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toes aoe oats 4 . — things can happen, then, in New York! ' : THE |" MIR. TAFT 1S WRONG. pyrene ER President William H, Taft has a sum- | mary plan for “reaching a mean” between the jinterests of capital and labor wherever a strike 63 Park Tow. | \ threatens; 03 Park Row.: . | World. rk. ow. “Get them behind closed doors and jet them | ra MEMHER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRR, | blow off. Pee Amorated Urea is eaehasively entitled to the use for repablice | Bee of all news cerpaicnes credited to It oF not otherwise creaited in Unis | RPE Gnd aire (he local news pabliched bereia, idea of compulsory arbitration behind closed doors. It VOLUME 60............s00084..NO. 21,297 | if one of the great mistakes of those who prescribe ere come ae | remedies for industrial troubles. A SHOCKING CASE, | Workers are not content to be shut into commit- tee rooms with employers and told to compromise An elderly woman run down in the street by their differences, They expect a contest in the open, &@ taxicab was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where she where their demands can be reinforced by whatever died of her injuries. On a certificate dated before her backing public opinion will give them. death and which bore the fraudulent authorization of The worker with a grievance wants to see his @ person falsely represented to be her son-in-law, the claims pushed for the utmost they ‘are worth, That woman's body was delivered from the City Morgue is where the strike promoter gets a hold on him, A fo an undertaker.and buried in Mount Kensico Ceme-| ctrike promises publicity, excitement, the sense of bat: | tery before a daughter who lives on Riverside Drive ‘ting for rights withheld. had even heard of her ‘mother's death, And this,| forward into a light where public attention is perforce though the hospital authorities had informed the un-| drawn to’ it, where it takes on a certain heroic hue. | Gertaker that the woman had a daughter living in| The professional strike organizer knows all this antl New York who would call for the body within three) makes full use of it. ‘That is his business, days. Names of the dead woman's parents were} — We cannot ignore this natural wish of the dissatis- “faked” in the dealh certificate filed with the Board) fied worker for a fight rather than a round-table con- of Health, The burial was thus shockingly expedited | ference, We should give him a field of battle where | less than thirty-six hours after death by an adjuster | conflict can be carried on fiercely, conspicuously and for a taxicab company who claims to have been act-! +3 a finish—without halting industry. We should give ing from motives of charity! him a court where the best brains in the country can The facts of this amazing story were first made | fight for him while he works and while the whole! Public yesterday by The Evening World, as was also! Nation watches, ready to applaud his just victories. the circumstance that papers relating to the case turned With a great public tribunal dedicated to his special over by Chief Medical Examiner Norris to the Dis-/ use, where his battles could be fought out under im- trict Attorney's office appear to have been lying far) pressive auspices, we should find the workingman back in some pigeonhole. . choosing his leaders by new standards, We should ‘The New York Police Department makes a sorry | find him calling for big men with trained minds and “Showing in the affair, not even having correctly re-!sound and respected principles instead of letting him- | Ported the name of the hospital to which the unfortu-| seif be ted so often’by demagogues and crack-brained | iate woman was taken after the accident. No wonder} -adicals, New York has a lengthening list of “permanently What do the latter cost him? missing persons.” Seventy per cent. of the returns from natidnal pro- There could hardly be a more distressing thought} duction go to labor in wages. The other 30 per cent. than that disposal of the bodies of persons not im-| are profits. Think how much the 30 per cent. spends mediately identified who die in the streets or hos-| for competent leadership, for expert counsel, If the pitals of this city should have become as careless and} 79 per cent. spent one-tenth as much for similar ser- Ferfunctory as one might expect to find it im Bolshe-| vices, would its net gains be cut down by such losses? vist Petrograd. i Against a 14 per cent. pay increase, would the miners Drastic steps should be taken to re-civilize New} in the soft coal fields have to weigh $60,000,000 lost in wages? ; Mr. Taft is on the back track with his shut-them- A MINISTER MUST LIVE. up-together-and-let-them-settle-it plan. ; : Give labor a high, open court and see it change * A, NEW YORK State pastor, whose salary is $1,000] its leaders and its fighting methods, a year, has undertaken to supplement his in- come by taking a job as a hatmaker. The propriety of his action is questioned by his congregation, But until the church is prepared to’ pay an adequate salary I T BECOMES more and more evident that State} and put the pastor economically on a par with the}4 and national officers of the American Legion should paid manual workers, we imagine that public|he vested with disciplinary powers and should use ‘Commendation will outweigh the condeinnation, them. Historically, Rev. Kingdon of Poughkeepsie is on In St. Louis five members of the Legion acting on| firm ground. In Colonial days the pastor was the| their own initiative attempted to prevent the assembly ‘spiritual leader of the flock. Preaching was an avoca-|of the convention of the Committee of Forty-eight tion. During the week he might be the village black-|and threatened violence if it were held. Officials of ‘smith, a farmer or the schoolmaster. With settle-|the Legion later made it clear that these men were DISCIPLINE AND THE LEGION. | io pot im the country and demand for greater scholar-| not acting for the Legion and did not represent the * 4 _ to “cram.” The public schools, on the contrary, must je ship in the pulpit the ministry became a profession.| Legion. This incident is only one of many similar ‘Whe work of ministering to the intellectual and spiritual] reported from various parts of the country, including jwants of the congregation became a full-time job for] New York. high-class man. Such actions do not represent the will of the ‘At present the ministry is wretchedly underpaid.| Legion. But they are hurting the present growth and Many ‘a successful business man earns more from an} the future influence of the Legion. The Legion should vocation than the minister earns from his vocation.|have protection against hot-heads and reactionaries {The worm may turn, Then churches may have the} within its ranks who discredit the really fine aims of ‘choice of paying for preaching as an avocation or| the organization. paying a pastor for doing the work that goes with his At the convention in Minneapolis some of the fire- job. eating hot-heads proposed resolutions recommending tist That seems to be the choice confronting the Bap-| repressive and even illegal measures, which were wild- church of Poughkeepsie. ly applauded, Always, however, some more level- headed delegates pointed out the mistake, and the convention followed the good advice, PUBLIC SCHOOL RESULTS. Instead of disavowing these misrepresentatives, “PDUBLIC school graduates at Harvard University] !.cgion officials should be in position to expel mem- have made better records in scholarship and de-| hers who violate the laws the Legion is pledged to up- ‘portment than those who come from private schools.|hold. A few public expulsions would be more con- On the other hand, a larger percentage from private vincing than any mere reproofs, Schools are able to pass the entrance examinations. The Legion has an opportunity such as no body The figures reported are decidedly complimentary |of young men ever had. Jf wisely led, it can mould t» our democratic public schools. But the results are] this country to its will, It can dictate policies and! by no means surprising. Privaie school courses are| require performance. It can make America bigger, directed primarily toward getting pupils into college.| better and more American, But the way does not lie The tendency is to specialize and to encourage pupils] midst hate, bigotry, repression and riot. The Legion should protect itself from its too im- Prepare pupils for life rather than for college, and if} pulsive and irresponsible friends and members. “a boy is able to enter without the special training he} “ae tis apt to have acquired an all around education and a} SPLENDID PATRIOTISM OF AMERICAN ACTORS, firmer foundation for more advanced work. (from the Philadelphia Ingutrer.) . 5 ad The first American actor to fall in France hi \° Every Harvard graduate represents a heavy ex- mortalized his name. The Sidney Rankin Drew mgr “pense to the endowment fund, It would seem that! ine American Legion has been organized, and impressive jgood economy would seek to exclude boys who do| services held at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument in “mot promise a paying return in scholarship and to in-| Riverside Drive, New York, As is fitting, this branch Telude more of the all around men. Perhaps it would |! the American Legion is made up of actors who ede ee NR ‘ -|answered the call to duty, The name it bears is one Beip to vary the entrance requirements without notice) »,nuttiar to Philadolphians and one that has been worthily and so foil the cramming specialists and force them! yorne by several generations of American actors, The ‘to cover more ground. Perhaps Harvard may find} young man whose fame is to be thus perpetuated was it wise to fotlow the example of Columbia and devise|r airman in the American Expeditionary Forces, and psychological tests to detect the iden flaws in the| Be fell a8 bik death voile Cahliva tas his country, # f The incident 1s a reminder of the splendid patriotism ‘rental foundation. of the men and women of the American stage. They were loyal to the core and they did not spare them- selves in the effort to be of service to the United States and to the world at a time when civilization was "Judged by his published\ utterances, Lieut. Mr. Taft is wrong. We should get away from this It thrusts the worker's case | Turning On the Steam! x11, Te Ree ie. Copynet, THE BENEVOLENT WOLF. This isn't a fable. The wolf that figures in it is a often heard of. He's the widely celebrated wolf- wolf you'v at-the-door, Most men work all their lives to be rid of him, he is gone they stop working—and, too often, back he comes. And the sense of secur- ity that takes his place is considerably more dangerous than Only a few get the wolf could possibly be. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. id of him forever. Prolong Your Life By Stephen Smith, M. D., LL. D. Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Dr. George L. Meylan of Columbia University recently stated that most | men of to-lay are living on a plane of 40 oF 50 per cent. physical efficiency. Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York, asserted prac- | tically the same thing, The #vening World submitted their statements to a number of leading physictans of | to rules of health und living essentia the country and asked their views as \° 1 to promoting longevity. The second of a series of articles 48 presented to-day. “THE HUMAN MACHINE.” Fr‘ eimea people'who have reached an age some yhat beyond that ap- pointed by Moses, three-score years and ten, are often asked, | A FTER all is said about us, we're “ Beaucaire,” in Operatic Form, a Brilliant Success BY CHARLES DARNTON, a friendly nation, and I must say, without further ado, that English singers were never given s@oh la whole-hearted welcome as the one |that went out to them last night at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where “Monsieur Beaucaire’ was given @ musical turn, ‘ Ti% fact that Marion Green came from Chicago had nothing to do with the case, He had everything in ais favor as an American, but his Eng- Hlish associates were equally welcome. |John Clarke, a good actor as well as a good tenor, "stopped the show” lagain and again in spite of the @act |that he had nothing to sing. Then |there was a good-natured girl from |England, Blanche Tomlin, who won her audience the moment she opened her mouth. When she sang of Ar- cadia she made herself a melodious, good-natured queen of the realm. Ib is not her fault, but her virtue, that she cannot give the air of the “grand lady” to the part of Lady Mary Car- lisle, She has an engaging and a joy ous “personality,” as stage talk goes. ,|In short, she has the rare art of mak- ing you like the final test of the the- atre, “Monsieur Beaucaire,” in operatic form, is a brilliant success. Gilbert Miller's production of Booth Tarking- ton's story wipes out memories of Mansfield and Waller, ‘both actorg who thought only of themselves as actors. In this casey the Duke who makes himself a barber ‘has an excellent singing voice, whereas Mansfield, if you remember, was all voice—and nothing more. Iexcept for biting off his words, Mr. Green caught the French manner very well, Mr, Clarke scored an unmis- |takable hit, and Miss Tomlin made ner way straight to the heart and the ear. Lennox Pawle was immensely Jamusing, and Marjorie Burgess was an alluring Lucy when she happened tc be singing on the key. But with Messager's music and the picturesque costumes, you may take “Monsieur Beaucaire’ as the operatic delight of the season, Charming ts the only word for it. — Symphony Plays In Memory of Miss Callender By Sylvester Rawling. ALTER DAMROSCH and the tra at their concert in Car- negie Hall yesterday afternoon played Grieg’s “Funeral March” in memoriam of Miss Mary Rhinelander Callender, !a director of the society, who died last |saturday. The audience stood with the musicians to pay silent tribute go the memory of one of the least con- spicuous, but most potent figures in the musical life of New York, Im~ mediately following Sophie Braslau, the soloist, headed a group of Mous- i oo Most of us need the wolf in our business. When, of a morning, we glance out of the window and see him sitting hungrily on the doorstep we take more interest in our day's “What is the secret of your life? given, one ancient, by Horace, the Latin poet, viz. “Moderatus in rebus,” moderation in all things, and the second, modern, viz, “A man is what work, When we are on the job the thought of him keeps }| he eats.” Neither of these answers is in accord with Moses's view, who Two notable answers have been Sorgsky’s songs with the “Serenade of Death.” Miss Braslau, whose rich contralto yoice enriches the (Metropolitan us hustling. And by keeping hustling we put our brain in 3 | alleges it is “By reason of strength that we attain to an unusual age.” He Opera House when she is given oppor- condition, which helps a lot with the next day's work. The wolfless man is a worryless man, and a worryless man isn’t much use in the world, The man who knows he can’t be fired helps very little nor bis natural force abated.” was an hundred and twenty years old when he died; The “Secret of Longevity” has in| —— ‘ san breeuaaaraovalesahdipnilihar ecnaiiduaabeea Ieihais saaienehinnainancialccagnanets =n around an office or shop. Nece of children, If Thomas A. was thirty i but we doubt it. It is true that men long past all fear of the wolf are still doing important work, but they got the habit of work when the wolf was leering at them as they left the house for the job. The habit persisted. Poverty is an ugly thing which we all should avoid. But the very avoiding of it stimulates ambition, brings out such talents as we may have and opens our eyes to our own pos- sibilities, In‘the South Sea Islands the natives don't have to work. The breadfruit supplies their food and kills their ambition, associate with our friend the wolf, on the road to competence. And is to be found in the temperate zones, Where there is winter enough to keep men thinking about the coal supply and not enough, as in the Arctic regions, to keep them in the house all the time. Don't be afraid of the wolf, He is evil to look upon, with his red eyes and his lolling tongue, but he is one of the best Winter, which w forces men to step li the highest achieve friends you have got. OR RR ity dit not limit her family to the one child-invention. She is the mother of effort, of achievement, of energy, of industry—a very goodly brood ison had made a competence before he is possible that he would bave kept on working, “SOCIAL MEDICINE.” The medical fraternity of New York, us well as of the try, is deeply interest periment in “social m in a being carried on in Glasgow, Boot. | ditions, centralizing cal service ay a substitute for the! physicians. social insurance scheme now in op-| into districts, and a@ consultation ntre established in each, found that the in shifts and having regular hours, American Medical Association,| were relieved of many irksome fea- by both public health authorities and) tures of Hass patients reaped ¢ land, under u plan for « public medi- eration, Social insurance is con- demhed,’ according to the Journal of tt the Glas, for its failure of institutional Insurance Jomunitt any form wbout one-third of the population, The new proposal is to build up|can be maintained by public taxa- a complete medical service, furnish-|tion at a lower rate than that pald ing unrestricted treatment to every for the present social insurance, é citizen needing it, and involving the|the “secret” an t of the medical profession and the public control and infirmaries, plan grew out of experience icine” now|gained in efforts to meet war con- en for a time disp enroll all general whole coun- | hospitals asaries for the patients divided It was working while advantage of physicians and for|over their cases when necessary, and furnishing medical services to only) at much reduced expense. It is estimated that such a service] with these latter days been reduced to a science, Biology, the science of life, teaches that the length of life of ver- tebrate animals is five times the num- ber of years which is required to per- fect their bony skeleton. In man that act is completed at twenty years, which gives the length of his normal, potential life one hundred years (Prof. Owen), Divested of technicalities the pro- cess by which animal health and life is maintained is by the constant re- newal of every tissue and organ of the body. ‘The process by which this} renewal is effected is as follows: The ultimate elements of his physical or- ganization are infinitesimal bodies or; units which consist of protoplasm usually inclosed in a sac, ‘The proto- plasm is a highly vitalized germinal matter and controls all the functions and activities of the animal, Of their size and number we may judge by the estimate that there are two; thousand millions in the human brain, As a living entity the cell per- forms a certhin function, dies and ts cast out of the body as dead mutter. This process of constant renewal of the ultimate elements of the body: is t ‘sclonce”” of longevity. It is the m ing “immortal youth.” mechanism of tis process operates without obstruction\ high health is maintained and longevity assured, But that mechanism is one of the most complex known to science and hence its functions are the more readily disturbed and even destroyed, The question will arise in every thoughtful mind, “What relation do I sustain to this apparently auto- matic machine?” ne answer of modern hygiene is, “You are its sole manager and alone responsible for integrity and efficiency, ‘Mitral we supply in our food the quality. and quantity of . material which the machine is to renew the various tissues, and thus we verity the maxim, “A man is what he eats.” y As long as the In the selection of foods we have as a natural guide our appetite, through which each tissue expresses its wants, If our appetite is uot per- verted by the use of matters foreign to these tissyes, a8 alcobol, tobacco, spices, etc, it is an unerring guide to the most useful foods both as to quality and quantity, It is an im- portant fuct that of the two great classes of foods—vegetable and ani- mal—the unadulterated appetite of man selects from the former, An eminent authority says, ‘In all the world there are to be found only | three classes of real foods, v edible vegetables of all sorts; 2, mill of animals; 3, the yohk of eg: Second output that faulty or even Cleanliness is neces ficiency and the duty of it rests with every person consider the vast amount tions become y obstructed of millions of po i ‘an realizo our fresponsibility for our ihealth and length of life '" phe eliminating or@&ins that require apparently proved the truth of his assertion, for it is written, “And Moses | tunity to use it there, distinguished his eye was not dim, | herself anew in these Russian songs, especially in “On the Dynepr.” Barker in the concert she had sung “Ah! quel yiorno” from Rossini's “Semiramide,” with something less of flexibility than the florid air demands, Charpentier’s symphonie suite “Impressions d'Italie” and Moszkovski's intermezzo and per- petuum mobdile was played by the orchestra with beauty and distinction, Jascha Heifetz was the soloist at the Philharmonic Society’s concert in Carnegie Hall last night, His play- ing in Mendelssohn's violin concerto 1,| was lovely as to tone and a fine ex- hibition of artistry. He was recalled by a crowded house many times, Mr, |Stransky offered a Viennese rhap- | sody by iovent Schmitt for the first time at thes concerts. Itis a rhyth- mie and colorful co position, at tts best when it is a palpable paraphrase of Johann Strauss, Dvorak's third cells accumulating constantly in] symphony began and Tchaikovsky's eve 7 th “ig erage “1812” overture ended the programme, he) Pen vaeo rs both played admirably, matter und - d thus bec ‘There were two plano recitals at Aeolian Hall yesterday, In the after- noon Jumtte Arnold made her debut, | Brahms, Chopin and MacDowell com- Jour care are: 1, the skin, which in| positions were on her programme. ‘cleansed by hot water and soap; %| ter playing of light pieces held no ithe lungs, which require the pure out: | pale as Jof-door ait; 3, the kidneys, wigch| tte charm, and she has tuste, In }water; 4, the bowels, which a inost hod of ecur-{ must be flushed with unadulterated tie evening Ferdinand Wachsman, a | young man from Brooklyn, made a | thoroughly cleansiad by raw, ibe fruit! Arst appearance, His programme wa of all kinds, ‘These are natural reme- ‘ep ; ss . Sie which may be aided by medica- conventional, beginning with Bagh |tiop! but are, usually efficient if daily] nd ending with Lisat. His playing is employed in sufficient quantity, An &minent writer furnishes us the following fitting conclusion “The man ponsible for running appears to be satisfied that this should be so with machinery, but If the human machinery received periodic attention it would not only ing us and speedy to w sucrifice of but he is promising, any kind of 4 yor fine machinery} “Carmen,” with Geraldine Farrar is constantly on the watch to see that|and Martinelli in the leading parte, nothing gets out of order, rybody| Mr, Wolff conducting, got a rattling good performance before a large au- when it comes to the delicate ma-|dience at the Metropolitan Opera chinery of the human body they are| House last ni satisfed to let it run until it stops.! rola as Zuniga and Lafuise ht, Save for De Segu- Berat as Mercedes, the cast was the same ag ase efficiency, but also longey-|4t the Thanksgiving Day perform, ee) i