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EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, Mareh 17, 1919 Sayings of Mrs. Solomon. By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1919, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Being the Confessions of the Seven- Hundredth Wife Concerning the Charming Bluf of Platonic Friendship. F thou heedest not my words, my Daughter, come not unto me, crying: | “La, Love ig a wasp—and I have been STUNG!” For I shall say “Ha, ha!” Yea, I shall mock at thy confusion, For have I not charged thee that it is easier to find a pet ~ moth in a fur shop than a man who hath matrimonial intentions at the BEGINNING of a love affair? Yea, it is easier to find the fifth ‘button on the back of a tight blouse than a man with a conscience that ty CIMT, 191 (the New York Evening © World. ESTABLISHED ‘BY JOSEPH PULITZER, jblished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, aa pe UNS bark Row, Now York. 4 Political Camouflag Nos. 03 RALPH PI President, 63 Park Row. ek es ain f PEE eens GP fae: | " Treasurer, '63 Park Row, wo he yl op z ‘ nw, Wipe Mee zs co la i ¢ ATZEK, Jr., Secretary, 63 P ow. tab * , 7 ' j papper : bie ty m | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Amocinted Prean is exclusively entitied to the use far republication of all news Arsnatdbee to oe not otherwise credited in this pager and also the local news published herein, VOLUM WHAT IS LIBERTY WORTH? HE newly organized Association Opposed to National’ Prohibi tion, which is to be incorporated this week under the laws of the State of New York, announces as its object “to make forever inoperative,’ not only the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, but “any other similar amendment which attempts to abridge or obliterate the rights of free men in a free republic.” In seeking to establish itself on a broader principle than that , B39 NO, 21,027 “Gil ae ore Shane cor gty Sean tamer © of opposition to the total banishment of so-called intoxicating liquors worketh BEFOREHAND; and a favorite mosquito in a a from the United States, the new organization frankly and specifically summer camp is not rarer than a youth who deliber- 4 proclaims its intention to fight any movement to limit or discontinue ately eeeketh a wife. { _ the use of tobacco by constitutional amendment. | But there 18 a way. For, lo, when a man offereth a damsel “Platonic Friendship,” she graspeth it, saying aloud: “Yea, gladly will I accept this MENTAL com- | pantonship, for it is SO inspiring! And I despise cheap flirtations!” But in her heart she saith: “And by this means ghall I lead him like TO OPPOSE THE , me? Constitution has already filled the anti-tobacco league with a fervid | hope that it, too, may succeed in imposing its particular set of regula- tions upon one hundred million people. In view of what happened in the case of the Eighteenth Amend ment, no thinking American can afford to pooh-pooh the anti-tobac movement, or the possible further series of fanatical, liberty-destroy | ing raids to which the Constitution is now exposed, a lamb unto the altar!” | And when @ damsel offereth a man “Platonic Friendship” he clutcheth lat it, declaring: ba ' Least of all can any American who grasps the real meaning o Bru tiene Eide tee aaron Mae peer ng , the situation afford to go on shying off and drawing into his ehell | 8 n all I woo her without dan: ‘ jan ; | ger, and pursue her without fear of hooks and nets! ‘ wherever he finds his instinctive demand for personal freedom leading z a i. ' : : ’ 3 For a woman's idea of “Friendship” is an easy path to matrimony, and ‘ ‘ him toward active organization on the side from which liquor interests iy: (dea ca eaan daulDO Aa ; fit 2 : s and tobacco interests are naturally putting up the biggest fight) Y%~ / | a man’s idea o endship” is flirtation-with-immunity; and never the two h : gid Faa| shall meet! ie" \. as | , * t a ti tnoral cowardice of iilliony made tion-wide Prohibition | | Verily, verily, Platonic Friendship is a mysterious thing. m ee eee Seseenane . as | It cometh in many guises and disguises : / possible. ae 1 ' P| Like unto a motor-coat or a beauty-veil, it covereth a multitude of sur- The moral cowardice of millions was what enabled the Anti prises, | Saloon League to fill the ears of legislators with threats of one kind There is the kind that concealeth a man’s desire to win a woman end > --"WEN ; } only, met | the kind that concealeth his desire to escape from her. 4 The moral cowardice of millions is what will surrender the Con- | There is a kind that resembleth love—and the kind that resembleth q fitution again and yet again to the powerful lobbies of other fanatical ree f ninorities possessed by a burning zeal to regulate the habits of their The kind with frills—and the kind with thrills. ; fellow countrymen, unless there is a quick awakening and call to halt. Yet, I say unto thee, it is a good thing | On this issue Americans must think clearly and honestly. | For it is the loophole out of which a girl slippeth when she faileth to — Anti-Prohibition is not pro-Intemperance. It is not indifference to the evils of the liquor traffic. To declare against Nation-wide tie the matrimonial knot. And it is the bridge over which a man turneth back when he perceiveth that a flirtation hath gone too far. Yet, many a bachelor have I seen ensnared by “Friendship” who had dodged “love,” by every other name! Go to! Is not the hors d'oeuvre the most enticing part of the feast? | Is not the sweetest part of a kiss the moment just before—taking? every State of the Union, through popular vote in its component communities, to declare itself “bone dry.” | "2 For the American saloon in the disreputable, degraded state which it has been known for years to most parts of the country Pay particularly the West—there can be no defense, | ae { | Prohibition is not to proclaim oneself either a frequenter or defender | ‘ * of saloons. Jo maintain that a Nation-wide Prohibition amendment ' is utterly inconsistent with the spirit and purpose of the Constitution and ought never to be enforced, is not to deny the right of each and ia And is not the sweetest time of love the beginning thereof—even that \ short hour of heart-to-heart talks and which fs called ‘ »>LATONIC FRIENDSHIP?" : : Yea, verily, it is a charming bluff! But saloons can be cleaned up or abolished by the communities | == hs directly concerned with them without a Federal provision that no| T h Fl | F person in the United States shall be able to buy wine or beer, Great | e a ad | Britain has brought its saloons to a high standard of order and de-| cency and kept them there. Great Britain has never felt itself so | Selah, lip-to-lip silences, : Pay GR na RE ‘How to Be a Better Salesman And Earn Bigger Pay mily By Roy L. McCardell by the Prew Publishing Co, (he New York Evening World.) my own marketing. And, Slavinsky. Gus’s Friends Kindly Arrange His Business Future. | 1 wouldn't 1et you put in a glass « 2 667 'VE been having the finest day's] mit a glass enclosed piazzer, of | for me tf I was blind, unless I first - A morally weak as to have no alternative but Nation-wide Prohibition. fishing 1 ever had yesterday,"| course, Plenty of glass, plenty of | 8¢¢M estermates from other glass men. The Evening World's Authority on Successful Salesmanship, | Weakness—which signs are verwege f The new Association Opposed to National Prohibition includes declared Gus, as he picked up] glass on the piazzers, and mirrors all bak what I shad know is who wil! ppt 1019, by The bo) ae Co, (The New York Bveving World), j earsat to the customer pope Fi ¥ pany ’ the blind: and found “ue ' fal'aval a poe ye ve my customers for a fish st ora Mr. Griffith's salesmanship column is publishe th daily. militate against the successful 7 ? among its aims: “To promote temperance in the use of alcoholic bilnd Ang found: ual Whee je! over Re Poe ree Sneed i pe pha yd BuRtaNed on Shi eees Far oo % ” wp . n tend r his 400 bid at auetion Mr. Slavinsky fingered at the fold- | temperance raodhouse when my liquor Instructive articles like to-day'’s alternate with answers to questions of the order, beverages.” Jt should add: “To clean up the American saloon that|pinochle, “I have caught the queen| ing rule in his hip pocket | store goes out of business by the Cor which sulcsmen readers of The Evening World are invited to ask Mr. It is absolutely impossible for ~ ‘ it may become an argument against, not for, the extension of Prohibi-|f spades to make my 150 tramps:| "Now, I extermate every one of | *ttutional Commandment at end| — Grimth by letter, Address him in care of this newspaper. |salesman to make untruthtal etafipe : and you fellers can pay me doubdle.} them doors would carry a mir- | of Chune, who will be customers . < é ments and get away with it for vag). -— . oa) . For it ain't no use to play this hand!"| ror—$16 they cost me wholesale, but} “F will." said Mr. Jarr, “if you'll let Belief of the Customer. Hla nats ® sort of vague suspiclo® |iong, His powers of hypnotizing titame ) g Nothing should be left undone to make the morally confuse And he laid down an invincible a a big order, Gus, I give you 10 oft | me sign tabs.” WEN Shu: cra nremanling thé Bat Haein is doubting your state! sei into thinking he is teling Gi vot! , 3 A . ive thy yor a presenting | ments? nt here we have a psycho- | ‘ i and diffident see clearly that they are not lining up with the saloon, |T4y of world-beaters, for a discount” “I'd let you sign nothing but par- merits of your goods to | logical Belli ft salesmannip de eae ae boune to. wants Seem ioe . ee “When he fishes he catches noth ” . | ceehiit # ions fo = if by cle te) ~ {is THROUGH, has re and the lawlessness they associate with the saloon at its worst, when|,,. aI Pe RE ORO E8 AObD And the whole building would neea| titions for thre nt alcohol in bee prospective customer, do YOU | serving of careful study. | pow Brat beresene ee 1 ; ¥ Ming" said Mr. Slavinsky. “When he} remodelling, Gus," said Rafferty, the| snorted Gus. “Come on, I bid three |always feel that he believes what| ‘7, Ai A ) Power to believe in himself and hie they openly stand forth against the enforcement of the Eighteenth | fishes for suckers in pinochle he | pyijder hundred!" a r : | To begin with, no man will buY| own statements even when he ieéeile hooks avarotodyls Mang Gul eect ceseeete ‘you are saying? Or do you some-| goods from a salesman if he fecls that th “ i | Amendment. 2 nS ae ay hia] “Yew'd, Bet all your groceries from = —— — rt eee a Mane GEULA| fac ci ; A ; And Slavinsky thre low Is} me. > . P Hike | i 4 jesmi ered be: There are millions of people in the United States who have awak- oe y we: a iis) me, Gus? I could do as well by you "4 ° statements. ‘The prospective customer SCRE SUS Oh RD SO t ‘i ; | as them wholesalers downtown,” sug- UCL e i sr|ceed permanently he must tel the ; ened to a realization of what has been put over on them, who are ‘Ron't let us be proud,” said Raf-| gested Mt S eniGar must have confidence in the strict in-/ truth and believe in what he je gay | aghast at the future possibilities to which this perversion of the|ferty, the builder, “Let's enjoy our-| “And your meats from me?" said By Bide Dudl tegrity of the salesman, To be sure, a| ing truly, enthusiastically and whole. ' ; « Pee ois wats 2 customer may make a purchase as edly. F . Constitution may lead, who are disgusted at the spectacle of hypo- |"! lige hg wall riers n 7 ln ar sem I could do as) Qu I M y Hl ¢o wSLSY. result ip ihe palseeanls: Says rae fe nee My ee tee ‘ a r ANS *PO| maybe, we'll buy it and give tt to] well by you ay anyone | Quarrelsome Marri ‘ re N stion| ean A 9} tain, he should: be care ; critical legislators at Washington and elsewhere laying in for them-|the poor, It won't do the poor any| “yes,” said Mr, Rafferty, “the whole rrtes ‘ouples Have No Attraction) intruintu statements. In plain] only conservative and accurate state- | P) selves plentiful supplies of that which they voted other Americans | 00d. as it’s got to close in @ few| front would have to come out and a| for Her. | words, you may be able to lle to a|ments, I Have frequently known sue- ; shall not have—yet who still fear to be misunderstood if they stand |™°"t?*”" big kiteben put in the basement, ‘The | 66 PIP you ever notice,” said Lu-| “*You're my wife, ain't you? he| Customer and get away with it—once,| cessful salesmen to refrain from tell- i Fs upand suy what they feel” | “I believe you,” said Gus, “I think]alterations would cost you, say, cile the Waitress, as the!qui But always the customer BELIEVED] ing ALL the facts about their goods, $ y . leu gona as Gas Sub lie ataselcuueeie nai : Friendly Patron removed| « : " ope | YOu Were telling the truth, And saics| because those facts were 1 % 5 1 open a store he 8 ‘oughly about $40,000, | Needn't to mind!’ says she, ‘The | » fe 7 unusual and They must overcome their timidity and untie their tongues if]! caught won't keep," and they turned tity pleased to hear you say goi"| (nn bread pudding from his neck-| only times 1 went to burlesque shows | M#de through lies are not the kind of| remarkable, and it would be difficult they expect to accomplish anything. again to their game of auction pl-| said Gus. “It does me good to thi | py i. pectin soupiee wih im ¥8/was when you took me, And wi oe ible bulla gaa ea kd JBOKG FAG: BEOCRAD. ELAR Fpesatiy ee ; ochle. Fe siders heir quar- | 4) 2 Y ‘ *ustomer confidence is not "created." them, ey would rather underesti- By organizing, by joining assoc s like the one ix inoe Jof how much money you fellers will! |did you do? You sat there and won-) © 4 By Hihanaiel etR nik 8 oolations like the one to be incor | “The noblemen are getting bored!” | wake out of my temperan hotel aad : ve ered if the tights was rubber, To| It Is “generated.” The salesman is the} mate their goods than to run the risk "| porated in New York this week, they can start the only referendum |said Mr. Jarr, “No one has disturbed] oognouse. A fish store is pewien!| on't know that I have,” he re-) my way of thinking the rubber was|“enerator,” and from him must of any single statement of theirs be- in which the people of the United States will have had their say ab them, I trust? Perhaps, the cham-| . i | plied, in your neck.’ diate that unswerving confidence in his | ing doubted. peor Il have had their say about By gollies there's nothing like friends Weil: iva nat Ree n your neck. | nS paaggal . i magne and salad was not to their li . : , Thats all ti : esounds | 8008 and in his statements concern-| 4 ys lieve, to handle tion.wide Prohibition, p nd ening waa not to bhele like |. a5 you wall SE HELAY WMBGT Aitater tcc my That's all right, too,’ he resounds | 69048 and in his stat L / & beiter Was) T dell 4 to handl Have they the energy and the courage? hie Papert ase nvall “Winders Mayinsky went ov,\\cave tnelr argumente’ to. nomeone ater Butt aot you.on the Caruso| ine them ae) will generate the sam B oiuseon would. Be to: aay f y and the courage? Tho rest regarded him with allent| 1 te oe winders! That'e whee pow | B : someone) ine ain't 17° | kind of confidence in the prospective | Something like this: “Mr, Blank, the Is liberty worth i cont mpt, When you endeavored tol waht. BIAIA gina TRNGY” piaoe an ana then biff the third aod Nov vou ain't’ she says. ‘You| customer. In the case of a sale being| facts about my Goods are so remark: be humorous with that bunch suc- | >! ass, fancy glass)|We had a scrapping couple in here No nh ; : able "t expec i i ki ee - ooo Gaus hciIe eek Rh pGoMNao Tat ment wee LATE 8, anything but wire glass.|this morning, They set at one of my| "n't got me on nothing and what's| mae through false: representation— aa pe Al dy to believe re coe i 7 Because how can a glazier live if| tables and skedaddie up I no more, you ain't going to get me on| because the salesman told lies about De uld be a tax on your ; ~ Japanese Christians Celebrate | tho satirical arfu stick to stories of] eee ae ee aroakuge? [tables and as 1 skedaddle up I notice) ining. I know I'm right about| the goods—tho salesman must posi-| credulity, But I am going to tell you y travelling men with ehance lady ac ” w jas bec va . | ly 1h o himself, th those facts, because they are true and . NI sFine for you all!” said Gus, “But| “Aw, Carus ta Spantara, {Caruso because the taxicab driver| tively hypnotize himself, for the mo- a an ; estival of Martyrs of Nippon quaintances, or merry military con-|_ 4 . | “*Aw, Caruso is not a Spantar t because I want to do justice t i} ] I won't need to rebuild, and 1 can do|says the lady with : . who sometimes takes him to the Met-| ment Into believing he is telling the istice to tes 2 holiest day of t} ri certs about cootic ays the lady with one of those e opositior Q ¢ i HE holiest day of the year for the| All Christian rites wero forbidden ~ \a notion to slap your face’ scowls, {Fepolitan has a cousin who lives next| truth. A salesman cannot tell a bare-| Proposition I am presenting, Tam ; Roman Catholic adherents in] When the anti-Christian edict was| "Well," remarked ra sl ; ‘ata Weeaoh! |door to my sister uptown. Now | faced lie and thereby make a sale un- A Bade k you to believe my” 4 -ehbeeeg lial see Sativa) at th proumul ens many of the Japanese | len AMES few me Ae stand at W ilson Is “All right says the man, ‘Have| What do you know about that? [less ho has temporarily convinced} )°\ Cen’ of i want to give them , of Nippon, and commemorate averts formed a confraternity of ;Miht Make a good fl re, Mow i fishy,’ ol ‘Any- | himself, through auto-suggestion, that] '? YOU Because I Know they're true, ‘ Me : : : ican: lit your own way, only you ain't got unds fishy,’ he tells her, ‘Any- | himself, eh eRestion, a aaaieeceene 4 i aeeyery. ry rid rat ell om RASTER: SS: Shiney Of: Mileb wae! toy NENT iceeiaimerial de & can) ATRICK O'CONNELL of No. 15) sense enough to drive @ nail into a Way, you fell down on your leaving It|hiy statements are actual facts. using ree oe est ty of closing—~ iuristian converts in that country. Al-|die for Christ, Many little chidren| Here?” | West 106th Street is a great! diate of mush’ to the lady in the white dress who| In the process of making a sale, the] (ANNE Advantage of | the selling 4 though the religion of Jesus was in-| joi in, and all were ruthlessly put shall station a man to count admirer of President Wilson. | ‘Oh, I ain't, ain't 1% ghe says, stands here ready to slip us some! goal’aimed for by the salesman is to per f customer-belief—is thi Pe troduced into Japan by St, Francis|to death. them, Duke,” replied Mr. Jarr, “So] He has sent to The Evening World| . . ? %, | : Mr. Blank, if you believe everye . Jat t ot ee & World| .wet, 1 know more about geography’ chow. | have the customer's mind in complete | 10 y nave tol 4 fe) Xavier in the sixteenth century, it! Many of the Christians were buried | You contemplate replacing this eafo}the following aerostic which shows] than you ever #uspected, I'l leave it| "I got tired waiting, ‘Say,’ T says, |accord with his (the salosman's) mind, | (N!0® 7 hav +4 you, if you believe ee mas pot made much progress in the/ative and left to die of starvation, | With @ fislimonger’s establishment” | exactly what his sentiments arc to this lady,’ ’ ‘suppose you two just ignore Mons,|The mind of the customer and th hick Pager havo submitted and pr; land of the Rising Sun, for out of al while others were beheaded, Noble but J just been thinking if a W-I-1-8-0-N, “She turns to me and says; ‘Ain't|Caruso long enough to shoot me in| mind of the salesman act and which nib regard as conclusive, I 4 fpeptiation of seventy millions the e}men ax well as the poor and bumble| 8h store or a temperance roadhouse | W in for the : Willingneas; with] Caruso a Frenchman? the eardrums with your gastrinomick|upon each other, If the salesm veh ota. ave your order, On are only about 115 nristians, of! shured in the fate meted out to those | Bre Would pay,” replied Gus, “Mit which he undertook the task, “4 don't know, lady; T says, ‘He desires, Did you think 1 come over | feels that the prospective eustomer | U!° 210! 4, if you doubt any sin Whom 75,000 are Catholics and 40,000) who refused, to recant, ‘The Roman|* bunch of colored fellers playing | Is f i Independence” that the) gon't eat here? Hoh ipa hesrad doubts the statements. being made [#% statement or any single scrap of Protestan's as Catholic Church, in memory of these | M&time, and that feller Dinkston to bhibbact sal da eel “Well, he don't have to cat here| «1 gets the man’s goat and he says |about the goods, the salesman's own |W 'NCN T alm Trunk to Say Edo not + Bt. Francis Xavier was the first to! martyrs, has set aside the bth of dance mit lac 4 fish store wouldn't | I. is for the “Loans” that the people|i, ge Frenchman, does he? she!he'll cat somewhere else | confidence is shaken, This is a case| ¥40t Your business, The consent of Preach Christianity in Japan. A num-) webruary as their festival, and the| PAY but a temperance road house wlesly gay snaps. ‘Not for fifteen cents,’ I eaya lof the éustom mind attitude of |'W° People is required in this trans. 9: “ , 8 is for the “Sta * tha 1 = 3 OF kX Pe é actior ours. « ber of Jesuit missionaries followed in| gute is annually observed by the | MSM 5 is for the “Stamps” (hat helped 8)" wiscet? 1 told you,’ says the man.| wit F cea al disbelief warring against the sales-|S°UOM= yours and inine, You have MCAT on. Wor a time thay wore y ' ‘ all to say y n.| With that he Jumps up and does a Noug ounsent only? (@ sou hal : . or a je they were | Christians of Nippon. “I am rejoiced to hear you say It! , , ‘What do you know about @rand |get-a b | man's attitude of belief, It is fatal |™ ip yaad ou believe what thn the Meopean nec) rere E and | get-away with the old lady night at see tan ea : P Permitted to spread their faith in! Shinto, the ancient religion of|1 am so glad you like the new dances, | ° ! $08 ne ps ans” on which We'll) speratic singers? You never was any |hix heels. Wasn't that rich? for a salesman to allow himself to | T hav iy uF don't want to write peace and made many converts, bUt) Japan, had for its principal creed the | too" murmured Mr. Jarr, “What do} 7 (0h. the “Nation” the a: 4 of|Rearer to grand opera than “The| "Indeed it was," said the Friendly | think for a moment that any single | Mining a ag pees loud of any Hm 1890, some forty years after the! worship of the Mikado as tho direct| You think of ii, Your Highness?" and] Yaary, 5 nd Of! Merry Chickens Burlesquers.” \! a17Or now,” came trom Lucile, “1| statement of his is doubted; he must| my absulute truthfulness und eines. @eath of St. Francis Xavier, a fierce | descendant and actual representative | he turned to Mr, Slavinsky, the gla-| it them all together, and the name| “OP boy, but it makes her sore,|could ‘a’ told ‘em about Caruso if I'd|be positively convinced in his own| ity are ution of the Christians broke|of the sun goddess. It also inculcated | gir ihe : ROME! he gives him one ‘Liste “lta! wanted to, I knew he was from|mind that what he says is being at kind of a closing talk “gia ancestor and hero worship, — in is of a man sires him 006 took, “Aston, yin land, but why should 1b at the right time and uae epee F ors ROOK Menta ee pia nie ae m a man, ; 7 ‘wi hai : 6 iA at the rig © ane 3 oat, on ousands of converts suf-| isuadnism was introduced, and slowly | _“M® 1 ain't high at all” replied! hank God he is our President, and| head,’ she says, ‘I want you to know |EWiimeraml, ut, Nah tees gg ycepted as gospel truth, If he Is not! piace, is not only 100 rs at! fered death sad the miawionarion were! put, surely gained an eacendency Slavinsky, “but 1 think it would be potas I don’t have to stand for insults from|harmonious free gratis pro fundus,|%° convinced, not only Is his conf: manship but also it will get the buale lain or expe! from the country. over the people. fine as @ temperance roadhouse— PATRICK McCONNELL . you. en?” dence shaken, but he shows signs of neas—and get it cleanly and honestly, anORRRR NNR mata