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R, President, 63 Park*Row, SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, — Jt, Secretary, 63 Park Kow. ‘in the principal Italian markets. These tables, reprinted in this _ Working pelt in 7 aa Pubject through your columns, ae amc 4 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Surtited Daly Bacept Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to New York. — BER OF THE ASKOCIATED PRESS, EM et TARY See, Bal VOLUME 59.... .NO, 20,913 | THE ERA OF SNAP JUDGMENTS IS OVER. OTESTING against the Postmaster General’s belated and unwarranted seizure of the cables now that the war, so far as the fighting goes, is over, The World points out the suggestion | im this high-handed move of a programme tending definitely toward) Government ownership, of which latter it says: It fs @ problem of peace and not of war, and all doctrin- sires in and out of office, including Senator Lewis of Illinols, | not re-elected, who now sponsors a Government ownership | Proposition, may as well understand that snap judgment is \ not to be taken in relation to matters of such vital importance, It will seem to most Americans that reason and excuse have ceased to exist for snap judgment from any high quarter in the| Federal handling of their affairs. While the fighting continued it was different. Vast forces had to be set in quick motion. Waste, mistakes, consequenecs of hasty judgment and precipitate decision could all be passed over in view of] the one great necessity—the concentration of the Nation’s fighting) power, the keeping up of strength, speed and endurance at all costs. | Expensive errors in aircraft and other war production, sweeping changes effected and enormous and far-reacHing responsibilities assumed in the name of the people of the United States by a newly- created Federal Director of Railroads, the earlier, uncertain experi- ments of Food Administrators, the bunglings of a Fuel Administra- tion that came near paralyzing industry and preached patience in| privation when it should have put its breath and energies to the job of getting more coal—these were only a few of the things the Ameri- can public accepted as unfortunate but unavoidable parts of the great process of turning the country into a rapid-fire war power. The rapid-fire period is over. There is no longer any reason for patience and indulgence when war-bureaucracy in Washington shows a disposition to regard the extension of its powers or the still more arbitrary exercise thereof as indispensable to the future of the Nation. There is no longer any reason for putting up with scratch policies or programmes hastily knocked together by those who are loath to give up for reconstruction and peace authority conferred upon them during the emergency of war. Hostilities have ceased. With them should have ceased for the people of the United States the need of accepting for the conduct of their public business, snap judgments along with sound. a DENUDED ITALY. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.— Milton’s Paradise Lost. HIS autumn found few leaves in Vallombrosa. Italy’s des- perate need of fuel, we learn, not only laid low the famous forests, but even cut down they olive trees and pines along the Italian Riviera. i The war has brought multiplying hardships and privations upon the Italians. Coal is almost unobtainable. German sources of supply reckoned on before the war have long been cut off. There is a similar lack of iron: The little that comes from Elba is far short of Italy’s pressing needs. Shortage of food is most serious. Horse meat now sells in Italy for $5.00 a kilogram—$2.50 a pound. An Italian economist, Prof. Richard Bachi of the University of Macerata, has prepared tables showing the indreases in the cost of some forty necessities, including | foods, textiles and metals, based on the prices of these commodities country by the Italian Bureau of Public Information, take as a basin the average prices for commodities during the five years 1901-1905, calling that average 100. Index figures calculated on the above b: show that the general average of prices among these forty necessities rose from 126.0 in 1913 to 386.1 in 1917. In the case of ores and metals the rise was from 121.6 to 722.2. Between December, 1916, and December, 1917, the general increase was 55.9, For 1918 it will be much greater. Italy fought, not with vast resources and reserves behind its strength in the field, but with the last margins of national force mobilized by dint of national sacrifice and suffering. The end of the fighting finds Italians calling for food and Ital- ian industry calling for coal and iron, Who will say that Italy’s contribution to the final victory does not entitle it to a place close to the head of the line of those who muct now draw on the wealth and resources of the United States for advances of food, fuel, money, metals and machinery? Letters From the People ‘Whe Sells the Food to Buropet | More About the Army Base Strike. the Wititer of The Evening World: We the Edivor of Tue Evening World: If we are willing to deprive our-| Tho impression seems to have edives of food that others may have |Sained ground in the last week that the men at the army base i encugh, who will have the selling of wont on strike. We, the steamattere did not go on strike. We went ou te Uoted tat Gover, be hl pl deta vgg vel urs’ work. On tl this food at a sent rie) | BRDY base job we were paid 75 cent: Profit go into the Uni © hour for eight hours’ work and ry and eo help cut|$1.50 per hour for overtime, which taxation, or will our denial of |brought our wages up to $9 per day. ‘and willingness to pay high | We were not notified until 4PM. tho r our food leave just so much |day previous that we were again to the hands of specula- | go back to the regular eight-hour day high price from suffer- |on the morrow, which meaut that Ine Tob us at the same (stead of getting $57 per week wo would only receive $33, or $6 per day all this surplus of food |for five days and $3 for Saturday, ‘On if stored largely in cold- &c., is it not against ry to store such that day we only work until 12 noon, supplics over a certain length of All the men of our craft on this job agreed to invest 75 per cent. of their 7? I am, like the most of the ple, willing to deny my- overtime money in Liberty Bond: the weekly payment plan, and how we ler that our boys and Allies have plenty to eat, but hardly are going to do it now’ wit overtime is more than I can fathom ® ‘think it ts fair and just for a few to shave the privilege of storing food E Hi h i i ei Aceratcite EDITORIAL Saturday, November 23, 1918 at Reta Boeck, PAGE | 0 DRL NDE BS SC er me A eA . Hee EAA . r A By J. H. Cassel | Women in \"7 \ ar By Albert Payson Terhune Copsright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York No. 39—ZENOBIA, the Warrior-Queen Who Conquered the East. HE was a black-eyed giantess, supple as a pantner muscular as an athlete, Her father was chieftain & wandering Arab:tribe. His daughter, Zenobla, was married, as a mere child, to Oedaenathus, Governog of Palmyra. Rome in those days ruled the world. The rich desert city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus, was one of Rome's choicest Eastern possessions, and Ze nobia resolved to make it the centre of a new worl¢+ empire. i The dissolute Roman Emperor, Gallienus, mado war on Persia. In this war Zenobia saw a chance for the first step of her brilliant scheme. She made her dull-witted husband raise an army, eked out by her own Arab clansmen, and join the forces of Gallienus. af The Roman Emperur was so grateful for thiv service that he gave Oedaenathus the houorary title of “King of Palmyra.” This was @ tith honor for a man who had started Mfe as a merchant. But Zenobla waa not satisfied. To her it was only a stepping stohe. Sho plotted cleverly and she Iaid out plans of military campaigns, and she called on her kinfolk of the Desert for war- barrens Mors. Rit by bit, through conquest and throtst: Ambitious Wife diplomacy, she annexed one neighboring princi~ Wins Realm. i pality after another, adding it to Palmyra, bee In a few years she had conquered, in her hase band’s name, the whole near-East, from Arabia to Armenia, inclusive, Oedaenathus, guided by his brillant wife, found him= self lord of a great empire; and Rome, fearing his power, made ready to destroy that power. , Gallienne, in 267 A. D., had Odaenathus and hie son assassinated. Then, too late, he found ont tnat tt was Zenobia and not her puppet husband who wieided the real power at Palmyra, Zenobdja seized the reins of rulership at once, She cast off her country’s nominal allegiance to Rome, and she proclaimed herself “Empress of the East.” ‘Then, in armor, at the head of large and growing hordes of half< naked barburian trowpa, she set out on a mammoth career of conquest, The warrior-Empress overcame and annexed Dgypt, Syria, Mesopotamia and every other country within reach, Yearly she increased her conquests. Wisely she amalgamated the annexed kingdoms and ruled them with true genius, Gallienus in vain sought to check her fast-increasing power, Soon, however, Gallienus was killed, and Rome's new Emperor, Aurelian, tool up the task cf subduing Zenobia, He was a decidedly different man from weak old Gallienus—as his enemies speedily found out. Aurelian subdued such European lands as hed broken free from the rule of poor Gallienus, Then he set out to crush Zenobia, The warrier= Empress gladly made ready to meet her foe. In her armies were many thousand renegade Romans. She collected these inte one force and sent them to fight the ; » ‘Advancing Aurelian, Aurelian, in two successive The Warrior Queen$ battles, destroyed this army of renegades. Then Brave to Last. i he sent a message te Zenobia, saying her army, —ownrrrw’—s wt ‘hitated and demanding her surrender. Zenobdia scnt back this mocking reply: “Why should I yield? I have suffered no epecial loss, for all my sol< dies who have failen were Roman, whom no one will miss.” Yet al! Zenobia’s skill and generalship proved no match for the ovei~ whelming size of the Roman armies sent against her. She fought with desperate conrage for years, But at last Palmyra was captured and | razed to the grourd, Zenobla'e forces were scattered and Zenobia h was taken prisoner. Aurelian after the custom of the time, sent her to Rome and made her walk through the strecta there, bound with chains of solid gold. Then, aa she could du no more harm, he set her free, and she ended her days in heart~ broken exit ing World.) *) By Sophie HILE tm Washington a few W days ago I learned that bun- dreds of young women are Jeaving the capital, they have had —_ congregated there from all over the country. The game condi- tion exists in New York City and other places where hundreds of women have been employed in war industries, Now the problem of their re-employment is being agitated everywhere, Therefore I sought to ascertain the method employed at the spat of the nation. In one de- partment which employs hundreds of women I found a very good and just Plan of “demobilization.” Every young woman is given a month's notice and a month's extra pay. The office staff are not al being broken Up at once but the least essential ‘ones go first. This seems to be @ very sensibly adjustment, with justice to the em ployees, As one girl said, “It gives emia ert oe of a German Sergeant. receives $! We don't want any overtime. It is making e bi against our union principl more than elght hours per day; bet penses rd to get enough money to |, let alone laying up we surely do want enough w for a rainy day, [f possibl rages t live and support our families, Com: like to have the views of others borers to-day receive $1 per hour, and we hanies, who have to work as helpers for five years be- fore we are allowed to take an ex- amination, receive only 75 cents bom, gi Coprright, 1918, by ‘The Prose Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) United States Soldier Gets Good Pay HE United States Army is not only the best fed and the healthiest army in the world—it 16 also the best pald. base pay at the rate of one dollar a day, which is ten times as much as the German soldier recetven, almost three times as much as the British soldier, and twenty-five to fifty times as much as the Italian soldier, Our Sergeants receive $1.37 a day, twice the pay of a British Sergeant, more than six times that of a French Sergeant, and between three and four times that A General in the American Army, which ts the rank of Gen, Pershing, 33 per month, twice the less than twice that of a French Gene: General in the British Army, which is $1,880 a month, A Lieutenant-General in the American Army gets $150 a month, while the same officer in the British Army gets $850; the other ranks of officers in the American Army receive pay at @ higher rate than officers in other belligerent countries, Base rate of pay per day of enlisted men: Irene Loeb me a chance to look for another job and at the same time assures me of sufficient funds to take me home.” ‘This worker Mves in the Middle West. She has been sending nearly all of her earnings home, and there- fore ® ts of utmost imyportance that she know exactly the situation that confronts her. I spoke with another girl who ts somewhat independent of monetary ald, and who took up war work as a patriotic measure, feeling that it was her duty te do her bit during che crisis, “I am going home to help keep house, besides taking an interest in settlement work,” said this girl, “I feel that there will be so many women who need work as a livelihood | that I should leave the place I could | il to one of them.” This indeed is a wise decision. There are many, many young wom- | ’n mustered into war service who are | \ot dependent on their earnings for iving expenses. They certainly hould make way for those whose ireumatances necessitate continuous rployment, It ls Just as patriotic to give way ven to the point of sacrifice during he reconstruction period as it wa: ‘The private soldier receives y of a German General and a little but less than the base pay of a during the actual confict. While it is commendable for every young woman to be industrious and to avoid idleness, yet there is much to be done in every community in the way of welfare to keop every girl busy who can spare the time as against keeping a job she does not really need and {s holding only to get an extra bit of finery. It is well for such a girl to reflect that at this reconstruction period she may be keeping the wolf from the door of some deserving family tf she gives opportunity for another worker to take her place, The private employer might emu- late the action taken by the Govern- ment in giving war workers consider- able notice and a little extra pay to tide over a possible period of idleness. He may well realize, too, that this is a better part of patriotism—this in- dividual interest in the war workers. After all, many women went into war work to help win the war. Is there any better rcturn than that the employer might help in their winning their way badk to civic work in offices and elsewhere which they left in the interest o€ the victory? Employers and Women V/ar Workers| The Jarr Family Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) 66 JTS good to get home after I working hard all day,” id Mr. Jarr; “I feel so tired!” “It's this changeable weathe id Mrs, Jarr, “and, then, maybe it's not. What's the news in the papers? I see it is settled that President Wilson will go abroad. I knew she would.” “Knew she would? What do you mean?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Since when did the President becoine a lady?” “I didn’: say he was a lady—but Mrs, Wilson is a lady. I know she wants to go and be entertained by the King and Queen of England and the King and Queen of Belgium. And I don't blame her. Maybe I wouldn't do the same if you were President. Well, indeed I would!” “I wouldn't go to-night if I were President twice over,” ventured Mr. Jarr. “I've got a headache, and as T'll never be President, please don’t talk foolish,” “I don’t talk any more foolish than you do!” exclaimed Mrs, Jarr. “If you had to work like I do, you would have some reason to complain of being tired. Here I am stuck in this house from morning till night and Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) Wow @ girl dreams of marching up the white-ribboned aisle to thi strains of Lohengrin, she feels sanctified—when a men thinks o} it, he feels petrified, To a mana‘ “fling” at twenty means a golden, glort ous riot; at thirty it means a love affair, at forty it means @ mild relaxation and a bottle of vintage wine, and at sixty it means a headache Another thing which the Allies should have de. manded trom Germany was the abdication of all the little china statuettes on German mantel shelves, and the demobilization of all those funny little unkissable German mustaches. No matter how rich or famous a man may be. come, his wife never allows him to forget that she “knew him when”—— By Roy L. McCardell} might be present and witness my humiliation! To witness it!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “You're tired of being an actress; you want to be a witness now, eh?” groaned Mr, Jarr., “I would be anything!" said Mrs. Jarr, “I have stood much; I have never eesing a soul or ‘getting a breath of fresh air, I know how Mrs} Wilson feels, and, if I were her, I'd have my trip to the Peace Conference| and be feted, too!” “Oh, say no more, I know it by |heart, dear,” said Mr. Jarr wearily. | “1g you only felt it at heart, Jj wouldn't care," replied Mrs, Jarr, with a sob. “But you don't, You &t times, when my own people and my don't care how I feel! And yet I] Dest friends have advised me to take notice when you are tired you come| Steps to secure a legal separation, but home and fuss and growl at every-| thing!” “Oh, for goodness sake!” said Mr. Jarr, as he threw himself on tho sofa| and shaded his eyes from the light, “Are you talking still or yet?” “Don't speak to me!” cried Mrs. Jarr; “don't speak to me! This 1s what I get for trying to comfort you and trying to cheer you up, And all I am told is that you wouldn't take me abroad if you were President. Yet, men talk about women complain- ing! Women stand more fatigue and more pain in a day than man could stand in @ month “The only fatigue I complain of ts that you make me tired!” said Mr. Jarr ungraciously, “Go away, wom- an, an’ lemme alone!” “Tl let you alone, all right! I'll never speak to you again as long as I live!” sobbed Mrs. Jarr, “I won't live long if you don't! You'll talk me to death!" snorted Mr. Jarr, “I think you should be ashamed of yourself!” said Mrs, Jarr, standing up and looking down at him, ‘There isn't anything the matter with you except that you come home and see that Iam happy because the Presi- dent's wife will be treated like a queen when she goes abroad, The President is going because his wife wants him to. But it is very little happiness you try to give me, Mr. Jarr! You saw I was happy when you came home, and I was happy, because I am a foolish, silly woman, and try to be happy, and this is how you act!” “If I couldn't act any better than that,” murmured Mr. Jarr, “I'd quit the stage! I've got a headache, and if Never measure a man’s love by his reluctance to part from you, dearie,|1 must say it, I don't think we should For a woman to keep two devoted men on the string at the same lunacy, When a man starts to mourn to a girl about the color of his “past,” it 17698 is perfectly safe for her to decide on the color of the wedding decorations, U. 8 Gt. Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Beivaie scsshhssiatess SU0R $0.36 $0.05 90.02-$0.04 $0.10 Private, First Clase... 1.20 50 085 05-10 25 but by his eagerness to see you again. Sergeant ... + at o4 i 40-80 a5 Base rate Pay per month of officers: Second, Lieutenant... $141.67 $60.00 $30.00-8¢0.00 First. Lieutenant, i 0,00 40,00- 70.00 88,00 Captain 80.00 60.00- 90,00 —_90,00 | String at the came time is a sign of Major .. 115.00 90,00 80.00 130,00 Lieutenant Colonel . 135,00 165.00 95.00 170,00 Colonels... ++. ; 145.00 142.00 Brigudier General. 400.00 200.00 203.0 Major General... 526,00 800,00 260.00 Lieutenant General 850.00 267.00 Gtve a Mirt rope enough end General sissies 1,880.00 490,00 357.00 | Self dor her, f get excited about the President and the First Lady of the Land going abroad to receive the homage of ou $30.00 | time is a sign of artistry; for ® man to keep two devoted women on the |enthusiastic Allies,” “Oh, to think that I should live to see this day, that I should be sneered at! And in my own house, in front of my children—that is I would be sneered at in front of them if they 1 persuade some man to hang him-| were only here and not out playing on the sidewalk—to think that they when you speak to me in a manner which, thank goodness, I don’t under« stand"— “Well, if you don’t understand, how can you be insulted?” Ssked Mr. Jarr. “Never you mind!” sald Mrs. Jarr; “if it wasn't an insult it wouldn't have been addressed to me! I get nothing elss from you. But this is the last, Oh, dear, I wish I were dead or some~ borne with you without complaining thing!” if “For goodness'sake! What are you raising all the row about?” asked tek Jarr, I come home and tell you I am tired and have a headache, and because I'm not the President of the United States and cannot take you abroad to re- ceive homage and adulation you tell me you want a divorce.” Just then the door bell rang, and Mr, Jarr sat bolt upright as Mrs, Jarr, with a smiling face, ushered in the Rafgles. “How're you feeling, sport?” asked Mr. Rangle. “Fine and dandy!" said Mr, Jarr, forgetting all about his headaoh “You deserve good health,” said Mrs, Rangle; “just as I was telling Mr, Rangle, it's a real pleasure to ‘ have neighbors who get along so sweetly together as you and Mrs, Jarr do, even if you are married!" “Oh, well,” said Mr. Jarr, “we have only once to live, and we should try to be kind to each other as we go through this world! Mrs, Jarr and £ were just talking about the Presi« dent's trip to Europe and haw nice it was that Mrs, Wilson would Jong, Just like Rangle and I would take OUR wives,” And he went out to see if there was any near-beer in the icebox, —__— Facts to Remember A dental department has been added to a Boston animal baspital, Vat Vii Greece holds the earthquake record, with 3,187 shocks in a single year, rw tae An individual coffee percolator has been invented to be clamped on a cup, eee According to a Russian scientist, excessive talking is a dangerous @iss ease. ? “I'm the one that is iH-treated, ~ r . %