The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1919, Page 18

Oe mee ene hate > ee een oe SO ao eee Oe ee a wees hemes ¢ eee en ee ee wl Br PULITZER, | | AaB 5 Company, Nos. 63 ree er Fetes galerie «NQ. 21, 140 60. ca gvar dw esvwenas « ~ WHY A COAL FAMINE? # THE TOTAL ofthe world’s known coal resources, estimated j ape Lit hla PG. | Wt 8,154,000,000,000 tons, more than half is in the United | States. Coal'reserves in the United States and Alaska amount | 000,000,000 tons, of which 22,000,000,000 is anthracite, 2,155,- | 00,000 is bituminous and 2,054,000,000,000 is sub-bitumifous “Phere are some 20,000 coal mines in this country, from of Which coal is shipped by rail. These mines employ upwards three-quarters of a million workers. Why should the United States, with more coal reserves than all fe test of the world put together, and a population of 110,000,000 which to draw for labor, live under the constantly recurring fear i) famine? - Whenever questions arise concerning coal output it has become o habit ofthe country to accept the answers of the powerful group operiitors Who control the most productive coal fields of the United luding the famoys anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. Y”,, Bo strong has this habit grown that a twenty years’ fight with! pal. monopoly has not broken it. Even’ in the great emergency of | a; Federal Coal Administration shaped its policies and carried ‘Hs programme in close and constant consultation with representa- of the big anthracite coal interests, And it was only too appar- at where lay the stronger dictating force. +a ‘Having helped by their own saving and sacrifice to avert the 1} Porst effects of a coal shortage for which they were told to blame the M demands of war, coal consumers in the United States are now warned _to prepare themselves for a coal famine as one of the first pmpaniments of restored peace. Whey are asked to swallow whole the explanation put forth by ¢ coal interests that withdrawal of labor from the coal mining in- is the chief cause of the threatened shortage and to buy coal such times—and at such ‘prices—as the coal operators decree, Is labor turning its back on the coal industry or slackening its in the mines to a degree that. bears out the coal men’s con- ? ‘i ‘ “The: Evening World’s inquiries in Pennsylvania mining districts that, on the contrary, there is no rash of miners away frofh the that returning soldiers have applied in vain for jobs at the ries and that the miners only too willing to work six full a. week for the high pay are now getting. It is furthermore well known that many of the mines were shut p for weeks,at a time earlier in the spring; although the big coal tors could foresee this year as well as any other the approximate hountwof coal that would be required to meet coming demands, "They did not want to meet those demands with increased oe | | ‘ {Dhis is a recognized policy and process long held in high esteem ong groups of producers powerful enough to establish something roaching monopoly in the production or marketing of their special nodities. It is called valorimtion. It has been applied with to diamonds, coffee—even to fish. What more natural than E Be-find it applied to coal? |. dt may-be remembered that among data which Treasury officials itted to the Senate just a year ago this month bearing on war figures taken from the coal trade showed 504 per cent, in- . d profits of a company with $10,000 capital and 14.75 per cent. for one with $2,000,000 capital; while a concern listed under Spel of “Coal, Wood and Lamber Trades” admitted an 80 per | went. increase in profits. 3 Nothing has ever so quickly become a habit as war profits, If desea of the coal producers profited in proportion, it becomes ler to unlerstand why from their point of view the supply of coal it he’ still more vigilantly watched and regulated now that peace sa ,The United States may have four-sevenths of the coul reserves sa the world, But that is no reason why the people of the United in war or peace should not be made to pay higher and higher s for coal under threat of famine. Shortage of labor and transportation can always be played up ) ten times their actual significance whenever the coal barons have explain why coal is never mined and marketed in quantities (hat uid mean a movement of coal prices downward, Plenty must not become apparent lest too many share it, + “Dollar” EF Was in 1792, just 127 years ago, that the Congress of the United State, authorized the establish- at of ajnint in Philadelphia, With SPthe founding of this institution the J almighty dollar began to come into own. The Spanish dollar had been Wcommon in America for years, and Gouverneur Morris attempted bhatmonize all the moneys of the he took the dollar as a stand- Some sample dollars were ex- ited in Congress, Tho plans of ic ‘were later amended by Jeffer- Who proposed to strike four ‘upon the basis of the Spanish Is of German Origin German, the word “dollar” English form of the German “thaler,” It was just four centuries ago—in 1519—that Count Schlick of Bohemia began to issue silver coins weighing an ounce each, These were minted at Joachimsthal, in Bohemia, and thus became known as Joachims- thaler, later shortened to thalers, In the sixteenth century, through trade with the Dutch, these coins became common in England, where they were known as “dalers” or “dollars,” Shakespeare mentions “dollars” in @ Second scene of the first act of Macbeth,” . The dollar now the standard Value not only in the United States, ‘anada and Newfoundland, but tn led doliar—a gold plove of the) British Honduras, the Straits Sett of ten dollars, a dollar in silver, | ments, Liberia, the Dominican repub- b of a dollar in ativer, and alle and Colombia, ‘The paper dollars of Colombia, however, are worth less a. cent each in ‘gold, while the of the ~ being the | Swralte Settlements is 51 conte, By Sophie Copyright, 1 Wants to Do. T various times I have set forth 7 in these columns the great im~- portance of getting all that you can out of a vacation, especial- ly the worker who has but a few days to get the recrea- tion that he has qounted on the whole year, and now more forcibly conles to mind the importance of it all in the tale told me by a friend who has just re- turned, “Never again!" she wailed. “It took me weeks to get the children ready for a month's vacation which my husband and I had planned to en- Joy together. “We found @ place that was adver- tised aa ‘attractive for children.’ We thought that the children gould romp and play at wih everywhere and | that we could get something out of it, “Well, we were mistaken, It was | just ‘dress’ all the time. It was cer- tainly no phace.for peoplé of moderate means, Nurses and maida looking after the other children all the time and we had to act in that capacity, 49 we had none with us an ran, “Woe were constantly afraid that they would get drowned or get run Jover or that some other catastrophe would happen, to say nothing of keep- ing them.cléan and to conform with what ‘he other children were doing “We spent a lot of mopey and en- ergy, hoping to get recreation, and I am glad to get home. It will, take some time to get over tt.” Can't you see the picture of this family planning ,on this vacatiop for months? This mother sewing and slaving in preparation of the adven- ture and all her anticipation of the pleasant time ahead to find it all a problem instead, I know another family. who have just the’ opposite kind of a trip, They take their children where there are simple country ‘sporty, in a nice old farmhouse where there is Vacation, a Problem Or a. Pleasure CMG flo Evening World.) By J. H. Cassel Irene Loeb by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eveiing World). Mind One’s Own Business—Listen Only to Pleasant Things — Be Agreeable— Do Only What One workers in offices, while grandmother keeps house, as they are anxious to have a home nest for their dear ones, but they have learned to get the most out of their vacation. The simplest kind of clothes are taken; in fact, clothes that they don't care anything abou The children have ample opportu- nity to play without being brought in ever so often to be “dressed up.” ‘There ig very little chance for danger ‘and the father and mother besides getting the rest can take little jaunts here and there for amusement, feeling ‘They return home feeling refreshed and happy. They have not spent fe- yered hours over clothes and the worry of meeting people and living up to them, They have made the most of it and are building strong accordingly How many people there are don't know how to get/a vacation. They take so much trouble and get nothing for their pains. Then there are those who go to places where they meet strangers. They proceed to, mind other people's business except their own, to get quar- relyome, and then thelr vacation is spoiled. many a vacationist brings aome can- not be estin ed. The “porch brigad: which, is present, also cau trouble by ungraclous tongues. so arrange -his sojourn as to give him the least trouble and assure him the solace and pleasure that he seeks, The big thing is to mind one's owa business, to listen only to pleasant things, to be agreeable and to do only the things that one really wants to do and not to follow the dictates or the will of others, After all, it 18 your vacation, a HE WANTS TO KILL THE KAISER veloped?” asked the visiter stopped in front of a padded cell, “Why, he thinks he ought to assassinate the Kaiser," replied the guard. “Gosh! exclaimed th visitor, “I know where plenty of fresh air and sunshine and good things to eat. ‘The father and mother are both you can get About 50,000,000 more like him if you want them,"-—Cincinnatl Enquirer, secure in the safety of the little ones. |* who | How many heartaches and miseries | ‘To sum tt all yp, the wise one will| “ HAT particular form of in-| W sanity this man de-| to the Asylum for the Insane as he | ? By Roy L. er shopping, but was neither too heated nor too tired to talk. “I met Mrs. Jenkins downtown,” she said, when she had fanned her- self and sipped the tea Gertrude, the faithful, brought her, “and I just HAD to promise her that we would visit them at East Malaria one of these week-ends, before we go on your vacation!" Of ‘course, be it understood, Mr, Jarr could go on his own vacation, too, that was always permitted, Mrs. Jarr had various small pack- ages embraced in her arms, and Mr. Jarr, mentally coming back from his reflections on vacation, had visions of @ steady arrival of C. O, D. consign- ments on the morrow. “Nothing doing, week-ending with the Jenkinses, so far as I am con- corned!” said Mr, Jarr “Now, there you go! Jarr, “Just let Me propose a thing and right away you sneer at it! It's mighty strange to me that you re- | fuse, to visit nice people—a man in your own office, and his family— simply, I suppose, because you are too lazy to make the trip out to East Malaria, And yet you were the very | man who has been crazy for us to | move out to one of those suburban towns. Oh, yes, I know your real rea- son!” “On, | Mr, orled Mrs. sald 0 WH go if you want to go," Jarf, with a sudden change front, “And what is my reason? “Oh, never mind, We discuss it!" snapped Mrs, Jarr, “But | now Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. A Bungalow Is Never Home Sweet Home for Mr. Jarr M™ JARR had been hot weath- | I wil) not sleep all night at Jenkins’s.” | Malaria after .| Jenkinses Nve in a bungalow?” won't | Mein ine “ooeratinad sa is «se ee Rare Family McCardell (The Now York jtventng -¥orid). “How'll we “There's get back?” asked Mrs. \no train from East 11 p'clock, and Mrs. Jenkins is going to have a card party in our honor?’ “We'll sleep at a hotel,” said Mr. Jarr, tyrmiy. “I've been up against that awful institution, the suburban spare room, before, Besides, don’t the darr, “Of course they do. You know that.” “Well, then, t@e hotel for us,” said Mr. Jarr firmly. “I've been up against that byngulow proposition, There are no spare rooms in a bungalow. I bad as living in a shack. Did I ever téil you about my experience in a mountaineer's cabin in the ‘West Virginia?” As Mrs, all attention, Mr, Jarr told her, “A friend of mine and I were huat- ing in the moun ginia and had applied for supper iter at a mountain cabin, was only one room in the cabin, one room was kitchen, dining bi consisted of the farm their two children, of eight and ten, and five dogs. “After supper the children got y and demanded to be put to We asked if we might sleep on floor by the fire, but the farmer dogs wouldn't sleep with and requested we wait till the children got sound asleep and we | would be taken care of, », as the children were fast asleep the farmer und his wife jifted and This bedroom and The family | r, his wife and a boy and a girl room bed. the sald the strangers, $ soon all the same, a trip, even such a little {trip as going out to Haat Malaria, would do me good, 1 need I'm stuck in the house from morning till night, agd never get, my nose outside the door’—here Mrs, Jarr rubbed the nose in question with powder—“and much you care! Mr the first great jaw of the great game of “How a Husband Can Have His Own Way." He had begun by not agreeing with his wife. He knew now that if he had agreed enthusiastically with his good lady about the visit to the Jenkinses Mrs. Jarr might have | thought he would have a gvod time }and enjoy it, and that ed the matter, think it would be nice to go out there, now I come to think of it, Jayy, still hedging, “Its a little late for’ roses, but a day in the fresh air, plucking daisies and dabiias, will do us both bbs “and one thing; would have a change. | j, Jarr realized he had violated |* | them out on the floor and we got into he bed. Tired out by our tramp we{ tirred till daylight, when we wakened by the dogs, wh uy been put out some time dur- © night, seratching to get in nd ourse.ves beside the stil children, After we had fir ep the farmer and his wife » lifted us out, too, for they were aecupying the bed themselves.” “Do you mean to tell me that the Jenkinses are like that? asked Mrs, Jarr. “Do you think they have only one’ bed and that it is used only for people to get to sleep in? Do you think Mr, and Mrs, Jenkins are going | to first their children and then their guests out of their one bed on to the floor and then get into bed themselves? How foolish of you!” | gust t arial were evide | We fo | sleep |f eu t ifig hotel for the night,” said the obstinate Mr. Ja know | bungalows, Whe Jenkinses* will be making us take the only bed while | hey sleep on shakedowns and sofas | and never forgive us for it. I know | bungalows, Maybe we'd have to sleep on mission couches or Morris chairs, No, sini" z Jarr was, strange to say, same, we'll go to East | | | had | SAS | How aay ‘Made Goat By Albert Payson Terhune®. ite Copyright, 1019, by the Press Publishing Co, (the New York Evening World" No, 57—Mirabeau, the Genius of the French | ; tion. NORE DE EAU travelled a long way good. He travelled from: a prison céll—or @ seriés of prison cells (for he was in jafly off for fifteen years), 4 Once he was condemned to death, and only good luck was able to have his, sentence one of life imprisonment, Added to all this, hideously homely. And his natural ugliness’ ‘creased tenfold by an attack of smallpox , him scarred for life. This in an age and a homeliness was looked on as a crime, and where, a than rose to dizzy heights of success with no better assets than. ae some face. a It was by hig reckless wit and his daring originality that got himself into most of his scrapes. Had he been content to followpiong tho dull routine of other French noblemen’s sons, he might bony 7 comfortable and safe enough and might even have risen to some diplomatic bffice, But he would not curb the spirit and genius which goaded him ony An@® these very traits, after getting him into trouble for many years, at last enabled him to make good. He was driven into exile in Holland. There, as in prison, B®) ‘himself by writing and by practising the art of oratory. These’two Diishments were to be the making of him, 9 you shall see. i vw? France for many centuries had been ruled by the King and the pourk SA Wie it ‘|The nobles had ground down the poor, Every sort.ot graft alta inediipe~ tence flourished. At length, in 1789, the long suffering people prepared to cast off the shackles of tyranny and to overthrow/thete masters, This was Mirabeau's chance. * Voie Back to France he hurried. There ho thtew jyime welf, heart and soul, into the Revolution. By hie pem and by his wondrous powers of eloquence he won instant recognition. the insurgents eagerly accepted his inspired leadershift, At the same time he won a tremendous influence over the stupid French King Louis XVI, and thus became, in a measure, the one real polmt of contact between the revolutionists and the court. oh Both parties trusted him ‘and consulted him. In every possible way, Mirabeau tried to reconcile the warring factions and to correct the national abuses without destroying the King and the best elements of the court. He was a strange mixture, this wild, pock-marked genius, In brain was an ardent revolutionist, At heart he was still a nobleman. example: He said one day to his servant that all men were now equal and that all must hehceforth be addressed by no title except that of “citizen.” His servant next morning addressed Mirabeau familiarly as “citizen,* Mirabeau knocked him down, ‘The scared servant stammered that he had done only as his master had commanded, and asked if it were not true that all men were now equal. ; “All men except me!” answered Mirabeau. For a time Marabeau was the greatest and most pow- erful man in all France. He calmed the fury of the mob and guided the destinies of the silly King, would Probably have found some means of compromise by, which the ‘horrors of the Revolution could have been averted had not the King also let himself be influenced by less wise counsellors, As it was, Mirabeau had made good. He was the idol of Prange He swayed the future of a nation. Then, in the very acme of his triumph, in 1791, he died. Nothing x his meteoric life had 90 proved his title of Popular, Idol as did his death. ‘The entire country went into mourning. Even in the throes of the Revolution all France paused to do honor, weepingly, to its adored hero, Fourteen Points on Beauty. By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) Do You Yearn to Be a One-Hundred-and-Fifty-Per- Cent. Beauty? Hush! Don’t All Speak at Once. A PERFECT BEAUTY, who can find one? Knocked His Servant Down. For her price is far above rubies! Yea, and above fresh eggs, and co: cantaloupe! f And yet, every woman yearns to be perfectly beau- tiful! Oh yes, she DOES! have! And I have listened reverently to every authority on the subject, And tried ALL their recipes, whether they came in boxes, bottles or books, And, I hereby PROMISE you, with my hand om my, heart, That, if you will obey, faithfully, the following four- teen rules. You WILL be “perfectly beautiful!” These rules have been culled from the advice of physicians, the-con- and ice, and shoes, and 4 At any rate, I do—and always ‘ “EEN fowlane wilds of | fessions of actresses and famous “Beauties,” and the whispeted assurances \of the proprietress of my favorite ‘beauty parlor.” Listen! Point 1, To keep the skin fine, soft, amd satiny, wash the face in hot ains of West Vir- | Water and soap, thoroughly, every night. Pojnt 2, Never touch hot water tc the face, as it dries up the natural ‘There | Oil, and protluces premature wrinkles, Point 3. Always protect the skin from the blighting effects of sunburn and wind-tan, when motoring, by rubbing cold-cream well inte the: face: and covering with a thick layer of powder. { Point 4. Never, NEVER, allow cold-cream to remain on the face, nor! i) use a heavy powder. The pores of the skin MUST breathe, to he healthy, | jy Point 6. To produce a good circulation and retain the freshness of the’ skin, rub the face briskly with a coarse towel after washing, ee Point 6, Never use @ coarse towel on the face, as it is apt to break ¥ the delicate veins and tissues of the épidermis and cause wrinkles. Point 7. To keep the pores fine and delicate, steam the face regu A} larly. eakaive is the source of most of the lovely complexions seen ow . Fifth Avenue, Point 8. Above all things, avoid religiously the deleterious, practice of “TEAMING! Steaming has ruined more complexions than it ever .even temporarily improved. { Point 9. To avold a double-chin, massage the neck and throat faith! \tuny, ‘ ‘ Point 10, Whatever you may do, never massage the ‘neck and throat; Massaging causes sagging and puffiness under the chin and produces that withered look. Point 11. The facial muscles must be exercised. It is the constant changing facial expression, caused by emotions (real or dssumed), which keeps the actvess looking young, when other women are middle-aged. Point 12, Be calm, Nothing ages a woman like the ravages of violent — emotio: Point 13 Remember that beauty is three-quarters a matier of the” | spirit within! Point 14, Remember that beauty is three-quarters and food, And that makes six-quarters in all! Apd any woman-who can be six-quarters beautiful OU! fectly satisfied with herself—don’t you think? But, in order to be a one-hundred-and-fifty-per. you must follow each and every one of these rules- And follow them all SIMULTANEOUSLY! Bogin now! 1 dare you! a matter of exercise” GHT to be per-' . “Perfect Beauty,” | )