The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1919, Page 12

EDITORIAL PAGE) Saturday, March 8 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Bxcopt ee 4 fe ies Publishing Compeny, Nos, 68 New York. Na ANGUS Awe trea JOSEPH PU! ZBR, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRIA, sepeaet r use for republication of at! ' Be src ch seth State Ss usa heme aN Dee | BEOWOLUME 50........ccceecseceveeseceseers —_— =: ——— - _ p> WHERE WE LOSE LABOR AND MONEY. ; IVE MILLION immigrants in the United States, officials of the War Trade Board assert, are eager to return to Europe | as soon as they can obtain transportation. | One of the cconomic bearings of this fact is noted by the Ameri-| ‘ean Exchange National Bank of this city in its current monthly | letter: a Since the war broke out ich immigrants have saved | $1,500,000,000 which they have been unable to remit to their native lands according to their usual custom. Before the war | these workers sent home about $400,000,000 a year, so tlie est!- | mated total now in their hands seems to be conservative. They have been earning more than usual during the last four years These aliens are ignorant of the English language when they arrive and most of them learn little of it while here | When they try to invest money in America they are too often exploited and swindled. They distrust the country and the people from whom they gain a living. It is common to find an alien ‘laborer with several thousand dollars on his person. | Private bankers and steamship agents do a large business in : remitting their money to their native countries and also en- a courage them to go back. This drains Amorica of cash and val id uable labor. Something should be done to encourage such men to stay and to invest thélr savings here, The first step is to inspire them with confidence and to protect them against swindlers. It is equally important to inspire them with a liking for the © institutions and laws of this country and with the desire to learn | English. The Americanization movement rests on a solid basis of practical » economics. It is not all sentiment and patriotisin. d A strong reason for breaking through the barriers of language and cusiom which tend to foster alien groups and colonics among the people of the United States is the fact that such colonies repre § » sent perennial exploitation of the country. They are the natural gathering points of foreigners whose sole 2 interest in the United States is the extraordinary opportunity its | instiintions, wealth and industry offer for the accumulation of money enough to'take the alien back to his native country and maintain him there in relative case and luxury. The Americanization movement derived increased impetus from | B sentiments aroused by war. Peace should fiid it, if anything, fur-! > ther accelerated. F 4 For four years immigration has been practically at a standstill. | There has been no constant influx of new alien elements to compli-| ate the task of assimilation. 4 Now is the time to try to catch up, so to speak, in the melting = pot process, to make Americans of the foreign born already here and #0 keep their loyalty, their labor and their earnings to contribute to| the indusiry and prosperity of the United States. Why should this continue to be a country where millions who| ‘ never even learn its language gather gold to carry ove . i} | | \ seas? | yee 2 ae The effect of Nation-wide Prohibition in making harder the | task of those who seck to Americanize the foreign-born is bound | to be serious. The temperate foreigner who ngver dreamt of | agsociating drunkenness and depravity with the glass of modest | wine he has taken with bis dinner all his life, js going to find ‘By J. H. Cassel i H OW Starting Something! shire doctor named Hunter, who was trying in vain to stew of one of the periodical smalipox epidemics. | up to that time it was a thing of absolute horror. It eee artist olden times it was as frequently seen as are eyeglasses, De way to check the fearful scorge, ond they were its cure. . fog a red But Hunter and other doctors told her Instead of going into hysterics of terror the girl me doctors and « both of these answer—all of them but young E merely to be voicing one of the many country superst wearing dairy folk of the neighborhood. An | where the victim of the slight 1 | ward had smallpox. This gave Jenni | virus of co from smallpox. his theory's proof. Soon h ead Hooted at asa roel he was hooted out of the medical fri Jenner Warks On. Barry ls wourl-be murderer and as a fi and he lat obstacle ater nor R had freed the world of journey to the ranks of “infrequent maia They Made Good — By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1919, by (he Prew Pabitshing Co, (Ths New York ming World.) NO. 8. EDWARD JENNER; the Genius Who Saved Millions of Lives. In Trafalgar Square, London, a grateful public e ed a statue ward Jenner, a man whom that same public had once hated and derided, E began life as a “chirurgeon's apprentice’—or what we now would term a medical etudent. He was @ quiet, keenly observant lad of twenty-one when first he got the idea (hat was to make him immortal, This was in 1870. For the next quarter century he worked with but one end in view, He was content to be called an idiot, a monster, a sorcerer and a dozen similar names, and to risk life and career, all for the sake of perfecting his great experiment. ‘That was why, at the last, he made good. Edward Jenncr for some time was a pupil-apprentice to a Gloucester- ravages ‘To-day, thanks to Jenner, smallpox meane little to most of wut was the world’s deadliest ard most unconquerable disea It used 6 parrnrrnnnay to scourge whole nations, wiping out towns and Jenner Began a decimating broad regions of farmland. an Apprentice } More of its victims died than recovered. All’ tho fig who had the rare Iuck to get well were uise ured for jife. Among the smallpox victims, by who recovered ond who bore a heavily pitted face thereafter, orge Washington, although in his Masonic portrait ve the courage to depict this blemish, The sight of a pockmurked fuce nowadays is most one did any uncommon, In lors knew no almost as stupid rega:uing A farmer's daughter came to Hunter's clinic in 1770 to be exam ae ed by indigestion, h on her ¢ e and chest. The rash was ca st was sickening for smaiipox. laughed at the *T can't have smallpox. You sce, I've had cowpox. Nobody can pave All the d etors and apprentices grinned in derision at the girl's queer ward Je © seamed ner. To the others s 1s of ne== such weird belie that the swallowin of live bugs would cure d that the touch of the King’s nand would h scroful. und ¢ of a red string around the neck would prevent leed, & Jenner alone did not grin. Ifste d, he began to make inquirie he found that there was n . known as cowpox, r his i the idea c vpox into the human :, item, to make tha had ever He set to work experiment ‘or nearly twenty-six years | ni Gi ded that the inoculation of h with vaccine virus would guard them inst As soon as Jenner made known y and anded a8 w fool. Then, when one or two of ts failed becau. he had been wre in *ome pet.» detail, people branded Nin as was b Jenner bo: this abu dt y on his ide and was ready to prove the loathing conten of the publte, At last he had cleared away the last 5 case to the unbelieving world, Ox A few weoks allpox virus to kill a Jenner had made good. He » had s@ried smallpox on tty On M the some boy with enough sn boy showed no il effe worst scourg he The Business Girl Who Goes Alone The Jarr Family vy Rey b. McCardell By Sophie Irene Loeb F Copyright, 1919, by the Draw Publishing Co, It Depends on the Girl if She Can Depend on Herself | iron: just vecause they cannot have| 66 common situations as they There is no reason why business uld be deprived of enjoy | Gus Looks Into the Face of Time With a Merry Heart |’ Now York Evening World.) it difficult to see a land of promise in a country that seems to EVENING WORLD FOOD PRICES. “a HAT The Evening World’s regularly printed table of whole ae sale and retuil food prices has done for consamers in thi city is in no way better shown than by the letter in which 16,000 members, announces its decision “to be guided as far as possi- ble by the prices quoted in The Evaning World.” Not only bir cus: | the willingness of retail dealers who deal squarely with th do not. i As wholesale food prices fall, the housekeeper is entitled to © and food dealers who are honest unite in hailing The Evening World » tables as just and helpful. ‘That the Senate, in its opposition to the League of Natio: simply runs true to form is evident from a statement of John Hay, who, toward the end of his‘career, wrote a friend, “there will always be 34 per cent. of the Senate on the blackguard side of every question that comes before them.” OP William H, Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-s loon League, said that he always obeyed all the laws he knew of.—Fivening Post despatch. Maybe he overlooked a few in the frenzy of forcing more on other people. Letters From the People Seamentn 27th Review Sehool Childr aylight Saving Plan. Bo the bitivor of J he t.verang Word To the Editor of the Evening Word T think the idea of Recreation Com-| Regarding letter from W. E Missioner W. J. Lee in your issue of | would seem remu the 27th is an excellent one, that is, | Ving in @ big cit the one in which he suggested that Division ts over to allow them to oc- | to daylight Peat eyey may require and have the | ops are surely entitled to the | Aehoo! children suitably arrayed pass and clorks, who b; the im review of our glorious 27th Divi- | hundreds of thousands pr Delon. 1 think the morale and effect |08e 8 lure part of thelr Verepied 2 e » the artiticlal lg feuld be wonderful, especially to the | {nf conditions mre moni Poort llers who may be the fathera or/and artificial Weothers of those children passing in | to ever Peview, giving them that glad and | day is greatest welcome home which they | bed an hour cartier at night, w ur eyesight. that feeling in the young rhe that would live in thelr the sun means to the human race. __ JOHN 8, DONOHU Tee 1 | company, YOUNG woman writes to me! Ax a general proposition, * said Gus cheerily, | whole matter lies ‘what people will say,”| Mr the answer is, what wil! th |in return for any him to have gone crazy. i A the “TL happen to be a girl past | th Have many but there come times when I would |rather be alone, “Now, do you think it terrible for j With one “Avaunt, temp ou care for me “Sure I do, What —— Ido, give you a kis en you in a wee Places at night. it is most de up to the girl.| motter ‘NO WORK, cal Slang in/"“gumming the act,” “crabbing n pleasure seeking, when a | girl is not otherwise invited. Most girls usually feel better when the United Retail Grocers’ Association of Brooklyn, representing | I've been brought up very self-re- | accompanied by another on the sireets at night—not so much that they are of the com- | heatri night, but return home befor he) «f3 ail over beiwe same like f always wa “And to think T hav and so far no | beratten me, 50 my folks trust me. j “Some of my friends think it ter-|™0N natural feeling of having com- | Even at the theatre I heard | Pavy, and also becauge ft docs happen that there are some vpde men on the | streets at night who look with suspi- country and | “corker” some only in one or the other, Vau- | bottles up another actor's efforts or) is included, 8 this the best possible testimony to the fairness of | rivte. The Evening World's food price quotations, but it is also proof of }# Coupte remark, ‘Poor thing, ‘she ts} deville slang plumbus"’ | years!’ that of the lis @ frost, a failure; ‘else another actor's performance, also known as ‘dog biting dog; "ia the supernumera for nothing; a “ventilator or & play which ventilates or empties | “hokum,” | the house, fox" is to criti- | have been one of the pillars of society in this place “I don't need pity. | go to business "tomers to recognize themeclves as a league which excludes dealers who |and am aiming to get education mor mino-thumpe is something sald about the business girl is lonely, who hasn't any brother or can't always call on her girl friend at |™U when she finds it convenient to ‘That ig no reayon why she should | Who plays |to do mit it?” as " is an actor |and more each year “The young friends 1 know, ; % know where a benefit as soon as the retail dealer. ‘That is the whole principle of !fna me, and are frank with me|a tim _ The Evening World food price tables. Housewives who are thrifty |either regarding their pl other matters. ried tone, and looking around anx- is the phrase for the weeks 1 suppose luck that way with me, a trouble solve |bon’t you think 1 can stand alone 1 have had many opinions as to the so-called independ- pleasure, expecially if she doesn’t mind houses charging highest prices, “smail being, of course, the lesser the- | requests to greets me with @ hearty smile as/and twen interpolated in the text of the play, iwhile “flabberdegaz” is something not in the part sald by pends on the girl like this one 1 would say that| who writes need | which is not “paper a house,” of free admissions; to * the big bird,” to be hissed, an a) to the goose’s method of showiug Us- about alone. going alone, | hove | with a lo! From an Inventor's Notebook. Vor heavy motor trucks a combina. | tire has been base surrounding an ces best customers? L have b nes in contact business life, ut of this place so lon the last lines ina p! erties), the inanimate objects u knows how ‘You may be the guy that 7 © of herself used for m face for a part; “mount, umes, &c., for suspicious 7 n approaches her to provide scenery, cot m decisively and pay Greek experimente making a satisfac fuel from high and tones of th is to be parfect in the “dead | "ghost “Weill firmed” business and words of a part; s witentions upon ray q » mix up a scene want to know why you don’t affron jor breaking down in th also known Turkish Promises than a hundred sey by | fore vin dealt with according to law, An auxiliary ity the carry an addition, police of to-day are especially instructed to be peace officers rather Kable how any one could have such a peculiar view of daylight saving, To ed that one having such a view night is bet- BS soon as the parade of the 27th | ter than day and darknoss preferable | rem adjust the little diffle and in protection of the who is molested. nd equality be- mountings upon which first [ton can de fastened to f consideration, also the bookkeepers | or jewe'ry. treaties wrung from Ty which the Porte promised pro-) France and England, at th the |dous cost of ‘saved the Turks issued the famous Hatti- 1866, in which he swore by the beard of the prophot Mndicated | to give Christians full equality. promise, like so many others, was but “scrap of paper. upy that part of the grand stand| THe workers in the factories and » that belief in the Crimean War, had Ottoman Empire signed 145 years ago, at the nee of Russi | boundaries me for any girl § Not in busi- timid and fe |washboard claims ne Out clothing as rapidly as metal or it are injurious | wooden ones. As an outside salesman T| finishtearlier, when the heat of the As my family goea to | humatoun of In some portions of Turkey a mix- | that all the treaties cover ure of linseed ofl, cotton fibre more than deserving of and would | by suntight the expense of gas and; for cement Abdul Hamid on ascension to the throne declired t he would make “no distinction of ed” and posed as the Christians and Jews—of whom his gratitude, | propably more than a million were he would| slain during his reign of thirty-three eave confronted with dangers , PPactic too!” murmured Mr. Jarry. “I haven't MP been in a poison dispensary for a Any one who prefers artificial light | To prevent te come, to daylight has no conception of what blow: way while the owners are mo- invented to the reigning Suitan, under solemnly promised it-assurance that she can, [ordinary conditions, take care of the grant his Christian subjects a Euro: | years BB, |hoid thea in The New York Eve {He never bought anything in my e! retorted Gus. “What [ want » know what's the matter mit 1} take some near-beer and loaf)you? Are you making a fuss to pick doing business at the old| around." | fight’ because you owe me”-here tr shied off and backed away|Gus opened the cash ‘register and the cafg)in alarm. | seanned ough his credit slips nd twenty conts? I young * he cried, “Don't | “three dollars any more, Gus?” | don’t like the way you a ou want me to! feller, but I ain't ashamed n't| that your credit is good fc lars even, So don’t try an old friena| “mht me so you can walk out added Gus bitterly,|@94 never come back and pay me/ vn us? Ain't I the |What you owe me, Be o gentleman! and wait till you owe me al! you can swing me for between now and the end of June, when [ go out of busie because I na valu- ron of this establishment for | °” fas ; said Mr. Jarr, “to ink 14 “88 and list your il as an unc Ole lectibale account | “It isn't what T owe you, Gus,"* said Mr, Jarr sa “but you have wounded me in my tenderest emo- tions!" Wh "4 @lie pillows ef soc d got| in a wor-| y as thefgh expecting the brew=| it ie hin ne rey er's mortgage on his place might} syouye hurt my nee. eel foreclore itself spontaneously before a Cente ee the first of July, “You drink here,!’ “t1ow could I hoit your feelings but you don't sleep hi Iwhen 1 nin't done nothing to you? “{ come in this man’s place and he} Did | ask you for three dollars y cents?” replied G “or though 1 were unknown to h course," ho added hastily, “you eant continued Mr, Jarr, Then he turned|pay it to me if you worried about to Cus hook an wecusative finger! But to show you what a gener- at that awed individual, “Why don't/ousness I have, you can buy ime a you insult me as you always do yourldyink {2 you wart to~yes, and you n aWAY oan have « perhaps youlit up and I'!! chalis en me } “This is t at te) He addy la ed Mr, Jarr, tality to a kinds daho, but what's the matter mit! : a \ ng. Verily 1 dwell, indeed, * den ed Gus, interrupting : a burds of your esteem Javr's Many of bis identit ever mind them suburbs,” eatd ‘ 0 Meyer has real uburbs and that makes him a crank, All 1 know I stand up for my r vepiied Mr, Jat tomer, as a constant frequenter, I Gu jestate in are ¢ ed abou mi when 1 come jn your place, Don't) you lke me y more, do you no know what lesire my presence or my} rl've gota t patronage? Why ruld you greet Regy sills Fh me genially, as (ho I were one|that I wouldn’ who took every occasion to do you} f#ht m't you it 1a rela- njury? Gas, you uldn’t act tion, Too done to way.’ And Mr, Jarv feigned to weep.;M® in my business, end yet C smile, “By gol 1 [iverybody's doing itt) {Smile and laugh—bat n nach, a Gus in a tense whisper . Business be excelent,” body is crazy and taiking « ak | Stzigested M y ['rohibttion and Leagues of Na-| “No it ain't, Business is rotten,* tions! Why should you in said Gus, yt bappy mam place and throw a fit because I deatr) After fifteen years 1 am find ; beat you mit the bung starter jwar a0 ny tne alone, | I'm don't HAVE to inault you just be-|e ard er is married. Whe, foe cause I like you, do I" daya we have boon just like {rlendale nd this is old home week for me, “How did you manage asked avr m telling hey I'm going to open 4 a ladies’ dress and millinery store—| se'nnight, as Shakespeare would say." dry good when wel goods go outt"; “What do 1 care for Shakespeare? said (ius with a chuckle,