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wPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to vie 8 ‘ark Row, New Yorn. RALPH PULITZDR, President, 62 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasure Park Ro LITZE| . 63 Park Kow. MEMNER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, etctuni lot om atch VOLUME 59.....seceeees ereeee sevvererNO, 21,012 BLACKENING ITS EYE. Telegraph Company t) HE charge made by the Posta = $30,000,000 boost in telephone rates is part of the Burleson programme of Government control might have less weig the Postmaster General’s policy in raising domestic telegraph rates had not furnished a striking and ominous analogy of fact. The Postal Telegraph did not want an increase of rates. The Western Union did. Postmaster General Burleson shelved the head of the Postal Telegraph system and the Western Union got the raise | it wanted. There is no charge or surmise about this. The public| has seen it happen. | According to the Postal Telegraph, “the campaign for increased telephone rates inaugurated by the Bell Company before its lines were taken over by Mr. Burleson was to be continued by the latter in| behalf of the Bell Telephone Company, the power of the Postmaster | General being relied on to do what the Bell Company had difficulty in doing.” | If the public finds this an entirely credible assertion it is becanse Postmaster General Burleson’s procedure in known instances has made it so. | That powerful corporations should be able to use Government | control for their own ends is the last thing the people of the United States looked for—even in the strenuous preoccupation of war. Thanks to Mr. Burleson, Government control of public utilities in time of peace is getting to have the blackest eye it ever wore. | — “The United States cannot quit.” volumes of argument into five words, Oy SIR THOMAS’S MISTAKE. | 1R THOMAS LIPTON is “amazed that the people of the United | States, loving personal liberty as they do, should have voted the whole country dry.” Sir Thomas does not mean to be unjust to the people of the} United States. He will no doubt offer them his apologies and sym- pathy when he finds ont that it was not they who voted the whole country dry but a number of their so-called representatives whipped into line by a fanatical minority with a powerful lobby. t | “I am not by any means convinced,” says Sir Thomas, “that your | prohibition venture is going to be a success, and as for this new idea of world prohibition, it is laughable. it. Mr. Root condensed ten and never would toler: There is so much protest even now against our war-time re: tions of liquor that they are beginning to be relaxed.” Sir Thomas will be surprised at the number of Americans he meets who are convinced that what he calls their prohibition venture is going to be anything but a success and who are already organizing to prevent the consequences of disorder, hypocrisy, deception and depravity which would be certain to follow enforcement of the Na- tional Prohibition Amendment. As for world prohibition, few Americans are considering anything so absurd. The great hope of the country is in the thousands of clear-eyed, healthy young Americans who are coming home each| {he Woman Who Infringes on the Rights of Others. week after living among people who drink wine without thinking | themselves potential drunkards and who have been wise enough not to let intoxicants become associated in the popular mind with the| saloon at its disreputable, degraded worst. + We gather from Mr, Begble that the Kaiser is exceedingly sorry for himself. We expected something of the kind and trust we may never hear that it is not as bad as we hoped. + THE ASSURANCE MOST WANTED. LTHOUGH the total of wages paid in this State decreased 5 per cent. from January to February, the State Industrial Commission points out that the decline was mainly due | to reductions in the number of work hours and not to decreased pay scales. Furthermore, the Commission declares: “When the course of average weekly earnings is compared with that of the retail price of food as published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is seen that in so far as these factors are concerned the position of the factory worker has improved despite the decrease in his earnings.” “From January to February earnings have declined 4 per cent., whereas the retail price of food has declined 7 per cent. In the two months from December, 1918, to February, 1919, the decline in average weekly earnings was 5 per cent., but in this same period food prices declined 8 per cent.” Averages and percentages are instructive, they do not, for thousands of workers who are trying to pay post-war prices with pre-war incomes, carry the comfort that would come with the assurance that either pre-war wages will be increased or post-war prices comeistently lowered, so that thousands of families who have seen their standards of living forced downward during the war can have hope that those standards need not go still lower. be CLOSE-UPS OF BOLSHEVISM. WASHINGTON, March 31.—Industry and business are at @ standstill in Budapest, according to advices to the State De- partment made public to-day by Acting Secretary Phillips. A despatch from Vienna states that all industrial activities have been stopped in the Hungarian capital, that an inventory {s being taken by the new Bolshevik authorities of all factory plants, banking institutions and shops of every variety, All property is being sequestrated, both real and personal, The despatch says every house is regarded by the authorities now in control at Budapest as belonging ‘o the state and arms and ammunition of every kind have been requisitioned, In this case, however, Imagine New York hauled on to that sidetrack and “in- ventoried” by self-constituted “authorities” with light finger: RAIN BY X-RAY. | An Australian inventor has patent- A 4 @ method for producing rain by | prepar' raising large X-ray bulbs by balloons | known SOAP WEED FOR FEED. 3 Soap Weed, for stock fee inte higher strata of air that are filled either alone or by inixing it with cot. | like to talle about people, but” wih moisture, tonseed meal, tna hal IA for Ny d, EDITORI AL PAGE| ae TOMI Tuesday, April 1, 1919 |Nobody Home! — -rvvitiths, By J. H. Cassel, By Sophie Copyright, 1919, by the Prose Publishing FEW days ago a woman was charged with being a common | scold. ‘This 1s an un- usual complaint to-day, And yet there| is greater need | for it than there| was in olden! times when everybody knew everybody's neighbor and! could stop the! | common scold more effectively, Aw it ts to-day, the question of the ‘neighbor who infringes upon her| | neighbor's rights and privileges ts a serious one and one that causes not Jonly annoyance but hardship, espe- | Jelally in tho modern city homes of the skyscrapers, | eon mare ome The dictionary defines a common scold as “a woman who offends) inst the peace of the community onstant scolding.” he woman mentioned above attrib- | utes her troubles to a desire to sing| and because she closed a driveway | which forced her’ neighbors to “drive | around." | Whether this woman is guilty or | not, is unimportant, ‘The big question is, how many hundreds of people are ane: of similar offenses, whose | neighbors are lenient to the breaking | point and who do not go to the ex- |tremity of taking, such women to a jcourt of justice? Perhaps the judge of to-day will in |the Hight of present methods of liv- ing put a different construction on | the definition of a common scold, He may find that it is not limited | to the “female of the species.” | If I were the judge, I would define |} @ common scold as follows: | The woman who plays the piano jafter midnight when her neighbors want to sleep, She who keeps the talking machine going on Sunday afternoon when the hard working person upstairs wants to rest and read, The woman who abuses the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, through the common dumb-waite! She who airs the family troubles with her husband while the windows are wide open, © gossip who berates her neigh- begins her tirade, “No I don't ‘What Is a Common Scold? Irene Loeb Co, (The New York Byentng World.) dren away on the only stoop in the neighborhood. The woman who steals her neigh- bor’s best maid. The woman who punishes her little lost Johnnie all the way up the street, The landiady who tells the short- comings of one of her tenants to an- other, The loud nagging wife who never has @ kind word for her long suffer- ing husband. The gaudy girl who ridicules her old-fashioned mother go that all the shbors may hear. The woman owner who continually puts out the sign, “No Children | Wanted Here, The saint-like creature who goes about defaming a girl's character be- cause she happens to be jealous of her good looks, The society woman who is forever upraiding her servants, and telling her friends about their iniquities, The woman who argues with the} conductor while she keeps a row of people waiting to get on or off the car, | The woman who insists on carrying her wailing infant to @ night per- formance, And as for mep scolds: other story, The whole matter may be summed up in one definition of a common scold—he or she who raises any hue or cry and causes disturbance or dis- comfort without proper regard for the community, that is an- Inventions of the Day A metal cigarette case that fits the vest pocket has been invented, from which a single cigarette can be taken without removing th case, The opening of new telegrapii cables to Ceylon has enabled the island to receive messages from Lon- don within half am hour of their fil- ing. rae Yap To relieve the hand of the man forced to become a straphanger in a crowded car a Now Jersey inventor has patented a hooked wristlet, ee Peru will wage war on malaria by | sessed with the fear that something POSE Aas ae ene Re karin nego eee = sengisen ay tr Family Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by the Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World Mrs. Jarr Is Suspicious of Those Who Bathe in the Famous Kelly Pool! | N Mr. Jarr arrived home by| “So that's your famous efficiency | taxicab with friends from a| engineer?” she cried, “That loafer, | rare evening out, playing| that tramp, that wretch who has| Kelly pool, and what not, it was|broken the heart of his poor wife—| somewhat after 11 P, M. or middle | for even if Mrs. Gratch-Dinkston 13| class retiring time, @ militant Bolshevist, she is a woman | Mr. Jarr counted It all in the day's | and is somebody's mother, or would| work and alighted from the vehicle | be if she had any children! at the corner, bade his companions} “So that’s the man you are asso-| good-night, and hastened home with- | Clating with in business? I suppose out stopping anywhere else—in re- | you got him the position!” Mrs, Jarr) sponse to any other gentleman's in-| went on, “Isn't it bad enough you) vitation. In fact, in every way Mr. have such friends but that you must H have them with you there? And you But as he neared tho portals of the | £9 out with that sort of people, riding house wherein he dwelt he saw all in your taxicabs, while I sit hom the front windows of his apartments | Waiting and worrying half the nigh darken, It was a danger signal that} “But it isn’t late dear," said Mr.) every husband knows, A worried Jarr. “If you'll only bo patient’— wifo will. hang out ef a window! “Patient! That's why I am treated watching for a belated husband, ob- |the way I am!” retorted Mrs, Jarr. “If I were not patient, if I did as other has happened to him. Then when she | Women do! Do I ride in taxicabs does see him approach safe and Wen 1 go out? No! Not even if its sound, she turns out the light and, ning, 1 take a street car, and receives him in darkness and silence, | ™#ybe ruin what poor few clothes 1| Why? | have! But you ride in taxicabs with | “Hello, kid!” sald Mr. Jarr, cheer- | ¥OUr Gus and your Slavinsky people | hy, as he keyed himself in and | Mat, thank goodness, I wouldn't ride turned on the light. in golden chariots with! But after! ‘There was no reply from his good |‘! 1 won't pinch and scrape and save and deny myself luxuries that husband was above reproach. in h doir, feigned eye who, in her boudolr, felgned| 41, 4o not deny yourself “I sald ‘Hello, kid!!" remarked Mr.| “Now, don't be cross," Mr, Jarr Jarr. “Ain't mad, are you? Boss|besan again, “I can explain. The office paid for the tax Dinkston was with those fellowa I had to find him, The boss sent me to find bim, I did find him, You know I | was out after them; or rather him. Be reasonable.” But Mrs, Jarr thought she'd sob a sent me out with'our efficiency en- gineer with some reports, and"—— Mrs, Jarr sat bolt upright. “Don't speak to me! Never speak to me again!” she hissed, “I shall never speak another word to you!” rove how firm was her re- eee eae poured forth a tor- | little just to show Mr, Jarr her feel- rent of reproaches in which Mr, Jarr|!"g3 Were hurt, It doesn't do for was charged with everything from |* we? to let her husband off too cruelty and non-support to cold- | “sly. ae ae indifference, neglect of home| “8° you see,” added Mr. Jarr, and job and children, bad company, | seeing the domestic skies Were clear- hard heart and utter collapse of char- |e AST Sr Oe Be tion = ae teit, dearte!” pleaded Mr. Jarr.|where is the man who can leave “Just listen! I'l explain.” |well enough alone? He thought he “Can you explain being with that| would entertain Mrs, Jarr with a com- | Gus and that Slavinsky and that Raf.| plete @ocount of the evening's do- ferty?” cried Mrs. Jarr, ‘No, I wasn't| ings. watching you from the window,| “And you should have seen the boss Don't flatter yourself, But I beard playing Kelly pool,” he began, treating patients, protecting residents of mal regions, destroying germ | bearing iusects and draining lowlands, Car ar) ‘Tests made in Europe have led ex- perts to decide that ivy benefits rather than injures stone walls, moisture | The woman who “shoos” the chil- \ \ +4 grows by drawing excesy from them, on whieh it | all about it!” “What!” cried Mrs, Jarr, “Bo “But didn't they telephone you| THAT'S what you were dotng! Out from the office that I was sent out| playing Kelly Pool—where is Kelly's with our efficiency engineer, Dinks-|Peol? And while I'm home fixing ton?’ asked Mr, Jarr, Mrs, Jarr|over the children's clothes to save my 1 ht at the first syllable of the|little money! Oh! Oh! On!" pame, ‘ No, it is not known at this writ. Jarr’s conduct as a home-trained | take them down to your office and|\ How They Made Goo ; By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright. ng Co. (The New York Kve No. 15—-LORD SHAFTESBURY, Father of the “Ha Corpus Act.” E was an English nobleman and a shrewd stal Unlike most of the nobility of his day, he thou of Lis own privileges of rank and wealth t of the people at large. is was not a popular point of view and fi up a goodly number of evemies for Lord Shaft welfi But he it on the principle ta man who is to make enemies in a righteous cause is not making friends with, and, deaf to the clamor Hf opponents, Shaftesbury to the thorny rot % had chosen—the road whereby he was destin 1; make good and to strike a blow for liberty th second only to that struck by t ers of the sharta, Thet Is why he toiled and planned until the “Habeas Corpt was passed, It is hard nowadays to realize what a mighty thing this act shaping of human progress. | _ In Magna Charta days thers had been laws which wore sup cover the same ground, But these were allowed to become a d and in the centuries which followed th conditions which seem now to have been sible. or instance, men could be thro prison—often without letting them know ture of the supposed crime—and they 4 kept there (sometimes for life) without co trial. The prisoner's own family often know what had become of him. Ie simply vanished as a result of sation which, perhaps, was false “English judges and sheriffs," writes one commentator, “had to nored the Magna Charta's command against illegal imprisonment Provision that the accused be brought at once and publicly before a of law. At length the cases of {ilegal imprisonment became so many flagrant that the nation demand reform.” Shaftesbury was the foremost agitator for this sorely needed “re | and by degrees he swayed the authorities in its favor until, in 1679, a corpus bill was framed, It revived the Magna Charta's provisions ranged that a captive should not only be informed of the nature ¢ charge against him and be allowed to procure counsel but that hie should be prompt and fair and public. Ly its provisions a death-blow was struck at injustice and at the vower of a rich or influential man to get rid of any enemy whot 1 to want out of the way, Fair play was the bill's keynote, Jot for another century and more did France secure this boon, and only as a result of a bloody revolution, In England it was settled by po vote, The habeas corpus bill came up bel se of Commons. ‘There, thanks not tesbury but to overwhelming pop eee Men Thrown Into Prison Without Knowing Their Crime. ° | Shaftesbury Vows t » $ to Pass the opinion, it was passed with a rush, and it c Bill at Any Cost. up in the House of Lords; but the Lords 3 far less swayed by public wishes than were Commons. This new measure for 2 in, People did not greatly please them. ied © Dill hung fire, Then it was that Shaftesbury came to vowed to pass the bill at all costs. He resorted to counties pleat tricks to do this. One of the most effective of these ruses, it js eald, ° Juggle with the vote-counting, i: a According to a story whic! one example of his vote -juggling: ‘There was an o House of Lords. He was in favor of the bill. Be size Lord Shaftesbury ordered that he be “count Such methods did not land Sh pass unchallenged, and in May, 177 able vote in the House of Lords effect, 8 the p' has been large epted as true, he: primously fat man in use of this man’s ed as ten.” aftesbury in jail. They were allowed ‘9, the habeas corpus bill received a fa On June 1 of the t went if aftesbury had made good. Bachelor Girl Reflection, By Helen Rowland same year Copyright, 191%, by the Prees Publishing Co. (The New Yor’ Fronlns Wor Oh, SO Emancipated ! She would rather be plucky than pretty! She would rather be useful than witty! Sle would rather be wise than have dimples and “eye. ut she'll wear a TUBE SKIRT, and (1 blush to She'll totter in hobbles and French heels that hur ‘ Yet she s: “advanced!” What a pity! OLSHEVISM @ la mode: Down with the hobble! Down with sheath! Down with the tight sleeve! Join the I. W. W. (4 wo WEAR 'EM!) Give us liberty—or give us BREATH! ssert) An alarm clock is something like a husband, matter how many times {t fools, disappoints or su: you, you never give up hope that you can regul so that you can depend upon tt, Divorce {s getting to be merely the armistice between two marriages. Next to a new love affair, there is nothing qu rejuvenating as one of the new spring flower hat! brightens the face, glorifies the eyes and elevat spirit! And it touches no metal—save your pocket! Reforniing a hugband is ag unsatisfactory as remodelling an old By the time you have cut out all the weak Spots and bad places, there much of anything left. A bath, a shave and a change to his dinner clothes have the spiritually exalting effect on a man as prayer and a clean conscience, Why Is it that the averagé man {s 80 much more grateful to a for being beautiful than he is to her for being good, or brave, or useful A woman in one of the new tube-skirts is like the average man’s m absolutely immovable, British A Slar HE British soldier is usually 4 Ist known as “Tommy” (short for “Thomas Atkins’); one who dodges hard work or the fighting line is a “scrounger, the soldier's helmet ts “tin bat machine guns are “typewriters or “riveters; anti- aircraft guns, “Archy’ or “Aarchi- bald;” the German minnewerfer or trench mortar, “Minnehaha” or “Minni a@ light tank, * bippet;” the German outpost shelters made of concrete or steel are “pill boxes;" and dugouts are “bug houses,” “flea pots” or “funk holes.” An “arrive” is a shell coming your way from the enemy's gun. A shell tis “crump,” and a shell hole a | “ort but Tommy has a sep- | arate name for each of the many | fy kinds of shell the Germans pend Shells which burst with a of black smoke are ‘Jack Johnsons” and “Black Mt shells from trench mortars are boxes; 42-centimetre shells “Busy Berthas;" a shell which two or three times like a Cj firecracker is a “whizz bang;" with small wire wings fired trench cannon especially for ing down barbed wire is flower,” “Pig squeak" is a shell whic its name from the noise it shells which give no warni thelr approach are “Creeping mie” and “Silent Susie which makes a whis' “Whistling and “fying torpedoes, so named from hapes. A “dud” is a shell Is to explode "Blighty" is England and “B one” a@ wound necessit to England; to be killed; = | “dodging ing the “wind feet; o ’ are type | over. | cloud ling whether the Jarrs will ever be |reconciled, Mr, Jarr is willing to be reconciled, of course, But after what |ne’s done? Never! |_ Hor still Mrs. Jarr wonders {f there were any profession: |ptece bathing suits at Kelly's F \Oh, She read of such things in the newspapers! tion: if a gi is ‘ood, |f anything *are all ‘Jake;” is ull righty