The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1919, Page 26

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NDICATIONS are that within six days, with or without the| President’s signature, the Volstead bill, which has passed both Houses of Congress, and which deals in its first part with closer enforcement of the War Time Prohibition Act, will become law. | From the hour this law goes into effect it will be illegal to sell im Now York or in any other part of the United States beverages which contain more than one-half of one per cent. of alcohol. ‘The “ean the right of Congress to make a mock of its legislative function by voting War Time Prohibition AFTER the signing of the Armistice, A Mixed Family! _ | EDITORIAL PAGE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1919 Comyrigtyt, 10919, by The Brew Pibliaiiyg Co, (The Now York Evening Worki,) By J.H.Cassel _ What Eve Said ABOUT SOME PEOPLE By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by Tue Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) (Part One.) OME people think that they are on the defensive when it’s the offensive, S Some people are as narrow as the streets in which they live Some people think they are guests, but others find them jests. Some people are hypochrondriacs as to their vatue In the world, which in | reality is below par. Some men look and act like an interrogation point. | Some fellows forever harp about how the world is treating them. Turn the | Proposition around, brother. | A man who ts always looking for a job is usually the man who is never on the job. Most people who prate about having the courage of conviction in reality | have but the courage of convention. Some people are human furniture whose presence we know only by the dis | agreeable creaks. . | measure is clear and epecific. So far as its immediate application i h e P| arr F aml ] y) ‘aed fs concerned, the seller of drinks has not a vestige of right to fall back | By R oy L. McCardell be | on if he tries to misinterpret or evade it. mh Copyright, 1919, by The Prese Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) | +" Whe power of Congress to define intoxicating liquor as any Mr. Jarr Believes There Is Safety liquor which contains above one-half of one per cent. of alcohol can) in Telephone Numbers These Days! Ro more be denied and set aside by a citizen in his personal act than | le slang,” repl indeed! Mrs, Jarr. “Fail guy, ISS IRENE CACKLEBERRY of MI Where do you pick up such Philadelphia, ever on the hus- dreadful expressions? As for being band hunt, had come for a : “10 . " 7" THR: shopping visit, ostensibly, ‘The shops |e Only ono that meant business, ' to take effect EIGHT MONTHS AFTER HOSTILITIES HAD hat do you mean by that? Wasn't GEASED! The courts, organized public opinion and the ballot box are still ping and the prospective husband tracking for another had renewed Mrs, Jarr’s youth, for now life was Charley Dilger just wild over me? Didn't he threaten to kill himself? Wasn't he terribly desperate when he t dhe Bflght Aututonal roubd of abops | U4 out re and I were engaged?’ | factors in the Government of the United States. It is by them, ping, sightseeing and theatre-going. ene steed hae a i i indivi lilien:| ‘And as for the husband huating, | ty, carried before we did,” sald ' mot by defiant law-breaking on the part of the individual citizen, }not in vain had the net been spread| “Yes, and to that awful Hattle | that the effects of legislative misrepresentation and hypocrisy must lin the sight of many “birds.” Mr,|Foozby," replied Mrs. Jarr. “If that | te : Jarr had never realized that so many | 4/48, show me he was desperate and ' be ted. \ | young men were numbered among his | what did? ‘ Let us have the Volstead measure, from the moment it becomes Jew, obeyed to the letter. Let us have every saloon-keeper and res-| fearant proprietor in this city exercising the utmost vigilance to, make certain that not a drop of liquor containing more than one-half @f one per cent. of alcohol is sold on his premises. Let us have no acquaintances, for now, some nights,| “They seem to get along all right; 1 the Jarr hat rack was laden with|Saw them together the other day,” 4 Kampus Kut over. | ld Mr. Jarr. DiGsh bats, Sad Rene Well, 1 know that they fight like coats, juvenile and bizarre, cat and deat’ rematied Savy. die “Irene Cackleberry is a sensible girl|emphatically. “But what I was as well as a very pretty one,” said going to Say was that young girls nowadays seem to have no self-re- Mrs. Jarr, discussing the visitor, who | had gone out walking with a warm | friend of Mr, Jurr’s—a young gentle- man whom Mr. Jacr had heretofore) 4+ ai hours and never ask questions, not known in that relation, | When our little Emma is old enough “Well, you used to have a lot of |to ha company Vl sr that she beaux, too, in your 4° d, girlhood | shall never go out days,” remarked Mr, Jarr, |® chaperon until she's engaged.” tif ¥ M “But how can a gir et engage An Old-Fashioned Girl. | she hasnt’ « chance to bo alone with “ri not deny that,” said Mrs. Jarr,) ner young man?” asked Mr. Jarr. pleased at the remark. But I wasn't | f like the girls are these days. I think | The Telephone Blight. “If a young man can't appreciate the war, and selling Liberty bonds ind thrift, stamps for kisses, and/the fact that a young lady is careful driving ambulances have mate them | of observing the proprieties he isn't bold! When I was a girl young men | worthy of her, d Mrs. Jarr, “Be- had to ask to call to see me and they | sides, I have seen many u girl lose had to go home early.” spect. And young men have gotten so that they do not treat them with any consideration, I think it's be- cause parents permit girls to be out more pass-words procuring disguised strong drinks for known patrons } —no more half-way Prohibition that makes things easy for those who f know where to “tip the wink.” Tet us have sharp-eyed officers of ~~ the Government astir in every direction and at all hours—with no mercy for violators of the law. | That is to say, let us have what New York, at least, has not had yet: A taste of War Time Prohibition in its preposterous, logical completences. "Give the people thorough comprehension of what is the fact: . That, for the purpose “of conserving the man power of the | her chances because her parents were “{ didn’t go home early,” replied Mr. tuy eager to give her epnortunitio. A 5 . . e Head Jarr. u ook at the Migler girls right now. t Nation and to increase efficiency in the production of arms, muni “a meres i ° \cOh, you were different, paid Mrs;| As soon asa young man cally, thelg . ” we SO sages Jarr. “What could I do with yo |father and mother and all the ships, food and clothing for the Army and Navy” (the exact : eto kt you have your own Way, | younger children the house. ‘words of the War Time Prohibition Act), Congress at the present lnad Goon the tifrycaroete | you were 20 insistent.” ae "Sou, sure you didn't let me|had been in the'n Il it ‘clearing 1] the decks for action.’ And look how moment—nearly a full year after the end of the fighting, with Lucile the Waitress rod iced P have my own way because you saw the Army and demobilized and the ind tha eerru eo p e was hooked?” asked Mr, Jarr, girls these days hang on the tele- | sys oe ce “What?” demanded Mrs, Jarr. phone calling up young men!” By Bide "t you different with ell, because you saw I Dudley Copyright, 1919, by The Press Mublishing Co. | mumitions, food and clothing for war restored months ago to a “That does no harm; there's safety “1 said, we I said for young girls in telephone numbers e me because—' By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory rho New York Evening Worl ops ria, Dy ‘The Msee Publisuing Company (The New-York Word.) a ee cupineas, tia as the fall| th plied Mr. Jarr. “Wi Es tenslo—selamaly dedrose that the pooyle of the United States! ¢ (Tho New York Evening World.) et © by The Wess Publisuing Company (Tho New. York W , | meas seed tien ~ atts vt rt series many rr With | aball be sold no beverage that contains more than one-half of one She Tells the Friendly Patron of | A Bright Face Is Like the ae acon S, Vasereee rear ehldstle cote : ' per cent. of alcohol! the Case of Lazy Jim Hawley Banner That Leads to Victory. ——— 5 + It is best that from the day the Volstead measure goes into +16 ems OW and then a person will get | and grunting, What are you going “nN | effect until the ratification of the Treaty and the formal proclama- What Is Your Kick) _ too witty in th talk, don't |to eat? 1 want to get done with you.’ | 66 rt earls Eg ae pdt CERES ARE PSRENUS PER ae ' t . 4 . as 7 : 4 a G he manage! Ne ee 4 P ee |, | eee — ee eee re Eons enrars Soprienm Wer Time Frobibition to Griineen ks se: reatiy ipeieen “He ee et " bghen © and store, “I don't mean laugh- Taleeh ehteacrabean ooneeie ca ite } Jere are some kicks sent to The Evening World to-day. They wilt 4 the full limit, in order that the anomaly of War Time Prohibition 4 nt threten ic” Sal Pinar ing, joking, funny people, but people | tir looked vainly about for a sugar bowl, | groans all through ft, When it's all 1 victory? Who can measure the| interest you. You will agree with many of these people, What's your ‘ A r _ a ‘ . gone he gets of m s a1 » bright side, who take |extent to which his unflagging optim- : cick Ei . @ year after war is over may still further convince thoughtful Ameri- yee a aR: i) re ait ate Pi asite Tan AOE Ten Ce Like ok Eee lee eel pines ism worked for the ultimate tiumph| kick? Write it out and en dtts Teh pees Berend Apa ican A ¢ ; ; : wit,” he replied, as he finally pulled a] 4 about me Me wits iS chee of the Allies’ cause? y Write also your opinio . bifida) eans of the dishonest, contemptible part Congress has played in pre-| jump out of his pocket and dropped it | sho ‘was ‘coming Ma here tant Wr4ay |The world wants the same kind of | ’ «taint heartnever won fair lady," or | | or: tending that its enactment of War Prohibition had actually any more | '*,!# coffee. 4 Job waiting. Will you say a good | people that are wanted by the big store [anything else that was fair, Not faint- | #0 sav. ' word for her?’ ‘It sure is,” Lucile continued. esterday I did a lot of talking that I hadn't ought of done. A_ felle. comes in here all humped over like he "With that I turn on my pretty bad a pain in his bread basket. He|lreneh heel and do a travelogue to Was Jin Hawley, a street car conduc- the witchie-kitchie, very much. dis- tor I knew. As he crawls onto a|gusted. Jim goes out and that’s the perch here at the trough he say |last see of him. A tittle while later It's a tough old world, eh, Lu-| his wife comes in and 1 p her get a celle?” i" job, She works till 6 o'clock and then Happy Up a Bit! 4 koes home. Nachurally, I take occa- Midoatc Tiet Laas, (Zee. always to tell her what a ‘lazy husband heartedness but courage, not despair but happy, smiling confidence, is the ronfalon that leads to success, Let me speak a little word for a modest man at Washington, who, like | Lloyd George, always manages to see only after that hour that the meee behind the “frowning Providence” the | neayy work begins? Does he reallx ever “smiling fac I mean Vice |i)¢ responsibility and awful tempta- President Marshall, a man who, if the | ‘R© TesPo! bank clerk has day test is to be the kind of spirit that is | tion the average bal t many are in one, is one of the greatest of men, | after day? How @ grel) nies to as- Who ever heard a whine or a moan | watched by surety pert personal of sugar. Only lately, this stors has ' put in a candy counter with a special female clerk. When you enter you , are given 4 sample of the candy and requested to purchase a pound. There is no limit to the amount that you | can purchase. This store is only one © of a company which has a large num- ber both in Brooklyn and New York. Is not this a kick—a store that won't sell sugar, but will sell all the candy you want? Brooklyn, N. ¥., Oct. 18. manager—cheerful people, people who can see eternal blue behind the black- est cloud, and through all sorts of trouble can discern the coming tri- umph over them, Our gallant Admiral Sims, in his ac- count of the part that our navy took in the fight against the submarines, after telling about the gloom that was settling over the minds of most of the To the “Kick” Editors 1 have just finished reading Phila- delphia Worker's letter. Does he anid that although banks close at 3 it 9 do with the needs of war than its action on the Prohitstion Amend- in servile obedience to the Prohibition lobby had to do with the of a majority of the American people. H Candidates for coming election to the State Legislature from this city are as a whole, The Evening World’s poll shows, strongly and | openly of the belief that Prohibition without popular referenda is “‘'T will for her eake,’ I says, ‘but if L had my way I'd have you arrested for loafing.’ J 4 as ae f got, but she 't say | of despair or the faintest intimation of | certain thelr home 3 alpha Rey % ' injustice. complaining, Why don't you dig up a Pou let iim loaf how hell keep |British naval leadors at the time he |faint-heartedness from the President habits? aN ak thal aie Sent Baring en HF . oe ss B a e il he dies,’ ” Mnelo e: e: . * e ? yor! y aw f | ‘That this conviction may be strengthened in all quarters, as well| face?” You look like you'd been sent | eR a eae ee ig a arrived In England, describes the un- jof the Senate? Through all the gloom | WORK o> Does manual labor ever lietter to your Kick Department f i q a »u look il : ; r asked the|” na nneea of Idoya {BIS Mood has been: “Be of good cour. | on He aE tag | eee + xb | F for and couldn't come. Happy up a conquerable cheerfulness of oy a ie nt et a eerue cad all aii | realize what that wou want to say that I have had expe | aa that the law may be upheld, even the liquor interests ought to sec| bt pe wey replied Lu- |George. Not for one moment did the |ho well," city or to the country? cning the |Ti@Bce in both lines, clerical and | “I'm sick,’ he says. t just think you are. Why don't you go to work i > some Saturday m laboring, and can say ‘that the " ‘Suppose Gal worker deserves. a great “dual more credit than he usually gets, sunshine depart from the little Welsh- man's face, Not once throughout the |period of anxlety and depression did Grand man! Grand American! js our modest minded, brave hearted Vice President, Quit her job already, eh?" >—Just taking a few days off. That's why I spoke about how people e ke and Phi bang clerks went on str }, 2 Worker was unable to dray poner ae his payroll, Wouldn't AN EX-SOLDIER, money ey were ¢, r , nd quit trying to starve} oun pe too witty in their talk we 2 In this time of wide-spread and ise an awful bowl if they we New York, Oct, 20, ’ Directly the Volstead bill becomes law clamp down War ‘Time| Yer wife and kids?" went up to the hospital and they hud |!he lght of victory cease to flash from /deep-rooteq agitation and unrest let thednvenienced just half as MUCH 88) 7 vic gy : nye ' “He kind of looked solemn, ‘I wisht |to operate at one the gray eye of the Premier, The levery true American try to catch the | PORN car forces were in the recent | 7° HK : Prohibition with a strong hand—and seal the lid. T gould’ he says. aby atutr.| {She ad to be with him, eh” Captains, Admirals and the Sea |mental cheerfulness of Lioyd George |p. RT, and New Fork RUDeRy take berth mei Frigg Habeas ; “"Pooh!’ I says. hat's baby stuff.| “On, 0 souple of day: r a and Thomas Marshall, ‘rikes? the clerical forces we! 7 y . 6 nec! e . z Tako a brace. Yer just sick in yer| aca"? “°F % Couple of days Jim | Lords, HE env ened {agtioW un-American it is to foel—as strikes tganized it would teach come | Nem ark senators Caldwall and * , a 4 5 “Geet" |0 e stealt under. e, looke > sown ‘y = 7 “ 01 rT son, Bu 0, present mi Letters From the Peo pl e Berai'g what ote ot emi aye HA orn seete while iat eke Me eek lp ihiandie Ore Tiny | Ce ater eee anounD) 00 fesse on Chene te Bn bOur Mie & les: several hundred thousands more aod that a few thousands or a few hun- dreds of rattled-brained agitators will be able to do any lasting harm to our beloved country and its venerated in- stitutions! As well fear lest the sun | in the heavens should be pulled down and extinguished, Upon the serene in- telligence and rock-ribbed common sense of our people the ravings of | these maniaes can have but the most forces can see further : oon the than the end of their noses. Soon high wages will end and everything will-end and everything will drop. Why do “Workers” complain of the high cost of living when they them- serves are the direct cause?) Aren't Jing the same price and getting. .e8s money? We get a bonus for loyalty and for sticking to th tells me, ‘but it ain't so, I'm going the clerical up to the hospital right now and see what's wrong.” “Contracting the hospital habit, eh? I says, with disdain all over my counternanc “If L ain't sick what do you think is the matter with me?" he asks. ‘Oh, just lazy.’ “Ho gives a sort of a little Jerk lke the same work. The sooner some people find out that the world does not owe them a livi of J. P. Connolly relative to the rail- ng the better, We ( are entitled to a “living wage" only : employees, and how he and his) in so far us we are capable of doing manage to get such ideas) work which will command such. ef themselves and thelr work, 1 bo tol How many of these unskilled . Up till recently | *t''kers who are making the bi, e- ‘would like to know. Up till re ¥ | mands ever spent their time te mia well, if I only had some real brains.” |George went about like the incarnation drag them out of the Sena i send them back to the soventeuts, } century where they belong, G, AHORN, } Pathe Kaitor of The Kvening World: Tbeve read with interest the letter New York, Oct. 20. ‘To the “Kick” Editor: Who is this Philadelphia Worker? ’ Where does he get his 1 about bank clerks? Our were et d your gain." is immortal. ‘The poor Annie Wilson of Roslin. >b when we are most|done when We get throug: : ‘ superficial effect; and throughout the ib when sipbia & rough at nigh 1 was among the number who always| fy themeclven to fill a tone lay if he had & pain and it hands me a OD love her! she never failed | oli. Re acteas ad Men out I suggest that “Philadelphia | we sti!l have the care and tha |, wiehed to wee the working man win| sponsibility requiring ee or aes | erin. ; is to tell the truth of it, Every Ame lia Bloomer. entire, eplaode we can well alors to be try the bank clerk's easy And what pay do we 4 ot, but, believe me, after this 1 am|!t Js @ pretty wafo bet that they are X get vous t sane, Tha easier to day to every tourist, Annie} QARAH BERNHARDT 414 the} phe Jeromiahs who are filling the [Job for .# time: 20, ea Why, if we get $25 or $30 } y Me few and far between, It is on! go around jerking like that than it is]. 2 never knew shi famous until | air with thei Now York City, Oct, 20, a » employer expects us to ! eared, He quotes the motto “Never |{o" {ind far between. It is only tool{ work, Just think--they need men| Wilson, the venerable erone, in the ine 9 ir with their lamentations over tha| NOW York | put ina ten-hour day for it, “gee | i i ott thing at the expense | verity used in Handling the carneen |S¥ery Place and here you are loafing | Chapel of Roslin told the true story & glove was named after her, de truction of our American deals and | To tb "Ki" MON 1 nag enough in| penses Ines but our salaries res 4 é fone lea” { wonder what|and the milkmen as whe west | == of the "'Prentice's Pillar.” Rostin| Amelia Bloomer of Seneca Falls, N, y,, [institutions do not know America or | Subway fein ike: earn ‘ y 4 What kte! . eric eople, They ma nut I think New York people kick has @ this crowd were trying to do| ‘© Police of Boston, who really had THE DIFFICULTY. came into fame by inventing a new |'"® American people. They may be bul ; : ; L union laboring man to-day? Chapel, near Edinburgh, Scotland, is} InOePA, Mut awidentl : rse than it might be. | MI y? Not krievi ” r emi px? be el B y they are no ay | The kick is all with th when they said they did not care no auarenee calm the, like of | 66 POOR old AIL" sighed Atrs. a gem in architecture; but its chit |attire for the female sex; and hav-| sensible, Let them. open ‘thelr, eveg | Instead of Waiting Ave minutes they | cusses. ‘The high cost ot living igh H where the money came from which | crowd conduct. which ely and bls Crimp, as the form of her] jowel js the ""Prentice'y Pillar.” 1t/!98 {t named after herself—the|and see above the darkened horizon | {4m into already 0 4 eC e y the stead: ough the last six |Caused by t ady increase in husband vanished down the throug! " peeves . Bloomer costume, A sweeping re-| the rosy light that will remain when| ty, to squeeze pay of the laboring ¢ oe sy the enormous demands | 0 all the trouble in this country to- stands out conspicuously where all is ' that will remain when| ii %nes of open door, and rush and | Pay 0) toe x ed eas by bis labor unions, A| 22¥:;When unskilled workers throucn|road. “He's growing shockin’ bald." | peautiful. Wreaths of stone, ag of| ffm was needed in 1851, for ladies |*he Garkhese ‘aball have dleappeared, Inches sough crowds. ‘They won't Teeter neg? MAD, recogaltion ‘ the Bolshevik methods they employ| “Yes, I've noticed it,” assented her} uripping morning dew, entwine it| Were, sWeeping up the dust of the wait for trains, or won't try to move eee ot A ECAR je: with an increased fare, an in-| get such wages can you blame skilled | neighbor: "Ever since his last iliness | from, ba LA ha streets with, thelr trailing dresses] NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE, | with tne crowd. ork City, Oct. 19, cost of living and a con-|Workers who have spent years in| POS yon moluin’, as you might say. |t At a ball in Lowell, Mass, Mrs.| tts Inventor has obtained a patent| My. greatest kick, however, | {s | To the “Kick Eaitor gited city made not the slightest |!earning 4 business for being dis-|{ ‘hope. je ain't Worryin' over it, Mrs [Chapel recelved an order to ¢ Bloomer introduced her invention, on| for a telephone bracket consisting of | against the man who when his station | Hold-ups will never cease tf the contented? ‘There will be strikes and | Crimp?” foliar of Waigue design. for Jher own person—and Bedlam broke|q number of telescoping metal tubes, | approaches, etarts at the rear of a) lamps in the streets are being kept discontent as long as such labor} ~ “Well, it do bother him a bit," she} Chapel. He could not dy it, 1 jloose! And it was a highly sensible ubes. | Crowded train, and drives and shoves | unlighted, particularly the west side opening and closing a gate| unions persist in their grabs, for] admitted. 2 to Rome for plans. in. his absence |4ress. Loose trousers confined at the x : “ “i through six or seven cart as to be| of Manlattan, fvom’ 36th Street. to td worth $40 a week, as recently de- | Workers, both organized and unorga-|"“and well it might,’ said herneigh-|his young apprentice carved the /@NkKle; a neat skirt coming halt way | At 4 pickpocket alarm a New York| wearer the exit when the train stops. | 49th Street. Some of these streets are sh | Bized, are going to see that a proper “When my old man Jost his hai vellous pillar that you see to-| between the knees and t man has invented a device to ring) tt may save him thirty seconds of | poorly lighted and other streets 4 MmNded, surely requires some stretch | proportion is maintained and that we Lg Win cold ancuethin’ tereibiat’” laae. ae nhaster returned. ‘The ap-| pretty bodice; quaint, an electric bell when a pocket ig en-| Marking .on the platform, but is it! never lighted, A hold-up is-apt to Of imagination. It is a Job that re-| sre not going to stand for such Bol-| “Oh, it ain't the cold that worries|prentice stood breathless ‘and glad| physicians endorsed Mrs. Blo tne | tered by an unauthorized hand, worth It? L, R. | occur any time in these streets and Q@uires no skill or learning whatever. | shevism as gives a milkman a larger] aif," replied Mrs. Crimp. “It's the| before him, showing his work, In a| belles pouted; the 1 altornately ware New York, Oct. 20. robbers are favorites with the un- could actually take.a pack of |S#@ry than a pubtic achool principal | pother he has when he's washin' him- | fit of rage and jealousy the master |laughed and toasted the trousers and] Spring clips for holding a club on | To the "Kick" Editor: lighted streets, I hope something Note from the jungie and with~ | gfe Police captain and a conductor | self. If he doesn’t keep his hat on, | sciged a hammer‘ and folled the youth |The Lily, the magazine in which sen; | the handles ‘of a motorcycle have] | At the grocery store where my wife will soon be done about it, Seieeoee, bet SABA ine | the pay of two newly appointed | poor dear, he can't tell where his tace to the floor, His dying words were sible Mrs, Bloomer wrote of the needs| been invented by a New York police-| has been dealing for the past threo EDWARD X, BR able them policemen, ie BR | @nishes "—London a jouer it, master, for jod's = they refused to sell her a pound New York City, Oct, 20, pi | ‘ of by ogg wonder, ML das “)