The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 8

’ ' | ——_- F She Genig lord. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER 8 Daily Wxcept Sunday by t suing Company, Nos, $3 " ores Park Row. VW, rk Tow JosEr AER Stes Park Row. Entered at the Mtfice at New York ar Becond-Claas Matte ription Rates id bee England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries In the Tnternational Postal Union. 0) One Year . « 69.75 6 301 One Month. OLUME 357.... . 20,241 WHO KNOWS? EARS that Germany may invade Switzerland, Holland or Den- mark, possibly all three, may sound extravagant, but the state of mind they indicate is of Germany’s making. For weeks past the Imperial Government and the greater part @f the German press have been, to ail apparent intent and purpose, aiming Germany to be now desperate nation prepared to go to! extreme of warfare that promises retribution and revenge upon the foes that have flouted her peace offers. Even neutral nations have been warned that things may happen which they will not like. All this may be more bluster, designed to conceal from the Ger- man people the fact that the German Government sees no way out but « path of slowly measured concession. Germany's smaller nou- tral neighbors, however, have no infallible key to the moaning of her threats. Nor can they derive reassurance from contemplation of her | @arlier conduct. When Germany began the war she was confident and well fed, but Meeded a road. She took it—through Belgium. How can anybody be @are that when sho is harassed and hard pressed she may not yet mako @ highway of Switzerland, or that if she is starving she may not try te force Holland and Denmark to become her lardors? Having employed @ Boston plumber, the “leak” committee sends there for a lawyer too! a INVITING CRITICISM. HE nomination of the White House physician for promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral—thereby boosting him over the heads of 137 other naval officers who are his seniors—has roduoced precisely the impression the President might have expected, end possibly did expect. Part of the President’s pleasure in thus @howing his appreciation of Dr. Grayson’s faithful and highly com- t services may have been the realization that criticism could only testify to the strength of his regard. Granting, however, all Dr. Grayson’s personal and professional (@malifications, of which there can be no question, the promotion is too een and too far disregards seniority rules to meet with pub- epproval. . Therein it was @ mistake. Like other conscientious men who ewe held high public offices and filled them admifably, President Wleon has not always found himself able to hit the right balance deebween personal and public considerations in his choice of men for ‘ether positions. This fact has given hie enemies some of the strong- ‘est and sharpest weapons that have been turned against him. ‘ Promotions in the Navy Medical Corps are not of first impor- t "Wanee, Still there is no resson why a President whose appointments ‘Dave proved, on the whole, the least positive factor in his strength, ‘peed go out vu? his way to play into the hands of his opponents and br tp Che Ne <i sah aenes’ _ “0. ag ne ‘etitics by making his personal physician a Rear Admiral over nearly | Plan to Lengthen Lives of Workers Would Cost Only Four Per Cent. of Wages, Says John B. Andrews, Spokesman for Labor, @even score heads, EE The German raiders in the South Atlantic seem to be Bandling their job with thoroughness and, 6o far, scrupulosity. ep LOWER FARES FOR FORT LEE FERRY. RGINNING Feb. 1 the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey will put into effect reduced commutation rates on the Fort Lee Ferry. After months of campaigning, The Evening World and the “Fighting Mayors” of Eastern Bergen have won for the patrons of this line a lowering of fares which will eave them at least $30,000 ® year. It should be pointed out, however, that even better terms could have been secured for the public if the City of New York had been -willing to do its part. By refusing to readjust rentals charged to the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey for dock and terminal privileges, the Municipal Sinking Fund Commission has obstinately stood in the way of public interest. There has never been any question as to the beneficial effects wpon Harlem business and Harlem property values certain to follow @ reduction of ferry rates between Edgewater and One Hundred and ‘Thirtieth Street. There hds never been any question of the desira- Bility of making it easier for thousands of New Yorkers, particularly fm spring and summer, to get into the open Jersey country, ‘ It reflects scant credit upon the City of New York that the lower ferry rates at this point have been won in spite of its opposition, in- tead of with its aid. of compulsory sickness tneurance, : area ainamiaad | The Mills bill pending before the New ‘The Bethlehem Steel Company says it can’t meet U. S | com Laniolature,, and which has | been resented t vi Navy Department tests. And the U. 8. Navy Department says bodies n a number of Btatstana sit it can’t meet Bethlehem Steel Company prices, Luckily British | ready recommended for passage by ? projectile manufacturers can wait on us at once—with the right 1 vie the oct Retmmenuselte. woule divide the cost between the workers, goods and the right price. the and the State itself, repre iety, Work- = ers and emp bay 40 per Letters From the People ("%%% You quoted a Saterday. Friday. Prominent man as saying Be he Editor ot Tee Brening Wort To the Eaitor of The Brewing World bat then pat Bs Let me know on what day Oct. §,| 876, tell. PCA DC. 25 to 60 Cente, Pee Sie feat Bhitor Precing Wor! | be Difiteg bare ey sige Hyg What ts the value of an 1856 nickel | Let me know the value of a three piece, and an 1857 penny? eR Tc. c any? | ‘The proposition was opposed by the ee Bence 600 cl casi Se ~_| Mayor, who thought that tf his fellow ¥ a £ | officeholde: t the stimulus of hun- Hits From Sharp Wits |ger tho despatch of business would ; 5 ’ mn be much facilitated. At last a rather We don't krow just how far a dol-| Even the price on liliterate member got up and ex- (caf these day but it goes.—Co- gone up, much claimed (Ga) Enqu ger Sun. fashionable fad. hi “I ham astonished, I ham eurprised | will be driven to pet Mince te dren.—Baltimore Ame: lade | Mere ) The cost of itvi rice of talk seems to remain one exception sam News. Pumpkin pie is a solace. & Gissipation.—Toledo . 2 down.—Philadelphia Inquirer, { On what day did Feb, 24, 1905, fall? & seems to be the hich proves the rule old figure—cheap.—Mil-| that whatever woes up !# sure to come By James C. Young. Do the American people need com- pulsory sickness ineurance imposed by the State? How much would it cost? What are tts advantages? 66] T has been estimated by the United States Health Service that each of our 80,000,000 wage - roers loses an average of nine days’ work yearly owing to sickness,” said John B, Andrews of the American au Association for " Labor Legislation, / “which means a he <i loss of $500,000,000 if ‘AOaaw> in wages, with an fl additional 000,000 for medical fees. “Let us assume that that ts the rect cost. The indirect cost ts much more, Every time a new man is taught the workings of his job, and every timo @ man fs taken from bis regular post to fll the place of worker who ts absent, It results in a definite loss to the employer. The economto loss due to the impaired vitality of wage-earners ts beyond computation, And millions of lives are shortened because of improper medical attention and working con- | ditte $180,- much for the cost under the present system. Now for the price | NO OCCASION FOR HUNGER, | N English town counctl, after a protracted sitting, was destrous of adjourning for lunch, I ham amazed, Mr.’ Mayo will not let us go to unc “And I am surprised, Mayor, hat & man who has got so much ‘ham’ in his mouth should want any lunch at all.”—Philadelphia Led- that you replied the plan in New York would be $96,000,000 annually. Let me tell you that no man can accurately judge the cost in dollars and cents, put I can tell you positively that it will not exceed in any possible contingency 4 per cent. of the workers’ wage. “Look at it this way. earning,$10 @ week compulsory social insurance under the Mills bill would cost 40 cents a week at the maximum. The worker would pay 16 cen the employer 16 cents and the te 8 Can we afford s sum to nd proper ickneas comes? He must be ill for at least two weeks before recelving anything, and the bill does not contemplate provision for any person who may be sick more than twenty-six weeks in any one year. But that 40 cente a week would do an immeasurable amount of good for this man and his family when Illness came. “Insurance against sickness has been @ucceastully adopted in many older countries. Great Britain, France, Ger- many, Austria-Hungary and five other European nations have the plan in operation, The most marked results have been obtained in Germany, where the first health insurance law was passed in 1883, Just observe for a For a man| moment what the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin recently had to say about the results: “Compulsory workmen's insurance has raised the working classes in Ger- many in respect to health, economy and standing tn the community, and it fe clear that with their ald only | Germany has maintained her position m'the markets of the world. And hundreds of thousands now fighting for the Fatherland may trace their health and capacity to the timely and proper treatment received with the ald of aickness insurance.’ “Life has been lengthened of late in the princtpal European t ate equivalent to five, ten, or even seventeen years @ con- tury. Scientific methods of promoting longevity, of which the most im- portant element is health insurance, have lengthened life in Prussia no less than twenty-five years a century for men, and twenty-nine yeara: for women, Observe that the principal been in the case of wom- en, refuting the criticism that army training alone was responsible for the improved condition of the Pru “If any one doubts that health in- surance is @ sound economic propost- tion, let him consider this point. The |The Jarr Family Coprrigtt, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) UST the eame, I've been think- ing thet Mr, Dinkston was right about some things,” re- marked Mrs. Jarr the other evening. “Don't start about Dinkston and then begin fussing with me,” sald Mr. Jarr in self-defense. “Remember, I never believed tn the practical use of {ce worms to spin ice in every family 1oe box. I never believed in hia tickle bugs to drop down on the warring soldiere from flying ma- “ce never believed in the practical use of hie Mexican Jumping beans, elther aa solf-playing checkers, live dice, mov- ing numbers, or automatic ‘jacks,’ Maybe you are going to tell me you intend to paste pictures on the backs of jumping beans and heve fire- proof movies on the parlor table Don't you show me any White Slave movies with jumping beans as their motive power —— “Please don't talk foolish!” she mapped. “Kut that man Dinkaton did say one sensible thing, and that was that we would nover get rich on your wages.” |Mr. Jarr. chines to tickle the fighters tn the| trenches till they laughed them- selves silly and all stopped fighting. I “Well, a salary, then,” repeated Mrs. Jarr. “The only salary that comes into this house is yours, Perhaps we are lucky to have it. But it stays the same, while everything goes up that we have to buy with it, Mr. Stryver hasn't a ealary, and look at the money the Stryvers have. Clara Mudridge-Smith’s husband hasn't a salary, but she has no children and her husband has ‘war babies.’ Ob, dear!" “Dinketon has ng salary, and he ts only a mental millionaire,” remarked “Tony, the ice man, has no salary, and he lives in @ cellar. Slavinsky, the glazter, has no salary, and he tells me he ia going broke lke most of his stock"— “Oh, I don't mean THOSE people!” cried Mrs, Jarr, “But it sticks tn my mind that we would be better off if we werqin busines: “I intend to let the boss worry |about overhead charges and the gen- Jeral pay roll," said Mr. Jarr, “I'm |giad to have @ salary and let him have the profite—and the responat- bility.” “Tve been thinking of going into business,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “A lot of society women are going into business on Fifth Avenue.” ‘a walary,’ be sald," remarked Mr. wer, Jerr mildly, | What line do you think of going By Roy L. McCardell | cost of industrial insurance to work- ing men and women in this State dur- 000, all of which went into the trea- benefits. “Under the Mills bill the men and have received, without a: medicine, nursing and hospital care, and two-thirds of their normal wage during the period of jilness up to a| fixed mit of twenty-six weeks a year. | We do not go beyond the twenty-six week period because persons ill longer than that fall into a class that should | be covered by disability insuranc which 1s the next atep after health | surance, just as the latter ts the logt- cal sequence to workmen's compens: tion laws, which are concerned wholly with accidents. And sickness is seven times as big an industrial economic factor as accidents. “There is only one way to achieve and | medium of State government. It ts unreasonable to, expect and wholly impossible to obtain any such returns through private enterprise.” “Glove cleaning,” replied Mre. Jarr. “Every woman wears white kid gloves, ‘There are @ million women in this city who wear white gloves and get them cleaned every week. Cleaning white kid gloves a: five cents @ patr, million ‘a week Is, 11 how much?” she asked. For, as she would tell you, she had no head for figure! “Fifty thousand dollars, I make it,” eaid Mr, Jerr, “Well, there must be that muoh tn the business at least,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “Maybe more, The glove- cleaning people I deal with call for your gloves and deliver them when cleaned. I just got @ bill from them to-day, and that reminded me,” Mr, Jarr loo! at the bill, It was for cleaning oné pair of gloves, 5 cents, automobile with a driver for your gloves, returned them the same way when cleaned, then kept books on the transaction and mailed you a bill with @ 2-cent stamp?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Why, it must have oost them 60 cents to call for, clean, deliver and keep books on that one pair of gloves, and they got 6 cents for the Jobi" “Well, I don’t understand it,” Mrs. Jerr confessed, “but it seems a nice, gentee] business, and they MUST pint” queried Mr, Jarr, 4 make millions out of it eome way!" ing last year was more than $2%,00,-| public nulsance and should be han- gury of insurance companice ‘operated | aed by the authorities according to for profit. And the benefits received | practically amounted to mere burial| Since the strike the subway service women who paid that $29,000,000 would | 0 deteriorating for the simple rei Additional | expense to them, medical attention, | are incompetent and inefficient. De- n of It | The Woma Copyright, 1917, by The Trews Publishing She Chats on Spoiled Wives and Coddled Husbands a HERE goes the most adored woman tn New York!" remarked the Widow, as a plump, frivolous looking little thing In sables, followed by two very devoted young men, sailed out of the restaurant door y into a big gray Hmousine, d the Bachele brightening with interest, “Who is she—and what makes her so? Ie tt money, or genius, or faine, or just hypnotism? Because, apparently, {t's not beauts "No," sald the Widow, “it's Just helplessness! ee how tenderly tho nice young men hold her by the arm, and guide her through the ‘horrid, horrid crowd,’ and Hft her into her car, and tuck the robes around her! She's , that sort of woman that simply HAS to be ‘taken care of, and coddled, and petted, and flattered, and waited on, It'e her missfon in life to cultivate unselfishness—ia others, Haven't you noticed that men always adore mos? the woman who gives them the most trouble, in this world?” “Oh, yes, we just love to suffer!” returned the Bachelor cheerfully, filp- Ping hiscane “Self-sacrifice is our besetting passion. But I've also noticed that women adore most the men who give them the most trouble and cause them the most misery. I guess it's not @ matter of sex.” ‘cc ©, it’s just a human trait,” sighed the Widow, as they strolled siowly down the glittering Avenue, “to love the person yo Go for, better than the person who does everything for you, and to cherish most that for which you pay the dearest. It’s the woman who has to have @ foot etool, and a head rest, and a doctor and the emelling salts, and plenty of servants, and the tenderest portion of the steak, and the most expensive furs, and the heart of the melon, for whom her husband will cheerfully work himself into the grave; while the woman who can take care of herself, and get across gutters alone, and carry her own bundles, and |earn her own living, and make her own hats, and put up with ‘the little | burnt end of the porterfouse,’ ts always permitted to do it. The wife who walts on her husband, and coddles him, and gets up and makes the fire, and takes the ice off the dumbwatter, and cleans his safety razor, and sees that there are no rough edges on his shirts or his collar or his temper, never receives anything but criticism and complaints; while the one who ts too tired to get up for breakfast and too weak to lift anything but a novel or @ curling iron 1s adored and waited on by every man around, from her grandfather to the janitor. I suppose a man feels about her as a small bey does about the yellow puppy he has saved from drowning or starving, or being run over, and that he always loves better than the thoroughbred you gave him for Christmas. But it's just that foolish strain of human - versity which makes all the spoiled wives and coddled husbands who bi den the earth and make marriage such a lottery. as H, well," suggested the Bachelor nonchalantly, “things have to be divided up some way—the burdens to one, and the blessings to the other. Fifty-fifty, as it were.’ “But matrimony never IS a fifty-fifty affair,” insisted the Widow. “It |is always a ‘hundred-to-one shot.’ One is the hundred—and the other ts |eimply a cipher.” | “Until he or she gets tired,” appended the Bachelor, “and goes on strike |—and love files out of the window.” “And the tame cat or the affinity comes in at the door,” finished the | Widow. “And the coddled one goes right on being coddled by somebody eles, Some people are born to be coddled and spotled just as others are born to be hanged—and if one person doesn't coddlo them, another will. It tan't true that all the capricious, selfish women get the doting husbands, and all the self-indulgent, grouchy men get the self-sacrificing wives, They MAKE them that way, after they get them.” \6e 8 that ey yeu keep po anae errands, and picking up things fer | you, and carry! four bundi rrying | Ioan sou ped andl es, and waiting for you, and wo! “My goodness!" exclaimed the Widow, opening her blue eyes in asten- |tehment. “I thought you said you LOVED Hg |eoing aa a: uieee htt x to do those things. If you're “But, I'm not!" protested the Bachelor. “And don’ about looking for coddling or sympathy from anybody eae debi “Not if you'll keep right on ‘spoiling’ me,” said the Widow, slipping her arm through his, and looking up at him with @ three-cornered smile. “It's 0 much nicer to be coddled than capable, and end spoiled than a Spartan!” a Sere one ec tue The Week’s Wash | By Martin Green Copyright. 1917, by The Prese Publishing Co. (Tee New To ¥ [66] HEAR a lot of kicks about the) anything. fied it pelslees yl ys a | subway thise days,” said the | that.” head polisher. | “You don't hear enough,” replied the laundry man. "Tho subway is a| ¢ $ “Pity the Poor.” > 6“ HAT does this man William Bullock mean by accusing that notoriously upright citizen Milo R. Maltbie of violating the charter by drawing pay for @ Federal job while he is taidng §12,000 4@ year from the taxpayers for acting as City Chamberlata?" polisher, sated the eee “Bullook is a particularh jense person,” explained the eS, the law governing puvllo nuisances. has steadily deteriorated. It will keep son that the most of the employees terioration inevitably leads to dis- aster. “The political party which advocates, rn in the next nrunicipal election, taking “He thinks the city charter ia aon the subway away from the Inter-|to govern all public offictals, "Of borough and operating it ax @ mu-| Course he 1s wrong, but he's Irish and nicipal enterprise is ing to win,| bull-headed and utterly incapable of It would be impossible for a city op-| seeing things in the sweetness and erated subway to be wor but it) Neht of Reform. The city charter would be possible for a city operated | Provision prohibiting city from doing certain things like draw- ing pay from the United States Gov- ernment applies only to Tam Acehoiders, J biked subway to better, whereas ex- perience has shown that there is no hope for relief in an Interborough | operated subway. the good outlined, and that is by the! “And these people eent & wagon or | “Before the strike the subway tem had a lot of husky employees. They were competent to deal with the conditions set up by an oper- ating management which makes a business of coining dividends out of the discomforts of the public. One of the chief assets of a competent strength, Another desirable quality \{g intelligence. The new force which took the place of the etrikers hi neither strength nor intelligence. Many of the guards are not strong enough to open the doors. The traffic handlers on the Grand Central sta- tion platform, where strength, skill and tact are necessary, look as though they had been loaned to the Inter- borough by the Hebrew Orphan Asy- {lum, “A couple of days ago, because of form alleged men, a woman was caught in a side door and painfully crushed, She managed to get back to the platform. ‘The uniformed youth was laughing at her. ‘I sup- pose you think this is funny,’ re- marked the passenger. ‘Whaddaya want me to do, cry about it?’ war the answer “That answer reflects the attitude of the Interborough toward the pub: lic. A railroad management that ad vises the people to ride on local trains and thus relieve the pressure on the expresses and then continues to run five-car locals in the rush hours | appears to have come to the conclu- \sion that New York will stand for subway guard or platform man is) the ignorance of one of these plat- | “You see, Mr. Maltble was practi- cally destitute when he was Fist od from the Pubilc Service Commission, All he had been drawing was $15,000 4 year, and all he had was a home in Brooklyn and a bank account and @ couple of automobiles and a trifting remuneration from the United States overnment of $75 or condition was pitiubie . © 28% Hie “Accordingly Mayor Mite’ \ |tened to make him City Chamberiaty which pays only $1,000 @ month, and was described by Mr. Bruere, Mr. Malthie's predecessor, as a place that should be abolished, Now Mr. Madtbie | knew that there ts a charter provision | against a city official holding down a Government Job and he spoke to the Mayor about it, and the Mayor agreed with Mr, Maltbie that in this the law dors not apply, Mr. Malthie being @ reformer. It's’ all perfeatiy plain and this obtuse Bullock ought to be ashamed of himself.” $ Naval Checkers, t Dna said the head polisher, 1 in making Dr. Grayson | an Admiral the President Jumped j dim over 114 officers.” } “Gilbert and Sullivan were ‘said the laundry man write and mutilate that old « |fore” couplet to fit thin Instances om” Suck close to the White House and uevee gp te a. | the why to be ao Adiiral im Unde Mente “ce that “We can re i — ~To-Day’s Anniversary these sophisticated days of High Bohools, colleges and “co-ed” in- stitutions where girla and young women may imbibe et the fount of the higher learning, the old supersti- |tlons of our Freat-grandmothers have been forgotten, The chief in- terest of great-arandma's girlhood was the identity of the gallant who | would lead her, a blushing bride, to |v hymeneal altar, and to gain vance information on this point she credulously and falthtully pe strange midnight rites on Fallows’ and other #alnta’ festivals = 6 year brought ma cantons, bit mont poplar of at Oey St. Agnes’ Dve, when, by. perform ing certain coremonies tn whieh stockings and garters figured. and reciting @ verse, #he might aagure the appearance in nm dream of ber future her poure, who would salute To-night 14 St, Agnege with @ kiaw, Eve,