The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1919, Page 14

ee tar erm Or ne er a Nt Be Et ce Le eon Lact cistron as 5 BO MMUI So eaforerennaesenasner teens yedees eNO 178 « .,.. PLUMB AND OTHER PLANS. HE Plumb plan for the solution of the railroad problem to the satisfaction of the*employees has been in the daylight for two weeks and has been pretty thoroughly illuminated. Progres- __ tive sheets like the New Republic hail it as the sure road to industrial | deliverance, though delightfully vague as to who is to carry the load ~ in the end. Badly managed railroads sometimes punish the ptbdlic = With poor service and their owners with deficits. Plumb’s plan is to | have no deficits -by compelling nationalization, by which competition will be done away with and the public will be charged enough to secure 4 per cent, for the Government and wages for the workers. A limit és placed upon the Government return, but none on the workers. " Here is where the plan grows hazy in its relation to those of us who may not be fortunate to be employed on a railroad. With all the lines under their control, they can make all the demands they please _ and quit when these are not granted. ; ‘ 4 It is a plan without responsibility or any form of guarantee for the public well-being. The competitive principle is to be ignored and eal —* Yae class alone is certain of the benefits, The Warfield plan, put out on behalf of the roads, is little better, and demands 2 per cent. mote guarantee to ownership. , "The United States has witnessed the rise and fall of many empiri- cisms. We think this last one comes nearer the sublime than any yet - achieved. Why not simplify the problem by decreeing that every citizen shall and of right enjoy an income of not less than $5,000 per yeag, and if unable to reach this reward by his exertions, be paid the difference out of the tax levy? ot Sifamer is sliding down bill. The katydids have been com, ‘plaining for a fortnight, which means that frost is but « month away. ee oe , , HO FOR HI! LITHELY as a lark in springtime,’ the Hon, Valentine ‘McClatchy, boss-buzzer of the Sacramento Bee, flings out this HIRAM Ww. JOHNSON President of the United States Business » Deal | _seoseme i Spee tn ‘The type-is taket! from the lower left hand corner of an envelope that comes filled with literature warning America against the Japan- me ©—s esee peril. ‘Valentine recently went on a tour through Japan, whiere he | - could see nothing but the excellent truck gardens on the American | -siver wondrously duplicated, and returned with shuddering horror that if more Japanese come_to fmerica some Californians will have * tw go to-work, THE SILLY SEASON. I8-possible, after ali, at least in America, that the striking and fussing is but the outcome of the “silly season,” as July and August are sometimes termed. The period is irksome to those _ who have to remaffi at work, They read of summer joys in cool reeorta| © exd reflect*that these are only for the elect and long to join in the | capering, Others, more intcllectual) feeling the slackening effects of the sun, endeavor to beat their brains into frenzies quite unwarranted by circumstances, but done in a destre to be progressive and up to date | = in thought, In seeking the superlative they usually establish » bad! comparative, When it cools off sense is pretty certain to reassert itself 4nd blow the foam to the winds. It always has, W. W. ‘Booth, No, 814 State Street, Bridgeport, Co: sends us this special delivery tip: “Good Btock fevieunadtt Don’t be'a piker! Buy a cow! Gell a few quarts of milk s day at the prevailing and live like a millionaire!” His plan does not provide feeding a cow, but milk costs Bridgeport almost three times as much as it is sold for at the farm, with the feeding thrown in. Letters From the People 5&3 i i 8 she iF i if i ont i i ) | dentally, | cue! from your, statement and”—— bad |sreat bit at the Plumbers’ Conven- fl . es The Office Force ' By». Bide Dudley ‘Copyright, 1919, by The Pres Oo, (The Now York Evening World), Well, Anyhow, the Boss Likes Bobbie’s Jokes. 66] SED by the papers,” said Pop “When you're not feeling well, I ple, the spose,” suggested Bobbie. toased his cigar butt into @ cus-| “Oh, for goodness sake!” said Mise pidor, “that labor is now figuring on | TuN1\e, . having the banks under its directio./ “Bobbie,” Miss Primm said explos- Seems to me that's strange shot lively, “if you don’t ‘let me alone I to take at our present system of /shall report you to Mr, Snooks. He government.” won't stand: for your insuljing me. “In the language of a Dilliard/ As for my singing, I once gang in @ player,” said Bobbie, the office boy, | church choir.” . ‘it's gr bank shot.” “Once was plenty, eh?” ao you know about bil-| “Wait, now!” said Spooner, “Let's Mards?” demanded Popple, “Inci-| change the subject before we get in your “alleged jokes are|, pattie here. Last ‘night I wrote & pretty puak.” inong. ‘I gall it ‘Asleep in the Coal “Looks like ‘I ought te take my|yine'” “Bet it’s in @ minor key,” said Bobbie. “That's not funny,” replied Spoon- er, “My song’ is for a bass.” “I'd like to bear it. I'm a fan,” said the boy. * “A tfan—what do you mean? “I'd like to hear a bass bawi.” “I shall report Bobbie to Mr. BSnooks,” shid Miss Primm. “I cannot stand his cheap humor any longer.” “Here comes the Boss now,” said Bobbie. “Shoot,” Mr. Snooks entered and Miss Primm stopped him. “I beg pardon, sir,” she sald, “but Mr. ‘Snooks, Bobbie has been joking again this morning.” “And I missed it," said .the Boss, “Too pad.” ‘Then he turned to Bob- bie, “Listen, Jad," We said. “I've told the folks ‘up at the house about your jokes and they don't believe me. When you get time to-day dictate some of them to Miss Primm and Miss Tillie, I want-to take them home and read them at the dinner table.” ‘With that the Boss'continued on into his private office, There was sil- ence for a moment. Then Bo! funny, faces as you made in my life.” spoke ua, edarensing eet ‘ te “Oh, my goodness!" chuckled Miss| “Take a joke,” hi does a chicken cross the road? cause”—— “Enough!” snapped Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the Boss. “You're a little fool.” “Now, now!", intemposed Spooner, the mild little Bookkeeper, “Why should we quarrel this morning? Let's try to be happy.” “Yes/" chirped Bobbie. “Suppose you sing something, Spooney!” “Ob, gee!” chuckled Miss ‘Tillie, | the Blond @tenographer. “Can you imagine Mr. Spooner singing?” | The bookkeeper's + face flushed. “Til have you, know I once sang in concert work,” he said. “I made a tion,” “With your pipes, eh?” came from Bobbie. “Don't get fresh, kid,” snapped Spooner. “You wouldn't know good inging if,you heard it.” ’ “At the Plumbers’ Convention, eh?” “Anywhere.” “That isn’t quite so,” said Miss “I was singing in here the “Bay, look a’here!” came from Mi ‘Tilile, as sho turned on the boy. Gon't sing with my face.” “Sure, you don't,” @aid Bobbie, “but But the Private Secretary had made 1 | @ burried gxit through the door fead- ing out, oo “Pve been told 1 bave timbre.” IDAY, AUGUST 15, 1 The Jarr Fanily BY Roy L. Copyright, 191, by ‘Tee Press Publishing Compeny (The New York Bresing World: In the Days of Near-Beer the. Jarrs and Rangles Play Near-Poker. R. and Mrs; Jarr had callers. Their friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Rangle, bad dropped in. Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle made an occasional remark to each other, but for an hour or so the two ladies had discussed everybody they knew, the things they did—mostly objectionable and the clothes they wore—also ob- Jectionable. 7 At last Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle lapsed into silence and sat eyeing each other furtively and sending thougbt-vibrations to each other that read this way: “Think up @ good get-away ex- couse.” But there is no such thing for hus- bands, alas! Mr. Jarr, however, was ‘bn the point of speaking up boldly and roundly, “Say,'you won't mind if Rangle and I stroll to the corner to get a baseball extra? We won't be gone over ten minutes, honest!” when Mrs, Rangle said: “Now, I don’t see why you men get | nervous when you have to stay in the house, Not that you HAVE to étay in the house, of course!’ we're all right!” said Mr. iting ‘here quietly en- joying ourselves, Why pick on us? old man?” “Sure!” said Rangle sullenly, Then Mrs, Rangle apoke at large, “Josephine Blessington Blotch read @ beautiful paper at the Current Events Club on ‘The American Home; Is It Disintegrating Under the-Spread of Social Unrest?” she said, “and Mrs. Blotch sai that the cause of much domestic infelicity was because the American wife did nothing to make the home congenial! for the hus- band, Of course Mrs. Blotch should has been divorced twice, @ profound student and she ought to know. But-look how these men sit here, not saying @ word!" “Now, never mind us,” said Mr, Jarr hastily, “we're happy, we're all right!’ “I guess they want to get out and play cards,” said Mrs. Jarr, “If that's had my way,” “That's a strange idea, Why notr” “T intend that 5" shall be a wri ‘ of popular songs.”-—Boston Tran- all they want to do, why don’t they play cards with us? We can play “Certainly,” said Mrs, Rangle, “Years ago I won a lot of prises play- ing euchre. And if you'll explain it to me, for I've forgotten all about it, I'm | chip, although both men politely | McCardell “No, they want to play pinochle or poker,” said Mrs. Jarn ‘That's ail they care for, I can't play pinochle, and wouldn't play it if I could, but there's some cards and chips in the sideboard drawer, and we could play poker, but not for money, of course!” As she spoke she got up and searched, Shé found about thirty chips and forty-four cards. But, as Mrs. Jarr explained, the children had been playing wth them, and it made no dif. ference anyway. “I suppose the men won't play un- less they can gamble—to play for money,” said Mrs. Rangle, “Well, we can play poker a while for 5 cents a game and whoever wins can give the money back/at the end of each game.” ‘With a wearied air Mr. Rangle en- deavored to explain that poker con- sisted of betting on the hands as held. But Mrs, Rangle and Mrs, Jarr paid not the slightest bit of attention as Mr. Rangle brushed away a furtive tear“and, with a bored air, Mr, Jarr| shuffled and dealt. Mrs, Jarr, who} was the age, frankly refused to put \a ed she should. “Why should I?” she asked. “I've got such a poor hand, nothing but the four, five, six, seven and eight of hearts!” Mrs, Rangle, getting a queen and a jack, the ace of spades and two | mall clubs, insisted upon betting her | hand with feverish excitemént. Mrs. Jarr dropped her hand and Mr, Ran- gle, calling his wife with three eights, ‘was not allowed to take the pot; Mrs, Rangle declaring he had cheated, be- cause he hadn't told her he had three ef%hts, In this Mrs, Jarr sided* with the protester, The men groaned, but the game went on. Mrs, Rangle showed her hand'to Mrs. Jarr, “Tl bet if you do,” said s! ladies Vet enthusiastically. “It's my pot,” said Mr. Jarr, got @ pair of nines.” . “Not much,” said Mrs, Jarr, grab- bing the chips, “I have a pair of fours, a pair of sevens and a pair of and four other good cards: Mero Tangle’ “Tala ines, anyway.” le aighed T had another ot Mr, Jarr sod, Mr, Mr, Jarr eaid: “They win, The game is over.” 0 both “I've ny “Now, hans 4 can't we play this way ev might?” ed Mrs. Rangio, SOh, t know why," e mused, “because we beat you! Men can't stand be- ing beaten by women, ane, are all alfke, aren't they, Mire, Jars?” |. . ee foolish things than to a lot of men saying clever things. vey | sitting in the moonlight with the wrong man for half an hol. elor Girl By Helen Rowland ; AUT 0 tah ot Gresth, Cat gmt o Mabel; sinr?y & sob of aah and get a critic; mafry a man of forty, and get a judge; marry #8. +man of fifty—and get a collection of habits. fc? aay ac dodged motor trucks and Wtestled with the shopping crowds all- winter long can become such a helpless Little | BY that she has to be lifted into a canoe and carried " & brook in the summer time! a Funny, how « girl who hag stood up in the subway, — » \Ae A busband usually expects to be regarded as “Big Chief” around the house and at the same time to” |} de coddled and waited on like a papoose. vo A man way give up his life for honor's sake--bat™ when he gives up his pipe, bis newspaper or his favor + ite chair it is purely “for love's sake.” ‘ ome ~ Nething hurts a man's vanity so much as-for a woman to refrain trom showing any curiosity about where he speit the evening when he'has wie mind all made up to snub her if she does. . ‘ ‘At this time of year almost any girl would rather listen to one man” Tm get a dim idea of what an uncongenial marriage is really inp, te * Entre, nous, Cieopatra couldn’t.bave been so much of a« siren \e all—to waste her time on anything so easy as a married man, away OD. his summer vacation! Did you ever hear of her charming a hardened bachelor? ‘Habits Formed in Babyhood By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Copsright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World), © many good mothers deliberately induce bad habits in their babies?” D Yes. Under the mistaken belief that these habits are harmless and , _ quieting. They would be horror-stricken were they told how dam... aging in their effects upon the nervous system and how destructive tot the child's morals some of these easily acquired habits eventually become, A fretful, peevish baby is a sick baby. It requires medical care, It | should not be “doped” into a somnotent state, and at the very beginning of things be brought to acquire a taste for blissful drugging the harmfulnesw. of which cannot be estimated. All preparations which are sold: for this purpose contain narcotics of some kind. Most prominent among thesb are the “soothing syrups.” As the name indicates they are “soothers,” and contain drugs calculated to produce this effect. They are usually resorted* to for supposedly painful dentition. The cutting of teeth is o normal Process and shopld be painless, } ‘ Cultivation of tho “sucking” babit| which can be advanced against thé ~ |a thumb-sucking infant, declaring it jhave a decidedly bad effect upon the is another vile indulgence. The whole family rejoices at the exhibition of to be @ sign of a good nature and, therefore, a cause for congratulation. No thought whatever is given to the) immediate featural changes, such as thickened lips, altered development of the jaws, effect upon the teeth, de- formities of the thumb, or other members used for the same purpose. The improvised nipple made of crumbs and sugar, while not as com- monly used as some years ago, still has its advocates. Sugar in itself does not have the destructive action upon the teeth we| once assigned to it; but the combina- tion of an excessively sweet bacteria- laden medium (the mouth’s se- cretions) and the suction produced by the child's lips, tongue and cheek» teeth. ‘But more harmful by far than the fingers or sugar nipple is the #0- called “baby pacifier.” In the first place, what child can be mentally alert, alive to every new influence and impression, and healthily active, as a normal baby should be, with at- tention concentrated upon maintain- ing at a delicate equipoise a rubber nipple between its lips? _ Beginning with the least objection “pacifier,” it is unhygienic, Nurse or mother frequently moistens it in her ‘own mouth before giving it to baby. Pather been seen diving into his pockets for it gnd presenting it to baby! &s @ sure means of allaying the little one’s craving for natural food, Littie sister diligently searches among soiled * cushions and coveriets in the baby’s * crib or perambulator for the pacific pipe with which to seal the tiny mouth. ‘These practices are directly dangers ous because all mouths are more or less unclean, Some are distinctly dis-" eased, and infection has actually 6¢- curred in this manner. Trousers pock, ets and solled coverlets carry dirt and germs. Many physicians believe the “poel= fier” to be the foundation of mouth breathing, because the intense activi- ties of the structures of the throat | must follow; adenoids ani enlarged tonsils result. *The incessant pressure” \* of the rubber nipple upon the delicate roof of the mouth causes an abnormal-" ” ly high™arched palate to form, tho’ floor of the nose is forced up and the back of the nostrils narrowed. Mouth- breathing becomes inevitable. Pia, These are facts and will bx apparent to all, but the habit thus ingrained upon the baby with the first awaken~ y ¢ ICK’S PARTNERS ALL GETTING BUSY |]. NLY 189 more days "before Christmas, So the toy makers, the candy manufacturers, the fiction writers and illustrators and all others in partner- ship with Santa Claus are working at top speed to get their wares ready fer the holiday season, The toy factories, huniming with| industry, are turning out the most | varied assortment of amusement de- toys will cost considerably thore than’ last year—about twice as much av 4 before the war. ” With the ban off sugar, -candy maker, ‘e confident there will be a! record démand for their products wide : Christmas, and are making prepara. tions acoordingly. Magazine editors are accepting and rejecting—mostly rejecting—Chri mas stories and pictures. Printers vices in their history—but anything of | are increasing their stacks of Christs\* } 4 @ martial nature is banned, ‘The man- | ufacturers are proceeding on the the! ory that youngsters, as well as their | elders, are tired of war, Santa Claus's newest partner ap- peurs to be Japan, Dealers said to- day that country will run a close sec- ond to the United States in turning out toys, ‘The question of whether Germany and the saint will resume | diplomatic relations appears to be an openone, Most dealers, however, de- clare their opposition to admitting German toys af this time. In common with everything else, Ty nouns, and the teacher had Grilled earnestly on the relation of | the speaker, person spoken to, &c. ‘Then she asked William to give the ‘Person of several pronouns, He got along splendidly until he came to the pronoun “who,” and then he hesitated, “Look at its antecede mothe:— that governs the person,” explained the teacher. “Now tell us what per- NOT AT HIS HOUSE. HE seventh grade was having its first lesson on personal pro- same William's laconic -|to a reporter, “I mas cards. Poultry dealers refused to commit themselves as to how much the | Christmas turkey wil cost, but frank.” ly admitted they can see no chance of @ decrease from last year’s record” price. Out on the wooded hills the ever: greens are utilizing these hot ¢a; sf, to add enough to thelr height ané” spread to qualify as Christmas trees,” Everywhere in the United States” the Christmas spirit, though still hide” den beneath half a calendar, is lusty, and growing. Me DISAPPOINTING, HE smiled sweetly os she proached Emil J. Holmes and asked: “I'm a have lost my way. Could you direct m te the loop “Why, this 1s the loo) 1 said Mr, Holmes, who wa: yaittinp int his motor car in Wabash Avenue, near’ Madison Street, It waa about 10'P. Mh Some way or other, before Mri Holmes realized it, she was o beside him. ‘They talked for some” time. Then she left. Soon th * he discovered the absence of 13 one.’ hundred-dollar-bilis. which had res posed in bis right hip pocket, oor little thing,” Mr. Hoim, wee hi mankind will be sadly. shekes's Dg. morning. I got that roll in W; ton from a tak! Tt was sta — lam, and continued bh: reing, re “Firat . person’ Pu more Siphasis.—Ladianapolis and the bills —— bBannne city 8 t Reflections ft 7% aE Pe