The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 20

EDITORIAL PAGE Monday She i ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH RULITZER, Dally Meowpt Sunder Wy the Freee Fyuthing Compeny, Nos, 63 te New York. me eoret mn saraaia? Sora ete Pale see OLUME 5: . NO, 21,097 Is IT IN THEM? MASS MEETING was held in Madison Square Garden Satur- day night to protest against Nation-wide Prohibition. This meeting was the first organized effort of repro- tive citizens of New York to start a movement that shall seck, every Jegitimate and orderly means, to save the country from the of @ colossal imposition forced upon it through mis- entation. The same day the Supreme Court of the State of Washington nted the California Wine Growers’ Association # writ of mandate ting @ referendum vote on the State of Washington's legi fication of the Federal Prohibition Amendment. the Times we read: “Drastic prohibition for several years is having its effects. ‘Thousands who voted for prohibition and many other thou- sands who did not vote on the subject now declare themselves in favor of the sale of beer and wines. “The Legislature quickly ratified the Federal amendment Decause there was no organized opposition, and because Wash- ington voters by two successive referendums had closed the saloons, abolished the permit system and made the State abso- lately dry. The growth of bootlegging and the impossibility of obtaining medicinal liquors even when hundreds were dying of influenza, have caused # reaction against the present situation.” Granted the American saloon, at depths to which it was allowed e sink in many sections of the country, was largely responsible ‘or public attitade favorable to the triumph of a fanatical, power-scek- minority: Is the surrender of the Nation to that minority to be complete, lative In a despatch \, Is it no longer in the American character to think clearly, hon- and to swift purpose? Are liberty-loving Americans to let a body of fanatics bully and them into the settled belief that there is no cure for the ovils the liquor traffic save in Nation-wide suppression of personal om? We aré loath to believe it. ~ Already, even in parts of the country that have seen the saloon its worst and voted to be forever rid of it, American sanity revoits the preposterous theory that to keep some men from being drunk other men must die of pneumonia when whiskey would save them. Unless American good sense is dead or dying there will likewise a revulsion of feeling regarding the use of light wines and beer. Urging the repeal of War-Time Prohibition as affecting wincs beers, Senator Phelan of California declares: “If Senators and Representatives would vote according to thelr convictions the repeal would be carried by a safe ma- jority. If they had voted from conviction the Constitutional amendment would not have been adopted by either house, But many of them believe one way and vote another way. They have not the courage to vote from conviction.” They would find the courage fast enough under the stimulus of well-detined fear of their-constituents. The people of the United States still have it in their power to some hard, straight thinking on Nation-wide Prohibition and to their representatives to think and vote as straight when it es to leaving the Eighteenth Amendment inoperative as to wit.es deers. » ‘Americans returning from France can testify that a people can wine, remain temperate and keep its public drinking places degradation. ‘ Americans at home, instead of submitting to Nation-wide ’ro- ition and then, like Norway, maving heaven and earth to gei , can still mobilize their minds, marshal their convictions and the carrying out of their will. © | Isis in them? J : Letters From the People. ING WORLD WAS VITAL TO | organized roar of the Prohibitionists, GE OF TEACHER: LL. Q, BE, PRELLWITZ. the Ediwr of The Evenmg World . ‘Aw chairman of the sub-committee SAVE bese SQUARE prepared and had charge 19 | wo the gaitor of The Krening World: ture of the so-called| Recently while reading your won- Wide Teachers’ Salary Bill, 1) erty editorial entitled “save Madizon to express my thanks for the) square Garden” I was deoply im- valuable aid given by your paper | pressed with its significance, It sud- its editorial columns. denly dawned upon me that if The ‘1 am confident that without such | jyvening World or some other big or- the chances of the bill pass-| ganization or party which ngs the in- and becoming a law would bave| teresis +2 me people at heart would greatly lessened. star 2 campaign for public subscrip- CHARLES C, LOCKWOOD, the Garden, tre pI atl WGULD WRITE TO CONGRESP- | % that famous and historical building would be realized, EAL PROHIBITION. | tions to raise the necessary amount to ‘The Evening World has always been most New Yorkers and, in fact, | quick to grasp the meaning of things people throughout the entire | and hax prompt), amrumed the task of 3 protecting the people's interests It ae an anperes aap alegre Is to be continually commended, 4 suggest! ready been done by men and ‘im the metter, Why not print) in every walk of ilfe, for decided Congtess! stand on Prohibition, its revelation: momen of nen fon the | te “Albany ‘doughbag’ inquiry,” its tous districts, with concise bounda- fiven, and elsewhere a petition for readers to fill out and mail Congressmen asking for a re- fight for a five-cent fare to Coney 1 and, its persistent efforts to have ‘war-time Prohibition? Or, if to be very fair, have « exorbitant taxicab rates, Its undivids support for our peerless leaders, Prei dent Wilson Gey. Smita, its advo- May 26, 1919 How to K eep a Coo By Helen Rowland 1919, by the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). It’s Perfectly Easy—and So Simple—Even in Days! Try This Method on Your Angelina, OU seem to have so many love,’ ue fectly good cook; my clothes and of my soul!- And, now and then, lcose or a bad spot, or something, And says, reproachfully, “Little Missy! you?” evasively, think it over.” And wails over the telephone, another! nearly crazed”—— And say, “I wonder if it would fit YOU. As well take it, too. | raise your wages next week. self? If was SO delicious! because we're going to the country. of them. go out to the movies? LOVE ME? The Road to Success Or Choosing the Right Vocation By Dr. Holmes W. Merton 1g World’s Authority on Vocational Guidance.) Copyright, 1019, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World). In these columns Dr. Merton, the well-known vocational counsellor, will be glad to answer questions from readers. He has guided others to success by helping them choose the right vocation—po: you. ibly he can do the same for The Demand for Specialized Ability. HE demand for specialized abil- ity, for particular efficacy, com~ monly called efficiency, has never been so great in the history of the world as it is to-day, Individual efficiency is the result of specific adaptability to a particular vocation, to a kind of work one can do better than any other kind. ‘The men who are achieving succes: to-day are the ones who are pro- ficient in their work, because they have been naturally adapted to that work, Beyond this natural fitness they have made a study of the essen- tials of their vocation, and are #o well versed in it that few can comp »*¢ with them; they stmply cannot fail. One of the greatest lessons the Great War has taught us is the value of the man who has mastered his tb, who has specialized in the thing he is doing because no other fitted him as well, The right man tn the -ight place does best the right thing In the right way; no other way sults him, His purposes are not wandering around in his mentality in an aimless way. When our vernment nee led men to carry on its previously un- heard of programmes, how did it go about finding them? It searched the country for men who were experts in their trades or professions, The Gov- ernment did not advertise for “all ‘round men," nor for highly-cultured men, but for men who, however m.te cultured, were apectalints and tectint- clans in their own fields, Many were known av “dollar-a-year-men," Taken from thelr private busi- nesses and professions and often thrown into totally different sur- roundings and conditions, they still succeeded beyond expectation, Why? Because they were men of special kinds of natural ability, further specialized by their training and work and knew that work right side to, ‘upside down, or any other way it was presented to them, Ag I stated in a previous article, A BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR TEST- the day of the “all ‘round man,” al- most of the all kinds of ability mgn, is past, Even on the farm, where a man might need to be a carpenter, painter, horseshoer, horticulturist, soll expert and automobilist, he will generally do a few lineg well enough and for the rest depend upon the specialized experiences of others. Years ago, when a man applied for a position, he pointed with considerable pride to the fact that within a few years he had held positions as a bookkeeper, salesman, buyer, and several other vocations, What is the market value of such a man to-day? What is his varied history and ex- perience worth to an employer? About as much as any other un- trained beginner, What about his future advancement? Full of un- certainty himself, how can he expect an employer to be certain concerning his aptitude? ‘This ts, then, an age of vocational specialization, and us soon as one can, he should decide upon some one of the fourteen hundred or more mentally varied vocations, He should decide upon @ lifework that fits the high points of his ability, in order to raise himself above the rank and file of those even in the chosen work, I cannot emphasize this point too much, ag it often explains the dif- ference between the $10,000 a year man and the one who 1s making | $2,000 in thg same occupation, pro- fession or business, The one is adapted to his work; the other is not; both may have studied equally hard, and work as intensely, but the natu- ral advantage of the one counts against all effort of the other, It is the climax of specialization; it is the race horse at the race, the dray horse in the dray; it ts the natural musi- clan at the study of his instrument, the (rial lawyer before the court, the eurgeon-occullst loving his work but shunning all other kinds of surgery, and so of all the experts, from the bridge painter to the astronomer, This brings us again to our start- ING SEEDS. proper legislation enac tending toward the reduction of the present for agains, A ty of the League of Nations and cacy ons arcane all a3 ‘up the good work. The British Board of Trade has es- tablished a national institute for training testers, that British me mice ys rsa et ing point, Ln the work in which you are endeavoring to excel, specialize; keep pace with the times—outpace the man who generalizes, baat 8 ¥ i not made clear in your letter is, does your interest in puzzling mathemati- cal problems lean toward the ana- lytical reasoning of higher mathe- matics or to the analysis of condi- tions and of arithmetical calcula- tions? If toward the former, with constructive design and executive abilities, some phases of engineering would be your natural vocation, If the latter, traffic management, or perhaps banking or commercial man- agement is your field. Read later articles for fuller discussion of these points, By Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co,’ (The New York Bvening World). Mrs. Jarr Testifies That the Pursuit of Pleasure: Leads to Fashion’s Follies 66] not going to stick in the house all the time; I'm just going to have a good time!” ‘These words were uttered by & handsome young woman of superb figure, gowned in a modish garment of some soft, clinging material—as the lady novelists would say. Our heroine would be flattered aid she hear this description, for our her- eo leo earn nein fr oh The Office Force By Bide D Copyricht, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. udley (Tae New York Bvening World), Bobbie Discovers It Makes a Difference Who Tells a Joke 66] SEE, by the papers,” said Miss ‘Tillie, “the Blond Stenographer, that they’re talking about re- pealing the tax on soda water. I sure hope they do.” “Soda I,” said Bobble, the Office Boy. “Wait a minute, Ki Popple, the Shipping Clerk. “We're all friends here, you know. So just be nice and refrain from shooting those bum jokes at us to-day.” “I got it, Bobbie,” said Miss Tillie. “Tell us the joke about the ice-berg.”” “Naw, that's cold,” replied the boy. “and I wouldn't tell you the one about the old farmer's fade, neither. “Why not?” asked Popple, through curiosity. “Is got whiskers on it.” Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the Boss, whirled around in her chair and frowned at Bobbie. “My dear young man,” she said, “if you must tell cheap jokes to-day why not go outside and tell them to the old blind newsdealer on the corner?” “He couldn't see the points,” said Bobbie. a “One doesn't have to be blind to fai! to see the points of your s0- called witticisms,” snapped Miss Primm. “I can’t see them and I'm pot blind.” “You couldn't see the points of the compass,” chuckled the boy. “Well, I declare!’ said Miss Tillle, grinning. “Bobbie, you sure are & witty kid.” “He's about as witty as a burning tenement,” sneered Miss Primm, “That's a hot one,” said Bobbie, “Want to hear a story about an aero- * “No use telling it It would go over your head.” “That reminds me,” said Spooner, the bookkeeper, “of a story about an oil woll, It was down in Oklahoma and”"— “You're not going to tell it, are you?” asked Bobbie, “Yes—why not?” “It's apt to be to deep for us.” “1 am inclined to think,” sald Miss Primm, quietly but firmly, “that if Bobbie ever springs one of his far- fetched jokes on Mr, Snooks, the Boss will fire him. I wish he would!” Tut! tu said Spooner, comes Mr, Snooks now.” The Boss entered the room and greeted the Office Force with @ cheery “Good morning!” “we've ‘been telling jokes,” Bopvbie, boldly. “Jokes? came from the Boss. “Say, I heard a good story last night.” “Oh, Mr. Snooks, won't you tell it?” asked Miss Primm, “Can't! It's about a dirty window pane.” “But why not tell it?” “You wouldn't be able through it” Miss Primm laughed loudly and tho Boss, with a salisfied look, passed ‘on into his private office, There was a brief period of silence, broken by Bobbie, “Gee, but that was an old one the Boss told,” he said, “But did you get the laugh our dear friend gave him? It that wasn’t a salary-raiser I'll knock the headlight off your train “Here sald to see oine is none other than that fair young matron, charming hostess, ex- cellent wife and fond mother—Mrs. Jarr, The person to whom she addresses these remarks is a stout lady of some fifty-odd hard winters. She has a square jaw, a square-cut, tailor-made suit, square-toed shoes—it is Mrs. Gratch, the noted Suffragist. “When women get control of the Body Politic and when they also dominate Industry, we will all have a good time!" snapped Mrs, Gratch. This possibility didn’t appeal to Mrs. Jarr to any great extent, She did not want to dominate Industry especially—she was tired of work. “Now, I have called to see you,” continued Mrs. Gratch, “at the solici- tation of Mrs, Stryver, a very charm- ing young woman, a very charitable woman and one greatly interested in the Forward Movement. She is en- thusiastic over the founding of the Institution of Feminine Ballistics. If you desire to contribute your mite the good work will go on all the more speedily.” “What's it for, the Institute”. “Institute of Feminine Ballistics,” Prompted the Suffragist leader, “In confidence, my dear Mrs. Jarr, it is to teach young women how to throw missiles with force and precision. Were there any women bombers in the war? No! Then why not! The answer is because they did not know how to throw missiles,” “What do they want to throw mis- siles for?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “To hit, of course Gratch sharply, “When we-read in the papers that husbands “ask for divorces because their wives threw plates at them, we never hear that the plates struck the tyrant husbands. A plate thrown with precision and striking with force would have placed the tyrant husband hors de combat—he would have been subju- gated and would not have dared to take the matter to court.” “LU don't see what good subjugating my husband by hitting him with plates will do me,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I have always told you that I do not need to terrify my husband, But I am tired of sticking in the house. I'm going out to have a good time. I'm tired of doing Gertrude's work for ber.” “But won't you have a good time when women dominate?” asked Mrs. retorted Mrs, ‘When she is straightening out the closets or putting thin, She spies a coat or a hat or a frock that strikes her artless fancy, And brings {t out and shows me where there's a button off or a theories on ‘how to keep @ hi i “Perhaps you can tell me how to keep the love of a “Because, somehow, I feel “That as long as I can hold onto my present can hold onto my present husband,” Writes “A Devoted Rib.” Certainly, my dear! 1 myself have a perfectly good ma’”’ *who She comes six days a week, for a considerat oh, QUITE a consideration! And does EVERYTHING—even to taking o putting away my things, and di Buddha, and never touches my desk! She is the bright star of my existence, the in camp! You-all ain't goin’ to wear THAT thing no mo’, And I take a last tender look at the garment, whatever it is, and ans: “Well—I don’t know, Dora, I—I haven't decided yet. Perhaps—I And then she eniffs gently and hangs it up again And goes out and cooks me a good hot luncheon. And after that I begin to fee) better and nobler and more gene! and self-sacrificing—té expand mentally and spiritually, you know. And just at that psychological moment one of my friends calla up “Oh, Helen, WON'T you lend me Dora just for this afternoon! “I've people coming, and the cook has left, and I simply CAN’T fii I've advertised and inquired and tried all the agencies, and I And I hang up the receiver, very, very thoughtfully, And trip sweetly out to the kitchen “After all, Dora, I don’t think I'll need that tan coat any more “And that little hat with the yellow roses goes with it, so you migl “And, by the way, Dora, I've been thinking it over, and I've decided Your expenses must be so heavy now. “And, ch, Dora, did you save any of that salad from luncheon for yor How DO you make it? “And, oh, yes, Dora, I forgot to tell you—you can have Saturday o} “And, Dora, here are two new rolls for your player-piano. We're ti “Dear me! You took tired, Dora. Why don’t you put on your hat I shan’t need you any more this afternoon. “Now run along and enjoy yourself!” he lav well thet she keeps my phot n a iv pos ‘1 photograph in a plush fras THAT'S the way to keep the love of a cook! It’s perféctly easy—and SO. simple! And yet.they say women don’t understand politics! The Jarr Family Roy L. McCardell your position as a woman in that yo are denied dominating? Perhaj though, you are eo under the con\ of your husband that you dare endeavor to dominate?” b “I'd like to see him try to sto me from trying to dominate, if wanted to!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Co to think of it, he did try to domini me this morning!” “Then why not enlist in the Cadse’ asked Mrs. Gratch, “Your first dut] being to subscribe to the Institute Ballistics, You have a little dau ter—would you wish her to grow ui without knowing how to throw bomb if necessary? To grow up the ignorance that has subme: women through all the ages?" “Well, I wouldn't wish her to be Bolshevist, you know,” faltered M: Jarr. “As it is, she's a terrible chi to scratch and pinch when she jo: her temper, the dear little angel! And Mrs. Jarr’s face lighted up w’ maternal pride as she thought of ability of little Emma in the femin art of self-defense. “The very reason scribe in her name, Think what would be able to do when marrie her husband attempted to tyrann over her!" And Mrs. Gratch pushed her scription book toward Mrs, Jarr, “Why is it that everybody w to pay something—to, subscrib something—to contribute to thing!” cried Mrs. Jarr testily, “But the Cause, the Cause!" Mrs. Gratch. you should “Oh, bother the Cause!" replied, Jarr, “Mrs. Stryver's charities get poor people's money to pa them. I thought you were comii yee me about something for the or collecting for the Salvation 4 Besides, tt wouldn't make my hu: mad one bit if I became a ballist if that's what you c@ll it, He'd laugh. But it would make him 1 went out and had a good time, as and every other man does when think they have any excuse! No, be a butterfly, not @ ballistic, going over lo Clara Mudridge-8 and go out in her automobile with) and cut up dreadfully!” “Take me along,” suid Mrs. Grat earnestly. {'I'd like to have a go time, too, But what can respecti women do without getting tal about?” “That's #0,” faltered Mrs. Jarr, then she brightened up, “We hay