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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-21
Pollyanna Circle Program.

Tho Pnllyanna Circle OF the King
Daughters will give musical tea this
evening 1T the Second Prcsbytc rinn
church on the corner Of Twentieth and
Market streets. a luncheon will be
served and q silver offering will be
taken. and the following program will
be given:
America" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. BY All
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-21

Carl Brnd"ll = T.. sarh'E
II. G. Howard q. ". Shli'h
Program cummitir--MrA. c. +" Old
ham and Mrs. Roy Ray.
Decorating rummittete-Mrs. Albert
RrtZur, chairman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Lifting a Boycott

The people of Peru became involved in
a revolution few weeks ago. President
Ardo was arrested and deported. A
provisional government was set up by
Senior Roberto Leguia, former Presi-
dent. This proceeding was In fragrant
disregard of the celebrated "house rule"
Of our State Department. which forbids
revolutions in Latin-American countries.
A government coming into power through
violence, as Leguia's did, Is penalized I'M
der this rule, by non-recogntion.
Explaining the departments attitude
said the other day that SO far as the
United States was concerned the Tinoco
regime was legally non-existent." And
because of this fiat by Mr. Lansing the
Paris peace conference refused to admit
Costa Rica to the list of the powers
which had both severed diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany and declared war
against her.
PERU, after Leguia's coup, seemed des-
tined to pass also into the limbo of
illegal non-existence," so far as the
United States was concerned. An edict
of accommodation from the society of
nations has been momentarily expected.
Yet somehow the thunderbolt has not
fallen. Secretary Lansing is apparently
weary Of the role Of grand excommuni-
Gator. He issued on Friday notice that
the Leguia revolutionary government
had been recognized by the United States,
in accordance with the international
precedents which used to be honored be-
fore the Lansing anti-revolutionary
"house rule" era.
That famous bylaw is now apparently
itself outlawed. If the Peruvians are to
be permitted to exercise the privilege of
revolution, how is that privilege to be
denied to the Ecuadorians, the Para
guayans or the Venezuelans? How. also.
is Costa Rica any longer to be ostra-
cized for having presumed to depose one
President and install another by forcible
methods?
When Mr.. Lansing welcomes President
Leguia to the Presidential chair in Lima
will not his conscience compel him to
send note of apology to Tinoco, convey
ing to the latter the assurance that the
State Departments boycott against
Costa Rica was an error of impulse, now
repaired by broader experience and
soberer reflection?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Political Prohteerinp

Apparently not discouraged by his
recent fiascos, Mayor Hylan, as if to
help Hearst to ambush Governor Smith
because the Governor refuses to be
bridled and saddled, has resumed the
writing of threatening letters.
This time the attack is on Commits
sioner Nixon for granting fare in
crease to a suburban traction company.
The company is under contract to carry
passengers for five cents, but unchal-
lenged testimony shows it is unable to
pay operating expenses So it purposed
to quit, and at the request of a popula-
ton which did not want to walk or to
pay the high rates the government COL
lects from Long Island passengers a
fare increase was authorized.
The Mayor asserts that the action is
illegal; the Commissioner that it is
legal. Obviously the only place where
this issue can be settled is in the courts
but instead of quietly starting a suit the
Mayor resorts to abusive letter writing.
The public grows weary of four-hush-
ing 1t sees plainly enough what is in
the minds of those who talk big things
and do nothlng-is tired of the political
protteers who would capitalize public
dlstresses to their personal advantage
A contract is contract and should
be respected, but many litigant has
gone broke trying to recover from a
bankrupt debtor. So it is not enough to
quote franchise provisions. The cues
ton is as to whether public utility is
10 stop. Some one must operate it, and
private company cannot be induced to if
there is steady loss. Is the city pre-
pared to assume the burden of q five-cent
fare by meeting operating deficits?
is this the plan of Mayor Hylan? If
SO, why not plainly say SO? If he would
give to those who dwell on Long Islands
North Shore service costing the citv
SIX or seven cents for five cents. and
make up the deficit out Of the city treas
ury, let him apply to the Board of Esti-
mate for the necessary appropriation.
He need scarcely fear that the traction
companies will be landlords who will ask
high rents for the use of their property
AS long as the Mayor lodges the main
issue the public can hardly escape the
opinion that his concern is to make a
noise and appear to be friend of the
people rather than to be one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
The Other Side
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l have seen in your editorial COL
umn the letter written by New York
housekeeper in which she saws dom.s+c
workers are we'll paid, we'll fed bav. n;c.
rooms, two three hours in the afternoon,
to themselves, etc. Then why, if the work
is SO nice, can she not find the ripht kind
OF girl to do her work right here and now :?
Why has she to wait for immigrants and in
the mean time have to tolerate law. care,ss,
girls?
There are plenty Of girls in New York
City this summer trying to dress and nav
board on from $40 to SIS week. WORKING
IN hot factories, stores and Offices in the
day and sleeping in hotter rooms at n;pht
who, should think, would be glad of tho
change.
But the truth is domestic workers arr No
treated that nice, decent, self-respectins
girl would rather starvs than do that kind
of work ITO be kept in your place." to Be
looked at as if you had committed soma
terrible crime, downtrodden and made to
feel as If you were dirt all the time, might
90 no harm to machine, but to any human
Deing 1t is too humiliating. If you want
nice working girls in your homes you must
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
It's What We Spend

"The first condition of check to the
rise in prices is the restoration of the
balance of revenue and expenditure If
new expenses are to be incurred, somebody
must have the courage to reduce old cx-
penses. If we are to spend more on houses.
let US spend so much less on the armies of
bureaucracy. Let every social reformer,
especially if he is minister in charge
Of spending department, indicate what
kind of old expenditure he proposes to
raid in order to start his new scheme. Let
the system of rationing be put in force
in the expenditure of public money. We
ought not to borrow more, and we do not
want to tax more. The only alternative is
to change the nature of the expenditure"
Professor j. S. Nicholson.
These remarks were addressed to an
English audience. They fit as we'll here.
The economic phenomena complained of
are worldwide, if that be any comfort.
Ard the remedies are UNIVERSAL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Towns That Died
From The Hartford Uouront)


Western papers tell their readers that the
town OF Emerson, Okla, is shortly to
be thing forgotten. 1t was mapped ont
as a townsite shortly after the TERRITORY
was opened for settlement and the pro-
motors had dreams of a metropolis. In 1907
the plan was abandoned and now the District
Court has been asked to vacate the land for
townsite purposes, when what might have
been town will become farm land,
The story of Emerson suggests what cana
near happening to a Connecticut town in
the beginnings of the colony. Those inter-
ested in it showed rare sense in their choice
OF a site and in their dreams planned not
for town but for city. Hampden and
Cromwell were to be among its citizens. the
cream Of England, SO its promoters boned
were to become its citizens. Fate ordered
otherwise and the early days of this dream
town are remembered now largely THROUGH
Lion Gardeners account of his struggle to
hold the site against the attacks of +ho
Indians.
Other states notably the mining commor-
weaiths OF the West, can duplicate tho s+orv
from Oklahoma, but few can eouo, w.,
romance of the Connecticut settlement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

De prepared to treat them as nice girls are
treated everywhere else. That does no.
necessarily mean that they have to sit in
the parlor with milady, but it does mean
that If by any chance you find them in the
parlor you are rat to look at them as il
they had committed the objectionable sin.
Inc nice, decent old slave that New York
housekeeper' speaks about may have been
awe thirty years ago. but for the sake Of
the progress Of the world we hope she has
passed away now and forever and that her
place will be filled by nice, refined. we'll be-
haved, willing girls who will be proua NJ
their vocation and not ashamed Of Il
NURSE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
The Montenegrin Revolt

revolt in Montenegro against the
merger of that little state into the Jugo-
Slav kingdom is only one more evidence
OF the extreme tension in the Balkans
caused by the long delays in perfectinp
the Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian
treaties. Last April South Slav unity
seemed assured. All the elements Of the
projected new state were enthusia stic
about fusion. A Montenegrin national as
sembly decreed the deposition of old King
Nicholas, the absentee monarch. and
adhesion to Jugo-Slavia.
But friction arose among the Jupo-
Slavs. The Croats have shown a dis
position to prefer naturalization on
their own account, in company with the
Slavonians King Nicholas has never
conceded the legality of his dethrone.
ment, and the Montenegrin faction
friendly to him has started a revolt
against the Serbian military occupation.
Inc Montenegrlns are a simple mountain
people, accustomed to isolation. Manv
OF them, no doubt, do not take kindly to
being swallowed up in big South Sl.v
kingdom. Particularism has been a
Balkan characteristic for centuries. Ma
tionalistic tendencies are powerful. The
political and economic advantages of
combination seem remote to tribesmen.
like the Montenegrins and Albanians
whose ideals of government are still ex-
cessively primitive
Will Serbia be able to coerce Monte
negro into an amalgamation which is
distasteful to her people? Is such an
amalgamation worth while? The Balkan
peoples are a rule to themselves. They
do not look at life from the angle of
economic opportunity. Their personal
and racial prejudices outweigh all argu-
ments in favor of political STANDARDIZED
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
A Social Incident
(From The SAM

Mayor Hylan, according to "The Evening
Post" has invited Mr.. William R. Hearst to
take prominent part in the reception of
the Prince Of Wales when he comes to New
York next month to be the citys guest,
What Mr.. Hearst might be expected by
some people to reply to the Mayors invita-
ton to participate is about like this:
II decline to be connected in any way with
the reception of this amiable young futilty
who is now on exhibition in Canada and is
soon to be shown to gaping snobs in America
II decline, because I regard this Prince
OF Wales as nothing more than AN ordinary
boy sent over here to display princely rank
to our social and literary snobs and tuft
hunters"
Our hypothesis that such will be Mr..
Hearst's reply to the Mayors invitation is
based on the fact that this is the precise
language regarding the Prince of Wales
winch MT. hearst's newspaper, 1.-THE New
York American" has employed within the
present week in berating "The Sun" for its
attempt to say few gracious things about
the young man who, as the representative
OF his nation, is soon to be New York's guest
and about the young mans grandfather,
Edward VII, whom this town had the pleasur.
OF entertaining fifty-nine years ago.
Inc somewhat unpleasant alternative be-
Tore MT. Hearst is therefore plain He will
either adhere to the foregoing sentiments
and refuse to participate in the citys enter
talnment of the Prince of Wales. or he v;],
dlsciaim personal sympathy with such boor-
Ism expressions and will withdraw them like
gentleman, and will send for the author
thereof and administer to that indiscreet and
scurrllous person the severest wigginp ~
his whole vicissitudinous career for WRITING
like fool in Mr. Hearst's newspaper about
the city's guest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

claiming Germany and her accomplices
and no pro- German faint is about him.
But, nevertheless, he holds that the terms
imposed are harsh and comes close to
saying Germany will be justified in har-
boring resentment.
The Senator should have particular
ized. What provisions Of the peace
treaty are thus Objectionable? Would he
have compelled Poles, Danes and French
men to remain under a hated Prussian
dominion? Does he think Germany
should be allowed to rearm? The repara-
ton principle adopted is that Ger
many must restore stolen goods and
repair damages to the limits of her
ability. Is this either cruel or unjust?
Is 1t not fact that the chief economic
victims of the war are Frenchmen, not
Germans? Should Germany's so-called
colonies have been restored to her?
Should we send a message, Get out!"
to the freemen of Australia and South
Africa, who don't like bad neighbors any
more than we do?
Germany would have complained of any,
thing short of complete escape from the
consequences of her crime. Her present
rulers hold that the world should have
been satisfied with the mere departure
of the Kaiser, though he was free to
come back. She was sure to neglect no
chance to create a counter league
could only be deferred from entering
on such a policy by realization of it's
hopelessness. 1t is not agreeable to have
it possible for Germany, as she labors
to create sympathy for herself, to be able
to quote the words of one Of our best
American public men in support of her
claim of mistreatment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

oFron. Hoyp-rs aoaai,,

From. Horp>r's aoafhfyf
Who passes by this way I see the grasses
Still CULVER and the laurel branches sway.
Swift and sure-footed. whatsoever passes,
For where the wild rose spreads her tangled
masses,
Not one pink petal falls Who passed this
way
Our secret path, that leads down to the
Down through the fields down from the
sun-swept hills
Sacred and sealed to our two hearts forever.
AZ whose fleet footsteps do its grasses quiser'
Whose light touch in ITS laurel branches
thrills?
Irespass who dares amongst cur blosscmins
closes,
Winding our ways shade hidden to The
shore?
What cruel chance to alien eyes exposes
Our dear. adventurous road beneath the reese
Oh, child. all ages passed this way before.
CAROLINE DrER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
The Old Road

Road like a vein,
Tell me, where will you tske m.
Beyond the broad plain.
Will you mend me and make me
The merry eyed, cherry-lipped gypsy again
Who followed your turning
Through the jovial patter Of rain
Or the suns rudy burning?
Will you give me your cloud -rnottled Hill,
Where the wheat mods and pillows:
The brook that a shallow pool stills
At the feet of the willows
And show me the meadows that dane.
Mid the music of bees,
Or the shadows that hover and glance
To the laughter of trees
Will you give me the longing for home
When the dark comes 10 daunt me-
The urge to go forward and roam
When the moon comes to haunt mel
The ricks in the gloom by the barn,
And the smell of the cattle.
The carriers that pause for a yarn
Or go by with rattle;
The hail and the halt. the goodwill
That they toss TO the stranger
The keen stabbing JOY Of the thrill
At the coming OF danger
Road like a warm living vein D..
Tell me where will you take ne
Beyond the broad plain
Will you mend me. and make me
The merry-eyed, cherry-lipped y psy again,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

ton. They distrust the intentions Of
the map makers at Paris, however be-
nevolent those intentions may be.
American diplomacy kept out Of the
Balkans while >the war lasted. 1t has
now plunged into the whirlpool.
But every new development in that
region Of perennial unrest challenges
the wisdom of our change of attitude.
Getting involved in Balkan controversies
is to buy into a wrangle without end
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
A Week of Verse
Three Poems
From Contemporary vyss,
Walking at Night

Ny face is wet with the rain
But my heart is warm to the co,.
For / follow at will again
The road that loved of yore;
And the dim trees bea. the dark
And the swelling bitches moan.
But my heart is singing, soaring H..
For trave! the road alone.
Alone in the living night
Away from the babble Of tongues;
Alone with the old delight
OF the night wind in MY lungs:
And the wet air on my cheeks
And the warm blood in my seins
Alone with the Joy he knows who s..,.
The thrcsh of the young spr.ng raj
With the smell of the pelted earth
The fearful drip OF the trees
Making him dream OF the sound of w..
That comes with the clearing breeze
'Tis rare and wondrous sign.
To tramp the wet awhile
And watch the SLOW deheh,
OF the suns first pallid smile
And hear the meadows breathe again
And see the far woods turn green
Drunk with the glory Of wind and raj,
And the suns warm smile between,
have made me vagrant song,
For my heart is warm 20 the sore
And I'm glad, o glad that the night is lon,
For travel the road once more
And the dim trees beat the dark
And the swelling bitches moan.
With the JOY of the singing. soaring ls,.
l travel the road. alone
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

handling is wrong she is given an opportu-
nifty to explain why, and what should have
been done.
Good service is SO largely q matter Of
trained fingers that special attention is
given to this, and especially to the girls
who are a little slow. On the real boards
q girl has before her 10000 plug holes.
30 small and so closely packed that the
numbers are almost invisible, because the
Eixk has to be able to reach them all with
out rising from her chair To learn to
pick out the particular one of that 10000
without having to stop to read the tiny
numbers is a feat. On the real boards the
girls do it at the rate Of three or four
minute, including all other movements To
give the learners start at this dexterity
the school has dummy board where those
VINO are slow at picking Plugs" as the
phrase goes, are given q special course
From the school the pupil is sent first
to reserve, and then to a board which is
known to be slow. usually at night Grad
ually she takes over more difficult positions.
She is considered Experienced" in three
months, but not Seasoned" and entirely
competent till she has been on the lob for
year But she continues to improve
through as many years as she stays.
Only about one girl in three has the
physical qualities of nerve, eye, ear and
temper to fit her to be q central operator.
even under the present lowered standards.
and there was time when only seventeen
in hundred passed. A girl must have at
least grammar school education, must be
overe five feet tall, because of having to
reach the whole Of the big switchboards:
she must be neat, quick and sweet-tempered
oh! very sweet-tempered! Boys will not
do at all for the work. 1t has been tried.
and they give much poorer service because
their minds are on baseball scores and the
like. but especially they give much moro
sass Of the girls that do pass the phys
ical tests only 81 per cent are ever grad
uated from the schools. That means that
only about one girl in three is ever able
to qualify "Voice With a Smile"
The old fear that lightning will follow
the wires in and kill tho operators ba.
been dissipated by modern science. but
there is another trouble The phone wires
like moisture. and moisture likes them.
and when the two get together the wires
quit work, and form unholy alliances
known as "crossed wires," fail to carry sig
nails and sabotage things generally. During
the recent heavy St. Swithining, when the
whole city was dripping, the big central
switchboard got full Of moisture and be-
gan to act up. There was only one thing
to do-turn on the steam!
Telephone girls get married But until
recently the loss to the service ON thar
account was not heavy. In the last tire.
months OF last year, for instance. tber.
were seveaty-six out of force of about
S.000-fewer than one in hundred and
only one in eleven out of all the girls that
quit.
But by the first three months of this
year the soldiers had begun to come home
and one out Of every seven girls that ou;t
set up housekeeping
by the second quarter the number had
risen to one out of four
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
wv 7ITH all New York railing at the
w telephone service, the Public Ser

wv nth all New York railing at the
w telephone service, the Public Ser
vice Commission held public hear
ing to receive complaints.
There we're three complaining witnesses.
The operating head of the company told
at length Of the troubles it Is having and
the efforts it is making.
The hearing was adjourned. No date
was set for continuing the investigation.
There were reporters present.
There were s14,O45 telephones In New
York on July 81 this year-one for every
eight men, women and children in the
city.
On these phones there made an aver
age of 100000 calls day-more than one
for every two persons in the city.
There are more phones here than in Chicago
Boston and Buffalo combined; more than
in all the states south of Mason and Dixon's
line and west Of the Mississippi.
The telephone company has invested $780,
100000 in its plant here, and will spend
$26000,000 more by the first of next July.
Each new telephone installed costs the
company $235.5S.
The cost of operating the cty's vast
nervous system is about $3O,OO0,OOO year
$4,000 an hour.
The telephone girls are the first to know
it when New York gets nervous. Then the
big centrals light up like Christmas trees.
1t becomes impossible to keep up with the
sudden demands For instance, in "Rec-
tor" in November, last year, the average
daily traffic was s1,804 calls, but on the day
OF the Malbone tunnel wreck the B. r. r.
there were 101,775; On the day of the
Morgan explosion, October s, 1918, there
was jump from 99,921 to 1851 and on
the day the Lusitania was sunk the jump was
from 1926 to 92,055.
There are other things that show in the
little signal lights. A shower keeps peopl.
off the streets and increases the phone
does the same. The B. R. T, strike ran
the business up nearly 100000 daily A fire
or an explosion may suddenly light almost
every lamp in the nearby centrals, as the
whole neighhorhood demands information ut
once
A telephone ear" is one that will under
stand the first time the number that SUBJ
scriber calls for. 1t is worth about $500
to the telephone company to educate girls
ear. 1t takes three months, usually, to COM
plete the training, and some girls never
make it,
One of the first things girl is taught
at the telephone school is to speak more
clearly and to trill the number g. Tho
school switchboard is just like the big ones
at centrals. dozen instructors keen de-
handing numbers all day long, and tho
girls answer them under the direction NJ
more instructors, who correct mistakes
and, everlastingly, explain what is han
penlng. The next step is to give experience
as near like the real thing as possible. For
this an ingenious arrangement has bean
contrived by which the school board can
be switched in on one of the big exchanues
and the girl can watch real work. In c.a.
OF trouble she can hear how tho aetna,
operator handles the situation, and - ~.