The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1918, Page 14

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Except Sunday »; 3 Par Row, New York. PULITZER, President, 63 ANGUS SHAW, T: rer, 63 Par! PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Py gy ye entitled to the in this paper a: a CONGRESS. T IS ONLY of late years that Congress has become the property . of an Administration. The functions of Congress are quite independent from those otian Executive. His business is to carry out the laws H rs #0f Congress is to enact them. The one requires action, the other) thought. jwubordins‘e the representative bodies. The latter may be slow, stupid and inept, but they are elected ito represent, not to obey. A distinguished educator and historian in the Executive Chair =] Sean hardly fail to be cognizant of these facts. : For a party to lose control of popular representation need not be vonsidered a reflection upon an Executive. In the case of a Democratic majority it sometimes happens because that majority failed to be Democratic. a “It is a hard and nice thing for a man to write of himself. It grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.” TOWARD GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF RENTS. , RBITRARY boosting of rents, combined with confusion in building industries, is producing exactly the result predicted last spring by The Evening World. : Latest reports from Washington are of “a sentiment now crys- Htallizing to place the entire rental and building situation under one rol—probably that of the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation.” As long ago as last May, in its campaign to check unrestricted profiteering in New York apartment house rents, The Evening World wetned realty interests of what was coming. It assured them that, impressed iy successful experiments in Government housing in Great ee. France and other countries, progressive American communi- oppressed by rent profiteering in war time would begin in their turn to doubt the fitness of private landlords and private realty spec- tors to perform all the public has a right to expect in the matter f providing homes at fair rents or purchasing prices. Is this doubt, The Evening World asked, one that landlords and estate speculators are anxious to confirm and strengthen? Are they desirous of being pulled up to new standards set by the performances of a far more powerful competitor? If 80, profiteering in rents is their best hope. Do they realize that Congress has already appropriated $50,000,000 for housing shipyard workers in war time? Suppose it should turn out that these and hundreds of juss of others can be better and more cheaply housed when the Government acts as landlord; Suppose, out of the experience of war, proposals for Gov- ernment housing on a larger and larger scale win the approval of the country; Wouldn't private realty interests be fools to furnish addi. tional argument against themselves in the ehape of a war time record of ruthless rent boosting? *© Since then investments made by the United States Government in*houses and towns for industrial workers have passed the $100,- 900,000 mark. Current proposals to exert governmental supervision over homes and residential sections of the moderate cost type point " ) out that 7 In this way the Government can protect its own holdings while forcing private builders to come up to Federal standards Bt housing, thus also enhancing the condition of workers gen- erally. Do the realty profiteers begin to see the kind of competition their own snethods have helped to oe ——- 9 > —_____ call into action against them ? The Health Department thinks the Spanish influenza offensive has done ‘ts worst. But it behooves everybody to go on taking precautions against an enemy that can still do deadly ; fighting in retreat. —— Q “A FIGHT OF DESPAIR.” LF THE German newspapers are an even half-way trustworthy indication, Germans are at last thinking hard along the line wherein lies the only hope of salvation for the fatherland *~ Even fierman editors who recoil from the probable terms of an ied armistice do so mainly because they find them “depressing” not, it would appear, because they think there can be any chance in the end of evading them. While in the dismal chorus, the Socialist All of Germany's allies have capitulated, or are about to do so. Germany has held out to the last, but in the end will be compelled to go the same way, A fight of despair for a few weeks or months can alter nothing in the unavoidable ultimate results. “ag Parad-<sically, the failure of the ninth German war loan and panic which has started a ran on German banks are also hopeful that Germans are nearer the point where they will decide to wage what they can of the German nation, All the raging of the Junker class cannot much longer persuade many that it is fighting anything but “a fight of despair.” More d more insistent must become the question: Why prolong it? From the People the contract and also that the ser- vice {8 at times poor, But it would do many subscribers good if they visited an exchange and saw the amount of work one girl is expected to do and f tho things she is Piers beac a Oo Lawl inne. \ ERATOR, ‘Troubles of the Biltor of The Evening World: Tegard to H. G.'s letter on the company, I agree with him the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to The business More than one President has wrecked his party by seeking tol | at the Peace Table By Bernarr CANNOT repeat ] that Spanish Influenza appears as the result of an unclean ail- mentary canal, The stomach, as you know, is an important part of the di- gestive apparatus, Every physician admits the importance of considering the condition of this particular organ in the treatment of any disease, The stomach washing process, in which a long tube is inserted into the stomach, and whter to the extent required is Introduced and then oy phoned out, is a commonplace treat- ment. No doubt in many cases it Is valuable, but the proper way to wash the stomach is to make the muscles too frequently (Author Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture— Fourth in a Series of Articles.) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), properly perform their office, The muscular process of vomiting in acute illness is a powerful stimulant to the glands and tissues throughout every part of those organs located near the stomach. My attention was first called to this means of treating disease whiie in Burope., Its value was more fully impressed upon me later by my ac quaintance with a specialist wh entire treatment consisted of this stomach washing process, By alter- nating decoctions of astringent herbs with drinks made from herbs that have a relaxing influence upon the tissues and finally ending with a herb that acted as an emetic, he was able to accomplish his purpose, I personally came in contact with serious cases of chronic ease which were cured by this man through use of this method. Althougi the herbs may have had some value, 1 became convinced that the principal effect of this treatment was the cleaning out of the stomach and the stimulating of the functions of neigh- boring organs through the muscular contractions required in removing the stomach's contents. 1 followed out this idea and proved its value in numerous instances, In case, for example, of ptomaine poisoning, in which the symptoms in- dicated the most serious possibilities, many dis- one MAYBE THIS EXPLAINS “PEACE RETREAT.” Clean Stomach an Aid in Curing Influenza Macfadden the life of the patient was saved, In other uses where the symptoms indi- cated a development of acute disease it proved to be of great value, It Is especially valuable in Spanish influ- enza and in colds of any kind, It is not desirable that the water be taken too hot: the temperature should be slightly above lukewarm— about blood heat or a little warmer, The water can be taken without fla- | voring, if desired, but salt has some | antiseptic influence, and it is usually a little easier to take the water when flavored with salt, In order to produce satisfactory re- | sults ‘it is advisable to take from one | and a half to three quarts of water. Naturally the quantity of water de- pends largely upon the size of your |rleanse itself in this manner when- vorid.) By J. H. Cassel | J EAR MISS ROWLAND: D war is over and there may mind— war?’ together, be done more than once daily, After the first three or four treatments, | every other day, or once every three days is sufficiently frequent, and after the stomach has been thoroughly cleansed and the patient is able to the and digest nourishment, the treatment continued, Patients often feel that it will be impossible for them to emit the con- tents of the stomach in this manner, but IT have never known the treat- ment to fail when a proper quantity of water was taken, People are everywhere too much in- | clined toward the idea of trying to avold any conditions, which produce vomiting. Medical and various other means are often used to “keep food down.” It is usually advisable, how- ever, to encourage the stomach to should of course be dis- ever the slightest symptoms appear that indi The average stomach, as the results are produced by filling the organ about to its ca- | pacity. In some diseases it is advisable to| repeat the stomach-washing process | an hour or so after the first treat-| ment, though as a rule it should not A Series of Plain By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A Do Your Children Ever Say Unkind Words? “ OU'RE mean!" ye “You crazy thing—I don't like you! eT Isn't that beau tiful?y Of all the WY signs of ill-breed- » ing, the use of un kind words is one of the surest. If your child has the habit of saying unkind things and you do not cure the habit, it will surely prove a handicap through life, No one likes to be addressed with unkind words, and naturally the per- son who says them is handicapped by lack of co-operation in business and in society, The person who always My United Prem.) PARIS, Oct, 1 (by Mail.) —It the Germans ever see this story they will probably begin moving their trenches back further from the American out- posts: Recently in an athletic meet at Colombes, Private Saare, U. 8. A,, broke the world's record for throwing the hand grenade. He heaved the grenade just 239 feet and 2 inches, \ has a kind, cheery word is the one who is patronized. Let us examine a typical case. mother writes to me “Ralph is almost four years old, When I refuse to do certain things, he hits me and says: ‘You are & mean mother,’ and various A of ejecting the surplus without any indications of sickness or discomfort and adults should have the same ability, for when food does not ge argument ly, no should pedec make one realize the value of eliminating it from ‘the stomach Talks to Parents | .» Pres. Parents’ Association. | other undesirable things. How can L cure him of this?” First of all, see that he has no ex- Jample of the wrong kind set before | |him, especially in your own home. Now, in order to start off with the light method, let the first unkind | word he uses pass uncorrected for an hour or so, Then take him out to play when you and he can be alone. Have a romp with him for eight or ten steps (if this sport is decidedly | pleasing to him), and when you stop, |swing him out at arm’s length around in a clr with his feet barely touch- ing the ground, This or any other lit- tle dash of sport will put his mind nto a receptive state; he will want to catch his breath;'then, at a favor- moment, sit down—say, on a poreh »; have him sit down beside you for a minute, and say, “Ralph, I wanted to tell you something (pause a moment before ch of the follow- ling words); “just a litte while before supper this evening you said an un- kind word to mother. Now, after this, 1 shall expect you always to say kind words, I want you to grow up to be a big, fine gentleraan. I do not want you to use unkind words. Whenever r ~ Making the Most of Ow The Jarr Family 18, by The Preas Puli York Evening World HESE are Cousin Jane's daugh- ters from Lima, Ohio,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “This is your niece, Blanche Bascome.” And she pointe to a very tall young woman of eighteen, with hair and eyes so light in their yellows and blues that she was almost an Albino, Mr. Jarr said he was happy to mect her. He wasn't He shuddered and kissed the pale young relative. “The young lady had arms so long that Mr. Jarr, even during tho intro- duetion, gazed at her, wondering ifshe put her arms around her own waist and hugged herself. “And your other niece, her sister, Bertha Bascome,” aid Mrs. Jarr. Mr, Jarr now glanced at the other visitor, She was a dull-eyed girl, as short and plump as her elder sister In fact, Miss Bertha Bas- Copyright, 19 (The ing Co, was tail. ; come was plump to the point of squattiness. But, as the younger Miss Bascome confided to Mrs. Jarr, she regarded her shape as her good for- ince it precluded her ever fall- tune, 8! k ir to her elder sister's out~ ing he grown or outworn gowns Children you ask mother to do something and she tells you what to do, you must either not say anything at all or el8@) ya. petulantly. ‘All right, mother.’ This is alb I | have to tell you. what I have said.” (At this point! up and speak more rapidly.) stand “AM right, I guess I can play with What shall we ‘merry-go-round’ you a minute or two do—shall we play again?" You are to show no temper, but let the attitude of expectancy be domt- nant, The aim is to stamp the su, gestion indelibly upon the child's mind at a time when the child is in a :nood to have this done. The dash of fun immediately following the talk is essential, It helps to seal the sug- gestion, If at any time this child says an undesirable thing, even though it be very mild, look him squarely in the eye and say slowly, “Ralph, do you remember What we sald yesterday about using Kind words? All right; be very careful.” Don't allow an ex- ception to pass; take him to task, kindly but insistently, every time that he errs. When he sees that you are not going to endure it, be natural- ly will give up the habit. A child treated in this way when hero-worshippers—and all that. fewer superfluous women! Not mollycoddles, nor “mother’s Who have looked into the eyes And so, they will KNOW—— heart fot notaing! more marrying than ever. triangles"—— SO!—Don't worry! ‘That, after all, “Home” and “Wi not the little side issues, the mere adjuncts to life, they once thought—— But life’s Big Realities—the foundation stones of Happiness—— For which they have fought and suffered, And that God did not put the longing for such things in the human What Every Girl Wants to Know By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Don’t Worry! After the War There’ll Be Fewer Divorces, and Fewer Bachelors, and Fewer Lotharios, and Fewer ‘‘Eter- nal Triangles” —but There’ll Still Be Human Nature! 1 am wondering wiat you are going to write about when the be fewer husbands to harpoon and fewer bachelors to lampoop with your satire. Ruefully, A. PESSIMIST. You ARE a pessimist, aren't you! But you have toucaed on a vital question. Which is seething at the back of every woman's “What will be the chances of marrying after tho So I am going to answer you right here in public! Perhaps you are correct in asking what I am going to write about. I DID wonder, myself—for a little while, When I first realized waat this war has done to bring men and women And to make them see each other in a new and glorifying light. And to turn cynics into sentimentalists, and misogynists into lovers, and mockers into crusaders, and man-haters into Red Cross nurses or And I felt like Mrs, Othello, with her “occupation gone!” But you are wrong—ALL WRONG!—— When you assume that HUSBANDS will not be plentiful after the wart For taey will be tenfold more plentiful than ever. And SO much more desirable and lasting and worth while! Fewer BACHELORS—to lampoon? Of course! And by that same token, fewer bachelor girls and fewer spinsters and Far fewer! But MORE marriageable and MARRYING MEN than ever! For those who came back from France will be REAL men—— pets,” nor tango lizards, nor wasters, nor. lightweights, nor clods, nor hard-shelled money-grubbers—— They will be men who 3ave seen the best and the worst of life-—— of eternity and touched the hem of death's white garment—men who have found their souls! And they will not take life lightly, for they know the glory of it! They will have weighed the things of life in the balance. And with clear eyes will see all things in their true proportion. ife”’ and “Love” and “Marriage” are And they will clasp them and cleave unto them-——and there will be And fewer divorces, and fewer frivolous, butterfly wives, and fewer Lothartos, and fewer vampires, and fewer girl-ehasers—and fewer “eternal But as for something to WRITE about—— ‘There will always be dear, weak, foolish, lovable old Human Na- \ture-—— To lampoon, or harpoon, or laugh at, or scold about-— portion of the average younger sister. The crowded moment of sacrifice having struck again, Mr. Jarr kissed the fat niece, but without any added enthusiasm, The fat niece said she young has something to be exceeding- ly thankful for in years to come, was SO happy to meet her dear uncle, Mr. Jarr murmured the pleasure was mutual, but his gaze had wan- dered to their hair, They were wear- ing heavy wads over their ears as though they did not wish to hear any bad news. Now, before you came home," said Mrs, Jarr to her husband, “the dear girls and I were just talking over whom we could invite to call while they are visiting us. And you must help us. Think, Edward, what nice people would you like the girls to meet? They have no other relatives in the city except us! Have you, girl The girls had another relative, their father's half brother. But this relative was the proprietor of a cat and dog sanatorium on a dirty downtown side street. As he was very poor and of alcoholic habit, he was socially dead to the Bascomes of Lima, 0, “No, our relatives are mainly the bitter; abroad, somewhere in France,” said | Miss Blanche Bascome. “It would be nice for the young {ladies to meet—let me see—oh, yes— Clara Mudridge-Smith," suggested Mr. Jarr. “Oh, they'll meet HER!" said Mr: “I'll see that she gives them a tea. Don't you know You understand; any MEN? I know you don't know any young military or naval officers or aviators, but how about some of your business acquaintances?” “Why yes—er—er—let me see!" and Mr. Jarr rubbed his chin; sensing, somehow, that the Misses Bascome would take no great interest in Jen- kins or Rangle or the rest of the fatuous and commonplace married men he was associated with down- town. Nor would his home neighbor- hood associates make parlor pets, either. “Mr. Jarr is such a recluse!” Mrs. Jarr hurriedly explained to the visit- ors. “He's so domestic, tod! He gave up all his fashionable clubs when he married, And, as for myself, war work has been so engrossing that really T am out of touch with the younger set, don't you know.” “Oh, we just came to visit you for a rest!" said the skinny Miss Bascome. “We have been SO much in society in Lima the past summer, with Red Cross tennis tournaments and fash- fonable block parties, that mamma insisted we visit for a rest.” “Oh, can the chatter!" said the (Copyrighted, 1918, by the Parents’ Asm. Inc) | chunky Miss Bascome, wearily. By Roy L. McCardell She snapped this so bitingly that jit made Mr, Jarr sit up and take notice. “I Know thet poor child is all nervous from the long railroad jour- ney,” said Mrs. Jarr. “We'll discuss the matter after dinner. Still, Mr. Jarr may think of some nice men he knows.” “There's Johnson, the cashier at our office,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “But he's engaged." “Why, surely, you don’t think that matters?" said Mrs. Jarr, “But is he to be married soon?” “I don't know,” said Mr. Jarr. “But I could ask him up and he'll tell ene ‘Never mind him,” said the short Miss Bascome, “Engaged men are always saving their money. We met one of those ‘I'm the Guy that Puts Money in the Bank’ fellows just re- cently,” “Ah, tliat reminds me,” interposed Mrs. Jarr, “They MUST meet Jack Silver, We MUST have him up to dinner before the dear girls go away. He's @ yeoman in the Naval Re- serves, girls, and looks so handsome in his uniform. He's engaged to Cora Hickett, but I don’t believe he's seri- ous.” “Yes, he's more scared than seri- ous,” said Mr. Jarr, enthusiastically, “And Rangle can come over from his house when Jack calls, and Jenkins, at our office, who lives in the sub- urbs—he's married. Jenkins can stay in town that night and we men will all play cards.” “You will NOT!” sai firmly. “And, girls, LAN EAS sweetly, “Jack Silver 1s a rich bach- elor!” Both the Misses Bascome smiled brightly, Here was a chance—a fighting chance—for them, —_—_——— English Women Work on Ships (By Unitet Pree.) LONDON, Oct. 5 (by Mail.)—One of the most remarkable developments which the war has brought about is the introduction of women workers in the shipyards. No industrial branch of work com- prises @ rougher or harder occupa- tion than the building of a large mer- chant steamer, Women are now working with riveters, heating the rivets and carrying them to the men who drive them home, The speed with which women un- load huge bars of iron from railway wagons and wheel them away i bar- rows is a source of wonder te the onlooker, Experienced women even drive cranes and winches—a nerve-rack- ing occupation, inasmuch as the lives of others depend upon their actions, , -