The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 14

reas ‘ Monday, Dec ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Sund by the Pre Beret BUN how. new LPH PULITZE ident, 63 BALES KAW irreas rere 63 JOSEPH PULI’ Jr. ere! Park Row, Park Row, 63 Park Row. VOLTME 59..... Publishing Company, Nos, 63 te) York. EDITORIAL PAGE gazine: it Ree eatin, By J. H. Cassel MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, exntlat cO et Se eta lewis pe adios Sil nee Ah a : = - THE BANQUET THE NIGHT BEFORE. HILE they welcome every evidence and token of accord in the tribute the Allied Governments of Europe are paying Nation in the person of its President, the people of tates are too level-headed not to understand that the harmonics of the ouverture are only a promise and not a guarantee | th the United 8 of what is to come in the succeeding acts of the piece. As a promise, nothing could be more gratifying than the grand erescendo of the greeting given the President by those most powerful in the shaping of British policies, or than the assurance of Lloyd George that there is complete agreement between Great Britain and the United States on “the basic principles of the peace which will ¢ome before the conference.” Nevertheless it is common sense, not pessimism, which points out that “basic principles” of justice, freedom, fairness and self- determination are principles to which no government at the present time could possibly fail to subseribe., They are, so to speak, the banquet toasts of the period—to which, among civilized peoples and thei statesmen, every glass is now raised with a special seriousness and enthusiasm. Obviously it is still in the application of these principles to con- crete problems of peace arrangement and adjustment that the real test of harmony must come. It is in the redrawing of maps, the fixing of damages, the delimitation of national spheres of influence and development that convincing proofs of accord must be furnished. Every government can cheer for a League of Nations as a propo- tition. But how many governments will stand by to carry through 4 League of Nations in the sense of joining to work out the practical details, setting aside secret ambitions, subordinating national interest to a larger one? obody is going to know how much protestations of accord are actually worth until the Peace Conference spreads out the maps, serutinizes the bills and memoranda, takes up specific national claims and proposals and gets down to brass tacks. With all the hopefulness in the world, all that can be said as yet Tegarding the momentous business of the morning is that the grand dinner party of the night before is going extremely well. Pea Oat We wonder if President Wilson, being right on the epot when the results of the British elections came in, saw anything worth setting down in his notebook as to the value of the coalition rather than the party idea when appealing to electors for support in an era of transcendent issues. Sy THE THEATRE TICKET LAW. Wi: the Mayor’s signature, the new ordinance regulating the selling of theatre tickets in New York City has become law. This ordinance, drafted and passed by the Board of Aldermen as the result of a formal complaint lodged with the District Attorney Whys and Wherefores by Louis V. De Foe, dramatic critic of The World, is a drastic effort to do away with speculation in theatre tickets on the scale that has long made it an imposition and a nuisance for theatregoers in this city. Henceforth it is against the law for any ticket broker to sell a theatre ticket at more than a 50-cent advance over the box office price, which latter must be conspicuously printed on the ticket’s face. A required annual license fee of $250 is expected to keep brokerage in theatre tickets out of the hands of the irresponsible, while soliciting persons to buy theatre tickets in the street is absolutely forbidden. It will be interesting to see how the effects of the new law are taken—not by New York theatregoers, who for the most part have always regarded the ticket speculators as pests, but by that large floating population of visitors to the city whose willingness to pay #5 for a $2 seat at a theatre, and to count the extravagance as an exhilarating part of a good time in New York, has long provided the demand upon which theatre tieket extortion has thrived Let us hope that, after the first shock, these visiting spenders who liked to go home and tell what a thumping sum it cost to “see a good show in New York” will decide that if New Yorkers won’t stand for ticket speculators the correct thing to do is to forget such sharks ever existed and wonder how any sensible man could ever have been foo] enough to pay more than $2.50 for a $2 seat. If this happens, theatre ticket speculation in New York will take the count and give the law no further trouble, eee Red Cross: Order of the Day: Knit? Quit. Letters From the People A Complaint From Navy Clerk. | No Here To the KaAitor of The Evening World Control. May I beg of you to publish this | To the Eaitor of The Evening World: letter in the interest of the Navy Yard| We all, more or less, judge the ‘clerk? Government we live under by the The United States rnment ac- | Way It works, when we come in per- tually is reducing our salaries! It pro- | sonal contact. w ’ Pores, after months of consideration, | nent, goin pare ih ends “whan leat to give us the princely increase of 2 EROS rom the Grand Cun- Cents per diem and to take away the | al Depot, on the 6.35 P. M. Hudson bonus of $120 4 year which was grunt-| River train (No, 69), we found only eep us from starving outrigat. | drawin, ; $120 a year is SB cents a day. It pro: |onee ne, OOM Cars, and no day Poses to give us 24 cents and to de- | C8 We could not but help admire Brive us of the 38 cents; thus, while |Government control. Of course, those ing as magnanimous, it is really! passengers w' " Benerting to the extent of 14 Cents | Conse mere Who bad to stand up be 4 day! Isn't this awful and un- here was not enough drawing Believable? Yet, air, it ls a fact. Those }Fom cars to accommodate all, eculd 0 have been graciously reccm-|not ses it the sam: Mended for this consideration ure of| drawing room eam we omy vet course refusing it, and as @ result they : no extra fare or a fees), and kicked rather boist $ . iwsterously Wwill be marked men, for the Govern: |but we, who enjoyed the luxe: eRe ary a ite ean’ WHO G0e® | upholstered arm chairs, were slronaly of the opinion, long live the Govern. @ontrary to its wishes, Our organization is holding a mass| ment. tours truly £ Coren Would Call Tete ° Exe! eeting to protest against this actio “Vietory, ‘hat jx the Government trying to do To the Editor of The Exoning World: ‘ae one of your correspondents truly tated, the worm will turn some time; I wish to make @ suggestion that the section of Grand Central which is to ‘and, believe me, if things go on as they be known in the near future as “Per. Kick on Government jin strength daily, and when we are 100 of Love and Matrimony By Fay Stevenson Coprriett, 1918, by The Presse Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) Why a Woman’s Love Seems to Last Longer Than a Man’s. REQUENTLY we speak of “hold-| mental as woman, and therefore we F ing @ man's love” us we might | are apt to say his love is growing cold. of caging @ lion or lassoing a|He may not remember the pretty ‘bronco, We say: “Oh, yes, he is| pink lawn his sweetheart wore when head over heels in love with her and| he was courting her, and some of the it will be a very happy marriage 1I'| best husbands in the world have ac- she can only hold his love.” But who | tually forgotten the date of their wed- ever heard of “holding” a woman's| ding anniversary! But the man who love? never forgets to bank the house with Now a man’s love is really just as| flowers or to give his wife @ new permanent as a woman's. Only there | piece of jewelry on such occasions is is @ vast difference between mascu- | !0t necessarily the best or truest hus- line and feminine love! Man declares | band, his love and is through. Woman ac-| Woman has time to read novels, to cepts and listens in vain for the ecno| 8° to sentimental plays and to weave | of that declaration, Man gathers the | ‘mantic thoughts together she | sticks and papers of love's fire, He/ Knits or goes about her domestic Juties, | rich and could go live in one! to his life work. But it is woman's duty to keep the “love fire” burning, ‘At times man uses a good deal of gray matter to win his bride, When she 1s a popular girl surrounded by eligible admirers, beloved by fond parents and heaped in luxuries it may take a good deal of persuasion on his part to win her away from them for himself. Or, if his flancee is a pre perous business girl, keenly interested in the outside world, it may take a long time to convince her that woman's place is in her own home But when the conquest is over, when she snuggles up to him with that wonderful “yes,” his troubles of en during love are ended and hers have just begun. He has won, but she must keep on winning, That is why woman keeps asking that game old question: “Do you jov me as you useg to?” which has bored both the just and the unjust husband ever since the days of Adam and Eve. But woman must consider this win- ning, this watching over the love fire, a part of her housewifely duties. She must not expect a man who is battling with the business world to declare his love for her morning, noon and night She must learn to cling to that tirst great "I love youl” heart is bound closer and closer te ber husban are going the wo will turn, ‘he (Federal Employees’ Union is gaining shing Square" have its telephone con- nection called ‘Victory, elves, refusing to starve on a salary ‘equal to the munificent one of $11 a in purenasin; A NAV eal cent, organized we will assert our- value two years YARD CLERK, ‘ my suggestion, coattails, Maa is not as romantic or as senti- touches off the match and gocs back | | {thoughts than of his home and wife. Perhaps that is where we get our Man has many outside interests) “once a lover, always a lover.” How while the average woman devotes|many times in life we meet the de- her life to her home. Each year her But each year man becomes more aud more absorbed in that outside world which is always Hoping to hear @ favorable reply on| S¢¢koning to him and tugging at his Her life is made up of doing little personal things for her husband. She mends his clothes, orders his food, makes a pie for him. All those little daily tasks make her constantly think of the one she loves, But man has so little of that awfully personal touch to his life. To be sure, he is making money to keep everything going, but while he is mak- ing it his brain is occupied with other | He misses all that romantic, senti- mental touch of doing the little things | "for her," little things, however, are | eps Woman's heart along the | sentimental, endearing chan | Those little personal touches are what make her appreciate the home com- ing kiss, the bunch of flowers, a box of chocolates, While she has been thinking of him all day she likes to feel that he has thought of her, Because man is too apt to rush from business without these tokens, be- cause he begins his conversation about that very. business which has held his attention all day instead of first asking something personal, wo- man begins to think that her love is greater than man’s, She begins to talk about “holding a man's love But busy, umromantic, forgetful man is really @ very “long lover.” widower who is so true to his >| wife's memory that he prefers to re- main single, He is quite as common 4s the devoted widow who refuses to rewed. Love is usually @ case of fifty-fifty, And when a sensible, sane man falts in love with @ sensible, sa woman it seems quite probable that his love will last as long as bers, The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Pubitshing Co, Oh, for the Noble “cc HEY are building such beauti- T ful apartment house private family hotels there days,” sighed Mrs. Jarr. “I do wish we were This thing of keeping house and keeping one maid, and all on @ limited incom and everything keeping so high—but- ter eighty and ninety cents a pound-~ sometimes I get so discouraged that I could burst into tears, especially waen such women as Mrs. Berthulia Beez- wacks and Mrs. Marmaduke Stalker get up at the women’s clubs and read Papers on ‘Save and Serve’ and ‘Kit- chen Economy’ and ‘Relative Food Values as They Affect the Wage Earn- er After the War.’ Ugh!" and Mrs. Jarr said “Ugh!” with a double ex- Pression of boredom and disgust. “Why, what's the matter, dear?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I thought your little excursion to the stores with Clara Mudridge-Smith and the nice things she bought you"—— “There you go!" cried Mrs, Jarr. “I suppose I'll never hear the last, either from her or you, about it; an! I practically had to put a pistol to } head to make her do it. She never sent me a thing for Christmas and then had the nerve to call here to dance the ‘shimmy’ “To dance the ‘shimmy?" repeated the astounded Mr, Jarr. “Well, the same thing, sha wanted me to go with her and take lessons to learn how to dance the dreadful thing!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “And I made her take me down buy me some silk stockings, but one has to pay double for things one gets for nothing! That's what makes me so mad!" “Tell me all about it," Mr, Jarr went on soothingly, for he felt Mrs. Jarr must be quite fretted or she would not be so peeved, and he know it would do her good, as he expressed it, “to get it out of her system.” “Well,” said Mrs, Jarr, calming a bit, “Clara Mudridge-Smith, who has more money than she knows what to do with, even if she had brains enough to direct its expenditure, is crazy to do everything she shouldn't do! Now it’s to dance that awful dance with the awful name, “that all the nice people are dancing—and I suppose I'll have to dance it, too! Then she took me down town in a taxi and bought me a half dozen pairs of silk stockings, and I'm expected to be grateful all my life! Yet if I'm nice to ber for it, she'll always think I'm trying to get more out of her; town and | McCardell (The New York Evening World.) Life of the Movies. and if I do not seem constantly touched at the memory of her gri cious generosity, then I'll be an in- grate.” “But you aren't going to dance this ‘chemise dance,’ if that’s its name?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Really, I think it wouldn't be nice to dance in a che- mise.” J angry surprise, “They don't dance in their che- mises!” she snapped. “They just shake their shoulders, But I thiak the world is coming to an end, First, the terrible world war, and now that it is over, people dancing a dreadful dance with a dreadful name!” “Its too bad, isn't i said Mr, Jarr sympathetically, “Yes, isn't it?” Mrs, Jarr retorted. “I wish real life were like what we seo in the moving picture shows, where everybody, except villains and vampires, are pure and noble; wnere you can always tell your bitterest en- emles Because they wore such fine clothes when they came to scorn you ;|4n your poverty. And then, when you | are dying of consumption or your hus band is dying of brain fever, in rags |in the tenement house, or in the | wretched hut in the woods, and your |little children find the will in the old |clock and immediately you are | wealthy and have all the estates, and tion in fifteen minutes, and your harsh but aristocratic old uncle is reconciled to you, and the picture ends | with him sitting by the fireside with |the children on his knee, having happy dreams, But real life iy noth- ing but trouble and worry!" “But what has moving pictures got |to do with dancing the—-um—er’ chemise dance?” asked the bewil- dered Mr, Jarr, | dance in the movies,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “But while they are dressed bold and lure strangers to the den to gamble and drink, they are always girls of unblemished reputations, and ‘they wouldn't dance such a dance, and if they did the Board of Censors wouldn't let anybody see the picture except reformers! “And look at the servants In the movies,” Mrs, Jarr went on, ‘They are all so faithful and won't take any wages when the hero and heroine lose thelr wealth, Of course, ser- vants in the movies never do apy work, because they are so busy being faithful and cutting the cruel ti Mrs, Jarr gazed at her husband tn} Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Byening World.) Peradventure All the Problems of Man Sha!l Be Settied For+ ever at the Peace Conference—But the Problems ! of Woman, Who Shall Solve Them? Vie verily, my Daughter, at the Peace Conference the Wise? Men shall gather together and read the stars of the Future. 4 forever! But the problems of Woman, who ehall solve them? For the things that vex her spirit and try her! Soul are as countless as the stars, @ taxicab driver, and as persistent as the influenza, Behold, for Her, thése Fourteen Pointe shail never be decided, these questions shall never be an- swered, these problems shall never be solved! Lo, who shall tell a woman— What to do with the holiday junk and the spoils of Christmas? How to make a husband wear the knitted socks from Aunt Matilda, and carry the match-case and the embroidered hankies from Cousin Ealella, without starting » world-war, or endangering the domestic armistice. How to keep up a touring-car appearance on a flivver income in war. ‘time; how to make chicken pate from yesterday's roast of veal, and how to fashion @ nouveau-art lampshade from a pair of old pajamas. How to convince a man that a New Year's vow and a marriage vow are | matters of honor and importance, and NOT merely matters of form. How to make a man go home evenings, before she is married to him, and stay home evenings afterward. | How to prevent rice-powder stains from showing on a dark blue navy uniform and triple-violet extract from clinging to khaki coate. How to back @ husband into his dinner coat or his evening clothes without giving him morph‘a. How to prevent the cook from signing her dally abdication. How to be happy in @ world where there is always “another woman” | to ‘be’ reckoned with. | How to hold unto her {dentity, her husband, her cook, her ideals, and ‘her job at the same time. How to hold her temper, keep her dignity, maintain her veracity—and get her way all at once. | How to get the Christmas bills paid in time to start the campaign for a new spring outfit. How to get a husband, how to get along with one, or how to get along without one. * | How to pretend to be a man’s rib, when she knoweth that she is wl hia vertebrae. | These are some of the problems of Woman which not all the kings: and premiers and presidents shall ever solve, | Yet, unti? they are settled, my Daughter, who shall talk of Permanent Peace and Domestic Disarmament, and Autonomy for little Husbands? Selah. How ‘ HELEN ROWLANe to Be a Better Salesman And Earn Bigger Pay ‘ By Roy Griffith The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship. Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) fi i les on ' Mr. Griffith's column appears on this page daily. His artic! on! | salesmanship alternate with a ques! ion and answer column like to-day's. ! Evening World readers are invited to ask hig aid in golving their sal~s- 5 n lems. Address him by letter in care of thia newspaper. "is pe dhe dan published and cor reapondent’s initials only will be wsu'l. \ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. ‘6 HAT would you adv! these men is largely the putting In @, | W young man to start selling | window displays and work of this who has had no previous character, at the same time taking lexperience, but who has studied |orders from the retail merchant, The * | courses in salesmanship?"—R. H.G. [large packing houses, manufacturers | You have not given me sufficient |of breakfast foods, cigar and tobacco | data concerning yourself, and tbe ex- | manufacturers, and perhaps manu- |perience you have had along other |facturers of drug specialties, would lines. For this reason it is impossible » the logical ones to approach on advise you | this. penn oe eas . It might be well for you te worle If a man studied all the salesman-|4 few months in @ retail store, This ship courses in the world, the knowl- | Would give you contact with the gen- edge thereby gained would not neces- eral public, and if you keep your eyes sarily make him a salesman, As a|°pen and apply the lessons you matter of fact, I do not believe you learned in your salesmansbip course, have gained a great deal through |!t cannot help but prove of value to your study, because you have not you. been able to apply, as you went| These, of course, are only general along, the lessons you have learned. suggestions. If you would care to | the kind doctor cures your consump- | “Because only dance hall heroines | Theoretical training does not make a salesman; you must have the actual experience along with it, It has been my experience that the |best possible training a young and inexperienced man can have is to spend a few months in selling from house to house. The salesmanship | training gained is well worth the time | spent. Another good way to start is to se- cure a position in a wholesale house. Here you come in close contact with | business as it is conducted from the inside, You watch the wheels go \'round at close range, as it were. Al- most any wholesale house is willing to give its employees in the house an opportunity to demonstrate their \ability to sell. I do not believe you | will profit much by taking up any |regular line without first having se- Joured some sort of a foothold, such |as house to house selling, or work in |a wholesale house, would give you. Many firms employ young men as advertising salesmen. The work of that bind you and rescuing you and }so on. But Gertrude is acting sullen |and I think she's going to leave. “What shall we do, dear?" asked Mr. Jarr, “You leave it to me!” snapped Mrs, Jarr. “I'll give Gertrude a talk- ling to, and tell her that if I hear of \her going to any dances with Claude, the fireman, where they dance any such dances like this one we are talking about, which the very best people are taking up, I won't believe she's a Rood girl—and Gertrude is a write me again, giving me more com- plete information about yourself, I may be able to help you more definitely. , H. B.—Good books on sales * correspondence are: “Effect- ive Business Letters,” by Gardner: “Letters That Make Good,” by Poole: “Letters That Land Orders,” by Lytle, - In the case of the second book men- tioned—"‘Letters That Make Good'’— this book is a collection of model business letters. If you study it you should do so not with the idea of copying the letters or the ideas, but with a view toward absorbing the general spirit of them, i M. B.—Naturally, it would be * broadening your viewpoint to take up the study of advertising with 4 career as salesman in view, From a@ Strictly business standpoint, how- ever, I do not believe that it would be a good investment of either time or money for you. It would be better to take up the study of salesmanship first, and then, if you care to do so, you cam. study advertising in your spare time later, The professions of advertising and salesmanship are closely related, Ad- vertising is salesmanship on paper. It depends upon the same basic principles, |because both professions are based on an understanding of the workings of men's minds, However, in advertising there is a lack of the good girl.” And in a lite while Mrs, Jarr was singing at her mending. And what do you think she was mending? Why, ehe was mending a chemise! sil— Personal element, and, a6 a salesman, your business primarily is to learn how to deal with human nature as it is presented to you in those whom you meet personally, / And, peradventure, all the problems of men shall be settled) ip ,. ; ) ‘ L]