The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1919, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Padlithed Dally Lxcept Sunday by the Pree Publishing Company, Nos 53 te thi Row, New Yor! PULITZIR, President, 63 Park Row, r SIGS SIAWireeanurers 65 Park Rowe JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. ? MEMBER OF THE ASSOOIATED PARES, | | See SS Te? SU ee ae me eT base | VOLUME 60...... NO. 21,183 TOO MISTAKEN TO BE ENFORCED. HE day before this country goes under War Time Prohibition, New Zealand counts its ballots on liquor licensing and finds it has rejected,Prohibition by the vote of its soldiers. Reminding ts again how crafty were the tacties of the Prohibi- tion leaders in jamming an Eighteenth Amendment into the Conati- tution of the United States while millions of Americans of voting age _ were defending that Constitution on the other side of the Atlantic ny a and legislators could be bullied or cajoled into listening to nothing bat the orders of the Anti-Saloon League lobby. The War Time Prohibition that settles upon the Nation to-da: is, of course, another matter. War Time Prohibition we owe to the La orvan perverseness and dishonesty of a Congress that has refused | to note the war was over seven months ago, making War Time Pro- hibition a preposterous and absurd anomaly. |! | The'next few weeks will sec the War Time Prohibition Law _ + @reating trouble and confusion becanse it is too obviously a mistake to be consistently enforced. Just as later enforcement of Nation-wide Prohibition under the » amendment will, if it is ever attempted, result in such an era of drug- * taking and poisch-drinking that after a few months a glass of clean __ liquor will appear a symbol of purity, honesty and health. : ‘ +4 , ‘The court decides that the $30,000,000 Jay Gould estate has been mismanaged. No unemployment ahead for the twenty lawyers in the oase. The job bes just begun. at GERMANY TO CONFISCATE BILLIONS. HE reported German proposal to confiscate upward of $22,000,- 000,000 of German private profits and property is highly interesting as indicating a possible German plan to wipe out Germany's obligations by heroic measures at the earliest moment and start over again. ‘ t : ' “Impoverished but out of debt” has a psychological appeal the value of which the Gernmns may be quick to seize. It is not alto- gether clear how the confiscation is to be applied. ‘The “war surrender of excess income” would hardly furnish any such amount as that contemplated. Nor would the sale of private property be practicable. s , A simpler way would seem to be to charge off billions of marks that German Government owes Germans and reckon them as £0 + much{éhved toward meeting Germany’s outer obligations. It would . amount to repudiating internal debts in order the more quickly to _ pay off foreign ones. 4 The whole idea is a startling one which will be at once seized _ wpon by those who have maintained that Germany could raise far ‘heavier indeminities than those required of her and still regain in ‘éhort-order her financial footing. , es pe Reo the escape of the former German Crown Prince is . Under the circumstances why not request the Dutch Government to issue a dajly bulletin establishing the where a¥outs of its Hohenzollern guests? Lod peng @e a "AN EAR FOR LOYAL. AMERICAN LABOR. E IAL timeliness and interest is the series of interviews | Ort: Samuel Gompers, President of, the American Federation Ry } of Labor, now appearing in The Evening World. ” « + Never has the country been more impressed by the importance ; ‘ef lapor problems or more ready to give the claims of labor thoughtful @ and eympathetic attention. Despite its ill-advised criticism of the fe #) courts, the recent convertion of the American Federation of Labor 4 ‘at Atlantic City immensely strengthened the cause of organized labor, . far as the’ attitude of the larger American public is concerned, by i$ uncompromising denunciation of Bolshevism and. its support of ‘the Peace 'I'reaty and League of Nations. The people of the United States were never more ready to listen to-what'labor has to say, and they the more gladly accept Mr. Gompers ‘as labor's mouthpiece because they know he is bitterly hated just now by;the ultra-radical elements that have been foiled in their stheme toca », the leadership of organized labor in America. Some;iof Mr. Gompers’s views mmy be received with strong | @igsent in many quarters. But they are at least the views of a loyal 4 American speaking for loyal American workers who do not seek to | -gain their ends by overturning the Government under which they have iso fat¥prospered. +¢ Bolshevist propaganda in the United States has had this effect; Té has drawn organized labor and the rest of the country closer together in the mutual understanding of a strong, impregnable defense. —— oe ‘¥ “There is only one thing to do—take over the State, « Are the members of your local prepared to take over and duct wisely and well the affairs of your town and county? Are you ready to meet the militia when the powers of the State and courts are against you?” ‘The Rand Schoo! authorities protest that the above should «de interpreted only as part of the Socialist programme of “peace "ful political action.” ‘Then what's the militie doing in the pleture? Just contrib ‘Letters From the People Let Us Be Consistent. Can you beat it for i : Bair of The Evening World: Yours very tule, inconsistency? ; ‘ ing le a thought of mine, JOHN C. ‘WALWORTH, uu deem worthy, I shall be Going Somet ‘which, if yo To the Rdiwur af The Brening World; The average New York hotel man resents indignantly charges of profiteer+ ing and pric I would like an explanation cob was orde ates i ey & night or two exo, ‘as asked to cut it from 2 ira charge of 10 cents ‘Po-day we will celebrate the curtall- ot persona! liberty! ‘OnJuly 4 we will celebrate, for th am bundred and forty-third time,|the cob, An «. id your tip f Finda ire ie th a ber ear was made for the servies. You ‘order coc “Back to the Kitchen” |Bachelor Girl Reflections ™. By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Kveniug World.) The Girl Domestic vs. the Office Stenographer HERE are constant cries as to the scarcity of servants and Jem without seem- ing answer, Meetings and ar- ticles are uncea: ingly noted bearing on the question, and the great “bo: agaboo" seems to be the fear that some- body is going to be Why not “forward to the kitchen?” What is there about the kitchen that maxes one feel they go “back” when they go to work in it? Why this seeming repulsion? What part has prosperity played to cause those most fitted for work to seek new fields with less fruitfulness? Let us see. ‘The average worker in the home to-day earns more than the average office girl. Lf you don't believé it con- sult the employment agencies and the “want” bureaus, ‘The day worker, as a general prin- ciple, earns $2.50 @ day, or $15 a week, with some meals, ‘Take the average domestic at even the rates of $40 or $50 per’ month, This includes a similar amount of $40 or $50 a month which she would have to pay if she were not working, and the sum she actually earns with her “board and keep” equals approx. imately $80 to $100 a month, ‘The average stenographer does not make $80 to $100 a month, ‘There are thousands of stenographers working in offices to-day at $25 per week who have had several years’ experience, and have had to work ghemselves up in order to get this amount And yet the ordinary worker in the home can get a job most any day and step right into an equivalent of $100, and with no knowledge of that par- ticular hous shold at all, Besides, what is more noble than to go into a home and play a big part in keep’ happy? For that is what a good yer- vant does. Since when has labor, especially in the greatest of all pursuits, that of preserving life, become blackened in the estimation of many of those who have the faculty of doing this work bette than any other? broke sebte-it- this form of | the daily growth of this prob- | ployers have made life a burden to/ | | jor he could do in the home the better @ that home healthy and| words, has been that én the past some overbearing and em. inconsidera those who have come inte the home as helpers, And, on the other hand, mang work- ers have had a distorted view that their each place has been only a tem- porary proposition and the least she off they were, In a word, they were cheating each other, But to-day the whole thing is dif- ferent, ‘The lack of workers hax made it necessary for the arrogant employer to take himself or herself 10 task, and things are much easier for labor in the home, ‘The average home, especially in 4 | great city like New York, is equippad with the most modern and sanitary improvements, and “light housekeep- ing” means just what it implies, , There are thousands of splendid homes. There are thousands of fine people who believe in the “live-and- let-live” spirit. The question, “Am | my brother's keeper?” has been an- swered in the affirmative, The war has done its fine work in this con- nection, What, then, {s there to fear? Instead of decrying the important feature of promoting life, let us demonstrate its good point. Why not tho doctrine of “do” in- stead of “don't?” Also there is a great, biz human side to it all, The oMces are crowded with young women who do not earn as much as the average maid in the home. These young women come out of offices into married life with little or no knowledge of what home-making means, They hive to go through ex- the | EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, duly S 4,6 “ELEN Rowan. 1919 Comverig’t. 1019, Ly ‘The Brean [iibiishing Co, Cie New York Evening World.) By Helen Rowland 1919, by ‘The Pres Publishing Co, (The husbands are almost as hard to make “stay put’ Copyrlabt, OM Prince of Germany, When a girl to put an end to * It will be awfully interesting to find out what tho average musical comedy “beauty” will look like to the T, B. M. when he sees her in the cold, clear light of an iced sarsaparilla instead of through the roseate haze of his after dinner liqueur, Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usu-| ally ends by going to his head and making him act foolish, Why cal! a tentative engagement an “understanding,”*when the under- standing never ‘really comes, until the divorce? TO OMAR Farewell, old Omar! Your glories For the lips that sip sundaes “ Shall never quote YOU! A bachelor has an ingrowing suspicion that every woman who smiles | on him is trying to lure him into matrimony—a married man, that every | woman who smiles ai him is trying to lure him out of jt. | The Steamship Great Eastern huge steamship G Wast- at that timo by far the largest ever built, left’ England ern, fifty-nine years ago. first her career was unfortunate, periences that give thom many a ts seen ~ caine hard knock. : Children are born into the world | Woman who has lived in one family and young mothers don't know how| for twenty-five years—she and her to care for them, husband. They have reared a family And for what? Just because the| ot sons and daughters—a credit to kitchen and home ‘ork have been re- garded as an inferior post, | In this day and age all labor has| assumed an elevated pl them each-of them was doing, she said: “Ags I jook back on it, I have noth- | And in telling how splendidly We have worked hard, A mun always woman means until he discovers that she means ex-| actly what sho says. Alas, if a girl is easily kissed, it is apt to put an end to all a man’s intentions—and if she isn’t it is apt From | w They Made Good Ho | By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) 54.— CYRUS THE GREAT; The Model for World Conquerors, ® began life under sentence of death. His grandfather, Astyages, the King of Media, feared lest the youth should one day overthrow him, and Astyages turned the baby Cyrus over to a nobleman named Harpagus © to kill. Harpagus was soft hearted, and hid the child, bringing him up in seclusion, When Astyages discov- ered this he punished the act of disobedience by put- ting to death the only son of Harpagus with hideous tortures. But, through some whim, he allowed young Cyrus to live, and sent him to Persia. Harpagus went to Persia with the lad. The old nobleman’s heart was broken by the death of his own son, and he resolved to use Cyrus as an instrument of revenge upon Astyages. Persia at that time was a mere dependency of Media. Into Cyrus's ambitious young brain Harpagus instilled the notion of ruling Persia, He showed him how this might be done. Between them the two plotters stirred up a fierce rebellion among the Persians against the hated Medes. Cyrus placed himself at the head of the rebel army. It was his first chance to make good on his ambition of conquest. Astyages, at the head of a mighty Mede army, hurried to Persia to crush the revolt and to kill both _ Cyrus and Harpagus, He fulfilled neither of these amiable schemes. Thanks to a trick, planned by Harpagus, a large part of the Mede army was betrayed into Cyrus's hands. And Cyrus, in one fierce battle, annihilated the rest of the Medes and cap- tured Astyages. At a blow he had set Persia free of the Mede yoke and had made himself King. Cyrus did not put old Astyages to death. Instead, he made him a and forced the fallen old monarch to wait upon him and upon Harpagus, By 556 B. C. Cyrus was thus the ruler of both Persia and Media, and the ease of these early triumphs made him eager to go on conquering, ‘The virus of conquest had entered his brain. Yet he made no haste to carry out those dreams of his, but went on building up his own realm and gov- erning it wisely, He might never have sought to spread his dominions if a combination had not been formed against the supposedly inexperienced young ruler by Bubylon, Lydia and Egypt—the three most powerful nations jin the Orient, These allies persuaded the strong military nation of Sparta to join them, and they prepared to crush Cyrus.and to divide his kingdom among them. | The King of Lydia marched to the invasion of Persia while his allies | were still mobilizing. The King of the Lydians was said to be the richest man on earth. His name was Croesus—which, ever since, has become a byword for vast wealth. Croesus- was a better wealth-hoarder than a General; for, in in a single campaign, Cyrus overthrew him and seized his kingdom. Then, without waiting to be attacked by the rest of the allies, Cyrus assailed them each in turn. Within a very few years he had conquered them all. He was master of Babylon and Egypt and had overrun Sparta and thrashed one or two minor nations which had joined the allies, By 538 B, C. he bestowed upon himself the modest title of “Lord of’ Babylon and King of the Wort i But he was not yet satisfied. Although all the great nations admitted his sway, there were certain savage tribes and principalities which still declared themselves free, and Cyrus resolved to wipe these out of existence or else bend them to his will. In battle with one such tribe Cyrus, as was his habit, fought in the fore- most rank. And there, in the moment of victory, he was slain, It was an ignominious ending for a man who had justified his title of | "King of the World.” And it was also a warning to all would-be world conquerors—a warning which few ef them have had the common sense to follow. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardel! labt, 181, by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) No. > Twe Plotters Stir Rebellion. ~————errrrr enn Appoints Himself eee Cop and Mrs. Jarr Go Slumming Amid Saddening Splendors and Catch the Mob Spirit. York Evening World) | | | | | marries she considers that she has a} “corner” on all a man’s affections; afterward she may | sometimes wonder which corner, thinks be understands what « Then he gets all mixed up. all his ATtentions! KHAYYAM. are through! ——+—___. the launching alone costing $300,000, | | After several unremunerative trips} |to New York she was employed as a for New York on her first Atlantic | troopship and then as a cable-laying | voyage Veasel, Various attempts were afcer- | ward mado to utilize her, but at last | she came to be a mere holiday spec- | tacle, and in 1888 she was broken up, Experts declared that tho ex- | perience with the Great Hastern con- | clusively proved that such gigantic | | steamships were failures. The length | of the Great Eastern was 680 feet, | | while the Mauretania and Lusitania were each 79 feet; the Olympic, si ne, It wil! | ing to ter ship of the lost Titanic, 882 £ Never go back. ‘The dignity of labor | but we are as well off as many peo-|the Cunarder Aquitapia 885 feet, wherever it is found will needs be|plo who have changed hundreds of|and the Imperator 900 feet. In & maintained. | places, Wo have twen comfortable| paper read before the International | Besides, let the individual reflect |and happy and we bave done good | Navigation Congress, held in 1912, on it all herself or himself. 1¢ your | work." |it was predicted by a Dutch expert money is earned honestly and you! The status of the servant have given good service for it, what changed. 4 [better satisfaction than this? je ~Oaly yesterday 2. talked with As # general proposition, truth of well being ts “forward Jsiteven.’ ” instead of “badts,"* be seen within a few years, Kvents, jowevel | smoking room. F | Mr. and Mrs. Stryver seemed in the ave not vindicated’ this|Longvhamps model—exclusive, migd youl tourd ELNG visitors at the Stryvers’ | gown and mantle to Clara Mudridge- B before those opulent friends de-| Smith and that horrid Von Blibber parted for their summer place | woman, and I don't know how many on the lake, Mr. and Mrs, Jafr sat/others, and yet, what could I say to on the luxurious divans in the him? If one says the least word to ' gloomy, subdued, colored lights of/him he refuses to make a dress fo# ‘ the Stryvers' depressing ‘Turkish you at all. One is positively at thad |man's mercy!” Mrs. Jarr had had no experience of shadow of all their depressing opU-| the tyrannies exercised by tashion- lence, too. able male, or supposedly male, dress- “I don't know what the world 18|makers, but she shook her head in coming to,” said Mr. Stryver, as the | affected sympathy and said she knew conversation rambled on. “After the | just how it was, war and waste, peace comes and yet “I go to my lawyer now,” Mr. it seems there's nothing but this|Stryver droned on to Mr. Jarr, “and Bolshevism, Anarchy and mob spirit) say, ‘Can I float this oil proposition abroad. The distrust for men of af-|in Patagonia on the strength of fairs and fiduciary concerns in gen-| knowing a firm that has an engineer eral is deep and widespread!” examining properties down there for “Is these demagogues and Par-!them? And my lawyer says, ‘You lor Bolshevists who have done it!/ cannot, and if you do not want to We'll have mob rule next as they! ger in a jam with the District At- have in Russia and as they tried IM) torney, like the head of the Robb ML Winnipeg! Yes, sir! Mob rule!” de-| wright Company, Incorporated, did clared Mr, Stryver, whacking his} you'd better not try it!’ And I have hand down upon a divan cushion. |t9 pay him for that opinion! And “The distrust is so general,” CON- as there is no lega! protection at all tinued Mr. Stryver, “that down Im/tor a financier and as one has no Wall Street it is a case of dog-eat- | senso of security in the laws that dog among the professional traders. | useq to protect him, I have to pay Even though we are having @ tem-! tne fee out of my own poo Weare porary bull market and the lambs /mjieg now by demagogues, yes, sir, are, for the time being, at least. | domogogues, as it is! And I look for rushing in to y OR ahem! 1 | widespread lawlessness because, sir, say the investing public re- e t pay Avy wee arket. with con. |! the fashion to pander to the mob h . 1 and gird at men of finance!" fidence—but these Bolshevists would) 44, jare thought of the work that rob the business man, destroy the y |waited him, day after day, and the commercial on Spaniel interests | small salary that was paid him for and play hob generally | his efforts at the end of “Ob, nothing like that will happen, i each week, I'm aura," murmured Mr. Jerr, | ths he aloo expested the decutemene r ‘ at he pact ¢ magogues Ho wasn't much worried whethe | would get us all if we didn’t wateh it did or not, so far as Mr, Gtryver| |, Wall Street “It's enough to make a man cash in and go abroad to live,” said Mr. tryver, “if there was any place to j!ive abrond where the income tax | wasu't confiscatory!”” “And 1 do believe that the children jot the working classes deliberately throw themselves in front of one's au- were concerned; and anyway, Mr. Stryver was one of his most disliked friends and, anyway, in whenever Mr. Jarr piked the stock market he always lost. “Ah, I doubt it, £ doubt it Mr. Stryver gloomily. “What do with the Russian bonds that are now in default? It used to be L could | tomobile so ticir parents may mue ter go to my lawyer and say, ‘Can I do| excessive dams in case anytoing this and get away with it?” And my|Bappens their Unwashed eftspring.® ; a yver Was ; lawyer would say, ‘You cannot, but | Wwe TAR ote a, eee ea I can take care of you if you do,’ the ehild was not hurt, he nat tone cred fie'e nian nelbe (ar es after us and broke a hisaamacitae that my limousine!” his opinion, but as it came ou thy couldn't stop,” added Mr, profits, that did not matter, But who had overheard this, "A what can we do about our Russian | ning mod had gathered. Fore ' : | ly 1 carry damage and tiabil bonda—whom, for instance, can I une | '4n one f uranece, but can © agi fot ce ant We insure against Ne a And,” Mrs, Stryver was saying to) On the way home Mr. Paria | "0Xrows of the rich, i Jarr asked/¥ has|that ships 1,500 feet in length would| Mrs. Jarr, “after paying that man/his good lady if she didn’t pity they that price for an exclusive Rut Mrs. Jarre said she did not arn visit to the Stryvery always ¥ ‘bo had gold he Jdentlotl “wits te eb-apiri. be hae & ras