The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1917, Page 14

Evening W FSTARLISHED RY JOSUPH PULITZER. Pudlished Daily Except Sunday by the M™ Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park Row, York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS BHAW, Troasurcr, 6% Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZEN, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Ttow. hited . ee Entered at the Post-Office at New York as focond-Claes Matter, Budseription Rates to The Evening | For England and Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries In the International $3.60 One Year +30, One Month, $0.75 “PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY.’ HE true largeness of the matter the President put before the Senate Monday afternoon is etrikingly confirmed by the picayune futilities of comment with which some of his year in and year out opponents are demonstrating their inability to gr “Balderdash,” “essential vacuity,” “ambiguity” are always handy terme for ignorance, narrowness and partisanship to fling at any plan too big for their comprehension or too broud to be surveyed and staked out for party by ae “It makes the average man’s head ewim,” we are told, “to regard the various possibilities of ‘the freedom of the seas.’” We take it, the uverage man, in this case, is an average Republican with an average Republican head, subject to chronic dizziness which comes on whenever a Democratic President epeaks or acts. “The freedom of the seas” ‘s something the majority of mankind can contemplate with a perfectly level and hopeful gaze. “Peace without victory” rouses an outcry from quarters where victory is thought of only as much to be desired and crushing retri- bution visited upon the German people. Is there not a larger view? Would it not be victory—ample and isfying—to have conquered and banished for all time from Europe a militaristic principle which has proved a colossal curse? not such a victory be all the greater if it could be accomplished witl.- cut inflicting the last terrible weight of punishment upon men, women and children who are not directly answerable for the dynastic policy which made Germany the overdeveloped strong man of militarism an: plunged Europe into war? “Peace without victory” means the crushing of a false and per- nicious idea] without bleeding or starving millions of humble, toilir people to the last limits of endurance. Can humanity from any point of view conceive a bigger victory? — sp it “Empty words!” barks the Colonel—just as, we presume, he would have greeted the Declaration af Independence, re- calling that the document was proclaimed after an exhibition of unpreparedness that falled to provide enough powder for the first battle. Moreover, the gentleman who “took” Panama would naturally regard “a decent respect for the opinions of * mankind” as mollycoddlish. ——_-4 = ——__— HELD UP. HILE the Interstate Commerce Commission was studying coal shortage in other sections of the country and discover- ing conditions to make quick returns of idte coal cars, The Evening World investi- gated the terminals of the big coal railroads along the Jersey shore whence this city gets the bulk of its coal supply. The Evening World found plenty of coal piled up in the Jersey terminals, apparently waiting a favorable moment of “famine” to bi doled out to New York consumers at fancy prices. Commissioner of Accounts Wallstein has submitted to the Mayor a report on the locai| coal situation which fully bears out the findings of this newspaper. Between 50,000 and 60,000 tons of coal were on hand last week in the yards of the Pennsylvania, Lackawanna and Lehigh Valley Raii- roads and the Central Railroad of New Jersey, To what dealers is this coal consigned, and when and at what! prices is it to he distributed to New York consumers ? ee “Does he intend to change human nature?” asks the Paris Journal, No, Only to extend {ts speaking privileges, A DIFFERENCE. HE central figure in Berlin’s sensational price-boosting case isa woman. Beginning with a borrowed capital equivalent ta only $2, she managed, during the two years and a half of the war, to enlarge her food supply business to a point where {t be- come @ $2,300,000 concern, Forged contracts and smuggling put her in possession of unlimited stores of high grade eatables which she sold to rich people in Berlin for sky prices, Then she coaxed more money out of them for investment in her business and had just obtained huge advance payments for goods to be delivered later when the police got her. One thing at least is in her favor, She seems to have wrung her exorbitant prices for food out of persons who could afford to pay them. Her swindl was upon one class. In this ¢ yoosters proceed on a different theory Three, four or five cents extorted from each one of millions of people in the shape of a “war profit” every time some article of comme necessity is sold to a consumer is considered by experts the safer, quicker and more profitable system. Swindling the ric! tively slow work. xelusive” and concentrated mainly nuntry the price- Ss compara ——_-+-__-___. There {s a fair chance that Gen. out of Mexico before anybody gets Pershing’s force will be around to starting a fuss about it. — - et So i Bee ant . Letters From the People Saturday. Jan inquirer the question regarc To the Biltor of Nw brewing World Jaleight” and "all right Yo ie On what day did the birthday of | marked that “alright” has been sane Washington fall in 18787 READER. [tioned by general. usage and Sunday, |that 18 the final test. You To the Biltor of The kreuirg World [that “all right” was’ the “correct Let me know what day April 20, 1862,/ Academie form." All right is the only fell on. 8'W. | |form that can be used, jcantot make & word in sp | rect New York Public Libeary, ‘Te the BAitor of The Evewing Work Could you inform might locate a coy Utled "The Soldier where I poem en- me Any Bookstore, | To the Biltor of The B DER, | ming World Inform me if there ia a book pub- lished of the story y AM Right and Ce flat | published in your paper a few ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl ago and where I could find It on sale. Ia & recent issue you discussed with! ' bh dlah ek ps9 Niece rte Would; that was weeks | | —s tg accent 4 orld Daily Magazine aniithe, By J.H. Cassel, i} By James C. Young. — | | HE present spveding up of ee | | industry and driving of | workers at high tension is constantly in creasing the number of indus- trial defectives.” That is the declaration of Warren 8, Stone, Grand Chief of the International Brotherhood — of Locomotive En- gineors, Mr Stone has some decided opinions belleving that the tendency of many scientific manago- ment plans is to undermine .bo health of workers, and render them ‘untit for further employment when they should be in their prime. “One of the most iniquitous phases | of so-called sctentifle management,” sald Mr, Stone,” 1s tho bonus sys- tem. Wherever you find the bonus system, you find men overworked and | suffering from oversfatigue that soon | breaks their health, ‘The aim of all i these plans, we are told, is to obtain {100 per cent, efficleney. When that ts | {upon the subject, wchieved, or very nearly so, then| | what? Management experts tmme-| diately want to improve upon per- Man proposes, but God dispos + -Thomas a Kempis. fection, and get even more out of the worker, By giving him a slender share in the profits, they seek to turn his uncea toil to still bixger dividends: ““TWis question is closely allied with that of social insurance, which we hear so much about. The first thing to do, in order to establish social in surance, 1s to divide workers jnco two groups—those eligible for bene- fits and those considered capable to care for themselves, This Govern- mental regulation would tend to fix citizens into two classes, And It! would destroy the very foundation of our principle of Government—the spirit of independence. Solution of the problem lies in education and prevention, instead of in applying 4 remedy after the trouble has bap- pened, “The workers of this country do not want paternalism, They want a living wage, measured by the Amert- can standard of living, I am op- posed to tho paternal idea of Gov- ernment, I am irrevocably opposed to any law that will destroy the economic power of the toilers, “Sponsors of social insurance point to the wonders which they say have been accomplished in Germany by such means. Do you know that Ger many's normal rate of sickness is higher than ours? In 1914, before the war, Germany's poverty was much greater than ours. And the whole Dollars and Sense By IL. J. KNEAD an interesting book the called ‘First Across nent," said a retailer, ) Lewis and Clark's fa- day 7 “Tt dealt wi nous expedition of over a century ago, ‘Tho Uwvo explorers, who led al pasty of thirty ended the Mis- |souri River to Its source, crossed the Htockles and descended to the Pacifte Coast via the Columbia Rive Here they found various tribes savages with m they traded tensively, A 1 by white men were supplied with beads of three colors: . white and red, ‘To thelr amaze- fiscoversd that, although Barrett ried only biue beads. The reason for the extravagant value which attached to the blue beads was never satisfac- torily explained. To this day it re- mains a mystery How like my fellow countrymen,’ I reflected as i read the chronicle For to the retuiler who deals in com- modities in which style plays a part, the public seems just asx unreason: able as did the savages to Lewis and Clark. “Now, #0 far as 48 practicable, I lot my customers buy for me. When a salosman with an extensive line comer to town I invite a jury of women cus- tomers to assemble at my store, They inspect the line and vote regarding the preferences, Certain slight dis- counts suffice to pay for this service As a matter of fact, tho women are flattored by being requested to serve “L then purchase according to the evidence, Often L marvel at the selec. | tons made, They choose models which seem to me to be ridiculous in the he beads were extremely val- uable in the red meas eyes, the white mes were much less prized and the red beads were of little value, In |vain did the two Americans argue that the red and white beads wero \ just as ocd as the blue ones; the In- Wians would have none of them, Had they known of this idiosyneracy pre- vious to their departure from. St, Louis they would, of course, have car- extreme, But if the public wants blue beads, I'm here to supply them with blue beads, Wo haven't as yet really Remove Causes and There Will Be No Need for State Insurance, Says Warren S. Stone, Chief of Engineers’ Brotherhood. iuea Of social insurance 1s predicated upon a theory of government hatefui \o Americans, “Labor does not want charity, nor pity, nor coddling. We want that All of them ites eupae plan tion is a public charge. © under the insurance clas n of an ‘extra hazardous o *’ but we have worked out which 1s due us-—a fair compensation | adequate insurance that costs ly for work well done, Social insurance | about 3 per cent, of the men's n= laws could not be enforced without| ings. Under this plan they receive the aid of police power, giving G rhment agents the right to in’ the home—the poor man’s castle—and | treat him as a subject for inqu rather than a8 a man, It wo full benefits for a number of injuries that would disqualify them as en- gineers, “It 1s of much greater {mportance to prevent sickness and disability mean that the worker must ac than to pay sickness insurance. Cut |the services of a duly dele down this high speed in industry, physician when {ll, whether he had| eliminate unsanitary — conditions, any confidence In him or not. fXx-| perience in England has shown that} one of the most serious drawoacks of social insurance as tried in that country has been the poor quality of medical service rendered, The plan begets graft, politics, pork, at every | turn. {him to lay up a competence for his “Let me give you an instance of| old age, so that when he has worked what union labor Js doing within Its|out his natural pertod of labor he own ranks The Brotherhood. of can sit down in the sunset glow of Locomotive Engineers has tn effect|life by his own fireside and not be make industrial plants Hvable places in which to work, and much of the need for State relief of the individual will have been removed. And couple with that a wage that not only will enable the worker to live as be should lve, but one that will enaple Not @ single member of the organiza. | Some ‘Misunderstood’ Men And the Reason Why By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Kresing World.) The Shy Man, RE you a “misunderstood” man? Of course! Every man is “mise understood!” If he weren't he would be pertectly miserable; be cause, as far as women aro concerned, every man fancies himself a deep, dark, fascinating mystery, But are you unlucky in love? P) This may depend on whether your {dea of “luck in love” oonsists in succeeding in it or in getting out of it—in winning a girl or in escaping her, Well, themy do you fall with women? Because, astounding as it may sound to that Irresistible heartbreaker and gi charmer, the Average Man, there ARKH men who are; failures with the fair sex; men who have never ceeded in winning the love of a single woman—mem, who are really and truly “misunderstood.” ’ abnormally SHY man, for instance, What untold tortures | he endures in the presence of a woman—particularly in the presence of ® | Woman who atiracts him! Among men alone he blossoms Ike the rose ies expands with geniality and even with eloquence. But let him cate& sight of a fluttering skirt, or a twinkling pair of feminine eyes fixed om | him, and every bright and scintillating thought he ever had flies out of his {head and leaves him as dumb and red and chokily self-conscious as @, schoolboy about to deliver bis maiden oration. And, just because he is @ little conceited underneath his shyness and secretly feels that he is quite | a8 intelligent and good to look at as the most successful Lothario, he hates + ' Ps | himself for his cowardice. And the more he hates himself the tauter be” | come the muscles of his aching throat and the more cumbersome his hands | and feet. Or if, by a mighty effort, he manages to blurt out the epigram or the compliment which he has been rehearsing for a week, he does it #0 | huskily or so inappropriately that it falls with a “dull, sickening thud® | upon the girl's consciousness, and evokes from her only a glance of as tonished inquiry and @ pained, sweet smile. LAS, if the shy man only could KNOW! It only he could realize how A REFRESHING he {s in the midst of a world of egotists! How. | appealing his modesty, how solacing his silence! If only ne Coul@ | realize what a delight and relief {t 1s to a woman to be able to sit and talk woout herself—for a change—to somebody who will LISTEN and appear to be interes! I say, if only he could know these things he would play his “shyness” for all {t was worth, as a gambler plays his ace. He holds the Winning card in the love-game and doesn’t know it! And all he need do in order to charm any woman fs to go right on being shy—to sit perm fectly still, with a rapturous, adoring, self-deprecating look in his eyes, while she babbles on and on and on, and merely to put in a question when she stops for breath, He need not even spend his spare hours thinking up | ways of proposing to her. The girl will do that for him if he holds out |long enough, because there is nothing on earth which so appeals to @ woman's heart and vanity as the silent adoration of a modest man, Let | Georgette do the worrying and the talking. Stop thinking and worrying about yourself; stop wondering what sort of a figure you are cutting and | concentrate on the GIRL. Star HER, and she'll crown you King of the | May, and soon your shyness will fall from you like the last of the sevem | vella. There {8 no more charming lover in the world than a SHY man, |can forget himself long enough to adore a woman! He 1s such a sweet, SWEET surprise! ‘Aztecs First to Coin Mon with the bodies of head men. HEN the Spaniards landed tn what is now the Republic of| 4 Spaniards deemed @ waste, proceeded to open all of the they got copper siccapili mor than they did gold, Tt was a to put the risk upon the other fe and insure the crown against chance of labor without re’ the Aztecs, coining flat copper plec of an odd shape. These were called siccapill, and two pieces of lesser | denomination were known as thé | Henceforth all graves were auctioned zontle and olotl. Cacao beans served| off to the highest bidder before being | * 4 opened, and the buyer took the the purpose of mall change, twenty | openc yer took | beans equalling the value of one olotl, | © Betote gad atin the estallahanean twenty clot! making one zontle and) of a Spanish mint in Mexico, ooune twenty zontle one siccapili. terfelt coins appeared with a’ persise Following the conquest of the ooun-| tent regularity that was extremely $147,000,000 worth of insurance, and! compelled to ask charity-” |The Jarr Family By Roy Coppright. 1917, by The Pree Pubiiding Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘6 HA the matter, any- W how?" demanded Mr. Jarr. | “Why do you stand there regarding me with spurn, and what have those dames, Mrs, Stryver and Clara Mudridge-Smith, been saying about me? Let ‘em leave me alone and condemn the pernicious activi- ties of that professional malo flirt ‘Oliver Osborne,’ or ‘Willie Wax,’ or whatever his name {s, He's proud to be accused of being a hume tn filendan form—I mean a fiend in human form—and I am not!" heeding the children making wheedling overtures for backsheesh to attend the moving pictures. After dinner he slouched into the front room and picked up the evening paper, He was surprised to see his wood lady standing before him, all smiles as though nothing had been said, and displaying her gifts with eager interest as though he had not | gloomed upon them previously. “Wasn't it sweet of them to give me all these things—to take me shopping in such a fine motor car and to treat me to a luncheon at the St, Croesus-~ and yet I shouldn't have thing, {t implies an obligation,” she sald, “What's the obligation?” |} Mr, Jarr, “Is that any tone to speak to me? Maybe Mrs, Stryver and Clara Mud- “Perhaps they were right, perhaps they advise me for the best,” sniffed Mrs. Jarr, “If It wasn't for the cbil- growled dren” “Dinner {ts on,” erled Gertrude from the distance. “I've had my dinner, Gertrude,” Mrs. | ridge-Smith were right!" cried Mrs.| Jarr called sweetly, “Mrs. Stryver and | Jarr, “Well, no matter how you Mrs, Mudridge-Smith gave me a won-|treat me, I have still some friends erful luncheon very late this after-| who are kind and considerate! Bat noon at the Hotel St. Croesus.” |can I accept these things? “Why are they #0 good to you?"| ww» tooks as though you had," asked Mr, Jarr, |grumbled Mr. Jarr, “What did the |give you an afternoon of auto rid | shopping hotel luncheon souvenirs fo’ “They think “Some people should be good to me; my own husband isn't,” replied Mra, Jarr, “Look what was given me by REAL friends!" anc and copted a) 4 4 ’ ? wit Mexico they found them-|they could fd. thereny ‘vo ne selves in an Indian stato having many | quantities of Aztec coins andeuw “t of the institutions of civilization, tana amount of gold an be | One of these was a mint operated by 48 an uncertain busingty , An c ards | “280ying to the King’s officers, Ale try in 1521 by Cortes, the Spaniards| though ‘tho penalty was death, end ,? sot out to establish a stable system|even euspicion of colniag enough to of government and finance for the} bring down the penalty upon a suse tow colony. 80 thy took over the| ected offender, counterfeit pleosd ng « H odelled tt to] Wee, 4M weneral circulation. ‘The Aztec's mint and remode! charge for minting gold was high, sult thelr own purposes, They also| and in 1550 we find the colonial gews sought out every possible source of / Sriment prohibiting all dealings im [etree tersts Wire rullion and gold dust, Indicating to what-extent that system of trade had | It had been tho habit of the Aztecs, | come into use. ° the Mayas and Peruvians to bury} ‘The financial troubles of Philip TIL. Ded MUN dea ai aan arenes brought 4 decree in 1603 doubling the | Vessels, beads and so on were intorred | V#lue of coins, Business ulmost came o 4 standstill, and payments in eolm= nie rs rete practically ceased, As a result all the old and silver that could | smuggled out of Spanish Amorioa | individuals was diverted to Norte: | America, and eventually coined im! | England, thus robbing His Most Cath. ¢ oll¢ Jesty of a gc od share polls of the World. To oftene that trend, the Spanish government. established free coinage for the first timo tn history, an example that was ater followed by many other coup tries, O worth and Thornton in England, on May 4, 1833, there occurred an accident which &ave us the locos motive whistle, Stephenson's locomo- tive, Samson, crashed Into a cart com« taining fifty pounds of butter and eighty dozen e Vollowing the ac« of the directors was » at which Stephenson su, » ‘Sure they would!” cried Mr. Jarr./ed that a whistle blown by seen fe ‘Those two «dames aro among our| used to give warning of an @ | roaches | worst friends! teeieaitt bproach, jme. and Mrs, ryver said she'd get me a lawyer*and Clara sald I could come to her house with the children, pending proceedings, if my mother | stood by you." | “Yes, your mother would!" crted (Mr, Jarr, “But why these doings lie I've done anything wrong I must | have walked tn my sleep to do it!" | “I know that, you big goose sald |Mrs, Jarr, Kissing him, “but you | know Clara Mudridge-Smith and Mrs, |Stryver would do anything for 1 even ff it were to help part us and break my heart!" —_—___ Ya level crossing between Bage iH! ates Day’s Anniversary : HEN the Germans invaded | supposed, secured to the young Marie Belgium, dismissing as aj Teresa the peaceful inheritance of “scrap of paper” the treaty {the Austrian dominions, Immediately on her father's death Frederick sent which bound the empire to respect|her an offer of pecunia y aid and the neutrality of its little neighbor, | vote for her husband Francis as ‘coe the clamor which followed caused | many on condition of the most of us to believe that such an | gay ands Deane Tite chien oF Glas .Jaction was Without precedent. The |; @ matter of course Frede Student of history knows that Wile |¢ cided upon a bold military helm IL, could, if he wished, have|s Without mae ning he led his r Silesia, routed the ho defended the fron= multitude of broken |army into Loy promises disre- | fow Austrians |pointed to a reatics and solemn Then she began opqning her pack- sald Mrs & moment's | Karded, # been sald that | er overran hrovines, and within ages and disclosed a handsome beaded | reflection. “They were kind because | Present Borin The World wie TuBbe Ee hand bag, an art jewelry necklace and} they pitied Don't you remember) Frederick 1., whose birthday | credulous of what had happened and lavalllere, some silk stockings and sev-|the other day when Clara called me ersary falls to-day, | Frederick officially pretended to Juse imposing lot of feminine plunder. jeause I had a cold and my volee! Dover of Europe, and by No member |des ro to make people talk about hfe Mr. Jarr stalked out to th sounded faint over the telephdne? of the family of nations more sol-! carried t evolved very far out of savagery, I'm not # reformer; I'm @ merohant,” dinner | | fable and ate in gloomy silence, scarce! So they took me downtown and petted emnly than by Prussia, bad, it was make war,” day, and I —{— te 2 r\