The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1917, Page 12

. few Rew Yon. wen Pe! 1a J Pvt. eurer ru HK fr. Beoretery The . Bintered at the Post Offre at Mew Tork ar Geeen@-(Cliase Matter, eee Yar hewe te The Mvening |For Posten? anf the Continent oat arid tor tne Union Males | ‘Ah Cowmiries " Invermetionas om Cones Poot nee 0600 One Year... .cccre +0 One Month... VOLUME 66......... THE POWER OF MISREPRESENTATION. LTHOUGH Senate end House have agreed upon @ Food Con A trol measure the carrying out of which shall not be left to the divided suthority of & war committee, nevertheless the Benste has at the same time handed the Prohibitionists another cer- tificate testifying to their paramount importance. At © moment when the energies of the Netion should concen- fete to the exclusion of all other interests, upon the most tre- mendous task it bas ever bad to tackle, the Benste of the United Btates is perfectly ready to let the country be distracted throughout | ite length and breadth by # question of minor morale raised by per- eons with « passion for imposing their personal standards upon others. By voting to submit the Prohibition amendment to the Legis- latures of the several States the Senate may have propitiated « cer- tain element in Congress into letting a sorely needed Food bill pass in a form that gives some hope of efficient food control. But what « pusillanimows, unworthy dicker! With months, it may be years, of war ahead, with national at- tention fixed and absorbed by one supreme parpose, to saddle upon the people of the United States the discussion of @ question which, had they been given their say about it at this time, they would have stowed far back on the shelf among the lesser issues thatan wait! The power of misrepresentation has never chosen a worse mo- ment to reveal itself. A the Middle West will be ordered to quit their jobs unless Federal authority effects the return of the I. W. W. trouble- makers recently deported from Arizona, may be addressed to the President. It is none the Jess a direct challenge to the nation, and as such should be promptly taken up. A moment when organized labor represented by Mr. Gompers is framing a comprehensive pledge of loyalty to @ national purpose which has become paramount to all others, is an excellent one for a sharp survey of American workers goncrally with a view to separating the loyal from the disloyal, Again and again the Industrial Workers of the World have put forward as their representatives men who have publicly and noto- riously demonstrated themselves to be nothing more than industrious malcontents. It would not be surprising if, at the present national crisis, many such were found to be among the busiest allies of the Kaiser on this side of the Atlantic, ready to take advantage of emer- gency to swing their followers in obstructive formation across any path laid down in the nation’s war programme, Call this latest I. W. W. bluff. Let the Government satisfy itself and the country what cards are in the hand and how they got there. cna apenas ‘A HOT WEATHER SUGGESTION. EW YORK has been sweltering through one of the worst heat N spells in its history, Breathless nights have followed blister- ing days. Work has meant tenfold effort and sleep become almost impossible. Even the most careful livers have found their vitality taxed and their tempers ravelled by the continuous, unes- capable effects of high temperature amid surroundings that absorb heat and radiate it back upon suffering human beings. These are the times when New Yorkers wonder if there may not have been some mistake in letting asphalt, brick, marble, stone and stucco have their own way in banishing shade trees from the city’s streets. It is all very well to throw open the parks, But the vast ma- jority of people who live and toil in New York can make only brief escapes from grilling pavements and heat-reflecting walls, A suggestion: Let the city make more use of its abundant water supply to cool its streets in summmer, - When the sun shines its hottest on Paris every hydrant seems to be open, the pavements are treated to one shower bath after another and the gutters are flushed with constant flow of cooling, cleansing streams, New York has plenty of facilities for using water to clean its streets. Why not use ten times as much to cool them by night and day during such heat as we have had this week? —_———— a od THE MOMENT TO SETTLE IT. NL. W. W. threat that 250,000 miners and honest workers in Another pointed hot weather question: Why should heat sufferers be forced to bear added torture of crowding and suf- focation like that inflicted on them in the basement of the Municipal Bullding yesterday through the failure of B, R. T, officials to make extra provision for handling a shoreward rush that anybody could have foreseen? -_— Hits From Sharp Wits Ig the French girls are as attractive] All the plain Amertoan citi as they are said to be, many a Sammy | not pre fe faces not only war but also matrt-| = mony,—Charleston News and Courter, ast oka | to keep young,” says to maintain @ few enthusiams."—-Todelo Blade, ce © Time improves everything but ty ne cine to ine momen: they, of course bave been enever man begins to tn-| perfect from the beginning.--Ch: vestigate a woman's cooking he means | News, mr neeetploag business.—Chicago, News, There is no merit in doing some- thing that is difficult if it doesn't ac- complish something useful.—Albany Journal, Until wives consider it worth while to be as Interesting as sweetheart, men will not consider home as at tractive as other places.—Memphis Commericial Appeal. oe ‘These days the magazines certainly run to “cbver.""-— Memphis Com-} merctal-Appeal. . . It is nice to be able to say the right 1 Pabatay axa ee By Sophie HE Becretary of Labor, W. B. Wilson, urges “the widest dis- senination of information con- tained in the Gov- ernment report as to the conditions of wage-carning women.” One of the start- ing findings in the report is that the servant girl and her field of work are the most open to criticism concerning her develop- ment and welfare and that more rules and regulations in her interest are most important. The following statement speaks for itself: “A large proportion of women who have gone wrong comes from the ranks of domestic and personal ser- vice and from housekeeping, not be- cause these occupations necessarily lead women into confilct with the laws, but because they are the chief pursults open to the kind of women Mkely to come into conflict with the the third anni- N connection wit I versary of tho beginning of Ger- man hostilities against France, it is interesting to recall that the first reat military victory gained by the C> mans was on this date, Aug. 2 in the year 10, A. D., when the Ro- man army of Publius Quintillus Va- rus was Wiped out at the hands of the German P..bariany led by Are minius, Under Augustus the fron- tlers of the Roman Empire were ex- tended to the upper Danube by Drusus and Tiberius, and Drusus the lower Rhine and to the banks of the Elbe, influence was spread over a considerable part of Germany, but rebellions were frequent, Varus was commissioned by Augustus to introduce the Roman jurisdiction into the German territory conquered by Drusus, and he Was carrying out this mi when suddenly attacked by an immense host under Arminius, His whole army, consisting of throes 1 which ‘had been cleverly drawn into an ambush, was de- stroyed, In despair, Varus put an The news of the battle created con- nation in Rome, giving rise to famous lament of Augustus thing at the right time, but it thet —"The bride wan annranriataly gowned tn the bridegroom's etota’ sdfmhjk and a veil which could be passed through a ring."--Exchange. Some wedding to mins, but then, dog- luck, . world will never know real few of the ‘The ¢ until we get rid of men hyher up. niladelphia hgone it, we never did hav Inquirer. yway.—Philadelphia rer, \. Verus ive me back my this vietney northern in revolt and pushed A 1 many roi the Roman: fow y ack upon the Rhine, ater the Roman gene: Irene Loeb Copynsht, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evouing World), laws and also because these occupa- tions have in themselves but few re- straining influences for such women. “The days become lonesome and monotonous—a round of drudgery. They have no prospect of rising to anything higher, so that the spur of ambition does not drive them for- ward in the right way and there 1s no social standard of their own class to hold them back from the wrong. “Thelr wages are swall and weir chances of innocent amusement few. And while external circumstances are thus all against them, they have few resources within themselves to offset the dulness of that routine,” Another significant statement comes from the Senate Vice Com- mittee of Hlinois which agrees with the Federal authorities and says: “Until the system of domestic em- ployment is entirely reorganised to conform with the American concep- tion of the true dignity of labor it may not be possible for the woman iu comfortable enough circumstances to employ one or more female ser- vants to escape @ certain unconscious complicity.” The two authorities in presenting these facts ask for the earnest con- sideration of the people. The whole subject is worthy of considerable re- flection, especially by the woman who employs the servant girl, Many a woman would be shocked if she were told that SHE ts largely responsible for the downfall of the girl who works for her, as seems to be the opinion of these govern- mental authoritios, But if she will look the matter squarely in the face she will realize that there ls somothing to be done on her part which she bas probably left undone. For example, a maid takes a posi- tion in the average home, where there are no special servant's quar- ters. Arrangements are made for the afternoons and evenings out, and when this is done the average house- wife considers that she has carried out her part of the contract. She is usually opposed to the maid having “company” and generally re- fuses such @ request. She eases her conscience by deciding that she should not let people whom she does not know come into her bome, and further that ahe cannot be responsi- 4 for the morality of ber servant, c. In @ word, she doesn’t deem it any of her business, On the other hand, she likes the girl to take the same In- terest in her work as if it were “her own home.” And nine times out of ten it is the ONLY home the girl has. She eats there and sleeps there and lives most of her time in that home; and yet she is outside the pale as far as any right she might have in ber environment as @ home, She must seek her pleasure out- side the precincts in which she works, eats and sleeps, With any other call- ing it is different, because she goes out to work, and when sho is through at a given time she fas opportunity to make her own social atmosphere. It is a difficult problem, But it can be solved. The woman who realizes that the satistied servant {8 invaluable, es- pecially these days, will take a little interest and see that the social set- ting of the girl who works for her ts settled, She will try to have a small sitting room that may be set apart for the girl in which she can entertain a re- spectable caller, If every woman would just go out of her way a little bit, and learn someting about the girl's friends, what a tremendous bit of excellent work she would do, not only for her own benefit but for the poor girl and humanity at large. I know many women who go outside the home to dv unlift. work when at. their own hearthstone they can do the BIG- GEST WORK of all. T am confident this question of not being permitted to entertain com- pany in the home where she works in a camping tent on warm nights or during the day when a siesta is taken, a mosquito shelter can be flade of materials readily avail- W able at most camping places, A con- tributor to Popular Mechanios ex- plains how such a shelter can be con- structed. Procure a number of pliable switches, about three-quarter inches in diameter and 8 or 10 feet long, wil- low or similar growths, Sharpen the butts and force them into the ground in two rows, 8% feet apart, Bend the tops together and tie them in arches of the same height, as indicated. Next, tle a ridge binder the entl length. Cover the framo with m quito netting, providing an entrance Germanicus, massacred the Germans in two tles and Varus was avenged. at one end. The shelter shown is for r, The fly, supported on a rope Detween posts or trees, affords shade, ne person, but may easily be made has been one of the big causes of wrongdoing on the part of the girl as explained in the report mentioned. Quite naturally she goes out for recreation, amusement and enjoy- ment and very often, quite inno- cently, she comes in contact with wrongful elements and well-known results follow, The average girl shrinks from ask- ing @ man whom she would have re- spect her to meet her at a certain corner when she has ber evening off. She hates to do it and quite naturally is resentful of such conditions under which she lives. ? Therefore, if the housekeeper would only do her bit in making a girl feel less of an outcast in working for her, she would have found a solution to the situation and reduce this awful rate made in the report as to the downward trend of the servant girl. She need not be her servant's keeper, but she can be her helper, even as the sirl is the helper of the mistress. A little bit of good intention on the attention from the maid. Fifty Failures Who Came Back By Avert Payson Terhune rere 101 Oe tee Pome Pubes Oe vie New Hart Reewing Werte Kosciusko, the “Patlure,” Who Became Poland’ DASHING young Polish artiliery (apiain wrecked bie social a8 miliary career for the sake of @ pretty girl whose rank e886 Wealth were above bis own. He was Thaddeus Kosciusko, The Girl bad the wnpoetica! name of Ludwika Bosnowrke Not daring W ssh the consent of Ludwike’s father, the lovers gree pared to elope The father discovered the plan, and he sete band of Bis household soldiers to murder the young sullor, Kosciusko defended —_ seit ae beet be Could, and at last escaped trom the unequal fight covera® with wounds, hiss se ye la é It was Bo longer sate for bim to remain in Poland Also, he had teat o eotbheart, and bis military career was wrecked He Ged to Fremen Failure wae bis portion, And, like many « lesser mas, be owed failure an unlucky love affair, e At Paris be met Benjamin Franklin. who gave him « letter of Intro duction to Gen. Washington, Kosciusko came to America in the summer of 1116, Washington ot once gave him employment in the Revolutionary army. Kosciudke not only served brilliantly here in battles throughout @e Revolution, but he designed the defenses of West Point. He received the the rank of Major begun to “come back’ After the war he went again to Poland, ing with bim the glowing tdeals of Liberty that bad absorbed during our own struggle for indee pendence, He resolved to strike » blow now for the freeing of Poland. “The toroh of freedom, lighted at America’s fi > rian, “was destined to illumine for # time all the blackness of Polish serfdom.” Poland had been one of the great and oficial blunders had so weakened the country that Prussia, Austria Russia had seized much of ite territory and had divided this stolen among themselves, Poland at the time of Kosciusko’s return was little more than @ mere name, Yet a deathiess courage and love of !iLerty semouldered In its people's hearts, Kosciusko fanned this smoulder into a flame. With other he reorganized the Polish Army and drew up a constitution for the restore ing of the country’s ancient rights. Russia resented all this and war set in, At Dubienka (July 11, 1792) Kosciurko with 4,000 ill-armed Poles hel@ 15,000 Russians at bay for six hours. Elsewhere, too, he fought like a here, When the weak Polish King, Stanislaus, made @ shameful peace treaty with Russia, Kosciusko refused to abide by it. He called his fellow patriots to arms and again defied Russia. He was made Dictator of Poland and leader of the luckless country’s . With this puny force he thra_hed strong invading crmies in battle after another, chased the Russians across the frontier and eet Poland free, The failure had “come back.” But even in his moment of victory new danger set in. Prussia and Austria came to Russia's aid. With countless men and exhaustiess wealth the three great nations advanced upon Poland, Force of numbers began to tell. Bravely as the Almost Frees Poland. (The New York Evening World), “Good morning! Who's been buying flow...?” .| “They're from my little place in the country,” said Jenkin: “Have you a summer home?” asked the boss suspiciously. At this Jenkins explained he had @. summer home, it was true, but it was also a spring, fall and winter home The boss didn't like this; It savored too much of prosperity that makes the wage earner discontented. “You're a lucky man to afford @ country home, with flowers, I wish 1 srowled the, boss. only @ modest little aid the worrled yeabtany I thought you might ‘like flowers, so I brought you these.” “At a time like this, Mr, Jen! be raising war said the boss severely, “you bies; yes, ait, war v tableal" “Iam, sir. I am raising potatoes, tomatoes, beans, corn and just a tow flowers, some of these and um—er bleeding hearts, sir, to remind me of the sotrows of War, you know.: Flowe: here he tried to be faces tious. “Flowers take a man's mind off the mortgage, air. “Well, sir," replied the boss, part of the mistress will bring gore | &' shouldn't live beyond your means! You shouldn't have a mortgage. Livs, ing beyond one's means is what makes I, W. W.'s."" And he looked around frowning at the office force as though to dare them to live bee yond thelr means and become LW, W.'s in consequence, The boss had Poles fought, they fought in vain against suck overwhelming odds, In the final battle of the war the patriots were hope. lessly outnumbered. Kosciusko, dangerously wounded, fell to the blood« soaked earth, gasping: “This is the end of Poland!” He was taken prisoner, but soon was released. The Russian Czar was touched by his heroism and offered to restore to him his sword, The broken-hearted Kosclusko replied bitterly: “What need have I of a sword? I have no country to defend!* : The Jarr Famil By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, ENKINS the bookkeeper, stalked J past Mr, Jarr’s desk bearing with him a bloomy bunch of & “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Mr, Jarr clutching at them. “I guess not!" said Jenkins em- phatically, as he drew them away. “You're one of these jobbies that go around knocking rural real estate, and then you want to grab off the proud commuter’s home grown postes!"* “You bought ‘em from Nick, the Greek, at the corner,” Mr, Jarr de- clared, Net much!" said Jenkins, ‘You saw the lilacs I bad in spring, the roses in June and July—and now the gladiolas bloom, and the tiger lilies and the dablias—I tell you my litle place 1s a bower, and I wouldn't sell it for a million!” “| know a fellow who's cleaned up in war cotton, who wants to sink @ few thousands of his profits in @ coun'ry home,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Introduce me to him, bring bim interjected Jenkins, For a commission?” said Mr, Jarr. But Jenkins, seeing he was being uyed, walked on, and at this in- came and growled, stant the boss Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland an extravagant wife and lived bee yond his means himself, Some’ indeed he rather wished to be an I W. W. also and do a little sabotage: on his wife's costly clothes. about their headaches. S PLE Row Cae 4 fea bi Coyyright, 1917, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Ereulng World), OMB women appear to regard a husband merely as somebody to talk to We may joke about marriage, but—you never miss o husband till the beaux give out; you never mi till your hair falls out, and you never miss a home till your youth runs out. The thrill with which a boy dreams of some day digging up Capt, Kidd's treasure is surpassed only by the thrill with which, when he grows up, he digs up the first real live radish in big garden, After Mstening to a few women discussing apart: | ments with a renting agent !n a real es! 4 man sometimes gets tired of the sound of a woman's voice, A man's idea of “coming home early for dinner” 1s to succeed in get- ting there not more than half an hour late, A girl's indignation at a man’s attempts to be sentimental after a cham- pagne dinner is exceeded only by her resentment at his failure to remember all about it when he is perfectly sober. Of course it {s easier to marry @ widower than a bachelor. A man who and slaughter of one marriage has no fight left | Once a man’s love {s dead there is no use trying to nag it back to life | | again—though lots of women appear to think they can, © = A eampact in which two people struggle foy- ously uphill shoulder to shoulder—and go placidly downhill hand in hand, When a man wants a playmate he looks around for a chum—but when he wants a helpmeet he looks ayound for a miracle, He took the gladiolas, however, en@ later on, to show he played no fat and that tributes had small effect om him, and also noting with much satioe faction that it was @ scorching hot he sent Jenkins out to collect ils ad gave the flowers to the stenographer, “The old hard boiled egg!” sneered the typewriter, after she had thanked the boss and walked away wi flowers, “The old dime grabber! give me a bunch of flowers that Before he wife didn't cost him anything! married that stuck-up boarding house belle who grabbed him off, he used to buy me roses, the long stemmed styffl And she did not delete the boss's bad English in the day's correspondences just for spite; and when the bosss chauffeur came in with a message from the boss's wife, the stenographer the flowers to him, knowing the chaute feur would tell the lady in the motor where the flowers had come from, and that this would make trouble. For the typist did not forget to tell the chauf> feur that the boss had given them to her. The boss's wife promptly ordered the chauffeur to,throw the flowers away,but the chauffeur affected not to hear and, after driving the boss's wife home, he took them around and presented them to Gertrude, the Jarrs’ maid, But Claude, the fireman, was calling on Gertrude that evening, and not to arouse that hero's lonlike jealousy, Gertrude gave the gladiolas to Mra: Jarr, who graced the dinner table with them. "Fine!" said Mr. Jerr when he came home and saw them. “Those are the real thing! You should have dinky bunch of scrawny o} brought to the office to-da: going to take those downtown with to-morrow and show him what the sa thing Is like!" But tn this amiable intentt frustrated, for Mrs. Jarr took tl omits the Red Cross branch and they be sent across the sea t the wounded tn some base hospgal. te office one doesn’t wonder that