The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 10

EDITORIAL PAGE Saturday, May 24, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Breept bear RALPH PULITZDR, President, ¢3 Park Row, GUS KHAW, rer, 63 Park Row. A JOSAH PULITZRN, Jr Secretary, 61 Park How. OF THE ASSOCIATED PnEAS, Toe — MOLUME 59... . cc ccc ceeeeeeesecseecsceeseeees NO, 21,095 CUTTING SHORT A WHINE. HOSE who were responsible for the war cannot escape its a just consequences.” ' Along with that stern reminder the Allied Council to the German peace delegates an incisive, unanswerable analy- of German economic conditions, present and prospective, which "utterly demolishes the sniveling German protest that the Treaty im- poses upon Germany “numberless human sacrifices,” cuts off her food and “condemns an enormous part of German industry to » . The Allied Council points out that there is nothing in the Treaty | © prevent Germany from importing henceforth the wheat and pota- ‘Woes grown in the eastern districts which cease to be part of Ger- | ‘any; that her loss of coal is trifling and cannot be weighed at all “against her almost complete destruction of the coal supplies of North- rn France, where she “obliterated an entire industry with a calcula- and a savagery which it will take many years to repair”; that the million tons of shipping which it is proposed to take from Ger- % y leaves her most of her smaller tonnage unimpaired and consti- tutes less than one-third of the 12,750,000 tons of shipping which she “Tathlessly sank. ‘ »» Why, the Allied Council demands, should Germany wail over the | ‘Mecessity of irzporting phosphates which she has always had to import, ' of of importing in future iron ores and zinc, as other countries have _ done with perfect economic tranquillity? , “There ts not the slightest reason to believe that a popu- lation is destined to be permanently disabled because it will be called in future to trade across its frontiers instead of producing what it requires from within. A country can both become and continue to be a great manufacturing country with- out producing the raw materials of its main industries. 7. oe 8 “There is no reason whatever why Germany, under the new conditions, should not bufld yp for herself a position both of stability and prosperity in the Buropean world. Her terri- tories have suffered less than those of any other continental’ Delligerent state during the war.” In its firm, straight-to-the-point handling of German protests and _ eomplaints the Allied reply is calculated to convince tiie German dele- that Allied knowledge of conditions in Germany is too expert accurate to make a policy of specious whining and pleading worch Germany is not the only sufferer by the war, as her amazing ‘attitude would appear to imply. Her part of the suffering must be with her responsibility as the cause. Which is what—with notable measure and justice as well as foree—the Allied reply makes plain. ——-4 + With more Watch on the Rhine to add point. apo “SPRUCE UP!” 4 8 AID, direct and indirect, toward solving the big problem of 3 getting returning soldiers and sailors back to’ work, Col. : Arthur Woods, who has charge of the War Department’s | Teemployment service, has started a “Spruce Up” campaign. : “Spruce Up” is meant for householders, manufacturers, owners _ of factories and plants—everybody who has in mind repairs and im- provements that war is no longer a reason for postponing. If thousands of such persons in every community will get into quick action that requires lumber, paint, cement, shingles, screens, " awnings, varnish, kalsomine, wall paper, sheathing, flooring, roofing and the like, it will have an immense effect in boosting the general activity and prosperity that mean plenty of jobs. Some of the Spruce Up work can itself be done by dischargod _ soldiers and sailors. 4 More of it, however, will help the job hunters by encouraging and _ etimulating manufacturers and producers who employ all kinds of Iabor, manuai and clerical, and who need more workers, including @xecutives, as fast as they speed up and expand their plants. Col. Woods believes that when the country gets back to normal | the five years’ falling off in immigration (cetimated at 5,000,000 workers), the 1,000,000 men retaihed in the army and the 500,000 ' taken from other occupations for the greatly enlarged industry of 2 shipbuilding will mean a labor shortage in the United States. Meanwhile soldiers are coming back at the rate of three or four hundred thousand a month, They need immediate jobs. The kind _ of communities that can supply them with immediate jobs are com munities where industry is humming and everybody going ahead wit’ extensions and improvements fully warranted by the unprecedented ity the immediate future holds for this country. ** So join in and spruce up. Labor is more plentiful now than it will be later. A year ago it was patriotic to save and let the repairs wait. This spring it is patriotic to go ahead and fix up the house or -plant—thereby spreading prosperity and multiplying jobs when and Sy | Where they are most needed. 1p emtacsencemmmemens “After all,” notes Jullus Rosenwald of Chicago, writing to Secretary of Labor Wilson his views on the subject of cur rent high prices, “it is not a question so much’ of the price one has to pay as whet relation this price bears to one’s own income,” Fee] all cheered up? Letters From the People. STRAW VOTE FOR ANTI: | ing citizens I found 3 total abstainors, PROHIBITION. 14 in favor of Prohibition and 223 the Editor of Toe Evening World, Opposed to it Figures like these 4 mechanic employed in &) should not he ignored. When theae with about 240 other men, Dur- | insincere “do as I say, not as I do” past few months the Prohibi- | Frobivition shouters attempt to cur- u ‘queution hau been discussed by | t#!! the Mberty of our workingman " n | by depriving him of his glass of beer employees. and in order tu get/in which he finds refreshment and } as to the feeling of these |relaxation within his means, they are the subject | took # “straw-|taking a grave responsibility upon _ Tt mau it interest you to know narrow shoulders, . daw-abide by the Pre bushiny 1 nee tet is Company, Nos, 63 te it. 1919, 7 Ts Tre Linking Co, New York Evening Work.) | How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, oy the Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World) . 38—ELIAS HOWE; the American Who Revo- lutionized Woman’s Work. . ECAUSE his wife grew so tired at the endless task of newe ing for her husband and their three children, young Elias Howe sought for somo means to lighten her labors and those of all the other tired women on earth. That was his first step toward making good—a step for which he has won the gratitude of the whole world, Howe was only twenty-three years old when he tackled the job of inventing a sewing niachine, He was an @&- pert machinist. but worked at low wages and was handi- b capped by bad health and by the need of supporting 89 large a family. He had married while he was still a mere boy. He was working in @ Massachusetts machine shop at this time. And at once he began to devote all his few leisure hours to the study of iis proposed invention. He skimped on food and clothes too, in order to buy materials for the apparatus he had planned. For @ solid year he tolled to devise a machine which would sew. Nor was be cheered by hearing that many other men had tinkered with the same idea and that none of them had been able to invent a practicable sewing maohine. But, at last, Howe made a contrivance which he believed would do the work. Then came the question of perfecting and financing it. Money was needed. Without cash the invention could not go on. And Howe was broke. Ne So he began the terrible task so sickeningly fa- miliar to all inventors—the task of interesting capited in his enterprise, One rich man after another laughed at the idea or else refused to listen to Howe's plea. An4@ thus, one rich man after another threw away @ chance of boundless wealth. George Fisher, a Cambridge, Mass., coal dealer, finalty consented to put up $500, in return for a half interest in the sew- ing machine. This gave Howe his start. Nigwt and day he tolled invs garret of Fisher's house. By April, 1845, he had improved his machine te the point where it would sew a seam. Then Howe sewed two woolea suite with it. Skimped Himself on Food ° The job was done. The machine was completed and patented. was proved. It was put on the market. try it! ‘ Fisher Jost interest in the affair. Howe could interest nobody else, He and his family were starving. He borrowed enough moncy to take his invention to England. There he met with no better success than at home, He had to pawn his model and his patent to get back to Cambridge. He reached home just in time to say farewell to his gallant wife, who was dying of con- sumption, brought on by hardships and worry. In this black hour of heartbreak and failure, Howe discovered that his invention had been stolen‘in his absence and had been put on the market by a group of crooks 'who'were making a fortund out of it. Friends lent tim money to fight for his rights. Six dreary years of litigation followed. In 1852 the courts decided in Howe's favor. And he started a little sewing machine factory in New York. He had “turned the corner." Royalties poured in on him. Soon he was worth two million dollars; and the money was piling up faster than he could possibfy use it. America and Europe hailed him as a genius. Foreign governments decorated him, Women, all over the world, acclaimed io och ait as the sreatest labor-saving device in the history of house- ry. Elias Howe had made good. But he had done it at a sacrifice th perhaps made the triumph a barren one to him. Its une And nobody would buy or even _ enna His Invention Stolen ee the Little Rich Boy Died When TheGay Life of aCommuter'| Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise By Sophie Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, Sorrow Is the Heritage of Both Rich and Poor Alike! URING the week the sad tid- ings came of the death of one of the richest little boys in this country—killed by &n automobile. It seemed tnat for just a little moment he had been left free from attention, and the catastrophe caine, and now there is great sorrow and suffering in the heart of a mother, @ very rich mother, 1 could not but reflect of the hun- dreds of mothere—poor mothers— who have suffered similar sorrows. Many, many times when I read of a poor little child being maimed or killed, and have reflected on the ium- ble home that had to bear the extra burden, I have wished that such mothers might have had helpers where there are several little ones in order that euch accidents might be avoided. But now comes the case of a child sheltered and protected as only mil- Honaires can afford to be protected, and the same thing occurred that has happened to the poorest pauper. ‘That is to say, the same pain, the same misery, the same hardship that the poorest mother has undergone is now the lot of this very rich woman. While it is deplorable that any mother, rich or poor, should need go through such terrible loss as this en- tails, and while it fs natural to feel just as sympathetic toward the rich mother as the poor one, yet there is something to be said about pain and sadness that is common to all bhu- mans. When I think of the mother of the east side who told me how she envied the little children in the au- tomobiles with their skilled nurses and wished that her little ones might bave a similar life, I think of a mother that I know who has spent a fortune in trying to secure strong legs for her boy who will never walk, whose room is filled with the finest toys in the world and yet who will never play basebal) with the boys in the park, I have seen this little one gaze longingly through the glass doors of Irene Loeb (The New York Evening World). street, who romp at will, who have no gold, but have God-given health with which to build and grow. I think of the wealthy women whose little girl's brain will never grow, but will always be that of an imbecile, and I compare her with the woman of the small country town who wails that her strong children have no chance to succeed. Besides these cases, I could cite many, many instances “re sadness reigns supreme side by side with By Rube Copyright, 1019, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rvqning World) In Quest of Bedelia | EWCOMER was preparing to make @ dash from his Paradise villa to catch the 7.65 A. M. for the city and was nervously looking at his watch while undergoing his morning catechism and receiving his daily list of commissions from the ‘Missus, ‘have you got your glasses?’ she asked “Yos.” » “Your watch?” jure, right here in my hand.” ‘our fountain pen?” “Yep,” replied Newcomer, examin- Mammon, the God of Money. Ah, yes, it is all too true! Money can only do certain things, It can't stay the hand of Death, nor can it stop the sure, rapid strides of Father Time, It can only provide so many more creature comforts, a few more auto- mobiles and yachts, but in the sum- ming up, the same human sorrows are the heritage of the rich as well as the poor, Bo glad, little mother, that your little ones have their health, and are brought in contact with the free, big world, and are learning to protect themselves, They will become oaks, where many rich children, coddied and humored, will continue to be clinging vines, Such things as health and being @ part of the world’s work and close to your brother-at-large count for ad good deal more than money, teins THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE, EDFERN MASON, a Knights of R Columbus Overseas Secretary, in @ letter describes a recent visit he paid to the Verdun and tells of an underground recreation hall, now named after President Wilson: “In the great underground city of the fortress we saw the recreation hail which the poilus named after President Wilson and, on the walle of the interminable corridors, we read inscriptions expressive of the chivairy of France. I copied the following, spoken by La Rochejacquelin, a hero of revolutionary days: “ ‘It T advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me, If I die, avenge me,’ ° “The spirit of France lives in those aM. LONG. ‘Whe Hmpusine at the childrep op the nes,” ing his upper waistcoat pocket. “Your ticket?” “Ugb-bugh." “All right, now here’s your morn- ing paper, don't lose it.” Newcomer jammed pocket and started. “Walt a moment; here's @ list of it into his things to get from the market and; department, you'd better bring home a few more tomato plants and some early cab- bage plants and—and—oh, yes, dearie, I wish you would stop at one of the department stores and order me @ be- delia—you can have it sent out—, I was down at Mrs, ‘Doc's’ yesterday and she had a beauty—she said ‘Doc’ won it from the manufacturer on an election bet-he'll tell you all about it and— “All right, if you've got to go—and a box of candy," she called, as New- comer started his morning “hop” to the station, “Doc” was not aboard that morning to tell Newcomer about the bedelia, He was up late the night before at the annual banquet of Pioneer Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1, with the finest hand-drawn apparatus in Paradise, of which he was “veterinary surgeon.” An hour earlier than usual that afternoon Newcomer became an A. W. O. I, and went to his favorite department store for the bedella, The floorwalker looked at him searchingly, then thought deeply and sald: “Toy department, in the basement.” The clerk in the toy department had aeroplanes and blimps and big Berthas, but no bedelias. “rry the harlware,” he suggested. After thinking !t over and then searching the catalogue, the clerk in the hardware department called the floor manager, who laughed out loud, oat it was againt the rules, and Towner directed Newcomer to the dress’ goods department, third floor. By Roy L. There the “tall blonde” was not) sure, so she asked Marye Ainne, formerly Mary Ann, who had been, there longer than she had. Marye Ainne thought they had had them but were out of them now, but she would ask the head salesiady, | The head salesiady, wilh # touch of hauteur and just a tinge@bf sarcasm, wanted to know of Newcomer if he had tried the millinery department, and Newcomer, himself given to repartee, replied that he had tried them nearly all except the millinery and the War and Navy and Interior. In the millinery the Titian-haired saleslady with the natural hair ear- muffs was quite sure bedelias were out of season, but the department manager ‘with a sympathetic smile directed Newcomer to the furniture ‘The furniture salesman was recent- ly back with the 27th Division, had done his share in breaking the Hin- denburg line and had a medal to show for it, “Bedelia? bedelia?” he “whatthehell is a bedelia?” “Bedelia? bedeliat?” echoed New- ‘damfino,” “Don't you think you'd better locate your objective before you start your offensive?” inquired the Boche buster, “Boy, whatever else the war has done for you, its taught you to think,” said Newcomer, and he de- parted. On the 5.25 P, M, Newcomer met “What is a bedelia?” was bis first question when they were seated, “Why? asked “Doc.” And Newcomer related his experi- ence in trying to buy one, It took him some ume to do it, because “Doc” first began to chuckle, then to taugh aloud, then to roar, then went into hysterics followed by a choking fit. When he was revived and was able to articulate he explained. “Last election I made a bet witn @ manufacturer and won a reversible dress form, one of those things women fit clothes on; it reminded my wife of a maid we had, so she named it Bedelia, but she and I are the only ones that know it" When they arrived at Paradise, Newcomer took “Doc” over to the Victory and after promising him the contents, swore him by the sacred queried; oath of the "Gravy Hunters’ Club,” of which they are members, that he ,small and extremely flat envelope ered with printing, and then asked, Mr, Jarr, as he passed over a covered with printed matter, Mrs, Jarr read the printed matter, opened the envelope, took out a flat leather covered yellow book, also cov- “What is it?’ but that’s the way with the sex—they'll read a sign such as “No Admittance” or “No Smoking” or “Keep Off the Grass” and then ask, “What does that sign say?” “Can't you see, it's a bank book?” replied Mr, Jarr, “If you'll just put away a dollar a week or two dollars a week, at the end of the year you will have a nice account.” “Where is the other little book, the Coprright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. The Jarrs Decide That Thrift Is a Splendid Thing * for Those Who Can Afford to Practice It 66] OOK at this, dearia Now | whatcha got to say?” asked check book? Don't I get a little check book so I can draw all the money I want any time I want it,| like Mrs, Stryver?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “It's po superior, when you are con- tributing to charity, to send a check. Of course you needn't send much, | but it sounds swell to write, ‘I in-! close my check for fifty cents to al- leviate the condition of gentlewomen in reduced circumstances, and other refined cruelties throughout the worl } “Fine!” said Mr, Jarr sarcastically. | “Fine! Only this isn't a bankbook of that kind. This is a savings bank book. You know, we ought to save a little money, we are always saying | we should.” “Yes, and I notice that when you say ‘We ought to save’ you mean that I ought to save!" said Mrs, Jarr) somewhat peevishly. “I do the best: I can, and I have all the trouble Ij want now to make both ends meet on the little I get from you—wher you' consider everything has in- creased except our incom: “I know that,” said Mr, Jarr, “But it we try we can save something. Re- member, in getting ahead in life it isn't what you make; It's what you save!” “Well why don't we save then, we are not making anything?" asked Mrs, Jarr. “Didn't I tell you that I would give you $2 more a week—I don't mean allow,” said Mr. Jarr hastily, “That sounds a8 if I had been keeping some- thing from you. But I'll stop smok- would never ¢ell the wife or Mrs, Newcomer, ing or save {t some way; ani, remem- per, don't miss @ week, Get the babit, 1 said M started your to put mon save a cent!" the use?” and, really dear, I'd lik would, ‘The Jarr Family McCardell (The New York Bvening World). Go every Monday morning to the bank ~ and put in your money. You'll be surprised how it adds up.” “What good will my money do me if I have to put it in the oank? Why should I give the bank my money? Those bankers might usé {t.” “Certainly, they'll use It,” sald Mr. Jerr. “They will lend it out and get interest on it, and you'll ve paid in- terest, and it will slowly but surely grow.” “But suppose you lend it to some one I don't ike? Suppose ‘be person, pays it back a little ata time? What good will that do me? Do you res member when those Jenkinses bor- rowed thirty dollars from you and paid it back two or three dollars at @ time? We spent it as we got it, and when the thirty dollars was all paid back, why, we didn't have it!” “Oh, this is different," sald Mr, Jann, “The banks won't lend it without ses curity, They'll only lend it to good people.” “I'll tell you what!” said Mrs, Jarr, ag if struck with a happy thought. “Instead of putting our money in @ bank, let us be the ones to borrow Money from the bank! Then, instead of being short of money, we'll have plenty, at me, that way! They say Mr, Stryver owes thousands of dolla nd loo elegantly vyern lively, eee “I'm afraid the banks won't do dt that way,” suid Mr, Jarr, “but don't worry about our money being safe. This bank has millions of dollars," “Then why do they want my Uttlo two dollars a week? 1 could get things with it that I necd,” Mrs, Jarr plaintively “It would to explain,” Jarr, tits nice t ce to hay, noney in the savings bank, and cot account in your na with twenty dollars, and I'll give you two dollars a week’ to and if you have anything to spare to in, why, all the better! ili “I knew you would say someth lke that!” said Mrs, Jarr, te arfaite Um Oh, don't too! the § uld get remarked ake too long “It always works out that In the bank while you spend and 60 and never try to Mr. Jarr sighed wea he said, yoata use?" 2b, what's the “There's no use!" replied } “Wo bought Liberty Bonds Ata hurt, and Victory Bonds til it hurte?™ > spen fog tat it felt good. Wouldn't your Mr, Jarr had to admit PB.