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Yeast y denied them. ning to Fe. if Fe Fe : i “af ~F g i - a ee es tic- # ru il Ef if is Eaty me Teetieg ee RSE Jersey City, too. gower gas. them perry aft srr rae SS 4 Mi erhvbas bevoctecdevevevent SCRAPS OF PAPER. HE people ot New York with their credit built the subway . system, paralyzed by a strike early on Sunday morning to the Yast jnconvenience of millions. New York is not » mean city. It is open-handed and generous, No charity ever calls twice for aid;|, no calamity ever failed to bring its eager assistance, The people of wach e'city are entitled to decent treatment from their servants and partners, In the case of the subway strike this has been ! i (merease the birth rate of New York ity where tt ought to increase. Would like to see a few of them in PAUL H. Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 16, 1919 Rmplovers, Take Notte ‘To the Balter of The Evening World, Perhaps it would be a good idea to help relieve the subway congestion “by urging employers everywhere to Sllow thelr girl and women workers to come to work from 10 to 16 min- utes later, and go home from 10 to 15 minutes earlier than male Workers, 1 say A recently patented hanger for moth-proof clothing bags also seals at ly equipped in the East to draw from adjacent ‘his has led to a reliance on storage, cold and other- avcertain éxtent possible th pepe oho . ni rough the use of refrigera- _tion,.thys interrupting the law of supply and demand. A ane td is therefore easily turned into an instrument of oppression. | iat many believe is now the case. Government activity will male the real facts plain. consumers safe from want. -_ The ingenious Japanese have just adopted a new scheme for further deceiving the world as to their real intentions. postage stamp bearing the white figure of Of course, this 1s camouflage and the dove mask for a flery winged aah y - dragon, you don't believe or the editor of the Sacramento Bee. rom the People truly yours, Block Parties, To the Editor of The Eveuing World: he héard of while “over LA 8. Newest Notes of Science An Australian engineer has in- vemted an engine that (1 a hy euarexs| veesNO,, 21,189 The railroad, corporation operates the finest franchise in the ‘woild, underwritten by the richest city on this continent. It is run- withoutsréal financial risk. Only its adventares in finance ate ‘of The basic franchise is firm as & rock. The corporation |; Bias been demanding higher fares. By happy chance this demand is |) Rew supplemented by « preposterous request for a 50 per cent. ‘Wnierease in pay on the part of the employees. This denied, because of to secure higher fares, brings on the discomfort and danger than this, the strike is cailed in the face of a court order @ perfectly valid contract ‘that had until Jah. 1 to run. of the coart and the binding agreement have been of paper. The Prupslan example hes been exactly what value is collective bargaining and what becomes of the contract if labor unions become as faithless as the just beaten in war at so vast an outlay in blood and there no public right that can be respected; no collec- ‘t is ohany value? + i labor is on trial in this crisis. There can be little the verdict will be. The enforced settlement does not aiparticle. It emphasizes the outrage. utes” conservatively, for most em- Ployers will not balk at that, but, Personally, I'd favor at least a half hour for the women. Such promiscu- ous overcrowding ay our girls and women are subjected to during rush hours is extremely, offensive, and it je about time the proper officials awaken to a sense of duty and obli- gation to American morals, Very WALTER E. MEINZPR. Mr, William Davis's letter in this evening’s Evening World, lmenting the absence of “block parties which there, * prompts my writing to your column to inform all others like Mr. Davis, that block parties are still in existence and that Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has from one to three every night of the week. Sometimes they stretch for two blocks. Dancing is allowed until 12 o'clock. Most of our block parties are planned #0 that the proceeds go to a memorial fund for a monument to be erected in memory. of Greenpoint’s honored dead sho made the suprame sacrifice In our time for ai | WALTER &. Migitzie MEINZE to Aug. 14, = SHORT tim “Girls and appearing the w spectable tami}i that wq@uid stand agent. the overdressing or the supposed costume, one above water, New championship Beach, not one 0! “If these girls these one-piece club where both pete for switmi tainly you ha most satisfactor, bearings is composed almost wholly is run by| Of lead, electrically hardened. Dathing suits b vines Bers ; ved, and I'm ‘ A gum containing trom 10 to 20 per ey : the Malay Peninsula. eee feature a new gas range. ee As throughout the Fiji Islan: by cent. rubber has been discovered in ‘Two ovens of the usun! kind and third on tho fireless covker principle ugar company's mills scattered just a little of heart and soul but to keep in ers you have to umns appeared an article on A girl from Los Angeles and evi- Dearing on a public beach with a costume that they have always been wearing is beyond my imagination, “The newspaper reports in New York had all sorts of reasons for our jority claiming it a good press stunt. “L wish to state that the entire group of girls come from the most re- Coast and that they are not the type ay the whims and fancies of the “Ninety per cent. of the accidents among women bathers are caused by does not give free move- ment of the legs, an essential factor in good strokes, and one that helps keop “1 clipped a pleture from one of the York Sunday ' papers showing piece bathing sult, ja reason for their doing so. “Have you e@er gone to an athletic that people claim would be found if girls were allowed to wear one-piece “If you will look around your little Coney Island some day (without the one-piece bathing suits) you will tind “I'd wager, Miss Loeb, that In your “In respect to the othe girls of An Answer to Girls’ Bathing By Sophie Irene Loeb © ago ip these col- Bathing Suits.” dently one of the girls belonging to & movie company, who appeared in scant bathing sults, were apprehended by the police, and one writes me. as follows: “Why you should condemn a group of professional swimmers for ap- can be lightened « Island. While there to take a bath. The eofeguarding decency but in the interest sort. ‘There are plenty of ay we did, the ma- the Pacific bal That is why it is for an arrest just to aged—this appearing least clothes possible. im the water. Dress, to be proper bathing! action for safe swim: will not’ only allow sarily expose the sw While there is one swimmers at Rye f them having @ two-| their bath and their drown at all. are allowed to wear suits, there must be men and women vom- ng honors? Most cor- ve found conditions y, and the indecency them, While it might be has not as yet been sure never will be, to doing the same th the indecent, To sum it all up, ¢ you believe as J do, time with your read- condemn us. j s TUESDAY, AUG Innocent Bystander Suits Copyright, 1919, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). the company and their folks I hope | you will print this letter, or at least, something ‘to this effect, so that the message you sent to the town folks) little and they need not think us vile creatures.” T would answer thi: this: The scant bathing suit has no Place on a crowded beach like Coney letter like is one profes- sional swimmer’ there are ten thou- sand non-professionals me’ there whole policy of 1s not in the interest of the professional swimmer of everyday bathers at a crowded watering re- places for pro- fessional swimmers who seek only the joy of swimming besides these places where thousands of young people go and who are likely to get wong impressions from what might be, in the opinion of the professional swimmer, purely aesthetic taste. important and something thoroughly to be discour- in public in the While I agree with the young woman that it is certainly important that one should wear a bathing suit that would give ehough freedom of ming, yet there are many kinds of such suits that such ease, but at the same time will not unneces- immer, drowning from too much clothes, there are millions of people at bathing beaches who get swim and never « Young women in Rye Beach are no more excusable in the eyes of com- mon decency than the scantily dressed young ‘women of Coney Island, you want to go far enough, people in Africa don't wear, any clothes at all and there is no law or opinion against i in keeping and quite harmless for professional ewim- meré in an athletic club to go In for bathing as a profession or sport, and without any harm to any one, it is quite.a different matter when it comes ing before thou- sands of laymien in congested places. he whole matter resolves itself into what effect any attire has as 4 general propositio and not as 4 specific professional one. 1 maintain that, though the ygung +f Wal” UST 19, 1919 When a after sort of begins to doubt it. Take away a man's belief 1 always jogs your elbow? Bachelor Girl Reflectio N ‘ By ‘Helen Rowland Coprnisht, W918, by The Prise Publishing Co. (The Now York Rvening World), ~ * OW that men have ceased fighting for home and hearth, every mortal one of them wilk begin fighting to gct away from them occasionallfy , “men are really good and noble at heart,” it Is Just succeeded in making one of them propose to her. blame for his troubles except his mother-in-law. i ' * i ‘The man who succeeds ts the man who knocks af Opportunity’s door instead of waiting for her to knock at his, and then smashes the lock if she refuses to open ity After reading all about the careers of the late Oscar? Hammerstein and the late Andrew Carnegie (two penni« leds boys who rose to fame and fortune), the nice, logical radical throws down bi ‘and goes to rouse the masses to the lack of opportunity, for a poor man in this country. newspaper, musses up his hatr once cynical damsel begins to argue ign that she Every time a woman asks a man if he loves her “as much as evér” he b ( Clothes, flirtation and manners are the main things which distinguielt the civilized man from the savage—and they were invented by woman, In these days of total abstinence many a man treasures tenderly ever the memory of his morning-after headaches. in a “personal devil” and he has nobody t# ‘ Alas! why is it that when your cup of happiness is full, somebodyt By Albert lO while awa, Though for himself lost forever again. As a many super! | twelve years) he | kind would have been confined | to hear him preach. * ‘As it was, he made good b: the world knows as “Pilgrim's version and the nobler living of dition to be published. But u He wanted to get out of jail in order to preach him to prison (and kept him there, off and on, fog would be forgotten to-day and the benefit he did to man- life, wherein he toiled intermittently at that religious allegory of his which Bunyan had begun life as a tinker. “Pilgrim's Progress” was so badly spelled and punctuated and put together that it required months of work by a skilled editor to put it into fit con- How They Made Good | * Payson Terhune . Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World). 75—John Bunyan, Who Made Good From @ Prison Cell. y the long years in his prison cell, a lay preacher named John Bunyan amused himself by scrib- bling chapter after chapter of a religious allegory. Bunyan did not know it, he was laying up an immortal fame. He was making good at the very time when it seemed tc him that he hag” the chance to make good. preacher he had hundreds of equals and iors. But for the misfortune which seit to the few thousand people who chanced y the supposedly wasted years of prisom Progress” and which has led to the con~ countless men and women. \! He was almost illiterate. Indeed, nderneath all its flaws blazed a spirit of inspired genuius—a genius which has made the book live and which will et keep.it alive through all the ages. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by. The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). All Signs Fail in Dry Weather Except Storm Signals for Domestic Disturbances. “ ONDER if we are going to’ have the expensive dresses Mrs. Stry- have another hvt spell?”| ver has, but the more she dresses the remarked Mr. Jarr, briskly: fess style she has about her. In my | ments of his sermons “A nice cool day at this ume of year| plain things I'll look the lady.” begua. certainly makes life worth living! As| “You are looking good, too,” said we are always kicking when the never saw you looking weather is hot I think we should ap- preciate cool yet bright summer days when we do have them!” “Yes,” said Mrs. Jarr, “but the pa- pers say we need rain in the West where the forests ase so dry that they are burning like tinder. Thousands are being ruined, farms and towns burned, in the far West, and people losing their lives—how can you enjoy dry weather when it means things| like that?” s This was a tacer for Mr. Jarr, but he said he couldn't help the forest fires, He was sorry to hear of it, but didn’t see where his enjoying the au- tumn weather made any difference. His not enjoying it wouldn't stop the’ conflagrations, “Oh, that's alwaya the way with you!” said Mrs. Jarr. “You only think of yourself and your enjoyment. Men are all selfish, anyway!” “well, a little rain wouldn't hurt,” admitted Mr. Jair, “In fact, in sum- her we meed a good deal of rain—to fill the depleted reservoirs, start up mills that have shut down on account of low water, so summer rains are a) blessing generally.” “1 know why you say that,” sald Mrs. Jarr, "You know I'm going out to-morrow with Mrs, Stryver in her open car, as her limousine is being re- paired, and you Just want to see It rain so 1 can't go. Of course, Mrs Stryver only asked me becaus> she thinks I will look like a companion or & poor relation that she ts giving @ day's pleasure to, as sho sits there in her open car-looking like—well, I don't not only travelled his soul. tist Church. There, presently, In time here as the Episcopal Church) Landed ina Cell. “No thanks to you,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “You never do anything but worry me and find fault, You never bave a kind word to say to me! “Why, I have just been telling you how well you look!” said Mr. Jarr in surprise, “Oh, but you. don't mean that,” said Mts. Jarr. “You are just saying that because you think it pleases me “I do hope it pleases you, because it ‘certainly is so,” replied Mr. Jarr. “I am not @ well woman‘at all by any means,” said Mrs, Jarr plain- tively, “although much you care. I never let on and I never complain, but I’m @ nervous wreck and should be away someWhere getting a good long rest.” “Why don’t you go, then?” asked Mr: Jarr- “Why don't I go?” retorted Mrs.| 4 Jarr, ‘I'd like to see myself go, ‘dragging the children with me, and leave you! You'd like a chance like that, wouldn't you? So you could do as you pleased and be out all night to prize fights’—+ She had heard Mr, Jarr once say he'd like to see a good boxing bout, “No, if you haven't got the common decency to behave your- self, [am not going to encourage you by giving you an excuse to be staying out all night playing cards with that man Rahgle! 1 suppose you'd like to go around telling people ‘my wife is away having a good time, and so I'll have a good time, too!’ “And it’s just like you to taunt me about going somewhere,” she con- tinued, “when thero’s no place to go Bunyan sized Jdéhn Bunyan in a cell. century prison long enough to During these prison years milder English Government set edited for publication. Most of written. He knew he had madi went ahead with {ts publication. ‘The moment !t appeared “! inspired masterpiece. his debtor. St. Cumin, Ir One. The Irish question, not yet statesmen to-day, was lighted before Saint Patrick climbed the c saered fires of the Feast~of Bel! or; the Sun, had been lighted, held in the Palace of Tara, the ital and noted seat of jearning o! early Irish Kings, The Hill of was the focal point of those K: By British law at that time the that all the non-conformists were in jail and all the Church of England folk in saloons, ‘This speech and other similarly fear swered, that \s ruffling the brows of ofPTara in 460 A. D,, and introduced istianity into Ireland, where the where pagan solemnities were being ‘The tinker lived in the middle years of the seventeenth century. He from house to house, mending pots and pans, but fought gallantly in the civil wars which rent Eng~ land at the dethroning of King Charles L As a young man Bunyan was more or less insane. Ho believed he had committed an unpardonable sin, though he had no idea at all what that sin had been, and that Satan had « tier? om This belief caused him horrible mental! tortures. ‘To ease bis mind, he turned from his former life and joined the Bap~ he received @ licenss as a lay preacher, Even in the pulpit he believed Satan was still ruling him, and he was sorely, tempted to break out into the wildest blasphemy in the most solemn mo~« he grew sane. But his troubles had just ante of England (which is known suppl he only form of public worship permitted to the people. Catholics, Jews, Baptists, Presbyterians—all other creeds anf denomination§—were branded as “non-ponform: ists” and wete not allowed to hold religious services. When they persisted they were punished and thelr preachers we thrown into prison. % up the case by informing his congregation utterances landed He was released, after he had endured the horrors of a seventeenth break the average man's spirit. At once he began preaching again. And back he was sent to jail. he wrote “Pilgrim's Progress.” When « ‘him free he finished the book and had his friends advised him against having printed. But by this time Bunyan realized the greatness of what he had je good. He knew he had written book which would convert more people than could a million sermons. So he ‘Pilgrim's Progress” was acclaimed as an Its sales were incredibly lange. . It won for ite tinker« author an eternal niche in the hall of fame. It did inealculable good. Bun= yan's long years of prison life had borne fruit which made the whole worl® To-Day We Celebrate ish Bishop, 650 A. D. an-|their Halls of Assembly, of Judi ture, their Parliament, ang the mee! ing place of poets, historians enroniclers. , The Lia Fail, or Stone of Destinys. the oldest thing in the British Ialeut long Hil tane, and turies in the midst of Tara’s Hill, was removed by Fergus, the fir Scottish King, 613 A, D., from Irelah t. Scotland; following upon this, re. moved by Kenneth IJ of Scotland cap. f the Tara ings, know what, the fat thing!” “What do you go for," asked Mr, Jarr, “if you think that's tne case?" “Huh,” said Mrs, Jarr, “L may not to, when I have no clothes to go any- where and when 1 haven't the money if L had the clothes.” “Gee whiz!” said Mr, Jarr, “You certainly are in a fine state of mind!” “Who wouldn't be,” retorted Mrs, Jarr, “When a man comes home growling about the weather, and if his wife says a word he tells her to pack up and get out, that he's tirea of seeing her around, and he'd like her to be out of the way, so he could have his filng.” see that! of yourself when you can see I am feeling depressed and that not well. woman who writes and her compan- ions may have been professionals and thuroughly accustomed to dressing as thtey did without any thought of harm, yet the average girl who, on a great public whore, dresses so differently and so scantily as to attract atten- tive doos it for this one purpose——at- (eucting: attention—and is generally so regarded by the average every-day man and woman who are our readers and who.should condemn it \eonsideration for me! But that’ cheerful!” mean it!” said Mr. Jarre, |too, andathen Mrs, Jarr cried a plied Mr, Jarr indignantly, “But you thought it¥* sald Mra, Jarr, It was in your mind, I could stand it any more, she said, ¢ ° nd begin quarreili sth her, You ought to be ashamed You should be ashamed, you would be ashamed if you had any the thanks I get for trying to be “{ didn't mean It, honest, I didn't But he had to say he was sorry. “L never sald such a thing!” re-|and told bim never to* come home 4 had too much of it and couldn't Scone in Scotland; thereafter, moved by Edward I of Bngland London in 1296, It now forms part of the coronation chair in West minster Abbey, in whieh for eigh’ centuries the sovereigns of Englani have been growned. So, literally, England sits upon the Irish questioi To-day, Aug. 19, throughout Irelam is the Festival of St. Cumin, Bisho: of the early Irish Church in thi seventh century, ‘The Green Isle wi called Bire or Erin, viz., Land of tht Saints, Its stone crosser its hol; wells, its rutmed monasteries, sp of the devotion of Brin's faithful tors of her early Church, of which Cumin was a shining light. that Lam ‘s all Litthe She D on which the early Irish Kings- |, at their coronation, stood for .oer > iy be Pe © “Sen «0G