The evening world. Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 12

Oe re ee eee oo eS eee ee + oe A iy $e i iy CUe nuvi ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, _— Daily Except Bundey tne Frese Publishing Company, Nos. 63 t RASH, LAT! President, 63 Park Row. A ANGUS SIA . rere Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secreta: 3 scuarees NO, 21,032 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRBS, entitled to the wae for republication ‘paper and also the local ooww hla oameano fs — r f ’ THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT. .", - ACTION finance in this city is on a bad skid and there is no} saying yet how far the damage will extend or what the repairs | will have to be. | Higher fares and curtailment of transfers will, of course, be urged more etrongly than ever as the obvious, immediate and inevitable | remedy. | The pu is in no position to see clearly and at once to the} bottom of the trouble. It sees clearly enough, however, that it is going to be counted on, as usual, to sand the wheels and avert worse | Wreckage. The public has not been unreasonable. Willing to study any simple, fair, comprehensive statement of the fituation that would show how far the war has affected operating @osts as compared with earnings on city railway lines, and how far transit corporations may fairly refuse to balance the falling oif| of net income during the war period with the profits of better The time has come, however, to demand on one important and hitherto obscured point of traction finance in New York City a full showdown, let the New York Railways Company and the Interboro state their revenues, their operating costs, their fixed charges and the deficits. But let it be made clear, once and for all: What part of the balance on the wrong side of the ledger is due} to the operation of honestly capitalized lines at an actual loss; | | And what part of the unfavorable balance is due to the burden | of heavy charges that must be paid on inherited or acquired lease holds dating back to the days when street railway lines in New York were capitalized and manipulated at the dictates of as ruthless a group f financiers as ever pyramided obligations to be met by later dema as) on the pockets of the public. | Eighteen and twenty per cent. dividends paid under the extrava gant terms of some of these old leases should NOT be reckoned part of the normal and reasonable cost of carrying passengers on the exist- ing transit lines of the city. Is the public every decade or so, or after any period of special stress, to go on indefinitely making good traction deficits, including that part which is a burdensome heritage from past extravagance an] fild finance? +» If not, some way must be found, by drastic overhauling, to clear raway these costly consequences of earlier manipulation and misman- agement and prepare the traction lines in this city for a financisl fature based on sound valuation and honest earning power. That much, at least, the public has a right to demand in the Gransit readjustments now impending, It has been perfectly rs, ne Co, Saturday, | EDITORI ylish Clothes Irene Loeb (The New York Brening World.) pies —————-¢ 2 —____ es When $400 and $500 rent increases rouse Riverside Drive == .o) partment house tenants to combine and resist, nobody can Ag ° fe doubt that the poorer rent payer is going to need all he | ustness Girls and Protection he can get. 1 St A DIPLOMA OF CITIZENSHIP. By Sophie on A Statewide plan for preparing candidates for naturaliza Cuepntatn,. 1019), by, the Prem, abties tion through courses in English and citizenship—along the | lines of the plan carried out with Racine’s 482 candidates this | winter—is being worked out in cooperation with the United It Is the Natural Right o HE other day 1 was talking to one of the brightest girls in one of States Bureau of Naturalization by Prof. Don D. Lescohier, the city's most important de- . bead of the University of Wisconsin's Americanization projects partments, Her hair ‘When an alien petitions for naturalization, according to the was done in the most stylish fashton and her clothes were plan, the Judge will direct him to local school authorities as well as notify the Federal bureau, The schoo! authorities will ae h ‘ look up the candidate, and, after being provided by the uni- mee erate versity with a course of training that has been approved by remarked about 11, a the Federal bureau, will give the ellen (he required training and Miss F, said: as in regular classes, “Oh, you remind Upon completion of the course, the alien will receive a me of # woman ah diploma, similar to the one used at Racine, which will consti iy ‘worker here who tute evidence in the court of the candidate's fitness for natu- | Sane had serious bust- ralization, vess in har She used to talk seri ‘The inauguration of appropriate ceremonies of induction lously with everybody but me, ~ into citizenship will be included in the plan, it is expected. “And when re Na me a “ sung Ways spoke about dress and ligh) m entay Post ‘ : i flippant thing 1 used to resent it Two years ago, when it started its Americanization Forums in| because 1 had a feeling that she “fliis city, The Evening World urged that the Board of Education| ‘¢o-operate in the Americanization movement by conferring a citizen- | ship diploma upon each alien at the time he is naturalized, ‘lhe Evening World aid then: A The process of naturalization in the United States oughi to be made something other than that which it has been—a dull, tedious business that depresses rather than inspires the would-be citizen, thought I knew nothing else I wonder if everybody thinks that if a girl looks well in her clothes she has nothing else but clothes in her| brain, This gave me the idea for this writing, | T happen to know with what dif- | ficult work Miss F°, is intrusted, She} ‘has considerable responsibility, She Knows how to meet people who come The privilege of American citizenship is great enough to linto the office, to what department be conferred with ceremony and received with pride. they shouid be referred, In a word, na Foreign-born should seek that citizenship as a coveted and | Sh¢ '8 up to snuff, indi ble degree f shioh there lipl | She is alive to her job, T venture indispensable legree for which there is a diploma standing for {to say that she puts the same’energy the dignity and desirability of full Americanism, jin her search for stylish things she No diploma is better worth winning. does in her business office, | I know this girl has bought Liberty | Wisconsin has adopted the idea. Does the New York Board of! ponaa and is meeting a number of| cation mean to be ten years behind? obligations, and yet she finds tim Education mean to be ten years behind? | “i +: — to study the styles and to fashion her apparel--many times by the . Climb into the lap of spring—no old lingerer there this Acti) were of hen own: Aagerenand time. When was last winter, anyhow? thus makes the best of herself. a | She is a joy to behold | in no reason in the world A te etters From the Peo Pp le why a business woman should not look as attractive as possible as long Wets Service Stripes for N. Y-|thoir duty in regular military fashion : and receiving little appreciation or Wie ce xaite of me Brening Work! acknowledgment for same, They did A direct injustice is being done to-|the same work as the United States the many men who sacrificed) forces and for the same noble cause, jeir positions in order to protect the! put they were called “slackers,” Now, supply of New York City. These| however, they have all returned to are members of the New York| their armories and many of them are id, and commencing November,| clamoring for official recognition, The if, volunteered their services for| United States soldiers are getting a Apa Sins ay 0 bonus and are allowed to wear jeduet duty. ‘They braved all sorts|*60 bonus And are Allowed to Wear things is Just as necessary In business Weather for more ent year.|men of New York's water supply, @% they are in the social realm, watch day and night, doug | what do they get? BLE | This girl can bave the latest style, as she does not try to imitate the, million-dollar lady, but makes her clothes fit her means, She is doing something worth while. ‘There is considerable to be said also about the kind of clothes that women wear in busin Of course, nothing is more deplorable than to see a girl tcome to Work in a dinner dress or in a picture he eternal fitness of hat iets Sn NBL UO f Every Girl to Look Well, which can «till be simple, inexpen- sive, and very attractiv: | It is a matter of taste, and a will- | ingness to try to cultivate it if you! haven't got it A girl who dresses | carefully and modishly has a much better chance for securing good posi- tions and getting advancement than one who is slovenly in appear and careless as to how she looks, As a gene proposition, such | girls who do not take an interest in their clothes are usually slipshod tn their work. | The same orderly mind that makes for efficiency in business will use| the same mental process for order ell, | with he Of cou there is the occasional woman who 18 su weighed down with | responsibility and home cares that she has no time to think much of| herself, ‘There is some excuse for | h | But for the young woman in the} commercial world who looks long ingly and with envy at others who appear up-to-date, there is no rea- son why she cannot be likewis 1 have seen some of the homeliest that ts, fre point of fea- face, pre better ap- than many a very pretty That because they give little attention to what is nicest nd best in thelr wearing apparel. girls, n the tures of toa a pearance girl a is Further, no one need think that, because % girl dresses in excellent taste and looks attractive, she has only dress sense and nothing in her ain besid The truth is most nften the busiest girl is the best dressed, | It is the natural right of every |virl to look as well as she can, ev though it be within meagre means, _ i} PEACE ANYHOW. ERMANY," said a Congress man, ie “thinks she'll get the peace she desires by some jmeans—by any means—by victories or diplomacy, or by bluff. | “Germany is very much like the |the bank. The it, sald "We can't p |ter, miss." “The young lady smiled her sweet et smile teller, after examining this over the coun March 22, ‘The Prem ¢ New York Evealng World ¥ young lady who presented a check at| AL PAGE. By J. H. Cassel Convright. 1918. iphing On, The Jart Famuy By Roy L. McCardell Copyright. 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Mr. Jarr Gets the Latest News in the World of Sport you get cattle them bookies working on a boat? Can you see them on PRING being near at hand, when | hedges are trimmed, and it also being the case that Mr, Jarr's| the back veranda of an ice wagon | semi-occasional haircut was about this summer? Do you think all the} duc, anyway, he placed himself, as/ touts will be ballyhooing on rubber- wa his wont, in the hands of his lo- | neck wagons?” quacious friend, Fred, the sporting} “Certainly not; I get you,” sald barber, Mr. Jarr, H “Say, what's this talk about the Hd| "Weill, you can take it from me| being about off, now that Prohibition ts|that them sporting guys ain't start-| to give us a tumble?" asked! ing anything till they see just how] the barber, as he invested Mr, Jarr|they stand,” continued the sporting with the ceremonial robes, tapped the| barber. “Anywa, he continued, scissors against the narrow comb and “ain't the handbooks doin’ business opened proceedings and the conver-|in almost every drum in town! And tion. Jit you're too busy to go to them “L think something doing they'll come to you, And down at with a little less pressure on pleas-|the track every time you see three antry in this old town,” replied Mr.|men together you can know two of Jarr, and he winked in the glass and | them is bookies—lawn mowers,’ they so at the barber by reflection—as if/calls them now. It's too dangerous he knew just what was coming, but! to play the wheel or ‘bank’ in any of it were well for him to be discreet, | them airtight and ironclad poolrooms, “I guess you're hep to these things,"| where they uscd to deal or spin for the sporting barber, “but you | you between the events at the tracks. ain't givin’ nothing out just yet?” But I can't see that anybody that Now Mr. Jarr lived a drab and un-/ wants action for his money has any eventful life between his oMce and/ Kick coming. You don't have any there's said Sayings of | | | | | | Copyright By Helen Rowland 1919, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York svening Mrs. Solomon Worl.) Go to! How Shall a Man Know a Luxury From a Necessity? For, if All Non-Essentials Be Taxed, . How Shall They Classify Rice Powder, Blondes and Bachelors? H teeth! For lo, a meen” ROWAN O OLA, my Daughter! and wailing! In the House of the Matrons the the greater portion thereof! Behold, the Wise Men have laid upon. But how shall a MA simple, know a luxury from a necessity? man distinguish between a caprice of v essential? For verily, verily, a slender woman's woman's poison, and a debutan deli, tron’s pet abomination. Go to, go to! Are not BLOND! one man and the sine qua non of life unto another? Yea, verily! And likewise, love is a necessity unto a damsel, but unto | a widow it is a pastime. Unto a married woman flattery {s a luxury, but unto a spinster it » “I'm not backing my judgment to a darning néedle in ‘em with a sledge, but I could ha’ got 2 to 7 on a sure thing at Hot Springs down at the corner & week or so ago, when the Jarr, “Just plking along yourself, hey?* said the barber |sporting barber, as he clipped straight line across Mr. Jarr's brow, “But you take {t from me they've |been playing the same stand ev since them Reformers closed ‘em uj “Sure!” said Mr. r, Maving no idea what he was talking ab@ whatever. tout# asked the man in the next a they needs a shampoo becuuse thi got dust in their hair out in their tour- ing cars," said the sporting barber, “but the cars them guys ride in is the paY-as-you-enter, Still they fall for it. There you are! “Who was that blokie, Fred? An ex- “Phen, she said, ‘I'll round,’ "Washington Star, come bh “What did they think they was} chair, as Mr. Jarr departed. joing to do?” askial the barber, "Do] "ukdgi” replied the aborting barber, } is the staff of life. re is weeping In the House of the Damsels there is gnashing of “Luxury Tax” hath been levied upon all tsings desirable, and delightful and superfiuous, and the WOME ‘ must pay be levied How shall a anity and an meat is a fat ght is a ma- a luxury unto Unto a flapper beauty veils and lip rouge are matters of indifference, but unto a woman of forty they are the cornerstone of existence. Unte one woman henna is a drug upon the market, but unto another woman it is the “last resort” and the promise of eternal, youth, Unto a sylph corsets are an abomination, but unto a plump woman | they are the bulwark of civilization. Unto a woman of Oshkosh a Yorker it is the whole “family et dog is just a pet dog, bu ut unto a New Unto a damsel of twenty a HUSBAND is the sole object of life, but unto a professional woman of thirty-five a husband is but a temporary distraction from serious things. Wherefore, then, do the Wise Men think that they can decide these things for WOMEN? And how shall they clas Tea fights. fy the following? Namely: Domestic squabbles. Love spats. Silk stockings. Interpretive dancing Summer Polite fibs. flirtations, Platonic friendship. Pp Rice powder. Moonlight, grass widows, kisses, beau ik negligees. clors, Reno, Greenwich Village and Broadway? For verily, verily, unto half the world these are life's sweetest luxu- ries—but unto the other half they are its greatest necessities! Selah. 'How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune 1919, by the Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World.) No. 11—FRANCIS DRAKE, Who Carried England’s Flag BRONZED and bearded Englishman in 1 tree which stood in a tra Around the World. less Panama jungle climbed a tall the topmost branches the climber could see the flashing waters of the Pacific, far to eastward, Then and there Francis Drake made a solemn vow that one day he was going to sail an English ship on that ocean one who heard it could reach it, ship would smash open the Pacific to exploration and to future world His comrades deemed the vow absurd. For the Pacific Ocean opolized by Spain, and no ship of ny By doing so impossible a Spain's monopoly ther ommer¢ So did every had been mo- other country thing such a re and would Thus, if Drake could make good on his vow, he would be doing his country and posterity an inci did he seem to stand the remotest chance of making good Francis Drake was a s not know the meaning of fear and a c 6a Drake Vows to Sai! on the Pacific. errr culable service. with a wily brain aze for adventure received from Queen Elizabeth a coms Rave him leave to turn pirate, exact language of the commission, bu spirit. It gave him leave to sail possessions in the West Indies seize everything of value there that captain, at In aga and that did 0 he had nission which That was not the t that was its st Spain's to loot and he could lay nand on, and there was plenty of plunder in the West Indies just then for the man with tne wit and th With three small vessels Dr strength to get it ping in a dozen ways, this were 1 he Thus, as he caught his fir the Pacific and vowed to sail on it. Bliz tre Back to England he sailed, beth was notoriously stingy and fond of money. her withered heart toward young asure softened his ships bulging with The sig ingly promised him her aid in fitting up the new expedition, dion’ landing sites about treasure, ke swooped down on the Spanish Main, raiding rich towns, capturing treasure galleons and damaging S n's ship= did bis name would long ago have heen forgotten, But in his soul burned the zeal of exploration: were on an inland raid of Panama Isthmus, he and his men ‘st glimpse of Queen ht of so much Drake, and she will- To her, per= |haps, the prospect of a side-line of plunder outweighed by far the more ps Drake set e encountered At last his ex~ small ship— men. But no amount of n he salle@— o blue waters nt. ing, all along forces as the aa 4 le voyage. his home, and his excursions into the| trouble, do you?” HARCEAGE ita seen cetun ca and a squadron of five shi world of sports consisted in the mild} Mr, Jarr said he had no trouble] out on his quest. From the start the luck was against him, H dissipation of going to Gus's place for | whatever when he felt the call of his| storms and all manner of mishaps a glass of beer while beer might yet | sporting blood. | @emnnnnnnnnnnnd pedition had dwindied down to one be had. But it flattered him to be] «1 guess there ain't no poker ames) } The Vow Is } he Gaiden Hind! and Airs navee cousdered am authority on the 4 Jat ihe hotels around ‘own, eiher?=| {MARL § faavtuk eel turn him bark remarked the sporting barber, but his| * Through the Straits of Magella “Well, things will be quiet, though, |tone indicated that he spoke froni-| the first Englishman to make the dreaded voyage—and out int Ull the spring racing starts,” said Mr. |oany, “And I know of a club at not! of the Pacific. He had kept his vow. But he was not conte Jarr. |a million miles from here where the! He sailed northward, ravaging and burning and plunder! “Lil be glad to see some action |iimit's the roof. I guess you ain't got| the coasts of Peru and Chill, na sinking or eluding such sea then, said the sporting barber. | tng or?” e ag: | 8 ards sent to check his advance. hemi Uandbook gan areind Mlicce ik ane oe iver northward he went, skirting the shore and secking @ passage inte has been so tight you couldn't drive { the Atlantic. Weary with his search for a strait that might connect the Atlantic wit and took p ‘Thence he headed for the Moluci any great extent just now,” said Mr.!tng Pacific, he landed in Northern Califorr “Want it round in| the Cape of Good Hope, anc d the reg’ a, nami ongland’s nam 1 so back at last to England. ion “New Al- as, crossed to Java, and thence rounded) best the memory brokers would lay |ine pack?" | He docked at Plymouth Nov, 3, 1580, having been the first Englishmas you at the track was 1 to 8," Mr. Jarr indicated he wanted it| to circumnavigate the globe—and having made the trip in a little less than This was just as much news to Mr. | pound in the back. And the conver- | tW® years Ceci ae abe lemtest) a Jarr as if he had been told @ night) sition and the hair were both cut psig ’ | wchool of whales had heen fen on |short for the time being, From an Inventor s Note Book Jaa a Me Roe ne) cae ney gamamnee, wih tee] pyominant Australian burnea men ume for women cons of « balay “{ know (bat the betting bunch islyir, gare said he didn't think “abrer Mermed a cornpany to develop AA and Biome ; ar indoor use, over hanging for the past week waiting | wanted either. aerial route for mail and passengers A i 1 oa eB} anes fe apron-like |tfor the word ‘Go!'" continued the} «1 get a lot of simps by telling them | between Australia and England, with | Si able for street a their heads to-, gether and decreed WHICH things shall whether he be wise or choruses, husbandettes, bach- | From | But to no one except himself“ A recently paten with a superior air est j my | i Mr wiretapper pal!” Jarr ov . in the country heard praise and it made all the rest of the day a joyous one for him 300 miles apart wear, . si as been Inve: a in parallel then packs them in box: : 6 © For saving ja machine laces the convertible cos~ “That's t ke He's this flattering | Chinese jade tated by manuf. ture: shipping matte! nted that firs€; positions and) es, rs in Europe Suppose Fred had said, “Oh, ne's (that the artificial frequently ts mige only @ business jobbie!” taken by experts for th successfully tale