The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1918, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pies. Phe MEMIER OF THE ASSOCIATED eRuas " Dileaton of af nee Seat "ule oval ‘new yobliben a) eel ST le RTD TU VOLUME 59. FOOLED BY AN AUTOCRACY. sesceeeNO, 20,925 and challenge discussion. At a moment when a committee of the United States Senate i ting an investigation of the coal situation in which the activi- of the Fuel Administration are closely involved, when a winter instruction and industrial readjusiment begins to make its elaims for the maintenance of an adequate coal supply for the try, the retirement of the Fuel Administration chief is certain viewed as having a special significance. The Senate coal inquiry has brought out evidence tending more more to show that the supposed authority of the Fuel Adminis- ion has been but a feeble force against the power of the coal rests, It has been clearly demonstrated that among the latter the old ine right” theory is anything but dead. Those who control the mining of coal and the transportation of cling astubbornly as ever to the belief that they have the right trol the prices of coal. Testimony before the Senate committee has shown that the big interests, even in the face of the country’s dire need, have never the slightest intention of permitting market prices of coal to bo broken and reduced so long as a policy of regulating the output from the‘mines and keoping the vast coal accumulations of the culm banks | vat of the hands of independent operators could be trusted to main- iaim coal prices at the levels they chose to fix. 4 For days the Senate committee has been trying to find out from representatives of the coal interests and from high officials of the Fuel Administration what it actually costs at the present time t> , a ton of anthracite coal up to the moment when it is loaded for shipment. ; } Lack of information pleaded on this point is astounding. The nearest figures—obtained with great difficulty from witnesses—are yearly @ year old. © Yot—with no more professed knowledge of the cost of a ton of gal than this—Fuel Administrators, under advice from the coal- producing interests, have fixed prices at which American consumers tauBt buy eoal or go without! jis Dr. Garfield himself disturbed and shocked at the extent to which the futility of Pederal Fuel Administration is being revealed to the public it was created to protect ? * Is he loath to be longer identified with a Federal bureau which is geen to have been dominated by the very interests it was established to fegulate ? Does he dread himself to be asked for facts aud figures for which be must meekly turn to coal operators who have been dict, poljey of the Fuel Board: Great is the-power of the coal lords! + Federah authority itself has been fooled and exploited | pecan: \ ating the by that + The Public Service Comibission asks the B. R. T. ‘to explain at a hearing next Tuesday why B. R. T. service during the month of November was 16 per cent. short of full compliance with the orders of the commission, Meanwhile the P, 3. C, would have men, women and little children pause in fearful wonder at what it “may” do to the f B. RK, T. if the latter goes on defying it as it has done ever since there was a P, S)C. to defy, There were no “mays,” “mights” or “maybes” in wha; Gov.-elect Alfred E. Smith said he was going to do to the P..8. C. as now constituted. _ tH Storm wafnings displayed from Sandy Hook to signal “strong west winds,” Favoring and following, al) those who approve the P dential voyage will hasten to point out, SS Nantucker rexi- The Schoolmaster IS abroad! From Letters Wishes the People ® drives the band played outside my office window many times, and i often went down to talk lo some of the members, who told me much per- \aining to their doings. It seams that these seventy-five men have scarcely done any active police duty wince last June—a few perhaps at the most, They have played for all the drives parades, given numerous park oon- rts, and been called upon for occa sions of all kinds. Whenever they are called upon to play, or whenever ‘To the Miitor of The Evening World Ti was reading in The World a letter from J, D, N. and his ideas are the s: mine. Where was no Naval Reserve _\ When I yolunteed on April 16, 1917, _- 4nd consequently I had to ship in for four years. Now that the war (s over rae Ro reason why we, meaning rs in the same fix as i am, not secure @ discharge as well as 2 reserve. course, 1 realize that} peate has not been signed yet und ‘bat the naval authorities are having ie full, but still we ought to some consideration in this I to see @ nice . ttie write-up in regard to this soon in your Paper, Having * since enlisting, feel that I would more to my wife if riven a to return to civilian lity once | Thanking you in advance ‘or H, KE. D, Practice for Police ta Of Toe Evening World; very much interested ‘ork Police d, AB most cused from all police’ duty for th: entire day, Sin, the rehearsals | neglected. A band that the Police Department sure! to be better trained, Everybody who was int this organization wa. m ly ought ested Fran Goldman had become the learn, The band desorves overy pos sible encouragement, but as it {8 pure. y &n amateur organisation, more o. its spare time should be devoted to re hearsing th the present at least, services for regular training | prove more valuable to the ¢ t Thackery, Ki in pub- | these dayg of shortage of men‘on 0 nee? ‘ane nae reney ~% VB [Wales William Rosetti,/ brother Daily Kxcept Sunder ihe Freee Fn ed Company, Nos, 68 to ———— HE resignation of Dr. Garfield as head of the Federal Fuel) Adininistration, with no official intimation of the reasons therefor, comes at a time when it is bound to cause surprise, they have a rehewrsal, they are ex. | t June, however, to have been represents in delighted that & bandmaater as well known as Edfin jeader, but only yesterday 1 learned | that his connections had heen entirely vered for reasons which I could not playing in public, for Otherwise their | Mee work would EDITORi Thursday, D AL PAGE. ecember 5, 1918 | Copyright, 1918, hy The prea bite (The New York Brent, AP Le sd Cage Be, Whys and Wherefo By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1018, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World.) No. 10—Why Scolding Wives Are a Blessing B think be married mean woman on earth, But the man who really knows life and who really umounts to anything considers his ‘wolding wife. a great blessing and lays all credit for his success at her feet, © }, Awe ing wife is like a cross \chool teacher who makes her pupil set & lowson, While as children we hated her from the very roots of her jhatr to the toes of her boots, we can | vemember every word she practically | pounded into us, We may remember, | also, some angel-faced young teacher wao used to smile upon us, but we have no remembrance of anything over taught us, In the same way olding Wife may not be very ing just at the time she is scold- }ing but she certainly plants the seeds of ambitjon, better work, higher liv- ing and general success in her hus- vand's heart ‘The wife who never scolds }win her husband’, approval, but | will never help him to get higher oo The wife who point | Who Are WILLIAM. name, and the majority of these but ely musicians, | statesmen, evidently not a musica Willam name. The list of poets is a long one: Wili- jam Shakespeare, the greatest Eng! sh writer: William Cowper, the Eng poet who wrote “On Receipt of My |Mother's Picture”; William Word+ lworth, the Engilsh poet who wrote mucy Grey”; William Blake, who| wrote “Phe Marriage of Heil and Heaven”; William Collins, the Englinn | c# writer; William Morris, the pre , | Raphaelite, who began It a de- translated Ioclandie lIrish poet, who wrote “Lovely Mary | Donnelly"; Willlam Yeats, the mod- ‘\ern irish playwright, and the Ameri- +| can poet, William Cullen Bryant, | wrote “Lines to » Water Fow Besides these prose writers: rai iiiem Make pe } “at AUSE his wife is a perpetual/out a ‘xcold” many a husband is apt] tells him he is not doing his best, that the only|he has a good brain but he do HERE have been more famoun | Americ Williams than men of any other | > invented the Morris chair and| popular acto volumes from the|*Xbress company, iam Allingham, the who | ht ols we have the man's ability and constantly use it, that he is too easily satisfied with surroundl and “picks” on him instead of telling him that he is “a dear boy,” is a real help- co t Ld If a man is willing to do the right bis bet But halt. it has even @ normal amount of om- mon sense ani gray matter, will be- res thing and to face tacts he will never | velop the “henpecking” instinct {n he persists in making mistakes and constantly | blunders his affairs, his wife, if she of Love and Matrimony taiks! Nor is this talk all in vain. Many a than would like to go home in a frisky little mood, but he thinks ot his “scolding” wife and is thank- fal the next day that he did not. Many a man would be satisfied with @ flat pocketbook; but he knows he will meet a woman at his door who | Woman is by nature kind, forbear- ing and a comforter, but she knows when things are going wrong. Like the hen she is named she doe: ve But no hen pecks without prov- cation! | No doubt a wife can “spoil” a good husband just as easily as a fond | mother good son, “The big stick”) will expect more, and so he puts a jhelps many a’ boy to keep in the |iittle more steam on, calls forth a straight and narrow path, and a’ few little more energy and takes -home a big roll on Saturday night, And so, many a man has improved his character and surroundings just be- facts from the lips of a scolding wife | helps the right kind of a man to hat- tle more successfully with life, We may like the people who tell! oiuse he didn't want to be scolded! us everything we do is “all right"! “Nor does such a man ever regret [ better than those who criticlee us, that he has reformed or made a but our knowledge would be WOR-| snug fortune any" more than the derfully limited if we never under-| schoolboy ever regrets knowing his went ce ction, And if a man wants come a scold, to succeed in the world, if he really|narrow path because his mother A stupid man can get along beau- | ¥8"ts to see himself “as others sce| showed him the way. It matters not tfully with a doll baby wife, but he| Pin” it will not hurt him to hear|in tater years whether he wag led will have an uphill road with a clever,|® f€W things about himself from] by the ruler or “the big stick”—the SARE "lthe lips of his wife. only point is, he got there! active woman, | he: . And so, as a man grows older and aven old Rip Van Winkle might] Of course whether a man appre-|jooks pack, he doesn’t care if his have enjoyed his life and saved ais|“l#tes bis wife for bein ‘scold” | wife was a Netto severe with him, ne “ lor not he has to listen. here | Or even a@ regular “scold,” because he Wite the epithet of a henpecking w {ts Ff Sethe" hai, 1h got there, anyway, and one of the if he had mended his fences uud keptytheres a woman there's talk" And | reasons he did was because SHI his children from rags. It is always | the Jess man listens the more woman le him step lively! the man who does things the wror - sea —aemtmen — way and leaves undone the tings ~ ‘ Shank bachetror 1r elections Your Namesakes? | | By Mary Ethel McAuley Williams have been writers, poets and) Fiona Macleod. Daniel, Gabriel Rosetti, and the great ue; Wiliam Dean Howells, th an novelist; William Hal tine, and William Sharp, the Irish writer, who writes under the name of Artists by the name of Willian h 180 been plenty: William Hol snan-Hunt, the pre-maphaelite; Wi! heim or William Kaulbach, the Ger man pre-Raphaelite; William Ho garth, the English portrait painter Jand Wiliam Corcoran, who, althoug! rtist, gave an art gallery to hington. i ¢ of our Presidents have beer Harris McKinley an and statesmen by the name are William Gladstone, William Pitt anc Williain Jennings Bryan, We migh’ William Penn a statesman, fo he was very statesmaniike in hig deal | ings with the Indiana. | Then there ls Wiilam Cillette, day, and William {Bil Then we have William the Con |queror, William of Orauge, William the aged Te and William Wundt, pher of Lelpate, Tn literature there are + like Wandering ow . th ©®| blind Addier, in one of eott’s ‘Wlos, st) The story WILY | wounds iike fiction, but he was a real ot} man who once Mved, of Capt. Willtam of th tad By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eve ning World.) EIGH-HO! The war is over, election's over, Thanksgiving’s over—- nothing for a woman to do ‘til to-morrow—except, of course, the agonizing Christmas shopping! Many a perfectly happy wife has secret momenta when she can’t help wishing she had stayed single just a few years longer, so that she could have had a nice, glittering, military wedding like this year’s brides, The “siren” who wrecks a man’s life is not so often * the woman who has “driven him to distraction.t as the one who happened to come along when he was looking for distraction. t 4 When two women fall in love with the same man he ja, always the last of the three to find out which of them he is going to marry, By te time a bachelor marries his heart has been broken and re together until after the honeymoon, It is difficult to say which hurts a woman more, the humiliation of | finding that she has giver somebody a cheaper Christmas present or the chagrin of finding that she has given a more expensive one than she got in return, 2 A man professes to admire a “reserved woman,” but somehow he always treats that kind ag though she were being reserved for somebody ; lesson or walking the straight and} -Women No. 41—MARIA THERESA, father. plausible reason | himself its rightful Ring. Frederick the Great of Prussia and captured it, with true Prussian outlawry. By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) of Maria Theresa’s heritage. of Bavaria formed an alliance with France ard invadea Bohemia, He overcame that country and proclaimed in War War Ruler of Three Realms TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL in 1740 found her~ self ruler of Austria and Bohemia and Hungary. Maria. ‘Theresa had inherited all this dominio# from her dead Nominally and legally it was hers, but she seemed to stand no chance at all of keeping any of it, for at once every potentate who could boast the slightes for his claims tried to seize some pary | For example, the Biectur ‘ invaded her rich province of Silesia | The Elector of Saxony and the Kings of Spain and of Poland all helped | themselves to all of Maria Theresa's ‘The King of Sardinia grabbed Milan, which was hers. territory they could lay bands on. The Bavarian | poured into Vienna, captured the Austrian capital and forced poor Masia | Theresa to flee for her life. { > sight. |} Despoited Queen there. | Takes Flight. fight.” Sho e ‘» herself upon | Austria or Austrian rulers. man the Assembly shouted madly; “We will die for you!” to Magyar bravery. | Maria Theres: and her Magyars Next, by shrewd statesmanship, invaders from her heritage. ae She Is Sole ees | at Last. eee sovereign int the greater, By Roy L Mr. Jarr as a R. JARR felt a friendly hand M upon bis shoulder and heard remarked in his ear, “Hetlo, Ea! Seem the show?” as ho was strolling in the lobby of the theatre en the first and second act , I'm not seeing the sho’ plied Mr. Jarr in fine scorn, peddling lead pencils outside the 5 and 10 cent store on a busy Saturday night.” It was through such flashes of ready wit that Mr. Jarr had estab- lished his reputation for possessing a satirical turn of speech. And poor Mr, Jenkins of East Malaria, book- keeper in the establishment where Mr, Jarr had a weekly stipend thrust upon him also, drew back abashed. “1 meant to say how do you like the show?" said Jenkins meekly. “Oh, it’s clever in spots,” answered Mr, Jarr, with his best first-nighter’s rags @ little at the beginning and is reminiscent as the deuce, but | betwer “rm over." “Cross the 8 thing?” suggested Mr, Jenkins. | “why, 1 don’t think I care to," was lthe reply, “That cafe across the |street never does any business ex- cept between the acts during tho theatrical season, So, whenever @ show is running here they discharge thelr bartender and put a crippled inmate from the Industrial inetitu- ltion for the ‘deaf and blind benind the bar.” Mr, Jarre said this with easy chalance, but the real fact that |astute prober could have ascertained was that Mrs. Jerr was witb him, and she had permitted him to leave her side during the entr’acte only | under solemn promise that he would [NOT go out of the lobby or come back to her smelling of cloves, “Didn't knov. you were a first. nighter,” sald Mr, Jenkins, “Who's ‘the stunner you bowed to?” “Lily L'Estrange, the opera singer, non: don’t you know her?” replied Mr, Jarr jightly. “One misses some of the old crowd, but there's Harold Dogstory, the famous press agent and celebrated after-dinner speaker | —great/triend of mine. Itls a typical first night, what?” | "Do you come to many?” asked the awed Jenkins, “I'm here by chance, and"— “Oh, I look in at most all the pre- mieres,” said Mr, Jarr, yawning, “A friend sof mine, a big independent the |Palved, pressed, cleaned and mended so often that it will searcely hold | theatrical producer, likes to have my opinion, Thinks I can spot the sure | nits and tell a flivver better than the | eritics.” “Y'm with @ lady,” faltered Mr “Mrs. Jarr with you?” “Oh, yes, they always send us two seats to all the first nights,” lied Mr Jarr giibly, | He and his wife were there on chars ity, with tickets purchased by Clara Mudiidge Sauth, aud which that lady, peace with Prussia, formed an alliance with European powers; and, thus strengthened, kicked out the various remaining As soon as she was firmly established she began to pay back old sc First of all she formed an alliance with Russia and prepared to make wor on Frederick the Great, who had robbed her of Silesia. Frederick saw what was coming and struck the first blow. The conflict known as “The Seven-Year War” followed, Both Maria Theresa and’Frec - erick suffered heavy losses throughout this war, but Frederick's losses wera When her husband @ied, in 1765, joint ruler with herself; but, like her husband, her son way allowed to 0@ only a figurehead during her lifetime, When she died, in 1780, she was survived by ten of her sixteen children, Of these, one was the unlucky Marie Antoinette, Queen of France—a woman as foolish as her mother had been wise. The Jarr Family other than that I think ftywill get | et and have some- The young ruler had no prospect of holding on to one inch of her inher~ ited domains. A lesser woman would have quit then and But Maria Theresa had “not yet begun to She was robbed by every one It fled to Hungary, and there she throw the mercy of the Magyar chiefs, Tho Hungarians then, as now, had scant reason to, evo Yet Maria Theresa appeared before their As~ |sembly at Presburg, holding her baby son in her arms, and she mado‘s+ impassioned an appeal to them that they were swept off their feet. As one “A Hungarian army was flung itfto the field,” writes one historian, “and blood flowed like water for the gallant woman who had intrusted her futuro. hurled themselves upon the Bavarian’ 4and drove them out of Vienna and then out of all Austria. Maria Theresa made an advantagvous land and one or two other In 1745 the throne of the old German Empire fell vacant. By statecraft Maria Theresa secured it for her husband—thua becoming also Empress of Germany and actual sols ruler of that country, The woman who, a very few years earlier, hat been a hopeless fugitive was now the most powerful Burope. Marie Theresa appointed her son McCardell Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World.) First Nighter through being called out of could not use. “Well, an old school friend of my wife's is passing through the city om her way to the West with her mother, The mother was taken ill with the | ‘floo’ and couldn't come to the thoas tre, so I'm escorting her,” expluincd Mr. Jenkins lamely. Mr. Jarr turned to Mr. Jenkins and winked a slow, phlegmatic wink. | “Honest, it's true,” continued Jenk- ins. “The young lady was out at Hast Malaria visiting my wife some months 4g0, and she called my wife up whew she returned this way and found hor mother couldn't go to the theatre witit her. So my wife called mo up and told me to escort her friend.” Mr. Jarr whistled a .bar v> | Some Credit to the Navy, mado no comment, h “I'm telling you the truthi” cried © | Jenkins. “Doggone it! Do you thinic.y I'd be here on the sly with anybody?" .{ “Not, knowing, can't say,” replicd Jarr carelessly, “Well, 'll prove what I say, You | bring Mrs, Jarr out here in the ioboy |&nd I'll introduce my wife's chum |her. We're sitting way across tho | theatre, back of you, or you could us, I'm on the ley “I'm not saying a word against yuu or the lady you are with, am 1? ushed Mr, Jarr, — # town, f No, but I don't like the way you " cried Mr, Jenkins indiguant!) “You bring your wife out here ‘wins | the curtain goes down again and |” introduce the lady—for she I8 a lady! | Then’ when your wife’ meets my wits whe can Say she met me and this lady at the theatre, too!” “Jenkins, old pal,” said Mr. Jar, “let sleeping dogs Re and then you won't have to lie when they wa up, Granting all you say is true, its « bad precedent,” ac “If it wasn't that I have to take the lady to her hotel and then hurry to catch @ train out to East Malaria I'd wait after the show and introduce your wife to my wife's friend, Miss Hankinson of Lima, O.!" said the |ritated Jenkins ls | “Tis just as well ‘tis 50,” Peplicd | Mr, Jarr, “And when you seé ma with my wife's dearest friend, you, | to0, pass on. I can oaly say I'm gia t | you are sitting where Mrs, Jarr dovs | not see you with the lady from Lima, When the show is over I) hang back with Mrs, Jarr and you hurry out.” Jenkins evidently did so, But on the way home Mrs. Jarr was very sileat, and then said: Who can you trust thése days? © your friead Jenkins with @ blond person? No? Well, I did!” And in vain did Mr, Jarr, as a member of the Sheltering Omer of | Wok-Wok, or Married Men's Protec. tion Association, insist she must be,