The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1916, Page 18

kL A Se (oe ee eee eee ee r VOLUME v0, Amenmew wns se GOV. WHITMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. APOLEONS 4 atiom, “An army travels on) home to Now York's National Guard om th an border, Troop traine witha Bitchene for conking fond. Haphacard arrangements tor feeding the men en ronte, Antiqnated care with menare water enppls. Te this lamentable beginning an indication of worse bungling to tome? Mt brings unpleneantiy to mind the elo king oonditione of 1898 in transportation, in commueariat, in lack of nearly every prow vision for the stomach of the army. We have had enough of miamanagement already, luckfly not yet eertowg, though menacing in prospect. Controversy betweon National Gowarnment and State Government over responsibility will mot im- ptowe conditions, Never mind who isto blame. Forget what hae already happened, ereepting the lesson to be derived from it The imperative need of the hour ia to do better by the regiments nert to go tothe front. Cut the red tape, Throw aside the routine. Make things decent and comfortable for the soldier boys. | 4 Mea Gor, Andrew did it for the Massachusetts troops in 1861, Gov,! Brough did it for the Ohio troops. Gov, Morton did it for the Indiana! troops. \ Hera is Gav. Whitman's opportunity. 1 entaminiintlpcenaamasonss WHERE DOLLARS ARE BELOW PAR. | HE American dollar will buy to-day more British shillings, more| French francs, more German marks and less of American food, | American clothes, American manufactured products than! over before. Englieh five-pound notes are cheap in Wall Street foreign ex- change marts, but Engli¢h mutton chops are at @ premium on Brosdway. Italian Mre are offered on banking bargain counters, but the @peghetti restaurants of Sixth Avenue have boosted the price of table dhote dinners. | The American gold dollar is the most Valuable piece of money in the world—outside the United States. Here at home, measured in| airikes The '} ee es | R ' bushels of potatoes, in paira of shoes, in gallons of gasoline, its pur- chasing power of everyday commodities and necessities of life is way| below par. | There is a modern device in high finance of not giving a fixed | par value in dollars to shares in newly formed companies. The $100 | in big figures stamped on the beautifully engraved stock certificates | no longer deceives or fixes prices. The new idea ia that a share of etock has for its value whatever it will bring in the open market of buying and selling. We atill cling, however, to the notion that a dollar is a dollar. | Ien*t it eo stamped on both sides and in all four cornere of the note? But in the household the careful wife who does not know much about high financial theories and monetary systems is discovering | thataomething is the matter with the American dollar. More of them are required every weck to supply the table and run the establishment. This wonderful dollar, the standard unit of value in banking houses of the world, is depreciating in the kitehen and losing value in domestic economy. Compared with averages for the period between | 1900 and 1906, taken at 100 cents, its purchasing power, measured in| commodity exchange, is but sixty cents in 1916, Millions of gold coming in, billions of exports going out, both of these international movements have influences that operate to the same result. The first tends to cheapen the dollar; the second to raise the cost of commodities. Combined, they exert double pressure, The problem of household finance in these days of “easy money” is not how to get it nor how to spend it, but how to have anything left out | ef the pay envelope at the end of the week. } ‘cciaesiiaimaniiibinsncnima | NEW ENTERPRISE IN THE SOUTH. | E NOTE they are holding a “Live Stock and General Agri-| oultural Conference and Cattle Show” at Moultrie, Ga., this! week. Not a fact of international importance, but intercat- | ‘ng ag one of many signs that the South is developing itself on wider lines than formerly. Less than two years ago a packing house was established in Moul- tele. Last year, during the height of the slaughtering season, the Moultrie plant paid to farmers in that section more than $100,000 per month for hogs alone, Alabama, Florida and Georgia are emulating Mississippi, whieh has developed its beef cattle industry until it has become the | cattle producing State east of the Mississippi River, to have soil and climate even better adapted to the growing of forage | ding | Georgia claims} As for the good old peanut industry, we learn {t Is etill possible | th Georgia to raise a peanut crop worth 867.80 per acre at a cost of €26.50 per acre, leaving a net profit of $41.30. Tast season one man cleaned up $6,195 on 150 acres of peanuta, and, when he had taken up the vines, turned 300 head of hoge into the peanut field, where they gained on an average 75 pounds per hog. Hay from the eame field proved an additional source of income, Not only has the South learned that there is eomothing worth growing besides cotton, but it is also making etrides in the science of | getting all the ground will give the year round, Hits From Sharp Wits ‘WW tGemble to think what's going | The casiest thing in the world ts to fe happen when the conmmencement| sit down and theorize. one. find ont A a the world hasn't ee 8 paid the least bit of heed to thelr) 4 mun who really knows has advice-—Macon News, | need of looking Wise.—, aul, One of the hardest things some peo- |” , ple bave to understand is the difter- ence between affluence and influcuce. Nashville Banner. no Ibany Jour- os 8 8 The old family horse had a@ lot of instinct to help him, but the auto. A mobile 1s at the mercy of the driver, Our own notion of the acm en }community over ber daughter, with thought Was “spiting” the sehool | authorith when after she was fi she persistently kept the girl from school Wise compulsory education law— | toollgh . The Mistake of a Mother | By Sophie Irene Loch » Publishing Co, Copyright, 1916, (The Worid), The Pre York AM going to teach you a les- eon, If you will not make your girl go to school 1 will, Tam going to send you both to fail, and you will stay there until your daugh- ter agrees to Ko to school regularly.” ‘These are the words used by the Recorder at Bayonne, N, J when he committed a mother and daughter to prison, It seema the woman had been fined previously for keeping her daughter from school Doubtless this mother, now in custody, thinks she is very much “abused.” She is probably in- dignant at the superior right of the little appreciation as to the value this jurisdiction, Verily, it hae often been written that the “sins of the fathers have | been visited unto the ohildren, yei even unto the third and fourth gen- ation,” and mothers, too. One of these sina 1s laxity in procuring every opportunity for the education of her daughter, How many girls have suffered lator in life because of the seeming indif- ference of the mother in the matter of learning can never be estimated. The mother in this caso evidently ot | mother! Evidently @he does Not value the principle of prepared. ness—preparcdness for business, for marriage, for life Itself, Many a mother, I regret to say, Nke this one, presumes to be the judge as | to the limit of learning for her child Such a one is truly responsible for | the inefficiency, dependence and ab- | sence of self-reliance that later char- | acterize her offspring, On the other | hand, there are hundreds of worthy women who will sacrifice everything in order that their girls may have every advantage in the best schools, 1 know a mother of four children who not only fostered her family, but financed it as well. She owned a little business and took care of her family that way. Each of these children had a good education, ‘fwo of them, a boy and went to college, graduated with it and were able to care for them: ives, Vater the girls married and the two boys went into business in the Far West po se! PROP ROLLE AO ORL OBBLOD DL DOLL COLL ML LD LRE te rem” omen Who Fail —— By Nixola Greeley-Smith The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thured Aan nn AO POOLOOLD LOE PEODO DAD OLA BE DOO enn tte miele o ® ” Conyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. III —The Butterfly in the O fice. T is Impossible to make a career of being “cute.” Cherish them as we may, the feminine qualities de- scribed by that still discredited ad- Jective do not survive the twentles. Cuteness may land a husband or a Job. But it will not keep either, It is too perishable, Almost every of- fice contains some fluffy little crea- ture who has no more idea or capac- ity for settling permanently to @ task than a butterfly has, She chatters of gowns and parties, She exchanges polite social conversation with young men as if life and business were just put big garden party at which she had been asked to receive, She is sweet and fresh and appealing, and older women specially delight to help her along. And they help her and they help her and they help her, Fi- nally they discover that to show her | now to do her work on Monday mere- ly settles her affair for that day, On Tuosday she will have to be shown all over again, The thing which distinguishes the business butterfly among her follows is @ genuine incapacity for applying her mind long to any one thing, She must filt from subject to subject, from task to task. Quite often the butterfly makes a good wife because eeping has the merit of chang- » subject often, But she mak a very bad business woman, She has not the downtown outlook for one thing. She is always intensely per- sonal, frankly feminine, Now there is no reason why @ woman should not be feminine downtown. ‘The worst thing @ business fe can do to a woman Is to give her the sexless ex- terlor of an office drone, But the butterfly does not remember that she is not pald so many dollars a week because her hair curls or her laugh ripples or because she can talk inter- minably about moving picture stars, She is paid to do what very often she i cannot do, poo! child—systematio, between dances or calls from young men of candy, If men reprove her for fail ing in her work they are rude and hor- rid. She does not understand why a smile does not pacify them characterise happy that she has done double duty. In direct contmst to this is the mother who takes her girl This mother, who had made their welfare possible, found herself alone But she did not remain #o Jong. She took three little ahildren of a friend who was an invalld, mothered them and reared them as she bad her own, giving them every advantage of edu- cation They have now a foundation for of ba. ‘wisdom ie going into epasms of| Wherever there is civilization aome- when the boss tells a joke.— ee fq taking up a collection —Toledo ie : f @olf-support and women ts trom school too early on the theory | that she has had jand can be of “help at home.” ne of these women muy be Justte when the family fie but \ thereby, It 19 the wise mother who \etretch every poims that the weasel he butterfly regards} wn ag the unpleasant} I have been associated with this man away enough of books is very large, it is a GREAT BACRIFICE to ask of the young woman who loses she 1s nearly always In a state of elud- ing pursuit by bad little boys with nets or bad old boys, she generally tells you. Time after time butterflies have informed me that they were afraid they would “have to give up thelr po- sitions” because some one around them was becoming unpleasant, Often they have explained discharge by saying the employer was “horrid” to them. Thero are genuine cases of this sort, un- doubtedly, But they are much rarer than one would be led to Judge from the but. terflies themsel Looking back upon all the butterfly tales I have hea. I fail to recall one compete: woman in the lot of them, Always the butterfly believed her own per- sonal attractiveness had worked her harm, But her fellow employees could have given a dozen better rea- sons for her discharge, Women are Particularly susceptible to the form of deception practiced by the butter, fly. Because of something told by another woman, have we not all prop- erly dumfounded men who had done us no injury? Have we not all led campaigns of frightfulness against persons who may have been respect- able fathers of families for all we knew? I have, at any rate, And It is only recently that it occurred to me to ponder the fact that women who are competent and attractive have no tales to tell; that it 1s only those who are pretty and inefficient who prattle of pursuit. There is always a certain amount of expertment, of adventure, wherever men and women gather to- | gether whether they meet in offices or ballrooms. The potnt ts that the attractive woman who doas good work can be and ts judged by her, | work ajone. The attractive woman, | who is incompetent cannot ‘afford to | be judged by her k. She would be discharged. And when she ts dis- | charged she falls back on her charms as the excuse, Z ‘There are many, many pretty wom- en who have succeeded, Their faces, more often than their manners, have opened doors to them or have made their paths straighter and smoother than !f thelr complextons were not so rood or their smiles not so winning. | But they had to have braina to get furthor than the open door. And, after a time, when the woman who has suc- ceeded entirely by her work listens while the twenticth butterfly tells her the same tale about the same man ehe save to herself: “But, after all, I am not a Gorgon. for years and he has always been preferably bearing boxes! most businesslike and {mpersonal tn his attitude, Why should [ believe that he has been otherwise to any other Woman, particularly to a woman A strango| whose incompetence {# explanation of the butterfly is that enough of her failure?” going period of her daughter be not HPR CHANCE to cultivate and de- velop body and brain, Many & mother who reasons that her learning was good enough for tion is keener. youth ie the thme for thie prepare ‘outb ts the ir vl e io Casting jlom aad it Accurate knowledge Droken, that every effort 1s made for ay. June his By J. H. Cassel! A pm @. Dollars '§ and Sense. 4 By H. J. Barrett. "Know the Facts," Says This Credit Man. i key are two types of bust- ness men in this country to- day,” said a credit map, em- ployed by a largo wholesale house, “those who guess and those who know. Fifty yeara ago most every: body guessed. More and more, how, ever, with the passage of time, the methods of the exact acientist are being applied to ryday business. One corporation in this country matn- tains a force of seventy-five men in its statistical department, whose duties consist merely of collecting and tabulating facts. ' “During @ five-year period the |‘guesser, aided by some such favors able factor as a particularly adven- tageous location or @ lack of local competition, may outstrip the ‘knower.’ But tn @ twenty-five-year period, when all varying elements tend to correct themselves and re- | duce competing lines to the eame basis, the ‘knower wine. “The man who knows is constantly probing; he takes his business apert every little while to see how the wheels go around. By 10 oolock on Wednesday morning he knows his net profit or loss on Tuesday's busines: The man who guesses hypnotize: himself into the belief that every thing will come out all right anyw and sooner or later he comes out and the Sheriff goes in, “The man who knows watches his stock turn over by departments and lines—yes, even items, He may be tung by a sticker once, But ever after that eticker 1s on the suspect list. The man who guesses may have his shelves chronically encumbered by sluggish stock, the profit on which is eaten up by overhead charges. And because he doesn't KNOW, he'll re- order and keep the traitor in his camp for years on end. “The man who knowa can tell you the exact percentage of salary ex- pense to be charged against each line. ‘The man who guesses carries many articles which represent a 20 per cent. direct wage cost. And I don't know of any article in the average retail store which sells at a big enough margin of profit to stand that expense, “The man who knows keys his ad- vertising at frequent Intervals, He judges of the various medias’ value by the results, The man who guesses falla for the eloquence of the most persistent advertising solicitor, “The man who kndws doesn’t say! ‘It costs me about 10 per cent. to do He says: ‘My system demonstrates that my cost of doing business te 19.4 per cent.’ “The man who knows carries stock which turns quickly at @ fair vor tocked. her forgets that the demands for|marein. He ta never overs preparation are greater NOW than|He makes two or three times myoh in her school-going days, Competi-|money on the same capltal as the man who gue invested by Hie oredit ts good: he sleeps well nights, I like to see him on our books,” 4 —ammnene be al } 29, is { Hy We And anet . “ And another some tinen ma Nogntod r One man '" f Mas And anther la ‘ Into prison fae breach of ¢ Ona « Arawinaroom walle man hath t And anotner hath ' brighton her ie " One man hath twenty f water | And another hath ¢ ‘ wherewith to adorn himerif ehan he fine woman hath seven biperted hata’ and looketh like « cartoon tn alt of them And another hath one sevent) ninecen! bat and looke hoon aomel in iT ' One man hath a perfect digestion and naught wherewith to sattely 1% | And another hath two chete NO appetite whatsoever i} One weman hath blond hale and « porfect Thirtyeix, yet her husband apendeth all bis daya tn the pureuit o } And another woman hath the fig | rhumurh ple; yet her husband te And another talketh only ehit-cb: TALE! | And another {9 @ floor-walker and | Hon?” | For, behold, the Law of Compensal And unto him that hath one thin | thee in the words of the prophet: Selah. | prenared, forewarned and forenrmed you lucky.—BULWER LYTTON, yings of Mrs. Solomon ortectly Ae One damsel speaketh seven languages and tan PORK in all of them One man tsa gentua and looketh Ike a soda water clerk How then can ye aay, “Rejoice and be glad for the Law of Compenser other thing that he doth NOT want, leat he he t Yea, verily, jet the OPTIMISTS rave, saith the ¢ “It's all wrong, Carranza, it's al! WRONG!” —__—-4=— Hope nothing from tuck and the probability ts that vou will be 0 Kowland mene recnnnpmnpnns saan aan ne seen (we spot. ner . 6 a tr vast ' ' rate her ne narting th to « Valetef a clean hte wate and the hauer Apolla and miet teroe noeth forth in put f peroxide chorus girls ure of a waehtuh and the profile of oted at and b talk and ia INKESIST. looketh Hike a bank president ton worketh ROTH waye! “that he wanteth shall be given ane » completely happ nie, tut f ay unto that all sh low observers will call By Roy L. a | | $ Cops rain 66 HAT Mrs, Kittingly gets on qh my nerves!" said Mrs. Jarr, “1 promised to write her once a week and let her know if the \Janitress was airing her flat, and if she shut down the front-room win- dows if it rained, and if her cat and canaries were being taken care of!” “What of it?” asked Mr. Jarr, “why, here she writes me again saying she's so nervous not hearing from me that she's afraid something has happened her Angora and that the Janitress has left the shades up ‘in the front room and the sun has ruined her rugs, or that the rain has [come in and spoiled everything, or that her canaries are being neg- lected.” “Everything fe all right, t”n't 1t?” asked Mr. Jarr. | “IT suppose it is," said Mrs. Jarr, “I haven't seen the Janitress for sev- eral days, but if anything had hap- pened to Mrs, Kittingly’s cat or jeanaries { would have been told, and he gave the janitress two dollars {and promised her three more when |she came back.” ‘I thought you were to go in Mrs, | Kittingly’s flat to see that every-| thing was all right? You promised you would,” remarked Mr, Jarr | “Don't you think 1 have anything else to do besides looking after Mra.| Kittingly’s flat? asked Mra, Jarr in an injured tone, “Besides, she's pay- ing the janitress to do that, and, an- other thing, I'm certainly not going in her flat, If anything 1s missed T'll be in @ nice positidn, won't I? And if the sun does fade her rugs or moths get in, who'll be blamed? Why, I will! Go I'l just mind my own business.” j ‘Didn't I hear you propose to her} that you'd see everything was all Fight and keep an eye out for flat thieves while Mre, Kittingly was away, and she'd do the same for us | when we went off in September’ ikea Mr. Jarr. “Oh, you hear téo much!” replied | Mrs. Jarr, testily. “I can't say a word but what you seem to he listen- ing to throw it up to me afterward, If Mrs, Kittingly is going to worry over her yowly old cat and her canaries that never sing and the The Jarr Family 1016, by The Vrew Pubiishing Co, (7 McCardell % # York ening cheap sticks of furniture flat, what did s fore I'd impose Wort in her old way for? Be- y my neighbors he ehe does Id stay home! un owon't answer her letter, then?" asked Mr. Jarr. “Certainly, Ti anwwer her letter?” replied Mrs, Jarre, “f promised I would, and when L make a promise Tkeep it, I'l wrtte and tell her that my other letter must have gone astray " didn't write another letuer, did you?” asked Mr. Jar “Well, 1 tended to.” said Mrs, . “And Vil be sure to write her jeht and tell her tt will be all right, A man wouldn't eare what happened his home when he ts away, but a woman does, I know just how she feels and I will write to her this very night.” "Go ahead," replied Mr. Jarr, “and I'll take it out and mail it.” Yh, you are very accommodating for Mrs, Kittingly, aren't you?” sal Mrs. Jarr, “Rut if it was a letteg wanted to get off in a hu wouldn't volunteer to mail It yeu “I thought you did want to get 1t off in a hurry,” mumbled Mr, Jarr, Then Mrs. Jarr searched everys where, but could find neither pen nor ink, "I suppose I'll have to use my engraved notepaper, too," she said, “It's a shame to waste tt on her, and It's so dear and I've only a ets left. lend me a lead Mr, Jarr handed over a lead penelL “Oh, never mind waiting,” said Mrs. Jarr. 'm going downtewn shopping and I'll mai! it. You'd for- get and carry {t around im your pocket, anyway!" So Mr, Jarr departed. When he returned in the evening he asked Mrs, Jarr if she had wnitten to her friend and Mrs, Jarr said: “Oh, what's the use? She'll be home the end of the week, anyway, and I can \te her T did write." “Suppose our flat Mr, Jarr, “It would be Mra, Jurr, selfish and know of." she doesn't look after while we are away?" gatd just lke her,” repled “She's one of the most inconsiderate women ¥ Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arth Copyright, A ur Baer 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), STUBBORN envelope can be opened by placing in a dry spot and watt ing until the glue weare out, This ta the humane way, ae of late yearg the sentiment has deen against using foroa | — | & Flatbush inventor has patented @ disappearing mask for an umbrella handle thut only requires 2 h. p. and conceals the right owner's numa, | To enable alow sleepers to sleep faster ia the purpose of a simple ap parctus invented by a Govfusburg physician, Deperiments are under way in Chicago with a modem slice of waters | melon that clamps under the care and | Amerloa, prevents the face from slipping off. In 1914 there were only 245 DiIb collectore to cach apartment house tm Untess proper precautions are taken rain {3 almost certain to run dowe @ spout and ssoaye, ee ili Alene teenn enna saan ngntmatinentl