The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1918, Page 18

eo ii renee ade per CVU LS PSTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally xcept ene a by i, Frese Fubuahing Company, Now 63 te New York. daa’ Angus #1 a west earn, oF Wark Ror 5 i MEMPER OF THE aa PRmes, EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, March 14 When Is a Women Happy? By Helen Rowland ait, 2918, bs dhe Press Puulshive Co, (tle New Y | OMETIMES, ‘ I wonder if a woman Is EVER happy? Of course, she COULD be hagp. eee SSE STICY Oe Pe arrneriien, of at erty Same If she had anything to be happy « For instance, | know a womai \ ‘ » "pers fegtly ha if only ste could lose about twenty VOLUME 58. me cecemmememm ens eNO, 20,659 ’ ‘lal py Ms \ And another who would be “perfec happy t only NO SHUT DOWNS: she could get plump enough to wear decoileie gowns! At five years old a little giel would be qerte COMMANDEER THE IDLE. | happy ‘ * } If only her father kept a candy s!or HE latest scheme for robbing Peter to pay Paul—paralyzing At twelve she thinks that would be p one part of American industry to favor another—takes the | ciation happy } ‘ saci! If only she could wear long frocks, and do her hatr form of @ proposal to shut down so-called lose essential/ | on top of her head, and bave a BUAU! industries for fifteen days in order to free labor for the farm: At sixteen, she knows that she would be perfectly happy i only some comme t 1.! fascinating Prince Charming would fall in love with her ane tespeiteahdeti0n) ah0 yy Stee Becretary of Agricul. Or if ONLY she could go on the stage or into the "movie tare Onsley to the Senate Agr'valttral Committee, involves the now | | And be @ Maude Adams or a Mary Pickford or a Mary Garden or @ familiar but dangerous essumption that it is eafe to take any industry j Theda Bara—or something! . ; a “| At twenty she dreams rapturously that she will be perfectly happy by the throat and choke it provided somebody labels it “non-/ When ‘they are married” and living in their own little nest! essential.” | ‘At twenty-five she feels sure that she could be perfectly happs ‘ ‘ " Fi If only HE made a little more money and they could afford two maids Where are American workers to find the money for Liberty eat x cat Feat Bonds and War Savings Stamps, where are they to find the conf At thirty she wonders {f she might not have heen perfectly happy dence, energy and endurance they are told t If ONLY she bad taken up a profession — eC erg \ ld they must have to win) If only she could paint or write or sing or “do SOMETHING worth the war, they are to be constantly threatened with high-handed t while!” suppression or suspension of industries upon which they depend for| Or if only she had # vote or a divorce or a new limousiue or red th e of | ¢ hair—— ea aaa Or a different kind of husband! . Why should it be the willing and industrious who aré to be | If she is wealthy, she feels that she could be perfectly happy thrown out of work or driven to new jobs, while thousands of able-| it coe she could tees Say oe it all” and “live her own life’ and ‘go back to nature’—and al! that! bodied idlers are left undisturbed to eat and loaf at other people’ ba | If she ts poor, she ts sure that she could be perfectly happy expense? ‘ Wf only she had married some doting old millionaire Take this question farm labor. Wo t With one tooth and the rheumatism? f athe a Bees Aa eee ee ee If she has nothing to do except manicure her nails, community aud see woat percentage of loafers a little combing of She believes that she would be perfectly happy if only she could be } ie town W eld. Add these to @ round-up of unwilling workers n the midst of things.” DOING something interesting! t she {s a busy woman, she feels that she would be perfectly happy If only she could lia abed until noon and have her breakfast served to her on a tea wagon. If che lives in a small town, she {s sure that she would he perfectly p nea city and note what @ substantial draft it makes for, } farm needs. Multiply for the entire country. While this vast army of the idle et idle, is it just, whenever , if om Nts ait nappy there is a call for labor from any quarter, to talk glibly of shutting If only she lived in NEW YORK and knew a lot of “int ng people.” up non-essential industries and throwing out the wage-earners in And he is a popular New Yorker she knows that she would be those industries? we Far safer to start out with the proposition that there are no non-essential industries in the United States until every ounce of | man power now going to waste has been commandeered and applied. | etly happy y she could “get away from people’ and hadn't a friend or acquaintance in the world! | If she’s forty, she'd be perfectly happy “just to be twenty again.” And if she sixty. she'd be perfectly happy “Just to be FORTY!" And when this terrible war {s over and the Allies have WON New Jersey with ite Anti-Loafing Act is far nearer the right idea} Con. THOMSEN And ¥ aye uatyoteat works marage sui fis wens Fe = 8¢ lad 5 | And the spring cleaning {s finish d the mille 1 has com , than are Federal Adminstrators whose one way out of every diffi-| i F AVR FLE And strawberries are ripe in January culty is: Shut down industries, Agine CWVEF 9 tT Of course, EVERY woman will be “perfectly HAPPY forever and evort* - | SNe nc em aera rat EAE RE ene i RE Oh, of course, of course! rap ncmeits “co ; V'm a WOMAN—and I ought to know! ’ If there must be war sacrifices, the Public Service Raliway | a ie eonen tie AN—an t " Company of New Jersey fools that {t can make them in @ better | epirit if it is permitted to collect two cents more on every trolley fare, % \—— a m Oo m é 1 es Dc Y ») : By Alma Woodward "NO GROANS FROM THE EXPRESS COMPANIES, ~© ~ OU tare at | Crippl es: e Jarr Family sis He ee tens tee bet ota wo J Spoiled by His Folks ' ene: Camp VU ONE will be surprised that a plan to put the express | By So P hi Le I pene L O¢ b By Roy L. McCardell ay pepe lie companies of the United States under Government controi| Copyright, 19 he Poess Publishiog Co. (The New York Evening World), ‘ tight, the Press aca a (Th York Evening World (The mail has arrived, been opened and discussed, One site apart KBs : HE other da¥ a dwarf entered |is nothing so unkind as to accentuate | 66 aS, uae ter she's | takes the two dollars,” was the reply.| srom the rest, aurrounded by amalt packages and letters) has encountered little opposition from the companies | | thecaubway; . ‘Thera: was: only |thectrisis that'are'borneiby.wuch peo working under her >| “All the women conductors haven't!" 4 ¢jooking over at him)—Gee! That | ~ ——— ns ea themselves ue seat—in the centre of the| ple as to make them lee thely mis- owed name, and not a8| husbands, have they?” Mr. Jarr in| -yy'y jucky © isn't a single mat! | him, with a ture of protection, as The standard of Federal liberality established in taking over the: ear, He soured {ah ine Mrs, Dinkston—got the position as quired. hat he doesn’t cet a package or two. | they approach.) ¢ , eh it take t |» Ss conductor on the strect car tine,” said| “Mrs, Gratch says most of them | Ho's spoiled by his folks! A (brisk Hello, see you teatro) of the railroads can hardly fail to be not only reassuring nil trae |wnans ay Bums eae Mie dare, are married women, because the com-| j; (sighing)—i wish my folks'd| ® ietcat package bat jsositively cheering to express company officials who have had a ody watched him| their coming and going in a way no Yes, 1 thought she would, 1|Panies do not want young women | spoil me like his spoil hime E (a note o sr oin is volca)—- hard time trying to keep up revenues in the face of parcel post com petition and to whom it would come as a distinct relief to have the) United States Treasury backing their operation and guaranteeing | their stockholders reasonable returns, As to Government ownership of express companies, that is an- | signed her application,” replied Mr.| Who would not know how to hi men, So they prefer to take good strong married women, And they |° tah 12 Yes—as usual, Krom my fe B (aking up Jittiew' Say Ed, wo boys kyida got a hune that you don't appreciate how gran imb Into It and! rent from that of robust, healthy hig Mttle feet ap-|and normal beings. As far as pos: | Jatt ' ared to be alsible every effort should be directed | “She had three other people sign good distance | to treat their deformities as a matter | it,” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “That man from the floor as} of course insteud of a matter of curse, | Dinkston signed it too, her own bus- , compared to those | Some of the happiest people in the} band. Hoe should be ashamed of C (meditative \ap's got dispos! ou anc everything, You'd think he'd |‘ ve di with happiness about his|%OUF folks are to you, You ae folks remernberiag him so. Instead more attention from them om )— Yknow that buffaloed. He has & on—always pleasant to ho fights?" asked Mr. Jorr “The women conductors,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “Mrs. Gratch told me that the | ' of other passen-| world are the cripples. The most | himself letting her work ten hours a ., - A of that, after he’s opened his mai!) 7°¥ aes | other matter. At present there is no need to go beyond the fact | Wome mere ets | | courngeous attitude is often assumed | day. If he isn't going to fight for his| wen Comsuotors neath are Cay ste h tiie he alte) and moves into| 2 (denantiy)—1 know 7 fo a } that war has made it imperative to work all carriers and carrying| Many eyes were upon hin and did|by them to put thelr best side for-|country he should at least support) ais nce a Ont the cInER hemes td —sour-looking as anything! | way hati iba SN este ots er fi Pe cause they let oth 1 keg | Ways look so glum afte emi | systems at such extra speed and efficiency as can be attained by co-| Dt 'eave im. In fuct they stared at) ward and to thrust in the back: his wife pose on them—other women conduc- |“ sifedeas ramahd st makes) omen in? Your folks 1 you sini \ ot heip a dis-lgre « even of | 7 Ny -the «; p tel } n fee! omesick. i x z ye | ordination under centralized direction. The country has yet to b him, and T could not heip see the und—even of their own brain—th But he tells me that since the new | tors, | mean m fe that’s what's the matter, j yet to be|comfort he must have felt, Ha tried| part of them that is not as nature| style of poetry, that docan't need tol “Did Mrs, Gratch fight?” asked Mr.| B (boldly)—Well, he hasn't got any) “(ied jumps to his feet, seatteri | a persuaded by sufficent and convincing evidence that the Government|to appear indifferent and lookel| intended It, Always this should be] either acan or rhyme, has come into| Jarr, ight to be homesick under the con- packages and letters, bursts into is the best permanent manager of, other public utilities besides the | Ver” WAY, Im the lope of avoiding | sncouraged and cos base to | vogue, a union poet can't make a liv- | post-office. tthe general gaze. but to no purpose. | cause neediess suffering by drawing | ing,” sald Mr, Jarr, A couple of giggling girle near me| their attention to themselves. “He never made a living at an vi t Yjafter that man Dinkston, her own Whatever happens in the direction of Pederal ownership, how. | passed a foolish remark and thelittle| 1¢ we were but to look into the| time.” replied Mrs. Jurr. He didn't husband, even if ane aia ke the posi- ever, expect no loud plaints from tho express companic: Thoy P| fellow noticed thelr laughter, Mel gouty of these misshapen humans we] even give her the money for her con- n her widowed name—well, after in a position where complete absorption by the Government was ill at eae would understand that their constant |ductorette uniform, tt was $5 for the man Dinkston took the $2.0 on gen- c ow what to do wit y to us ords 0: coat and bloomers and*puitee r ‘i a terms might well seem 7} N BON-) He did not know wh 1 hecry to us in the words of Omar is; coat and bloomers and puitees, $2 for’ change out of her bloomer uniform ditions. Look at some of the other) 4. ana runs away.) fellows who never get a thing! Ther] Q cijankly)—Well—what the Baia folks never giv (ema thouent, Hi! What's eating the lad? © Gwisely)—When a chap 18 spoiled | (4 packaye blows open at thet is the way he gets, What hej eat jp is stuffed with crumpled ds is neglect for a little while paper—nothing more, They open an nat’) bring him around, Step: 1s. dev att “Yes, and I don't blame her,” said) Mrs. Js “Mrs, Gratch says that | do with crumpled ¢ happiest deliverance from their| his hands, and altogethor it was | "Gently, brother, gently pray,” the cap, and she had to have $2.60 in pockets, he spent it riding up and| A (after a moment's thought) —The | paper—nothing in B picks oe r trovhies. |pitiabie acene, Ho was travelling! When you realize that pretty eoon change. Her friends advanced the down the street car lines, and not on|thing I think is so queer about It 18/ note that las fallen from an en- hee | ato e and could not shake off the! rom “over there will come many Money: And the first day, before she | her car, He didn’t patronize her car, | tfat he never seems to have anything | yolope.) al feeling of the almost continuous stare| maimed martyrs, it behooves us to) COWd Bo ont in charge of her own spent all that $2.50 riding on the ear|extta even though he keeps getting Bb (reading = slowly) — “Dearest Metropolitan Opera House trustees, subscribers, patrons, directed at him by the various people pare ourselves for giving the § oa that man Dinkston embezzled of a red headed grass widow and} ill these packages. What do you I'm afraid we won't be ishers and doormen may well hang thelr heads tn ahaine when 1 tried to bury my face in a news| wiance rather than the s g poetry to her Titian locks,” ) Suppose he doew with ali the things? to send as many ‘pretend pac | paper, hoping those about me would they think of that “nude dancer” New York has got to lene, | ; ano | While they will bear their had to borrow tt over Here's scandal!” cried Mr. Jarr, ‘Tg | Ses ? | as ve been doing. Thing that while there may be a soft and tender aide of his nature do the ~~ BRS MES EIS aU gORS: dier-like spirit, yet thera will be Jarre inquired. woman's new status in the cconomic| B (suddenly)—It's none of eur bus-|are Koing so hurd with us that ever ds tor toate. where the tty . ure When | glanced up! notic tho! many a one whoewill be sad to look! . OY: Of course, she did,” said Mrs, ‘orld to be threatened by scandal? | iness, of course; but 1 think + ought|the postage is 4 severe drain, Bu Masecrans _ Ms : puri of polities and public morals others looking in his direction tinoh an fedturee ie Oui ene will} Je “And she was so angry tho don't think it will be,” replied|to pull him up good and plenty so| we don't care what the boys at cam) eg s on as features g 1 oun in} ; ' liec » ? will we dear? Lve . Mayor {s merefiess When, ob whe passersby te-| \en to that she told me if they get up any women Mrs. Jerr calmly. “At least, not after | he'll appreciate the way his folks | (ial (0 sen! ites our tnou we — ne ee __ jalire me orally f such curiosity Aa \ P i ‘ ments of Death, like they did in what Mrs, Gratgh-Dinkston did to] spol him, We can do it in @ diplo jlove you and think of you all tho | When, ‘oh when, will the travelling i dabeune, vy you and me tO) Russia, she would enlist; only, of red headed grass widow ov atic way, Come on, time, don't you?” e DRE PE | tuke to beast and think a Little more | ¢ SeRuTan Berane ( ano ave ” nh his volce)—That Letters From ‘th e Peo P ele e public treat unfortunate cripples an Aviat He Fats course, she wouldn't be able to go to “uctorette at the car barn at the end! ns three walk over to the boy| © (4 lump in bis volce)—Thatia with? more consideration and — less | Setously low trave what we get for butting in, £ t Please limit communications to 150 word. i who ts surrounded with amall pack-| you it was none of our business. Gee war, as she had « husband de- pendent on her," r day's run, Another conduc- | torette told her how that man Dinks- curious concern? When, oh wh so that we do not add Distives Thritl in Ride o RK. 1.) Wants Service fos and letters, H em to| Spoiled by his folks! To the Etttor of The Evening Wortd: Fling for Ltberty| Will we at least help lift thoir burdeng| te thelr ows ' “How did she make out as a con- had behaved." Joven end letters: “He getnere these is é _ ee A great many people who use the |», Bona Buyers, by making thom less conspicuous} ‘The greatest hind of public service! ductorette?” asked Mr. Jar. “How! “And that put an end to the intol-| - — Orprese Hill line of the B. RT hate | hme RA of The Brean Wor than they naturally foul? hot always what you do, but what; do women get those jobs?” erable situation?” Mr, Jarr inqu E Home Test for Butter that breath rake ten aa the tain | ye hy {9 there not a service flag for| How many hundreds of times do|you keep from doing | “Well, first the railroad companies} “It put an end to the red. he: asy ” tarne from the Manhattan Junction Person who puts his money into| we see @ little crowd Kalhered around) Let the eleventh commandment bel advertised for women conductors, but th ds rt t srase widow's situation; she w: station into Broadway, T think | Fae Taeten! 10 & Henin where | seme quot) unforions e! "1 shail not ature,’ now the women apply for the pusi- able to take he: the man has entered the service | : ° n A fi are of —_ —|tions. Sine y © a “And would be a small fob for the track 46! the country, the family ts ince one woman fainted, and nd partment of the B. R. T to bank this | wha i | another woman in ono of the side out the car turn a little and take the thrill away at of the home where there is no Peace More De adly ly Th an War entrance cars got exe "No,’ ed and opened * Jar son or male relative in the service? e p said Mrs, Jarr, one The out the next da Grutch-Dinkston took . buying real butter or a worked-up article such as © you know how to mine if you Y she was dis- A READER a Deo, $1, 1918, almost 2,000,000! turned’ farmer, he could not find a|th@ door behind her ang fel! out, the td, She's looking fer a position | # butter mixture or. marga- Another Girl Wonl¢ Work on # rash Brea ete wae aves bibs Americans will have met with | safor ALi Aithones pai en ts street car companies are more care- | in 4 munitions factory nT See 8 xiney The following ten Pte jerty Bond lend to his country, aa a serious tnjury und 35,000 willl time ie spent on trem he meets with | ful. The women who want to be con- , her application?” axomined. by | EoRNs Po the dattor of The Evening Wort |mother lende her sont Gh T. IR. | nave gied tn Industrial accidents dur-loniy half aa many accidenta ma the{ ductors have to pass a stricter exam~ — "'f will not,” replied Mr. Jarr, “The Belenen MOnUIy: 1 8 ihe Sy z 1 2004 with lntersa: the letter in rare ing the twelve months, These figures| clergyman, In fact, hi is much sater| Maton, They go to school for two only part I'l) take in this war ts to! smi Ay Tesape af tla. eevasind ‘ . a 4 your paper @ few nights ago in con- HOW TO MAKE MONEY, we ‘pased on casualty recorde cf the on weeny ack: he i much Maiiy| Gays under a professor, who teaches patriotically buy ‘Thrift Stamps and| in aa old mpoon and hold nection with business girls “doing | JN 1852 the blook bounded dy Fifth | accident insurance companies, extend \\protected han ae Konia, Ganere people them with charts, Mra, Gratch says. subscribe to the Third Liberty Loan.” | tila over a spirit stove or their bit" by working on a farm dur- @nd Madison Avenues, 78th end|ing over a number of years {fal from stepiadders and tumbl | Then they go out five days on the <2 ~ gas burner, Watch how ing their vacation, To me this : 1H Streets, was sold for $2,000.| ‘The most dangeroun ocoupation {s| downatairs eo line mith an instructor, They get THE BIGGEST BOUQUET, bolls. R butter will he seems cn excellent idea, I have|In August, 1889, Henry H, mining, and farming is tho| ee two dollars a day while they are : quietly, making a lars Seersan Civeety “Meade SEM | Geudee ts tas HIRST ce hath eee, Coa ee ence the} 0 PD a pede absense ap ppartieng trie 1 famous fOr many acte be- | amount of froth, Margarit Stamps, enrollod in the Red Cross|crease of 19,000 per conk The Btook | list of hazardous oK!lings, mailorn anc| Statistics from past vears show that! , that's something,” remarkes team \e calt en one contin and age wnely eesad my vaca-| has since been divided among e num-|fshermen are next, with railroading| during 1018 about 16000 will die by| Mr Tarr. tpiiave (npent lait kage emeraienion placed in the fire OS SEI BURNERS Genie wean A oernere: 804) Ue et a8 ha eater i namminainl thelr own hands, while 6,000 will be “Tt much, Mre, Gratch anye roses for hia banquet tables The sure test by means of which you can find out whether or mot you are really ¢¢ oh traveller: murdered, when & woman hae & ausbend who roses were brought trom Dgypy eeiing pure butter, — s shen “7 1? 5 ‘