The Washington herald., 1919-07-27
MePPERS NOPE
FOR MORE beer
Life Without "Suds |:
Drear Indeed, Say New
York Scrub Women.

New York. July 6.-Scrubwomer
In two large Manhattan sky.
scrapers threw down their mop:
this week. They wanted more
money and they wanted more beer
FoE years New York has given a
thought TO everything-except theiI
scrubwomen. They emerge from
their lodgings shortly after mid
night ana bowl to work in express
trains sIeepy-eyed and hagEard
From then on until after dawn they
whiten tiled floors Of ornate office
buildings.
And then. completely fatiGued
they go back to their beds. 1t is q
drab life, indeed All of the scrub
women are more than so years old
and the large majority nearer 60
Saloons in the downtown district
have so rapidly closed their doors
that the morning "ETOwler' is an
almost impOssibility. In one build
ing the aged leader said it was nee
essary to walk a half mile for q
refreshing bucket of 2.75 per cent.
But the scrUbwomen have at
tanned a certain opulent manner
since ZiegfeId took group OF
ther1-jUst as they were-and made
them a feature around a beautiful
actress in a midnight show. Peo-
pie began to see the sCrubwOmer
under the spotlight. They picked
up Iheir Sunday papers and saw
theiF prototypes in the phOtOgra-
vurs= sections with all the beauties
OF the town
Sob sisters began interviewing
the -wielders Of the lowly mop
They found stored in the scrubwO-
mems mind an almost new Ian
GuaFe. Many of them had sons in
colleges and one. indeed, was a
poet Rich dross. indeed, in such
rare places.
TAe scrUbwoman. il was found
vas=a cheerful optimIst She has
sroCd umbreIlaIess in the rain OF
all the worlds idiosyncrasies and
las never lifted her voice.
If-you for one moment imagine
y, UF= ~crubwOUan IS q dull, Un-
thinking autOmatOn. consider for a
few fcctinE seconds this gem OF
bought as quoted IN two New York
r. vvsDuperS. II is 65-year-Old
Ecrubwoman-or better. scrubIady
talking Of hex inability to get a
lass "f beer when through Der
work. Il sounds more like an En--
Iish barriSter. Hear:
The general common sense OF
the people is sound bulwark
a-ainst extremists. Plato unde--
stood that d mild brew was a nat
Ural desire. He said so. Compare
Plato with the modern extremist
II VIC are to construct a new world
UUt OF a world gone mad. We must
renew a right spirit in the authOri-
ties who govern US. There must be
a wider outlook, a more perfect
freedom. and greater tOIC ration OF
the rights Of others. Between the
puritan and the extremist the
working man and working woman
have been jockcyed out Of free
dom
Several hundred sleek and 20.
Uaded jazz tooters have been
thrown out of employment. by the
shutting down Of the cabarets
These synCopated kings We're cut
down at the height Of dazZIine
careers. Ted Lewis, the best
known of all. was said to receive
$1,000 n week for getting sour
notes out Of a perfectly respectable
cIaTiOnct. The average jazz leader
=Ot-s2OO a week. He worked ftom
ainnertime until the closing hour
Many Of them scepcd up from the
Last Side dance halls and mOvinG
picture niCkelOdeOns. They mad
'a-de-da apartments and drove
home encased in naughty limou-
-l0es. 1t was a gay sort of life
nile II lasted.