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od ed oR er ean, Nothin’ Doin’! otain Olin : FSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Hawt ei by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. oO ‘Pamianed Dally Recent 60GtHy NY Nowe New Tork RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row. tA rity BHAW rreasurer, 63 Park Row. s JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Ro “ Second- fatter, te erie evening) For Pnrians and the Continemt and United States All Countries tn the International Postal Union One Year. ... By J. H. Cassel WHAT DOES LABOR SAY? HY is the peril of factory fires in this city as great to-day as W it was five years ago? “ And be One reason, which receives timely emphasis from the jens of trouble, of grief, of pain, of poverty, i } 4 | Consumers’ League of New York, is the apathy of organized labor toward the conduct 'of its own representatives. As the League’s Pres- ident, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, pute it: One great trouble has been that labor interests have too long regarded the Labor Commission and its successor, the Industrial Com- mission, as their own. They need to awake to the fact that # union card doesn’t make a man an efficient public guardian. They need to realize that not political plums for labor but lives of their own men and women are at stake; that putting into incompetent hands the duty of watching over the safety of laborers ie not promoting the in- terests of labor but destroying them. ° On questions bearing directly on the safety of workers the views ef organized labor ought to be prompt and emphatic. What does labor think about the New York State Industrial Commission as now constituted ? The Diamond fire inquest has brought out the fact that this com- mission and its employees draw from the State Treasury tidy sums beyond their salaries and transportation. Sixteen thousand five hun- dred dollars a year for luncheons, for example, would suggest a body of workers whose appetites were constantly sharpened by zealous scur- rying about on their jobs. Labor is chiefly interested. Is labor satisfied with results? cccccnemeisinmiabitaaienmntin Found: The cutest pet the corporations ever fondled Collar marked P. 8. C. es Sey ¥ Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune No. 79. APOLOGUE, by Joseph Addison. UPITER, ruler of Olympus, looked down upon the world of men and saw that it was full of trouble. Everybody had some affliction or having so much Hghter woes, So Jupiter called all mankind together Into a great plain. bade them cast down their by | towered above the clouds, A mountain made of people's cast off burdens. Old women had thrown down their wrinkles. Homely women had thrown down their red noses and sallow complexions. Humpbacks had Yet, oddly enough, no one had bothered to cast away a eingle folly or vioe or besetting sin, Lovers, too, carrying loads of doubt, Jealousy and misunderstanding, had refused to get rid of these An Odd change. world was for once rid of its sorro' And the gaudy goddess Fancy ielped the sufferers to unstrap their burdens, When all were freed Jupiter bade easily than those they had just laid aside. And instantly there was a scramble, An old man who had laid down rheumatism was desirous of an helt to ©099999998OHOOHO @ Coprright, 1918, Uy the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | J sorrow or otler burden which seemed to its bearer the dost terrible calamity possible, Everybody envied everybody eles for {nto that plain, They obeyed. And presently the plain was changed to a mountain that thrown down their humps; invalids their diseas@; mourners thelr woos. One henpecked husband tossed his scolding wife on the heap. dear defects. Nevertheless the heap of discarded calamities reached wellnigh to the skies, The whole Seen rrr the newly released burden-hearers to take up such of other people's cast off misfortunes as they thought they could bear more comfortably and his wealth. So he enatohed up an unrul | y ectncra cae Pp an unruly son whom an angry father hed , who had been loosed from his chains, chose gout tn- » Who had laid down grey hair, todk up a carbunele, Another woman, who had lost a shapeleas waist, selected a pair of round shoulders. Another changed an ugly face for a bad reputation, athietee? am toe & moment, was delighted to have lost his or hor worst 0 have pic t touhlenoinerts cane picked out @ new one that seemed so much less But presently they all found that the change had beon for the worne, People had long grown ured to their own burdens. ‘They had learned to | jossry thers But they were not able to accustom themselves to thelr new | | miseries, One man, for instance, found that his rheumatism was e: » on with than was @ worthless son, Tho galley slave longed to be treed Soa his new pangs of gout and get back his old chains, See ae Be erm A woman decided that her discarded grey hatr | The Jess hideous and painful than her chose: if san sf Pl mn carb aabere PIAST. if Burden rere. The world was filled, 7 wih louder than ever, with posateen te Jupiter took pity on mankind and once more let them change back to thei eee afflictions that had been possible to carry because ‘aed hed sent them; whereas the new burdena were of th ral Rd ty of (heir own choice and therefore And now, the goddess who hed THENS is pondering a problem that might have staggered Solon. There is no reason to doubt that the Greek people would be glad to cast their lot with the allies if they could consult only their sympathies. Nor is it reasonable to suppose that King Constantine, whatever hie innermost leanings, would side with the Kaiser if anybody could convince him that the Kaiser is bound to lose. German progress toward the east, however, has worried the pro- ally majority among the Greeks. On the other hand Lord Kitchener's _ call, backed by stiff representations from London, Parie and Petro- Coenen + helped the sufferers chan, | thelr former condition was not Fancy, but Patience, And she ploy tes | Victim how to bear his or her burden in such way as to make its weight seem lighter, and less like an affiict!: th. tredgthan tee. on than like a course of training to See oO | The Woman Who Dared grad, has given a new turn to the meditations of the King. The re- . > | By Dale Drummond " sult is that the Greek people and their ruler draw closer together in | Copyrigiit, 1918, by the Prew Pubiithing Co, (The New York Evening World), z the search for the safest way out in the interest of Greece itself. | CHAPTER XXII. nee when { said I almost envied If there is wavering at Athens it is because national selfishness i SY tae tntia T commenced, 09) F ono, nol M B must in the long run outweigh national sympathy. Lord Kitchener | MA anh Whee Gore | PUREE? bribe) | saw such @ sad case to-day, I went for a ride in the park this afternoon and I noticed a gifl on a bench crying as though her heart would break, She was rather pretty, The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — Copyright, 1015, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward —— Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), end the Kaiser have both forecast the future. But meanwhile Athens receives daily news of thp advance of German troops across Serbia. What is nearest looks largest. She was soon able to be move: one day I took the car and rode 4 to @ little place in New Jersey where an old woman who had helped nurse my mother lived. Mra, Gray was a kinaly Small wonder if Gregks of vres to gain time. “Gen.” Coxey calls the foolest enterprises ever concocted in the mind of man.” This is praise from Sir Hubert! oo NO WORK Canal zone expecting to find work on the slides will be dis- appointed. “The number of men being continually laid off én account of reduction of force is in excess of vacancies which were - C*: GOETHALS sends word that Americans who journey to the temporarily created by the need Information as to the slides themselves, however, indicates that it will be necessary to keep a Prof. Benjamin Miller, who holde the chair of geology at Lehigh Uni- versity, and who has just returned from a careful examination of Gail- lard cut, says that during every rainy season for the next few years slides are almost certain to close the canal for weeks or even months, “Before the canal can be said to to traffic, the amount taken out will not fall far short of the amount already taken from the cut.” The experts do not be ished. Nor need there be any beginning the conquest of the Isthmus has been one of patience. instead of reducing forces, why not put the steam shovels at work again and cut down the hills thi ‘a T was the hour appointed for Mr. Rangle and Mr. Soper and the dashing bachelor Jack Silver to arrive to play a friendly game of five- cent Umit poker in the Jarr dining- room—by the gracious permission of Mrs, Jar. “Now, don't forget,” whispered Mra. Jarr when the doorbell rang, “to start the conversation about Willie want- ing @ bicycle for Christmas and Ittle mma wanting a set of furs. If Jack Silver is not too selfish, and all bach- clors are selfish, he certainly will say, ‘I should love to Ket the children those things, if you'll permit me.’ Of course we'll murmur we couldn't think of such @ thing, and then I know Willie and Emma will whimper and cry, and Jack Silver will insist.” all parties back the King in manoeu- Ford peace expedition “one of the AT PANAMA? of removing more slides.” shovel handy for a good while yet. “And forget all about it when ristmas come sald Mr, Jarr. Ih, no, he won't forget it,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “I'll send him a@ nice Christmas card a week or ten days before Christmas, and I'll write on it, ‘and little Willie and little Emma also wish you a Merry Christmas’ That will remind him. And if it doesn't, be completed and permanently opened , well, he needn't come to this house it noted, that the task cannot be fin-| any more, and I'll do my best to get pessimism on that point. From the|'!m married to some girl who will| make him pay for his selfishness!" But By this time the rung the door bell below had arrived. It was not Mr, Silver, however, It was yu ? nb priah the:snud the ever affable Mr, Charles Soper. Hits From Miladi says sometimes a young man to go to “three balls” before has the wherewith Memphis Commercial Appeal. eae Some persons become convinced that “honesty is the best policy” only af they have long tried the other way . 8 Too many of us do not rm Opportunities until other Srabbed them, —Albany Journal. . oN It 1s impossible for a woman to at her husband, says the Attorney Thus the morality General of Orego: to go to one.— have Our English cousin has an express- ive slang term for the genial false- alarm genus of the Charlie Soper type. Sharp Wits. of going through friend husband's he| pockets bas hlete legal in toreseand's| They call them “Swankers.” And the ee | Charlie Soper line of conversation ts Somehow or another we never hear| known in London as “swanking." D uirrel be 1c fo} 3, 2 ne PittabUre Ones make fF) Mr, Soper was hardly off with his & man.—Pittsburgh ter . . hat before he It is @ big fault in one to look for little faults in others. oe was on with his swank. “How de do, how de do, Mrs. Jarr!" 7 he cried. “How well you're looking! 1 must call for you in my car and take you and the children for a spin some of these days. Now, don't say no! It's @ closed car, a twin-six limousine o danger of pneumonia—and we'll ine It ts very, very hard to be healthy, wealthy and wise all at the same time, eal oe Charity covers a multitude of sins, but only temporarily.—Deseret News: rd to prisons . What are pris for? To protect the public and to form the prisoner, were thrown into prison and | Letters From the People Warden Osborne’ Plan has certainly brought Sing Sing | der. nearer to this end. Long ago people | after being t run down to my little place in the visitor who had | In due time Jack Silver, the opulent bachelor friend, arrived. He was cor- dial in his greeting to all present, even to Mr, Soper, when the latter presented his gold cigarette case con- taining the special cigarettes made for him, accordi, to Mr. Soper, by the chief clwarette maker of the Shah of Persia. > And so swanked he those whom swanking swanketh, Mrs. Jarr was in such a flutter that it was some time before she had Wil- He voicing his desire for a bicycle for Christmas. “Oh, don't get him a bicycle!” orted Mr. Soper in alarm when Jack Silver remarked he would buy one for the boy. “A boy on a bicycle hasn't a chance for his life with the streets full of autos!" Mr. Silver in alarm withdrew his offer, Then Mrs. Jarr mentioned that at least the gift the ttle Jarr girl de- sired was safe—a fur sot. “Safe!” cried Mr. Soper, ERE was a time, in the movie business, when you didn't have posters of the pictures outside the better houses. Of course, the nickel places always indulged in reproductions of the thrilling scene (such as Claude driving a chisel through the villain’s aesophagus), done in four colors, with pale green hair and a@ violet chin, But the 15 to 26-cent theatres were content with dignified, lettered cards furs, Since the war furs are full of anthrax and anthrax is death!" Having thus cast gloom and disap- pointment all around him, the local champion heavyweight swanker re- marked, “But I thought we were go- ing to have a little game of five-cent ante, You know, I never gamble. But five-cent ante isn’t gambling, it's petty larceny.” Mrs. Jarr led the moaning children away, and Mr. Jarr conducted bis friends to the dining-room, where the card game was to be held. aghast. “Safe? No child of mine should wear Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copmrrigtst, 1015, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ESSIMISM is the rust on the eilver lining—the corrosion on the cup of joy. Sometimes the first kiss is just the anti-climax which follows a thrilling flirtation and lets you down to earth from the glorious ether of imagination, One advantage in marrying a widow is that a man doesn't have to rack his brain to invent a lot of romantic stories about his deep, dark brown, wreck-strewn “past” in order to keep her fascinated. The law giveth, and the law taketh away; but when it comes to matrimony, the law is a lot more complacent and enthusiastic about giv- ing than it is about “taking away.” No, dearte, don't let anybody convince you that the eyes of needles are getting smaller, that looking glasses are becoming less reliable, that |wray hair is “a disease of the follicles,” or that your hips are the result of eating potatoes, Just turn the rose-colored lights down low, stick to | black crepe de chine and stop flirting. You're not sick—you're forty. | Alas, a New Yorker's idea of “ozone” is becoming just a mixture of |chop suey, patchouli and gasoline! » many of them dying afterward | any good in thi ffects, To-day by Osborne's | surely are treated well 4 are | straight, whereas t fe uh ven 4 little diversion, the latter) been of no little importance, because | ment. might not have | cook.” country—I keep it open all the year around—and I'll send the car back to town for Mr. Jarr—we'll make {t a| Saturday—and you can bring your things and stay the weckond with me, R 5 | Don't say no, 1 have eight masters’ WE DO WANT THES N. ‘They | rooms—spare bedrooms, you know— as|aro not all hard-hearted criminals, | and Vil have @ pony and cart for the ns | Some, starving, deaperate and] onidren. 1 have an old colored mam- re- | committed the rs, crazed in a moment of anger, committed mur-|Mie cook—you know what that When these prisoners come out, | means?" ed Kindly and there-| Mr, Jarr knew what {t meant jeft | fore treating mere indy, A tare There's no such animal as “the gen is), many of them. will go| wine old Southern colored mammie It is a character fn fiction reformed under harsh treat-| My, Rangle arrived next and e Let Warden Osborne's re-! ing aftablo Mr sr as thouxh he «four gray walls ali day long plus work | forms be continued by all means and | '° © ‘is Dometinee couse insanity. Coa] give bim another trial, | Were @ strange bug--which indeed he way: “What good are these men was. bad | CAROLINE B. oe No Clariee, the extremely short skirt does not make the “sex-appeal,"’ because the “sex-appeal” is an appeal to a man's imagination, not to his | sense of humor. When a college boy and » chorus girl elope and are married at 2 A, M. one must at least admit that they are usually “spirituously mated,” ( % and electric signs, Now they've {found 1t advisable to play the poster game and so we choose the most sensational “still” we bave and use {t for display purposes, A “stil” (for those who don't 'know) ts a straight, single photo taken with a regular camera after the movie scene is finished. We all hate them because we're not accus- tomed to standing still before the lens. ‘We were doing “Alfalfa, the Elf of the Alleghanies” (second reel). In that reel Alfalfa wanders along a mountain path and comes suddenly upon a bottomless lake, T don't know how she knew it was bottom. less, never having met it before—but she did. Also, there was @ rocky cliff alongside the lake, Alfalfa, worn from her long ram- bles and having been told by a Marienbad specialist that a cold bath does much toward restoring shred- ded nerves, decides to take a plunge —there being no one about. Humming a bar from Strauss's “Elektra,” this untamed mountain child prepares to disrobe, Now comes the big scene. Standing there in her little crepe de chine petti- coat, the mountain elf is unpleas- antly surprised by the appearance of a huge bear, who ambles toward her along the cliff, With a stifled shriek, she flops into the bottomless lake, while the bear carries her tiny, bro- caded corset home to his bearette! Weill, the director and the sub-di- rector and the camera man were having @ heated discussion as to what scene they would use for the “still.” They all decided that this was the big scene, but they couldn't make up their minds whether they'd take me polsed on the cliff, ready to jump, or struggling in the water, with the bear upstairs, grinning, or clinging to an overhanging tree after I'd reached shore, I always enjoy the little alterca- tions between the three men, so there was I, care-free and blithe, doing Paviowa stuff on top of the cliff, when, all of a sudden, the man who owned the trained bear and had him in a cage back among the trees, thought he heard the signal to re. lease him! I was just in the midst of a per- fectly divine phase of the Second Empire gavotte when I lamped a big, einity, It happened to be the psy- chological moment when the men had decided that the “still would be me poised on the cliff, ready to leap, with the bear in the offing, “That's it!" shouted the director, “rhat's great, Mollie! Now hold it till we get this infernal machine set." Hojd it! Say, Alfalfa took one broad, running jump and did the} standing-sitting-standing dive quick that it scared the bear and he beat it for the tall timber, And that man had the gall to rag me because they had to send back to the studio for dry lingerie to take the “still’—and the man who owned the bear sued ‘em for damages for ecaring bis animal! 80 black hulk waddling toward my vi} and was soon to become a mother— very soon, I asked her name, and she told me her story. Her name was Clura Mullen: she bad been stenographer.” I hurried on, dete: mined he should at least hear me out. “She told me she had always been a good girl until’— “Did she know who you were?" Haskall's voice sounded muffled, but I paid no attention. 1 was too intent on my story. “Why, yes. I brought her home with me, IL gave her some of the baby things 1 made for”—my voice broke. “Then | took her to the hos- pital, Her step-father will do noth- ing for her. And, Haskall, | want to look out for her until she is able to work again, Will you give me some money for her?" “Did you ask the girl about the man?" and she wouldn't tell me. hysterical and said she'd nev- imagined I heard a sigh, and | thought he was@oing to refuse, “I am so lonely, Haskall, and I do o want to help this girl," L pleaded, “How much do you want?" I was 80 astonished 1 could scarcely speak, “It will cost twenty-five dollarsa a week, with no extras,” He put bis hand in his pocket and took out a roll of bills, Although he jnever allowed me money, he always \carried a large amount, He took off two yellow-backed notes and threw them across the table, ped when I took them up, Two ed dollars! “If that isn't enough, why let me know,” Haskall replied as we rose from the table. He didn't speak to me \again that evening. Every day I spent some time at the hospital, and after the baby boy came T held him for hours at a time. Often }1 found Clara gazing wistfully at me, and one day I told her of my boy whom I never saw; Sle who had been born dead, wept softly while I told her n remarked an office manager recently, “we're living in a great age. Only the other day it was brought home to me once more. “Phe typists In our office operate on @ modified piecework basis. By that I mean that they're assured of a certain wage with a bonus for in- sed production. jost of our force are touch oper- ators, Consequently they maintain a high rate of speed. All our girls }can_do sixty words a minute. | "One of the girls, 4 Miss Bates, was a particularly steady and con- 2 rtrd as it may sound,” Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Copyright, 1015, by the Pros Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), old soul and, I hoped, would Clara and her boy to board until clara should be strong enough to work. She fell in with my plan at once, £ told her only what was necessary and agreed to pay for whatever was néed. ed to make them comfortable, ‘The: I took them to her and saw them com fortably settled before I - Uoned the subject to Hask, pai ay) ell, I guess you hav lone all bas Kereapet he remarked, “But you don't object to my vi, them, do you, Haskall?" ‘Ho had been 80 generous that I would no’ against his wishes unless it were mee eesary, “Her baby Is so cunning f have grown quite fond of him." “Nol Why should [ object? But X don't see why you want to waste eny more time on them.” was particularly careful not to annoy Haskall at this time, end whenever I visited the Mttle town im New Jersey I invariably was at home before he arrived. Sometimes I told him of my vist, oftener not, Then one day, without warning, Clara and her baby disappeared. When I want aH usual to see her Mrs, Gray gave me @ letter, “Dear Mra. Burroughs,” I read. “I am almost well, so I am going away, be- fore all the you gave me ie gone, You have been so good to me that it almost breaks my heart got to seo you again, But it ts beoasse you have been #0 good that I den't leave my address. I shall never do wrong Again, Do belleve me, dear Mrs. Burroughs, I couldn't because of you. I was desperate when you found me, ready to wreck my own life and the lives of others with ét, If the Ume ever comes when it is right for me to see you, I will come to you. But at present it is better for me to stay away, Clara Mullen.” fave the letter to Haskall to read, He glanced at it, then said carelessly: “Humph! Well, that ineident's closed. Please do not rescue @ny more girls you find crying. I've no intention of paying any m bil that kind.” ities i", (To Be Continued.) then took another jump to § Was more than any one else was eatn- lf t is the explanation, Miss 1 asked her one day, ‘Why I've been taking a corre- Spondence course ina new method of fingering, she replied. ‘Tha prin. cipal feature of the plan is expert instruction In muscie development and control, Thus every finger be- comes as flexible and responsive as the index, with a resulting increase in speed. It is merely wn adaptation of the methods applied to the teaching f the plano, Already my speed ap- es ninety words a minute," t True to her prediction it sistent performer. Week after week time before she had” attained |her pay envelope contained approxi- words a iuinute, A salary ine mately the same $16, Sometimes it of over 2 $4 week is quite an ftem when one earns but $15 or $16, Miss Bates's showing interested eev- eral of our girls in the idea, Now we have a half dozen exponents of the new aymera io. the office. And in every case the speed increase hes averaged from 25 to &3 1-3 per cemt,” was a few cents more, sometimes a shade less, "One week I noticed that she had jumped to $17, I wondered as to the explanation of this burst of speed, but said nothing, She maintained rate for two or three wecks; r