St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 24

ST. LOUTS POST-DISPATCH, FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 15, 1920. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH rounded bv TOSEPH PlIATZl-ll Dec.

J. Tubllshed by the I'nlitser Pblihirj Co, Tuieljth and Olive Street. SENATOR HARDING'S APOLOGISTS. Those eminent Republicans who attempted to mix the oil of high principle with the muddy water of political partisanship had to Eearch through all of Senator Harding's utterances since bis nomination to find a phrase blch would serve as a peg on which to hang their indorsement. They agreed on an am- cities have offered' a better chance to get ahead.

There mas nothing on the farm of 20 years ago to attract ambitious or even mediocre youth. The harsh, rcpellant conditions have greatly been ameliorated. The isolation of the farm mill probably be eradicated entirely by lSOX But the drift to tho cities mill stop only mhen the coirtry can compete with the city in economic opjortunity. Just what the prtiortion must la between urban and rural population before that j-onditiou obtains cannot ha slated: but it I obtious that mith a market continually growing and the enterprise of food production as steadily de lining, the time must come mhen POS T-DISPA TCH C1RCULA TO.V -Vine Months' Average. lOiO: Funday Llguous generality on Aug.

wnicn tue PUT- THE POST-DISPATCH publican candidate emphatically repudiated more than a month later In his IVn Moines speech. The statement as grossly misrepresents Gov. Cox's I attitude as it misrepresents Senator Harding's atti tude. Got. Cox has repeatedly expressed his willingness to accept a reservation declaring our constitutional limitation and stating specifically that we lOKM.

I know tliat my retirement will make no difference In It cardinal principles, that It will aim ay tight for progres and reform. l'-irr tolerate InJu.Mk-e or corruption, always tight ilrinatigufs of all pnrlle. nev-er belong tu any party, always oppose privileged ela.r-s and public plunderers, never. Lack sympathy with tho poor, always remain devcx-ed to tlt public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing new, always be draMleally Independent: never be a raid to attack wrong, wlietber by previa try plutocracy, or predatory poverty. JOSEPH riurzut food prices mill be tuch as to make farming a sure and profitable business, with a3 great or greater rewards than the city can present.

The back-to-the-fanu movement mill then logically be due. SAVE THE LEAGUE. "When America is for Americans only," said Mrs. Emrtch. an American missionary, telling' how Americans had saved the starving people of the Near East at the Near East Relief luncheon, "America will April 10, 1B0T.

cannot go to war or use a soldier without the consent of Congress. If this were not eo, It would be difficult to convince sensible men that the United States ought not to enter Into an agreement with other nations to keep any nation from disturbing the peace of the world by wanton aggression and stealing from another cation. We ought to be willing to enter into such a high compact in behalf of Justice and peace and civilization. These apologists for enator Harding carefully omit the clause in Article X. which states that the supreme council of the League, in the event of aggression, merely advises the nations as to the action tbev should take.

Our action will depend wholly upon LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. he dead. America for the world is the living America. The m-ort phase of the preachjnect of the foes of the League Is the appeal to narrom-' selfishness. It might coat us something to go into the League.

We might be obligated to lend a helping hand to other nations, to help fhera to figbt aggression and to keep the peace of the worll. can't afford to Join other nations in protecting oncfc oilier'3 territories and political independence, because some nation might jtet into trouble and wc might have to help keep world peace by spending money and effort. We are big and strong, me have food aial raw material and factories: let us push our omn rnterests, exploit the morld and see that m-e prosrer, no matter what happens to others. Of course, cannot prosper on the suffering and our on judgment and consent, and we hope it will always be against aggression and theft and for law and peace. Three of the signers of this Harding apology are In the ridlculouB and contemptible position of reversing themselves for partisan purposes.

Former Attorney-General Wickersham. President Lowell of poverty of others, but the argument appeals to self ishness, to little minds. "America first" eounds good to men who pride themselves on being practical, but it is a policy mhich not only kiils the soul, but In the end will kill the body. No man and no nation can live and prosper alone. The little American policy means that we cut America off from human brotherhood and co-opera-tioa with others In making the morld better and in advancing civilization.

Wc will become a rariah of nations and mill eventually suffocate In the slough of sordid selfishness. The Lengv.o represents brotherhood; it represents helpfulness. It stand for Justice and peace, end lo-ci ernMon among the people cf the. world. to maintain thcin.

1 is that the strong will aid and protect the mcak. If America would live and grow and progress and prosper, morally and spiritually, as mell as materially, we mast not only enter the Lrotherhood of men. but assume leadership la the path of progress. Save the League for humanity's sake anfl oar owb soul's sake the welfare of America. It will be admitted, of course, that the Republicans have a peach In Lillian Russell, but don't forget that tho Democrats have a pippin in James Hamilton Lewis.

A i Utility of -Problem Film, j'f tfca Editor or Of Pot-LLiMilch. I I -was deeply interested In the letter I of II. L. S. In Wednesday evening's Best-; Dispatch because he hold a view of the work being done along the line of social hygiene bo diametrically opposed to mine.

Unfortunately, so many people who have attained the "age of discre- tlon" as he describes his own state of mind, think as he does that It is a very ttlfflcult matter to give the youngsters the Instruction of which they stand so I frnuch in need. Unfortunately, also, so fpiany men and women become "discreet" In the matter of auch knowledge only fitter they have had the same revolting experience as the "Kitty Walton" In the i xicture. "Open Tour Eyts." 1L L. S. doubts the authenticity or Correctness of the statistics quoted.

1. '10 per cent of our young men are af-: fected with venereal dlsoases," he has put to turn to the statistlce prepared by the examining physicians In the various cantonments during the recent war; he has but to talk with any social service i worker whose task it is to work with people made human fractions through the presence of either acquired or in-' herltcd blood-taint due to such diseases: sk has but to study the vast number of Jfctle children, innocent babes, who have a right to come into this world free i from those Inherited handicaps which s)ake them blind, or. worse, degenerates, taentally deficient and wholly or partly 'responsible human beings, a curse to Themselves and an ever-present menace to society. In the absence of far-seeing, understanding parents there Is really no way sf conveying this information except through the medium of pictures whlch portray the necessity for the lesson to be fearned and the value of It. I don't believe any "real thinking man Pr woman" went away after seeing that picture feeling that his or her "evil pas-; lions" had been aroused.

I. personally, know of two young men who went to I their family physician after they had seen the picture; others I know of (ave their fathers an opportunity to dis-i cuss the subject with them frankly and without embarrassment. The picture Is sent out with the stamp i Pf approval of the United States Publle Iealth Service Commission and is part frf their educational program. This com-I telsslon Is composed of eminent phy-I ttcians who have made a careful survey conditions and an exhaustive study si Harvard and Henry W. Taft Joined with Former President Taft In an article published in the Covenanter In July, 1919, in which they declared that Article would not breed wars, but would work for enduring peace.

Tuey defended Article against all the objections urged to It. Their article is printed elsewhere in today's FoBt-Dispatch. It was written when the issue of the League was a great moral and public welfare issue and had not been dragged into the mire of partisan politics. But, taken at its full value, was there ever such testimony by the leaders of a great party against the capacity, character and integrity of Its presidential candidate? Was there ever such condemnation of a presidential candidate? In order to eave their party from defeat on a great moral Issue involving world peace and the safety of civilization, these leaders testify that Senator Harding doesn't know his own mind, doesn't know what he intends to do, doesn't mean what he says and can't do what he Bays he will do. They testify that he was guilty of deliberate deception In his Des Moines speech and his Kansas City speech In all his utterances on the League since Oct.

6. What do Senators Borah and Johnson, who have his assurance that he will reject the League, stay out of It and "scrap" it, think? Which set of supporters is Senator Harding deceiving? Which is setting a trap for the people? A FLUCTUATING MARKET. JUST A MINUTE Written for the POST-DISPATCH by Clark Ale Adams u. it iti a a-v xx. v-e PUBLIC OPINION This column ix designed to rfvroiuce bias the latest comment by the leading publicists, neicsofinera ami periodicals on the auestions of the Cay.

1 HI ITV ITALY'S HOME TROUBLES. From th Baltimore Sun. ITALY is to be congratulated. Serious industrial disturbances have not resulted in a complete breakdom-n of her economic life, and radical theories have not entirely supplanted common sense. This may not seem, to an American, No.

BS14: The writer Is listing below a sign which he saw over a bicycle shop at Wells and Lake streets In Chicago last Tuesday: "You pay Sc on the Surface 10c on the L. Ride our bicycles and tell Them all to go to No. 706643678: There may be nothing In a name, but here is a man on South Grand avenue who went to his name for his avocation: John Klock Watchmaker Another one seen on a Ford Machine. Seventh and Chouteau: to be a good and sufficient basis lor optimism; MIL AXTWIXtTS OPINION. but conditions In Italy have been ferti.e soil for the grom-th of radical Ideas.

The cost of living in Milan Is nearly five times the pre-war figure, and wage Increases have not offset this increase. Imports of food have not been maintained at thslr level The u.ir nrofita of a few emcloy- It is rumored that the farmers on the curb are not on the square. I ee. TTEE GROWING CITIES. More than half of the American people are now 11t-ing In the cities.

The 1920 census, when completed, will show our urban population to be approximately or 5.000,000 greater than our rural popu- Is pretty hard to know what friends of the League of Nations could say to com "I fort those people who are sincerely afraid Sale For rs have not consoled the hungry workers. It Is not strange that communism haa seemed a solution of the people's problems. But signs are not lacking that the disaffected workers realize ths Imnnrr.inM of administrative, ahilitv In the con latlon a striking contrast to Washington's time, m-hw Qn TY rnt of fh nannU IIvaI In tV. Why not? Isn't that the kind of sale he wants it to be if there is a sale? No. G5 0: I know everybody will smile at this one on Market street: For Sale Inquire Inside 6 Horses and Mules li me causes ana enecis in connection r-ith this peril.

We sympathtie deeply with these xrho i tre afflicted and we want to help them. Jut we feel that from the viewpotnt of i.eonomy, if for no other reason, our "TRAFFIC IN WOMEN. A vast total of mendacity and ignorance has been accumulated in the attacks on the League of Nations, but the most shockingly prepostercu accusation was that filed by a New Yprk woman to the effect that ihw covenant gave tanction to t-affic ia women and children. It is incredible tLat anyono couM conceive of the civilized nations of the world baTidln themselves into a conspiracy for the promotion of th white-slave trade, yet that monsfous charge nas made and is being repeated. It was repeated at Paris.

the other day by Mi3 Alma Sassa of thj Republican National Speakers' Bureau, if she mas correctly quoted as saying that "President Wilson, in accordance with article 23. was standing for and sanctioning traffic in women and children." Article 23 reads: Subject to and In accordance with the provisions of International convent toi.s existing or bereafttr to be agreed upon the members of th Lraru: a will endeavor to erour nn4 maintain fa.lr and human conditions of labor for mn. women and children, both In thlr own countries and In all countrlwn to which their Industrial and commercial relations extend, and for that purpose wilt establish and maintain the necessary international organization-j unJfrtaku to secure Just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control: if) will entrust the Leaaue with the general supervision over the executions of aa-remente with regard to the traffic in women and the traffic In opium and other dangerous drum. It was supposed that malignant hostility to the President had reached its limit In branding the League for Peace as a League for but describing the covenant as sanctioning traffic in women yroves that hysteria can go further even than tyite. Get out or go to Jail is Mexico's alternative to Felix Diaz, who as a national pest is almost equivalent to the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.

duct of industry, and that the compromises now being enforced by necessity may be the beginning of an equitable realignment of the forces of industry. The surprising restraint with which the Government has handled recent disturbances may I prove, in the end. to have been a necessary pre-j limlr.ary to a constructive solution of Italy's in If the movement to the cities continues at the rate of the last two decades, the end of the present century mill 6ee the population apportionment of revolutionary times reversed. We seem headed for a nation of cities exclusively, from which the rural inhabitant has disappeared. It Is a consummation devoutly to be shunned.

How Is It to be avoided? The decline in rural population as revealed in the 1010 census had a startling effect. It occupied a large place In serious publlo thought intll the outbreak of the world war command dustrial problems. rreatest task and the more Important one Li to consecrate our efforts to the task I teaching the youngsters and give them (He opportunity we owe to them to pro-itde for them the searchlight of truth ted clean knowledge along the perilous toad to manhood and womanhood. SOCIAL SERVICE. ICONOCLASM ON THE STAGE.

JOHX KRVIXE la Obervr Oxjniloii. ST. "I HAVE been invited to rejoice because Chu Chin Chow began the fifth year of Its Women In Polities. all of thn anvtftlp) as well a tb nre-tf of rlrUlro. ti Editor cf rot-pirtch.

i On woman's entry into the political But th rlan9 for MK the movement rena. so many remarks have been marte to the cities have failed appreciably to affect the tmostly of a humnroui character) about statistics. And it may confidently be asserted that Supplied Kreev "Prisoner." asked the Judge In tones of th man charged with being a fire bug, "what is your address?" "My place of residence burned down last night, your Honor, eo I haven't any address." "Very well." replied the Judge in the same kindly voice. "I will supply the deficiency six months up the river. JEFF r.OTOP.BAR.

Maybe Senator Harding's association ct nations declare war upon Mr. Wilson's League of Nations, since hatred of whatever is Mr. Wilson's seems chiefly to actuate all those who Imperil the hope ef the world. After reading the statement Issued by Messrs. Root, Hoover.

Wickersham et al. we have concluded that Republicans are Republicans. The Chicago Tribune has bolted Len Small and is supporting Jim Ham Lewis for Governor of Illinois. We are all capable of independence when me get mad enough. rhapsodies' as to the delights of country life and agenda rapers of doctrinaires In Impressive convention assembled will not start a back-to-the-land movement, or even engender a etay-on-the-land spirit.

Iur little fallings. It has gradually flawtied on me that the fond Jests about the best-looking candidate." telling our ge and other favorites are insults to th fjlf respecting woman; and. Tor one. I am performance on Tuesday, but I see no occasion for rejoicing1 or for anything but the pre-foundest melancholy. Sir Herbert Tree was not a great actor, but he was a great manager, and he associated his beautiful theater with a very fine tradition.

That tradition has disappeared. Mr. Oscar Asche. the best Petruchio and Claudius ef our time, and Lily Brayton. the best Ophelia and Katharina of our time, were trained In th honorable tradition of the Bensonlar.s.

Can any lover of the theater rejoice in the fact that His Majesty's Theater has been occupied for four years by a rubbishy pantomime In which two distinguished players have completely aubmergsd their great gifts? When I am told that the mannequins will be entirely redressed to celebrate this event I am r.ot thrilled. When I am Informed that two new camels, specially imported, will be Introduced into the cast. I can only answer that a whole camel corps would not compensate playgoers for the fact that during four yeara they have not seen Mr. Asche or Mls Brayton in plays worthy of them. May we not hope that they will remember their pre-war records and speedily set about recovering them?" red tip on thm.

These sex character-j The drift to the cities, it may be assumed, will be Ifrtlea are chewed over and over until they torpeu when the cause no longer functions. That Uv. become "old stuff." and I would economic opportunity. Other factors, of iflrtee some of our wise male friends to Uke a new bite. Of course, we are re, rse.

have entered Into it. but the essential extensible for this condition of affairs, for planation for the drift to the cities Is the fact that have never resented thepe accusations Mr. Harding spoke at Des Moines and once upon a time Mr. Taft spoke at Winona. that such a compact would Involve us in wars all over the world.

"I imagine It is first necessary to convince such a person that the covenant m-oulJ not contravene the sole right of Congress to declare war. We have this assurance not merely from eminent individual authorities, but from the American Bar Association, which appointed a committee to investigate the charge that the covenant would nullify the Constitution In that respect. The committee acquitted the covenant of any such sinister content, and we have only th unsupported assurances of few lrrecon-cllables that the covenant does transgress the Constitution. We must therefore conclude that one who doesn't believe that Is disposed to be unreasonable about It. as Senators Reed, Johnson.

Borah, Johnson, Brandegee and Moses are unreasonable about it. We always have people like that on the m-rong side of every question, and there is nothing surprising In the appearance these men upon the wrong side of this one. History is full of their prototypes. They are the stlffnecked and the blind. "Let us say, then, that If we are disposed in reason we cannot fear the covenant in this respect.

That throws us back upon the fear that Congress would at times feel morally obligated to participate In wars which, except for the league, would not concern us. I think that likelihood rests upon the extent to which the obligation would be moral as opposed to an immoral obligation. That If we were really morally obligated if the cause were so good that we woutd want to render our due to the clvllizo'l world. I think Congress would take very seriously our moral obligation. However, the situation would be quite different if the cause were Immoral, whlch.it would be if any attempt were made either to exploit or use us.

Tou can Imagine what Congress would do in that'ease. Tou couldn't get a Corporal's guard to vote for war. "Aa a matter fact, there la r.ot a man In these hills whose native good sense does not argue the extreme difficulty of getting Congress to vote for war under almost any circumstances. Our cause would have to be so upright that it would lean back. How would you like to go down to Washington to do what you could get Congress to vote for war In a cause which was less upright than thatT Tou know very well you would get kicked across the Toto-mac "That is all there is to the bugaboo about getting Into war everywhere.

In the first place, who would go to war with the league against him? Nobody, of course. If he did. he wouldn't last as long as the discussion whether we ought to get into It would last. The trouble with us Is that the Senate has tried to frighten ue all for its own political purposes, and It has cared us out of a hundred years growth. We have got to buck up and get a grip on ourselves before we go to the polls." The proposal that we keep farm prices tsp with Government money somehow tickle our ense ef humor.

Did they really ay up" 7 UDITOIUAL SPARKS. tvuty slick but always with the fnow-you-stop" attitude. Haven't ve HSgted and goo-gooed long enoufh? We're getting to be big girls now. Let's set down to bras tacks. MRS.

W. U. BOWDEX. to ba Rome features of modern basebal pretty base. New York Mail.

seem the Tlin SLAVE'S OFFERING. OH my belovedl In the sweet grass I kneel with sand within my sandals And my hands twining one within other. Oh I have heard the temple bells And seen the rising of smoke As a slender tongue licking the altar. Fay. CoolUre.

Isn't It great sport to be the "running mate" to a man who 'stands stillT Nashville Oltrer Cromwell on Prohibition, re tke Editor ef tke Fot-Ptpteh. In these days of the burning question ef "prohibition" it is interesting to com Six thousand divorces granted in Chicago in year. No wonder the law schools are building new dormitories. St. Paul News.

pare pur domestic policy relating there- io with that of Oreat Britain nearly three rcnturies ago and the views of the great! Balls mad from newspapers and soaked In kerosene are to be a substitute for coal. Now is the time to subscribe. Colorado Springs Telegraph. and ereatest Englishman ef Ms time with thca of our omn Cora- We hone the packers will not reduce the wholesale price, of pork attain until the restaurant consumers become adjusted to the new retail raise. Houston Post.

BOLSHEVISM IX FRANCE. Frero the Losjoa THE big federations of trade unions In Francs approve the attitude of the leaders of the confederation not to allow "the pontiffs of Moi-row" to interfere In their affairs. But the French Bolsheviks cannot have the miners. sallore. metal workers and other large bodies ef trad unionists.

thy will have the cafe waiters with thenu These workers have voted against the report of the General Confederation Labor eaS in favor of Joining the Moscow Internationale. They have captured the Barbers' Union, too. There is some doubt about this capture, howerer. for it would aeera that the barbers are divided ea the Question, the vote showing only a majority of three In favor of going to Moscow. The municipal workers are in a peculiar position.

When they met to discuss the question the extremists made the usual noise and resorted to obstruction, thus prolonging the dlscmsslen. A number ef delegates left the meeting in and the re- iiioner from Nebraska. The Enallh policy la set forth by harls Firth. M. ef Oxford, who.

In p.la work. "Oliver Cromwell and Puritan Rule In England." writes of him: "With til his seal for Sunday closing, the suppression of unnecessary alehouses and rsas jBS-ntshment ef drunkenness. It never occurred to him to stop the sale of drink Itoaethar. Ite drank wine and small I hare watched men bare their feet And walk before their God. And thou Hast come In the early dawn When the city's gate swtrng Inward.

With a veil cf cashmere fluttering Within the your.g breese and the holy light Of day rested as a halo o'er thy head. have seen all of this. And the circlet of Jade and the arm lata Of gold with their discs flashing. And the anklets of copper, chiming. And thy bare feet.

And I Have seen within the temple The God and they la homage before Hint Knelt, offering up the first fruits. The loom's first born And the magic cf the sages. But r.one ef theae. beloved. Were aught unto thine saffron hands Lain for aji Instant in auppllcar.ee O'er thy yellow breaat.

and the seclusion Of the veil of cashmere, and thin eyes. PATIENCE WORTH. Another thing we would whisper to any your.g newspaper man about to get married. If we knew of any. la never to call hie wife and offer any suggestion on mnv .4 beer hima.If.

and quoted and! -Wilmington News-Herald absurd 'the man mho would keep wine eut ef the country lest men should be; In this ny ef woman dominant, ws recall for ja ei a malnder, m-ho represented a municipal 1 eeneeoUon of iv freedom 7 win th that brilliant Wt cf repsrteo tZZll I Ti -mused grandmother: "Why don't you get rear MsLta Sta mn.Jn"IeVn11 don't hav. to VI, cWm- 12.11- IT. hU ny mok'- rnr parrot swears, my dog stays out ai: workers, carried a resolution in favor Joining (he Third Internationale. The last has not bees heard cf this vote. As a result ef It the secretary and other officials ef the enloa hare resigned, and there Is talk of 10.090 me a resign leg frets la at see me that if the League ef Nation Oalrmston Dally Nswsl gtTa a plcnlo we would be only the red.