The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1919, Page 30

eo a lent, It, i anee y JOSEPH ER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Pr ee paper and alm the local cows VOLUME G60........csccceces States? A } Is it to be a nation within nation? Are we to recognize two divisions of the American people, with \ two kinds of patriotiem, two standards of justice, two theories of the | Yalue and permanency of the Federal Constitution, two ways of ) thinking as to whether American institutions in their present form are worth preserving? ++ -NO. 21,266 TWO COUNTRIES OR ONE? RE we to have two countries and still call it the United ™” Tadicalisin, to develop class coneniousness to a point where one part _ 0f the people of the United States practically secedes from the other > Part and sets itself aims and purposds to which the principles of American democracy as they have hitherto prevailed aro called upon to yield? Is organized labor to proclaim that under the present Govern- ment and laws of the United States it sees no power, no tribunal that "ean give it the justice it professes to seck? Is organized labor in this frame of mind to separate itself more by and more from the rest of the Nation and,claim a distinct sov- ) ereignty? ‘f Is industrial strife in the United States to harden into lasting | Givil and social strife through the growth of a class system from which | Americans hoped to be forever free? ~~ “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” ‘la The ‘wise and great American who urged that truth upon the "Nation had one kiitd of secession to deal with. ; * Does another kind now threaten the solidarity and oneness of SS _ SEVENTEEN DAYS LATE. Y E are Americans. We cannot fight our Government.” , bd 9,14 ‘Thus Acting President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America announces the decision of ‘the General Committee to obey the mandate of the Federal Court and cali off the coal strike. On Oct. 25, eeventeen days ago, the President of the United p “unjustifiable, unlawful” action “calculated to anger to the public welfare.” Why couldn’t the answer of the mine workers have been then: “We are Americans. We cannot fight our fellow-Americans.” . ae Does patriotism depend on pressure? Is fear of jail its etrongest | stimulus? . ; + ; ARMISTICE. DAY. T IS a year to-day since the German military power, beaten to its © ff knees, was granted mercy on terms the most crushing that ever i put an end to the schemes of arrogant and ruthless imperialism. \ It is a year to-day since Americans in the United States gave ‘themselves up to never-to-be-forgotten rejoicing over the definite that the fighting power of the American forces at the had made it possible to turn the trick and that the final victory Was won. November 11 will always remain one of the great dates in his- , also one of the anniversaries which the United States and a part of Europe will celebrate with feelings bound to draw > peoples on both sides of the Atlantic closer together. _ It is unfortunate that today cannot find the common bond tiready tightened by the full realization of peace and by this Nation’s pption of its proper place in the League which is to provide for | the better safeguarding of peace. |. Nevertheless the people of the United States will not be behind- hand in giying full measure of observance to Armistice Day. Nor _ ‘will they fail to have in their hearts along with the victory remem- Drance of those who,so valiantly helped to win it—the immortal | American dead whose heroic sacrifice will forever glorify for Ameri- HOW DEEP? HE decision of the Executive Council of the American Federa- tion of Labor to back the miners against the Government revealed more plainly than ever Samuel Gompers is now "famed to speak for organized labor in te hat are not of his own ‘3 ~Y)) ehilbosing. He speaks not as a leader who can influence or command, g ‘but as a bolder of office under strong prossure, whose first care must = be not to love what grip he still retains. ' ) pe Mr. Gompers’s patriotism and respect for law have been in the one of the biggest assets of the American Federation of Labor. have secured the backing of public sympathy for many of the and demands of organized labor. It is a serious thing for the lu of such a security as Samuel Gompers. in the ranks of labor? i by labor itself or by those who make a business of bedevillin, m for the power and profit thoy got out of it. tee thinking he right in ’ ig Butir ge alae bere Is industrial conflict, fomented and intensified by orgunized States solamnly warned the United Mine Workers of America against involve a maximum of ericean Federation of Labor to have tq admit any slump in the Just how deep does the trouble go? Is the conflict between jatives and radicals in the official councils of organized labor a matter of upper-circle politics—o, marfoeuvring for power professional labor leaders and union officials? Or does it represent deep disturbances and permanent divisions on a large An answer to this question would go far toward showing the mtry where it stands—whether most of its industrial troubles are 8 est Federation of Labor hold e referendum y to Beat I | EDITORIAL PAGE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBE R11, 1919 ar ae Brothers Entertaining Si By Sophie sters Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by Tho Pross Publishltts Co, (The New York Evening World.) Even Though It Means S EVERAL times I have been asked as to the’obligations due a sister from ,a brother, in tho matter of entertaining ber, And now comes a letter from a young woman who longs to join merry par- ties, but having no boy friends, must depend on her brothers, She says: *My ’ brothers do not ask me to go to dances. Should I ask them to take me? The trouble with me Is that I am very sensitive, and, of course, if they make a remark about taking me when they do not want to, I would not go for the world. “And it I go myself or with my gir! friend, they act all right, but it ts such @ different feeling when you can go with somebody who will be with; you and dance with you. “I don’t like my brothers to feel as if I were in the way, and that is the real reason I don't like to ask them to go with me any place. They do not | ® g out with any girls, to the best of my knowledge. “Then if my mother just as good as tells them to take me, feeling the way I do, I do not feel like going. I really would rather stay home than £0 with sometbody who does not want me. if I do go to dances, as mn @ while (without my but where I know they » they treat me all right, don't leave me alone, and all that. “Please, if you can, tell me what to do about my brothers, and any- thing else that you think’ will be of help to mo, through The Evening rid, as 1 am a steady reader of game. I thank you for anything you ean say to help me.” ’ Act for Yourself, I can thoroughly understand the sitive spirit of this girl, the reluc- ice with which she out with her brother who, she feels, would rather be with other young Women. Should Strive Constantly to Make His Sisters Happy Qe eA AAAARAAR AE > | jacrifice of centre, or the New York League of Women Workers at No, 6 East 45th Street, who have clubs all over Greater New York, and who will be glad to welcome any girl. They are very much alive and ac- tive and have many social, good times. By getting acquainted with other nice girls, who will most likely be glad to invite her to their homes, and tp othet little private parties, after a friendship has been estab- lished, the girl can thus form acquain- tances and make friendé. It is hard continually depending on her broth- ers and making no other efforts for Independent friendships. On the other hand, if I were a brother of a girl like this, I would not be conjgnt with taking her out myself all Me time, but I would en- dtavor to introduce my sister to my own boy friends that are all right, antl thus give her the opportunity she craves of not being entirely de- pendent on brothers, Forget All Selfishnes: I wonder how many young men realize how their sister feels when she knows that the brothers would rather be taking the sister of some- body else. The broad-minded young man who has a heart will see to it that when he takes his sister out she will never get that impression, A brother should make her feel that » is happy to have her and to give r atgood time as far as he can, oven though he sacrifices something himself, it Is the manly thing, the thing that he will never regret. After all, when such @ young man looks back at those youthful years, ufter members of families drift apart, and reflects that he left nothing un- done to prove hi not only in t instances of F «ried and not It is so much easier for man to get his good time bi n always take the tnitiative where r young girls are concerned; but of trouble but ip self the real brother, | By Roy L. Into Happy 66] every small town,” said Mr. | Jarr, arousing from a reverie, there is always some little skinny man, generally the local drug- gist or photographer, who wears a black skull cap, summer or winter, doesn’t drink or smoke, and, in a sneaky, respectable way, is the town gossip and” “Has the heat affected your brain?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “What have we got to do with small towns and druggists and photographers that. wear skull caps?" “I was just thinking of men in skull caps of that kind; there's one in every ymall town, and the @ne old, dear old, grand old Colonial mansions where the proud old families lived in great elegance minus bathrooms and'’— “I think it’s about time you stopped making those foolish remarks about nothing!" said Mrs, Jarr, “If any- body heard you they'd think/you were crazy!" “Well, it's skeletons of defunct thoughts like thase that dance and rattle through our brains when sit alone and think,” said Mr. Jarr, “Nobody speaks them aloud, I sup- pose, but crazy people; but one thing sure, everybody thinks them.” “What are you talking about?” ex- claimed Mrs. Jarr, “I do not think about skeletons or defunct thoughts or any of that sort of nonsense.” Just then Mrs. Kittingly, the little grass widow who lived upstairs, came breezing in Gifts for Good Children, “You'll excuse my intruding, said, “but | Was downtown to-day it Is so much more difficult for his sister, It certainly behooves him to give something of himself in order that his sister may not feel a burden to him, but as some one who really is interested in her happine: 1can appreciate the heartaches and miseries that must be hers many a time when she goes to places and has to depend only on her brothers for amusement, would say to this girl that the some nice girls’ club or organizatic where she can go and meet othe them make the ac- | thelr brothers and | any ¥, Bf: ©, A, thing for her to db is to join| this expression in French, Ger- man and Latin, tagre must be @ jlot of surreptitious laughter in the| long enough to make it famous. But a laugh's a laugh, for all ‘6 Rood for the digestion, hard to see how any one could gh to any of the tight litle es that are de rigueur thig eea- an arm ““bell" sleeve of last summer’ world, How It Started _ Laughing “Up Your Sleeve.” Jars by the fact that we have)was a diminutive ~ By Hermine Neustadt] _ replica of the sleeves worn by the. ancients, who, not concerned with changing’ fash- ions with the seasons, wore ono style | ,oWvith them, when any one seomed to be screening his face behind the long flowing folds of his sleeve, there was always ghe suspicion that he was “laughing in his sleeve.” And to this day laughing behind any one's back, whether it be a fan t screens it, we call lau; on ST a | tunct | The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Grass Widow Bearing Gifts Brings Discord Family Life. rd I took the liberty of buying some books gnd paper dolls for the chil- dren, They are such good little dears and 80 quiet!” Mra, Jarr, giving a side glance at Mr. Jarr to see if he gave any signs of raving again, thanked Mrs, Kit- “There, now!” said Mrs, Jarr, after the visitor had departed, “you ‘n think of bringing the children hi thing and strangers notice them fhore than their own father, You may talk as you please about Mrs. Kittingly, and she may be 4 little gay, but she's good hearted and is so fond of chil- dren!” “Most people are that haven't any,” said Mr, Jarr. “Well, I don't care; it was nice children so happy, bless their hearts! said Mrs, Jarr. The children, bless their hearts, were in the dining-room quiet as mice, lpoking out of the window at @ parrot on a neighboring fire escape. Mrs. Jarr called them in to receive the gifts, “They are all for me, ain't they mamma? Emma isn't to e any, is she?” began the little boy, grabbing everything. At this the little girl commenced to scream and began to pull everything out of the little boy's hands. “I want that book, that’s my book!” screamed the little girl. “Willie, give the book to your cis- ter!" said Mr. Jarr sternly. “Oh, dear!” sald Mrs.Jarr, “I never saw a child like Emma. If she sees Willie wants a thing she is just de- termined to have it.” The Maternal Arbiter. “You give him the book!" said Mr. Jarr to the little girl. “He's a big cr; baby, and you take the paper dol: But little Emma declared she didn't want the paper dolls and the little boy immediately seized upon them, where- at ‘she threw the book at him and grabbed for them. “Here,” said Mr. Jarr, il divide the books and paper dolls and you children each take half. Now, go in the next room and play, like good children!" The division being made, each child wanting what the other had got but refusing to make changes, they with- drew into the dining-room and promptly began to scream and tear things from each other, ‘Lovely of Mrs. Kittingly, wasn't it?” asked Mr. Jarr, “The children were happy without anything and getting along finely together.” “Oh, you keep quiet, too!” said Mfs. Jarr, ‘The children never got any- thing from you!” “How like grown-ups," mused Mr, Jarr—"happy in poverty, but given the good things of life they are not content with a share, but fight for all" “I guess you would like to see them wearing skull caps and having de- hts.” said Mrs. Jarr, and baila sal tad so Asc’ o! her and these things will make it Pa By } farguerite Maxims of'a* MAN and a woman take the downward path, then each blames the e al Modern Maid Marsha Copyright, 1919, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New Toth Evening World.) A other for not possessing non-skid morals. ‘ Every woman knows the answer to the old conundrum of how the Venus de Milo lost her arms, They were so beautiful she wore them out arranging them in effective poses. Before the uplifters weary of well-doing 1 hope they will not overlook the crime of croquet, the deviltry of dominoes and the fudge fiend, He laughs at sentimental scars who never was jilted. ed Even a super-siren can never extract from a Boston man threo words. “I love you.” she Staring fixedly at a woman may be a sign of love at first sight, but is more’ often short sight. . . Does the telephone make more alibis than it destroys—or vice versa? In any love affair first kisses are a foretaste, then come those too good to |” waste, then the last—taken in haste, é The woman a man persists in remembering always is the one he ought to '« forget. Ge Tho saving grace of modern life is filppancy. As the leaves in a forest, are the girl’s thoughts, fancies and preocoupa- . tions about men. The last chapter of the book of love is Revelations, How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 101—Robert Bruce, Who Liberated Scotland. IS country wa’ smashed down‘ from its former bigh estate and was the helpless vassal of England. He vowed to set it free. And he made good. * He was known as “Robert de Bruce,” or “Robert Bruce.” He began life ssolute and lazy young ,, nobleman, content to idle away his time In the English court while his native country of Scotland suffered in © - slavery. But at last, chiefly through the influence of a pure souled Scottish chief named William Wallace, Bruce's sleeping patriotism blazed into flerce wakefulness. And he flung himself, h and soul, into the righting of his country’s wrongs. ngland and Scotland had been foes for hundreds And after centuries of varying fortunes, ¢he umphed. ‘Their invading armies had driven the Scotch forees to cover. Everywhere the: had been successful, National spirit still burned high in Scotland. But any outcropping of it was certain to be punished by terrifie reprisals on the part of the land's English masters. Matters had reached a crisis where the King of Scotland was appointed to his office by England and wa obliged to wear his crown as an English vassal. a Edward I, King of England, held ScotlaMM in the hollow of his fron hand, and dictated the unhappy kingdom's destinies to suit him Robert Bruce, then a Scotch lordiing, had been a hanger-on of Edward's, Now he sought to atone for his past defects by taking the fiel inst the tyrant. He roused the bra ts to arms. wale of y Englis rallied the survivors of Sir William ROUSED THE SCOTS lace's ill-fated revolt. With a small but de-\) AGAINST TYRANT. termined army at his b: ders 4 cotland, It was a fine begining he had made in hiS life work of liberating his country from thraldom. But f% is always fu r to begin a task than to complete it. And Bruce, apparently, had besun more than he could finish, For King Edward sent an overwhelming force inst him, which” annihilated the Scottish army and sent Bruce flying into the mountains with thousands of English horsemen at his } The discrowned King— his army gone, his hopes a wreck, his life forfeit—hid in a mountain hut While he crouched there he could hear his pursu loping past. The beaten man's gaze chanced to fall tipon a spider which was trying to spin a web across from the roof of the hut to one of the érumbling side walls, The spider swung frantically toward the wall from its thread of web, but always jt swung too short and missed the wall. Bruce, in his: misery, began to feel sympathy with’ the insect’s vain efforts. To the fugitive's overwrought brain came a strange idea: If the spider he assailed the - In 1506 he was crowned should at last succeed in spanning the space between its danglin, - and the wall, then he himself would take it is an omen of success, Wea of freeing Scotland. At the eighth ti SPIDER GAVE HIM $" spider spanned the gap and reached the weit To Bruce the simple action seemed a message PAOLO THe enon ned tram: Kt ‘om Ais pursuers, an more raised the standard of revolt. Day by day, year by year, ne bare to regain more and more of Scottish soll from tho English. ‘The aheae army to crush Bruce. But this time the results were different. “Bruce manocuvr wt into a marsh known as "The Creek of Bannock” (or “Bannockternes. would go on with his seemingly hopeless task i OMEN OF SUCCESS. from heaven to him. came tn 1314, when the successor of Edward 1. sent another overwhelming There, with the ground in favor of his light infantry, and while England's mounted and heavy armored knights floundered in the bog, he won & victory which cleared Scotland of her recent rulers and left the country free. Bruce had made good, ‘What to Do Until the. Doctor-Comes | By Charlotte-C. West, M. D. ‘opyright, 1919, by The Press PuGilishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Asthma a Peculiar Disease. HAT 1s asthma? Many theo- | polypi, adenoids, eni, ries are advanced as to just | swellings of the turbinaton eaten what the peculiar symptoms | treatment directed to which {8 often ” under which this term ts used are | followed by marked relief of the aath. due to, A spasm of the diaphragm? | matic condition, Or of the muscles of respiration?| The number ‘The three causes to which it is usu- | asthma tbaioateg Bea lad 998 scx ally attributed are: (1) Spasm of the | treatment, In major attacks eure to bronchial muscles, (2) congestion of | physician should Aine anes: the the bronchial mucous membrane, (8) |In the majority of instances the mene, + peculiar inflammation of the bronch- | of stramonium, belladonna, rs pire " foles. cyamus afford relief, They ma: ay . Some suggest that tho condition | made into cigarettes by boing anzkeal resembles that of hay fever, except |!N a saltpctre solution and dried ped |! that the site of the trouble is in the | ®moked, or they may be placed os chest instead of tho nose. Asthma has been associated wfth hay fever, and in all discussions on hay fevei the prominent role played by the nervous system is strongly brought out. Asthma shows itself in many mem- bers of the samo family; there is an inherited taint, so that the neurotic temperament, descending from par- ent to child, seems to carry with it plate and burned, the patien the smoke, i Peatiean. Trousseau's ciga rettes d'espie co all ready prepared, They area mixture of the above-named remedies an. extremely helpful in some casea. the smoke is, of course, inhaled, 4 patients are -benefited by wnt bottle jh table. |% ammonia fumes, either from : a or from a dish containing a spoonful and held a foot or two from ‘** the 3088, It is ‘advisable to stuff the nostrils with cotton and band: ft ! ndage the a tendency to peculiar outbreaks | Many patients are helped by a hot nérvous in origin, A child ill of | Mustard footbath and by allay the 7 & whooping cough, for instance, may | [00m ae re ty. ae possible’ with develop asthmatic attacks that con | eftective drugs. A J Bre oF the most tinue throughout life. ‘Then too, like J attack of asthma, When inieotey hay fever, certain odors, artificial | subcutaneously DY physician te ds ry perfumes, the emanations from some animals, notably the horse and cat, bring on an immediate attack in those 80 predisposed. during anc douches, cold s. authority advi Baths, © onges and #0 on, One "shot packs for use Disagreeable violent emotions, ex-|@uring the attacks, particularly in cesses at the table and certain foods | (yi ynal Asthma. The patient, with affect some persons adversely, and in| wrapped up to his eck in eee alt this respect asthma is not unlike! wrung out of water, as hat as pest epilepsy. Many other pecularities | Sible, and then covered with a bane . and idiosyn@rasies are unearthed tn |! After an hour the pack is ry joved and he is rubbed first a wet and than a dry towel bet studying some cases. Thus one subject cannot use a Electric feather pillow, another cannot sleep in a particular room, Asthmatics are light baths are used between Special breathing exercises, with sehe able apparatus, are also advised as a means of strengthenin, frequently burd piratory musgles, ISS x, : pees ff oe and # Sverenmningn thing Ss iC NAB AS ot ili inte ;