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EDITORIAL v yids (a 1 a at Sree oie ere orate eaber VOLUME 60... NO. 21,155 . THE PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT BILL. - ‘ HE Prohibition Enforcement bill, passed in the House of Repre- $ . sentatives yesterday by a vote of 287 to 101, is a highly intér- esting study of how little cleventh-hour caution or concesjon lest themselves in Prohibition forces eager to go to the last es of triumphant dictation in curtailing the personal liberties 4 110,000,000 people. : “ ; It is true that under the provisions of the act the American house- ) a ste can sfll make elderberry wine without the risk of being dragged att to jail, and the family and their friends can sit around a pitcher of cider on the home table without fearing that the front door may ‘beaten in by a searching party. Nevertheless the Prohibition measure which finally passed the louse yésterday remains as it stands the most ertraordinary and lefeusible piece of legislation ever seriously considered ‘and voted by:the representatives of people that has heretofore called | | free. The Senate’s turn fdllows. The President can veto the it product, . 3 | Moreover it is well to recall at the present time that Seftion 2 4 the Eighteenth Amendment reads: wiry! ae Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall 4 5 have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate + mre - Congress. makes little distinction between the enforcement of “ far-time Prohibition and the enforcement, of Nation-wide Prohibi- But when it comes to the latter, what about the “concurrent 4 of the several States”? ~ Na" . Does.the amendment anywhere provide that Conghess shall pre- rmine the concurrence ? st 4 a NOT TOO FREE WITH DIRIGIBLES. HE shocking tragedy resulting from the fall of a dirigible balloon upon @ bank building in the heart of Chicago's! | business section is a grim reminder that huge airships over sea or open country are.a matter very different from the same ftover s crowded city. aa! | In our enthusiasm over achievement we too easily, forget peril. Dirigibles are marvelously controllable, but there is no getting away from the fact that they have to be thus far filled with enormous volumes of highly inflammable gas and that if,theit gas bags explode is nothing to save their tohs of woight, and thgir tanks of gaso om the full and instant action of the lew of gravity. They canno glide like an airplane. y | Over a city the danger is a Kindred or even 4 thousandfold in- because it exposes’ not only thosé in the gir but a many times larger number of people in streets and buildings beneath to the peril being crashed.and set on fire. . Develop the dirigible with reasonable precautions. Don’t permit it to be piloted over cities under private auspices. ’ See Oe ey TIPS ADDED TO RESTAURANT CHECKS. 66 TSCUSSION of the system will revive sharply with Hen ee en “But what did that Dinkston want the policy—already pat in practice by a Long Beach hotel—-| evening. a with @ saxaphone?” asked Mrs. Jerr. 5 adding items restauran! “What there to hear?” asked “Tl go to Gus's place on the comer rally apatite, Ae re a cheeh 020 per. ont. Mr, Jerr, “An outomotsle backfiring? an6. sek Aimer—te's working there rete \ 7 A Bolshevist bomb explosion, the | yet on half wages,” sald Mr. Jarr. ‘There are a few-persons still alive who can remember the time| noise of a tight-wad breaking «| “Yes, do, but hurry back,” sald Mrs. a tip was a voluntary token gladly given to » waiter in appres| °%°*Y~dollar bit The gentleman | Jurr, of his epecial attentivences and care and received by hin prose onchaar ali iy yen Sly y tr aly pay fhe oy sib thanks, If the attentiveness and care were lacking: the tip was | the neigtbors across the airshaft?” | even consented to his going into Gus's withheld. eat «pram, . “You know what I mean? Did you|™man trap under any excuse, even | © Met was an era Jong pat. In recent years the tip has become Meer garment. tem re. Ose athe het recy lipet tte te lesaar mere habit—pleasureless, unmeaning. It has been given indiscrim-| came here and dragged him out of| Deer. imately to each and every*waiter, even the one who made least effort| our kitchen with a crook handle um- esorve it, In nine cases out of tén it has been given without reason | 'el™ for which Ta be glad—only with You REAWY FIND UCH A DIFFERENCE ETWEEN THE You GET INTHE CITY ME SOHN D ie x, 2 . The Jarr. Family Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Compensates for Near-Beer ‘ AVE you beam anything?” | him he'll be only. better off,” said Mr. ‘asked Mra. Jarre when Mr. |Jarr, “Let us have dinner.” ‘Mr.’ Jarr wae tottering to the door when the bell rang. Fate, was it was your new umbrella. Have against him. He was never to get resentment by a customer too cowardly to withhold it, and| you heard anything about, them?” | | ato Gus'e with } ypioni ppl ad pocketed by an indifferent recipient without s word. —- “Not a word. What should I bear| tnere gtood Elmer'with an anguished 4 More and more the tip has lost all personal significance. In ne ne er. Trains, look on his simple pink face, Ww ‘m no! ” pom Eecetirants ve ticae vey ore ws of oon 80 far a8) sq the affairs of other people do eines yond ae teed ycotior) « Sy personal recogniti: service rendered was invo! customer | not interest me, I'd give a dollar t©} come, but please I should ike to , well have dropped hi passed Restan-| know what that pair are up to!”|», ” . ad Bis Hip in, box as he gat # said Mrs, Jarr, primping her lips, and eer what? asked Mr, Jarr. it proprietors have calculated the average of tips and reckoned them wrinkling her brows. ‘You know| sty saxaphone,” said Eimer. “Your fixing waiters’ wages. To complete the sordid debasement of the| that man Dinkston had that #axa-|¢riend he comes and saye he wants He it only ned to put it brazenly in the bill: . phone, gee be ares vile Snag o4 " sponie play my manpioes for you ; * wae 1 as a pi in our en, wi ‘§ jon't want to give it to RE Americans have reached the conclusion that tips are undemo-| .o4 nis wite-not-in-name-at-all left! him, but he says it ie all right, and tic, then let tips be abolished and the pay of waiters determined | nere together,” she continued. that I know you, don't 1?” ~ Let us have no pretense that a tip charged in the] “Yes, and that wasn't his saxaphone| “Sure, you know me!” replied Mr. ‘t bill has anything to do with capable service from the waiter. either,” said Mr, Jarr. “Dinkston bor-| Juarr, “But { haven't your eaxa- The tip was once a ial rd. willingly. ai *| rowed it from Elmer, formerly bar-| phone, Furthermore, I didn’t send Special reward, willingly given. If it has! ender at Gus'sex-saloon. Poor Elmer|him. It was that fellow Dinkston. degenerated to the lowest level of meaningless cxaction, let it die. is trying to learn to play with a jass|He's a bum, You knew that!” orchestra, I suppose Dinkston has F moved uneasily and two big pawned it. That's a little habit of| tears stood in his eyes, “For that his, I know him of old.” saxapbone it is I am paying @ feller jeasure “You never an tei a thing about|® dollar a week for three years,” he ina AGRI SEASnENSS aioe of \” gold Mrs. Jarr musingly.| ld. “And this week I ain't got a July G1, 1919, “Here all our married lives we've been | dollar, because you know Gus is only introducing people to each or | baying me wages for half the time, Brening World: people who would make good matches and thie is the half time he don't pay burglaries oc-|—51en Hickett to Mr. Terwiiliger, | them!” conclusively our|Clara Mudridge to Jack Silver, the| “Maybe it will be ail right,” said cope with these | Bonely girl and the Cackleberry ais-| Mr, Jarr in @ comforting. tone, “In are not to| ters to every single man we know—| fact, I think it’s lucky Mr, Dinkston Police De-| and nothing came of it. Except Clara|has the eaxapbohe, Now the man ‘Ten thousand | Mudridge married your boss and that| you are paying the instalments to are not enough under present condi-|was an accident, And here @ Suf-| can't get it, How’ much were you pointing 50,-|fragette grass widow of middle age| to pay for the instrument, all told?” 000 men more, ff necessary, as special meets an educated tramp, no gaod to} “It was $60, but I got it by paying Dolice, under supervision of our Police | himself, no good to anybody, and—| $1 a week,” explained Elmer, Commissioner, to end this reign of law-| whoop! Away they got Love at firet| “A dollar @ week for three years! Now ghe beats him and takes| You're to pay $150 for a sixty-dollar Letters From the People Anning’s Eatate, ‘Worer a & “tat that’s better than bg caug- |umbrelia and somebody else's saxa-| “you, I know,” said Eififer, phone!” Wik hte tite La pi wo Dy ein tary Phage ly es By Roy L. McCardell the other way!” Elmer, of Gus’s Denatured Saloon, Finds Near-Music| ar. Jarr gave up attempting to make good any objections to the great principle of buying things on the instalment planyin the face of the great fact that they are seldom paid for, and remarked: “Well, Elmer, if I do my best to make him bring back the gaxaphone.” _ “How can I'get a job with a jazz band or see a lady for pleasure with- out a plecelo, an sither or 4 saxaphone?” agked Elmer plaintively. “What do you want musical instru- ments for when you call on a young tady ® asked Mr. Jarr, by way of re- ply to this, “Why, if you ain’t got moosical in- struments to play, do? retorted Elmer. ‘It's @ nice day, ai) mother well? then to do but go Jiome if you ain't got a moosical instrument, ie there?” By Maurice THIS Counti MEAT cobs ot S FULL OF Boop! AKES ME S AS AN ox Ree Ketten | man, ul yrs ane tively spéuking, accordion or & | enjoyable. Mrs. Allen gave a children's party fast Saturday at her home, the occa- sion being the eighth birthday of her little son, Apache. Fifty enthusiastic guests attended and, besides having * ice cream and cake, were treated to what can you . “After you say, n't it? Is your there is nothing Gooch, @ genuine surprise. They heard a poem read by old King Goochey- Of course, as most people must know, there is no old King Goochey-Gooch writing poetry in America. there is no monarch of that name any- In fact, Bachelor Girl Reflections Coprsight, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Byening World.) By Helen Rowland ° HE summer girl’s one fond hope is that “love's intoxication” won't be reduced Most men are sentimental smugglers who manage to enter the Port to 2.75 per cent. a of Matrimony by “declaring” a few little obvious faults, just to make ever cou!é nave bi from writing it, ) things look natural, while they hide all their real frailties up their sleeves. The modern girl's vanity case is the grave of the modern man’s illusions, Recipe for a summer engagement: Take one moor, ‘a pound of ennui, an ounce of curiosity, a dash of per- Place in-a hammock and season with a lot of sugar-coated fibs and helf-baked promises. If not served (with wedding cake) before autumn, this delicate dish will evaporate. fume, ‘and two people with nothing to A wife is the propeller on the airplane of a man’s Success, een as “fool-headed” as a young one, Never tell a man more than once that you love him. After that, keep on telling him how much he loves YOU—because that’s tle only thing about which he's really doubtful efter all. in geierwamin ft Tt is diMoult for a young man to believe that he ever could become as “pig-hoaded” as an gid one, and difficult for an old man to believe that he! "The only way to charm a man with an ardent love Jetter is to refrain T the end of the first healthy infant can digest some one bottle in pice of @ nursing for se strength cow's milk, and during this Do not wean the baby until advised to do sb by your doctor, Unless a child has loose bowels he should be given from one to three tablespoonfuls of strained orange or prune juice once a day after he is seven or eight months old. After ten months he may 6e given ‘beef juice, beet tea.or plain mutton or chicken broth once each day, After twelve months consylt your doctor on the advisability of weaning your baby or taking him from the bottle. He may have four cups of un- dituted milk daily; teach him to drink from a cup, Oatmeal, cream of wheat or farina is now permitted once a day, boiling the cereal for at least three hours; the oatmeal should be strained. He may have part of a soft-boiled egg, a ple of crisp toast or zwiebach, or a crust of broad. After eighteen months the child should have four meals a day, Hours, 6.30 A.M, 10 A. M, 2 P. M. and 6 P. M., and nothing out water should 4 de allowed between feedings. He may have at ,first one teaspoonful, later one tablespoonful of rare scraped beef (broiling slightly), or finely cut, well cooked mutton or chicken, also half gf a mealy potato, every other day, He may now be permitted to have ‘cooked fruit, such as a baked apple or apple sauce, which dhould first be strained. When two years olf he may. bate most of the fresh green vegetables, _| thoroughly cooked and finely mashed. Begin with a very small quantity Ellabelle Mae Doolittle Copright, 1010, by ‘Pho Press Publishing Go, (The ‘New York Hveniag World,) Goochey’ Old King Goochey-Gooch, at the Children’s Party, | %%0ch was Miss Dootttle in disguise. Proves to Be Delhi’s Lovely Poetess RS. KICKAPOO ALLEN of Delhi is a woman with much originality. She loves to stroll along avenues that are néWw, figura- and to her to be commonplace is to be guilty of a crime, She even injects her origi- nality into her social affairs, with the, result that they are invariably gnost where. He was invented by Mrs, Allen. When the children had finished the ice cream Mrs. Allen entered the par- lor and took her little daughter, Dele- ware, by the hand. “Tell the children what is to take Place now,” she said to the child. Deleware bowed. “We goin’ to have a poetry read by ole Kirig Goochey-Gooch. 1 goin’ to bat Eddie Brown in de eye if"he don’t stop-makin’ faces at me.” “Tut, tut, Deleware!” said Mra! Brown, “You must not threaten Ed- die. merely wished you to announce the poem.” “Huh!” sang out Eddie “That's my nacheral face.” Mrs. Allen paid no attention to him. Addressing the children she said: “Now, the old King is @ nice old fellow and you must be kind to him, His poem is entitled, ‘Children, Enjoy Yourself.’ Are you all ready to greet the old King?’ “Yea, bo!” said little Izsie Horo- witz, kicking Willie Whaley in the back, “All right!" said the hostess, ‘T now take great pleasure in introduc- ing‘old King Goochey-Gooch.” A curtain had been hung in one this stepped the old King. He had which reached almost to the far. He did not wear pants, but, instead, apron, He looked somewhat like a held up one hand. see you,” He then took his stand in front of poem: Children, enjoy yourself, Be happy while you are young, Hop about the lawn and be gay, Laugh and slip and run, Childhood cannot last forever, Would I were young once more, But I have et my apple, And have jothing left but the core. My sister's child, Teeney Rickétts, Has come to this party, But I hear she bit Ellsworth Pipp Teeney, don't be a smarty! But children, you must be happy, | Forget your cares at once, Be proud of Ellabelte Mae Doolittle, ‘The sweetest girl in town, Second Period of Infancy By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Caprridht, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Oo, (The New York Bening World.) ' Hints on Weaning Babies. ; weaning both from the breast and frou’ modifiea* cow's ‘milk should be complete, becaurs Sy this time the} Extremely lusty youngsters can do this before the twelfth month, and it not amiss to allow such a child a dry“crust of bread occasionally, and to add cereals to the milk. ‘The safest plan to wean a child is to do so gradu. ° ally, analyze the mother’s #ilik.et about the tenth month and give the child and if it fully agrees, substitute two bottle feedings, one in the fore and one i in the afternoon; and so on until all the feedings are per bottle; the feedings themselves are gradually strengthened until the little one ie receiving full supplemented with special little dishes suitable for babyhood. The question of feeding babies at the weaning stage is so important that I give here the following excellent advice from @ health bulletin: dRadio Invention corner of the room and from behind long white, hair and white whiskers his legs were qovered with a heavy monk, only different, The old King |message at a speed of 600 words a. “Children,” he sam, “I'm glad to|medns of catching radio messages the curtain and read the following |of 600 words a minute. , starch and cow's ink in full strength. | eral days, watch the'effect carefally, t process the bottle can gradually be | { v of each new article, noting carefyli@® ‘the effect on the baby, and strength- ening the food slowly as fequired. For instance, begin by giving one teaspoonful of orange juice, diluted ‘with an equal quantity of w ne increase gradually until the propef amount for the age is reached. * Meat should be boiled, ‘roasted of broiled for the baby and must be - cut in fine pieces, as the baby will not chew it sufficiently at this age! Never give the baby cakes, candy, | doughnuts, pastry, fresh bread, grid-‘ die cakes, syrups or molasses, pork oft tough meat of any kind, bananas or: any green or overribe fruit, pickles, tea, coffee, soda water, wine, cider,* beer or tastes of the family meals. ‘ If this is begun he will soon demand @ taste of everything he sees, and ‘his | appetite for the simple diet, whith bead essential at this age, will be quickly * destroyed. y » Many babies have died during the” second summer because they wera, given just a taste of table food. Many mothers make as great a mis) take in forcing @ cut and dried aiet~ | ary upon the baby as they do in pampering its gustatory moeds. . ; Children are even more strongly in~ ' dividualized than their elders exhibit marked tastes, , idiosyncrasies in the matter of 3 4s food forms the largest yin their little lives, It requires thought and patience to’ - cultivate normal appetities in many’ children and to #0 prepare the meals } as to embrace the requisite amount ot} nourishment. Milk oan be flavored’ with cocon if it 1s distasteful, Lime water shoild be added to milk if the, ones remain soft, or a well. known! Preparation of phosphates of lime should de given. ‘ ‘By Bide Dudley to suspect that old King* i, “Hold, King!" she said. “I got you,’ King!” “Why, what do you mean?” aaxad: the old fellow, j Il bet dead dog you're Miss Doo. little,” said Luella, i ‘With that the girl snatched off ¥ whiskers and there stood Delhi's lovely young poetess, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, The children whooped tn joy and applauded with great guste, | all were pleased. ‘ For Deaf Operator: It is no longer intpossible for a per~! son stone deaf to become an expert! wireless ‘operator. C, A. Hoxie bas invented a radio recelving set where. by the message is photographicatty registered on @ tape, making an ac- curate and permanent record and red’ ceiving by ear unnecessary. This system been so far per- fected that it isWh daily operation at! the Otter Cliffs receiving station, new Bar Harbor, Maine, says the Hlec~ trical Experimenter for July, Naval officers, using the photographic eys- tom, have received repeatedly regular trafMflc schedules ranging from 1,000 words to 7,000 words without inter. ruption and at a speed of from forty to fifty-five words a minute, As far as speed is concgned, the \nachine has recorded at the rate of 400 words a minute, which is the speed of a machine gun, and Mr/ Hoxie himself recorded a low-power, minute, Up to this time the fastest was by a phonographic arrangement, ut that never attained the velocity Mr. Hoxie's apparatus makes pos« sible a big financial saving for the radio companies, For years it has been found that ithe best time for transmitting messages between “here and Europe was from’ 4 A. M. to 10 A. M, because Sprorebetle conditions are best then, ‘The apparatus consists of a light. weight mirror “fluttering” in eleca tro-magnetic tune with the minute’ electric impitses from the ant, The duration and extent of the sala lations vary according to dot; dash or silence of the sender. The mirror) reflects a beam of light on a moving. sensitive tape, The tape then Passes through tubes containing a photo. ™ Graphic developer, is ft