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OTN SHOVES eH Devi Me 7 Wi Cotte” EDITORIAL PAGE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, o19| ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. hi Publishin, N ‘ Pedemed Dally Except Sunday by the Trees Publishing Company, Nom 63 urer, 4 Row. ‘MEMBER OF THE ‘ASSOCIATED Pheas, eealet STE TMs elie" aed Sadie ola ah Sele Bara VOLUME 60..... NO. 21,291 —e f , RESIGNED? XACTLY if their country were at war again, the people of the United States ride in heatless street cars in December. They submit to lightless nights. They see American catgo vessels held in port with empty coal bunkers. West and Hast, they ; sce their railroad service reduced, witlt a prospect of yet more drastic exts to follow. Industry, transportation, public comfort and healti) -—menacing coal famine gets its paralyzing grip on them all. There is no nocessity for it. Every wage increase or other con- cession the coal miners ultimately receive could have been secured without one hour's slackening of coal production. The fullest justice to the miners required no blow against the rest of the country. The suffering of millions of innocent people was in no sense indispensable ‘to the settlement of a dispute between miners and operators. The conflict of claims could have been argued to a fair finish without costing either the miners or the country the loss of a day’s work in the soft coal fields. ‘The whole thing is colossa] clumsiness and injustice, Here is a nation of more than a hundred million people in the ‘. fromt rank of civilization and progress, with an advanced form of government, elaborate machinery for administering law and justice : and unlimited money and brains to use in improving that machinery. Is a country at this stage of development to sit down in despair and admit it sees no hope of ever settling industrial controversies by any other method than one which allows capital or labor, as the] cage may be, to knock it down and walk over it whenever the dispute involves the production of some basic necessity? The Government puts a legal extinguisher on a coai strike and the coal strike goes right on under the extinguisher, with the calls for justice as loud as ever. _ Meanwhile @ hundred million people meekly prepare to curtail their business, cut down their shipments, give up using their railroads and shiver along as best they may! Workers clamor for justice. Employers clamor for justice. Why doesn’t the country stop lying on its back and demand that some means be found to supply justice—with an authority that both con- tending sides will respect? r ne “ LPT ee _ neo ir ee een ee an | } seinhamrtk ciated Tadaenn he ee BAD FOR THE KEYHOLE BRIGADE. § NDER whatever circumstances it was arranged, the releaso of ; U Jenkins by the Mexican authorities relieves the tension of the situation and reduces the whole affair to the status of a rather ambiguous and involved episode, the facts of which can now ve cleared up under less pressure. ? The turn of affairs must be highly disappointing to United 7 States Senators who hoped to use the Mexican crisis as a means of worrying the sick President and, if possible, forcing an admission of his incapacity to perform the duties of Chief Executive. Mr. Wilson's prompt decision to receive Senators Fall and Hitch- cock yesterday afternoon must also have nonplused the keyhole bri- gade who have been whispering that the President is in such a con- dition as to make it impossible for him to’ have written his own Father $ OT long ago, I attended a bril- lant function. My hostess was beautiful, but she had bartered her youth for old age at the behest At the same time, we believe the public could be trusted with of Mammon. more exact news regarding the President’s health. Not all Americans ath ene are waiting a chance to make a noise in the sick room. te —_—_—_——-+>—_____—__ : THE TEST OF PROFITEERING. Hone: got down to the rock bottom test of profiteering ace, the centre of all fasbion's throng, amd shaded lights, and from the dis- tance there camo strains of soft music, like from @ thousand harps. Her gray-haired, old husband stood by her wide and greeted her guests After a bit he grew tired and went to bed. But'the merry party went on. I heard somebody near me say to the hostess: "How proud your people must be of you—your mother and father, Are they alive?” “Mine,” she questioned light-heart- edly. “Oh, they belong to the old school. They are very old-fashioned the dear things, and aro just happy in their dear old quiet way back home.” But she did not add that she had not seen them in years, I know these fine old people. They are back in Pennsylvania, I can see them now, They have been very poor. They are sitting at the fireside, He is tired and wan. Me dreams ofthe might- have-been. She looks eadly into the glowing embers. He nods sadly, “Would we had a child. It is kind of lonesome.” A postman comes by, He goes to the door, He opens an envelope. It contains a check and a letter from a lawyer, It is the monthly allowance sent by the daughter to the old couple. He holds the slip of paper in his hand and reads it over by the fre- light, a8 be has read every one that has come, The companion of all the years sits beside him and hears him tell how he will pay the butoher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Yes, the debt is being paid, the debt owed to the First Natyral Bank of Life. a Bie came one: at the Philadelphia City Club last Thureday. Laird Simons, ® Boston shoe manufacturer, roused the ire of women present by attributing high prices to changes in shoe styles. They pointed out that babies’ shoes of conventional style had doubled in price. Mer. Simons admitted that he could not explain this. It reinained for a man to put the real fundamental question, “Will the books of the American manufacturers show greater profit when they are balanced in January than they did during the pre-war times?” Mr. Simons admitted they would. Net profits after taxes, raw material costs and labor are paid are ‘the final test of profiteering. All other explanations Jail to convince when the balance sheet shows a disproportionate reward for service rendered, In a time when it is a public duty to hold prices down as jfar as possible, an overswollen profit account warrants the hateful 4 ‘accusation, “profiteer.” ES FEMININE INDEPENDENCE. oe I ‘ADY ASTOR carly in her career as an M. P. takes occasion antenna Sai leith tae neat re ii ereiarmmtiial Re me ee gee to vote independently and against her partyr She manifested her consistency to suffrage principles by refusing to vote for sex discrimination in the Indian election bill although this was sup- ported by her party. Jeannette Rankin made an undesirable record as the first woman member of the American Congress, but without question she showed a strong spirit of independence, Here in New York Miss Mary Garrett Hay manifests a similar disregard for party regularity in opposing the rg-election of Senator Wadoworth, Woman's independence of party when party is wrong is one of the results which suffrage advocates have predicted, Every friend of good government is hoping that the prediction will be verified, Independent ‘attitude of Lady Astor and Miss Hay are straws sending her away to school to learn id the ways of wisdom that she might What Is Honoring and Mother? 1919, by The Priv Publishing Co. (The New York Svening World.) Dearest of All Ties Is That Which Binds Us to Our Parents, and Our Debts to Them Should Be Paid Fully and Gladly This old couple had spent their all | By Sophie Trene Loeb might be a comfort to them in their declining years. And jhe? She forgot the lessons of her youth. She forgot the strug- gles of those old souls. She liked the glitter of gold and the glow of the limelight, And so she marrieda rich man and went away. «ne thought that the “old timers” would not fit in, and yet they are the salt of the earth. But she did not want the salt of the earth; she wanted the bitter-sweets, Some day she is going to see it. She Is going to realize that “to honor thy father and thy mother” means not merely the payment of money, It means just wha} it says. The old man, hér husband, is going to die, She will be left alone. She has no kith or kin aside from her old parents. Already she is satiated with the tinsel and knows that the friends she has made are people who like only her dinners and enjoy her entertainments, But when she is not present, they more boldly ask the question, that they languidly ask of her, “Who and where are your people?” She no ties that bind, except the marriage ones. Alas, how lonely this woman will be, even more lonely than the two old people she is leay- ing to wither and die in the little town in Pennsylvania, She will not even have beautiful memories of them, because she has neglected them—wilfully so. Ia moments—in dark hours, she will have nothing to which to cling. Truly will she pay because she has disobeyed the mandate, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” By Roy L Mrs. Jarr Almost Sol lem by ‘Celestial 66] THINK I'll step out and take a I look at the weather,” said Mr. Jarr, sort of musingly, the other evening after supper. “You think again!” said Mrs. Jarr, “but I'm not going to sit all alone here after supper while you are out until all hours down at that awful place on the corner! Don't tell me that your friend Gus at the corner isn’t violating the Prohibition lawi Further pathetic protest on this in- jured husband's part—but only iis feelings were hurt, remember—were cut short by a ring at the bell, and Mr. Jarr was hurrying into his coat in case it might be stylish company, Mrs, Jarr was at the door admitting the caller. Mr. Jarr shed his coat again for comfort’s sake when he saw that the visitor was the Chinese laundryman of the neighborhood. He was one of those beaming genial Chinamen. “Glood ebling!" he said. “Me bling launidly, “Two dollar and forty- sixee centee.” “The steam laundries were on strike and I got to sending your things to John's," explained Mrs, Jarr, “You fellows don't work union hours, evidently. It's after 7 P, M.,” remarked Mr. Jarr to the amiable looking @riental “Me gettee money, workee plentee,” replied the laundryman, “Me workee 10, 12 o'clockee. Me no kickee,” Tt was always this way. “Well, 1 don't see how it is that I SN’T it rather inconsistent, now that women have the vote, that fashion should deny the more timid of the other sex the protection which was formerly accorded them by the voluminous dimensions of their ladies’ costumes below the waist? Certainly there is nothing smaller than a man who would hide behind the skirts of a woman, We have not much to say for his breadth or his depth. But small as his proportion: may be, can you imagine how they be self-sustaining, and that she arriat at Seiminide thought, | * could be crowded behind what in Hermine | eustadtl rted tk “Behind a Woman’s Skirts”’ Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World.) | these days serves for milady the pur- pose of a skirt? | Just think of the hoop skirt and the crinoline of other days! And that’s how it started, For then a man might very comfortably have concealed himself behind @ woman's | Jip. skirts, Mr. Jarr again nudged her, for the To adjudge this expression an index | Chinaman was once more emitting an |of the manhood of those days would | ondless string of vocal firecrackers. | certainty For in all ages} ‘Then he turned to Mrs. Jarr and} | there ha and men, But) gaid: lin the days of other fashions it did|~ “He say he come for five dollars a [not require a great itch of the| day, eight hours a day.” imagination to speak of a man who; “Tell him nix, we have ermitted a woman to shield him as ing behind her skirts, The Jarr Family Mr. Jarr Objects McCardell (The New York Evening World.) ves the Servant Prob- Inspiration, but can't get a servant girl who is in- spired by such sentiments. I can't get one inspired by any sort of septi- ments,"" said Mrs, Jarr plaintively. “Look at Gertrude, has Sunday out And takes to-day off, too.” “Why you no takee Chinese boy?” asked the Celestial shirt polisher. “Chinee boy good clook, washee clothes, do plenty work. Why you no gettee glood China boy?” “Don't you remember how Call- fornia people all say they get so much comfort out of their Chinese house servants?” said Mrs, Jarr turning jeagerly to Mr. Jarr. “I'm sure I'm | almost tempted to try one, Suppose they do ask high wages? They do ALL the work, and no girl will do washing and ironing or even house cleaning, and a woman in by the day now charges three dollars and car- fare.”’ | ‘Me gottee cousin, Chlistian Sunday | school Chinese boy. He do work for you, all the samee hot stuff,” said the Asiatic. ‘Then, seeing Mrs, Jarr hesitate, he added: “Me gbttee him on telephone.” Mrs. Jarr indicated the telephone with a wave of her hand, and the Chinaman, after a patient skirmish with his dialect and the hello girl, finally got his connection. Chop Suey Conversation, ere is the conversation that And ensued’ wien wantee talk all same Sam Pp "I always did want to try Chinese or Japanese servants,” said Mrs. Jarr, “but I heard they wanted such high wages. And then, on account of the children”—— Mr. Jarre urged her not to distract the friendly Asiatic at the phoue, for that person had evidently got’ his cousin, Bam Yip, on the wire. He was speaking to him as follows: “Suah, how yee ah cfliong gow wah haw, yee ha keong, huln seeup akow- chow glow oW gah yot ckkehang shu chocow gol goW hooyaw seekaechow ano yup ekeechula kang a how yah- chinggogah!” “Tell him to let me know when he | can come for sure, so | can let my present servant go," interjected Mrs. | The real compensation for wearing common sense shoes is the feeling of way five times, rest We must keep the pores clean so they | ites ing between eaca n breathe, then give them the fr Exercise 8—While y —While inhalin to breathe, While this | rms forward upmaine raise wo may learn to ventilate Stretch up. riging on a peye | house by giving th lunge & ome Ke an | Lower arms sideways, pressing them air. in a deep h of fresh and exhaling. — Repe a | at five air, Isn't it sweet? Doesn't it give a) a haat eine ave sutisfactory feeling? You don’t teel co Werkse measured like taking a decp breath in an ill babeitieat By Marguerite Mooers eee Marshall | Modern Maid | Copyright, 1919, by Tae Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening Worl . F you consider the voice, vocabulary and enunciation of the average American girl, you must conclude that Love is deaf as well as blind. ‘Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever,” chirped a sentimental Victorian, But the modern girl understands that if ehe’s clever nobody will know whether she’s good. The caddess who opens her husband's letters deserves to find the one for, which she is looking. : Under prohibition women must work harder than ever. The poor dear men will suffer enough without having to undergo a temptation shortage. sweet superiority which steals over you every time you see @ pair of teetery French heels, When a wife ‘8 her husband after dinner to do an errand next da: and he comes home with it undone, why does he always exclaim ag: srievedly, “But you didn’t remind me of it in the MORNING!” The more I see of the methods of the “successful business man,” the sure? I am it should be written “business (7?) man.” Keep clear of the woman who can cry without her nose turning red. There is NOTHING to stop her from getting her own way. From the patronizing kindnesa of those “who knew us when'"—good Lord, deliver us! : The war liar is something of a novelty, but the salary liar we have always with us, The Love Stories Of Great Novels Coprright, 1919, ty The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bening World) By Albert Payson Terhune No. 21—**KENILWORTH.” By Sir Walter Scott. MY ROBSART was the gentle and lovely daughter of an English country gentleman. Her innocent charm won the fickle heart of Rabert Dudley, Earl of Lejces- ter, England's most promising statesman and couftier. Because the love of this country girl was the one decent emotion that ever entered Leicester's selfish heart, he wooed and married Amy. But he prevailed on her, for state reasons, to keep the marriage secret for a time. Leicester just then wax high in the favor of Queen Elizabeth—who was as rot ten as a woman as she was great as a Queen, Eliz- abeth had fallen in love with the handsome Leicester and was lavishing new wealth and honors upon him The Queen was bitterly jealous. Should she learn that the Karl had dared marry another woman while he was basking in the favor of her royal smiles she would ruin his ‘career Thus, until he could establish himself upon a firmer footing, Leicester kept his marriage a secret. He housed Amy at an old dwelling known as Cumnor Hall, and there, by stealth, he used to visit her as often as he could get away from court. For many months this clandestine married life went on, to the disgust ef Leicester's chief retainer, Richard Varney. Varney cared nothing for Leicester, nor for any one but his worthless But he realized that his own fortunes depended on those of the Kar! If Leicester should continue to rise at court, then Varney too would rise. If Won Power at Court 1 orrcstor should tai out of favor with the Queen because of his marriage to Amy, as Queen’s Favorite ; them Varney too would be the loser, Cunningly Varney strove to set the Earl against his gentle young wife. Craftily he sought to play upon the Earl's ambition. Bit by bit the poison of his words began to undermine Leicester's love for Amy und to fan his dreams of court greatness. ‘The climax arrived when Queen Elizabeth paid a state visit to the Earl at his great castle of Kenilworth, On the results of this visit Richard Var ney had staked everything. The Queen was delighted with the entertain- = self. By Mabelle M. Ford A Sec. Physical YW ‘ducation ments provided for her at Kenilworth. Leicester's popularity soared higher wy than ever. e ‘Then, just as everything seemed to be going Varney's way, Amy came came to Kenilworth. Homesick for a sight of her long-absent husband and roused to anguish by the rumors of Leicester's impending marriage with the Queen, she had suffered herself to be brought to the castle in order to learn the truth and to plead with her recreant husband. ‘As Leicester was walking with the Queen one day in the gardens of Kenilworth he was aghast to see Amy stand before them. The Queen, on hearing Amy was the Karl's wife, went "g into a royal rage that threatened to land Hapless Woman Fell her host in prison or on the scaffold, ThroughTraptoDeath — But Varney intervened, saying | tho woman was his own wife and that her mind was deranged. Then, as soon as possible, he spirited Amy back to Cumnor Hall. But Varney know there could be no lasting way to keep the secret from the Queen so long as Amy should remain live, and he made his plans accordingly. He sent word to Amy's room that Leicester had arrived at Cumnor Hall to ste her, Overjoyed at the news of her recreant husband's return, the poor girl rushed down a dark passageway toward the hall where Var. ney said Leicester was waiting for her. In the darkness she fell through a trap-door, left open by Varney, and was killed by the fall, (Note—In this so-called “Historical Romance” Scott took many strange liberties with history. 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