The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 10

4 know how I feel!” . we EDITORIAL PAGE. Saturday, December 14, 1918 Che ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ‘ day by the Press Publishing C » Nos, 68 te Publishes Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, » New Yor! PULATZ) President, 63 Park Row. NGUS SHA ak , Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZDR, Jt, Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMDER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES, | ScAley iS alge inde US iol oeee palate eee . NO, 20,934 0d Prem not other VOLU A BAD HABIT. HEN it considers what 2,000,000 people on one side of the Fast River have suffered and gone on suffering from the scandalous indifference of the management of a great transit corporation toward their safety and comfort, what can the City of Now York call the B. R. T. but a bad habit? What other city in the world of the rank of New York would have gone on year after year putting up with the overcrowding, lax! service, hopeless connections, reckless operating and ramshackle equip-| ment which have come to be the recognized conditions of travel on, the B. R. 'T.? | Not one. In its toleration of the kind of street railway opera- tion it bas had from the B. R. T. habit and a dangerous habit—the kind of habit from which comes, not only widespread discomfort but constant menace of disaster. | Why should Brooklyn have a transit system that is a disgrace! to the Greater City? | Nobody calls the Interborough perfect ciency with which the Interborough moves its trains, provides its con-) New York stands convicted of a bad But the degree of offi. | nections and keeps up its equipment makes B. R. T. methods look like Nor does the Interborouga, kill peopie through the recklessness of untried motormen or faulty, & ghastly travesty of street railroading. curves. | The Malbone Street wreck produced some reaction toward justice | and a demand for safer, better service. But who can discern any} compelling force now acting on the B. R. 'T.? | Why in the name of common sense shouldn’t the Public Service| Commission for once sce its duty in prompt initiative? Why, for cxample, doesn’t it immediately appoint a committee of,| say three. competent engincers to go over the B. R. T. system and give it a thorough examination with a view to determining what ought to be done and done at once in the interest of public safety and comfort? The B. R. T. is not bigger than the City of New York nor more| powerful. Paticoce with B. R. T. policies and methods is a bad habit that can be broken. It should be broken once and for all, and now. pede entoimeehty helene her is The Evening Post notes bow the fullness of their emo- tions choked the utterance of some of the newspaper corre- spondents at Brest. They could sympathize with the famous slatesman of another day who rose, on the mighty wave of his enthusiasm, to say: “Fellow Citizens—~I feel, I feel—I don't RAIN-CHECKED. ESTERDAY was a wretched day to trot out a brand new gov- ernment and the one scheduled to get under way in Central Park at noon had all the red washed out of it and finally) mizzled away or got mislaid where not even 300 policemen, 100 detce-| tires, 50 mounted and motor police and severa] handfuls of interest d| citizens could find it. The historic occasion turned out not even hysteric. The million people invited to help Mr. Hillis O. Jones inaugurate the new republic and “rule of workers” were mostly detained by more pressing inter ests elsewhere and no vacant land was handed round, no railroads} 2% cr steamship lines taken over nor any jails thrown open. If anybody was elected or a Treasurer appointed or even a collec- tion taken up, it appears to have passed unnoticed. Tt was the dullest kind of an overthrow of the Government until something fell from the lins of Mr. Jones that sounded seditious to a Police Captain, who thereupen escorted him through thin lines of cheering, umbrella- covered Bolsheviki to a police station that had survived the coup detat. The first article of the new government as revealed by the procla- mation printed in yesterday's morning papers was: (1.) All debts, public and private, are cancelled, Thousands on reading this turned eagerly in the direction of Central Park. But they must have lost their way or recollasted that some one owed them money, nd) meet The fleet here by Christmas! New York will be right here, too, by Jiminy! Letters From “Give Unermantsed Labor « yaten” | To the Baitor of The Evening World | ive Unorganiz . Your able editorial entitled 4 Labor & Volo ive) The Eve ” Unorganized Labor a Voice" ix con-| 9 ning World editorial cf Dec was @ grand opening for bettering vincing. To my mind it ts a forcible arcu. | the lives of a deserving though Dens ment for the unorganized clerical and | lected group of men ro similar working forces to awaken! omployers have posedeettyy dod from their profound slumber and bet | the best of characte Tr, wanted to - ter thir conditions. “The remody ties! every secret as to aur eduention ee religious and political the People To the Laitor of The Evening World, directly within themselves, Let them | cial standing. form labor organteations in their re- | feelings, pleasures ; \ and pastime spective classes, und by concerted ac-| wanted us to dress ‘and faattmes tion and united effort secure rec |Something above our means, work on nition, The result routine late into the night and early Will be 4 better | | | | | Copyright thousands of returning soldiers. In some of the lists there are many maimed or crippled men. The Government| is doing its part in| bringing these men back to health and strength, that they may take their places in the world’s work and be self;sustaining. Almost daily I re- ceive letters from anxious relatives and soldiers suggesting that full op- portunity be given them by the pub- Me at large to make their own way. Several times I have written on this subject in these columns. But it can- not be too often or too forcefully tm- pressed—this responsibility to these returning defenders of democracy After all, the highest patriotism of the individual is yet to be demon-! strated. The person who waves the Star-Spangled Banner and preaches patriotism but does not practice it but the poorest kind of a patriot and @ sham Of course, it is easy enough to pay honor and respect, and welcome with | loud hurrahs the soldier from the front Jas long as he wears his uniform and the cry of patriotism is at its highest pitch. , Yet what about him after he has put aside his patriot limps about in civilian clothes? Will he then be regarded as the hero from the fighting front, or just a plain cripple seeking a job Iy there not something that the individual employer owes to his coun- oon day there comes notice of homie tne one is warb and try and to himself when such a one makes application to him for work? ws scale to cope with the high st | next morning, come in fit to ive our Is there not something besides of living. best the next day—only to sive se | _— — Another sentence in your nditorial | excuse for discharging Ub to the credn A BAD CASE. states “Organized labor holds the] of some amateur efficiency man who BUILDER and contractor in Platform.” Kindly it me to say| hired some one else who was hard Philadelphia, who had just Organized labor's platform is large | pressed enough to accept a few dol. | enough to uccommodate every worke: lars less a week. Prescription bot in America, whether the work is men Paver ani ean be found in nearly every desk tal or physical, The surprising fea-| this or that trouble, maint r visite i the plant one day and discoy- ture is that physical labor has deen| overwork led on by meaninstess | fee & DPGIBOr of (hinge Be Gide’ like Pelter paid for ity efforts because it] promises, and the lack of properly ad- | Of, Qne 2 Particular he spoke to his Krasped the golden opportunity «| Justed salaries to permit recupera. |Ceman: ; united effort to secure desired waxe| tive recreation Jagl Rave just caught a follow hang. | scales. You have started to advance around smok « s working Why sa it that clerical workers, men | interests of those who never pare Ens hours, ot orde red them to Rive him who tauste necessarily pos ¢/ it, and without trying to bargain with (aut PEAR SAG S610 DNB I0 sipar intelience than ther w \1| them and give your terms, as some to oraitsize when it is the pr | sour, competitors would ga, ese | Nake, fald the foreman, with a grin {lov oi the problem that ts|thanks to The Evening World tor > man leaving, Why. sire i them? TEPHEN J. PLE |what it bas done in our hehalt 2 ‘rely New York Pipe Caulkers’ and Tap-! inion, A GRATEFUL READER, Bere’ Uni * New York, N. Y, m | now a considerable Amount of lex | work in hand for the Government, | Me” right, 1 by The Ire 1 (The New York E ~ By LH Cassel | lars and cents to be considered? Is it not the duty of the citizen who has the privilege of making the dol- lars and cents in this great country to return something to him who helped defend it while this self- Same individual stayed at home? Is it not worth while for the em- ployer to do his shure in the recon- struction of the man who took his place and risked his life in order that we might go on in tranquility and peace? The Red Cross is busy at work on the rehabilitation of the war cripple. They will do @ big work in making the cripple more fit, in educating the cripple in various ways of usefulncss. But they need co-operation—co-oper- ation of those whom the cripple would serve, The feelings of the cripple himsel: are better dese. . od by those who come in contact with him, namely, the Red Cross Institute for Disabled and Crippled Men. They say “the new handicap usually throws the man into a state of extreme discouragement. The loss of a hand, an arm or @ log seems to the man formerly able- bodied an insyperable obstacle ‘o his tuture economic activity. The pros- pective pension is the only mitigat ing feature of this depressing out- look, and he berins to calculate how ter. “Again, life will hold no pleasure in the future; he will always feel senal HIGHER CRITICISM, it said Ida. es, dear, | happy with the an, \st \66 IN'T | dead looking for a job!"—Harper's Maga- wasn't employed here—-he was merely zing, on Columbus Avenue! monwealth, yearait is more than a suggestion, It he can exist on the meagre stipend |is a request from. the overnment WHIGR Will 'benoige his ails, and it is receiving the same hearty “He has basis for this expectation, | compliance as did the recent gasiess for has he not known In the past auve| Cyrqave eral men ach of whom lost a limb) ‘Those who are not financially ham- through accident? It was necessary | pereg now have their gifts purchased for them to eke out a living by selling |ang shipped, bearing the label “Do| pencils on the street or in some simi- lar enterprise of a makeshift charace tive about his missing limb. Besides, too bad grandpa's but he is very "Did all Whe angels go from Beacon ‘Boston Com- saps ¢ bering the Allied fags, They are of them is little Red Riding Hood and will cost you $7.50, The Returning Crippled Soldier By Sophie Irene Loeb 1018, by The Prong Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World ) How Are You Going to Treat Him? nobody has any use for a cripple “Such a state of mind will be en-} { ountered in the convalescent soldier. It must be met and overcome, With | returning health initiative must > reawakened, responsibilities quicke @ heartened ambition must discouragement.” There is the big thing, after all. He} will look to see how you regard him—| you, who are able and strong never have known the trials in the | trenches. If you frown on him or pity | him he will feel it keenly. The worst thing that couid be heaped on him would be to re- gard him as a charitable charg wants no pity, but part works. He wants no cha shance, While Uncle Sam repla ane | a and the Cross are preparing him to take his Red place, it is up to you and me to prepare ourselves for his advent and to pave the way. This is the highest kind of patriot- ism, It is the kind that comes from (he heart and seeks no limelight, How Great Wars Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune Comrright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Mreaing World.) NO, 12.—ITALY’S AUSTRIAN WAR, . of Europe.” And the most ill-treated of all ber many victims was Italy. Italy, in those days, as not yet a United Kingdom, but a collection of we littlé states, some of which were under Papal some more or less free, and some under the yoke @F Austria. ng Northern Italy, especially, groaned under the Aus. trian yoke. Lombardy and Venetia were the sufferers. Austria ground down and abused and overtaxed these heipters states most abominably. And every insurrection against this tyranny was crushed with the most brutal, cruelty. The name of Hapaburg was hated in Italy as bitterly and almost as justly as the whole civilized world now hates the name of Hohenzollern. Victor Emmanuel, King of the rocky little Itallan Kingdom of Sar. dinia, raised the standard of war at last against Austria. He was too wise and too weak to fight the bully unaided. So he engaged the help of Napoleon LL, Emperor of the French, To secure this assistance, he promised his own rica lands in Savoy to France, as price for the alliance. ‘ j In 1859 the war began. From the first it was a brilliant triumph for the Sardinians and their French allies. Thousands of brave men from other Italian states joined Victor Emmanuel in his stand against Austria—notably the heroic Garibaldi, whose whole life had been devoted to the freeing of Italy. . At Magenta, at Solferino, and elsowhere, the Italians and French im- flicted terrific defeats on the Austrian armies. (Garibaldi, at the head of a thousand “red shirt men,” invaded Sietty, and in less than three months of hard fighting set the island free.) Austria could make no successful resistance against Victor Emmanuel and the latter’s French colleagues. Presently, she was forced to yield. Peace terms were agreed upon, November, 18! at Zurich, By these terms, Austria ceded practically all of Lombardy to Victor Emmanuel (who, in turn, kept his own promise of turning over the duchy of Savoy to France). . it was the turn of the tide for Italy. At news of Victor Emmanuel's ry } Hapsburg Is Hated in Italy, © Venetia Ceded to Emmanuel in 1866, Austria's power over victory, several other Italian states (Bologna, Tuscany, Modena and Ro- magna) annexed themselves to Sardinia, Thus, by 1861, all of Italy, except Venetia and a few Papal states, had become a united realm, under the rule of Victor Emmanuel. Venetia was ceded to him in 1866; and the Papal states ia 1870—thus forming a free and undivided King- j dom of Italy, with Victor Emmanuel (grand- father of the present Italian King) as its first ruler. cr former victim was /orever broken, And the Bully of Burope was definitely thrashed again, by Prussia, in 1866. From that time she has been important chiefly as Germany’s ally and dupe, The fervid thanks of all Italy were showered upon Garibaldi. He could have had any rank and any office he might have desired, But he refused all reward, and declared he wanted nothing better than permission to return in peace to his island farm, there to toll in his fields for the rest of his life. Only once again, after 1866, did he draw the sword. That was in 1870, when he struck a blow for France in the war between the latter country and her Prussian foe. Thence, crippled in health and fortune, he returned to bis farm once more, dying there in 1882, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Coprnght ABELLE MAE DOOLITTLE, E the noted poetess of Delhi, at- | tended the meeting of the Wom- en's Betterment League at Hugus Hall’ Saturday afternoon for the ex- press purpose of reading the ladies her second invention poem, Miss Doolittle's plan to educate the public through a series of rhymes about in- ventions bas met with the approval of the editor of the Delhi Bazoo, and he has arranged to print all the poem, 1s they are written under the general "|title of “Delicious Doolittle Ditties.” Promptress Pertle had just finished delivering an address on “The Abuse of the Ash Can” Saturday when Miss Doolittle appeared, She had gone through the livery. stable underneath and up the back stairs to the stage. As she dropped the gavel on her own oncluding sentence the Prompttess saw the poetess in the wings, The adies were beginnimg to applaud the ash-can speech when Promptress 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) The De hi Poetess Is Inspired by an Automobile the Promptress. “We have somothing coming to us.” “Member O'Brien sure has, if @e don't shut up,” snapped Mrs. Boggs, The Promptress took « Pop at the table with the gavel again. “Ladies,” @he eaid, ignoring the quarrelsome ones, ducing our talented member, BU belle Mae Doolittle. She will us an original invention poem called ‘The Automobile.’ Miss Doolittle walked out on the stage, smiling both to the left and the right. She was gowned in choc- olate frappe burlap, fringed with Dudley Pertle let fly with the gave! again and silence spread over the audience, “Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the fea- ture of the meeting, bas arrived,” she i said, “The fect what?” asked Mrs. Cutey | Boxgs. “[ said the feature!” snapped the Promptress. “What's the matter with you, Cutey?” “She's happy because old Boggs gave her twenty dollars to spend for a new dress,” said Mrs, Skeeter|/hemp,ticklers and decorated with O'Brien. clusters of dried jimpson weed berries, “Say, listen!” replied Mrs, Bogss.| With a little bitchie-koo step for- coloring up. “Tip Boggs ain't old) ward she cleared her throat and Boggs and I don’t caper all over the place when I get a new dress. You might, though, If you ever got one.” “Ladies, ladies!” said the Promp- jtress, “What kind of @ line of talk ig that?” “A clothesline,” chuckled Mrs, Pliny Hopper, noted for her wit and poker sald: “My latest poem! To you, dear ister members, I consign it with all the Jove my bosom possesses.” “How about P. Sllas Pettibone?’ asked Mrs. Boggs. Miss Doolittle just had to blush. It is reported that she is to marry Mr. Pettibone as soon as be gets new . you must quiet down.” said Hints for ACH year the suggestion to do is given wide publicity, but this not open until Christmas.” ‘This wil reatly aid Uncle Sam in handling tly holiday shipments and will ma- N/ terially avoid congestion and the pos +! sible inability to deliver Christmas gifts in due season, ‘There wre, however, thousands who are not so fortunately situated as to be able to assist in this good work and December will see the shopping ventres thronged with quite the usual eager crowd endeavoring to select Christmas Suitable Gifts Now Being Displayed in the New York Stores decidedly attractive and can be had at $1.25, A telephone register witd the same design is $1. If the gift is to be candy, have tt ut up In one of those metal shells, lven though ornamented with a pretty bow of ribbon, these shells huve a realistic appearance, They sell at 89 cents and hold three pounds of candy Patriotic girls are wearing the little French dolls of bright colored worsted that form the end of @ woollen cord which serves as a necktie, They are opular neckwear novelty and d make a nice gift for the young They are 47 cents. Young women are admiring the newest vanity cases, They are min- jature suitcases, in shiny leathers, fully equipped, and look right smart. They come tn all colors and @ nice one can be had for $6.50. Leather key cases are something new and may please the man. A very pretty one will cost you $2. A practical gift for the housewife | Street?” suitable gifts. |. no, dear," a » © present displ Then I know grandpa ain't having|, © View of the present displays in @ bit good time. He never took no| the shops shows no indication of notice of people unless they lived on| broken stocks and the December jth? Back Bay. 1 do hope he carried] shoppers will have quite as large and his card in his pocket, else how will! sortment to select from anybody in Heaven know he lived on| Yared an 4 T |Reacon Street? They might take|as they t mar yeaa, Fhe \him for @ south-ender, and oh, mam-| shops a ing gifts with the ma! if they should think he belonged | military rhe new calendars have headings of u celluloid surface would be one of those pretty door stops. It is a new idea, They are of heavy metal, some in the design of a basket or urn, filled with dow. ers executed in natural color, One tonsorial equipment for his shop. “The question is putrid,” aid Promptress Pertle. “Hang off that stuff, will you, Cutoy?” Tt had the desired effect. All were quiet again, and Miss Doolittle res the following poem: Shoppers and her wolf. These stops are $1.35. If these are too showy for the con- servative taste, there is a dark-col- ored dog at $2.50 For the little miss there are type- writers ranging in price from $1 to $4. She will be delighted to actually write letters on the typewriter, and it may develop speed for the future vocation, The U. 8. A. pillows would make a nice gift for the returning soldier. There are some of khaki felt embroid- ered in the service star design. Others in oblong shape have an eagle to be embroidered, If you haven't the time to work one you can purchase them for $2.50 and $3.50 respectively, The liberty luncheon sets are some. thing new in the line of table acces. sorties, They are painted in wash- able colors, on a material that need simply be wiped with a damp cloth to be cleaned. The set consists of thir- teen pieces, circular In shape, and can be had in the prevailing green, blue and brown tones in conventional pat- terns or in a fruit design. The price is $1.35. There are beautiful sterling silver cigar lighters that might be appreci- ated in the den, This is a handsome well as useful gift for the man The automobile © fine thing, enticn the bird on the wing, it i@ worthy of mention T don't kwow who thought it ‘ap, But be did us & greet servicer, My wnele owns a general store ‘Where you can grt es at Port Jecvia, My sleter's child, Teeney Ricketts, ‘Tried to smoke » cigar, Bbe found it was not exactly the ticket, Oh, Teeney, bow awful you are! Bat, getting back to the ante, Do not go riding with men, Mf they bug you, you may be canghto, And, ob, the wandal—the scandal then! — | With the concluding line Miss Deas Uttle did a little skootchie back inte the wings, bowing and waving her hands, The ladies were quiet @ mo- ment as thougb awed; then they aee plauded with great gusto. All were pleased, Lah a Eee NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE, | A patent covers a combined pick 4nd! shovel so mounted that the same bandle serves for both, Ae A deposit of copper ore has be discovered in Sweden that is abet ¥0 per cent, pure copper, on 8 A woman is the inventor of a p, sol that can be collapsed and verted into a (niliing tag OR centuries Austria had been known as “the bully , “I take great pleasure in intro-/ ; ( :