The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1915, Page 10

ee) | ——— ~ Ve, FSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by Presse Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to Paviishes Daily Except Sunday by te: mene Publ RALPH P ident, 63 Park Row. J anoUs HAW Treasurer. 63 Parl Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, @ Park iw. Now York Second-Class Matter, the Post: ing| For En d and the Continent and All Countries in the International United States pein Wein on $2.60] One Tear WHERE IS THE WILL? I months ending with October had a total value of $3,318,684,- or will the end of the war wipe out the gain. “Look beyond come to us for their machinery, their steel, their railroad stock and One Mont! HE country continues to break all records for foreign trade. Goods exported from the United States during the twelve 636, Imports for the same period amounted to $1,691,748,013, mak- ing a record total for foreign business of $5,010,382,349. immediate causes and immediate effects into the future,” advises Sao- retary of Commerce Redfield. “Foreign nations after the war will other supplies. In the meantime, if I am not mistaken, the United States will set a new world’s record for foreign business.” Is there any way of getting facts and figures like the above to| stimulate minds that ponder the possibilities of American shipping? Shipbuilding was once the proudost, most self-reliant and progressive of the nation’s industries. Statesmen of Webster’s time pointed to the enterprise and daring of the country’s shipbuilders as the chiet | cause of our pre-eminence in world commerce during the first half of the nineteenth century. With the boundless opportunities for trade now opening to us on | every side, why isn’t capital crowding into the business of ship- building? In 1858 a chronicler of the time spoke of our ocean steamers as “identified with our national pride.” The money needed to put Amer- ican shipping once more in its proper place in the great ports of the world would amount to but a handful out of our prosperity. Where is the will to do it? + ‘The Liberty Bell is home again from its travels. In spite of forebodings no harm came to it. Twenty million people viewed it and one million kissed it. It was well just now for American hearts to feel its silent eloquence and draw together in quickened consciousness of all 1t stands for. et “THE LOAN OF VICTORY.” © ONE who knows the French is surpriced to hear that sub- ecriptions to the Government’s “loan of victory” exceed all expectations. In times of peace the French farmer takes his little bag of sav- ings by natural instinct to the nearest counter where he can invest it with the nation. In time of war his wife and children will carry every copper they can spare, if called for, to the same place. That is how the French paid off a $1,000,000,000 war indemnity within three years after 1870-71. That is why France can now raise billions with less fuss than either her enemies or her allies. It is the custom to call the French « volatile people. In the past they have made presto changes of rulers and governments. Their politics still abound in vivacity. But devotion to the Republic has stood all tests. Their patriotism has found ite best expression in the government they now enjoy. ‘They willingly risk their all on it. It has been the fashion to maintain that republics are poor war makers. Reviewing events of the past fourteen months, can any one point to « belligerent ‘nation that has borne its part in the struggle with more skill and determination in the field, with less internal fric- tion, with more prompt and whole-souled support from all classes of ite population than republican France? Seecesieateiard aeeenenntioeentoaiees “I'll have the boys out of the trenches before Christmas,” says our Henry. Going to give ‘em each an auto to go home in? Se STILL MORE TO LEARN. HE Thompson Committee has not finished with the Public Ser- T vice Commission of this district. Fraternal finance as practiced between Commissioner Robert C. Wood and the General Manager of the Third Avenue Rail- toed Company is not without interest. General Manager Maher, it appears, helped Mr. Wood to qualiff for the Public Service Commis- sion by taking over 2,000 shares of New York City Interborough Rail- way stock at $19 per—which was more than three times what other stockholders could get. By a curious coincidence we find Mr. Wood, as Public Service| Commissioner, cffering a resolution a week or 60 ago to ward off per- emptory action against the Third Avenue Company when it was dis- wome peo { The New Ford Joke The Never Home Habit. OMB is the most beautiful word in the language. Once it stood for all that was best in the life of man or woman, but to-day tt 1s often simply a dormitory—a place where we go to when it is too late to go anywhere else, perhaps a place to take dinner if we do not dine at @ restaurant or get a hand-out at a delicatesse Anything seems to better than staying at home; the stupidest show, the drear- fest lecture, a visit to the movies round the corner where the films are Ro good anyhow. And if they really can't think of another thing to do they call on the Boresome family. Not that they care in the least for these acquaintances, but of course it le better than etaying at home, Do the “Never-Homes” really en- Joy thin ceaseless gadding about? Are they supremely happy in their mode of life? If this ts so, certainly their looks belie them. Haven't you noticed that the man of the family has a discontented expression and the wife peevish, Again, why? Prin. cipally because they have no re- sources within themselves, Their constant search for amusement faile to amuse them. They don't know Foolish Habits By Andre Dupont Copyright, 1918, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), covered the latter had neglected to obey commission orders regarding the repair of its tracks. The Public Service Commission was established to stand between the public and the corporations. with its soft side toward the corporations! Hits From Sharp Wits. Bometimes a man who is called & -fool accumulates money because he basn’'t the wise man’s vision for risks. omni-concrete, too, and make any differen: it a iumadionns:=iaueemee . breath of life. ke ‘Will power too often is neutralized ° . . by won't power. 4 “Take the swatter,” advises ‘an ex- change, “and look for the man who mays, ‘I know you are very busy but" —— Time wasted. That man is omni- it. You don't have to look hard for him. More than that he is usually then write “judgment” j-u-d-; M-e-n-t.-Toledo Blade. , 2 6 has to News, ‘Letters From the People 4,760,004 in 1011, To the Editor of The Evening World To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Is there any National holiday in the Waited States? , ff 08. B. She lateet,pnaget None Universally Observed. How admirably it has done so— doesn't 0 him how hard you look AT him.—Philadelphia In- . . . quirer, n . “ward tinea in the Ske tbat te] A, Dore ts man who tran totaly pany Journal to talk to him about yourselt"—Co- ‘om bo ipeniy the Weenie of peandhl To err is human. Pp shift the re- sponsibility on somebody else—ditto, Some men will argue for simplified spelling until they are red in the face, | Can the head of the house be blamed In this world the self-made man self-starter.— Deseret ‘What is the population of Scotland enough to take an evening off occa- sionally and refresh their minds with & good book, or even simply to culti- vate a feoling of restfujness and calm in the home atmosphere. “Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home,” says the old song whose pathos long ago brought tears to the ey of really hard-hearted audi- ences, Would it do so to-day? I doubt it very much, with three-quar- ters of the listeners thinking whore they oan go to get away from home on the next evening. Of course, there are such things as unhappy homes, homes whe the wife nags and the husband vente all the ill tempers thet he is obliged to control during business hours, homes where instead of love and affection and plain living and high thinking there is strife and jealousy, vindic- tiveness and constant recrimination. for staying away as much as possible from such an atmosphere and the wife for being a adabout? Yes, they can, for whose fault is it that such a condition of affairs exists? The blame | whichever you are, husband or wife? Did you ever stay at home long enough to think that this might pos- sibly be the case? Unhappy homes don't just happen of themsely, Pei haps two-thirds of the blame 4s yours. | must belong to somebody. Is it you, | the effect, for only one week, of being 48 agreeable at home as you are at the club or in soclety. I think the result will surprise you, It is really amazing what a de- lightful place home oan be if only you make it so. @ little of that tact that puts through his business deals so successfully and if the wife displays some of the charm of manner that makes her such a fa- vorite in club circles, home will be an entirely different place. Not a place to get away from, but @ place to enjoy. The strange thing about the never-home habit is that it at- tacks people whose homes would be really happy if they would stay in them long enough to find out; just as often as it does those unfortunates who have something to flee from. If you belong to the former class, re- member that “variety is the spice of life," and “gadding” is ten times ag enjoyable if it is interspersed occa- sionally with a quiet evening at home. A. WRITES to The Evening « World as follows: If a man rules entirely tn the home, or if a woman rules en- tirely, there will always be trouble, for peace and contentment can never be. If this ts a serious ques- tion In any home, why not let wife and busband try and strike a happy medium? Of course there will always be domestic quarrels and disputes, and when these come into your home, stop and take note of yourself. Are you selfish, mean or domineering? Let common sense rule at home. If you haven't this, you should get busy and get some. If only every person in the partner- ship of matrimony would “stop and take note of bimself”’ and “would let common sense rule” the divorce courts would have little to do and |matrimony Would be recognized as a success. Common sense is only the golden rule in action, As soon as a husband or wife realizes that one horse cannot pull the load that is fitted to double harness, so soon will he or she under- stand that it takes two, steadily step- ping together, to lead to success in marriage, Many a married person imagines that having one’s own way gets the most happiness. It doesn't. One's own Way is sometimes not the right way, And when disaster comes as a result of this one-sided ruling, people usually fx the blame on the other half of the marital firm, ‘That is why the ruled home is never the happy one. Mutuality is the only management under which the mar- riage craft may sail smoothly. When ~ 3, %, ‘Just for ap interesting experiment try ‘that is gone all the uo bossiam to if the husband uses; Which Shall Be Boss? By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), by The Pro By ork (The New =~ MNS ~ nn —By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell —— Copyright, 1015, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ‘6 UESS whom I met to-day?” asked Mr. Jarr when he came home the other evening and presented his report. These re- ports are always presented by every husband in good standing as an ex- cuse for belng both married and alive. When not in good standing there are No reports, and gloom hangs heavily over the menage, “Who was it?" asked Mrs, Jarr. “Jack Silver? Did you tell him how the children are always asking when he 1s coming up to the house? The ohildren don't like him, it ts true, be- cause bachelors have a testy way with children—but it is getting near Christ- mas, and Jack Silver has lots of money, Did you say, casually, how Willie is pestering you to get him a bicycle and how our little Emma 's just wild for one of those children's world cannot avoid the bre: are bound to come. A happily mar- ried woman told me not long ago that the keynote of her ha twenty years, was in avoiding hypo- thetical, improbable estions that arise in the home. “If,” ehe says, is the worst enemy toward keeping peace in the ho! She learned her lesson this way: Before they were married, during the piness, after |courtship time, she was’ anxious to find just how much he did love her, a8 sweethearts do since Adam id Eve. She banteringly put this ques- tion to him: “If T should have both my legs cut off and be disfigured would you still marry me The man honestly and truthfully answered “No.’ She broke off the engagement then and there, and tt was months before she forgave him. Then they resolved to rule out the hypothetical question forever. They decided to both meet. any iqsue as It came and never to blame or nag each other if anything went wrong. They have been happy ever since, Bossism in the home ts merely fault finding. Bossism means shifting the burden of blame. Bossism Is the ever- lasting hypothetical question — the question of the other's capability to share equally all that comes, The boss is the trouble maker who forever prefaces the censure with “If you bad followed my advice” and cl argument with "I told you ao. bad business. If you don't know what mutual re- aspect, mutual consideration, mutual interest means, then keep out of mar- riage and save yourself sorrow that never falls to come from a lack of knowledge. mich ne Keynote that holde the house of marriage together is consid- eration, = a fur sets that are more expensive than We oan afford?” “It wasn't Jack Silver,” replied Mr, Jarr, interrupting the thread of her discourse and holiday hopes; “it was Charlie Soper.” “Oh, him!" retorted Mrs. Jarr, with the accent on the pronoun. “I hope you didn’t lend him any money.” “He didn't ask for any. Charlie Soper is doing well. Making lots of money, he tells me.” “Did he pay you the money he owes you, then?" iked Mra, Jarr, “No,” said Mr. Jarr; “I euppose he forgot it.” “Why did you forget it, if he looked Prosperous and said he was prosper- ous? If he didn’t look prosperous you could have dodged him, but as he did look prosperous you @hould have reminded him, How much was it, two dollars?” “Something like that,” replied Mr. Jarr. “But come to think of it, I met him at the ball game last August and he slipped me the two dollars he owed me.” “And you never sald a word to me?” queried Mrs, Jarr. “I think I Jost it to him right back again, betting on the Giant Jarr. “Serves you right for gambling!” Mra, Jarr declared. “But you would have been better off if you had brought that two dollars home to me.” Mr. Jarr eaid nothing for some time in reply, and Mrs, Jarr grew ourious. “Why are you so silent?) When you first came in you were talkative; enough.” . “Weill, you see, it’s this way,” ven- tured Mr, Jarr, “Charlie Soper asked after you and the children, and I in- vited him to come up and see the family after supper to-night. He said we might celebrate meeting again af- ter not seeing each other for eo long by having Rangle over and maybe Jack Bib in and play a litttle five- cent ante, “Why didn’t you say so?” Mrs, Jarr inquired, “I am not @ prude or a Puritan, and while I don’t approve of card playing except maybe auction bridge in the afternoon with nice peo- ple, still if Jack Silver is eoming”—— For in Mrs. Jarr’s mind there still lingered the great thought that Christmas comes but once a year, and well-to-do bachelors should be re- minded of it. “When you apoke of a little two- dollar bet on the baseball game as gambling I thought it was all off,” mumbled Mr. Jarr. “I do object to gambling, most cer- tainly,” said Mrs. Jarr, “but I would far prefer your having your friends at i) Copyright, 1016, by th “«Why Should a Woman Be Lonely?” She Asks. HY should a woman be lonely?" inquired the Widow as she laugh- ingly allowed a mass of unopened letters to filter through her hands into the blazing fire, “when she has only to send her name to a beauty specialist or the head of a new ‘cult, and she will receive a letter or a book or a box of cold cream every day for the next ten years?” “And when she has only to go to a hairdresser’s or a Turkish bath,” re- Joined the Bachelor cynically, as he lolied back amid the rose-colored pillows of the morris chair, “and she will hear more gossip and scandal and repartee than at a pink tea, a sewing circle and a political meeting all combined?” "Yea!" agreed the Widow enthusiastically. “And when she has only to run into a ‘movie show,’ and she will receive more thrills in half an hour than ahe could possibly extract from balf a dozen ordinary firtations, or the most ‘Intenso’ modern love affair!" “Humph!" grunted the Bachelor. “And {f she is looking for ‘spice’ and ‘igh life’ she has only to turn\on the rose-colored lights and pick up any one of half-a-dozen fifteen-cent magazines which will provide her with more misinformation and more sex problems and moro ‘eternal triangles’ than ever existed.” “And are just chock full of chiffons, cigarettes, French maids, near- bohemian parties, champagne, clandestine dinner and elopements!" gur; the Widow delightedly, seaaaaamanaaranaaereanareramaromenmananaeneel? ; Home-Made Admiration. 4 ~ Annan ‘“ ND if she wants admiration,” pursued the Bachelor with cutting A sarcasm, “she has only to put on her frilliest boudoir cap and look in the mtrror*— “Or to drop in at the milliner’s,” broke in the Widow, “ she airy ‘enchanting,’ or ‘stunning,’ or ‘perfectly grand’ ona id nd be told that every time she tries fee the janitor or the hallboys heavily enough,” added the ‘and she will be rewarded with more ‘admiration’ and ‘devotion’ @ could have extracted from Sir Walter Raleigh tn a year!” n short,” finished the Widow cheerfully, “there doesn’t seem to be any- thing that money won't buy—from a thrill to a husband—does there? Yet the world seems to be so full of bored and lonely women—restless women, dissatisfied women, women with nothing on earth to do and nothing on earth to talk about ‘cept clothes and banting. It was all very well tn lay for the heartbroken widow or the dina spinster to drop into innocuous desuetude and remain there for the resear her life, but in these days of New Thought, suffrage, woman's clubs, feminine Professions and optimiam, a ‘Bighted Being’ is a blot upon her sex, The world is just filled with exciting, interesting, useful, beautiful things for a woman to do, and think about, and atrive for, and look forward to. bso ANY woman be mopey or blue or lonely for a single solitary minute?” re ‘erhaps,” suggested the Bachelor, thoughtfully puffing his cirarette, cause she sometimes gets tired of ‘striving for, and thinking about, and reallties!" ‘Realities, Mr. Weatherby?" repeated the Widow tnqulringly. f “Exactly,” returned the Bachelor. “A real husband, for instance, or a real home or real love, Bought pleasures and bought thrills are like bought complexions or ready-made clothes’ Fy Playing “Imagination” to Win, H rT] R a Christmas dinner at a hotel,” interpolated t Vid O im infinitely better than none at all! Tell eepene real love or real homes, more than we can all expect to beauty. And It isn't the People w happiest somehow, but the people rg Gate with the most beautifu: play, but the one who inv agra hehe ene most original and fascinating doll games, ‘ ns the apple o: re Up ways of reiding tt PD rehard, but a boy who thinks “which We can't all expect to have much less real husbands, in this world, any have real diamonds or real genius or real ho have most of these who appear to be the who have the most IMAGINATION! who enjoys the apples. It isn't what yo! Ha, dist inate ou, Dapplest, but what you put INTO Te—with Seer . Tha: Herecge fe hushats ail there ts to religion, or love, or pleasure, or matei- “Oh!" exclaimed the Bachelor, sitting up straight and gaz Widow critically. “Then I see it ALL! It isnt what yon teats eredet fascinates me, it's my delightful imagination” “Mr, Weatherby!” “It ten't that your hair ts really curly, pearly, or that you are really witty and femi “Stop! Stop!" Weatherby?” “Oh, well, it's no use!” aighed the Bachelor, leaning back comfortably blowing a smoke ring. “I was merely trying to convince myself that 1 wa suffering from @ hallucination. But dash it all, if I am—then let me suffert “Certainly,” agreed the Widow sweetly, “Never check your imagina tion, Mr. Weatherby! It there ta-—to ANY woman or that your teeth are really nine and charming and"—— cried the Widow, “What are you trying to do, Mr. Things You Should Know Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HILE, above all things, we, from one illness has @ much want healthy children, 1t has| Chance of contracting anot! nd been until recently thought|!* frequently happens that child that all children must sooner or later| year, ane’ attec iis attacks within a year, one after the other. Each til- have the various children’s diseases! ness makes inroads upon the child's such as whooping cough, measies, constitution, and it does seem to of- mumps and chicken pox, and that the fer no realstance. ‘Serious things fol- low on tl seane: sooner they were over with the bet- ha veh es Meare te My ter. For that reason children were —such as weakened heart action, eyes left weak, deafness and dis- often rather encouraged to contract| charging ears, kidneys inactive, and them and exposure was too often| even the lungs are left weak, as in thought of not enough importance to| cases of whooping cough. event. ba is to-day admitted to be the It is not dificult to see how the germs of tuberculosis and other height of folly to expose a child to any kind of diseas germs find easier entrance to a whose vitality has become seriously are not considered always leaves the lowered. Parents, whose duty to their children 4s to promote every consequently with less power of re- sistance. means in their power which will: lead to As the result of reckless exposure, health, should realize the great in- a child who has ecarcely recovered Justice done to any child who ts recklessly exposed to disease, Jungle Tales for Children. Copyright, 1015, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “ce al q body qi that it made his good wife at of the Fiy. 1 have found make the most trouble, If a Tiger or “I was talking to that Fly bothering] should eat him up.” ” close up to his mouth to hear what must talk softly to a poor little Fly. You might frighten it to death.” |away. “You would not want me to die, Mister Elephant, cards and turn your home into a cafe/you don’t want the children to take always pats the children on the head | quarters,” remarked Mrs, Jarr with ail animals come to him, but he never |like Jack Silver might do worse with to run out and buy candy. I always|Christmae, and then I can say how our Willie sat on his knee and left| time, playing cards.” finger marks on his collar, and since] This would have been very impor- ET out of here!” shouted, would you?” asked a squeaky little bout that,” rege spol the coffee. » a it is “Who in the wide world are you mall things in this world that a Lion bothered me as you do I eye,” replied the big fellow. This time Mister Elephant spoke rou must not talk to a Fly like|#0 softly that the Fly had to get was said, and the big fellow suddenly h If t did| “There, I told to speak softly, “qt would not do any harm ‘here, I told you to spi . scare r Httle thing to death,” | didn’t 1?" asked his good wife. dg whispered or a club room. Still {f you've invited |quarters from Jack Silver, why not Charlie Soper, and if you're sure Jack | keep the children out of his sight?" Silver will come—for Charlie Soper] “And I don't want him to give them and says how dogs and children an@|some asperity, “But a rich bachelor gives the children even a quarter to/him money than to make the children put in their little banks, I notice, |nice presents, Indeed, I shall be very While Jack Silver, who is so fussy|angry if he offers them quarters! It about his clothes, always gives our| won't do any harm anyway for you to say I can't permit the children accept-|little Emma wants a set of furs, ing money, but Jack Silver won't ac-| That's the least Jack Silver might do then Jack Silver is very Mberal to|tant, if true, As yet Mr. Silver had them, if they keep away.” never played cards in the Jarr domi« Mister Elephant, so loud| Volce, which Mister Elephant knew talking to?” she asked in amazement. tha said his good wife. “You blew so hard that the Fly was blown said Mister Elephant. “Yes, I remember,” Willte and little Emma a quarter each | mention Willie wants a bicycle for cept the money back, because once'for them, when he comes here all the “Great Goott.” aaid Mr, Jas, “Iticile, He wes only due to play them,