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1 ON THE RIGHT TACK NOW
A YOU MOOHP.'S rcjiirst Mint n portion
A'J- of tlio fnniN roiiirpil for tin- tituitirinc
!of Mi'1 iiiiniint for itn-Pt rlcaiiiiic by mu
.niclpiil forros bo provided for In tin bg loan
'ordinance N a ntop In the risht dlrcrtioii.
iThprp lias npM-r Iippii nny room for debate
over tho niprltt of nuinicip.il as iijipnofil to
contnet trppt rlKiiiine.
TliN a tin dominant iMii- of Mip tiiht
tor the new eltv ehnrter. It wai "o reooK
nUed b Mr. Moore n- :i I'niidldatp. And
rrcHiitl) thp "incpreit frletiiN of tlip Mn.or
bae been emphiiixins till- faetor. They
may muv feel that the M.uyor ix bcsinnlns
t" jtnttifj their liopex.
The detaiN of the administration (dans
for next j ear will be awaited with the keen
est Interest.
THE DISFRANCHISED WOMEN
rpiH' IJ70 women lio-p tiuiiipm were or--
dered on the np-"-or' list jestPrday by
Judep Patterson and Shoemaker form but
a small proportion of thosr- omitted for one
ranee o- unother from the orii;in:tl survey.
It is nid that at atiothrr court hparine for
petitions npxt week a thousand ndilitinnal
names will be ireentpd
It is obvious, tlierefore, that the tnlnl of
temporarilj disfranchised electors will ho
lnrger tlinu per before in the city's history.
To Illume the women wholly -for Indiffereni'e
Is hardl fair. The nuisance of cuing to
court over the matter, although more appar
ent Mian real, has doubtless caused a number
of women to accept nn imperfect assessment
job ns final for this autumn. Not een the
energetic and guidons efforts of the Repub
lican women's committer" to reined mutters
have sufficed to remove the impression of
difficulty.
Definite light on the attitude of the new
eiectora will be throw i, bv the linn! registra
tion on October i. ..s ,ot oiil about 7.". 000
women of the quarter of a million on the as
sessors' lits have enrolled at the polling
places. If the turnout is imprcssjVc large
It will suggest that among the 1.10.000 or
more disfranchised there are many unwilling
victims.
Tt would seem, if possible, that additional
davs for petitiou hearings might be Inserted
between the present date and the final date
of registration The fullest publicity and
emphasis should, inoreoter. be given to the
faet that women pajing taxes on propert
are entitled to register without having had
their names placed on the assessors' lists.
These, however, are only partial remedies
for an unsatisfactory sjstem. (iowrnor
Sproul's ailtocncy of ubolishing it altogether
and substituting some other method less
likely to work injustice is dccjdedlv worth
attention hi the state Legislature when it
meets in Januart.
ROADS AND RULES
fTUlK Lincoln Highway In this region Is
' reported as another victim of heavv com
mercial motortrucks, und the Public Service
Commission has unite properly announced Its
Intention to have the regulations concern
ing Mich ehleles enforced.
TJut the naj to end complaints. In them
mIvch justified. Is not ro abolish a' now vital
faetor in the transportation system, hut to
recognize the imperatiw need for durable
paving. It is not impossible to construct
roads sufficient to bear heavy traffic. The
Lincoln Highway, an Important direct route
between large population (enters, should be
made fit fop both pleamre and business uses.
The investigation which the Public Serrlee
commissioners bine asked the State Highway
Department to make comernin: the condi
tion of the rond may result in increased re
strictions Hegardecl as a temporal meas
ure, thei will perhaps serve. Thr ni xt
htep should be road building consonant with
the modern transportation conditions in this
commonwealth
ATHLETES OF THE LEGION
A I.MOST Immeiliatelr after the armistice
" we invaded the field of athletic sport with
resiiHs that provoked interest een in sullen
Oeriuony. In France the activities of Mm
A I". P. in baseball, football and track
Competitions started something like a gen
eral athletic rcilwil.
It is fjuite consistent with its character
therefore that the American Legion should
Cow spread the beneficent influence of gnmes
Mead of guiilicn. The carnlial scheduled
for rrnnklln field (IiIk afternoon n.nrks the
organized development of this heiiltln spirit.
The Amcriuiii Legion field Oaj games are
to be an annual affair.
The distinction which Philadelphia tnkes
In being the scene of their debut is enhanced
by echoes of the classic Oljmpic .onteRts.
.Some notable partii Ipants in the Ai.'werp
competitions will be present this afternoon.
Tour Olympic runners will "marathon" from
Villaiioui to franklin Field. Sport of the
most stimulating variety will be regnant im
nn aftermath of war. And some thought the
Amerlcuu Legion would pluy politic:
SOVIET "REASONING"
IN HIS note addressed to the Italian fiov
ertimi'iit and to "Soviet representatives
fhrond" (ieorge Tchitcherin, Soviet foreign
minister, accuses Secretarj Colby of being
"profoundly mistaken If he thinks, normal
relations between Russia mid North Amer
ica are possible only If capitalism exists. In
Russia."
' The criticism Is thoroughly tvnldtl nt Hie
iJolshevUt practice of demolishiur ureumcuU
never propounded. The American note based
the State Department's objection to recog
nizing the Soviet regime explicitly upon the
proved fact that the present government of
Ilussia Is not a majority government.
Even ns a special pleader, ingenious in dia
lectics and speaking with diplomatic good
temper, Mr. Tchitcherin docs not attempt to
deny this truth, since he declares that "the
working masses, having removed the exploit
ers from power, may determine their own
fute ami govern themselves."
It Is worth noting that no claim Is made
that these "working masses" constitute a
majority of thp Ituvdau people. They nre,
ns n matter of fact, n mass specially organ
ized nnd compact and just as certainly a
minority.
lly assuming that It is for some other
reason, Mr. Tchitcherin simply states n
hypothetical cne such as the intellectuals
among the Itolshevlsts have ail along demon
strated their ability to argue with consider
able surface cleverness.
THE SCHOOLS OF HATE AND
SOME WORK OF A GRADUATE
Profcsaion.il Agitators Who Now "Re
gret" the Wall Street Tragody Are
Not Wholly Without
Responsibility
TJMjYN.V. the astutp chief of thp bureau of
A Investigation in the Department of .lus
tlcp. insists that a bomb carefully planted
and oxpcrt! timed caused the explosion nnd
slaughter In Wall street. Flvnn ought to
know. He has seen a good many bombs in
his day. Circumstantial evidence strongly
supports the deductions of the federnl police.
None of the men and women nnd children
s'liln or maimed in Wall street ever did any
thing to harm the American understudies of
I.enine and Trotzky. They were innocent
nnd uno.Tendlng people, murdered without
warning and in cold blood. The memory of
that crime will last for a good many yrars
to torment nil those who mny seem to be in
nnv way reconciled to the erred that In
spired it.
Wall street will go on doing the work
allotted to It. In every normal mind there
will be n new distrust nnd a new hatred of
whnt Is known os rndlenlism. More or less
peaceful Socialists will wonder why their
meetings are mobbed. Soap-box demagogues
will wonder why bricks nre thrown nt them.
Pig Hill Haywood nnd his friends, harassed
and spleil upon and, on occasions, raided,
will insist once more that thp snered right
of free speech is denied them. They will not
know that the people nt large people of the
sort who were killed for no offense of their
own in n New York street are acting tin
consciously for self-preservation against n
system of propaganda thnt sends lunatics
skulking into the street with Inflamed minds
and a passion for murder.
If the Wall street tragedy was the result
of a deliberate plan it must be blamed on
the profes!onnl hate-makers. Haywood
doesn't talk anv more reasonably than Lu
dendorff used to tnlk. Debs is ns violent in
his hatreds ns nny junker.
If Haywood ami Debs sav thnt "capital
ists" are reactionary nnd dangerous, what
Is to be said nbout the schools of propaganda
in which feeble or untraineik minds are made
violently drunk with a sense of imagined
wrong? 'What of the lazy ngitiitqri who
mnkc a comfortnUe living by telling multi
tudes daily and nightly pier where in the
(ountrv that thev are hem? robbed nnd
starved and exploited bv a heartless and
merciless crowd higher up?
1 In vu onil himself is forever tnlking about
"the Morgan crowd." He knows no more
about the work and purposes of the Nrorgnns
nnd their i.- ocintes than he knows nlsiiit
th Liu-'ein theory of the fourth dimension.
He lives upon superstitions.
And this is vvhrl comes of his sort of
work. He und his followers nre now under
new disadvantages, and so i" every one else
who. unlike him and Debs, believes in frank
and holiest tnlk as nn ;ii n rational social
progress. For there will be a grc.it outcrv
now for new laws of reprew. ion. for a tighter
system of espionnge. und (hire will be. too,
general abatement of poimlnr svmpathy for
those who refuse to believe that conditions
in the social nnd economic life of the coun
try are bejond the need for improvement.
Few people will stop to realize that the
bomb-throwers themselves are the greatest
obstacles in the wav of belligerent radical
ism. It is because of them and their sort
that common opinion has forever been an
tagonistic to the untried forces of liberalism.
Hecause they arp foul and cowardl.v and un
speakably cruel thev have iflade a world of
enemies for the causes that thev make their
own.
Debs wouldn't throw n bomb Neither
would Haywood. Hut the murderers who do
throw bombs nre gritdnntes of the schools
that accept Debs and Haywood as masters.
Debs and Haywood nnd I' inmn (ioldmnn and
the rest of them have been tolerated for
years in the fnited States. It is not on
record thnt they cveracenmpllshpd nnything
but confusion. The sternly progress jif evo
lutionary economic thought Is not due to
them. They have hindered rather than
helped the causes for which they presumed
to speak. When they did not make the cause
of their followers hated they did something
worse. Thev made it ridiculous. It has
been their habit to tnlk of exploitation.
They themselves, becnuse of singular tnlent
for misrepresentation nnd disastrous lender
ship, have been the worst and the cruelest
exploiters of the poor.
Ilnywocil hns hurried to assert that he
knows nothing of the Wnll street outrage
and thnt he grcatlj regrets It. So. too, have
other agitators who ordinarily go about as
furtive propagandists of direct action. And
they probably speak the tnith according to
their lights. Hut they are the men who,
whenever the opportunity arises, fill un
stable minds with perilous dope.
If n bomb was planted in Wall street nnd
if Flynn and his colleagues ever find the
man who made it they probably will find n
brooding maniac who was swept off his bal
nuce altogether by the sort of talk that Hay
wood and Ills kind proUdc nowadays for all
their audiences. In the redder meetings nt
which Hlg Hill shines any one ma. sit. No
one asks whether everjbod.v in the crowd is
able to withstand the strong medicine ad
ministered from the platform. "Wall street
nnd the Morgan crowd," thunders this Hill,
"rob the poor and take food from the hun
gry! fngland and the President of the
I'nlted States wnnt to send .vour sons abroad
as cannon fodder. The Sennte is for the
rich!" It is like feeding whisky In large
doses to little children.
If, in the end. some unhappy and bewil
dered and Ignorant people believe these
squalid falsehoods, and if an occasional im
becile leaves the presence of an energetic
agitator with murder in his heart, who
should be surprised?
There lias been a great deal of talk about
free speech. Hut the greatest enemies of
free speech are men like Debs and Haywood
and others who shamelessly abuse a privi
lege which they know cannot be withdrawn
from them here, but which would svviftli he
withdrawn under almost anj other govern
ment in the world.
Having asserted positively that a bomb
of lnrge dimension!) was deliherutel) ex
ploded in Wall street. Chief flynn will have
to go further. lie ought to tell the country
whether TNT can ho bought like soap or
Migar in the open market, and if so why.
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
The stuff is not easily made, and, tinlike
d.viuiniltc, It is not an article of general use.
If there is not a record of shipments nnd
purchases by which the police could now be
guided, there should be such records.
For more reasons than one the public
k will welcome a quick solution of the ugly
mjstery. The police here ami In other cities
are revealing the symptoms of emotional ex
citement that arc always nppnrent among
tlii'iii nfter any spectacular crime. Motorcars,
under nn order issued yesterday in this city,
"must not be parked In the central section
of the city utiles a chauffeur" properly
certified? "Is left in each." No wagon
nm) be parked near n bank.
This sounds familiar. The police have
imagination. One madman can make them
believe thnt n large part of the country may
suddenly lose Its mind.
The explosion in New York was cithrr
nn accident or the work of a malignant lunn-
tic of nn uncommon type. 1'vcn in n roun
try thnt tolerates vicious agitators on one
hnnd, while on the other it encourages men
und conditions thnt foster nnd incite
l them, bombmnkers nre comparatively rare.
I There Is no need for hysteria or for fan
tastic police orders of a sort that Impose
needless inconvenience nn peaceable citizens.
Indeed, it is n question whether the police
need bother greatly about Haywood nnd his
sort after this. It will be a good many
j ears before they can get from under the
cloud put on them b their disciple In Wall
street.
COX SOFT-SOAPS HI
pOVKKNOK COX In the net of handing
'sJ sweet-scented bouquets to Hlrnm John
son is u spectacle calculated to stir the heart
of demngog). "He and I," declared the
Democratic candidate, nddressing a Sacra
mento iiuilietii'C. "do not agree on interna
tional policies, but I respect the mnn for
his candor." It appears from the context
of the speech that not n little of this "re
spect" is due to past favors nnd hopes of
future benefactions.
Hiram Johnson did the Democratic party
on excellent turn four years ngo. In the
exceedingly transparent expectation that
suave words concerning n former inalrontent
will Induce Cnliforninns to secede again from
the Itcpiiblican fold, Mr. Cox dismisses a
cardinal plank in his party platform in n
rush of approbation for n man whose detes
tation of nny League of Nations lias been
outspoken and intense.
if flattery so crass is regarded in the
Democratic camp with satisfaction, the sin
cerity of the stand taken nt the San Fran
cisco convention upon the Lengue of Nntlons
ns Mr. Wilson submitted it to the Sennte
nin.v well be questioned.
Mr.Tnft. it may be noted, hns not been found
fiiNoinrly complimenting Mr. Johnson. The
ex -President is a genuine friend of the
league in some form, as arc most Amci leans.
PENNSYLVANIA SAILORS
rpHE cruise of the schoolship Annapolis,
which returned yesterdny, appears to
have been a splendid success. The seven
teen cadets traveled some 0000 miles, touch
ing nt North Atlantic and West Indian
ports. Excellent training was accompanied
by valuable practical experience with sen
life.
The results fully justify the good sense of
the Legislature in equipping the Pennsyl
vania Nautical School with u ship of
this kind. The abandonment of the annual
cruise some jeurs ngo was emphatically n
mistake in u commonwealth dcepl.v Interested
in sea-borne commene nnd the premier ship
building state of the I'nion. The lesson of
the revived crillhc should be heeded by
making the appropriations at Ilnrrisbtirg as
guicroiis us possible For in the navy or
the merchant murine It is plnln that the
graduatps of the Nautical School can be of
vital service.
THE VISION OF RADIO
VyilEN such a huge machine as the old
battleship Ohio, without a man on
board, can be made to perform ull of the
evolutions required of n vessel, with the
directing impulses furnished entirely by the
nijstic medium of the radio apparatus', the
predictions of wireless enthusiasts must be
taken with more seriousness than we hare
been giving them. It Is their vision that Uic
day is not far distant when earth, nir and
water shall fall under the sway of the ether
wave and when men many "miles distant
shall control machinery nnd direct commer
cial enterprises of vast Importance.
When young John nn.vs Hammond made
his first experiment with u radio-controlled
motorboat in the waters of I,ong Island
Sound only n few years ngo his work was
regarded with pntient tolerance by people
who had no intimate knowledge of the forces
with which he was working nnd the possi
bilities which his success might open up.
Hut the grizzled old hulk of the Ohio is now
a mutP warning to nil of us that wp must be
prepared to believe almost an thing that the
miciititic visionaries of today are dreaming.
Suppose, for a monieut. that we had had
efficient radio direction of ships and aircraft
during the war. What would the result have
been? Fleets of bombing planes would have
sailed over the enemy lines, scattering de
struction and death, at no risk of Ios of
precious lives to us. The (iorninn I'-boat
menace would havo been a simple problem to
solve, for ships could have been seni into
every bubmnriiip harbor ship following ship
as thp preceding one was sunk, until an im
paVsable burrier had been piled up across the
entrance to every port, with no danger to
human life in the undertaking.
Vital months of training, spent in camps
by embryo aerial pilots of both planes and
dirigibles, would have In en saved, for the
ncrlnl fleets visioned by thise radio enthu
siasts require no pilots. The personal equa
tionthe most important of all requisites for
modern warfare In the clouds -would have
been entirely eliminated, and gicnt fleets of
devastating, inexorable mm nines would have
been sent forth with no mrves, with no
fallible muscles, with no fear of n mcnncliig
machine gun. with nn errois of snap judg
mentall operating Impersonally, unswerv
ing!) , very Juggernauts of judgment whose
ranks rould have been swelled nnd re
enforced by numbers limited only by the
limitless power of American quantitative pro
production ami not by the sadly circum
scribed boundaries of human adaptability to
a totnll) new environment.
Commercially, the radio vision is no less
extended, lireat streams of mail and express
planes and dirigibles enn be sept forth with
out waiting for the skill and judgment of the
pilot, so difficultly acquired and so fre
quentl) and tragically demolished by one tiny
error. And on the laud and on the wnter,
nnd evin under the water, the same vision
holds good, of one man doing the work of n
bundled and of vast systems of machines
responding to a touch upon the key.
It is n vision that all of us have not the
sight If see; it Is one. however, which we
all can appreciate, when we know that the
keen ejes of the elect, peering out over the
hoilzon of the future, make it out in the
mists coming toward us and very soon to be
alongside.
The meeting of Senator Vare, the su
perintendent of his street-cleaning depart
ment and officials of the Department of
Public Works was surrounded with mystery,
but nil concerned dielured thut street clean
ing was ufit discussed. Of course not. The
subject of conversation was Stokowsht'g mu
sicai plunn for the coming season.
PHILADELPHIA, SATUi)VrY, SEPTEMBER
THE DIAMOND FLURRY
Reckless Extravagance In Precious
Stones Passes the Peak Dia
monds From tho Stars Lee
Plummer and His Millions
By GEOKGB NOX MeCAIN
THE public is gradually recovering from
Its orgy of reckless nnd Indiscriminate
spending.
One of the evidences of thii is that the
diamond Hurry has passed Its peak. .
Not that diamonds have declined In price,'
or arc likely to;' nor Mint legitimate trade
in this precious stone lias grown smaller.
It Is n fact, though, thut the newly rich
nnd (he superprospernus mechanics, who
during nnd since the war made more In a
single week Minn they ever before mode in n
month, are curtailing their extravagances in
Mils respect.
W INFIELD SCOTT MellENIlY is a dla
mnnd expert. He in't nn .Importer;
just nn expert who can tell the rhnrartcr
nnd value of a diamond at n glance. Ho
tells me that the trade is. gradually settling
back to Its former channels. ' ' '
The hectic rush to wpnr a diamond .in a
silk shirt tn his work by thp mechanic, who
regarded this display as .in evidence of
wealth nnd prosperity, has about ceased.
The people who know diamonds, who -buy
them judiciously, who nre not influenced by
enheniernl or vulgar fads, nre getting into
the market ngnln.
It's a healthy sign, according to Mr. Mc-
Henry ; nnd lie knows.
DIAMONDS, for all their dazzling beauty,
nre of the earth earthy ; likewise, they
arc of the celestial spheres heavenly.
It was the Philadelphia Academy of Nat
urnl Sciences that first revealed to the world
the fact thnt diamonds had been found In
meteorites.
Thut was away back in 1SS7
The discovery was published under the
tltlp of "Diamonds in Mpteorltps."
' To Prof. A. E. Fontp belongs the honor
of finding the first diamonds in these visitors
from Interstellar spaces.
Dr. Oeorge Frederick Kunz, of New York,
the greatest living expert in precious stones,
also discovered, more than thirty years ago,
thirteen diamonds in a small meteorite that
fell in Russia.
In all such cases, however, they were mi
croscopic in size.
Diamonds hnvc been manufactured in the
last quarter of a century under tremendous
heat and pressure. Hut they also have been
microscopic.
Professor ITannay, of Glasgow, twenty
five years ago, exhibited diamonds which he
had manufactured nnd which Hrltish Mu
seum authorities pronounced .genuine dia
mond crystals.
They were very small. It cost Professor
Ilannay $2.j,000 to produce $1.2,"i worth of
the gem.
Scientists have nbout abandoned the idea
thnt these products of the rrtort will ever
become a commercial possibility.
THE great Dc Beers syndicate of South
Africa controls the world's supply of
diamouds.
They control the diamond fields of South
Africa in about the same proportion thnt
four great corporations hi Pennsylvania con
trol the anthracite coal supply.
For this reason the price of diamonds is
not likely to decline until the market be
comes overstocked.
It is not likely to become overstocked ns
long os the Dp Iteers crowd can control tho
output.
It looks ns though the day of the cheap
diamond is forever gone. That Is unless new
fields arc discovered,
IT WAS nn Irishman named O'Heilly who
discovered the first diamond in i-odern
days in South Africa, "awny back in 1807.
It was an undersized American named
l'orter Hhonds who discovered the most
beautiful diuinond ever found in Mic Kim
berley field.
It wnsn't the largest stone discovered
before or since, but it was the most brilliant.
It. was subsequently sold to the Countess of
Dudley fnr ?n00,000.
The most remarkable thing nbout diamond
mining is Mint they are unerringly sorted
from the blue clay ond gravel by machine.
Only one-third of 1 per cent is lost in the
first selection.
Every stone is recovered by subsequent
mechanical process.
J LEE PLI'MMEU, of Blair comity, was
chairman of the appropriation committee
In the legislative session of 100,". The
committee held Its Philadelphia meetings in
Senator Holes Penrose's chambers In the
Arcade Huildlng.
Ah the appropriations for the sessions
exceeded 520,000.000 to all sorts of private
nnd public chnritles. scores of legislators
naturally attended the committee's meetings.
Senntnr Penrose had in his emiloy a uilnred
messenger who was present during man.v of
thp committee's deliberations when finances
were discussed.
One day in a hurst of confidence the
messenger remarked soberly and with dolor
ous shake of the head to James M. Hencom,
of Westmoreland:
"That gentleman. Mistnh Plummnh. cr
tainlv does muKe me feel might) had."
"How's that?" inquired Mr. Heucmn.
"Weil, lie goes 'round here tnlkin" about
money, money all de time. He don't 'pear
to deal with nothln' but millions."
"Whnt of that?"
"Well, y' see In all dls talk 'bout money
I've never seen a red cent."
rrtEDEIUCK INSTITCTE has been
X thing of the Inst fiftv jenrs. The quaint
building with its massive portico and Im
posing columns still stands.
for years now It hus been occupied ns nn
old folks' home of the Mennnnlte sect.
This afternoon less Minn n dozen feeble,
gray-haired men and women, former stu
dents, are holding a reunion on the lawn of
the old school.
Not one of them is under sixty-five jears
of age.
Out of the hundreds of students the invi
tation ! 1st numbers only fortv -eight nnmes,
whose addresses range from Phll Itdnhlu to
Florldn.
The institute building is locnted on the
Hoyertown road to Obelisk, about four miles
east of Hoyertown.
Its historic interest lies in the fna thnt
George Whitfield, the famous English
cvnngellst. preached here in 1770 to an
audience estimated nt "000. '
After the sermon he was escorted on his
way by n cavalcade of 200 horsemen. .
Pottsville is the center of a street -car
strike. The men slgued n working contract
a month ngo, hut when yesterda.v they found
they were expected to operate one-man cars
they struck. Doubtless they consider them
selves Ill-used. So did the singe-couch
drivers when the locomotive was introduced,
the weavers with the Introduction of thp
spinning jenny and the printers with the
linotype machine, nnd in nil classes the
labor-saving machinery survived nnd the
condition of lnbor eventual!) was bettered
thereb). History is agninst the logic of the
present strike. In the nbseiue of complete
data, judgment may he withheld In the matter
of the brenking of n contract, though it may
be noted in passing that the practice hns
become all too common,
You may not have noticed it in the news,
pnpers yesterda.v, ns it didn't take up much
room, but the New York Shipbuilding Cor
poration in Camden Is completing two more
cargo carriers for tho fulled States Mail
Steamship Company, nnd the) will run be
tvveen New York, Qiieenstovvn, Boulogne and
London. That you didn't notice it Is simply
another illustration of the fact that wicked
ness Haunts itself while virtue hides in a
corner.
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphians on Subjects They
Know Best
DR. WILLIAM I. HULL
On the League of Nations
THE League of Nations not only will not
solve the problem of world pence, but In
its present form will prove far worse thau
no league at nil. says Dr. William I. Hull,
professor of history at Swartlnnorc College
nnd noted opponent of militarism. Doctor
Hull, just bnck from England, where he at
tended the world conference of Friends, .says
he voices the sentiments of the conference in
this statement.
"While the acrimonious debate which has
held up this country from making pence offi
cially with Germany has proceeded since the
armistice on the issue of whether we shall
have President Wilson's covenant or one
with reservations ns sponsored by Senator
Lodge, it is the opinion of Friends that
neither will solve the pence problem.
"Those fuvorlng the league in Its entirety
suy that it is the only solution, while others,
pointing to the quulif.vlng circumstances,
stnte thnt half a loaf is better than none.
Both assertions mny be answered by the
stutement that any pnrt of n poisoned louf
is worse Minn none nt all.
"It Is my opinion, ns well ns thr opinion
of most of those who attended the Friends'
(onferenrc. that the League of Nations pact
as outlined nt Versailles will not only be n
failure, but that it will lead. If followed in
its present form, to serious international dis
aster. There is no question that there
should be n Lpague of Nntlons. but It nhnuld
be a democratic rather than a diplomatic
one.
"As at present constituted, the Lengue of
Nations pact furnishes a specter In the not
fnr dlstnnt future of a great war of einpires,
far greater and more disastrous than tho one
whlcji Iiiih just ended.
"We oppose the present lengue pact on six
general grounds. First of all. as just said,
It should be a democratic nnd not n diplo
matic one. TIip present ngreemi nt opens ihe
wny for n continiinncc of the secret diplo
macy, intrigue and coalitions that bred .the
last war. A democratic lengue, that would
admit real representiitlves of the peoples of
the various countries of the world to Us
councils, where the voice of the people could
net as u check to individual decision nnd
action, would make Impossible such a iou
dltlon. Tlnee Powers In Control
"All nations should be admitted to the
league without nny conditions. As it now
stands five powers, according to the pact,
hnve n permanent control over the destinies
of the world. This Is really reduced tn three
when you consider thnt Japan is too fur
away to figure effectively und that the
United States lias not yet entered. England,
France and Italy then are left to hold the
reins of power.
"Then there is the ground of mllltnry co
ercion nnd economic boycott. The former
opens the wny for the old sword of Damocles
to hnng over our heads and to put us once
again In the power of Mint dread t)rant,
militarism. It nlso tends to inllnme nnd re
tard those peoples who are struggling to
work out their national destinies and to pro
mote chuos rather than organization.
"The economic boycott being practiced
against the one-time central powers nnd
Russia is n vnsl mistake. It Is manifestly
Impossible for peoples of nntlons struggling
to right themselves to produce nny other
condttloi) Minn disorder nnd demoralization
and destruction when they nre iinnble to get
fond nnd money nnd other necessities of life.
No people can be expected to net in u snue
und rational manner when deprived of these
things. As a matter of plain, hard facts,
tills blockade has really, through starvation
and other troubles, killed more people than
did the war.
Should He No Armaments
"There should be no nrmuinents for in
ternational purposes. .Mounting up of arma
ments among countries tends eventually to
lead to other wnrs, It is necessary to have
military protection us n matter of regulation
in individual countries themselves, but not
outside of that.
"If the various states of this country had
proceeded on that husls the constitution
would have been but a 'scrap of paper.' It Is a
significant fnot that the growing Intelligence
of people has mude military strength in In
dividual countries less und less Important,
while armaments of countries of the wn-'i
;18, 1020'
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for potential use against each other have
steadily strengthened. President Wilson
had the right idea ip making disarmament
one of his famous fourteen points, but he
spoiled it all by ignomlniously surrendering
it nt Paris.
"The power of The HngUP Court of Jus
tice should be increased for drawing cases
to It for its judgment.
"Arbitration has been successful In set
tling 24.'t international disputes in the last
100 years. The argument has been raised
that Tho Hague tribunals failed because
they could not iivert th great war. But with
Germany confident in the belief that her
army wns Invincible and England nnd France
cocksure thpt their forces, with England's
great fleet, could more thnn hold their own,
both straining nt tho leash for the combnt
and sure Mint they could win more than ar
bitration could olfer them, how could The
Hngue trlbunnl prevail? They Ignored the
tribunal, and therefoie there wns no chance
for it to function.
' Tteacliing Out for Empire
"For the nevvleagite to attPtnpt to enforce
the Treaty of Versailles, which was a bad
treaty, would lead to grave consequences.
It would lend to n future wnr of thp most
tprrihlc proportions. The present treaty
menaces the economic life of central Europe
nnd makes no provision for the self-dotcr-minntlnii
of the large populations of many
smaller countries.
"The bugaboo of future Gernian invasion
is very far nwny at the present 'time. Ger
many Is absolutely impotent, und events hnve
moved with such swiftness in Europe thut
slip Is already n hundred years behind the
otiier powers. Their only Interest now is to
get enough to eat and get back on n pro
ducing basis."
Wliat Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is tho name of the explosive, for
which the Initials TNT stand?
: Nnino n Romnn emperor who wrote a
celebrated book of ethics nnd philos
ophy. ?.. What was the mime of Robert Fulton's
famous steamboat ?
1 Wto tl,e0Oew"-,""0 I"1"!' "'"nnlnifnt
5 Same three wars Into which the United
Slates entered l the month of Aprl
C. Wio wns Charles Kumner?
7 Of what country was H.in Andersen, the
8 Whiris'ihe'TJ f ,falry ,aI,fl' a "at w?
d'noto"? meaning of "table
9 What state does William U Borah repre-
. w,H.(,n,t ,n tl,, lnl"'1 Stntea .Senate?
10 Why Is the guinea lien so called?
St
Answers to Yesterday's Qulr
1 The French president Is elected bv the
Chamber of Deputies nnd the Senate
sitting as one body, called tho Nation
Assembly, at Versailles. ixn"onal
2 The mean distance of the moon from tho
, .n."1"" '" Mt'n""''d nt IJS.StO miles
' rh?.(,I,1,oa.nB " l8. ' rKir termed
"China's Sorrow," n reference in III
dlsiia.ious Itooda of" XT?? fH th'e
4 iwnvenuto relllnl wns n famous IhiliHn
He Is also noted for his frank and
a,r,e",,Ga0,0'.1rnR7i',U,t,hlO'Jr,"'h5' '" dn't'e's
R fn'eVSrllS lie
-Incandescent electric light ' " l"
. The basic principles or the Monroe Doc.
(1) No moni Kuiopeun colonies : nil
.'"V; f, ,""' American :ontin,tB"
(2) the I'nlted Slates will "not In er'
fere in tV Internal concenw of oni
Luropeun power: (3) but In regard
to thes,, continents (North and sfrnth
America) circumstances are en Ineni v
and conspicuously different"; kml Vf
any European power attempts at anv
time to extend Its political systen to
any part of this hemisphere; "for ill.
purpose of oppressing" the lm,0rB "'
contiol Unit In any other mann r liwr
SiftcftW w,,h "uot"t,-s
8 The first name of Darwin wns rim-i.,
9, Iluchnrest Is tll0 capital f Ru, mrlcs'
10. Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina
Joulsla,,Tex;VA;knnsu,;lr,eP,:
l.')1. :. i j coo puuiinrn
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SHORT CUTS
The innocent bystander never fails tt
figure In the casualties.
It Isn't n crime wave thnt has struck
us, but n blinkin ocean.
Doesn't there appear to be a painful
laeK ot oratos tn the democratic camp?
So many burglars get away nowuila.ri
that when one is surprised the populace it
ntitiniali Af I
v
We nro now due for n number of inter
views from prominent syndicalists depreeat
ing violence.
Whether the AVall street explosion wai
accident or design, human asininity was at
tne bottom of it.
It is no secret that what Governor
Rproul bought for his birthday went to h!
head, it was a hat.
From Harrlsburg conies the news tint
a street enr hit ovarriagp. It sounds likt
a ppaceful call from a restful past.
Spite of nil he can do. the terrorM uws
in nsnnn nil.... !.. .1... !........ t,l,!i
UU 1,1.1111111 Utllll llinil 111! Ul'lMIH I illl, "ueu
invariably misses his enemy nnd hits hinwlf.
It was n cynical old nnti who ilpctarnh
thnt with the passing of the suffrage amrnfl
mrnt the poll tnx bpeame n pretty poll tax,
Cnmden motor hnndlts having added
kidnapping to their repertoire, the public i
more than ever convinced thnt they lire bad
netors.
Perhaps what Mayor Moore mnar l
convey is that a brush with the enemv is a
necessary preliminary to a street-elranlnf
project.
When the motor bandits hove driven all
the pedestrinns from the. streets, the IlilfU'J
will be driven to the necessity of rluglui
doorbells nnd robbing people on the step.
The still small voice of charity veuturci
the oplnlou thnt perhaps the explosion was
due to an accident nfter all. .m one wniiu
to thiuk of men black-hearted oumigh to
murder the innocent.
t. . ..... ... i i...t..! ..n;,i in
ii mny DC mar me nitiusiri.u i-mum. -Italy
of most Importuiice to the world at
t it i I i ll.. .. 1r J finn
inrge is not mat neivveeu me winm-ie -capitalists,
but Mint being waged unions tM
worKcrs lucjnscivcs.
If the police rounded up a few of tlj
ninny well dressed young men wiiimiii u"
hie inennn nf Himnnrl who loaf around dottD-
town poolrooms it might be that they'd bumf
into nn occasional auto liuudlt.
Tho M'nll ofre HUnstcr mlcht have be
come a common occurrence if enemy airmen
lin.l ever- rimclwxl nut- shores lllirlllg MlC ttl"
Thut it should have been the work of
"enemy within" gives it added Horror.
Somebody somewhere knows the lni
story nf the Wall street horror, nut iinuii
ii neeuie uiu uu)siui uv-p-un "" - .
,!,.., !.., .i.A .....I. nf 1iiitlot him. IB'
puljlic must be putlent with the police.
1. . .. . l. ...,-. ...neli lo be Proud
11 lllltj LlUb IM" Tl.1,, MU.' -- -,
of. but our civilization Is a shade inori
advanced than New loms. puihv -,
. . (. . t.- tr. I,., ..iinni
ueipiuiiiis noservcii nepicium-i ,-.,
iuc lutts. but tho hat smashers were hapl"''
absent In this city.
.. .-ii ik.. . Untie ll
is it uecnuse ne opiirvm ira r". "w
golden that Secretary Bilker penults liliji"
to rest under tiie odium 01 nuviug vv,,",i
Leavenworth prison to be run by a wivw.0'
convicts and that he declines to say '
signed the order permitting Grovcr HcrR"'11
to leave Governors jBiauur
"Business wns resumed on the t
exchange at the point at which It ",',
tcrrupted by tho cxplosiou." Thrrc"
little commonplace of the news that . mu "
as gall nnd wormwood to the blood-stain
idiot who probably lias gloated over mi ,
he nun wrought.
The shelling of the old battleship l
dianu at Hampton Roads will siirrm JJ
slaying of an old wolf by the rest of H
pack. A kinder and truer simile, !n "CJ
hus gouo out of tho old hulk, is mm jj
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f
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tradition! demand
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