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; ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PU <a Except Sunday by the Pres Publishing C 1 am Dally Bacept Senger Wy Frame Fupusting Compeny, Nos. $8 to ' RALPH PU President, ¢3 Park Row, 4 J. ANGUS SHAW, rere 6 Park q i JOSEPH PULITABR, Jr., Secretary, 62 Park How, ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ot creme ce sVOLUME 59. ‘raged and’ciss tin toes cow <NO.21,091 NEVER MORE NEEDED. SIGNING the measure urged by The Evening World to increase the salaries of public school teachers throughout the State of Gs New York, Gov. Smith has assured to this city and common- wealth the improvement of a service in which high standards were never more needed. 6 ie a tee From disordered nations and peoples all’ manner of false and dangerous doctrines are being spread broadcast over the world. This © country, and particularly this city, with its population drawn from a many nationalities, cannot escape the sinister influence of those % The great bulwark against such influence is sound education of ; _ the highest American type for the young who will constitute the next ; © generation of American citizens. These children need the best : teachers that can be proyided for them. Good teachers cannot be provided where the profession of teaching remains scandaloasly un- | derpaid. : ; ‘That is the plain logic and truth of the matter. If higher salaries for teachers cost the City of New York $15,- _ 900,000 for the next three years, let the City of New York spend the money willingly. ; H It is the best form of insurance against the worst menace to sound citizenship that has ever challenged the vigilance of American communities. —— ‘The American seaplane NC-4 ts elready tn the air again on its way to Lisbon; the NC-3 arrived at Pomta Delgada after having demonstrated its ability to take care of itself for fifty-five hours and cover 200 miles in # heavy sea; and the crew of the NC-1 is safe. ‘Though not as spectacular as the attempt of the two daring British airmen whose fate is still uncertain, the American way of crossing the Atlantic by air route promises to be productive of results and lessons many times more useful. \ et THAT WHICH IS STRENGTH. LITTLE BOY born to vast wealth is surrounded from his! cradle with guards, shut off from the highways by walls and bronze gates, never allowed to play with the scurrying, scrambling children of the open. One day for one moment a guard ‘is missing, the gate is ajar and the little boy slips through into the 3 public road only to have his brief, bewildered glimpse of freedom cut short and all the hopes centered in his carefully protected life ended | forever by a passing automobile. A child is brought up on the glass-case plan. Everything he eats - or touches is thrice sterilized. Nobody is permitted to handle him _ without gloves. No draught ever blows on him. No germ ever ) penetrates to him. And then one day rough Nature jars a hole in| the glass case, a germ gets in and the shielded body that has never | had a chance to fight and build up inner defenses of its own is help- less against the ravages of the enemy. e A young man comes to maturity in a community committed to the principle of “remove from us all temptation.” All drink that contains alcohol is publicly prohibited, consumed only on the ely in "dark corners, of poisonous, health destroying quality, spoken” of 5 | furtively and with hypocritical abhorrence. Then one day, either at oe home or in a far country, this young man into whose character has = ~ been built nothing of the strength that comes from rosistance, ze- straint and temperance, and who doesn’t know clean wine from poison, is beset by temptation and goes down with a crash. } What tends to strength in body and soul as Americans have always understood that quality? | Not cotton wool protection, with which Nature has no sympathy and which she rips aside with scorn. Ss Strength comes from expostre, understanding, struggle, leading | to surer balance and self-control, The guards and walls and gates might do for adult character as for a child if they could be maintained throughout and to the end. - But child or man is bound to find himself sooner or later in the great high road. What he needs there is a steadiness and self-reliance that the shielded life can never give, In the first Presidential message Congress eve: Paris, the President speaks of his duty to eat otig erp aas| ‘What he can “to the solution of the innumerable questions to whose sectlement the Peace Conference has had to address itself.” “For they are questions which affect the peace of the whole world and from them, therefore, the United States cannot stand apart.” ‘When it comes to “standing apart” the People of the United (States have seen some new and astounding records established bya group of Republican Senators supposed to represent some portion, at least, of the United States. These Senators have developed “stand. fmg apart” into an exact science and @ stubborn practice. Since they have shown thoroughness, method and obstinacy the best Teutoni rds, why not honor them by providing pit means whereby 'Y go and “stand apart” in Berlin? Letters From the People. PROGRESSIVE BENEFIT—BOTH, As jar: values are admitted com- y WAYS. munity values, then tax that un- | Bethe Editor of The Bening World; earned value, The land owner loses ' Your article under above title in| Bothing, for we will only be taking 4 the added value from his property er gprediiadad ayer bed that we gave it by living near to it or around it. bis and all thé time they were a ed on his nose. Hepry This is not @ tax that could be passed along to Mr. Rent Payer, for Georce pointed the way to| 4s the vacant land is taxed out the homes at a minimum cost years| number of vacant apartments will be » It is as simple as A, B, C. Wel increased and the landlords will find practically put liquor out of| themselves underbidding one another by means of taxation, then|to keep there apartments occupled. pot put the idle jand that is ly-| This will reduce the rent, and no d New York out of the tax wan there could ’ ® worker seeking a job—how import- The Employee Who Speaks| The J pram ily ‘All Ready for the Big Hop _ Well of His Boss By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing The Satisfied Worker as an Asset in Business SHORT time ago in these columns I est forth the value of a good recommendation for ant it is to quit a Job clean—that is to leavo nothing Dehind the last job of which one might be ashamed. Many letters came in answer, Inconnection with the employer, A has sald: “If you work for a man, work for him or get out. If you should differ with him and want to quit, don't do it in a flippant and disagree- able way.” Agree to disagree and have the ismue clean cut, A responsible em- ployer will respect you for it and ‘will recommend your work, nevertho- less, The same thing holds with the employer. In the past fow weeks I have been im the midst of moving, There have been painters and carpenters and electricians and plumbers working in the place to which I have moved, have never found such a zealous lot of workmen, each seeming bent on doing the best job possible and work- ing in the interest of the employer. Tt was not long until I found the reason of it, The little painter who was working overtime in the evening, when I told him it was pretty late and I thought he ought to be home, said, smilingly, “Oh, it does not mat~- ter, I am only to glad to do it, “Mr, H. appreciates anything you anything for his benefit, He is the yt man to work for I ever knew. He never expects too much of a man, He ie considerate and kind and gives you @ square deal every time, I would do anything to help him. He is the finest bogPany man could ever have.” years. him and worked to his ‘interest, In one case I found where 4 | Promotion or the loan or the aid that do lke this on a job and I would do! And this ts the kind ‘of talk I heard from every man on the job, most of them having worked for this man for Each has a good word for this Co, (The New York Rrening World.) who had been fully paid at all times. Another man wanted to get »mar- ried and had little with which to be- gin except enthusiasm, energy and was a good worker, “The boss got busy,” he told me, “and as he had some nico furniture and rugs stored away that he did not need—nice things that I could not begin to afford at the time—he just fixed us up fine, And don’t you think I am anxious to do all I can for a man like that?” he added. I wonder if many an employer has not thought about this—having his workers speak well of him? Those who must work for their Caily bread do not want charity but a chance—fair treatment every day rather than a Christmas present once @ year. Employers are waking up to the opportunities before them—to perform the greatest kind of philanthropy in the world. And that is, to give the @ worker needs when he needs it most, Aside from the humanitarian ele- ment, big business enterprises are | waking up to the importance of the “satisfied worker” as an asset. The president of one of the great- est concerns jn this country was tell- ing me about a plan of home making to be arranged with their employees. He said: “We find that the work- man wants to be his own landlord and bis own benefactor, He wants to build his own home in his own way and a little different from that of his neighbor. “So, instead of erecting a number of places alike, we are planning to lend bim the money and let him do it himself. His pride in bis own place is therefore established and he does not feel that my charity is being handed to him.” When ai) this is said and done, es- pecially in this reconstruction pe- riod, employers might well study the work for them. can answer the “still small voice" with some satisfaction, ~="¢ various things they can do in order to have the good will of those who Besides the return in work value, an employer who Goes the right thing ening Co Worid.) ieee werd By Roy L. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing In the Matter of Pin Money There’s All Sorts of Pins} 6é H, I'm g0 in need of sym- O pathy, so in need of com- fort and so in need of ad- vice! Now, please don't scold me! You always scold me when I come to you for sympathy and advice!” The speaker, “a beautiful young woman superbly attired,” as the novelists would say, was that charm- Ing matron, Mrs, Clora Mudridge-' Smith, concerning whom the curl- osity of the great public is insatiable. “That's it, come weeping for your own foolish behayior and then say "Don't scold me!’” retorted Mrs, Jarr, for it was to this astute matron our fair heroine had come for counsel, “You are like all the other silly women who ask advice, You only want one kind—the kind you want!" “You mustn't say those things!" By J. H. Cassel McCardell Co, (The New York Bvening World.) foot methods—I've been taught every- thing except to SING. And I'm dis-| couraged. So I have thought it all) over, and have decided that I will be practical. Ob, Mrs. Jarr, the dearest wish of my heart is to be self supporting, “Run an elevator, be a conductor- ette, do you mean?” abked Mrs. Jarr, | contemptuously. ‘What nonsense! | Why, when you were living with your tather and doing your own housework in a cheap fiat you were anxious enough to avoid self support. Now that 0>u have a husband who is rich and can support you in the style you will never become accustomed to, you worry the life out of the poor old man by your freaks, After the war is over, and men who have fought abroad and have been zeal heroes come back look- pleaded the younger married woman. “You know I have always asked your advice, I have always come to you with my confidences and my per- plexities as I would have to my mother, In fact, you have been @ mother to me!” “Well, Clara Mudridge-Smith, I like your nerv cried Mrs. Jarr, “If I am three years, or, at the utmost, four years, older than you are, that is the extent of my seniority! Mother to you, indeed! Why, even before you wero married—and to be perfectly frank with you, I was almost as greatly worried about it as you were, and thought many a time that you would have to give up the chase and go to work in @ store or something— well, even then, you were wiser in the ways of the world than even I, the mother of two children, was!” “Well, then, I'll say you've been like @ sister to me,” said Mrs, Mud- ridge-Smith quickly. She did not desire to incite Mrs, Jarr’s animosity. Mrs. Jarr ‘knew too much about her. But even to this one confidante the cautious Mrs. Mudridge-Smith always maintained a pose of innocence and naivete. “I’m such a child—oh, I don't mean in years—I mean by nature!” he added, as sho saw Mrs, Jarr’s indig- nation about to break forth again, “I want to ask your advice about giving up vocal lessons. I have paid out hundreds of dollars and I have been taught everything but singing. 2 fe ‘boss bad practically carried a family along for e@ considerable period—one Recent of his workmen who said he had no} indicate ENGLAND HAS ONE cow FOR EVERY THIRTEEN PERSONS, ait ish wad singing; 1 can puff naper pellets to the ceiling under ther system, t Britsh live stock statistics I can toss bean bage by the bean-bag that there ‘fe ‘method of vocal instruction; I have I know the diaphragmatic method of ing for employment, you want to go to work!” “Indeed I do!” exclaimed the fair young matron. “There is degradation in being @ parasite. Only labor has dignity, I am determined to be no longer a burcsn to my husband and to be compelled to ask him for money.” “Who else would you ask for money? What else did you murry him for but his money?” Mrs. Jarr| demanded, “Why are you trying to fool yourself and trying to fool me?” “I am not, I really intend to work,” said Mrs, Mudridge-Smith stoutly. “I care not what the work is—no matter how menial it be—at least I will be doing my part, no matter how humble that part may be, in the world’s work!" “Well, you can come to work for me, then. Gertrude is getting unbear- able, Oh, you can cook, Clara, and sweep and dust, too, I've seen you at it,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Domestic science is not my forte,” replied the young matron blandly. “Besides, I could not go to work any- where openly and conspicuously, It would annoy Mr, Smith. “Oh, well, it isn't necessary to change one's mode of life simply be- | cause one desires to be independen “At least 1 can earn pin monoy, can't 1? ‘d like to seo you,” sniffed Mra, How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening World.) | NO 36—ARTEMUS WARD, Who Taught America to Laugh. 18 name was not Artemus Ward. It was Charles Farrar Browne. He was a printer by trade, having worked i] at the case from the time he was thirteen years old, And, by the way, before going to the work which Wad was to make his fame, he made good as a printer. By the time he was twenty he was known as perhaps the most expert compositor in the United States. He was a sickly chap from the first, and he Ba@ more bad luck than good. Perhaps it was this which led him to devote his life to making mankind laugi, And in this mighty effort he scored the greatest succes® of any man in his day, He made good. And it cos® him his life. Artemus Ward is seldom read by the public at large In fact his books are a rarity. nowadays. But tn our grandparents’ time he was a nover-failing reservoir of laughter, The United States was going through a dark and grim perio® Had More Bad Luck Than Good. of its history, There were pitifully few mirth makers to enliven the gloom and to lure folk into tackling their heavy tasks with a lighter heart. Into this glum atmosphere Artemus Ward's humor burst like @ rush of sunshine. There’*were few competitors in the field. Mark Twain's star had no® yet riven; nor had Bret Harte's, The swarm af present-day humorists were not yet born. The harsh } times called for a man who could make folk laugh, And Artemus Ward answered the call. by While be was still setting type on a Bosjow paper called the Carpet Bag, he began writing eccentric ‘little articles and fillers which were vibrant with homely farm-humor and were spelled 4s a country boy might have been expected to spell. At first nobody seemed to be especially interested in this unique form of fun. But he kept on. Going out to Cleveland, O., he got a job as @ reporter on a paper there. And once more he sought to liven the heavier news of the day by his ill-spelled countrified comments. These—for lack of’a better name—he called “Artemus Ward's Sayings.” ‘ It 1s told of him that he knew a dull fellow named Artemus Ward and that he saddled these brilliant sayings of his upon Ward by way of a joke, At any rate, the name stuck henceforth to Browne himself. An@ from one end of America to another he was thereafter known as Artew mus Ward. For the “Artemus Ward Sayings” made an instant and worldwide hit. Says one of his biographers: “Finding they attained an extended notoriety he bestowed more care upon them. And their real merit made even the atrocious spelling attractive and gained for him a reputatiom as the most clever and original humorist in the country.” From the dosk to the lecture platform was but a step, Artemud@ Ward made his dobut as a comic lecturer in Brooklyn, and scored suck) a sue that he went on tour all over the country, lecturing everywhere to thronged and delighted audiences. ye His health was going to pieces under the straim of work. But his auditors and his readers never {ane Navin Made $ guessed it. The public needed amusement (we were sl in tho darkest hours of the Civil War) and Artos mus Ward gave it to them in full measure. After the war he went to London to lecture. There he conquered the staid British public and made them his adoring followers., Henry Watterson writes a vivid description of the humorist creeping feebly te the lecture hall, in mortal pain and supported on the arm of his ate tendant—and then of striding, gayly onto the platform to delight hig hearers with uproartously funny jests, But the sustained effort was too much for the dying man. With the last of his ebbing strength, he sought to return to his dear native land. He dled before he could leave Southampton for the return voyage Muoh of his property went to the founding of a home for his fellow printers. He had made good. And he ha paid with his life. He was onlg thirty-three at the time of his deatH in 1867, Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Coprrisht, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening World.) . HE quickest and surest path to orange blossoms appears to lea@ through widow's weeds. You can’t tell what's at the bottom of the ocean by looking at the waves on a fair day—nor what's at the bottom of a woman’s mind by watching her smile a& a dinner party. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, mus® be taken with blind faith or it loses all its flavor, It is so much easier to be admired than to be loved—« and 80 much less satisfying; yet many a woman wild spoil a perfect disposition and wreck a charming tem perament in the nerve-racking effort to acquire a perfecg figure and a charming complexion. Never plant apple trees near the garden wall nor lead an attractive husband too near the boiders of Bohemia, Bolshevist slogan: “My Country! May she always be wrong! BuQ right or wrong, I'll get something on her, yet!” A man’s idea of being perfectly balanced is to keep two love affaira going at the same time without losing his equillbrium. It isn't what a woman says that interests a man, it’s the things tha’ he imagines she COULD say, and doesn’t, in those long silences when sh@ sits smiling mysteriously, and lets him go on babbling. A long nose indicates character—but what girl would choose charactes in preference to a retrousse nose? Wonder if a bridegroom ever thinks of his wedding cravat as a noose§ 7 Cos Cob Correspondence E forgot to ted you last fall, W before freezing up, that Toby’s was closed for good, This is @ great local inconvenience, secing that those of us Who like to take something have to walk so far to get it that it does no good, we being much thirstier afterward than be- fore we started to get the refresh- ments, because of the long journey. The celebrated fisherman, J. Scof® Conover, is in our midst again for the summer, Let the finn beware, 7 he Judge Brush, who wintered pret! well, says in his opinion the ‘Kant can’ peepul will not stand for Proo hybition, it being inherent among them to defend their liberties, as fis ancestors did In the Revolution when they fought King George. Yet im spite of this brave utterance, Toby's is closed, but four doors away from the place where it is made, a) said above, ” whines We think President Wilson will be somewhat surprised, when he comes back from having all the trouble’ in the world over in Europe, to hear that Jim Waish, Roraback and Col, Jiiman have got together and are One of the things our folks cannot understand is if you buy a ratiroad ticket this morning and do not haps en t ° da running the State of Connecticut as} Morrow, it is’ ne gook wie” i of yore, without paying much atten-| Mellen ran the RR. althourh we often had to speak tion to the Inhabitants thereof, Just | often as soon as the President was out of the way Jim gets himself elected Speaker of the House, which means about him, the was good any time you felt strong enough to use it. When Line coln Steffens lived here before went to Russia to play Bolshevikly the scoffer. t, my dear,” was the crushing reply, “I'll prove I can do that. One can buy a whole double paper of pins for ten cents—moro than I'd use in a year! Pin money? Tut, tu That's easy to earn., I can sell som of my husband's old clothes to old clothes man and buy hair pins Barn ? And re ACE yg ae ‘See "avons ns whol Bat ro Din . ae he used to say alt "till the Gove ernment runs the Rt. R. and see how good it will go." Well, it is running. the R d nothing goes as good as before. ‘The Government says all the time “trust u: the fellow who lets the! others talk as much as he wants to, and been the real thing at Hartford, a0 much so that there is talk of his | running for Governor in 1920, A man named Wadsworth once saved the Colony of Connecticut by hiding its or " n trust us with a ticket twenty-toi hours old, although paid for and coste ing halffae much again as Mr. Mellew |. One thi trary, | geste acai ec?" gual. take it, pup iaetis', and then won't _-1 x A (if * i