The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1919, Page 26

EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, ~The 6 to 1 Shot! : 63 ‘ork. ;; RALPH PULITZER, President, ¢3 Parke Row. : |. AN BS KITAW “treasurers 6s Park Row. & JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PTRNSS, life, Aseciated Prem r enti! republication of aN) hay seed | peal CML NLSCY OU Lae Sams Sab | MM WOLUME 60...s.ssscsesesesecesssscvvesssneeeNO, 21,288 | What Eve Said On Living Life, By Sophie Irene Loeb | 2 HAS THE COUNTRY DESERVED IT? { 1 In Tauen e yeu make the condition, but in the extremo the condition : , Kes you. ‘ HE United States Senate sees no pressing vouch ada | The people Who live in the past have a life mortgage on the byzones for * , uncel 1 which th rbitant int *y onde deadbeat dermal © , | severed comand ee wim and domes: er, the country mi painfull | But the United States Senate can hold up all other business and| "| ind time to follow the example of the House by overriding the Presi-| * | dent’s veto of the Prohibition Enforcement Bill twenty-four hours Kindness is the keynote of life. / e | A pleasure at hand {s worth two in the imagination. , Copyright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Se is the sult that seasons and refreshes tlc | sordid side « Be in the battle to a finish, but do not keep up a continual fire. ‘The ammunition gives out, Hurry Do the thing you think Dest, and abide by it like'a sotdier. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. The law of nature holds that every space must be filled, su no ont less. | A friend is one who, like the world, weeps with one’s woes as well a | Joins in one's joys. | When a man tries to kill time, time often turns the taples. ‘Too much leisure makes the bread of life unpalatable. * efter the vetoed measure comes back to Congress! | | “Is the paramount national question, then, Prohibition? Is the, set i loon League lobby powerful enough to force Congress to put} forcement of Waitime Prohibition a year after fighting has ended | of every other interest or problem which concerns the welfare | of the United States? | That a certain number of Republican Senators might treat the | President's veto of Wartime Prohibition as they would treat anything | @lso he did—with an immediate and savage leap to defeat him—is| Mindvrstandsble. But what were a score or more of Democratic Sen- ators doing among the sixty-five whose votes passed the bill over the Presidential veto? Apparently the only power of which United States Senators and| Congremunen of either party now stand in awe is the power of the ibition lobby. The rest of the Nation counts for nothing. ty counts for nothing. The crack of the Prohibition whip 1s |, the one compelling sound heard in the land. /) «= The country begins to wonder to what extent Prohibition pres- ‘S are may be contributing to the obstructive force that is delaying | ¥ fatification of the Treaty—to the end that there may be little or no gop between the hypocrisy of Wartime Prohibition and the permanent ‘tyranny of National Prohibition under the Eighteenth Amendment. ; In the name of representative government, what have the people} at the United States done to deserve such shameless abuse of the | 4 Aegislative power they have delegated to their lawmakers? P ———-4¢—-——____——_—_ | husband,” what was | ba ing brilliance to cheer her, Mr. Hearst will not meet Gov. Smith in debate at Carnegie | Hall tonight. Mr. Hearst was offered only half the seats in the hall. This would obviously leave it by no means certain that the meeting could be successfully packed according to = the well-known Hearst methods. If Mr. Hearst appeared, it i] «,. might even be necessary for him to face public evidence of a + ? pane tae aaa pe year when what many times half-a-Carmegie-Hall-full of his fellow citi- ee ptt see é irene Pf -3 srt A S aes zens think of him. Even Mr, Hearst could not expose himself “ , * ~ ein as ie 3 to that, ————}4 } (FOR BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF MANHATTAN, | wes ominnorsera Toe we keep dogs. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell t?—oh, et our Mr. Jarr Hears All of the Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Latest Suburban Gossip. | Thus admonished, Mr, Jarr held to {his place when | Sushing lady Mrs. Jarr had met at Mrs. Stryver’s pet club the day be- fore, came in, | “1 told Mrs. Stryver IM drop in to e you,” began the visitor, “and she told me to tell you—now let me see, well, it is of no consequence and maybe I'll think of it after a whil Mrs. Jarr introduced her tame hus-| ful summer nights in the country, It . who remarked with scintillat- Mrs, it was nice for this time of year, Falling Leaves and Spirits. “Yes, but it makes me go lonesome,” remarked Mrs, Converse, “I think of the falling leaves, the leaves that fall in golden glory or sere and yellow— all to perish—and that depresses me with bitter reveries!”’ Mrs. Converse did not give the Jarrs a chance to say anything even “The Hardaways have their nial country place next to ours,” the voluble visitor went dropping tho falling leaves, am 80 Nervous wondering if they'll | ep dogs if we keep chickens next summer, or if they'll keep chickens if We are going to get @ new automobile because the Hard- aways won a case against us last dogs chickens and they sued us at the county seat, twelve miles away, and From Evening World Readers|Ellabelle Mae Doolittle opened, We were at the court all|£ Dever could stand living in a con on, 66] WISH you wouldn't run out every time somebody comes to | see me,” said Mrs, Jarr as her husband betrayed symptoms of un- easiness at the announcement of a caller, “Strangers might think you were @ boarder rather than a real Converse, a juddenly killed their they got along fairly well, but Mre. Converse headed him off, “Of course, I should be out there at our country place right now, because Mr, Converse is so near sighted, and when he sits up all night with « rifle to shoot the Hardaways or thc servants if he sees them throwin thelr ashes and kitchen slops over our hedge—and that's all they sta down in the country for—he'll not be | able to see them in the dark. Suburban Night Sports “All last summer I had to sit at tlie window with him to point out who were doing it, and of course, one can | sit by an open window, the mosquitoe would eat one up. So by the time [ would get the screen raised the Hard aways heard us, and always got away. | But, oh, how I do long for the peuce must be dreadful here in the city iu the Mrs. Jarr was about to rally for the defense of their home as a plac of quiet nights, but Mrs, Convers had gotten breath and was off again “Of course, the Hardaways ar Parvenues, and Mrs. Hardaway wa & manicure girl and they do say a former husband turns up and de mands money and claims his wife's marriage to Hardaway was bigamous and Hardaway himseif has been in dicted for embezzling from a bank. and on the otber side of us the Bul! winkles run what is to my mind a gambling house, because they get all the summer residents to play auc “and T)\ tion bridge there night after night and all day Sunday, and Jack Bull winkle’s wife was a chorus girl and he calls her the most dreadful names and they quarrel right over the cari table, because he says she flirts wit!) the men right before his very eyes and she accuses him of cheating a! cards and having eignals with his partner, right before everybody. ‘Still, what I like about the country especially a fashionable summer cot- gested district in an apartment hous« ‘ow, do you know who the peopl: may be that live on the same floor with you?" “Yos we dot" said Mr. Jarr, rousins up, “they are deaf mutes, thank good ness! They weren't of course, but the through the hot weather, and as, § Brooklyn, Oct. 28, [case woulaide reached ia due tine By Bide Dudley sha the ‘kennel show, ‘in. whieh we f : rage ary ea =tw , 1019, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) vould have won all the prizes in the HERE ere otill goodly number of voters in this city who|/™™ Mim am Brains Waid: | adintin London, Englands and caine | gmmmmcrcreareewes ollie class, had to be called off. Don't FRY ‘ fi sti i ; think’ the country is delightful believe it makes little difference what political party # candi-|say that tho living conditions of the] longer’ this akce js held up the lonter Noted Poetess Does a Great Favor iia time of the year? How do you date belongs to if he is the kind of man who will strengthen] ship repairers resemble those of bank|{ remain & British subject, and I rie ever stand it in the city?” e municipal tte with the experience, honesty and efficiency Pre"idents. The ship joiners, whose | hardly think it fair that a man who For « Poor Street Musician. visitor took the hint and her de Mr. Jarr was about to say that parture. wage is 80 cents an hour, can earn| Wants to become an American citizen, | © awe ® : are what that government needs. $38.40 in a forty-eight-hour week, and | fy" henge chawn’ tay ree wn nan HEN the 8.45 train, often called} which seemed to irk her fair nature. “§ 4 iz shown oc Citizens of this mind in Manhattan will vote to elect Magistrate | the joiners’ hodrly wage is about the| when he is married to an American W :) night and day, which he can do for a| Ject also. S.J. W. |Saturday, an old man, carrying @ When they are nicely fried, Mr. Curran’s record is a guarantee that the people of this borough A New Telephone Company Neededt : BS saeco a Piptewen hl The Gay Life of a Commuter ‘ imum, Of course, if he works| girl, which makes her a British sub- Delhi depot just before noon i H. Curran Borough President. mee By Rube Towner , \doubt- A week ago I ate too much, 9, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The Ni short period, he earns considerably guitar, alighted. He was un Copyright, 1919, by few York Brening World.) “ : * Greenwich Avenue New York City.| edly a stranger, uncouth yet artisti¢ And soon I like to died, ii i p more, Working at night in dark y . o * make no mistake in putting him at its head, where he will also fore a anton. te eats oaeeontat Kiss as Ont 3 1919 J and with an ear for music. No one! ‘The strange musician, seated on a Chief Snow Witnesses a Demonstra- » es i nst Tammany attempts to dominate the| nor conducive to good health, The bay Ad Sunes : was there to meet him and, noticing | soap box, was singing and playing sno ne moi an agal y me casualty list of those killed by falling| Have you given up, or for any|this, Hodge Doggett, the station| his guitar, Miss Doolittle seemed ‘tion of a Fire Escang That Worked. ii of Estimate. through open hatches, &c. would |other reason quit your fight on behalf agent, smiled at dun ‘Bnd said: wen strangely fascinated. puddenly ane Ng * Curran i: ‘orker, born i: bli bI . The 4 “Howdy, frieni usted yot walked directly up to the man . » Mr. is a New Yorker, in New York and graduated) sire ker ia often without employs | ccivas ey Tonk Dublic for telephone | sing ain't your” crowd began to gather, vening last summer, when|#00n several husky members dived * vee A shipwo c. action? It is impossible to use the Py ba e e . the New York Law School. In the course of his six years in the] ment, also, We are men who did real} The musician looked at bis guita ‘My dear sir,” sald the poetess, itting on the | and brought him up. . 1 ew Yor! we 5 Ra work during the war, not the type of, WTd service in connection with|and seemed a bit woried. « “who wrote t song for you?” Chief Snow was sitting 0! His words at first were so diluted ie of Aldermen, as Chairm=n of the Finance Committee and mem-| sjacker ballplayer and draft dodger, | telephone operators, Such a thing no| “iilamed if I ain't,” he said. Then| “| wrote it myself,” he replied, landing of the Neversink/tnat no one could understand bin, ‘ a i ity's| all of whom are now back at their old| longer exists. Why not raise sub-|he asked: “Do you play the gultart | pushing his tin cup forward & bit! yacht Club at Faradise, telling stor-| but he finally was able to articulate of the Sinking Fund Commission, he dug deep into the city's} ‘10 SHIP REPAIRER. |8criptions from the public with a| “No,” said Hodge. “I play the|"Do you like it?” les of how Chief Croker of the New| "Save that inventor for me!” lems; he conducted the investication of the Police : view to taking whatever steps may| races.” “The sentiment Is unique but your Cre! vitor wupen,| BUt the inventor had fled, cial prob 5 Re ac! tiga As to Military ‘Train’ be necessary to obtain & Ucense for The Complete Jokesmith, copstroction is deploraple, York ate aa ue ‘ors Me pe in fem evenings ago the Chiet was nt after the Rosenthal murder and made many constructive t. 24, | Snd create a new telaphone company? rybody laughed. The Delhi got a cold,” he ior, used to! go @ general alarm/in the meeting room on the -second ; ‘ y hak otal CLIFFORD M. HARTRIDGE. | q, fey aasoclates daily with travelling She Gets An Inspiration. fire in a dress suit and put it out|floor of Wide Awake Hook & Ladde for strengthening the Department, including in-| 7 %* Péttor of Tue Evening World: s if Co, No. 1 with G @ Charlie and aang i lbh bd ey 8 Iam writing my opinion in regard Tee Good to Be Tree. men. | No wonder, then. i ie it as | ct am, Miss Eulabelle Mae Doolittle, | without wotting his patent leather| T° NO. 1 with Gus and Charlie an , pay for first year patrolmen; as Majority Leader-of the 1914-14. pete Green's letter on military |. ater ot Tere Ob A [Bech atiod Onto think up Jokes for| Maybe T could help you’ |. |uhoes, and how Gus couldn't go to ®/small man came up the stairs and in ri 9915 Board—which by its usefulness fairly silenced the old New York| training which was published last Brening + ye the minstrel shows given by The| geod you o “What are Aldermen for ?’—he helped to codify the city’s ordi-|Misht. I think Belle Green does not This is in answer to “Universal) young Men's Social Club, and he has query, ix wee ri lied to deliver sa ietnc joke| Zhe crowd chuckled in epots ’ it was who furnis! “ day, go through a B, R. T. or LR. Ts | tye ks’ vacation beginning e that made such @ hit in the last Tet Ald-rmen and as Mayor of the city, and in 1916, as candidate for|SWk° “noush to &o through an hous days of the H. C. of I, who among! show, It was: " , or so of drilling, I am not against} Us cannot afford such a rest? 1| “I'd never expect to see our Mayor i i i od| military training, but could it not be| hardly think that our employers are| Win a running race. Presidency of the Board, he received 275,000 votes, being defeated better organized than it is now? 1| coins to pay us during thin “vaesting’| “Why not?” only 33,000. understand that this Is a law only in| Rolne to D s tion ‘Then to the musician: “T'll write you modore, another 801 troubador.” Wi “My name's Nutty Brown,” said the | club,’ poetess. “And, besides, | am inspired.” * Mr. Curran’s knowledge of New York and the government of|!"# feture of @ newspaper, I refer “You' “Wi K 7" 1. Wew York has been gained from practical experience in public office,|‘° the “What Do You Know?” co umn presented to Evening World he has proved himself a useful, respected, non-partisan factor} readers every day. I am sure that Hermine eustadtl _ ‘How It Started x hope that “What Do You Know’ started the first union, the mediaeval lcarry on business without subjecting very wide and long and hinged in the It is @ travesty that the original | shadows before! ; You and I need have no spat, middle, By working the toes, he ex- ete Delay In Cittaenship Papers. were not organizations of| The gilds controled a man's stand- For Iam not a dude, plained, the swimmer could operate New York Si, Oct, 28. but of employers, They were | ing 1 his trade, RYery Worker 26d 30 My sister's child, Te Ricketts, | ‘he pings aad sive, Binpaals . fee] ” ‘Women’s Non-Partisan Committee has organi liter af ‘The Bening World: Bo: de f the pro- | serve for seven yea! ” ney "| purchase ate speer be ie Seen ae psteraies 1916, I applied for and prata tot tne seaecaty tee Bre | without pay, when he became aJour-| Put an oveter in father’s coffee, Jittle less than a motor boat. eeren cure fr me merpese of Binging to bear wpon the obtained my first altizenshin paper, 90 |'owD. for protection against “forcien’ | hymen | This Wore wiwtiien moans| Ae teas very dadly frightened, Dilute’ Language. . Piaited States Genate the pressure of an appeal from 1,000,000 my second were duo two yeare later, |COnPauHon, | The Tule otnara cee fday, Por the men were employed and| Teeney, do not 80 silly be, | After the shoes had been inspec women for tmmediate ratification of the Peace Treaty, includ- Jon March 20, 1919, I wrote to thelcept under certain. conditions paid by the day. When a journeyman| put fet me sing you my song, jed by all the members of tho ly ‘The form of a petition which may be filled in with names C.,, to get some information tn regards bk a od OF loeat Dustness. dy Risse oP here again we have| Peter B, Doolittle has a bay horse, bathing suit ho pt on the shoes and Ome netreasen and forwarded to the commition wil! ‘be found to getting my second papers, go they | gids in the regulation of trade was |capltalism in the trade unions, for! Waich he will sell you cheaply, my| leaped overboard, For a moment hej vening Wor! ent me a form to fill out, and asked ater even than that enjoyed by the |only masters could become full- fasue of The ty . \s gre disappeared @inp wishes of blew York wouen. | me to mail it back to them along with| town governments, And we do not |fedged mombers of the craft gild! | Lagohag first paper, which | did, with the|learn that they abused this power, But we learn that the propetetors and| When she had finished the old mu- | into sight. imvanaing that they would notify| With the development of industry | thelr employees worked in harmoni | siclan bowed to her and said he would | pear gene’ ‘i accord, without partisan inter-| never forget the fa The crowd give him a chance,” ee nppees fone See) |e se Rinecas) C6 Fro Seer ed which had gathered applauded with Wang: “the Chief's which organisations for every or in- gusl | a bin “Phe neni srt nam nn AA from Bee ee tah ned oe ener eral asd oa xtra dime," he replie ting his whistle, @ know how it feels to work hard all | #0llday” who wants everyone to take| never failed to deliver satisfactorily: be in apc ..[earrying a bundle under his arm ap-| i ti i isi 4 lence!” command 6 ‘poet- 2 abolish old-time Aldermanie perquisites and frame the new ty go timush a BRT. or LRT |Syanyarenee Tema, Meinning| LL TMI tvua arkina Walk aan" EGty gout yattn'|pronched AB4 naked to a0 the com Code. various times he acted as President of the Board| subway rush re all commodores in this said the Chief, “except Capt, Bill, and he's a commissary. If ° ia, ha!” laughed M! Doo-| you've got anything above 275 in “Because he's a Walker. ‘All Mr, Brown. I go,|that bundle you want to see Capt. New York State, What about the| Period. It would be a great life. No! ‘The old musician grinned at the fi return with year| BUL” i When the United States entered the war Mr. Curran was on the] other states of the Union? G. | Papers would be published, no milk] tatest Doggett witticism and hobbled | p i “Sh-h-b!" sald the ttle man, com i itche! ‘ delivered mornings, nobody would be| across Ditch Street to the Eat Cafe. |""stfow "bout the “aime?” Jing closer; “I am. an. inventor; Bench, to which Mayor Mitche! had appointed him. “What Do Yor mast a Paid. for there wowld be Be one to Ellaballe Mae Doollthe, - Delute But, the fair eit was mone. || have here one of the greatest inven. trained fficers’ lamp eerved i ‘ t y Cit it, a + | note poetess, wi iss Doo! le @! P| tion: . pte 0 © of Patabure, an France ca ‘To the Biter PEs Pe sed World: heen We oe Pine Rania: the | Main Street, an hour later whee 6 her mother said: “Eile, come and | \et It out of my sight; somebody wil i i il— now. |song reached her ‘ears. Ip me with the washing.” teal my idea; it's w ons oO! ) Veale and in the Argonne, and wes invalided home last April—| ‘yy 1, only fair that a few words be| We're ell too busy toque DeiL eT” (fone reached, her ears, | Bre, stopped help me with the washing.” | |ateal my ‘pesuming, on his recovery, his duties as City Magistrate. said in commenting on any outstand- lazy, you mean!” What the People Want! It cut deeply, but Miss Doolittle| ‘Say no more,” replied the Chief; rushed upstairs. Soon she returned| “that’s right in our line; what you lan bearing the song. The | got?” the conduct of the lopedia hi ee Follow! if eee ae: ewinning anon” replied the ite 4 : as . 4 — |tle man; “a ly ¢ y a of the city’s affairs. LOBES ARTA SAREE OTe Unions {Id had regulated the trade of the| I'll sing you @ song, dear folks— | tle man; “anybody can wim with Henry H. Curran is the type of man—Democrat or Republi eres eectiing tas gue u “ town in general the Craft Gild super-| 7 am a@ poor guitar player, \the water before or not. A good ou, nm e higher offices o nswers in . ; acros , Oity ew Yor! : een rad othe hig! ad bonioe ney steee yep re ag principle, old as the ages, that|that {twas Impossible for a man to| Like chocolate in a cake's layers, He opened his bundle and rev Drop a dime into my hat, a pal of light wooden shoes s} He should be the next Borough President of Marhattan. will remain a permanent feature. gild, as it was called, from “gild’” | hi.nself to the rules of his particular ment ‘ : something like a duck's foot, i 8, LARSHINS. | meaning a payment or a contribution, |gild. Coming events cast their And I will buy some food; view pair of wide wooden shoes floated some diver, I'll that.” “Well, by gosh, that's tay Chad id mot come up and inventions that worked,’ ii, Has and then a quired for the Chief of the Hook & Ladder company. “I'm the Chief, where's the fire, 0 do you want to’ sign up?" said ‘thr veteran, with whom conflagration: were once a business and now recreation. How Do They Do It? ‘The little man drew a bundle fron under his long coat. “I have here,” he said, “one of th greatest life saving devices of the ag —a portable fire escape. I want t+ get it tried out and get your indor ment, It can be made in an or weight, rolled up as 5 and carried in a ha thing for commeroial tr: ply hook one end on to the window casing and throw the other end side and descend to safety, I'll you.” He unwrapped the bundie, took ov a small steel ladder wh h wou reach about three-fourths of the wa from the second story to the groun: hitched it to the window still an threw the other end outside, A strange gleam had com Chief's eyes At the same moment the little m: suddenly grew white and began t tremble.+ His eyes were fixed upon pair of wide wooden shoes shape:l into tt like a duck’s foot, hanging on th wall The little man was standing by t) open window, “I'll show you how it, works," h gasped. “Wait a minute,” called the Chief, but the ttle man jumped th the window and went down % able invention » the window sill, ef siood at the open wir dow and watched the little mun as he tore down toward the depot. ‘Ther soratching his head as he always does when he is puzzled or amuesd, he said: is ic