The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 14

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Bpeesek Welty Beowpt Munger wy the Frese Publishing Company, Nom 63 to President, Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, eel TS ad SCY SP er Sodio ola hem ade hares VOLUME 60. -NO. 21,192 THE A. F. L. TO THE TEST. OTH in their advice to the railway shop unions and their warn- ing to the striking railroad employees in California, the Aigh =- councils of organized labor have acted wisely. Tho railway shopmen are told it would be a fatal mistake “to assume the responsibility of tying up the railroads at this time when! the President is evidently doing all possible to reduce the high cost af living.” “It is but fair to assume that the President will have the | Joyal support of @ majority of the American public in his effort | to procure this much-needed relief. We would, no doubt, be charged with obstructing his efforts.” It was not to be believed that Mr. Gompers, returning from Barope, would fail to see the pressing need of putting the American Federation of Labor emphatically on record against the public-be-| @amned spirit which has appeared in some recent strikes. / By the same token the Federation of Labor should go to the Bmit of its power in making an example of the California railroad workers who struck in direct defiance of Brotherhood orders. "The A. F. L. faces a severe test. It needs sound reasoning and @ear-headed use of its strength. It needs the public with it ee THE ACTORS’ STRIKE. WAS a foregone conclusion that the theatrical managers woul come forward with a form of contract which, on the face of it, gives the actor all and more than the Actors’ Equity Association has demanded. It was equally certain that this contract would rigor- ously exclude all mention or recognition of the Actors’ Equity. The Producing Managers’ Association is willing to concede § what it has been forced to concede. But it is not willing to admit that the Actors’ Equity has had any part in the forcing or to recog- nize the Actors’ Equity as entitled to represent and protect the actor when it comes to carrying out the new contract. On the contrary, managerial energy is now bitterly concentrated in an effort’ so to demolish the Actors’ Equity that its very name will be only a memory. P. ‘A public that has watched the strifé can nevertheless have little _ doubt that what the actors have won they have won through the _ Actors’ Equity. There would have been no such concessions from the | Producing Managers’ Association if the actors’ organization had not put up the fight, It remains to be seen how many actors will con- ‘Linue loyally appreciative of what the Actors’ Equity has done for them and how far they believe they need its help in permanently safeguarding their interests. The Evening World makes this suggestion: Since the conflict has developeg a certain special acrimony be- tween an inner circle of the producing managers and the present 1 heads of the Actors’ Equity; since a number of actors and actresses in the Equity membership seem td have found it hard to remain in full sympathy with some of the more extreme measures put in force by present Equity leaders: Why not work toward harmony by making changes in the Girectorate on both sides with a view to eliminating personal an- a that have become more stubborn than differences of prin- ? 4 With a new definition of policies expressed through new spokes- men it might be possible to make the name Actors’ Equity less hate- fal in the ears of managers and vice versa. at, , . Since it is principles and not persons over which the contest is o @mrried>on, those in the councils of both sides should be ready to SF Practice a little self-effacement where it might bring settlement S mearer. ty ba ——_—-4+-—___—_ PAST AND FORGOTTEN. BS HAT about the conservation habits that were to stay on to ‘_ the lasting advantage of the Nation long after the special ‘ demands of war had ceased? Where this summer are the eamning sisters and the domestic saving societies? A year ago waste was frowned upon by all classes throughout the United. States. Is it unpopular to-day—save with those who are Arying to make pre-war incomes come within sighting distance of a post-war cost of living? Are Government authorities preaching con- servation as a help toward repairing the economic ravages of war and working out the painful problems of reconstruction? On the contrary, we hear nothing at all these days about con- servation. If we were to judge by the present lavish self-indulgence 0 iarge sections of the population who have more money than they ever had before we should say a considerable number of Americans were doing their best to forget that anybody ever asked them to save food or otherwise restrict their demands, The careful citizen was the model during the war. Now it is the war-fattened profiteer who sets the pace. Letters From the People Our Dead tn France. To the Editor of The Evening World, About our dear dead in France, I ,!8 no other place like home. So why |Should they want to sleep their last lcng sleep in foreign soil? We q : , Se ? poor oo _ Ald ly gras gael ah ©0X| mothers over here suffer more than yeaa emnehcempli vied " her | the French ever did. They at least mmnere © va gaa no wants her | have the comfort to know that their yg teer “| loved ones are with them, sleeping in praee We Nelk shout our boys! i401, native land, while we were or rel ggaald begs baer 3) ana still are separated from ours by ying awake nigh| ets | thousands of miles, and it makes our 4 i. After promising us, and even © Sending us cards to All out, to where | Por yrs ys eltiel A ode fume eetien should be sent, the Gov-| 10, our loving hands cannot oven emment should not back “out of it Bg nips Ba 5 q ick to say) _ mow. er aes d 2 sage boys |, W® mothers care not and don't ex- ‘prom ¥#\ beet any one to go in mourning for muck 6 their task, This talk about re ee Aa “wc nale ie plone gt o |o » ae ve ree wows rather sleep Ware) nack our dear dead; they belong they are is all bosh, Didn't eir| io hh) Olt e ieeeee noe Eros over there @P0GK) «nr ase v4, maitor, kindly print this hearts out in every Une! How| ja:to they will be to get back home| bottom 70 BROOKLYN 1 will thank you from the | EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919 The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Wives Rebel, Daughters Insurgent, but Husbands Amenable to Discipline Copyright, 1919, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World), RS. Jarr was chaperoning Mr. Jarr to the advertised sale of " bargains in ready business sults to see that he was sold something | ‘stylish as well as serviceable, when a stir and stampede was heard afar and a throng of women bore down the aisle, “It's the limited, special cut sale of trimmed hats between 11 and 12 in the niorning and 4 and 6 in the after- noon,” said the gentlemanly clerk. “We'll be back!" cried Mrs, Jarr eagerly, and she grasped Mr, Jarr by the hand and drew him away. The next instant they, Mra Jarr eager and Mr. Jarr reluctant, were in the midst of the excited women of all ages and sizes, “I beg your pardon!” said a very stout lady after having been shoved against Mr. and Mrs. Jarr, “But why do they crowd and shove so?” “Yes, they might have a little more manners,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “One would think there never was a special sale of trimmed hats before!” “I'm sure I'm not here for own sake,” sald the stout lady, “but I want to see if I can get a hat for my daugh- ter,” and she indicated an overgrown, sallow girl of sixteen beside her, “I don't want any of those old cheap hats, mamma!" cried this amiable young person, “Don't worry your mother, that's a g00d girl,” said the stout lady. “There's a hat with grapes around _ |i that would be becoming to her," said Mra. Jarr, pointing to @ formidable edifice of straw and fruit, “I won't wear the old thing.. I'll tear it up if you buy it for me!” said young Miss Sixteen-Year-Old spitefully. “Oh, dear! Only a mother knows what a mother has to go through!” groaned the stout lady. “Gladys-Maric ain't never satisfied with what I can afford to get for her!” “Well, after all, that's a pardonable pride,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Some girls seem to have no care for what they're to wear.” ‘ There was no escape for Mr, Jarr, He was hemmed in the crowd till he had @ stitch in his side. He glowered at the peevish girl, He knew Mrs, Jarr had instantly formed a barguin-saie friendship. This would result, as he well knew, in earnest confidences, ex- things to scrape acquaintances, The nerve of that woman!” “That light straw hat over there would be becoming to her style of beauty,” said Mrs. Jarr, pointing to a pale haystack effect. “If you can't take me to a swell millinery shop and get me 4 hat like Ethel Goldington has I don’t want any!” exclaimed the girl to her mother. And incidentally the young lady ingly, “that she doesn't mean it! ‘A son's @ son till he gets him a wife, but your daughter’s your daughter all the ditys of your life.’ ” “I suppose, so,” sald the mother. “Well, come on, Gladys-Marie!” And fortunately for Mr. Jarr, when they returned to the men's ready-mads clothing department all the sults that suited Mrs. Jarr were gone. ° Sayings of Mrs. Solomon — By Helen Rowland Conrriaht, 1919, br Tho Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). In Summer Flirtations, as in Gambling, the “Cheer- ful Loser” Is the Only Sure Winner, but She | ‘ That Knowth Not When to Let Go Is as a Nail in the Shoe, Y Daughter, the curtain hath fallen upon the summer love-game, afid the hour of farewell is at hand, “I charge thee, put away thy silly sentiments and thy lighter emotions along with thy frilly frocks and thy sunshade. For in love, as in the qtock market, the whole secret of success lyeth im Knowing when to QUIT. And in summer flirtations, as in gambling, the CHEERFUL LOSER is the only Sure Winner! Go to! She that stoppeth while love and stocks are “above par,” is always “ahead of the game.” But she that hangeth ON and refuseth to be shaken off, is like unto a hair that sticketh unto wet fingers, a thread which cannot be plucked from the coat lapel. Yea, she is as annoying splinter in the foot, and as painful as a nail in the shoe, And she that assureth a man of her eternal de- votion, when he hath not ASKHD for it, causeth him stage fright and giveth him mal-de-mer. Fog, unto a man, the essence of a summer flirtation is not security but, novelty, not surety but immunity, not continuity but elasticity. § And the heart of a summer wooér is like unto a barber shop in whicl} the eternal cry is “Next!’ at Go to! Goto! Come not unto me saying: b “Lo, yesterday, be did love me! Yesterday did he tag after me and L pursue me with his devotion, and with bon-bons, and with invitations, and protestations of adoration. “And WHY doth he not love me and pursue me to-day?” ' For, behold, yesterday, did he not go ALL through the dinner card with zest and enthusiasm? Yet why shall he be hungry this morning? Yesterday did not the rain fall, and the winds blow, and the waves beat upon the shore? Y Yet why shall it, therefore, be stormy to-day? Last night did not the moon shine upon the towers of the city? Yet who shall say that there will be moonlight to-night. Verily, verily, the human heart and the weather are two things whereof not even the soothsayers possess foreknowledge, ‘Therefore I charge thee at the first sigh of weariness, be THOU the ONE to offer thy Beloved a CHANGE! Lo, if thou hast fed him upon smiles and flattery, then is it high time to.offer him the iced sweetness of indifference. If thou hast regaled him upon honeyed words and hot air, then is it high time to offer him the “sauce piquante” of neglect and the cold tea of uncertainty, For constant devotion and too much sweetness are cloying, and a ttle caviare is a pleasant variety. And she that handeth a man his hat and his copgee with a pleasant smile, shall command bis admiration and keep him WONDERING forever! But she that knoweth not when to let GO, shall be set down as “BORE” among the youths of the Land of Nod! Selah. By OW can one distinguish edible mushrooms from those that con- tain the deadly poison muscarin? Many persons claim this to be exceed- ingly sii as the deadly fungi pos- sess distinguishing characteristics that change of addresses and then a part- | after which both ladies would p take advantage of these gave Mra Jarr a look as if she could murder her- “But, my dear child, I can't afford fifty afd sixty dollars for hats as Ethel Goldington's mother can. Ever since you've been going to that pri- vate school you're not satisfied with anything.” “Why shouldn't I go to a private school?” asked the girl “And I'm ashamed of the dowdy old clothes and hats I have to wear.” . after ‘em? . “Very well, then,” replicd the wor-| “Ob, you mean down in Mexico?” ried mother, roused to a resistance. | b¢ remied. F “1 won't ght you's new hatias al “Sure! You read about ‘em, didn’t en “I knew you wouldn't! Why did| You". you say you would? 1 wish I was| “Ob, yes, I kept track of the affair dead!” cried the girl, and she turned|!" the papers. It seems too bad her back on her mother and the Jarra, | Mexico can't wipe out those bands of “Oh, dear; what's the matter with | bandits.” young girls these days?” said the} “It sure does, Gosh, some of shass eat nereen days they'll be riding acroas the Don't forget,” sald Mrs. Jarr sooth-| 1 os4er and stealing Hoboken or some 7 other of them beautiful little places the funny papers joke about. I was deeply interested in that. case, It seemed like the two ranscombed avi- ators ought to go into the movies and act out their peril, Just think how thrilling it would be to see ‘em stood up against a doble wall and, just before they're shot, have a cour- tiér ride up and sing out: ‘Hold! I got the dough for youse boys.’ Some nerve-tingler, eh wot?" “It surely would be stirring.” “Yes, it sure would, Well sir, they was a young scenarius writer in here a wh 0 and him and me djs- cussed the matter pro rata and con, I asked him why he didn’t spill the midnight ink on @ movie about those aviators. “Pooh!” he says. ‘T write good movies,’ “Well, sir) It sort 0’ got my goat. Here I was giving him a tip on a regular thriller and him sitting on a stool and rejecting it in scorn, “Who was telling you that? I says, “‘The public likes my stories,’ he says, ‘They simply flocked to see my film “The Meat-Axe Murderer.”’ ogy! T know, 1 says, ‘but that was a By Bide Copyright, 19) AY,” said Lucile the Waitress, as the Friendly Patron wiped the gravy off his vest, “whaddye think of those Chile con carne bandits getting so bad we bad to send a puny exposition of soldiers ee » UP TO AMERICA T'S up to America. | Europe is devastated by four years of war, Much bf its in- dustry is destroyed. Many of its cities are wiped out, Millions of its working populatidn are dead. If the world is to be set on its dition to jump off in the peaca race. Weiting tor pices to drop, or labor to become cheaper, is waiting for the thing that won't aappen for a long time to come. Get down to business now, A force of American labor— efficiency creased by their war preining, le waiting to do the work, e Government stands ready to -ne- gotiate between the jobless sol- dier and the soldierless industry. ‘There are many offices working to place jobs and discharged ser- vice men together, Col. Arthur: Woods, Assistant to the Secretary | Sof War, spends all of his time daily in looking out for the re- turned soldier and sailor, ‘American business, why wait? Lucile the Waitress Dudley by The Press Publishing Company (The New York Evening World) She Has Great Ideas for Movie Scenarios rough one. Don't you perspire to write somethin clean and pretty?’ “L-used ‘perspire’ to make him sore. Every now and then I slip over a joke word like that just to stir up the nanny of some victim who thinks he's got the world by the tail with a down-hill pull, “The Meat-Axe Murderer was a sory of a sweet girl and her lover,’ he says. ‘It had humor, patience and love interest. What more could one ask? ’ “Il don't know,’ I says, but it sounded rather slaughterhouse to me. Maybe you're from Chicago and couldn't help it! “‘Listen!’ he says. “The less you talk about writing movies the more people will think you know, What does a waitress know about movie stories?’ “ ‘Say,’ I shoot back, ‘a waitress is really a cannysoor of movie plots. Look over there! If that guy who's bit into that sour cream puff ain't fa subject for a Charley Chapman comedy I'll eat your hat. And then look at that other one trying to dent that steak. In a minute it'll slide off onto the floor and back to the kitchie~ kitchie it'll go on another round trip. Ain't that a subject for a joy flicker or two? Say, friend, if you're hunt- ing material for movies get a job in here. ‘They’s enough real distemper in here to make a million laugh.’ “Well, why don’t you get rich writing movies? he says, sort o' scornfully, “‘T’ain't got time to monkey with it,’ I says. jut if I had I'd take them aviators and I'd show the motor boat flying across the Rio Janiery River into Mexico and have them chase the bandits until they dropped. Then, to distill q Uttle comedy into it, I'd have each aviator soak @ bandit with @ hot tamale, Wouldn't that make the au- dience. scream?’ ms ’ he ‘says, ‘they'd scream tn What to Do Until the Doctor Comes Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), Poisoning from Mushrooms. Charlotte C. West. M. D. of spider-web or flocculent’ ring around the upper part of the stalk. All the foregoing are to be avoided 4s poisonous or doubtful. One authority states that all mush- rooms are in some measure poisonous when uncooked. Experiments with the sap on rabbits and other animals cause death, The fungus Agaricus Muscarius, or fly-blown agaric, has jthe size and shape of a common mushroom; it is poisonous to the are at once apparent. Nevertheles: “the Hability of mistake in the selec- | tle and use of mushrooms for food \s exemplified in an account given in the Progres Medicale: A man and his wife, who have dealt in edible mush- rooms, in Paris tor more than fifty years, both died at the same time from mushroom poisoning.” Again in a lengthy report on mush- room poisoning given by Dr. Prent’ he mentions the case of Count de V., residing in Washington, D. C., who ate about two dozen mushrooms at} breakfast, With him Dr, K. ate about one dozen of the same. The mush- rooms had been collected the previ- ous day by direction of the Count, who thought he recognized them as) an edible species, In the case uf | the Count, symptoms of poisoning began in about a quarter of an hour, with collapse, blindness, unconscious- ness and convulsions, Emetics and hypodermic medications were em- plpyed without avail, the patient dy- on the evening of the second day, Dr. K. suffered Hke symptoms, be- ginning later. He recovered after a week's illness, Some years ago a Harvard Uni- versity authority gave out the fol- lowing statement regarding poison- ous varieties: of mushrooms: 1, Those in. the button or unexpanded state; also those in which the flesh has be- gun to decay, even if but slightly. 2. Those having a stalk with swollen base, surrounded by a sac-like en- velope, especially jf the gills are white, 3 Those having a milky juice, unless the milk is reddish. 4. ‘Those in which the cap is thin in pro- portion to the gills and in which the wills are nearly all of equal ‘length ing fungi in which the flesh changes color when cut or broken, or where the mouths of the tubes are reddish, 6 Generally those which have @ sort beats it out’ At the cashier's stand he stops and says that the joint's got & nut waitress. He means me, And just because I tried to slip him a real idea for @ good scenarius. Wiat do you think of those guys?” “He was rather ungrateful, I'd say.” “He sure was. But wait till he co: in again. I'll bet he better not order eggs. If he does I'll gas him. Now, what'll you have for dessert—apple ohecolate Bile or i * cake? ‘The abs a would you.” | putrifaction, Symptoms of poisoning And bright-colored. 6. All tube bear- |! fly and has been used as a fly poison, The puff-ball is a variety of mush- room which when young is edible, while the spores of the mature large puff-ball act as a poison, Muscarin is one of the deadly alka~ loid poisons found not only in mush- rooms, but as a ptomain or product of arise from so small a quantity 4s one-sixtieth of vain, The action of muscarin is upon the nervous sys- tem. The poison js rapidly absorbed i | from the stomach and its action is f very quick. The following symptoms appearing as early as fifteen minutes after eating the déadly fungi, slow. ing of the pulse, spasm of the eye muscles, with contraction of the pu- pils; intensely violent spasms of the stomach and intestines, collapse. Poisoning from a species of mush. room commonly called the “death cup” is said to be most frequent in this country. The poison is not mus. carin, and is slower in its action, The pupils are dilated, intense pain and cramps with vomiting, constant retching and every symptom of vir- ulent poisoning affect the victim some hours after cating the mushrooms, Send for a physician wit) - sible speed, ied sla coy The emergency treatment in both types consists in prompt evacuation of the entire alimentary tract by means of emetics and rectal douch- The patient myst be made to drink copio of warm mus- tard water, ‘The medical treaunent consists in washing out the stomach and intestines; in giving in- travenous Injections of sterilized salt solution, We do the next best thing in the absence of a physician with our draughts of warm mustard water and rectal Irrigations, Tepid greasy water is also advised, and for this reagon dish water can be used; its nauseating effect quickly induces ‘vomiting. Atropin is the physiologic antidote to muscarin and is given to hypo- { derm, by physicians, These poisons act with great rapid. ity upon children, It goes without sag= Hag, that, they should be forbidden to " » OF to cat toadstenia of any character, i >