The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1918, Page 12

YOR Oe : ESTABLISHED Published Dally the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te Except Sun: »: ta Park Row, Now Tork. LPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park How, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Py" mae lication: news Acerat eo SPELT CRESS Fal VOLUME 59 sooees NO, 20,779 PERILOUS WAR FINANCE. HERE is « deeper difficulty involved in a td on so-called luxuries than mere enhancement of cost to consumers. This is a nation of 100,000,000 people, of whom about 21-2 per cent. are now diverted from industry to war. The rema being, besides providing for the requirements of the 21-2 per cent. in the shape of food, clothing and munitions. Upon the prosperity and well-being of the 97 1-2 per cent. depend the Nation’s strength to fight and power to endure. The off-hand policy of the Treasury Department and of bureau heads generally is to ignore the needs of the 97 1-2 per cent. and to concentrate all energies, physical and financial, behind the 21-2) per cent. No one for a moment questions the necessity for a most complete and thorough support of the soldiers and sailors. ing 971-2 per cent. must live, move and have their But there now arises a sharp difference of opinion as to how that support can best be maintained. The collapse of the Coal Administration last winter was & blow te industry from which the country still staggers. Yet in the face of that experience and its consequences it is proposed to adopt methods which will curtail many industries and stop others, and totally to disregard the greatest factor in the situn- tion—which is: The need of providing for redistribution of the enorpous sums poured into the Nation’s war purse. A limited number of concerns make munitions, build ships and furnish war suppli¢s for the 21-2 per cent. of the population directly) engaged in fighting. The rest of the country must furnish the bulk of the funds and maintain itself at the same time on a rather than weaker. ; If the proposed plan of taxation prevails, how will it be possible te redistribute the money thus concentrated in such wise that cach citizen may be properly provided with the means of making a living which will enable him to go on contributing his quota to nationai confidence and prosperity? It needs but little thought to realize that the sale of so-called Jaxuries constitutes one of the best means of insuring a normal, healthy flow of money through all parts of the industrial organism. The necessities of life are relatively few. Luxuries count heavily on the profit-making side of industry. A bare living for the indi- vidual contributes little to the common prosperity. The Government pays colossal wages. It has lifted the cost of labor in all lines to the limit of endurance. Employers and employees in a few industries engaged in the that shall grow stronger ! No Luxury The EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, July 12, 1918 re to Tax! Copyright, 1918 by The Preven 1) why .. ByJ.H.Cassel (The New York Evening Worllb Magazine Mb. By Helen Rowland Coyyritht, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Ce, (The New York Erening World), “Consider the Sirens of the Beach, My Daughter. In AN No-Man’s Land There Is Nothing Half So Dangerous.” 6 ONSIDER the Sirens-of-the-Beach, my Daughter! Lo, they float not, neither do they swim. Yet, the wives of Solomon in all their glory were not arrayed like one of these! For, verily, verily, the Houris of the Harem and the dancing girls of Bagdad were simpler than Sunday School damsels beside the BATHING GIRL of 1918! + Behold, I have watched her at her work; and I say , unto thee, she requireth an whole hour to don thirty~ six inches of silk! She putteth on her “complexion” without stint, Her girlish color will NOT come off in the water, For it is so written on the box! And Nature {s not its maker. She paradeth the beach for exercise—and for the delight of the multitude. Her half-hose are of spun silk—and she carryeth a red sunshade, thaf none may miss her. Her bathing-sult adorneth, but doth not conceal. She is SO frank! She tosseth the rubber ball into the air and pursueth it with kittenish screams. She flingeth seven grains of sand at her escort and runneth away from him with cries of fright. She is SO coy—and so exceeding childish! She bindeth her ankles with ribbons, but her skirt doth not trouble For what is a quarter of a yard of silk ruffling, after all? Fe her. A> She taketh a sun bath of six hours and a salt water bath of six, minutes, She protecteth her marcel wave with THREE rubber caps, when she dasheth into the sea. Yet, when she emergeth, she letteth DOWN her hair, to “dry it” in the sun, 4 It rippleth about her as a halo, for she knowetb well that no man can resist the fascination of flowing locks. Verily, verily, in her slimness and her fetchingness, she resembleth a BOY of ten years. But her heart {s full of guile and her ways are full of cunning. And in all No-Man’s-Land there is nothing half so dangerous! Yet, behold, how simple am I! For I put my silver in the bank and my Jewels in the safety-vault— yet, in my folly, I led my BELOVED out among THESE without a tremor! Go to! Go to! No longer shall I fear the sirens of the beauty chorus, nor the pony ballet, nor the show-girls of the musical comedy, nor ANY+ THING that {s on the stage, or on Broadway! For the BEACH GIRL of 1918 hath them all beaten to a meringuel, she is an whole cabaret, and an whole roof garden, and ua Yea, verily, whole beauty chorus {n ONE! Selah, ae a making of munitions profit enormously, But other Americans—millions and tens of millions of them — must suffer to the verge of r unless somewhere the vein is tappet | If Federal War Finante continues to form its programme on th easy theory that its sole task is to get money out of the country, wiia- No. 1.—THE P ISS NEW YORK ts in uniform, as everybody knows, But everybody knows also that uniformity of cos- tume will never pro- duce a uniform Miss . S New York, out any provision for putting money back and assuring its steady, The khaki of the i r m .' mas ; oa | oto ‘orps, — the tmulating flow through mesuatomed channels, the Nation will pres- mela tie He ently find itself stricken with industrial paralysis—at the time when, yeoman's blouse, the i in its hi i Ce i : ‘ , sand colored over- of all times in its history, it has need of its full health and strength | 6. - y cia of the. tarmer- i om ette, strive vainly SSE 14 make the observ “A coal car on the Buffalo, Rgghester and Pittsburgh Ratl- road can make four round trips from the Clearfield, Penn,, dis trict to Rochester, N. Y., ip the ame ttme it requires to make one round trip to New York City, “In time of stress and car Shertage coal could be moved from the Clearfield district much more quickly ty the Barge Canal via Rochester. For four tons can be put on the canal at Rochester in the time it would require to put one ton in New York by rail.” —G. A. Tomlinson, Federal General Manager of the New York State Cana! System, to The Evening World. for the consolation of the poor devil The Teherel: Halirons Atm ieieiretion at once. benios 6 the real girl has cast out for him triweekly fast freight service by way of the New York State | revery slim young creature In blue eres Dasek lor khaki we meet daily about New Win the Federal Fuel Administration come to the ald of York Is thia real girl to sume one, coal consumers by using the waterways? |What makes her #0? Or {s its eole solution of the coal problem to be curtailment | tn the real girl pretty, witty, wise} and sacrifice on the part of those It was created to help? ‘or good can be all of these —— — Seem things, She need be none of them, ‘ perhaps she ie a good housekeeper L etters From the Peo Pp le Pee nna friend, DPerhaps she does A Question of Patriotinm. jtlsewhere, I know that the sy Fo the PAivor of The Drening World ditions exist there, so what ya man 1 have been employed a long time |'°, peg Pinte BB greyed URS rive et work for which I am enpecially | would leas the panin of Infunt! proficient and for which Uncle sim Inst our Government? HH. . pays me indirectly, my employers How to Lower Rents, receiving a certain percentage on all! To the PAitor of The Rvevirg Worl expenditures, The more expensive) 1 have observed several arent Whe work can be made the more Y| your paper recently about the jn i employers will recelve in COmMIS- creasing renta What would be Pil gions, and naturdlly, the less work pier than to pass a State law cena I turn out per day or hour the longer | iting landlords to raise rents above it takes to finish it-—the more work- | the prices that were in force Sj men are required—the more expenses | we entered the war? There is a sim. =the more money out of Uncle Sam's) ple, plain solution of the whole qu: pocket. tion, It ts not me con. More expensive to If 1 give up the job, my place will, maintain property now than before, be taken immidiately by some other | save in case: me | man, 1 adinit that 1 am not doing my |)! Veta ro} where much repairing best, but 1 am making my living ac) o be done, And in cases of that trade, and it is through no fault | kind no doubt tenants would be will. mine wt werk Aa nerd by] 1) tog to co-operate, Repapering and ebould for the Un ee e ' tte ue ao by turning au | repainting should be discouraged to More or at least as much work as 1/% certain extent during this war, ‘would be expected to had my em. | Let us make out with the old things | Joyer a contract for the work—I| and turn our energies to some pur- would be discharged, Naturally my| pose, And that would mean econ-| employers are cautious enough not|omy, yermitting landlords to make to give thin fact as the real cause, money at their old rentals, * 1 should give up my job and go TENANT, | , ing young man belleve look alike to him, of course, when thronged enough at that. trouble, he realizes that there Is really only on r that all girls There ts a ‘time in every man’s life the universe seems with giris-and not #h and full of in whict This period A is brief phase follows —on girl among all this numb! girl, and a horde of zeroes mean to mend a glove not know even how and never speaks of others except with malice: Whatever she may be, to one man, at lnast she represents the real in- visible government of the United Ktates, the intrenched autocracy of the pretty girl Wor the pretty girl rules America. Even grandma bas to wear her longing clothes. Even poor hard- worked father must accept as his only dramatic diet the cream puff that draw (housands of her to the An Mother must admire her movie heroes and heroines, and 1 wonder If persons who do not go to the movies—I am one of them-real- ize how much we owe to Mary Pick ford and Marguerite Clark for setting before our preity girls ideals of sim- plicity and youthful grace, 1 have often thought how fortunate we are in America to see prettiness and remain cold to beauty, Because there is so much and so very little beauty, A Justine John- son is born every minute, but there is only one Ava Astor, ope Maxine comeds prettiness RETTY GIRL, ott in a generation, N. Y. Girl Types You Know By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), Given flu By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell Copyrignt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), fty “ce HY do you smoke that old hair—a simple matter of shampooing complaining moderately decent eyes, clear skin | “Because I can't 1 good cigars; and a make-up box and any girl can they've gone up so in price,” replied be retty girl Mr. Jarr, “Jitney ropes are now a The most important element in the 1 -l mean nickel cigars cost a making of a pretty girl is neither bair dime, and"—— hor features nor complexion, It 1s “The smell of smoke will get In my the thought of the desire for beauty lace cur’ — b an Mrs, Jarr, but in the girl herself. stopped short, as a glance at the How often we hear people say of @| Windows reminded her that the cur- girl, “She is pretty, and the best part tains in question had been taken of it is that she does not know It.” knows she girl is likely to be twice | if she ignored her | But 1 believe is pretty, a as attra iv that if she down at the beginning of the sum- mer, S$ no use talking,” sald Mr. Jarr musingly. “I just have GOT to make beauty. For the pretty woman works | a little extra cush." ’ as hard for beauty as the captain of] “A little extra what? asked the industry strives for power oF the | tac honey worshipper for gold. ‘Cush, megs, simoleons, Iron men So | say to the young man in love} kate—py any name it's just as g00d— with a pretty girl” ter her] yo.n. scads!" he explained, Praise Encourage her to KNOW] ayo know 1 don't like those slang ver beauty, to be vain of It." For van | occas sald Mrs. Jarr, “The y will Keep her happy, amiable and | iy near you and then usc oun, them, A tradition ists that no pretty ing |woman has brains and that no intel “1 start out every week, Me ent woman can be beautitul, This} tl get a little money ahead.” & ‘ lish idea must have originated in| Jarre went on, “but Friday comes ale single-track mind, For no wo I haven't a bean. You know,” he without intelligence can be reatly | added, “Mt Isn't the big expenses like beautiful, She is an unlighted lamp. | automobiles or swell feeds or Jewelry No soul shines behind her eyes, no| that eat up our income. It's the |fascinating play of thought crosses| yittle expenses, the many, many- her lifeless face, Intelligence cannot] eountiess—ittle exE cents Jinake beauty, but it Is surely a neces ten cents there, and so on, \ sary attribute of beauty, at's because we haven't enough “uly has passed definitely from for anything but the little the luxury cliss, Fifty years ago expenses,” sald Mrs Jarr. v, the were only ten or a dogen mike} pce, ) Magazine, says"-—— lionairen iu tue United states, and in| Perteect ity | ible that the plutocrais of That's it!” erled Mr. Jarr, spring- were not more numer ip up exeltedly and clapping his those simple days We cour . s idea! If t charm it bune[all those gushamush papers for At least, if we| women can make millions, why ut of her critics . eushamush paper for men? the pretty & \ malefactor, soulenit & Bye ymen, any day!" Personally L feel that she is a pub- are as silly as we iy aay) He benefactor and wish there were nd then some," said Mrs, Jarr. rt way of establishing a Rockelel- “ido itt” Mr. Jarr went on, not ler Foundation for the study and re a amare tf at fiat reh of more and new types of ding her remarhe baat 0 pretty girls, have stories ‘How My Wife Went There are, we know, girly who are| Away With a Handsomer Man’ and just pretty girls and wi . being some: |ayny My Wife Quit Working, "The are, incidentally, protty : ong-8 . Dra aint meR tits A Confessions of a Long- Suffering in itself, and the woman who| Married Man, ‘Why @ Young Mar takes her beauty as her husband tak sce if His Intended Fathe thes |ghould See If ather his golf or his setting up exercises is |, oivent’ do soon. 14 livable than the profeaslonal | in-aw 1@ Solvent AGRO Chi eR 1 could have discussions such as shall consider the types of gitls|‘should Husbands Have an Allow- who, while pretty, are more remark-| ance? and ‘ls & Man's Pin Money able for other qualities . rn aries rq es in future ar His Own? Meantime, congratulations to the] «rt would be very Interesting read |young man who wins the pretty gull yyoy gatd arr cynically, “Will \Zad may he tell her how pretty une | ina!” esta Mra. J ac peste fe in every letter he writes from|you have portraits of handsome camp or trenches, | young summer men on the covers?” to be interested suck th! d Mrs, Jarr 1 think they will be in Room Hints,’ part of the scheme—showing clothes, and so on." “Why Is that the part?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Because know Mr. is how to do t very ose things,” an they won dangles. ‘Oh, let me fix that!* cry. It's married men whose clothes are neglected.” “Are yours neglected?” asked Jarr hea’ . | “Come now!" sald Mr, Jarr. not speaking personally, I'm | cussing @ business proposition, Think| 1, Kenyon, poet and author, and it 5 of @ heart-to-heart story—'My Early|was only natural that he ahould en- DORIS KENYON, J | Married Da by Henry Peck. It| courage me to commit to memory | honors in screen life. You say I am will begin like this: ‘As Imogene led] poems and prose classics. The result iueey Perhaps, But don't over- me up the aisle with a firm hand 1] was that I was frequently called upon Lied ie inet whatever guene was dimly conscious of the eyes of| to recite in public. loniy by the bande kind’ at wae Marcia Van Hasilisk upon me. What| It Was wholly through my ability as | study and self-sacrifice, When I look lwas Marcia doing here? 1 rected|a singer that I became a motion pic-|P’ck now upon those first pictures In and would have fallen, b . whispered: my | And before | ever the f the kindly Mortimer Van Boob, “Courage, ure 000 to finance the proposition I'd Mr, Jarr, cept.to spend it!" Interrupted Jarr, {guess you are right, baby sald Mr. Jarre, “Still, It's 'a bully Pictures on the cover of pretty off to work and war—kivsing at-home good-bye, Yes? No?” “I haven't just figured that out,” OMETIMES I think from the hundreds of letters I receivereaehwlaythat said Mr, Jarr, “But we'll get the every girl {n the United States from the age of ten to fifty Imambitious young fellows by running articles to become a motion picture star. I often wonder whether theyoreatixe on ‘How the Best Man Should Act’/ that motion picture acting Is a specialized labor, that it requires the Nardess and ‘Etiquette of the Groom's Last) Kind of constant effort from early morning until late at night! f'an# out of Bachelor Dinner!'” | bed every morning at 6.80 o'clock. At 7.30 I am on my hordé’ tr “Do you think men are silly enous’ “ was the ree ll have ‘Men's Wartime Fash- and a section cf the paper called ‘This last will be ‘oted to instructions for bachelors —but this will be the hypocritical they can sew on thelr own buttons, darn their own socks, patch thelr own hypocritical bachelors don't need to nning them to see if a button Imogene arling! my swimming eyes was of her sturdy parent | —how sweet the thought!—to be MY |dist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, which |father, My future was safe, He|!# known as the church baving the “Model City ” | would place me in @ snug position | !arsest Sunday school in the world. ae aera . Ip his gumdrop foundry, But as| Victor Herbert hoard me sing there cn ret mei et alty for work= Marcia gazed at me again 1 could lone Sunday and offered me 4 part in Pig n wae forma ly opened forty~ feel my reason totter’ "—— “Phe Princess Pat" which he was! mur years ago on the Shaftes- " : about to produce. Although I was|>Ury Park Eetate, near Wandsworth, “Lean feel MY reason totter Nestea | nue fitteen years old, I London, ‘This was the first attempt ba to such mush!” snapped Mrs.| part and remained with the company |‘? provide Ideal cottages for laborers, | Jarr, Well, just the same, if T had $500,- a man's paper just like that!" sald} “If we had that much money we wouldn't need to start anything—ex- husbands and sweethearts Famous Movie Actressés*' Tell About Themselves: ‘ eis & tase y Doris Kenyon af howe’ nB' canter through the park, At 8.30 I eae leave for the studio and by 9.15 [am . made up and ready tor work. From that time on throughout the day it 1s one constant grind, and very seldom am I home again before 7 o'clock In the evening. Usually 1 am so dead }| tired that bed is preferable to the theatre or any other form of entertain- ment, The one relief in the monot- ony of such a life 1s the usual tn- terval of a week between pictures, Aside from that the only vacation I have had In the last two years was two weeks at Palm Beach, When I tell aspiring motion picture stars about the many who come ani the few who are chosen, they invari- ably ask, “But how did you start?’ It 18 always a puzzling question. Truthfully, I didn’t start. It just hap- how said meet they 2 pened. 1 was never an infant prodigy. + Mrs.|or anything like that, although my mother insists that even as a little “T'm | child 1 was always acting or imitating. dis- My father, as you may know, ts James which I appeared I realize how crude my work ¥ Whatever {mprove- ment there has been has been accome plished only by constant endeavor, a oe First Workmen's ture star. I possess a contralto voice that I hope some day may lead me into grand opera, When fourteen years old I was the principal contralto soloist in the Bushwick Avenue Metho- soon | artisans and clerks and to relieve the congestion prevailing in the crowded tenement districts of the metropolis, ‘The Hari of Shaftesbury was largely instrumental in the forination of the Artisans, Laborers’ and General Dwellings Company, which promoted the enterprise, The scheme was very successful and throughout its New York engagement. During this time a motion picture magnate saw my work and offered me the leading part in a picture he was yout to produce. This, too, I uc- cepted, and was co-starred with George Beban, so you see I really stumblea start estates wer . Mrs.| into the motion picture industry. chased in the vicinity of a number ef aon] Fortunately, 1 have never had to| British industrial centres, ‘The probe tol"| scok engagements oF to go through [lems of coniustion, despite the alight iden, the tryiog weeka and months and roliet edforded by such "model cities,” F a continue to be acute, and are now stay-| often years of waiting for extra work * receiving serious consideration by the sociological experts of all big cities of Europe and America, ; and appearing in small parts that usually fall to the lot of those seeking