The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1919, Page 18

z oe let ape Che CGeniwy World, ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos e . 3 Park Row, New York. ta Ls RALPH PULITZDR, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, 63 Park Row, ii fl ry, 63 Park Tow, Jos MEMNER OF THE ASSOCTATED PINs, Amociated Prem is ¢ ty entitled to the jise for revublication of all evnates: elt Sr Ps ts alpen nnd cleo eke local ewe publlotog ereuxe WOMUME BO. cic csccvevensecervrsevecseers Ths THE REALITY. ' 91,007 HE President's instinct was a happy one. NO. With his first words to the country on-his return he waved away the bogie Europe that Senatorial eloquence had conjured up in the shape of crowned heads and despots darkly plotting to entrap and exploit the United States in a foreign-made Leagua of Nations. In place of these Machiavellian monarchs of the imagination the President presents to the people of the United States the reassuring, moving reality of the peoples of Europe calling across the Atlantic, has come when aj “as comrades to comrades” in confidence that the day new world can be “constructed upon a new basis and foundation of justice and right.” “When I speak of the nations of the world, I do not speak of the Governments of the world,” the President declares. the peoples who constitute the nations of the world “I speak of “The men who are in conference im Paris realize as keenly | as any American can realize that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people and that the spirit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realize that purpose, and that no man dare get home from that conference and report | anything less noble than was expected of it.” The great purpose of the toiling millions and tens of millions who have made the sacrifices and borne the burdens of the greatest | of wars is—peace. Peace as permanent as the common consent and co-operation of civilized peoples can make it. | No ruler, no representative can betray that purpose. No Senate can belie it What the President says of the proud position into which the United States has come as “the trusted of all nations, with the re- sponsibility of proving that this confidence’ is not misplaced”; what he says of the duty now devolving upon America to do the bigger things it declared its determination to do when it entered the war— ought to refresh courage and strengthen resolve. Nevertheless, preliminary’ to fuller, more detailed discussion of the proposed covenant of a League of Nations, the strongest effect of the President’s speech at Boston should be the sane reminder that | behind that covenant is not the devious policies of courts, kings or even diplomats, but the honest, earnest demand of war-worn peoples that all the fighting and the suffering of the last four years shall not leave the peace of the world as insecure as it was before. PORT IE OWT -EDITORI Tuesday, February 25, 1919 AL PAGE “I Don’t Like Her Looks” Peoples are making this peace. Peoples are feeling their way | te this League of Nations. Peoples have greater power at this moment than ever before in the history of the world over those who ° speak and act in their name, h l S It is puny statesmanship that still sees no further than the . i old manoeuvrings of autocrats and inner circles, the old dark and B y s ophie Copyright, 1919, by The Pros Publishin devious diplomacy, the old danger and distrust, + THE DODGE BILL TURNS BACKWARD. HE Dodge bill permitting the use of old four-story and base- ment buildings as tenement houses without the alterations | required by the present Tenement House Law to insure | adequate light, ventilation and fire protection comes up for a hearing before the Senate Cities Committee at Albany to-morrow. Strong opposition to the bill is certain from the ‘l'enement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society of this city. The Tenement House Committee points out that the Dodge measure (1) Exempts the four-story and basement building from highly | important requirements as to fireproof construction, particularly as to the absolutely fireproof character of the first floor above the | ir cellar, the stair halls and the stairs themselves; also from the require ment that access to the roof be provided through a bulkhead; woman suffered, Oh she suffered — be had whis| whisper that made “& mountain out of a mole hill, The girl had done som: foolish Little thing that in itself Was 3, but ¢ didn't look mr, wa thing was whispered by an- other girl who saw Sho did not stop at one whisper but spread it among the young girl's friends. And each time she whispered other int tation, and Coonin sane ll she added (2) Permits one room with no window whatever and disregards | the thing that was really nothing the present prescribed sizes of other windows and the yards or courts | @ppeared magnified indeed: ich th Ls | Now this girl left the community in on which they open, = , which she lived because she Wasn't] e Dodge bill is neither more nor le nan one of the periodi- strong en h to expose the intent of The Dodge bill th less th f th 1 | cally recurring efforts to relax, on the plea of urgent demand for the poisonous tongue of the whis- increased housing, the standards of tenement house construction Pie" assed gather than be tor fetablished by the Tenement House Law of 1901. tured by the thought that she was That those standards should be progressively raised rather than, ™misiudged. Of course, courage should ' me to those who innocent to lowered is every bit as important to the health and safety of men, Hout to 6 fini Wika ‘HARE eau tas women and children in this closely settled community as that more gisarm the whisperer. But all are 4 dwellings should be provided, The latter need should not be met at strong enough to make the fight I know this person, the whisperer the expense of the former, New tenement houses or buildings converted for use as tenements should in a!) cases show an advance, not a step backward, in sanitation, It is a habit Sho always starts something Jk 4 if you'll swear y n't light, ventilation and protection against fire. mG 1 ee a * % It is by no means generally admitted that there is serious en she will proceed to give of housing at present in New York, High rents appear to be you some spicy in ation that put , somebody in a questionable lght, more immediate problem than scarcity of dwellings Py Re ert ica | a In any case the Dodge bill moves in the wrong direction, What! ing by “You mustn't quote me, but New York needs is a law to insure that boarding, r g and lodg 1 got it from a good s e" Then houses, whether new or converted buildings, shall be increasin cl ana a ee sped cleaier, lighter, safer places to live in, te to piece Sis * Or even she will timidly (2) m roach, "Now 1 The Spanish Republic. th HE first—and perhaps not the;who continued to hol satire et uent Tint ta i ; yeq | Dec. 1874, when yaaa eal ae daelsy last—Spanish republic followed | Peer AY thite wen r i" And then s the resignation of King Ama laimed or w t shat aeimanns deus, Duke of Aosta, forty-six years | sentiment } Af | said about you) or about some love ago. The Cortes met to consider the | spain since a) one hort, @ tale that will brin situation and voted for the establish- | occasions th ie Ss eee ne ment of a republican form of govern-| X11, has bee i 98 yo f ment. In the following Sepiember | crises upon. the outcome You con them, SV Emilio Castelar was chosen the firet| depended his throne. ‘The Spanish &! !8 Your every day life, All these Government has of recent years made wWhisperings, a8 @ rule, cause unrest earnest attempts to disarm the re- and misgiving somewhere to some- publicans by gsamting many reforms. body, | Agere of the republic of Spain, and by Marshal ‘the listener perere Irene Loeb @ Co, (The New York Rvoning World), The Cure for the Scandal Monger Lies With the ‘ Listener YOUNG AN how someone Yet, when you stop to think about t, the whisperer is always the party of the first part, and it takes two to cause trouble, The listener is the equal partner in the result, at least, As has been said by the eminent Sir Thomas Browne, “Whoso hearkeneth unto whisperers shall never find rest, and never dwell quietly.” The cure for whisperers lies with As soon as the tale- bearer knows that he or she will not be heard and that they will be marked as a whisperer, the sooner will they stop the pernicious practice -for it is that, If you will only analyze it a bit, you will realize that if the whisperer whispers something about somebody else, it is quite possible that he or she will do the same about you, Is it not true, then, that you are defending ourself when you defend one whis pered about? The listener ts prone to think ‘where there 1: smoke there is fi Y if you will look cl will find that the fire started with siper or the teller rather than person about whom it was told was weil Elic at co} raid by G p is a sort of smok the lirty tobacco pipes of those ho diffuse it; it proves nothing but In other words, very often the tale- bearer has evil ts and there fore sees evil in the thing that he con- He, is the fire himself that is the smoke, Most of the time these people look through the microsoope instead of the lens of the human conselence. the bad t thous veys. creat Let them know that you see ugh them, = | FINALLY SATISFIED. VACATIONIST, just returned, A relates having overheard this bit of bucolie dickering: ‘Hiram, when are you goin’ to pay ine them $8 for pasturin’ your heifer? York Hreuing anmivens, By Do You Know thel The Jarr Family | By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World), If Gus Opens a Pharmacy Medicines Will Become ie | door!” murmured Mr. as he paused at the portals of Gus's cafe on the corner, He was debating with himself as to what would be the most effective entrance jhe could make, Cafes are soon to be extinet as pro-Germans, His first thought was to “gum- shoe" in—that is, to make his incom- jing quiet and unobtrusive so tha the warmth of greeting he recelve, the acclamations of welcom: from his old cronies at sight of him, would be all the more heightened by the contrasting modesty of his de- meanor, He hadn't been in this soon-to-ppss-aWay resort of personal liberty for two weeks! He waited to hear wails or other sounds of mourning and woe but woulu hand upon a@ table, and a voice saying javinsky, I meld sixty queens!” ap- prising him that Rafferty, the builder, and Slavinsky, the glazier, were having hail and farewell hand at pinochle in the corner under the “No Beer, No Work!" placard, Though they had beer and were not Working Then Mr. Jarr also heard the rattle of a dice box, followed by an argu- ment as to whether if one of the dice fell on the floor and turned up an ace it could be counted if the caster of the dice had not been at fault “Gus knocked the dice off when he pushed ever your glass!” cried a voice, “That's Rangle throwing dice with Bepler and Muller, and maybe Gus,” mused Mr. Jarr on the outside, “How do they do it? Do they not realize that all this will be illegal in a few months?" “It don't count, mo matter who pushes it off; it's a cocked dice!” Gus's voice was heard to say “But you counted three dice that fell off the bar and turned up aces on the floor just a moment ago! pro- tested Mr. Rangle's voice. “Well, What about it?” Gur was heard to answer. “Ain't It my squor store, my bar, my dice and 7 floor? While I got a liquor store yet, and I've had her now fer about ten] dice and a floor, what I say goes! Wee tue colttan alaequrin | Ae tee Cates eMC) 8 loud more'n $10." ; HVE WOTERY) “lamor, in which Slavinsky and Raf- Well, s'posin' I keep her fer what |ferty joined from their pinochle game, you owe me that Mr, Jarr knew jt was alj off with ot by jugful! ‘Tell you what any gumshoe entrance, It occurred Vh do, though—keep her two weeks more an’ you kin have her,"'--Boston | him that it was time to atride In | Transcript briskly, with shoulders back and a ‘ what he did hear was the thump of a/ a Drug on the Market HERE'S no crape on the| merry smile on his face and crye Jarr| “Hell boys! Look, here comes tbe Constitutional Amendment!" But nobody paid any more atten- tion to Mr, rs entrance than) they would have paid to a fly! winging in as*tan added entry to the] free lunch free-for-all, in the days) when there was free lunch and other institutions of @ Mberal living. Al snapping sound was heard. If any! one heeded it he probably imagined it Wag something wrong with the clock, | But that sound was Mr, Jarr's heart breaking! He had been away from Gus's cafe for two whole weeks, and nobody seemed to care that he was in again! | Tho bitter thought came to Mr.| Jarr that in this great, cold-hearted town it was only too true that the in- dispensable man was not numerous, But his words of a deserter re- turned did not even stop the quarrel, so Mr. Jarr pushed his way in among the group at the bar, shoved the dice box aside and remarked tensely asked you al WHAT you were ing to havel” “We're going to have a fight, and somebody will get a hit on tt if you don't stop butting in! nose aid |Gus, ure," said Rangle, “what business | is it of yours? “Gentlemen can settle their own fights mitout fresh guys mixing in,” said Bepler, the butcher, “Let's throw him out!" said Muller, the grocer, | “Wait!” erted Gus; “he mo $1..) since a month. Let him pay that bofore he's chucked ou “I got more t but I don't care!" said Bepler, “I'm a sport, too, I'll hand him a wallop, even if he owes me $9.67!" re. | marked Muller, the grocer. | ‘Don't hit him now; vait till he’ by @ winder!" criv Mr, Slavinsky. “Gus, you don’t care; you got winder insurance, and a broken winder makes business for @ glazier who is a wes cried Gis, “no viol wife Lena upstairs has got a head- ache, Let's hear what he has to say before we PUSH him out. Of course, I don't care about any noise giving my place a bad name any more.” “All lve got to say is this,” said) Mr, Jarr hotly, “I see by the papers! that the saloons have to go out of | business in July, I'm glad kis) hear ‘ | nee. My IT ‘ that all of them made good, | | trackless ice fields came home baffled. The North Pole was there, | There was a general feeling that the Pole would never be discovered, rey | Sheridan in September. {temperature r: writer f that against nim, | exceedingly cruel; she robbeth his flirtations of all their ‘How They Made Good | | By Albert Payson Terhune Copyrigh!, 1919. vy The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), ’ HE secret of “making good” is well worth the learning, One | great man has made good in one way; and another in ow other way. The traits by which they fought their way to | ttuocess can be copied by those who wish to follow in their footsteps. There has been no magic, no mystery, in the methods whereby these men have achieved greatness. The story of such men and of their methods is not only tremendously interesting, but is an ob ject lesson to every ambitious American. i = Some of the heroes of this series were soldiers, some were ez- plorers, some were inventors, some were financiers, some were | ! artists, writers or adventurers, Their only point in common was NO. 1.—ROBERT PEARY; Who Solved “The Riddle of that’ * North.” b HE Riddle of the North will never be solved!” »! So declared one of Europe's keenest scientists, Ang the world at large was Inclined to agree with him. By “The Riddle of the North” he meant the North Poley that mysterious and elusive goal of every Arctic dise coverer for centuries. | Just why there was such a widespread craving tq disoover the North Pole, it is hard for the average reads er nowadays to understand. But it was the suprem@ lure of all explorers. A scoffer quoted the famous question of the farmeg who saw three dogs chasing an express train, and asked: “What are they planning to do with it when they get {t?” But all the scoffing in the worl@ could not lessen the zest for finding the Pole. One discoverer after another set forth on heavily financed polar ex4 peditions, Those of them who did not leave their bones to whiten in the But, fom a thousand reasons, they had failed to get to it. As time went on such expeditions became harder and harder to financey And along with this feeling the wildest theories were voiced as to what tne North Pole was like, Some scientists thought It a warm and beautiful region Inhabited by some strange race ‘and cut off from the rest of the world by penetrable barriers of Some thought’ it aight be an open ocean with magi ec s practically ali agreed that it was beyond the power of A Man Who Never Gave Up Hope. Carr) ime centring in it. But mortals to find it. - One man had the best of reasons for knowing the difficulties in the way of discovering the North Pole, For he ud headed one po r expedi after another. And every time the hostile North had driven him back, But this same man never once wavered in his faith in his own ability to reach the Pole, soon or late, Ie knew he could get there, He knew it im spite of his own many fai . in spite of wise folks’ he could do it, b he had an tron belief in hin success of the p ad laid, He was Robert Edwin Peary, a Lieuter For nearly a quarter century, whenever he he attacked this mystic Riddle of the North in rep paar expeditions, Failure served only to make him the more certain of victory. Then, in 1908, Peary made his last and supreme effort. In his ship, the Roosevelt (the first Arctic exploration boat to be built tn this cou he sailed northward for one more try at the working out of his theories, ing Etah, “the south gate of the reached Capé He wintered th: nd sent supplied whead to Cape Columbia, the “farthost N ant Land, redictions, He knew self and in the final in the United S$ could get lea nd fundsy es Navy, he Then, on the first of March, 1909, file, in five di ments, travelling stea c up again and again by “pressure rid water leads” and countless otheg ob It was a dreary and painful ‘march, ye@ Peary kept his merf going at the record averag Peary Solves speed of about thirteen and a half miles a day, Riddle of North. sending back detachment after detachment, until, orm it less than 150 miles from his goal, he seni back st of followers except three and a negro named Matt Hensen With these four companions he made Nis final dash, And, on April 6, 1909, he solved the Riddle of the North for all time by reaching the Pole, He found himself on an almost flat plain of chalk-like ice, where th sed from 12 to 80 degrees below zero. “Everywhere,” @ describes the scene, the abomination of desolation, the dreariness of a frozen world," r the ice lurked the fathomless seay Soundings to the depth of 9,000 feet failed to touch bottom, at we Peary took various scientific observations, the Pole and came away. He had immortal fame, He had “made good.’ OR his Eskimos d the American flag at impossible. He had wom achie the Bachelor Girl - Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by The I'rawe Publishing Co, (The vew York Evening World) She Muses on Men, Women and Matrimony—and Tilts at the Windmills of Love HERB are fust three things with which no woman has ever yet been satisficd-—her photograph, tho shape of her nose aud the way ia which her husband proposed to her \ A man and a woman can agree perfectly on all the momentous things of life—love, religion, politics and the shade of the wall paper—and then quarrel until (hey hate each other, about whether or not to stir # rarebit, the shortest route to the elevated station, og whose turn it fs to wash the dog. It isn't fate, it’s plain perversity, that makes a man fall In love with the wrong woman, Somehow, he al+ ways concludes that a woman who bullies, ignores or snubs him M T be “a winner"-—or she wouldn't dare to treat him that way. Since the “cootie” has been accepted into polité conversation you never can tell WHO'LL break into society next, can you} desided { A man would rather bo tied to a siren’s chariot wheels than worshipped by a wall-flower; but a woman wisely prefers the devotion of a Caliban iq” the indifference of an Adonis, When & car goes out of style you ean junk it; when a dog gocs out of yle you can mercifully give it away; but what CAN one do with a husband or wife who has lost chic, novelty and popular favor? Dear, dear! A woman need know only one-quarter of a man’s character in orde a understand him thoroughly; in the other three-quarters he is a replica of all other men. She that observeth not her Beloved's ntions to other women ig pice apd dese troyeth their charm and piquancy it, My children aro at A MYSTERY EXPLAINED the moving pictures theatre up-street now. 1 66 HAY Het be Ree shall join them, Hail and Fareweil W teiand;. (ho Wea Barnantha And out he went. asked a vacationist at the “[ should worry about losing a bum |beach, “Has he been frightened off customer like him when soon I lose |PY the submarin good ones like yuse!” said Gus to th “Guess not." returned the hotel mane others. “Anyway, you are a lot of eer, “I rather think he's sore overt loafers what give my place a bad |Our treatment of him, Gast Gime he name. If I open a drug store in yu herve we oh aed him off th aL lay July, I beg none af you guys will ign ‘the piedge that he wos TOME. even get sick and pateraize me Jour bay business.”"—Boston Transcripy