The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 21

5, 1920 FORMER PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL CITY BANK TELLS EVENING WORLD READERS WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR LEISURE TIME. HE SAYS- in Extra Time Making Our Nation a Healthful One —Develop Intellectual Interests in Life—Many People Need to Be Educated as to What Brings Happiness.” ' By Fay Stevenson. <.- Ouprvtght, 1920, by The Press Pubtishing Co. (The New York Mrening Wate) 6c HAT sort of a world will America be If wo work but six hours dafly? “It we are gving to have @ universal six-hour day, what #hall we do with the extra time? “ISN'T it possible we shall need an education for ‘leteure time?” I put these questions to Frank A. Vanderftp, banker, financier, manufacturer, exporter, student of oconomics, and probably the best equipped men in all New York to answer them. Tall, sturdy and clear of aye, with all the energy of a man of twenty-five and all the poise of a man of fifty-five, Mr. Vanderlip seated himeelf at his desk and thought a moment before answering one of the most vital isques of the day. “Of course the six-hour day is not practical, it is not settled, merely tetieed of,” said Mr. Vanderlip, “but oven with the eight-hour day we have Practically the same problems to face. It is true we need an education for ‘eleure time.’ Personatly, f am very much in favor of shorter hours, but if we ere to be a strong, virile nation we must make that time count, These extra bours are either going to make or break us. The question is, are we (eling to make them hours which will count for the Nation's welfare, or are | We going to make them hours of idleness and*uselessness?” SHOW can wo make those hours ; worth while?” I asked Mr. Vanderlip. and hisors, m Well, not just by reading or at- sounder Suncoraayc et co nay Dead oh Sead bars pe or con- “If we are going to use our extra certs Pree na deatren” truseng | time to form a sane structure of Bo” ‘sonal ns an ree,’ aushed | clety, well and good—our Nation will Mc. Vanderlip. “That might help the| be much the better. But shorter Pnaividual ij bik Lave may Goumta soot hours to apend in dashing about in many leovur 4 y clothes, in ride img conducted. Possibly one of the | movies and ataniag’ ts hale baatoe — ideas from the mouths of nen who should be rejected from thé country will not improve us as a nation. Only work will cure the world’s ills, What the world needs is not soft jobs for everybody and money to spend upon | the wrong things—it needs work, con- | jcentration and hard thinking. John D. Rockefeller jr. recently ex- Pressed his views upon this subject before his Bible class in the Fitth Avenue Baptist Chureh, ‘saying the Lepore day bia “an a1a-to Satan.” 4 on we hear “people talkis absut the six-hour ‘day we huve to ‘stop and wonder wha} ‘would hap- ‘pen. I don't beteve many of us could afford to have that much time idle on our hands,” Mr. Rockefeller eaid. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labdr, | also gave his opinions upon, the six-hour day when he recently celebrated his seventy-second birthday in the midst of hard work. Mr. Gompers says he feels forty and attributes his youth- | fulness to the fact that he has always worked hard. In spite of his union affilations Mr. Gompers does not ob- | serve anton hours. “My work takes my entire time while awake,” he says. “I believe that work 1s the greatest medicine known to men. It is an invigorator and an MR ROUNDER Just PHONED E CAN'T CONE 7 OUR Parry incentive to greater thing: | x ‘ | “ “first things we might tra. time upon our hands is to make our nation a healthful one, Our mili- ‘tary etatistics proved that we needed this. There were entirely too many men rejected because of physical de- fects to satisfy us with our present | conditions, ( “if this government is a government by the people and for the people we must do everything in our power to make those people fit both physic v and mentally. Surely we cannot be Proud of the number of cur men who | * could neither read nor write, “What we need to do in hours, watch ‘your step! who life, appreciate the Copyright man who is kept busy for eight or| possibly six hours needs something ‘vesides his paper and the movies to hold his mental attention. Many4 need to be educated as to what/ brings happiness. “Happiness in things is the disease of the age. What need is to dis- | card this love of things and turn| more to intellectual pursuits. When 1 say happiness in things I mean the high-heeled shoes and low ‘Povses that make the average young 2 Pete cin tule iurustcial eee Mrs. Jarr Says Something She Believes, but Dares Mr. Jarr to Agree to It. oy é ‘J Jarr in great the front room Therefore, Mr. and Mrs, American, | if you do work eight hours and if | ou io with this ex- | Should possibly only have to work ix Give se attention to the things worth while and make America a Nation of people true thi ot Surely these ‘wise men ror the Nation know whereof they speak.” The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell. 920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Mvening World.) UST look across the street at that nurse girl!” said Mrs. excitement, she leaned far out of the window of as “Is the nurse girl easy to observe— is Sho a good looker?” asked Mr. Jarr, who was reading bis paper and amok- Biri happy. I mean the silk shirts) ing nis pipe. and @pats that make the average! young man happy. If we are going If she were good looking I ‘to @port about in clothes like these] wouldn't have had and use this extra time simply to amuse ourselves, the world ts going Y. be worse for its shorter hours. if we are going to learn to value e bigher, worth while things in the , to make better citizens of our- acidly said Mr, aspe angry at anything, treats that ohild in the baby riage!” said Mrs. Jarr quiet child d how she | up 1920, by ‘The Prews Pub! New York Lvening W (The , ‘and down 1. Of what mineral substance AF*| child's disposition, ‘The poor -Uttle | US. to think of a helpless little child duced as at the present time BEN GEreproot ‘curtains air ay nee 18 had its bottle shaken out of its! “And look!" cried Mrs, Jarr. ‘The | Laces: ribbons, embroideries, batiks, | So % What American boxing chain=| 4 by such bouncing up and down; |child is crying now because the sun|havo all come in for their share in figs MOD Baw wetual service In Franc then, of course, it and then, of |¢® in its eyes and she is whipping it.” | contributing to the charming new ef- F $ What Ee ea lthe Dale ‘course, that, girl slaps it!" Child Welfare Work. fects originated for the spring season ata Coast? A Bouncing Baby, “1 guess you'd better go tell the| of 1920. Regulation dresses such 4 MBIT 4 Who did Simple Simon meet go- mother of the ohild,” said Mr. Jarr, | the middy suits always appeal to the tag to the fair’ “You can't tell from that far off,”| So Mrs. Jarr got her wraps and hur-| young girl. ‘These do not change ma- Hos © Monte Carlo le pirthstone of the! baby wants to bo bounced Up ‘and/ing bell, and when © very tired lane | epring’e atyles @how that some very ° ri)? {down in its carriage, Somfe babies|ing woman came to the door Mrs ordinary effects have n ac-|| month of April xtra y | 7. What country sa flag with aldo, Maybe it cries uoless it is| Jarr pe mn oy forth 4 full report her) smplished, especially in the color | F a triangular fleld? leouncad observatiohs of the nurs raid's ee ee eer the frat o¢ | unced | cruelty and neglect | combinations the Four Gospe of course, that would be your| “Oh, dear!" said the tired looking| Blouses wore never 90 lovely. Cun 9. What is the name of the Roman ion, So long as you are not both-| Woman. "Is that so? Oh, goodness! : Ne ee ie agen Bmperor who is said to have played 5 Pe reg hy ity | [ Feally wish you hadn't told'me, For | FY fiddle while Rome burned? fred you do not care what cruelty) | suppose I'll have to discharge the | shades gives a good effect. ‘The man- * to. What country was invaded by| goers on around you,” said Mrs. Jarr.| nurse now and you know how hard it| darin style is still quite the thing and| shoulder bare, and the Wiliam the Conqueror? But U've noticed that girl for days. | !s Ce get help at any price th | popular spring colora are blue dawn, | back of the blouse [eet uw What at hor When it 1s bitter cold she brings that Mee Tkek Or wala aiea tiie ce | peadh blow, pecan, turquoise, salmon, | oy straps of black @ Lab ani write |haty out not half wrapped up and I| she returned, “haven't you often henna and green. One new feature is | sels, fringe, beads, and a im the World can fee its poor little nose turn blue | you believe women arc men's mental | ynat the back and front are often the | flowers add greatly 4 superiors?” | i from here. r e. Chinese coins form the trim- | quisite selection 2m ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S m her “Why, yes," said Mr. Jarr. “You! 8!™ r ins form t al PUESTIONS "| puess a little cold air won't hurt | palieve it, too, don't you?” ming for & of the blouses, This spri « 4, dog: 2. Snotody in} Lord Lyts | the baby across the street, especially! "No," ‘snapped Mrs. Jarr. “No! gold. and silver embroidery ador ids as well rete ton; 4, Marat nix: 4 Nort a Se t therwise Wrapped up warm," | Wom ro has Be ns enough to mind her! others. Ball trimming is very good.|de Chine hats are be a Borneo! % dom ant arcow hiniet ates a Mr. dare, “And as for the girl] and Mr, Jarr whistled, as well he| Some of blouses are cut V shape|line over-trimmings add ou ee 12, Saranac aking the baby carriage, that's bet- might, down over the arm, thus leaving the | mystcrious filminess that makes some ns “7 i N <= k \ ’ isi iinet pivmmentiinibiahcianaie Renter nip nee shin hiiadtin ~ “Then why should I look at her Jarr, who was in that ex- uting condition that some men | attain ut times when they won't get That's what spoil to call your at- tention to her!" remarked Mrs. Jarr “Because it's a shame the way ghe car- “It's a good, id never cries, and look is shaking the baby carriage | There! ow shaking to the girl. | its eyes sho she didn't have to! children’s eyes are injured for life See, she's turned the baby so the sun is in its Mr, Jarr stirred unes « ht, 2 by The Eco Pifbtiad) . (The New York Hvening World.) GET HIM ON THE PHONE, 11L TALK TO HIN HOLD THE WIRE AIR ROUNDER . SY HUSBAND WANTS 70 SPEAK TO YOu y Maur COMING —_ ice Ketten | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920 POET-SOLDIER SASSOON DECLARES THAT WOMEN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR—AND THAT— Women Can End Wars \““Women Were Ruthless in Urging Men, Even Those They Loved Best, Into the Trenches. Many Women Chose War Duties Merely Because There Were Thrills and Novelty in the Tasks.” By Marguerite Movers Marshall. ‘Coprriaht, 1920, by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) x HAT women are responsible for war, that women, if they would, cogid * ond war—there you have the beginning and the ending of a sel@er poet's revulsion against all wars, now and forevermore, The poet is Siegfried Sassoon, captain of the Royal Welsh Fusileers, whe served his country in both France and Palestine from 1914 to 1918, was wounded twice, suffered shell sheck, won the Military Cross and who is the author of “Cogn- ter-Attack,” the most remarkable book of English verse since the publication of Rupert Brooke's “Poems,” What Stephen Crane did in “The Red Badge of Courage,” what Henr} Barbusse did in “Under Bite,” that apd more Sassoon has done in his brutally frae and dramatic lyrics of Hfe im the trenches and tm the “home sector.” Nor is any poem in “Counter-Attagk” more of a bayomet thrust through conventional hypeeri- sies than one he has called “Glory of Women.” It gtes like this: You love us when we're heroes, home on leuve, Or wounded in a mentionable place. You worship decorations; you believe ‘That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace. You make us shells. You listen with delight, By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled. You crown our distant ardours while we fight And mourn our laurelled memories when we're killed. T You can't believe that British troops “retire” When hell's last horror breaks them, and they ran, Trampling the terrible corpses—lind with blood. O, German mother, dreaming by the fire, When you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. “To me that is the most interest- ing poem in your book,” I told Mr. Sassoon, when I met the young man with the tall. springy body of an ath- lete and the dreamy blue-gray eyes and sensitive face of a poet, “because it shows women as the prize propu- gandists of war and of militarism.” “The responsibility for war does rest largely on women,” he anawered awiftly ot on all women, of course, but on a very large group of them. It is curious that you should have spoken to me about this, be- cause it is something I believe strongly and which I find it impor- tant we should recognize. I cannot think of anything which would do more good than for some really great writer to devote a whole book to the relation between women and the war it, 80 that this relation might be brought home to all of us. “It goes back, 1 suppose, most primitive sex instincts, to the age woman's pride and sense of well-being when she sat at home and \ watched her man going off to kill ; somebody. The idea thrilled her, It - thrills her today. When ee home with his trophics she wad SASSOON, jemted, ‘aa ol te to-day when he| SIGE to stimulate recruft- brings home his decorations. Even | tignapie thin; ing. ‘They listened to war stories—so blood does not repel her. While I was | laid up my relatives took care of My | qid the old men, in the cl In it was a tunic with | the rapt interest Desdemona accorded to th kit for me. ter than shaking the baby, as some | nurse girls do in the park—that is, them in the sense of going | off and leaving them for hours. “Well, I'm sure I'd be doing my duty as a woman and a neighbor by | telling that poor baby’s mother how | the child is treated,” said Mrs, Jarr. “It would be no use to speak to the Birl, she'd only give me impudence.” “Then, it you are so bothered about somebody else's baby, you might go down and make a casual suggestion She may simply be ig- norant and not meaning to treat the little thing any way but kindly,” sug- gested Mr. Jarr. “Oh, you think so, do you? cried Mrs. Jarr. “Well, just day before yea- terday she had that poor baby fac- ing the sun, the sun just glaring down in its poor little eyes, and asked her why she didn't turn the carriage so the sun would be out of told me it was because That's the way wher v7 nt Copyright (The 1920, In't beautiful \Charming by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. New York Hyeoing World.) OT in the history of the under- effects been pro- 6 front re held together | alvet ribbon. Tas- hand pa to this most ex Spring Styles in and | d fancy and crepe ng shown a Ma- ain Underthings, | numbers quite popular and rfbazine trimmings | Visca straw co tutes some of | best looking models because Jraped 9 astistically | _A forecast of styles tor 1 1920, based on factory how being shown — t buyers at the Bush Torminal Building, discloses that the ment of decorative effe variations of shades and which Were m ng the coming season. rewith ix based upon a ivanced lines of irera of garments at to get back to th meits We find that heret rep le Chines hi almost the entire fleld, but wii past two years other, dainty Celophane are it can the spring samples merchandise undergar Blouses and Hats attain. | 1# and wide patterns, rked features of 1919, promise to continue in full force dur- The forecast survey hundreds of | a large spot of blood near the collar. | When I was in shape to look over my j things, the tunic was shown to me, | proudly, with the comment, ‘We left it just as it was to clean it!’ “Women were ruthless in urging men, even those they loved beat, into the ‘trenches, Women pinned white feathers on those they suspected of slacking, and they did quite unmen have edged their way into and to-day, milady’s under- nis in their’ beauty, delicacy, effects, match’ the over- garment. KExquisite color schemes have been produced in blue, blue bird, lavender, maize, rose, and many dainty shades, ‘Tho very best quality of crepe de Chine with real Irish cro- chet and filet laces make up. the most attractive of itep-ins” and en- velope chemises, Orchid is a popular color in women's undergarments this spring. Gowns are of the sheerest materials with dainty yokes of Eng- lish Valenciennes lace. Ribbon adds greatly to all of the lingerie garment, and the two-toned ribbon so much in use on dresses and hats has been put to a new use this spring--that of hdorning women's undergarments, ‘Three piece combinations are proving popular, These are in crepe de Chine and wash satin. They constitute a chemise with bloomers and ahort overskirt. Rose bud trimmings add dainty touches to all of these models. Petticoats are plain as to trimming», but of very rich materials, moat of them being of rich wash satins. Many have hemstitched ruffles. Combing jackets of crepe de chine and geor- xette combinations of peach, blue and ‘thar beautiful shades promise to be good sellers. ‘These are trimmed with | Mayfair and Picot ribbons, and vith ‘a ribbon rosebud to catch up a drape | at the waist line or on the shoulder. | — shades Twenty Years Ago. Nobody swatted the fly Nobody wore a wrist watch Nobody had appendicitis Nobody wore white shoes Nobody sprayed orchards Most young men had “livery bills.” | | | | | Advertisers did not tell the truth. Farmers came to town for their mail The heavens were not fuil of }$ man-birds | Nor the seas alive with | underwater boat ‘Phe Hired girl drew one-titty a week and was happy. The butcher “threw in” a chunk of liver. The merchant “threw in” a ir of suspenders with every body “listened on the phone. There were no sane Fourths nor electric meters The safety razor had not in- troduced clean-shaven face. ilway Emplo: n we wore careful not | | fre of war to Othello. Ofcourse there were wom- en who worked twelve hours @ day scrubbing floors, as V. A. D.'s; but, to any, the war activities they took over were a new kind of stunt with a thrill in it. And then there were the women who, frankly, had the time of their lives during the war, earging and handling more money than ever before and with the men about whom they were not particularly keen away at the front." “And Were not some women niore vindictive than the men, women of the type of the British matron in that greatest English war novel, W. L. George's ‘Blind Alley’?” I asked, “Indeed, yes," said Mr. Sassoon, “T remember a discussion, about the time the war closed, over the effects of the blockade. Some one called at- tention t© the tremendous inerease during the last year, in the infant mortality of Germany. And I heard an glishwoman, in ordinary times @ sane, normal, gentle, individual—T heard this woman say, ‘I'm glad of 1 “It was a woman called Helen of Troy,” the poet-soldier added, with his rare but winning smile, “who was responsible for one of the first and greatest wars on record, And all through the centuriese women have been leading factors in romanticizing war, in making it heroic and chival- ric and glorious and a thing to 1 to the imagination, instead of dwell ing upon its degrading and brutaliz- ing Influence, upon its exploiting of generosity, self-sacrifice, — loyalty courage, all the splendid forces of human nature which might have ac complished so much if poured out for another end Another thing I have noticed about almost any woman in war-—T noticed it when I myself was in the hospital— as long as HER husband or lover o: son is safe, she can forget the others who agonize and die. She has, that ly, the personal but not the impersonal imagination.” “Rut if women,” I sald, “should make up thelr minds to put out thi vey have fed, do you think they could do it?” “Women could end wars,” replied Mr. Sassoon, “if, instead of preferring soldiers for sweethearts, women would show men that they consider It dis | graceful for one man to stand up and shoot at another. Yea if women would unlte they could put a stop to was. For all wars are made by the men who do not have to fight them and are urged on by the women who do not have to fight them. And we don't’--the quiet voice quivered a little, the blue eyes ~ shadowed with memories of the Unforgetahte Horror—we don't ask you to lve through what we lived or didn't Mve through--we only ask you to under- stand!" ADVERTISEMENT. Why Have Red Hands? 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