The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1919, Page 16

= - tuoqnvenienced, preasuren, 68 Jr., Secretary, OF THE ASSOCIATED C ORT ten ects CMM Ges CW cock code vce ccv ccs ccctscss MOSM RTO DISCONTENT WITH PROSPERITY. HE industrial phenomens now in evidence appear to be the) __ direct result of discontent with prosperity. This word is an Ameriéan shibboleth and though in full sway has bred a state lof mind that bids fair te wreck it. * For three years Burope poured its money into the United States for food, machinery and ‘munitions, swinging the balance of trade | in our favor, For the two years following we expended our earnings and savings with a lavish hand, determining to win the war quickly and at any cost, The war won, trade conditions be- _ }come even shore favorable to thé United States. Wages leap,’markets grow, commodities are in demand beyond supply, and the outeome | ib—diseonteat! » “What ‘e the explanation? ‘Does it come from the customary jability of inankind to cherish the goose that lays the golden egg; it/due to the restless desire to experiment that comes from the tallying of the adventurous, such as forin the American people, or to the downright selfishness of ‘organized capital and organized labor, gach bent upon pillage? ("ls it possible that these are forgetting that this is one country ‘ oa one people, whose interests are one and should be indissoluble! Be not too sanguine of tho effect of the sale of Govern- ment meat to an expectant public. The whole supply available amounts to about one and a quarter pounds to each inhabitant of the U. 8. A. . ennianinmmensenptahncntnanitecmtian THE B. R. T. STRIKE. HE strike on the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ‘is another depiorable incident in the turmoil of the day. It \ oes not grow so much out of a question of wages as of power. ‘A union which represents by no means the.majority of the em- [eye asi recognition, and, failing to secure this, strikes. e begins at once and a great population is imperilled and So far as treatment of its men is concerned, the corporation has _ palways shown them more consideration than it has the public—but PRESS, Sabet sad Diss is Toe ae Pentel boreal y the latter never struck. Now the public is the victim of the quarrel and quite as helpless to deal with the strikers as it, was with the cor- “ fie | It is time we had some system of enforcing’ responsibility on | both sides of a public service controversy. —————. ‘The twenty-three-year-old Lieutenant Commander, William J. Rague jr., who brought the Finland to port, was once a deliverer of The Evening World on Staten Island. He was always on his jeb then, and has not lost the habit. Some sea- man for his years in the service, which date only from our. entranee into the war! a OI $3,500,000 MORE FOR MUSIC. ILLOWING on the magnificent Jaffray bequest for the de- velopment of music in New York comes the setting aside by George Eastman, of $3,500,000 for a similar. purpo in iter. Such lavish endowments are dazzling to the mind, recall- _ Ling, as we ere apt to, the poor rewards that have reached all but a fa the world of melody. Great singers have had riches showered ‘upon them, and now and then a superior pianist or violinist Teaps a tare return, But the composer whose dreams they ‘interpret, the t whose lines make the’ song, aro’and usually have been poorly paid, Accomplishments are rated cheap. They ought not to be. ; —_— "Wall Street brokers’ report that most of the margins de- posited are in Liberty Bonds. Let's see: $22,000,000,000 would “protect” a two hundred billion gamble. The “boon” ought to last! | ’ - Letters From the People b On “Account of War.” {Tp the Baltor of The Eveping World. At ts my belief that the subscribers f the telephone company shou. be re- Neved of the annoying “service” that Das bwen given, The efficiency of the organization is at its lowest ebb, The {new Gay I tried to get a very proml- Prompt in sending out monthly bills, however, P.M. K, ; No, 21 Park Row, What District? ‘To the Editor of The Evening World, ‘Will you please let me know througb your evening paper what Congressional District 1 am in? Mr, Peter Dooling ts the Congressman, 1) nent lawyer, with an office on Broad- way, on the wire, between 12 noon } japd:s o'clock i the afternoon, ‘The ‘ bs eohgaad repeatedly informed me that Fj “the party does not angwer.” The _ j|lawyer told me afterward that he f ‘had been in hie office all day, One of { Clients tried to reach me in my ie for two days, but was told “the a y hab not answered” to his re- aorta efforts, I was in during the tire time, Can nothing be done to subseribers the kind of service they pay for? I notice thatthe tele- phone company is always very . When You C JOHN J, THOMAS, 813 West 4th Mit You live in the Si. Lge sional Dictriet, Pr ‘To the Bilitor of The Breaing World: is correct: We are end, or we are at our “ Yours very truly, die Answer: “We" is plural; wits’ ty plural possessive. lots of people and no on HERBERT Bass, therefore asked knows, Thankin, , your trouble, 8 you in advance for xteenth Congres- Kindly oblige me by stating which | 6 () LOWING sand is another hard- ‘ ship'on the beach; driven by & heavy wind it cuts Ike t, covers up everything not taken of and shifts into every con- pivable nook and cranny,” says the number of Boys’ Life, “The it, therefore, must be put up _ strongly, and staked down with care, + ANe sod cloth carefully packed down with sand; if the wind shifts to the | srgnt, drive a\couple of stakes Into to support a wide board on amp On Sand of dry seagrass that you rolled up by the wea at RaW oriteet mark, Spread this out in the sun and at bed time you will have a mate tress not to be beaten by the best on the market, Not only will this be more comfortable, but the sand that drips from shoes and out of them on entering will sift down through the grass and not get into and all ovor your blanket, Lay a few boands in front of the tent for the same reason and knock your shoos off on them be. fore retiring. “edge to out the flying particles, ? avoid sanding everything in tent, It is better not to lie on the sort de it may seem the first it ls far better to make a ved sand moreover, cut my finger that had become sanded over,” “Never lay @ thing down on. th off on a sharp uxe The Jarr Family Copretaht, 191 By Mansice Ketten | HIP! Hip! . HOORAY | . ITS LiFE.Lime } (T's & NasTerPEcé! ce The PasaurToes s' BITING 'Y%< x ‘Ou! by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World). Gus May Not Be a Milliondire, but He Has a Moneyed Man’s Perquisites. N the calm though somewhat hot and dusty eventide, as Mr, Jarr came down the street after sup- per, taking the air, he was aware of hig friend Rangle sitting on the stoop in front of the flathouse where he resided, reading an evening paper. “Did the Giants win to-day?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I didn’t hear."* ’ “L wasn't reading the baseball,” said Rangle, “and anyway, this isn't the baseball extra. I've been read- ing about our Pollee Commissioner and his millionaire deputies. Funny that millionaires like that should want badges and ‘Officer, do your duty!’ authority, They have the civic duty bug, I guess." “Do you fall for that civic duty bunk, too?” asked Mr, Jarr with @ sneer, “Don't you know what those fellows got appointed deputy com- missioners for?” “IL was telling you,” said Rangle; “they want.to be ‘vigilant and eMcient offi of the law, wh terrors to evil doers,’ isn't that so?” Mr, Jarr’s contempt was a wondrous thing to see. “All that sort of stuff makes mo wick!” he said, “They got deputy commissionerships #o they can scorch ‘ound in thelr automobiles with the city tag op them and not get arrested, 1 was out riding in a friend's automobile Sunday and as we came down a steep hill, comi: toward East Malaria, past the ruins of a big brewery—but all breweries are ruined now, even if they make near-beer—a hick constable stopped us with @ warning that we were go- ing over fourteen miles an hour, Just then a racing machine came tearing down the hill at nit miles the hour, taking the top layer of the road with it, and my friend asked why that driver wasn't arrested.” “And why wasn't he?" asked angle. : “The constable said it was nine- teenth Police Deputy Commissioner Gottawad’s car, and be was prob- ably chasing some criminal oll stock broker, All the rich men out that way that own .ninety-horse power racers ate police commissioners’ deputy sheriffs, and if they are stopped they say they are chasing malefactors.” “This is a free country, I don't shevist. Let's go get a drink. No, we can’t get a drink. That's enough to make @ man @ Bolshevist twice over!” “Gus was telling me be hadn't seen you for a few days—have you used up your credit or taste for near-beer?” asked Mr, Jarr. 'No,” said Rangle, “but I'm cutting out Gug’s place.” “Why?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Well, sai@ Rangle, shaking his head, “I've seen that the authorities are going to make it criminal to even buy 2.75 beer at a dime a throw, First you couldn't get free lunch, ana now you can't get even a hair tonic cocktail. But even with the within- the-law stuff Gus is now selling, his customers still get an insult with! every drink, I'm not going to spend my money with a grouch who im- agines he is doing you a favor when he sells you @ sarsaparilia, What; makes him like that?” “You don't understand Gus; he’s all right,” said Mr, Jarr, “You want to Josh him along. See that mutt?” Mr. Jarr pointed to a wobegone looking mongrel prowling near, and Mr, Rangle nodded, "Get a strin said Mr, Jarr, “and we'll take the dog in and kid Gus that it's a champion rat dog and maybe sell it to him.” Rangle thought this a good idea’, so with the dog ip tow they entered Gur's place. “What do you think of the dog, Gus?"-asked Mr, Jarr genially. “I'd be ashamed to tell you,” said the proprietor, looking over the bar, “That's an Abyssinian rat hound of the purest breed,” said Mr, Jarr, Gus didn't seem to be unduly ex- eited and Mr. Jarr continued: “You know what that dog did? He was taken up in an aeroplane with a rat. And after the acroplane had gone up a mile the rat was dropped over. A half mile further up they dropped the dog and he caught the rat before he touched the ground!” “Well,” said Gus, calmly, looking at the dog again, “that was his busi. mess.” “Don't you want to buy him?” asked Rangle. “No,” said Gus. “What good is he + you've got rats here, lots of toink!” said Mr, Rangle bitterly, ‘V's enough to make a man # Bol them,” sald Mr, Jarr, “cb, yes," said Gus, with @ cun- R ee oy L. McCardell ning look, “but I ain't got no aero- Plane, I bet you can't bunco me. Anyway, I've been dppointed a dep- uty commissioner and I can arrest you two for running a dog without a license!" a How They Made Goo od. By Albert Payson Terhune Coprriaht, 1919 by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Ereping World), j No. 70—DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA, the Spanish Hero Who Saved Europe. E was a young Spaniard, half-brother of Philip IL, King of Spain, Philip was fat, cruel, degenerate. ‘Bitterkp, he envied this handsome half-brother of his, Geronimo; or, as he is known to history, Don John of Austria, And he made Don John’s life a burden. aw Every’ obstacle was -thrown in Don John’s way, Yet he swept them al) aside and made good. be Don John wanted to be a soldier. Philip forbade this, as he forbade most things Don John wanted to do, He wanted Don John to become # monk. The young man refused. To check Don John’s ambitions and bury him forever in a departmental office, King Philip appointed him ef honorary Admiral. This was in 1568. Instead of contefiting himself with the lazy duties of his new rank Don. John set out to win a name for himself—to make good. And in an ineredjbly short time he was the hero of Europe. . First he sailed against the Barbary’pirates, who were crippling Spanisd commerce, and he wiped these pests from the seas. Then he destroyed and @ drove out of Spain the fierce Moriscoes, who for cén- Wiped Pirates From Seas. —_—~ turtles had scourged the land, These exploits were oe but preliminaries for his real life-work. But they showed him a born strategist and leader of men. Centuries earlier Charles Martel had driven back the Saracens who were overrunning the Continent, But of late the Turkish descendants of some of these Saracens had begun a series of monster the vasions, which threatered to conquer al! Europe and to make it a Moham~= medan possession of Turkey. ee By the middle of the sixteenth, century the Turks had not only gained many strong footholds in Eastern Europe, but had made themselves the | rulers of the Eastern seas. Nothing seemed able to check the steady en- croachments vf these Mohammedans. Then,as a last resort, Spain and Venice and Rome formed an alliance again’t Turkey and raised a powerful fleet, with a force of 20,000 men, to oppose the invaders, Young Don John of Austria was placed in sole com~- mand of this expedition. ‘The world at large had scant hope in the fleet's success. {[t was prob- ably for this reason that King Philip allowed Don John to take command — of it, A crushing defeat, he knew, would do much to smash the youth's increasing popularity. The Turks knew they could easily outnumber this single flotilla, and — Don John was clever enough to foster thig belief. He succeeded in making the enemy think his force was barely balf as large as it really was and that he himself was certain he would be defeated. i \The Turks, lulled to security by these beliefs, merely made ready to. destroy the Christian fleet, an@ had no idea that Don John would dare; ; attack them. Their warghips were massed off Le- panto, in the Gulf of Coriith, preparing to sail forth against the despiged foe, And here, on Oct, 7%, 1571, Don John bore down upon the mighty Turkish armada, ne “There,” writes a historian, “one of the mot guinary and epoch-making sea fights of history was waged. It was a con." test of East against West, of Moslemism against Christianity. On its re- | dult hung the fate of Europe. And this vast burden of responsibility rested on the shoulders of Don John of Austria, a youth barely twenty-six years old!” ‘The battle was an overwhelming victory for Don John. More than 200 of ‘Turkey's best warships were captured or burned to the ede. More than 35,000 Turks were capturcd or killed, and 15,000 Christians who had been ensiaved and forced to serve in the Turkish Navy were net free. ~ Europe was saved. Turkey reeled back in weakness and terror from the incredible beating she had received. The twenty-six-year-old Don John had made good. Hé had succeeded. where countless older and more experienced leaders had failed. He hat pushed past all obstacles and,had won immortal fame. East Against } West Fighting. bes The Gay Life of a Commuter By Rube Towner The Wide Awake Hook and Ladder Co. Profi: zers. Copyfisht, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Events VERYBODY be sure to come} tion. “ce down to the fire meeting to- night,” said Doc as the 5.6 P. M. was nearing the Paradi: The Woman Alone’ By Sophie Irene Woeb 9, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). Copyright, 1 Work—And Work Hard in the Interest of Others FRIEND of mine writes me as follows: “I am 80 much alone and 90 very lonesome, | would love to do something , real You are such @ very busy woman that you can't re- alize what It means K to spend one’s life alone as I am do- ing and have been Serna eerniome: (doing for , nearly three years, It is awful! Sometimes I am ready to give up!” The trouble with my good friend is that she is too busy doing nothing. A While I am writing this sbe is at) @ summer resort killing time, She will be there all summer and Father ‘Time will chronicle her another year of nothingness, Is it @ small wonder she Is ready to give up? This woman has the desire to do things, She deplores being idle, As she says, she is bitterly lonely, But the great drawback to her doing something real and securing the ing she so much desires, which is accomplishing something, will not easily come to her, because of one thing—s! eks only to do that kind of thing which is pleasant. Now this woman could be a very successful worker because she usually accomplishes any bit of work she sets forth to do, such as getting up @ dance, arranging a dinner party or giving an entertainment for some benefit. Of course she realizes she can- not give dances and dinners a}l the time, even though it be for a good cause, Therefore, she hungers for something to do, because there is an innate goodness jn her; an unselfish spirit, that ts anxious to function, I am going to answer her some- thing like this, as I would to many other lonely women who long for something to do: My dear, you will never get any- where in the process of achievement waless you go ato the work that will SSS Rete on ee SoS . command a little sacrifice from you. You must be ready ‘and willing to come in touch with @ little of the eeamy and sordid side of life. Loneliness only comes from think- ing too much of one's self and choos- ing only the thing that you want to do, ‘The very fact that you had to give up your little house in the country because you were unwilling to go there without the best equipped servants is proof enough that you don't w to bear with much that will take away from you your ease, your comfort and your peace of mind. The only way to alleviate this dis- tress and give service in the com- mon cause is to be willing to do that which is necessary, For instance, there is much that you could have done this summer with so many committees and associations in the reconstruction period, but of course you put it off till fall because you would not miss your summer resort. In a word, you want to choose a pleasdnt way to help humanity. This path is not always paved with pleas- antness, Sometimes it is very sordid. But the pleasant part comes after you have gone through a little hard- ship and have really done some good the glow of satisfaction that comes with having sacrificed a little and shows and in a short time the Wide Awakes had a tidy sum of money i» the treasury. About this time Old Bill Skindem be- came @ commuter and joined the com- pany. H@ had @ game leg and couldnt run, bat his enthusiasm was 100 per cent, ang there was nothing the mat- ter with his head. A short time after he joined Old Bil was made Chairman of the Committee+ on Purchase and Supplies and got busy right away. He first subgested that every member of tho company ought to have a red shirt with “Wide Awake” in big white letters across the World). ‘It's the annual election of ¢f- ficers, you know? and we've got to beat Old Bill Skindem.” ‘Then he pru- dently added, “if we can.” “What is be running for?” asked Newcomer. “He lets the other fellows run for office and to fires and he runs them,” replied Doc. “Something of a politician, queried Newcomer, jay,” exclaimed Doc, “there's more politics in the back room of Oid Bill Skindem's office than there is in breast, & whole session of an anti-Adminis- | Trin oe anemen this sum tration Congress. Why, if either one) A of the National Committees would let parker bad Uke hot cakes and Old Old Bill into one of their meetings dh dag the order, he'd come out with the platform in| VF the annual parade he sprungi® one pocket and the campaign fund in| Dew #4 Rovel idea. It was for the Wide Awakes to appear 43 old New another, And, say, there's no highbrow, | youn vamos ang asthe oniy old N idealistic, uplift, progressive service! yor vamp Bill had ever sate o beh of mankind politics in it, either; it'8! 116 gta a ap th WER OB the old school secret diplomacy, | ‘B® ##se and as that person ‘wore a get-the-geods brandy I’ve been dig- | US hat with his red shirt, he suy- ging Old Bill's political grave ana] Sested that @ plug hat be bought for going! to bis political funeral right | 8c” member, which was carried, and along. Several times I thought we| Ol Bill placed the order, receiving |nad the old sinner dead and buried | ‘Mtr 8% enETossed regolution of thanks. sure enough, but every time I went| ‘By the time more money had ae- out to put a flower on his political ‘en?” cumulated in the treasury Old Bill grave I met him coming out of the cemetery gate, “Old Bill is our original profiteer and he gets away with it just like the others, except that he does it under the guise of philanthropy, I don't know just what he's up to now, but we've got a buncn of cash in the treasury and something’s going to happen to it if we'don't make some- thing happen to Old Bill.” Now be it known that the Wide Awake Hook and Ladder Co, (hand drawn; record first mile, 12 seconds flat by the foreman’s stop watch, thought the meeting room should be made more attractive, and on his mo, tion he was authorized to purchase some old and valuable prints ef the Chicago and Boston fires. He bought another picture, which he sald was a Rome when Nero was the leader of the orchestra. There had been some kick because the red shirts and the plug hats turned out to be second hand, al- though in a good state of preserva- tion, but there was no suspicion tha the pictures were not antiques. f which always stops at 12 seconds) is the pride of Paradise and Doc's pet recreation. Although he is vet- erinary surgeon of the Pioneer Hose Co., No. 1, also hand drawn, he ts the Consulting Engineer of the Wide Awakes. One of the finest sights in Para- dise 1s to see the Wide AWakes on parade, turning out every holiday, headed by the Sheriff's Reserves and the Paradise Silver Cornet Band, which has the proud distinction of brought about something t' t might not have happened had you not put forth the effort. Anybody can perform those things that are a pleasure to one’s self, But the great souls who really arrive and who can count thelr good eds usy- ally have on the opposite sl. . of their ledger many incidents and activities that in themselves were not to their liking, and perhaps borecome, yet they were necessary in the final achievement. There is only one cure for the lonely About this time Doc discovered that O14 Bill's brother kept a second- hand store and he imparted his sus- picions to others because just then Old Bil was painting his house, Car tee The morning after the annual meet- ing at which Doc had planned to cir- cumvent Old Bill, Mawruss, who had just returned from bis vacation, asked: “How did the fire meeting © last night? se come out “We're busted again,” said Do sadly, “Old Bill Skindem was res elected Chairman of the Committed true representation of the big fire ip / person—and that is to work, to work hard and in the interest of others. It is only the drones in the hive that are left alone; the doers are always in the thick of things, vthery moc drawn toward them and they haven't time to be lonesome, once being led by Sousa—only once, though. ‘When the Wide Awakes were or- on Purchase and Supplies and he put over @ resolution to buy .a phone- ganized the citizens all contributed Uberally for the apyaratus and the fire building. Then followed a series of dances, claumbakes and minstrel graph. What do we need with a phono, graph when we on! fronth y meet cace # ." said Mawruss, “but Old knows; he's just started his som the phonograph business!” . /