The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1918, Page 20

EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, September 27, 1918 ty cio v4 ESTABLISHED ‘BY JOSEPH PULITZER. sui the P: rb " Daily Except ny A 4 by ied tae Smee Nos, 63 to PU. ZER, sident, 63 Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRNAS, ae EE cd Hace ene ron _ VOLUME 59.... sseeeecsseceseseesNO, 20,856 shea NEW YORK’S SHARE. ROM the City of New York is expected $1,834,250,600 in the great Fourth Liberty Loan drive which gegins here to-night with the President’s speech at the Metropolitan Opera House. Of the $6,000,000,000 national total, the five Boroughs of Greater New York must furnish over 22 per cent. Of the $1,800,000,000 quota assigned to the Second Federal Reserve District, which Among _ Aacludes the whole of New York State and parts of Connecticut and _ Mow Jersey, this city's share is 74 per cent. 4 ‘A big slice for s community to take care of, But New York Bias not only the wealth and financial prestige to carry this part of i i , : o-oo aity in the country for handling » Liberty Loan campaign on a big geale and for bringing the unanswerable arguments for bond buying home to hundreds of thousands of individuals. Despite the demand which the new $6,000,000,000 loan makes upon the American people, there are strong reasons why the Fourth Liberty Loan should be launched and floated with even more speed "and enthusiasm than Ahose that have gone before, ia 3 i | ay The tremendous change in the war situation should have a oe es marked offect. ' H iy With news from all fronts telling of onward-moving Allied offen- ; | sives—in France, in Macedonia, in Palestine, while another is pre- paring in Italy—attack after attack highly successful, inflicting dis- : | _ astrous blows upon German arms and German morale, how can there f He fail to be imparted to peoples at home an ever stronger impulse to push on and win quickly? $ With the knowledge of what an army of a million and a half Americans in France have done to turn the tide and bring victory nearer, can Americans in the United States find money fast enough to speed along the fighters who are doing so gloriously what they were sent to do? Americans in France are fighting to end the war and end it in short order. The chief anxiety of the American troops, notes Marshal Will any American on this side of the Atlantic begrudge them the means to make it up? “Tho wildest war fury is at present raging in the United States,” the Imperial German Chancellor told the Main Committee of the Reichstag this week. _ By next week that fury, from the German point of view, should ‘be raging more wildly still as the American people carry their greatest of war loans swiftly toward its total. New York ought to fill itself with this spirit and take its proper place es leader in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. The faster it runs up its millions in subscriptions the faster the rest of the country will do likewise, Twenty-one days are more than New York needs. Any person who knows what the average New Yorker knows can have no doubt as to the value of a bond on which Uncle Sam guarantees the interest and pledges himself to pay back the principal. ° Who wouldn’t be glad to own something like that when the war ends end prices go down and the purchasing power of a dollar begins to look big again? Any way you argue it, New York is the winner by $1,334,250,600 of Liberty Bonds. fhe end of the war is in sight. Tho Government needs money to spend on the quickest route to victory. It offers the best invest- ment in the world to each and every one who will help. New York’s share is none too big. —— Letters From the People psyered raeee SRS 20, Tesh cast in New Yor 4" T aympathize with attor outlet ery much. Jam an outcast also Allow me to suggest that @ war tax| with my five children, 1 get no con- on dogs would not be amias, Per-|*!deration whatsoover, ‘Tho tene- haps, if their owners had to pay a are sat as bad as high-class n price for the privilege of keep-| “There is nothing I love like a large | satel Ps 4 Sah, Relate: temily, My mother had ten children and my mother-in-law twelve. All of end we could rest at night m are doing their bit to win this| ar. Myself and children are also helping. 1 have gone without a new coat for four winters, but I have my. Liberty Bonds, My children are ught to save for Thrift Stamps, and I will be one of the first to buy in the next Liberty Loan, I often wonder why there isn't more respect paid us poor mothers when we go to loox for rooms. In my opinion, it is not the Intelligent owners’ or a auit ail the time, but that of takers who have no children of t own, ‘They don't want other chil- dren, What they want is women to gossip with them. If the Board of Health had seen the condition of this flat when I took it there would have boon trouble, n F i % PORES: = ‘ Unfortunately I have no children and have been magnanimously ac- cepted by a landlord to occupy a four- a flat in Astoria, L. 1, for which I agreed to pay $32. Within two months ‘ “pad 34, which we paid we were raised to $34, which we pa. without a murmur, he pleading high ost of coal for the coming winter, &c. next month he raised our rent to 1 objected to this unwarranted , but stated that I should not to move until 1 hear trom my board, as I am in the draft age, ‘also as it ts very difficult to get mmodations in October, to which patriot threatened me with a dis- ss notice unless 1 vacate the ises. 8 families have been evicted for ing two grown-up children and a Py , what chanoe do I stand, plead- ut I had been refused many places on account of my iful children that I was glad to wet it, I scrubbed and cleaned it for about @ week, and me a poor mother ust out of the hospital one month, Th:g country is beautiful, I love { I could die for it. Even the free ho: pitals, the doctors are fine, So are he nurses, They have the greate: respect for mothers. »vice to my country? =A. P, jer Children Not Wanted, Everybody is Hits From Sharp Wits who offer bargains get rich} Many a man of forty is about than those who seek them.—|that cure for obesity that, te. nr we, #0 long bunte Baltimore American, . ich 1s a man who prays for ‘i By Nixola G XXV.—THE GIRL HE Girl of To-morrow, most im- portant of all types of New York girls, goes almost unob- werved among us. Romping in the park, selling Thrift Stamps on the avenues, minding hor baby brother in half a million homes or chatter- ing earnestly on her way to school, sho holds in her childish hands the torch of the future, What she 1s, what she becomes, will make or mar the generation after us. In many ways this girl, when she reaches maturity, will differ from the girls that have gone before her. She will take, as @ matter of course, many rights—to the vote, for instance, for which the women of to-day have had to strive, She will work in numbers and in occupations till hardly grasped, It does not matter whether these things meet with our approval or not. They are written in the book of fate, and our approval or disap- proval is a waste of energy. Less and less will she be able to make a profession of marriage, and less and less will she desire so to capitalize her love, She will love and marry just exactly as she does now, except that she will no longer write letters to Betty Vincent and Beatrice Fairfax asking whether a young man has the right to require her to give up her work to become his wife, For she will have answered that question for herself. ‘There will be drones for a tong time —the women to whom marriage will still appear as @ new land of lotos caters, wherein all who taste its fruits may dream and feast in idle- ness forever, But men will find them less and less desirable as wives, And in that way they will perish. Many of the girls of to-day work too hard, too long and for too little money, and many of the girls of to- day work about as much as grass- hoppers. One of La Fontaine's best | futile efforts of a grasshopper who Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Work), known fables tells of the frantic but Conreignt, 1918. {The Nev. the German Casualties New York Girl Types You Know reeley-Smith OF TO-MORROW grows warier and wiser all the time. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. I have often wondered why the women of the past never reared a statue to him—never chosd| him as the titular deity f their lives. | To-day—and even more to-morrow—| the high cost of pottage will prevent the consummation of similar bar- gains, Even if man continues to bo willing, he won't be able to maintain dependent idlers much longer, I can hear some indignant person ask, ‘Do you mean that mothers should work?” And 1 answer that far too many mothers are working now, that the girl of to-morrow must he protected in her motherhood as the girl of to- day is not, but that she must be brought up to realize that she can- not expect some other woman's motherhood to sanctify her own idle- ness—in other words, that actual, not potential, motherhood should be the only valid reason for femule depen- dency, And I think, too, that the bearing of the average American family of two children really need not create a lifelong disability, assuming the Biblical three-score-and-ten to be our allotted span, People wrangle The Girl of To-morrow will help to solve them However she does It, let us hope It will be with honesty toward men as well as toward herself, If she elects to be supported by her husband, let us hope she will try to give him some- thing worth while in return—a peace- ful household, well-mannered, intelli- gent children, and that feeling of partnership and co-operation which was so general among our fathers and mothers and is so absent from among Us to-day. We know, anyhow, that the Girl of To-morrow will not borrow money from her husband to hire a hall in which to denounce the tyranny of man, and we know, too, that he will not have to leave his business to go and get her out of Jail for picketing the White House, only to have her ex- pound her principles of feminism while he pays her fine, For all these things will seem as old-fashioned and has played all summer but ts fright- ened by winter's approach, to beg food from @ frugal and thrifty ant. In the fable the ant refuses; in life he queer by that time as Sarah Bloom- er’a costume appeared to the mid- furiously over these problems to-day. | ing?” or “It's perfectly scrumptious!” After all, the mere tact that words are in the dictionary should not bar them from her daily speech, nor the exclusion of other words endow them with special excellence, We cannot Imagine the Girl of Yes- terday as expressing herself in such hideous and illiterate phrases as “I should worry!” “What do you know about that?” or “You said a mouth- ful." And when the Girl of Yester- day sat down to her piano to sing of the men gone to war it was of “The Vacant Chair” she warbled tenderly. [wonder what she would think could she hear her granddaughter's stac- cato proclamation “If he can fight like he can love, then goodby, Ger- many!" We have heard about the modern woman's right to choose her career, the father of her children, &e, Among all these dazzling prerogatives 1s it too much to hope that the Girl of To- morrow will want to choose her words as well? (THE END.) By Helen What Every Woman Does Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Pablishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Every Day Is Just Like Christmas Day—As Far as Thrills, Surprises and Excitement Can Make It!—You Go to Bed Every Night, Mentally Hanging Up Your Stocking, Nowadays! IMES Before this War began! can make it! Unes! ¥ WB Scans es Russia; seillaise,” velopes, And are shocked, or astonished, at last, valor, Red Cross nurse and been decorated And just then your maid comes And jnast then there's And you rush to the window to of a brass band. time! And you go to bed at night, all your stocking, The Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) “ec R, JARR, Mr. Bepler, the M butcher, wants to see you,” sald Gertrude, tho Jarrs faithful wartime kitchenette, so to speak. And so saying she “checked in” to Mrs. Jarr with a pound and a half of liver, a package of macaron!, a can of tomatoes and seventy-five cents’ worth of Thrift Stamps, the latter to fill out the Jarr family card. “f don't see what that man Hepler wants to see Mr, Jarr for so particu- larly,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. ‘1 don't owe that man anything—that !s, except part of week before last's bill and half of last week's and this week's. But one thing 1s sure, if he is going to bother Mr, Jarr about the bills I'll take my custom some- where else!” “I don't think it's about the bills, mum," sald the faithful Gertrude. Mr. Muller, the grocer, told me ‘to tell Mr, Jarr he wants to see him, feo ‘hen !t 13 about the bills!” sald By Mrs, Jarr firmly, “There! It serves m» right! I have been dealing with those men ever since I moved to this neighberhood, und that’s the thanks t! Of course, I may have let Mul- rs bill go this week too, I often have to do that, because the rent comes dué or I have to get a set of least I don’t run up bills on my tradesmen and then go deal else- where, as a lot of women do around here, I pay my bills—at least I pay them as well as I can—and yet peo- ple who run big accounts like the Stryvers can go to the Rocky Moun- tains or Palm Beach or somewhere, and leave the tradesmen to wait for their money till they come back! “But that’s what one gets for pay- ing one's bills promptly—when you do need a little accommodation the tradesmen act as though you were trying to rob them!" ehe added after @ pause, So saying, Mrs, Jarr took the Thrift Stamps from Gertrude and de- | posited them on the proper card, back of her head of the kind of @ man she wants to spend the rest of hor fe with, She doesn't want a philander who makes love to every girl that E happens to take his, fancy, does she? Most certainly NoT! Very well—then remember these few things, I'm golng to give you some pointers that you may find useful in the se- lection of your hus! d-to-be some day, They say a “danger known ts a gulde post to safety.” Perhaps you may find a post or two in this lot that you can use, “Look out for the man who will tell you that you were “just made for him!" To this type of man any ene he may happen to desire at any particular moment he always Victorians, My own wish for the Girl of To- pany of happy and. me ‘ generally consenta, But day by day must pore ie th Be may bashes im @ less stereo- for i ‘things C neopta gaz ceaseinae ee i ‘ imagines to have been created for his special benefit, Any individual who can tell who thelr real mate may be in this topsy-turvy old world Look out for the man who calls you "my woman” and wants you to call him “my man.” That sounds nice and savage and olemental Makes the shivers run up aad dowa your spine just to think of it, doesn't it? Well, savage. Yorkese—and doesn't mean a it isn't elemental or even It's just plain modern New thing “my woman" has been reading trashy literature, Look out for the man who tells you that you are “so magnetic” that he can feel your presence as s00a as you enter a room even if he does not see you. He's probably suffer- ing from prickly heat and doesn’t know it, Look out for the man who tells you that you are “so deep” that he hasn't an idea what you are thinking of when you look so “dreamy eyed.” He knows as well as you do that you are thinking about him right then, but he wants you to tell him how WONDERFUL he is, so he baits you with that “so deep” stuff. Don't even nibble, honey. Refuse to pander to his vanity, But, most of all, look out for the except that the man who calls you) Wanted--An “Ideal Husband” By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), VERY girl has an ideal in the|never to be permitted to die. 1s “misunderstood,” and begins to prattle to you about your being “so | sympathetic." Remember that prac- | tice makes perfect in anything, And |tho man who will tell you all the thi you delight in hearing must have had lots of experience or he couldn't do it. The man who loves you deeply will say none of these trite thin He will probably be tonguetied b fore you. He will flush and stam- mer if you but look at him, In his | lovemaking he will be so awkward you will be almost ready to shake him at times, You will get no thrills from him, BUT you will be pretty ain—as certain as anything s0 | UNCERTAIN can be—that you have jfound the one true friend-lover-hus- band you will need to worry through the battle of life with, If you love him you will have a woman's under- stancing of his many good qualities, and you will do your best to make things easier for him. This eave-man stuff appeals from a merely superficial point of view perhaps—but remember that you will have to LIVE with that cave-man, and you will find that they do not wear as well as the home-grown kind, and, after all, that is the main thing in married life—to select your partner for his good wearing quall- tles, for it is a long, hard road to travel, and it And that the woman you once thought a frivolous fool has become dishes or a dress or something, but at| takes be- than "Isn't i cork | deserves to be eanonisgd and ought |marzied man wg tela Zou shat Re ides prwiy Wosua iy = ne dalle 1 wonder how we ever endured the dulness and monotony of Nfe But Now— Well, every day is just like Christmas Day, As far as thrills and surprises and EXCITEMENT You fairly leap out of bed in the morning and scurry to the front door—without stopping to silp into your “mules”"—— And snatch up the paper and devour the head- And you never know whether the next victory is going to be in France or Belgium, or Palestine, or Russia—or whether we've got to Berlin or not—— And one day you read that there is a Czar or a new government tn And the next day you read that there isn’t any! And one you read that there is a coal famine, And the next day you read that there ISN'T any! And before you've finished the iceman comes in, singing “The Mar- And announces that he’s “going to camp” and must say “good-a-by,” And just then the postman hands you a bundle of thick, creamy en- And you open them wita trembling fingers, or delighted, To learn that your MOST faithful “old flame” has stopped “suffer. ing”—and married somebody else, and “gone to France!” And that the girl you thought NEVER would marry has got a husband And that the boy you thought never would amount to anything has just received a French War Cross or been made an “Aco” or cited for for bravery under fire! in and gives you a touch of “shell~ shock” by announcing that she's going to be a conductorette or a muni- tions worker and wants to “give notice,” And before you catch your breath the telephone rings, And it's somebody you knew in Australia or Kalamazoo or Timbuctoo, And he's “on leave” in New York and wants to take you out to lunca, commotion in the street, see an airplane hovering over your very roof and a regiment of soldiers passing your front door to the musid And you rush around all day, from Red Cross meeting to patriotic rally, and from parade to benefit, and from knitting-bee to scrapping-bee, And in the evening you go out to dinner, and FIGHT with all your friends who don’t agree with you about the Russian situation, And call them “Bolsneviki" and “slackers”"—and have a GLORIOUS tired out, and mentally hanging up In readiness for the next day's shocks, and delights, and surprises! And, of course, you have to have insulated nerves, and an ironclad digestion, in order to STAND it, without getting “war-nerv But sometimes I wonder, when it js all over, How we are EVER going to endure, again, The deadly, dull, prosaic monotony of PEACE! Jarr Family a” Roy L. McCardell noting with satisfaction that she onty needed about elghty more to fill out her hundred-dollar card with the big four-dollar stamps, ’ But Mr, Slavinsky, the glazier, got the same message over to Mr. Jarr, Mr, Slavinsky encountered Mr. Jare as the latter was coming out of the house, preparing to dodge Mr. Bep« ler, the butcher, and Mr, Muller, ¢he grocer, “Hey!" erled Mr. Slavinsky. “Gas! told us to tell you to be sure you should come around by his place to- nicht. Bepler and Muller will bé there, and Rafferty, the builder~ everybody but that bummer Dink+ ston!” ‘ “What's doing? Raffle for em elrht-day stove in anticipation of the coal shortage?" asked Mr. Jarr, “No,” sald Slavinsky, “It's a meets ing of the Uptown Business Men's Insociation.” “I I can do an Eliza-crossing-the+ {ce out of the fiat to-night I'l be! with you," said Mr, Jarr in a tense whisper, “Meet me by the old mil} at midnight with the papers,” “Meet yourself mit your own pa« pers!” replied Mr, Slavinsky seme~ what indignantly, “I don’t run me newsstand!" st! We are watched!” erted rr, grasping the glazier by the wrist. “Did you see the war map of the Allied sweep In Macedonia? The Bulgars will not take Kastoria ‘What you think I am—the mews Ing pictures?” asked Mr, Slavineky. “By gollies! you get more crazy house every time I meet you!” Mr. Jarr laughed and went his way. And that evening he eased himself out of the flat when his wife wasn't looking and joined the commeretal interests of the neighborhood et Gu c was beaming with mystery and pride, “Now everybody 1s here," he sat at length, ‘I got a surprise. Maybe |they can put my liquor store out of business, but they can't make me stop working.” "Sure!" chorused the others, “But what's it all about?” asked Mr. Jarr, “The Uptown Business Men's As« sociation of this neighborhood is get« ting up a Fourth Liberty Loan came paigr, and everybody has got to buy more than he can afford!” said Gua, “All in favor say ‘Aye!’ orted Muller, the groc “Nobody ts pays ing me what thi EPEAT Ue ia hes to buy Liberty Bonds,’ eh ciel Piss