The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1917, Page 18

She ECieHing World. PSTABLISHED BY JosuPH Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publ Park Now, New York. RALPU PULITZPR, President, 63 Park Tow. J) ANGUS SHAW, Treasur 63 Park Now JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 6 Park Row, at Now York ening| For © econd-Class Matter, Port-Offte YW jand and the Continent and o The F Entered at Rates Bubs¢ription World for the United States ‘All Countries in the International boheed sind Canad Postal Uni “ One Year . $2.50] One Tour ‘ 607 One Month..... 3010ne Mon af sosveeNO, & VOLUME 57. oe THE STRIKE. ve Just as the 100,000,000 people of the United States are girding 4p their loins to greet the grip of war, some 400,000 of their num- ber announce a deliberate purpose to spread calamity and starva- tion over the land. ‘That they perform a public service as high as that of any sol- dier, with as deep an obligation, seems quite beyond the compre hension of the transportation employees. | Stalled wheels, closed workshops, fireless hearths, bare tables | | | 0,296 and empty cupboards are nothing to them. They are “organized for motaal benefit!” Was ever greater villainy shown since Judas Iscariot tucked | the thirty pieces of silver into the girdle of his gaberdinet | + ¢ - REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. It transpires that a first class revolution has been gathering force in Russia behind the curtains of close bureaucratic censorship. | Even with Europe full of tumult, this great effort of democracy Czardom may well attract as much attention as what happened ‘n France in 1789 and after. Although scarcity of food has precipitated the popular move- ment in Russia, its real causes reach far back into long-standing di trust felt by the Russian people for Imperial Ministries that con stantly change without rule or reason and that have proven in time) of national peril dangerous breeding places of extravagance, incom- | petence and intrigue. | The conduct of the present war has more than ever convinced 1 majority of Russians that the only hope for their nation lies in a representative body of legislators powerful enough to impose its will upon responsible Ministers, With all its horrors, accomplishing ia calculable good, It is rousing great forces of democracy to discar:| outwern rubbish of autocracy and absolutism in order to be rewly for more broadly human adjustment when peace comes. | Russia’s millions are lucky. They have had no Kultur to teach them the logic of national suicide in support of a self-willed dynasty. ———__ 4 the war is nevertheles | | | | ‘The Imperial German Chancellor hastens to give the German people new pledges of liberty and “participation in the works of State.” 1 =e sees BRtOPe: golng democratic, | roam MR. GERARD’S RETURN. HE city has prepared a special welcome to-day for James W.} Gerard, former United Siates Ambassador to Germany, who! returns from his post under circumstances recognized by the! nation as a crisis in its history, he part Mr. Gerard has played in the series of extraordinary | events that began with the outbreak of the war is (oo well known to | need reviewing. It has been an important one at many times m difficult and trying. Yet through it all, not only did Mr. Gerard perform his duties | Ambassador faithfully and well, but, more than that, his tirel efforts in aid of his own countrymen and others caught and ren- dered helpless in the maelstrom have earned him a tribute of hum va} gratitude that any man might env. Nations at war with Germany left their interests in the hand: of the American Ambassador, It has also been | and for all he somehow found time} and patience to do his — The British public lately expressed an| earnest wish to honor Mr. Gerard with a memorial in heartfelt thanks | for what he alias | in behalf of British prisoners in Germany. | As he came through Paris he was warmly hailed in public and pri Ate ) not only as the representative of this nation but also as a personal force that has never ceased to work the welter of war New Yorkers are proud that a r humanity and justice amid put the last two years and a half. fellow citizen in which he has | well performed a task of highest national moment at such a time, They are proud to have furnished a man who has shown Germany and all Europe at this critical juncture what a ought to be. \ of theirs has vol | pod American is and | Letters From the People Want « Free Stand tm Fact, ‘Te te Kaitor uf The newspapers have seeking any privilege or monopoly given pub- It is purely and simply fighting the ‘Bvening World Daily Magazine | War seas ning! WAR IMMINENT FOOD SHORTAGE —_———- eR pt, 017 yr oo By J. H. Cassel ‘Successful Business Women of. New York | |Only Welfare Secretary for a Big Office Building Is an Expert in Woes of the Working Girl—She Helps Her to Select a Hat or an Em- ployer, and to Stay Happy. Covnrie ISS MARIE only jov of York City, L. M'COMB bas the its kind in New She is welfare 5 retary of an office building and her business is to look after the physical and mental com- fort of the 2,300 women employed in the Kquitable Building at No. | 120 Broadway, The majority of these women em- ployees are sten- ographers, and fone of Miss MeComb's dution ts to /eall on new arrivals, offer them the ‘hospitality of the five suites of rooms not making a fight for itself, nor ts {¢ | PFOvided for thelr comfort, and tell | them about the educational and social advantages which her department can licity to an occurrence that took place “desirable Pee in the taxicab | give them. Occasionally there ts a A yee ie business an is anxious to se fi h at the Knickerbocker Hotel, and (Mi hack stands Isness the tacit. | dance in the big bullding, which Miss which, without a full knowledge of jties which their name indicates tc | McComb chaperons, the facts, may cuuse newspaper wants to see every hack stand open| During the noon hour there are readers to think that the drivers of ba free to licensed hackman | talks and music, while the young the Black and White Cab Company |)" the City bad ** Wy Fork without fear) women do fancy work, and onco a Fabs aVor, y. BUNDY COLE, | i were to blaros, World conducted al,.M&naning Ditector, Black and |¥ear there is an exhibition lasting long’ fight) aeuinol private hack | W2te Cab Company, T | three days of all the sofa pillows, pin stands, and ac @ victory by the nr Army Service, jcushion tops and bead bags which passing of the Hacking Ordinance, To the Mdltor of The Breving World j have been made for Christinas pre: which abolished private stands and I came to this country wh ents, substituted public hack stands, |twenty-three yours ld and have tae| “One of the most Interesting devel Owing to the evils which have been| pecome a naturalized cit banc pd gh “+ 4 Rieeatin see ie ek iene cae. eae wiized citizen Of the | opments of my work,” Miss McComb tion whether the evil which was Bot kch to my told me, “grew out of the wish of the native land will T have to serve in nally complained of was not eta atcier te bounties oe ay beta the evils of present conditions, alled public hack stands extat | Cts new at war? in abundance to-day, but a largw| No foreign Government nas ibe Logal number of them are held and main- | Tene {4 compel any citizen of the tained by unrellab: ponsible | United States to ve in its army, aeaieeh astrara’ ny own private | but In the case of naturalized citizens | Property, and an outsider, although | certain Governments have ignored the | Iicensed and authorized by law to use| American naturalization of former | ail stands, can kat th subjects and in some instances aro illegally privile, nds at the risk {Said to have forced such former sub- lographers in il Soothing a as NE William the banks called the the building to im- Savage Beast | Lawrence, living on of a cl Muddy cr © strean eh, Near of personal violence, damage to the | jects Into thelr army, This isa vexea Sedalia, M is truthful man. cab, or the needling of tires. | Huestios and the safe course ts to| Therefore his neighbors bedleve the @uch 4 one was the dat the| stay away from warring nations, following story Kaick ker Ho un 16 drivers one ip Vangle, 1 whe tid of the Black and White Cab Com- | 10 te The Evening W Or eke catiraing keene tis hk pany were instructed to use sume tn ssp iy tation, Was returning hotne hate one Fay Tate ett: tae ame Mh) Fam a British subject, married, might from a dunce where he had been Mie Saelte Ia the short epaee oe tf and have two ehiidren born here. A | playing. On a lonely streteh of roa letter to relate. the inanty encewcres {friend maintains that they are not! he perceived sumething follow that have been taken to scare them | AMerican citizens, Is he rig [and stopped to waten. brew Met cacas ct tee’ hhosen ina ns | Wrene? Ww | Mildewt cwme into view, Un told, would appear to be tmpoasinie| ‘The State Department ruled re. | Mone, Lawrence took refuge in the City of New York, On two| cently dren born in) this pevelach Shae erie gad on each occasion no complainant | signifying thelr desire to bo Ameri. | Suddenly Lawrence remembered tha has made an appearance against |eans, But they might elect to em. BONe an! hi them 20d ihe cages have been dis. | brace the nutiona of thelr fat i heats ; ei when, in this case, they would, of | plaved before, turned ‘The Black and White Company is course, be British subject nee geal bed By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Mg Co. (The Now York Evening World.) prove their ning capacity, A girl able to take letters In French or Spanish ay well as English can earn $25 ov $30 a week, So we have weekly French and Spanish classes which cost those who tuke part in them about 88 cents an hour. These classes are held in Miss Mo- Comb's office, a charming room with green rugs, growing tvy in the win- dow boxes and seplit reproductions of masterpic painting, “My job was invented by Mr, and Mrs, T, Coleman du Pont, and I know of no other in the city like It,” sald Miss McComb, “Other welfare secre- taries are maintained by firms for the benefit of their own employees, but I ain the only welfare secretary for the tenants of a building, I think. I quallfied for my work by taking spe- clal courses in Columbia and New York Universities, and I had eight years of preparation before 1 was fortunate enough to be chosen for this work. “T can't tell young busin: | how to become welfare secretaries be- cause there are not many such posi- | Uons open, “Lam a great believer in stenog- downtown at night without even glv- ing them supper inoney “On the other hand, there are girls who Will refuse to stay a minute aft women|5, no matter what emergency arises. Why should 1? they say with a | ug. ‘lL get only $15 @ week’ That not the spirit which enables a wo- man to get ahead, ‘The girl who be- raphy An occtipation for women|iieves In doing just what she is pald and | am convinced that a competent] for is not likely to be paid very much grapher can always find em-| more. ployment, Not in one day or two,| “The surroundings of women have perhaps, but she need not be long out of a joo 1 think, “L have discovered,” Miss MeComb| the tive and 1 have tried to make suites of rooms controlled by added, “that many girls like tochange | the welfare secretary as active their positions just for the sake of|as 1 possibly could. f think women change, The population of this bulld- | like change, s0 L move the pictur around from one suite to another, an I have the window-boxes reversible, that one week the plain green side is out and the next week the girls sea a side made of birch- Kk. it is just such little details ich keep girls interested and happy, 1 think, "Of cour ing shifts constantly. We lose many girls through marriage, but others leave here just for the excitement of getting a new job in new surround- ings.” ‘Many stenographers believe they can get just so far in salary or re sponsibility and that beyond that point they strike a dead wail of preju- I have to give advice I sald, on @ great many subjects, sometim: believe that the stenographer hag| troubles with the employer, some- some legitimate grievances,” Miss| times difficulties at home. I must make sugvestions on every subject from the desirability of a new board- McComb answered, ‘Many of them tell me that thelr employers begin to dictate letters after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, leaving them to work or the becomingness of a spring hat.” Copsright, IIT, by The Pree Pu (Toe New York Evening W ‘6 H, pshaw! I'm tired of read- ing these articles by wom- en, ‘The Danger of Mar- rying a Man In the Hope of Reform- ing Him," said Mr, Jarr, throwing down the evening paper with @ slam, “The truth always burts,” eald Mrs, Jarr quietly, “Ah, you'd think It was a case that 4 woman could plek and choose! continued Mr, Jarr growling. “Look at all these plays women Hke and crowd and bring their men folks to ‘They are always wbout a woman whom all the men in the world are you that I could have done better, a great deal better! There was Mr, Jobbets, the builder, who failed for half a million, and that young lawyer Mrs, Jarr did not finish the sen- tence, but let Mr. Jarr infer that had she known his demon nature she ‘would not have married him, “Now don't get personal,” said Mr,| Who ran away with Mra, Hickett's |Jarr, “I'm not so bad, And, any-|money, If I had married either of Way, a man takes a risk too, He| them those things wouldn't have hap- pened and I could be riding in m. automobile this day!” “But you married a man to reform meets a girl with her company man- ers and her best bib and tucker on. | He doesn't know that she is lazy, and that she Js dissatisfied with her home | and will be dissatisfied with the one he'll give her, He doesn't know she |{s selfish and inconsiderate, That |she will nag and find fault with him because he can't maintain her in the style she expects, keep her dressed sonal matter!” said Mr. “Yes, I did, and I faile Jarr, “Gee whiz! Am I a terrible ex- ample?” asked Mr, Jarr. “I thought I Was a pretty good sort, as men go.” You aren't so crazy in love with, AS a matter of| UP and covered with diamonds, and 4 bad, after all, I’ fact, most women are ducky if they | dozen servants"—— have to admit that,” said Mrs, Jarr, have one man crazy In love with| “You knew what I was before }/SMffiing @ little, “but you are very them!” married you!” cried Mrs, Jarr, flaring “okKind to say that I was a vain and You hat because one woman! Up. “Goodness knows I refused you; $¢!fisb girl and that I'm lazy and in- was crazy enough--we'll say in love-.| often enough, but 1 couldn't got rid of considerate and want diamonds and to marry you,” replicd Mrs, Jarr,|you tl I did inarry you! Before 1|S/ks. Of course L do want twem; but ‘ut don't Matter yourself, 1 could | Married you 1 saw you all the time, }if I can't get them I'm satisfied; and | have had plenty of othe and you| After 1 married you 1 seldom saw) You know you shouldn't take me that know tt, But that 1 was foollsh—| yout” way!" well, you've sald It yourself.” “Tam never going to try to discuss| , t {ant mean you at all” sata “1 did not!" said My. Jarr, “Any-|another thing with you, doggone 1!" | Mt Jarre hastily, “but you said you way, women always like to think they|erled Mr. Jarr, “You aware make |@&arted me to reform me and that you | ure velapming: eomenody,” avare aia could have done better, And all this matter how innocent, a about over the came silly “They do not always succeed,” si personal one ae of a question, oo tt és |'Do Women Marry Men to Refon Mrs, dia But thas because ‘Oh, F know who you are sneering | phen ¥ Reform not know Ju how ‘ beyond} at!” said Mra. Jar "L bad 7 Mrs vad a good| anid Siva: Sa phey reform the average maa is, Now if! home and L never asked you to marry 1 marry (i had ealy known" —— them ‘because they love them.” And me, and pobody kuows better than'that squared things for the time being, a great deal to do with their efficiency, | ing place to the color of a new dress | him, since we must make it a pere| Jarr, T on | | What EveryWomanThinks By Helen Rowland Coorriaht. 1917, by The I'reas Publishing Co OMETIMES S 1 wonder what LOVE Is! is it a motentary flash of glory, like the gold and purple sunset, ” Or a peaceful, steady radiance, like moonlight om a daisy field, Or the candles on an altar? Is it the thrill of the first touch of fnger-tips—the (Doe New York Greuing World.) bilnding mist In the eyes, Or the quiet, satisfying joy of the gentle han@ } clasp and the smile of perfect understanding? Or the*sweet and comforting security of complete and mutual fait? ; y Is it what makes you start impatiently at the so Survicersrers of every step on the garden path, every ring of the Or what makes you wish that HE would give you twenty minutes longer C so that you could finish doing your hair properly for him? , Is {t what makes a woman sit half the day, dreaming rosy dreams of moonlit gardens and starlit Oriental temples filled with incense, | Or is it that pleasant little glow of satisfaction 1 Which comes to her at the thought of brand-new silver and mono | grammed towels and hemstitched window curtains, with HIS initials om | them? and all the other mysteries of a kitchenette apartment? . Is it what inspires a girl with the clothes mania and a desire to spend three hours a day making herself fascinating— | Or what makes her forget all about clothes and concentrate her time | and energy on learning to COOK? Is it what makes you turn on the water when you meant to light the lamp, and forget to eat your breakfast aud put on odd shoes— Pd Or is it what makes you remember to do all the little things HB kes |and to be very thorough and careful with the housework? Is it what makes you glance longingly at the telephone recelver (wemty | times a day, with the uncoatrollable desire to call him up, 4 ’ Or what makes you too considerate to THINK of calling him up, | once, during business hours? | Is it what goads you into asking suspicious and searching questions every time ae calls half an hour late, | Oh what fills you with such complete and satisfying confidence that, | though he never came at ail, there would be no question in your mind whatever? Is it what makes you exacting and unreasonable and petulant— Or what makes you just KIND and thoughtful and forbearing? | ty tt wild uncertainty—or mild securtty— y | Rapture or restfulness, i Worship or comradeship, Fy Eternal courtship or perfect companionship? ¥ Sometimes, I think that {t ts BOTH of these ; And that one of them without the other would be as incomplete and ta unsatisfying as a cigarette without a match | ‘Or a glove without a mate. Yet they are as different and as far apart As Porgatory—and Paradise. } And NO woman can decide Which {s Purgatory and which is Paradise! | Because, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle Bide Dudley By The Prem Publisiing Oo, (The | Conmright, 1017 vy York Evening World.) , ‘cc ODERN LOVE" was th@sub-; “Ladies!” she shouted, “stop thie ject discussed by the Live Clatter! What it old Boggs did call and Let Live Chapter of the| Overt heart, Ate we: to: consieent ay Delhi Women's Betterment League at} Order was {mmediately restored, its mid-March meeting. Mrs, Elisha Lfibah tginah Pivaraere Fert Dertle, promptri sague, | Wise leaped to her feat an |Q. Pertle, promptress of the league Doolittle will now read her |presided, and papers were read by Bits Cutey Boggs and Mra, Bkeeter| [oem ch Jove: ara, Cutey Boggs wat \O'Brien, ‘The feature of the pro-|" Mrs. Boggs subsided and Mise Doe< gramme, however, was an original) ittle bowed. Then she read the poem by Ellabelle Mae Doolittle,| rhyme which follows: Delhi's famous poetess, It was the] “pan Cupid, sou concluding number and proved a sen- ‘i sation. Gorerel {times 1 bare bee, th Mrs, Boggs, in her paper, suggested) par Ton atk wotcbee, Daat Oa that the men of to-day are fickle and| When you maten up two Bur, outside you that legislation should be enacted to} t make thes stop flirting, ‘Abd we lore you, you litie ty “| know of a specific case,” she ' said, “where a man, who has a lovely wife and three children, actually Tollowing Sun aa called a cashier In a drug store to Ban Cupi ‘Dearest,’ and was overheard doing , so, Naturally, when he got home he Was born a twin: ‘ received ing down, but the] At the conclusion of the reading of | the poem Mrs, Skeeter O'Brien pro- posed three cheers for Miss Doolittle. ‘They were given by all but Mrs. Hoke Gibbons, who explained her appareat lack of enthusiasin by stating a frog in her throat and couldn't pene sibly yell. Miss Doolittle was greatly affected by the cheerlnt and tears came to her eyes. “IT thank you-I thank you!" @he wrong had been done. | “Why didn’t you leave la voice coming from the rear of the room. | "Ii have you know,” snapped Mrs. Boggs, “that my husband doesn't flirt, Who are you, anyway?” ‘m the cashier he flirted with,” | sala the voice, For a moment there was silence | then every woman In the hall jand \began to talk, Miss Doolittle, who| said, backing up-stage and bowing. | was seated on the stage, leaped to| The ladies cheered again. {her feet and held up one hand. All were pleased. essful S By H. J. salesmanship Barrett | | “His case was presented by a man who was not adequately equipped. The Selling by Proxy. \66 T is a situation which ovcasionally confronts every salesman,” said one, recently. will 1 in convincing al man forgot that it required some ks for him to perfect his own cane Yass, and he expected his ally to fight his tle as well as he, himself, could one sue urther than this, the salesman's subordinate In a concern of the Mert! spokesman lacked the direct personal of his proposition, and the latter wil | interest which would have actuated the former, He lacked both the prepart Uon and the attitude necessary to con vince the boss. “Harsh experience ha: futility of trying to sell by proxy. Never let any one represent your in- m|terests in such a matter. Get to the J ‘it looks good to me and I'll take it up with the boss, Cail in a day or and get your final answer he young salesman always fe Is as though the deal were closed. What could augur better than a boost fre hown me the he inside, he reflects, ‘from @ man|main noise yourself. Beard the lion |who is close to the boss and who|/in his den and fight it out. Then, if obviously bas no axe to grind you lose, you'll at I#ist have the satis- | «Nine times out of ten he returns] faction of knowing that the case didn't Jeo mect a flat refusal. Why {9 this?|go by default. Selling by proxy vert | Was double-crossed? “Did his} seldom works. Miles Standish couldn't friend at court throw him? No, Here} put it over, and I've never seen any one who could.” —————_- + -—__.. was the difficulty. Beggars must be no choosers,—Beaumont and Fletcher, _ 'To-Day’s Annivers sary, RADUATE nd undergraduates previously had been in name-a real i( . of the United States Mil a a academy. Col, Vhayer ree} | nat ea nuined at the head of Avade at Weat Point WIM! trom 917 to 1838, and. succo aha celebrate tu-day the one hundred and! making | th fAftcenth founding | throughout the of that famous institution, ince 3802 th justitution world number of g famous anniversary of the aduati from Yost Po x Although the West Point school) avorg iti ae be rank OAH, A }was created by an act of Congress} While the number of "preduaten nat |passed on March 14, 1802, this year! been considerably increased In lattes Jmarks tho centenary of the insiitu-| years, the United States army” ites |tion as @ real factor in military edus seldom had enough trained oyicoae Were graduated in the first decade, jever apparent trance exec and at times the school was without | nation. very . und pes 4 ry apetont inatructors In 1817) one-fourth of those appointed usually j Sylvanus Thayer was appointed! fail to the preliminary © li orintendent, and from the day ajnations, while of the re xaiale Went Point became in fact what it uuable to graduate,