The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1918, Page 22

Cur RO A ESTABLISHED BY JOSENH PULITZER, Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Com; + Nos. 63 t ~ Pork Now, New Yor, ey a4 RALPH PULITZE President, 63 Park J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secreta MEMBER OF THD ASSOCIATED PIEss, Amociated Prem in exclusively entitied to the nse for rmibiication of ail newy Aernatctee te Teor not otherwise credite pager und aise is local ‘news pedblished heremn ee vette A PERILOUS SPIRAL. SPECIAL aspect of eighty and ninety cent butter and other food prices of which the present retail price of butter is” | typical : | is Awards of the National War Labor Board in various industries Gmelude in many cases a clause providing that wage adjustments shall | be subject to revision in the light of further advances in the cost ot | livin, | —) 20,938 ; Cost of living is estimated from current prices charged consuiners for common commodities—like butter. If such prices, reaching successively higher levels, are to pass! #6 economically necessary no matter how many extra profits and divi- | dends are being realized on them, as in the case of the big creamery concerns, or how partial or temporary may be the effect on them altributable to iicavy exportation, then the country might as well| be prepared to sce wages adjusted upward with hectic haste and! frequency. Inflated wages based on inflated prices, the latter inflated fur-| ther because of the higher cost of labor and labor in turn asking for still more to meet the ever mounting cost of living! Where is it to end if prices boosted to one artificial level after another are accepted as prime factors in fixing present and future ‘wages? Can the country rise in any such perilous spiral without a crash? MAKE IT A POLICE WHISTLE. HERE hare been enough holdups and robberics in New York during the past few days to give the city the feeling that maybe here is another epidemic to be tackled and subdued. The men who robbed the East Brooklyn Bank last Friday, killing the paying teller and assistant treasurer, pulled off one of the most startling jobs in that line that has shocked New York in many months. But there have been other lesser street and store robberies immediately before and since. The Evening World noted as the crime record for «yesterday alone: A daylight holdup in an Astoria saloon, a Manhattan gtocer bound and gagged in his shop, two men shot and killed on a Staten Island road, a woman robbed by three men in a taxicab on Righth Avenue, Manhattan, and a police report of the confession of two Brooklyn boys who own up to forty burglaries. In the marked absence of bread lines and the unemployment and suffering that often increase the number of amateur crimes of this sort, the city can only conclude that it has to deal with an outbreak of professionalism—due, it may be, to an influx of undesirable visitors for the holiday. If the holdups continue a special Christmas present is in order this year for New Yorkers. Give them police whistles. ~ THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL. HE Red Cross is calling the roll this week. That ought to be enough. Everybody should get into line and be counted as fast as he can hand over his dollar and receive his button. A year ago there might have been some necd of telling Americans what the Red Cross was for, explaining what it would do for the American soldiers just then crowding the great ferries to France, A Scrap of Paper EDITORIAL PAGE| veneer wens December 18, 1918 Savings Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Corset ht, ats, Tue Veess Publishing € (Yue New York Eveotag World) be Lo, Everybody Hath His Christmas Problem! The Turkey Hath His Problem of How to Escape the Axe—The Bache- lor Hath His Problem of How to Escape the Snare of the Mistletoe, and the Lover Hath His Problem of How to Please a Woman! 1o% to, my Daughter! What profit bath a prophetess fa all her “propheteering?” For lo, | said in my heart: “Oh, joy! This shall be the Perfect Christmas! “Behold, it is ‘all over!’ And no war-cloud shall ast its shadow on our hearths, and no Problems vex us, to dim our rejoicing! “Por te question of the Kaiser's Christmas dinner hath been settled, forever! And the chefs of Paris no longer gnash their teeth and tear their hair at the fearful prospect of cooking his sauerkraut! “Hola, hola, hola! Let us be exceeding merry!" Yet, even as 1 spake, did the old, old Yuletide Problems arise and mock me in all their ghoulishness ween Row LaWe © For everybody bath his Christmas Problem—and tongue cannot utter it! The Turkey hath his problem of how to escape the axe—and the Bachelor hath his problem of how to escape the snare of the mistletoe! Tho Lover faceth the problem of bow to please a woman, which he knoweth in bis heart that no man hath ever succeeded in doing. (Yet, even as @ condemned murderer, he hopeth agalust hope and prayeth for | mercy.) H And the Damsel whom he loveth faceth her problem of how to recelve his gifts with cries of joy, and NOT to appear as though she had found a switch in her stocking when he bringeth her a cuckoo clock in place of @ solitaire, | The Debutante pondereth her problem of where to hang the mistletoe |so that he shall not miss it, and of how to appear guileless and ‘uncon- |sclous’ before he hath kissed her—and utterly astonished afterward. | And, the wary Bachelor grappleth with the problem of how to find | twenty gifts for twenty maidens—each of which shall be tender and graceful jand full of sweet significance, yet not negotiable in a suit for breach of | promise. | ‘The poor man wrestleth with the problem of how to buy expensive | presents for all his wealthy friends, and the rich man struggleth with the problem of how to “get by” with a postcard or an “art calendar” for all his poor relatives The Doughboy “over there’ faceth the problem ®f how to endure another Christmas Day without Mother and Turkey and cranberry sauce ~-and the happy Doughboy, back home again, faceth the problem of how to eat all that is set before him without risking hia precious life again. Mother considereth the problem of how to present Father with @ jiady’s ékating suit and a mahogany sewing table, labelled “For Papa,” #0 ‘that he will not suspect the camouflage And Father grappleth with the problem of setting up the Christmas tree so that it will not fall and murder the family; of hanging the holly without committing suicide; of filling the stockings so that the “stuffing” will not show; of carving the turkey 6o that it will go all the way ‘round; end of paying the bills “with a smile”! , hola! Let us be exceeding merry! | For, verily, verily the problems of war may be settled once and forever, But the Problems of Christmas—who shall escape them? | Not even the Kaiser, who is the Prince of “Escapers!” | Selah. ial itltead series: How to Be a Better The Guy With a Dime Check Wants to Class Plenty of Gloom, the Hard Thing to Find Is a Smile | By Roy Griffith Himself a Regular Customer a inquired Mr, John W./ "Somebody tell me a funny story and The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship. | auglay tw@nere hide the I'll laugh if it's a favor to you.” — | ; ‘i n. Drees Publishing Co. «The New York Evening World “cc ‘'T it funny how some peo- went to his house and offered him a} nes ms nhs ate ete Vepgnne ‘ : a : ea a i ar GCongrisht, 1918. ee hue ane i nak bah. , , ye si pie \ inksto ee | a this ? sabded ne prope Spires =e The Eve orld is Z 0 his series Oo articles plo try to make you think |Job cuirying the hod he ppt it for PER hOSD.'s ME eel eal ontimiam | Gtled ate aa NOW| The Evening Wo! p 9 0} e they when they can’ pointing out the nature of its thrice-blessed mission on bloody fields | out leaving oft where more and more Americans must fight and fall. ‘There is no such need now. Every one knows what the Ameri- _@an Red Cross has done, is doing. Every one knows how American Red Croes nurses earned undying praise for what they did in hospitals _ and dressing stations at the front when German air bombs were drop- ping among wounded and helpless men. Every one knows at least a part of the great work of healing and helpfulness, nobly carried on, bound to go through to the end. If the Red Cross needed pleaders, it would only have to turn| for them to those brave young figures that limp gayly down gang- planks with the gladness of homecoming in their eyes. They are not thinking now of days and nights of pain, the surgeon's hand, slow Mr. Jarr, ug Where do you get th cu \ . the busin u 't I got o boy, 8 - 7” : n ‘all r hea? ‘ uin't Ig ne boy, Shid- | f the five senses—hear- | right of overy, His habits of i ., (if he had @ billion dollars and didn ‘omer dope? Tell ia eon ‘Sure, he will, rid Mr, Slavinsky . | one or more oO! i y 9 habits healing wounds—but they will not forget the care that made it loca whatiar 46 Sus ules onl ures ABs . : ve Re tell It at mipi’80 woon as that lowter hears any-| QO) Ot : to take itever?| ing sight, touch, taste and smell, thought were simple, elementary. He ’ inderpool and let him tell it at hist’? ‘ at | 2 ain't my little boy rood to . rae 1 bearable. |Chicago with it, ‘me dius brink teas, | body has had ul fire, with see eee ] i i : rae, Bood to) Yq knew that? Of course you did.| didn't know anything about property They do not need to speak. Take their silent word forit. Join |¥* pool had a big ni at ite bitewiite4 ner tube of a | Rothing burned, einai ‘ | put did you ever stop to figure out) rights or the its of others, Ho the Red Cross. ae can't see why I should care a rap], at bir prteeeah ovate pitotal loss by v ) y ae a : ae 4) just what it means to you in your pro | didn’t have the test idea of what : t e's c FOMBARME 20 , Ltd eta ¢ r t anship? the word eant " f iubhie es, F Jabout what h y >t RoE Give fconi is conan} ou {Hf you wasn’t a you w re fession of an meant; he didn't L F | furt xo rit ahead chasing a ron |e plane aN yal Hjhave a friend; but when you ave in oie The five senses are the only avenues) know there was any such thing as | seth | aa Ate lb do. Kno! he better class ¢ a 1 ea -| “That's what makes all the trouble eh which you arouse a desire paling. 2 Y ‘i 4 {with my napkin and say: ‘Huh! is Jsured, my! they'll all come asking Able | rough whieh you ean aling. He didn't take anything he etters Tom th e r cop le |that so?” Hair 4 eat tieea fol } you to ve k a business, But all f say}! this world!" said Gus solemnly af A prospective customer's mind} didn't want or but whit or i Praises Werk of Fest Office |playera might accomplish A t | @h, boy gets my nanny! | ; e errs Everybody trying to do favors what |. is, You can tell your] did lay hand 7, To the FAitor of The Evening World JER playa’ far se eet att band | It sure is! hy 1 Me and}iy ays, ‘I'm going to{te everybody is, you k Dyes iva eeettaes be Mat | gop your ood Tarot did lay hands on was his own, ‘To him % was greatly surprised, though | functions whould be on ite fd Vy 74 ty hit it up ” We & uh hatter your soolal dream, We tg [start m_ busine becauw you suf re : & ’ - Hd a Why | customers about your goods (hearing),| there was no such thing as private Much pleased, to find, upon entering | pn bf Nd nplain about the Police | kinds ubwoman in here named Vande 4 total losy, don't start a glins-put- | , ‘ ; at tek Dink-| you can show them (sight), in some} ownership of anything ® @rug store in this city, that tae) \ ne excused from police duty imagine!" 1 says. , and ty f L second | # business, because it don't pay eR es Bl: rout Thi cages you can let them taste or) To-day we have learned to respe: od » |{f their playing merited it. More re-| “yep; me and his other clost|! : A) “Me?” he continued. "L w snow I'll be sorry for it! What win) ware offering, and| the property right nee branch post office in the store,was in| hearsals are a sore necessity. It vig : ; ‘Joousin of that Pepper guy you know,| “Me?” mu hey " : smell the product you ure offering Property rigits of others, We charge of a competent clerk furnished | Edwin Franko Goldman could have | {Tends calla him Pepper, Now, whntrdtva (nine ae hate Jin any business other than the p| Re Go. When ai) the retail lquer|°'. can let them handle the goods| have constructed an elaborate system by the New York Post Office. | bess Fetained ag leader, he undoubt- | ‘Must be a regular Pepper mint. [tts wron 2 xnorts, ‘There | Put-in business! Two years r : ores ie sees Can you see him | (ouch), of laws for the protection of soc'cly. I believe, and I find that the same|to a hi ve developed the band| “ ‘Pretty good!’ he says, ‘Guess I'M | ye 8 * \didn't even own my own stock and|loafing in ice cream parlors wait. | >» majority of instances it is] But @ trace of the prinval : gh degree of eMel Minover was at user In the yi Vina te kid tha ounten | In the majority o i t he primal instinct of opinion is held by mont other people, | conducted the band at a few of ie {nave to tel that one to him, Me's! Vanderpool ve had no credit with the glass wholes} MMs fo Kid the customers so he will be! joe possible for you to call into play | our pre-historic ancestors yet ree that all such branch post offices public concerte lant summer, and cer. |SUCh & lovely feller \ he jumps up andy Salers, and ever since that 1 lo. ee Ar 4 cocoanut Ice eream soda! 11. “customer's sense of taste and] mains, We have a sort of sub-coa- should be in charge of men or women| te 1, ehhodnette fe ene work, | You talk lke he loaned you y|vamoosters f he ¥ pping money all the Ed Nae trek Bada ley well, ‘This leaves, then, only three} scious fecling that what we put our le \ . rat t t » | mor ve n ie t K nen ve ston ' do Mr. Y 1 of this type, #0 that the mistakes that | authority, as he proved lant paiellages| last bt,’ L says, rather preturbed at |his dime to the cashier as B86 noney L ha d 4 t unk when t Prue leneaain Fe a Mr avenues of approach in presenting | hands « or should be, ours. Are apt to occur when this work {s|the Columbia University Concerts, [f|!!™ spicling like that Is yo rubwoman really a Vane | war started! N i t got itt] Bi tae fe Nas Bot a) oct lines—hearing, sight and touch This tendency, exaggerated, becomes Heft to the ordinary, poorly paid typs| Ne,cannot Pe induced to instruct the Pepper would loan me mony Jerpe asked the Friendly Patron. 1 My wife is stek and eries all (he tim » with Mix sver to look |" Y aining the merits of the goods] dishonesty, In the present state of | Of store clerk may be avoided and| oe iand permanentiy, ‘why not |time 1 want It) he says, ‘but mi Serubwoma whatcha ¢ <{ My oldest boy, Shidney, what wa his furnace this winter, Ana) © ; , aa our civilization, dishonesty is ‘ ¥ get fome other prominent musician? ag ree é and showing them are universal, of y is more or 00d wervice rendored to the public. | What they need 1 lan? /him don't need to borrow from each |about?” replied Lucile, “This place} the army, gets fired—yes, he brings | Mt yver worried about coal, | ® less of a disease 4) “ yy need is training, and they place | Rat ctelle ‘ fy with all sales people. But how a disea ie dishonest mind All, good citizens apprecinte what y . i t eller Dinkstor course, y need it badly, H. 1 other Me's got plenty and I always erue fout fortwo weeks, | his d marge home with » and) ut feller hag hn says ) ) yt normal, In the moral have done to hetter thean condl- L GES iia go a eas : | “aaa Niee iriver whGuld warty about} about the third avenue of approach ‘al mind this iby demanding competent servi.e, Contrivate to Jowtek war | know where t cab ya R SNe We DAG RSG -MORrnOty Wah NOR PERNA (A 2 Paina RAECROR NALA about hard! | sense of touch? Inasmuch as you] feling I am describing is termed by amd 1 hope that you will continue tas Netter, | Wife working, eh?’ I ot back, jund she quit to be one those con- | loafer! Him out of we yud | Haw y H coal,” remarked | | iy three of the five senses to] tose Who study the human mind and cpa work, The Bvening World has | Te the Editar of The Evening World “You see, I know this guy. If you ductorettas.” ne is discharged! My | wy cut| Mr. Jarr | have ol Ms i of ‘ live s * Be rkings, “the pride of posses. way been tho leader in thie kind cf| Tam connected with the &: little” coal what worries § work on, don't overlook one of them. | 5 : oe eee upply Tie. — ———— —_— eee | his finger, my ttle Worries Stryver, sion,’ are 2n6 you may bo sure that its are appreciated by all, Partment of the Navy Yard and have Ln followed with keon Interest the suce Sithqwests Leader fer F cons of the Jewish War Relief Cam- To (he Ka'tor of The Brening Work; paign, Yosterday I siarted a collec Mr. D's letter which appenred in| tion In my office and } succeeded in 8 Paper some days ago ought to | collecting $75, What is most inter. 4 it all New Yorkers, The Police | esting {s the fact that so many Gon +” should be an organization of | tiles contributed freely, Their att) * we should be proud, They | tude and feeling toward this wonder be carefully rehearsed before | ful cause is to be greatly appreciatec allowed to play in public almost | by the Jewish people, Feet ae The fact of the matter is, that| The employees of the Bupply fre the band | partment, h Jewish and Gentile, 1, and who ‘are doing their bit in this great work, competent OB, Lucile the Wo Patron as he if his overcoat was still on the hook|takes money from his wif behind him, “Indeed, * he replied. putting the assent on the ‘to, | house ith and an electrician, and I think] 0-DAY 1 am going to give you) brain, there is another and an tne “Say, on the level, they make me} "Say, Ih ‘he says, ‘you oughtn't) yes," remarked Mr, Slavinsky, the] He'd buy your lease and take over one of the rock-bottom facts Of |tensely interesting reason why you tired," she continued, “They think |to tulk like that to the customers Off cia 2icp, “put why Schmitt should Your stand and do glazing on the| salesinanship and show you how} should put the goods you are selling society is the whole cheese when it |this joint, Don’t you know you'll drive Hn " really ain't more than a trapful, and, my, how they br this morning there was a feller in here |ine who was that plants his phy + L ' customers, I says, ‘You ain't a|count he hus two twins I don't know. | sheriff sale, when all 1 ten, is the foundation fect on which|and before barter and trade were baal hs ir sol and | eee mer with that coffee and ers| But why ain't Dinkgton around to! for and people like Sir eilicbullds known, when a man saw anything he ology onto & SLO! ANE | ihing, You're a mere pe nee, ~y oe, break a win ° u d 4 ispeak poul about all these things? si i it os- | Wanted or ne ed, he just took ne orders his sinkers and Java than he}-phere ain't any profit in your repast | Pouliry about al Ul wou and Every impression that | Ms ae ESI begins to verbalize “Well! he Gi eS Men than twice as many wom-yiaking a decrease of 1,628 from | 4 ics . h i soGda a i ill convey impressions wich nd say, ‘Gus, here's the three dollars | 8004s stored in his cellar that there | touch W 7 | are fot only taking ad 1 iim bed fount } f | ld g no othe “ 8 are & sap ld og s advanta, en and girls climbed Mount 1 owe you!’ Nothing I but bad! ain't no room left to put any coal}, | they cbuld gain in no other way. Sup their sense of touch, but y au on | Huji this season as in 1917 luck, like Hf lettera trom relations! | ‘Oh, well, Gus philosophicatty, | pose 1 tell You that something 1s soft | rousing thelr “pride of pose i to be exact, 984 this year and For a good cry T wouldn't give two| “Nobody can't eat coal, aot even that | and silky, Then suppose you feel of it} They rather hate to Rat 2,878 last, ‘This mountain, seventy cents; but like dogs howling when! Andrew Sight coal we hear so much|and your sense of touch conveys the rticle, ‘They have sort of miles from Tokio and cloarly vistile you die the way everybody talks | abot of {t is called egg| idea of softness and silkiness to your feeling that it ought to bee there on clear days, ts sacred to al| ELECTRICITY HEATS NEW CAR. | ' 1 fiers beled ‘i Ld long to them. They know that the ne 1 clear : acred to all cone Jto me these days! And besides that. | coal, coal, buckwheat coal! brain, Which will give you the more] Onig way they can gain permance Jnpanese, the mecca of Japanese pi . , rew 1 sottel dp know 8 »ression—in, ent 01 8 , r e ie and the most familiar aries in|, Among the features of a new car. | D&et 8 Sopped br mo 908: matter) ang) Bee Pave IPO) SOUR NIE aR ae DRDE: SF] DOMNORNE DOF AR ACSI Te BURR Japanese art. Lucile the Waitress Feeney dS ae ci ee eee ee And Earn Bigger Pay mix with soclety folks|his wife. He te on rl tress of the Fri a H took another look to see |ing he sneers at me and says he never en store is giving di ys, with a sigh, like The Jarr Family Salesman ~ (The Now York Bvening World.) rs he's commander- | War is over, peace ts at hand abroad, and all he's gotta | here, locally, we have ‘had parades ked {do iy keep her supplied with work, and fights : ‘the delicate ¢ salesmen and salcswomen readers to help them increase their 1919 ine aoe eee thay Ravinsly. I wane | comes and sates records. Roy Griffith, the author of these articles, ta ing clerkcwho hea a brother.| @ sales capert who thoroughly knows his subject, He will answer w who has a little money. and through The Evening World questions pertaining to salesmanship, e's a handy fellow and would like} which should ve addressed to him in care of this newspaper. en spell ‘cat’ with-|in-chief of his wif of the ‘t nd fires, and Schmitt at| shiy ndily| “Well, when Task is his wife work- | Pickles away because he don't deal in 1 respond, | cigars, on account he has twins at bis] “2 0 into the glaxs-put-in buviness,| yg EF AVENUES OF APPROACH “Nor to her, neither, to build up on It. Of itself, it 1s simple, | Into your customers’ hands, but an earnest consideration of It 18] In pre-historic times, when man was like a| vital for you as a sales person. Here,| but a step removed from the animals, em all away? jaugh about that and hand out dill ‘ “1 don’t talk Ike that to none of | Pickles free to every customer on 4 | What do you mean, selling me out! to somebody 1 don't knov fou poons off “Oh, Dinkston will turn us ” suid ble for a human being to receive) out asking ar ‘Anyway, If TQUIt Feeom the outside world comes through | on which he » about ociety, with you sneak as questions. Anything t his hands was his by : 7 Stop! Quit Throw him out!'| 80 th Her Dinkston says,” replied | Haplatn the article > 5:1 Do you see where t leading Students Climb Mount Fuji ¢ |intermivted Gus. “ainvtnovods going] Mr Slavinshy, "He say that retin, [show Mt and then Ist your customers) wie you put the article. suit ate ait » you the article you ar to come in with a laugh on his face | Mr 8 got so mu take it in their hands, ‘Their sense of rucle you are case |selling into the hands of customers, bureter for 1 rade fucls is an {8 out of business next July!” | like eating, but it can’t be et,»be-| your sense of touch? ‘trom you, electric heater to faciitate starting! “Al right, Gus, I'll do anything you) cause I've tasted them all, and I In addition to the Impressions wh cold engines, want,” remarked Mr, Slavinsky. ‘\cnowt"" the sense of touch convey During ‘the season "h (To-Morrow to the Foot Forward,’ ‘Putting Your Beet. i , —— eee