The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1919, Page 10

«NO, 21,193 1 : DNESS THAT MUST REACT. . IR reading Senator Knox’s speech of condolence with Ger- many for the “hard and crnel peace” the terms of the treaty imposed on her, it will be theeearnest wish of an overwhelm- y of Americans that Senators Lodge, Borah et al. may now themselves as speedily and fully as possible in order that the ation of Republican and pérversity in the United Senate may act with » prompt and cumulative force, _ Nothing is more likely to add to the number of Republican Sen- whe will vote to ratify the treaty as it stands than the shock of how strongly opponents of the treaty are moved by half- desire to make 9 separate, softer peace with Germany! © What does Senator Knox now think the war was fought for? fo what end did the United States contribute eighty thousand lives ‘Abd 60 many billions of dollars? ‘That s United States Senator should stand upon the floor of the and declare it to be this Nation’s duty to lighten the sentence ‘upon Germany for the safeguarding of civilization is a shock- |. img menoure of the length to which Republican Tancor is ready to go | © te ite desperate effort to balk the President and make party capital 2m It is inconceivable that Mr. Knox’s astounding attitude will not at once and powerfully to increase the number of Senatorial that may be relied upon to hasten ratification without amend- But again we marvel how Republicans like Root, Taff and Hughes _ @m remain silent while the future of the Republican Party is being _-‘Wantonly jeopardized by a handful of Republican hold-up specialists @mgeged in gun work in the Senate. } t+ 4 2% per cont. drop in the cost of living, with a material decrease within ninety days, predicts Assistant Attorsey Generel Amen Satisfactory and specific. Hold it to schedule, ——__+4. “LET OTHER TOILERS BE HEARD.” HE Bening World printed « letter yesterday from a letter- carrier describing what the present cost of living means to a 3 postman who, after substituting for six years at 40 cents an _ Kiger, starts on a salary of $1,000 « year and gets only $1,500 when he becomes « full-fledged regular. Byerybody has kind words for the letter-carrier, whose servies fs faithfully performed through summer and winter, sunshine and ‘Mimard. But is anybody insisting that the letter-carrier must have a tial raise to correspond with the wage increases that have everywhere sbout him and added to the prices he has y for his necessities? Tho’ eame question applies to policemen and firemen and to city | eaeployees generally. The pay of these public servants has lagged “far bebind the general rise in wages. Nor have they had the organ- means of presenting and enforcing their demands which have ‘been constantly used by other classes of labor. 44 As ‘long ago as last December The Evening World asked: , Amid the clamor with which organized labor now secks ‘to fsaware ite war gains and make permanent the highest of the high “Wage levels to which @ great national emergency has helped it, |, fe nothing to be heard from those other workers whose pay is no @ere than it was before the war and whose purchasing power lower and lower as prices rise? \ Are these workers with pre-war incomes to be charged pro- still higher prices for what they buy /in order that Clasece of labor may suffer no diminution of the high wages war has brought them? question which The Evening World asked nine, months ago rome Yo os beginning to ask now. lers entitled to be heard, let us put among the employees of the postal and municipal services—uniformed @ffice workers who work for the community, but whose pay hes the slowest to advance. 7 old-fashioned will like Andy Car of bix, generous heart in it. fine people upon Skibo estate.” RING UP. ‘THE THEATRES remain closed New York will mope and grow a [= thereby lowering its morale. A lowered morale is good news ial to microbes and epidemics. Therefore, reasons Health Commis- j) timer Copeland, the actors’ strike is a menace to public health, a = By all means let this be added to the pressure upon actors and a int mianagers to get together and turn up the foqtlights. The first excite- FY oe ment of the strike has worn off. The public is tired of seeing closed | ‘theatres and honestly eager to risk its twos and two-fifties on some © mew plays. Dr. Copeland is not so fantastic as he sounds when ho mays the loss of the iights, music, dancing and jokes, not to speak of _ the brain refreshment in a good play, has perceptible effect on the se, health of the community. Be: a. Imthe name of nerves, digestion and sweet temper, ring up the ) .», @artain again. CS Keep Dance Clean, Goal of Experts.—Headline, On with the dance, but let joy be refined. Letters From the People Give Heed to » Suggestion, since the | tion We tie Editor of The Bvening World: Dowhere have heard of such « sound ‘As & constant reader of The Bve-| suggestion as advanced by The Eve- ‘World, I desire to express my| ine World editorial to-day. A# mat- ot ‘9 editorial en-| ‘F% BOW stand the actors and the to-day managers are not getting anywhere. Why not adopt Cy cong to Managers” Associations? "Peele t other readers have concluded this eit spuds eD, Showing His Colors! « Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Byening World), Taking the .Drudge Out of Drudgery WELL-KNOWN woman, a mother, whose career I have followed with keen interest since the death of her husband writes me of her success, Among other things she makes the follow- ing significant statement: “You may put me down as hav- ing defeated de- feat. Ido not owe 4 dollar, I am on my feet and my face is turned to Easy Street, at jast. I have no more fear of the future. And what do you think I am doing—cook- ing. To me it has been ‘forward to the kitchen.’” ‘Thie woman is‘ refined person of excellent character. @ has, in com- mon parlance, “seen better days.” ‘The last thing one would expect of her would be to become a cook. Bhe is a talented woman and re- sourceful in many ways, “But what would pay?” she said in talking to me about it, “All my tal- ente—and I have tried them all could not bring me a safe and sure income for my children when I left penniless, I suffered much in the trying days, and then I came to one conclusion. I looked about and saw the crying need of good home-cook- ing, and the prices that were paid for the commonest kind of feeding. 1 con- cluded here was my chance, “My family and all my friends whom I had entertained had always termed 'me the best cook in the world, ally and well. Why not this means of livelihood? Besides, my physician told me it would be my one saving chance —to keep busy and get physically tired every day. “So I began in a small way, serving meals, My meals are distinctly ift- ferent from the general run, They are the kind of meals that I planned and served to my best friends when they came to visit me. “People everywhere want to eat well. Though you hide yourself in the woods and you give them something truly good to eat, they will find their way to you again. This has been my experience, I have been careful to make everything of the best und not let my standard lack or get be- hind. I always try to think that People come as my gueste, my friends. And are they not? Don't they give me more than the average friend—money with which to live? “And besides defeating, defeat, I have taken the drudge out of drudg- ery. Oh, yes, I do all my own table setting, dish washing and scouring. I am up early and to bed late, But I have put it all on @ higher plane than I ever dreamed could be possible, And so I go singing through my work, feeling that sense of security in be- ing out of debt and on the way to helping make men of my two beauti- ful young boys.” This woman wil! go on and succeed. ‘The reason of it all is that she has quit pitying herself, She has dropped uncertain endeavors for something that will bring sure return, And do you know what the biggest thing abbut it all is, gentle reader? She has put something into it all I km I could cook economic- Ho * Spilling Salt. NDEED a deep-rooted one is the common superstition that spilling salt is a bad omen, Its general and firm hold on many People is undoubtedly because of its religious significance, for this is one of the relics that have come down to us from the Last Supper, In the Great picture of the Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci, we see Judas overturning the saltcellar by reach- ing over the table to dip his hand into the dish with Christ, But the special significance of salt goes back far beyond the Last Sup- per, Because of the universal belief in it as @ symbol of uprightness w It Started . Hermine eustadtl brews and since the Christian era of the Roman Catholic Church, By the Greeks and Romans spilling salt was considered @ profanation of the table, For centuries salt has been identi- fed with bread as one of the neces- sities of life, id to-day the Aratis eat bread pod al together, as an in- dication of friendship, To offer a man bread without the salt or to pur- posely spi) his salt they regard as certain evidence of hestility. We all know the fairy tale of the daughter who, truly loving her fath- er, said when asked to describe her affection, that he was as important to her as salt to mankind, and for it was sent into the mountains with a sackful on her back, But the luck- lqps girl did not, could not, exagger- afte the importance and often awe In a word, sho has spiritualzed her work and made it beantiful rather than baneful. The same artistic sense that she used to bring in reading lovely poems this woman has carried into her pots and kettles. She is not bemoaning her fate but is leading fate by the forelock. And as I looked at her in her little country home bubbling over with enthusiasm of having beaten a seemingly losing game, I reflected on the splendid ex- ample of her, How many hundreds of women there are in the world, who through unfortunate circumstances refuse to do a seemingly menial work which The Woman Wh Heleated Wafaat | that has kept it above its sordidness. By Sophie Irene Loeb would stand them in good stead, all because of some foolish pride. They will go on eking out an existence and become objects of pity rather than choose the road that will lead them to security and perhaps pros- perity. ‘There is such a thing as being too Proud to fight for a livelihood. It is false pride at best. Work is just what you make it. ‘When you make it workmanship you have raised its average and put spirit into it which gives it the zest neces- sary to prolong it and bring worth- while results. In these hurry-flurry days the good cook need not fear poverty, This woman, Mrs, B., has proved it. Copyright, 1911 66] T appears to me that the news- ] papers might turn their atten- tion to something else besides strikes and social unrest,” said Mrs, Jarr, looking up from the evening Paper. “If there were not so much notice given to such things there Wouldn't be so much of it.” “What should the papers play up then—baseball, horse racing, golf, Wall Street, divorces?” asked Mr, Jarr, “They might give more attention to the new styles," replied Mrs, Jarr. “I hear that the Victorian era styles are coming back.” “Not bustles. and hoopskirts to crowd up everything as in the old days, I hope,” said Mr, Jarr, Mrs, Jarr colored slightly. “It the men had manners apd would give @ lady room to ait in the styles wouldn't annoy them,” ghe said. “Well, I'm glad women are not wearing quill feathers crosswise in thetr hats to stick in people's eyes," remarked Mr, Jarr, “That was one nuisance in the crowded street cars.” Mrs, Jarr smiled, “I stuck a man in the eye with a quill hat feather once,” she said, “It was a crowded car and J was trying to catch the conducto?’s eyo" — “And caught the eye o? the man next to you?” interruptéd Mr, Jarr. “Well, he was real nice about it, it I did” sald Mrs, Jarr, “He didn't presume on it and think it constituted an acquaintance, He just laughed very good naturedly, that was all!” “What else would he do?” sald Mr, Jarr, “There's no use in getting mad. I had the same experience the other day—only it was a lady's elbow.” “And you smiled, I suppose, and The Jarr Family 9, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World). ' Feathers and Jealousy Are Both Ticklish Things “Of course I did,” replied Mr, Jarr. ‘Tt didn’t hurt.” “Tf it had been my elbow that got into your eye you would have made a scene about it quick enough,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Are you sure you didn't shout at the lady, ‘Hi, there! Look what you're doing!’ “Certainly I did not,” said Mr. Jarr. “Oh, I'll be bound for that!” said Mrs, Jarr with sudden asperity, “You are like all the rest of the married men, You don't lose any chance to strike up @ conversation with a pretty woman!" “Who said she was pretty?” asked Mr, Jarr. “I suppose you gave her your name and address and telephone number?” said Mrs, Jarr, “Are you sure you didn't jab your eye into her elbow so’s to strike up an acquaintance? How would you like # if I acted that way?" “What way?" asked Mr. Jarr. “You come an@ tel! me that your nuisance of a hat and the nuisance of a fea- ther nearly put out a gentleman's © “And he was a gentleman!" snapped Mrs, Jarr, “Admitted,” said Mr, Jarr, “and so was I. The lady simply suid, ‘T beg your pardon,’ and I said, ‘Oh, it doesn't matter.’ I trust you behaved as nicely.” “How dare you say such a thing to me!’ said Mrs. Jarr sharply. “You should be ashamed of yourself. Serves me right for telling you any little in- nocent thing that ocours to me. You have a mean mind and”— “I have not,” said Mr. Jarr indig- nantly, “but you tell me of such a thing occurring to you and I do not would sol the _troubl theatre too, ae OG York City, Aug, 29, 1918 of New it bas since earliest times entered into the religious rites of the He- \ reverence as a symbol, in which salt has been held through the ages, didn't get mad?” said Mra, Jerr coldly, ; a place any wrong construction on it, ‘but when I tell you something like By Albert Pa No, 80—CARL SCHURZ, whole career to A wave of freedom seemed to sweep shook off her uséless old monarchy and Austria and Germany felt the ur; | Braved gram to Free Countrymen principles. ‘That was all the good it did. Secretly, Ca to escape from -jall. United States. Here he found the Promised Land And he became an ardent American, death he fought Léberty’s battle, in good, in Western statesmanship. So much Lincoln as Minister to Spain. almost at tom. became a United States Senator in 1 1877, His name was linked with a that stood for Laberty. i By Rube HEN Paradise was a strug- sling Uttle village and many of its now prosperous mInhab- itants spent most of their time hunt- ing and fishing and lying and like primitive pursuits, the great national and international questions of the day were settled down at the village store, There was no Prohibition Act to interfere with inspiration: every- ‘body took their time, and when any question was settled it was settled for good, without amendments, res- ervations or interpretations, But with the coming of the railroad came the “l5-cent milionaires” on the Heights and all is changed, The commuters now undertake to settle national and international affairs on the trains between Paradise and New York, and a fine mess they make of it. There simply isn't time; nothing By Roy L. McCardell it ppened to me”—— “At least you know I behave myself when I am out,” said Mrs. Jarr. “I don’t do those things on purpose, and if I did you wouldn't be jealous!” “Oh, yes I would,” said Mr. Jarr. “I'm very jealous, but I know I have no right to be, hence I restrain my- self. If that fellow”— “Now, don't be talking that way, the gentleman was very nice about it,” said Mrs. Jarr, : “Maybe he stuck bis eye in the way on purpose!” growled Mr. Jarr. And he insisted on this for an hour, And. then went downtown, leaving Mrs, Jarr contented for the day. A little Jealousy now and then is relished by the best of wives. | Famous Women| ARY LYON was born in Buck- land, Massachusetts, on Feb- ruary 28, 1797. Her father, a poor farmer, died apout the time she began attending school, Although she could not see where the money would come from, at the early age of twelvo she had the definite purpose of be- coming & teacher, She obtained what was ip her day an advanced educa- tion for a woman to possess, Though Miss Lyon was without funds, and there was no school of the kind ever before attempted, she succeed- ed in founding Mount Holyoke Seminary for Girls, the corner stone of which was laid on October 3, 1836. was planned for t middie class, and the cost of sendin a girl for a year to Mount Holyoke was from fifty to one hundred dollars, including tuition and board, She died on March 5, 1849, ~ ‘How They Made Good he could not meke good in his own country, along ‘he went quietly back into private Mfe. could never remain baried in obscurity. work. And speedily he had become a gripping force in ‘Again the public voice called him’ from tis eelf-sought privacy, 2. ae) yson Terhune. ~ Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), ‘ Who Proved That *Ger- many” and 4‘Freedom” Do Not Go Together. E was born with @ passion for liberty. He devoted his freedom. And he made good. But a with horror upon the oppressions land heaped upon its people. And to strike » blow for the people's rights, knowing that his possible reward might ‘be imprisonment or death. . He and his friend, Professor Kinkel, in 1848, started a newspaper whose slogan was liberty. That was « strang> year—1848—all over Emrope. the Continent. France, for instance, and became again a republic, Italy go of liberty and sprang to arms. But, except in France, none of the revola~ tions accomplished much, except to bring harsh punishment to the gallant men who had striven to shake off the tyrants’ these luckless patriots were Schurz and Kink: Schurz was not content to write for freedom. He must needs fight for it, too, Besides advocating reform and liberty in his newspaper, he joined the little army of German revolutionists ahd fought for, his cherished yoke. And amo} ‘The Prussian government Smashed the revolution by force of arms, Schurz, to save himself/from the scaffold, fled to Switzerland. Kinkel was less fortunate. into prison. Schurz heard of his colleague's plight and refused to accept safety while Kipkel was in such peril. Schurz made his way back to Germany. ceeded in getting in touch with his friend, and at last in helping cel Nothing remained to hold Schurz in the unhappy fatherland. After drifting about Europe te @ year or two he cant te the He was seized and thrown ’ ‘There, wuc- for all the Oki World’s unfortanates, From that hour to the day of the country where grue Liberty had ‘been born and where it bas flourished as never elsewhere. And he made eo that he was chosen by Abraham This was a splendid chance, and it epened the way to a briltiant diplomatic futere. But, once, Schurz threw i over—for the 869 and Secretary of Score of great reforms TheGayLifeof aComriuter Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise Towner Copyright, 1919, by fhe Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Worl@), Doc Settles the Shantung Question ever gets settled, else why de ciding which card to play. “Go on, go on, Senator Ledge,” said the stout Democrat, “play your hand; this is no time for reserva. tions,” a The tal Republican, nettied by his counting thirteen hearts, amid a wild shout from the other pinyers. ‘Do your laughing now, Mr. Hitch- cock,” said-the tall Republican, “be- fore the vote on ratification; shen you'll pay me,” This led q middle-aged man in the seat directly in front of Doc and Newcomer to remark to his seat- mate: “What do you think about this Shantung amendment?” “Tm opposed to it,” replied the other, who was a meek-looking Mtt fellow, who didn't look as it he would be opposed to anything. “What right has Japan to Shantung?’ “She took it away from“the Gera mans, I think,” said the meek one, “Sure, she did and that wag ail right, because we were at war, but what right bas she got to keep itt “Japan says she is going to give it basi ; “Yes, she is!" snorted the ether scorntully; “when, when is she going to give it back? She's going to give it back when we make her give is back!" “Let me ask you a question,” said the little fellow who was beginning to show irritation. “When did Ger- many get Shantung from China and when was she going to give it back?” “Oh, that’s dodging the question,” declared the other, “We've got to maintain the open door in China and protect the Constitution and uphold the Monfoe Doctrine and the national honor, and if we do these things we've got to pass the Shantung ‘amendment,” “Who do you mean, ‘we?” qsked the little fellow... “We American: “I'm an American,” said the Ittle one, “Then you don't want any yellow sweeping over this country,” “I'm more afraid of the food and coal peril than any other kind,” res marked the little one with a tone of sadness. Just ‘then the miidle-aged man spied Doc sitting directly behind him, “Now here's a man,” he said “who's oated right up to date,” indicating ©; “what about this Shantung amendment and what ought to be done about it?” “Just where is Shantung?” asked Doc with an affectation of ignorance, The middle-aged belligerent looked at him querulously, then his face reddened, he opened his mouth, but 1d nothing, and turning in his seat looked out the window, while the little fellow sat helpless, but smiling, Bo far as they were coneenee aba @hantung question was set! 4 Moving to Wisconsin, Schurz speedily made himself a strong power, FO ees