The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1919, Page 14

THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1919 a Patt | Samuel Gompers Favors A World League of Labor | = : — — To Be Just as Powerful Love Match of Princess Pat Proves War | Is Now Revealed at La THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 191 Secret of Belgium’s Mystery Paper hatHarassedGermat As the League of Nations Has Also Made the World Safe for Romance ta tivre reigique, which for Four Years De ow Germans’ Efforts to Suppress It Despite G He Says Labor Will Interest Itself in Peace Confer- Her Betrothai to Commander Ramsay, a Real Affair of the Heart, Ends Long von Bissing’s Offer of 25,000 Francs Reward, ence, but Trusts President Wilson—Insists Wages r The Patriot, a Long Established Weekly “ate 7 Sear a f Suitable Royal Rank Whom She Would Accept. « Must Not Come Down When Living Cost Is Cut, Search for a Husband of Suitable Ro; I A Pam Bp ; as Labor Must Not Lose Gains Already Made, and Chis Time She Chose for Herself a Husband From the Ranks of Democracy. rn, te or free ernrvee We ere 5 Aged Editor, Victor Jourdain, Whose Ingenuity BaMed ~ Will Never Go Back to Old Standards of Licing. By Marguerite Mooers Marshali | German Police, and Whose Vitriol Made the Geri ral romance as well as for de on mocracy. Princess Patricia of Connaught, the most courted princess in Europe and the cousin of King George of England, at last is going to be allowed to make @ real love match, for it has just been announced that ner | { [sone cousin, the king, ~ “gladly consents” to ber betrothal to a man who not only 4s no prince of the blood royal but whose title is that of plain | Federation of Labor's position.” mander” in the British Navy—Com- 1 asked Mr. Gompers to specify | mander Alexander Robert Maule| and he said that The Evening World Ramsay had published editorials in effect t To be sure, Commander Ramsay is organized labor spoke and fou the brother of the Earl ¢ ‘only for itself; that organized labor | ‘but since the earl has two sturdy took no account of labor which is not young sons the princess's flance has ‘organized. Mr. Gompers continued little chance of succeeding to the earl+ " “Everything that organized labor | dom. The mateb between the most has won has reacted to the beneft) beautiful and popular member of the of wage-earners who are not organ: | . | British royal family and the gallant ized. Non-organized labor has not “wie {naval officer is admittedly an affair | badvanced a step except when its ad- | ’ / the heart-suggesting the popu | * vancement has been the result of or- e-and-storybook romance betweon | *peniged taberte etterts. the rich man's daughter and the rich | “Workmen's compensation lnwa, to man’s private secretary, for Com-| mention only one of several beneficial |mander Ramsay was one of the three ‘Yaws that have been adopted in some | jaids to the Duke of Connaught when | tes through the agitation of or- | the latter came over to serve as! — labor, have equally benefited | bvernor-Genoral of Canada — and non-organized wage-earners. ‘“he in- | ‘brought his lovely unmarried daugh- creased wages, improved living con- | ter with hia | Mites, ‘shorter work day that nots New Yorkers will take a special in- | organized labor enjoys to-day would | terest in the happy culmination of | ot have been granted but for the 4 Same the love affair between her and Com- | Sgteady battle that has been fouRnty a sag income, aan Haag We have a national | ‘by organized labor. ved ta.|POMsibly enjoy the standard of ving Aamiration for @ princess who, like f i See ae “In fighting for itself OFAN d a ee eee ne oi tomed. i fies American, has refused to PRINCESS. PATRICIA Seal ask) wake Rutally. Attia ‘bor fights also for its brothers who acdsee Wess Gc aaeneie bs jow ben yen ly to choose her hus- Ce ee eallor Pri realize, | Powder viston of individual responsi esha of a Noi z few years later it {s easy to| best friends have heen the daughter | bilities and of civic duties than their ; an jas saying, A ane Aeeaeuiehaay Bac late Whitelaw Reid and oth and inform his readers, that Ork8N-| thors hud, ‘Their children now qo! bibs book which By Frederick Lawrence. Tie New Yok Meese Wor) | | Both te former Crown Prince of] Officials Writhe, Died Just Too Soon to See His Ci | 2 Covytight, 1610, by Tho Prese Publishing e, (The New York Brening World.) , apparently, has been Le eee ee ty whee Bens Brussels Liberated. Si GOMPERS, President of the American Federation of Labor, was | making the world safe for taaueSiateinta: teens (ue, eaCeIeNE BOSE BRUSSELS, Dec. 18 . leaving the Continental Hotel for luncheon in company with se of his associates who had been in conference with Mr. Gompe the principles American labor will advocate at the International Labor Con- gress which will be held at Paris during the sessions of the Allied Peace Conference, I asked Mr. Gompers these Questions: “What is your opinion of the efforts that the New York State Federa- 1 “tion of Labor and the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York are “making to bring about rapprochement between employers and w ' earners? "Do you approve of an international league of labor to make secure the principles advocated by labor in all countries, and do you believe that he creation of such a league is possible Mr. Gompers said “The Evening World, which newspaper you represent, has on two occa- ons during (he past two weeks editorially misrepresented the American | sense to refuse her hand—although ITH the coming of liberty to Belgium, La Libre Belgique has they once seemed excellent matches, | lfrom the Worldly Wiseman point of parted, and The Patriot hag reappeared. It is now possible | view: and late Queen Vic toria, | tell that the most remarkable of war-time newspapers, La Li | Patricia's grandmother, had a distinet| Relgique, which successfully defied German efforts to suppress it for | ; weakness for German royalty. Her a" . any | granddaughter had not, and, years was The Patriot, a long-established Catholic weekly, in dis that she never | Victor Jourdain, aged editor of The Patriot, likewise edited the will-o't except an Eng-| wisp sheet which kept German officials in a constant state of irrital Nshman: during their oocupation of his country and helped to keep the spirit of Other important personages whom ; said to have| Belgian peopl steadfast, Jed suitors yea ago, declared firm’ | would wed any or Princess P placed on her | include Prince Christe Prince Gustavus of Denmark, Prince William of Sweden, the Count of The Patriot was suppressed by German order at the outset of the |Turin, Grand Duke Adolph Friedrich! A few weeks later copies of a new paper began to fall into the hands jot Mec mK pabere: 8 ; i and the Duke ib and arriy citibers, Te die not prove Sane or Thee have Leen many stories of athe latter, Gen. von Bissing, military governor, offered 25,000 franes nt which Princess| Ward for the name of the editor and promised one year’s imprisonment the Marquis of! any Belgian found reading it. There were arrests in great number f . but persons suspected of the editorship but no convictions. It seemed that 1 down by her fam- | most everybody who could possibly have been guilty was arrested at of was not of time or another—everybody except Jourdain. One man was held by rmans to have been proved sufficiently guilty to warrant @ one-yt senience, but Belgians in the secret say he was innocent. The baffled police were kept busy) eet ae running down false clués. Given the| Managed usually to issue one ee tip that the printing plant would be | month. found at such-and-such a street, they Part compensation for his troubl would rush thither, only to find a| Was found by the editor in such vacant lot or an empty house, Told | Nouncements as these: Canada with her fathe: that a man of a certain name was| Not submitted to any censor.” just been made Governor General of the actual editor, they would comb| “Telegraph address, Commandantul the Dominion, a post he held cill| Brussels for him, learning eventually | Bre ; ia16. ‘The next year the Duke and|M@ Was not in the city and never had| “Offices: Not being able to estab Duchess of Connaught, with the | been. 7: these in a fixed place, they are Princess “Pat,” spent nearly a week! While the police hunted, Victor| stalled in an automobile cellar.” nh New York as the guests of Mrs,|Jourdain prepared copy. He pointed Advertisements: Business being Whitelaw Reid. They were enter ; erman | under the German domination, we h tained splendidly, and New York and he gave the) suppressed the page of adverti: tan people the latest news of the) and advise our readers to keep n Army and the Allied armies; | money for brighter days.” he ridiculed and lampooned the Ger-} “Price per copy: Elastic, from n officials and generally kept alive} to the infinite, Please do not ex plc's faith in a better day tol this limit,” yher of Greec! He died a few weeks ago, just too soon to see his city of Bru liberated. the German officta omantic atta Patricia had f Angle which was frown Dalhousie, y a numb ily because the Marqu royal blood, Later he married Lady Marjorie Manners—for whom, it also was alleged, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Patricia's brother, cherished sion his family would not let him declare, The separation of the Marquis and Marehioness was an nounced in 114 In 1911 Princess Patricia came to sta who out intentional errors in the official communia demoe atic. of royal. prin- Your country {s marvellous, your city is remarkable, and your citizens “What do little girls buve legs a ae She is an exceedingly demo- | r cratic young woman, and are—remarvellous,” she was quoted quel to the visit is a} come A typical article from La Qi « irrapressible| A few times obscure printing shops! Reigique, printed on the third have we | visit to|!magine her saying to herself—even, | of th - = meri- this city, just before | berhaps, to her indulgent uncle and] untitled American girl. la in this c set d printed te igi { jzed labor, represented by the A to school until they are at least four- |). ‘1 ; re the war, and |! fk Ls WOMRET ab lta bifin Havece| Withcall hens NY sak maeaer 4 {Pat a wrote about her experiences ||" th set up and printed | Riversary of the war, follows: gan Federation of Labor, is not ali ie old. To a ereater antent r cordial appreciation of the bos. | king sie perenad I ha s Bie. BOF Panise be pers kad wht according to report, con-|/ittle four-page paper. For he most) “Aug. 4, 1914, Dame German: pelfish group of men secking enly to than ever before wage earnérs are Ditality shown her. jheart at all for Because Prin advantages she has nd as many; ervative Queen Mary censored the| part, however, the work was done in| started off to wa The plan ts sim: advEntage themselves and shat the} | t } The, henetita at }yrne favorite niece of the late King | “Pat” always has been a royal rebel | suitors as any fairy-tale princes point of confiscating the manuscript.| shops elsewhere. Jourdain would |ple: Belgium does not count, Pa: , for the benefit of| #iving their children the benetits off eaward *VII.—who had a discerning | Sa! the theory that the heart of | and has shown her s scornful of! During the great war the Princess| .45 py night at the home of some if federation works for | bigher education; making them ac- ae been indefatigable in war wot bee Sad taken in six weeks, Russia crus! : + ma ‘ taste in human nature—Princess Pa-|@ princess belongs to the highest bid-| them, uy the right man appeared. | 4 r a amail ben ity printer, always | ber : % fall labor. complished in music, art, literatur of Her popular overseas is evidenced | aes ibs Sty: BE bi nero winter, England remainin G ers that The . " tricia since her childnood has proved |der—love not being considered nego-| Alfonso of Spain desired to make her|). pe ppointment as Honorary | selec one for the moment free of i Sippeured Ms, “Comn nis|RAving them trained for professional | hergei¢ a most tively : | table coin his w she tooked down at| Colonel of '< f ada’s finest | t Next Alone, too smell: @ SHing) AiG Bvening World vould apprecinte hie} (008 Cm imeem better, hous: & most lively and charming | Hable co’ ila write nat {Colonel of one of Canada's fnest/German troops. Next morning he/ derstand that nothing is eft but frank criticism, and that his state- |) 071° pce) work's : [exception among staid and conven-| AS @ princess been for|him loftily from her seventy-two | regiments peg ARE aniantey. the) would depart in his automobiie with| negotiate 4 the earnest | "8 Shem Detter. orkingmen FO) tional royal personages. There years one of the m igible royal-| inches and remarked with most un- i boda Sey |the entire issue concealed in the car. pels ment would comman ; entitled to something more than al genphttat at , a Mil LAIN dt pAiete | eater ee At ee Cee ae ted colors she ned embroidered | the en y / WE made the house of © oI ielsur eli story of a ve i e Surop 5 a person she has | royal cando imply wot arry| with her owt ‘ istribution would begin as far as|; 1 ey thought of the editor, At his ic bare living for themselves and their, RB voutheul visit ta chee ee ys A esti Distribution would begin as far e8) crumble! WE! After they aie So the young| Now at thirty-two, when Russian, | royalties—half the called on Mr ahe paid her grandmother, Queen Vic. | been—and is-most charming and de-| that horrid little man.” uate: Crome whee whee < (he in the evening I again called on Mr) agents, ‘Tt entitled to the} Queen Vi : ponalt Pans AE ne|to take Ca pass into Engl doria. The little princess had been | sirable. She is a typical English|king had to take another niece of |German, Austr rinting was done Gompers. comforts ents of life, to ad been ; ; royal pack of spe, in short-—haye | P a &c., there was,the Yser! 0 rie ou not think that the wages | pom et ce ie oe a t nt tolrunning happily about the lawn when | beauty—tall, with a tovely fresh col-| Edward VIL, Princess Ena of Batton-! heen thrown out of the game altos| In aplte of the diMculties of publl-| iene a ele eae ‘Do ye Presentably dressed, to Ko to con- tp | : f Zeppelins were to des of the krandma summoned her a ade hur Or, long-lashed, big blue eye aj berg. xethe nce al-| catiol ibre Belgique nearly a’ of workingmen, in view of the Teerts and lectures, to have a home! hr hie Em enea adm te her oH nels Ky a i, ie blue eyes and | berg J Dead ee rai | cation La Libre Isique ly al |don, London suffered little, the creased war pay they have received tinrary stocked with good books, tol not fun ; ae le girls hisiceg i y he ? ight-brown hair, She| Former King Manuel of Portugal! (ho merely. won Distinguished | Ways was neat and attractive typo-|utation of the Zeppelins suf should be reduced?” I asked. have @ piano in the hous ane has a well-shaped head poised on al ghe also rejected. Former nd| Sery Order for conspicuous gal-| SFaphically, Sometimes, when the ser-| much. Meantime they tried tol The princess dropped into an atti- |1ong, graceful throat,tand the line of| puke Michael of tude of comfort rather than of modest |her profile is exquisite. She is an . grace Jexcellent sportswoman, and is devot “Little girls should not cross their|ed to cricket, riding, golfing, tennis ssia wooed her in| lantry during the Dardanelles cafn-| yices of a complete printing plant were paign and whose — self-confessed Mr. Gompers replied: dainty furnished parlor for their “You cannot express too smphatles daughters to entertain company. in. ally my opinion that wages should things are necessaries of life in not be reduced.” these forward times, and to provide ish Russia, by military means ; fortur Io favorite recreation before the war| Obt#nable, the Arst page would be) the coup failed; by diplomatie “Pat,” ag things turned out He| was “Work. Surely the most demo-| bordered in the national colors, then; the Russian people put doesn't interest me sufficiently," she |cratic Americans may wish hor the] yellow and black, Editions, of course,|to that. ‘They plotted in thed vain~rathe tely for Princess Suc! DUG “ecpiapereh. & capsiedi linen’ workingmasa “mult” be well leg? au i Viet ia ia 1 seve and bunting. In Canada she often| said at the time the mateh wa con- bape se aeeerted by. 43 woman| were not regular aularly irregu-|kans, they bled themselves whi “eoncede that it would be impolitic to | paid,” sigh, Then she asked bay ; “rey hog eae kieing. She paints charming dered, “t > in luce me t | become 4) enough to fight for the rights of her|!ar" was the paper's own siatement]| Verdun, All was useless. And reduce wages while the cost of living Then, Mr. Gomp tdi he Asked, in dutcet tones, and has sive tence of literary Htarget for Russian bombs.” own heart of ita publication dates, but Jourdain] this time the people of Geral ja at its present high level but that! big thought that is in the minds off of tabor as a correlative vy were suffering enormously. The Hee Principle tolinterest by international lab 39 chancellor beg: o4 ices of necessaries of lfe/many employers, which is that | posiae i wn y international labor. ancellor began to realize it, when >i ie wages should be reduced when thellrricn’ Wiluon’s league of Na-| But labor's interest in auch read-| u ove ea e uy es they made their last throw: the dow or r | ae Gompers interrupted: |cost of living haw decreased, shoud |" "Y d Mr. Gi 1 Justenents will be chiefly with respect ° marines! And even in Germag ir. . . f : @ ll r, Gompers. “I am in jo the condition in which the working self they have dared . n va nd | be answered with’ | s y have dared to anne oem cen rose en taraad im” (gots Sa ti at fy cnaton which ih war at Ever Comes Into Our Lives)*:",:’,:"2. China there should be a labor league.) Labor's vole otes' be Ji 7 Ce. woe x in Russia another, in England, in/heard. if anv adinetocnt ante the) fl Is Usually Oulgrown, but Seldom Forgotten —It Is One of Those |‘*<\'’ + Then it is the ; ' A x Yes, it certainly is the end. . , France, in Canada, in Australia, in| peace terms should contemplate leav-| ‘First Experiences” Thal Memory Clings To Through All the After Years fa onine ann ‘Since the coming of America: Japan, in Germany, in every country ing the working cl 1 . g class either colle fa ok I The fae. ) kbd 7 ve | the arena the account of the linder Gedie aun there eheuld be aliiveir or naivicuain cf any carton By Fay Stevenson. same Jack Kiddington, When older, | and calmly smile upon our first love. Cer | Te ein: each once (aKING care eee she decides her mother was right.| though even the most practical are hy he been definitely se een awhipeablame In li OWOewAvil ct eLGEhne | pe eee Aon ie Calls it “puppy love” hers i and inclined to cling to it ied _ ’ wh th y will have tel according sa ewan nailensl teenage lise ute as | ‘ughs and blushes about it, No, a8) We never f f ‘o doubt another the cost of living but little about “wages and standards of living ‘American labor will never go back to the old standards of living, cost of living and wages to the contrary not withstanding. American labor h fought for more than half a centur to climb to where it now sta is merely one of many sof argu ment,” the pr inter- rupted, “Everything ts open to argu ment, and as the Chamber of Com- deration lea | merce of the State of New York says, debate, discussion, compromise has Gompers to particula adjusted disputes manner which mpers to particular rget the first piece o HEN a girl of sixteen comes f one|'® orderly, reasons just, and in : he grows older she becomes more! candy we tasted as a tous Aer ll n great hardship to us, § will not recede one step, not on Paes ihe GAGGIRAAT ; ties: Each national league should be Labor, not only in the United States | home and confidentially ta Ambitious, more worldly; she is not| jong dre Deine trou first | Seeing the importance of our goal neh, It will not surrender the frulte) ee andard of nivine in nie allied with ; HOmineny “apsenae ena but throughout the world, has faith her mother by hand nd | an innocent girl of sixteen any more. | valentine, our first love letter, ‘There | Wish, We Belgians, to suffer of ita wonderful battle country—not the one room, no bath, | Sraanization tor the pres (ne of the that President Wilson will take care | ra that she is in love with | Sno outgrows her ideal 8 no ser novelty; the 1 necessary in order that Right “Whether the cost of living is 80) oe a weakest agains of its just inter American labor | Kiddingt the boy ner FEAL Citero@er Wii. bub. Aden : Whe wit er the ishtub, potatoes and | soiree whateve y h utgrows him, but does! ness and fres s of a thitig is what shall triumph more compl little or so great is beside the ques: | |. will be in France to strengthen the | , the kind ther laughs and | yy¢ else in the pot standard, but | nay PrallBUethRL la Maw aioli ; e forget him? Is it possible chrilis us ¢ ps us from being ously tion, Standard of living is the thing andant wuimlabar Maa wha ee Leh taba Nould hands of our President.” her little daughter it is only | she can put aside so childish and pure) bored, ‘That Saat pice tit Me ti the Allies know: ‘Thal =the important thing—to consider.| wining for it—a home, a bathroom, | a? @* a Do you think there is reason to [PUPPY love She tells her tha love and regard for Jack Kiddine- | ,indte thacothers. fr k that consideration off Wages must keep step, net with the | cask se (ue 'avan taal, Gh | Ppallava: Shek Mie maberity Uld believe that Bolshevism will gain a|Will soon get over it and not tolton? x And she never does! Ask|¢o set us all aglow—on fire Msty cusre te the end off cost of living, but with ever improv Nelo, Kone SOWee. ke eh Gompers BN-l foothold in the United States?" 1 {bother pretty head about "any woman middle age if she ; PRanneRta ey | War on ing standards of living. want living environment. Thia| “eess oyrnere are in the majority,” |e! silly th Just yet, But, after all, |doesn't remember her Jack Kidding | ys: throug "We way i al a - *But," I said; “suppose a mani condition labor never would havely gaia ; é : Tf the gentlemen who have mrea the m right?’ Ts this first love lion, Watch her face brighten and] some of th h little things we | eo § ° whose father was paid $2 « day when) achieved if it had not organized and|" tryen why should they not rule?"| mh hut are ilving bygone |we are inclined to laugh at just &/iook at the tender exp He tbat | aid\ndieaideag ail ania’ has invers | America $ First low living cost enabled him to keep| fought for ite" ernest ( will spend an hour reading |Joke? Do you believe into her eyes, Hear how girl-| put back of it ail we respect. and fs vane a his ‘amily on $1.50 a day, should now) “What do you think of the move] vit it intended that the Labor Con. | CAT¥l’* French Revolution or Cae-| No, sir; it is the best and she laughs as she tells of some} nonor that first old love, We realize | Multi-Millionai demand $6 a day and pay out $4.50) ment that has been started by Prosi-| erence shall have any effect or in- | UT * Commentaries or Dickens oF liove that ever cames into ¢ she and Jack Kiddington hallow it took hold of us a ; for the upkeep. Would not) dent Holland of the New York Fed-| agence on tt a Gantevansaae the philosopher Rousseau, or even the rhe simplest and the true The | together, In her heart of hearts the | nore inte ' re |PULE frst American multi-mil the rat te thy ratio of out on and agreed to by the Cham onstitution and liter of tne] young girl does not love Jack Kid- | ol ard is stil there! She can : Taranalwent ' to ain interna fay 74 Commerce, with the purpose | Mt: Gompers answered this question | American Federation of Labor, and if|dington because he has the art of 1 to-day just as he Was; ane can] | s fame ¢ unt of his Mr mpers emiled King toxether the organizations |&t # lensth which I presume to cons) they will heed the sught in }making money; is of for- | ¢ 1 you the kind of clothes 1 a vw ephen Girard, whe * “You do not take into considera s and the federation for )cense thu |thoss writings, © 6 feign blood and hax a title, or for any | wore. “Puppy love?” Well, we'll take} yo) endl id y-reven years ago, Of theme } tion the expenses your $6 a day man | fl » keep the in Labor intends to interest itself in| fear of Bolshey ing ther reason than he is Jack Kidding t y day to the love of the older} 1° si ee F ne Jelal dynasties of to-day only the ? must meet to-day wh 6 $3 day | dustrial peace the deliberations of the Peace Confer- | United State k of ton and dearest chap she has Yor, it is real love, and tt is al ine labs hs ind the Vanderbilts were Kall ¥ tat was not called upon to pay.| The idea t of the movement is|ence in accordance with an under: | American Fede Labor ever m e likes him because ood thing we have all had it; be-| s and sented in Girard’s time, and Higher rents, higher cost mendable, I hope that the dis-|standing which has already been | constructive ¢, I¢ alms lig kind, polite, generous, and her idea | causc world seems nobler to us; | We a feinartaa aiatioausahia ; ‘achool books, medicines ny have lity that willl reached between the labor represen-|to bring | nto the work and tif ‘a hero; because he her type of |it supports our ideals. Loy na ns phian exce Gommasnte fyhousehold furnish paying his |henefit the employers und the [tatives of certain of the associated | of the workers, to make every day &} coming manhood, She likes his phys] poy of uw marry our first love, Wel ner ees Posen, a b : joun dansk 4 share, directly or tly, of ine ly 5 jnations. trer day gone be- | sical makeup; his rich black hair, the |. 4, too young or in some wa } Ina ‘ has [Girard was we bout f creased taxes—a and and or in Ir, Gompers will be] The large afta f aphieal, ‘ dark, serious eyes, bis ta urdy |are mado to realize that ‘“there'a| hated bu f his dea Much {expenses thot your father and mine to attend the in| political and voarrangement of | “Employers who antagonize the | ggure ih better than ar Lavtee tiie Gum Ana the | when ¥ | mone ft to the city of Phif 2 were not burdened with. Your f en I asked! Hurope and os remote from American labor movement and make | oiner mascu re she er CP lrT # ‘lakok ' Ml hia tor p purp and § ) ther ond mine did not ba Y I whit . is a re. the struggle of labor more bitter are | \nown. He ? ls yw girl, a woman, with w | 000 plied to building @ ‘ feproved standard of living, Our £ , “ & World league sult of the war will be observed wit Playing into the hands of the Bol It is true she seldom marries t panionship, We look back! hopes and better ideals, for orphans, ‘| sheuiata.” , ‘