The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1918, Page 26

aca SSE EE ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday, by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZ: President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PR Amociated Prem ie exclusively entitled to the use for rey ee Se eee iS fee nd tas Ue lait here WODUMEE OUisiivisicviccvejsecesdvceterter vty NO) BOUN6 NO FARTHER THAN THE QUESTION. HY ¢0 much laying down the law regarding “freedom of the) seas” before the new conditions to which the principle must «be applied have even taken shape? | We can talk about the “freedom of Broadway” as something} definitely and long since fixed by the experience and agreement of generations of individuals living under a Government which they themselves created and invested with authority. If anybody runs) amuck in Broadway there is an established police force to take care} he doesn’t go far or do much damage. We have come to regard it the most natura] thing in the world that there should be police with| exactly this duty and we count on their being on the spot when needed. | It is far otherwise with nations. They face a wholly new phase| of experience in the proposition to merge a part of the separate sove-| reignty of each into a yet larger sovereignty which shall have power) among other thing to police the ocean highways. | Tremendous as the argument of war has been for such larger| sovereignty, the nations have not yet come together to discuss it to! practical purpose. Nor can any man say yet whether they are in} truth ready for the full realization of this greatest of all league ideale.| Not until they have shown how they individually stand toward) the bigger proposition can there be hope of securing for the “freedom of the seas” principle meaning or force broader than that which it carries as we now understand and interpret it. The fighting over, are self-governing peoples prepared to estab- lish, recognize and respect the biggest police power humanity ever dreamt of? We are no farther yet than the question. It is idle to talk as if the Peace Conference were a mere for-| mality to ratify decisions and agreements already arrived at. The most momentous of those decisions and agreements are yet to be made. | ———- 1+ ‘The President of the United States has arrived in France, Five years ago !t was one of the things that never happened. What about fifty years hence? +4 > ___—__. ‘ NEW YORK STEALS A MARCH ON MILAN. N FORMER DAYS when a new opera by a well known European I composer was heard fot the first time in New York, opéra goers here expected as a matter of course to learn from their pro- grammes that the first presentation of the new work had been made at La Scala in Milan, at the Costanzi in Rome, at the Royal Opera in Dresden, at the Imperial Opera in Petrograd, or in Moscow, Munich Paris,or Monte Carlo, as the case might be. But New York’s progress as a world musical centre is on the way to overtaking all rivals. As one of the most famous, and, from the standpoint of success with the public, in many respects the most favored of living composers, Giacomo Puccini doubtless had only to choose which opera house in Italy he would honor with the premiere of his three new one-act operas. This time, however, New York stole a march on Milan, Naples, Rome and the rest, and the Metropolitan} Opera House sets the pace for La Scala by giving the three new} Puccini operas for the first time on any stage to-morrow night*before| yy « New York audiagce, | This enterprising recognition of the place New York holds amonz\| opera-loving publics, no longer excluding those of Europe, is not} Likely to lessen this city’s appreciation of Mr. Gatti-Casazza’s efforts) to give it good opera sung by those who know how to sing. | The war has in some ways added to New York’s musical assets ond opportunities, as by bringing it an extra supply of violinists and other virtuosi of the concert stage. We doubt if any one would maintain that the war has made it casier to give grand opera here. The more may New York take satisfaction in having, in friend] rivalry, beaten Italian cities to an operatic first night that the musi: world must hail as an event. atten eeeeenaiees | i} Bravo, Sir Tommy Lipton! Bring out the boats and revive some of the best sporting memories of before the war, | ee | U. &. troops are crossing the Rhine to-day, From the German point of view, how many things that couldn't be are! . | The Star-Spangled Banner (As it might have teen written by W. R. Hearst.) H, say! can you seo in the iforn They bring in the dimes with the all- O and at night— | very chimes, While with capital letters the) Keep printing them daily tn these back page is screaming-- troublous times. ‘The big trade-mark we flaunt, the old| As q trade-mark the Star. Spangled red, blue and white, Banner looks well; Which day after day o'er the first It hides us. page is streaming? | to sell With the Allées we'll clash, and Joon) 5.6 wien 4p Bull we'll’ smash, | u hings quiet down and get So up wit the flag, for tt brings in|), Fine our way. the cash; | ere better, perhaps, not to use As a trade-mark the Star-Spangled | . ee Langeengrpe Banner looks well; So remove ail the fags, but reserve It hides us, it helps us more papers to}, '°F the day ‘t helps us more papers It | Of some patriotic or special oc ? ce The Allies we'll he 4] Seeaees much salary you earn, what rent you|they must never hold the samo in- On the pages inside you wi find al papers we must; et | pay, how much your grocery bills) fluence over you as the school girl whole row |The flag 1s our trade-mark, in Hearst | #mount to weekly and how often sou pia Me are before marriage Of cute little fags which by date line} iy our trust; st) cut your hair. She is the sort of a| They will havo to be common friends, reposes, ag . - e «ls of both husband and wife. : As a trade-mark friend who compares your capacity for | the frien w ade-mark ¢ : pannot re: 5 And one reason they're there, we! tanner looks Le Star-Spangled eee a living with one of your| But they cannot rest in thelr former, mires aXe yeh ail now, It hides us, it helps us more papere| Wife's old sweethearts. The kind of a secure at intimacies, Another has Our record of street sales most truly) to sell, Pere) num who has your wife giggling ana| taken their pl Pvoroed | A great deal of matrimonial unhap- RL. ~ Hits From Sharp Wits Many a man has become moder-! make the quantity seem larger than ately well acquainted with bimself|!t Is—Albany Journal after going through the filling of an * 28 imoome tax blank and a question- natre—Savannah News, Preyumably the purpose of holes in mBceron! and Swiss chesse ts | bright side of life—Chicago News. ay Wer | The man w ‘ ‘ | husband A bright man usually looks on the| after your wife has associated much gives your hand a cordial shake either has a full heart or ap empty purse,—Chicago News, iy Whys and Wherefores Of Love and Matrimony ' By Fay Stevenson 18-—-Why Husbands and Wives Should Beware, of Intimate Friends | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (Thy New Yory Evening World.) 667T"WO 1s company and three ay you can't tell exactly what it is, crowd!" And I wonder if an] And then there is the husband who intimate friend couldn't cause}can never forget his good old pal, a tremendous lot of trouble between] Billy.” This “Billy” is always tell- & man and his wife? A host of friends, a circle of friends or a little set of friends is absolutely necessary for any young couple, or old couple either, for that matter, ing about the sweet girls your hus- band had. What stunning women they made. What an expert business | girl this one is and what a wonderful) voice another has, He expects your Married people need «to visit each|husband to go to a stage party, a| other, to get up little card games, | beefsteak dinner, or theatre parties and Sunday night|show just when you have planned an spreads, It gives them something to| altogether different programme. He think of besides themsclves, It gives |is free and unmarried and he gives a lthem a chance to see how other|certain gilt-edged touch to his free-| couples get along or don't get along! ness that makes married life look just (as the case may It gives ala little bit tame, husband a chance to admire his wife | Isn't it true, young wives, that as hostess and the wife an oppor-|whenever your husband has been out tunity to see what a clever chap her|with this intimate pal of his you is when telling an “after| notice a certain chilliness, a certain \ainner” story. Friends make couples | indifference toward you and your |put on their “company manner.” | household affairs? He doesn’t care | Friends develop married fe and) whether tho ice-box drain isn't work- {home life to its highest degree. | ing or how many times you scratched |Friends aro as necessary as plenty) your arm upon a nail which needs the of fresh air, But I am talking about And yet there was a time | these intimate friends, | when he kissed away a scratch from a hammer, | How about that friend of our wife's; | roso thorn! | that intimate schodlgir! chum who] Intimate friends are for unmarried | makes a visit for six weeks at a time?) peop! Let the old maid have an How about that intimate friend who) old maid chum, Let the bachelor runs in to see your wife before break-| have his bachelor pal, Birds of a | fast? The ono who never gives you| feather flogy together! But a hus- two minutes alone with your wife, who| band and Wife need no real intimate makes you feel ike an actor In @ mo-| friends, They have each othert tion picture show because your home| Marriage means the opening of a lite ts all before the public. There is|new and different door to friendship. | type of girl chum who knows how| You may keep tho old friends but tittering half the time, and you don't | know whether they're laughing &t you or the woman across the street. Be-| fore long you find there is a big gulf between you and your wife, Per-| | haps it 1s all unconsciously done, but| piness has been caused by these in- timate friends, qu mother-in-law, | the gate post I almost believe 1° with this intimate friend you never! ie He feel quite as near to her, There seems fledged mother-in-law under my roo: her-—@ screened something, And still] or a sporty old “Billy,” '.EDITORIAL PAGE | pe teeere Decam>d 37 13, 1918) Both: “You Lucky Devil!” «wt. some ripping | They have played As important a role in domestic infelicity as your much talked about And just betwoen you and me and| to be @ mysterious vell drown about| than one of these giggling girl chums By Roy L. bargain hat of dark green. He crept up the strect in the dusk of eve- ning, hoping its newness and the fact it didn’t become him would not be noticed either abroad or at home, But just then the mocking voice of John W, Rangle was heard to exclaim, “Shoot the ha Mr, Jarr turned around apprehensively, but was re- lieved to observe his friend was neither in uniform nor bearing arms. “Of course, ‘Shoot the hat’ is simply an expression,” continued Mr. Rangle as he overtook Mr, Jarr, and thus was able to continue insulting his old pal without having his voice cracking |under the strain, t's the gink who wears @ hat like that who ought to be shot.” ‘he gink that makes such personal marks is generally half shot,” re- nificantly, “Aw, knock, knock!" growled Mr. Rangle. t's only clove-flavored chewing gum you notice, You're as bad as the dames, making your knock about drinking, when a man is as innocent as a babe, especially when stimulants are too high priced for men of moderate means, It's only chewing gum, clove-flavored, 1 tell you.”” | “Clove-flavored chewing gum, a boon to boozers, eh?" replied Mr. Jarr, “I notice you are very free with |your banal witticisms directed at my \new hat, but when I make any allu- sion to your bad habits you emit a few shrieks of protest.” “Aw, a@ little kidding about a hat ain't no harm, but it doesn’t do a fel- ow any good making those cracks about boozing, And I wanta ask you right now, whadda yah mean refer- ring to me as @ ‘barroom patriot’ when/L was saying we had whipped Germany and could whip the world, Jat Gus's the other night?” That isn't quoting me correctly,” returned Mr, Jarr, for Mr, Rangle's strictures regarding the new hat, es- pecially as Mr, Jarr loathed the shape and color himself, still rankled, “Well, you sald something, Mr. Rangle, | what it was, rather have a real, old-fashioned, ful-| whip the world generally went home The Jarr Family i marked Mr, Jarr, and be sniffed sig- | growled “And I want to know “I sald that those barroom patriots | H. Cassel | | By. aige' KE Couaht ; = ¢ McCardell @ Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Mr. Jarr Buys a “Bargain Hat” R. JARR had just bought, as @, ly, “did you ever hear people making personal pre-Christmas gift, @]a silly comparison that the accom- plishment of this thing or that waa ‘ easy as taking candy from a child?" “Sure, It's a common expression,” replied Mr, Jarr. ‘Did YOU ever try to TAKE any candy from a child?" asked Mr .Ran- | gle, earnestly, “And I tell: you these remarks about whipping a wife are equally as futile and in as bad taste. It CAN'T be done, If you can’t beat them in an argument, how do you \ever expect to win by a tour de force or a coup de grace or handing them a wallop? Edward Jarr,” continued John W, Rangle, solemnly, “you walk abroad in all the sinful splendor of a | new two-dollar-and-a-half hat, but let me warn you—NEVER start any sort of skirmish with friend wife; you never win a battle!” | “Here, you!” cried Mr. Jarr angrily, ‘tor Mr, Rangle stalked away after de- |livering the gipsy's warning, “Here, | you! This isn't a two-dollar-and half hat!” “It looks good enough to be but the 6 and 10 cent stores had opened gents’ hat departments,” and Mr. Rangle hurried away. “I ike bis nervef Why, it’s a $5 hat. Yes, sir, a $5 hat!” cried Mr. -|Jarr aloud, But as no one was within hearing jhe took off and looked at the new hat again and muttered, “At least the lelerk snid it couldn't be told from a $5 hat!" But when he got home Mrs, Jarr re ceived the new hat with so much de- jrision—yes, Yt was a hat with a bow Jat the back like an aeroplane propeller —that Mr. Jurr hadn't the effrontery to stand by his original plan of dupli- city against the family finances and |swear it cost even $3, He grumbled something about it being a fine hat for $2, and handed over the correct change from the $5 Mrs. Jarr had ad- vanced him, So it was that his good lady made no demonstration in force when he strolled out. to Gus'’s after supper, “Hulloo, halloa!” erled Gus when he got sight of the green Peace Confer- ence lid. “If you knowed how becom~ ing that hat was you'd throw it away!" The next morning Mr. Jarr was at the hat store and bribed the sales- man to break the rule that no re- duced-in-price hats would be ex- 1} who were always bragging we could | changed. Moral: When {neuguraking reform in your personal appearance, never fjand whipped their wives as their begin at the top. tart from the | snare of 3 foot—that is, buy new shoes and work , “Ed Jarr,” said Mr. Rangle solemn- | upwards f lelse affected by the war. \the coffers of their country for the have it your own way, I didn’t know | Christmas Dreams Come True! By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Wrening World.) HAT a Christmas this will be! W What a day for you and me— What a glad, mad time of rapture everywhere! What a surcease from the aching in our hearts —once near to bredking— With the ships a-sailing back from “over there!” Sheathed the sword, and stilled the gun. Bright the homefires, every one, Gay the mistletoe and holly boughs above! Everywhere, the bells shall ring, and the hearts of earth shall sing To the glory of ONE KING—the God of Love! Pern 40 a ph, the rapturous, sweet meetings! Oh, the tear-wet, tender greetings! Oh, the yearning arms that clasp and cling once more! Though you prayed it, planned it, schemed it—would you daréd have hoped or dreamed it? Was there EVER such a Christmas time before? Was it one short year ago, "Mid the shell-fire and the snow, When the world rang with the cry, “They shall not pass!" That they knelt—your love and mine—in that long, grim khaki Ine, With the cold, white stars for altar, at Christ's Mass? Was it just one year agone That we muttered, “Carry on!” And the shadow of the war-cloud ‘round us lay, And we kept our grim tasks plying, though each woman's heart was crying, “Will there NEVER be another Christmas Day?” Well, it’s coming! All the waiting, And the fearing and the hating, All the heartbreak and the bitterness are past! Oh, how sweet to hear again, “PEACE ON EARTH TOWARD MEN!” And to echo it, on Christmas Day, at last! GooD WILL Stilled the gun, and sheathed the sword! Ring the chimes in sweet accord! ‘All the sorrows of the world have found surcease! Let the joy-bells gaily ring to the glory of ONE hING, For HE reigns again on earth—the Prince of Peace! War Changed Idle Rich To Worth-While Workers Rev. Dr. W. M. Geer, Who O1.-e Flaye@Them From His Pul- pit, Now Sees Moneyed Class “ Reformed,” but With Still More to Be Accomplished. come back and tell the tale of the gravest of wars, Then he got up auc strode back and forth a few moments| with his hands clasped behind bim Continuing he said prophetically: “Uniess all classes of people in allj countries, especially the privileged} take much greater interest in and make much greater sacrifice: for what may be called organized re- ligicn, the time will surely come when the world will again be forced to go through another world war, or something worse, if there be any- to their! thing worse, e sit} “Just ag sickness 1s God's private hearte he told them more people sit] oon et eee we ee of individuals nd rise to play. h a ap ie het consequence of theso| hich he allows no man to close, 60; o the war gate is his private entrance e aid, many mor a Senne an pore suffer from ‘"t2 national life, which he will not people 3 allow any nation or league of ma- le nse of being ne Ciserrtent and from a se! tions to close, wrens The money of the world and the Several months of retirement ant SIADIALOEE eh hunt, Oar Rteennaae tho natural fatigue of constant mel are ayisniy coe tty sneeeaine nc eee relief duty have had a visible eff . Velenpalni eva canunt eet upon Dr. Geer. tired at iis own Sualn Py dialed fie, request after many years of serv Dh rotnita nneeecan eeaNTOnTiae Doky he still keeps a finger on the ever-| 1. +5 wiile thor ee eee quickening pulse of the world, but tO/ hundreds of thousands are made dis ‘uote his own words, he NOW 18 Bt) oo. steq with their lot and te quite so adventuresome, tempted to look with favoring eyes wphe rich, the idle rich?” he re-|upon almost any kind of social up- peated interrogativ “To be sure | heaval.” they have changed like everytams| Dr, Geer ts not wholly out of the There has| running, so to speak, He has taken been scant opportunity for any one, }a small chargo ot Garrison, Putnam rich or poor, to be‘ idle while the |Courty, N. ¥., In order to release the vase of rightcousness Was assailed. |regular pastor temporarily for reliet “From money-mad pursuers, rich | work in Cuba, turned their wealth into | ——— be exact—Rev. Dr, W. Mon- tague Geer, Vicar Emeritus of St. Paul's Chapel, where George Washington once came to pray, stoad in the ancient pulpit and flayed the so-called idle rich in a sermon. He said that the money current was running strong and in a threatening fashion. More people than ever before were clothed in purple and fine linen and were faring sumptuously, he told his flock. To drive his belief deeper in! EF years ago—Feb. 10, 1910, to so men have Be a Better | | Salesman |and Earn | prosecution of the war, ¢ “From social butterfiles, wealthy women have gone down on their knecs to serub hospital floors in or- der to comfort their fighting men, “Prom pleasure-loving e@cions of wealth, the young men have min- gied with the lowest castes in the larmy, many making the supreme) }) ; |sacrifice side by wide, | B P. , “phe rich have done their part | |} iwgger Fay: Inobly and well; the war has put H everybody on equal footing and com- | |) mon sacrifices are not easily for- | | gotten.” For many years Dr, Geer has cham- ploned the cause of the worthy poor | lin various ways, He established a luncheon club for girl stenographers | \and office women to shield them from | yhacrupulous employers, He also be-| friended the newsboys and any un-/ fortunate man or woman who went} to him with a plausible tale. | “Now that peace is on the way, do} you believe all the righ will be as! LET A SALES EXPERT SHOW YOU How | YOU CAN MAKE GooD | Read the Articles democratic as you believe they are, by now?" Dr, Geer was asked, | wae Before he could reply his son @ Roy Griffith tered the study in the garb ¢ Lieutenant with two gold stripes on in the his left coat sleeve, indicating one : , year's service in France. He looked | ening World up and proudly scrutinized his tall, | Beginning bronzed soldier son standing at full| height in the military regalia of his country, His thoughts were those of | oy father whose boy has lived to Next Monday