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eee ee i ; | EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, August 7, 1918 LL, Coprright, 1918, bo THe tee anleine co, (The Now York Evening World.) Stabbed in the Back! FSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER : ieiiianadinis Published Daily Except Sunday, by the Press Publishing Company 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Kow. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. Fie Arociated Prem ie exctnsively entiniet to the use for rmmbiication of at name deeratche @xebited to it oF not otherwise credited in this paper and ale the local news published herein, OLUME LNO. 20,805 ~ COMPULSORY VOTING. if OR five years or more Mr. Thomas J. Spellissey, the present Democratic candidate for Governor of the State of Connecti- cut, has had introduced into the Legislature a bill providing for compulsory voting. It has as re by the Nutmeg guardians of the public welfare. rularly been canned in committe It is interesting to note that the Massachusetts Legislature hag just passed to a third reading this kind of a measure ought to pass and become a nation-wide provision. Men who will not vote should not have the rights of citizenship or the protection of the laws. If we can have compulsory education in order to make good izens, we should have compulsory voting to make them continue good citizens. We draft men for war to defend our liberties. There is a demand for universal military service. upon by law, with punishment for failure to exercise the franchise, would do away with much corruption and bring about a wider and more definite interest in affairs, have a wholesome effect upon the election to public service, and above all improve the morals of the voter, who is now widely bribed throughout the country in the guise of fees to recompense him for his time. It is logical, Universal voting, insisted It is a ghastly reproach upon the Americanism which goes so bravely and whole-heartedly to the sacrifice of war that we have this army of slacker citizens who will not protect themselves at the polls. 2 $e The more than overgrown draft dodgers who are seeking safety in matrimony should take Punch’s advice: “Don't.” Also it would be wise to remember that the country will be a land of the free just as long as it 1s the home of the brave—and no longer. ay wn THE SUBWAY CRUX. HE original zigzag subway was laid out with great skill to touch the high spots of New York and the best available territory for better class res Its engineering defects were ob vious, but they pertained only to construction. There should have een pipe gutleries and the stations ought not to have been located on curves. Aside from this it has been a marvellous business & wonderful public convenience, ences, success and For ten years it has built up a territory of people on the upper! west side who desire to do business on the lower east side. The new! system comes in abruptly and insists upon carrying upper west side people to the lower west side, where they do not want to go. unthinking idiot believed that a shuttle system between the east and the west would overcome the difficulty, apparently without ever] having counted noses or knowing anything at all about the destina-| tions of the travellers, Some| Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Verily, Verily, the Difference Between a Square Meal anda War Portion—the Difference Between German Opera and Music—Were Not More Vast Than the Differ- ence Between the Woman to Whom a Husband Cometh In at 5.30 and the Woman With Whom He Goeth Out at 7.30. QAR now, My Daughter, the pathetic Plaint of a Husband, which H every married man uttereth, in his secret heart: “Verily, verily,” saith the Husband, “what a marvellous thing is woman! How mysterious are all her ways! How full of guile and strange surprises! ‘or WHAT husband knoweth bis own Wife, in all her variations? “Lo, her transformations are more sudden than @ thunder shower, and more astonishing than the bill at the end of a war dinner! “Behold, who is this that cometh cluttering, in heel- less ‘mules,’ to greet me, when I return from the day's labors? “Who is this that fluttereth into mine arms—a shapeless bundle of kimono, tied together with a silken cord? “Who is this that lifteth pale, mine own, saying: ‘Sthat you, John? My goodness! How late ts it?’ Who is this that appeareth in a halo of ‘magic curlers,’ camouflaged | with a last Christmas boudoir cap, while she hastily removeth the ‘beauty | cream’ from an unpowdered nose and brow? | “Lo, it is the Wife of my Bosom, arisen from her afternoon nap, BEFORE her struggle with nature! “And who is THIS that cometh radiantly forth from her boudoir, as the sun from behind a cloud, her cheeks rosy with the glow of ‘youth,’ her eyes sparkling as twin pools in the sunlight? “Who is this, that floateth toward me, with willowy waist and fhutter- ing skirts and feet like silver butterflies and the fragrance of lilies in her half-smiling Nps and drowsy eyes to wake? “Who is this that lifteth a snow white forehead, crowned with shining curls and glistening waves of hair? Who is this that toucheth my coat sleeve with rosy finge eth her coral lips, saying: ‘John, DON’T kiss me! You'll ruin my complexion!’ Verily, verily, it is SHE, the Wife of My Bosom, AFTER her struggle with nature! “Behold, even her voice hath altered! For now she entercth the drawing room and her tongue drippeth notes of liquid silver. Yet, she speaketh in her ‘telephone voice,’ saying: “Oh, Mrs. Jones! How perfectly SWEET to sce you!’ “Lo, night changeth into day and winter into summer; sinners reform | and become deacons; wild bachelors are turned into tame husbands; youth | pisastti into old age; and the world of peace becometh a world of wart! “But what are these wonders compared to the lightning transforma- | tions of a woman? “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, the difference between a square meal | and a war portion, the difference between the North Pole and the Equate | the difference between German opera and music, were not more VAS than the difference between the woman to whom a husband cometh in at 0 and the woman with whom he goeth out at 7.30!” Selah! This is why there is confusion, complaint, discomfort and danger.| The upper east side did not grow on the same lines and is therefore but lightly accommodated by the Lexington Avenue extension, In time the community will adjust itself, Meanwhile a huge reproach lies against tl New York Girl Types You Know | By Nixola Greeley-Smith Service Com-| Copyright, 11s (The New York BE NO. VIIL—THE HELLO GIRL HE holds all men in the hollow of | women who have ruled over the same queens of the switchboard certainly “How tiresome these smile seems to say iny difference how hundreds » Public by The Prem Publishing Co, ning World.) men are," the “It does not make ng I keep them mission and the railroads. encin ia As Mark Twain once justly observed: “Everybody talks | her hand, Her slightest word is| switchboards for a score of years,| Waiting, but you are a woman. You about the weather, but nothing is done about it.” Why doesn’t | law to them, And her sway is| but, except for their astounding ef-,¢¢ through me and I see through the Government take charge of the climate and see that it | | hot modified by! ficiency, they might be junior opera-| YOU And heavens! how we both see | | through them, And just for that you McAdoo can do it. years nor ended by run properly. shall have your number at once.” dahis face satiety, For she is! About this time some reader is be-|°\, the one girl of whom! ginning to get mad. He is thinking Fear tat aid Vda nlite THE VANISHING FERRIES. | nen never ro W| doubtless of the time ho was told that | in that little head aa Wine ae : bi ; ined Qn 4 with) the Grand Contrat Btation did not ah»! isthe tender mosanges of Youne love HE refusal of the city to subsidize the Houston Street Ferry whom they never! swer or that the City Hall telephone whiaper 1 assign: cine “ Taig : 4 4 dare to be grouch Ad bee! . , a ede RH BORE Ok INSEE Mey marks another step in the disappearance of the big double-) , Fat gt 2 hid been discontinued for the sum-/ the dread announcements of death: , f "s , not the com-| mer, ‘ ended steamers from the East River. Bridges and tunnels out-! { y/ bany take thelr t ie oi binant das & jan on Just a part of her day's work ; 5 4 ; wet me assure him that T too have/to her. No other woman has her , subsidy ide . phones ay from | compete with them and nothing but a subsidy would enable a ferry) ji.sceaeew them if even one| te! ™¥ hair and ground my teeth| sources of information, and if one of company to operate, This is unfortunate in more ways than one, because the shift in travel cufrents has spread as much desolation city real estate values as the wanderings of a Western river. Water-| ind plotted destruction to some hello! the operators of the New York hotels girl, But the dull operator is so rare,| should write a book what a wonder- ind her dullness is a willing and pa-| ful story it might be. tient dullness, One rages at her, one tiny damn escapes their lips? Women, too, submit to her dominton. How they hover about her when once dL cnnsors bia geuhacat Yet, through it all, the hello girl is front property is a drug. Vine residential and business seetions have! Ba Henan tas Big hotel "| writes tons, bitter letters to the com- DOE THAI een eae epee to, i'eias plays, been turned into factory sites because convenient to subways and ele-| Men and women alike are ruled by | PANY Qvout her, saying that it would stories, yearne over” Banlen’” talks a watod roads. “ i the Hello Girt—the on bsolute mon-| Tacehane sears Wak” HAA to clothes and hats, and expects some : | arch left alive since the heart of Nicn-| 'Ph® paw. Then one| day to meet “the right man” and live New York has an abundant supply of deteriorated real estate.! olas Romanof stopped the bullets of | 7°’ the letter over, wonders it it/ happily ever after, M SEORDES LO DUNNE OF eatiy k ecightcen minutes by the| _! Pray she does, “3 Mrs. Tulkington, and the Tulkingtons | The arr Family r. “He's got his arm| By Roy L. McCardell Mr. Jarr was about to su; that Cowright, 118, by The Prva Publinhing Co, | replied Mr. om York Evening World.) in a sling. A few weeks ago he had|more work and less rolling would be “ HO 1s that pale, quiet man|his face all scratched, And before|a splendid anti-fat exercise, but W that lives on the second|that he had a terrible mark over his | feared the criticism might precipitate floor of this hous asked loye,"* an acrimonious discussion. Then Mr. Jarr. ik He may be a prize fighter,” said) Mrs. Jarr, who had gone to the it the man whose wife wears! Mrs, Jarr. “There are refined prize; nethermost part of the Jarr apart- that check tailor-made suit with the genters, aren't there? I suppose it's) ments on some errand or another, narrow black braid so much, the) foolish to ask such a@ question,| came tiptocing back and whispered woman with the auburn hair in| though.” leagerly to her husband that if he de- sired to hear Mr. Tulking Gretchen coils over her ears and who| “Oh, there are lots of refined prize ‘on rolling always wears oxford ties with black #ghters, fd Mr. Jarr, “But they |-he should come to the shaft and silk stockings, generally with a ‘run’ don’t get themselves marked up. | listen, Jin them?” questioned Mrs, Jarr in Bosides, this man looks a little too) “I think he looks pale and thin turn, pale and harassed to be a fistic cham-|enough to be satisfied with his | “I've never seen her run in silk | pion." ape,” suggested Mr. Jarr, stockings; in fact, I've never seen) won if he were a prize fighter! “Well, SOMPRODY'S rolling down him with any red-headed woman"— | yo¥q know him well enough,” re-|there, You can hear the chatrs ant | began Mr, Jarr, | marked Mrs, aybe he hurts|furniture being pushed about and “T didn’t ask you who you had seen | himself taking physical exercise, be- choking sounds,” said Mrs, Jarr. him with,” interrupted Mrs. Jarr.|cause I often hear him bumping and | “Come and listen." “Men aren't seen with thelr own|rolling around and wheezing-like,| Mf. Jarr took his place at an open window overlooking the well-shaped But that’s! often for the longest tlme, And you can hear the furniture being shoved about when you Msten at the air- |shaft. But he is refined, for I never hear him swear or raise his voice.’ “Nonsense!” said Mr. Jarr, “How wives much these days, dictograph that is ment buildi for light, ventil: and general tnformation. Sure enough, the stra . smoth- ered, struggling sounds were heard Put into aj |are very refined people, What's the nan done now?" “He must be an automobile dem- onstrator and a yery reckless driver,” When once the excitement and necessities of war are past there should | the Bolsheviks be established a firm civie movement for the betterment of our river; Now and then clock to te poor girl will phone, thinks that the arise in! » her job and may t Rolshevikl college students, shores in the way of transportation and utilization. That the back-| S°™ ee sna i t to ov thoy er the sole support of a widowed mother, > tho ren yranny, But all) and with much satisfaction, tears the Pe F bone of the city should be overcrowded while its edges go to waste! in vain! ‘The. bravest. conspirator, ieitee ny un Mauaeaction tears the! A Series of Plain is an economic wrong. Moreover, the rivers should be used, not left} must quail if he gets the busy signal 'B y and unvexed with the kecls of traffic. V manedcta | etghteon times, and knows that only) How trim the telephono operator a Ray C. Beery, A: Biss A, A, empty and unvexed with the keels of trafic, st energy i8 NOW] 1.0 natural OORDAaain OF thie faniale Her monetary reward is not, ’residentof the Parents’ Association going into the construction of ocean shipping. When will there be} sex will prevent him from getting it pat, but her white shirtwaist 1s al- Sona I give reasons to my a revival of river and harbor transportation commensurate with the! forever Ware Immaculate ‘and well pulled tn) enhy eae tepleal auestians Si we tablist at the belt, I have never seen her| Do you believe in’ giving possibilities nome : ne n ie a We ominion| dowdy op dishevelicd: . Her: complexe| ranacnahi dal cnc } “te eit i : BU OLDSTS ae is "4 Jon is sometimes highly improbable, | swered, of course, charm or magnetism ho He Weta iene a : si } ‘The latest Zeppelin to visit England has left its remains rl may have hoao attributes, but] oot eee makes up loss than 35 SAR AAD YS fe 4 fi any other group of women in New You must diserim- ; behind, When the German cost of war fs figured out and the she docs not need any of thems! yor, inate, however, as } amount spent on futilities of air and sea are computed, the bill Though she have the eye of a hippo-| : | to the proper time will stagger humanity ‘amus and the figure of a pelican,| Mystery surrounds the ‘cloistered and circumstances i Pk Pesan ust all men pass under her age-| Bit! of the company exchanges, It is tia like wivine t } or the s 0 : y in the hotels and riment houses reasons, Reason- Letters From the Peo ple. | ‘Time cannot wither her. Even Cleo-| that one may observe the hello girl ing with your child, considered from As Young America Feels About the | Should College Noys Be EB edt} patra took to disappointment and the] closely and at leisure, To be sure al ths standpoint of mental development, Draft. To the Editor of The Evening Wo #p when Octavius Caesar put on a} woman has hi work edging herlocse cetyuias ia cat involved, ie ale i fhe ot The & | ro recently appeared in your) gas mask and so saved himself from! Way through the hordes of admiring | “hen at sap hennr d, yet many chil- sd ave Just Anlah od read columns a letter by Dr, A. Tho writ) her baleful charm, And all during| males who may really want to tele-| dren are badly spoiled by parents who who signs himself Dr. A. er was apparently opposed to the! this super-siren's career she had to! phone, though, son I never) are forever giving reasons. : brings home some good points. drafting of boys between eighteen to trickery to accomplish her| aulte be Hler quick upward “Is it natural for my little boy,” Being a younger man myself, | have | and twenty-one, Ono point at issue Ve know that she had herself! glance takes in your difficulty 0, | " spol Rea Re Met daare | ce en ene ones aa We know that she had herself} gan 's in your diffleulty at once:| asks one mother, "to want to know stands more of what it will mean wo yo) PAAR Secretary 4 up in & carpet and carried be-| Suddenly the men become invisible to! my peasons for commands? And the country if they draft the eighteen, | Baker's bill would affect virtually all tore Julius Caesar that he might see| her, “Number, please,” she asks, smit-] wilt giving him reasons encourage nineteen or twenty year old men, b and succumb, What hello girl would] !ng into your anxious face and hold- the ‘Why’ habit safely reply to hat Should this bill be passed by Con- ; pcan mately reply 18 Des & What he oes ine I bo jaanet by CON so demean herself [ing up all their numbers without a] ‘There is a big difference between qoueger generation. There is more dision hat students be exempted Indeed, she does not have to resort) qualm, For what are they? Just! giving @ reason while an act of ing blood in our young men to-|from | military | servic there will to the practice of such effronteries.| men—simple, easy creatures whol obedience is pending and giving the fey than paate adie fed Het Pied Prppably: be 8 eraat uel Be iB high She sits proudly at her switchboard) have swarmed about her ever since| rp, on some time after the act of @3 to what the United States will| school students to enter coliege. Many #24 “ll men come to her--yea, and ail) her first switchboard. Mut you are alobedience, the latter being preferable turn out to be if she sends her young |of those who have already chosen a Women do her reverence, woman, a being endowed with rea-l/as a regular policy, If you care to men away. Let Dr. A. think a min-| business carcer will probably leave! Why 1s it one nover seas an old) son like herself, a person to placatelstate a reason before the act, you ute and realize that If we do not go|their positions to continue their jooking hello girl? e@ telephone! and with whom one may exch: 1 a p' "y. Row and win a decisive victory in a| studies. Would this be a good thing ay exchange a} should state it before issuing your short time what good will be the|for the’? on? Would the collages operator is not supposed to be able! sw superior smile, 1 don't know|/command, For exam ggest ina teachings of colleges or anything elsé? be able to accommodate al these to bid time stand still, but she -|how many of these swift, sisterly| confidential way that you are having M. M. boys? READER, | tainly sugeceda in doing it, 1 know smiley 4 bave received {rom tbela little trouble in hearing the Victraa ( ‘ { Making the Most of Our Children emanating from the flat below. Gertrude, the Jarrs’ light-running “That shdws all you know domestic, came by, grinning. torted Mrs, Jarr. “Mrs, Stryver has| “They're at it aga she sald. been ‘rolling’ to take her fat off, and| “They've got a colored girl who tells twice she's bumped into a rocking|™e they fight that way by the hour. chair and made her nose bleed, and| She always whips him—she hit him once she rolled against a claw-foot| Over the eye once, But they are very table and made a bruise on her bak; TWilet and refined people and they as big as a dinner plate, and when| Pever Say a loud word to each other, she rose up she bumped her head un- | even when they are fighting,” derneath the table; and not having| Mr. Jarr grinned, her hair on, she raised such a bump} “Refinement and quiet is no name on her head that when she went out | for it,” he 1; “it's as refined and could @ man get all marked up that exercises?” way, taking physi re- in,” Talks to Parents ‘and follow it up with a simple com- mand to play more quietly, Do not ntroduce the latter by "so" or “there- fore" or “because.” In other words, lo not let the child know that you are giving a reason. “How would you cope with this ation?” asks another mother. child has disobeyea and you ask why he did what you nad for- |her maid didn’t need to put her quiet as a gas attack—and just as | bidden and he answers, ‘Because | Switch on at all, But she had to effectiv | 1 wanted to.” |wear a theatre bonnet because her “+> | big hat wouldn't stay on by reason jot her not being able to use hatpins through the bump. | “On, don't laugh! Rolling ts grand to take the fat off. In the Highcosta Arms, where Clara Mudridge-Smith lives, the women have rolling parties down the wide corridor, and a Mrs. Digett, wife of a rich Nevada mine owner, whom she is separated from, ame very near being killed on ac- count of the elevator boy leaving the door of the elevator shaft open, and only Mrs. Digett was so fat she| this wedged in the door she would have] by gone down nine stories and perhaps gotten badly injured,” “It must be a fine sight to encoun- ter the rolling parties In the High- costa Arms corridors,” said Mr, Jarr, “Clara Mudridge-Smith took off five pounds doing it,” said Mrs, Jarr. se I wanted to," is a very natural and truthful answer to your |question, The thing for you to do in the future is to jar ques- |tion, To ask a young child why he lisobeyed suggests that you are find- ug fault with him, and, in most cases, the child will give a curt answer, ‘Stamp, Envelope Moistener for Pocket Use. HEN travelling, tf one's corre. spondence is at all extensive, and moistening be- envelopes stamps soon Another reason why it is advisablo to avoid trying to get a child to ex- plain his past actions 4s that it sug- gests’you do not understand him, It is very important from the standpoint of results to assume that you under. | stand a child perfectly, Experience has taught that this assumption ts the practical one. eunee® post Fountay, effects, |Fe man abolished annoying task converting a cheap fountain pen into a moistener, as shown, The pen point was removed and discarded. ‘The feed groove was then cut a little deeper and @ pilk sponge inserted, With the ink reser. voir filled with water, one or two strokes over the gummed side of a stamp make it ready for application —Popular Mechanics, ' nothing of the un sanitary reed 10K Seon terres | When your child does wrong, show jthat you realize how easy it was for him—it really was natural or he would Inot have done it—but suggest in a | friendly though firm way what you|"She puts on a heavy shirt and a will expect in the future, | sweater, so as not to get brulsed, Coupright, 1946, by the Parents Association, Inr,)' and rolls by the hou -: