hae yet been | trinity Church had given piece at fs the Hilitor of ‘Tho Bening World invented.—Heine. its land for it and there had been 1 waa much pleased to rend Wille When I suid T would die q |MAny Dig subscriptions for that pe- 4, ¢ “ riod of New York's history, J (en eee se Abous lee bachelor I did not think I should | Murray, a friend of Livingston ange Re eee evar valuable pence on| ee a Z were married, merchant of the city, had given $40, aside in. yo! able pape y 00. Livingston did’ a lot of thi e " $I) p nee Tam gure there are many| hakespeare, Governor of the | ~ philosophy triumphs casity Jersey, dul nooo thas | an pastel i ag h of mind a m something wer over past evils and future evits, |inanded of him more courage theh only would it benefit t but present evils triumph over |sveing that what Is now Columb men but your pape ell. Iniversit 8 a. : 2 —La Rochefoucaul niversity was started pro | | New York, April 4, 1921, it—La id, Ihe spirit’ of the New shan Bipperly nm $ . whe Athair ed mite Ste ksemmenrmET ees: | annem