The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1918, Page 22

EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, November 29,1918 | ty tue ret Vil lag TABLISHED UY sonar Potirann, ee ee 7 — sake Fat a a ——— ee By Albert Payson Terhune ot Orosriaht, 1918, vy The Prew Pulishing Co (The New York Erening World) meatus sila No. 40—T2ZU-H’SI, the Slave-Girl Who Conquered China RICH Chinaman, about seventy years ago, went bank. rupt, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Tzu-H’'si, made the starting proposition that he help pay his debts by selling her into slavery. ‘The Tather seems to hare agreed willingly enough. to the hideous proposal. Ife sold her to the Viceroy of his province, ‘Teu-H'si grow into radiant young womanhood. The Viceroy was attracted to her. He offered her a mass of jowels. The girl azed him by saying she would rather be allowed to learn to read than to load herself down with jewelry. The Viceroy declared that no woman had ihe brain to master the Chinese alphabet. Yet he gave her the permission to try. Tzu-H’s! not {only learned to read, but soon gleaned @ splendid education. She had | sense enough to realize that education is not only the key to freedom but to power. And she longed for power. Educated women in China were #0 rare in those days { young Tzu-H'si reached the ears of the Emperor, Hsien-F The Emperor persuaded the Viceroy to make him a rift of the talento wlave-girl, and the sixteen-year-old damsel set out Women in \ ar WEMMMN OF PRY ARROCIATEDY PAIR, | ent ONE iE ell be ol lia al betnn phew wehbe: haccndlaenle A ~ dhaw Ste cateeanreper MME VOLUME: Xo. 59, 20,919 | LET OTHER TOILERS BE HEARD. | MILE organized labor throughout the country is proclaiming ‘in advance that it will permit no lowering of money wago- levels reached during the war, there is another groat body of workers in the United States whose lack of organization, leaders or, * spokesmen deprives it of the hearing to which it is now more than ever entitled. | We mean the class whose claims The Evening World h empha-! sized again and again in the last two years—the vast number of sal-| atied workers and wage-carners to whom the war brought no increa | of income, who have had to struggle with the rising cost of all the) coy the fame wt Areas for the Imperial Court at Peking. ‘ ; i . oor Slave Gir! There she wasted no time in gaining an al necessities of life and who at the same time wore expected to save } Rutes Court, apolette Induanes over the lazy Emperor. He mi enough to buy Liberty Bonds ahd Thrift Stamps, contribute fo the Red) | Gerrrev®_sher one of his wiv 8, and he soon grew to rdy oy her judgment tn all politica! and military mattéré, The slave-girl, for instance, proved herself a born zo she handled campaigns against rebellious provinces and | Vinally she induced the Cross aud pay unprecedented war taxes. In his current reries of articles in ‘Tho World on War Profiteering Mr. Louis Seibold dos not forget this class: “The principal victims of these (profiteering) practices é Wore not the wage-carners whose incomes were directly af. 2 footed by war conditions, but those employed at fixed and ¥ arbitrary wages which 4id not command the premiums pal to those employed in the production of munitions and other wat eupyies—bookkeepers, shop clerks, inspectors, collectors 1 uprisings, mperor to make a will appointing herself and bis “principal wife” as rege of the wery Kingdom, in case he should die during the minority of his son and heir, Tung-Chi, Not long after thia wil was made the Emperor died, With a somewhat suspicious suddenness lis son and tile “principal wita’ | also died, Tau-H'si then proclaimed herself sole regent of China, She ane nounced that the Eniperor had made a secret w in which he had ap. | Pointed his nephew, Kwang-Su, bis heir: and that ho had previously adopted | | the boy as Dis son. teed wet and of the greater number fessional pursuits, Moreover, she had the power to make her peopie accept this story ea ' “The tsead ad tout w es ation emt de women coming | Gaerne Geto reiga as Empress-Dowager and sole regent until Pht lg ' within this classification has not appreciably increased during | Thus the former slave made heracif the undtsputed ruler of half of Aéla, ; the progress of the wer, Certainly the Increases, 1f any, have | She governed China. with an iron hand, making het , not Dean commensurate with those pald to war workers, But a self feared and obeyed by the haugitiest nobles, : they bave, nevertholess, felt the pinch moro acutely than toll. ren Half of All Asia For many years the Empress-Dowager ewayed \$ Her Empire. the complicated politics of China. In the Chinese- teens Jupanese War bh) tho ruling voice and he | was the directing of the armics’ general movements,” Even China's crushing defeat at the hands of the Japs could not shake hee ora whose services have been at a premium.” In a period of economic readjustment, are tho claims of thoa millions of workers, to whom the war has meant no higher pay hut only higher prices, to go for nil? Aro they to huve'a harder time than ever owing to the inevitable effect of sustained high money wages in sending prices higher still? | “Increased cost of lubor” is the perennial plea of manufacturer, 4 See and retailer when cach in turn raises the price of some article of common necessity—shoes, clothing, fuel or food. H Lverybody knows, moreover, that “increased cost of labor” does! not find its way into the retail price of the article as the additional| 5, 10 or 16 cents that represents the actual increase, but on the con trary becomes an added 25, 50 or 75 cents that provides extra profit) for all concerned in getting the article to the consumer—ot who: | She hated for had its birth, The hated "tf i 't was to this hatred that the Boxer rebeifion gners” put down the robellion and broke into | sing. China's power was momentarily wrecked, but the Dowager-Empreas's s not. Even after Kwang-Su came of she ruled as des; am A . « potically When the nominal Emperor tried to assert himself Tau-H's ‘had the ny | and the wit to put iim back where she wanted him to stay id Her unpronounccable name may well go down in histo ne 9 istory, with Elzas | bet 's or that of Catherine of Ru: or with any of the other Props 3 d sway both in statesmpaship and in | women who seized and held unlimi war, “ Jarr Family * | owildered, resigned acceptance of “a general upward trond of prices” By Roy L. McCardell : . they have learned to take advantage. Fe “ byt Ee ishing yoke: New York Evening World.) 4 ‘ . ‘< ry what apie be +} f ., to 4 What is a 25 per cent. increase in wages worth to labor itself if} | ts atthe che | wee, a bot sage doo! said ‘4 the “rising wage” plea becomes a basis for a 50 per cent. boost in the ivsduse dadbbd IR” pala’ atv: | want te oe Mapetinee paphgnt bh eet of common necessities which labor as consumer must have? a cegh taken se i oy of of rows for which there {s no ocea. &4 Noh? . pr ory sas : course, top flats are always light and| ston,” 4 What is the use of calling wages : higher” if the additional money airy, but it 18 too Ligh up, and then,) “Oh, very welt, then!” said 4M i received and more must go to pay the increased cost of necessities upon! ten ate padas Wel ka ea ———-———=] ir case of fire, 1'd be scared to death |Jurr. “Go, hide in satel aay He 4 the price of which “higher wages” somewhere else along the line have on account i of us children, i lsyoeee KIM your childsen undor produced their effect? How to Weather Marria ge By Helen Rowland | "sjow'nany cssuca bave hey |sour‘own wore guile nen t ., e ie asked Mr; Jurr, "| speak to me againe’ Money is only a measure. Its own value is relative, varying with Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) [the wife of one of these I always suspect her of exercléing black magic, and| “son, thoy hpven't any children at! “What! aes iin cae : the amount available for use. Real wages are the food, clothing, fuel, 1X.--Man—And the Dinner Hour * |watch her closely to see what she drops in her husband's coffee. “How replied Mra, Jarr. “The landlord, What's ; anyway ! Py rent, comfort and amusement a given amount of honest work can be OMETIMES I think that the most dangerous reef in the turbulent | 4d he get that way?" THAT ts the mystery! For most of the ay aE be n't take any more+familles with! asked Mr. Ja All I can find out 3 exchanged for. waters of matrimony ia the unholy modern dinner hour, Every | Yemen Whom I know spend the two hours between 6 and 8 P. M. in the/ children, And the: he gets so|ls tha girl in the next flat bd . > 8! eo e n 4 ib a a a aksos en ¢ a e chil my 7 ' P woman { born a lady-In-waiting, of course, and spends her life walt-| #0 state of heartrending hunger and uncertainty which Austria ¢X-|inad that le rat jee childish squabble with oue If organized labor could be induced to ponder some of the ele- ing for a MAN--walting for him to grow up, waiting for |Perienced when she begged for @ quick armistice, They NEVER know | children are born om the tle Luma, Did anybody say anys 4 Py . } . Lo 0 . “ y doesn’t ‘9 | thin if mentary traths of economics it would see that soaring money wages) him to ask her to dance, waiting for bi mto propose,| eM thelr husbands will arrive for dinner! bie eee g bad bare} hive . i cannot shake themselves free of soaring prices when the lifting force waiting for him to come home evenings—and walting| Whether a woman does her own Pp and Maa Oe l Bee | yay Hotter poate Hotioe about |anapoed' den darn toy ice ate for both is bo f th diti for bim to div, But the most poignant featuge of the| Period of waiting in a vain attempt to keep the asparagus Na j dole. 1a then die Wes Sb-Rhoea tas man take Cane - 4s born of the same conditions. entire inquisition Is the daily agony of keeping dinner | fom wilting and the steak from drying up, or whether she keeps # retinue | A! Sts Acar AYRa add ace ome |Gice cee ee oe i J Beep) han chil . a en aro lie tle 01 . Tt would also ee that it cannot expect higher money wages to walting for him, In the bright lexicon of Man (as far as {Of Servants and spends it in, trying to pacity the cook and keep Hg ution | (ins Shilarga 1p RAL and Are, alard |Gtep ard, mall ns tt _ murderers my i rt i i ; % Nes. ¢ ‘ \ lay in wait for our 1 give it exclusive rights to a pending power that shal! constantly in- keeping an appointwent with a woman {s concerned), | from walking out in indignation, it 1s equally nies (4 tant y a course,” she added, me children} Emma, maybe with ords an. oe crease, as if the commodities required by organized labor as consumer! there is no such word as Time! |time her husband arrives, her nerves are frazdled, her temper an are terrible and noisy, and litter up |iatchets or something In the quaint old days, when G -grandmamma | hair are out of curl, and that most sacred and delightful hour of the | 'é and fall down the ; oe could be in the main produced by the work of those whose incomes! NER hour—bas become a civil war-or a penance instead of @ [hee ALS as ae ee tairaand| Just then a loud cry echoed from ; i re) " ‘ elther did the cooking herself or oversaw every spoon- | day+~-DID terrible, |the hallw wed by the quieis have not been bettered by war conditions and who have carried the ful of it, when there were a dozen or more children to oe | reunion of two loving hearts and kindred souls, \ ; pn ubout those {running of w child. ‘There was an. = viest burdenr. - as fod and put to bed, and when Great-grandpa came| And to add to the joy--and uncertainty—of living, a woman never idren a dozen times, My|other scream, and thea ail was elit By These latter hard-working Americans—and there are millions of|tramping tn from bis day in the flelds or from f owing the hounds, as knows in what sort of mood her bushand mi ons) an i ifependa.on chili hace thank govduess, a wr °| aimee pier dariing, my child?’ ‘ va . in whether ‘he e' t of trouble or ni ut just | ehriekc ‘ » “an > ha Re them—for whose pocketbooks or pay the war has done nothing, should | 2¥nsry and healthy as a bear, the evening meal hour was a sacred thing, \W hat be has been Road a pene Vege palatal tay si td esos aa Eee eee litte meen tee shalt arr, “and they bave + pany pod ch fol ure as Dp yt a ey wel chureh aving an argumen 2 | ee Avent ie in shiiape pall 7 $ have something to say before their standards of living are forced stil) |'° "Meh follt were as prompt as they were at church, Mane toying to néll a diMoult customer: creternisibg with “tho toys” at! Gladys Wat pons, jaws a Uiile ‘ . : * = But NOW, when dinner may be anything from a delicatessen quick- | i further down by high prices boosted higher still because of the main lunch toa social function, when there is often nobody but Husband aad the! the comer cafe, or filrting with @ blond manicure in the barter slop. | push by accident, and tenance among other classes of workers of wage lovels attained solely| dag to le fed (and the children, if there are any, dine in the nursery), when | Yet, there is only one really satisfactory way for a husband to come He suse a main snot of Load Des in meeting the special needs of war. Hubby comes home tired and indifferent (o food, after a late and sumptuous | efter be has kept his wife for Sree. morsel nabre Pleiaeos, nies iB Over CD bay enchant let obi acme nC cot Why @hould those who count the winnings of war talk Joudost| Maeheon at the etud or a chop house, and-no exercise Sotween, the dinner | a taxicab or crushed under Lids ley cal Je , 54 over them—slapped| having such fun p . eS"! hour has become as fluctuating as (he color of a chorus girl's halr and. a until there is some “curfew for married men,” some law forcing Aad gies Ren a when peace comes? uncertain ag a college boy's affections, And, by that same token, it husbands to be at home at some regular hour (ANY hour), there doo? and threw d her little girl, and beaming ne fell down | It open, ler hag no cop little Mmma on the ” ’ ape flendish manner! The poor child's Let the workers who have had no extra premiums, rewards and! pecome the bugaboo and the nightmare of the average wifo's Ute! |will always be a hideous blot on tho 'scutcheon of saatrimony: week De se aning inducements, and who as consumers have had the hardest timo of all,| Of course there ARE hundreds of men the sound of whose key in the link in the tie that binds, And that's why the chorus girl sald t W614) & peades Fou maa ut Rh OM de ad is the meoal for the 6.30 whistle iat when I meet !sbare a man’s luncheon and I care not WHO? keeps his dinners waiting | in a fuss with those people?” said Mr, —— for him!” Jarr. ea now organize and make themselves heard, | eve! nolse 9 —— | Me Fata, know ow ffissy your father is, If ha + ¥ F iy Fou med yy Na ay a tr ow iy ae hr etters From the Feople | Oo Are TOUr iNamesakess low Our Torpedo o Boats | say Wie veer Boeke cal 6 Male Peotitooen Mit Anets, WHI Germany Brew Neer From Our! a ! low nose Watkinses abuse my|T do say it, those Watkinses ar 3 de Baditor of The venting Work! One) Henry "| | ple th y it, those Watkinses are nieg 4 te the Baitor ° in Veout F na ai 8 ) y ni children, you are much mis-| peop& and their child "i ho As a constant reader of your Ba- [To the Ratton of Whe Brewing World EVERAL Kings of the Holy Ro "1 ne ( ; re) t e i r a mes Jear on urea, yo ait hehay aa i . hy ren ard, Very q ‘ y per, } wish (o thank you for your! We make the world sate for doe man Umpire wero ca ’ eee be ere hie ney ple : » run ey and ; q " pale age “ on at nd I suppose I'll bo gged into] plas » been telling your father cy effuris in trying to keep down the} mocracy, "but forget about denx and so were a numt i) e McDougal jannounced by signal guns on shore,| hepone. 211 /be. ramen tate |e ive. bes ; , exorbitant price af wilk, It does scem| racy at hore, Much against me {of France, Henry LV, belng ase Latour and Henri Matisse are Th 4 and as soon us MeDougal’s ship came| the row with those peoplet"” sald Mr, renee pele vite: dour ray : & shame when thé people of this city, | Wish and tho wishes of a sood inany {Mts AMBDE Kings of England were) Valour and Hear! Matisse are By Heniy Collins Brown |is range, was fired upon by » bets | Jarr, TOWniDee oe fione togetber, Temp alt you want me. onded | other Ame | Henrys, Henry 1. was a great war a laso being leeries, To add to the dimeulty, 1, don't wo . u muy be lke the poor little eppectally tae poor, have rempor 4 ana, the stdent has ri aders of the new moy Is to us one of it aa op prod pm the! sicned th rior, but Nis iife was shattered by i Ka bs . enemy. merchaatmen, a pew Lf you are n h Who bave forgotten weperousiy to every call from the} no Prohibition measure, to i ho} Ment in Henrl B ein inlarmed, lay In the open waters just healt Lelie erent Laas Wernment, that thelr few remaln-| tako effect July t, 1919, The Pregl. | 2 Feath of his son, Will eg ne } fata ti lee our beyond. ‘Their crews were in a frenzy | man enough, If bs a ve mn rps b pa LE le ing pennies should be gouged from] dent must admit nimstit that daring | WEOt WOwA with Ue famous White z A nec he ment and yelled deflance to|enough, to protect yo! Ite anc —- fore In a few years, aftet (bese! the recent crisis he was pi M'ia8) Ship im 1120, and meld. that} "" ad brings to snd sip. A more unequal fdren when rufllans assauit them, 1 THE WILY DOUGHBOY. ‘ | we 8 given more ue nee en § the ncular, ca of/the mos ; tdom taken place. Mo- m murder me ‘AR Correspondent Linc ite © accumulated great} power than somo Kings oy Henry never smiled 4 The nar ; ass °. spondent Lincoln Byro Pioiiteera hove . =i: tna I’ eae aAA OME Kings or Queds| A btu the HA qi Writer whos » Vadis,” peg of duy, the Confederate | ‘Dougal hud not on tuhe care © you run away!" said in a Parls Y. M,C, A: welt, their thourhtn * Wo have bought Biberty ; contra : a 1863 Col n question, but wlso : : foward phitanthropy, 1b la abit time} bonds, given to the tted Crom 4 He VIE, hout the ship A | vould have ond you ceria: i Ave have more justice and tors charity, | va es Any the Catholic Chureh so he could . FE egg j mans vd one hour a good thing | a et vkeeper who That yu way euscocd tv chooklue! been sparing divorce rg cry A ea ose Ewald a our constalasion, As © to unload bad money 4 Me earnewt wish | and auton nt | Heine, Heine .was a revo-|away waters 1 : r ing was badly out sand. been dantured these rae ty Amerioa " 1 lh Soe Be {andthe smokest shot to pleces,| have gone to we been capt 0 Fas: great Henrys. H WENO _ARS. WAS 'ORpOUSO feign .c ‘ five of her men killed and seven) ) rmang, er something!" | was one ¢ \ tof his ideas,| MeDot wren AMA) wounded, With one or two excep-| > while In the! tons, none of the crew had ever bean} ness and bres! x6, Wath th: a would through geat der » proceed to Japan, where the property of American In. | 5 were in danger, McDougal \ | won, too, ' ren W quiet than oth however, took | o * yontured Mr i Very sorey ace at War | yes,” whimpered Mrs, Jarr.| vesse! a refuge Ameri- | Pare a amen | weet ae Gar haehert or t's sald the received news that the! McDougal las sca re eived the Bverybouy Ie. Just perfectly lovely doug "e BO. Pembroke had been| reward to which As entilied. | except your own family! By el 1 07 E the shop- Pie sp both “Had this action taken place at ans'| nisa or y ° you not gle ine back the tho Japanese without | oines ‘time during the Civil] Toman 's & a M ‘ The dvus nboy grinned ond winked it the raewal in @ meaning way, Then bayehothing but ancers! wut I will} he, sald: cated en) About unitod Would tt vle for some clergyman ty te have bis view of the marter at y Whole and then por- |: om body, automo- nry Ward e@ greatest to om whh thelr ® ritaw® woull see that tho aie hay even It pulpit orator of America, — Mex ¢ffortn ot baither and doin} yyy. t plans of base | yames is th novelist ntial Mea to- | My t) romdent for srt Among the Hentys we warning in (he Straits of Shimonsehi, | War,” remarked an emigent historian, | , upprectation of the people's offorte! nave Menry 1 gpank asians (anne. 9S ang, according to the report, bad been | “bis fame Would lave ocboed ail oves eyes, while for your own cl We Need more ified serview ang what a "Thank you” the Pi ps ‘prvtsstantion the tee f2rs0 wnt Nag given {6 the “boys for Henry Rider Haggard, 0 king thelr lr “over thera” 2nd Henry Binley, the great a SENT Bianig's cee 7 Dougal | the world.” ° 8 ‘s]unk with all on board. Mc KR ER re| mou be the tears % of set sail for the scene of the troubie. |, ue itl Ba Was! Sewage NE = ibis writer, | Taree doa “Oh, 1 passed It—passed it thy ve to Woop ative Thig{ Rot desert, them! 1 wil! take tbelr] morniné—gnd a hard 10 it was ee spphwrance at: Shimonsekl waalaucmery.. > = + pares” Heve met"—Washington What x 4 ’ : y