The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 10

4 tag D iia ae | - i i ee as 7 a Sere f Che ti ESTABLISHED LY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunder 4 the Press Publishing Company, var! Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Troasti Nos. 63 te Park Now, Park how, JOSHPH PULITZER, Ir., Secretary, 63 Mark : , ; MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i . Anoctated Prem is exctisivety eniitied to the sume foe reonbliration of atl news derratchiee | cena Arta ae SMT SI dA el al : VOLUME 0, 20,819 WAR RATES AND PUBLIC SERVICE. HE Brooklyn Borough Gas Company prope $ having formerly charged ¥5 cents and having pail dividends on this rate. When asked what caused the difference between this 95-cent rate and the prospective $1.25 rate the company enumerated various items of future development that in the company’s opinion justifies a dif ference as high as 30 cents. + Most of these items are based on war ¢ What is badly needed, not only in connection with this gas com- pany but with othdrs, is a definite decision as to how public utili- ties may be sustained in war time pleas? to raise rates to 8, especially oil. The courts have laid down in many cases before the war that! public utilities as to rate making must necessarily compute the lean years with those of prosperity. | Certainly it is unfair to the public, which has already paid into the treasuries of these companies a sufficient sum tg bring a business to its present degree of profit, to be called upon to be the chief! burden bearer of war conditions in relution to public utilities.’ Wherein lies the patriotism of public service corporations? In truth it might well be established that in such times of stress! public utilities must be satisfied with little or no profit, providing that) | | | bey over a sufficient period of years a fair return has been earned. | Should companies like the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company) insist on higher rates it may be worth while for the Legislature to, assume an investigation inte the entire gas industry and definitely lay down this principle. —————— The German officer who wrote that [t was best to run when ’ the Americans attacked, made an important discovery, the news 1 of which is Hkely to spread, * v . 215 MILES TO THE RHINE. HE nearest point of the Allied battle front to the Rhine lies) about the junction of the bit of Belgium still free with that part in German hands. It is 215 miles from the Rhine. During the four yeams of war the test of strength has see-sawed| backward and forward over a range of about sixty miles, with the] Germans now fast retreating to the outermost line held by them. | , The German Emperor has made his chief bid for the support of his people on the fact that’no fighting has taken place on German soil, the slight invasion of Alsace not counting in his claim, It would be a living lesson could Germany be made to endure some of the eruel suffering she has caused the innocent people of France. A German force which has been beaten with such celerity during the past month could hardly endure to reach the Rhine, or, if it did, would be in pretty poor fighting shape when it arrived, It is neither absurd nor impossible, however,’to imagine a retreat! of such magnitude, The great Napoleon once made a longer one, ‘and brought back but one-twentieth of his “grand army.” ——- po ——___—_ | The news that sults of clothes costing more than $50 wit! be taxed will stnd a happy thrill to those citizens who feel that * keeping up appearances {s an important asset. Clothes may not continue to make the man, but will become a test of | patriotism. : MEAT EATING. ORE meat can now be eaten, if desired, buf will it be? Lots of folks have discovered that their need of carnivorous food was not nearly so great as imagined. Doctors who practice among the well-to-do report a distinct improvement in health condi-| tions anfong their patients since a war diet became the rile, There 1s a decided lessening of digestive and nervous troubles and a visible} reduction in avoirdupoi ‘The country has a chance to continue lean and lithe instead of going back to lassitude and pudginess. We hope it will not accept Mr. Hoover's kindly suggestion, his will defeat the wicked beef} trust, save up stock to aid Europe with when peace comes and he} better for everybody. —1 yo $e The Subway Sun seems dead. Mr, Shonts has revived enough to put out another sign pleading for six-cent fares pn his lnes—including the freedom of Rector Street. | . \ seated Letters From the People, iy Amother Protest Against ° Students, downfall of Germany is To the Editor of The Breuning World leven the most optimistic | A letter appearing in your column | pro.German must admit ‘signed by “Dr, A” made an impression on the readers of The Evening World, as is evident by fhe answers rent in reply. And Hot! Arter the war a fwithout cause. The paint at issue In \struction will set in Wr. A's letter is one of vital import- | ance. . Ghould the college student be ex- *pmpted from military service? The sage of the Man Power Bill will, of course, affect ull college men, as with a little non sense. That tho inevitable, Jerman or It is only The morale of the » is getting lower and lower while j that of our men andeAllies is becom- ing higher and higher. has, apparently | a question of time. period of recon- It is then that we will first realize the importance f educated men, To quote “Dr. A, Men of education will be in great demand to help build up not only our own cities put those of our worthy Allies.” Just as shipbuilders, also At provides for the drafting into mili- |navy yard workers and United States tary service of men between the ages| Army transport workers are looked of eighteen and twenty-one, upon with approval as the men be- The reason for introducing this but | hina the men belind the gun, so! In the Senate js obvious, Our boys|should the ¢ students be re- and our worthy allies are succeeding | garded. in driving the foe from the French| Again, a student once taken from towns they have been occupying. This, however, is not sufficient. The Gov-|tinue after any lapse of time, @o ernment wants a decisive victory. In| quote Miss M, G., who confirn grder to win a decisive victory men | A's" statements, “Consider to-day the necessary. And as true American | young lawyer, the young doctor In his studies will find it difficult to co: | middle-aged GERMAN PEOPLE Monday, Angust 12, By J. H. Cassel | | What Every Woman Does By Helen Rowland. 028, by “The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Keep “Him” Smiling! Now, It’s Woman's Turn to Do the Coddling; So Pack All Your Troubles in Your | | Copyright i . Old Knitting-Bag—and Keep the j Home Smiles Glowing. | EKP Her Smiling.” | ‘That is the title of the latest Broadway comedy hit. i I haven't seen the play—but, oh, how that TITLE must | touch the vital spot in the heart of every Americkn mant | It has been his slogan, his motto, his watchword the keynote of his existence, Ever since the first settler bound coast, And then turned to his wife and said, ” “Well, where do you want to live, my dear?” ° The Amergean woman is, and always has been, the most spoiled, pampered, indulged, petted, flattered, cod- died creature on the face of the earth! (I am one of them—and I KNOW It!) The American man will suffer sacrifice, dare, do’ ANYTHING—trom working himeelf to death to pet-, | juring his immortal soul, . To keep her smiling—AND good-humored! lee Pay can—and DOES—geteanything on earth she happens to want out of im, From his favorite cuff links or his pet golf stick—to a vote or a’ DIVORCE! She has only to coax, pout, wheedle, nag, argue or cry a little—and | lo, he exclaims: m e “Oh, well, have your WAY! Take it! Do ft! I'll get {t for you The American Husband ought to haveg halo and a stained glass window. He 1s the prize martyr of modern ctvilization—poor dear! But,’ thank Heaven, The American Woman and the American M stuff! | She {s “Daddy's Own Girl,” and “Hubby’s Own Rib"—and the way tn which she has answered the clarion call of War proves it! The tables have been turned on her—and she {s no longer “IT.” The American Man has the centre of the stage, at last— | And now It is her turn to keep HTM smiling! “ | It is HER turn to do the petting, the pampering, the catering, the cod- | dling, the working, the enduring, the cheering, the sacrificing—for HI | » It is her chance to payehim back, In his own coin, for all his generosity, ‘devotion and self dental, The first excitement of getting Into the war {s over— The thrill of the first victory will pass— And then will come her Supreme Moment—the cructal‘hour tn which her mettle will be tested, her gatience tried and her spirit and her courage | put through the crucible. | And she will come up SMILING! For she knows that on her STICKING POWER hangs HIS victory— Hers then, to “Hold fast—and smile!" ‘ 4 Hers then, to forget all her own hardships, swallow all her impatience, | ghoke down all her tears—and keep him happy, keep him hoping, keep him | winning--keep him smiling! Hers then, to pack all her troubles in her old knitting bag, And keep the HOME SMILES glowing! She knows, and YOU know, that {t is the Great American Smile—the | Smile they can’t rub off—that has hjt the enemy harder than all our shrap- nel and all our shells! Now 1s her chance to “make good” to the best, the dravest, the most indulgent man tn all the world—The American Husband, Father, Sweet- heart! Will she KEEP HIM SMILING? Well—you just watch her! landed on our rock- jan are made of the SAMR, New York Girl Types You Know By Nixola Greeley-Smith Coppright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work.) No. X.—THE WAR-WORKER,. of all ages and of every degree of prosperity, ranging from the} “What’ s0¢ woman who | the Englishman asked wonderingly has put up her motor | “WE are celobrating the day W cars till the end of {drove you out,” the Irishman an- the war to the wage- | swered coo! earner who sets aside | a@ weekly percentage | preciated war job for women is just . of her earnings for | staying at home keeping thelr house- : the Red Crosser the | holds in order, working, saving, knit : Y; M. C. A. Of alb/ ting, giving to accredited war organ- 3 the persons within izations and. striving generally to Remermatass the ange of my ac- , prewerve the civilization our men are quaintance the most fighting for, And it ts of this type generous contributor to war purposes of war worker that I am writing is a little Hungarian house-servant |now. ‘The other kind gets all the just six years in the United States, |headlines, fearlessly defies the who has pledged one of her ten weekly |camera three or four times a day, dollars to the Red Cross and who owns | sometimes does a little good, and at two Liberty Honda and is an indefati- |any nate, if she confines her activi- guble buyer of War Savings Stamps. | tles to this country, does little harm, 1 confess that such quict servic Arnold Bennett in his much-dis- and the swift fingers of the women |cussed “The Pretty Lady" gives a who knit and roll bandages impress | candid picture of a war relief com- me more than spectacular forms of [eutes meeting in London which de- war work, The fémale grenadier in| bates stormily whether the doctors swaggering khaki, the bogus “colonels” |and nurses of the hospital {t main- “captains” of beefy groups of | tains shall be permitted to go to the matrons, calling them- | Movies toge Lady Queenle Paul, selves “armies,” may have their use- |a neurotic young woman already no- fulness in war, but [em most unfor- | torious for hor love affairs, casts the tunately blind td It. ‘The housewife |dectding ballot with the disoiplinar- who saves wheat and wool and who |!ans and againat the movies July for the first time. ie war workers of New York are | landed in New \York on the Fourth of Hl the celebration about?” and gives her spare moments to the Hed New York has many replicas of Cross, the wage-earning woman who'| Queenie Pe hallow, picturesque gives her surplus to care of the | Persons mad to devote thomaeives wounded or of war orphans, seems to) to the al and the spectacular, me to be of more value than, for tn: |for whom indeed no service is too stance, the young Woman welfare | @?tuous provided only it talfs them Worker who wrate me from France | Way from home, They do not count last week; “We have five ch | There are, on the other hand, girls working for us, and not without | Women of wealth and former lelmure many tears and, I fear, too frequent ) Who work ten and twelve hours losses of temper, I have been trying [ax seven days a week for soldiers to instil some kind of American push | unusu and sense of order intd their heads | "Ves There are stenographers who T find some terrible plece of stupidity— | S!Vo evenings and urday after- promptly fly up in the air, and then | B00ns to the war organizations with- every one gets it and I spend the rest out pay. There 1s in the de f the day apologizing partment stores performing miracles e Ren | of valorows se}f-dei Dake atone Reading this hysterical and egocens | a le 1 a n % make a con tric document I wondered what the |.) UUOn fo the lel bn There r Jare childron by the hundred thou- five “stupid Freneh girla” thought of | oa noarding their the tears-and-tantrums method of in. | at ag pre, pana lee to stilling “American push and sense of Amps and giving their selling the: I think order.” mild who docs without; “E have a boy of fan," writes And I wondered, too, what the eoo!, | slow cumulgte! | one mother, “who jot speak logical French mind would think of Fare as ms heen @ it the truth, He will ings and another self-elected Joun of Are who army uniform and bur. | With the, most inn look tell wrote me two weeks after landimg in the army drill without ac-, you he knows nothitg about it. Europe “The Boche shall not crush |complishing ana good visible to the| He was in the ‘Home’ for a year naked eye ita we willingly give our children embryo, and if in that embryonic this great and just cause, stage he be taken away and sent into Jet us combine oy patriotism camp, all will be lost,” ex Syiheen, it Pye ertceteeme natn ee \ MY beautiful Paria," I was reminded of tie story of the Englishman and the Irishman, both emigrants, who It is natural for very young women to yearn for the showier varieties of war service, They have the natural ‘ ° After all the hanest and least ap- | egotism which made so many of the | young girls in suffrage cast their lot | | with ‘the pickets, er ali,” one ot |the conservative leaders said once jin discussing the subject with me, | \"a_ young girl ss from college with tho determination to settle the} whole suffrage question at once. She sees harself as a Joam of Arc. And when Jogn of Are offers us vices weesay everything we If you will go down to Mrs. beadquarters, she may be able to giv jou some circulars to address, But | the pickets say: ‘Joan, take this| magnificent banner, make a demon- | stration in front of the White House, | set arrested and your name in every paper the gountry and Be a ‘Martyr.’ * The same instinct leads the million | or More volunteer Joans of the war and sailors or their dependent. reta- | to setk service near the front. For near the front is adventure, daring, | tragedy, nobility, and only humdrum duties lie at home. Yet the girl who Copyright, 1018, by The Pree Putiining Co, (The New York Evening World.) R. JARR was" buried head first in the clothes closet. “Where's my light blue suit?” he de- manded “You haven't any light blue suit,” said Mrs, Jarr soothingly, So it would seem!" hero as he tore his way through hanging petticoats and other frills and furbelows in the closet ? “And furthermore, there's none of your clothes in tgat closet,” said Mrs. Jarr, ‘Please come out of it." “IT want my light blue suit,” ro- peated Mr. Jarr, “You haven't had a light blue suft in years,” was the reply, you go to the tallor's and get a couple of nice summer sults?” performs these humdrum duties splendidly {s my girl war worker and | |the finest sirl in New York. Why don't I purchase a six cylinder | Making the Most A Series of Plain The Simple Virtue of Honesty. ] za old adage “Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child” was: easy | to follow | It made child train- ing easy to many | parents a genera- | tion ago. i To-day there !s| no such simple rule for bringing! up children, Many | parents are be- wildered by the] varying theories of education | |that are “in the air.” I sometimes | | hear parents say that they have em- | |ployed every method under the sun | and In spite of this their children | | behave in a most undesirable fashion. | all.methods are good; and cer- | | tainly a combination of all methods, | Ja sort of pot-pourri of educationa) | methods, is anything but good. Im- |agine, for instance, a mother's saying | | that in her attempt to cure her boy | {of lying ghe had tried scolding the boy, reasoning with him, denying him | privileges, being kind to him, threat- ening bim and even whipping him—all to no avail this sort ¢ me to my attention, | his shoulders, And yet, many cases of | of Our Children Talks to Parents, | By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., President of the Parents’ Association he went in, Please tell me how to reform this child. Corporal punishment fy used rather freely in most of these “Homes.” The boys, who are not always supervised in the way that they should be, got into mischief and in order to avoid the usual consequences they very naturally falsify. And whipping a boy for falsifying generally makes him worse. To overcome this habit, it is neces- sary to map out a positive course of action which involves some responsi- bility on the boy's part. year-old boy in question deliver some daily paper in his home town, This will put a daily responsibility upon His customers will ex- pect the papers and he will be obliged to deliver them on time. He will learn to know the value of a dollar oy earning it. He will have to do his collecting in a business-like fashion. This, especially, will be just what he needs, Do not ask a boy of this sort to nake any promise unless under ex- eceedingly favorable conditions. When he does promise a thing, see that he carries it out, e it a point, whenever circum- stances permit, to show a proper ex ample in regard to your own honesty. If you happen to owe someone ever so small an amount, for the sake of tne boy's training, if for no other reason, and in spite of all the methods which the governess used, he came out much worse than whea go out of your way if necessary to square it up. Always act quickly in regard to every obligation. tOcurright, 1010, ty the Parte’ tm) ‘The Jarr Family. growled our | “Why don't | ‘Why don't I go get a steam yach*? | Let the ten- | By Roy L. McCardell jautomotile?” growled this best of|the collars that are just back from |husbands. “Gee! All I want is my|the laundry—tearing them in piecet last year's suit that I remember dis- | just because they've started to give tinetly hanging here a week or so/ way a little! ”“ go—my light blue cuit.” “You had a dark blue suilt"——be- gan Mrs, Jarr, Then Mrs. Jarr heard a moaning, surgting sound and the stamping of a heavy, angry foot, and she knew | “That's the light blue suit I'm talk. | Mr. Jarr was choking himself to |!ng about!" interrupted Mr. Jarr. “| death mecause the cravat wouldn't slip |mean light blue in weight, Do you : through the only good turndown col- think I'm searching for a baby blue |jar ne could find jsuit or a pale, cerulean blue sult? “Don't you want | Woll, T ain't, I want my good Old] geogtom gio asked tinge, mm last summer's dark blue serge, and T LEP espe pty acer iets opened the door of the bedroom just a few inches. | want it quic | “Oh, dear! Was there ever such # | man?” cried Mrs, Jarr. “You know {that suit was worn out. T never saw anybody so hard upon clothes, You couldn't have worn it again.” “No, I want an ax shouted Mr. Jarr, “Why aren't there any buttons on my shirts? Gimme a needle and. thread!" Mrs | Mr, Jarr sat down and gazed at} 3} Jarr sighed, but got out the hap caldiv€ button box and her sewing imples “You've traded it off—that only} Mts and proceeded to tack buttons + on the shirt Mr. Jarr handed her, “Are you all right, now, dear?” sho asked mildly, summer suit of clothes I had—for an agatoware stewpan, Don't say you haven't!” “Well, I will say I haven't,” replied Mrs, Jarr, ‘I got a double boiler for it and a pudding dish and an agate- ware bucket." “Bring ‘em in and Jet me put ‘em on!” exclaimed Mr. Jarr, "If you 4! and trade my clothes to beprded per- sons who pass, crying, ‘I cash clo!" (who never give cash and only trade in second quality kitchen junk for it), at least I might be permitted to wear the utensils!" “Now, ple: Mr. Jarr was afraid to trust him- self to speak, He yanked the shict from her, and as he proceeded to in- vest Dimself with it he tore it from‘ top to bottom, Seeing this, he tore it | from bottom to top, “You'll have to get some new, shirts now, And you need some socks, too," said Mrs, Jarr mildly, Mr. Jarr only answered by a fero- clous look, took andther shirt out of the drawer, pinned it where he need v ed buttons, and after assuming the , se don’t start a quarrel with me to-day about your old | rest of his attire, stalked grandly out, clothes,” said Mrs, rT wearlly, “I} steno! said Je the b tell you, they weren't fit for any- ales 1 Se Boas keeper, as he limped into the office. Got trench foc "No," said Mr, Jarr, “but my toe ts out of my sock and it's choking me to death!” “Why didn't y you? thing, and it was better to get some kitchen ware for them than let them hang around the house as nest- ling grounds for moths!" And Mrs. Jarr slavnmed the door of the bedroom behind her, Yes, she slammed the door behind her, but she went forward to the back parlor and listened behind the last curtain of the window on the ai shaft for fear the man would do him- self harm, and also to be ready to play in close at the first sound of to ur wife darn it for sked Jenkins. § was in such a temper this: morning I was afraid to ask her,” * said Mr, Jarr wearily ae NO MORE GRIDGE GAMES TILL : WAR IS OVER, bureau drawers being dumped upon|¢¢ pf ET us abandon bridge for the the floor, duration of the war," is the "Le Le Rem-zit-tt!" came a substance of an appeal made harsh, tearing sound by the editor of “The Chroniole’ in Mrs, Jarr knew it was perfectiy| his current issue, Ho. believes that good collar number one, perfectly | such » step would answer the charges good save for a nick starting at the | sometimes made that the indepen- upper right hand corn, dent class of Americans are idiers “ZL Lr Le Beh B-Zitot and collar/and dilettantes. “The Chronicle", number two bit the dust, publishes a number of letters trom “Oh, dear! He'll tear every one he has!" moaned Mrs, Jarr, “I'd go in and stop him, but it isn't safe to ap: proach any man when he's tcaring prominent women, favoring such ac- tion, They ‘believe it would be @ mall but worthy way of demonstrate ing a true “win the war’ er git .