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CCl CUewar Ay il TANOUS KITA We onreas 7 MHA’ JOSRPH PULITZBR,’ Jr. a MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRMSS, i Seats onions ibication of aT) newy despatchon ee See ails lied iS pee Sade Uls local ‘seme usted hero UME 60... sovccecescveve eNO, 91,874 a ENJOIN CONSPIRING COAL OPERATORS. HE country faces the serious fact that a coal strike called off is not a coal strike ended. In compliance with Federal demand, officers of the United ine Workers of America ismed etriko recall orders. Nevertheless 400,000 coal” miners in the bituminous regions are still idle. : ey show no signs of going back to work before they know what a ES t with the operators is to give them. ee © Legally there is no longer a coal strike. Actually there oon- gs to be coal strike so threatening to the country’s industry involve nothing less than a nation-wide embargo on Treight, a 40 per cent. cut in passenger train service and the shutting d of all non-essential industries. It is estimated that this pro- > Plainly an embargo.of such magnitude would be a blow to public H} Welfare only less severe than the maximum of disaster against which Wilson issted his warning statement of Oct. 25. It would © , very near to “paralyzing the industry of the country with the > it euffering and distress of all our people.” No wonder mining States like Kansas and Ohio, where coal pro- i an is reported mo better to-day than it was the first day after’ 4 9 strike was declared, are taking stops to operate their coal mines For the eeriousness of the present situation the coal operators largely to blame, | ~ Whe action of the Federal Government in obtaining from the courts an injunction restraining the leaders of the miners’| n ition from continuing the etrike was in no wise meant to give | ar backing to the coal operators. They have no right to scize " it ovcasion to drive a cloger bargain. They have no right! ‘a single hour understanding which will end the strike. This is no time for inner wranglings in the coal operators’ group. his ia mo timo for hatching schemes to curtail production in order kee coal prices moving upward. This is no time to make bad pod by penalizing miners who went on strike. y coal operators are every bit as responsible to the country jt prompt effort to restore soft coal production to normal as are he lea of the miners’ union. The fact that thousands of miners > | fase to return to work makes no difference in the imperative jon which rests upon the ogal operators. “ | That obligation is to come forward with proposals that will speed i it, pat an emd to idleness in the soft coal fields and save ne country from incalculable loss. _ Coal operator# caught manoeuvring to use the present situation their own profit by cutting output to keep up prices should be as objects of swift Federal prosecution as would officials of a 3s at it’ may call for action of most drastic character. Measures pro-| would throw 15,000,000 men out of employment. | A Bet | | A Duty—Not Charity, New York City, Nov, 18, 1019. ‘Te the Editor of The Bventng ‘World: T wish to comment on a letter in your paper in regard to “Bonus Not Charity” by T. A. B. Now, I do not consider it fair for any one to state that if we were given an extra anion who issued new orders to strike. ee THE “STEADY, THERE!” VOTE. W THE French elections for the Chamber of Deputies the BY ita lost 103 seats. The Radical Socialists lost 85, more 4 all the other Socialist groups put together. In the elec- ms for the Italian Chamber of Deputies the Socialist candidates : ted to be losing in Southern Italy. It would be foolish to conclude that the world is swinging back cor But it is cafe to say the challenge of Bolshevism has enormously to what may be called in any country the “Steady, i” vote’ The “Steady, there!” vote is normally a lazy vote that y shows up at the polls in force when the boat is rocking and there that reckless handling may overturn it. The “Steady, ret” vote drawe from other votes that go in different directions en times are tranquil and issues not important. A big part of the iteady, there!” vote, however, never comes out at all unless it sees thing vital that needs prompt attention. Tt wes the “Steady, there!” vote, for instance, that swelled Gov. r recent plurality in Massachusetts to proportions that re- the Nation. Now it strengthens Clemenceau against disrup- forces in France. ——}-—_____. ISN’T IT THE FACT? HERE was a great flourish of law and justice this week over two theatre ticket’ speculators caught in New York—one in the lobby of a theatre and the other near the Metropolitan % onus it would be in any way chari- table. We have gone through unbe- Uevable hardships while over there. When we were mustered out in April and received $60 bonus, it cost us ™ore for civilian clothes than all the money most of us had coming to us. 1 would like to see one soldier who has been to the front refuse an extra bonus. There are hundreds of sol- diers who are now in civilian clothes ‘but in poor health. Also many of us are working for low wages, and the way prices are now it is very hard to get along. From the effects of gas attacks which I IT have lost all but four and my case is only one ot hundred: 8. From @n ex-soldier who has been in every battle of + 27th" Division. Corporal 105th Infantry, Company K. : High Cost of Drink! Brooklyn, Nov. 1919. the litor of The Brening World : ‘ho gave the brewers the authority to charge a poor, hard working man 85 cents for a pint of 1-2 per cent beer, or 10 cents a small glass? It certainty is @ shame. Will some reader let us know who gets the largest part of these profits? a . Be Universal Military Training. New York, Nov, 17, 1919, ‘To the Waitor of The Brening World: The letter written by Mr, Adolph Lewisohn regarding proposed military training shows that that American has ‘given some serious thought to thig vital question, His plan, to have many, man; went through upper teeth, House. The former was sent to the Workhouse for three days latter was fined $100. The Magistrate who imposed the 3 “It any of you epeoulators come before me again I shall } you to the Workhouse for six months. It is time the public , of euch pests.” vim @ sidewalk ticket epeculator is hauled into court there great applause from the public—including that part of the public de ‘now daily and nightly paying from $5 to $10 a piece for tickets its clabs, hotels and ticket agencies, Never part of the public more willing to pay these or any prices amusements. Never hae it given stronger encouragement to # prepared to furnish it theatre tickets on phort notice at ticket speculator on the sidewalk isa nuisance. At behind him and a + tate A ag es 4 standing army of 260,000 men and a national militia, composed of men voluntarily enlisted by the various States, but under the supervision of the Federa! Government, ts one which will do away with universal military training. He also suggests having non-military athletic exercises in the schools and colleges of the country. Why the necessity for universal military training? The advocates of thie bill claim that tn case of war we must have a large citizen army ready immediately to combat our foe. They Bay that we will not al’ have allies to fight the enemy until we get ready to train and equip an army. They also claim that the training of you will benefit thom physically, socially and morally. he M4 jal and moral good on a rattained by those who seek it Suc ins cites Bre Americans, we suitary fe do uN ears eae em 9 + help toward raising standards of our future citizens, marks in to-day’s question of religious discrimination on the part of Christian employers in hiring help. I am afraid that Miss J T. ts looking at this question from only one viewpoint, perience that there ig just as much discrimination on the part of Jewish mee Fi ioe oleae From Evening World Readers the physical It 1s about time Americans gave a thought to their country’s welfare in- | % stead of leaving it all to their Con- gressmen, peal The daylight saving re- d the Prohibition amendment ut over” by certain factions not representative of the will of the majority of the people, and it is up to us to eee that it 1s not done again. JOSEPH HEATH. Both Sides of the Question. New York, Nov, 13, 1919, ‘To the Editor of The Krening World; I note with interest Miss J, T.’s re- column on the I know from ex- mployers. Let Miss J.T. go through the want ads again and answer a few of them and maybe she will see that the trouble'is not al) on one aide, . M, . Cc, fork, Nov. 17, 1919. New ‘To the Bilttor of The Evening ‘World Why do cases lag in the Supreme Court? During the past month the writer has found @t least a half dozen empty court rooms in the afternoons during his tougs of the building—yet one will wait nine months for his or her case to be called, CHAS, J. HAMILTON, way “Servic: New York City, Nov. 17, 1919. ‘To the Bititor of The Brening World ; How does the “Interborough" expect @ fare increase when they are giving unfair service? ‘The sympathetic appeals of the Subway Sun do not reach many people, as the aforesaid periodical has a very smail circulation. For ex- ample, if the dinky two-car locals were lengthened by six more cars tho circulation of that paper would be four times as much, It is up to the local people to ex press their sentiments as to the two- car locals, for a raise in fare will be aa unknown as rave ot the sun in the ver tunnel yntil the service remedied. i. Ir . A Discouraged Amert San Diego, Cal., Nov, To the Bititor of The Brening World: Americans, wake up! Where age the Americans? It is getting so out in this Western country that when 1 say Tam American, and all American, and our laws and Government are the best we know how to make, then | have a fight on hand right y ‘What is our country coming to? Wake up, Americans! Oh, where are our leaders? Is there not an American in America who will stand up and say “Come on, boys, follow me. If you don't like the United States then get , 1919, ” EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919 | most ination aS ot Rs ar eno Bp By Bide HE next timo the New York musical show called “The Beautiful Battery Belles” plays in Delhi it is safe to bet it will not have a shimmy contest, Mayor Cyrus Perkins Walker has decreed that no wore contests of that sort shall be held there and he has ordered Constable Pelee Brown to see that the order is enforced. “The Beautiful Battery Belles" held such @ competition Fri- day evening at Hugus Hall and, in the vernacular, “got in bad” with the Mayor, This is how it happened: The show came to town billed as a@ big New York hit, and that the people of Deibi believed the posters was evi- denced by the fact that the hall héld a $300 crowd Tuesday evening. Some of the men wore evening clothes and the ladies were decollete. It was a very fashionable audience. So pleaved was Barney Pincus, proprietor of the troupe, that he made a curtain speech after the first act, saying it was @ pleasure to play to Delhi people be- cause they were so bright, clean- looking and well dressed, Up to that time things were going along swim- mingly. And then came the shimmy contest, “We will now have @ shimmy con- test for the championship of New York between Miss Gippy Ba Grange and Miss Crimson Rose,” announced Proprietor Pincus. “The little ladies will submit samples of their, work be- fore the real contest begins. “T'll bet it will be delightful, ker was heard to say t “I don't know about that plied dublously. “It is the height of art Tripsee- corps,” said the Mayor, While the orchestra played “Giggle Gooble Gee” each of the girls gave a Mayor wife, she re- The Mayor of Delhi Copyright, 1919, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Ryening World.) ann nnn nA AAA AAA AAAAARAANAARAARARAAAAAAALAADY Executive Decrees That ‘There Shall Be No More Shimmy Contests in His Town Dudley * ’ sample of her dancing, Then Pro- prietor Pincus stepped to the foot- Lights again, “Now we're ready,” he said. “All we need is a judge. I think I'll ap- point Mayor Walker.” “Oh, for goodness sake!” said Mrs, | Prime Hinkle audibly. “Don't accept, Cyrus,” whispered | Mrs. Walker, The Mayor was indig- nant, “I'm sorry, sir,” he said, as he arose, “but I don't know a thing about the| shimmy and don't like it.” “Oh, he does, too,” sald Miss La Grange. “We danced it for him at the Parisienne Cafe in Kansas City last week.” “Now, Mayor!” said Pincus with a smile, ‘Remember, you are a man and are only human.” “He's a shimmy hound,” sang out a man in the rear of the hall. The Maygr was incensed. First he ore dered Pincus to dispense with the| contest and then he called: | “Is Constable Pelee Brown pres- ent?” “Here!” replied the constable, fear- lessly. “Arrest that man!” Constable Brown sprang on the stage and attacked Pincus. The oM- cer was knocked down four times, but he managed to get the theatri- cal manager's watch, which he drop- ped down Inside his shirt. “You show up in court at 10 to- morrow, or you'll not get this wateh back,” came from the constable, The show proceeded without the shimmy contest, It was then that Mayor Walker issued the order against such dancing competitions, ‘The Women's Betterment League will meet next Saturday to discuss the statement that Mayor Walker knows a good deal about the shim- my. The affair has set the whole town talking. There {s much indignation, How It Started _ By Hermine- Neustadt] _ The Bayonet. S few of us had heard of the bayonet before the war, we are disposed to class \t with tanks and poison gas and all the other al- unbellevable products of the great war. But the bayonet is several hundred years old and the child of another emergency—one of the many wars that have made of the history out, and stay out, Be loyal or beat I think it would be cheaper for the ag Bolshevik! 10 Rude % of Europe a list of victories and de- feats, treaties and more declarations of war, First used in Bayonne, It has ite withstood the seventeen sieges that at different times were waged against it and earned for itself the title “Bay- onne the Invincible.” It is a city of low, stone walled houses, built in narrow streets, designed for barri- cades as well as abodes at a time when periodically “every man's hovel became his castle of defense." At one of these times, when the bat- | tle was going against the little city, {he Basque regiment that was fight- ing valiantly to defend it found to| their horror that their supply of mu- | nitions was entirely exhausted. In desperation they inserted their long handled knives into the muzzies of what 1 About By Sophie What Eve Said Troub/e Irene Loeb Coprrtght, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co.’ (The New York Evening World.) haven't. There are few of the first sort, but of the second sort ther« ! Tome are two kinds of trouble. The kind you have and the kind you is'no end, For as a wise old man said, but most of them never happened. The funny thing about trouble The energy you waste on worry live on IMfth Avenue, Tam an old man, [ have had my troubles, is that there is no joy keener than | taking trouble by the tail and flinging it into the backyard. over troubles drains the vitality. It multiplies the drug stores and enables tho patout medicire folk to The educated conscience is the newest microbe of evolution i Trouble, the tempest in the teapot, should be settled speedily, so (hat | each may have his cup of life more clear. A man who has no troubles never has anything | Hide not Your light under a bushel for fear of ridicule. | If money ts scarce, though the frothy creain puff lovks alluring, it were better to pacs it up for the good old Irish potato, Keep the heart young and it will beat “Father Time” away ‘The Jarre Family | By Rey .L, A KR. AND MRS. RANGLE had M Just dropped in for an tnfor- mal call on the Jarr family. | After the expressing of mutual feli- jcitations, the group resolved itself |into the usual division that ensues | when married couples wh@ are old acquaintances get together. That is, Mr. Jarr and Mr. Rangle sat aside and began discussing the social unrest and the murderous ac- tivities of the I. We W., and Mrs. |Jarr and Mrs, Rangle were also soon deep in a conversition that was for themselves. alone. “[ don't know how it’s all going to come out,” sald Mr. Rangle, “but one thing is sure, the whole country is full of bugs! “They get on my perves talking about bugs,” said Mrs. Jarr to Mrs, Rangie. “I nd borax scattered on the shelves is as good as anything, although some of that roach food in the sprinkle-top boxes is good, too." “E believe you,” replied Mr. Jarr to Mr. Ranvle. “They get my goat for fair. Those Wabblies ought to be all sloughed or croaked for fair.” “What ARB they, talking about?” asked the bewildérea Mrs, Rangle, in a low voice of her friend, “Did you ever hear such gibberish ?” Vagaries of the Vernacular. make up all that talk as they go along, simply to get us to ask them they mean, But I wouldn't lease them to let on I was curious enough to listen to their foolishness!” replied Mrs, Jarr. “What was I say- ing before that? Oh, yes, Clara Mul- ridge-Smith has a crescendo costume. The overdress is laveuse.” “Did you see Cora Hickett’s new dress?” asked Mrs, Rangle. “She came in to show it to me, It's crepe The Rangles Pay a Call and Mr. Jarr and Mr. Rangle Get One “Oh, I sometimes think the men just |, McCardell Copyrtabt, 1919, by Tho Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Bening World) ee | meteor and the style is extreme ou: lant “What sort of dope are the d discussing?’ askel Mr. Jark in a whisper of Mr. le. “Did you get that last one ‘vollunte “Why, she told me it would be fourreau or scabbard style,” Jarr, not noting that the y of the men had tulled. “) PI latest is miajustee, with at front and just cov shen hey are too extreme; mething quiet,” suid Mrs. ‘A simple panne mousseline, with bandworked gaijons.” The Diction of Dress, “Did you ever hear such patter tn your life? Ten to one they don know what they are talking about,” Ba r. Rangle, softly. “Sesh!" said Mr. Jarr, with a nudge. “They are only kidding us. That's fake slang. They want us to ask them what they're talking about and then they'll give us the laugh for rub bering for an earful. “Tl be the goat, And the said Mr, Rangle to the ladies: Is, will you wise us as te whether you are putting a new lan- guage over on us or whether you un derstand what you're talking about | What's a laveuse and a collante and |fourreau, and cabochons and bran denbourgs—if I get you right?” Both ladies regarded them with | scorn, “A laveuse is a tucked-up over dress,” said Mrs. Jarr; “collante means tight fitting; cabochon means nail head ornaments; brandenbourrs are braided ornaments. We, at least, were talking on a sensible subject clothes—while you two were talking | nonsense!” | “Us we L Vv them Then the two men regarded the two women with pitying surprise, and the two women returned the look with in- terest. exclaimed Mr. Jarr. “Why. ere talking about sending tar W.'s to prison or shooting Copyrt Also Have Times of COMPLAINED to a friend the other day of a favorite razor that I have had for many years and that has always been “right up to snuff,” but that of late has been somewhat open to criticism, “Let it rest for a month or so,” said my friend, “and it will do as fine work as ever.” “Is it possible,” I thought to myself, “that ragors get tired and need a rest?" Be that ag it may, it Is certain that human beings get tired, and it is equally certain that many of them die long before their time, simply because they fail to take the little bits of rest that are so necessary. Capt. Deane in his charming book, “Mounted Police Life in Canada,’ speaks of an old fellow he found, midst the foothills of the Rockies. Some gne said to the old man one day, “I don't see what you do or hu. you put in your th during the long winter months when there is no occu- pation for you out of doors.” “Oh, well," egplied the aged hermit, “some- times I sets and thinks, and then sometimes I JUST SETS." Happy is the man—especially if hh is a brain-worker—who is able no and then to “Just set,” inviting his soul, ag Walt Whitman used to call it, completely passive and receptive, al- lowing life to play with him as the winds do with the Eollan harp! The brain-worker who. cannot, or will not, do this dies prematurely as a rule, and lives, while he lives, jaded and miserable, Years ago when 4 youngster and dipping for the first time into the poets,-I came across an expression in Byron which I have never forgot- ten and never will forget—"the demon thought.” How fut of terrible meaning the phrase is! The deraon thought! ‘Thousands know what Byron meant. “Oh, if I could only stop thinking and go to sleep!” has been, and ‘still {is, the prayer of a mighty multitude. But the demon will not down, and|N he tantalizes you to the verge of mad- ness, nay, pushes you over the edge of the precipice, and goes down with you, laughing while you are being destroyed, of th thelr guns, and with the new “deadly ‘yonet,” the nama they earned for tdi they did the work that ‘haw alia. a home they are out, melancholy, ig to die, oe teries; In many fow fagwed * od, Just ie old It Is Our Duty in Life to Be Busy—-But We Must Slipping the Bands Off By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory , by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) | Rest and Relaxation of heading off the demon, and it ts the only way. Learn, then: the secret of the old man of the Rockies, the secret of “just setting.” Let the thinker every now and then stop thinking, throw the bands off the mental machinery and ome for @ season a clam, or an oyster, as dead to all cerebral activity as though there was not an ounce of gray mat- ter in his brain-pan. There was once a dear old smother in Israel whose work was never done. Day and night, Monday and Sunday she was working, working, and when on what was to prove to be her death bed she asked what she most de. sired she answered, “I want to go to heaven and do nothing for ever and ever.’ ‘The man or woman who l/s not asa rule busy has no excuse for Iivi it is our duty to be busy, But let us not forget that the work must have its little oases of perfect relaxation now and then if we would not periah long before we ought to, Noah’s Wife. a must be some foundation for the pespetually recurring story, in the Mediaeval Mystery Plays of Noah's Wife. Noah's name means “rest.” Noah's wife's make- up was restless, Her name was Naamab, Naamah was a daughter of Enoch “who walked with God,” says holy writ; but Naamah walked about with her temper, and nearly upset the Ark itself with the “kick” she made at its uprearing. She fought Noah with doughty fists all the way through, and when the great man had completed his work she eaid she would not go in with the animals. The animals behaved better, and went tidily into the Ark At last amah consented to carry in the lyre bird. When they were afloat Naamah declared she was as blue ax the sea, The lions became outraged this carrying on, and attac' Noah to attack Naamah. Pretty man with the melodious name, you have come all the way down history from 2448 B. C. to Nov . A.D, a8 the Peacock of Temper. Wh, Dullda hls house (ark) hie troubie ? bn reel