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The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Germans and Allies Friendliness
At Financial Conference Is Seen
As Indication of Leagues Progress

nitely permanent form. l should
be greatly surprised, therefore, II
this meeting does not become the
first of series of meetings which
will continue just so long as the
worlds necessity requires. This. or
course, means an appreciable en-
largement in the Secretariat, which
carried out all the preliminary stu
dies for the Conference and provid-
ed the machinery for its meetings.
This work, 1t may perhaps be noted,
can be done enormously more efd-
ciently and more inexpensively as
soon as the League is quartered at
Geneva with a permanent plant of
translators, typists and so forth.
What I would suggest as much as
anything about all work of this ma
ture is first it's expert preparation
and second its wholly voluntary ma
ture. Even the very incomplete
Secretariat which Is now function
ing, has demonstrated the possibil-
ity of preparing such Conferences
in a wholly fair, impartial and COM
plete manner, so that by the time
the meetings have come together
the foundations have been made
ready to put into place.
At the moment the worlds ex-
perts are brought in the Leagues
task is merely to provide them a
platform from which they can work.
II gives them the essential secre-
tarial staff, takes care of their me-
chanical needs, and sees so far as
possible to the smooth presentation
OF their ideas. At the same time
the worlds press may be counted
on to be on hand.
Perspective View of 1t.
Another interesting phase of the
Conference was that, though a part
Of the League of Nations, It was
only a part. You have perhaps seen
CRITICISMS Of the gathering as a
meeting of capitalists and financiers
only. l think this criticism is very
true and indeed it is hard to see
how it could be otherwise in a meet
ing called together ito treat such
technical questions.
1t is only fair however, to see
the Conference in it's perspective
For against it must be balanced the
International Labor ONCE of the
League which represents quite the
opposite viewpoint, and also the
Commission of Transit and Commu-
nicatiOns, which is dealing with
matters very akin to those OF the
Financial Conference, and which
has called another world gathering
for Barcelona during January.
Thus 1t seems to me Inat slowly
one by one the various stones in
the mosaic Of the League of Nations
are being put into place. so that
now we are beginning to be able to
trace general outline. You can
look back to the International
Labor Conference at Washington;
you can see the Permanent Court
Of International Justice now in
process of formation; you have the
worlds financial experts assembled
at Brussels; few months ahead
lies the International Conference OF
Transit and Communications. and
very shortly the whole permanent
organization will be established at
Geneva in permanent quarters. with
a permanent and smooth-running
machinery freed from all the con-
fusion and waste attendant upon
migratory meetings.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Seat in Historic House of Lords
Sought By Viscountess Rhondda, I
Who Says She Stands for Rights

London. Oct. 23.-one of the most
tremendous constitutional questions
in the history of Great Britain is the
point raised by. the appeal Of Wis
countess Rhonddas-the worlds most
famous business woman, that she be
allowed to take her seat in the
House of Lords as a peeress of the
realm.
Following the election Of Lady
Astor 10 Parliament, Viscountess
Rhondds, who is one of the thirty
fve peeresses in their own right in
Great Britain. is seeking to estsb-
lish a momentous precedent which
will allow her equal participation
in the functions Of the House of
Lords. emitting her to hold any Of
fee available to peers, including the
lord chancellorship and membership
in the Kings privy council
The petition Of the viscountess
was signed and sent to King George
this morning. The viscountess is in
Wales at present, but in an inter
view an intimate friend declared:
Her ladyship is in deadly earnest.
She has studied the question from
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
His Misfortunes
Beget Fortunate
6 Months in Jail

Fortunate Verduci has had an un-
fortunate career according to his
stery yesterday morning in Police
Court.
1t began. he said. when a railroad
conductor short changed him SIC.
Ever since then he has hated all
railroad companies.
He was unfortunate again a few
days ago when he presented a check
for suitcase at the baggage room
at the Union Station. Through mis-
take he got the wrong suitcase.
Instead of taking ii back and tell
ing the baggage clerk what he
thought. he decided to keep it, being
of the opinion that the railroad
company would have to pay the real
owner of the suitcase for losing it.
He was unfortunate again when
he was just about to catch a train.
He had only a minute. Detective
Springman. who had been looking
for the suitcase, saw 1t, and inter
rupted Verduci's chase for the
smoking car.
He was unfortunate again yester-
day when Judge Mcmahon could see
no real reason for a grudee against
railroad companies in general and
sentenced him to serve six months
in Jail on a charge of larceny.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Sightless Trio
Proof of Saying
Love Is Blind"

Atlanta. Oct 23.-Blind love to-
dsy landed Sam Stewart in Jail.
. Blind himself Stewart sought
Night of love in the blind home of
Martin Strone, according to Police
Court evidence and had constructed
IN the grOping darkness a love
triangle OF which Strone's sight
less wife was the apex. A less ro-
mantle neiGhbor informed Strone,
who was away selling pamphlets,
end the trouble began.
Tap-tapping his way home, Strone
assaulted the spot his ears told him
stewart stood. Sam had outguessed
ain, ano a chair went down. In
ehe battle Of alternate silence and
Violence, the wreckage of Strone's
home was completed.
There were no eye-witnesses to
the fight. and Judge Johnson as
sessed Stewards sentence at one day
N the dark cell at the city Jail.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
ENGLISH CHAFE
over US. FILMS
Exhibitors Buy by the Gross
u On Chance Of Getting
Find"
AMERICA IS UNLOADING
london Knows Much About
= New York Underworld;
Very Unreal.
AMERICA Is UNLOADING
by w. G. FAULKNER

CWAHhingtOn HsrAld-Cross Atlantic Service.
Special Gable Dispstch-)
:, London, Oct 23-In four-fifths. of
abe cinemas of this country the best
fins are never shown. There are
1000 cinemas in the British Isles,
hat it is a rare thing for a first
class picture to get into more than
the ctuemas prefer the cheap film,
hired by the gross Hundreds book
blocks Of pictures with the chance OF
getting one good picture and nine
hoor ones
v For two years the United States
has been unloading upon this coun-
try thousands OF pictures rushed out
during 1917 and 1918, when picture
production in all other countries was
standing still. She is now sending
US 1000 pictures a year.
Patrons Of the cinema read about
She Few films, and wonder why they
so rarely see them. The picture pa
tron is getting restIve under the
Number Of pictures dealing with the
New York underworld and with the
ramifiCati-ns Of the divorce laws of
the Unite.t States. No matter how
unreal the people are, or how far
removed the story is from real life,
convention is observed. and the
crooked aud the straight must be
made HAPPY" before the last foot
Of the film is unreeled.
The English film producers, whose
pictures represent a little more than
one in ten OF the pictures shown,
have attempted to recapture the
English cinemas with filmed versions
OF plays and novels. after allowing
the Americans to get the film rights
Of the best known
Film producers are slowly learn
Ihg what the public knew all along
shat the plays the thing" it is the
story that matters.
acopyright, 1920. CrosS-Atlsntic Newspaper
Service, Iac.)
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Court to Decide Woman S
Right to Fib About Her Ace

Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 23.-The
common pleas court must decide
whether woman has a right to
fib about her age.
Harry Levin brought suit for di-
vorce on the ground that his wife
misrepresented her age to him
when they were married in 1915.
At that time she gave her age as
90, he said. -
Levin's love was shattered re-
Gently when he discovered that his
wife was A years old and he wants
q divqTce. Levin is Is.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Wage Cuts In U. S. Being
Resisted, Officials Say

country are attempting to cut wage
and meeting with remittance frca
workers, reports TO the labor de
partment showed yesterday.
The concilistion bureau has beeI
asked to mediate in a few cases o.
this kind" said Director Hugh Ker
win yesterday, while Director JohI
Densmore, Of the L. S. Employmen
Service said: There is no foundz
tion for reports that unemploy,
ment is permanently Increasing"
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Louisiana Head to Urge
State Cotton Gins to Close

New Orleans. Oct. 23.-Gov. John
NJ. Parker is expected to issue a
proclamation Monday calling on
every cotton ginner in Louisiana
to close his plant until the depress-
ed cotton market reaches a price
that win enable producers to dis
pose of their crops at a reasonable
profit.
At the same time the Chief Execu-
tive will send a message to gov
ernors of every cotton-growing
State urging them to take similar
action.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24

"a Cold taken in the fall of the
year; with the severe winter months
pendlng; causes great apprehen-
son; and Justly so.
SO get the best results take
Seventy-seyen" at the first sneeze
or shiver.
IF you wait till your bones ache,
iEnay take longer.
ZEDoctor's Book in English.
Erench, Spanish. Portuguese or
German, on the treatment of
Every living thing mailed free.
IT for sale AT all Drug and Country Stores.
HumPhreys' Homeo- Medicine Co., 155
William Street, New York.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24

the moment she succeeded TO tn,
peerage. and she is convinced sh
will win her seat. Such a decision
will entail changing the name o
the House Of Lords to the House o
Lords and Ladies. There is bounf
to be the most terrific opposition
and the bold move Of the viscountes
prosbly will be fought out on IN,
floor Of the House Of Lords"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16

admissions when there are no seats
available, and standing in the aisles
OF at the heads Of them cannot
we'll be prevented.
AS to children the law is explicit.
Is it enforced? The Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Children is
reported as saying it is not. The
six children killed in Catharine
Street couldn't have escaped from
their parents or adult guardians be-
tore plunging downstairs.
The movies are an established
popular institution. They attract
Young and old. But their respon-
eibility Is all the greater with respect
20 little ones who don't know how to
take care Of themselves. The East
Side tragedy should lead to strict
enforcement Of the regulations, in
order to protect minors and to guar
antee fair dealing to adults as well.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
The Democratic Leadership

Much talk is heard already about
a new Democratic leadership. At
the San Francisco convention there
were only two real contendcrs for
President Wilson's mantle. One was
Mr.. McAdoo, who was looked for by
his supporters to maintain the Will
son tradition in the Democratic as
we'll as in the foreign field. Like
his .father-in-law, Mr.. McAdoo was a
Southerner born, transplanted to
the Middle States He seemed,
therefore, to have the habits Of
mind required to weld together the
two clashing elements in the Demo-
cratic party.
His successful rival was Governor
Cox, a Northern Democrat, whose
career had been shaped along the
lines travelled by most of the sue
cessful leaders Of that school. He
vas alert and liberal-minded enough
Pil lDNd< 1873 QtS W Dc ClcCICU iON-
crnor three times in naturally
Republican state. He was in a class
with Governors johnson of Mime
sofa, Pattison Of Pennsylvania and
Horace Boios Of Iowa. Yet his
point Of view was narrow and his
political instincts allied him with the
Northern machine elements. He
vas classcd as "wet" and as
friend Of the old-line organiza-
tons in the big statcs-Tammany's
here, Mr.. Nugcnts in New Jersey,
Roger Sulliyan's and Brennan's in
Illinois, Tag9art's in Indiana and
the Boston crowd in Massac
Cox was nominated by a COM
blnation Of these groups, who
wanted to register protest against
the Wilson leadership. But no
sooner was he nominated than he
cut away from them. He went to
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
The Minds of Women

There is no gain in wrangling
with those confident males who point
to the slender creative achievement
of women in art and assert that
women are not capable of creative
mental labor. Any one who wishes
to hold this belief is entitled to his
faith. Disproof is as difficult as
proof.
But it is worth while to consider
the facts Of the case and see whether
so large a negative inference can
logically be drawn. 1t is pleasure.
therefore, to find an admirably can
did statement of the other side writ
ten by the English novelist Virginia
Woolf in letter to The New States
man. She is replying to a regular
contributor who recently pumped
for the masculine monopoly of crca-
tive force; who argued from the fact
that there had been no Sappho since
b. {. 500, and that therefore there
had been no poetesses Of potential
genius in that period. Hardships. OBJ
st2cles, which women artists have
concededly faced, he brushed aside
with the observation that genius
thrives on obstacles.
Mrs. Woolf's definition of the
conditions under which creative
genius may flourish seems to US ad
mlrable. To make a Shakespeare
possible it is necessary that 'he shall
have had predecessors in his art
shall make one of group where art
Is freely discussed and practiced, and
shall himself have the utmost free
dom OF action and experience"
Perhaps in Lesbos, but never since
she adds, have these conditions been
the lot Of women. Mrs. Woolf
makes 1t clear that she is not argu-
lhg for the present intellectual
equality Of the sexes 1t is their
potential development in the future
that she defends as wholly likely
and reasonable possibility;
My difference with your contrib
utor is not that he denies the pres
cnt intellectual equality Of men and
women, 1t is that he, with Mr.. Ben
nett, asserts that the mind Of woman
ls not sensibly affected by education
and liberty; that it is incapable Of
the highest achievements, and TINT
1T must remain forever in the condi
tIon In which it now Is. must re-
pcat that the fact that women have
improved shows that they may still
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16

Washington and made his peace
with the President. Next came
his "dry" speeches in the West. He
finally based his campaign on is
sues which turned every Northern.
state, three Of the four border
states and two of the Southern
states against him. He was beaten
worse than Parker was.
After Parker's defeat William J.
Bryan "came back" McAdoo is
probably now planning a come
back" as the representative Of Will
sonism. On domestic questions he
has been dry" inclined to train
with Mr.. Gompers and 70 favor gov
ernment operation of The railroads
and similar ventures. In his home
state he is outside the Tammany
fold and is elsewhere recognized as
naturally disposed to radjcalism.
The election marked vigorous
reaction from such tendencies. Mr..
McAdoo has, therefore, little politi-
cal capital left to work on. He was
a bad forecaster, except, perhaps, in
so far as he manifested GER
tain distrust Of the value of q
Democratic Presidential nomina-
con in 1920. The only Demo
cratic leader who realized the
party's predicament and told the
truth about it was Colonel Bryan.
His judgment was magnificently
vindicated. But that may not have
endeared the other losers.
McAdoo, Cox and Bryan are
about the only figures now on the
Democratic horizon. But the nomi-
nee in 1924 is likely to be some one
row out of the limelight or whom
chance brings conspicuously to the
front in the 1922 elections.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
The King Of Swat

1t is a new job in America and its
constitutional limitations, if any, are
yet to be established, but there can
be no questioning its magnificence
and distinction, and it would be
folly to expect Judge Landis to re-
fuse it. His conspicuously courage
GUS and able service on the bench
only makes it the more likely that he
will elect this new, extraordinary
and difficult post.
When that unpronounceable gen.
tleman, the Mpret of Albania, was
wandering around Paris shopping
for a king, he expressed personal
preference for an Anglo-Saxon king
and an American one, if possible.
But he realized upon investigation
that we had nothing much to offer in
the king line. Who knows but that
this creation of a baseball king may
fill this void? Half a dozen countries
may be bidding for His Majesty
kenesaw Mountain Lands when his
Kingdom of Swat has been dulv put
in order.
The best thing about the selection
of Judge Lands is that it promises
business, action and no nonsense
from those baseball leaders VINO have
been contending that the best way to
clean the baseball house was to shut
all the doors and windows and wait
for something to turn up. The
Lands family is not Favorable to
that point Of view. The Judge has
lived up to his name, and that is
saying good deal. If he becomes
king Of baseball it is safe bet that
even the great Ban johnson will
have to step lively. And the public
that pays and pays and pays will at
last have a chance to sit back on the
bleachers and watch the other fell
lows do the rustling.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
The Movie Tragedy

The death Of SIX children, includ-
ing two t~o-ycar-olds, in a motion
picture panic has led to the arrest
Of the proprietors and managers Of
the theater. Whether or not the
laws safeguarding cgrcss in case of
ire or panic we're violated, the evil
dence points To- an ILLEGAL admission
Of children under sixteen, unsccom-
panied by parents or adults authos
ized 10 act as guardians.
The movie going public is indul-
gent and often fails to complain Of
crowding and minor infractions Of
the laws. But there is an inzpcc-
tion service also whose efficiency
ought To make up for the indiner-
ence Of the average risk taking thea
ter crowd. The best houses are
shoee which have no galleries and
open on both sides into broad alleys.
But there are plenty of a more dan
gerons type. Standing in the aisIes
In forbidden. But some houses sell
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16

improve, for I cannot see whv = limit
should be set to their improvement in
the nineteenth century rather than
in the one hundred and nineteenth
But it is not education only that is
needed. 1t is that women should
have liberty OF experience; that they
should differ from men without fear
and express their differences urenly:
that al activity of the mind should
be so encouraged that there will al
ways be in existence nucleus of
women who think, invent, imagine
and create as freely as men do. and
with as little fear Of ridiculc and
condcscension."
There is always room for such
fine reminder as this of the true sig
nifcance of freedom. The limita-
tions upon women have been MANY
and subtle and complex. 1t seems a
modest assertion that until those
limitations have been wholly re-
moved and the effects thereafter wit
messed for several generations it is
typical roostcr-like conceit to deny
to women creative genius or anv
other talent heretofore reserved as
the special property Of the male.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
The Uuepentant Germany
(Fron, an Article in The London Tin,es)

vast empire against Germany. These
well IS the great sacrifice Of men, and
France would have been forced to oc-
cupy the place which her vanity would
never accept--that Of second class
power"
Despite his American citizenship,
this hyphcnated citizen thinks almost
as Ill of Americans rs Of EngIishmen:
When the war broke out l was in New
York. The great muddy tidal wave of
Anglo-Saxon calumny of ell things Ger
man struck me a stunning blow. l fought
this campaign of vilifcaticn with all my
strength. but not an American friend of
mine could induce TO look with the slight
est inlpartiality at the German side of
the case. They were all the abiect slaves
of the reptile press of their own preju-
dices. Sick at heart, discouraged and
disgusted, l turned my back upon them.
Therefore. when the whole United
States became poisoned with falsehood
fanaticism and Anglo-Saxcn hypocrisy OF
che crudest type, l felt l could no longer
breathe these airs.
Herr Hansen warns Us why America
Joined in the war. He knows ali about
it:
America entered tho war because the
boundless greed Of o small group Of al
ready over-rich Americans hungered for
still more gold more power and glory
and because these men realized that they
could attain to this only by pretending to
come to the rescue of John Bull and then
using him as ladder.
Of American ladies this sample OF
German nAmericanism has low opinion
Yes, the whole war was terribly smart"
in American social lie, fine new game
for the jadcd senses and hysterical i'm
pulses and whims Of these women. While
brave men of all nations We're dying in
agony upon hundred battledclds OF the
Old World, these blowfiies were buzzing
through the drawing rooms, the bazaars
and the newspaper columns Of the capital
ist press, growing fattcr and eleeker not
only upon the acent Of human carrior
waited over from Flanders, but upon the
monstrous dividends poured eut a. their
feet by their abject slaves OF husbands
who were drowning in torrents of blood
stained gold.
Herr Hansen admits that he has
dealt faithfully with us:
Yet every line have written with but
one object in view-to clear the air and
70 bring about the basis for an understand
ing between the enlightened Anglo-Saxon
and his German cousin. for only in this
way can real world peace be obtained
But this was before he had seen "the
horrible and hellish document" known as
the Peace at Versailles. That strangles
"all hopes of a lasting peace or real
reconciliation" Why, then, has he trou-
bled to issue this remarkable eirenicon
New-York tribune., 1920-11-16

We have before US q copy Of "An
Open Letter to an English Officer"-
written in English by hyphenated Ger
man-American named Hansen, who has
seen fit, doubtless for compelling rea-
sons, to return to the land of his birth,
now being circulated in this country
and presumably in the United States,
which affords abundant evidence that
the mind of those for whom he speak.
has wholly failed to learn tho lessons
of the war;
Germany, this unrepentant Hun af-
firms, was absolutely justified in pre-
cipitatins the war; it was upon her part
wholly defensive. Its real causes were
England's commercial greed, King Ed
wards policy of "encirclement," and
French and Russian hatred and smbi-
ton. Germany, we are given to under
stand, was really triumphant in arms
both on land and sea. The whole host Of
the Allies, until the Americans appeared,
could not break" tho German lines,
although only part of tho German
army held the West front.
"Yet if Germany had won she would
have treated US with clcmency-so
great is her natural affection for Us.
France, on the other hand, would have
been taught her real place, as Germans
conceive that place to be. She had shown
such hatred, such indescribable cruelty,
in her treatment of German prisoners
Of war, had become so insanely blind in
her passion for rcronche, that to have
come to an understanding with her
would have been utterly impossible
Childish vanity, low revenge, national
fanaticisrn and extravagant gloire ara
80 deeply rooted in the French nature
that even If the Germans had offered
them Elsass- Lothringen on a silver
platter years before tho war, and added
the five milliards on the war indemnity
Of 1871 with compound interest, the
French would have kicked tho plato
away"
Accordingly France "militaristic, the
real frebrand OF Europe, and the real
menace to its peace, would have been
forced to give up its armaments. Ger
many would not have demanded an inch
of French soil. Germany would
not have asked for centime Of war
indemnity, France would merely have
lost The immense sums which in her lust
for revenge she advanced to Russia for
the felonous purpose Of arming this