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EDITORIAL PAGE |Wednesday, December 11, 1918 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Gone! And Nothing to Show for It! Cassel rt. b Pree Pabiiniing Co, Tie New York Svening World.) e © Dafly Except Su: by the Press Publishing Com) » Nos. 6: ta Fark how, New Yorke ne Company, Now 68 to RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SITAWe treasurers 68 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 6: iq MEMAEK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRPS, , ! eee oT ee ata eras rede "Ul eter and Chose onal ‘ewe Debliohed oreen BI VOLUME 59.....cccceccescsccevcccvsvceceeese+ NO, 20,981 MORE THAN EVER ON TRIAL. _ NNOUNCING that the public is no longer asked to confine railway travel in the United States within the limits of strict necessity, the Railroad Administration says: “The war being practically over, it will be the policy of the Railroad Administration during the remaining period of Federal control to give to the public the best service of which the rail Pe} Toads are capable. As rapidly as possible service will be im- Proved, although the trains which were run under private con- trol merely for competitive reasons will not be restored.” [) ss Thus begins another phase of a great experiment. What ; it demonstrate? ; Centralized control of the railroads has shown what it ean de! toward meeting the extraordinary demands of war, The more press-! of those demands have ceased. ment of freight new! ho longer be promoted at the expense of passenger extent that no one thought of questioning while hostilities continue Now comes the opportunity of the railroad directorate to show e the great travelling public what centralized control ean accomplish > Mor passenger traffic in normal times of peace. will The mov to a service zh While the efficient handling of freight, the full utilization of | Freight, cars, remain the important problems they have always been, is the new kind of railroad management will nevertheless make friends | r enemies of a considerable portion of the publie according to th: _ Kind of passenger service it provides. ) As long as Federal contro) continues, therefore, the impression | it makes upon travellers as to its ability to secure them greater or, degrees of comfort, convenience, safety and economy, as com | pared with what they were accustomed to expect under private] contro], must have a strong bearing on the great question of what) the country will ultimately decide to do with the railroads | he President has frankly confessed that he is not yet ready | with an answer for that question. No more, we believe, are the _ Great majority of the 100,000,000 people most interested. They are | Waiting to be shown. From their point of view, management of these great public utilities must be judged and appraised by the mt to which that management meets the needs of the millions for rhom the utilities are operated and from whose pockets come the * Pillions of dollars without which they could not exist. f | So far the people of the United States have seen only the dem + $nstration of certain points wherein Federal control is handier and 4 icker than private control in securing co-operation from the rail- s for the great emergency of war. es ’ They have not yet seen whether Federal control can further strengthen that co-operation under normal conditions. Nor have they seen whether the proper balance between freight and passenger traffic can be restored with distinct gains of efficiency for both. + The country is under no illusion as to what Federal control of railroads is costing. Freight rates and passenger fares have mereased. Railroad dividends are guaranteed by the United States Treasury. The Railroad Administration has proved itself a liberal taiser of wages. Why not? Freight rates, fares and taxes increased to pay for running railroads—what are they under Government con trol, it may be urged, but the publi’e payment for public service? There has not yet been time to balance the benefits against ihe | eosts, nor to plot out a middle course whereby the benefits may be retained, the disadvantages of private operation forever left behind and the perils of complete Government control or ownership avoided. » The middle course, if there be one, ought to begin to reveal! itself now that the demands made upon the railroads are returning to a peace basis. That is why the new phase of the relation between the Railroad Administration and the travelling public means so much, Consolidated ticket offices, interchangeable tickets and mileage books, continental dining car service are things that have strongly| tecommended themselves to Americans as practical advances in cor-| venience and comfort. Few would wish to give them up. In the old days, however, “traing run under private control for} competitive reasons” were supposed, for those very reasons, to keep! up standards of travelling speed, safety and luxu These are the| trains the Railroad Administration says it will not restore, The country will approve this policy as consistent, economical | and efficient, provided the Railroad Administration ean show in the| ¢oming months that minor improvements in railroad service do not Gost the public more under Federal control than did major ones under private and competitive management. With the resumption of unrestricted passenger service, central-| ized contro) of railroads is more than ever on trial. No. XI.- By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishi So, (The New York Evening World.) HRISTMAS—that reet on which the fragile bark of many @ ‘man’s > romance has been wrecked—is coming! Watch your step, Young Husband—for, at this time, a woman's soul and heart are as tender and sensitive as an opera singer's vanity or your own chin just after shaving. There is something about the magic witchery of the winter solstice that gets into her blood and makes her yearn to live in @ fairy tale. To a woman, holidays, anniversaries, celebrations—the date on which you first kissed her, the date on which you met, or fell in love, or pro- posed, or were married, or quarrelled, or were born, May Day, St, Valentine's Day, Christmas Day—all these are milestones in the path of her life and love, and many a perfectly well-intentioned, kind-hearted husabnd can date the loss of romance, happiness or his wife's illusions about him from one of these. For, to @ man, such sentimental autopsies (when a woman loves to dig up the past and dream over it) are just plain martyrdom. xh ie ween Rowan Me Happy the man who has weathered five or ten years of marital holiday storms without rocking the boat! For by that time either a woman has come around to his point of view on the question of “cele- brations” and their attendant horrors, or they have signed an armistice 4nd can go out together calmly and joyously and buy 4 new rug for the dining-room—and call it “Christmas.” Before that blissful period, how- ever, most husbands are as pathetically and innocently brutal babe playing with a piece of cloisonne, Somehow, a man ALWAYS selects @ sentimental holiday as an appropriate time to do something e outrageous. If he doesn’t forget the day outright he is sure to spoil it In view of this palpable deception, | >Y being late or having a grouch or taking too many highballs, or SOME- why is Dr. Day not amenable to the| THING! 1 know an adoring husband who planned for a whole year to law governing the sale of storage make his wife perfectly happy on their first wedding annivers He Setters From the Peopl Storage Exes Advertined as “Freak” ) y Clty. To the Pitot of The Krening Work! ry Your publication is ao eminently|¢#Ks, which must bé sold in contain. | jy : fair in its treatment of trade prob: | om s owes ae ¥ in "Cold Store began the day by sending her a tender love.letter—and forgot to put a that I desire to bring to your |Sket" | WhY I the doctor immune| stamp on it. er came a box of flowers—with the bill inclosed. In Gttention a matter on “eggs” which| If a retailer decaived the public in| [Me evening he took her to see @ sw, romantic play—and went to ‘Will interest the consuming public tater anaen v he mme- Sleep during the firet act (to remain that way until the last curtain), You are probably aware that Dr | Tow handing Avily. |_| While sho wept Into her programme, After the show he led her to an , Commissioner of Markets offest competition but are somewhat | ©XPensive restaurant, ordered a wonderful supper, and for the first, ee City, is advertising storage | fonplused when Dr. Day resorts to| last and only time in all thelr married life spent the whole time in bes a1 50 cents per dozen and sup- | {his weception to encourage the sale! sizing up, admiringly, a flufty blonde at another table. Oh, joy divine! Posedly of good quality. ‘The statement made by the writer But CHRISTMAS! That is the psychological time, when the ave The writer sent for several dozen can be verified by substantial proof. | M poor, unlucky husband elects to commit his most unpardonable atrocities against sentiment! HLS gift means so much to HER. either nothing all or days of intense mental agony. lects to think of it until Christmas morning to-day and procured them at Dr. J adh office, Municipal Building, and | fund the quality very poor, in fact | 0 inferior that they cannot be graded D. . To him it means Kither he neg- and then casually slips i, the official classifications and, The letter signed G. V. D. in your| Wet check under her plate, or he subtly induces her to name over all Bee the New York Mercantile Ex barre on Dee, 6th concerning the the things she wants—and then goes out and buys her something else, oa a ralnas offict olice and is @ matter that should which she DOESN'T wa pr to o” her, 1 ae. An inspection by the GMCi@l | itorowt most New Yorkers Fd : ant, in onder to “surprise” her, Those are his ctor of this institullon re-)with G, V. D, and believe that the | 9 favorite methods of spoiling the sacred day for her, and of making d the fact that they are poorer band deserves encouragement, put| ber feel as though Santa Claus had put a switch in her stocking. Yet before it is allowed to play in public, almost every It certainly should storage seconds. It may interest the public to know how much more happiness he could get out of life, at the cost of how ‘be better train After ail it {x only these storage eggs were packed an am, manisationcand if ir le NOT NECESSARILY HOSTILE, cartons and the printing thereon! true that they play in public so much HE exact status of a mother-in-, manner, ’ ora that they scarcely have time for re- law Was brought into question} ‘T} , as fol Reavaaine it wauld ea te ue he Irishman seratched his head, their ad- i“ recently hy an Irishman, e fhe op—"Atrictly Freeh Table vintage to devote more time to some | was wadine & money Oe east! training. What they need is a real vance, sides—"New Laid Table'bandmaster who has some standing» Copformity with a new regulatic . ; trict! and who can train them properly, |the clerk asked him if the @oney was | all, wa y; G, W, K \doutined to aid the i “Is the addresne demanded the clerk, a was the reply, any | er-iD-lagm'—Cuse and Comment, ! i ’ How to Weather Marriage Holidays---and Husbands much less suffering on his own part, if only he would exercise a little tact! Hero's a secret. There are just two ways in which to make a woman perfectly happy on Christmas Day—and they are SO easy! One is to make a sentimental occasion of the selection of her gift—to take her out with you “to help choose it,” to celebrate the ceremony with a little dinner, somewhere, and then to come home and clasp the necklace or the bracelet (or whatever it is) on her, with a kiss beneath the mistletoe, ‘The other subtle and soul-satisfying method {fs to § D her a check or the gold-piece or the fifty-dollar bill (or whatever it {s) inclosed in a tender little hand-written note and buried in a box of her favorite flowers. Then the kise under the mistletoe can come later—but don’t forget it, or omit it, or underestimate it! It's as necessary as the lilac water that you rub on your chin after shaving. And (hist!) the more and spontaneous and tender the kiss the less expensive the I know! For I'm a woman. ardent present need be For the Girl 'A Dozen Roads to Success Who Works | By Charlotte Wharton Ayers i Copyright, 1918, “W 11.—THE HAT! the general run of girls said one of the superinte: beside me while hundred million and goodies of ev tory for the girl are between six this one of ours. facturing plants {| “You can see bret hte Ayes: |the newest methods can accomplish. we can offer then Work in a factory!! by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) FACTORY NEVER!!! That's about the way regard the Work we can offer them,” ndents of a large industry as he stood we observed the thousands of girls wrapping, packing and labelling’ what looked like # billion packages of cakes, crackers ery description, Then he continued: “I'd just like to have the general public know what good jobs there are in a modern, up-to-date fac- whe works. As you can see, there and sever thousand girls alone in We have one of the largest manu- n Greater New York. that they have all the light and air they want, with everything as clean and sanitary as And yet, with all the advant ali the advantages that modern science has contril uted toward their comfort and well-being, we have some trouble in get- ting all the help we need, just because we are classified as a factory, This situgtion is probably due—more or less—to the old methods which brought so much discredit on the c | was engaged in an industry of this kind.” | Thad never seen a more intelligent, | better type of self-supporting girl than | |I saw there. Those who were work- ing in the bake shops, with their im- | mense ovens and great vats full of | |the dough mixture ready for the final | processes, all wore neat, attractive | blue and white striped dresses, and all the others, except those doing clerical | |work, wore white wash dresses. They were some of the most whole- some, attractive, good looking Ameri- can girls I had ever seen employed in such a capacity, and I said so. The | superintendent acknowledged that fact with a good deal of satisfaction He said they had made a specia! ef- | fort to keep up the standard of help, | as it made maintaining the morale of | the girls much better. He went on to If an untrained girl, with abso- lutely no experience, but some natu- ral ability, is thrown on her own re- sources there is no medium through which she can so easily or so quickly reach a living wage as in one of the great factories like We start them in at $9 and $10 a week, and just as soon as they have learned that their fingers are not all thumbs we raise them to $12, then $15, then $18, according to the skill they have achieved, They have the prospect of being promoted to the office to do clerical work if they show any adaptability and prefer it. They can aspire to the position of forewoman at $25 a week, or assistant superintendent of certain divisions or almost any of the sub- sions which may require special qualifications, and all at bet- ours. son ter pay. I asked about the hours. He said worked forty-five hours a week, divided into five eight-hour days and one five-hour day on Saturday. He onditions surrounding the girl who ing the splendid restaurant, with Seating capacity of 1,000, which they maintain for the benefit of their ew ployees, There they can obtain the very best grade of food for a vod deal less than co: He explained that the practice of providing nourishing luncheons at so moderate a figure made for greater efficiency the part of ployees, because, if left selves, from motives of .¢ haps on thelr em- to ‘onomy equally reason—they would not eat d food, He said that many times demonstrated an employee's ea- ws greatly increa thems pers or some portant a properly t had be other m= pac work ¥ and while they did not want to ma it a matter of charity by not chi ing anything for this se they had decided that it would increase an employee's self-respect to be required to pay a certain percentage of tho cost of maintaining the restaurant, and so they made as nominal a chargo as they could, and had found it a very successful plan They maintain ; where the girls are allowed to go for a fif+ teen-minute rest any time they res quire it. They have a large room fitted vier, rest room up with alJ the modern appliances as & hospital room, and there are two trained nurses in attendance all the ume, There is the Welfare Association, with its benefits and vacation fund nd the modern ideas incorpor- ated for the general good and come fort the workers, and 1 left un to insure ideal cond for them to work un blocks of great buildings filled w workers—all component parts of on great turning after car loa et machine out some t ’ 4 r. Tite two a car loud , and some to said the efficiency experts were re-|stay home, comprise an immense sponsible for a good many of the re-/unit that would make a fair sized forms in use to-day, among them be- | town if spread around a bit College ‘‘Slang”’ VERY interesting group of slangyering of students to use them toa PX words has sprung from the|gether is a “race course.” literal translation sometimes} A few studies are known as fo'lowst used in preparing a lesson, This is|Biology, “bugs; physics, “pills; * usually known as a “trot” (although |Psychology, “pysche;” trigonomel'y, it may be a “pony,” “horse,” “ani- |“trig.” mal,” “bicyel or to use An unsociable student is a “crau:” it is to “ride,” while one who uses it /@ female student “hen” or “quail,” ant regularly is a “jockey;” a shelf of r such books is a “stable; and a gath- ‘The Jarr Family 1918, by The Press Pul Copyriaht (The New York Evening World.) with marked the dashing your matron, Mrs. Clara Mudridge- | Smith, when Mr. and Mrs. Jarr called! on her at her apartments in the High+ costa Arms, I wish I could visit the scenes of war and return with gold my sieeve. But, cnsy, that the war is over,” re-|Overseas Society worst hardsh thing, If M actually abroad during the overs a stripes on “Wh y, to be suri should have been invited on the trip to the war at all and go secure service stripes, but Mrs. Jarr stepped on his foot as a to keep quiet, and signal persons who we| Jarr to come over this evening 44) oon tel of OUR experiences. Mrs, Jarr. “All we need to do is to| tell on her.” an allen enemy?" “Be jabers, | don't know at all, at “She's me moth- |talk of the hardships and perils we} | nave been through in our social sor- | vice work in Fi | around who didn’t get a “Will we be apt to meet those people t social functions?” asked Mrs, Mud- dge-Smith, “Well, Mrs, Rangle and Mrs, Te wiliger and a lot of people will know we were not in France, no matter what I say,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Then it will not be easy,” coun- selled Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, "My sh jw that Abr, Jere abel) atart #0 85, either,” | Smith, | replied Mrs, Jarr, “and daze.” ina can Mudridge-Smith, “I can say a daw” By The “Home Hardships Club’’ Doesn’t Get Founded. the highest |rank going to those who suffered thed were in a daze even the boobs will and all that sort of | arr, as secretary and founder, keeps out all who were not war, or after it, we will be in no danger of meeting any one who will know we Were not on the other side ever since oh, dear, we weren't invited to accom~ | pany the Presidential party!” the war broke out or since the armis- tice was declared,” Mr. Jarr was going to ask why they said Mrs, Jarr. Mr. Jarr can give instructions, com- piled from newspaper accounts, con- cerning actual conditions experienced e abroad during “But I have such a poor memory; what shall I do if people question me ance when people are! too closely?” asked Mrs. Mudridge- “You can get hysterical, can’t you?” | it is alla \horvid dream and that your mind was yes, that's a good idea,” said Mrs, ‘You know what a silly little goose I am! Oh, dear, don't recall those dreadful scenes, I pray you! My mind was jn Roy L. McCardell “But everybody's mind can't be in a daze,” suggested Mr. Jarr, “Is Mrs. Stryver’s mind to be in a daze and Mrs, Jarr’s? If all their minds are or get wise. “I wish you* wouldn't use that dread- ful slang!” cried Mrs. Jarr petulantiy, specially when what you say Is so true, What shall we do?” “It you will be advised by me,” spoke up the hostess, "I would sug- gest that some of us—not me, as my health would not permit it—should suffer some hardships, such, say, a3 living in a cheap furnished room house, so you could speak feelingly of privations"— “Why, I'll tell you what we will do,” Mrs. Mudridge-Smith capac 1q the War, or since the ended, Then, !interrupted Mr, Jarr, “All we need 0 it occurred to ie ‘ hat you - if we are talking to persons who are |to do is to remember how we speut @ advise us, and I telephoned to Mrs |tauing their experiences abroad, we|couple of weeks at Uncle Henry's farm, and the sufferings of people in we'd discuas it.” “Oh, but I forgot!” cried Mrs, Mud-|the devastated regions abroad will Mr. Jarr only murmured that if he 'pigge-smith, “How can we put |be very little more to describe. had known his wife or his wifes through our plan when Mrs, Stryver but I don’t see why we could friends had wanted to go to the Peace | wii) know we were not abroad?” not have gone on the Presidential trip Conference in time he might have ar | “That's very simpli aid Mrs. |to the Peace Conference, when 200 ex- ranged it, \Jarr, “Let us take her in, Then she | perts went with THEIR wives, Why “We could say we went," remarked won't tell on us for fear we should |aren't you an expert so you could have been invited and have taken ine and the children?” Rut Mr, Jarr said he could have only qualified as an expert on being Kind and patient, or as one noted for truthfulness even on a voyage over- seas, on the George Washington, a ship named after the other great man who never told a lie ‘Then the conversation, so far as the ladies were concerned, turned to the now timely topic of what they would like to have for Christmas—wearing apparel such as costly furs mostly— Af they, could only afford th term for the female sex, Ne course” being a course ai. |tended by women and to “take calic* is to escort a lady to some function, is when a coupio |A “cottage cour leaves college before graduation ta marry. | To study hard is to “grind,” “dig."* “bone,” “hump,” “plug,” or wi; a “ten strike” is a perfect recitation, while “zip" 18 zero in marks; to “have down chill (or cold)” is to ta perfectly prepared; “bust,” a failura in examination; “smear,” to pass an examination with and a high mark; “jack up,” to tutor one who ia weak in some study; “slide through,” ease jto do just enough to continue: \ "grease through,” to be passed by being given a somewhat higher grade than was deser' i “buck out,” to prepare a lesson; “load,” to prepare for an examination; “bull,” to recite when unprepared, ‘usually stupidiy and at length; Hunk,” to fails “berry” or “fruit,” anything ea to do, A “crush” is a violent person; to “rush” one is to show hin marked attention; a "bid" iy an ins Vitation usually to a dance ov to jola a fraternit fuss," to call on aw liking for v lady; “spoon-holder,” a cushioned window seat, divan, or hammock; “darb,” something, especially a girly which is particularly attractive “doggy,” dressy (to “put on dog," being to dress with unusual care) “tin,” best, used in reference to clothes. to drink; “fumi- ov “cottin nail," @ cigarette stub; cky," poor oF worthless; tless, generally ine competent; “blurble,” to gush over aay thing "Cut" is to absent one's self from ass, and “dry cut" is attending class but reporting beforehand as unpres pared; “rusticate.” to be suspended to “wood-up” is to appl. ‘ ul @ pro fessor's joke with the feet; to “slack or pack @ room" is to enter it during the absence of the occupant and mess it up without damaging the contents; to ‘yell up" @ student is to call him 0 the window by calling his ww dy calling his game