The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1919, Page 14

ae ee) JOSEPH PULITZER, Prees Publishing Company, y York. ESTANLISHED BY Published Daily Except Sunday by th pdardtiea pe RALPH PULITZOR, Presid nt, 6% Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Trowurer, 6% Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZ Secretary, 63 Park Row. es MEMBER OF THE ively entitled rf in tle jm SSOCIATED PRwAS, the use for republication of atl nm t and ale the lo owe pe liatienl Amociated Prom to it of pot othene rein, GMUMED OV vasctecicetcevviovesvevvveccens TIME FOR A TEST. ATION-WIDE PROMIBITION in the sense of nation-wid 4 enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment th rigid dictates of the Prohibition forces is hy no means ai accomplished fact It will never become an accomplished fact unless the people of the United States, with their eves open, weak-mindedly renounce their right to be represented in legislation, National and State. Tt will never become an accomplished fact unless the people of ™ the United States are ready to admit that the power of their will to determine laws enacted in their name has dwindled to naught as compared with the power of a lobby backed by fanatic zeal and an nulimited supply of dollars. It is a sorry pass to which tle Nation has come when defenders of its fundamental ideal of personal liberty see their only remaining hope in preventing the actual carrying out of an incongruous, per- versive invasion of liberty already lobbied into its Constitution, Yet that is the present situation. How many Americans will cast off earlier cowardice and join the defense? How many will courageously come forward and try conclusions with the Prohibition lobby that it may be settled whose influence with legislators is the stronger? Mere pointing to possible relaxed interpretations of the Prohibi- tion Amendinent as worded is not of itself enough tovhalt the trium- phant legislative programme of the Prohibition forces, Whether “intoxicating liquors,” as specified in the Amendment, gave those who wear the blinders of fanaticism. Nor is it certain that the “concurrent power” given Congress and the several States to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment “with appropriate legislation” is a power that need be or can be exerted to more purpose than has been the power im the case of the Fifteenth Amendment. nilarly given to Congress : The Prohibition Amendment might well remain an unenforced | for loosely enforced article owing its impotent existence to the fact ! that, because of the pre-occupations of war and the swift and wily tactics of the Prohibition lobby, the eyes of the country were not , opened to its true nature until too late to save the Constitution from deplorable intrusion. The prime fact, however, remains: All efforts to keep the Amend- ment from being enforced or fully enforced will be of no avail unless {backed by an outburst of electoral opinion and expression powerful @nough to contend with Prohibition pressure—powerful enough to set legislators thinking fearfully of those to whom they are re.pon- sible and of votes involved, This compelling force can be brought to bear only by the people. The people in this case must mean every intelligent man and woman voter who has come to realize that, earnestly as he or she! @esires to see the fight kept up against the liquor evil, the way to fight the evil is not by making complete and cowardly surrender of | that freedom for individual self-determination upon which American character has built up its splendid, self-reliant strength. | Every such voter, singly and in organized force, will seek oppor- | tunities to convince his representatives, State and National, that the popular will regarding nation-wide Prohibition has been no more expressed in other parts of the Nation than it was in California, where the Legislature deliberately went against the popular vote, The issue is bigger than Prohibition: Have we reached a point where any bigoted minority with al powerfal lobby and plenty of money can capture legislatures and pre- | tend to be governiwent of the people, by the people and for the people in the United States? Or can legislators still be held to account by those who elected * them? It is time for a test. Letters From the ‘Their Chance Will Come. Vo the Vatitor of The Brening World Although I never owned 2 dollar in eny liquor interest, I must congratu- {hate you on your splendid editorial, "Let Them Hear,” in to-day's Eve- ning World. This Prohibition business was cer- + tainly “put over’ on the American people in the excitement of the wa They never bad « chance to express | ‘their opinion on it, but you can rest sagured their supposed representa- a {ives will hear from them in the next | 2") No. 258 Broadway, election. | Jun. 31, 1919, Where {s the great Hearst nuw?! Would Reduce Protts, What are his liberty loving papers | pe” % THe Evening Word 4oing now? They aiways advocated the retention of light wines and beer. Why does he not show his colors now? | Recause he is a fakir. He ts afraid to wtand by his guns. Keep up your good fight for our freedom, A READE, fan, 81, 1919, “Let Them MH To the Eittor of The Evening World attitude in inaugurating a campaign for the retention of a Goverament by the people wil! mendation and support Your editorial is posted in my office so that all who come may read, If You print @ list of the legislators “who Voted to surrender the entire country unconditionally to the forces of Pro- hibition’ 1 shall take pleasure in post- ing that also. | DWARD MIEHLING, |Miehling & Kayser, Counsellors at 4 receive their com- ganized Labor" have been written with good intentions, they don't seem to look the problem squarely in th face, Do you think that by reducing the wages of “organized labor,” or 6 per cent, of the American worke you Joan benefit the other 94 per cent. of |the workers? Won't you think that the only Ten! remedy t# to reduce th profits of the employers of Inbor? “Let Thom Moa ne editorial in| if Uiin yw uot (ne remedy, will, you to-day's Evening ‘World, deacrves tie | Pitase state jn an editorial in what “approbation of ail fair-minded ¢iti- thes WAY You can Improve the standard of iiving of all tae Ameri. mama, Furthermore, youl courageous can workers? , ed Jeanatchee | ean reasonably be held to include wine and beer is questioned by all | Monday, Feb | EDITORIAL PAGE ruary 3, 1919 r Ne The Jarr Family Copyright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) Shrouded in Mystery, Dinkston, Poet of the Prole- tariat, Countenances the L. of N KR. MICHAEL ANGELO DINK- | child that the mumps STON, poet and proletariat, a fever developed with m. rayed in purple and fine linen | mas morn, and I, in my childish g¢! —that is, he wore a silk hat not muc4 | cried aloud: ‘Just what [ wanted! moth-eaten and an ornate fur coat, “Well you've made quite a hit with late the property of Mr, Jarr's boss, | my t Being very rich and not moth-eaten whatsoever-—wits alist too,” sald Mr, Jarr. and scarlet on Christ- he's a “And bh one of tho sights of a great city in|told me to invite you—and to make the days of peace and reconstruction. | sure you came—to a League of N. Claude, first at a fire, first to save [tions party he is giving at his apart- the girl and the documents and first] ments at the Highcosta Arms to- in the heart of G the Jarrs Jnight) [ve been looking for you light running domestic, leaned against | everywhere.” the chain across the doorway of “Not everywhere, There's been a Engine Number ‘Steen, and in che retiring from busin at a cafe lown th avenue, Dinkston, “A young and inexperi- enced man is in charge. He hasn't quito found himself, as he only has studied drink mixing by mail, taking Mr. hood he i. gested proud spirit of his stark her mocked the peripatetic sch “Shoot the hobo duc Claude, en eed “Pipe erled the fuzzy benny! Where did you ureipe oe lo rus asi by: Rielle OR ‘This shot went home, for the bi a. SOUR. Hh berien die: Wi Serene lous pundit had borrawed it without POs. ne aw icthat le ao neon the consent of the OWRET: Gout less (ee erences? witb the hope that the former pos- |" af ane sessor should miss something lo re- \ low could y m1 help this misguided momber his first and last visit from {young man?” asked Mr, Jarr, “the Bolabevik Bard, the People's’ “He mixes tho practice samples, Poot," as Dinkston had cailed bims.it;49d I drink them and tell him ever since the Sinn Fein had an- sn se Seppe ar oar aa nounced Ireland was @ republic. x in apt pupil, Iam sorry to way, Just Mr, Pinkston turned and pave jto-day he had to mix nine dry Mar- Claude, the fireman, a seereliié beiniy pefore f could tell him he had glance, But Claude was freprooflinem right at last, But £ am pa- and he laughed raucously and ped his fingers us though the sable( ang Mr, Dinkstom smacked hia coat of Mr, durr’s boss were mere ying at tho thought of his patience dogskin, and he whistled and called! ay an instr coaxingly—at the fur coat, mind you, | “Here, Towser! Down, bo: iad Mr, Dinkston would have i! and visited classic vituperation and j° S4P* tient with him!” rin applied chemistry , you're invited to the boss's of Nations party, and it's Jarre went on, Mr to rustle up a dross suit returned ou'll have Though your editorials on “Unor- | attired persons, all invited to the affair given by Mra, Clara Mud- ridge-Smith's husband, Among these personages was the conspicuous figure of Michael An- gelo Dinkston, “How much, isked of the of his taxicab, my good fellow?" he “Buck, or chauffeur, retorted the driver surlily. “Here's a dollar, keep the change. I am for perquisites for the prole- tariat,” said the urbane Mr Dink- ston, as he passed within to lend clat to the League of Nations party, OS it annoy your husbaad or | other members of the tami!y | to be asked to hold the skeins of Worsted you are using for mak ing sweaters or socks while you wind it into balls? There is an easy way to do this without help, Simply place two flatirons on the top of the Kitchen tubs or table as far apart as the length of your skein and slip th wool over this and you will find that it will wind without trouble, When you are doing any cleantag or tinkering about the house you are often bothered by a rusty screw that it scems impossible to extrect, Just heat a stove lifter or any small piece of iron red hot in the tire and apply to the top of the screw, and then before the screw has time to cool you can remove it with a screw driver without trouble, Cane seats in chairs have an an- ola a themas pon the rude where,’* seuniany Sen : Jnoying habit of stretching after a fireman fellow, but at this mom: at “Beneath these gaudy habiliments | ime, This sagging can be put a Mr, Jarr turned the corner and al-|y wear but hodden gray,” sald atm, [Ney BM guesoiving a, tablespootul most bumped Into Mr, Dinkston n, solemnly, “Hut be at lor washing soda in a quart of boil Meal orld ME Is shall arrive in duo time, |ing water, ‘Turn tho chairs upside person I wish to sox in tho conventional bli : is wo! ghly down, and with this wet thoroughly nie Dineen Bawanes «Kas \ friend, a mortuary director, | the under sides of the cane seats 1 ye an wed hire cod time at wiry. {7E?, Mente ebrouda and leave them in this position until Pet eer ak Yo) Mr. Jarre and Mr. Dinkston parted, | they ure very dry. This will shrink vers’? 1 heard . : pi ra 7 sude, the fireman, forgot the epi- | them to their original state, Jer hie he use last night,” ¢ Jrode of the scholar in the fine fur | obacco smoke, especially stale “There's to bo no happy. reta ; ee high hat, in} smoke, annoys many women, An ¢ that visit repiled Mr. Dinkston, |™ J vient dog tight |eusy way to clear a room of such . ee Ye saa. 5 way, and in waving airy | ymoke is to dip @ towel in vinegar hs mind as much upon pee ea SPITS | that article was upon his pe pend ain Nulations at the |ayd hot water and shake it above i i got n MINE. to do with vour wating Gertrude, who mationed |the head all over the room and in a y i + ae a {herself at t Jarr front: window f a 1 7 r i OW, | fow moments all odor of yinoke will private affair 'd Mr. Jarr, “You! rar up the street, from time to tme | diamappear ie rae ate ee [te, Base fondly as her hey Livery woman who does any kind of at, 1 shi The hour of 8 was at hand, and! ancy ww has been bothered in | 2 re See opemiatl By me f tha ithe Dp ot Highcosta Arms! keeping laco or embroidery flat and soolal revolution,” eried Mr. Dinkston | were as the portals of a palace dur-|smooth when she sews it around a heartily A spirit | havo always|ing a levee, Automobtle after auto- | genterplece or dolly and she wonders bven obscased of 4 remember as & mobile rolled up and deposited sichly| how it is done on the lovely center- “The clock says ninety-five cents,” | | By J. H. Cassel By Roy L. McCardell | How to Be Troubles and Cares ° & salesman loses sales, It ts pecause|nizo evil, Evil thrives mostly on, ] aken Out of Life he {s afrald of himself, He i afraid | recognition, \ he hasn't sales ability; he ts afraid | If a man believes in himecit Sayings of — Mrs. Solorion By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) A Rake May Be Reformed, and a Dyspeptic Cured; But a Husband Who “Keepeth Tabs’? Around the House—Who Can Bear It! Y Daughter, have you a little CENSOR in your home? For, behold, not ALL the censors are in the Post Office nor al the detectives in the Secret Service. Go to! A rake may be reformed, a dyspeptic cured a and a grouch endured. But an Husband who keepeth TABS upon thee—who can bear it? He is as a sand flee in the sleeve, a pebble in the heel, a hairpin that presseth on a tender nerve! Lo, he ariseth in the morning, fresh to his task, and his words of greeting are a reveille. “Wherefore, oh, Little One,” he demandeth, “ara there FOUR lights going when two would suffice, and why are there six towels displayed in the baturoom when four are enough? And what IS that which I detect burning in the kitchen? And WHO hath left the pantry door ajar and the ice-box unfastened? ” He meeteth the postman at the door and pounceth upon him joyfully. He readeth his wife's letters TO her. He TELLETH her all the news in the morning paper. He snovpeth in the ice-box and counteth the eggs. | He keepeth an eye upon the laundry list and censoreth the bills. He jmaketh the laundryman to tremble before him. He examineth the tele. | phone calls, He court-martialeth the hallboy. He watcheth the maldservant as a hawk its prey. | He observeth the “corners” whether she hath swept them and the | slasses how she hath polished them. He picketh on her continually, He turneth into a BOLSHEVIK! He instructeth his wife concerning the arrangement of her hair. He restraineth her concerning her complexion, He chooseth her hats and observeth the fit of her frocks. wroth over a loose button, and a solled glove causeth him pain. When the house hath been decked and polished for a dinner party he~ enthusetn not, but goeth over it with a microscope—and findeth a cowed upon the ceiling. He watcheth his wife's ways in public as a hote] detective and censore! . ner conversation even unto the grammatical construction thereof. He selecteth her friends FOR her. He is as welcome at her parties as a chaperone at the Winter Garu Verily, verily, her whole life is the life of a “defendant” trying ta prove her innocence under the fire of cross-examination! Yet, peradventure, he is a GOOD husband, kind and loyal and gentis and generous. In vain doth she remind him that, in the days of their courtship, a» called her “the one PERFECT woman” and admired all her ways and > words, and her clothes and her tastes. NEVER shall he relinquish his endeavors to “improve” her For that is his favorite pastime and his one delight in life And a little “reformer” is a deadly thing! a Better Salesrian And Earn Bigger Pay He waxes . + sidewalk to let an angle wort <> By Roy Griffith [> has no business in the sales ti i ul Salesmanshio The above is just anotuer way of Yor Eveving Worl! saying that aggressiveness, feavics % , tly, Instructive | ness and self-confidence are tho Mr, Grigith Jeamanship column is published datly. lesmon articles’ Nee condtycnaicrnate with assiwers to questions which edleemo =| oo ntogt vssots any salesman can pos- ** readers of The Evening World are inated to ask Mr. Gripith by letter, sibly have. Address him care of this newspaper. is a It is a known fact that dur ougnts i , an. the “Please Kick Me.” in your youthful imagination, |tend to materia themselves, If , " gz. | goat. you think you're on th level and OU remember how, as a youns- te y ster, you would slip up benind| There are some salesmen Wlo & | think it long enough, you'll BE on tha vy around wearing a “pisexe Kick ME” Jove) no matter what your tendencies someone on All Fools’ Day and pin a sign on his back—"P! we Kick Me.” The unsuspecting victim was, expression and who have eort of please don't buy any goods trum te’ sales argument, Thus they voluntarily relegate themselves to the realm of goatdom, There is just one reason why sich may be vtherwise, *Tell a man he ia honest and upright aml ho w that way, even if his tendency to be a crook until you came on the scene. We can do a deal of good tn ‘this world just by refusing to recog vee he can't cope with the buyer, So he adopts the “please, mister” attitude, thorougiily and believes he is a soot jsalesman, the chances are he Is oc WILL be a good salesman, itis |thoughts tend to materialize thom< | selves, It is always up to the salesman io | advance boldly. If he's afraid of hin)= \self, he can’t sell, And here's a pe~ pieces edged with cluny or filet lace that are imported from Paris, Like most things it is simple enough when! you know how, The French seam- stress shrinks the top of the lace be- fore it is sewed on, She does it in this wi ne measures off the quantity of lace required and then Now, the average buyer is just an ordinary man, But he tsn’t running a salesmen's relief fund. He doesn't care anything about the salesman, particularly, He is interested mainly in himself, That's human nature, He rolis it tightly and evenly and tles a iy willing to listen if the salesman cular thing: when @ salesman !4 string very snugly about the centre will tell him how the goods being | afraid of him he doesn't know ii, of the roll, Then she dips the upper presented will benefit. HIM—the|He thinks he's afraid of the pro« part of the lace edging in boiling buyer, Mle hasn't any grudge against | spective customer, water, taking great care not to wet the lace below the string, which must be Kept perfectly dry, as the point ts to shrink the top and not the bot- the salesman, Neither is he particu. sarly friendly. He's neutral, Given my choice between two sal men—one with an “I'm-there-anJ-I- 1 would advise all timid salesmen to spend a few minutes every morning Hing themselves what whirlwind |salesmen they are, It isn’t necessary tom of the lace, The water tg then it” attitude and another of the |t© tell any one else, but it ts vitally squeezed out a little from the lace our-pardon” type, I believe }/Heces#ary for a man to believe and the string Is removed and the would choose the man who had the|thoroushly in himself, If he does 2 lace hung up by the top to dry, When | Swetlea head. He would lose bis {believe in himself, others will believa dry it is sewed to the centerpiece be- | wotled h after awhile, if be had |!" him, It isn't necessary to spend i fore it is pressed and it will be found right stuff in bim, but he woulg |time telling them, to fail nicely around the curve with- | nave the jump on the man who went| I'l bet my money every time ort j out & wrinkle, .round apologizing because ne was|the man who believes in himself, If the gas burner in the bedroom | The man who would atep cit | whother ho has a swelled head «ives a poor flickering light unscrew | “EY: the tip and clean it out with a wire hairpin, If this dovs not improve the light perhaps the trouble is further up the pipe, so while the tp ig off rap sharply ence or twice on the curved gas pipe that either comes down from th or sticks out 1. This will remove of dust or whether he is merely modestly scious that he hag “the goods." 1 he hag a swelled head he'll lose it us ! soon as ho learns to make sules fur the pure love of the game instead of {so that he can have something to 4 brag about. And THINKING that you are & whirlwind may help you to become one, An old-time kitchen and somewhere on the side | 4 ina bathroom, In a house it is often in the cellar, When the water ‘is off unscrew the faucet, take out the worn washer, put in the new one, screw the faucet on again and all will be well. wa coiling from the any particles any slight rust that may If your carpet sweeper bot y v8 5 peper bothers you salésman wrote havo lodged in the pipe and bo hine| the chances are that the bearings are | ma Mile ie aie toeti ea dirty. Before you send It away to be| ® iotter the other day. Among other Ono vf the commonest household |repaired try giving them a bath inlnenee pe gait we BDL 1080 808105 annoyances Is to have @ leaking fuu- | Kerosene to clean out all gummy oll] O80 then 1. try te oe Dianne cet in tho Kitchen or bathroom and land dust. Occasionally the difficulty | myers en 1 ty to tisure out not be uble to get t. |g with the screws which hold tho| vere t was weak—whero I fell down Often ths reniedy brush in place, Constant jarring hua|— (2,01, Presentation of my goods." 4 That's the proper spirit. He KNOWS he's @ good salesman, He figures ) jout, however, if he loses a salo It wag ie these things do not help the sweep-|pecause his foot slipped somewhere, er needs a new puir of rubber rollers | t7@ gives himself credit for belng abia which you can buy at any house- |to discover WHERE his foot-gli 4 . K Wie furnisb.ag abop, ~~ ‘nd be sete the business, | f 4 eded about five store. To put this on you must of, course first turn off the water, The fixture which controls this is uswmally sink of tubs in @ flat]: loosened them and all they really need any