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ye RALPH PULITZUR Ec Will 7 a © While ma imum production cannot be obtained without fair and aistriution,” ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PMtmhed Daily Except Sunday by the Frese Publishing Company, Nos 63 to renee, 2, Pty pew ure a gost PU PUL, ar, " "Dark Tow. —— Secret MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Presto securely enti te, tg po, for reir Gerona ews alee protic Diraes vicdisl Covsestievevens ..NO, 21,218 THE QUOTIENT OF PRODUCTION. = ERBERT HOOVER has come back from Europe with some exceedingly sound and practical economic advice for the people of the United States. The whole present philosophy of socialism as of late feverishly —————<—<$— @nd furiously applied in various parts of Europe is, Mr. Hoover points! out, “bankrupting itself in the extraordinary lowering of productivity! @f industrial commodities to a point that, until the recent realization! this bankruptcy, was below the necessity for continued existence their millions of people.” 100,000,000 Americans let themselves be rushed—by nny doctrines and frantic grabbing at transitory, unjustly distrib- gains—into any such plight? 8 If not, there has got to be some steady thinking and resolute effort to keep this country’s quotient of production rising despite} aa. influences and interferences now acting to reduce it. By! tient of production is meant the result of dividing the sum total pfeduced by the needs of those first entitled to share it. ' € Production in the United States cannot keep ahead of the coun- requirements, declares Mr. Hoover, without “the maximum ex- ertion of every individual within his physical ability, and the reduc- tion of waste nationally and individually.” téatment and representation for all classes concerned in producing, néFertheless it is equally true that | ’ “Ht cannot be obtained from the destruction or sudden disturb: ance of the delicate and intricate organization of production | i “Our organization is not all that we could desire, but ft » 4s the best we have been able to evolve over thousands of years, and the destruction of these processes has been demon- # strated a sure road to destitution and fearful loss of life.” . Americans to-day who yield to the dangerous excitement of a Programme which seems to promise progressively more pay and hours, regardless of the amount they produce, are like men d with a delusion that the cupboard will become better and tter stocked with food the faster they take from it. é What many workers can’t seem to get into their heads i That the quotient of national production resulting from their is in fact their quotient; That when they strike or slacken they are reducing their own fillends; ~ That otherwise these dividends would come back to them in the } SHOW VS STRONG You Are! now Se EARN APPR TENA wert Pee sea ym 7 How They Made Good | By Albert Payson Terhune operate. 19LB, wy The Pree Puttishing Ge (The New fern Evening World), No, 87—FRANK W. WOOLWORTH, Who Revolutionized a : Branch of Industry. EK was a New York State farmer's son, and he worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one. There was little money on the Woolworth farm, and no pros- pects beyond those of wearisome drudgery for a bare living. But Frank Woolworth was of the type that can- not help making good. He realized how bare was the future on the farm, and he resolved to make a career for himself elsewhere, He had no equipment for such a start. So he set about making his own equipment, Work was slack during the long and bitter winter. | That was the farmers’ rest time. Instead of resting, Woolworth got a job e clerk in the Great Bend grocery store. This was in 1972 when he was jmineteen. For two winters he clerked in the grocery. And here he got bis Fay knowledge of commercial life. ‘To most boys of his age such a Job was merely 4 dul! means of killing , time, To Woolworth it was a start. He mastered ry detail of businers |that came under his notice. And within him the ambition was born to be |@ great merchant. Nor did he rest until he had made good In that ambition, There was no pay attached to his grocery job at Great Bend. Woolworth had sense enough to give his services in return for the commercial education He belleved the work would give him, | And the investment proved a good one. | At twenty-one he offered his scant fund of experience to a firm of | Watertown storekeepers. He said he was willing to work for this firm at | No wages for the first three months in order to gain more business know!- ledge and to prove his worth. At the end of three months he was put on | the payroll at $3.50 a week. Three months tater he received a salary raine of 50 cents a week, The man who was destined to die worth $65,000,000 was then making @ yearly income of $208 By 1878 his pay was $10 a week, and he saved enough to start a Nttle store of his own. Into this venture he put every cent he could raise, With le capital of $350, part of it from @ note endorsed by his father, he opened his shop in Utica, N. Y. ' His years of apprenticeship had given him an idea to which he stuck lin spite of every discouragement. This was the idea of the five-and-ten ‘cent store—startling novelty at that time. In fact it was such a novelty that the public at first failed to appreciate it, and Woolworth’s Utica store went to smash in exactly three months, Woolworth had worked out a theory of his own for making good. He had staked everything on that theory's success, and he had failed. | But he was calmly certain that he was right in his ideas, and he @et |out at once to prove it. He opened another store, this time in Lancaster, | Pa, and from the outset this store was a tremendous success, | ‘That was the beginning. Woolworth opened one five-cent store after H ® ‘Mother. Some of these stores failed. Most of | @rwnnnmnnnnmnn's them flourished. But tho start was made. And |} _ Palled at First, } henceforth nothing could stop the man who had 3 Then Won Sue 222! nid out thia one line and had had the nerve to stick to it | Presently the United States began to bristle with thriving five-and-teo {cent stores. They stretched Into Canada and then into England. And at llast the gigantic Woolworth Building, the highest in the world, arose above | the New York skyline ax a monument to {ts namesake's fame. When Mr. Woolworth died he was worth $65,000,000 and owned 1, | Sotnieramnowan’ | stores. The business done by these stores in 1918 amounted to more than $107,000,000, The farm boy had vindicated his own novel idea. He had made good, The Life of Jeff Nutt Edited by Bide Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Keonine World). The Miser Business Man By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyri#ht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Kyening World) FRIEND of mine had a birthday. In my'mind’s eye I pictured how he | ras Jerr Paty By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919. by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evenine World’. Mr. Jarr Finds That Three Is a Crowd at the Meeting of Two Lady Friends With a Grudge. RS. MUDRIDGE-SMITH was announced as a visitor, Mr, Jarr had risen, as though to As the Hind Legs of a Stage Donkey He Makes a Terrible Faux Pas. FALIZING that tt would be aja drug store. There, in a window, 1 R distinct step forward in the art|/saw a sign reading, “Soda Water of acting if I took the job of| Clerk Wanted.” I feit I could easily hind legs of the donkey in the rural dlay the part, so in I went, The pro- melodrama, I accepted the job. At! prietor approached me and looked me one point in the play I was suppesed ) over suspiciously, kick the villain in the chest just tert 2 in the shape of lower prices; t That lower prices would mean greater purchasing power for their She is very fond of antiques,| treated the poor people from whom and I was tryins to find a little | he doubtless purchased many of them, old purse for her. |I can just see the poor little old I went into a|woman who had had the little purse shop where there|as a family heirloom at last coming ‘That “high wages” are a constant and bitter disillusionment they mount arm in arm with prices; ‘That the only real prosperity is the prosperity that comes from when you lived in a top flat and had to climb five flights for all the years before you were married, It kept] tc “Didn't I see you running around on er production and resultant plenty—with a watchful eye to were all kinds of| to this old, stingy “Scrooge” to part | depart, “Now, you please stay just your figure down, too, and you should ;as he was about to insult our Nell.’ the opera house stage with a tai) ~ , fast distributi but with th antiques. A gray-{ with it on account of her dire dis-|Where you are!” commanded Mrs.| be doing it now, for, positively, you're| Right here I must explain that the! on?" he demanded ; ee ie Wen Prenty there iret, haired man was | tress. Jarr, getting fat!" hind legs of a stage donkey cannut) I admitted it, 1 , One would think war had left humanity some rich legacy for a Polishing some old] I can picture him haggling with her | ‘ou won't want me, now that] “I don’t know why you say the|sce. They merely hang onto the waist] “So you're an actor, eh?” yhtful share of which labo: 1 silver, and hardly | about the price and then gloating over | you've got company,” muttered Mr.| CTuellest things to me the way you o, | of the front portion and trust to luck.| Twas greatly pleased. My fame had of whic! r in particular must leave its job to looked up as 1|it after she had gone with the paltry | Jarr, “I'll be only in the way.” my dear Mrs, Jarr," whined the] When I made my first appearance) penetrated even to the innermost ; \ same in, sum he had given her, “You won't be in the way,” said Mrs, Jarr, “In fact, I want you to be younger woman, “If I wasn’t so fond of you I wouldn't come to see you at fa the role the front legs couldn't see, | d either, Those loose and careless front hs of a drug store, And when he did es, sir, I'm an actor,” T said. I could almost see the tears rolling tend, c “Whereas i in truth the only legacy war has left is—work, 4 American intelligence quick enough to grasp the situation look at me it was down her cheeks as she left it there in the way, as you call it. I declare al." legs, it seems, had been piaying seven “Well, what do you want?" Py with a face that might well be termed | —the thing she loved more than any-|t, goodness! You won't go with me "Well, don't go rubbing it in about | up all afternoon in a saloon and bad!) “A job," i need? as bearing an ingrown grouch. thing else in the world; and this old| anywhere. 1 want to go, and when} Your — fifteen-thousand-dollar-a-year | absorbed too much red Hquor. It had “Do you want to run around this = When : asked him for @ purse he|man greedily locking it In the cabl-| ynypody does come to seo me, which|@Partment, then,” said Mrs, Jarr.| given him the blind staggers, but at store with a tall on? ‘ | oa Only provided it is can the United States be the first to set | discouraged me by saying that he had | net, later to secure a top-notch price. |isn't often, you start to run, Why,| “Goodness knows, you don't seem a| that he had his ajlment fairly under! “No, sir, I want to operate the soda } leetb, stro one, but it was very high-prictd. I] He would tell some rich lady who|my women friends see you so seldom| bit bappler for it all!” control, fountain," ; " ng and prepared, to win the fruits and prizes of peace, suggested that he let me see it: He| wanted ‘t that a very “rich Baroness| that when they do meet me they are| "Ah, I have sacrificed myself!" ex-| welt, the time came for me to da- ver dispense soda —--——______ ‘said he didn’t know where It waa, but] in France” had sold him thirteen, and | arraig to ask me how you are.” claimed Mrs. Mudridge-Smith dra-| yer the kick. ‘The front legs had to 1, but I once was a helper te @ chthe se BS saver ice aires wanted to be gure if I really wanted | this was the very last one, as he told]! «yfaybe they don't care,” suggested | ™Atically, “Better love in a cot-|icck me up so I could let fly at Rogi- | bartender.” i “The day September, y birthday to one, me, Mr. Jarr, nald De Lancy Worthington and re-| He said I'd do, “You have nice } )the citizenship of New York, will be @ most memorable day in I told him T did, and he asked me] This man will go on rubbing His) mney ao care, but they have tact. said Mrs, Jarr, “You were ‘ my life,"—-Cardinal Mercier. * The brave Cardinal has nothing on Father Knickerbocker 4 %_ Drinks tm France. of @ meal, ‘The highball is practically ‘They drink wine for two reasons— firat, because the water is #0 bad as to be unfit for drinking Purposes; second, because it is @ most beneficial ald to digestion, which is evidenced by the fact that stomach and kidney troubles to wait at the door and he would He acted most eccentric and I waited. He went to a large cabinet, took a The boys quietly went out and he remarked to me "hai terrible “fakes” they were, He then again asked me if I really wanted to buy the purse before he re- turned to the cabinet, and seemed to fear my being anywhere except at the door, About the time he had secured the silver and gloating over his treas- ures and die without getting any of the sunshine out of life He will go on abusing soldiers, men chests be has kept many beautiful things from giving joy to many peo- ple during his lifetime, That kind of human being is a menace to mankind. He doesn't even give you a pleasant word, He is even greedy with that which costs These days, unless one takes one's husband around and shows him, peo- ple think that a separation is imm!- they know.” By this time the visitor was at .he portals, and being admitted by Mrs. Jarr, kissed that lady effusively and T'm 90 out of breath, for, really, my dear, one gets so out of practice @ dear,” husband your own. said Mrs, Mr, Jarr is a dear,” “You never mind about his being said Mrs, Jarr, ness, has one got to watch even one's when you are used to be you wanted a husband of Now you want other peo- dar. Sit do “Great good- glad enough to quit a five-room flat. And all the love in a cottage that would appeal to you would be love in around. venge our Nell. He almed me cor- rectly, he thought, but bis sense of direction was away off. Instead of soaking Reginald, I turned loose on biond hair," he went on. “That ought to help business.” “sure,” I replied, a pet of the ladies.” T ve alwa\ 6 been : { HM a cottage at Newport. Let me see % et key out of his pocket and proceeded 7 nent, I know for myself that if I|' 7 cur Nell and kicked her over the well) He was pleased with my eagerness. to open it, Just at this moment two| WHO went forward to fight that hel soe os woman with her husband|/0Ur new handbag. curb and onto the back porch of the/ Fe didn't know it wan based on hun- ight stay at home, : “You're lookin;. fin sald Mr. Jarr, i Police Commissioner Curtis explains that his new rule soldiers came in and the old man |™ or a man with bis wife I'm afraid to plain but dearly beloved little vine-| ger, He told me to po to the barber regarding the suspension of members of the Boston police came forward to see what they want- Lye chuckle to himaeif in the) vo” spout the missing person, 1f| 780 had stood by waiting for 9) \vered cottage. As poor Nell awept| shop next door and borrow a unifo mn, force bas no bearing on the status of those ex-members of the ed, calling to them to remain at the aie rrpebey ane Leak Aid ae me che does ask, the party interrogated Shanes ee iy) rabaliey : Won't! soroas the porch an upright cane! “Pol! Pottibone it's for “ne,” he eald. foree who broke faith with the public, The strikers will not soon an be had vith me Pro my way of thinking this mas |&a28 at you witha cold, tense | Yuin) ind Wet me ‘Ke YOUr| down and cracked the front legs on] Pettibone fixed mo up a'd T went be reinstated under any conditions, They told him about a beneftt that |, Si ad wounded-heart expression and says, | 1.® : |the head. He, in his wild delirium, | behind the soda counter. Prott, soon worse than a criminal—this mi- 4 a You're all attention when Clara} ‘S é ‘The whole country has an eye on the line as Massachu: was to be given for some soldiers) so a sinesy man, for he keapa| Haven't you heard? We are separ-| wigriage-smith comes,” sald Mra | aecided a slam on the cocoanut wasn't} lady came in and said she wanted e ‘ q i my a! tract, and he began to kick.|a cherry phosphate. [ mixe setts has drawn it. it not waver a hat who were gassed. They presented h 4 ated. It's a terrible story and you “ Set 0 an, in his cont a cherry phosphate. mixed somo- j Mey. ahaa thelr credentiais iad asked him to] Carding up all the treasures and) Vii excuse me if I cannot discuss it.|..0rt ‘UNE wPON the poor MAM) one renuit was he divorced the two|thing which I later learned was v Peo kc (yaaa keepsakes which, as a general prop- +, | “But I notice if it's old Mrs. Dusen | | ff the donk a brok vhe nuy some tickets, osition, he has equeesed out of thoes I never speak of it to any one, Don't berry you let her hang up her things | halves of the donkey an roke UP! vanilla frappe. When she complained, Crime has increased in Chicago and divorces have multi- T have never seen such brusqueness| who of necessity finally gave them |°#* Me about it!’ And naturally ono] je rsci¢ and are not so free with you | M@ Show. Then, to make matters|T told her all the beautiful women in | plied in Westchester County since July 1, or rudeness as \/as displayed by this| yp, nee beoht ‘hey make 728 ME Gonp eotoplinante. mores he jplemed fap Be ae ie Hew Sirk, wire drinking It, and she And it’s only part way Prohibition as old man toward these two soldiers.) Bye bi =o em and they you all the) wan, if I had a nice husband like 1] took anothe: rp He practically ordered them out at| ne in mot tai eith the tuner tain| detaila—aaking you not to breathe it], sare 1 wouldn't speaks thet 6 xe | that, wishing to avold offering the (To Be Continued.) once and asked them how dared they| grasping qualities are apparent as|'© ® 90Ul And you need not, be-| whimpered the visitor. “You always|tdience @ view of a laughing = Letters From the People bother him with such things, you deal with him, In his locked | °2Us they've told It to everybody el#e| soem croas when 1 call, but 1 think|4nKey, he had kicked me. The manager fired me, and I wrote a —"s vigorous condemnation of liquor to F W Sere een ce ei amous |Famous Women| out West. fiat I received a reply before I left the MMA CALVI. the Sohn dinner town and at once realised tat my | E was borh in France) about 1866 terrible penmanship had got in| oe oe a it en er, had no idea of giving up my acting nothing—a smile, a gracious word, | climbing stairs when one lives in ele | 2i 4) Woy a 0 fanc ov | the way again, The dear eld soul ald | guring her girinood, She received bes net te fae oe in France, I realized at once the man had|” And what can you and 1, gentie|vator apartments! But 1 will say|aaked Mr’ Jarre with mock cones. | she was aorry she coediready moan, | Tusteal Instruction trot the famous 2 [odin rare» sone 94 segue some sort of @ mania as to people| reader, do about it? A great deal, | this, that your little flat is very home- bars I don’t trust you, elther,” sald HG, ROME AE HO OR EPEAT PES | eal usta oat RGEC rey soholic saturation, i» part of a Propa- coming ‘as! ¢ the shop, as likely he} We can keép our money away from | like, and our apartmnents—facing on| xq.) ya rp : : ae raiaie’ i (ECCI ne See a ganda which has been industriocsly | C4 they woud take something, | him, We need not buy from the | the Drive, you know—were dike an ico] "How good-natured your husband| Well, there T was out of work, I) "Faust," in the City of Brussels, in I decided at once that I did not} so-called business man whose man- | palace during the terrible cold spell remarked the Visitor, Was discouraged, I will admit, but 1} 1882, In Paris, in 1885, she played ‘ By his own admission, Mr, Picketts| Want to buy anything from him.|ner bespeaks a grievance against the |of winter before last, and now they nara because, Sere knowledge was acquired trom the same Various parts, and afterward made ‘Id all the time, say thig winter will be very cold and ew bi career 80 auspiciously begun. I walk-|u tour of Maly. She was very source, | Bom men me about your new automobile, Mr, ry suc to him “confidentially Probably told It! purse he was even afraid to let me} If we only choose pleasant people | coal will be impossible to obtain, Well, | Jar was Just going OUL When you led slowly down the main street of the | cexsful at Covent Garden, in 1892, in re 1s no ‘that the Germans| have it in my hand. His hand shook| to deal with—people who are ready |] sball go to Paim Beach!” came. town thinking of those unjust front | “Covaileria Rusticana," and « iy bell 0 » e de 00 } f art in naa noel | e ana id appeared, ms iy elfove tle thin ance aston Put! ang altogether he bore the stamp of | 1, RIVE YOU w saute deal—soon the |” we you'ye climbed up these stairs| Peat dare taking thin og no: Items and actually flushed with anger. | by cominand, bofore’ the Queca, i world } at the Marne, at Verdun and | miscr. Alize that they have no place in the | to remind me you have a rich old hus- | od, whistling, leaving the ladies | 1 made up my mind to bide my time | July, 18%, She made her first Ameri- time of such nonsense “© | He had many valuable things in| commercial world where they con- | band and live in a costly arerinent leo discuss whateve attors of mus | until L grew wp and filled out andj cun tour in 14. In additioN. to a is written simply to off-| his store, and I could not help re- ptantly Pome in souah wit and that we do not, you can spare | Mina nts O0h ROURIRS Fie Leia ae) then lay for those jegs and kick them | marvellous voice, she had wonderful + he GikarLake | fecting how he got them—a truly! wards and insane asylums, where | Yourself, Clara Mudridge-Smith,” re-| them togetier and held them in con. 10 the shins, fasemation in depicting lovable and Street, be collection, many of them belong, Mrs, Jerr icily. “I verse in loving spitefulnoss, 4a I planned my revenge J came to! vivacious characters, SO fist eg PO ne Fag tees aa rend a ita LL eee eet athe