The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1918, Page 14

SS 2B Che Cien ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, day by the Press Publi , Nos, 63 t ene Suny Saenet Genes Wy Lae press Publishing Company, Nos. ° SAlSr PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS MHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Kow, EPH PULITZER,’ Jr, Secretary, 63 Park How, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, hog tied to fe blication of al) news despatenme Pe AR sl RR Rng VOLUME 58. NO. 20,677 oe AREAL POWER TO PREVENT STRIKES? HE proposed National War Labor Board with power to “bring about a settlement, by mediation and conciliation, of every controversy arising between employers and workers in tho} Meld of production necessary for the effective conduct of the war” should achieve excellent results provided its power.is actually to bring) about and not merely to urge such settlement. Whe trouble has been that, despite all the loyal assurances of} these entitled to speak for organized labor as a whole, local unions or leaders of special brotherhoods—ns in the recent case of the ship- yard carpenters—have found it perfectly easy to persist in etrikes or) * threats to strike, on the plea that their particular cases must be con- sidered as too peculiar and important to be bound by the patriotic pledges offered in the name of labor in general. The suggested programme of Government mediation, it may be noted, leaves the open or closed shop question in statu quo: In establishments where the union shop exists the same * — q@hall continue and the union standards as to wages, hours of labor and other conditions of employment shall be maintained. In establishments where union and non-union men and women now work together, and the employer meets only with | employees or representatives engaged in sald establishment, the continuance of such conditions shall not be deemed a grievance. The closed shop has long been the thing for which organized labor has fought hardest. Since the beginning of the war there have been instances in war industries where unions have been only too ready to use the national crisis as a powerful reinforcement in press- ing the closed shop demand. ‘ It may be that where the broader pledges and orders of the “American Federation of Labor have failed to exercise restraint, the creation of local boards in industrial centres, with authority derived | from a National War Labor Board to deal directly with disputes as| they arise, may insure that continuity of war work which is now all “important. a EAT MORE POTATOES. IFTEEN MILLION bushels of potatoes on hand that won't F market at even 75 cents a bushel! This is the lament of the farmers of Aroostook County Maine, who, in response to the call for record war crops, planted every extra foot of ground they could spare with potatoes. From other parts of the country come like plaints concerning the difficulty of getting rid of potato stocks. What's to be done to stimulate the demand for potatoes? Here are abundant supplies of an excellent food—ono of the best substitutes for bread and meat—going to waste because American housewives appear to have lost the potato using habit. -One reason, according to the Federal Food Administration, is the high prices of last winter which caused the average housekeeper to rearrange her bill of fare 80 as to leave out potatoca. But surely the palatable and nourishing qualities of the potato are not forgotten. With potatoes plentiful and cheap again, Ameri- cons ought to go back to this admirable article of diet with zest, Why don’t they? ‘At a moment when warnings to save the kinds of food that ean best be transported to the Nation's troops and Allies overseas are more than ever urgent, when the hotels of New York and other cities are pledging themselves to bar all wheat products for at least sixty days, there ought to be an enthusiastic rally to the plain but alwa 4 welcome potato, : Potatoes are not as good sea travellers as other foodstuffs. But potatoes can be eaten at home at a rate to put starvation completely out of the running. Ship the wheat and eat potatoes. : But that means also: Plant potatoes, It means assure a steady market to those who grow potatoes, ; With fertilizer doubling in price, those Maine farmora with their 25,000,000 bushgls of potatoes that won't sell even as low as 75 cc nts a bushel are not looking round for more acres on whic potatoes this spring. Imagine Germany letting potato growera become discouraged| and slack. What would have been the enduring power of the German people during the recurring famine grips of the last three years with- out all the potatoes German farmers could bo made , The U. 8. A. needs a potato boom- be extended to include produce tinue for the duration of the war. Boost potatoes! h to plant to raise? to begin with consumers, to to start immediately and to con- Spring in Cos Cob (Prom Oar Own Correspandent.) Dushel. ° y Te St a 9g hela of coke which any one can aie out by doing so. It in first class fuel here. ‘The iid ts off the pond | tor whien the boys Ket fifteen cents ber bag from housowives, which all burns up unilke Harold Cox's conl Gus Scott and the crop of Killles now visible in the clear water is the Diggest on record, This means good fishing, for, like humana, the big fish come in after the little ones, B. L. MacRae, our talented and ea-| There are 82 stars on the villago aor teemed artist, was soon out Saturday |Y!° Mag down atthe Hub, which te dusting off the pussy-willows, pre- Pretty good for so small a place with Euntie iostéce the gustan drive. nothing but a Post OMoe and a tow Judge Brush 1a renewing the shed |'"abltants, If every town regurd- over the front door of Henry w,|!¢** of size in the United States did Lanler’s junk shop, to keep the rain|'® sme, thero would bo somo oft Henry when he stands under it |? of us licking Germany unpacking boxes, &c., the old one| The dow catchers are busy. Ali having become leaky, there being | PUPS have to be tled up or muzzled. more room outside than in, Henry | Sometimes tt was hard to tell before baving the place so full of old horse | which was tho most, us or the dogs. SAy® No more store coal for him and Gus ts usually right. pistols, spinning wheels, &c, On meatless days the canines took Thanks to the perapleacity of our|to foraging, which was bad for hens, Ttatlan fellow citizens it has been | email pig. wd the like domestic ante found thet the cinder bank at the|mals, So something had to be dono Power House contains thousands of and it is, EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, April 1 bus Unum! E Pluri My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences of A Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Copyright, 10918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) When Deception Entered Love’s Young Dream ADELANE RIV- | EL {a deter-| kc nceive of no possible romance, yup in this shall marry In| Harry sent me a basket of beautiful reviewing my/spring flowers and also a box of matrimonial op-) chocolates, He was coming in. the portunities shelevening, 1 donned one of my own sald to me, “Con-| simple frocks and could hardly wait nie, you have met] for 8 o'clock. However, the moment enough — eligitvles | Harry arrived I noticed a change and to be wed fifty/asked him what was the trouble times. ‘Lhere is| “I did not plctyre you," sald he, many a man you) “living in such cramped surroundings might still invetgle Into matrimony | And you look so different, What have if you would only order a few amart|you done to yourself?” rags at Dickson's.” “Oh,” L explained, “it's this: gown. 1 said, “you are de-|It would be extravagant to dress in any of Mad 8 effects at home, , even to receive you, Harry, I cannot ad., ¢ Mghtfully unmercenary not to rea that my salary more causes me to live economically than | ford to buy such thi s you have ten patriotic consciences could," seen me in, with the money [ earn "Then, Connie," she harangued, | teaching kindergarten, you dear, slim “you might as well retire now as|Ple man,” contemplate the spring campaign this} He hemmed and hawed and finally way. Listen, Beforo sending my|With a supreme effort said: “Con- cast-offs to Wisconsin cousins, why | Stance, I was given the impression not see if you can use any your- | that you had enough money to pro- seit.” vide lavishly for yourself. 1 have Among her oast-offy were guilty, |been deceived, Although I care for dresses, evenin owns, wraps and|you no less, under the circumstances hata: alt Grad When Mad, | !t would be folly to contemplate mat- saw how her lovely clothes improved |timony. My fncome ts too uncertain. me she insisted on my obtaining a| We might as well face the truth and two weeks’ leave of absence and on] save ourselves much unnecosrary inviting me to go to Atlantic City | misery.” with her to join Mrs, Archie Crothers| I knew that argument would be and her brother, Harry Williams, the|futile, So L let him go away without By J. H. Cassel | 1918, by the Press 1 telephone rang at the Jarr was informed th wanted to speak with “Did you tell Mr. was with me and he was to come up © to dinner and then go asked Mrs. Jarr over Jenkins his wife | home with her?” mined that I] The day of our return to town|the wire. Jarre replied that he had broken news to Jenkins, | evident that Mrs. Jenkins was | in the booth at the other end of t! Jarr carelessly what I mean,” Mrs, Jarr impatiently. prised or agitated houldn’t he?” atedly over the wire. ause his wife is an| puts up with at| but then she's no| different from every other woman, and | just been won¢ war won't make a change tn such con- ditions! With women doing men's work in the world, working In foundries and and what sh that man's hands, ng whether th the discussion ‘Results of the World War on Fem- inine Psychology’ is too complex to be debated over the telephone during of- you really do wish to thrgsh me he had never known a girl who crease in the use of me dressed more exquisitely, Harry's|}netic pulley for separating from jadoration and Mad,'s clothes mado| masses of refuse all scraps of tron| World, C moe appreciate that existence hereto-| and |fore had been drab indeed | Desiring to forget about kindor-| placed on an endless belt, and as tt garton, I did not even mention it to] turns over the pulley, rags and other Harry. I congratulated myself that | non-magr serap drop off, but The magnetic pulley ts used in teel, the price of which has|and tron buttons from rags; sharply advanced, The material {s|bage plants it sorts out ne shoes and tin cans from the kitchen debris, bits of metal picked from spices, Maat would be over soon, foy 1 could metals are held fast until the belt .or grain before they are ground, ? The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell hing Co, (The New York Evening World.) department of the Big Bargain Ba- “Why can't you and Mrs, Jenkins run up and get the children?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I'm busy here with my work,” “But we are shopping, and Mrs. | Jenkins can't get in every day to| - ooaganda is too frivolous for me! shop from the suburbs,” replied Mrs. | Jarr, * he hasn't any girl—nobody | has any girl in the suburbs—and that reminds me that our Gertrude says she Is going to be a bollermaker or a lady machinist. She doesn’t like the | work, she says, but she wants to join a union, so's to make Claude, the fireman, Jealous. I promised her this afternoon out, 80 YOU will have to bring the children down to meet us," “Why—why can’t the children go shopping with you some other day?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Really, my dear, 1 am very busy here at the office, You know it's the first of the month, don’t your” < “If I didn’t know it, all the bills I get would remind me!” replied Mrs. Jarr, “But you bring the children down just as I tell you!” “Why? asked Mr, Jarr, Because Mrs, Jenkins can only get to town to shop at raro intervals, as T told you!” sald Mrs, Jarr, “She has to buy some shoes and school dresses | for her little girlyand a suit for her little boy, As her little Marie is just the age of our Emma and her boy, Robert, ig just the age of our Willlo, and they wear the same size thing she wants OUR children pbrougnt | down to @Be store to try on things tor | HER children," “Why didn’t she bring her children author, whom I wanted so much to|trying to defend myself, For 1 had| to town with her?” asked Mr. Jarr, vane decetved the man I loved and had| “I don't want to thresh out any. | “Why do I have to lose my timo thes Woe arrived at the hotel just in time fopeaiied the sight to his love, thing," Mrs. Jarr retorted, “but if you | ‘busy days to supply MY children ag to drews for dinner, T put on Made-| [Was poor little eae to, blames | will be patient just a minute T want | shopping dummies for HBR ehil- "a coral velvet ovening gown again, And tho next tee once u if you ean get away from | dren? and everybody gave mo admiring [turned all the borrowed finery to my ffice this afternoon just about| “Because her children can't ride glances. ary wow hat having resolved to hool lets out and go up to! half fare on the railroads any more!" To my fratifiention Harry tmme-]true fairy prince should come Onn | tho house and get our little Emma|said Mrs, Jarr, ‘The railroad fares (ately began making love tome, He]me, Oh, If ho would’ only hurry [nd our Willie and bring them down|have been raised since the war, and talked like a book, and could have in- | tens! an since Mr, Jenkins had a feud with spired sentiment in the heart of a Ramee —————_—— . aie one of the conductors because Mr. Tp Jenkins WOULD carry home a large ak ea fourteen heavenly days we Inve ntors H el p J unk Trade cactus plant and hold it in his lap, wore inseparable. I wore only Mad 's NE of the effects of the war on; reaches the bin into which they are|@"d people couldn't pass down the expensive creations and Harry told O industry has been a great ine | car alsle because the cactus leaves stuck out and pricked them—why, ever since then the conductors make poor Mrs, Jenkins pay full fare for both her children, although the little girl Is only three years over the half. fare ttle boy Is only “YON moaned Mr, Jar. And he hung up the receiver and mopped his perspiring brow. ¢ Sayings of Mrs. Solomo By Helen Rowland Coprrtaht, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World,) BHOLD, my Daughter, all the damsels of the Land have come ‘unto asking: “How shall a damsel deport herself while her Beloved te France—yea, even while he is in camp?” Io, shall she go about with dim eyes and 3 sighings and complainings? Nay, verily! For there is more pride and gl and JOY for any, woman over one sweetheart in trenches than over the adoration of ninetyand slackers in sport shirts and new spring trousers, Therefore, when thy Beloved departeth I thee array thyself in thy “gladdest rags” and don MOST becoming hat, and let thy face be wreathed sutles of triumph, Say unto thyself: “Hola, hola, my Beloved 1s GLAD to go! And I shall rejoice him, though it requireth all my nerve and all my strength and all philosophy! “I shall wave to him from my window with flags and shouts of and courage and victory that shall ring in his ears and sing in his above the booming of cannon and the hissing of shells, “I shall wrap him about with the armor of my faith and love dauntless confidence—and naught shall TOUCH or conquer him! “And while he is away I shall not go into my closet and mourn, shall be TOO BUSY to worry over him. * “Lo, while I sew Red Cross garments and dig in my war garden sing a song of triumph that shall hearten my weaker sisters, “And for every bean and every potato that I plant, and every that I knit, and every dollar that I earn or save or give I shall pinaa on myself, laughing. “I shall not let my eyes grow dim with watching and weeping, permit my cheeks to fade, but shall keep them bright and glowing for return, Yea, I shall study to make myself more lovely and delectable his sight. My garments shall not descend to frumpishness, nor my 4 to flabbiness and a “perfect forty-four’! “Verily, verily, I shall not be as one who entereth a convent and do penance, but as one who prepareth for the coming of @ Prince and a of Victory. “I shall not be a blot upon the scenery, but a little ‘bright-eyes,’ no shadow of grief shall fall from ME upon another's pathway. “Go to! Cannot a damsel ibe faithful even though she smileth | dolleth herself up and weareth her ‘glad clothes’ while her Beloveth laway? Yea, verily! “For bravery 1s more dificult than foolish tears, but it 1s KIND) | to those who must endure my presence, H “And while he learneth to face the cannon and to shoot stra | shall learn to COOK, that I may rejoice his palate with ambrosial dish ‘when he returneth, Yea, I that was the ‘Iight of the tea-dance,’ shal} come the ‘light of the home.’ And when the Bridegroom cometh he find my house in order and the lamp of my love trimmed and glowing. | “Above all, I shall be LOYAL! And when other men smile upon and seek to woo me with their sentimentalism I shall boast of HIM, | the glory of my love for Him shall shame them into silence, | “But I shall not weep! I shall not INSULT my Beloved by shy | tears for him! | “For my Beloved is a Man, and a potential VICTOR—not a mo | coddle! : . | “And my watchword {s not ‘God BE with my Beloved,’ but this: “God 13 with my Beloved! “Amen.” Camp Comedies By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1918, by the I’reas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Beene: Camp Custer. Time: Late afternoon, (To boys are sitting in front of ih tents smoking. One is readtt alovd notes on “Knick-knacks in Knitting” from the only available m zine.) sorer , A (knees knocking)—What's he The Visiting Noise ing to do, Bill? | think that the evil effects of a dropped jstitch on @ wash rag thrills my! 4 (in a frightened whisper)—Wl | A (yawning widely)—Bay, can't] (finding his mouth dry)—t you find something useful to us in that! s should k-know! book? Like “how to make your eye-| Omoer (gruffly) — Hm'mp -m lashes loop the loop” or “after effects) nmempt of a champagne diet"? This knitting (The boys start to mark time—1 *! | copated, it's true, from stage fri B (petulantly)—Well, you don't! Oncor (glaring at the ama technique)—-Ump—huh—ump! ) soul either, do you? But what else | ine—what's that, BIN? is there to read? We know the sto-| 3 (plugging on)—I-I s-sho ries by heart, k-know! A (suddenly)—Look! Who's the] omcer (loudly)—Halt! loud noise cluttering up the horizon?) (Recognizing this command, Gee, I never saw him before, boys silence their feet. A cold p B (following the pointing finger)—|spiration drips down their spin Great guns! From the look of him|Their tongues are thick and pli he's the President of the whole |tery.) blooming army! Look at his Prince| A (saluting timorously)—It's notl Albert. the manual, sir, A (admiringly) — Some uniform!| B (shiveringly backing him up! The Quartermaster's Department |We haven't had it yet, sir! never gave birth to that, And his| Officer (thunderously)—Silencel medals, boy—look at his medals! (Two men in blue run up from B (positively)—He muss bo one of |hind the next tent and salute the the visiting French or English mo- |ficer.) guls. Those Christmas tree effects| One (solemnly)—General! don't sprout in our anmy, A (shaking)—General! Good ni ; lute him—and do anything else he | his gorgeous uniform, | A (jumping up)—For the love of Two (touching the officer's arm! Peto, he's coming this way! What|You'll come back to headquar do we gotta do—salute him? General? B (in disgust)—Sure you gotta sa- ore (with dignity) —1 needed? orders you to do—you can’t give| One (respectfully)—Yes, Gener: back talk to @ guy with that much| (They start away, The boys a Phage after them blankly. Oman int sinc on his chest! turns around and tap#his fore! (The handsome, grizzled officer, in | significantly.) advances. Ho] A (xasplni@)—A looney! vies aoa ' 3 (shrieking)—One of those salutes with military precision, ‘The |odh Gita tint ther iene boys do their durndest in return. ‘The | ‘Duo (fervently)—-That's a hot officer halts and draws his sword.) on us! Newest Things in Science Dipping in a solution of alum will| knitting in bed is an excellent fireproof paper candles or lamp|dote for tired nerves, shades, i Wer ee An automatic saw sharpener been invented that files each toot the same length and angle, ee * @ Cannon loaded with sand are used to break up swarms of locusts in Costa Rica. ‘A new electric tan can be screwed| AN English scientist has bro into @ Mght socket and will operate fu i new slseirions Droneag for P ng iron or steel with lead, at any angle. A 4 ; ‘4 . Experimenters in England have| ‘The top of a new table is h succeeded in making starch from the|to fold back and reveal a Indian sweet potato, desk, with its usual accessories, ; 2 8 To help teach penmanship, a glove| Two Oregon men have patent | has been Invented that compels apen;machine that turns bags inetd j to be held correctly. and blows air against them eee move portions of their cont According to a Berlin specialist, cling to the fabric, . F \ ;