The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1917, Page 8

ReTAnLAM HT ORRIN PLT REN Crrmaee tate Boren: Serger vy Ba Be Cogan Comer. tm wt Predtent, €) tw Tree te Tore aon Matter , the Continent and at ° ert N wee One M i NO. OA ISH SHIP sailed out of an American port yesterday pty and high out of water, the first to go without ite rich cargo of supplies on the indirect route to Germar There still remain scores of other ships festlessly #t anchor in our harbors America’s most effective pon so far in this war is laid on shipments of foodstuffs and commoditins te deeply indened but riding ne a nations @f Europe. In these days, when our armies are in embryonic etay and only the vanguard has gone to the front, the string that these ships to our shores is helping ae much as the cannon to win the war The cries of protest and the plaintive appeals that come from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland, all bordering on Germany, are partly wails of home distress, but often have their waurce in the interrupted trade with Teutonic powers To the official commissions that are here from neutral nations begging for more food, more minerals, more manufactured articles, the United States must be just, but stern. We will provide for their Necessities at home, but not a crumb to give aid or assistance to the enemy. There can be no slackening of the noose around the outer waist- band of the enemy. Our ears are deaf to simulated appeals for aym- pathy, most likely made in Germany. We are at war, and a war that means life or death to America and democracy. The generous ‘player in poker, like the tender soldier, makes an easy victim. We shall not let the neutrals starve nor freeze, but their tat | profits made in American trade are at an end. Let the Kaiser and his efficiency experts order the belts around fat German stomachs} tightened up another notch. And let the Government at Washington keep on tightening the embargo noose. t+ —__—_ HELPING THE HOUSEWIFE. HEADLINE in The Evening World of yesterday told tersely @ stery with which all of us are too familiar: “Meats hit sky line and still going up; near hunger prices.” Beneath that item was another, telling how the Government proposed to feed its draft armies on the basis of forty-two cents per day for each man. For this expenditure the men will get a bill of fare that should make} recruiting easy. On Sunday morning, for instance, they are to have cantaloupe, oatmeal, sansage, hot biscuits and coffee. Dinner will range from soup to ice cream, with a lot of good things between. Madame Housewife, reading this in her kitchenette, may be in- clined to exclaim: “It can’t be done!” But that is the point of our discontent, for it can be done, and the army chiefs know the secret. Why, thefi, must the public be oppressed. Small mercy can be ex- pected frgm the merciless. Forty-two cents a d It will scarcely furnish breakfast for two in the average home. A good cut of steak costs the individual] Ll dearer than the upkeep of a soldier for three meals. These figures prove again what we have known for this long time—there is no shortags of edibles, but an unbelievable cupidity on the part of the food pirate: - Our principal enemies are here at home. Those across the sea who confront us with waiting guns we can see and handle. It is the thief with his hand in the public pocket who must be overcome. | But all the indignation that can be expressed in public or private will not help, unless something is done by those in power. Now is the! time to help the housewife, for her forty-two cents a day buys con- siderably less than the widow’s mite, i \ WOMEN’S WAR. ° ESPITE attacks by men and repwiation by women, the fanatical White House pickets continue their crusade, ‘The problem has now become a more serious one for the two million earnest women forming the National Suffrage Association than for the men. These militant demonstrations are so seriously menacing the Suffrage cause that ofganization leaders in New York announce in The Evening World that they will welcome suggestions how to deaN with their fanatical sisters, Man’s efforts to end this nuisance have proved so ineffective that a splendid opportunity is afforded the strong organization’ of sensible, sincere women workers for Suffrage to give an example of their capacity to improve on man-made government. What do the women of New York recommend? _ a i Letters From the People bany it More About Coal Prices, has long been trade gossip ‘Bo the Editor of The Evening World that the selling price ts ona Noting your editorial with refer-|ton higher than it otherwise would ence to local trusts, and the state-|be were the trade more concentrated ment “It (New York) has not for- W. SAWARD, gotten what coal combinations have| General Manager the Coal Trade cost it,” I am prompted to di at- | Journal tention to report just rendered by the Federal Trade Commission upon the coal situation in the City of Wash- ington, D. C., by which you will note that the prices there charged have jed nef profits of from $1.26 to 36 per ton. It is stated that in ‘ork City the dealers, who are the controlling factors of the market, ed 26 cents per ton as a fair Taxt Drivers Arraigned. ‘To the Editor of The Byening World Permit me to express appreciation of that more-than-true editorial wich appeared in The Evening World on- titled “Cab Extortion at New York Terminals.” ‘There is no question that every visitor to New York un dergoes just such an experience with the taxicab people as you pictured. reasonable return the past, | ‘Tm, fi the {toi 0) , while an additional 10 cents per ton Blates ey easy visti, ane ny inl ws regarded as sufficien® to compen- My tlessly at each and every oppor- sate for the additional difficulties of management at the present time.” | @ good showing for New 01 tunity, Whenever my wife and | go to New York we wonder how much we will be victimized by the unscru- pulous taxi drivers. They seem to be the most unprineipled, offensive hu- man beings on earth, ‘Uniess the oc cupants df the taxi are “on the job" they will surely be made mark: and pay considerably more for a ride than they should, Thope The Evening World will suc ceed in waking up the elty author tles to the miserable practices of the radiroads and taxi companies and that some action will be taken to ef- In coal a vertain degree of concen- tration is highly desirable, This is not merely an opinion; it is suscepti: | ble of verification, The special com- mittee recently investigating the re Nadi wicuation in Philadelphia on b half of the Pennsylvania State Gov- t concluded that a portion ft 40 Der cent.) of the very Iib- eral mergin there charged was nece: ‘@itated by the number of dealers de fectum!!y protect strangers. it on coal business for a Bivalineod, while ia" te Clty” of Al % W. le : Dapatghend Wives” Who Don’t Really "Depend Upon Their Husbands Are Called Misfits in the Patriotic Scale. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. by the Drees Publishing Co, igre is a condition and not a Copyright, 1917, theory which supports the Gov- ernment in its ever-stiffening determination not to exempt from the draft the husband of an able-bodied, childless wife be- cause she Is “de- pendent” on him, Moye than one- tenth of the mar- ried women of this + BBE country are en- Baged in gainful occupations, This statement is based on figures re- cently given out by the United States Census Bureau for 1910, and to-day the proportion of wage-earning wives undoubtedly 1s much larger, For in the decade between 1900 and 1910 the number of married women in gainful occupations increased from 769,000 to 1,890,000, ‘That 1s, almost two and One-half times as many wives elther were earning their own Iiving at the latter date, or may be presumed ca- pable of doing so, Thus do th Sam in bis feminism West attitude toward of which one of the most precious tenets is the inde- pb’ adence of all women, married or un married. If a marned woman already is “engaged in a gainful occupation’ economic Lines to a Soldier Friend. records uphold Uncle (The New York Evening World), to stick to the Census Bureau's phrase—she surely may not claim de- pendence upon her husband for her frocks and her filet mignon, nor may he convince the local exemption board that if it were not for his heroic struggles in the world of toll his wife would be a burden upon the commun- ity. Furthermore, if it is a statistical fact that more than one-tenth of Am- €: van wives are possessed of pay envelopes, why should not some of the other nine-tenths follow this efficient example? It 1s the young, strong, childless wives of the United States who may | form, if they will, the first line of| | home defense. ‘They, and most of us, | believe that to the woman who must give herself for the care and cherish- ing of her little children, the husband and father should be spared as long as possible, But ff, in addition to the exemption asked by fathers of families, there is a claim filed by every man who merely has a young wife to support, the result may be the throwing out of all claims. War lords have hinted as much, for lords are more interested in raising an army than in a@ nice diserimina- tion between slackers and men who ought not to fight, 1h received a letter from who argues, first, tha 1 should be exempted be- ought not to have to work r home, and asserting that duty to stay in her home husband and have his meals ready on time! Then she adds, piti- fully, "I am sure America has q enough men without taking the oniy thing @ childless woman loves.” if a womans love automatically barred a man from going to the front there would be no need of a physical examination or other elt- gibility test. With such @ restriction in force, I doubt if a single company could be drafted in all these United States, Of course the exemption of a mar- ried man with dependents is not based on a sentiméntal consideration at all, but on the purely practical one of not adding to tite. community's | load, I should think that a healthy young woman would be rather amed to place herself in the cate- y with idiots, paralytics and six months’ old infants, who must be supported by all the rest of us if their natural protectors are removed, iven now the railroads and other employers are opening new positions to women. The number of such op- portunities will be greatly increased in the near future, The wife willing to give her husband to her country’s | Job and herself to a job of her own need not fear to deprive some other woman of a living In time of peace there may be tol- erance for the idle lady who grafts as on her husband for support there is tolerance for anarchi cifists, hyphenated Ameri other more or less amustig pests. Just now, America cannot afford that sort of thing. We haven't the time, we haven't the money, we haven't the men, we haven't the carelessly philosophic mood. Whether the war brings political independ- ence to the American woman is on the knees of the gods, but her eco- nomic independence—with or without the wedding ring—dally becomes more inevitable, What Every By Helen ee + beart! Not fear of Mie when they Bur the ceaseless The «gh of rel: ft when he answers, “ Dear me! It must be soul-warping To epend all your days just warding Meking sure that HE won't come te Prem Pettetes O omMeETIVES S 1 wonder if any mae quepects j The copsuming fear that lurke wish! n@ Gay, « Because most busbants are ree’ Wife Knows » Rowland The Nee Hee Hem We the bot ™ of bie Auger! SRLP- ob » y kind and © think about tt roger oto Gher ig, URconscious tear of ROW— The i fear of i*approval, discord. of a scone, am argument or « before-breaktast brainstorm The nervous fear of criticioem Which some wives feel all of the time And ali normal wives feel some of the time 1 wonder bow the erage husband would feel @ be Could eee the effect on his wite Of the sound 0° his key in the lated The sudden Iifting of the head, the anxious glance around the piace ‘The rush for the mirror, the bright, me-banteal emile The clearing of the throat for the cheery ‘He! dearie! The searching glance to discover wheiler be has come home in a good humor or with “the grouch that knows no brother.” | The cate in the votce when she asks “Dat's the matter, Dear?” dh, Mothing! Just tuckered out - off troub! discover That something bas been left undone or forgotten. Or that something has been done tha t shoulda’t be done Or Laat something has been wrongly done! To be the little human BUFFER bet ween a gréat big man And all the little annoyances and discomforts of life Between him and the food speculators, between him and greedy tradesmen, betwecu him and inefficient ser Between him an! the laundries and t things that get lost, and things vants, between him and your mother— he plumber, and the gas meter, and the that wear out, and things that have to be repaired, and company, and the neighbors, and the noises in the ond flies and mosquitoe: street, "s, and even his own follies and weak- ness: ttanging onto HIM with one hand—and onto Heaven with the other! Fibbing, explaining, Juggling, glossing over, apologizing—and yet That is what most wives are expected to BE. Because to a good husband his home And if it isn Heaven” And, after He gets to lo king for them until {t is his Heaven! it's his wife's fault. e has discovered a few flaws in it, becomes an obsession, Just as killing fies is an obsession with some housewives, And be counts that day LOST in which he hasn't found something To correct, Until he comes to regard himeelf Aa a combination Kaiser-Judge-detect Gracious goo*nesa! 1 am afraid of a lot of things—cows, or criticise, or “improve,” tive-and-oritic-on-the-hearth! bumble-bees, automobiles, the Kalser, burglars, and oysters out of season, But I hope and pray, and promise you That I shall never be afraid of MY OWN HUSBAND! Character Analysis in Selecting Employees By Hu J. 6677 HD real point of the contro- versy now raging regarding selection of employees by character analysis,” said an execu- tive, “is not whether one’s traits can be determined by his appearance, but rather whether this information can be practically applied. “Generally speaking, we are what we look—every one knows that, No one ever saw a man who looked like ‘Abrahafn Lincoln or Daniel Webster conducting a peanut stand. Or if they id, they found that the pefson thus disti.guished soon pulled himself up to a higher level, economically con- sidered. “Every one who {s equipped with ordinary perceptive powers is able to size up his fellows with some degree of accuracy. But the disciples of physiognomy and phrenology assert that they have developed this ability into @ real science, with the result . 2 by the Press Publishing Co, York Erening World.) RS. JARR and Mrs, Rangle M were in the shopping district, They had no money to buy anything, but why should that deter them from the pleasure of shopping? “There's one of them!" cried Mrs, Jarr suddenly, as she clutched at her friend's arm, Mrs, Jarr was pointing toward a young woman attired in what would have been considered a costume for the stage a few years ago, “It's one of the single piece gowns,” said Mrs, Jarr. “It 1s of black tulle with an undomesticated apron of white mousseline, embrotdered in sil- Well,” said Mrs. “IT saw oy L. McCardell dress or a Red Crot Rangle declared, “1 look very bold in a Re tume—or anything else! “Just the same, the military un! forms and the Red Cross costum are reflected in the styles, The war has done that,” Mrs, Jarr asserted, Then she whi: “Chemise of pink voile with roses?” repeated Mrs. aloud, “Yes, and with narrow ruffle of rose marquisette and rose ribbon shoulder straps, Just ag I tell you.’ “And just as t tell you, those things are not for respectable women!” re- marked Mrs, Rangle with some final- y. “At least they are not for re- » who cannot afford » added, By this time the ladies had arrived at Madame Le Grar the modiste's. They found that 1 agitated and perspiring. Rangle nd ady Rangle, © long, old pal, I will not say by the ion papers that those one- good-by, | | piece gowns were in style, but 1 hoped + Koon you're only going for Ww ; of tho world |!t Wasn't true, because I Uatened to 20 " hat’ have had so varied a history as a dressmaker who sald it was only a 1 now Til see your face agats, that's freak gown, and wouldn't take," why | Antwerp, the principal port of “Where have your eyes been?"| I want to see you leaving with al Belgium, which has been in posses-| asked Mra, Jar “I've seen them smile, |sion of the Germans since Oct. 9] every time 1 went-out, and I think I know that soon again, While we are|.191M4, ‘The occupation of Antwerp| they are very chte.” lunching, added another chapter to the city’s 3ut you cannot tell me that @ I listen to the Wondrous tales | record of sieges, for it has been taken | dress ike that Js anything but a you'll tell many times in’ the conflicts of the] house gown, they were never in- While on thin sandwiches we will be| past. The most noteworthy of the| tended to be worn on the street,” re- munching, * sof Antwerp, and tho first In| marked Mrs, Rangle, who hoped she r you way again that “War| modern times, was that which cul | spoke soothingly. minated with ‘the capture of the city| “Hut they ARH wearing the one- by the Prince of Parma 382 years} plece gowns, and with leather belts When battle's roar has dimmed, and| ago to-day, Aug. 17, 1585. On that|—velvet hats are coming in again, you come home, \« om Antwerp had withstood the|too, Andl those gabardine styles Vii greet you, kiddo, with a warm for fourteen months before | overywher autoniobiles as well as Hello!" ring. on the str So let me wish, boy, now before you| Antwerp is mentioned In history as] “Clara Mudridge-Smith has. one," wi early as 516, and it was a tiny r Mrs. Jarr. continued, "It 1s of blue God's caré on you, my good friend| lic in the eleventh century, For cen- | satin, velled with blue mousseline de ana fellow | turtes 1t was the commercial metrop- | sole, with a bolero bodice, w long, Come home again? You bet, old pal,|olis of Europe. In the sixteenth cen- | close-fitting sleeves; and it's ringed So long, but not good-by, tury it attained its greatest splendor| with gold and embroidered with Vil wait for you, and pray’ for you, | and prosperity and ships from every | green and soariet, It makes her look You've been a friend, that'e why. | part of very bold, I si R. B. G, | Scheldt, yBhe'd ‘oak Bora in @ Quakereas the world sailed t be “Lnever was so rushed at this time ft year before!” she cried. “I think all mg customers have come back to just to get now dresses made n't you make over my new blue | batiste in the new one-plece style if |T can match the material?” asked | Mrs, Jarr appealingly. over an old dress | went | the “T couldn't make far the Princess Patricla, if sh down on her knees to ask me! niodiste declared. “I notice you've made over @ dress I saw you in before—or 18 it a new one?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “A new dress!” cried the lady of gowns, “I couldn't afford it if I had the money for the material—for all my customers are giving: me new orders without paying their old bills. Mrs, Jarr winced, she owed Mrs Le Grande something on a very old account. “So its a made-over dres: re- marked Mrs, Rangle, eyeing the! | modiste's costume hungril “Certainly not!" said the Madame. a dress I made for a customer week, but as she didn't pay me anything on the biil she owed me "1s “It must be nice to be a dress- remarked Mrs. Jarr. "I wouldn't care so much if my custom- I'd do like you and +"Ob, I dare say it’ very fine to be a modiste,” remarked Madame Le Grande sarcastically, “You have to pay for the linings and trimmings, for if there are no linings there are always trimmings. And you have to pay your work people—and the prices they get these days. My sleeve hand alone Is going to leave me if I don’t pay her $10 a week more, Says she could make more money in an ammunition factory than here, as it i @ saw one of the new dresses to-day, a one-piece dress," said Mrs. Jarr, “ike that, and as my husband some Gov- make aero- is interested in getting ernment contracts to planes"—— “Don't tell me that!" Madame Le Grande, “t ybody 1s looking for Government rth adien myself, 1 think I'll turn my shop into a shirt factory for soldiers, There 18 a shortage of un- derwear for soldiers I hear, Do 80) diers wear night shirts or pajamas Mrs. Jarr sald she didn't know, but interrupted 8 all | hear, Barrett. that they can give a complete and convincing analysis of the subject's characteristics, thus enabling an em- ployer to assign an applicant to the one right job. “I do not question that a physiogno- mist or phrenologist can read a sub- ject more intelligently than can one who has never studied the science, but I DO doubt whether their work \s of great practical value. Roughly speaking, I would estimate the im- portance of the various factors enteg; ing into the judgment of an appl- cant’s suitability about as follow: . Past record, 80 per cent. ‘2, Demonstrated experience and ability, 40 per cent, “3. Personal impression, 20 per cent. ‘4. Uhyslognomy and phrenology, 10 per cent, “Items one and two, which appear to be synonymous, are differentiated in my mind by applying the phrase, ‘past record’ to such qualities as stability, honesty, reputation, &., and the phrase ‘demonstrated ex- perience and ability,’ to the educa- Uonal advantages and actual techai- cal experience of the man. Number three, personal impr lon, applies to the aizing-up process involved in any interview of this nature, Number four is self-explanatory. “Now, of course, this estimate of the importance of the factors to be considered would vary with different Jobs. If I were hiring a stenographer, ‘demonstrated experience and ability’ would figure much largor. Ac- tual tests would tell practically the whole story. Similarly in employing 4 commercial artist, or a copy man in an advertising agency, the sam- ples of the work submitted would be the determining point, But in securing an executive, a salesman, or a man for any position in which it was more difficult to ascertain the applicant's qualifications, num- ber one, past record, and number three, personal impression, would, of veasity, loom larger, ‘Another fact to be considered {s the man doing the hiring. Some peo- ple are singularly obtuse as regards their perceptive faculties. We calt them ‘poor judges of character’ A man of this type would rate num- ber four higher and number three lower, Most people who have inves tigated physiognomy and -phrenology have become convinced that there is a great deal in it. But as to the practicability of applying it to the she thought neither, as she knew our| selection of employees, that s another soldiers had gone to the war, resolved | question. Probably its most devoted never to retire when they’ met the adherents overrate its efficacy—its enemy. bitterest critics underrate its value.” « © Americans By ALBERT PA Under Fire YSON TERHUNE A new series of historical articles, showing that the heroism of American Patriots has flamed high through the smoke of battle wherever and whenever it has series, now that American 80) action, Evening World Monday, from last fall I don't intend to let her have it, I'm wearing it myself,” been put to the test. A timely diers once more are to go into The first story will be published on this page of The August 20