The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 8

Sve EMMY World. WTAriieimD BY JO8RrH PULATERE Puoiience Marie Ks «vy! ty fhe +) fore Rew Rate pula een, NOR HAR Tre iat KF VOLUME 6? ; ) —_—_— ——_—_—_--— WHO'S FOR NEW YORK? * A BIG gevere| strike embracing al) trades! to brandish thie threet over the city becomes intolerebie Are the business, the prosperity, the industrial credit of a me tropolie of 6,000,000 people matters of ao Nttle moment thet they can be Kicked into « corner to give @ few traction companies and their employers o bigger field for battle? It seoms tecredibic that mes whose own interests, large or small, New York has only just begun to fee) good times the country caught the epirit nearly two years ago The rest of Tn this city it came slower. But in the last few monthe business in New York har at last quickened ite etep and caught the pace Does this meas nothing to labor! Darieg the weeh that ends to-night more than fifty pages of Help Wanted advertisements have been printed in The World. Does labor see nothing in this significant demand for workers im New York? Is it indifferent as to whether it has work or wot so long as it has ite way? Wit) it cripple at suck a time this great comm nity to which so many Dundreds of thousands of workers look for wages, trample apen It, halt its Desincss, lower ite vitality, arrest a development which, for Ite ews sake, labor should be the first to further! After all, whose New York is it? Doesn't it belong as much to the workingman as to the capitalist? Can anybody put it in fetters that will not sooner or later press upon the muscles of labor? Tie up New York! Becasce of a wrangle between o handful of traction managers aad & group of labor leaders, tie up the city’s trade, tle up Ite mantfold activities, te up ite newly regained prosperity, tle up tts fatere! ‘What chance has the City of New York against thousands whe are ready to attack its welfare oven though they wreck their own! Willeoz a Mollifier.—Headline. Mollyeoddle! “AMERICA FIRST.” ‘ATION-WIDE movement to give American consumers first call on American food products is reported under way. “By the time Congress meets in December,” declared Commissioner of Weights and Measures Hartigan yesterday, “millions of names wil) be signed to petitions for an embargo upon eatables. The present situation is very serious, but the outlook is even more critical.” “Except thove who have studied the wheat situation, few persons understand we are facing « crisis eo far as that stap! is comcerned. Reports received from the Department of Agr! culture show we have only 220,000,000 bushels of wheat for consumption in the United States unless we keep the 800,000,000 . * pusbels destined for export. We need an average of 600,000,000 Pye Fyyenine Comener ee The ruthless insistence with which labor leaders continue The Evening World Daily Mag TG. O. P. en een | Oe The Evolution of Carriages } E wheeled carriage would ap- - Ddushela, “We may be without flour by April. Before then bread may be selling for 20 cents a 10-punce loaf.” More than nine months ago The Evening World began to call attention to what lay in store for American consumers if big pro- ducers of American foodstuffs were allowed to go on sending in- © creasing quantities of their products abroad. Since then price boosters in this country, quick to take advantage of scarcity rumors and the handy pretext of the war, have been busier than ever with the retail cost of meat, vegetables and bread. We shall be glad to see the country at last awake to the situation. The Federal Trade Commission has become a great and powerful agent in the national service. Never has it hed a better chance to nid the public and prove its value than now. Let the Federal Trade Commission begin an immediate investi- gation of the country’s food problems. If embargoes are warranted Congress must be able to act with full knowledge of the facts. Those facta the Federal Trade Commission is, of all bodies, best fitted to gather. This nation is not heartless. It has no wish in the present state of the world to withhold a reasonable share of ita food from foreign _--\, markets, where the demand is desperate. But it has « tight to know where it stands. There is no reason why American consumers should be starved or robbed solely in order that big American food exporters may reap war profits in Europe. —_—_—-4o——_ Father Knickerbocker has reached @ pitiable state, hat falls off on his heels whenever he sees @ foot raised. * Letters From the People ‘The “Mise” Coleman, some of father’s savings in orier to To the Béitor of The Evening World h Hie It is a deplorable fact that ninety per cent. of the women holding posi- tons in New York City and elsewhere is" column, Ages range ap to sixty years, yet they are Misses holding down positions formerly held oy _men who married and supported a wife and children. Just trace the ma- lority of females to their homes and vou will find a» many as five office- nolders living in one $25 apartment, ing the eat fund for economy, do- “ their own washing and permit- ting some poor boy who earns $5 weekly to pay their car fare, when he happens to enter the same station with one of them, ‘The woman in office buys $12 shoes, $18 hats, $40 suits, &c., and reports for office duty though ready for fome evening entertainment, And thip is the wonderful work of f[e- ny who quit the kitchen to com- pete with man, Teke a peep anywhere—Broadway, ower east side, uptown, and ask If, “How do shop girls who earn batts weekly buy §10 shoes, &c here formerly office boy was led you'll find @ young girl tn Boys formerly contributed five per cent. of their earnings the upkeep of the home. To holding the boy’s post- the girl requires ber own earnings and and pay,” the woman cries, “but you can't expect me to do more than clothe myself.” i L C. S. 8,616,484 Sq 8,071, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Which is the largest, the United States or all the countries of Europe combined? 17. Columbia University. ‘To the Bitttor of The Drening World: ‘Where can I learn chemistry? A SUBSCRIBER. Care Aéventure Magazine, New ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Let me know the address of the Ad- venture Club? M. K. Yes! Many Make That 8; To the Exitor of The Brening World Can any passenger traing on the! railways either of the United States or Europe make one and @ half miles a minute down grade? iW. Yea. To the Editor of The Evening World: jement of the opening of echool apply to high schoo! J. M. They Are Net Im Book Fo: To the Editor of Tee World: Wh poeme? axaMR can I obtain a copy of John | moto! Dear to bave been used tm Egypt ee carly as the days of Joseph. Models of these vebicles now tn the museums at Cairo and Alexandria io- dicate extreme slenderness of con: | 1 sncoin’ struction, capacity for speed and room sufficient t passen, anne. rte Abbas ne * | racy, subscribes to no creed of ca From the Pharaohs the use of the chariots Called, "eprend™ thre ell eastern countries, David, yt of maroh conquest through Syria and Zobia, confiscated 700 chariots. who whether in drove a highly trade WKA carriages Heyrt, at 0 each. Alexander the Great, returnt: the conquest of India, travelled io an open carriage drawn by eight black horses, the royal obariot heading a long line of vehicles laden with rich carpets, gold and ailver vessels and other apolls of war. The Romans who, while they have Uttle place in mechanical or scientific invention, possessed a peculiar genius im development of the works of other Deople, were the first to adopt the car Tiage for private use, and thence to build good roads on which to travel im them, the construction of the Ap- plan Way in 311 B. C. opening the eyes of the world to the possibilities of development in travel. But for three centuries or more the use of these vehicles was restricted to per- sons of high station, Nero, according |* to Suetontus, taking with him on his travels no less than 1,000 carriages In the seventh and eighth centuries of the Christian era, the carriage ap- pears to have fallen into disfavor and thence into complete disuse. For sev- eral hundred years and during the whole feudal period men of all grades of life rode on horses, women, as t! inferior ex, being mounted «no a! eases. Toward the middle of the fifteenth century covered carriages first peared in Europe, their use, howev: being confined to women of the court The records of every royal weddin, or procession or national celebration of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries contain florid and flamboy- ant descriptions of state carriages, the wedding coach of the ring; the gilt Hanover, and the coach which bore the Queens of England and France to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, In the nineteenth century came tn succession the mail phaeton, the up- right Britszka, and tho cabriolet familiar in the flustrations of Di ens’ earlier works; the stage coach, the Stanhope, the Tilbury the hired hackney coach ( middle classes), the Brougham, built as they were |ter of any name or kind.” Solomon, | 4en' propertica ll, ay ces ‘oe amazed A discover bow eh oe She | hari names longed to the ar ratic & oe aerate |clasa, and you will conclude that! Vag of |wenius, always far from being @ snob, ahekels ( $250) |nas been an active propagandist for f democracy. ld of Austria, which | B, dd by the Ballot Lives That Prove Democracy By Nixola Greeley-Smith Cepgright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). No. 1.—Homer. ENIUS i# no anob,” eaid Woodrow Wilson in hie e@peech accepting the gift of ‘e birthplace to @ nation. Oy “Nature pays no tribute to arietoc-| renders fealty to no monarch or mas- | Calling the roll of the world’s great- | ‘est men and women, with the Prest-| remark in mind, you will be Aristocracy has given some great names to the world, but it has not given the greatest names. What name survives most gloriously the! glory that was Greece? Ie it not that of Homer, blind beggar and great poet, of whom it was written: Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who living bad no roof to shrowd his head. ‘What ia the greatest name in Eng- lish Mterature? That of Shakespeare, eon of a shopkeeper of Stratford. htest star tm the con- 2 Ie it not Moliere, whose father was an up- holeterer and sought to bring up to @upreme genius, Cervantes, Uv manoa, apent acveral yeara of his I in slavery and wrote the first part of while In prison, lone, but In every o germ of from the lower stratum has forced its way upward into the sunlight of | recognition. The power lodged in the, |stckly son of a Corsican intriguer | equipped Napoleon Bonaparte to re-| draw the map of Europe with his) sword. The call heard by the peasant | maid of Domremy enabled Joan of | Aro to lead the armies of France, to crown a ki with her toll-worn | hands in Rheims Cathedral and te be st of to-day, after many centuries, the in- |mere names. { \@ URING a@ long session of Con- greas & mathematician figured that fifty-six days bad been consumed in roll-calls alone, A vot- upon @ design suggested by the dis-| ing machine, which is now being con- tinguished juriat and statesman of that name, and finally the squat, ugly, square shaped affair, loved of Vic- toria and named after her, and which Monthly, It would with successive slight improvements | hundred sidered, bas taken ninety thousand roll calls, saye Popular Science ive Congress two to call the roll years’ wor! was to maintain its premier position that many times. The inventor baa in the Old and New Worlds until the | installed bia system in the State Lay car came along and drove it) islature of Wh out ofeight, sconsin, and it is gi ing excellent service there, Ip @ ain- epiration and the glory ef + nadol |tion has become widely Voting by Push Buttons. B our own country the most did names are those of men bas become a national memorial, lives in the hearts of men as the reatest, wisest, tenderest American. As the world has grown more civil- ized, or, more accurately, as civiliza- aie the difficulties confronting ae hate appeared leas stern. But genius al- pa succeeded, always will suc- Homer, one of the earliest illustra- tons of the predilection of genius to eee ie home in the minds of the jumble, was born ‘eo ago—upon the west coast of Asia Minor im the pinth century before Christ—that torlans question bis ce ani rm that ‘The liad" and “The Odyssey” are not the work of a single man, but poems of many authors pre- served in the memory of early Greeks and handed down as a tradition from one wandering rbapsodist to another. Homer, in the re scrape of tradi- tion, is represented as old, blind and poor, straying from city to city while he sang for a coin or a meal the loves Parte, the bravery of Hector, the sorrows of and the treachery of Two portraits of Homer have place in the British museum, one a bronee bead which te considered to of an old man with wuskay eyes and Fee a) regular features a curling beard. During many centuries the poems of Homer were held to be the unap- masterpieces of all time. when the classica are less revered, few people read Homer, but everybody has known from childhood the beautiful legends which hie gentus preserved for ue. Every woman yearna to be as beau- | tiful as Helen, every man aspires to be as brave as Hector, as wise as Achilles, Kings survive tn our memo. ries merely because he wrote about them and the ancient gods owe their Nfe tn th minds 3 modern sone rgely to his personification em. “When Homer lived even the idea! of democracy wan unknown. Yet the memory of this old blind begmar ts a living thing to-day, when Cyrus and Xerxes, Dartus and Alexander are | Ble session of Congress, he says, he can lop off thirty days’ work by call- ing the roll with his macnine. Bach member votes by pressing a button on the desk {fn front of him, He and everybody else can see how he voted, on nls vote duplicates itself ona thin the view of 1. The board also totals the vot ‘tomatically, In the event that mber wishes to change merely preeses anot vided for that purpose, and the to- tal of “yeas” and “nays” is accord- ingly corrected op the board, | Mayor Walkert of Delhi ©. By Bide Dudley. ‘The Pree Oe. 1, 1918, by ma Now York Kveniag Werk) | AYOR CYRUS PERKINS) WALKER of Delhi addrensed | the pupils of the Elderberry School in that town Monday, the oc- casion being the opening of the school season. The euditortum was crowded with both children and adults when Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the noted | poetess, appeared on the rostrum to) introduce the Mayor. Miss Doolittle | performed that service very grace- fully, dropping into original rhyme | before ebe finished. | us to-day a very fine thie city and pro’ harm. He i@ to speak tore he does I aball read @ poem about im.” Mies Dootttle then read the follow: | ing rhyme: eae eo oY Raa Sets nas am, ae SLE eee ch might Thunderous applause followed the reading of the poem and ended only when Mise Doolittle held up one hand and eaid the poem would be eet to music eo the children might sing it each day, Mayor Walker then arose. “I am very fond of young ones,” be waid. “I alwaye"— \66 azine. Saturday. September 23. 1916 By J. H. Cassel 1 ee nee oe enna The Woman of It By Helen Rowland oe wi0 ty Thee Pree Petes Oe like he are paren She Saye Ie Wed to Throw Away Lif / , ty t . oe . peaking (ne @ wing bee * tas or ' . a ! wh . ‘ Hous joy in throwing aw “ idow promptly, e@ et ane © 4 Mother bwe A man just b from Ww Bul @ woman & ein oly that We only bY casting out lifes Junk, and making rw toe wow, Chat you can beep eweet and close and (ull of-of vim and loves to move and And to A men ner Thote why one ‘Thank heaven, everything eh Of couren” mutteriat the Mache , “a The ye pers 4) time ' he Widow, Swhen like Nature we should cast off ores, the eameny . the passé, he “Ye gods!” groaned the Meohelor, “are you refering to MEY “The sowical time,” repeated the Widow, ignoring the pathetic appeal, ‘“@ throw away all our sartoriad, eoolel imental and eonuimen'al ‘jun! faded frocks, and faded romances, our frivolous summer |iterature friv. olque summer ways, our passé hate and frorsled Airtation®—and make room, tn our houses, and clothes-cleseta, and bears and lives for the Uiogs worte whtie'” Bn eee Anne { Collectors ef Junk re te “cc TT how de you Wnow,” protested the Rachelor, “nat you went NFRD the things to-morrow that you (hrow away to-day? | newer gave Away an olf overwoat, or throw away an old hal, that T didn’t want { Daok again the very next day.” “And you probably never broke off a flirtation with « woman that yeu diAn't want her back again the very next day? Inu@hed the Wh ingly, “That's (he masculine nature! The aver full of ‘trash, ion @o full of Junk.” a | een ument, er can find the one th wh ° | wante tt, simply CAN'T throw anytiing ray venieas trlendahlp, tor y want it ait Nike email boy’e pocket—Just full of ‘funk.’ he's 8O pee to have collected It, Tkhnow @ man who la paying atprac tu of ‘fahing clothes,’ simply because he hadn't the heart te throw any leway. [know a bachelor whose apartinent looks |)ke @ ‘curio ab because he can't part with anything that once took his fancy aa tor ME. whan I'm tired of @ hat er @ gown, or 4 plows of bric-a-Drac, I Uhoow tt | away without @ quaim"-— “Yea.” broke in the Bachelor, “and when you're tired of a ! pose you throw iim over without a qualm~ eaageahes “I keep my mind, and my heart, and my house, and my life unciut by ‘trash. continued the Widew, calmly. “! simply WON'T acceyn res | thing Just an good, whether It's a friendship or a breakfast food. and T won't Keep anything that's passé, whether t's a sunshade or a “Hear, hear!” orted the Bachelor adimiringiy, “But PU wag collects about you Just the eame!” he “trash! ° + H, YES," acknowledged the Wiow, with a sigh, “That's why ! have to have my annual autumn housecieaning. I often find that [ve been deceived in a bat,or & gowsa, or @ friend, or an emotion, or a man—bave thougm then the ‘real thing’ when they were only imitations Then, out they go—ené there te space in my cupboard or my heart for the real thing!" “Ye gods!" exclaimed the Bachelor, “Your Beart must be a perfect vacuum—a howling wilderness! When are you going to throw ME out?" “Oh, you!” and the Widow emiled deprecatingly. “I guess I'l! keep you about for—for a while. There are SOME things one never likes to part with because of the—sentimental attachment, you Know. Besides"—— “Yes, yee—go on!” urged the Bachelor. “I'm afraid,” sighed the Widow, “that if [ threw you out, I should waat you back again—the very meat day! Ne Reem for Trach. Three-Dollar-a-Week Stenographer By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprr ght, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New Vert Brening Werid | A MAN advertieed as follows: this ex eect) the enormous ta- | “Stenographer, rapid advances) oy weak w t an intelligent ment, $3 weekly to start.’ ould she prove pets irk and A young woman stenographer ai effio: Would econ acquaint her of your als- awered this ad. by writt letter to | eatiefaction. the employer and eendi: “Use a wrtle Dit of common sense. e The Evening World, signing “Con- Day the scrubwoman who cleane stant Reader.” out yor ttt ur office more than 4 TE iat feat Goce otter at holt The letter reads as follows: “Dear Sir: Your lberal offer re-| ie garding a stenographio position for the enormous sum of $8 per came to my attention. “Nine chances out of tem you are one of the numerous persons whe when you read about girls neglecting to follow the straight and narrow your eyes in astonishment and wonder why, and then you have the ne any decent, re- spectal ‘measiey’ sum of $3 for @ week's work, “With the present high cost of liv- ing, would you please at to thi where a girl would live worked for you for that sum; where would she buy her clothes? Where would her food come from? Where would her lunch money come from, and last, but not least, where would her car- fare come from, or perhapa, to your way of thinking, ehe had better gut up at 630 A. M. and walk gorgeous offoe—the air woul our advertieement calle for a nographer. Do you realise that stenographio course requires a period lor the Come to your If you cant offer a good salar; Intelligent girl, and have you| least try to be fair and cive to consid this course | enough on which to tive respect: amounts to @ This figure! ‘This letter speaks for itself, does not include luaches, carfare ard stenographer argues from experience stationery. Im the vernacular, “Them's my sent! “Correct!” eaid a men's voice in the gallery. “You never look at the old ones. I've heard you called Chick Walker.” The Mayor's face grew very red. “I wiah to sayy’ he continued, “that I hope the echool year proves suc- cessful. Also, thet I am eelling at auction to-morrow afternoon my two- geated phaeton and hope the adults present will drop around. I thank youl” | “Toure welcome!” eatd the voica ‘The Mayor, who was leaving the| rostrum etopped. “Ie Constable Pele Brown in the room?" he asked. os [oie Pint, emus at ethene By Reeping your eveglasses directly The constable’ found the disturber Prevent @ stranger from wearing ‘em wit was Heck Wiltams, an ai-Walker Democrat. A fight followed in which Tt 42 impossible to get any music by | tooee. The students in an Ohio academy are all druggists, and the herring aren't any deader than two salted ones. Blowing into a bass drum in front of you h you. “How long do you think it would ments too.” I echo, “Wake up, Mr take @ girl to repay ber parents for Employer.” ‘ : , > ; Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer . ‘Copyright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Rreaing Woe! -j wv at a full gallop a enail travels about no fert in x weeks. Scientific research has definitely ascertained that three salted Unless Nrmly fastened on one end whiskers will be found to be very tt is possiMte te wrricw tem, Brown was knocked down four times, consists of courses in neighborhood gossip, remarks on the weather and de- but he managed to get wie man out! ciphering Chinese preacriptions spoken over @ telephone wire in Norwegian by daring him to lace and shake for le Whiff Garbey was knocked down once in the melee but he im- *2,,Groowan’s sith ag Sites movement, The student is eligidle to graduate when he can | eauecese @ proft out of a customer who buys @ free almanac, wipes Ris muddy feet, dorrowe @ Hight from the clerk, massages the dictionary and mediately arose ve a chi for Mayor Walker? aa aad then aske for wholesaic rates on @ penny stamp. A post-graduate couree wee has eet the whole town | consists of taking messages to the pretty girl who lives seven dlocks away There te much tndignatioa, | from the drug store but ein's gos any telephone in her home od