The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1917, Page 14

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HKISTMAS OVER, the nation is bound to plunge deeper than ‘ to Lie buginews of making iteelf efficient for war, Prob » of concentration, adjustment, co-ordination fees with ever increasing urgency apon the Government and upon the pecial adminia(rative authorities created to meet and solve them, For the sake of the future in a wider sense than that of secur- | ity won by « victorious conclusion of the war, the American people should pray that the great process of turning this peaceful nation into a formidable fighting power may be cafried out with «| wisdom that shall never lose sight of the fact that the purpose and | destiny of the United States extend beyond the winning of the war, into an era of re-established peace, industry and national | well being. | While we make guns and,shells by the million, while we turn | out airplanes and destroyers at top speed, let us never forget that | these things add not one iota to the permanent solid assets upon | which the enduring power of the nation—even for war—depends. | ‘There are many war-possessed Americans just now who would | willingly have their fellow countrymen believe that the country’s pro- ductive energies should be shifted whole to groups of special war industries. | Other industries of various kinds, summarily classed as “non-! eeeential to the winning of the war;” are “doomed”—by prediction at} least—with a thoughtless haste that does little credit to American; level-headedness and common sense. } Labor, we are told in excited tones, must be taken forthwith from this and that industry and concentrated on war work. | In the name of national permanence and economic endurance | let us not dig too fast at our foundations! | War is waste—the most colossal of all waste. Costly as they are, its instruments and engines do nothing but Westroy. Except as they destroy they are themselves worthless. Bil- lions spent on war wipe out products of human toil worth billions more and are themselves gone forever. Tt is easy to call a piano (and the labor expended to make it) “non-essential” from the point of view of war. But the piano is at least a relatively permanent product which en- dures as a part of the national wealth—a thing of value which can become an object of trade or the basis of credit. In producing material required for war a wise nation will net disrupt industries normally contributing to its permanent wealth until it has utilized to the utmost practicable extent all labor which is commonly unproductive or idle. Where is the waste man-power of the United States? Where | are the loafers and idlers who ought to be the first to be mobilized | as war workers? If war material must be recognized, from an economic point | of view, as waste, then let the country's waste labor be drafted to help produce it. | Skilled labor in war industries is, of course, to a large degree | essential. Yet we are told by executives in these industries that | AY “where there is a reasonable degree of mechanical intelligence even without experience, intensive training can fit green employees for par- ticular lines of work in a remarkably short time,” Even where, even with training, what we call the “waste labor” of the country cannot be applied directly to the making of war sup- plies, it can nevertheless be used on farms and for unskilled work that would otherwise have to be done by men more useful elsewhere. The nation can ill afford to spare labor from any kind of work that adds in any way to the solid, lasting wealth which is the | best guarantee for its economic future. Instead of hunting too hard for “now-essential industries” that can be shut it should look first for non-active man- power that can be tu on, ‘*Ma’’ Sunday’s Intimate Talks THE GIRL WHO SAID “I CANT!” GOOD many girls seem to think | ence. At the close .he manager hur- ail thero is in life tp to wait| fled back to ber dressing room |v congratulate her, and it was the. until some hero comes buzzing | that the great prima donna reminded Sround thé ©or-|)him of the fact that he was the di- ner of the block|-ector who years before had told her in his “flivver"|She had no volco and advised her to |go back to her sewing machine, and steals them!” «1 took the rat part of your ad- away to the en-| vice,” she said, “but 1 kept my chanted land of| dreams and ambition» with me, for I sine ‘roo | Sew better than you did that som: their dreams. Too) Gay 1 would succeed—I must suc many of our] Geoa!" modern youn! women are slack-|to the young wo the two words, ER ers—when ity tor two type: & ~) comes to putting pting, these who have no AT Gnmey in and getting nd those who are alwaya | * Be happy at four ebi Jout of life little things worth while. | Bret ret am—and hold onto that They seem to think there is no Use IN| dream, It is precious, sacred. Dreams |thetr looking further ahead than the|are the expressions of our soul long- No greater message can be given | ' Camp Comedies. By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Now York Wrening World.) PUREE DE CAMOUFLAGE! SCENE: Camp Wadsworth. TIME; Morning Mess. (The bova are huddled in proups eating morning “chow.” The diting cold of a wintry dawn ts evident in noses varying from @ pale mauve to a roval purple) A Q@lowing chunks of frozen | breath)—I wish they'd distri- bute those gas masks and let us wear ‘em at mess—my prunes freeze on the way to my mouth. B (complaining)—My cocoa's cold! C (gay wit that is)—Put your hat on! B (peevishly unappreciative)—Say if you think that smart Aleck stuft is in order when a guy's suffering from involuntary refrigeration, you're in’ wrong. I could ‘a’ said a lot of caustic things when I saw you in that bathrobe in the Base Hospital C (infinitely taboo? A (promptly)—Three words. vice, efficiency and camouflage C (indignantly)—No one has heard me use “camouflage” since It became pidemic, Talk about a red rag to @ vull—that word certainly raises my emperature to 212F, Let's put @ five Jollar fine on it! B (drearily)—1 wonder when the Committee on Hays and Beans ts kolng to put us on war rations, | © Gn disgust)—Oh, shut up, or some one will put an olive drab pill offended) — What's “Sor. , eta - = |next day, or ponsibly the next year.| ings that many of us cannot PUi| week—only I didn't in your porridge. You got too many ee = _ | They take it for granted that there is oe era rd Phat smany of It'te only | D butting tn)—Oh, them bath-| books from home last weok—that' O rigin o f t h e A ] h a b et |nothing big or fine they can do, ANd\ihe person who is content to take|robe! Honest Charite, you looked, What's the matter with you. ‘ P |forget that the world always says: [life as It comes, who is satisfied (O| ike your tent bad blown down! 3B (taken unawares)—Whady'mean N’ one has ever satisfactorily ex-| and very likely a capital A may have| “Of course, you can't!” Hold down a “meal ticket” Job Just] | ound you, | book plained the alphabet's origin | been at first the picture of | , ‘orld alw because it representa the solving of | ®'” : \@ han — You needn't ee, Be cao eat cane. | - of @ pyra-| This le the way the world always) ine bread and butter problem, with| C (erutfly)—The quartermasters| © (trlumphantly) — You nes ee eeee vervoue man |, Ame® and ages ago in Mgypt mon CBAllenges every one who dares ‘ol whom I have no patienc idea of standardizing. He think I didn’t see the notice y But we know that no ingenious man | 1 both ‘hands in writing ‘The ahow initiative, That is a part of] And, remembor, little girl, that few! 1) ono size of bathrobe now from the postmaster: Private gat down and m the alphabet, and) priests employed the oldest kind,|our testing. There ts only ong pass-/ dreams ever come true that are not on whak! alike te “divided int tc Brown; Pleace call for your box We know quite well, too, that the al-| which Mas tho pictures, ‘This Was | word to those frowning sentries who Made to. Unless you Fe le clr sn taama: aa Beall he a Mayked ‘Books aa they are leaking’ d called the sacred writ : yourself to your dr } grades: too large, too small, too lo area phabet began as pictures, Crary Gacuis fond’ o dliboene fie would seck to bar our way to success, will never, nover give itself! rq too short, ‘That's efficiency. badly Just as a child reada or learns bY | newer kind of writing, in which the|@od that is, “J cani” ! ' by Chorus (howling) —Taboo! Chorus (loudly)—Stingy! Pletures long before !t can read let-| pictures were turned Into letters, When one of our greatest con- ht, 1917, by The Bell Bradieste, Tor.) B (on the defensive)—Aw, it was ters, no men used to read and write | Not very many years ago men tried by pletures; and then these plctures| Wriving ‘ot"the ‘Teyptians, ou thes |toBeing to become a noted singer Little Talk Ast scared to have me drink strange were gradually made simpler and] could not. Then they found the wor, |#he was met by @ succession of re ittle aliks on stronomy water and simpler, until at last they could be|derful Rosetta stone, and this had| buffs, Sho was told by the expert . stent! t dl Rania D (shrieking excitedly) — Look! used in every and any way. | written upon It the same thing three | director in @ foreign city lo wet her HE eighth day of next June 1s|sctentists expect to discover hitherto Look! Ed Winton is eating some- We know that the letter O was at) times-once in the pictures and once |dreains of fame out of her mind and to be a gala day for as-|hiddgn secrets of the skies asa direct | ining aigerent! firat the picture of a , and that] tn the letters, and also once in |go back home and buy @ sewing tronomers. On that occa-|result, From every mountain peak in a y the inoffensive and Kradually men mad letters, and so men got the key to| machine and do the kind of work aue| | VDONNEB 9m) al Gh of the eclipse powerfin e (immediately the inol picture writing, and now it can he| Was qualified to do. sion he sun in j the bel Powerful CAM-’ industriously masticating Ed te sur- read sasily, girl went home to her sewing |eclipse throughout a belt 160 miles|eras and telescopes are to take note! wunded by a raving unit of Uncle a ae — machine, use she had to f tending across the United] of its progress. Pierce es Sharp Wits her bread and butter, “Hut ‘she Bate rhe eetibee ‘h expoutaal tal unetmicantn shadow: wilt erase dhe Seate Basens Gael fs N s ot gly ¢ The t : —Where’ I NOL wire Mp AS dota, | Ta last for perhaps threo hours, and wit! | United States at a speed of something| ,> ‘noersely? H War's bad enough but It has some to them as an inheritance,—Toledo | machine was her “meal ticket F 5 we got is prunes an’ mush an ood points. Think of the experts Blade : |Her practice at her singing in be confined to a belt be like 1,000 miles an hour, The moment! ccrulean cocoa. I never even BAW itt keeping in the dim background se Jevenings Was her real joo-the where in Northern Oregon and end-|{t begins to settle the path of the|,, looka 1ike that, What af the rearward poges—Milwaukeo| A woman has got to remember abe Gin, beceuee she like ing in Northern Florida, thus cutting | shadow will become dark, lke an beta that peat N uy can't vote ued 4 1 do - <f t 4 x ‘aia ah Say Rar nied tacaphin Commer piness in ity ding. Mer dreams of| a diagonal line acspss the continent, Jeorie twilight. No doubt the chickens Ghorug (wilaly)—Yea, what te it? Young man, if you would engrave | peal, |fome day astonishing the world with) nis strange ph on is ached: | Will go to roost, in this path, and the) jy etruggling)—Can't. tell you, * 1 t use a ee ber voice never left her, even when cattle will come lowing from th See an On ® Br none saws, | Indolence often’ tr she was deserted by the man wh uled to take place when the moon iA he | You'd fine me five dollars. | Sei Gamond—Chicago Ne | ate Patience ATDENY Tear uPereon-| name she bore, and saw herself and| next interpoves Its bulk between the flelds, his is w famillar imeident of] Chorus (rampaging) ~ Quit your | . al her little ones ulmoat ejected by the |, RMA’ Al thin nich | every eclipse and one of the things’). . A good wa diet would be) oe ; |andlord. for non-payment of their) “At and sun, a thing Ww Sich make It soem ao strange, ne | kiasingwrand’ tell us Bread and cheese, and kisses, ‘The | You never can tell, Many a man | rent | occ During the time of Macon We ‘ E (meekly) —Puree of camouflage! Gifficulty is to get the bread and) ¥e al) cart ee oe MN Mined POY | Then came the long-walted night) its pawsage the sun will be obscured one cal rst o * a pee without &) iy (with scorn)--Aw, What're you gheese.—Philadelphia Record. oe ecelphia Record, — | of nights—thoe opportunity for which |py the lunar body and the shadow of | feeling of Awe. It does not cause | 1402 uae alk English. ee 7 | An able bodied man out of employ. |#B¢ nad, worked and dreamed ie moon falling on the earth will| blackness to settle upon the earth, are pen The poor we have with us always./ ment now is an able bodied OY- | years, The famous star at the yp ee but pale shadows gather which ere| (trembling)—it 00. got It te such weather as this that eI | godying it.—Columbla (8. C.) B MAN | city's opera Was suddenly taken | cause temporary darkness to reign in ike anything we know. {tired eating just prunes an’ mush an’ fact that we are our | 6 te—Columbia (8. C.) State My and it was {impossible for ner the belt indicated, ne Pe inne aa nelipse was the |°2¢o®, 8o 1 mixed the cocoa with the ! ile Banner, | t ner part in the attraction, fo d e clipse > pr ad ner) Nobody ever succeeds in proving | which the house Was ai aay wl {orl For many years every eclipse of the signal for superstition to run riot, * enush and it looked so much like @ Mee is tie interest tanking bay: worth by boasting Albany Journal, |{n advanc . In despe man-|sun has been an event of widespread jong time ago the cause was unknown | faxseed poultice it took ur 4 appetite i. By J ueht this a e 8 last} eve! c] e y om the debt of nature,-Chicago News. | A good many people observe entirely | Meno, not because he it last) interest, But never was an eclipse| ang when this did become known to| Way #0 I had te put fa ‘fee prunes ' 8 too many thoughtless days,—Indlan- | could fill. the » Pe SMe] awaited with such Interest as that atists the mass of people refuseg |t® bring my appet Brcern 7 the verbal manana peel Dolls News, cae | was absolutely pot) he could| now approaching. Moving pieture|to believe them. 80 oming ot/up a name for tt, Mke the French hamton Vress. 4 “| It's all right to be attractive, but oored. or Ener cle jcompanies arb making preparation OE eee oaligat y Weird have to their mashed food and—— pegad : » but cored ong 3 bones rites, plicat ‘ \very often folly attracts m Many old jokes are tad good to tion than byery generation fas @ right Record, oS nea ® ayten- wisdom, ~ Philadg/phia rms: traltos first began to feel the soul- bits in lilstory very phase of the ech ie forced t ourtain cally of (h ‘i MO#t photograph ¢ d to the [wate will gathe lighted audi-lof the earth to wateh it, and some |just mineral water—my folks are Chorus (moving off as one man)>- tea ‘om all parts! oxt 1 upon 7 | Write to Washington about tt! Hi {a menace to the army! the world Wednesday, December 26 1917 ee | ‘What Every Woman Wishes By Helen Rowland. , Corres Ott by The Prem Ponlewas Co oF © you remember 1 When “one good (allored walt” made a “ady An4 Fou could put on that euit, with « “fancy biowse And an all silk rusti(ng pettionst, and patent leather dents, and white glove 1 a ting flowered toque, ond & bunch of violets, And be “all dressed up” tor an afternoon (em party, or @ theatre, of dinner at @ restaurant, of ANYTHING, Bacept a ball? Hut NOW, You get into « velvet afternoon frock of « starting restaurant gows, And lace on twenty dollar boots w match, And have your heir marcetied aod your eyebrews pulled. And fasten on your neat-pear! earrings and you wrist watch, And siip into your forty-seven-inch (ur coa And your fur vat, : ’ ’ “vor H diamond mownted And pick up a muff worth « hundred or so, and your gold mesh wag, And pin on « few orchids. And say “Will 1 DOT Really, I feel rawther bby! And sometimes I think We ARE rather shabby To keep on dressing iike that in (hese sad and perilous times, When there are so many men “over ther Fighting to keep us safe and happy. And needing socks, and shoes, and coul, and food, and guns, end medicine and things! And sometimes I wonder whether ft was because I was SO gloriously young That I felt so smart and stunning in the tatlored sult, and the patent leather shoes, and the tiny violet toque, Or whether it ts because we have grown eo effete and luzurious end positively Babylonian ‘That we feel “shabby” unless we are swathed in velvets and furs, And carry jewelled handbags, And have “everything to match!” And sometimes I envy trained nurses, and Red Cross workers, an@ Sisters of Charity, Who always look so beautiful and fascinating in their simple cotter | uniforme, And NEVER have to worry their heads about “clothes!” | And I think that If all the women would get together And adopt a war time UNIFORM—and stick to t!— It would be the ONE vital way of showing our grit and character, And proving our real emancipation from “slavery”— Much more convincing than carrying banners and going to jail! Because, in her heart of hearts, Every woman yearns for the sweet old simple days, When you could go to a Christmas party in a white muslin gown, With a carnation tucked {n your hair, - nd feel like a QUEEN! | And every girl worth marrying or loving or talking to, or even kisstngy/ | Is heartily tired and sick Of giving her time, and soul, and life, and brains. | To the DRESS proposition! } Aren't YOU? | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyrigtt, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Ce, (The New York Kroning World.) "LL be glad when the holidays| put off buying gifts till after Christe are over," said Mrs, Jarr,|mas, when everything would be | “Anyway, we are always say- | ing that Christmas doesn’t seem like | Christmas any more, and that the old |holiday epirit has passed. But I guess we say that simply because we are 4 cheaper then nobody would fcel ef- fenaed if thetr presente were received jate.”” “But don't you think the woul keep up their prices on helt ay i articles till the rush of gift buy? wan over, whether that was @urs older. i the holidays them?’ “Yet, even for the children, I do | *#hs flee ae mn Nes not think this Christmas was at all wpe Uniaren’ expect ee 4 like other Christmases, I guess it was the feeling of apprehension in the air, with our soldier boys going broad with the things we bad knit- ted for them"— “The knitting wasn't as-bad as all | unat, although I did see some sweaters |that were patterned after barbet wire entanglements,” ventured Mr Jarr. | “You know what T meant” sald Mrs, Jarr sharply, “I mean subma- | rines, and battles and sugar and coal, land everything belng so dear,” | “Oh, well," remarked Mr, Jarr. "Tye ‘heard you say that Christmas | goods for Christmas gifts are muci | cheaper after Christmas,” | “Yes, that's so,” said Mrs. Jarr. |“And it would be nice if one didn’t |have to buy Cristmas goods till after |Christmas, Still, if you do send | things to some people first they won't send you anything at all, and if people wait till after Christmas when all holiday articles are reduced to | close them out—for the stores do not Jeare to put things back in stock tor |a whole year—what compliment is itr “But will not people say it is no compliment on your part to send them gifts until after the hodidays, when they are cheap?” He cane meee: Mie Renae “But I can write a note saying that| said she'd have to go buy presents for my gifts to them are late because the the, prople Fiat eene us these late Co Post Office and express companies are was simply trading so awamped,” suggested Mra Jarr, |Drengnt® and one word led to another, your gifts will be delayed, and won't| Mr. Jarr reproachfully’” 'Yer kane |tBe date stamp show whem you send |the women folks are under a straim osthere you g "ang all the pleas- AAG Dervons x this time of year!" Ure oUt of one's generous impulses, |ato, und eapociatiie oe ore, Consider = and right after Christmas too!" re- | marked Mrs. Jarn peep nee gre? plied Mra. Jarr reproachfully. “Still, | bear, that's the way Me june $3 if It was the custom that everybody ey Mr, Jarr and e#ifts at Christmas, and on their ac- count Christmas will not enly come once @ year, but it will also come on Christmas Day. But I am not ing to hurry out and buy someth! nice for Mrs, Stryver till I see what she is going to send me, It is just like her to wait till after Christmas and then buy me something and, pre« tend it was delayed in Seing dee | livered.”” “But that’s what you were talking of doing to other people,” said i “IT am not speaking of doi: was Just thinking” pafoie “It's all the same, it isn't the true spirit of Christmas,” remarked Mr, Jarr inadvertently. “That's right, sneer at me, sneer at what I got for you! Sneer because f didn't get you some things before Christmas because I knew they would be reduced in price after Christmas!” wobbed Mrs, Jarr. “Ie that the holiday spirit?” Mr. Jerr was ut to lose wis temper also, but just then there came @ ring at the door and thair ne! Mr. John W. Rangle, wearing nee rusful expression, was admitted, % te to call during the holiday season and bother HE my troubles,” Mr, Rangle faltered, “But I wish you and Mr, Jarr would step around to our house and square things for me?” “Why, what have you done mew, Mr. Rangle?” asked Mra. Jar. “k always thought you the best of men!’* “Well, I guppose I was all wron, thi I do.” the Treack ee ceding lines ts called coin od the mopping Whiz Bang—a particularly offensive Dictionary of u Unterofficer—A German missioned officer, non-com- U Boat (Unterseeboote)—German ee of aa 1, which bursts two on type of submarine. | cracker’! “ke @ Chinese fire, v | Wipers—British soldier’, Vedette—rrench outpost. | "eornee sh soldier's name for Virage—A whirling pivot evolution of} Y an airplane, Yellew Tag—Cu Veney Lighte—A flare for tllumin- indicating that patient Isto bi ating cnemy's position. hospital. Sent $0 Opa V,,Ge=vieteria Cross, Highest British z jecoration for bravery. Zematvo—A Russi Atrio re gineive- avian district am- Wave—A line of troops in assault. The first line ts called the first wave, The line which bombs out the positions crossed by the pre- Zep—Zeppelins, a German dirigible balloon used in this war oles te the murder of non-combatants (THE END.) -_- ~ “a “i