The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1917, Page 16

FAIRE OO ree POL EFIER, rd mrageg ty pre Oprce Proname Cmmngen Bevo vo Tew on nee asion ert CNG Se Xa “a - Ce ed = CTT RAS S6 ws ot TS Poel Se oe AMY i sO, ye —— - ee UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL. ITH the financial guarenter of the United & Treaeor and an ademimeatratre p ed solely upon the sande « Metion a tlaver nt tomorrow ‘ake com io the penple United States welcome the Pree © railroad tives Unemacives are glad to be tor of > operat nad coordination wh thee heave Ceaheoeed they iad \ittie pape ¢ shis to perform The interests of stack sre water than ever The Goverr mast eel! 9 : reay jity of protecting them. A guar enter in ‘ ® re ad, of a 1 ating income equa | to the avere r are, ght to prove sufficient rentgprin Congress cannot refuse to aathoriga it To Serr ¢ Treaty MeAdoo, @ho now becomes Go ernment Direot Haliroods, opens an apportanity for adminis trative achievement unique story of the country | Under centralized control, it should he possible to get out of the! 990,000 miles of American railways service of @ volume and efficiency | hitherto unknown. It possible to eut throngh freight tangles, dixpose of the long-standing problem of idle or lost freight | BV in the yards of other roads, and speed up traffic to a point that never could be reached when railroad corporations constantly allowed whet they short-sightedly regarced their individual interests to stand in the way of co-operation. For the immediate purposes of war and for the distribution of fogd and fuel to the American people while they are making war, Government direction of the railroads promises much. As a demonstration of efficiency which will not be forgotten when the war is over it may well mean even more, | a Ss PUT THE LOAFERS TO WORK. AVE productive industry, Turp the nation's waste man power) to war work, The Evening World has urged. | The following letter sent to the Hudson (N.J.) Dispatch | Hoboken reader goes straight to the point: | I think something should be done by the Government to ' rid oyr street corners of hundreds of lasy but able-bodied young =| | men who refuse to work. For instance, in the Third and Fourth Wards of our city in particular there ts « noticeable small army of these men who apparently have nothing to do I cannot believe that they are unable to get work, for there \s # scarcity of labor which should make it possible for eny man | to get @ job in these days. j ~ These are the loafers and idlers who, The Evening World long) since pointed out, should be drafted and mobilized without delay for war tasks. ‘ “There are at least a thousand of them in the Third and Fourth! should be Wards of Hoboken, a police official assures the Hudson Dispatch— “young men who are now out of work, and who are not looking for work.” Having jnvestigated the cases of some of these youths, the | Dispatch reports: Their fathers end mothers and sisters and brothers ar and making good money. A good home ts provided ané all the “work” they will do is to get enough to them in apending money. Many of them will go down the railroad tracks and “kick off’ coal from the coal trains, in that way to get pocket money ways of getting spending money, but ey are al) persistent and successful in avoiding work. Agoording to good information, the only regukr work ‘ese fellows wil! accept is work as helpers to machinists | and others where they can earn big money, $30 to $40 a week, grotting tn long hours and without putting a great deal of effort into their work. Most of them are capable of earning from $15 to $20 @ week, but they will not go to work at such wages, and as there is some limit even to war necessity, the industries and other places where labor {s actually needed wt!! aot meet their exorbitant demande, ' We cite this because it tells plain facts true not only of Hoboken | but of innumerable brigades of street-corner idlers in every) ity in the country. Whether in peace or war, their idea is to be half supported by the community from chance pickings thrown their way. | i With the whole nation toiling to meet the demands of the biggest | job it has ever taken on, the continued immunity of these inveterate | loafers and slackers becomes an outrageous injustice. “They should be the first to be drafted for any war needs they | are capable of meeting. * And until they are put steadily to work for all that oan be gotten out of them, we should hear less about taking labor with reckless haste from productiv®, wealth-creating industries, to be concentrated upon the destructive, waste-multiplying materials of war _ a The world, such es it is, is glad to weloome Stefanseon | back. Such as it is, will he reciprocate? Letters From the People Please limit communtoations to 150 words, Here Abont the Censorship en Girls’ mothers, Certainly if the mother cannot oontrol her daughter, Pe the Kaitor of The Evening World: ° * Tm stranger will be able to do #0, I'm pe my opinion of the|elghteen, and I know if 1 wanted to ee on Staten Island ferry- do bap evigs Ag outsider would ates of girls’ attire? Mra. 7 ear if me, and t) is the atttude most young people assume toward vex o , outside by girls, Do swagger oes forenct t Mrs. Manes ‘any more attention than um- | Peslize Ke. she Is only encouraging or parasols? I think her idea 204 making worse the very thing ahe heeled boots ts absurd, ||'# trying to do away witht W YORK GIRL. What Bee of the Coalt To the Editor of The Evening World; For the past few weeks I have read nothing in the papers but "35, 000 tons of coal arrived this morn- more to follow.” That may be 60, but what happens when the coal arriv Who gets It? I don't. one impudent enough to did so to attract attention, worn “a big red hat," but nsidered other girls big hats were becoming clr favorite color hap- to be red. h heeled boots, both light ‘sark colored, but I've never yet peaks of the use of rouge and | n trying desperately ti crayon. How small, how! but cannot, At t! a present | of |moment I am the happy (1?) ow: of one bushel, which I begged froin Have tried all tind ot | small and cellar, and | 100 Ibs, Is no relief in ‘ Or de Ge ore, larg mnot buy gait ~ @o.sHew Americans ®& ® m m Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhun opt ONE Or Wee Comm Panag (a The ton Cae toma Cane | NO, 0—-THE “LOGAN” COLONIAL WAR, © wee & fill-wnnted (ndien « Convene et Mie sation came wee Tehowtete fe cote’ Wet “heer feonnee (et fer 8 white mene cee He Weed and revered (he while mon and he oon prend (@ call Wemeell (hee friend Ha 00d in the Onin Riven counter ia whet tad bern @ (racuions #iiternem: and which wor bogie wing to OT with pioneers from (he Mae, At Lageme orders Wa (rihenmen freated (hae planeers @tR - kindness «(The wiidernees settiomente were = voter hie protection = They (hreve ty Me help Thew, in 1774 « @unken Indien Billed « ebtte men somewrt «1% Col Were Cre ot the & ‘orth (@ panie® the ortme A party of @ hile @ «0 later dented that be oa ome to Logan's “ a (he chiefs eheenes and he friendly Indians @ lone in the pertle of Smt Vie they 4 ° g te ‘ ‘ Ths gullent off ¢ came heme to fi . hod Wwe re atenteation ter the while * r ‘ » Aeathiees +4. We « rt engrance . rece, And he wasted no Uma bet ‘ . te on laitying all the nog tines “red war om the sattiers, lake a deeaw fam . . yt dowo vv0R trontier 1 , e t t stem the OOAPOODOOOE Hs ‘ h wee toned with The Uprising elation le Put own. Then Gov, Danmor niat ruler of Virginia, o sent nn expediiion wma tana made up of ‘ rifleme » had fought ashington ta the Braddock eam, and of yo nv n who were dex. ned soon to fight with Washingt the ution. Very different fone were thene atern-eyad inarkemen from the scattered Weatern militia which Logan had bean fixnting. And afte? one or twe fierce battles his followers had had quite enough of such warfare. The Hattie of Potnt Pleasant completed their rout Tho bulk of the survivors scatterad to the deaper forests for eafety Their chiefe surrendered and went to Virginia to beg Dunmore to grast them peace terns. But Logan, desorted and an outlaw, refused to go with them. Instead ho sent Dunmore a message, part of which Iam going to quote, and which is a gem of rhetoric when one remombers its author was 4n uniettered old Indian, ‘The message (known an "Loan’s Hpeech") began “Ll appeal to any white man to say if ever ho cntered Logan's cabin and he gave hin no meat; If he ever camo cold and naked and Logan clothed him not, Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen scoffed: ‘Logan is the friend of the white man!’ “Col. Creanp, last «pring, murdered all the kinfolk of Logan, not even | sparing my wife and children. This called on me for revenge. T #ought jt. I killed many. 1 have fully glutted my vengeance and, for my country, | I rejoice in the hope of peace, Mine is not the joy of fear. Logan never ;felt fear, He will not turn on his hee! to save his life, “Who among his kindred is left to me for Logan? Not one!” The poor old fellow's hopes were gone. He took to Nquor, becoming little b During spree he knocks! ; he had committed inurder he Jumped on his pthc galloped away. A band of his tribesmen rn him to reassure him, on eae | They caught up with him on the banks of Lake Erte. Ml; | peacéful purpose Logan rode at them, shouting that he wi jall to the death. Hoe charged down upon their leade: ta bento: toe hah-dos. Tho latter, fearing for his own life, shot Logan dead. It was a tragically sordid ending for the warrior who had once bo; of being “the white man's friend,” who had defted all America Phere «5 {nad nearly depopulated tho West. —r Error’s Victim to the End. aking their A Plea for the Postmen By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York tveaing Work.) ND now it is all over—the Christmas rush with all tts hustie and bustle, and the great event which has been anticipated and stewed over has passed and is relegated to the rear. Soon it will be forgotten, With the first signs of spring it will be but a memory, to be revived only foemin mene — after another year has gone by. But “lest we forget” the people who played the big part—who have al ways, year in and year out, played the big part in the holiday of all hol- Adi but who must go on day after a carriers of your messages, rain or shine, storm or snow—the letter jcarriers, there ia no better time than the present to remember them. No better time to etop, look and |leten to their plea to the pubilo, a cry that will not down, but is woll worthy of every citisen’s attention, All day Sunday before Christmas I received mail almost every hour, and Sunday night special deliveries, And all day Christmas these sorvitora of the poor as well as of the rich did their duty to that all your post cards and letters and packages were delivered to you in good time, Think of the volume and the task! When it was all completed thelr duty was done, But what about them, these men who helped Uncle Bam se- cure a surplus of $9,000,000 for the year ending June 80 last? ‘They have not received an increase tn salary in ten years, rogardiess of the high cost of living and of the fact that every other industry has moved on apace in the matter of wages. ‘The highest salary paid to a letter carrier is $1,200, and he has to work nine years to reach this amount, During this time he cannot average more than $760 per year, since the present entrance salary is but $800, And he can’t even get this sum until he has been acting as 4 substitute, averaging between four years, during which time be is not sure of any fixed amoynt, While the statistics of the Dopart- ment of Labor show that other indus- tries have increased pay of employees from 20 per cent, and the retai! price. jof food have advanced 50 per cen the letter carrier's eurnings have stood still, And when be takce Uae uaa and five ter whether it ts caused by exposure |to the weather or poor workrooms of |the department, he has only one re- course—his own association, to which he must pay in order to get sick enefit. When you stop to think—during the | time the wage question has remained etationary for him the work of the Post Office has moved on apace by adding parcels post to his burden, There is something to be said about the whole business by each and all of us. |” ‘Phere ts something to be said about the uniforms, two of which he must purchase each year, and which now cost 50 per cent. more than they did ten years ago; and the shoes—you ‘know the price of shoes, There is something to be said about this faithful and fine service of par- many insured and Yes, there is something to be eaid about them, these 3,000 soldiers of | eivic service in this city, whose ley- Jalty to their flag, regardless of thetr meagre pay, Wi demonstrated in thelr purchase of $179,000 of the First | Liberty Loan, on the $1 a week plan, There is something to be sald about it all, Mr, Mra. or Miss Citizen. And what can you say? Just thie: duced by M: the Dill that is now pending, No. H. R, 1,6! What does this bill do? It makes the present firet grade 91,000; second grade salary, third grade salary, $1,200; fourth grade salary, $1,300; fifth grade salary, $1,400; sixth grade sal- ary, $1,500 What are you going to do about !t? Are you going to watt until next Christmas to remember this great con- tribution to your comfort—the letter carrier? It ts up to you and me! First Signboards * Hung at Taverns E first tradesmen to adopt the use ~€ signs were the innkeep- ers, and frow earliest times in England and on the Continent the tav- erne of town and country were distin- guished by signboards bearing the names of the hostelries, It was not until the sixteenth century that mer- chants dealing in other than liquid re- freshments began to erect aligns over their doors, Once started, the custom spread rapidly and the seventeenth century was @ period of greatest prow berity for the sign painters of ingland. Even in London tho houses and ops were not numbered, wo 4 trades- man's place of business could only be known by @ sign. A man starting in business considered @ striking sign his most important investment, Huge signs wero slung across the entire street. Aw they grew old they some- times fell, and thus became @ source of tdanger, Such signs were pro- hiblied by Parhument in 1 ‘and alter that merchants bad to be con- wal witb giore Wodual Bigubeurde | The By Roy L. in the aftermath of Chri mas, The children were quarrel- ling merrily in the dinning room| Over such of thelr toys as were yet) | unbroken and were claimed by both Suddenly the-little girl came running to her father in the front room, wail- jing bitterly, | *Laok at my doll!” she orled, “Look at my nice new doll! Willie has broken the little thing in tts stomach that made ft say ‘Mamma | “Papa will take it downtown to- morrow and have it fixed,” said Mr Jarr, soothingly, The little girl ceased her weeping, not at the promise, but in awe of the appearance of her father, Mr, Jarr was wearing everything that had been wished on him by wife and other feminine relatives, A man has to wear this Chrisunas cam- ouflage and say, Heaven help him, “It's just what I wanted!” Mr, Jarr wore one of his vivid purple Christmas neckties, Mr, Jarr wore his velvet and braided Christ mas smoking jacket. Mr. Jarr wore| @ smoking cap with @ tassel, a pres ent from his wife's mother, Mr, Jacr wore red morocco Romeo slipper this last a present from @ mali aunt who lived in @ small town far| away and who thought New York! @ gay piace and that Mr. Jarr would! cabarets or attend dreadful burlesque shows. They were elippors that betokened all worldly wickednesi | In this horrible holiday outfit Mr. | Jarr greatly resembled Esau, the Ed- ucated Ape, toplining in vaudeville, ‘With white whiskers he might have simulated a belated Banta Claus, His Mttle daughter chewed hor fingers and regarded him as though fascinated, and as though she expected him to give @ loud screech, attempt to bite his trainer, and then ride around in cfreles on a velocipadte, At Mr, Jarr’s elbow was his “sen-| sible’ Christmas gift, "that weird ar. ticle that 18 wished upon thousards of inoffensive Men at this season of the year—“a smoking table, If Mr. Jarr had been a fre it would bo smoking in the fire, No married woman can refuse to buy one or more of these German | atrocities at hollday times for hus.| bands that do not deserve any such treatment, even though they be wite beaters. ‘The smoking table had strange and | wonderful excrescences all over \t agent Everything on it wae labelled go ¢ it might wot be mistaken for any. thing elas. A strip of brass loops was labelled “Pipe Rack." A mas Shine Sox MmIyUlotus SEE Kady want footgear like this to dance in |< Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Kreoing World.) was labelled “Cigar Cutte! A pebbled brass bow! was labelled “To bacco Jar.” On the table itself was a motto in burnt leather, “May All Our Troubles End tn Smok But the smoking table needed no label. Victima of these deadly affairs know what they are when they fall over them in the dark, and rejoice when they break their legs, their own legs and the smoking table's. In the pipe rack were three wooden pipes glossy witb Varnish and glue, and @ brass dingus stood fastened nearby labelled “Matches,” pipkin was fastened near the tobacco jar and it was labelled “Ashes.” A small humidor stood open, and in the humidor was a box of pallid cigars, about to turm to dust, On the lid of the cigar box was a portrait in colors of a Spanish maiden sbout to commit a cachuca. Mr. Jarr had ho thought of punishing Master Jarr, who had broken the apparatus in the doll's diaphragm that emitted the word “Mamm. The word “Mamma” reminded Mr. arr as to who was responsible for chaining him to the Christmas-gift | moking table, Sometimes it took Mr. Jarr until Washington's Birthday before he got his annual smoking table a total wreck © Was around when he banded !t @ kick in the elats. Seeing that her father was in no | mood to aid her in reprisal upon her brother, little Mise Jarr went back to the dining room and informed the naughty boy that papa would be out to give him a whipping in a minute, Then she stepped on his eleetric train and broke it right across its little dynamo, At the resultant yell and oounter attack by Master Jarr, Mr. Jarr, in the front room, sprang to his feet, carefully knocking over the smoking table in haste, fortunately breaking it badly, Mrs, Jart, who was in her boudoir, rushed upon the scene, “Willle broke my doll!" screamed the little girl, “Hmma stepped on my electric rain and knocked it to pieces,” cried the boy. “Oh, dear!” exclaimed Mr. Jarr, Upset my nicqnew smoking table and broke “What's the use to buy Christmas ings for this destructive family?” ried Mre, Jarr in despalr. "Papa, take off your smoking Jacket and you'll be ruining them nexti”” Mr. Sarr fusody boping they would be taken from bim ached up. Aud lacy Baie hings. A small’ He had to be careful that no | nod Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 19LT, by The Pree Publishing Ce. (The New York Rrening World.) [ S love that makes the wheels go ‘round—but flattery oils the wheels! The mistletoe may be this year’s mistlgtoe, but the a girl dreams of tn | where in France. kiss that many t year’s kiss, from the boy “some+ ' A normal woman can get more spiritual out of a beautiful hat than out of » beautiful leone Yes, dearie, by having a meatless day, a wheatless day weetless day, and no dinner to speak of on other days, you can save almost enough to bay for the extra lunches your husband has to eat down town in order to sustain life. Of course, forethought Is better than afterthought, but that doesn’t jnecessarily mean that one should go to the extreme of figuring out the |alimony before the engagement ring ts paid for. A woman-bater is not justified in hating the whole sex simp!: b he didn't—or did—happen to marry one of them, eee Having the courage of her opinions may make a woman admired, but | nothing except having the courage to kecp them to herself will make her popular. | The girl whom # man marries {s usually just some inn who happened to be around when he felt lonesome. Why the Chinese Are Beardless OST of us have wondered why /*calp and to whave it, 4 » dow the Chinaman, tn distinction | Shr. ‘The one tiniabed, the Pa from other men, does not grow | tie raos an thn cs Passed over with & beard. Of course, some members| age Chineve tace tn exceodingn meer of the race who belong to the male ocent bystander “Just aa our barbers ask if wi persuasion are exceptions to the rule. pave a shampoo, the Chinese wiswes But the great majority of Chinamon|}j, “now if bia customer will have his cars shaved. I have been have no hair upon the face. Dr. A./able to find out how and oho tis M. Dunlap of Shanghal, who has | practice started, but apparently tt ts given considerable time to the sub-|Yery old. since it Is followed by fect, holds that tho old Chinese cus-|PrAgticnlly all the Oriental races, tom of wearing queues consumed all important function of the eee tte of the enerky provided by nature for|I have watched them I have thought tho raising of hair, And now that the| this might well have been the origin queue 19 out of fashion in China Dr.|0f osteopathy, With the barber's Dunlap thinks that beards may be-| fot raised to the stool beside the gin to grow. Writing In an Ameri-|customer, first one arm and then the joan medical journal of recegt date, )otver is laid over his knee, pull |he tells somo very interesting things! folled, flexed and massaged. > Ti }about the Chinese barber, tho styles, Tone, the forehead ma, unin aa land ‘the skin. stretched and ee |. “The' nation-wide cutting off of/ “At odd moments the barber ine jthat Sianchu invention—the queue—| doctor for persons having — fever, has created 4 new class of modern} Which, in the miuds of the 4 ‘barbers. I do not mean to say that) lightened, means tho the barber of old China bas passed, |cVil spirit in the body, with his practices, which remind us) pose of ‘letting out’ of those of Occidental barbers ja! ber uses a sharp needle, or a knife wnoient times, Even tn as w oligat th w needte t ich he punctures the ened @ city as Shangbal they nor front of the chest in nus constantly to be seen on ous places, A falr amount og j 4 » drawn in this w The Md men can used for the “ with thelr Wasnstau basin » ™ fame: Be single tow: ni tur & lneidentaily, 1 ml, say that body, op the shady side of th tir ' Chinese me Moioe wan in summer and on the 9 ny elie 1 ir ba doctor ts ‘pi as you @i- winter, The customer seats hinvelt|t Treatment ty » much more on @ bard stoo! and the barber pro caret perhaps, If the foo is am eaeda to lalucs toe Grea) part uf ple thy table Dusose by clarke, ' ‘