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EM Che ESTABLISHED BY JOSmPH PULITZER, by the Press Publishii C '. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Froese Pubs ing Company, Nos, 63 te FALSE, LITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. A LES SAW rreapurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS To meitid tee, et FR ee SE ORS reddit 18 an" im this paper aod ale VOLUME 59..... B. R. T. TACTICS. HE latest move of the B. R. T. management is an endeaver to obtain from B. R. T. passengers written expressions of their views as to the Mayor’s action in holding certain employees and officials of the B. R. T. and the New York Consolidated Railroad Company “in proceedings seeking to fix criminal responsibility upon them for the wreck which occurred Nov. 1 in the Malbone Street tunnel.” Counsel for the B. R. T. officials under indictment must have been perfectly aware that these tactics would be interpreted in just one way: as an effort to obtain evidence of public prejudice upon which to base a plea for a change of venue. | The cards distributed by the B. R. T. therefore assume a meaning that puts this corporation in yet more strange and cynical light. The B. R. T. sees an actual aid to self-protection in the unfriendly feelings of the public that has suffered so long from its notorious indifference _and neglect. Here is a chance to use the distrust inspired by its own policies and practices in the community it is supposed to serve: | Call that distrust prejudice, and maintain that where it is naturally | strongest B. R. T. officials cannot be sure of a fair trial! | Could anything better indicate how diametrically opposed is B.' R. T. policy to the enlightened idea of the public utility corporation § as something which derives its chief strength, support and protection | bY VEN: PAAR ‘ation of all ny Dews po lined, NO, 20,944 a from the good will it wins by good service? a a “Germany, having started the war, will have been condemned by the peace conference to make restitution and reparation. She cannot be regarded as being on an | equal footing with other nations until she has paid her debt. Germany has committed a crime and she must atone for it before she can be admitted to the ranks of honest and civilized peoples.”"—Paris Matin, New measure of the magnitude of that crime {is furnished by the latest figures which bring the death total of the war to 7,909,768. Civilization cannot afford to make the punishment otherwise than exemplary. . | ————__=4 A FAIR SHOW FOR BROADWAY. PPROVAL and co-operation should help along the plans of ; the Broadway Association to clean up the famous old thor- oughfare, smooth it out and bring it up to date. For the past few years nobody has seemed to care what happened to Broadway. Subway digging long kept it a dismal place of pitfalls | and planking. Business cither left in disgust or settled down into! a dull, despairing wait for better days. Buildipg became more ragged _ and hit or miss than ever. | All that can now be changed and the whole notion of Broadway | as a street changed with it. The charge that, even apart from the | roughness of, the roadway under recent conditions, Broadway looks | like a magnified mining camp is not without justification. ‘The irreg- | ularities and incongruities of its skylines and shop fronts, the cruditieg | of its hoardings and electric signs, the intermittent repair of its pave: | ments strongly suggest in spots the free and easy vista of one of those’ Western railroad towns where the main street begins in a blaze of glory Letween saloons and hotels behind the railroad station and runs a! brief course of lawless and riotous splendor to where the prairie | gete it. In many ways Fifth Avenue and Broadway are as far apart as Paris and Cheyenne. After all, New York is big enough to suppor! two first-water metropolitan thoroughfares, Fifth Avenue has had ‘all the petting. It is time Broadway was washed, massaged, manicured | and given a show. ———-++-—______ To-morrow will be the first Christmas in five years that has not had across it the shadow of world tragedy made darker by the red glare of battle and slaughter, Among the greater nations four Christmases have been, in the fullest sense, Christmases only for the children, row can again be everybody's Christmas, Letters To the Eaitor of The Evening World Your many editorials on Unorgan- | {zed Labor, especially the ono in to- | eree with night's issue entitled “Unreprevent-| not very hard ee Mook, footiny ed," deserves the highest praise and | sincere gratitude from all right-think- | ing people. Keep up the good work and the desired results will be complished, The facts and figuren|the American. ede. you state cannot be denied by any: | represents less thang von’! body, and those who compose the 94! labor. per cent, of the unorganized and thar| good argum. dependents will ever be indebted to| which is the you and your valuable paper, | problem. It is also It ts jnconceivable that the leaders! many that are of maeenined labor and its members| ganized labe cannot see further than to fight solely| have increased. th > 60 for their own interests, The hixhcr| enormously during. the war, Thies thelr wages ,the greater the cost of | a great mistake, I cannot mention one living und the greater the dissatis-| trad the building line that. bas etion of the general populace, The; demanded an increase during tho great mass of employees who are not! war, The large ee organiwed—the clerical forces, etc, To-mor- Thank God for it. From the People | To the Raitor of The Bening Worl: 1 saw your editorial “Uno ” 4 Labor" in your tasue of Deen 18 1 | | to place the blame (or | ‘ery man workin: n that is not o v8 is guilty in a pa ot organizod You make me Labor han 6 per cent, of | nt for organization, the opinion of not connected with or- that the various trades 180 much controve: 7 were hardest bit during the war, and) sible by the men working mcertine their condition is further threatened! and Sundays, r by the attitude of the American Fed. : complete “the varloua” necoamary eration of Labor for post-war high| specified time, sl wages. | If organize 01 Tam in favor of high wages or,! the fact that It only’ momeuenstan rather, such as will be a proper pro-| cent of labor, te not fae portion or division of the prafits due | of labor, what le? tu ae to labor, But I am against undue ganized labor, It is tard to coneece high wages going to 6 per cent. of] how labor that is not organized Organized labor to the exclusion of| represent any one ort ae on vere of without first organizing, ‘There is not an industry, whether private, quasi publle or public that is not equally dependent upon the office help as well as the skilled or un- skilled laborer. Does organized labor ‘wish to see this great number of of- fice employees organize and strike for higher wages? would it mean? Would not a@ cessation of operations of these in- ustries follow and a general lay off of all labor? Let organized labor stop and think where ite attitude is a ding ber vo 94 per cent. of unorganized together, We of Organize back them up only too \t would benefit every union man if these elements were organized, How about writing to the American eration of Labor and presenting the case instead of presenting it. to public who, as you state, are 94 pe of Unorganized Labor. Start or. ganization. Ask The Evening ‘Word to help you, and, above all things, this for you, you will have @ long GE DHRHAR’ | Peace! The Most Wonderful Christmas Present of All. from this, that or the other person— perchance a promotion or a check, or! pilities are open wide, a love missive. t you that unorganized ta- | Pointed. it is| person and expect nothing at all. 4 waiting to be sent home? ton of the fact that! sibly you have had a calamity, and to-morrow has only sa This would furnish a very | fF YOu. a only solution of the| during the yea and you are thinking mas day como wage that has created | next meal will come from, y not unor- | find to-morrow is in fact anything | wMtes In front of you Let those of unorganized labor get | the d Labor will | statistics wililngly, as | ““etiatles. | ad | cent, unorganized? Get together, you! don’t wait for your employers to start | ost significant thing of all is th | EDITORIAL PAGE. Tuesday, December 24, 1918 Coprrigt. 1918, by The Krom Publishing Co (Tue New York Evening World.) A Merry Xmas to You! f iH | or opposing one another, thirteen years later, in the Civil War, \ pb, % i oa gs x How Great Wars Were Ended By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 15—OUR WAR WITH MEXICO. ANDS of United States pioneers had wandered to Mex- ico, and there had gettled in a rich section of that country—in a region known as Texas, At once these Americans had clashed with their Mexican neighbo and then with the Mexican Government, and years of border warfare followed. At last, under the leadership of Sam Houston, the Yankees conquered Texas from the Mexicans and turned it intova republic, with Houston as its Presi- dent. Houston turned {t over to the United States, and ‘Texas thus became part of the Union. (Texas, by the way, has probably been under more flags than any other State. First, un- der the French flag; then the Spanish, then under tae Mexican, then under its own, then under Old Glory, and for four years @nder the flag of the Confederacy.) The Mexican Government bitterly resented the annexing of Texas by our country, When all other protests failed the Mexicans declared the boundary between Texas ané Mexico was the Nueces River. We claimed the boundary was at the Rio Grande, This boundary dispute brought on war be- tween the two countries in 646, The war was so unpopular here that President Polk sought to shift the unpopularity by sending to the border a mere handful of men under Gen. Zachary Taylor, whe was a political opponent of the Administration, Taylor was sent to hold the strip of land between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. But it was not Taylor’s way to do things by halves. He drove straight ahead, thrashing Mexican forces of doubJe his own army s size and making himself master of early all. Northern Mexico. His exploits made him such a popular hero that Polk found he himself had defeated his own ends in sending a political foe to reap such glory. So he removed Taylor from command and sent Gen. Scott, with a much larger army, to complete what Taylor had begun. Commodore Stockton was sent, with Kearny, to conquer the Mexican province of California—which he did in record time, Scott in a whirlwind campaign won his way to Mexico City, and by the beginning of 1848 the Mexicans were everywhere routed. In almost every battle throughout the war they had outnumbered their United States opponents, and in every real battle the Americans had beaten them, A peace treaty between the Mexicans and thelr triumphant conquerors was signed at Guadaloupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848, The terms of this treaty, in brief, were: Mexico conceded that the Rio Grande, and not the Nueces, was Che legal boundary line between the United States and the Mexican Republic. Mexico also turned over to the United States the captured provinces of California and New Mexico. In return for all this the United States agreed to pay to the Mexican Government the sum of $15,000,000 and to make itself responsible for all debts (not exceeding $3,750,000) owed by Mexico to American citizens, ‘Thus ended a war which gave us the great State of California, as well as Now Mexico, at a price $5,000,000 less than we afterward paid for the Philippine Islands alone, ‘Thus, too, ended the first conflict of any'importance which our country had waged since the War of 1812. Many of the Mexican War's best fighters were to be ranged side by side, Among On } Mexico Resents Annexing of Tex: rrr Orr American Army Routs Mexicans. beer | those were Grant, Lee, Hooker and Jefferson Davis. Your Day Before Christmas By Sophie Irene Loeb. 1918, by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York kvenlng World.) By Roy L. | HE boss's fair young bride, Clara Mudridge- Smith, ‘drove up grandly in a taxicab to the Jarr domicile, Copyright y, Clara! Is it you?" cried Mrs. Jarr, as though for the moment she imagined it was old Mrs. Dusen- berry, “How fine you are looking! “Just dashed in for a moment,” gushed the visitor, after Mrs. Jarr had given her a kiss on the cheek to see whether the glow there was rouge or excitement. “Pettie is so anxious to'get away for a few days!” “Pettie?” asked Mrs, Jarr, Breat privilege to have been a part| of it, to have survived the storm and sorrow and suffering. After all, who is the individual who may hug his particular little griev- ance’ to his heart, and so cloud his) visjon that he cannet see beyond the vell of his one self into the great vista of all? Surely there never was a Christ- the of anticipation, the big of the year. You have bought your pres- ents and are look- ing forward with anticipation to the remembrances that will come to you. Ob yes, You are, ND row comes to-morrow, day day | “Who's even though you} mas like this, when the little personal | portiea will not admit it!/ pin pricks count for so little against “wh cairn uabankor Perhaps you are|the throb of humanity at large, y, my dear angel husband, o expecting some-| course!" cricd the bride. And the human cry to-day is, “Be thing wonderful Per) b | “Look here, Clara Mudridge- pales ane anita emarisene. it smith,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “your old hus- Cheitteation {PARA 18n't dead, 80 he Isn't an angel has again bees saved ang moved on|2°% Don't you come here to me Perhaps you are expecting @ lot of | apace! oe baits ead Up aaa t hings. Perhaps you will be disap-; Ob, yes, it has. Farther away is a Mee anh Alan come Perhaps you are a lonely| the probability of a war than ever|"ere {0 me with that ‘bunker! 'Pet- Hy He reel eae ir tie!* ‘Angel husband!’ Don't I know oleae neem fo vote trot wom auto. |th&t Od dodo of a husband of yours? crate will dave te BHC vsain. wa aiew |He’@ 8 bald as a coot. As for being of the toll taken or eer man IB vit [an angel, tell that to mo after he's : ¢ passed beyond and has left you all [fons in casualties and deaths? Tho|hi, money so you can marry Jack history of this war will be the great-| giver or some other spendthrift, who est deterrent of the ages, een ik You have lived to see this Christ-|" “oh, please, Mra, Jarr, don't and have been one in = jp ae bores i Be cetera That ra koe tee /IBAE Wart! Cried the Delds, mide formar you mustn't.” ove forward astride, yall acne out an andy nel thease Maybe you strange city. are stranger in a Or are you @ soldier just Quite pos- a ness in store your view cording t ome loved one has passed away | talk “Really, at this time last year they were here.! the Many, many doubtless have had to face| wort, the issue of him who has “Gone we eaten GRE K : 2B What greater Christmas present} pushy airs with me, then!” said Mrs. while fighting over there than this? And when to-morrow | jarr shortly. Or perchance you are a pauper all! comes, should some one have failed For, now that she had the old man's darling alone, she was determined to make her know her place, the place that Mrs. Jarr had put her in huddled up, not knowing where your|to remember you, or should you be disappointed in the ation of your your expectations, pause before you nd misgiv- allow the little pang to come, and say alli In a word, you, all, possible disappointments despite ings, have something to look forward|to yourself, “Oh, what matters! It a ee a Ciara. uy to to-morrow, Christmas, It is the'ig the greatest day in the world, 1! gracefully. : dawn of a new day. im ,allve, Somewhe somehow,|" «what do you hear of Jack—I mean ‘The growtest prevent that you will’ something good 1s coming to me.| qtr, silver’ she whispered cagerly, the one big fact Perhaps the little messenger of Jov|+jfasn't he left the Naval Reserves, is that you are alive with life's oppor- \y waiting around the c r for me—| he no longer a ‘Resign,’ or whatever If this Isn't the individual, But to-day I will not] it {s called?” the biggest present of all, and by far be disappointed. I am my best! -+you never mind about Jack Silver! most important, just look at the Christmas present. 1 am here, and| 4 nice way you young man! Suppose he had taken te drink when you married old man Smith?" replied Mrs. Jarr, the world is mine.” T al bed. | a ook, Millions of persons are dead as a result of the big conflict, Many more are on the ca list. Jy it not, then, the greatest Christunas thanks giving in your life? Never mind the little mate room slippers, or the big o} the promotion, or anything — DAYS, NOT HOURS. HE railroads were tied up with the worst freight glut in hie tory. Tho ¢rain was fifty- » hours late and he was wearied, or t me something so 1 can figure ‘The Wet when L will get to New York,” he Sommanées the colored porter, “Yom, OT @ tUme! truth that you are alive to teil use) ssh,” replied catenin mf tale—the tale that ine war ts ended. be le? Til Be thankful that it bee been your’ went te « calendar, sualty other's!” said Mrs, Smith, with teel shudder. "And yet-and ye “An ine sens This brief but far from lucid dij ietad logue meant this: First, that Clara rieteetinents * {| audridge that used to be, and Mrs, eget et Copyright, 1918, by The Press Dublishing Co. The Only Good Husband Is a Dead Husband. Jarr calls) treated that poor “Ah, I know I must put him out of my mind forever, now that I am an- gen- yet you'd better have some Jarr Family | McCardell How to Be a Better Salesman (The New York Evening World.) Smith that was now, wasn't to put on any of her airs with Mrs, Jarr. Furthermore, as the young wife of ‘Mr. Jarr’s boss, she was to continue to advance the fortunes of the Jarr family as rapidly.as she could, or Mrs. Jarr would know the reason why. Aiso, that Mr. Silver had been a jvery elusive party in the three-sided romance was never to be hinted. In fact, Mr. Silver himself was now in- |clined to believe he had ‘been jilted, jwhen the fair Clara Mudridge mar- ried so well. “You are still happy then with Mr. Smith, even though he is old enough to be your father?” asked Mrs, Jarr, after a moment's thought on both sides to realize thelr mental agree- ment and understanding, “Oh, Jay, my husband, dear 0! boy, is still devotion itself!" said the @luid- wife, rapturously. “Jay! Yes, he's a Jay, all right,” murmured Mrs. Jarr. Then the visitor took off her gloves that Mrs, Jarr might cee her new Uhristmas gift rings, shook her head that her Christmas eardrops might twifikle and smoothed her Christmas gift Parisian model dress that Mrs. Jarr might see all her glory and be humble in the refulgence of it. But Mrs. Jarr wasn't humbled @ bit. “So his name is Jabez and you now call him Jay,” continued Mrs. Jarr. “Well, as I said, he sure 18 one—an old one!" she remarked. “I call him Jay because Jabez, while old-fashioned and sweet, is archale, $0 I call him ‘Jaybirdic’ when I want something and Jay in front of stran- gers,” sald Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, “Well, of course I'm glad you are settled so well, Clara,” said Mrs. Jarr, realizing !t was no use criticising f2r- ther and stirring up trouble, “ile isn’t as young or as good looking as Jack Silver, but he's got more money—much more—and that's all girls seem to want these days. 1 guess you know how to manage him, Yop look as though you did. And sometimes old husbands are stingy, Still, you can twit him about the other man you might have had, you know. He's still dreadfully jeal- ous of Jack Silver, isn’t he?” “Why, no, and it's the strangest thing,” sald the bride, “But he's crazy, wild, insanely jealous of Mr. Jar “What!” cried Mrs, Jarr, “Ot MY and Earn Bigger Pay _, By Roy Griffith ws The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship. Copyright, 1918, by The P ‘ubitshing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Mr, Griffith to-day begins answering Evening World readers’ quee tions regurding salesmanship. If you have any salesmanship problem to solve, he will be glad to aid you. Addrcss him in care of this news- paper and he will reply to you in this column, Questions and answers will be published alternately with his articles on salesmanship, ANSWERS TO LETTERS. also incréase your ability as a sales- man gnd give you a sure-fire recipa for becoming interested in prospective, custémers. I expect to have some ar- ticles on character study in these columns soon, Watch for them, Cc. M, F—I cannot, in these col- umns, recommend any particular course in salesmanship. There are several which are good. If you will write to mo again, giving me a num- bered list of the schools you are in« terested in, I will be glad to'tell you, by number, the ones which, in my opinion, would be best in your pars ticular case, If you do this, give me also a little information about your- self and your experience, together one of your articles you sus- gest that salesmen become personally interested in every prospective customer, I find it very hard to do this, Can you give me any suggestions along this line?” A. BW. Answer—Salesmanship rests large- ly on the “man-to-man” element. if this personal element were not go valuable ali business would probably be conducted by mail order or with slot machines, Your success as 4 salesman depends to a large extent on the personal interest you take in prospective customers, When you do not take an interest in them you are really little better than a slot REAnlea with any other information which you I would suggest that you make aj think might aid me in advising you. study of people in general, Every] F. D.—It is not within the province person you meet has certain funda- mental instincts and characteristics which are common to all men, Also, every person you meet has certain in- dividual peculiarities and ¢ jaracter- | istics. Try to find out the things which make one particular man dift- ferent than another man, When you start studying men you cannot help becoming interested in them, Every man's face tells a story, | Every story is different. Studying | human nature is the most interesting | pursuit on earth, When you ride on the subway or the elevated or a sur- face car, pick out some man in the of this department to assist in ee- curing positions for salespeople. I’m sorry not to be able to help you in thiy instance, You should have m diniculty, it would seem, in gett \ placed in a desirable position, Yew have had experience in your line, an® at this time of year many aaditions and changes in sales forces are taking pla E. M.—No man can b successful “salesman” solely: tnrage reading a book or a set of books. Study is a wonderful help because it broadens you and supplies the foundation on which you can build for larger success, But actual experi- car and study him. What Kind of| Read all sou ons with your study, work do you think ho is engaged in?| ship; study it thoroughly thee ne out in the actual apply what you have lear And "practicy go together“ NERNEY one is complete without the othe: Baffled—Your difficulty is more o less common to all salesmen, Wei all been up against the same thing at some time in our experience, Who hasn't, been “scared to death” at some @me or other when approaching Mr. Big Buyer? Because your ques. tion raises a point of universal in- terest, I shall, in a few days, bave Is he married? Is he prosperous’ or do you think he may have financial worries? Is he usually good-natured? Is he the kind of a man who would be willing to listen to a new proposi- tion, or is he opinionated and ob- stinate? Does his face show strength of character or weakness? Has life dealt harshly with him or the re- verse? ‘These and a dozen other selling fleld and angel?” “You said none of them are an, till they die,” remarked the vi SWell, dear, T must be going!" or. things you can try to figure out about him. Practice of this kind will not only afford you real enjoyment, but it will e article in these columns covering Let Mr. Griffith business ai id Calecrnanznin eee eur