The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 24

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918 Held by U.S. After the War; — President Vanderlip of National City Bank Presents Figures, Points Out Labor and Capital Must Co- operate to Keep Up Standards of Wages and Trade By Frank A. Vanderlip (In an Address Before the Credit Men's Association sila Six-Foolt Metropolitan Singer, Whose Star Is Rising This Year, Sang His Way Out of a Dark | | BELIVE we have emerged from this war almost unmeasurably richer } in some things, and really richer in wealth, than when we entered It We bave added to our manufacturing capacity, we have increased our I ehipping, hs rai rallre he a toad hye Underground Coal Pit! own; we have built vast warehouses here and there - We have done much that'has added to the natton Into the Blaze of the wealth, best contributing a great deal that went, Footlights. Mrevtly to destruction. | - War ts current effort. Wo have not used up any , " ‘ 4 of the wealth we had in store. We have used some raw By Marguerite Mooers material; we have got «vo much of that that what Marsh | bave used in these years is not a serious handicap to our future development. And you cannot measure in any way what this has cost us by the aggregate of the cowl miner to grand op- Cop yng eh to Grand Opera Star debt that has been piled up. Eight billions of that deot Sakiioat salieue il rap {s owed us by the rest of the world | Nth BtaRy;, for. tt Ve used to think that Yankees | ——————————— ee s truly re- Were boasters, and we used to think | Paying in one of threo ways Wear eabta ETN Iie that Americans boasted about |It can be paid for by the shipping of aplring manel ' America, That was their common| sold, by the shipping of Koods, or by) ot ihe like ot | feputation. And to-day anybody who | the shipping of credits Ww, there) Morvan Kingston | Semeinbers any boast they ever hi is no other way to do it, Wo have} one 6t the most! @f America and will compare it with| turned from a debtor nation to a peSiAHadnk tas the facts must marvel ut our reserva. | creditor nation; we have changed our We the Matiopalls|| tion. balance sheet about thir ‘lion TOME Beau Fifteen million man ¢ trans-|dollars internationally in our favor, a phe ‘ | ferred from war work to (ie works} 4nd we are going to get at least Ave | somal faa . et ai Of peaco—that sounds tiko a tre. | hundred millions a year of interest) | vory inch of his fendous transition, This country | from foreigne We have brought inj ™* Feet a man | | feally during these four years of war{a billion thres hundred millions of Pete er ee enn BeAYny, Muss) has developed und 1 believe has|Kold, and now we have a third of} Bae wile tanner orci | | grown moro than it would havo nor- | the monet t of the world i “ ei fas = a a bite i | mally grown in four years, In that! Well, what are tl olng Days ay ees oe geton roel @ime normally we would have had|then, for this great amount of ex-| himself in the first few minutes of} MORGAN KINGSTON® MANRICO = liamaiat daa dea, eR ihiC make? Not! Conversation, almost in the first] Omar 3 ue | five million emigrants in this four| ports we a DINE ne | was dai the 56 ie peerRS | land a half years—five million, in the | more gold, surely fd i ae Lemperamentad tenor! into the coal mines as a pit boy. I.teered during the war. Another was| main full grown men, would have} Goods, yes, but in the first In- | Doves PF the press agent and the/ remember looking around the dark |in training when the armistice was ome here to belp do our labor, stance, right now, in the next few! He h KE ichesk: ei ; gloomy place my first day at work ned, and the fourth is still in| None came, practically speaking, |Months, the great exporting nations pe Preare e646 birt li and thinking rather bitterly, ‘Is all] school. in my early twenties t Sone. Something like a million for- [SF Not prepared to send ws very) sh UN VAN AI Root looks usually Timy life going to be spent at this?” |had to take care of my own family Wigners left our shores. All right; |™uCch or very many goods in addition) |,” pa Re aeKE PA yeorbie As a matter of fact, I stayed in the]and contribute with my brother to} @e can account {for this million|to what they have been sending. od RPS Ha 4 ipa nee : . con yer mines for fourteen years, or until i] the support of mother, who insisted, @hortage on a norma! labor supply | Wil! take them some time before they! a Pea ale it i ak te was twenty-eight, and in all that|rightly enough, on having her own to-day. That will go some ways,|Pecome tremendous exporter of) Tite MM way—he dors nok and he|time I never made a siugic profes-] bit of a home. eves with the fifteen million transi- | f00ds to the United States, So if we j And I think it to Suet as well, for tha | ers, sppoarance How couf J think of entering the tion, Now I would not argue that|@Te going to have a great foreign qlee bale ce Character shy li han You sec, my father died when 1 al profession? 1 had the repu- we can make this transition without | trade they have got to send us andy a od oe Te faneranient wc was twenty and left my brother and] tation of being one of the best men any Jolt, There will be some, but 1| We have got to receive credits, That] ))° 1) to bring Morgan Kingston up| so to support mothe 1 a] with a pick in tho mines; I had won|} Believe the demand for labor ts s0| 1s to my, they have got to lend MONEY Hom the dark plt of a coal mine Inte | een Vrother and sister. So Ittmy certificates as mining engineer, | Great that it 1s possible to make the| IN one form or another to pay for thet) waitetit glory of grand opera. I Nybea eh Une AUORHOT to do/and thought that some day I might | transition without disaster, Indeed, | Purchaser, Are we going to have @! sna not Keep you any longer form | naw.» About a See eee OAPABET “OL ocatwe tena | { thik it is probable that we will ign trade? 1 don't KNOW, heating of thet metamorphosis, fiat | ae ou > _ ae oT s made! aiways sung for my own amusement, | We may néed to make a cushion of | m sure of one think—-We AF) 45 ne described it to me, witting in|it Hageeee 4 bale Ran ie ! Sal{but I never had bad a losson in my Public works. That is possible. Hut to make a thundering try at tt. lene dowy lobby of the Metropoli- | tom then ive cembge ete one lite there are really tremendous orders,| ? Jet_me take another dues tan Opera Hou:o on a rehearsal morn-| paid each butty ao much f “When I was twenty-eight the @ammed by the diicultios of execu-| ton. Hove such countries ax Japan | jp, You are not to imagine, how-] of coal mined by i turning point in my Ife came. A tion during war times, th: ro low a labor cost to render lever, that the story came in quite] whom wase pald ou who Was a friend of inine, be executed, and on th nh rT tariff necessary the United this uninterrupted flow Morgan | received isked me to sing for a church bazaar. Would not be surprised to find that’ States? A higher tariff will certainly) Kingston ts that rara avis, a modest] “f used to average about a pound| PBEM he told me he was going to try fe will seo no real surpluenge ef be a matter for discussion, but the, person, and he talked about him-| (5) for every workisus dea I Riad to get me a@ chance to sing before labor, providing labor and providing !ow labor costs of Japan or other self only when I put to him the d |from 6 in the morning to 8 in the ne musical friends in London. Four the employers of tabor cach do their countries do not concern me so MUCh+ questions I shall not use space by afternoon, Two or three tines seeks later I went up to London, sang | Dest to help in this readjustment, [if we can get a high efficiency of i | peating. week I.came home at 3, washed, had Now, this relation between labor ang bor in this country. Wo cannot! «ary mother was Welsh and Trish,""|my dinner, lay down for two hours, Capital ts one, perhaps, you think you Pay these wages unless we can Reti ne pogan, “my father was English,|then went back to the mine and are not interested in. You are inter-|*Miciency up. Eiiciency went down, ang y way born in the heart of worked from 9 in the evening till 5 ested in credit, and not greatly inter. |%% Wares went up, in the last year liana, 1 grew up in Nottin m-| the next morning. ested in employing many men, and| Now we have got to cure that near Sherwood ior T left) “I had married when I was eight you have not a very direct inter. |18 where there must be a better un- 1 when I was ten ye old and}een—an act which, »rofessional gst in the labor question. Now, you) derstanding and a better spirit be-lit wag never inflicted on me again.| singer told me six years later, made have got Just as direct an interest in| tween labor and capital. If we can!y was not lazy, for 1 began to work {any sort of musical career imposaible the labor question a# a man or a| completely curo tt I am not afraid gt once, but I was too active to find) for me. That man, by. the way, is community who were building a tem-|that we cannot compete in the World| tolerable being tied to a « Jnow in an Insane asylum. I have ple would be interested to know! with the choaper labor of other coun-| “My father was a mining engineer, | four sons, two of whom, at s xteen whether there was and or rock un-| tries. and when IT was fourteen T went|and seventeen respectively, volur der the temple to start with. Unless! But let us take the cost of running some I never came back, Sunday League cane to me after the concert and said: ‘It is the opinion of several of us, do not b he off to get the training I needed, never have been beholden to any one for a dollar. while [ was studying, I earned enough ballads at one of the Sunday concerts in Queen's Hall—and “One of the men interested in the Mr, Kingston, that you ong in a coal mine.’ dna 1 to make it possible for me But I For the next three years, The Romantic Rise of Morgan Kingston) —— He’s a “Song Bird with-| out Temperament” — Coal Mine Gave Him Physical Sturdiness and Mental Steadiness for Real Hard Work of Singing Career. at concerts to support my fan and myself, although I had to be careful. ‘The accompanist at my first con- cert, Miss Evelyn ‘Hatteras, a lady of independent means, who had inter- ested herself t2 music, 6a an opportunity to live In her own home 7 othe: nd brother and Mire Wh ‘. Partie with her, Of} freezin, pame was on a list to go to schoo course that was exactly what I But I happened to be outside for |#24 learn all about Iason. I sald Mr. Kingston added, witb 1 needed,” fine humility, “for I couldn't even speak English—only Nottinghamshire —and I had much to learn about ap- pearance and social conduct, “For three years I worked harder | than I bad ever worked in the mines, h and I calied upon all the th and strength I had acquired 1 min- ing, you know, is @ survival of the fittest; if you can stick it you can do almost anything. In 1913 T bad a | chance to sing before Mr. Aborn, who wanted some one for the Century Opera Company. I sh lways re= member his comment EE the ‘steam behind that voice.’ He engaved me, although I had never sung of opera, Then came more i work for my American debu Century Opera House here in York. “L never shall forget my fir pearance as Rhadames in Aic ‘ an absurdly brief time to learn the role. Again it was my coal mining experience that saved ine In a mine you have to think every moment of the work in hand, to concentrate a your faculties on it, {f you would es- ype accident or Worse, when 1] War, He didnt quite finish {t cause {thing called retreat they have every stood in the centre of the stage I said) he only had three quarters of an|night. I always like to be there just to myself, ene Laid heel ye hour. They was quite a few things|to show the Captin Im behind bim Hepa ee: BUCIUESy I didnt kno even at that. He said | regardless. “[ sang with the company unt that the heavy artillery was com-| Im seidin you my pictur in a unt broke up; are appe: Bry Ph ha | manded by the C.C. 0. D. A. an the|form pointin to an American flag t sae eae E a ’ pri-; Hight artillery by the C. 0, A, An/|Its kind of simbolical > man gald an audiences have bi 1] theres a spectal N. C. O. who bas |if you know y is. T thought tome, This is my b m a r ' o on the iY Oe alten and nothin tu do but look after the S. jyoud 1 fe mantle |r Red te lenen Thal A. A. Just imagine, Mable. I wish |@ conspiluous os to have in, as I never #8 Ne Bees roly + ot studied chemistree more when 1} Somethin to be proud of when sou 3) gz al ¢ rs! part of Fe ee ee ene are ean ati { ¥88 {n school. It would make things | girl friend comes in tw talk, Id as angua g nd this win-}a lot easier for me now, Then he | You for your pictur ouly I havnt go T am studying st task T) sald that a man always got into his{much oom for that Kind of thine have set myself-the art of acting, T} OQ 10 ote 4 doen hen ¥ understand its valu my 0 observe the action of the| down here. Yours exclusively, in England 1 was trained not to These Hnglish are always great BILL, to repress and contro! myself on eve or dress an that formal stuff, Der occasion. I remember when I was small boy, being told that the most meful thing I could do was to let s niled Mr. difference be- and that of He mentioned a certain other great tenor. “He shakes his hands and cries. T grow white and nothing happens—till somebody drops! “The coal mines really helped tiny career as a singer,” the ex-"man with the pick’ summed up, “because in them I learned how to work, how to ncentrate, how not to dodge duties, how to conquer obstacles by strength that is in me Wwe Can 80 adjust the relations of cup-| ships. I happened to seo somo labor ftal and labor so that there is sub- | figures on three ships of equal ton- stantial satisfaction on the part of} na, one under the American flag, jabor, then we cannot build a struc-jone under the British flag and one ture of prosperity that can s'and, and | under the Japanese flag. The labor ave are very aepoly interested tn the] cost of practically the same type | ry ct ec 0 problem h , ‘ i oY thi pele! Sapest of, the Fanos Pn lar snip for the same trip wan hilt Well as Being Set Back in the Se0u Bi the British fing that it was under the ” . . You thinking much about it? 1] American, and halt under the Japan-| / “Bugs” Reminds Us, ‘‘Hotels in 17 doubt it, If there was to be a jointlese fag that it was under the Brit- debate up here between the man best able to represent your sotiety and a union labor leader, or if against a twh, Now you will jump at the coa- clusion that, without seamen’s laws, By ART v : a F it is Impossible for us to compete Copy rig 1918, by Press Publishing union labor leador there was the best| with that Japanese cheap labor HE big difference between Rip Van Winkle and representative of the bankers, or any Jon't bel Vv t i t fi BES ee Oat ee ae ee any |E aan't belive it Voll, why ty George Washington was that Rip knocked bis falistic side, 1 would waxer that the| HOW CaM We TUN shipr at four time sbooze marathon off at one whack while eh \ahor (wadee would bave a a ue fi titors? ; George had to divide bis among 234,678 inns. There eng peep ‘ole 4 v the place the labor cost isn’t an inn on the Atlantic seaboard that hasn't got 4 Gveper knowledge of those principles | PU!" ’ about 3) per ‘oom in which George pounded his ear epg edaahay aa cent. of the total, I belleve that we | Which we have got to consider tn the | 1) y honalnane chicen Bie Which fs the large difference between the inns of adjustment of affairs between capital | * sl DUIDOROR Ae OUP BRIDA an | then and the inns of now, Hotels in 1776 were built and labor than his opponont would : rile Uae io sleep in. The 1918 inn constructed t have, No small part of the trouble |*h® lakes are built for the special | ‘ oie eae ne REDDER SU ANAE Detween capital and labor, in Purpose of ore transportation, run on| awake in, Between jazzarazz orchestras on every my epinion, lies in the ignorance of em.| special routes where they are driven | floor, souse conventions in every corridor, steam cal- ployers. Men engaged in active bus. | back and forth without great dolays Hopes on the mezzanine floor and a troupe of Arabian iness enterprises have their minds | @t the ports, and that we will be at acro! squirming off every chandelier, a guest has tremendously absorbed with the day's| (© compete, even paying the wages | flow. Their day's work is a mental| that we have to pay we will day's work, which excludes them from| make up for that in ease of loading | about a8 much chance of grabbing off some sleep as because von Hindenburg has of winning a beauty prize. There seems to be only two rules incorporated { the leisure ordinarily necessary to|and better fucilities, Wetter construc. Sun venerta tat f as incorporated in think on problems that do not ap-|tion of the ships in t to un no charter WEED @ syndicate builds & seventy-six pear to be immediately n ary for| loading, working und less delay at story adobe hut in New York, One rule is that the them to attempt to solve | the ports hotel shall have @ roof somewhere on top, And the Phe laboring man hae got moretime| The fantastic w Mak arlibices other rule is don’t smoke hop in the elevator and to think on such problems, and he js| Paid in some ca koing to dis bury your own dead The early State laws held thinking sounder and \deeper, as a|“ppear, and t w they have| Noah down to two of each kind, but no Broadway ark rule, on many of them, than is the|/eeu receiving fantastic wages in s complete without eleven of each variety, Barnum business community. So I believe that | tho f canon and 1 4 n't be teve there and Bailey had the works to themselves, but nowa 8 © be much rowistance ve have ol wet to recognize that this] ide bar ey eae he | days anybody who can manage to hire a jazz band “ the dey pation of our temple, and. era) falling of prices-—el oF prices or and secure a circus franchise is qualified to bust open 5 4 #—to come so rapidly, because it does not do any good to build the way ta Me #o rapidly, because | a boiler factory and call it a hotel, You said it then, structure unless we square up the | SOF IAation that has m de than is ‘i ning no With us a long time, I stranger: foundation, and it is up to us to do|frirk it not | hin ot Improbable that owing to r . voir ° ect tahion on that ine fetatan ee atCeane ut GRE. $0 A New York hotel is a weird and wonderful institu ‘There has got to be two sides to| for a time, while this severe transition lon, never seen before on land or sea, They put foreign trad.; it 1s perfect! is taking place from war work to thy ie perfectly simple t0 | wark of peace, There is sroung fcr | see that. You cannot buy a knitting gear, put 1 believe ther p » there ish hat weedle tm © foreign country without it can be avoided PS ‘44s thick carpets on the floor any noise, so your feet won't make Then they stake some other fathead to Sy 3s Wallet to Ge 76 Were Built to Sleep In inns Are Constructed to Stay Awake In,” 'HUR (** BUGS”) BAER (Tho New York Evening World). ‘They ought to put the carpet on Wheel into the dining room to In about two hours a waiter re! # viaduct in Hudson County and asks the leader of the jazz band what you want. trombone acts as if he were t armistice and the fish with the Ptomaine Song from El Rarebit, Then @ lady whose alarm cloc up on September morn flutters out and does one of those dances that keeps the poli next morning. make up for lost time, She is of teniporary blondes with the You can't get any rest in the lobby, because the Lobby Hounds of America are convention in the revolving door: the reception for a lil’ quiet the Indoor Tank Corps rattles by and treats all the goldfish rough. is a jaze danc going on in eve Even the mezzanine foor isn't There is @ jazz mezzanine orch hind the trick palms. We don't kado of Japan said, but whatever he said, he was ™ the old days they only had three-ring cir- cuses, but now every hotel has @ circus for every right. floor, When yoy check out tn the morning the door boy sticks out a tambourine for his tip, and you find that the baggage man has emptied is using ‘em for kettle and snare drums. Back to the barracks, men. She is two months late, but tries to assisted by a chorus New York Hotels The “Inns and Outs” of This Subject Require Going Back in History as t Proper Perspective, for,as the 1918 the drums, You flat- put on the nosebag. turns from guarding The bird with the rying to violate the drums bangs off the k failed to wake her ce blotters busy the (Nei) chills, ear” We holding their hourly " 8. If you crawl into ‘There ery corridor, safe for democracy estra rehearsing bee know what the Mi- all your trunks and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918 Dere Mable e Letters of a Rookie By LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER Eleventh of a series of “DERE MABLE” letters which The Evening World is publishing on this page. (Copyright, 1918, by Frederick A, Stokes Company, ) Lor ON AMI: Sounds like a scourin pouder, doesn’t it, Mable? As a matter of fact its the way a French lady talks to a fello shes awful fond of. Im not an officer any more. I was just goin to resine anyways. The Captins been watchin me rise an he didnt like it, He knew I knew more than him as well as me. Always askin me questions. Id always tell him cause I knew he had a wife and children in Jersey City an so I was sorry for them, Soft. Thats me all over. But the other day when I was on guard he says, “Corperal, whots the General orders?” an I says, “Captin if you dont kno them now you never will and I wouldnt be doin no service to my country if 1 told you.” Cold but civil, Mable. You kno how I can be. M ( , The Captin just felt cheap an jwatkea away. I kind of felt sorry Im glad there tellin us this before for him. Almost told him so once|We 80 over. It would have been or twice. Then I went on guard |9Wful embarrassing to have tried to again. 1 go on guard a lot. The} Vserve the action of the 76s in my men lke me to be corpera! of the|®: V. Ds. Mi asked him {f they had guard because when tho rellef goes |®"Y trouble with the B. P. 0. Bs Jout 1 take all their blankets an go|When he left he said “Cheero.’ |right to sleep instead of standin out-| Without winkin a hair I says “Beevo.” Same old Bill, eh Mable They said the other day that my side ; an watchin them freeze. Men hate te be watched while they are there wasnt much use in there doin that cause ! was pretty well up on that stuff. At home, I says, I had o reputashun for a devil with the wim en. Nobody knows better than you. eb Mable? 1 guess thats a little over your head though, Mable. I try to be as simpic ax I can. If Im not just tell me. Im ritin this lette some reason, goin to dinner I guess, au I saw the Colonel coming. I says “Turn out the guard.” (No one really turns em out, Mable. They come out themselves.) The Colonel sees who ft is an waves an says “Never mind the guard, Corperal." So 1 thanks him .an goes bag to the cqmpany an goes to bed. As soon as the Captin sees that my shoes A the Colonel is savin me up for over }Of. I hope youll excuse my bein 60 j there he gets sore. His plan has been |‘nformal but Im havin the old jto Kill me before we left here, He | trouble with my f They never | said he was goin to reduce me. Thats | b¢en right vince that winter I taugh* |not the same way your father re-|you to dance. I went to the doctor duces when he cuts out beer with bis | With them an he sald to keep offen them as much as I could. So they put me to work scrubbin the mess meals an sits {na Turkish all day. I never sajd you will or you wont. Just waited till he got outside an {shack on my bans and nees. I bet. thumbed my nose at him. High|!f @ fello bad both legs shot off ‘spirited. Thats me all over. theyd prop you up against the wal! an put you peelin onions. I got to quit now They got a An English officer came over the other day an told us all about the Mable Letters French Laws Prevent Doughboys | Bringing Home Adopted Orphans RPRANS ADOPTED SOLDIERS ANTED—Red-headed 1 dren orphaned by the war for adoption, Hurry call!" OME WAR “W BY 4MERT and care under the K French adoptiva law that no adoption « 1 Cross, are 0 rigid n extend over the Un the heading “Cherchez la teto | period of one year, and they cannot rouge.” the “Stars and Stripes,” the be taken out ef th try by the! official paper of the A, E, F. in France| newly acquired godfathers, Now recently sent broadcast this appeal. | that the war is over, depleted Franc: And thereby hangs a tale typical of | needs all her children for the future, \the attitude of our boys overseas to! In France alone over 000 children, the Frenc kiddies which has en- | orphan do and rendered homeleas by ared them not only to the youn, the war, many of thom frail wrecks mselves but to all Franc of humanity aged fur beyond their r everywhere our men saw the) yoarg from their terrible experiences shocked and war-torn Nttle/in invaded districts now under bodies of small victims of the Boche | tne care of the American Red Cross Tthey registered another vow to see For many years ¢ come, until the war through to the glorious Anish) they are educated, made strong and to which they have helped to bring it. And out of the warmth of their pity and love for kids grew the "Stars and| ion. It is work like thie t 1s" adoption by whole companies name on the Christmas Mintatte and regiments of French children or- | (ol; Call will help support for thy phaned and rendered homeless by the | coming year, war, For within the last few months, aaa through the ald of the American Red | Cross, over 400 children have been} ,,.. pep eee adopted by our doughboys, | “Very, He eniova bearing Ser eins Each company pays 600 francs for and she thinks the storics he telle are ita orphan @ year for tie education sunny,’ sturdy and self-supporting, the Rea Cross must continue to care fo: —_ Happily Mated, (From the Detroit Free Press.)