The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1919, Page 22

Se eT ee ee ee ae ee ee eect oe Ok ate S Sacmaaee (Ot to: acco a ¥ A=, tees Sete ‘ fa doomed males they can be made to pay 7 and maybe 8 and 10 cent | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Wubethet Daty Breet Sunday by the | Frese Publishing Company, Nos 63 to eek gaa Jos: ~» Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THRE ASSOCIATED PRESS, | ager Che nena oh MECC ccs ciscbusievsigvovas tivcess ’ Araratchen rein, | gar O. 21,272 4 A STUBBORN CASE. NE of the most obstinate men in the United States to-day js ‘Thomes E. Mitten of Philadelphia. In various cities of the country, beginning with New Perk, the highest figuring power of financiers, the best legal talent eel hundre2s of thousands of dollars’ worth of advertising have been x fend are still being devoted to an attempt to reconcile the public to one — ltaple proposition. Thoms E. Mitten refuses to accept that proposition for Phila- | Ralphia. What is worse, he persists—by word, policy and the awkward tect et achievement—in making the proposition look doubtful to! _ People of other cities. New Yorkers have had it dinned into their ears, until they are | beret ready to sigh and submit to it, that their city transit system | Yet not a hundred miles away, in a city with a population two million, Thomas FE. Mitten, President of the Phila- ia Rapid Transit Company, which will have carried upward of 00 peswengers during the present year, openly proclaims that fe prosperity mj his company has been and will continue to be based ; “It ts @ religion of mine that a 5-cent fare should be main- tained in Philadelphia.” ‘In New York the Interborough and the rest have exhausted all! te show that increases in wages and in cost of materials e made the 5-cent fare a sheer impossibility. + Listen to the refractory Mr. Mitten: ' “In the hearing at Washington of the Federal Electric | Railways Commission called by President Wilson, we showed that Philadelphia has increased wages to trainmen 151 per cont, and with it went—what? 120 per cent. increased produe- tiem, which means 120 per cent. more people cdrried per man J As against our 151 per cent. increased wage and 120 per cent. increased production, according to the evidence presented | ‘at the Federal hearing in Washington, Cleveland showed 110 per cent, increased wage and 27 per cent, increased produc- PE Hon, woile Detrott showed 118 por cent, Increased wage and 30 per cent. increased’ production. “That is why Philadelphia has its 5-cent fare maintained.” In New York counsel for the Interborough are announcing that Elevated Railroad Company Jan. 1, and that the Inter- sh under present operating conditions is running behind at the of 40,000,000 in five years. ‘Yet Philadelphia Rapid Transit, under Mr. Mitten’s wilful adher- to a 5-cent fare policy, threatens to end the current year with that will exceed cost of operation, fixed charges and a 5 per dividend to stockholders by at least $500,000. Preeent traction management in New York, it is pleaded, many e tangle of burdens and troublesome complications. >» So did traction management in Philadelphia when Mr. Mitten hold of it eight years ago. Jn 1911 Philadelphia street railway was relatively in as bad a mess as New York’s is now. The Rapid Transit Company was not earning its charges, in’t borrow a dollar. On a wholly new programme, starting @ $15,900,000 credit, the present development began. One by p the kinks came out of Philadelphia traction finance. The Phila- Rapid Transit Company has advanced one step after another | the solid ground of actual and increasing earning power. Thomas E. Mitten has another perverse idea. He is trying to | get rid of a 3-cent exchange ticket which passengers have had to buy ie changing between certain connecting city lines in Philadelphia. pees no eufficient reason, he says— “Why the car rider of to-day should pay 3 cents extra fare for an exchange ticket to help produce a sinking fund to reduce the cost of street car rides for future generations, Under laws enacted since 1907, the power to fix rates of fare commensurate with the cost of producing the service is given to regulating | commissions, who do not regard with favor the idea of loading | ‘upon the back of the present car rider costs accruing solely to | ‘the benefit of car riders many years hence.” | What about loading upon the back of the present car rider costs | ere many years since? Tf Mr, Mitten ever tackled transit problems in this city, the latter ion would be the first to present itself to his froward mind. ‘The argument that it is better to go on paying more and more past mistakes than to insist on undoing them, that the earnings city railway lines which pay well must be forced up from time to ime by raising fares to carry the dead weight of subsidiary lines that by nothing, would knock at Mr. Mitten’s door in vain. ; But as we said in the beginning, Mr. Mitten is an obstinate man “stands squarely for the basic 5-cent fare” and who believes that| ration between management and men, working with the public, its continuance.” corporation will be $5,000,000 shy on rent and interest due the}. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The more money that is taken in by the Actors’ Fund Drive the better will be the condition of the actors who depend entirely on the fund in their declining years, Why should the Rey. Dr. Straton give as one of his reasons for not joining the services of the Church of the Heavenly Rest last Tuesday night that “the modern stage has descended to such low ideals of money making,” that it, “capitalized the sacrifice of womanly modesty by making a display of those charms that God Almighty designed for pure and noble purposes?” Has the Rey. Dr, Straton ever looked over his congregation and not seen a “display of womanly charms?” M he has not, he had better take advantage of his position in the pul- pit the next time he preaches and see if the women of his congregation do not display some of the charms that he chastises the women of the stage for displaying. “Let him who 4s without sin cast the first stone,” said the Master whom the clergyman is supposed to be following. The clergyman should understand that if it were not for the Actors’ Fund of America many men and women of the profession would saying: “Over the hill to the poor- house, I'm trudging my weary way.” He should understand that the fund i# a brotherhood in the fullest mean- ing of the word and should remém- ber that as Edward Markham puts it: crest and crowning of all final star, is brotherhood. STAGE HAND. Why No Canadian Flagst New York, Nov. 13. od | To the Rdltor of The Kvening World In going about New York City I am Canadians are not very well under- - gamsequent upon ‘high-handed transactions for the profit of traction | stood here, Some time ago I tried to {purchase a Canadian flag in one of your big department stores and was offered everything from a British mer- chant marine flag to the Union Jack— but no one ever seemed to have heard of the Canadian flag. ond, I asked for my national song, The Maple Leaf,” but neithe artist nor the leader knew the song. ‘Then I offered a $1 practically the same thing. we pport his belief but rit that it British and Canadian re be surprised to find that Englishmen and When the Liberty Loan was being! subscribed the Harlem Opera House had an artist sing the national songs of any country, provided you bought a b the 00 bond for him |to sing “O Canada,” and the usher me and asked me if “God Save the King” would not do, and said it was And I doubt if any celebration in New York will bring out 2 mone rations—was the Stars and Stripes. ness Men's Association. ~ A CANADIAN. Dincriminatio: New York, Nov, 13. To the Editor of The Evehing World: I want to assure Miss J. T. that what she says about discrimination is, as I have experienced it to be, as she has stated the tacts: My occupation is that of an office worker, and I have been far from suc- cessful in obtaining a position, not- withstanding the fact that I am capa- hie of discharging the necessary du- \Ues, I have made many applications, but because I am of the Hebrew faith I was not allowed to even file my ap- plication, When the question is put to an applicant, “What church are you @ member of?” that means thero is no chance for one who is of the | Hebrew faith. ARTHUR N, 8. Why Nott Suffern, N. Y., Nov, 4. To the Editor of The Evening World: I have forwarded your editorial, “Thanksgiving Without Reserva- tions,” of Nov, 8, to Senator W. M. Calder, with this note attached: “A League of Nations conquered Ger- many. Why not continue it? Vote! | Vote! Vote!" c. W, FULLWOOD. Reasons Assigned for Divorce. New York, Noy. 12. To the Editor of ‘The s World Your issue of Nov. 4 contained ‘in Associated Press report of an address given by me in Chicago, The report credited (or discredited) me with hav- ing assigned, as the basic causes of divorce, the natural vanity of both sexes, psychological incompatibility, and childlessness, The causes really of both sexes, physiological patibility, and childlessne: ‘There were other errors, which I have no time to correct; but it may be desir- able to add that I am no longer con- nected with Columbia University, WILL DURANT. ‘Discrimination tm Religious © Brooklyn, Nov. ‘To the Faitor of The Brening World: Any firm or corporation in York or elsewhere has a perfect to insert in their advertisements “Christian firm,” for the simple re son it saves a good many Christian men or women many a two cont stamp writing to some Jewish concern galy to have their letters thrown in New number of Jewish men and women working for Christian firms, but! will of soviet, employers who hire Chris- And these were put up by the Busi- | assigned were the natural varietism |* incom- | right | the waste paper basket, There are any | men? Miss J. T. or some one else with ideas|]; run a business like her please furnish me with a list| never By lo OMING in on the 7.55 A. M. from Paradise the other morn- ing, a well-groomed, stout, elderly man occupied the seat with Doc, Newcomer had noticed him on the train several times, but it wag evident that he was only an occa- sional traveller on the line and not a regular commuter. A little further down the road weomer ‘learned that he was one of the oldest residents of Paradise, who had made a large fortune and retired, and who now spent his win- ters tn the in Maine, with occasional visits to his relatives in Paradise. He an- nounced, however, that he thought he would spend this particular winter in New York “L envy you,’ said Doc, “I wish I could, but it's al I can do to stand off the rube profiteers out in the country, let alone trying to hold my own with the professionals in the city.” “What is there about life in the city in the winter that should make you envy me? asked Mr, Clancy, who spoke with just a touch of the brogue. “Well, good, steam-heated flat is pretty for one thing"-——— "So is the nice, blazing wood fire on the hearth,” rejoined Mr. Clancy. | “Then there afte the fine restau- | rants” | “Lf prefer home cooking,” said Mr, | Clancy. Of course, there were the cafes, continued Doc, “but they are not the game since our Government has been reduced to one-half of 1 per cent” “I'd rather take my chances in @ Paradise cellar,” said Mr, Clancy; “we always had good neighbors out here in my days. The Time-Keeper Knew Them, “But there is one thing above all that makes me love the city in the winter, and that is the grand, ope: that is my one weakness, Mr, Clancy; I jopera singer myself; do you know the Sextette from Lucila; Manrico's | prison song; the Torreador in Car- “No,” said Mr. Clancy, “I had a lot of them people working for me when out here, but I ‘new their names; I guess the tume-| er a : | aa you've ‘een to the grand " wires Reeth ent: South and his summers) lly ought to have beén a grand | The remy Life of a one Rube Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) The Oldest Paradise Commuter Tells of Memories }| of a Very Grand Opera. Towner ® | | | | that was enough, I'll tell you about it “I was a young man then an¢| Captain of as fine a schooner as ever | came into the port of Paradise or | w York either, I had a good, likely | lad for a mate, but he didn't’ know | any more about music than I did ex- | cept the music of the breeze as it} whistled through the rigging and per- | ~ haps a tune or two from Tom Moore. “T had a friend in the city for| he was a rich man and always had season tickets for himself and the wife for the grand opera. One night | he asked me how I would like to go | as he was not going to use his tickets, | so I took him up and invited the mate, | a likely lad by th@ name of O'Brien, | to go with me. | “Well, sir, we oth had a clean! shave and got washed wp.and put on our best pea jackets and away we| went. And when we got there we| had to wait for a half hour before | the doors opened and we went in.|4 ‘Then I found out that the seats ae way down in front. I thought for | awhile that nobody was coming to the | show, but pretty soon they began to | come, the men with big white dickeys under thair vests and the women without dickeys or anything else where the dickeys ought to be. They looked at us and then looked around | ag if for the police, An Awful Row. “"l guess we have too many clothes said O'Brien; ‘we'd better take kets,’ nd we would » but just Ss we started a bellboy come up and told us we would have to keep them on { “Well, sir, the curtain went up and the show started, A big man cor out and begun to growl about thing, and he kept getting louder an louder until he was shouting at t top of his voice, and another fellow come on and they had a quarrel about something; 1 couldn't tell what it was about because they were hol- lering to each other in some foreign lingo. | “Then a pretty girl come out anti I said to myself, ‘Now they'll begin to sing something,’ but ali she did was to scream at the top of her voice and pretty soon the whole stage wa: full of people, and the noise they made was something awful, I was wondering where the police were and why they were not doing their duty, when the curtain went down and the audience went crazy; they stood up! and waved and shouted ‘Bray which, I suppose, was the big man's name, and they made im come out and bow time and agal “What do you think of it? O'Brien asked me when It got quiet .“"L have a proposition to make to you,’ I says, ‘and I think you'll like it.” “Ave, aye, sir,’ Bays he, twhat is it?” at's go over to Harrigan & hav Harts where we know what's com- |for Mrs. ‘were on their way toa musicale and | reception at the palatial residence of | body model so popular this season in | who wouldn't do a favor for you if ' you were dying,” Ythese days every nickel counts, andj her! | whom I had done some small favors; |* Jory it piesa here setae What Eve Said About Love By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) One word of honey heals many an aching wound. Those who turn lightly into love “step lively” into matrimony SG aa love that is returned is the only love that you can hold. | Many times the soft lights love are changed to the broad daylight of law. Ten verbal expressions of love are worth two on paper. It is the overlooking of the trifles that eventually puts the soft pedal on the blues and whispers them away. Love is the only highway where those in double harness can “gee” together, If business interferes with love, mind your own business. ‘The road of reform is reached by the way of love. Honesty is the short cut to the love road. | When jealousy creeps in at the door joy flies out of the window. Every man should make good before he makes love. | Love’ 's labor is lost when it saps the strength of individuality, Yet while individual rights may be recognized, though business may come and business may go, the union of man and woman—marriage—will go on forever, Most kisses are episodes, but few are eventa. A dead match leaves no spark of love behind. Love terminates when it tames, In the dasty wooing ‘tis better to have loved and lost than later to-be unloved and bossed. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Coprright, 1919, by The Prose Publishing Oo (The New York Bvening World.) The Jarrs Are Shocked at a Hair Raising Instance of Filial Treachery. ROCEHDING in the trolley—ne P free transfers—Mrs, Jarr re- marked somewhat dolefully to fhe best of husbands: “We have to stop in for Mrs, Hickett. Oh, dear! Some people have no compunction about how they put you out, We're late as it is, and now we have to stop Hickett!” The Jarrs, {t may be mentioned, right off this oar now and go back. your cronies and their peta I i. pose you all know some lair where liquor is obtainable! It is too bad that you can't spend one evening among refining influences!” r, Jarr only sighed down his shirt lout cesta Bit ane ™ oy tis time the street car reached the point where the Jarrs were to alight for the dowager Hickett. Mrs. agra was “in.” She had rooms in a very genteel boardi: house. Mr. and Mrs, Jarr followed. the genteel maid up the genteel and somewhat smelly stairs. Mrs. Hickett, an extremely stout lady, arrayed in a very ornate but somewhat soiled kimono, was shed- ding tears as she reclined in # shabby semmolaain, “Mr, Jarr will excuse my appear- ance, won't he? Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” A Mother's Woes, “She can't go with rible?” explained M “Why, 1 wouldn't go so ‘tar as te say that,” began Mr. Jarr, but, seeing Mrs, Stryver, who, as the society notes in the newspaper chronicled it, had resumed her Wednesdays.” Mr. Jarr ‘reached in under his waistcoat and, catching the lower edge of his shirt besom, changed, for the time being, its graceful bulging effect for the straight line or torpedo roadster automobile bodies and, in all seasons, { n dress shirts, He made no reply, He was @ prey to the bitter reflection that he was hooked up for eb lady was beeding him he ‘ening—not. 0] ' + Ra ot, Mrs-Hickett is a woman|,, “Ah Mrs. Jar You are lucky that your children are only babies yet!” moaned Mrs. Hickett. “Oh, that my own daughter should treat mu} 80. ald Mrs, Jarr went on, “The idea of asking me to stgp for! her! That means two or more car- hi ” fares for us and one for her; and |g Perhaps she didn't think, “Oh she thought, all right!” enap- Ped the old lady, turning’ from sor Fow to anger with eo much emphaeis that Mr. Jarr dodged back. “But I'l never forgive her! Never! The |wretch! The huzzy!" “But you go, my dear! Don't let me detain you, I'll take some gul- phonal and read this book. I took it from Cora because I don't think it's fit for pure minded persona te read, Ton't delay on my account, and thank you.” The Jarrs finally did get away and resumed their journey to Societys portals. “What's the matter?” asked Mr. Jarr, when they got outside, “Has Cora Hickett turned Bolshevist or eloped with an TI. W. W.?” “She put on all her mothers new U's why she asked for'us to call for Will that gushmush, Bayshter of hers be along?" asked Mr. darr A Daughter Doesn't Leave Home. ‘ora Hickett, you mean?” asked | Mrs, Jarr, "No, we're spared that af- j fiction. Cora went out to play*bridge | this afternoon and takes dinner with |friends and goes to the theatre with them—all the Hicketts are sponges— and that's why I had to promise Mrs. Hickett we'd stop in for her, She san Want to go to Mrs, Stryver’s alon “Why epuldn't she have called for you?” asked Mr, Jarr, ‘Then, may- be" — He was going to say that then, maybe, he need not have been|transformation—false —hair—without dragged along, but he stopped in| telling her mother when she went time. jout this afternoon and, ax you see, “Oh, you needn't mind me!” said Mrs, Jarr, who sensed the unspoken nish of the sentence. _“Yeu can get Mrs, Hickett's got no “Ah!" said Mr. Jarr, mother, so to speak?” Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudle Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Y. ‘Bald out her Brening World.) ° She Didn’t Have the Tooth-Ache, but She Had No Way to Prove It. ‘Think back! Didn't your teeth burt you the last time you ate ice cream? “ ‘Listen, Mister,’ I says, ‘I ean't make myself any plainer, can I'-—~ “Oh, you're not plain,’ he saye sweetly. “You're rather attractive. “[ found IT was becoming frapps with rage. But I took a holt onto my OME people are so persistent S they annex my nanny,” said Lucile, the waitress, to the Friendly Patron, as he found a hole in his napkin and buttoned it to his t. “I always want to give those kind the air, How about you?” temperament and says: ‘Many thanks hat's the way 1 feel about them, |for the lovely words! But, Mister, ¥ he replied, got any aching teeth.’ ‘This little tin of my cure,’ he says, showing ‘me a tinfoil full of “Just | paste, ‘will cure any toothache and a encounter | all I ask for it is ten cents.’ Then you and me are in the same Lucile went ob, 1 had scatogory.” little while } . -| “I turn around and call Lisaie, the with one and I haven't got my ia | oeanka: Monee ens: call as bilities quieted down yet. What d’ye | *‘Ligaie, I says, ‘this gentleman hink he did?” jhas got a cure for aching teeth. If yhat?” you haven't got any such teeth you're Well, he comes in here and grabs |in hard luck because he's going to off a stool at the counter, Then he|sell you a tinfoil of his nostrology, gives me a money smile, That's a 4 smile that is an invitation to spend | money. I can detect it as far as 1 n see a gold tooth, Next he says to bring him a ‘ham sandwich and 1 After that he smiles again. I says to m | Lizzie, |‘No wonder this guy | with a teeth cure. You look like an easy baked bean.’ And with that she | turns on hér heel and beats it. “Oh, Uncle, but I was mad, Here I hadn't said nothing of great import to her and look how she does me with her raw humor! 1 was 40 sore I told the man [ wouldn't buy his teeth cure if he gave away Kansas City oil wel with each. tinfoil, Oh, I had a lovely | morning, I did.” Ten minutes later Lucile returned from a trip to the kitchen and ap | proached th Friendly Patron. Ho was just leaving her a dime tip, “Oh, thanks!” she sd ‘Now I won't be loser on the day, “What do you mean?” he asked, Iucile toased a shin counter, “There it is,"s she aid. don't know how he did it, bat we wet the dim and 7 wot this, cukahic * Riek: very mean. picked on you elf, t cure for the tooth- ache, “'Yes, 1 spose so,’ I says. | “*T make it, myself,’ he trickles on, ‘Oh, it will care toothache.’ What d'ye want us to do—serve it with our steaks?” I asked rather syndically, ‘Oh, 10," he says. ‘I want you to But I ain't got any aching teeth,’ { says. “Ah! he says. ‘That's only what you think. Go back in your mind a ways and think.’ ‘Say, listen, Mister,’ I says, ‘TI don't wear my teeth in my mind, I got jaws for that purpose, Now get her ‘traight—I ain't got any aching ‘Just like a woman!’ he says, ‘Did youvever #7, diting a nut?’ 'No,’ I says, it ‘eh an out or I mae anyway, fe may. take a he Locllsheties am Lo Prag ern