The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1918, Page 9

SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1918 Don’t Be a Gossip! Launched in a Moment of Temptation, Idle Gossip, Like a Poisoned Arrow, Speeds and Wounds—and a Good Reputation Dies, for There Is No Antidote for the Venom of Scandal. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Comrpetatet, 1018, by the Pres Publiahius Oo, (The New York Boning World), KNOW a scandal you would all be crazy to hear,” said the brown-haired woman with the orange knitting bag. “Really? exclaimed the middle-aged hostess of the tripl! cate chin, and she dropped two stitches in her excite ment. “Tell us about it.” “What gossips you women aro,” said the Filler-In at dinner parties, “A roputation dies every minute here.” But be cocked both ears expectantly and drew his chair nearer to the woman, now become the cen. “> tre of interest and conversation. J “Don't be so serious, Maizle,” sald the official WF beauty of the ite group, I'll bet I know what you < are hinting at. Everybody knows that the Rufus Mallorys are separated and that he ts going to name the chauffeur. But I tell you it was bis own fault, for he used to ask the chauffeur in to make a fourth at bridge when there was only one caller. Do tell us something less mediaeval.” Once more the spotlight of attention rested on the beauty’s head. No one had heard the scandal about the Mallorys, but all gave It their earnest consideration. “Ot course that's old,” replied the undaunted Maizic. “You might as well suspect me of gossiping about Noah and his daughtera What Tam thinking about ts something of which nobody here haa the slight- est suspicion.” oe War Work Dangerous Pastime. “Oh, I think I could make a pretty good guess,” exclaimed the Fil- ler-In at dinner parties, forgetting that a moment earlier he had re proved the gossips. “You are talking about the separation of the Hlmira Joneses. Funny that she should fall in love with another man just as gay and spendthrift as Elmira. But there is nothing like war work for bringing two people together.” “I'm not talking about the Joneses,” replied Maizle of the orange knitting bag. “I sald I knew something that nobody else knew, I mean it.” “Then it must be that the Dollivers’ youngest son has gone to South America to avoid the draft. His mother says his heart was weak and he would have been exempted, anyhow, but I think that fs rather fishy, Don’t you?” “Oh, it’s not that! I said I had something really scandalous. There can’t be any really awful scandal about married people. One always ex- pects {tno matter what they do No, this is about—well, of course, sbe ought to be married, but she simply isn “You astound me, Matzie," sald the hostess, whose chin had taken two encores. “I didn't know that any one except the child's mother knew about that. Sho told me in ‘the strictest confidence and I have guarded it sacredly, But of course we all know ber father was an embezzler and blood will tell.” “Mhe told you about it, did she? Matzie asked with a queer little smile, “Then you must understand the cat language, But why should I doubt that you do, That is all we have been talking since I said I knew a scandal. Now I'll tell {t to you, ‘Silver Lady,’ mother's cham- pion Maltese, has had yellow kittens--little ordinary street kittens they are, too. And mother didn’t know that Silver Lady had even been serenaded! Isn't {t simply awful?” “How can you be ao vulgar, Matzie?™ inquired the beauty, with a sour look And balked of the choice morsel of gossip for which their minds gil watered the other listeners locked their sympathetic agreement. “Ym not vulgar. You're funny,” said Matzie with a laugh which she had to fintsh all by herself. For everybody continued to stare hostilely ‘at her flushed and laughter-struck face, “I started that story about the cat as a sort of test—fust to see how much real friendship there ts among us, you know, and how many gossips there are. I think the er periment was rather successful. Don't you?” Ghe paused and glanced maltciously about the group. "Ob, come now, Maisie, don’t be so lofty, You're the’ biggest gossip of us all,” said the FillerIn. The Gossip Who Reformed. “T was,” said Maizio; “I admit it. But I have reformed. I've made up my mind that it !s !mposstble to be a friend and a gosstp at the same time. And I would rather be a friend! Do you know what I thought when I heard al! the scands al that has been repeated here this afternoon? I thought that tt was mighty | for you all that It's not good form to bring libel suits. I said to mys ‘How much could we prove of all the scandal we talk? What basis has it? Why do wo repeat it? 1 don’t know. Do you?” As I was one of the persons to whom Maizie addressed her ques tion, I have thought it over and I belfeve any one who giv consideration to the subject will agree that gos indefensible. We do {t because we secretly cnvy them or because we want to be amusing and interesting. After all, there {s nothing like o piece of gossip for concentrating the wes and ears of people upon yourself, La Rochefoucauld did not lthel the human race so much as most people suppose when he sald there 1s something not altogether unpleasing in tho misfortunes of our best friends. serious ‘p about friends is Else why should we talk about them with « unvarying unction? I believe men go nen, but not {1 as small a way. Women are 5 a ps, Men deal {n wholesale scan- @al or none, Jf you want to hear that Mrs, Jones dyes her hatr let a woman tel! you But when St {s a question of embezzlement, forgery or murder, a man will bo your informant, sip is not i nda} files from mouth te re eliverale venom, But the result is tt n reu reates suspiel suspicion ti hur tion dies. The only way to avoid being a murd: put n is not to gossip at all. Noted Writers \City’s Food and Fuel Dictators From Life by ay | | | | | | Who Contribute to ah MITCHELL aired o DEBAL Foo AAO Pome Hew Yorre STATE The Evening World’s ie Klub Korner UD BY ELEANOR SCHORER Harry Income Tax Blank Like Flypaper “If You Touch It You Are Hopelessly Stuck’’- “Puts Even a Tax on Holes in Doughnuts’”—‘Only Real Exemptions Are for Wear and Tear on Chewing Gum, Red Suspenders, Amateur Gardens and Hired Dress Suits.” BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Correia, a8, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Breuing Wort), N income tax 1@ @ compulsory voluntary tax levied on individuals for the support of a Government. In ordinary times, !f you had a doughnut, the Government would smear a tax on the doughnut But in war times, the Government not only taxes your doughnut, but it also plasters a tax on the hole in the doughnut. There is no way of dodging the income tax. If you work and get an income, the Government drags you away from tt. And if you doa't work, you don’t have any income. The man who t# right loses—and you're right. They haven't quite arranged this income blank business correctly If you work aix days a week that only leaves one day in which to dt ctpher the hieroglyphics on the Income Questionnaire. And tf you on labor one day @ week you have wix days In which to unravel the sera bled pot-pourri of faterrogational confett! With the ald of an adding machine and a net {t Is possible to p Msh your income tax blank without violating more than one gre kind the Government's pet rules. The on! income that 1s not able is the kind you haven't got And {f you haven't any income the Goverr just for the ¢ gE nt will lend yor casure of taking tt away from you. able under this geason’s rul erything 1 asses #, including « toupees and cancelled postage stamps. Auy Ineligib helor who clever enough to make t s think he ls worth a thousand year salary must kt not | than 2 per 100 per cent. of that tho That leaves him enouy @ non-resident in the Automat The A bachelor gets no exemption for his wife or children, Which seems fair enough. A married man {s allowed two thousand dollars exemption for hie wife and two hundred dollars for each Uttle exemption that be ts the proud papa of. If a married gent has alx little exemptions, he !s thus allowed twelve hundred beans leeway, Goldfish, canary birds and one eyed armadiilos are not clafmable as exemptions, There {s no graduating scale for wivos in Amertca euch an oxists in Turkey, where a Turk {9 allowed one thousand simoloons for the first Turkish wife, two thousand gazzinas for the second and four hun dred bagatelies for each wife more than two hundred. That means number and not age. Don't try to cheat Uncle Sam, or you will be donated a form-fitting cell in one of his granite cabarets, These celle must be stylish this year, as a lot of our best people are wearing ‘em. If you have any sort of Income, chalk It down on the dotted ine, It doran't matter bow you get the Income; don't fall to register it. If you corral your cota by elling dandruff enre to hald-headed Bull Moosera, put tt down. If you Avo any real estate in Manhattan or unreal estate in Yonkers, put It a Pvery n m if it's pewter. We can pass those on Exemption ts allowed for wear and tear on chewing gum, auto- mobtles, re ndere ur gardens and borrowe dens autts, he unfe part of the whole a tr ts that no ptton ts per= ents of your at ard, although t know how that darn stuff evaporates. ur and tear on ¢ n the tneome tax fs one thing that fat feet do not \e At gooa for astigmattam, loose ears and double china aleo rh unaire ts like fy paper; {f you touch it you are hope MIXYOLA GREBLEY-SMITH, HELEN ROWLAND, Evening World’s ‘se Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), W G i ar America Edward R. Stet\ ¢ Spending Uncle Sai. : tory Campaign—He biog a:touobiies wore cylinders tor England Find a Way ‘€0"), iiey make here?” Re From the Bottom Up, 5 ote 0" of workmen, By Samuel M. W reach’nmonine does sus Be part of a car, If a Covet, L018, ty the Prem Publishing On, (The New Tanne then sto; HP man who apent five billion dollars baying *4''0) cola sot Great Britain and organized an amazingly efficnn way of gan system for the Allies is now to expend Ove oF ten OF unig §— whers billions more for the United States. piston rods.» The world’s greatest spender ts Edward R. Stettintus,":()"" “dy pointed Surveyor General for the War Department, which meanai, tor of munitions and chief war purchasing agent for the United wprayed Government. No other man who ever lived bought on so tremendoaom, scale as this new individual tn the American Administration. His appointment marks another innovation—the entrance of nets % Heal business 1 into conduct of war affairs. Lloyd George adopted that poley in England durtng the past year and drafted Into service tp the highest places some of Britain's best business brains, Like Sir Erie Geddes, who a fow yours ago was @ poorly paid worker for the Baltimore and Ohto Ratlroad in a Httle West Virginia town, and who now rules the nglish Navy, Edward R, Stettinius is summoned to pat practical business methods into Amertoa's troubled War Department. A man of exceptional ability and of equally exceptional experience {# Stottinius, buyer for both England and the United States, with un- limited credit and unrestricted money to spend. Only one other man has had tuternational experience to compare with hia, and that ts Hoover, who has rationed and fed two nations—first Delginm and now America. Two Men Who May Win War. On these two men the fate of many other nations and in Onal anaty- sis the determination of the war almost rests—Hoover to feed our Bure- pean Allies, and Stettinius to speed up supplies for our army that te hastening to the rescue on the western front in France. He was born tn St Louis fifty-three years ago and had a fair edu- cation up to the age of eighteen, topped off by some attendance at St. Louls University, As a youngster he went into business in his bome city, which means that he got a job working for a manufacturing com- pany and made good. Dw R.oTET Mviys _ 4 sim BUC PAMDRELL GEDDES The first etep up was a change of base to Chicago in 1892, where he became treasurer of a company making machinery and boilers that was later absorbed by the Babcock & Wilcox Company, one of the foremost Amortcan concerns tn that Ine of industry. In this latter company he became Vice President and a director, In 1906 the Diamond Match Company, then known as the Match Trust, needed new blood and business ability. Somebody in au thority picked out Stettinius and he was put fn first as Vice President and later as President. There he made a fine reputation that reached New York, and eventually he moved to this city, and had match com- pany offices here at No. 111 Broadway. A Call for the “Trouble Man.” That was the extent of Stettinfus’s fame when the European war n in August, 1914, Within a few months Britivh agents appeared in New York and opened negotiations for purchase of munitions aad various kinds of supplies, hey rushed around here and there, quick delivertes, They offered or were he beg placing contracts and urging Id up for all kinds of prices, some e travagant and sometimes tricky Often they were vie- tiinized by sharpers and more often disappointed {n deliveries, By the first of Jonuary, 1915, when the Allies were clamoring for vast quan titfes of supplies from Amertea, their purchas forts became chaotic and frightfully expensive. Then the British Government began nego: tations th J. P. Morgan & Co, to loans, and purchasing age form tho dua) service buy munitions, © were plenty of bankers fn the Morgan firm to sell British of bankers. it there was none killed tn purchasing supplies, This ts " ttintus came His reputation as 4 tnesa wizard had pread throu © commercial world Morgan sent for him, The rr a Jertaking to try out the rely new field. On Jan. ty 1916, he was taken into the Morgan firm as a partner