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ESTANLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Betts. Dally Mxcept sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 63 t “3 Park Row, New York. Ht PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANC SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Par JOBEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., THR Assoc! MEMB! ED PRess, da tad BP te enh entitied to the for reponiteation i walet ee tL eens sniiirs oe Paella DOUBLE THE PRESSURE. Fr cernery the esteemed example of the United States Senate, Germany holds up the Peace Treaty Why not? As Germany sees the situation, the United States las changed its a) mind. From the German point of view, this great power no longer stands as one of the united group of nations that halted the destroying march of German imperialism and ‘exacted just reparation, As it Iéoks to Germans, the United States is even fighting shy of partner- hip in a league to lessen the chances of more war. Why then should Germany resign itself? If th hesitates, let Germany take advantage. A show of defiance, a little wriggling, and maybe some of the load that weighs upon the Father-| Idd can be cast off. The attitude of the weakened the morale of Germany's conquerors. Let Germany profit This seems a sound and reasonable explanation of why the Ger- man delegation at Paris felt emboldened to reject the protocol which fovides that before the Peace Treaty goes into effect Germany shall agree to the trial of German officers charged with crimes committed France and Belgium and qjso to pay an indemnity for the German sunk by its commanders in Scapa Flow. .. No doubt German hearts have treasured the memory of Senator Knor’s speech in the Senate last August when he condoled with Gef- a many over the “hard and cruel peace” the terms of the treaty im- posed on her. | | Whatever question. arises as to the amount of damages that may United States United States Senate has fairly be demanded for the German war vessels sbuttled in Scapa | Flow, there can be no question as to the deplorable untimeliness of | opening the way for more German parleying tactics based on hope that the United States Senate can be used to maké the peace easier for Germany. Senator Lodge and his wrecking crew may have greatly cheered Berlin. But the effect of the new German attitude on public senti- ment in the United States should be to double the pressure on the Senate. fj © Put through the Treaty. ® End an intolerable situation in which the United States figures aga lucky boost for the echemes of every party and force now plotting fo defeat the purposes of Peace. — The State Reconstruction Committee reports to Gov. Smith that the only direct way to attack the milk problem is to put milk fm the public utilities class. nm One by one, food authorities, investigating commissions and State and city officials, adopt The Evening World's view. ——\_-4—- —. | A PROTEST AGAINST PROFITEERING. @ eae at cost for a few months to register a moral protest against profiteering is the programme announced by the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. A substantial reduction } im prices of rooms and meals is the immediate effect which the public wat 5 | Of course there is good advertising value in such an announce- iq ment, but it is the line of advertising that many another firm in other limes can well gfford to follow. Sooner or later the break must and will come.’ Some one must start it—or something will. Individuals who help along instead of waiting for natural causes to force a drop will gain some well merited as public spirited, practical patriots. Such a reputation . will insure legitimate profits long after the Government has ceased EDITORIAL | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 10919 AGE The The Love Stories | Of Great Novels by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) oe By Albert Payson Terhune No. 20—“*THE BOTTLE IMP.” By Robert Louis Stevenson. BAWD was o Hawaiian sailor, Once when his ship touched at San Francisco he wandered through @ fine rewidence street and noticed a man beckoning to him from the doorway of one of the street's handsomest houses, Surprised that so prosperous a householder should condescend to speak to a poor Hawalian sallorman, Keawe accepted his invitation to come indoors. There his host told him an odd story—the story of @ bottle, inside of which lurked an imp. The owner of this bottle could have anything he might desire, All he needed to t@ exact a great share of excess profits. et Three hundred thousand undernourished children in the city’s public schools is Health Commissioner Copeland's estimate. Can New York afford NOT to think about providing more penny schoo! lunches and cheaper milk? ———-+ -——______ “TOO FULL OF FIREWORKS.” ELENTLESS pursuit has forced a pause in the career of Bandit R Bill Carlisle, the daring and elusive Wyoming highwayman who escaped from prison in a shirt box. Carlisle’s two weeks’ vecation from prison ends in a well-guarded hospital bed. The law tkiumphs with a knockout, but, judging by points, Carlisle had all the best of it until the last round. His presence reported in a half dozen cities simultaneously, it geems that Carlisle actually took to the hills soon after his lone- handed robbery of the Union Pacific limited. Scattering ranchers did not report his presence, either from fear of reprisals or because of sympathetic admiration. Even the wildest of Western movie thrillers scarce surpass the actual exploits of Bandit Bill. * Carlisle lost. He was bound to lose. He lived a generation or tyro too late. Mut it is hard to deny him a measure of admiration, é There is romance and high-spirited adventure in his outlawry. “Too fpll of fireworks” was the description of a Western friend. ‘Too full, a italia aisha ath Rig ARE = bch aca pO AR Po > ——— is indeed, of a sort of fireworks unsafe in the powder magazine of civi- HI Ygation, but admirable in a way, Sir Francia Drake, n ilood, g Jesse James, Cecil Rhodes and some of our own captains of industry were full of very similar “fireworks.” The pity is that Bandit Bill could not have turned his talents to better ends. do was to make a wish and the bottle-imp would in- stantly grant it ‘There were only two drawbacks to the joy of possessing this magic bot- tle. One was that it could be sold only at a lower price than the owner had paid for it; the other was that the red Mames of hell would be the eternal dwelling place of any unfortunate person who might die before getting rid of the bottle. ‘Thus its succeasive owners had made all the wishes they wanted to and had then hastened to eell the bottle to some one else for less than it had cost ghem. As a result its price had dwindled from many thousand dollars dows to fifty, ‘The man who now owned it was the man who had beckoned Keawe into his fine house. After telling the story he urged Keawe to buy the bottle from him. At first Keawe hesitated—for Magic Bottle Gave he did not like the idea of risking hell. 3 ‘Then it occurred to him that he could sell Wealth and Happiness : ot any time and that he might as well change poverty and toll for riches and ease. He bought the bottle for $50 and at once wished for a beautiful house and @ big estate on his native island. The wish was granted. Keawe then gold the bottle for a little less than he had paid for it and Prepared to enjoy his new riches. But soon he was stricken with leprosy, the dread and mortal disease that kills so many Hawaiians. Te save his life he bought back the bottle, cured himself by @ wish, and then resold it at a still smaller price, : Life was tenfold happy to Keawe now, for he had fallen in love with a gloriously beautiful Hawaiian girl, and he married her. In the midat of their happiness his wife fell ill, To save her from death Keawe bought back the bottle, But now, after passing through many hands, its price had fallen to onewent. Ho Keawe know he could never hope to sell the bottle again and must die with it in his possession and thus be doomed to hell. Yet because he loved his wife better than he loved his salvation he bought it, and by means of its magic he restored her to health, Then night and day the prospect of hell was before him, making him miserable. His wife persuaded him to tell her of the secret grief that was vapping his life, And her feminine wit , saw @ way out of the trouble Sho told Freed From Curse <r & way ost s hg he told In Distant Island, there was a coin called @ centime which ‘was worth only one-fifth of a cent. To these islands they went and sought to sell the bottle. But every one was afraid of it, so low had the price fallen. At last a purchaser appeared, Keawe was overjoyed to be rid of the curse—until he found the supposed purchaser was really an agent for his wife, who had secretly bought the bottle to save her husband from hell by taking the curse upon horself, Suying no word to his wife about his discovery, Keawe, through another agent, bought back the bottle from her. But this agent-—a drunken and crime-soaked pailor--refused to give it to Keawe, swearing he would keep it himself and get a)} the benefits and riches from it, The sailor laughed at 4 - et? saa B) The National City Bank of New York reports assets of over 3 one billion dollare—the high mark for an American institution to A date. : ie How many individual New Yorkers can find record figures in 5. 4 ‘thelr bank books ¢his year? pe aie the peril of hell, saying he was bound thither-anyhow. Bo it was that Keawe and his self-sacrificing wife both escaped the curse and were spared 40 each other and to years of happincss. The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copyright, eee Mrs. Jarr Intends Collecting a Real Dinner in by The Press Publishing Co, McCardell (The New York Hvening World.) Suburban Near-Society. @ HAD sel ie « visitor to-day,” Jest when Mr, said) saying that she asked me when we Jarr| were coming out to see her. But I came home the other evening. | knew what she was up to, and I got “I know you'd never guess who i(/@ chance to whisper to Gertrude not was," she went on, “but it was Mrs. Jenkins, wife of that man Jenkins down at your office.” “What did Mrs, Jenkins say?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Oh, the same old thing!” replied Mrs. Jarr. “About how expensive it ig to live in the country when every- body they know in the city bas an automobile and drops in to see them on every bright Sunday.” “The nkinses are safe enough from us," ventured Mr. Jarr. “She probably meant us, too,” said Mrs, Jarr, “for she said that on nice Sundays they had so many callers that she never got a chance even to take a walk these bright wintry days. And when the weather was miserable and she had to stay indoors nobody came to see them. And right after |How It Started By H rmine Ni Ft Now York resins Werks The Kiss at the Altar. W, can't they wait until they get home?" is what many ao little page at his big sis- ter'’s wedding has said at least to himself, when, at the conclusion of @ ceremony, the happy man turned and kissed the bride. They kissed cach other of course, but it is he who turned, No, little brother, they cannot wait. It {s ‘part of the game. This is a sur- vival of a custom of ancient timos when It preceded by a longer time the ceremony which it now ends, In the days when public betrothals or espousals were the general prac- tice, Many an aspiring suitor did not have the wherewithal to endow his prospective bride with the ring which was supposed to consummate the ceremony, However, a kiss duly per- formed before witnesses was consid- ered suMiciently binding, Who will blume these ancestors of ours if they came without rings then, or. haying the ring, demanded in addi- tion the alternative, until the oMfeial youl yeverted back to nature's have to ee And who will blame the p m0 bridegroom if for lack of a ceremony of betrothal be has clung to his privs to serve luncheon till she was gone.” “That wasn't very hospitable on your part,” remarked Mrs. Jarr. Treats and ‘Traits, “I am going to treat people tbe Way they treat me after this,” re- Plied Mrs. Jarr. ‘So I never pre- tended to take it to myself when she kept talking how she had to get dinners for all the people that stopped in to gee them in their auto- mobiles,and, yet, when she and Mr. Jenkins came (vo town, she said they had to go to @ restaurant when they wanted something to eat! But I didn’t take the hint. After all, the Jenkinses only moved to the suburbs to get into society.” “I thought people moved to the country for the sake of their chil- dren,” suggested Mr. Jarr. “That's what they say,” was the re- ply, “but the Jenkinses haven't any children.” “How do you get into society in the suburbs?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Oh, there's lots of ways,” wag the reply, “You find out what Js the fashionable chureh and you find out from the tradespeople who are the so- ciety leaders. Suburban Society, “Still,” Mra, Jarr went on, “East Malaria, where the Jenkinses' live, 16 @ very exclusive suburb. It would be nice to live there, where the children could meet and rey up with young folks that would advance them so- cially.” “Can't they meet young folks who will advance them socially while they live in town?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Oh, I suppose #0," was the reply, “but Clara Mudridge-Smith and Mrs, Stryver, the best people we kuow here in’ town, have no children,” “Neither have tho Jenkinses, 80 why should we move to Kast ‘Ma- taria.” "Oh, the Jenkinses,” said Mrs, Jarr with fine scorn. first persons I ¥ to East Malar “They would be the uld cut if we moved “But I Ida’t cut Jenkins. We work in the same office, you know." “E guppose not," remarked Mrs, Jarr with But, unyway, Clara Mudridge-Smith is’ going to take us out f mobile Sunda a drive in her auto- if i's a nice day, and I promised Jenkins that ‘we'd call at their place." | “But LT thought you said or implied that Mr. and Mrs, Jenkins ud no great suclal position ventured Mr Jar, “Well, ¢ ra Mudrid, Sinith won't know that, wills anked = Mrs, Jarr. “And I'll get a nice automobile {lege and transferred it to bis wod- ride and a dinner from tho Jenkinses ding day? which they owe me anyway!" Famous Row With Carnegie and Lifelong Rivalry With the Laird of Skibo. Coprrigyt, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (Tho New York Evening World.) OT very long after the Civil War Henry Clay Frick of Mount Pleas ant, Pa,, wrote to the Mellon Banking House in Pittsburgh, asking for a loan of $20,000 with which to speculate in coke and coke fur+ naces, His only collateral, so far as the banking house could understand,, was his conviction that the coking process was an inseparable part of the steel industry. The head of the house was impressed by the writer's nerve. He sent James B. Corey to Mount Pleasant to take a look at “this Frick person.” Mr. Corey found Frick living in a clapboarded shack which was half office Be) Ar aix-Les- eainss Ave: 6. 1898, and half living room. The walls were hung with prints, some of them apparently sketches made by Frick and others which were reproductions of famous works of art, ‘ “He seems to know his business,” Corey reported back to the Mellons, “put he seems to be a little unbalanced about pictures, But on the whole, I think we better give him the money.” , Forty years later the biggest asset of the Mellon firm was the financial friendship of Henry Clay Frick. And story building on Fifth Avenue i Pittsburgh. Frick put up a twonty- story building close enough so that tt the debt of obligation to the Corey family had been met by the promotion of William Ellis Corey to be Presi- dent—until he got on the other side of Mr. Frick’s sentimental tempera- ment—of the United States Steel Cor- poration, ‘Andrew Carnegie had an ironclad agreement with all his employees under which they signed their re@ig- nations before they went to work, They also agreed to sell out their holdings in the Carnegie industrie#’at a fixed cost. Henry C. Frick thought but little of Andrew Carnegie as a business systematizer. He spoke unkindly of the muddled condition of the finances of the Carnegie corporations as they were when he came to them. It took him six years, Frick didn't mind say- ing, to find out just how much money the Carnegie steel business was mak- ing. Inasmuch as the muddle had all been made clear, Mr. Carnegie couldn't see why it was necessary to have a man around who made that sort of conversation. He had a secretary find the signed-in-advance resigna- tion of Mr. Frick. He got several of his other employees to sign a round rohin “acceptance” of the resignation. ‘Then he trotted from his own office into Mr, Frick’s office and explained to Mr. Frick that it was about time for Mr. Frick to draw $5,000,000 from the company and get out. Philander C. Knox says the funniest show he ever saw was Mr. Carnogic coming out of that office with Henry | Frick two jumps behind him. ‘Tho | white whiskers of the Scotch tron- master, said Mr. Knox, sang like the needles on the barrel of a music box in the breeze which was made by Car- negie's energy. in secking a pla where Frick was not. Frick’s beard floated behind his ears as he strove to overtake the philanthropist. Frick did not catch Carnegie that time, But Carnegie pald him $15,000,- 000 rather than have fnother dis- cussion on the subject. Carnegie liked to do big things by way of showing a rich man's power for good achievement. Frick liked to | do things just a little bit bigger by| way of showing that anybody with Carnegie’s moncy could do that sort of thing. Carnegie put an ornate twelve- made the Carnegie building look like arunt. Along came a big and blew the insides out of the upper stories of the Frick building. ‘The Carnegie building was not damaged at all because the Frick building bad) screened it from the blast, Henry C. Frick allowed the Home- ganized stead strike to come to o bloodshed and rioting because he be- leved in the creed that one has a right to do as he pleases with his own props erty—no matter what the general ot! labor interest in that property + be. He was shot and stabbed by man, the Anarchist, as a result of Prominence in that doctrine, Thirs” teen years later It became his fai U diversion to sit through fall noons on a four-acre park he had bought as a breathing space for the workers of Homestead after the strike; was settled. ‘ Whatever Mr. Frick wanted het bought. The least thing which trou-! bled him was the amount of meney, involved. “I can make money,” he, said, “but I can’t make picture: sometimes hoe changed his mind « what he wanted. The Pittsburgh Leader made fun of Mr. Frick by printing a cartoon tm) which the most conspicuous featwty: was the dollar mark on Mr, Fricits back. or Mr. Frick rang for a secretary attd pointed to the cartoon. “This sort of thing won't do—won't ; Bo buy that paper,” retary came back to ray t n Flinn, whose feelings bad a | been hurt, was'about to buy the paper “That's better,” said Mira Frick, “Let Flinn worry—he wot bother me and it won't cost me o Mr. Frick told Judge Lovett of thg. that hi Union Pacific in 1911 ° wae going to his country palace at Pride Crossing, M ra time and hoped he woulc disturbed tn his fest there. Lovett took Lim at hiss word, and when an_ Executive Committ cling was called merely | mailed ormal notice card to Pride's Crossing; it reached Mr. Frick after the meeting had been held Mr. Frick got oul of Union Paaific, © got ot of the Oregon Shirt Ling and he got out of every other Hattie man interest. in the northwei Other corporations with emen Ait Frick was connected thereafter ep his notices by special me returned with a Tho published descriptions of the magnificence of the Carnegie magneton at Fifth Avenue and Slst Street Mit! tated Mr, Frick. “rl make it look like a miner’d! shack,” he was reported to have sald, Hence the magnificent art! gallery which city in the worl Mary Berry 10 BE an influence in a great life | i fh is @ great thing, Miss Mary) Berry, who died in London in 1852, was the last link between thc closing eighteenth century the mid-Victorlan era, She was an authoress and gloried in being tho| correspondent of Horace Walpolo, In. deed, this celebrated gentleman made her a fervent offer of his heart and his hand, but Miss Mary Berry declinea the honor, With her sister she took and up her abode at Twickenham, near i y estate Strawberry Hill It was Miks Mary | vailed upon Walpole to give orld his famous Reniniscences Courts of George | a lion, fended pol the Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review WOM Emily Dickenson. |; HH was never known to have lover veldom left her’ fib} ther’s house in Amherst, Mass) and when she crossed its threabotat it was to Wander alone in the quatng garden And she how written some ot he most impassioned verse in mod jern literature, Her solitary life get nto the frame her glowing vers is the answer to the question, writers have to go through the ott: ig phases of life to know ‘Love.''® Emily Dickenson was born in Ams harat in 1880, died there in 1846. OF her extraordtary vermes that we I new forms of express \We owe to her some of the most charming “Letters of Walpole,” i New tngla Thome » mntworth Figginson, suid, ‘When at thought tukes your breath away, | lesson on ammar gcems impertig pence,” haa ever received from an individuak = nals § + —