The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1919, Page 18

; Che even ESTABLISHED BY JOSH PULITZER, QRS Gaky Kxcept sunday dy tho Press Publishmg Company, Now 62 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Troasuirer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZE ark Kow. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCTATED Pras, bf tl entitied t ar regriblication of af wetler oTee se cle 4 asa tion Paste bone in Gus paper WOLUME SP ecenese mnie nan ritennesnnemuae es ceaeNQ, 21,048 A YEAR WORSE. TT 350 eviction cases before him growing out of rent boost- ing by ruthless landlords, Justiee Robitzek of the Municipal } Court of the Bronx declares: “There will have to be an end to it some time, It is amaz ing that tho legislators have not taken cognizance of The Evening World's preachings of a year back. The people under the present law are absolutely at the mercy of landlords. ‘The courts can do nothing. It is the landlord who makes the decision and enforces it." ‘At the beginning of it inst profiteermg in New York apartment house rents last spring, The Evening World said: Unless some movement in the interest of tenants lis started at once, thonsands of familiés in New York are going to find themselves face to face with the most formidable Uving problem the advancing cost of everything has yet forced upon them—tho problem of where and how the unrestricted increase of rents will permit them to live next year, A year has shown the ¢ ness of the pred campaign Has it tion mished any solution of the pr —_——-+ THE NAVY’S TURN EW YORK’S HAND goes out in another big welcome. | N To-day the « greets Vice Admiral William 8. Sims, | commander in ¢) waters, who returns wi In cight days’ time, when {he rest from the naval rendezvou Guantanamo, there will be anchored im the North River upward of one hi d of the Nation’s powerful | fighting craft, in teen dreadnoughis and battleships, forty- nine destroyers, sixtc From April 15 to Ap have the best New York can off entertainment. | The great naval review of the latter half of this month will give the city a larger glimpse of the Nati sea fighters than it got when | the ten returning dreadnowghts of the victory fleet steamed up the harbor through sleet and mist on the morning of Dec, 26 last, and | 10,000 American sailors were cheered as they marched through New | York's streets, Already here is the new 34,000-ton superdreadnought Idaho, the biggest battleship aflc four turrets of three each, and her 21-inch torpedo tubes. e American naval forces in European on the Mauretania of Admiral Mayo’s fleet arri vt e nding ¢ ) eubmarines ] 1 80, 20,000 ome twenty auxiliary ve: officers and men of the navy will in the way of hospitality and with her twelve 14-inch guns mounted in This is the most formidable sea fighter ever launched and armed, but before New York has fairly had time to admire her she will be joined by the Pennsylvania, Admiral Mayo’s 51,500-ton flagship; by the Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma and Arizona, the squadron that guarded the west-} ern entrance to the and by the New York, Texas, Wyoming, Arkansas, llorida and Delaware, which, under the com- mand of Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, composed the famous Sixth } Battle Squadron of the Allied Grand Fleet. Americans have not forgotten the words of Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander in chief of the British Grand Fleet, when he} said farewell to American naval officer Aone and the boasted German war vessel being herded by dogs to their folk “1 thank again and again t part the | Sixth Battle Squadron has played in bringing about the greatest | naval victory in history. | “These powerful ships (the Anierican fleet), the equal of any in the world, in co-operation with the powerful British flect, gave such a predominance of sea power in the North Sea that the German fleet dared not invite suleide by coming out and offering battle, They did try conclusions because thoy knew there never was a fleet tn being that could have had a chance of victory against the British and American fleets working together with the same signals and the same strategy | as if they were of the naval power of a single nation.” glish Channe! after their joint task w had “come in like sheep | you for the g not as chief in command, first | her of British and | and the same strategy as if| The American commander to whom eredit belongs for that successful wor American fleets, “with the same s they were of the naval power of a single nation,” is Vice Admiral] the finest hotel at Palm Beach with|front page of the newspapers: ‘So- William 8, Sims. |two bulging rattan dress suits cases ciety Matron of the Younger 3et ; + z on rt Shocks Even Une ona The country has come to realize more and more that it owes to | ied With some bargain counter wash Unconventional Palm him the performance of a pa 1 the been accomplished by exceptional tuct efficiency and leadership s well as by high The vigilant, co-operative, forceful, perfectly disciplined role played by the navy ¢ n the war is admirably typi fied in the manner Admiral Sims filled the position assigned him on the 1} vwoan side e Atlantie With New York's greeting to Adimir Sims goes the wish that it mightgeheer him, and the 20,000 and men of the navy presently to be gathered here, in a rousing naval parade, Sees UNJUST TO FIRE CHIEFS. ‘Y WAS unfortunate and ut charges of graft in the Fire Departmen names of Fire Com missioner Drennen and ( ‘Kk n a ive been brought into the case involving Dr. William F. Doyle, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, and others indicted ‘ ings ‘ving collected bribe money for permitting y s r AW noving picture operators, The testimony w igued the names of the Fire Com missioner and the Chief w estime ( ¢ wife of a man indicted on the same charges as those brought t Doyle. As + ‘Attorney Swann said Saturday: “There is not a scintilla of evidence sioner Drennen or Chief Kenlon of the highest personal integrity against elther Commis nen reproach above Chief Kenlon is one of the best Chiefs the Fire Department has ever had.” New Yorkers will cordially indorse that csiimate of Chie Kenlon and allow no misleading use of names to alter their opinion of @ man with a ap tees record of thirty-three years in the city fur | : job which could only have | suits to go out yachting?” asked the EDITORI Monday, April 7, 1919 AL PAGE By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1919, by the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) This One Will Do Anything on Earth for You— Except Agree With You. No. 3—The “Debating Society.” OMEWHERD . In the dim, dead, beautiful past I have read a joke life and wakes up to discover that he has joined a debating society.” But “joining” a debating society is one thing, And MARRYING a full-fledged “Debating Society," all-imone person, is another, “You know what I'mean! Ho is a good busband—a big, kind-hearted, hard- working, successful husband, Who indulges you and “babies” you, and cheerfully lifts atl the burdens off your “dear 11'l shoulders,” And spends weeks trying to find out all the things you want for Christmas-— And then gives you something else—just “to sure prise you!” And ALL he asks in return is that you'll let him argue with you! And he's SO accommodating! He'll cheerfully take any side of any quesjjon, at any moment; And, if you insist on agreeing with him, he'll generously and skilfully, change sides with you. There's no dodging the point—-he’s too subtle and too quick for that® His method is to find out, surreptitiously, first, what YOU think abo: a thing—ANYTHING, from baked beans to Bolshevism——— ‘ And then to flash the opening fire of the counter-attack on you A INDUSTRY rx «, Pe The Jarr Family | By Roy L. McCardell ‘Ooprright, 1919, ty The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Again the Eternal Question Feminine ; Do Figures Lie? 66] Monly home tor a few days, you| “If you will tell me what you came ] know, my dear! I just ran]ail the way from Palm Beach just (o| back to get some new clothes," | buy an imported silk bathing suit for, | 1 Mrs, Clara Mudridge-Smith| I’ not criticize your Irench,” sushingly, “The season will be soon | torted Mrs. Jarr. over at Palm Beagh, but up to the] “Weill, I'll show HIM and I'll show| very end we must dress!” HER!” murmured Mrs, Mudridg “Yes, or get arrested,” remarked | Smith determinedly Mrs, Jarr ¢ idly, “ut it seems to] “Yes, and if you wear one of those moe you h.d plenty of clothes, You|'‘chic’ bathing sults—if they are like took ¢ ght tr aks. Yc. 1 remember] any 1 saw while I was abroad—you'll the time whea you went a week to the|show everybody,” said Mrs, Jarr. country with two rattan dress suit| ‘They stand for a good deal at Palm cases, But that was before you got| Beach, But I can tell you right now, @ rich old husband.” Clara Mudridge-Smith, if you appear “Well, now that I bave a rich old! on the beaoh there in an Ostend bath- husband, do you expect me to stop at| mg suit I'll be reading about it on the | re-| Beach by Startling Bathing Suit!’ I suppose you'll wear one red stocking and one black silk That's the latest, | believe!" “Oh, of course—-that’s if I wear any dre s and a couple of middy blouse silk }dushing young matron one? “Well, rs. Jarr aduitted. |, And I dou't want you to think, lara |Mudridge-Smith, that I am throwing | Stockings at all,” admitted the visitor, Jup your poverty-stricken past to you| ‘But never you mind about me. I'll because Lam envious, But sometimes | %° '® the edge of the water attended though you had always |2¥ MY maid and attired in a silk robe I've come up to select one of those, 4 girl who had everything AU's why Lam a success!” repliea |t0% And then I'l show HER and I'll you act a b ° ony show HIM." | he young matron, ‘Thank goodness, | |next doom to us,” said Bobbie. “His ae do yo 7 © you in danger of being ar- I'm not afraid to spend my husband's| “Who do you meay by HER and|name was Head—Michael Thomag Ar a in 2 rs HIM?" asked Mrs, J hi rested sked Miss Primm. money I can do it with the great. asked Mrs, Jarre sharply Head.” h 4 1 you that ‘Le ucert “Yes—for taking the post off us. eat evlalr, Baas hy Superba’ | wwe, what of it?” snapped Afiss|srow's that on Kelat,” corrected Mrs, Jarr, that Magtoniss girl—is appearing | prin . i y ? at U vaudeville theatres in Florida? | | “Absolutely s,"" said Miss sre doing very well, Mudrid, vi Lead in Florida | Oh, nothing, only we called him an " ¥ {And of course Jack Silver is down ry ” Primm, layghing Baaith 4 nde except In Using! there sit in a b [Ms ean The Boss continued on into his pri words you do not understand, You} & box every might! ‘Golly, boy—that's a pip!" said gb ae alas gaping like a hynotized booby.” vat ottice. When his door had might spend some of your money on|” vwhat has that ; Poppe m going to tell that one| Neate) iilan ad French lessons, too, But, now that! ovine hom oe t got to do with your! a: the boarding house at dinner to. |“l0sed Bobble Brin you cre here, tell me at DID you | COMBS home for a sensational Mrench |), .n1, 1'l1 put the landlady ine good} “I'll make it the ‘One Hundred eee hank ¢aiaeen pas bathing suit? asked Mrs, Jarr liciman Years column now, “Well if you want to know, that! ial Mee sald the vinltor | know another fellow," Bobbie be- | he whiskers creature, ‘La Superba, the Firefly vere ut Tl show ‘em there | can, “who w to tell his creditors }on that joke are so long !t can braid | Venus, appearing n uy in art|” 1, ain sure it’ n wee ong minute!” sang out ¥ " Ke ae ab fie ; e its all a pu st a minute , pple. > rave Bobbie on poses under colored lights ata vaude> | sui. wud Mrs. Jarre. “Peonle I ‘None of your insinuations now? {| Miss Primm gave Hobbie one look jville theatre down in Morida. And! yoy who have nothing to worry pay my bills immediately when!and boun out of the room, very I've come back to get another bathing boas them but how they shall waste both tego their time and their mone jing-wuit market at Palm Beach?" | races, but 1 think you'd be b ankod Mrs. Jars |off if you weren't so well off, and “They didn't have anything Tl gign't have time for whatever silly thought suitable,” replied the young notion comes into your mind! May matron, tossing her head, “I want M be you are nymph in “Not in vaudeville, thank you!" the visitor. ose as a bath the kind the ehic risiennes wore at Ostend and Trouville—do I pronounce names right?~-before the war, But, my dear Mrs. Jarr, 1 do deciar ever since you spent a week in Paris aid “But you know they do ake bathing scenes for the moving those pictures down at Palm Beach!” And she kissed Mrs, Jarr goodby. The Office Force By Bide Dudley Bobbie’s Old Jokes Make Miss Prim Scowl, but When the Boss Springs One—Well, That’s Different 66] SED by the papers," said Pop-| “But I hear it's pretty hard to catch ple, the Shipping rk, “that| you,” murmured Bobbie. the United States ds preparing| “Now, folks, this will never do,” to free the Philippine Islands.” sald Spooner, the mild little Book~ | “I presume Vanifla will be made|keeper. “Let's be pleasant this morm- the capital, won't it? asked Miss|ing. I'll change the subject, Yester- Tillie, the Blond Stenographer, Miss|day I met three members of the Elks Primm, “ad Bos Private aughed. Manila, not Vanilla!" she said. “Manila is in the Philippines.” “And Vanilla is in the Filipinos whenever they eat cake,” suggested Bobble, the Office Boy. “Cheap joke number one,” snapped Miss Primm, “You're late to-day, Bobbie, By this time you should have scored with at least a half a zen idiotic jokes. How is the state of your health?” “Like the State of Winots,”" sponded the boy, solemnly, “What do you mean?" n and— “Thought you were going to change the subject,” said Bobbie, “I did.” “You're still talking about Bills, “Fair enough, kid!” said Popple. “Some day I expect to see you edit- ing a funny paper.” “It certainly will be a funny paper, sneered Miss Primm, “If I get the Job,” said the boy, “Tl give Miss Primm one.” “What kind of a job?” asked Pop ple. I'll make her editor of the ‘Fifty Years Ago To-day’ column.” Miss Primm whirled around in her Secretary to the re- “Good, boy, Bobbte!™ came from |chair primed to score Bobble roundly. Miss Tillie. “Is that one out of/ghe hesitated, however, when the your own head?" Boss entered. “purel” : “Good morning!" he said to no- “I imagine it didn't leave much be- body in particular. “Just had an ac- hind,” said Miss Primm. “It's always! cident, Chauffeur ran the car into a| boen rather an empty head.” post and knocked it down on us. “Reminds me of a man who lived Look out for Secret Service men.” hey're handed to me From an Inventor's Note Book. material made Deen An milk Rusala, insulating curds from) with such a spin that invented in it returns to has the shooter eat wae} Japanes making that | silk from Now Zealand hemp t i} . . . | | | an {mitation A safe toy children has been invented shoots a wire gun fo A Now Jersey inventor has patented a simple holder for hot exgs. . . 8 she said to herself, “Whether they are fat or thin, think that they have | @ figure that maddens all beholders! | And if they don't want to be in the| ‘The cravenetting process for water- ‘six years ago you set yourself up as an authority of Parislan pronuncias Mrs. Jarr looked out the window fter her, ‘They-alrhavethe game living pictures they want to be in the | prootin vi etures, Yet, if I do say i Glare dridge-Smith would nve result of an accident in a dye works janythingto ‘baw # figure like mine," Before you can run up the white flag! My! What adreadfully wet day! I can’t go out.” NOT? It’s too gloomy and depressing to stay in the house on such a day—and besides it’s going to clear up. Why in the world does a woman always want to mope and moon around the house,” &c., &c., &c, You say, “Oh, I do hope the League of Nations will go through and stop all this dreadful Bolshevism and put an end to war and everything!” He says) “Great Scott! You talk as if the League of Nations would bring about the Millennium! What has it go to do with Bolshevism? My dear, if you would only read Herbert Spencer you'd know more about these things “Now, as far as Bolshevism is concerned,” &,, &., &¢. “Why And yet you KNOW that it will break his heart if the League of Nawsj) tions DOES shot at sunris: No use trying to filibuster. ° You say, “How do you like my new hat, dear He says, warily, “How do YOU like it?” If you do like it, it's a foolish, frivolous, unsubstantial bit of vanity, If you don’t, it’s a nice, sensible, becoming, smart little thing. If you suggest staying at home for an evening he wonder don't like to go about and see people and thing: GP Sarena teat te WANS BIRET Oe 4c! the Ealenerae why you If you suggest going out he wonders why you never can enjoy a nice, ;/ peaceful evening at home. ‘And the only way on earth that you can get your way is to BACK him into the shafts by arguing against yoursel!! Oh, yes, he’s a GOOD husband, a big, generous, kind-hearted, re liable « husband. But you sometimes feel that you would exchange any TWO of his virtues Just for ONE week's ARMISTICE! How to Be a Better Salesman and Ea | By Roy Griffith | The Evening World s Authority on Successful Salesmanship, Copyright, 1919, by the I'ress Publishing Co, (The New Y World) Mr. Griffitn’s Salesmanship Column t9 published daily. In Alternate with an answer to questions column. He will be glad to aurwer him, care of this newspaper. bie tk Ese slike to faye Queeuons addressed to : ‘cational work to be done ore t The Specialty Salesman. |\;,, Maia tectiien: Wee oe N presenting a new product or any | Should figure out whet niche the kind of a specialty proposition to|articl a abana a prospective customer, the sales- | all on a prospect more thar man must sell the idea first. Ideas | fore attempting to close. | are the hardest things in the world to | haul make no attempt to close the |sell and the man who can sell them order du nary ¢ The object of the first calls | successfully makes more money than | merely | any other class of salesman, An idea|‘® @ducate the prospect and get him lis only potentially real, It must be|*¢customd to the idea the salesman | visualized by the salesman so that the | '§ ¢ndeavoring to sell | prospect gets a vivid conception of it.| When the time comes really ‘An insurance salesman sells the | °PUI the idea, quick action and high lidea of protection or investment, A Pressure methods are required. The man eelling correspondence sc hoot | *!esman must make his proposit absolutely indisp ot education, |‘ > bsolutely necesss courses sells the jam | The salesman of a holfsehold specialty |sells the idea of lightening the labor lof the housewife, ‘The salesman of an joffice specialty sells the idea of in d efficiency in business. A man |selling a new product sells the iden). -being and happiness not possibl pend the prosp ua ii experier of the buying appeal which the new |product will rouse in the public AY mind. Any kind of specialty sales wor nis . ed man you may name sellir ideas, in closir Z mn \first and foremost The actual sale - at , of the merchandise nly incidental |his sal k carefully ople| a, ; ie aren't “falling over themselves" | > : t buy. In fact, they hay already | jogged along pretty comfortably with Jout tho pangiculur specialty tho sales- | t t 1 }man is presenting and they have an} " nar idea that nothing start! Wilchabe| eres ee order w |pen to them if they continues alc pained Action Ix nece without it. ‘The salesman must j " p {them out of their indifference whiche term you pre tect, diplomacy and percept First, the specialty esman must], ri ea p Jattract favorable attent Ghie Wie crc. at Jusually accomplishd by ns of an ‘ unusual or original uch, care-| Pt he lully concealing the faet that he cam aman DALI " to sell anything, Next, he must arouse | '? Uscern whe ui t Ne jinterest. In the sale of ideas this|\y S| consists largely of educational work. | fen Ho must know w The salesman must educate the pr fast, concisely and to the + pect to the feasibility and desing! When tor i ability of the idea t ne " bby : eH ay Right bere, it is necessary to say rh wes the spec sometbing about “call-backs.” Many | man utitud: |specialty salesmen claim if they do!‘ H we have 1 Jnot make the sale on the first visit |Pacaw he world i there is no use gaing back. In th pectaltic main, this is true, [ believe. Ordinar-| © i ee and ‘call-backs'’ are a waste of time, |‘ That ta the work With some propositions, however,|{no world up to & higher aut hegad About the pathetic plight of a man who “marries for a quict home, rn Bigger Pay r ' |