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ae ‘Ss S4 Oe “Fe 6 a é 5 4 io & rd 9 we ; ee Che ; IED a ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. day by the Press Publishin a comnierta tetany: 4 Hay ee 1s Company, Nos. 63 to jew ¥: \LVH PULITZIR, President, Row. PLT gry MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. P ele STs ce eS SSTSY RL ida Sad el es eT asc VOLUME 60... ob Ub edeD dees po cRNy wapeey THE CUMMINS RAILROAD BILL. HE obvious parpoee of the bill evolved by Chairman Cummins sub-committee and referred to the full Interstate Commerce Committee of the Senate is to hold the working out of the Tailroad problem to a safe median line. There is no Government ownership in the Cummins measure. Neither is there-any handing of the railroads over bodily to,railroad employees, ar On the other hand, the Cummins plan provides that, though the railroads continue to be privately owned and operated, railroad em- ployees are to be represented both in railroad directorates and in a special committee on wages and working conditions which the measure EDITORIAL PAG WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919 Daily would create. Furthermore one-half of excess railroad earnings above fair dividends would be used to establish a profit-sharing syatem for employees arid to extend the benefits of insurance, pensions, protec- tion from hazards and opportunities for technical education. Both strikes and lockouts would be illegal, and the operation of the railroads would be carried on under close Government supervision, with the Taterstate Gommerce Comniission exercising increased powers over rates, ete.—the whole administered on a regional plan which it will take something more than the first summary of the bill to make clear. This much, however, ;seems plain: Under the provisions. of the Cummins bill railroad employees get profit-sharing and representation in managément; stockholders get their dividends as from privately conducted corporations, and the public gets more effective Govern-| ment oversight and a guarantee against strikes, 4 The Cummins plan does not, like the Plumb plan, put the rail- roads in the hands of the Government to be run solely for the benefit : of employees, with the public taxed to meet all deficits, + To a thoughtful labor element that Hai already begun to temper ite demands, the Cummins measure should present.a tentative outligt}* of gains that are substantial and progresd that caffe maintained, To a larger public the bil! will seem ra hopeful bapii”st compromise. with labor programmes that ‘pave fended to becoing fait}. tastic and extreme. a—tishom * sat { nantor ‘The proposal—put forth by a New Yark labor committee on the cost of living and first made public by The Evening ‘World last Monday—that organized labor shall suspend strikes for six months in order to facilitate every move to bring down prices, has called forth prompt expressions of approval from all over the country. That radical labor elements denounce the suggestion is among the strongest ofits recommendations. —\_—__-+-__——_ 4 COMPLICATING THE ACTORS’ STRIKE. HE attors’ strike is considerably complicated by the action of T the stage hands in shutting up shows in which both actors and producers were admittedly “100 per cent. Kguity” and which had the full sanction of the Actors’ Equity Assoclation in an- nouncing and preparing for their openings. ‘ ‘To explain this the President of the Actors’ Equity makes the _, statenient that “when shows are closed now and no definite reason le ao * given it is because we have discovered that the producer is lending aid and comfort to the enemy.” » In cases thus far observed the stage hands appear to have made the discovery first and not thought it worth while to consult the Actors’ Equity as to what the latter might have promised the pro- ducer_or actors concerned. ‘The result has been a succession of _ “surprises” to the actors’ organization in the shape of startling accele- rations of its fight at the expense of some of its own best friends. * What has happened, of course, is this; The American Federation of Labor has not brought its great power to bear upon the conflict without expecting a big share in the direction of the fight. The Actors’ Equity is in the position of a family who have called in @ giant to help them in their hqur of need and who find themselves now a little crowded by some of his movements. , It has been hinted that the other labor unions are determined + the actors’ organization shall stand for the closed shop—an aim which the Actors’ Equity has caglier disclaimed. These unions woul show deplorable lack of common intelligence were they to try to impose the closed shop on the acting profession, We cannot believe they have any idea of thus risking loss of public sympathy in a well fought fight, _ 1 A list of indignities and injustices inflicted on meek and kindly Mexicans by crue! citizens and soldiers of tho United States on both sides of the border constitutes a poignant part of Carranza’s message to the Mexican Congress, What tears must have trickled down the old persimmon’s nose as he penned it! y Letters From the People Retain the A. KE, A. Le y i Pad the Eater ut Tue Bewle World, I read your editorial in last eve- ning’s World on the actors’ strike with great interest and appreciation 1 must, however, protest against your suggestion that the A. E, A, should change its leaders, In making the ods and personalities of our leaders, ‘True, the mon who have so brilliant!y are distasteful to the managers, IA the recent war the suggestion that we should an early peace, measures put in force pe thar|Sither Mr. Francis Wilson or Mr. t doubt a few eee er OEE malo @ member of whose pockets have touched, who cry | for them as men and leader: But 1 am vory truly, MARIE CHAMBDBS, and astutely led us in our great fight very name of | Woodrow Wilson was hateful to the Germans, and yet I cannot recall a ye our President in order to bring about I have not the honor of knowing |"™ Frank Gilmore personaily, but I wish the ere private in the ranks |--Mmy great admiration and respect Yours ” x Coprright, i Popular Writer Admits N introducing myself to you as @ writer, dear victims, I want to say I claim but iittle distinction along that line. Despite all reports to the | goutrary, I did not write “Tom Saw- yer” nor am 1 the author of “Les Miserables.” It is true that now and then I pen a poem when [ am alone in the stilly night, but the next | morning I invariably fee! better and tear it up or just let it explode of its own velocity, ‘The chief reason # have not gained any great measure of fame as a writer | is because my penmanship is such a cut-up. It is awful. No doubt you wonder why I do not use @ type- writer, I will teH you. I can play the typewriter in B flat only, and in these times the popular demand is | for B natural profundo. So I just ignore machinery and dictate my stuff to the girl, She can put it down with one hand and ‘use a lip-stick with the otber without dropping a stiteh, Creative literary work would be pie for me if I could make my penman- ship behave, I remember once f wrote an essay that was a wonder. My father thought of having it pat- ented and selling it as a pussle, Next he decided to have it published in sheet music form, but he couxin't de- cide wiiether it was @ waltz or a ma- surka, He finally gave up both plans and lef the essay lying uround untii the dog ate it and depgrted this life, I wrote that essay while being kept after school by the teacher, Ajl I had done was chew a maverick wad of gum I had found on the floor. But gum-chewing was against the rule’ in schoo! and, therefore, all the more interesting, of course, On this particular day the teacher told me to write 200 words on “Life's Greatest Beauty.” It looked like my chance to make her my slave, she being a peach, So I wrote the essay about her, Proudly I placed it before her and waited for her blush, It never came, She couldn't read my writing, After studying it a while sho called me to her desk, “Jefferson,” she sald, “your pen- hip {8 atrocious. I cannot read a line of this, I have a book at home that you should study. I'll lend it to you and perhaps your handwriting will improve.” She kept me ap late that day she was afraid to go home alone and I had to aot as her eacort, Next morn. . by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evewing World). ke thc, President ans as. cerry CN eal The Life of Jeff Nutt Edited by Bide Dudley | Nooked over a board fence Jn the sec- ond act. I surely was good in the part, and when I went to bed after the ‘show I felt I had achieved a} triumph in the art of Thespius. Just before daylight, however, I our town and I went to see it. It elated pyri bathed 73 oan was going at top speed when 1) couraged and decided to continue} crawled under thé tent, I always)™y stage work. went to circuses that way. In fact, 58 Be Cea nue) I didn't know they had Main En- trances until I was seventeen years old. At this particular circus I was deeply interested in. the peanut ven- dor. He sold peanuts so fast I made Up my mind that wgs the life work for me. So I entered the theatrical | business as his assistant, One day the owner of the show was in @ quandary, The man who} sang in the “concert” had accl- dentally let his wife overhear him Saying he intended to beat ber up and was in a hospital threatened with a dangerous consultation of Physicians, When, they told the owner of the show the man was apt to die he was very sad. It appeared the singer pad .overdrawn. ; his salary §3/ © , Ba forme. Hey, Tho owner sonny,” he said, “what do. you, know about ballads?" “They're wild proudly, He said he'd bet somebody had been feeding me dish, and then told me he was referring to love songs, not Majlard ducks, “Can you sing?” he asked. “Not a nete,” “Good," he sald. “You go in the concert and sing ‘Darling, I Am Growing Old,’ I'll take a chance,” “You'll take a chance? I replied, accenting the “You'll,” “Ain't you mixed up in your syntax?” He called the advertising man und told him to put the word in the show’s Dilling, I sang the song that night, and the next day the owner made me a@ bareback rider, The show closed in a small town in lowa and I was left with nothing and nowhere to put it, I was deter- mined to continue as an ‘actor, so 1 emkod man if the town had an opera * he replied. “We're going o have, a troupe here to-morrow ni rimshaw {8 the manager, He's over at the livery stable.” I found Ed and told him I was an actor, He didn't believe me until h found out I was broke and then he gave me a job, He put me to work forking the hay out of the pers house, I got it all out and. killed seventeen rats. He was tickled and tried to match me against the post- me thing Lo eat let_ me sleep in He Was Once an Actor I chewed a lot of gum that school term, Soon after that a circus came to; By Roy L. “ee OULD you wear my summer W furs?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “No, I wouldn't wear your summer furs,” answered Mr. Jarr. “I mean if you were me,” amended Mrs, Jarr. “It Jooks so nice this eve- ning Phat I'd like to go out in my fig- Wet. “In. your hat, “In g ered Mrs, Jal “What's Ote nutipr with te mam She meant to say, “What's the matte with the man?” but when a lady’ mouth ix full of pins, enduring the mysteries.of the toilet, the word “man” sounds like “mam,” ‘Try it. “What do I mean?” said Mr, Jarr. “1 mean that if you dre golng to.do any Lady; Godiva business at your time of life, count me out, I'll admit you have «4 nice figure, but"— Mrs. Jarr turned around from the mirror, took out the pins, paused as she reached for her powder puff and re- garded Mr. Jar? with an awed stare. “I was only saying that as it may be & little cool thisjevening I thought I might wear my fars,my summer scart, ‘at ‘cou! and then, as it looks so bri, 1 thought Imight go out.in my figure, which. means, as 1 thought everybody’ knew, that I would go out without any jacket, just with my dress —oh, you are so stupid)”. “I. breatho again,” said Mr, Jarr. “Going out in your figure means you won't wear anything but your ordinary street dress. @h! marriage is a |'veral education.” “But it's mighty stingy in its re- sult #0 far as a wife's allowance is concerned,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Have I won any strikes, woman?” demanded Mr, Jarr, “And did I get ny raises of wages? Why, pea Mr. Jarr. ducks,” I replied ing she brought me « copy of “Jim, ‘The Fewuzu.” or nil ashamed to go out anywhere with my is Anest his @nest box N shat sigh In friends, because I-never hi aaa "anid the enon ea, shat) Cults sth oy ‘W ] eee By J. H. Cassel], Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland | “~~ Copyright, 1910, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New, YorW Erening 5 Being Extracts Concerning the'Foibles and Frailties of Woman, From the Secret Diary of Solomon, The Married Man, as Revealed by the Seven- Hundredth Wife. : M Daughter, consider the perfidy of Man! ' For lo, when I, thy Mother, arose in tho night to search through the pockets af thy Father, Solomon, I fo them care fully divested of all treasure, But in an inner fold { disco: this libel ous document, ‘ 7 “ Read then and be warned: - “The Diary of Solomon, the MA! Heaven preserve thee from alike fatef “My Son, hast thoua theory éoticerning how ta rule a woman? 5 “Then,I charge thee, cast it from thee. For a man is as a mule, which goeth by contraries; but a woman is as @ second-hand flivver, which bath always a fresh surprise, ca 4 ied i) “Behold, I am accounted the wiseit of.men. Kings come to sit at my fegt and learn. Yet, my WIVES regard me as a some what. amusing ‘Simpleton,’ to be deceived with smiles and cajoled with baby talk. MAN, ow, I became enamoured of a damsel ahd souglit to woo'her with sweetmeats and burnt offerings and the usual line of jolly. “And in the midst of my cooing she inquired coyly: ‘Dost thou remem ber, Beloved, the frock which I wore when first we met? ~ “But.when I muttered and stumbled and could NOT recollect it sha broke into weeping and wailing, cryi love me, Else wouldst thou never have forgotten a thing like THAT!’ “For this is their Supreme Test, ‘Now I KNOW that thou dost not’ ‘ my Son. “When the Queen of Sheba came in shining robes the wives of my harem did titter and wink among themselves, saying: “Great heavens! What can men see in HER? “Yet upon the morrow they all wore robes and heddéresdés-a la Reing de Sheba and were mightily pleased with themselves, “Bebold, when two men are enamoured of the same woman it is a@ though Alphonse and Gaston had met at a pink tea, for each retireth hastily unto his corner, saying, ‘After you.’ y “But when two women chance to love the same man ‘it is as thou two champions had met in St. Louis, “My Son, if a man would be an and the battle is a fight to the finigfy idol among women let him acquires reputation as a philanderer and a heartbreaker, a wrecker of homes &@ pursuer of wild women For thereafter every woman shall yearn to fi out for herself if the brute be as black as he is painted, and each one sha! think that SHE alone can tame him and make him to eat from her hand, “But woe junto him that is called ‘Chicken Chaser,’ for he shall b despised as a cheap joke by all the name shall be ‘Poorfish’, amongst them. “My son, when a woman biddeth Maidens and Matrons of. No@ and his Yi thee go, I charge thee sajaam and go Cc... for eré thou hast closed the door she shall rum after thee bid> thee return AE onte. But the pee thee in BLUE serge and thy /gpek not to flee, but give away thy French pos! and ' Sty Sox thay Lime is cpme and the lai >go0u as married, Yet, when a, damsel beginneth to hangeron shall be a doormat forever, supervise thy RAIMENT, saying, ‘t hair I like worn POMPADOUR, then and the]trpphies of thy mb is.ordained for the Baorigce. Yea, “Behold, my Son, these random notes are set down for thy ‘diversion, Yet, verily, verily, the more a man CERTAIN is he what any one of them may do NEXT,, - > | “And are they not wonderful, my knoweth concerning women the less Son?" { Such, my Daugbter, were the Ljbeloug words of Solomon, the Married Man. be Selah. ‘What to Do Until the Doctor Comes’ By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Conditions of Unconsciousness—EPILEPSY HILE epileptiform attacks are not so common as to be an everyday affair, the number of epileptics in the State of New The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World). The Winning Way With Ladies Is to Treat Them Kindly or Treat Them Roughly---or Just Treat Them. @ tightwad. All the workingmen get their wages doubled and men on salary get *nothing—except tempta- tion to embezzle.”” “ET don't think you should speak that way,” cried Mrs. Jarre “Sup- pose the children should hear you. Besides, it would be terrible to steal “Ym not stealing anything, if you please!” said Mr. Jarr with an in- flection of being greatly injured. Furthermore,” continued Mrs, Jarr, not heeding his last remark; “fur- thermoteg you shouldn't say such things, they make me shudder!” “I wasn't contemplating larceny, Why do you always take the wrong meaning out of my words?” remarked Mr, Jarr. “Because there's a wrong meaning in them,” said Mes. Jarr, “A wife and mother never encourages a man to rob and embezzle. When he does so it generally turns out'that the ex- travagances that led him to dishon- esty are not in his own home. It’s elsewhere — gambling or bad com- peny!" “I declare!” said Mr. Jarr, holding his temper by main force, “you are a nice one! I hang around home to go out. with you, because it looks like 4 nice evening, and you-start in to make things pleasant by speaking of such things as—ob, well, never mind!” and Mr. Jarr gave a grdan of resignation. “It's all your fault!” said Mrs, Jarr, “In the first place, you took an inno- cent remark of mine and twisted it to mean t! I wanted to go out walking on tho streets like an artist's model poses in a studio, I think that’s ter- rible!” ny man who expects to find a woman able to understand sane end sensible things is weak-minded,” mur- Mr, Jusp. "The galy way to sot A}. York is appallingly high, The gen- eral. public knows this unfortunate disease «in only one guise—that of “FITS,” in which the patient writhe in convulsive unconsciousness an foams at the mouth. many lesser manifestations with which they should become familiar. What, after all, is epilepsy? That is a question which the medi- cal profession, after,an acquaintance | with the disease extending back into remote antiquity, cannot ‘The ancients regarded y as a sacred disease, morbus sacer, In old Eng- land it is called “falling sickness.” In those far away times it was a common belief that victims of epi- lepsy were being exorcised by devils. It is of course a disease of the nervous system, Says an eminent au- thority: “So commonly ts epilepsy presented by neuropathic and psy- chopathic strains and in those phys- {cally and mentally defective that in itself it may be considered a pre- sumptive indication of degeneracy. It js statistically proven that there 4s more than one epileptic for every four hundred of the population in this country.” years ago and I fear the figures are higher to-day. It is generally conceded by those having made a thorough study of the disease that we pass many epilepti- form attacks by without recognizing their true status. It is not my pur- pose here to enter into a long disser- tation of this malady, but 1 welcome an opportunity to call to the attention of mothers the fact that it is pri- marily an affection of early childhood and the epochal periods of life, For instance, convulsive seizures in along with them is to Matter and fool them!” “You've fooled me a good many years, but I've never heard you try to flatter me! Besides, I'd scorn to be either flattered or fooled” —— “Then there's the other way to rule women, ‘Treat ‘om rough!'" niuttered Mr, Jarr. “And that’s what you do—you treat me very rough,” sniffed Mrs, Jarr. And it took him/half an hour of treating her kindly to make her be- lieve he wasn't treating her roughly, ‘Then they went merrily off together to a thy jh Vd ho bse ie even! ng mie mr vain” But there are| answer. | ‘That was written some} | bab/tiood, caused By teething, infec | tious fevers, &c.,sare often followed | dy epileptiform agtadkil at puberty, | ‘This period, from ‘twelve to seven | teen, yields the jamgest mumber off | epileptics, Furthermore, it will doubtedly astonish many mothers }iearn that nocturnalygnuresis (bed etting), night terrors and the Uke,?. may alternate with be in them- | selves epileptic attack and are defi- | nitely associated with thig condition” lin many cases, It is, of course, well known that epiiéptic seizures ocour at night during sleep. Mgay parents are never aware of thé’e attacks oceur-. | ring in their /little ,onés during the stillness of the night. 1} Again, many children awaken in a fright, screaming with terror, and are sharply admonished to,."hold Wthelr - peace,” perhaps evén y pun- ished for disturbing th@-slumbers of their elders. ‘Medical treatment is really what they require, In children of highly nervous tem- peraments a sudden fright may bring on the first fit, Those who grind their teeth, mutter, twitch, and are restless during -sleop, should be watched carefully, thé entire hygiene of their lives gone over and regulated to the minutest detail, for such ehil- dren possess the unstable hervous er- ganizations from which epileptics! spring. A typical epileptic attack comes on suddenly, the patient fx, tiigown into a rigid spasm and Instantly falls to, the ground, usually uttering a hoarse ery, The eyes may roll or become fixed, the muscles! relax. and then contract, the entire bedy twitches in more or less convulsive seizures; the face presents a horrible appearance as the jaws grind and churn the saliva into a foam, during which the tongue and checks may be severely bitten, Now it is cruel to turn away from one who unfortunately has an attack in public. Instead of this be a good Samaritan, loosen bis clothing after placing a ‘Wad of cottdn or 4 knotted handkerchief between his teeth to prevent laceration of the soft struc tures. If he cannot be carried” in- doors, shield him as niuch as possible from ‘bruising and injuring his body [ by holding his limbs, whereby the force of’ the powerful writhings wil |be somewhat checked. Place him ome paddings of clothing, but do not alQ low him to remajn where he has fallen, if this Nappens to be on the | 41 street. Stay by him until the fit is over and render him what Christian and “Oyet ald” you gam 8 i