The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1919, Page 20

E« Ut THOUSAND MEN of the Twenty-seventh Division when \ Gonatitutroral taw, Atobison was cer- | x ESTABLISHED ny JOSEPIT PULITZER, Pwbyaea Dany Bxcopt Sundey dy the Teves Puulithing Company, Noe. re Row, New York. ALET rouirae, President, €3 Park oer Treesurer, 63 Park Ro sosieit PULITANR, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Tiow MEMBER OF THY ASSOCTATED ig exetow'vely entitled fo the ome cor fetinstion of a tot ccd’ Un’ (hiS wader id clay 08 lool wwe 53 te Amociatet Pres > it o& aot othe VOLUME 59.. NEXT ON THE BURLESON PROGRAMME. | EGINNING to-morrow the public will pay 20 per cent. more | B for domestic telegraph messages in order that a Burlesonized telegraph service may keep its balances on the right side! Tegardless of how much it adda to the cost of operation by bighe: , rages or extravagant mothods. ' That is the great thing about Government control of putlic, ape The Government can afford to be the kindest, most gener- of employers. The Gorernment can afford to be the most easy- | going, lax and wasteful of wperators. Why? Because the pnblic’ ‘ean always pay more, and if the Government says so the public bes | got te pay more. There's no other shop where it can trade. Nobody has ever grasped this principle of Government control ; grith ® more autocratic determination to make the most of it thas | has Postmaster and Dictator General Burleson. Burlesonian bu- Teaucracy is the most thorough-going product of its kind the country | ever grew. And it is only an infant growth with big possibilitics Secretary Deegan of the Mackay companies says the Postal Telo- | graph was perfectly well able to go on serving the publio at the old rates aud had refused to raise them. Hence, according to Mr. Deegan, the recent high-handed removal of Postal Telegraph Lane from the control of that system: Western Union operating metl ds) jo necessary a raise of rates for the Western Union and Mr.) Burleson was determined the Western Union should have the raise, | Taking a minimum of efficiency and economy as the standard | of production cost by which to fix prices for the public to pay iz, familiar doctrine. But one would hardly expect to find it obtaining} Government administration of great public utilities What ANF the Burleson models? j Sa Se ‘ i THE REAL THING. discharged will be looking for jobs, according to Dr. Goorze | W. Kirchwey, Director of the United States Employment | ice, who has been getting official information on the subject. | al an appeal to employers Dr. Kirchwey says: | “It Js admittedly the duty of this great community to pro vide employment for’ every one of these men, and for this reason all employers in New York City are urged to convey at once complete information regarding al! opportunities they can offer for employment for these discharged soldiors. So much has been said and written regarding this admi tted anh | that there is danger of thinking it glready dono, Suppose each one | of a hundred employers is so sure the other ninety-nine are providing more than enough jobs for discharged men that he takes no active step in the matter.” Mow does the duty get itself performed? The Twenty-seventh has had iis great welcome of cheering crowds, triumphal arches and waving flags. Other soldiers returning Jater are sure of the same. It is the first, easiest, most obvious kind. But what about taking these heroos—sound and disabled—as individuals and fitting them back into permanent places in civil life awhere they cav work, better themselves, be happy and fee) the fight ing did not lose for them while it gave an advantage in the race tu} those at home for whose safety they fought? ‘That's the part of the welcome that gets down {to Lusiness and means something. It’s a part UMt demands thought initiative, and» perhaps the} ‘rouble of a considerable amount of readjustment from thousands of individual employers. But it’s the part that’s the real t NEW YORK AND THE PRINTING TRADE. WW: the City of New York has come to stand for in the printing industry of ‘the world is seen in a newly published Survey of the Printing Trade which appétrs as Part T. of os report on Industrial Education in thia city: New York City has attained {o the past few yeurs the proud position of being the world’s leading centre of the printing imdustry. It wrested this distinction from London during the war period and if plana now tn the making for the extension of education in its processes are adopted, it no doubt will retain its pre-eminence. There are to-day over 2,700 printing establishments in the ater City with an favested capital of over $63,000,000, “Yhe need of more extended education emphasized by a committco representing the Association of Employing Printers, the New York Muster Printers’ Association, the Alli Printing Trades’ Counci] and the Typographical and Pressmen’s Unions. ‘This committ sa number of « recommen- dations, notably that a contre] school of printing be established which sball provide trade extenyion courses for jonraeymen and appr Uces and all day pre-employment courses for bs intending to enger the trade, and that such courses take the place of thu instruction iu printing ai prevent carrivd on in the duy voca- 11 tloual schools and the evening trade schools. The Board of Hducation and t! tienment are asked to proy printing classes, | It would do ci as city officials no harm to read this Survey of the Printing Industry ond learn more of New York's present standing in one of the most important, far-reaching and honored of al) trades—the niceties of which demand training and invite the highest developments of skill and enterprise—and which a Twentieth Century public takes for granted eA President - bia Day . the lst ‘of Presidents of |gurated cn the £ In those United States the name of David| days the President pro tem. of the} » BR. Atchison docs not appear. Yet tes Senate wus in line for) in ‘the opinion of many authorities on! vy in printing mak Board of Estiw and App: zeny as wel! ——— . — | j tho Atchi#on, Sena- {lor from Missourl, was then the pres President for one day only. | $!ding officer of the Senate, and hence, | this orcumstance, became Pres. , by day was March 4, sith It fell) gent of the United 3 fi ay, and Gen. Taylor, tne | ot March's, 1848 to Room ok yb @ Anau lowing da: Atchians Bios in a fi Eltabelle poctess, Doolittle, who ganis, 7 not be lessoned, Euabelle Mao I orlginal rhymes deal- treat, read us sever: ng with food. EDITORIAL PAGE Monday, March 31, ‘Another Well oll Poisoner _ League With a Couple of Food Rhymes. y/Savings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland vytaht. 101%, by t8e Pram Publishing Co, (Tue New York Evening Warid.) will a retrousse nose Being the Confessions of the Secen-Hundredth Wife Concerning Brains—-and the Woman. Y DAUGHTER, what profit thee if thou hast M an aquiline mind? is What will beauty profit tee if thoa art likewise gifted with brains? ' What will dimples avail thee if thou bast also opinions? What will blonde hair a brunette temperament? Go to the Jemon grove, thou Scholarette! For how few women, with both brains and beauty have ever plucked a peach, in the garden of Matrimony! Verily, verily, it is not given unto one woman to possess both happiness and opinions; both real love and real logic; both reasoning powers and romant’ devotion! Peradventuro @ plain woman may overcome b landicap with humility and conceal ber intelligence with dissimulation at camouflage. She mey learn to watch her P's and “cues” and “yes-dears’ and to cultivate her “What-dost-THOU-think-darlings.” But an intelligent opinion in the mouth of a pretty woman horrigeth \@ man even as the scissors in the mouth of a babo or @ slingshot in the hands of @ mischievous boy. | And @ woman with judgment which exceedeth his own and with wit ‘whieh outshineth his repartee is more uncanny than a pet parrot which saith the appropriate thing at the right moment. Be not deceived, then, when a man saith unto thee: “Go tot 1 could not endure life with a stupid woman!” For, verily, NO woman is stupid, in bis opinion, who AGREETH with in thee if thou possessest ‘ him. But a woman with “convictions” affecteth him as a cold bath om January morning. She shocketh him! And a woman who can be SILENT in ovo language is more “inter- esting” than one who can be brilliant in seven languages. Behold, in bigh Olympus, Minerva, the wise, had the respect of the gods. And Diana, the strenuous, had her independence. And Venus, the beauty, married the blacksmith, But Psycho, the stmple, was LOVED. And Juno, the bovine, married the “GREAT CATCH”! ‘Then, whatsoever thon receiveth in the Love Game, ob, thou Scintilat- ing One, accept it gladly and rejoice thereat. For, whether it be @ babe snatched from the cradle or an octogenarian spared from the grate, it {3 thy. portion. Therefore cherish it. i For, verily, verily, in the togic of man, brains-and-beauty are av im- | possible feminine combinaton—— Nay, not impossible to find! hast married it! ‘And Solomon himself had not been happy bad be suspected that there But impossible to ENDURE once thou fra an IDEA affoat among al! his seven hundred wives! _Ellabelle Mae Doolittle The- Ja By Bide Dudley 9. by the Press Publishing Co, (She New York Evening World.) Copy: Delhi’s Neted Poetess Favors the Betterment HE Women's Betterment League of Delhi held a Doolittle after- noon Thursday in Mugus Hall, t Promptress Pertle was the chair, calling the meeting to order the affatr being vo designated because Mao Doolittie, the noted e guest of honor. Miss a member of the or- m, tad promised tho ladies | (o read to them weverat of her justly! member hero" famous food rhymes twenty-three of the members present. and at feast wore in o'clock with ber, usual verve. To-day, triends, she Bilgo Peters, the janit the downstairs to see said, after had ejecte liveryman’s dog und had gon if the nolse made the: borses in their stalls could ually do m Mrs, Pompton Moat, the| 80 th processes jy) Wittlest woman in Delhi y “we are to Lave a Doolittle ts to dealing with) When tho merriment bad subside | Promptres ‘noted pe Pertle teas, you aro fa j some one day and introduced | Miss Doolittle glided | gently to the centre of the rostrum | and held up on p hand ust bad to write this Mus Seid he: He ate @ lot wore aud rolled on the | the r : } at call it am ‘Ab Basan Cutey “Phank you, Mre. Ski Dinner and Topped It O Wit Bb. nana Cake.’ 1 hope y Bi tt nner Ate a like stuff,” s nga!’ replied Miss Dooltttle sweetly. Theo sbe read! the followings Abraham Skianer ate his dinner, Including bandna cake, It iy never a fake" floor, But his whfe was very ¢ lane knew if Re died ho had insure ance, “It ts quite a winner, ghted, And refused to be ofrighted. sisters child, Teeney Ricketts, Kicked @ neighbor's son severely, Neve hitting hin with Mustn't be naughty, my dearie, @ fence picket, Aen But getting beck to banana cake, tee delight{ut Gegeat ss One of your husbands was scen to day Winking and blinking at a skirt. Mrs. Skecter O'Brien was on her ft “Pardon me, Miss Do ° sald, “out T have a hunc Priam Boggs. Now, as you mean S wiferis u “Go home and add O'Brien 1 sponded Mrs. Boggs b tried to flirt with mo onc “Ah, but that was before he q drinking,” said Mrs, O'Brien, Promptress Pertle rapped for ord and got quite a quantity of it, “Diteh this scrap and let the next one,” she commanded, lence reigned. “My next," said th about rye bread. by is poem follows: | aye bread is very ui It is used én saloons a? men it will entice | Bach month including June | My Grandfather, Sitas V. Doolittte, | Used to junrp up and down in rage, When accused of being a loafer, Quite a seene for one of his age, Envoy, , wou are very good, In pieces large or sma Mevt me, little sweetheart, at The Vadertakers' Bat, Bowing gracefully, Miss Doolittle in an instant, H she | 4 ° read | js ked off L. 1, ldertakers had only for « {covered an j gusto, ) All were plea: , Invention: A French | process ui |phur dioxide | temperature, thi rm | A machine awed the } 4, applauded he reference to un- but nent, Soon they re a > of the Day chemist's refrigeration © expansion of sul- 8 to produce a low . making stick eandy bas boen invented that has a daily city of 8,00 * ‘The Island of Guadeloupe an electvic ratlw | waterfalls being } the power, Comfort ‘| ng inplements jor's seat which ‘end of a pivoted bor, ) pounds is to have ay 118 iniles long, two harnesved to provide . 2 riders on farm- by an Mlinois invent- is mounted on var the other end ot which ja attached to a colled spring _ to aiford ba is @ and prevent shocas ae, By -Roy lee HATCHA goin’ to be when | W you grow up?” asked Mas ter Izzy avinsky, compla- {cently sucking an orange. “An nenginineer or an nautomobile driver or o nairy naut,” replied Mas- ter Gussie Bepler, who was also prone to @ guperfluity of “n” sounds Jn his suck of the ofangp now, suggested Master Bepler, cried the present cas- todian of tho fruit. “Didn't I betcher that I could take it and suck it 60 |dry that it would be dusty inside?* | “It ain't dry yet,” suggested Master Willie J * chimed in Master | Johnny Rang: "It's juicy y {with (i am Slavinsky, But I ain't through asked young M. in that particularly grat- and ferocious tone in ‘which dear | little boys address each othér in the absence of their elders, Ucro then followed one of those ela rous disputes the small boy, when he tlocks together, ts prone to! , as is the way with these chattering: r tie of ys and lence Like @ poultice fell to al the blows of sound, And Ma sky handed the oran: |to Master Bepler, s quietly: | There, take yer old orange.” “Ah, you didn’t suck it dry! Yer didn’t suck it dry!” eried Master Bep- “1 can't git any juice out of it now, but it ain't dry like you said it would be.” Master Slavinsky regarded it with worried look, “LT lose my bet! You win,” “What wis the bet?” “He bet him the orange. Gussie Kepler had the orange ‘and had just bit into it when Izzy Slavinsky bet him he could suck it dry!” explained Master Rangle, who had been early op the scene, he said. “An? he's such a emarty! Yet he didn't suck it’ dry!" cried Master Bep- ler in triumph. “You see, you're al- ways so fresh and think you kin do everything.” ‘This lust to Master Sta- vinsky. Master Slavinsky bore his defeat rr Family L.. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by the Re Publishing Co (Tho New York Brening World The Children’s Peace League Encounters a Delegate Without Credentials. the subject was now dryer than the orange) the matter was about to be passed over for the dangerous sport of seeing who could step on a strap that trailed from a passing express wagon, when the boy banderlog peo- ple had their attention distracted from the passing pleasant peril of the »|railing strap by little Emma Jarr, who came running up with a skewer of wood sticking from between her lips. “Oomp! Umblugh lucy Blimsky!” | she cried. The clarity of her diction was be- ing interfered with, it would seem, owing to the fact that at the end of the wooden skewer was a disk df that sweet petrification known among the little ones as an “all day sucker.” Then, to convey her message more speedily, littlg Miss Jarr drew out the clear but impervious disk of candy by the wooden skewer, and while she waved the thing before Master Sla- vinsky’s oovetous eyes, she added: A min ty got your poppa’s Job taking. out gl y across the street.” don't take out no verated Master Slavi t the chi ate house where, in the a large pane of glass had been removed from the inner door, “He's a seab, and them ain't glaz- tools, anyw declared Master insky, “I'll take them to my pop- per and show him,” He picked up u compact kit of tools in the hallway and, followed by tho other children, carried thom io his father’s shop. ‘That evening, to pals in their bach. clor apartments in the slums, “Har. lem Slim" bitterly complained that uptown was no place for a guy who visited flats without an invitation, in the absence of host and hostess, and collected sou 3 of his visiting, “Why, they even pinched me tools,” he added, “and I makes, me gitaway wit’ nuthi This town's full of crooks, I'll say so! lei ha Ss NEW FUEL FOR THE MOTOR, The use of coal gas instead of gaso- Ine for motor fuel ls rapidly increas. ing in English cities despite the fact that engines that are driven by it de- velop but 90 per cent, of the power (hM matter with fortitude, and (fpr! obtulned from gasoline. elah. ‘How to Be a Better | Salesman ‘And Earn Bigger Pay | sees | By Roy Griffith | The Evening World's Authérity on Successful Salesmanship. | Copyright, 2019, by the Prem Publishing Co (The New York Evening World.) Mr, Grigith’s Satesmanship Column is published datty, Instructive articles like todey's alternate with an ansicer to questions column. He toil? be glad to ansicer questions addressed to him care of this news- paper. \“Professional Attitude” Toward Customers.| OME months ago 1 was talking| to the sates instructor in a large department store in Chicago. She told me sho was teaching the} sales people in the store to adopt] what she called “the professional at-/ titude” toward all customers, Her ideas along this line aro valuable and |") Sauer hee well worth passing along, Since gatos- | Snail Sy hae TF. you notion’: ane 3 | resented # openly you would be prov~ manship {s a profession, there scoms | on why ‘wales people sbouldn’t | /N& Yourself not so very much bigger ao ease natinet profesrionat bearing. | the one who made the remark. hare 9: Gs eva 1A cool, deliborate refusal {o notice It is the lotvof the salesman to meet) things would prove you te-be all kinds of people. <All people are) Be ae és Ai by atyred, even-tem| bs Ss Hcreon. not always good-natured, cvet-tem)| You are not eacridcing a single bit pered and considerate of the rights and) |, ve ul if f your own pride or your own pore feelings of others. As long as tho} onality when you are being profes~ is Pi world stands there will be some few) onan seothing rnd agrecable— t fnore or less disagreeable © agineay »-dilieies fussy, Tho | whea you are endeavoring to soothe tomers, linstead of excite your customers, Our speech, our actions, every part) you are not being vervile or humble, of our physical being are tafluenced) yoy ure showing that you have & by our state of mind, State of mind) knowledge of humanity and you ere is influonced to a great extent by OUT! maxiny yourself a better salesman. nerves, ‘When our nerves are strained] you can’t cell goods to a man whe js we are quite apt to be disagreeable. | “rite” over something you bave amid When customers are tired out, nervous|or done, And when he 4g inclined to and frritable, they will sometimes pay'} be: 4," ny way, you are only help. things they would never think of say-|ing to Itill a possivle sale when you ing wero they In a normal state of} take note of his grouchiness. mind. I temper aad a sharp tongue) Only the other day riend of mine are very often the direct result of] was telling mo of a fancied insult re- over-wrought nerves, ceived at the is of unother’ mu- ‘he aslewaan should adopt |tua! friend. Later it developed that the uit’ was just another case of over-wrought nerves. So [ am wondering 4¢ the “profcavional attie tudo” wouldn't be a pretty good atti- te “ov everybody to adopt, whether they are actually engaged tn selling Fusually because ‘there ix at least a grain of truth in it. While-most of the disagreeable re- marks made to salesmen by oa tomers are merely a sign of strained us suppose that something froiaits axiact you with the real intention of being insulting or un- kind, A person who would make such a remark deliberately and with malice aforethought would be pretty nerve specialist makes every attempt to soothe instead of oxsciting his patients, What would you think of a and gensoless argument with @ nerve- racked, fever-stricken, unreasonable patie} When you, realize that the customer who {9 crotenety. is only nervous, you can make allowances, overlook it, and be cool and collected. Some people go through life curry- ing a chip on their shoulder. are looking for insults and unkind re- marks, In this world, we usually find what wo are looking for—more espect- any, p trouble, The mun who ts always look: ing for trouble has no business in the selling field, You have heard people suy, "L con. \sider myself a» good as anybody, | Nobody {s going to insult or >” When I hear a remark of this thint: of It as jon of weakness, You cun't guit a really b!g person by saying | untruthful things to them or of them, When.an unkind remark hurts, it is physictan who woutd start @ heated They haps, {f we are looking for) merchandise or not. It's worth think- ing about at any rate, ——— ENGLISHMAN’S IDEA OF & YANKEE, LEAN American was mgnopoliz. ing the conversation at the club, “Yass,” he about some. I've tumbered om the Missisalppi, met bears in the Rock- tes, coon cattle ranchin’ out Texas around Australia, ecen 2 an’ gold minin’, with Indian rajahs, eerimmage in Spain, ckon I jest have, Bin any- ? I should smilo, ‘There's Alps, Switzerland, ishes the caboodle,”” pr-fession?” asked ° an had de- crawied, “I've been watched a bull China? i where else Japan, t who had the'e anage wow ta the We Bits.