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ee a Oe ee LO ee et See ee ~~ oe -_ i a gt a a tl LILI t ny ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Mished Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to _ 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Ir, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS, ewnctated Prem ty exclusively ontitied to the tine far republication of a1! new Meatchen eee Oe eS aedlisd iSUhs paper ebd'sieo ie local ‘new published Rereae | — — (VOLUME 59...... ThiVENTEI NUL: WUDS CONTINUING WAR FAVORS. ONDEREFUL is war. It cost this country 60,000 lives and billions of dollars | and it piled upon millions of Americans the heaviest loads {@hey have ever had tucarry. i Yet big groups of Americans profited largely by the war andj }eontinue to profit by it. ; A further increase of $65,000,000 in wages to railroad employees be-affecting some 400,000 men—is announced by Director General { Hines of the Railroad Administration. "This makes a total of $910,000,000 which war has added to the payrolls of railroad workers. With the $350,000,000 by which the Pailroad companies themselves raised wages in 1916 and 1917, railroad Wages show in the last three years an increase of $1,260,000,000, an average of more than $600 for each employee, ‘The war period alone “has brought railroad workers an 80 per cent. increase of pay. Does this 80 per cent. improvement upon pre-war incomes obtain | generally among all classes of workers throughout the country? It does not. It found in relatively few efAmong clerical workers, for example, who aré for the most part unor /ganized, wages have known nothing like such an advance. “t In the case of railroad wages the increase is not coming out of senlarged railroad earnings. On the contrary, despite rate increases of ever $1,100,000,000 since 1916, expenses are expected to keep ahead of is classes of labor. such increases by more than $500,000,000. Rising taxes, rising transportation rates, along with increasing cost of materials and, manufacture, higher prices to consumers—all “4m order that certain sections of labor may be permanently better off Decause of a crisis of struggle, sacrifice and destruction the resultant » burdens from which other toilers are expected to bear! Wonderful is war in the distribution of its benefits and the col “ection of its costs. —_———- + - Tat the War Department make a definite statement that a the 77th Division will be paraded in New York. Then let it stick to that statement. The “ifs” and “buts” begin to get on the city's nerves. Es ’ HE rush of aliens from the United States to Europe is reported to have reached a total as high as 1,000 a day. Noting that “ 90 per cent. of those who pass through this port are Italians, Byron R. Newton, Collector of the Port, sees a serious effect upon “the labor market: , “One of the greatest needs in the labor situation to-day 1s for plain men with plain habits to do plain work. These men have been doing such work for our industrial establish- ments, and after they go I cannot see who is going to do it. I would rather have men who will build our subways than men who will build Soviets.” The plain worker willing to do plain work for modest pay will soon be an extinct species in the United States, Suspended immigration has had a dismaying effect upon the tupply of domestic servants and created a problem that is turning the head of many a housewife prematurely gray. Already the efficiency sharps are assuring us that in the near future housework will be done only in eight-hour shifts by persons expecting the pay and treatment of highly trained experts. By the time there is nobody to dig the sewers all but the very richest Americans will be washing their own dishes and making their own beds. ; ———_--¢->—____ Until further notice, the Monroe Doctrine may be con sidered to have gained honored and permanent admittance to the proposed Covenant of a League of Nations, + WHAT ENDED IT. 4D MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG says the war was won by the battles of 1916-191 “The rapid collapse of Germany's military p&wers in the latter half of 1918 was the logical outcome of the fighting of ‘he previous two years. It would not have taken’ place but for that period of ceaseless attrition which used up the German reserves. It is in the great battles of 1916 apd 1917 that all have to seek for the secret of our victory in 1918.” Ik It is pretty certain to be pointed out, however, in final reviews of the war that the te ible process of attrition that went on during 1916 and 1917 did not leave its mark solely on the German strength. The year 1918 would not have seen the end of the war but for the impact upon German power of the fresh fighting force of America. The war was won at the first Battle of the Marne, when the German military machine was shown at the outset what it could not do. The war was won at Verdun, where the hardest blow Germany could strike was not hard enough, ‘he war was won when German morale began to weaken because of what German might was proving iteelf unable to accomplish But the end of the war was not a matter of weeks and days until American armies in the of t fresh and untried strength had done enough on the western front to convince Germans that the game was up. What won the war can be sought through immortal French valor and British endurance. to what ended it. fullne: the pters of There need be little dispute as ————-+-—_____. “The sum total of the work of the Court House Board of New York for years,” Gov, Smith says, “Was to put upon the city an expenditure of over $13,000,000 for the acquisition of property,” Enough for an epitaph. Bury the Board and get busy with the property, af | EDITORIAL PAGE | | Saturday, April 12, 1919 | capone! Coprrtett, the he Pe Preas Pub New York Evening World) C0, When You Have a Talented Guest By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) The Invitation With a String to It 1 | People, especially professionals, re- | that she was wor-| than it is for you to ask Mr, Mone} ried for fear she|bags to bring his books and show would be asked to| you how he makes his money. sing. An Invitation to a talented person She told me how| should .not imply an obligation to all day she had been| show what he can do, working very hard! On the contrary, the host or hostess and how tired she | who really aims to please her guests was, and that she | takes special care to make them see did not want to sing, | that her interest is to entertain them Specially after a meal, and yet dreaded | and not that they do the entertaining. the ordeal of refusing. I have always found that the be: And, sure enough, after the dinner a to treat talented people or pro- number of the guests insisted on her| fessionals, whose daily or nightly showing off her talent. It was, in-|grind 1s entertaining, is to let them leed, with great difficulty and con-| alone—to do as they please; and nine way siderable embarrassment that she) times out of ten they will voluntarily ‘got out of it.” do their share of being agreeable With a great sigh of relief, she! even to the point of presenting their urned to me later and said; “I do jope that they will not ask me to do| it age » do my be I hate and yet I want to relax and have a good | like the other without | having to try to live up to my record | ,, when I least feel like it.’ It truly siderate peor gu It is certainly vite a lot of people specialty. As a general proposition true ar- are in the mood they are only delighted to have people get pl out of their performance. to appear to be rude, me people, As one great pianist sald I love to play for people think really want me to play, how : hate to do it when it their uilented me part of the to whom 1 but I is expected of me, is remarkable incon- | © of asa evening's pro- |! unfair of whom dy to in Hi mmie,’ many have had nothing to do but get rei A “funny” man, a stage celebrity, about 10 acres that is suitable for | promote taking pictures; there is a large fir eed oie forest with a rocky area and also #| hy “about lake, It is expected that the acting| per year, or dramatizations of The production, will 3,000,000 metres of “film and Mr. heads. didn’t he e wife, the | breath, like its owner wasn't used to By J. H. Cassel {made of alternating lengths of thirty and of thirty-one day How They Made Good | By Albert Payson Terhune | Copyright, 1919. by the Press Publishing Co. (The New ¥: World.) No. 20.—LUIGI GHIRALDI, Father of the Calendar. FE was Luigi Ghiraldi, a physician and scientist of Verona, Italy. He neglected his lucrative practice in order to devote himself to a theory, Instead of using his gifts to gain wealth and fame, he sacrificed them for the benefit of posterity. An‘, though he died before bis life work was acclaimed and put into practice, yet he completed that work before his death. And he made good. From the birth of time, hundreds of more or less learned men had tried their hands at the tremendous task of giving the world a correct calen And a sorry job they had made of it The ancient Romans, for example. split the year up into 304 days and into ten months, getting their idea from the moon, This proved so confus- {ng that they later divided the year into 355 days and into twelve months. This was nearer the mark, but still wrong. For it caused a miscalculation of about ten days per year. ‘These missing days heaped up, until at last the official opening of spring fell on a date somewhere in the middle of summer, ‘This was in 46 B.C, And Julius Caesar set to work at straightening out the snarled calendar, Having conquered everything else, he undertook to conquer the bewildering time-tangle. And, in a measure, he succeeded. He ordained that the average year should be every fourth year, or leap year, should have 366 days. Even! 365 days long; and that The months he all except twenty-nine days and on leap year thirty days. He “signed” his work by naming one summer month (July) in his own honor, And he called his reconstruction job “ February, which normally had Orme Spring opened } | in Summe' Darr he Julian Calendar.” | ‘Then along came Juiius's nephew and suce: Augustus-Caesar. | Augustus did not want to miss any glory that might be going around. As | there was a month named for his uncle, he decided to name one for him- self. He chose the month following Julius’s; and had its name changed to “Augustus,” or August. But, to his ohugrin, he discovered that Jultus’s month had thirty-one days, while August had but thirty, So he tacked an extra day onto August; taking the day from February, which thus had only twegty-cight days except when Jeap year brought up the num. ber to twenty-nine. | So matters ran on for another 1500 years, | his study of the Julian Calendar, and made an odd discovery. He found that Caesar had made a mathematical error of eleven minutes per year. This seemingly small mistake amounted to a whole day’s difference in something like 180 years; or to about ten days in 1,300 years. And Ghiraldi labored over a plan for correcting the blunder, At length he worked out | the following rule: Time was sor, Then’ Luigi Ghiraldi began to be set forward as many d. as had been lost since 46 B.C. And henceforward no century year (except those which chanced to be divisible by 400) should be regarded as a leap year, This would ke up the slack" and prevent further losses of eleven minutes a year. It was a simple scheme, but perfect. And it represented Luigi Ghiraldi's work. By the time he had it mapped out, he died, His brother brought the plan to the notice of Pope Gregory XTUL. life His r > Holiness saw at once the exceilence of the idea, meceeyeecnereaed i and convoked @ gathering of learned scholars to cf Ghiraldi Plan, $ coneiger It. 18 “4 nis conference endorsed Ghiraldi's idea. The |Saneere Pope, accordingly, in 1582, issued an edict which abolished the Julian Calendar in all Catholic countries and inaugurated Ghiraldi's plan—which was known as the “reformed,” or “Gregorian” Cal, | end gland American Colonies, 1752, By that tim the Julian Calendar, | Thence, by old style reckoning, George Washington was born on Feb, 11, not Feb, 22, Russia still follows the Julian Calendar, by the way, which brings the Russian New Year about twelve days later than ours, held oui, for centuries, against the change. So did her They did not adopt the Gregorian Calendar unti! there was a full eleven days difference between {t and Or Making the Home Safe. for the Family Copyright 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, By Stuart Rivers (The New York Evening World.) A Specialist on Mental Diseases Pays a Call E the was, congenial, win, J want to sing and J want |tists love their work, and when they | tioughton 1c with his patented ¢ way it burned up and how mad Smith Father's been worried about that ever since, because just a Mrs, Houghton-Smith was going out | [ of the door she told father she was | going to sick her husband on him, and Houghton-Smith he's a doctor, and his particular line of business is taking care of people ‘that have screws loose Nuts, you know, I see father was worried about tt} 1 because he Houghton- caning powder, the ekirt Houghton here just as he was opening the Mrs, all, had to say, he seemed anx and I don't suppose I'd have able to keep him if it hadn't that just about that time m and Mrs. Houghton-Smith sh isn’t @ mister, up in thelr was. BER me telling you about | right. He slings open the door, bangs oughton-§ » of ja d Pe offer, avaninn {ant ab ainnee| SUITE NEC UPoe. es Poulbld | SEMEL AP RRLHIEL ear coonen next to a girl whom I knew by| sent this, and rightfully. ; ne on * ‘i ine Ae i Me t : ae We pda . ite reputation as a talented singer.| There 1s no more reason for you to| frends, an 5 A r is hope of salvation lay in : down to the house to take mother | away, During our conver- | invite Mary Nightingale to your home| @ saa eae eacall litem sinned ne oe sation I gleaned| to dinner and insist on her singing |'® 4 meeting and ‘ompletely demented,” the doctor muddy and the way father cleaned | sings out, and starts after him, I got door to give chase, hooked my arm in his snd induced him to pay a little longer He didn't want to listen to what jous- like, to leave and investigate father, been ‘been other owed up, wanting to know what the trouble let go the doctor’s hand and asked mother if Doctor | we both started to explain, He saw mith was in town, and); wag going to beat him out go he the doorbell rang. r new club, “AN door, It * says a voice, as father opened sounded sort of out of % to specialize in Swedish |there until I count three, after that catch me if you can,” go around with Mother didn’t understand what he was getting at, because she told him the Houghton-Smiths were very Considering Smith was coming pretty regular to our house, it didn't make father feel more comfortable, I was hurrying with the dishes the other day so I could get a few hours off to go up and watch a little bout between a couple of my friends, when Mother was up to his his wife trailing along after “Your father’s mixed up in that Mrs. all about." things to mother, plain another, so we were well mixed up when back come ther, looking out of breath, scared No, I never did get to see the I had to wait around and mail ter of apology that mother mac clapped his hat on his head and (eft, him still asking what got him so mad, thi! mother says, “Now te!’ me what it's I tried to, but it’s hard to explain she jumps at one meaning while you're trying to ex- both pretty ps fa~ and bout, a let- de fa- A New York inventor has patented a motor driven toothed wheel that , You'd never think father was a8| draws a rider upon a single runner Spry as a two-year-old, but he is all’ at high speed over ica, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell | Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (Ths w York Evening World) Mrs. Jarr Learns That Charity Should Never Be Painted in Bright Colors HE doorbell had been rung agi-|home, and when I opened them two tatedly and when Mrs, Jarr an-|of them looked white till I stirred swered it, Mrs, Rangle came|them, and then I found they con- panting into the Jarr apartments |tained blue paint and the other two carrying most carefully to her breast | contained’ red, and, of course, they an odd-shaped package wrapped in|are not returnable after being open.” newspapers. She was also in an al-| “Are you sure?” asked Mrs. Jarr in most hysterical condition. |deep sympathy, me stores are After she had calmed down she de- | very obliging about taking things clared herself as follows: “My dear, | back!" I'm just so upset I don't know what| “This store won't. I tried," @ald to do; and I'm just as sure as 1 can| Mrs. Rangle, “and you are always so be that I've slopped some of it on my ; handy with leftovers and such things dress, because after you once open|I thought I'd bring them over to you them you can’t keep them from slosh- | and see if you could use them." ing if you carry them! Of course it| | “Hem!” said Mrs. Jarr thoughtfully, doesn’t make any difference with this | “You say two of the cans looked like old dress, although I wouldn't want | White till you stirred them. Why did to spoil it just through carelessness, | You stir them?" although they do say turpentine will | “Well, I don't mind the money,” take it out and the stains won't| said Mrs, Rangle, “but you know how at awill the men are, If Mr. Rangle finds out Mrs, Jarr had motioned the caller| that I've bought something I can't to the front room, but Mrs. Rangle| use, just because it was cheap, you shook her head in the negative, while | know what he'll say volcing her woes, and led the way to “Oh, don't 12" remarked Mrs, Jar: % the Jarr kitchen, where ehe put her| “Men think they're smart! But never package down on the table, She now | mind, dear. I hear we can give them carefully removed the old news-|to the Red Cross for the Belgium o: papers, while Mrs. Jarr and Gertrude, | Syrian relief. Let's take the paint the Jarr maid of all work, looked on| down to the Red Cross and give it with breathless interest. ‘The open-|to them. We are both members of ing of the wrappings disclosed four the Peace and War Helping Hand quart cans, the had you know!" been cut open, showing that each can| “The very thing tops of which 1 Mrs. Rangle, contained ready mixed paint. A con- |@nthuslastically, So Gertrude got an- siderable quantity had spilled out in-] Other bunch of old newspapers and to the paper wrappings. wrapped up the paint ns a while Mrs rain “You know how I thought our Jarr put on her best hat! | and went with Mrs. ite ‘ ‘oughton-Smith,| bathroom would look so much better | Rangle and the # hig eer Ny em | SiVes an instance of how he was in- : “a ther write to Dr. Houg! : 3 for the party, and entertain them | 8!V ep e spony “| three flights of stairs, “In this Mr-|\totner is feeling pretty good too.|if it was all painted white?” began | Pit on their errand of red and blue through the efforts of another in-|Vited to dinner and found one of the| 1. ogo an, well I'm Dr. Houghton- i . | mercy. ted guest who has doubtless worked | Members of the family with a pad| a °PF oe id She says she thinks she has some| Mrs. Rangle. 0 I've been looking | MUTEX: vied: Bu h Fee ee al aenril tortake an The sald, | eee MY wite geld ine one who can control father at last,|in all the advertisements for a sale| And both ladies were very indige hard all day at her talent, and pencil to take down all he said.|" yi4t then father interrupts. eee | nant when thelr trihiite ws fter 1 ‘True hospitality in the last analysis | ” ‘*Don' and she says if he ever mentions 4| of paint, and when I saw an adver-| ey ribute was refused, aa ee tcdy te et em ties tn making & person feet the| Sigh anys he "Dont make ©! new-fangled avention, she's going to | tisement yesterday: ‘Best quality of | Gothen waren nen Nes that, in case to invite anybody to your home and bal pers noife, Stané right there by the door. + | Another war comes, the paint woul es sar itn se nan ta en tartaln wi [pl ure of being entertained, even| tye got to get my hat, And don't let | telephone tor Dr, Houghton-Smith.| mixed paint 39 cents, former price} come in handy for samontie. ould ns a sk hit PABA IND Tre Xa hitaaal® Gants inutan te the spermine er se eae stout it, {Father tried to show her that it|49 cents,’ I went right down to the : nee, ahaa he Neighbors know a about it, : ie ‘ Sia — ‘ vould be imposing on her friendship] store, The paint they were selling It is a very little removed from | entertaining | Mother'll never forgive me if we let wand be tint son Dede SHV MTT a Bare The pa iostd Saeee enae | NO SENSE OF HUMOR, Isking them to pay for their invita: | It is @ poor invitation that nas al the nelhbors overhear this, TH exe] Wit Mrs, Houghton-Smith, but for} nad been on forms sbslven near METS | ¢ LADY can't take a joke," atving At e a oliea tial ee 80: ason mother could e a water pipe had rst and washed | eal f a ssh . _ (string attachment of obligation, | pain just as soon as we get down-|*0me reason mol ter o » water pips had bu i declared Gap Johnson of a see that side of it, the labels off, ' M : . . . ince ae Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “She Oo ion-PictureC B E d S d | “But= put eays the doctor. : Mrs, Rangle stopped to get breath, |hain't built right, or somethi \ ; : b ty tome recte InmWe La at didn’t wait to hear the rest, The Day’s Inventions. and Mrs, Jarr and Gertrude gazed|Tuther day while my wife was fey are being mac tor the will begin in 1920, f Nein ean Son dhe front socal! aereubed | Sor MUEDIAe timber an tnventer from the troubled face to the paint in| ing I crope up behind her just for § lon and equipme nM of a) In order to meet the heavy ex-|4p his nat and deat ft back again, |has Patented a motor driven barking | vi tery sympathy. fun, grabbed her by back of the lar mavins pleture. ol y. cor- pe nses conn : ted with this project 1 poked my head out of the kitchen | machine, eo 2 6 “The saleslady was as nice as she} neck, and yelled ‘Yece-acowt responding to those in California, in| the company has increased its capital = a" sle wei ‘ 3 s-pit! 1 Ssasesowl tie vicinity af Rasunda, outside of| from $000,000. ta, 30,000,000 ceawite (ee a, Meenod Dee ‘The number of trunk telephone lines |could be!” Mrs. Rangle went on, “Of/ 2 S-s-0-s-pit! like w catamount, Well, Te acrid Ai dap -laudeyodtt-n gpaiaties SS ontaas g 4 rowns | Now," says father, taking the]in tne United Kingdom has trebled in| course, as she said, she couldn't open | fy qutindr ny Ah hoop and drapped tockhoin. |The Swedish Biograph | ($870,000 to $2,680,000 at normal ex- | stranger by the arm and backing him |, sed all the paint cans for me till we came | mong at ramen font: There, now! Company (LAtd.) has bought a site of| change), It is the intention of the|upy against the wall, “stand right ALAA ty white, GUL as wie is the ilmhiest ete dimoree take MoH BANA flatiron on @ children's, been the - A woman ha fick says 1. color, she thought if we'd weigh the cans in our hands we might tell which was white, 80 we picked out four of | gre ce yo A” the lightest cans and I brought them City Star, dog’s head or one of the and then there'd have