The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1919, Page 18

Wid : Ewer ea CE yn bbl EDITORIAT, PAGE Monday; June 23, 1919 Daily What Every Movie Fan Thinks By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1819, ay The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World). It’s Always the Actor, or the Singer, or the Writer, : | Who Aims “Over the Public’s Head” That Succeeds Nowadays. R. A. L. S——n, Manager, The ——— Moving Picture and Vaudeville Theatre, New York City. Dear Sir: ‘The other evening it was very hot, and I was all fagged out. 2 And, just for something to do, I wandered over to your theatre te seermy favorite motion picture hero. And it was cool inside, and everybody was ‘The little movie fan who chews gum and says “ain't he grand!” and cries at the sad parts and claps Douglas Fairbanks, And the sentimental couple who link arms and squeeze hands when the hero says “I love you!” And the T. B. M. and the Tired Business Woman— and all! . And just as we were sitting there wondering how the vaudeville folk could work so hard on a night like that, if it wasn't bedtime, and if we'd forgotten to put out the cat, his caves rolled up on the most beautiful scene—likte » breath from j RSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, $ pamaee Daily Except banger Wy ne eee Company, Nos, 53 te ‘ soaete pir ons ne Ce a i MEMBER OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS, eek SS Te ees SCHL Sth olga and Thee we tonal news pelleted Bese VOLUME 59.. «NO, 21,125 PUT IT-IN THE BILL. HE scuttling of the German warships interned at Scapa Flow was a characteristic German breach of faith, for which Ger- i many should be made to pay. E. It is true that with the ships sunk the vexatious problem how to dispose of them is removed. It is also true that the ships were interned and not yet surrendered. But neither of these considera- tions alters the fact of German guilt. f Article 23 of’ the armistice agreement, after providing that designated German surface warships shall be interned “in Allied ports to be designated by the Allies and the United States,” went on to specify: aa They will there remain under the supervision of the Allies 4 : and the United States, only caretakers being left on board. he Handwriting on the Wall «=: the Orient . Even German duplicity would hardly dare maintain that Ger- jaan made of Chinese screens embroidered with gold dragons and 4 mats agreed to this provision of the armistice with the understanding ‘And there, under the soft glow of Chinese lanterns, sat a graceful @ that the caretakers left aboard the vessels should be at liberty to Chinaman draped in the gorgeously embroidered silk robes of his country flank them by a preconcerted plot, without rendering the German) and he lifted his tapering fingers to the ivory keys of a rosewood a. Government thereby liable. @erman destruction of these interned war vessels. There is no rea- * #on to suppore the Peace Treaty does not still contain the provision . which appeared in the published draft: ¥ Veasels which, tn accordance with the wimistice of Nov. 1, 1018, are now interned tn the ports ef the Allied and Associated Powers are declared to be finally surrendered, the'sea.in as good condition as could reasonably be demanded, when the Peace Treaty is signed. If Germany has destroyed them, Germany should pay for them. Their value should be addett to the reckoning. One question, however, will be asked: Inasmuch as the armistice! could be trusted was well known, why in the name of common pre- caution did not the Allies and the United States take care the in- terned German ships at Scapa Flow were under a kind of super- vision that would have made what has happened impossible? . (a te Representative Dyer of Missour! has a hunch that if the Peace ‘Treaty is signed this week the United States will not go totally dry next week. A cadlegram from the President declar- ing demobilization at an end would put considerable chirk into ~» the preparations for celebrating the Fourth, It might mean at least one more birthday of American independence without sad Fealization of the loss of American liberty, IT WAS TIME FOR A LAWYER. as j O SAVE THEM from worse than they have already brought | upon themselves, Senator Ledge and his band of Republican treaty-baiters in the Senate hastened to consult the best law- yer in the party. Tt was up to Mr. Root to find a way by which Repubtican Sen- + ators can accept the Peace Treaty and at the same time save the Nation’ by statesmanship that nobody will mistake for anything bat | a:noble, exclusively Republican brand. A tall order. Mr. Root undertakes to fill it with a plan which provides for ratification of the treaty, League of Nations and all— but with reservations as to Article X. and the Monroe Doctrine that! +, will establish a Republican claim on whatever future good may come out of the League and at the same time show for present purposes how little President Wilson could be trusted at such a crisis to pro- tect the true interests of the United States. ‘<Not long ago The Evening World asked whether Republican leaders in the Senate ever looked behind them these days to see what they were doing to their party. There seem to have been not a few scared and belated glances * to the rear as a result of the round robin signed by George W. Wick- «@rsham and twenty-seven other well known Republicans in this city. The country would agree more heartily than ever that Mr. Root ‘is @ mighty good lawyer if he were to induce Lodge, Knox and even Borah to quit wrecking the Republican Party on the treaty issue. Mr. Taft might give them sound advice, but it would be less acceptable. Mr. Root listens to his clients, — ~ “The United States is in the grip of a bloody revolu- 5 tion. Thousands of workers are slaughtered by machine guns in New York City. Washington is on fire, Industry is at @ standstill and thousands of workers are starving. The Government is using the most brutal and repressive measures to put down the revolution.’ The above is what we may expect to see on the front pages of what few newspapers survive the upheaval.”"—-The Rebel Worker. Do persons whose heads are full of this sort or thing admit possible future attractiveness in a plain, peaceful, honest day's work? | “ Letters From the People Fe the Editor of The Bvening World: Your editorial in The Evening World of the 20th inst. in reference to the repeal of the Daylight Saving * Lew is certainly a wonder. The peo- not print the attached petition in your paper every day and have the man or to you, and then you forward it, The writer ctreulated this peti tion and obtained 250 signatures and then forwarded it to Senator Calder. Your paper ja big enough to use its Influence» and not be afraid of the re- sult, Why not use your influence in helping this good cause? H, M. WICK. No, 1118 49th Street, Brooklyn, N, June 20, 1919, ‘who imagine they will benefit by ** the repeal of this good law are in the minority and consist only of some old * Belind the times farmers and the gelf-centered gas and electric light ant Leresta. I do not think the farmers of the forcige countries that have had this law in effect for years ever objected ~ #0 strenuously as our farmers, who ‘are so simple minded they do not see ww how they can start work an hour ter by the clook. Perhaps the for- oo, eee are more intelligent in Hon, William M. Calder, Senate Office Building, Washington, D, C, Dear Bir: We, the undersigned, residents of New York State, hereby protest against the proposed repeal of the Daylight Saving Law, spectfully urge that you, as our rep- resentative in Congress, do all in your an eis The Paris Peace Conference assuredly did not allow for possible These interned German war vessels should be on the eurface of éxpreesly provided for supetvision, and the extent to which Germans, | interest, 1 am afraid,” said Mrs. Jarr, | j}yol and that sort of thing, and then | people forward {t to their Congress- | The:Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 191 . by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York venting \Vorld). Mr. Jarr Learns That Charity May Begin at Home, but It Ends at More Fashionable Places. RBS. JARR had been to a soctety lawn fete that afternoon and came home looking so bright eyed and clated that Mr. Jarr kissed her three times—once for nunself, once for herself and once because she looked, 80 nice, “Woll, did you bave a good time at All the tradesmen we knew and made them donate things, and also made them pay for advertisements in the programme, But the stingy old printer wouldn't let us have the pro- grammes till he got paid for them. And we hadn't taken in any money then—none of those women would the iawn feter” be. asked. “S'pose | spend a cent, you know, eapecially the you're too tired to go back again t0-|thei, Services and nad worked them. night, when, I understand, the fete 19| selves to the point of nervous pros- to be @ regular ‘Feast of Lanterns? "| tration going around threatening the “Oh, no," said Mrs. Jarr, “we've got | Merchants that they wouldn't deal to be back to-night and bring our| With them if they did not donate husbands. That is, all but Mrs. Bris- | handsome articles and candy and jcake and ice cream.” kett. She's not living with her hus-| “What with the musicale in all the band, you know.” ‘oreign languages they gave at Mrs. “No, I didn’t know,” said Mr, Jarr, | Styver's and now this fete they | should have enough money, Eh, “That's why I wanted to tell you,"| what?” asked Mre var was tho reply. “One must be very| “Oh, no. There was a deficit of $64 careful when one meets society people. | trom the musicale. That's why we are olding the lawn fete,” said Mrs, Jarr. You have an awful habit, anyway, of | airs. Stryver and ‘Mrs. Vanswine asking personal questions, You blurt |jave been. to. terrible expense per. right out: ‘How's your wife? or| sonally, They've Both gotten new ‘How's your husband? " |dresses and hats, Mrs, Stryver says “Well, what of it? It shows al it is enough to m one forego charitable work forever when one friendly interest, doesn't ft?" asked Mr. Jarr. considers the expense, Things will “They think It shows an impertinent be lively to-night, Mrs. Diggett, who is the head of the Anti-Gambling So- clety, has donated a whe of for- tune and a spinning arrow and a very |curious dice game, the paraphernalia which w: eaptured and confiscated ‘How’s|in raids ky detectives employed b + | her soc Isn't that sweet of her’ “Very,” sald Mr, Jarr, “But what lid you do this afternoon?” “Well, I was at the tea tables,” said Mrs, Jarry “And some outsiders came “They'll be all smiles, so glad to see one says without thinking, your wife?’ or ‘How's your husband and then thelr faces grow cold and set and they say, in a constrained one, ‘Haven't you heard of my un- be x in and got some tea, They were a lot fortunate sorrow? We parted. | of those pushing women. who come to You will not mind if I tell you it is! charitable affairs, thinking because a very painful subject and one that [| they are treated affably while they) ot to ¢ pon and one spend money that the rocloty patron-| try. not to dwell upon and one that) oes win take them up. But they I never discuss under any cireum-| afterward find themselves cut, I tell stances!’ ‘Then they talk to you for youl" an hour about it and cry and siy they aro "You?" waid Mr, Jarr, } “Well, Mrs, Stryver then suggested don't intend to shed « single tear for ¢nat wer make the affair a succeas by her, or him, and that he, or she, has|taking the tea money over to» the gone out of their lives forever, and! candy counter and spending it there ‘Then the ladies at the candy counter » us one dead to theom—b re are as one dead to thom—but if they! 10)" the money to the fancy work| ever catch them with that wretched }ooth and spent it there; Mra, Van- creature they'll thrash him or putt! swine then had it spent at the ‘Ye her hair, as the caso may be, if they Olde Brass Shop" booth, and so It went | Ne sn youmect | around” were to die for it! No, when youmect |““Shu" you get the programme from society people, you must not ask how! the printer?” asked Mr. Jarr. husbands or wives are, Waiting for! , "No, we didn’t have the money then. | ad Pe So as the fete ls only for one day jn these mattors 1s what |v, won't bother with them for to- tact’ or ‘savoir faire’ in| night, Anyway, we got the advertise- ment money in advance from the mer- “yen, | chants.” | “I's @ rousing success, then?” asked one’s cue is called society.” “Oh, is it?” sald Mr. Jarr, I shall not forget your warning when wr, Jarr, But I am with the modish throng, “Well, wait till you see me in my things. : can we get the law back im, Why not hat ge Read way a om Seen power to defeat this move. We are absolutely and without question in favor of the Daylight Saving Law, ld + how did the fete make out to-da “Ob. grandly!" said Mrs. Jarr, “It new dress to-night!" was the reply “And, while it is a pleasant affair, It OPPOSITL ~o TO THI By Bide Tricked by a Camera Man AYOR CYRUS PERKINS WALKER has decreed that no more motion pictures shall be taken in Delhi while he is the town's chief executive. He declares the privilege has been abused shameful ly and he has instructed Constable | Pelee Brown to arrest any person who attempts to turn a camera's crank | within the city limits. It 1s all the | result of what is believed to have| been a trick played on the Mayor by the anti-Walker Democrats last week. Mayor Walker is up to succeed him self in his present position, The elec- tion will be held in September ana @ big factor in the contest will be| the Women's Betterment League. ‘This organization of female voters | has not yet decided whether its sup- | port shall go to Mayor Walker or his | opponent, Jeremiah Shultze, The league has decided to vote tor a| dignified man, according to a bulle- | tin it issued, but no names are men- tioned, Therefore, both Mayor Walker and Mr, Shultze have been careful | not to appear frivolous to any degree whatsoever lately. The Mayor, however, fell from grace for a tew moments last week. He was passing by Schooltop's livery barn and noticed an argument going on be- tween half a dozen young men. He stopped a moment and was asked to referee the debate, “We are talking about clog danc- ing,” explained Mitch Keeley, “I say the proper way to dance the down is like this." With that Miteb did a few steps Holly Wheeple immediately spoke up: “And I say, Mayor, that the proper way to do the hoe-down is in this way.” Holly then went through a few mo- tions and hopped about in a weird manner, It so happens that Mayor Walker in his younger days used to be a fine dancer, The argument in- terested him deeply. “You're both wrong,” sakl the Mayor, when Holly had finished. “There is only one way to do the hoe- down, and that's the proper way, I used to do it and I can yet.” “I still maintain I'm right,” Mitch, ‘ “Right nothing!" shouted Mayor Walker, “Here—clear the way! I'll hoe- sald Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, of Films in Dethi. | placed Mayor Walker of Delhi Dudley (The New York Rrening World) , He Prohibits the Taking crowd and executed a hoe-down that was marvellous for one of his age. He grew so interested that he shed his coat and for five minutes showed the boys how to clog. He then re- his coat and moved away, satisfled that he had shown the young whippersnappers how to dance, That was all well and good at the time, but three nights later at the Elite Theatre there was flashed on the screen a picture shothing the Mayor doing the hoe-down, It bore the fol- | lowing title: “How Delh's Dignified Mayor Spends His Afternoons,” The Mayor, who was in the theatre, saw at once that he had been tricked. The camera man was present and Mayor Walker called on Constable Brown to arrest him. The Constable was knocked down four times, but he subdued his man by lying flat on his back, holding the prisoner on top of him and tickling him, Mayor Walker has called a meeting of the people for to-morrow night. He will attempt to explain how the camera happened to catch him cavort- ing around in such an undignified manner, What made it more ridiec- ulous was the fact that a little col- ored boy In the background seemed to be dancing with the Mayor, The affair has set the whole town talking. ‘There is much indignation, sabe ag Catching Grasshoppers by the Bushel I N a Western State where grass- hoppers threatened entirely to |“ flestroy farm crops, an inventive former made the grasshopper- |catcher, says Popular Sclence Monthly. The device consists of a | framework over which is stretched canvas, On lower front section the | teeth of a mowing machine are | mounted to form a “catcher.” As |the contrivance moves over the field the insects jump and are caught by ‘the catcher, A horse pulls the | grasshopper catcher along, on INHALED HIS DRINKS, | ‘That William O'Connor, an English laborer, “drowned” himself by breath- ing beer into his lungs while taking show you how to do it.” With that the Mayor jumped into is also nico to think It's all for @ good was an assured success, We went to cause’ | the centre of a ring formed by the a deep breath after drinking, was lthe decision of a doctor testifying @t @ Pimlico inquest, 4 piano And played like an ANGEL! And Caruso’d like a SERAPH! PLAUDED! ‘ And the act wasn’t billed—so it But, I'm writing to congratulate ARTISTIC, And {t's becoming more intellige: new idea, or a brand new joke, really fine of its kind will “GO' ence, They're ail “medium-browed” no’ ot “yesteryear” made over, And if anybody doesn’t believe th: Three Billion VER $3,000,000,000 of public money is waiting to be used for different public works—for ‘bridges, public institutions, Post Of- fices, prisons, hospitals, &c. A number of field officers repre- senting the Government are travel- ling over the conutry endeavoring to urge the public officials of the dif- ferent communities they visit to use the money they have for public works in order to help give work to the 10,000 or more men that are dally discharged from the army. ‘This amount of money has accu- mulated because the scarcity of labor and the high cost of materials have prevented the letting out of contracts for public works. Field officers vis- iting the different localities explain to Public officials that at present there is no actual scarcity of labor, and that many of the ten thousand men daily discharged from the army would find profitable employment if con- tracts were let for the construction of public works for which money has been designated. As far as the high cost of matenial is concerned it is now reasonably certain that prices are not going to drop very much for some time and that waiting will not help matters, Up to June 13 the field officers re- ported the results of visits to seventy- six localities. As will be seen in the following statements these visits are made more efficient by follow-ups and the increased results are accurately noted: Number of hoalities reported to date, 108, Increase in contracts as shown by twelve follow-up reports the past week, $17,018,198, Percentage of increase since last re- ports on above localities, 43 per cent. Total amount of contracts 1. ported to date from first reports, $94,268,315, ‘Total amount of contracts reported to date by follow-up reports, $63,069,970, Total amount of contracts reported to date, $157,338,285, Average per cent. of increase in con- tracts since starting operations, 67 per cent. Total estimated cost of work re- ported, $1,049,718,164, ‘These reports show that the work of As it is for real FOOD, in a restaurant, these d And that anything artistic, anything GE an imitation of something else, anything HUMAN, and intelligent, and and “go big!” . And they needn't be afraid of “going over the public's head;" And there's no such thing as a highbrow audience or a lowbrow audt- And out came another man, garbed in flowing silk robes, And, at the last sweet note, it rose en masse, and applauded, and AP- must have been just a “try-out,” And I don’t even know the names of the two performers. you on your taste and originality, | And to ask you to see if you can’t get all the vaudeville people, and photo-play writers, and amusement-makers together, And whisper this secret to them! That the “dear PUBLIC” is a discriminating body of people, =a With a real brain, and # real heart, and a real appreciation of the, nt and discriminating every day! And it’s as grateful for a brand new act, a brand new plot, a brand INE, anything that is not wadays. And that what they want is not the songs and the jokes and the plots But something DIFFERENT, something new, something refreshing. is, tell him to ask Lew Fields, George Ade, George M. Cohan, P. T. Barnum, Mother Eve, or Bernard Shaw—— « e¥ all “STARTED SOMETHING!” nd it's always the actor or writer who aims “over the Publié’s head,”* ‘That succeeds in hitting them right in the eye—or ear, or heart, Like your two Chinese Seraphim—with the “tooth-powder” smiles! Dollars Waiting By Col. Arthur Woods Special Assistant to Secretary of War, in Charge of Re-employment. (Written Especially for The Evening World), Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. Speeding Up Public Works to Give Employment to f Returning Soldiers. / ¢ (The New York Evening World) the fleld officers who,are endeavoring: to speed up public works is mec! with great success. Contracts w! are let out will give work to a lurze number of men returning to thoit home towns from military service, Such work will be especially welcomn to those ex-service men who are un- skilled laborers and who could » t easily be placed at other work in their home towns, Contracts to the amount of $3,000 000,000 will give work to thousagds of men. The following agencies and associa- tions have pledged their utmost wo- Operation to the Government in is task of finding re-employment for ox- service men; Department of the In- terior, with 15,000 field represen: - tives; Department of Agricultu: with 24,000 field representatives; I Office Department, Labor Department, Navy Department, American Red Cross, War Camp Community se vice, Y. M. C. A-, K. of Jewish Welfare Board, Army and } avy Com- mission on Training Camp Activitie American Library Association, Unite States Chamber of Commerce, Cham- bers of Commerce of the principal cities, National Association of Manu- acturers, Merchants’ Associations and principal’ labor organizations, gg labor oresnisations This Tobacco Pipe'ls Buiit Like a Cornet. TOBACCO pipe of unusual de- sign has been invented by Warren Murray Baechtel, of Hagerstown, Md. says Popular Science Monthly. Every pipe smoker knows that the longer the stem of his pipe the cooler will be the smoke. Pipes with stems a few feet long have been in use in different coun. tries for many years, but their awk- ward length precluded their use out- side of the house. The inventor of the pipe circumvented the diMculty by coiling the stem of the pipe like the tube of @ cornet or signal horn, The coils are connected at their lower end to form a dripping chamber for receiving the saliva whigh accumu- lates in the stem. Each coil has an independent opening into the drip ping chamber and a scrow cap at bottom gives access to it for the” re- moval of the accumulated saliva, The smoke, in passing through the coils of the stem, is drained several} umes of saliva and nicotine, 4