The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1916, Page 8

FER ays 5 ir ST ESTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. _—T Podiisnee Daily Except Sunday dy the Presa Publiahing Company, Nor. 7 Broent Bean Now. New tok eee RALPH PULITZ! J. ANGUS SHAW, JOSEPH PULITZE! © Post-Office to The Park Row, Jr. Becrotary, 68 Bark how. it Now York an Becond-Class Matter. ning| For England and the Continent and All Countries tn the International =| Postal Union. ++ $3.00/One Year.... -2010ne Month. WELCOME THE SHAKE-DOWN. VOLUME 57... HE country as a whole doesn’t have to lose much sleep over ] wild days in Wall Street. On the contrary there is every reason to be thankful that something has happened to start @ little healthy interest in what stocke arc worth, rather than in the ekyrocketing figures at which they are from moment to moment} quoted. | Everybody knows that speculative circles in the United States! for months past made feverish use of the fact that certain Ameri- ean industries are making extraordinary profite out of war orders. Everybody knows that on the strength of a spectacular kind of war prosperity gamblers have been busy boosting prices in excess of all reason wherever they found opportunity—and where should such ©pportunity present itsel? in more alluring form than on the Stock Exchange? ; Naturally the first talk of peace sends @ chill around the gaming table. Let the peace parleys get fairly under way and orders for war muunitions continue to fall off and there will inevitably come more thivery days for Wall Street. But isn’t it far better the shake-down should come? If, as we believe, the present prosperity of the country is being built on a foun- dation of real values, isn’t it better that some of the fake parts of e superstructure should topple over before they become dangerous? In spite of all that has happened the people of the United States | etill regard peace as the normal state of @ civilized world. Most of them would find it hard to think of their good times as dependent) upon the period for which human beings elsewhere elected to go on Blowing one another to bits with shells and shrapnel. —_—_—-+- If Germany {s willing to discuss “limited universal disarm- ament” there ought to be a good chance for limited permanent | peace. World for tie United States and Canada. ——-+——- —___ LET THIS CITY ASSERT ITSELF. HO bothers about service or safety for New York? Despite W protests from many New York interests, including Post- master Morgan, the House of Representatives Committce on Post Offices and Post Roads voted yesterday, nine to five, to re- port favorably a Dill authorizing the closing of New York's pneu- anatic mail tubewervice within six months, The committee took this action notwithstanding the assurances of Postmaster Morgan that if the tubes were discontinued the number of motor mail trucke would have to be doubled in some places and trebled in others. “The advantages of the pneumatic tube system | G eke) 1016. Th eae eS MEM, By J. H. Cassel fn the city,” Mr. Morgan further pointed out, “are felt throughout| the entire postal service of the country by making possible later and | more expeditious despatches of outgoing domestic and foreign muil| as well as the rapid transmission of incoming mail.” | Is the City of New York meekly to submit to an imposition which | admittedty the most civilized intra-urban system Geprives it of what i of transporting mails? Is the City of New York to be the victim of a senseless experi- mentn postal economy which threatens to set more auto mail trucks of atill higher speed tearing through its crowded streets? It’s about time to let the United States Post Office authorities! and Congress understand that the city which furnishes the biggest | postal revenues is not going to put up forever with the short ond of the mr" service, The |.cumatic tube system, which experts agree should be ex- tended rether than curtailed, is something. New York should put up a fight that no Postmaster General in the next fifty years will be likely to forget. ——_ 4 Kaiser Tells Troops Why He Wants Peace.—Headlino, | was tn a store, her to get to the By Sophie Irene Loeb! how ehe was anxious to get home, and | Was not going to be held up by any, “lazy clerks.” She would report her d. I stood at one counter where they were sell- ie the manager at once if she did not ing Christmas] “set busy. ee In another part of the store, I 1 found one found two young women, evidently sisters, quarelling about a prospective woman joutling| cs that they were buying fointly, everybody about | ® Ree Sey Were) OM ene tome One wanted one thing while the other wanted something else. Some cutting contre § of the! onda followed about the money each table in order to pick out eome- | V8 to pay. thing thats she} AB so all through the day—here ., ; iste * and there—I found many people out of ‘first-rate issue upon which to start wanted. She id! i mor and diagruntied. not seem to pay much attention to the discomforts of those about her, Belng a large wora- an, she did not notice the space she was displacing by edging her way in, Pretty soon sho saw something at While, of course, this is a busy time, and everybody is in a hurry to have his wants filled, yet when all is sald and done, what fs {t all about? If Christmas ts not a time of good cheer, what ig it? If at any time of the year courtesy and consideration should be prevalent, it certainly ts at} this Yuletide, Suppose everything doesn't go your way? Suppose you don't get all you want? Does it make your Christmas any better to scold a clerk or quarrel with relatives or! madly blaze your path In the dash for bargains. If you have not had a@ gracious spirit toward your fellowmen, the o: season in the year to begin to cultivate it is in this joyous season, Most people actually put forth every effort to make it a workaday instead of a holiday pertod. Better do with a gow-gaw less and Ret into your system a little of the real Christmas spirit. I have known many people to have wept eorrowful tears on Christmas morning because of the anxieties and vexations they have allowed to enter into the preparation of the eventful day, It t# all folly. More happiness is bound to come if you preserve an attitude of good fel- lowship, if you dispel the frowns, and smile, Smile everywhero. If there Is one time when the milk of human kindness should flow most freely, it Is at this time, Let Christmas morning find you Without regret, The Week’s Wash By Mart in Green | t @ chance to reciprocate? another part of the table, and again Saas she proceeded to sweep everything| || before her to get to tt, and in this FILL UP THE DITCHES. struggle sho hit a little child who was big Maiol bg galled i \there with its mother. OOKS Nke peace in Europe,” EFORE it adjourned yesterday the Board of Estimate looked out| Th» mother remoustrated with the “J suggested _ head polisher. of the window, Whereupon it sat on long enough to approve ar aan Ae eee * See) oe “You never can tell,” Te grevable argument as to the rights issue of $400,000 of special revenue bonds for enow removal. | cf ine custouner, Sh"! Died the laundry man. ‘Nobody out- This mid-December storm provides an early chance to test out the new snow ploughs which hardly had a fair trial last winter. The Btreet Cleaning Department has 120 of these ploughs which are drawn through the streets by motor trucks, sweeping the snow int» piles in the middle of the roadway, where the snow shovellers can tackle it and push it into the sewers, Commissioner Fetherston got his men in action in good time yes- terday morning and the snow was of the sort that yields to plough and shovel. His emergency force of nominally 6,000 failed to respond fn anything like full strength, but the Commissioner got a line on how far scarcity of labor is likely to hamper him this season and Everybody was angry, and there was @ demonstration of real bitter- ness. At another counter I heard an Im- patient buyer scolding a clerk for “being slow at subh « time at this." She told the whole ersa 1 of the most remarkable Iter ary and frate nal partners ever known was terminated what extra exertions will have to be made to handle the big storms! ffiy-seven years ago to-day, when ot February and March. tpi Desay aay Muibe meee ry 4 ; ; irimm, died in Berlin us Traffic in New York this winter after a snowfall is bound to got |i xrlown to Ses : into worse ingles than ever because of the number of thoroughfares | un the family history—! aide of the inside circles knew that the war was coming. Probably @ great majority of the people on this Vianet thought war waa a thing of the past. Before they recovered from thelr surprise over Germany's propo sition to fight, Germuny was knock- ing at the door of Belgium, Russia was rushing her armies to the Aus- trian and German frontiers, and a great many tlmid residents of Paris were beginning to figure on studying the German language. “Peace may come the same way. A few who proclatmed In the early part of 1914 that Germany was bent on war were regarded as ossifled under the hat. Shall we 90 regard those who now proclaim that Germany is discussion. If that be tho case, then what was the excuse for the war? face of the peace proposals, that Ger- many, after drenching Europe with blood, wants to arbitrate. One must be @ hard boiled optimist to antici- pate that euch arbitration would amount to anything. One would have to be an understudy of the well known Christian martyrs to imagine that France will give up without! Alsace and Lorraine while a French- | man remains alive on the soll of France, As for England, John Bull} seems to have awakenad to the fact| that somebody has been pasting hitn on the blooming jawr. Russia has| moujiks by the million and unlimited natural resources, Japan !s a reserve} force that must be counted on—un- | less, indeed, it would serve the pur- p@ses of Japan to suddenly drop out of the Entente alliance. “Well, there you are, saying noth- ing at all about Italy, which went into this war with a definite purpose | that has been partially accomplished. } Still, a world that produced tho grewtest and most destructive war in nistory almost without notice may produce a great and rehabilitating peace in the same way, “What are we going to read about} when this war Is over?) How are we) going to readjust our nows values in| the light of such events as the sink- ing of the Lusitania, the activity of German eubmarines, the battle of| the Marne, of Verdun, of the Somme, the air raids on England? authors of amusing fa , Jakob} bent on peace? torn up or choked by various excavating operations. Why not take |." pres atm, Produced In| “However, there are many angles zs ° eutsche Grammatik” one 0 A: asia advantage of the next mild epell to speed up such work and fill in at logical w The Gao, med ing | 2. the pesos situation, In the frst tas ob the iv’ , ices al works of the and lald| place Germany hasn't made a peace east a few of t e city’s yawning ditches? th foundation for historical {uvest!-| proposal. All Germany has done is Seacrest heparan gation of language, Tho ¢ to put out @ feeler, and, according to of thelr Investigations was to traco|the latest despatches, one of Ge: Villa prom! not to kill any more Americans. The world tual fe of the German people| many's tentative propositions is @ seems to be in a wood for repentance and good resolutions. , ed in th MWS, customs, iin tation of armament, Anybody else? falthe, and poetry , "It is also stated, but without ofelal _——et i Crane BAS any authority, that Germany ts willing to | affec whieh charact f : . cs re jrelinquish what part of Belgium, Hits From Sharp Wits mutval intercourse, mi northern France and other territory The last straw breaks the public, Mediocrity feeds on flattery; whe 1 \she has acquired in consideration of pamel'e back; the price of baseballs] the egotiat has the advantage of the by nt azly the return of her foretgn colonies. hes gone up! Hark, from the small) balance of us is in the fact that he|four years, unger dying “Such an agreement wi (mn) hoy “a mournful sound!—Memphis| furnishes his own fodder,—Hoston| Duc, 16, i808, Aw. Jakob tease? | . 4 ft Maule Biaaly Commercial Appeal. ‘Transcript, sald | cele! 4 ‘addre mean @ restoration of conditions a3 “ld In his celobrated address to the} ° ee 9 Herlin Academy on the death ot hin| Mey existed before the war, It would ‘There are #0 many married men it! The wheat crop is aM in the|brother, the wholo of their lives was|@ppear that Germany now proposes fe & wonder the peac: any price elevators and all the elevators neem! spent together. inited In Iiterary|to put certain questions of importance Barty ien't larger,—Atch: Globe, tobe going up.-OLilwaukee News, lwbor, they never separated socially “In the meantime let us not forget | thas year ago this time Henry Ford's squirrel ship was on the Dobbs Berry, N. ¥ the trenches by Christmas, Since then 100,000 of our boys have seen “We aro asked to believe, on thoe| military experience on the Mexican | border, and it looks as though a famous poem starting Tt was Christ- mas in McAllen, and the soldierg still were there,’ might become a matter of historic record.” 667 77UE Pilly Sunday revival,” re- marked the head polisher, “ought to mark @ new era in that kind of ‘vork, since tt haa been incorporated.” incorporated religious move- laundry man, of “An ment,” said the a natural development system found ‘tandard Oi © “Mn business Piaintield, But Mr, KRocke- feller is so engrossed in his business affairs that he will be unable to act 4s a director. He ts going to let his money work for him. Ho was too engrossed in his business affaira to register and vote last month,” 66y Se said “that there was no bourbon whiskey served dt the dinner the head polisher, of the Southern Societ: “But you must bear In mind,” an- swered the laundry man, “that the distinguished Southerners present were paying for the dinner them- selves.’ (To others Tha Case children are self- to ber before The Hague tribunal for way to Burope to get the boys out of supporting.) ! " New Rochelle, and many The Woman of It By Helen Rowland Coorriaht, 1916. br The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World.) She Tells Mere Man How to Please a Woman at Christmas. (66 OOR boy!" coved the Widow, patting the Bachelors coat sleeve | sympathetically, “I know just how you feel about it! Every man feels that way—at Christmas time, Every man is lke @ small boy ‘with only one penny in @ lollipop shop, He has fust one guces as to how to please a woman—and « thou- sand reasons for guessing wrong! There ought to bee law to stop it!” “To stop what?” groaned the Bachelor, “The mas ouline emotions—or the feminine incomprehensibility?® “This annual hold-up of a man’s heart, and sentl- ment, and—and pocket-book!" explained the Widow “This yearly ‘show-down,’ when every man feels that every girl is waiting for him to lay hie cards on the A m table" — . XACTLY!” oried the Bachelor, “and prove whether he is a bromide or a eontimentalist, @ aport or a bounder, an intelligent being or @ mental defective.” “Goodness, gracious!” exclaimed the Widow, “It's not really as bed as that. Of course @ man’s Christmas gift docs mean infinitely more to a | ena than her gift does to him. It is the outward symbol of his inward jattitude toward her. But it's BO easy to please « woman, after alll” “Oh, 18 it?” rejoined the Bachelor, “Well, just you show me how to | Please half a dozen of ‘em—all at the saine time.” “That,” answered the Widow calmly, taking up her embroidery and | stabbing an impossible pink poppy through the heart, “is the usual mascu- line mistake—trying to please half a dozen women at the same time, Why | not concentrate on one at @ time, and do it thoroughly? Why does a man always judge women in @ heap, instead of classifying them? Why does levery man fancy he can invent a theory that will be effective with all of |them? Whereas every little woman has a funcy all her own—especially in Christmas gifta For instance, the jewel that one girl would look upon as \@ token of deep personal interest another girl might regard as a personal impertinence. One girl might welcome a bunch of violets as an emblem jof devotion, while another @irl might look upon it as a sign of frugality. | One girl might recetve an Wlustrated copy of the Rubalyat as a tribute to her intellectual tastes, while another might regard it as @ proof of your banality and lack of originality. It all depends on the girl’—— 6c ND on how much human intelligence and sentiment she possesses,” | A put in the Bachelor. “Yes, and on how much vanity, and money, and taste,” added | the Widow, holding up the pink poppy and regarding it complacently, “If she's poor, you can dazzle her with almost anything expensive; but if she's ‘rolling in money, you can make a much more effective impression by eend- ing her a simple box of flowers and a tender, flattering note. If she's |commonplace, she will be highly flattered to get a sct of the classte poets but {f she's a highbrow, ehe would be much more flattered to receive ‘samogar, or a tea-wagon, or some other tribute to her femininity, If si frivolous, send her something sensible and useful—and {f she's sensible, lend her something useless and frivolous, Everybody else will give her the other kind of things; and YOU will stand out in her estimation as the one and only thoughtful, original, absolutely deli@htful person”—— | sq see!” broke in the Bachelor, os a sudden light dawned on him. \“you work ‘em by contraries! Deliver unto Madame Caesar the things |which are Cleopatra's—and unto Cleopatra the things which are 6t. Cecelia’s. Now I've got the combination! [ll send Aunt Samantha a box |of American beauties and a pair of pink silk hose; and Tottie Tiptoes « | waterproof or a workbag. I'll get Mins Highthought a@ curling iron, and | Miss Fluffy Ruffles a set of Ibsen. I'll give my stenographer a limousine or a diamond wrist-watch, and Mra, Vandollars a nouveau-art calendar, Til |ktes the plainest girl I know the moment she stands under the mistletoe— jand send the prettiest girl I know my calling card with ‘Greetings’ on it. | And, oh, won't I make a hit!” “cc OU certainly will,” agreed the Widow, heartily, “if the ‘SURPRISE’ | Y is really the most important thing about a Christmas gift!” | “Well, then, THAT'S all settled,” sald the Bachelor with a sigh of relief. “And now to the important question—THE girl! What do you think he'd like? If I offer her @ solitaire she may be insulted—and | if I don't she may be disappointed. If I try to kiss her under the mistletoe she may turn me down—and {f I don't #he may give me up. If I send her violets, aie may think me callow and sentimental, and if I send her orchids, he may” me “Why don’t you give her just a little—personal thought and attention?” ‘interrupted the Widow, snapping her thread impatiently. “Why don’t you tell her all about your quandary; and find OUT what she wants for | Christmas?” |CP"XGreat heavens! Haven't I been trying to do that for the last half hour?” groaned the Bachelor hopelessly. ~The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Courant. 1916. by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Ewentua World.) RS, STRYVER had dropped in| count, which your well-to-do bus- M unexpectedly upon Mrs, Jart) band pays for, Before you marriod and found her sewing. old man Sintth, Clara Mudridge, you “Are you sewing for the soldiers?” | sald you were poor because you knew | sho inquired. ‘But how foolish of me| you were poor. Much good your | to ask this. Of course you are! When | Higher Thought would have done you |T was a girl, we used to sew for the} those days!" | heathen and the poor, but now every-| “Still, fo is but a State of Mind, | pody sews for soldiei and we are but what we think we | Before Mrs, Jarr had a chance to/ are,” interjected Mrs. Stryver, glibly. reply, Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Smith| “Well, it's a good thing we aren't was ushered tn. After comparative | what our friends think we are,” re- quiet was restored Mrs. Stryver re-| plied Mra, Jarr. “It's easy enough marked to Mrs, Mudridge-Smith that| for you to talk that way, too, Mra, she had just been asking Mrs. Jarr if| Stryver; but {f you had to eave and she were sewing for the soldtors.| serimp as I have to, you would Ond “Nobody sews for the heathen and| poverty a fact that couldn't be dis- |the poor any more,” she added. puted rather than @ theory that could | “I do,” eatd Mrs, Jarr, taking up) be disproved.” her work again. “If Mr. Jarr isn't a] “You're always twitting me be- heathen I don't know who is, I #im-|cause I married well," remarked ply can't get him to go to church.|Clara Mudridge-Smith plaintively. If it's a nice day Sunday he always| “And yet you know you advised mo says, ‘Go to church weather like|to marry well—Iin fact, were pleased this?’ and If it isn’t a nice Sunday he| when I did ao,” says, ‘Go to church a day Ike this? “Clara ts quite right,” eald Mrs. I was just fixing over some of his) Stryver, “not meaning to be personal, things. So that is sewing for the|of course, but I think poor people heathen, So I'm trying to see !{ I | pity themselves beyond all fairness, can get @ turn or two out of the ehil-| I'm sure, while my husband ten't ae dren’s clothes and some of my own./| rich as he'd like to be or is trying to ‘And that comes under the head of| be, I’m just as good a wife to him as sewing for the poor.” |you are to Mr. Jarr, “You have trouble then getting Mr.) "Good!" erled Clara Mudridge- Jarr to church?” asked Mrs, Stryver.| Smith. “And I'm sure I’m @ good °Mr. Stryver and I have terrible| wife, too. Mrs. Jarr ts always finding quarrels over the same thing. Istart|fault because I'm extravagant, at him early in the week and say,| Wouldn't {t be worse if I were penu- ‘Really, we must go to church next] rious? What ts thrift in a poor man's Sunday,’ and then he etarts to aneer| wife would be stinginess in a rob dreadfully.” man's wife, Besides, I think it ts the “I don't see why you are always) very best thing in the world that complaining about being poor,” ven- | women @re extravagant. It makes tured Clara Mudridge-Smith, opening | their husbands hustle. If people were her costly wrist bag purse, and tak-| contented with what they have ther Ing out @ lace handkerehtef. “Since I| wouldn't try to get more. When they have gone into the Higher Thought I| try to get more they get it, and that have found that poverty is only alis progress,” State of Mind, If you continually! After the two ladies were gone Mre, think you are poor and continually | Jarr gave the matter serious thought, say you are poor, why, then, ofj finally resolving to go downtown and open an account at one of the large department stores, “Mr, Jarr will have to huette to pay for it," #he thought, “and ¥ Bepa it will make him progress! Yea, that's it, didn't somebody write « wonderful book about it called “Prog. Teas and Poverty?” 66 | | | | | course, you ARE POOR.” "Oh, you make me tired,” eried Mra, Jarr, with aome asperity, “It is easy enough for you to think you ere not | Poor when you ride around in your Mmousine in your silka and satins and jewelry and order things home from tbe stores on your change ac-