The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1918, Page 22

7 ONDA ies uivy wat ah ee ee re ; Be ite Sect areal eee. es . 3 ‘EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, November 22,1918 . Gucni4a CCluult vr Ea o WES ha SS Zoo ; Che My Biol, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, day by: Pre I Published Daily Except unger by yhe | eee Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to PULITZER, President, $3, Park Row. ANGUS SHAW, ‘reamurer,"¢8 Fark Row. PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF TAR ASSOCIATED PRESS, eee ST a aaellas SY TU aed Ce Ua he etl eres | VOLUME 89.....sssceccrssscccesereonscesssesNO, 20,019 THE THEATRE TICKET PROBLEM. { ] HE new drive launched against the theatre ticket speculators is being watched by long-suffering New Yorkers with revived) mt hopes that this time these perennially profiteering nuisances) ) will be de-trenched. | i Yet it must still be plain to every ono that the most formidable 3 ally of the theatre ticket speculator is the theatre ticket buyer. | , The evil can be remedied, The World points out, if “the public a) will refuse to pay more than the printed price, or a stated fee if time| is limited.” | Obviously. The trouble however, that the theatre-going public, or a large part of it, will NOT refuse to pay more than the printed price or the stated fee, | The theatre-going public in this city, be it specially noted, is by + no means limited to people who live in New York, among whom a @ habit of buying theatre tickets at fixed prices might have been long eince developed. Every night during the theatre season, among hundreds of thon-! eands of visitors in New York, there are easily from 20,000 to 30,000 of those registered at hotels whose one thought is to “see a show”. | in fact as many “shows” as they can while business or pleasure keeps} them here. Many of these visitors have come to New York prepared to spend money ten times more freely than they spend it at home, In fact they would be disappointed if opportunities were lacking. | In this frame of mind, under the added cheering influence of a gqod dinner, they choose their theatre at the last minute and find a} certain exhilaration in paying $10 or $15 for a couple of seats. They, get the idea the high price argues wel) for the quality of the perform-| ance and anyhow it will be something to tell about when they later casually impress the sumptuousness of the “little trip to New York” on their friends. It is these visitor theatre-goers with their full pocketbooks and their willingness to go the limit since “it’s only once in a while” who have been the mainstay of the metropolitan’ ticket speculator. This, clats of theatre-goer likes to buy his tickets late, he wants good seats and he has no ethical scruples against encouraging the theatre ticket speculator in New York provided the speculator serves his con- venience, : Hence, in large measure, the hitherto assured position of the ticket speculator. Hence the development of theatre ticket specula- tion in New York to a point where plays are financed in advance by ticket agencies and where managers sell their tickets in blocks for 25 cents above the box-office prices to speculators, who sell them in turn to the public for twice, three or five times the prices printed on them. Not that many theatre-goers who live right hero in New York “are not as good friends of the ticket speculators as are the visitors. But New Yorkers who habitually and willingly pay speculators’ prices for theatre seats are not 60 numerous as to make anything like a majority—not nearly so numerous as the theatre-gocr from out of town thinks they are. When the latter pays from $5 to $10 for a $2.50 seat he thinks he is following the New York: pace. Whereas it would be nearer the truth to say that he and thousands like him are setting the pace to which New Yorkers, half unconsciously, permit themselves to be Bringing John Bull to Hi is, : « u x a ancl aeord Ree Se ee ee ee Se se ars | | Tre Whys and Wherefores of Love and Matrimony + By Fay Stevenson marry a man who is not eligible, a man who drinks or swears or has bad 918, by The Press Publishing abits, is a conniving woman, If she plans to catch a man who is aot worth catching it is simply to get the Copyright, 0, (The New York Evening World.) No. 6—Why a Man Need Not Fear to Wed the Girl Who Wants to “ Catch”’ Him, title of “Mrs.” and not the things held. ' which a good husband and a good ‘ OT. long ago a young man catae|She is a mere woman with all 4] 1 riage bring to woman Tf the habitual theatre-goers of this city were the only theatre- to me greatly perturbed. woman's natural instin OL DOUENDIS aera: ine nartuehed’ callanclettd {ticket buyers upon whom the speculators could count the latter would “I was passionately in love |she wants to get married! Every girl |iiiik ho had made up bis mind to Saws been forced lens os 4 : . Ould | with a young lady until I heard that |who is a natural, normal creature : iced dnl eligi re a n forced Jong ago to modify their methods, - she wanted to ‘catch’ me,” he co |wasite & husband, a home, a kitehan- |Prop om ia fel tal tele hace ' eatre ticke ould sin New York are “Now my he. int Jette and pe: 6 nulator, she shed Medeggliksiled . atre ticket speculators in New York are no more supported | fessed. "Now my heart grows faint jette and perb: A porumbulator, She | ieee girls would be much more every time I look at her, The very evening that I was going to ask her doesn't say so in just so many words, | rimarily by New Yorkers y Vhi i ; Pp ly by orkers than are many of those White Light estab- but never theless she does, And wh: + lishments of gilt and gayety where scandalously high prices are paid womanly and dignified if they could assume the manner of some of their es cit to be my wife I met a chum who |she wants is a good husband, here- Beales for pitiful imitations of food. U lopened my eyes for me. He told, me |fore, if a man is a good, kind, eligible |maiden ne a capeaiupelbicnad isi 5 i ) one ep \girls can't do this, c If only visitors to the city could be induced to believe that the that the girl I loved had bragged 40 soul he - have a fens of: See cx cxeave eomct torlike’ the kind of i istineti a oe ait < & HCl nis sister that #he was going to-be Woman who plans to literally “cateh’ |Men 4 * ’ i chief distinction of being a New Yorker or among New Yorkers |my wife before the year wax out, |him girls who brag Bad nS meine. not the distinction of paying for cating or amusement at the rate of|Imagine my disgust, when I had not | But if a man is not eligible, if he sn tien beat wr oh iy ke c én time: i A ; ro ry ’ sift of any [hits not all the qualities tha ake |them, but they 4 e » tol from twice to ten times the value received, the great majority of Now ibe Roe + her mi epee sug. pag spite Ss refs oe hear you say Ho, Go right on “oatoh- | P ors W R r . ’ 5% value, much less declared my love, {UP 4 Rood husband ane 8 tha a d : i Yorkers who like to go to the theatre and to supper when the spirit]}Do you think it would be advisuble |# Young lady is trying to “ed * him, jing” if you ean, only well, aon t tet 4 moves them could be trusted to keep the cost of these diversions| for me to propose to such a conniving {then it is high time for him to take anybody about it encept Gaplas He } within attainable limits, "| young lady?” to his legs as fast as he gan! Kor |doesn't tell seor c a — ¥ ™ : t What I replied to this young man [ny woman who deliberately plans to larro peas ortes ot snec Eu R eo ce ; ome sh way with the ticket speculators would seem to be tol will do for hundreds of other young . bd put them so far as may be outside the law and then try to persuade|men who are in Just such situat \ Satay \s Fy ‘y persuade 1 ess a the avish visitor within our gates that “real Now Yorkers” buy their We all know that “boys will be boys” ucl e e F o oj er eT J OMe and we might add that ‘girls will b ¢ theatre seats either at the box office or of an agent who charges only|siriar” New aan matter of fact noir | CHIRK, Wis, bv Th ron tuithtiue C@ | mode, gives him one Took of gayety, the stated feo. Jof the best women in the world hav (Pha: Hone Xork Hein “they're very well, thank you!” 2 : n s4 lectins tried to “catch” their hus a be you ever run across one | ove but the cabbage must ‘a’ becn n of tho fellows io he e g. fi ‘ 4 ne etters F romt h e P Joands, Of course, this sounds horrat af ‘ seg we ee drinking last evening. Its got @ : eo | @ jin cold print and few proud matrons ot so big it shakes | pags | the ery ‘00! ¢ e a ' , y i Saye = Motels = Wonldn't “Take, it, that tho so-called ad jwould admit the fact, But woman very foom when he turns It },” Cmocey! ight away he sheets Wonnded Man, Gompers impressed me as a weeny | is the real fisherman in the love pond | 10" asked Ducile the Waitress 111, just opens that main entrance to Te Se Wiser of he Broning Wend to every union man in this Counties (and man the mera fish! And remem. |** the Friendly Patron put his news | 144 tyce and hee-haws. whole Kindly allow me spuce in your es- | to be on his guard. You ask =a et | F per aside Mabe, peaxe in) Rimi teemed paper to apeak in behalf of| taht oan w carne. (BY what |ber, overy woman uses her own spe You, sudeed” he paplled "E tine | PER Bawine to shake, our wounded soldiers, While on my|!iVed up to exceptional war lank clal kind of bait! ott Enea linet P is sitting a fellow with a portion of way home last night with a young| demand that when war Is over they, If T were a young man a'wut to |‘? Watch (ose hearty laughers hash posed nicely on his <nifo en| soldier I happened to notice a! Shall be in no wise expected H sana 4 that Staal “Gee, you gotto watch 'em," Lu- h. The big laugh| wounded boy on crute He wan| teach?” What are those amey coores [prorone and heard that o young 1ady| | ent on. ie you don't they | ute 1 nie mouth. Phe oe | Speaking to three sailors, I told the | iMcomes, and by whom earned? ow | wanted to “catch” me I should be ail |" * yN | cives this hash patron a shock end ] soldier with me to go over and ask| Is there one skilled trade that hag|the more anxious to marry her, Ne- scramble your entire schemo of In- | 4 goes the knife's load, Another A 16 we, gould be of apy Pisirtance to | poen granted more than 10 cents per|member that being afraid of getting | ‘rior dpocras on Ns Na one a fellow, trying to open an egg, busts it c 4A P ded | hour advance? Mo J ia ehie : here a while ago, T wisht you could low, try ‘ voldier told us he had been looking | were recelving print Al Skilled trades | "caught" has kept many a man a [ere A While abo, | Hikil Qn ey [all over his vest and @ “ird man for @ room in @ hotel for the night| 65 cents to 75 cents per hour “em |crabbed old bachelor, And after a|'W Been here, Youd a aBNE YOU! steps on our cafe cat by accident. | and that he was turned away from | day they are receiving from TS cong, | time some bachelors have an idea that | Was at Sho-fo-D or whorever | ve aemonitiim sure reigns for @ cous | jour hotels. The excuse offered by| to $0 cents per hor are , ks an eyes [it was the Marines put the kibosh | P# : al! the clerks was that they were tun| If you mean by working tr Avery woman Whe. BY#D DilbKe n onto the German Boake de combat. | Ple of minutes. Finally J hold up one crowded, and owing to his injuries he| 160 hours per week they were eqeee | ase at them wants to marry them : “tl nand and the big fellow slows down Sas} could not go much further. Does it] excoptional incomes Tei cer ens | But we are not talking about thesw |He had the biggest laugh T ever saw | ind it not seem that one of the four hotels| you; but I will wager that the ma. {bachelors. We are talking about sivls all in one plac aay, if some of these | And stops. paar an re fH could have made room for him?| jority of men would not hare quic|who in giddy moods recklessly state | would-be funny comedians on the| “‘Hey,’ 1 says. ‘What you trying Surely some guest or employee would| so for any cause other than their tong ; iain stage was wise they'd get him to fol-|to do, use up all the laughs in the willingly have slept with some one| of country; surely not for the lava ve they are going to “catch” a certain | stage was wise they'd get him ole Meee cul ‘Gut tha’ caaiel> else for one night. The clerks were | money. Now, av tar as tere oye, 2f| man, And they don’t Just indicats |1ow them around the country as their |world at once? ‘ either slackers who did not consider] to retrench, let me ask Sew aouta | who he is—they pronounce his full |laugh regenerator and they couldn't ment, Rudolph, or you'll put this place e soldier worth troubling about or} Americans do otherwise than live uo| name, first, middle and last, And oc- {be a frost no matter how musty their[on the bum. Look at your nelghbor u they did not realize how hard it was] to these so-called ox , s all over hi st, What Reimaimmeioged tod ts go cout aa See totes a] Wages?|fore that they prefix jokes might be, | with exg all over his vest. at erutehes, #0 I trust that they read| labor to stand for a cut.) Your ue | gleefully point to themselve “He was a big, fat man with a red, dye s'pose he's thinking about you? this letter and in the future If neces-| torial 1a in deep ‘accord with tho| And yet say that if 1 were a young| faco that might ‘a’ reminded one in| t don’t Ike to lecture you, but for the sary, ing instead of/ Hon. Mr. Barr's statement; but in {man and I loved @ girl who took it| love of the moon or maybe a pump-| love of Kansas City, be sad! Think turning a soldier out. rh G. spite of your editorials o: | i Says Labor Deserves 1 manufacturers’ or busines: yi of the|for granted that I was going to pro-| kin, It was my fault he got to lau n=] of your dead great-grandfather, or ‘Wen by War. called associations, labor will” o: |pose to her my heart would not grow] ing, Darn me, I ought to be ore! somebody that's skidded over into the eg Rate of The Evening Wid I have for many years followed closely your editorials, and have to yield, We gave our sons, we gave of old. I should remember that “faint our labor, and the fruits of it to our heart never won fair lady” and march country, and the slight concessions He takes a| happy land, Now be good.’ “"T beg your pardon,’ he says, very careful with explosives. seat on a stool and up I tango. | Copyright, 191 minute! that! at least, not until little FORMALIT’ day existence, rs, ve Ween Now Lane | |one another, are priceless boone to mance. at the same moment? unison, like a regiment of soldiers? perature? Why should they take the in which two people rub on one anot munity dining room between, and an the place, preserve a semblance of f Most of us over THOSE! through the wrong end of an opera | ike looking at each other through | It is like getting 80 close to a pict | smudge. pected that the main cause {s that, table. one-room-bath-and-kitchenette, 1 courtesy, delicacy and formality | would leave my the distance which “lends enchantme The Jarr Family Copyright, 1618, Pr Lhe Heras Uabilehing Ca, (The New York Evening World.) RS, JARR detained her husband ing for his day's bucking of the bread line. “You'll have to let} me have some money,” she said. “lL was shopping yesterday and I ordered some things sent home C. O, D.” “But I thought the storés didn’t de- liver things collect on delivery any more,” ventured Mr. Jarr. “The war's over, you forget that,” replied Mrs. Jarr. "The stores are delivering again everywhere, so let me have some money.” “But I'm broke, I growled Mr, Jarr. “Well, you needn't get angry about it, You can give me a check, can't you?” replied Mra, Jarr. “No, I can't,” said Mr. Jarr testily. tell you!” “ve just paid a life insurance pre- miu at ot about % balance!” By Bide Dudley not a man to despoil meals without recompense,’ “I thought that pretty fine of him So I smile and say: ‘Oh, that’s ail right. ‘The house will slip him an- other egg.’ “Just then the egg victim gets in. ‘But what about my spoiled vest?’ he demands, “Well, sir, Lily, the blonde from the pie counter, has come over without me knowing it, She's standing right Le- hind me, and when she hears his guy ask what about his vest she says: ‘Order another from Vest Virginia, “Horrors! The fat man explodes again, almost blowing me and Lily off the fo'castle deck. This time all we got to do is just walt till he cor- rals his insides and subdues ‘em, In other words, we got to let him laugh himself out, so we do, When he quits again I get him his prunes in a hurry. Then I get a quick sign drawn up on a piece of wrapping paper. It says: Jokes, Please! This Is a Beanery, Not a Comic Opera.’ “L have Mike, the bus boy, tack it up on the wall and everybody js silent until the fat man goes out, Then 1 heave a quantity of sighs and re- move said sign. “He must have been a vociferous * suggested the Friendly Pa- ° ne Vociferous?” repeated Lucile, “No, I think he said he was from Pauxuwan- & great extent bean “influenced by| received, such a tho Tit to cmon” Tht up to her with the same grace] “How are the prunes to-day’ ho) Polite. ‘I have a bad Habit of laugh them. But your editorial on “Mr,| ize and increases of 5 cents as if I hadn't heard that she was] asks. \ing very fully when anybody springs Gompers’s Threat” has goi me guess-' cents per hour, we will not give up. planning a direct campaign to “eaten” “Then 1 spilled my error, Happy! a j if the gentioman wants an- img I frankly confess, after reading vd Ros Pee nick, New Jersey, or some other place { “Why don't you be frank with me asked Mrs. Jarr. “When I ask you for money you tell me you have put it in the bank, and when I ask you for a check you tell me you have drawn it out. I wish I had a bank account of my own.” “You did have one. I started one for you, and what did you do? You overdrew it in three weeks and i nad to make good,” snapped Mr. Jarr. “Don't you remember that was the week we had the piano tuned?" said Mrs, Jarr, as if this explained it all eat Scott! What has that to do with it?” grumbled Mr. Jarr, “But what's the use of talking to you Here's $10!” “The things will come to $11.47," said Mrs. Jarr gweetly. “I don't care if they come to sixty dollars and thirty cents! That's all the money I have and that’s all you'll get said Mr. Jarre firmly and de- cisively. ke back your old ten dollars! 1 don't want it do the work of two. And it won't do it dollar used tot And I only keep one girl, and I have to do all the work for her or she won't stay. She says sho can get fifty dollars a month running an elevator, or as a lady boilermaker she can make more, and as @ lady telegraph lineman more. Anyway, you waste your money!" whot and not be sidered a tight- wad!” said Mr. Jarr, “You do waste money, and I know it!" exclaimed Mrs, Jarr, do not know much you m You nover tell me. And you get out with a lot of men and splurge, and I know it. If women were that wasteful, what would become of home life? A woman begrudges even to pay another wom- an's carfare. And that's why they how ke see who can fumble the longest in their hand purses and say, ‘Oh I in- sist on paying’ And if-a woman takes another one to Junch when it's her turn and she has to, don't she hunt out some cheap place and say, ‘Well, this is the first time I ever have known the food and service to be so bad!’ while men try to show off and see how much th “an spend on each other in cafes and expensive restaurants, and yet if their wives y AJR (me, Sub a girl i Bot conniving, | litte me, always being in @ johieh other ogy I'll gladly pay for it J'ma they wrecked the alpbabet to name,” joes them for @ few dollars to pay tor How to Weather Marriage By Helen Rowland |. by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brentng World.) 3 VIII.—“ When Distance Lends Enchantment” N order to hold two people together forever—separate them! Walt @ Don’t run out and divorce your husband, offhand, just éom Don't even rush off to Florida for a “matrimonial vacation™=9 dividuality besides the proverbial “napkin and toothbrush.” HAVE to get “scrambled up” in marriage! marry in order to ehare one another's hopes and ambitiofis, joys and sdgrows, dreams and {deals—and end, alas, by sharing nothing Dut the towels, brushes, clothes closet and medicine cabinet—and fighting Living too far apart may be like looking at each other husband all his treasured ind whimpered Mrs, Jarr,| holding on tightly to the bill “I @o! the best Ican! 1 make two dollars to the work of one—I mean one dollar five dollars won't do the work one | I don't waste any money, I have so little that I am ashamed to go anywhere, A man wants to pay his you have finished reading this cotumam, This is not an argument for divorce, but a plea for @ Y, a little of the “distance that Jend— enchantment” between husbands and wives. A One of the greatest charms of modern life ie ste growing tendency to preserve the individuality of the human being in all the purely personal details of everys Individual tables in public dining rooma, individual drinking cups, private bathrooms in hotels, Continental breakfasts—all these purely modern de lights which keep the members of the human rece from getting TOO CLOSE TOGETHER, and thus losing their perspective on comfort, society, friendship—and ro. Only in marriage do we still preserve the Victorian ideals of “SORAM« BLED lives,” family breakfasts, community toothbrush holders and thé household reveille. Why, just because two people LOVE each other-—WHMy in the name of all that is sane and reasonable, in the name of commen sense and common delicacy, should they become sleepy or hungry or thitsty Why should they arise, retire and breakfast ia Why should they be expected to like their windows open at the same height, and their coffee at the same tem- privilege of prying into one another's thoughts and secrets, opening one another's letters, borrowing one another's collars, and entering one another's rooms without knocking? - It is this living 6o close together that tears down the veil of {llusien, rubs off the romance in marriage and finally leads to the harrowing state ther’s nerves and trample on one ap- other's finer sensibilities at every turn. Far better the old French menage, with Madame's suite to the right, and Monsieur’s suite to the left, a com- optional breakfast hour! Not exactly practicable in a modern bandbox apartment, I admit; but, even in a band.’ box apartment we CAN draw an imaginary line through the middle of ormality and retain some sign of We don’t glass, but living too close together Is a microscope. All the other's flaws | and defects stand out perfectly plain and black and bighly exaggerated. ure that it looks like nothing but a ‘There are many reasons why divorces in large cities are proportion~ ately greater than those {n villages and country places, but I have long sus in the country, husbands and wives have more space in which to get AWAY from each other occasionaliy. Spiritual intimacy, spiritual closeness, spiritual oneness are the most beautiful and wonderful things in the world—but they are NOT based on sharing the tooth mug and yawning at one aonther across the breakfast If I were a (bride, just etarting out in life, should draw an across the middle of that room, which and had to live ina invisible qurtain of ividuality and would equal nt’--to marriage! By Roy L. McCardell groceries they get abused for bel wasteful and extravagant somothh terrible!" | “[ didn’t suy you were wasteful aud Jarr, “and I need every eingle one of them. We can't starve, you know!" “What is it you have to pay for?” asked Mr, Jarr, relenting. “It's a hat. It was marked down from thirty dollars, and the milliner said it was the, most becoming hat sobbed Mrm added, “you mu she ever saw on m Jarr, “AM right,” she don't want me to have anything! | send it back!" “You can have anything you want and you know it, kid!” said Mr. Jarn, who had weakened fast under the tyranny of tears. I'll sign not only an armistice but an unconditional surrender. Here's ten dollars more, but don't you think we should try te te a little?” economize and | “Tam sure Iam willing to try,” eaid | Mrs. Jarr, taking the proffered money, “But 1 have to get a new fur set aod start in to buy Christmas things be fore they get too dear. After the holl-’ days we will try and put some momey by “No,” sald Mr. Jarr firmly, “we will start in NOW. We won't waste a cent from this moment on!" “Oh, all right, dear,” said Mrs. Ji “Do you think I should get gloves match my new dress first and @ few. other things I need, then we'll start to save?" ev d mind about that," said Mr, Jarr. “Will you or won't you try to’ save a little money with me!” “Certainly I will dear,” eaid Mra, Jarr. “That's the way to talk,” sald Mr, Jarr, kissing her, “Now, just for that I'll take you out and buy you @ fine dinner at some nice place and we'll go to see a play—one of the big hits!" And economic on that basis after-the-war - reform was inaugurated ia the Jarr household, as it is in many others, Sa TELEPHONING MADE EASY, A new amplifying attachment for telephone receivers which permite the instrument to be used without held in the hands is connected te @ receiver by slightly raising it from ite hook and terminates in a horn bagide the transmitter, Joxtravagant. I only sald I hadn't eleven dollars!” replied Mrs. Jarr, | “well, it is all the same. If YOU lwero not wasteful and extravagang¢® |you would have eleven dollars, The things will be $11.47," added Mra,