The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1919, Page 16

——_ tl —a a . - a oe Agee 8 = = ges ah st = & Aaah x” “> & © oe § FOO’ | © granted all the organized efforts of labor have secured for the Amer- gican working man, this organization should be permitted to go on the KSTARLISHED ‘BY Publimed Daily Except Sungey, y 63 Parl RALUH PULITZ:! NGUS SH. SOSEPH PULITZE! ay World. JOSEPH PULITZER, the Pres Publishing Company, Nos. 6: Row, New York. neice Mf saad Bed , President, 63 Park Row, "Treasurer, '¢3 Park Row . Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Amocere Prew ely eniitied to the use for rembliration of al) news Aeenatchep to It of not otherwise credited in this taper ahd also the loval news published herwia. VOHUME O05 ci Pei es seth eevee «NO, 21,216 THE STEEL STRIKE. | HE great s It great e) strike 1s on vo-day. might be assumed that these workers Who, at a time of national need, deliberately snorien the Nation’s| production in one of iis most important industries are lowntrodden | men ¢ It riven to the limit of their endurance by starvation wages might be assumed that thy have exhausted all means by! which to present their claims, titat the ears of the country, as well as the ears of their employers, are closed against them, and that they | have no hope of a hearing save by striking at the Nation's prosperity. | Neither of these assumptions would have one vestige of truth, No class of workers in the United States were more favored by steel workers, war than the Many a poor clerk ‘or bookkeeper would | thank his stars if his pay had ben advanced by one-tenth of the| increase in the wages of some of the: employees in the steel indus. try while the war lasted, As for a hearing, there meets only two weeks from to-day an industrial conference specialty called by the President of the United} States to consider just such ¢ ims as those whieh the steel workers have been urging. Wherein, from the strikers’ point of view, is pri- vate Conflict preferable to public justice? It has been impossible to determine in advance what percentage ’ of steel employees would walk out, But one thing is significant: It is the alien laborers upon whom the labor unions count. A vast majority of the English-speaking wien are reported against the eirike. Vrofessional labor leaders who prosper on the trouble and strife that mean suffering to, thousands of families well know that hard ’ American sense is their worst enemy. That sense is too keen to be convinced df the safety of demanding more and producing less as a continuous and progressive programme, Nor does sound American judgment go so far as to admit that, pushing its way toa place of power where it becomes as arbitrary and tyrannical as ever capital tried to be. ‘To most Americans this steel strike does not seem a strike of g-merited relief that could not be obtained by other means , It se oppressed workers to obtain lon 1s rather the deliberate use of war-favored employees in a great industry to further increase the power and prestige of organ- ized labor at the expense of national production, Its aim is not to hejp the needy, but to better the gains of those who have prospered. +> THEODORE P. SHONTS. LHOUGH at earlier stages of his career Theodore P. Shonts took a hand at railroading on its technical side, he gave his ripest experience and energies to the financial end of traction management, __ The Shonts energies were unusual and when brought to bear upon traction development in this city exerted a dynamic force the effects of which will not'be forgotten. It was only long after the event that New Yorkers learned how much the determination of Mr. Shonts and his personal labori with Mayor Gaynor and other public authorities concerned contributed to the final acceptance of the dual subway system plans, Mr, Shonts’s introduction to New York was under the auspices of the Thomas F’, Ryan school of traction finance, The traditions oi that school were not famous for their insistence that directorates should count dollars, that lawyers’ fees should be few or that the consequences of high-handed manipulating and reckless: increases of capitalization should bé carefully weighed, . It was later up to Mr. Shonts to deal with some of those conse- quences, and when he suddenly found his difficulties intensified by conditions growing out of war he fell back on the old, reassuring tenet of the Ryan traction school: The public will always be there 7s night. Why? Beeause then she's a) aint neg pee arr cx- [On everybody going o to make good, along pretty well at the!fountain for | VEY) Jone ne da raincoat,” Mr. Jarr ex. [on everybo y Relay ts and. ait a Mr, Shonts lived to see some of the collapses and receiverships oer meer eae mre ne i For the benefit of the city folks I!” «wen, put down that brokea um |trude borrowed it from her last Sp EAS ees ne 1 ¥ ~ -|show came to town, and after the| a pes nel 5 a ee POS i ee that he predicted. Did he, perhaps, in his heart of hearts TOCOBNIZE | parade the manager dropped in the abt say here that @ hen at MIBAE] yea you have and take this good | Month to go to a pienic, tiem us beginnings of a sweeping readjustment in New York that|arae store for meme linet reteeah, {80P% UP On a pole, extending horl-| sno, “then,” suid Mrs Jarr, “But 1| “Well, Lean hide it under my cout ; 7 } uontally through the coop, and roosts su] }@8 1 go out,” said Mr. Jarr—foi will presently clear away the last burdensome inheritance from that |™ent: Tiaras chat sakes, nar a tooetan, eee emt as AE PON Ge Pee line take Hele nen eaiileh these af Grantion fesace Wi fl ; I cultivated him and he was kind . ‘ “F-!have to buy me a nice silk one, This Ree te ake cowards of us all. rl a hance whose influences clung to him? to me. He gave me a pass to the oe rooster roosts too, but that bas |one belongs to Gertrude.” Sale tee CRE RUPAUIE TG Baoki. of ati es ss mamma aiees yhow, but subsequent developments | Ning Me Ca ie outs was| Mf: Jarr looked at the servant girls | "0" 1 te An um nS VA pane st made it superfluous. After he had an end purple silk umbrella with the big |¥* 8 claim to, Jus Letters From the People taken his drink I confessed 1 wasn't|™¥ last. I was blacked up by an-|ooiuioia apple on the handle, and |" Out and pounce into Gus's dena- ay A AVN Protent. {fered all about up town as innocuous, |@ soda clerk at all, He sald he had |cther minstrel and, when the curtain tiated AEE Juat a Oke ane fo the Ldiwor uf ‘The presumably, as those of the “Vil- | suspec . ; toue, I waa tn tho semiscirole, After) jUmnrelie, uss like shat, Gua bee @ . 0 =| suspected it, but asked why I had “Nix!” he erie Ie unprotected Among many I too have| lage” There is, however, this dit-| given myself awa the falsetto soprano had warbled aly. yy. pit oo ther thes tote an {closet full of umbr He used to had my attention called to Justice | ference purteenth Btreet, OF] ss comediam’ J sald. “I'm do. |*0S called, “Mother's In the Poor- neste Hee like that. Where are {ake them away from dazed cus- Pierney's comment op the “Village” | prietors of these tea-roome are fen| ing hie work. to learn how to play | "ouver”, OF something equally hearteli” the ‘umbrellas thal I—em—er—|Omer® OF Falny nights in the old and to the other letters written in| and women following as their main|% A . “ | rending, the interlocutor turned i& Ny There mus be some left—not answer to the Justice's attack, It is|parsult In lite art, letters, de ning, | 9d water clerks on the stage. Gotirie ang said: rine hose 1 Mra, { #204 customers, but umbrella pn op! . ba! lon't know, I'm sure,” said Mrs, rather amusing to think of a Supreme |! Teen LSet! HON a HY for me ie F ies “Good evening, Mr. Nutt!" ie 1 don’ une " J Make vt w point|, Before Mrs, Jarr could object he Court Justice, or any one else of] independenen ang ye a marke Do you double in brass?" he asked Howdy!" I replied | Jarr. ople xem to make it # point) nay Kissed her und fed, Standing, wasting time on such u mat- . ery politely and “L said I wis a ‘comedian, not a to call on us only on evenings when i} very forcibly ask any one to leave who fer when there are so many vital| goes there thinkin, , » coptortionist,” 1 replied, somewhat ¢ K he can be nois: . D | Ob, ttm 1 excep’ civie and world problems on which | Levause be bas read in Middle West. | hurt, On a UEDE 95 Bi DORs A EOE o spend energy or verbosity, ‘ern or Bronx publications o: . op good!" sore anki Whore & mule stepped All this talk about the “Village” | “doings' of the * Mage of the gay ue taugnen : Pretty oie hel om it and “Villagers” ts absurd. First,| These individuals, tr said, “Put your baggage on the min- |°", g dividuals, true to type, The —interl re Greenwich Village is not much dit-| here, in Oshkosh or Canton, then’ re: |attel Gar. I need an endman.” fo _intorlocutar evidently, was ferent from any other community, where, an account of the way it laid out, people cannot avoid ing each other often—frequently sev- sort to vindictive vituperation, un- is| signed letters to the press, and. per- meet stone-throwing which one Mr, | Piclous, éral times a day—when going about C'Hinory In his letter to you of Sept,| “Front end or back ‘end? L de- LARGEST GASPIPE LINE. for thelr necessaty shopping, bus!- \ four " What probably is the largest gas 5 , nia ‘a ds of | . a a there is more personal comr ; Menarete insula teeeier ond end. | pipe line Im the world is being built him ow J gossip than in a larger section of the » is without ‘sin, &e." | AIDA ADAMS, 2 W. Sth Street, N. ¥, Rae EDITORIAL PAGE (MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919) ‘So Far and No Further ! Cay right The Brow 1 ua New York by 1019. blisb ing Co vg Wor 4.) bs the police-—and possibly to the | The Life of Jeff Nutt | Edited by Bide Dudley Copyrieht. 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Asked by a Minstrel Manager if He Doubles in Brass Our Hero Announces That He Isn’t a Contortionist "Foeare are many things that oc- happy to think my stage career was curred in my busy life that will|to be resumed that I quit my job) not be chronicled here as 1 in-|right in the middle of a chocolate tend to touch on only the high spots. | sunda I hurried to my boarding house and soon appeared at the car with my other shirt and nightgown, The man-_ ager had arrived ahead of me. will have to sleep with Snake," | Some day, of course, thé public’ will clamor for every detail and then the complete story will be written, but} not by me. I will then permit some Teal writer lke Jim Corbett. or Charley Chaplin to immortalize me, . Droviding I am permitted to retain | ust a the motion picture fights. They can take a film ‘out of anything the days, Last week a salesman put a) tight shoe on’ my foot and when I squirmed the lady cashier said she'd I replied, “1 minstrel show, ui minute thought this wae a not a Zoo.” Snake is our frog-man,” he said, a fine fellow, Another thing—! ba when railroad = conductors come | like to write a scenario ubout it, She | through the car you're to hide in the wanted to call i} “Nutt Pinched atjice box. When you get the signal, Labt." “Naturally, 1 had to refuse!quek! I'm not runnnng this show my, permission. |for the benefit of the railroads.” | “Oh, let me!” she pleaded. “I'm! {t sounded anything but promising, @ regular bug on scenarios.” | nut 1 was determined not to miss my “That may de, fair.creature," t re- | Chance to be a second Mansfield, T plied, “but, you'll never be a: pinch- ing bug with Jefferson Terwilliger Nutt as the piece de resistance, Rather cute, eh? When we parted last week I had| just taken a job as a soda water | dispenser, Well, 1 managed to get| niade up my mind that, in spite of ice-box, I wouldn't develop cold! The manager gave me a joke to tell vn the show Tt was this: “When is a hen not a hen? At “Ie your health good | bothered. about something, Rememhering/ my experience as bd the hind legs of a donkey I was sus- | (To Be Continued.) meas ae aly in Western Pennsylvania to carry 70,- L didn't understand, but felt pretty | ene noe cubis fi gas daily from a 000. ¢ y certain there were no donkéys in the The Jarr Family = By Roy L. McCardell Copyrieht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Mr. Jarr Finds That the Best Thing to Put By fora , Rainy Day Is Some Other Person’s Umbrella HERE being every indication of | Mr. Jarre thoughtfully. “I swiped it I (y a“ rainy autumn day, Mr, Jarr) when he wasn't looking. Jen s had looked out of the front window | it hidden behind his desk. with some misgivings, but he turned, | to Johnson, the cashier, fumbled for an uncrippled umbrella It belong Johnson had been bragging he lifted it off a bar and prepared to face the weather | last summer—1 mean a soda foun- resolutely, tain,” Mr, Jarr explained, n't you going to wear your} “You'll have to buy Jenkins another! raincoat?” asked Mrs, Jarr. one in place of it then, if he suspects “It all went to pic so you seni | you took it,” suggested Mrs. Jarr. “It it to the Red Cross for the bi the poor of Paris, didn't you Mr, Jarr, kiaus or bwon't do to make an enemy of him " replied | down at that office. I always believed] | he was a spy—and so is that man; “Yes, I remember now But suil it Johnson and so is+—" was a mistake. You might hayo ten a turn or two out of it ye Mrs, Jarr. wot-| “Aw, never mind the secret service sighed | system at the office, Lend me a real “1 thought it was no good | umbrella,” interrupted Mr. Jarr. at all, But that's the way with im- | ou take this one—Gertrude's— pulsive people when their hearts are |and hurry before she sees me hand toueh It was such cold weather |ing it to you or she'll make the bij Red Cross clothings co when that } |Rest fuss wbout us touching anything lection was made, go I also gave them |belonging to her,” said Mrs, Jarr, that linen coat of yours. ‘The stveves | passing over Mr. Jarr’s previous ree were all torn, but, really, it was too |Marks as though not hearing them, good to give away. Why don you|"But be careful Mrs, Bisher doesn't buy a raincoat?” see you with Gertrude's umbrella,” “When it rains 1 duck to the office|Mrs. Jarr added cautiously, “Mrs, and back home and don't get a chance |Bisher lives on the ground floor, I to shop; and when it isn’t raining 1| Verily believe, simply so she can spy | Gus blinked and let Mr. Jarr take his pick of the cached parachutes, The one Mr, Jarr got looked good. But uy he got off the street cur down looks like rain, so that if it they can umbrellas and | never return them,” doves rain | borrow our “Rangle took the big one with ‘he)iown a gust of wind turned it inside crooked handle,” Mr, Jarr remarked vut and broke every rib in its body Then he remembered he got . the Mr, Jarre stood in the sheltering crooked-handled one by crooked haa-| qgor of the nearest stoi A shabbily | dling, and grew silent. dressed man passed carrying a hand. That man Rangle's got a | Walking away with other | property,” said Mos, Jarr, for that I'm glad 1 Rangle's.” nery people's “Now just kept Mrs, some silk umbrella, stout and strong, with « silver handle, “Ho, the shouted Mr, Jarr, run- ning out and seizing it, "That's coke plant cleven miles to three steel show, Bd 1 accepted. was #0 milla, mine, Where did you get it?” umbrella,” said Why, l—er—er—I found it “Kh Wee Jonkingl some.” IA By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), © The Fable of Any Husband—M oral: Order May Be | Heaven's First Law, but It Is Not Man’s NY wife to any husband—she speaks: ‘ y When I married you, dear, I promised to love, honor and obey ay Y (Although when 1 said the last word I crossed my fingers), Rut I should have vowed myself To become a Card Catalogue, Carefully indexed. ‘ f That is what you have made 5 t Of your Star-Maiden, your Rose-of-the-World, As you used to call me. These be the things I murmur in my dreams The gray suit is at the tailor’s, ‘The brown suit is hanging in the closet of his room at the club, He gave his old overcoat to the furnaceman last spring, Although I know he will ask for it the first snowy day; Mu His white vest is being cleaned, I must remind him again to buy a dozen new collars And six pairs of silk socks; He left his umbrella in the butler's pantry The last time he brought it home wet; It probably is still there, unless the maid lent it to her cousing His gloves—now where in heaven, hades, or the middle earth @id he put his gloves? They may be on the shelf of the hall closet, ; Or in his raincoat pocket, Or in the top drawer of his chiffonier, Or on his desk at the office, Or in the last taxi he took, What shall I tell him when he asks me where b Yea, beloved, “I awake from dreams of thee, And of thy THINGS, Thy multitudinous, sly, evasive, ambulatory, precious garments, Each one, I verily believe, equipped with a magic flying carpet By means of which it wishes itself to a new place at least once a days Dear man, | know your mind is cumbered with mighty cares, And with the contents of your fifty-seven POCKETS, Through all of which you burrow so often In quest of an address, or a pipe, or a MATCH; It is only that you make me doubt Darwin. 1 suspect that instead of being descended from a monkey Man had for his first grandfather a squirrel, With a new hiding-hole for every nut. However, unlike the squirrel, man rarely loses his hoards, Man is so much more INTELLIGENT! He has taught his wife to keep track of all his hiding places, As 1 do of yours, dearly-beloved, Even in my haunted dreams! The Eyes of the New-Born By Charlotte C. West, M. D. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. loves are?’ (The New York Evening World). Immediate Treatment May Save the Infant From Blindness AR-SIGHTEDNESS, unlike near- sightedness, is due to a congen- ital defect; that is, it is present at birth, Children affected with far- sightedness do not see near objects plainly; their vision is blurred, they become dull, nervous, and backward in their studies, That their apparent peculiarities of disposition are caused by defective eye-sight that can be corrected with proper glasses never for a mothent seems to suggest itself to the parents or teachers, They are permitted to go on, misunderstood, shunning companionship, developing in consequence many undesirable habits, the most prominent of which is that they prefer being alone, They become shy, unsociable, half-hearted creatures, who have no “show” in this strenuous, competitive age; when every faculty must be keen and alert. What magnitude then does the proper care of the eyes assume? And what shall be sald of these thousands of unfortunates who are blinded at birth? Within the past few years especially a concerted effort has been made by eye-specialists, physicians generally, health boards in the large cities, and sanitariums, to bring to the notice of the public the frightful danger which lurks in a disease ac- quired at birth and known as ‘ophthalmia neonatorum.” It is due to a specific’ germ, and inevitably causes blindness unless the eyes of the new-born infant are immediately given proper attention, by means of which the sight destroying action of the germs is arrested. Many physicians, and it goes with- out saying that all physicians should, pursue as a routine treatment at the birth ef every baby preventive measures against this dread disease. We do not wait for it to manifest itself, for then it is often too late to save the eyes, but we have at our command a remedy which ef- fectually destroys the germ, the ac- tivity of which causes blindness, This solution is carefully dropped into the eyes of the new born infant, fhe utmost delicacy and gentleness of touch being required, as too great an effort to wash the eyes of all secretions might set up a good deal of mischief. Fatal consequences of “opththalmia neonatorum’ (inflammation of the eyes of the new born) a life of dark- ness, comparative uselessness and dependence upon others makes the existence of such a case, with the use of our present knowledge, im- possible; and it is safe to say that this simple precaution, washing the eyes immediately at birth with the solution referred to, will yearly pri stammered the shabby just where I left plied Mr. Jarr. And as he walked to his safely sheltered, he wondered wouldn't pay him better to stay from work and collect other tine umbrellas for the conscience fund, man, it!” ree office ip it = |choose, as the relief to the eyes is vent thousands from becoming blind and a burden to others, Before the use of antitoxin in diphtheria, many children aster an lattack of this disease suddenly found | themselves unable to read, with their sight very greatly impaired. This was brought about by the toxle ac- tion of the microbe of diphtheria, and only occurred in this disease whére antitoxin was not used, No |case of this disease can be succe: fully treated without this wonderful ‘remedy. The microbe itself, when it comes in contact with the delicate membrane of the eye, sets up @ vio~ jlent inflammation, which in some in- stances has resulted in the loss of an eye, Physicians and nurses have been affected in this manner by pa- tients over whom they have been ad- ministering, who coughed up the diph- theritic membrane, a shred of which flew into the eye. Of all our “senses” that of sight ig the most important, but we do not stop to consider this when we gub- ject the eyes to all manner of strain, Nor do we realize the far-reaching influence which excessive strain of the eyes has in creating troubles in other party of the body, The various forms of headache apd disorders of digestion are the most common, It is said that we have abused these organgy for so many thousands of years that no one has perfect sight to-day. Imperfect sight is brought about very early in life in w great many cases by the neglect of parents to give attention to this subject. Obil- dren are permitted to use their eyes in any way they see fit. Little bables are exposed to glaring light. Older children play in darkened rooms, read in @ dim Nght, or in moving cars, or very small print, for all of which the es must suffer, Then, too, they are always affected in the diseases of childhood, to which many mothers pay small heed, The redness and “watering” of the |eyes in measies, and, in fact, in all \the eruptive fevers, is a familiar pie- ture to every one, ‘Too much stress cannot be laid upon the importance of taking care of the eyes during such times, as serious eye troubles only too frequently date from an illness of this kind. In former years it used to be advised to keep such a little pa- tient in a darkened room, but now we _ appreciate the value of fresh air and sunshine too much to exclude it from the sick room, No, we want our little fever pa-— tients to have all the light and air” they can get, but we are very care. || ful to protect their eyes with shields | | or with colored glasses, No child ob- Jects to wearing either you may ¢ Very soothing and grateful jot only is it advisable to proter the eyes, but they should be claae several times a day during the ile ress with a solution of boracio seid ond rose water, This can be j into the eyes with a medicine Koa fer, or they can be gently wag! with @ bit of absorbent cotton Sioned into the solution, This cotton shoul: always be destroyed after it ta weed, 1