The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1919, Page 30

eeu ca Yi ) Wy EDITORIAL PAGE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER S, 19 SS WQS KEK OCS A, cMTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, iehed Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to sped) Dally Decent Bung bark Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, "63 SPH PULITZRE,’ Jr., Secretary, Park Row, Park Row, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, | rc nee fe te SHS ee SAE NO. 21,288 THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. WE President's message is exclusively, pointedly domestic. Add essed to Congress more than a r after the signing o! the armistice, it deals with what Congress ought to have @one but hus vot done to meet home needs. It urges domestic ad (Justments indispensable if the United States is to have a fair start fin the new cra { he message makes no mention of the present statu jot the Peace Treaty. But it leaves no doubt as to what the hold-u; jot the treaty has cost’ie Nation by deferring consideration of hom: ‘problems. The President believes Congress should help tie couvtry set its house in order so that men may work therein with greater confidence and frecdom. fe would have Congress revise the income and excess profits taxes to te end that they shall not discourage energy or Femove incentive to new enterprise. He would have Congress eatab- ‘lish a national budget sysiem, supplemented by an audit to ascertain whether money appropriated by; y the legislature has been spent “whely, economically and effectively.” He would have imports en- | © ‘eouraged in order that they may balance an increasing volume of ! z exports for which heavily burdened foreign nations could not other | wise pay. He would, at the same time, pri ean dye industry pet the youthful Ameri against the powerful assaults of a’ restored. German | ‘monopoly. He would have Congress live up to pledges to provide employment and land for returning soldiers. He would have the Federal Governinent stimulate the farmer to raise bigyer crops, he | would have Fedral aid applied to the development of forests and the | building of good roads. | t But it is when the President d alk with the closely related prob lems of the cost of living, industrial unresi and the menace of fam. | pant radicalism that he becomes most carnest To comiut food profiteers lie urges practical measures, such ar| a time extension of the Food Control Act and, legislation giving | Federal seopo to a cold et Jersey, which limits the time food may be kept in storage and re- quires that yoods {aken out shall bear the date of their receipt. Yet, here can be no. settled conditions leading to increased production and a reduction in the cost of living | fit dabor and cayila! sis more, as Jong as labor and capital remain at odds the rage law like that of the State of New | declares the President, | to be antagonists instead of partners.” What e will be} “food for radivalisn.” “Phe only way to keep men from agitating “against grievances i to remove the grievance i i Here the Presidential message makes its strongest pl Recoy ‘nizing the right of s¢ workinan to demand new adjustments which ; wil, “make tho couditions of his life and the lives of those dear to ‘him tolerable and casy to bear,” recognizing the right of individuals to strike, yet recognizing no less “the predominant right of the Gov | ernment to protect all of its people and to assert its power and majesty against the challenge of any class,” the President points to} jihe duty of Congress: | “Te must now help in the difficult task of finding a method that will bring about a genuine democratization of industry, based upon the full recognition of the right of those who work, 4 jn whatever, rank, to participate in some orgauic way in every decision which directly affects their welfare.” And instead of leaving the settlement of industrial disputes to ‘conflict from which the public unjustly suffers, offort must be made to create some tribunal to which both capital and labor, without declaring war, will come for justice. It is by constructive measures to lessen injustice, the President argues, that radical and revolutionary propaganda can best be fought. Nevertheless he would have Congress “arm the Federal Government » with power to deal in its criminal courts with those persons who by violent methods would abrogate our time-tested institutions.” “In America there is but one way by which great reforms can be accomplished and the relief sought by classes obtained, and chat is through the orderly processes of representative government. Those who weuld propose any other method of reform ure enemies of this country.” It should be impressed upon the Nation’s legislators how much it’ depends on them to strengthen faith in the orderly processes of representative government. In the fight against those who agitate for change by Jawless | methiods, it is a paramount duty of Congress to do its part and prove ‘its adequacy by grappling with injustice and mal-adjustment where ever they menace the Nation’s safe progress through this critical phase. The best friend of radicals and revolutionists at the present time is a Congress that does nothing. |pany at bis villa Saturday evening That meaning sliould be read between every two lines ot the President’s message. CAPES ety Cae me When the late Henry C. Frick tore down the Lenox Library lo make room for his palace, New York lamented the luvs of on of its finest examples of architecture. The coke manufacturer's return to the city is the palace and an art collection, the value of which is upward, ef $20,000,000, 4 It will be recalled that New York might have bad the Lenox Ubrary too, Mr. Frick offered to set up the Wm, M, Hunt master. Plage on a new site if the elty would supply one, F i yy > _A Patient Bird! By J. H. Cassel _ By Rube The Gay Life of a Commuter Towner Copyrieht, 1919. vy The Press Pubiisning Co, (The ,New York Evening World.) Doce and the Saps En tertain a Very Willing but a Trifle Too Undiscrimi- nating “Ey prosents his compliments tw the Saps and requests the pleasure of their com- at 8 P.M, to meet bis friend, Mr, M. T. BotUes, who is visiting bim. lt. 3. Vv. P. The favored Paradise commuters received their invitations with great glee, for Doc is a prodigal host and the damp spots in the city are get- tung to be few and far between, The Saps, by the way, are simply the local members of that growing patriotic order, Strikers Against Prohibition, Newcomer was puzzled by the R. 8. V. P. until Mawruss explained that it meant Rye. Seotcn, Vermouth and Port. The acceptances were unanimous— the sume old buneb that occupies the rear geats of the smoker on the Para- dive suburban express, morning and evening, the only difference being that Doc's “jolts” are more accept- able than those they get from “Whistling Bill,” the motorman All the guests were delighted with Doe’ friend, M T, Bottles, a smooth-shaven, well-groomed man, ut pleasant manners, a soft, low voice, who seemed to be sincerely trying tw live up to his name, Doc announced right at the begin ning that the particular exhibits of his ante-Probibition collection were rye, Scotch and bourbon, or if a cocktail were preferred he bad the in- gredients f, 0, b, right there, Me also “pointed with pride” to @ large cut glass punch bowl in the centre of the table which gave forth a pleas- ant aromatic odor. M. T. Botties proved himself to be not only agreeable and witty, but to be a fair and impartial man in every respect, His Sense of propriety was so delicate that it would not permit lim to discriminate for or against aything vlfered by his host, Ue ay trem all imparually. Wheas Ver be came IN contact With wiiat- ever beverage offered the action was just like pucting a blotting pad on @ wet spot, resulting in justantaneous ubsorpuon But when he arrived at the punch, jhe stopped, smacked his lips and assumed a thoughtful manner, as if testing his sense of taste, “There isn’t any lemon extract in| system accept without mplaint this, ls re?” he asked Dog, anything I give them. I was born “Lemon extract?” Doo almost shout- and raised in a Probibition ‘a ho Nesgpamcen M Guest. © ed; “I should say not; there's nothing im that but the real goods. “Well, don't put any lemon extract in it or you may spoil it for your other guest,” suid Mr. Bottles quietly. “What's the idea?” asked Doc; “I don't get you.” “Well, 1 was at a party once out in lowa where they bad ‘punch,’ but, of course, they haven't got the same Kind of raw materials out there lw work with that you have. They first put in grape juice and then Jamaica singer and then they put in a bottle of tonlo—a liver tonic, 1 think—and it tasted fine and was going good whey the host found a bottle of lemon ex: tract and put it im and the whole works boiled up and sent up a cloud of steam og vapor or something—Like @ geyser—hod it all eurdied, and after that not more than half of the Suests could drink it! What made you think there might be lemon extract in this?" asked Dov, ignoring the comparison between the punch and his own super- jative mixture. “I've bepn hearing a queer noise for the last few minutes,” replied Bot tos; “it goes, ‘p-s-st’ and then it kind o* sighs, and, at first, | thought some- body was hissing me because I of fered to sing, and then | thought of the lemon extract.” “I guess it’s the steam eseaping from the radiator, “No, gentiem Newcomer " replied Doc; . “1 will not deceive my inuocent friend here.” He uncovered a iarge stone crock in the corner of the room. “That is only a ‘setting hen,’ get- ting ready to hateh,” he continued. “She takes the volts out of the Vol- Stead Act and hatches out ‘eb lightning.’ * Reassured as to the absence of lemon extract, Mr. Bottles continued to devote himself to the punch until the hour for breaking up, when Doc “Now, here's something I've held out on you for the cilmax, I ported it before the war; note stars on the Jabel, Bottles your best judgment on th Doe poured a pony and handed it to Bottles, who drank it at one swal low before Doe could interfere “Man ali brandy!" sald Doe, Then M. 'T. Bott st and his past. “Boys,” he said, “I've dm as much as anybody still sober, All the drin geod, but | can’t tell much andatized my ea ation | was negiected; I never had any of the natural advanta, t folks have had; I have had as they came, without ask.ng questions, so that my pala A Aen nr peng ge TT 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. “Very few what? “Bargain sale dings or divo muds on the Keds? h you talk!" exclaimed | you remember,’ The Sunday pape dful auto “lf you can't bear to think of them Mrs. Jarr re what do you look so eagerly for?” — | ctv! arded him with an ex- pression of surprise. and Don't I wish to see if any of our it is been killed?” sbe asked. ‘The Stryvers have a tine machine Clara Mudridge-Smith, nd one can never tell what will hap- ly seems to go riding niacs on Sundays, and the Monday morning papers a full of accounts of automobile acei- dents that make one shudder,” “But are they more inter divorce suits?" like speed m asked Mr. Jarr. suits are not interesting, they are shocking ‘and some of these automobile accl- dents lead to divorce suits because injured: women—when automobile riding with should not be in the Poor but Pure. Mr, “in Well,” said hen, bagy,, should be happy we can’t afford an| nov This Keeps us out of the But how about wards of Ub divorce courts.” know about that," I s ure gett 1 want oat r y HER INCOME TAX, . that's no way to drink | about the office o local collector, Carter S$ revealed him- keep to hit ivetion of the income and when her turn o “] have figured very car 1 find that L owe the Government 3 encouragingly+ And what I want to know is," young woman, “will the! accidents or the divorce Mrs. Jarr and she turned settlement? —Los Angeles|to read the holiday-gift bargain ad- Government accept tree penny post- ‘The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Mrs. Jarr F.nds That.Owning No Motor Car Safety First Against Divorce and Other Accidents. T the breakfast table Mrs. Jarr,| You remember the tons—they have four automobiles.” monopolized — th a divoree from Mr. Jurr opened “Not only is the buve the sale advertisements and the engage-|monial mix-up out ment and marriage notices and all] but to even try ty follow tu rest of those. things mostly, and|me out of my senses,” Monday paper nes to read | "Phew!" ¢ club affiirs moaned. gusped. for me.’ “Well “was the reply, both men and Jarr, “then we|body else's wives hosp.tals and aske Mr. Jarr, © get divore sider the children So long as we ma’‘am," murmured the doputy| automobile or our will live plainly, in the wring con-| way without ver! (The New York Evening World.) , hig first wite, who had been divorced by GaKNa Ms. Tarte trom her first husband, who divore Engagements? Wed-| jis wife to marry 3, rivis, stuikes or] went bi to is first wife, who gut second husband— suid Mrs Billington bile wcci-| “But you remember the tall, stately bear to think of| blonde Who was Claud » don't you She’ was very prominent She divorced husband to marry Cliude Billington, all very romantic, married Claude Bill Divorces That Dizzy. Mr. Jarr mopped 's too much for me," can follow automobile matter, but . forgive and forget ing thaD| ind marry again {s too bewildering | this divorce said Mrs, Jarr, “if you ex- pect me to keep posted Who in Society you will remember who's divorced are about to be. If you are Hable to make terrible and ask people how their wives and | husbands are since them only to learn they are all some- Who's | ferred to abov ere are no children—in sald Mrs, Jarr, here are children, ps intend to live their own lives in their me sitll’ theed that {t is the divorced man who ully, and) generally marries th What E About People and Things By Sophie Copyright, 1919, by The Pree Pubiishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ae rewards come to him wh it is inconvenient to be poor, but it is poor to be inconseuient. A needed friend is rarely a friend in need. Better the peace of little than the panic of too much. Always before us is the miser wishes he liad spent his heirs’ mond It is @ fine thing to be a good ‘close to the ground you will hear th little, spend me long.” “Money matters” matter much if | Money is the lubricant which ke | serveching. | ‘Tis a wise individual who keeps [later on. ve Said. Irene Loeb 0 foreshadows events. who hoards up his gold, then tater “spender,” but if you keep your ears e echo of the Guinea ery: “Spend me ‘ indeed, eps the wheels of life moving without a little ofl in hand to meet the grind The Mayo | if of Being a AYOR CYRUS PERKINS M WALKER of Delhi is very much incensed at the attitude some of the citizens of his town have taken over an incident that occurred /at Hugus Hall Saturday hight where @ meeting was held to discu~s the | high price of milk. The meeting was called by the Women’s Betterment League, but the public in generai was invited and there was a big gather- ing of both men and women present. ‘The Mayor was the principal speaker, His address ovcasioned the incident referred to above. He belleves it was brought about by the fll feeling the the anti-Waiker political faction bears fer him, Promptress Pertle of the League in- | troduced the Mayor, although no in- | troduction was needed, us everybody present knew him. | “Milk 1s too high,” sald the Promp- | tress. “We will now hear from Mayor | Walker, who has pledged himself to | get it lowered.” Mayor Walker smiled when he be- yun his address, He was in a happy frame of mind because he was about to have a chance to deal a blow to |the Delhi milk trust “Ladies and gentlemen,” be began, “why should inilk be so high in price? Has the cow jumped over the moon?” | Much merriment ensued and when lit quieted down the Mayor took an- jother stiff rap at the milk trust | “The owners of the cows in this | vicinity must give us cheaper milk, [be said “Muybe thoy'll speak to the cows,” }said a voice coming from the centre | | | By Bide Dudley : Coprrieht, 1919, by The Pres Pupitshing ©o, (The New York Reming World.) + RAR ARAL APORPDRPOOLIOD Walker Is Infuriated When Accused at a Meeting rof Delhi _ Crap Shooter of the hall A laugh followed. When it tae subsided yor Walker com ued, “Th ought to to some. thin, ne wald ‘Sefer on Sen speak to a cow?” interruption. “How did you do itt he demunded. “IT just eald, “Howdy, cow!” repiie@ the voice. Again there was a laugh. “It should be us easy to lower milk as it is te Pde seven shooting craps,” said the jayor, bt ad ought to know,” said the voice. id Why ought I know?” snapped the speaker. “They tell me you're @ great crap shooter. It was more than the Mayor could stand. Two years ago he was ac- cused of having won $5 from some small boys by shooting eraps with them but the accusation was laid to politics, . “Ig Constable Pelee Brown in the ball?" he asked. “Present!” said that officer, stand ing up. “Arrest that man!” The constable flew at the man, who Proved to be Hype Irons, an Anti- \Wulker Democrat. A fight followed, in which the officer was knocked down four times, but he succeeded in sub- duing hig man by threatening to tell Mrs. [rons of a recent drunk Hype indulged in. However, the disturber wasn't entirely equelched. As he waa dragging the constable out [roms stopped and yelled: “Come seven The laughter that followed con- vinced the Mayor that |t was no use to continue, 80 he bowed and re- Used. The meeting was adjourned sven after, To-day the Mayor's crap shooting ability ts being discussed on all sides. The whole town Is talking ‘There is much indignation. What to D Doctor Covyrient, 1919, by The Press Pupush’ | Lead Fc “1 thouglt they ; morning paper. tomethured mean ihe Bulliugtons, and ) many lead poisoning will seem ‘There are very tew,” she tinally| not the autos,” remarked Mr. a very rare condition, une that remarked hulf to herself. , “Mr. Billington got u divorce from | the physician is apt to wee {| seiom in private practice, As a mat- ter of fact, the trouble is more often than not yo vbscure that it 1s mot diagnosed and is regarded as almost anything else, Motably gout. A New York physician has made a deep study of lead polsoning and con- tributed an extremely interesting and helpful paper on the subject to medi- cal Hterature, Le says mild forms have hitherto escaped notice and have gone to swell the number of so called auto intoxications, Some persuns ure Jeatremely susceptible even to minute man |quanlities of lead In any form and naturally such cases are exceedingly bullling and defy diagnosis. Poigon in Soit Drinks, A profesional man, fond of indulg- ing ip “soft drinks,” suffered for months from @ variety of pains vari- ously labelled, He developed wrist drop, bis hands became useless aud he began to regurd‘bis condition as hopeless, when the authority re. saw him, He recog- nized the symptoms, put him oo who | prope r weatment and be recovered; but what was the source of the lead? ‘The bottles containing the sort drinks » covered with old-lashioued lead erst In such extremely innocent ways may the condition, of lead poisoning be contracted; in this case the con- children?" | tents of the bottles absorbed a suihi- Jeient amount of the lead from the stoppers to poison the consumer, Tuod is often contaminated with eople who want | j,/ on «ostanding in contains 4 dO not stop to con. | ad on : ers that are soldered with lead; |pottery which is glazed with lead sons acid foods such as fr wn way—-and the children are sent Prine peineee a8 mA Beh ae eh Sa | $ and the like. § 5 strict secrecy is ons of | to boarding school (= 4 considerable number of persons in pronounced » things| 970 MNS tue tit ction of Philadelphia were seize Uncle Sam's} "Wi Ppose sor” sald Mrs. dare, with | with symptoms of obscure poisonin even this sphinx|q sign; ut alter @ “are |The matter was very thoroughly in eit) the little Ine| Mente ot nice peaple. who marry Vestinated by a leading physician that Rappened during the col-| When they. have Theres who “tihiced “the source Lo lax. A_prepos-|and make up, like we do | chrome 1 ubstitute woman came tte the| “yes, sald Mr. Jarr for ¢ ot 10) one bakery the pn L very lurgely in hatr smet ‘The tollow= ‘ Petor- Haines A seainstress, Ap van two years to the face to conceal freckles. Her plied freely for skin became dry, pale and sallow ber hair had fallen out, she had dys By Charlotte C. West, M. D. o Until the. Comes z Co, (The New York Bvening World.) oning and Colic. vepsia, debility and low spirits. She had repeatedly suffered from coilc. and finally developed melancholia, for which she was sent away to be (reated, During this time she left off the cosmetic and her condition im- proved, When she resuined the per- hiclous habit there was an immedi- ute exacerbation of all symptoms. A sister had suffered from convulsive seizures, which were being treated for epileptic attacks, Both cases were finally diagnosed as lead poi- soning. A Vocational Disease. Occupation is the most frequent source of lead posioning, such as painting, plumbing, lead mining, roll ing sheet lead, pottery gluziug, type- founding and setting, shot making, dressmuking in which lead dyed silk Unread is used and the ends bitten off, © making, glass grinding, calico printing, besides many obscure sources too nuinerous to mention; but 4s ubsorption of the poison takes place mainly through the intestina) tract, we have lead colic as @ char- acteristic symptom, cramps in mae- cles, neuritis, tremors and paralysis in varying degree, In chronic iead poisoning the breath ls foul and the gums ure uffected; u blue line being observed in some cuses at the roots of the teeth, Profound anaemia is present. Of course when condition is recognized and the use reveuled it should be removed. This is often impossible when the” livelihood of u whole family depends upon the occupation of the bread winner, Rigid cleanliness Especially must ¢ as well us the nose and mouth workers in all lead industri scrupulously cleaned before ing of food A mask can be worn, also a screen over the nose and mouth to cateh dust, Kespirators are in use in some lead works, Milk and sulphuric acid lemonade have been recommended for use of workers in lead for their antidotal effect, Constipation i usually present, and this should be eated with Epsom or Glauber's salts, The treatment of the symptoms is almost invariably followed by com plete recovery : The colle of lead poisoning ts pe joullar in thal the pain-is of a rotar: characte: around the umbtlieu (navel), For acute attacks the usual hyperdermic treatment with na cotics is employed. Here hot bat! such as outlined for gail stone kidn te colle wv not answe It must be remembered that Epso salt is an antidote to lead, and th: workers in lead should dose then selves occasionally with Chis alt ( its antidotal effect, )