The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1919, Page 16

———— - Che nt ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, day by the Press Publishing Com) 1, Nos. 53 te Published Dally Except Sunday by Pe prea Fable ng pany, ‘ m Were E n d € d RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. < " xe UNA T Ati y 4 : : + SRO AN Sa Wy ‘J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 62 Park Row. S i - ? ORE ES AS hy rr f 4 é j JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Seoretary, 68 Park Row. i . ; AD ghey? SN . Kay hy ‘ 3 J Wiis oe By Albert Pa yson Terhune MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. | ' ~ ale ; MNCs § Ri ia LAY i } ; B i i é vilahit. 191%, by The Frese Publishing Co. (The New York Fvening World.) Wiration of atl p ‘ : PO mh rae gl meaTS ANCE LTTE TST ANU pe dS ne td 1 NO. 19--THE BOER WAR, IMPARED to the World War, just closing, the Boer 1899-1902 was a mere “affair of the outposts. its day it was ranked as a great war, And its were far-reaching. Jt roused England from a sleep of unprep and stirred her sons, at home and in her coloni nad fervor of patriotism For many years the English and the Boers i p"“*Afrioa had been increasingly at odds There hi flerce clashes and one war between the rival ef The Boers bad been in the ‘Transvaal and the Free State long before the English arrived there in any force, Th the descendants of Holland Dutchmen. seeeeNO, 20,9 NOT ON PEAK WAGES. LITTLE TOWN in Massachusetts situated five miles from Camp Deven? has a post-war problem: Carpenters from this town have been getting wages as high as $7.50 a day for work at the big military camp: They have become accustomed to these wages. They are loath to look upon ent, representing a sudden but or ze ny them as other than just and perman i é The word “Boor” means “farmer” or “country-dweller.” It | from the same root as our English word “boor.” A “boor,” in old vas a countryman. And folk referred to the countrymen who lived! them as their “nigh-boors,"—from which our word “neighbor” is de Later, city people spoke of anyone with rude manners as a “boor’—mi ing that he was a rustic who lacked the polish of townsfolk. And word took on its present meaning. natural increase to which their fellow townsmen must reconcile themeelves. e in this There are many farmers and other hard-working pt town who have not been favored by the war. Nor does the greater) Ranchers and goldseekers and diamond miners presently flock South Africa from Hnglind. And—as in the case of our American set! in Texas—they clashed with the owners of the region. President Kru; Barrens the Transvaal was openly hostile to these | } English Clash H lishmen and made laws to tax them so heavily. With Boers. to discourage their remaining there. He and y-Boers chafed under England's claim The first Boor War and Jameson's raid | various other outbreaks had served to fan al! this ill-feeling into hate, on Oct. 11, 1899, war was again declared, amount of money in circulation seem to have increased the money total of their incomes to anything like the extent that it has added {o the money total of their bare living expenses. If it comes to the point of carpenters at $1.00 an hour or no carpenters at all, they ne . suzerainty over his dominions. must go without carpenters. 7 er residents of the town are therefore asking CP dl! : sila sala ps is i ; Ge. Sart : For the first year of the conflict the Englishmen who had looked } . . “ ward to an easy victory were sharply disiliusioned. Th f ate y siliusioned ne Boers were GEE rae eer et oan SS ee only brilliant marksmen, but they fought like wildcats, Moreover, # = were in a stretch of country familiar to them and almost impassabl the British, One English catastrophe followed 4 gland proved too small themselves : (1) Whether the Reconstruction they hear so much about is going to pass them up as a clase which henceforth cannot afford to other, The force sent out fro The leadership at first was marked by blund after blunder, Great Britain was aghast the slaughter of her (2) Whether the more fortunate persons Who can employ car “a are C i a” oO F % : = ; eee ould “AU a pelcs WHEs GRLULA Wtageer Noemie ae re chiar se p come only “ata price which should stagger humanity.” And he made . hia boast NATION Ss ‘ But Great Britain was quick to profit by her own errors. Lord Rob and Kitchener went to the front. Greater and better-equipped levies of troops were sent out. And gradually the fortunes of war began to shi British victories piled up. The Boers were fighting a losing contest. In February, 1900, Kruger made pe overtures. But he demand f of the Transvaal and of the Os hire carpenters, or penters at $7.50 per day will turn out to be insufficient in number to employ all the carpenters ‘who want work—particularly as the numbers of the latter are increased by the mustering out of return ing troops—thus bringing the good old law of supply and demand | ann Doves to the aid of those whose pre-war incomes cannot possibly pay | British Army Free » “the incontestable independence of Becomes Victorious. § both republics as sovereign international states, present wages. tant reat Rritain curtly rejected these terma: and answe d the overtures by formally annexing the Orange Free State an the Transvaal to the British Empire. And the war went furiously on, But bit by bit the Boers were hammered into helplessness until. th conflict degenerated into a sort of guerilla warfare among the hills. Kru escaped to Burope, where he tried to interest his old friend the Kaiser i an alliance, But Germany had no desire to espouse a losing side. And th Kuiser would not even receive the man to whom, earlier, he had sent congratulatory telegram, The beaten Boers signed peace articles at Pretoria on May 31, 190 And the war was over. Briefly, the peace terms acknowledged Gri Britain's absolute rulership over all of South Africa, except for ce! unimportant Portuguese and German settlements. No indemnity was from the conquered; and the use of the Dutch language was permitted hi schools and in courts of law, &c The Jarr Family — % Roy L. McCardell A village problem. But isn’t this village problem a statement in concrete miniature of a larger wage problem the whole country is called upon to tackle? In the last analysis the present wage problem in its national aspect is in great measure the problem how far classes of labor that f have come in for the biggest war premiums, that have been more favored than burdened by inflation, shall be permitted to fix wages at levels where they can only be maintained at the expense of other classes of workers whose living standards hats already been forced lower under the load of increasing prices for al necessities In an interview which appears in another column, Mr. Samuel { tiompers takes The Evening World tp task for misrepresenting, as ° fopyright, 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) “How “ 5 P __ boo i w's your paw?” asked the in he sees them, the aims of organized labor, What organized labor Nl (¢ E a rn 1 & e r a This Is Worth a Dime If It Is Worth Anything jauisitive old lady. “Does he trea has won in the way of shorter hours and better working conditions, By Roy Griffith ape +H d to poy anone Sue, Las ied OOKING out upon the New Year,| Loan buttons is mainly appreciated|’ “Mater dace ies "akt.dadil , J ) . package of pins that would otherwise | o xis AHI VANE BELER EIT RETRIGRRIRIECL 2 | ster Ji as fF in rt, has acerued equally to the benefit of unorganized The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship jcost you a nickel, It is velume of | Old Re ene bari ye. TUT EN 7 | ORY Rnee OF TALERU A wealih, 11005 ;|child. He understood the ways ¢ he polats oul, by qually 2 he Evening World's Authority on) Successful Gs anshil mi ivauya, nidkol 1b 18 volume ¢ of Indiana, who lived on the|they speculate in them, and, but! those who tried to “pump” youn |sales that enables you to er- | ‘ a he coat a ; ‘ . labor. Mr. Griffith's salesmanship column is published on this page daily. ndise for the pita now asked. ground floor of a flat ey wn ne aah don't tell anybody—they use| sters for the gratification of idle curi In speaking for the great body of unorganized workers who have Instructive articles like toeday’s ailernate with answers to questions 'To get volume of sales it is necessary eres, betel 9 seas lie Senaee a beand tokens in sidewalk games Of | osity, p i ; Pets Which sulesmen readers of The Evening World are invited to ask Mr. —|to induce the public to trade. They | Renove ang atte rat mia viaaky Pee ca: “My paw found a million dolias no Mr, Gompers to rally them and fight for them, The Evening] — Grigun uy letter, Address him in care of this newspaper. will trade where they are asked to do “aes y he boy who has, or gains, the most /jast night,” said young Jarr, with The lads were playing “heads or|Liberty Loan buttons is the local tails” with the First, Secoad and] young person of means, for the pro- Third Liberty Loan buttons, which| paganda of socialism makes no head- fare now legal tender in Boydom. way against the capitalistic system These old Liberty buttons are a/ among the tender youth of our land. patriotic education for the youth of] “Highty, tighty!" cried the lady the land, but they perhaps do not} from Indiana, coming out to the frent take the education very seriously—| steps. “What you boys got? still they prize these emblems of a) Pennics?” so and where they are well treated. Every person who sells has some ar what I And he replies: |organization back of him which is sly look at the old lady, “But | wasn't to tell anybody,” “Do tell!" cried the old lady, tiptoe with excitement. “You be a good boy and mind what parents say. What did he do the money? Where did he gi she added eagerly. 5 World has had no thought of denying the substantial and deserved WHO PAYS FOR IT? gains which organized labor has at various times secured for itself RETAIL. ’ © I did; what did you say?* making every possible effort to secure and for all labor. A of doll uri ; | nd ‘ bene : Nie ipsa cho Hunhoha (ae The word “turn-over” ia a sweet|Volume of sales—to sell more goods What The Evening World has tried to point out is that organized | active and as convenient as Posei. morse! which writers on business in less time, The object is to cut i Ss ubjects. like to. roll under their|down the expense per dollar of sales, ‘ titude of aggressive, uncompromising refusal to] ble. It performs all manner of ser-|*4 ae Manor's, prenedt,-achivuus Laine t sini as| tongues, It sounds nice, but what | This all benefits YOU. tie{ does it mean? Your firm has spent time and money | $11! Scie Rigres ok bart eet een rare 4 Winn EAA RnOAe: teilé an ji _|to make quantity selling as easy as | MAtion arouse! our boys. Naw,” said Master Jarr. ‘They When somebody tells you that prof | a oe you, Your worth to your| But to our boys of the age of Mas-/are Liberty Loan buttons, firm is measured by the amount ét|ter Jarr and his young friends, the| got Red Cross buttons, too! Nani oer ey me] ity [Roads you sells_It'e up to you. possession of quantities of old Liberty| “I got a lot of flags of our Allies freely and willingly re | Ply this: merchant buys buttons, a MNHRHoat ie the Ue ca: and dollars’ worth of goods to-| e Beane aly Pee ay Master] grabbed him and hollored for t y and sells it all to-morrow, he ; got cigarette) pop, and he come running fm nts in the newspapers, do | 4 al y hel picture cards of vie actors and| grabbed the burglar with oni ti 4 utheate eh yor Jefinitely to its|¥oU ever ask yourself, “Who pays for | has made more money than he would | . Chane Ghacila acts ‘ 6 priate the favoring effects of war and inflation indefinitely to gh Re ae NeTead cinvar ae. h " and choked tim and tock a all thi Well, you ought to be ashamed of| dollars trdm him. Pop's goli } : ° own advantage, while other classes of toilers have to take on the! wen, who say? Maybe you | ™onth to sell this amount, When you ereaavcey tittia Boca ik ‘ eee ee laybe you! iy that the way to make more e a bed] eh Sve "ke you all!" | buy us an automobile . with burdens. thought the customer does, Nat 0. | nterrup je old lady “Fer I can money in business is to have @ free r money. store spends thousands | ¢ rs in un effort to m vices to customers free of charge you walk into , is not the attitude that will do most for organized labor or | Palaces of modern merchandising, do gains 1 not i 8 ; You ever ask yourself, “Who pays for |'t* in business depend on the rapid for labor generally in entering upon the readjustinents without whic Hai these decorations, for all these |'ty Of the turn-over, they meaa sim- consider the slightest diminution of even the biggest of its war Ea edbatuchdr tay lar,” replied Master Jarr, and wel/automobile burglar broke into rooms to steal the money out of: nickel bank, But I jumped up4 the country cannot hope to get ona solid footing of prosperity, Heike “ . formed? No class of labor, organized or unorganized, can expect to appro | vertisem If it were not for all this elaborate see you bin gambling with them but- “What became : i y deny 4 he whole. g “ que -over, you are me y i. of the Mr. Gompers would hardly deny that, on the whole, organized} yusiness-getting paraphernalia the| 44 ay Hel Nat ogg ey AA By Helen R owland tons, Let me tell you what happens] asked the old lady preathlony : ng that if you more goods f = oun . ‘a | te e co “y 7 b. | labor was in a position to get by far the bigger share of the war|customers would pay w lot more for ae heuer lon ican yaus wilemeae Coorright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening Wield) to sinful gamblers. Back in my home| “Pop and I carried him $ aig ‘i % their goods. It in volume of sales " HE'S HOME AGAIN. in Indianny onet, my husband's step-|the river in a bag and chucked plums. Nor would he deny that organized labor, at the present! which enables a store to give its] more money brother's boy, @ young feller only] in,” said Young Truthful. “He nae to give them all the con [TE 0 Oo ohne i ain the pores ' Father, carve the turk! stable's boy, o Widder Dingle's old-| “What did you do then?” ing winnings. veniences of the modern store and at |°NG So On. Fe V BOR MY NDE: meee ‘ 5 : est twin, an’ Ike Sowerby, who was " ) the same time give tt F wy ie regardless of the amount of busin?ss an stor, dil bis: plate again j born in the pore house, was all pl Mra. Husenberr. ‘ | To say that unorganized labor deserves to suffer for the very i oa) ‘an ’ ARE AGH PRUE) Te TF mora mocde are acid Gute x EVERYBODY work! ey — in Apsst ‘My pop rolled up his sleeves - or every dollar spent | le ‘ ‘ in ‘seven up’ in the hay loft of Ezra] ast the police if th s foolish ine r 7 » dispose lany given period, as a day or a week, ae + 3 { a eo g! , * a F ey want reason that it has foolishly remained unorganized, does not disp When a store proprictor makes his| t al, 4 bee ne ae ae A he >. See him stuff! Oh, blessed sight, Dibble's paw's barn one Sunday—|fght him or be friends with of the question. ‘There are millions of American workers the nature | place of busines attractive as Santana lof expense! Tar Acad oe My, but it's a treat, Sunday, mind you~and it was struck] went on young Ananias, “And ; ~ | posalbte, he is doing #0 with just one Just to see his appetite— by Hght-ning and they was all called] p'tice trembled and said the: » 8 : es % acticable. G e work money taken in is materially eut a atten lain Aas y wi of whose work mak organization impracticable Yet th obits inns ¥- ‘ attra t (NOP GUNe 1A cn) Staea then, lan added @avinn Just to watch him EAT! ate Ap land, like the snuff of @/to be friends, Then we went itself is as necessary to production as the work of organized labor at's what comes of gamb- a the conduct of business: an Romane ce cream parlor and bought In the light of the above we see that i cream for all the p'licemen, and more goods a firm sells in any Oh, well perhaps food was more plentiful before the war started, bul] “We're just playing ‘Heads or|got a tub and filled it full of ey they can | LOVE was getting to be scarcer than radium—and just look at the present Tails," explained Master Rangle.| cream and the p'licemen helped business depend onlafford to spend in advertising and |crop of weddings and engagement “When I toss my buttons whoever] it home to my mamma, and we ne Whole thing rests on what is What should happen is this: While wages ought undoubtedly to known as ” steady at levels distinctly above those prevailing before the war, the | You have he that profits Ndity of turn-over it suid, of course iven period the more e process should work out by revision of wages both down and up. lithe rapidity p tubesowar. -Ableh (othae wavate aet that buuccn i tosses with me has got to match the] have ice cream now all winter, Rather than a desperate struggle to maintain the highest of | making this profound statement, 1) Let us suppose you were the sole ‘A man tries to dodge the woman whe is forever moralizing just aa a] "0% verte me EN ee you mustn't tell anybody because i yar : aay to Mr. Ordinary Man: “Did youl customer ot a large store, You would | gmail boy tries to escape from the person who ie forever washing his face. ‘Well, it's all sinful!” said old Mrajall raised our hands and swore present high wages in the yelief that other wages may be thereby # chit ad dl ‘ uy would | small s person who Dusenbérry, “And I want you to jest} to betray the secret!" h scaceiittad natcherally quit or I'll the p'lice, “Why. i i here ould be increase of wages tha ave PA p Why, bless the child! orced upward, there should be an increa uges that hay Th Or | Bl b Nay verily, not every damsel that flaunteth a knitting bag useth It t¢) Little boys shouldn't be enjoying}, word!" cried the ota ee remained stationary and at the same time a decrease of that e€ igina uebear conceal her parcels and her make-up cox. Qccasionally «. carryeth bei| themselves, ‘They should consider} mouth agape. “This is a deem nave of late become fantastically high HE Bluebeard of Pervault’s fairy for bis piety and his licentiousness. | KNITTING in it _ they live in a vale of wickedness and| wicked city. I hear folks i r . , | tale bad the habit of kil gs ]His chapel was the richest In. 1s ; = sickness, where they ketch the influ tthe streets till long after 11 Inflation, the country is told, is an inevitable post-war condition his wives, but the first and {furnishings in all France, and he To a man, the greatest proof of his complete devotion to one woman san ane they g0 to & vale of tor |itere's a penny for you, Buby that must be reckoned with. ‘Then keep inflation, so far as may 1 Bluebeard was a yer of |gained from the Pope permission, to] is his irresistible impulse to make love to any other woman who reminds menti must always come and tell me b - F o | n, He was ¢ ae J © a gold crosy carried before him | nim of her, ‘The little Slavinsky boy ans Master| thing that goes on.” be, equitably distributed. While it raises all prices, don’t help it to} Mars de a 1 nm Dis travels, All of this time his Rangle picked up their Liberty Loan OA buttons and shuffled off, but old Mra. | tp penny cried Master were luring to his vas Is of the vieinity, all of What is there about a man who is always “reforming,” weich seems lift some wages to dizzy heights while it leaves others at old levels | {2 ’t °™ TOAD IB sles throwing it down in disgust, France, and he was executed for hix| whom were put to death by the mon- Dusenberry held on to Master Jarr. {c1qy thing! Johnny Rangle’ ; ‘ by the er : ear a ° \ a! Johnny gle's hat can only mean deplorable slipping downward in standards of|atrociouy crimes 478 ye Kae Take ‘ Just how many he made away |*9 Make bim s0 much more fascinating to foolish women than a man who ‘How's your pore maw, Bub? shel gimme a dime when I told him 8 i 1440, His beard w y otint | With is unknown, but they are said |is always behaving? asked, “Did she get over the influe rif) iving for thousands of American families. asa hynghy lee : to have numbered several hundred ee meal one i ayaa which we rhim the popu ame A ) he was arrested, and caln- 4 ; “Maybe he robs burglars too, Prosperity in the United States needs somet : ter given’ to f fi fain tale tay > sed his crime and the One of the vital questions which won't be settled at the Peace Confer Master Jarr said his p aw waalnas lots of money,” said the old ee judges, h | by the terrible reve-lence is how to get out of all those foolish little promises you 80 impUle| well, and that she had got over the| “ ' rest om than peak wages. eerie tions, ordered him executed on the yi arity h | p well, a nad g the | trom Indiana, “but I'm only @ gina luebeard was noted 'xpot sively made under the mistletoe influenza, old widder and oan't afford |