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reves 6 err ee ae , | Or is the United States to be the arch 4 and misanthrope of _ fre not fighting the traction companies in this matter but the Company, Nos. 63 to) os eult Seta uaraiy okra i ie Red ne cS _ {VOLUME Oo ceereccscccsccecceeeesccescessesNO, 21,168 CYNIC AND MISANTHROPE? RANSMITTING to the Senate the ja) treaty with France by which the United States pledges immediate aid to the i French Republic in the event of an unprovoked attack by Gbrmany, the President in his accompanying mossage explains the matter with such directness and simplicity that Republican resistance ast in this case seem more labored than ever. ‘ “Two Governments who wish to be members of the League ' of Nations ask leave of the Council of the League to be per- mitted to go to the assistance of a friend whose situation hes ‘been found to be one of peculiar peril, without awaiting the advice of the League to act. “It is by taking such pledges as this that we prove our- selves | © the utmost to the high obligations of gratl- tude and tested friendship. Such an act as this seems to me One Of the proofs that we are a people that sees the true heart of duty and prefers honor to its own separate course : More and more do the great majority of Americans see all that | Republican Senators have desperately striven to make issues narrow- ing down to this: | Are we as a nation to have faith that the war has tanght some * moral lessons to ail nations and to act on that faith by tightening of friendship and taking part in a on experiment to save at Teast the progress gained? ' the post-war era, refusing ite co-operation, withholding its aid, standing in its own light, delaying its entrance into the full benéfits of renewed peace and productiveness, | its share of the new pros- | perity—all because the leaders of a political party were at their wit's See rary Gr fe inteting Sani! ee J. _ FRANCE BOOSTS DUTIES ON AMERICAN SHOES - STLFF INCREASE in French duties on imported leather goods is reported in a cablegram from the United States Commer- cial Attache at Paris to the Department of Commerce ai Fr Matraihl cinta jr fale was the-tor (ax ot lsiber’ op with soles sewed on imported into France from the United This tax now jfimps to $1.04 per pair. On high shoes made leather the duty increases from 58 cents per pair to $1.33. On 's leather shoes it goes from 14 cents per pair to 41 cents—- ‘per cent. ‘ What effect will this have on:the policy of American shoe manu- and dealers who have been using the immense demand ior in European markets a8 one excuse for the present exorbitant retail prices charged for shoes in the United States? While’ Ameri- can shoe men have been predicting $20 shoes in ‘this country, no ago than last week they were advertising men’s and women’s for export “ready to ship at once direct from our own factories” ‘at from $2.25 to $3.25 per pair. t WL. Seals Sth lla’ 6.49 ln Bavige ighingl ‘Atneriocs goods? Will American shoe manufacturers begin to see business in supplying American shoes at reasonable prices to in the United States? Maybe there is Wope that the people of the United States /will first call again on some of their own products. ns FOR THE A. F. L. TO DEAL WITH. EPUDIATING an agreement that raised their, wages to 65 cents an hour and granted them an eight-hour day with time- and-a-balf .pay for overtime, the Chicago street railway employees let theit radical leaders rush them into a strike. { ‘The response to the reminder from a union official that “we public” was “To hell with the public; the public be damned!” Organized labor will never get anywhere with that slogan and knows it better than organized labor itself. Damning the public is the most footless, profitless activity in which any individual, sage or body of workers in the United States can now indulge. utterly discredited policy, a worn out pastime. Its reavtive is sure and drastic. The American Federation of Labor has @ lot to say about its as exerted against those who oppose its aims. What about its fed judged over oo in its‘own ranks by whose conduct it is appraised eal labor carinot afford at this stage of the game to let be stampeded by loud-mouthed agitators, who hark back to the and methods of an obsolete era. It should make short work of public-be-damned contingent. can must uphold bis own personal Uberty, and I will always defend my property and home with a good shot- sun, Is New York, the great financial centre of the world, which helped to win the war for the democracy of the world by men and money, to be ruined and its freedom equelched and {ts people's homes entered and searched and their hands tied by these crazy fanatics? Now ts the time for Mr, Wilson to act, Such Grastio laws breed Poms) eee vie. oe EDITORIAL PAGE wed day; HAS DADDY's LITTLE GIRL Been A Good aa | GIRL To DAY D Ellabelle Mae Doolittle Covrright, 1910, by The Pret Publishing Co, (The New Yors Evening World). Noted Poetess Aims a Mud-Hole Women’s Betterment League of Delhi has taken up the task Of persuading the City Govern- ment to fll up the mudhole in Main Street at the intersection of Wik - rose Avenue, Time and time again Mrs, Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress of the league, called on Mayor Walker and urged him to look after that muddy place, but, according to her, he always passed the buck to the Counclimen and they passed it on to various others, until it finauy reached H. Percival Hamilton, the Keeper of the City Dump. Mr. Ham- «| ilton said he had no authority to ail up the hole, but as he had no one to whom to pass the buck he was gen- erally considered the delinquent one. “Hamilton is @ neglectful old beeser,” said Counciiman Hodge Pop- pit, “He ought to desert that dump long enough to wish that mudhole off the city’s fair escutcheon, He acts like he's askeered of a little mud.” Promptress Pertle Gnally became weary of mud-holing around In the City Government and she called a meeting of the Betterment League. ‘The ladies met Saturdeay,in Hugus Hall and indulged in some rether caustic comment on the way the Walker administration was running the city. “There is no reason on earth why that mudhole shouldn't be filled up,” said Promptress Pertle, gruffly. “We ought to have a Mayor named Phillup.” suggested Mrs. Conserve Blootcher, said to be wittlest woman on the west side. “This is a serious matter,” came from the Promptress. “Suppose the President of the United States should come to Delhi and get stuck in that mudhole! It might ruin bis temper so that the whole League of Nations Rhyme at the Worst in - Delhi. would feel the effect. I understand Mrs. Cutey Boggs lost a rubber in that hole one day. Will she please say a tew words about it?” Mrs. Boggs arose. “Ladies,” she said, “I feel that we don't want mud in Delhi. Let us have Sowers, sun- shine, love, good food and happiness, but chop the mud for my part of I" “You have expressed the situation admirably, Cutey,” said the Prompt; ress. “Who will be our next mud speaker?” At this point a lithe, graceful girl stepped out on the rostrum, She was gowned in cracker cheesecloth and wore spangles of tinfoil from her ears. She was none other than Ella- belle Mae Doolittle, Dethi’s beloved poetess, “Friends,” she said, “I wish to con- demn that mudhole, I saw a man sit down in It once and the fun I derived from the imeident did not compensate for the rush of bite words he spilled.” “Oh, that mudhole isn’t so bad,” sald @ voice, It proved to be that of Mrs. Ike Whipstein, wife of a tailor and clothes cleaner, “Cut the commercialism,” snorted Promptress Pertle, “Ellie (this to Miss Doolittle), have you a poem on the subject?” Miss Doolittle bowed. she then pro- duced and read the following rhyme: There is mud in the mudhole And sugar in your tea; The coffee has tts grounds, But no mudholes for me, Full up the mudholes, I say, To me it seems your duty. Suppose a man and girl fell in it, He would"lose Ms Bweet Patvotie, My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Loves to play with dead mice, Testimonials 316 Years Ago HE following present made to the then new Recorder of Not- tingham, 1603 A. D., by order of the Hall ‘ords @ curious instance, of the taste and habit of the times, in respect to what are now digai- fied by the name testimonials: ‘It is agreed that the town shell, on Wednesday next, present the Me- corder, Sir Henry Pierrepont, with a sugar loaf, 9 shillings; jemona, 1 sbii- pence; white wine, 1 gallon, 2 shilling 8 pence; claret, 1 gallon, 2 shilling 8 pence; Muskadyne, 1 bottie, 2 shilling 8 pence; sack, 1 bottie, 3 Jsb'liing; total, 20 shilling § pence,” Another testimonial was presented by the same town in the year follow- ing, the object of public admiration ‘and bounty in this instance being no lees & personage than the Karl of Sbrewsbury. Of course the present, intended to convey to the Lordship the sense entertained by the burgesses of hia high worth and character, must be of & more weighty description than that bestowed on the Recorder. Ac- cordingly, it was ordered that “a veal, nuutton, @ lamb, @ dosén chickens, two dozen of rabbits, two dosen of pigeons and four capons Ressened be presented duly 30, 1919 Yes, Sue HAS Been A Goop Litres GIRL Te DAY By Bide ee ilis The Jarr Family Covrvight, 1919, by The Pee Publishin« Oo, (The New Tork Evening World), Mrs. Jarr Knows That Fishermen Are More Inter- Don't do that, my utue swretle, No one can say tt ia nice = * But, getting back to the mudholc-- Why not fill it with cinders? Our neighbors had a dig fight last night— They ought to curtain their windows. | 66 When the sound of her voice died away Miss Doolittle stepped back and if we have another hot spell cried softly. Her triumph had T'll just have to give up!" said Mrs. her strangely. The ladies appiauded|Jarr peevishly. “We shoud be in the with great gusto. country ip some céol place!” All were pleased. “{ dare you to find one!” said Mr, Sayings of Mrs. Solomon + . By Helen Rowland Coprright, ‘1919, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World). Now Is the Time for the Annual Matrimonial Vaca- tion, When a Wise Woman Untethereth Her Husband and Leaveth Him to His Own Diversions and Devices in the Landof the Summer Widowers: MARKEN, my daughter, for the bell hath sounded for the Matrimou- tal Recess, when wives take up their trunks and depart and hue- bande ging up their emotions and fortity their hearts for tae summer vavation. ested in What They Catch These Days. CAN'T stand the humidity we have bad forthe past week; I charge thee, ‘as thou cherishest thine own happl- ness, UNTETHER thy beloved and remove bis bobbie and bis bridle. Lat down the bars and leave him to seek his own diversions whether they be blondes, two-seventy-fives or baseball; likewise to prepare his own breakfast, count his own collars and clean his own safety razor. For a husband that must be kept forever tetnered to a hitching post is not worth the price of the rope wherewith he is tied. Gather up thy lingerie frocks and thy parasols and deck thyself in purple and fine linen for thy departure, Yet go not forth, | pray thee, with weeping and wailing and gnashing ©: teeth and the extracting of Promises; but with fond farewells and smiles of confidence and tender words of Sympathy, saying: “Poor Thing! How sad that thou must work so hard and canst not follow me! For 1 know JUST how thou wilt miss me!” — Thus will he be disarmed and his weapons broken against him, and that which he hath looked upon as a release shall straightway become an affliction. And behold, he shall begin to pity himself! Lo! During eleven months of “close communion” an husband's de- votion and his repartee become frazzled and his enthusiasm frayed at the edges, His temper weareth thin and his fervor abateth. But a little Total Abstinence from domesticity shall make him, too, tong for thee as be longeth for ab old pipe after he hath “given up” smoking. And a few breakfasts of stale biscuits and warmed-over coffee shall make him to yearn for thee as one yearneth for land after s fortnight at sea, Verity, verily, a change of diet and a change of air, they are an oo casional luxury. But a change of companionship is an annual necessity. For, peradventure, a saint would weary of Paradise if he thought he could never escape therefrom! Behold! the surest way to hold two people together is to keep them apart occasionally. And a little Matrimonial Vecation is « joyful thing! Belab What to Do Until The Doctor Comes By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Series of Articles Written Especially for The Evening Worla— Cut: Out and Save in Your Home. ' Coprright, 1919, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Rvening World). Hiccough. leg beeen 1s usually of no consequence whatever, yet there have authentic cases of death recorded quite recently from unconqui biccough. Indeed, only the other day such a case came to the notice) of readers through the daily prints, Hiccough is a reflex act, in whi spasm of the diaphragm plays an important role, As is well known, diaphragm is that powerful muscular wall which divides the trunk into chest” and abdomen; it ts also the most powerful musole of respiration; so it will readily be seen that phile slight bigcough of transient character amounts te very little, persistent hiccough is a very serious affection indeed. ; So serious is obstinate hiccough that the following review of the variows methods employed by noted authorities is given here: ‘The application of @ faradic current to the epigastrium (pit of the” stomach), Erb’s method; compression of the left phrenic nerve, Latole’§ | method; the forcible elevation of the thyroid borie by the fingers, Nothnagel’s~ ‘method (the thyroid bone corresponds to the Adam's apple), and, finallx, vigorous traction of the tongue, Laborde’s method. The latter seems te bring about the quickest results and is recommended to laymen for ite atime” plicity and efficacy. ‘Thus in a nervous gifi, aged six years, who was completely exhausted by hiccough of over six hours’ dura- tion, traction of the tongue for one minute gave immediate relief. In @ second case, a patient with advanced diabetes complicated with tubercu- losis, hiccough which" had already lasted several days and which had re- sisted all other remedial measures promptly yielded to Laborde’s treat- ment for aboiit two minutes. Now it sometimes Deppens that hiccough comes on in nervous children who play too hard, or who romp and tumble about in thd frenzied fashion of some vigorous youngsters after partaking of the noonday meal. Hiccough also accompanies many ot the acute diseases of childhood (and adults too, for that matter), when jt frequently becomes a very dan- gerous and difficult complication. Now in euch a case the following experiment was tried and the hic- cough stopped by taking a large spoon handle and fepeatne the tongue down and with steady force. ‘The pressure was continued with the object of observing the action of the throat muscles, when to the operator’s surprise the hiccough stopped. The patient subsequently applied the spoon handie himself to the back of the tongue and again checked the hiccough. In this case it returned a number of‘ times to be promptly checked and finally completely routed by this very simple measure, which By Carry Than What They Jarr, “There's no cool place in the country in hot weather, You are generally stuck under @ low ceiling in @ room the side wall of which conceals the kitchen fire, which never dieth.. No country for mine in hot weather!” “Well, I never, felt heat like I do now! That's one thing sure!" snapped Mrs, Jarr. “Tt isn't so warm if you don’t think and talk about it so much,” said Mr. Jarr, “and there have been breezes, A week or so ago wo were kicking about too much rain, I'll fix you some lee water.” “No, you won't,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “There's just enough ice there now to keep the milk and things from spoiling in the‘refrigerator, and good- ness knows when the iceman will be around,” “There's a bottle of boiled water in thé icebox, isn't there?” asked Mr, Jarr, “That will be cola enough for me.” “That's for the children,” eald Mra, Jarr, “Don't you touch it, If you want a drink let the water run at the tap till it gets cool.” “Oh, on second thought I'm thirsty; that is, not very thirsty,” sald Mr. Jarr, “and, anyway, it will be cooler atter awhile and Ave can go to the Jazz Joy Root Gardens. I have those tickets that were given me by Jen- kins.” “Well, I never saw such a selfish man!" said Mrs, Jarr, “You gave me those tickets and I've invited Mrs. Kittingly to go with me. ,I thought you'd like to stay home. You al- ways say you don't care for those root garden shows.” “Oh, well, I did think I'd Uke to go and see ‘La Shimmie Sirene,’” said Mr. Jarr, “but if you've promised to take Mrs, Kittingly"— “Well, she’s bees very nice to me and I should do something for her,” sald Mrs Jarr. “If it’s as hot to-night as it was last night I'm going to sleep on the fire-escape, that’s what,” said Mr, Jarr, changing the subject, “You'll do nothing of the kina," said Mrs. Jarr. “The girl has got a lot of things on the fire-escape, and it you go moving them she'll be angry, and the first thing I know she'll leave, and it is too bard to get a girl, so that ends that! Bleep on the fire- escape, indeed!” “Well, get out that linen ult of bad) owe, has since been employed with equal success in other cases. ‘This is a very valuable #ug- gestion, as it can be used by anybody and might be the means of saving many lives. The case of unconqaeradle hiccough in which the patient had reached a state of exhaustion and death was | imminent, which was saved by com- tinuous traction of the tongye for jone and a half minutes, deserves fur- ther mention because of the case with which @ cure can be effected. When performed by a member of the family, remember to keep cool, show no nervousness or distress, be- cause hiccough is in itself a nervoas act, and the slightest bungling or fussiness on the part of the operator cannot fail to communicate itself te the sufferer. It is wiser to ask the patient to pat out bis tongue, then envelop it lightly with a clean handkerchief or piece of antiseptic gauze or cotton. Grasp It firmly half way up between your thumb and forefinger and pull with - gentle force, In other words, apply traction steadily for one or two min- * utes. Do ndt pull the tongue out of the mouth forcibly. After you grasp it draw gently but firmly with « steady hand for @ full minute or two. Should the hiccough return, repeat: the treatment. The result is ua- failing. With these simple measures in mind no case of hiccough should cause alarm. Roy L. McCardell *| mine, I'm going to wear it during the hot weather,” said Mr. Jarr. “I've promised that tinen suit to the Janitor,” said Mrs. Jarr. “He's go- ing fisting and I told him I'd give it to him, It’s not becoming to you any- way and you should be glad to do something for the janitor. He's very nice to us and he lets the childrep pi4y on the front steps.” “Oh, all right,” said Mr. Jarr, “and that reminds me that Jenkins and jeome of the fellows at the office are going fishing Saturday and Sunday next and want me to go along.” “Well, you can't go,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Those fishing trips are nothing bat drinking trips, forp prohibition or ne prohibition, men seem to be abe te get liquor, Anyway, if anybody needs jan outing it is me, and Mra. Briskett wants me to go to the suburbs Sunm- day to see her married sister, “We'll go earty before the crowds start amd ride up-in the trolley and come back in the cool of the crowds do. I want to be going away every Sunday itor!” “{ didn't know you had any ed:! gagement,” said Mr. Jarr, “If you don't mind I think I'l step out 6 minute and get the evening papers.” “The children brought up the eve- ning papers,” said Mre, Jarr, “am you can look at them when I'm through with them. There is no need of your going out at all.” “Yes, there is." said Mr, Jair, angrily, “If I can't have a single thing I want in this house, from the evening papers to my old clothes and a drink of water, I'm going out and get @ non-alcoholic champagne by something else within the law.” “I knew that was what you were after all the time you have been. sitting there growling and fussing! Why didn’t you ‘say it like « said Mrs. ‘Jarr, “Doubtless you know where that liquor for the fae ing trip is stored!” ——__ 'TI8 TO LAUGH! URING an address to @ body of law students ex-President Taft pointed out that too much care cannot be taken in the selection of the jury, In this connection he told, of an intelligent looking farmer whip had been examined by both: defense and prosecution and was about to be accepted when the prosecutor chanced to ask: “Do you believe in capital punish- ment?” ‘The farmer hemmed and hawed amd after a moment's reflection replied: - “Yes, sir, I do, if it ain't too severe” Chronicle-Telegrapty,