The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1918, Page 18

peer re PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Dublished Daily Except sun by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te a Park Row, New York. President, 63 Park Row. W, ‘Treasure Shia 63 Dark Row, JOSEPH PULITZER. Jr. Sec Park Row. — |e te Amociaten Prem QUEMIPL OF THE ASSOCIATED PRERA. | maninted i cineively at | 7 WJ Eepaited cover noeovioreee vtec ts" Bhs paler and "Ets" ee ional new politi here MEV OMOME. BGs sty vss sisevsivevsdlbyeecsscsoveNO, 20,098 — . THE COAL OUTPUT DWINDLES! DE SE of 174,896 tons in the output of anthracite coal, domestic sizes, for the month of May, 1918, as compared with) the same month a year ago, is reported by the Anthracite Bureau of Information at Philadelphia, , A serious decrease in the production of a prime essential for the poatinued well-being, energy and endurance of a people at war! |¢ The Anthracite Bureau notes: The decrease in the shipments of domestic coal, all of which is fresh mined, as compared with last year, and the | relatively smaller increase over April as compared with the } increase in steam sizes, are due entirely to the inroads made { upon the labor supply in the anthracite tegion, chiefly by the activities of munition plants and other war industries, several of whch are located immediately in or adjacent to the mining districts, Some of these establishments are working on contracts of ® “cost plus” basis, in which the cost of labor or of materials is of Little importance, as profits on any costs are guaran- teed, but their action im taking the labor from the mines is threatening the comfort and safcty of the communities depend- ent upon the anthracite mines for their winter fuel. | | EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, June 21, tO | Thirty-two thousand anthracite mine workers, the National Con-| vention of Coal Operators learned recently, have been drawn from {the mines directly or indirectly by the war. Further reduction of the bag is still further restricting the production of coal. The same is! t i tue of the bituminous field. : Here are conditions cert in, unless taken in time, to lead later to '@ coal shortage which can mean only paralysis and panic for industry jand acute suffering and weakened energy for millions of workers. as During coming months of war and the effort of war, can, anything be placed higher on the list of things indispensable to the maintenance of national health and the full exercise of national strength than coal? Yet the Government, with more arbitrary power over labor, wages and industrial adjustment than Americans ever dreamed a Government of the United States would have, permits the production ‘of coal steadily to decline! } Does the Federal Fuel Administration confess itself incom- petent? When next winter comes and a coal famine threatens, does Fuel ‘Administrator Garfield expect again to recommend general shut- jdown of industry as the handiest palliative for suffering against .Which, even after last winter's experience, Fuel Administrators had | ‘not the capacity or the foresight to provide? | | With the immense coal resources at the Nation’s command, it is preposterous that at this critical period its coal output, instead of jbeing enlarged, should be allowed to dwindle. i Draft labor, if need be, for the mines. Keep production on the sperense. Coal is w basic necessity for the country’s staying power, ' { bas . ; TELEGRAMS BY TRAIN. lis LREADY at odds with the Government over a matter involving | the claims of organized labor, the Western Union must feel it i an awkward moment for the exposure of its thrifty little prac- ny transmitting night messages by train-messenger—at telegraphic i Tt does not yet appear how much senders and receivers of night {faneages have actually suffered by the imposition—in fact, President ‘Carlton of the telegraph company hastens to explain that “we took {to transmitting them by train service as a means of insuring their (delivery at the stipulated hour” since the wires have become “over- ‘Igaded with Government business.” . As things have gone of late, the average citizen will probably find it quite in the general scheme that when he thought he was wiring he was only sending a special delivery and paying an extra special ‘charge. Nothing is sure nowadays but the price, { Unfortunately for the Wes : t P tern Union, it is up against a postal Jaw which specifically forbids persons not connected with the postal service to carry paid messages rognlarly over pas : : . at rotites. ’ The obvious question that would occur to any one is: Why, when ‘it found itself overwhelmed with Government business, didn’t the jtelegraph ‘company make an open statement of the case and seck ‘some legitimate relief or readjustment? Why dodge the law and -| deceive the public? K } Letters From Nest!--The Parher Profiteer, {Te the Editor of The Evening World: * + I think this the most opportune the People of the Idea of sending bostage stamps to the soldiers and saitors with whom they correspond, time to mention another profteer, Uf thay really un. i * derstood what y yd hg akan gata a, at & convenience these 4 7 sek Three weeks ago} stamps are they would not hesitate }1 paid 2% cents to have my hair|@ moment in sending some to thee j{rimmed and the usual dime to the! sider and sailor friends. It te not lor the saving ef the expenso, ‘vorber for the extraordinary way in |f if , but the fac 5 J&hich he wielded the brush, Last | stampa Fe alta teatime nen i pight the same job cost me 40 cent. gmp. The Y¥. M. C. A, and 4 }but I omitted the usual tip because | yist’s# House at exch camp have HY the: the charge was exorbitant, | Quite @ supply of stamps on hand, but [About a yoar ago I yead in one of the |Ogeh, thelr supplies become exhaust. jwagazines an article about the bar- \Unatle to lente a ectier oF Sailor is r who weed to trim the hatr of |bis letter Is dalaner ie secure stamps {former Prenident Taft. He said Mr. yee in sending, jost never paid more than 85 cents to lar oents hier nits twelte ie iat \ his hair cut az er tho “i hy ade big nh parse Sought | stamps, and this, in my eatimation, puing fs erage [and ‘no doubt in the estimatio jo 8 weer kind of rit milous for | most of the bova at tie camp, Is one to pay muro for having’ fila” halt |ghart: savortat yseey goa, Fecelve vt H inters als felmmed than a former Vresident. | not afford. to. contiras one cate W. PH, these booklets it wou'd be just as Send Stamps te Camps, Imuch appreciated if they would ine clove one or two stamps each time they write a lett A SHULMAN, Mineola: Br PRIVATE Hazelhurat iets the Edivor of The Evening World have no doubt there have been a & nulober of veluwe wie thoust * The Commanding Officer! « 4m,, By J. H. Cassel By Philip R. Dillon Copyright, 1018, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work), Was Jefferson Davis a Greater Man Than Robert E. Lee, and Would the North Have Won Quickly if Davis Instead of Lincoln Had Been President? HE only living Union Major Gen- sai “I believe that Robert’ E. Lee Ree ee naw taki Davis's talent and expecience could have given them the victories right “Davis was th teat man of the] 1+ the wtart, for he kncy men and he Confederacy,” sald Gen, Wilson. “Teli iew military science. There was all that w rot out of it en ner in Amer He ran the machino to utm = Ghat r more thorough militar i. capacity, and when it br down it] 4 w y meen » the ‘One Hoss Sh i was Like th ; : Shoe “Lut what about the danger of mili- born in Goons Ge a me . , ne jtary dictat rship?" I asked “You conventiona 8 i tees # **| know Lincoln was called a dictator, was tranace a » pein hero and he} oven though he knew nothing of mill- greatest man of u tary sclence at the beginning” I protested: "Joff 1 Davis was I repeat,” said Gen. Wilson, “the a greater man than bert F.! people wanted victorica, They would Lee?" | probably lave looked out for the dic- He did not answer directly, then be tator afterward, First Battle in Air Fought by Rival Lovers HE first battle in the air and the loons, precisely alike, had been pre- strangest el in the long] pared, and Into these they stepped, To | history of the fleld of honor w was handed a carefully loaded fought 110 years ago near Paris, Two! blunderbuss, 4Frenchmen wer ardent rivals for The word was given and the moor- the affections of a woman, an, so|ings cast off. Slowly the balloons bitter did their quar become that| ascended, almost side by side, at the only blood could wip ut, But or-| height of about half a mile, when the jdinary methods were too tamo for! sreat bags were but eighty yards those flery spirits, so it was agreed | apart, the signal was given and both that the duel should be fought f, | nen opened fire, Soon one of the bal- hie cauae of the te loons collapsed and crashed Yo the ey to marry y r, jearth, The record says the lady aeneniita galeiad ‘au vod the | ene ner anamala narried the two fighters and their nds re-| ae — paired to the m t » oy fol FLAT TIRE GIVES WARNING find & crowd ndled, for| A device has been invented by. a word of the str e inter 1| Frenchman to be attached to an auto- Japread broadcast. ‘Phe princi; [mobile wheel rim to give warning er eral of the Civil War who com-| never in his life convinced himself manded a corps is Gen. James| that he was right in his decision to Harrison Wilson of Wilmington, leave tho Union, He lacked moral | Ho is eighty yoars old and a m courage. He was afraid of the eplendid mental power, He Southern oligarchy. graduated from West Poing in 1850.] “But Northern Army men were mis- He was the most brilliant taken about Lee. In conversation | leader of the Union arm! with Davis after his capture, I stated excepting Sheridan, if Sheridan ‘be| the opinion quite general among our classed as a cavalry leader. It was] ficers that Leo was not naturally | a detachment of Wilson's men that] @sstessive, that he had not seemed to captured Jefferson and Gen,|set the material results of victories. Wilson had many unities to] Davis sald: ‘You are wroug. Lee was observe closely the President of the|UF most aggressive officer, He gave Confederate States of America. us trouble continuously to keep him Several years ago I Interviewed | Dack. Gen, Wilson at ein Witrn Gen. Wilson continued analyzing | ton. 1 made © tos of the con-]}avis and comparing him with Lin- versation at the moment, with hi consent, and now give them to the After all, the people of the North public for the first believing} Wanted victories. Perhaps a man of [comfort of a modern American fail, | dread By Roy L. 1918. AVING been given a summons H for speeding to serve on young Mr, Alfred Bullwinkle, Mr, Jarr thought it best to make it the end of a perfect day for the 5 young speed merchant by taking the sum- mons to him, He knew that young Mr. Bullwinkle would stop with Mrs, Jarr, Mrs, Clara, Mudridge-Smith and the two Cackle- | berry girls at that exclusive road- house, Cheese Hill Inn, Once there, they would be so long in being served that Mr, Jarr knew he could reach | the rendezvous of the motoring smart | set by trolley in plenty of time, and | so it proved, In this Mr. Jarr was acting the part of a real friend, A real friend will | go miles out of his way to bring bad | news, Mr, Jarr came over to the table where the party he sought were seat- | ed, and when the jazz band ceased | |for a moment in shattering the air, he gave the summons, “Thought I'd bring tt out to you he said merrily, “for, as this is about your tenth offense in violating the laws, you'll probably get a| on sentence!" Bat young Mr Rutlwinkla never | flinched, Possibly he thought all tae with Welfare Brotherhood privileges, was to be preferred to cannonading and cooties somewhere in France. In fact, he appeare’ relieved and| remarked: “If I had thought of it I would have run on first speed and let those motor cops summon me them- selves. Their motorcycles can only make ninety or a hundred miles an hour at best, But I never thought of itt? This was true enough—young Mr Bullwinkle never thought. He never tried to think, He nover flinched either at that moment when the waiter brought the check. He never even asked Mr, Jarr to Ke care of it,” as a thinker might have done under the circumstances, He mat the check with @ counter-check, 80 to speak, trom his pocket checkbook, and smiled and smiled and was & slacker still, He sent such a generous tip over to the jazz band that those indefatig- | able artists jazzed with such renewed | viger those present could not hear) themselves speak, However, nothing of any importance was lost to the world, When the manager came to thank young Mr. Bullwinkle for his patron- lage, treating him almost tke an equal, | this Curiosities of U. S. History! The Jarr F amily McCardell by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), young Mr, winkle was still s¢ happy in the thought of the peaceful shelter of jail that beckoned him to safety that he was most affable in turn. ybe you won't see much of me summer, though,” he said, “i may be In the next draft"—here he shuddered—“unless something hap- pens," and here he looked at Mr, Jarr sratefully, Then he turned pale at the thought he might forget or lose the summons, and placed It carefully in his cigarette case. “Isn't the war dreadful? My hus- | band says the war taxes are just | ruining him," said Mrs, Mudridge- Smith, to show that, as a wealthy man's wife, she also bore the burdens the rich endure. “It's something flerce!” young Mr. Buitwinkle agreed. “When my last chauffeur disappeared with one of my cars last weck I felt rather relieved about it. They say there's to be a law | that will allow only 100 gallons of gasoline a month to owners of pleas- ure cars.” “But arén't we going out to your! model farm to look at the portable dugouts you are digging there?" asked Mr. Jarr, who felt his day spoiled because he had evidently | done young Mr. Bullwinkle a favor by bringing him the summons for speeding, Besides, Mr. Jarr had been jazzed till his ‘head ached and his negves were on edge, “Why, I forgot that my farm fore- man telephoned me that he could dig dugouts, but they wouldn't be porta- ble,” remarked young Mr, Bullwinkle. “So let's enjoy ourselves here,” The musical boilermakers stopped for a moment to rest up as he said this, and a malicious idea occurred to Mr. Jarr, “say,” he whispered, “I hear that old offenders of the speed laws are to be sent abroad to drive battle tanks, the most dangerous service in the war.” ‘There was a scream in unison from the ladies. Young Mr. Bullwinkle had swooned, fortunately after pay- ing the check, re THE LIMIT. ¥ one of those strange chances, most of the lady passengers in- side the motor bus seemed to bo carrying infants, one or two of which were a little fractious At one stop- ping place the harassed conductor was faced by two more ladies, each of whom carried the icevitable baby. | But patience, though a virtue, has its limits, “Room on top, mum,” he said sternly, as he held out a detaining arm, ‘the incubator's full,”—Facts and Fancies, ’ Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland * Conyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eveding World), “Among Men There Are but Three Varieties: Those With Hard-Boiled Minds, Those With Soft-Boiled Minds, — Those With Medium-Boiled Minds.” Virus. verily, my daughter, as difficult to know as an egg In war time, so is a man before marriage. For the bard shell of bachelorhood encaseth him in mystery and covereth his virtues and vices alike with deceptive smoothness. Then, how shall a damsel select a husband, since to the eye ALL eligible men appear fair and good and Pidesirable? , Go to, my beloved. There IS a secret. For among men there are but three varieties, even these: Those with hard-boiled minds. Those with soft-boiled minds. ae, And those with medium-boiled minds! ‘@. And the first of these is as a rock upon which @, woman may place her faith, but upon which she may batter in vain to make an impression, ® In his house there shall be but one throne, one opinion, one vote and one brand of cigarettes. Though his wife may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, a husband with a hard-boiled mind shall not hear her; and her voice shall be unto him but as the humming of a passing street car, the chirping of the canary or the buzzing in the radiator, which doth not interrupt his thoughts. Lo, whatsoever she suggesteth he shall put her down with his “Tut- tuts!” and his “There-theres!” and his “Oh-rubbishes!” For when HE hath spoken {t is ALL said! But a husband with a SOFT-bolled mind is more impressionable than a cream puff and more comforting than a feather pillow. He runneth over with sympathy; he overfloweth with “understanding;” he is easier to influence, and more ready to be pursuaded than woman in a beauty shop. Yea, he is a very perfect lover. Yot, I charge thee, if thou weddest one of these, think not that he will STAY PUT! For unto him all women are as one woman—and THAT one adorable! Even as he harkeneth unto his wife's voice, so will he harken unto another woman's voice. Even as he agreeth with one woman, so will he agree with ALL women. Even as one woman tyeth him to her apron strings, so may the NEXT woman tie him to her shoestrings. ‘ For there is NO resistance IN him! He is too easy to be stable, too pleasant to last and too good to be ! bakes I charge thee, if thou findest a man with a MEDIUM botled mind, consider not the shape of his nose nor the size of his purse, but grapple * thine heart with hooks of matrimony. a yor he is rarer than anthracite and more precious than radium! | Lo, he harkeneth when his wife opencth her mouth to speak—and GREEETH with her—occasionally. ay wise in his judgments—but doth not deny that a woman also MAY possess judgment: He formeth his own opinions, yet ood idea. Se ranarews house he demandeth a vote, but likewise permitteth his | WIFE to vote! Yea, unto him the his spouse 1s NOT his vassal | other 49 per cent! ' edad Verily, verily, he is the IDEAL HUSBAND! ’ ah. Who Is Your Namesake? s in History and Fiction Who Have Borne Name as Yours, few York Frening Work), sometimes admitteth that his wife Kingdom of Matrimony becometh a Republic, and J, neither his master, nor his “better half." She ‘amous Character the Same Given Copytght, 1918, by Tas Press Publishing Co, (The By Mary Ethel McAuley 4 the had loved a young girl, bat sha | ALFRED. ji. |died or married some one else, All LERED THE SAT, the KIM |)\. Gays he mourned her, writing rand in the year 871! on aiese poems to her memory. { A ratost thinker, the |" ime name Alfred seems to go with most learned man and the greatest) oo cives and infernal machines, for warrior of his day, In spite of T°) iy, of the members of the Krupp nents of his youth, military achiev: family have deen Alfreds, The it is said that in his later yea? M°) founder of the Krupp works was became a pacifist. | Friedrich Krupp, but it was under The lif Alfred Nobel was S9M°-/ 115 son and grandson, both Alfreds, e that of Alfred the Great:/445+ tne steel plant grew into suck Nl his lite was spent in in-) ooo hnous proportions. explosives and perfecting methods of manifold death, In his| Two poet laureates of England age he got. to thinking about| have been Alfreds—Alfred Tennyson e things and especially after he| nd Alfred Austin—and two of the under the influence of the Bar-|8Teatest French poets, Alfred De oness yon Suttner, who wrote “Lay| Musset and Alfred De Vigny. Both |Down Your Arms. of these poets, in spite of their genius | When Nobel died he left the in-|4"4 personal charm, were unlucky, come of his great fortune, over $8,-|!% love. The story of De Musset's 000,000, to be divided into five parts | love for George Sand is history, Da and to be awarded yearly in prizes|Visny did not dle when the fickle, for those who had ¢-ne the most to|>Ut beautiful actress, Mme, |venefit humanity, The five prizes| left him for the love of Alexander 4 are for discoveries in physics, chem- | Pumas, but he went back to his wife, istry and medicine; for the most dis- | 24 wrote more poetry, tinguished work in Imaginative lit-| Lord Northcliffe's name ts Alfred ure, Harmsworth, and Alfred Hall ts the cause of peace amon~ nations, Theo- | name of the English aviator who has dew Moosavelt was one of the win-| shot down forty-three German aero- ‘ planes. Every school child in Amer~ ica knows the name of Alfred Barnes, ners of this peace prize, Besides Nobel's genius at making for he is the man who made a fortune out of school books, explosives, there as a sentimental Cutting 260 Layers of Cloth at Once side to th’ million: In his youth I1E garment cutting department) This last has to be guided with a of the Atlantic Division of the |tireless care, It is fitted with @ re. | Red “ross has its own Nttle|volving knife razor go sharp that i¢ trials, Its particular job ts to supply | will cut through 260 layers of heavy ) with garments cut out and assembled | material as easily as through one. A all the Red Cross Chapters in New-|sl: -" alip, therefore, om the worker's Jersey, New York and Connecticut as |Part, an instant’s inattention, would fast as those Chapters send in calls | be a costly thing, for materials, And that is no easy| The stencilling machines, which hav. oy little wheels with red hot points yn ‘The amount of work required to} Urning holes in paper, are time aay. keep up with the demand {s enormous, |S In order that there shall be > aq Recently, in one week, more than 65,-|!east possible waste of material the \, 000 yards of material were cut into|Patterns have to be fitted into each 1,600 dozen garments. ‘To accomplish |other with the intricacy of a gleve; this the Red Cross hay turned itself |Plctui9 puzzle. ‘To do this down the into @ factory, and highly trained |!ength of a ninety foot tadie takes 4 workers manipulating the most eM-|€pert worker over four hours; pt client kinds of machines make that|0M¢e @ stencil has been gut an un. output possible. oe oP mater a mark the same Between the workroom partitions} ‘The department, whee 202 salutes, arg tables ninety feet long, over which | operation only a short tims, Pe on trolleys . .spended from the ceiling |!stely confined itself to cutting ‘ho. run various electric machines, ex-|fiwu Ferments. | Kecontly for the thrat plains the Electrical Experimenter, cr deve see garments One of them ts for spreading the ma- as weil. After devotin dics, terial, one for making stencils as long as the table and anc for actual thing ! in and last for advancing the iad on hand a suificient stock of gap Cc ments of nineteen varieties "and tee geven sizes to meet any orders whistle the Chayievs auwy send tn,