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IT N EWS FROM FOREIGN AMERICAN WOMEN DECEIVED IN GGVNS IRISH-ULSTER RELATIONS MORE TgNSE . AMERICAN TRAFFIC AFFAIRS DISCUSSED SHAW DJSCUSSES PRUDES AND PRUDERY CELEBRATED "AMERICA'S TRAFFIC L! SECRET OF FEMINISM 1 Madame Paqutn tjays Ameri British Commission's Report Men Do Not Love as They can Women Frequently Deceiveo. M of ..Investigation Makes Good Reading, Once Did, Declares Maria .Cajafa. r,APITAIS . , . ; ' ' ' ' - ' j ... . - . ... " TT . t ITALIAN DISCOVERS JlSlNS PROB EMS ARE HUGE r a: i ' ; -vv -v., .a. i -.i - i it.:-- : , , x,,' . .i ... -vvv . i v- . " London, March J 4. The delegation of English and Scottish municipal au thorities which recently visited Amer lea to study the transportation que tlon has Issued its report which makes very Interesting- reading. Of the cltiea visited. New York, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco, the report says: "There is no doubt that the munlci pal authorities In New York as in other large American cities, have done a vast amount of good work. They have very big problems to solve and much difficult and important work Is still to be carried through. "Some of the best and most capabff Americans we met were members of eity councils and civic officials. N city In the world has the same trafflo problems to solve as New York." ' Regarding the street paving, in -American cities the report continues: "We thought the paving of tho streets In New York and the condltior of many portions of the city's tram way tracks were the worst - we ever had seen, but the streets of New York were quite respectable compared to the Streets in some other cities: For years some of the principal streets of New York never have had a chance for im provement owing to the construction of so many subways and other under ground work. Many streets looked as If they had not been paved for half a century. "In the uptown districts many of the smooth paved streets are delight .ful. On the other hand, in the down town districts, the rough streets, tne rumbling of heavy traffic, and the roa Of elevated trains make parts of trie city hideous In the extreme. "Regarding the manner In which the motor traffic is handled In New York, Glasgow could learn splendid lessons there and also from .the other. Ameri can cities. The New York chauffeur carries out police regulations to the letter. One lias a feeling In driving through the city that the vehicles are under complete control. "As a general rule wag.es of street railway employes in the United States as in the case of other Wage earner, are higher than In England. As. hp went farther west they rose stlfl '. higher, the maximum being reached in San Francisco. ' "One great drawback of the success ful operations of tramways In Amer ica, more especially in the eastern cities. Is the change which continually is going on In the' operating forces. Americans never seem to Join the street railway service with the inten tion of remaining at this work. The i street railway companies of America consequently are continuously over burdened with a large proportion of new hands.' a condition which does not tend toward efficiency. "The Idea of municipalization of street railways no doubt la gaining ground-In the United States and if one of 'the larger cities were to take the step forward and make a success of municipally owned and operated street railways, a great change might very soon take place in the street railway business throughout the whole of America.' Eulogistic reference is made to tnj San Francisco tramway system which is quoted as "the Only municipal tram way in the United States." The new line In Geary street which extends right through the city la prophesied as being eventually successful financi ally. Passing reference is made to the Panama Exposition and it is remarked , that everybody in the city is looking forward to having a remarkable time next year. The report is signed on behalf of the delegation by James Dalrymple. general manager of the Glasgow Cor poration Tramway; Borne. March 14. The secret of fom- Inism is uUwhat it Is. whv lit is. and how to cure it. Incidentally, with all that chivalry for which man has ever or never been famous. It can be said right off the bat that the fault is not woman's. For the menace-of feminism, man and man alone, is guilty. Maria Cajafa. one of Italy's leading women sociologists and scientists, is we person who claims to have solved this interesting and widespread mod ern social problem. Where other have zigurea mat it was largely an eco nomic or political question, Slgnorlna Cajafa has. found that It is purely a moral one. And the responsibility for the moral decadence that has brought it about is man's. Feminism has come into being, says "Professoressa" Cajafa, solely because, "the modern man no longer loves." The modern man, having failed to fill the life of the modern woman with the only thing that can satisfactorily fill It, , modern woman has sought other means for overcoming the void. Let modern 'man learn orfce again how to love woman as nature Intended she should be loved, and the modern woman will forget in five minutes that she ever wanted to blow up prime min isters, work the fire department to death and break shop windows, accord ing to "Frofessoressa" Cajafa. Professor Cajafa, who has just given to the Italian public her1 first ex haustive study . of "Feminism," has been neither local nor purely modern in her researches and treatment. In stead, she has regarded the, subject as a world wide question and has gone into it both historically and scientlfl cally. TEACHER IS VICTIM OF OWN PROGRESS Ann Out ram Forced Out of School Because of Her . Advanced Ideas. . . ' ' I 1 Photograph from the Illustrated London News. Men of the moment in England Herbert Henry Asqiiith, prime minister, at the left, and Sir Edward Henry Carson, the Ulster leader. The former la an advocate -of home rule for Ireland while the latter recently declared, "It will not be my fault if resistance (in Ulster) becomes necessary." , London, March 14. Miss Anna Out ram is suffering the fate of most pio neers of progress. Because she was brave enough to be the first woman school teacher in all England to Invade the forbidden field of sex instruction. ne is Dejng marryrizea. When they heard of her new departure, the scan dalized - local managers of her school in the little Derbyshire village of Uronrieidr where she had been head mistress for, 21. years, peremptorily de manded her resignation. She refused, and they went to the county education committee with a petition for her re moval, but the committee sustained Miss Outram without even holding an Inquiry. Then the townsfolk got busv. "Outram must go!" was the cry. She was boycotted professionally and os tracized socially. Mothers withdrew their daughters from the school. Wom en who had grown up with her In the little village from girlhood refused longer to speak to her. A town meet ing was called at wnlch abuse was heaped upon her head, and resolutions adopted appealing to the Government Board of Education in London for a reversal of the county authorities' decision. Meantime, the question,,, "Should a girl be told?" has become a national one. Leading clergymen, educators and sociologists have taken sides with the Derbyshire schoolmistress and with the exception of her own immediate and narrow minded community the GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IS WROTH AT PRUDISH IDEAS In Commending Brieux's "Damaged Goods" English Dra matist Takes Occasion to Discuss "White Slave" Revelations in Frank Terms. NO HURRY CONCERNING MARRIAGE OF PRINCE London, March 14. King George and Queen Mary are authority for the statement that the matrimonial pros pects of the Prince of Wales have not been discussed and are not likely to be for some years to come, in contradic tion of the various reports of an im pending engagement of the heir appar ent. The prince will not be 20 until next June, and as he also possesses three other brothers there Is no necessity for an early marriage for him as there might be in case he were an onlv mn The reported tour of the empire by the Prince of Wales will not take place until the autumn of next year at the earliest, when he will have finished his studies at Oxford. On his tour he will be accompanied by his brother, EMANUEL PAYS TRIBUTE TO FATHER'S MEMORY Rome. March 14. Unusual precau nons were taken today when King Victor Emmanuel, Queen Helene and Queen Mother Humbert attended the annual requiem -mass over the tomb of ivmg numoert at the Pantheon. To prevent the possible repetition of ait other attempt against the life of the king similar to that made two years ago as he was driving to the mass, the streets leadlne from thA Onirin.i to the Pantheon were lined with troops and the squares in front of places wnn soldiers, unusual inter est attached toi the servi tnHn ha. cause of the rendition by a select choir of a requiem mass selected through a national competition for the event By W. Orton Tewson. (By the International News Service.) London, March 14. I met George Bernard Shaw in Fleet street, Lon don, recently and we walked along the Strand in a blinding rain to his home, which overlooks the Thames. Shaw was full of Brieux's "Damaged Goods'? and talked on the subject long and lovingly. S "It's a magnificent piece of work," he said. "It only'bears out my long standing contention that Brieux is one of the; greatest French dramatists. He is the natural successor of Moliere. "When I expressed this opinion In Paris some years ago Frenchmen called me a lunatic. I asked them to name his superiors. All they could public generally not only defends her tonable playwrights who won't live 30 attitude, Dut appiauas ner ieariess-1 years. ness. Miss outram orrense was put- "Critics affect: to sneer at Brieux. ting into practice in her own class of Now their god is Sophocles, whom girl pupils the example and teachings I thAv nroo.laim a master of technique. or Mrs. till rmgg xuung oi vmcago. i jje. a in his own lasnion. covery of this other tie of affection would not have-awakened any unneces sary abnormal emotion in him. "Now take the case of Brieux. He makgft the doctor lead the villain of the piece through all the conventional phases of regret and vilification, but when it comes to the end-he takes the logical view." He discovers that he himself would not personally have felt the due feelings of horror which he tried to instni into the villain. He would have done Just as the villain did. But he takes the. logical step of preventing anyone else from being led into a course of this kind. He wants everyone told so that this sort of de bauchery and filthy disease may be eradicated. I only hope this play is allowed to wo c. c u a clj is i. ,unv .iicJvv.iaoo.ijic in stitution, the censor. We are helpless. "It's just the same as when, over 20 years ago, I wrote "Mrs. Warren's Bhe believed that if mothers refused to explain to their daughters the mys teries of life and birth, it was her duty as well as her right as their teacher, to enlighten them. PFLEGING INSISTS BODY IS IMMORTAL r But take thecase of Oedipus, re cently produced. ! What is this tech nique? It is one series of aimless, foolish. Improbable coincidences. He leads Oedipus up to the point where the latter discovers he has marnea his own mother. Having obtained this re sult by childish coincidences, he makes Oedipus go mad as the result. Now I maintain he wouia not nave gone mad. nor anyone else. Paris. March 14. Professor A. N. "I often felt like Writing an Oedipus Pfleging of San Francisco, who has re- I play of my own, showing that the dis sided in Nice ror tne past two years, has come to Paris to invite bacteri ologists and surgeons to test his the ory "that the bddy is immortal." I first came to teach metaphysics, said Pfleging, "but the French don't care about it any more than the Amer leans." He added that man does not acquire, but makes his own microbes. including those- of death. , He also thinks man is capable of transforming the cells of his body, which he suc ceeded in doing, thus' rendering him self Immortal. Thugs at Nice recently threw him over a high wall, he says, and while the fall should have killed him, he es caped unhurt. He also has tested several potent poisons on himself without harmful effects, he says. Pfleging this week asked Professor Metchnlkoff to pump 2,000.000 cholera microbes into him as a scientific test, but the noted bacteriologist declined to assume the responsibility. Pfleging is now going to offer his body to Pro fessor Tuffier, "The Alexis Carrel' of Paris, for grafting purposes. Profession.' There I tried to put an end to the system of organized vice, What was the result? I 'was Informed by the critics, just as in the case of Brieux, that it was mere parapleteer ing, containing no traces of art. The censor -banned it. The self satisfied (I ought to say self satiated) mob condemned it. 7 Public Censor at Xast. "Eighteen months ago a sudden panic arose, A drastic act of parlia ment was passed to end the "white slave traffic.' . "Had my play been performed, I guarantee it wouldn't have taken 20 years to educate the people and, also. they would have been educated along logical lines. I tried then to point'out what Brieux has done In 'Damaged Goods,' namely, that evils of this kind must be fought with the most efficient weapons at our disposal. I showd that organized vice Is not run by Idiots bu by highly educated .attract ive Individuals, ; who necessttMEVto&T employment of all our resources to de feat them. I "Similarly Brieux shows the only possible method of fighting the dis semination of this horrible disease. "But tho prospect Isn't good. Ac cording to the ruthless ideas of stiff backed English conventionalism this is one of the subjects which must not be talked of. One can't characterize this opposition, ! It's a kind of tribal influence handed down for generations. Just the same way one can tell people everyone would be more husky If he went about with nothing on. Tou Just try to get the first man you meet to walk down the Strand that way, and see what's the result. I've known men to shudder at the idea of walking down Bond street on a summer after noon in a bowler hat. Unnatural rrudery Deaouced. "It's all due to a kind of unnatural prudery herewith Englishmen are obsessed. Perhaps In 30 generations of time they will outgrow It, but I am not optimistic. Nevertheless I do feel strongly on the :- subject of this play. It is a magnificent work of art and does enormous public service, but owing to the ldiosyncracies of this censor institution, coupled with the British stupidity and prejudice It is not allowed to be performed publicly. "Incidentally ; the cowardice dis played by British newspapers is simply loathsome. Some of them ac tually returned their tickets and wero afraid even to see it. Yet when the respectable government appointed a commission to Inquire into the same subject they had the courage actually to put the word 'spy hills' In the head line. Truly the. ways of some people are past all comprehension." ST. PATRICK'S DAY RECALLS. ANCIENT IRISH ANIMOSITY Bitter. Feeling Between Ulstermen- and Irishmen Js Much -"MoTe'Tharr Legendary During ThoseOaysbf Home Rule Agitation. Paris, March 14.- Inl reply to criti cisms by fashion buyers of Madame - Paquin s action In sealing hor latest dress models direct tof Nw Tork for exhibition, the noted dressmaker has - written me xonowing uppianauon: By Madame Iqulii. - ; American women w$o buy , thetr "Paris gowns" In America are often. disappointed when the; borne to Paris to find no French worsen dressed as they are. This Is the result of the fact that purchases i madel -by American buyers in Paris do noli represent the real new styles, but mutely something resembling them. 'r,j ..' , - More often not; American buyers are prompted In their phoice by .strict business consideration either la- re spect to the" tariff or from the fact that they have bought Sat wholesale la large quantities some especial lace OT other goods which tha are bound- to sell, and therefore they i buy only the models adapting-- themselves to these goods.' - , i; . I am quite sure that'wU" the excep tion of a privileged feto who come to Paris every year, Americans are often . misled by being sold trowns purport- ' ing to come from Parlf when- they are merely distorted adapfiUona of Paris creations. Also in mjoy: casee" they-.: are absolutely cbeatedfby the employ ment or xorgea tags. . Not infrequently Afierlcan women wealing gowns with ,ny label come here for small alterations and I nave to disabuse them of teir belief that they are wearing Paqiiih creations. It is for these reasons jlWS no other that I have sent this year 6-x the first time a complete collection?) of .new orea-: . tlons for exhiblUon fiily throughout . the United States. 3 : j The charge is madaV4n many qur- : . ters that the American woman lacks the chic of the Partstonne. That, to my mind. Is entirely dfce to th absurd abuses I have just mentioned, and I have no doubt once lithe Americans . realise what Paris creations really are they will wear the nev! styles, with as much elegance as the Sfarlalenne born. I do not expect the American fashion firms will welcome mjf 'plain speaking , regarding Paris fsshtns In America, but I feel that the qiirtUon is of too great Importance to American -wo man for me to withheld my visas, even should American buyers feel that . In expressing them llm not helping their purely business wids. i -: , . g .... LIFE WITH0UT1OVE IS "T1 London, March 14. Tuesday will be the anniversary of the legendary birth day of St. Patrick. Clashes between the Catholic Irishmen and the Protest ants of Ulster province are expected, but these are nothing unusual for the saint's day or "Boyne Water". day. The real question is: Will this St Patrick's day mark the passing of the long years of peace in Ireland? Will Erin be del uged with blood, as she has been so many times before in her long history, ere St Patrick's day comes round in 1915? The coming twelvemonth i to de cide the question of home rule. On the day when the patron saint of the Emerald isle is honored her lead ers will look to a future which is most dark and menacing. Ireland is a house divided against itself. Despite the ef forts at compromise made in the last two weeks, the avoidance of bloodshed is problematical. - There are really three. struggles for home rule involved in this question. More than a century Ireland has fought for the ending of British domi nation. At the same time Ulster province is promising to appeal to arms before it will allow itself to be governed by the Catholic provinces. Thirdly, the Catholics in Ulster, who are not few in number, will not calmly submit to the rule of the Protestant hUlstermen. Cardinal Logue lived in Ulster and so does Joseph Devlin, who may succeed John Redmond as leader MERE EXISTENCE : u . , NEW TRACTION LINE IN CONSTANTINOPLE IS MADE THE OCCASION OF A MOST UNIQUE CELEBRATION Majesty of LaW Upheld. Moscow, March 14. Escorted by two soldiers with fixed bayonets, that the majesty of the law might be upheld, the 3-year-old on of a Jewish dentist has been solemnly deported from Kursk, central Russia. Kohan, the dentist, and hs wife, were ordered to leave thfe tow a few weeks ago, and they tomplledJ but they left their In fant son with friends, aa. he was too delicate to travel during the winter. The goyernor of the town promptly -arrested; the baby, and ordered-Kohan's friends ;to send the boy away. The friends ; begged for a delay, but the - brutal official ordered two soldiers' to Join a convoy of criminals (with the . boy and turn him over to the parents. It Is not expected that little Kohan 'will survive the hardships of the Jour . ; ney., .v. ..... , . ;.. .. ..:-i. :,, . . ,. . -..!;. '--.-a . SIX DOLLARS A WORD FOR PICTURE LAY Paris, March 14. The highest price ever paid for a motion picture scenario. $8 a word, was received this week by Gabrlelld d' Annunzio . for a 2000 word scenario. The scenario, which deals with episodes in the Punic wars, is a tragic r love story of Sophonlsba. It will be produced by, a Turin firm,' which has already sent a check, for S12.000 to the author. V h The most apectacular sections of the rum. in tne mating oi wnicn more than 400 supers- will be . employed, shows, the eruption .of i Mount Etna, Hannibal's invasion of Italy, and the siege of Clrta and child sacrifices to Moloch. - - tr . - v j - : i i -l - The 'company has " made ' arrange ments for - the showing of the com pleted films In America. - I'll'' " Xi 'ji r- s. j v't- "' ''"-n." '-Si' ' .mihii "'"'" 1 l-1 j"!L J ' 1 ""5fjs3fi .J- Iwi f"'1' 'f! ' - Mp?"1r 4 -.f y";:' -i of the Irish Nationalists. In Belfast Itself one of the four division is Na tionalist and Catholic. Three Phases to Question, The triple nature of this question is often lost sight of. But it is the real reason which prevents the acceptance of the various propositions to separata Ulster from the rest of Ireland; to give the Catholic provinces home rule and let Ulster stay closely connected po litically with the rest of Great Britain. That conditions have come to a pass no one will now deny. No one has de nied it since December Slast, when King George V Invoked the customs consolidation act of 187 to forbid the Importation of arms and ammunition into Ireland. n . - There are today two1 armies of volunteers drilling in the Island. The Nationalist army Is the smaller and the '. more formless, because It was started more recently. Its strength te very hazy. Photographs of corps being Inspected are not impressive. But the Ulster army, long derided, has a strength not so problematical as tbeia, opponents. On the evening of tho day when King George officially. recognised the gravity, of the situation by the arms order, Sir Edward Carson. the leader of the Ulsterltes, said In a speech at Nottingham, England, that the Ulster volunteers, had aggregated 18,000 a year before and now numbered 90,000. These are. the men actually enrolled and serving. If; it came to an actual clash, it Is safe to eajr, the Ulster leader could count on more than twice this number. Two hundred thousand volunteers are not to be dismissed with a word. They could cause 'much trouble even for a detachment of the British army and should the volunteers of the south of Ireland be sent against them the conflict would be prolonged and san guinary. tristsrmea Have Wealth. It Is to be remembered ' that the Ulstermen have in their number most of the principal business; men of Ire land. Belfast Is the city of wealth, the place of mills and shipyards. .The resources of Ireland would be at the disposal of the minority- Jn the north. not. in tne majority 01 tne otner provinces. Many : keen observers be lleve this is the principal issue under lying: the fight against), home rule. They j minimize the church Issue and bring out the fears of I the Belfast merchants that a Dublin! parliament would contrive to make Belfast pay all the taxea and have Dublin and Cork take all the offices, lucrative eon- tracts and various patronage. Yet the church Issue is certainly -a strong one. In a felicitous compari son a writer, who had lust toured Ulster recently, said the Orange farm ers reminded ilm greatly of the South African Boers, bigoted, a bit dulL but ready to fight to the death with -a rifle in one hand and a Bible In the other. These men - are not Celtio by descent but Scotch or English. They came mostly over in the seventeenth century. Although they have absorbed much of the Irish character, including the brogue, they have 'Seldom inter married with the Catholics. 4 ?- j. . t - . ti f . v , ' Photograph from the London Graphic As an indication of Jiow the Near East La copying the manners and tastoms of the "West, Constantinople, now has . a modem traction lin . the inaururatioa I service, on. ;.hich. is showiv inthla.;f hot ographi when a sheep-, was sacrificed in honor or the occasion. , 0i , German Scientist- Discusses ' Beneficial Effects of Love . on Human System. : v , Berlin. March 14.i-"Life without love is mere existence. The purpose of love is to make life worth living. Love causes a chanffV In the nervous system and otherwise In the body. The happy feeling ajid elation of. a : loving pair 'Impresses the circulation -of the blood and Increases the consump tion of oxygen." These are some of the remarks made - , by Dr. Magnus Hlrschfleld, the farooue German authority on sexual science. In an address on the subject of "Sex and . Love." "Love Is based nnoo-.Iaws of nature of which we know little or nothing yet." said Dr. Hlrschfleld. -But sci ence is now at work studying" love scl 4 entlflcally and trylnsr to learn some-, thing about the law which cause us . to love one person, hate another, give us a feeling of attraction to one and antipathy to others: ' Objection . has been raised to the scientlflo study of love on the ground that science will de- . story some of our fondest Illusions in the domains of the hjrart. -Science can- -not stop for that," r, ' , Love, said Dr. Hirocnneia. is one 01 the most .difficult subject science has undertaken to study. No two persons are affected the sa?ne, or have the same experience and impression. What made it still more difficult was the fact that few persons tell" the truth about their love affetf. Happy love, says the. scientist, has a stimulating effect upon the brain and nerves. It enlarges life's hortxon. Un happy love haa a vegy depressing ef fect and narrows Hfe j CHINESE ALARMED AT ART TREASURES' LOSS 1 SIMPLE LIFE SHOW IN I LONDON THIS MONTH lOTjdon, March .14. This) month, will see the ooeninr of the si mole life and open air exposition and conference at the Horticultural hall In London. . One of the prime attractions Is cer tain to be the "fully furnished -man." Peking. March 14.--A proposal has museum in Peking tooonserve Chinese -works of art, many flee sptiens of which have been shipjied to Europe and America. The Chinejie are becoming alarmed at the rapid, leakage of their ancient art treasuresand wish to stop the devastation hetercj It is too late. Recently a quanflty of ancient paintings, beautiful djd porctlam, col ored screens, and a -iundred cases of. jade, reached Peking; ifrom the Jehol summer palace. At present these treas ures are housea- m xoe rtymg nan t the palace, and it is 'suggested that, with those from the old palace In Muk den, they would form- suDstantiai nu cleus for a museum. i it is felt that untss ine priceless specimens of early aVi that are scat tered about .the country are collected at once future genefatibns will hae to go abroad to Inspect the crafts or their forefathers, rt f : . ' He has -reduced the tlmple necessities of life to a fine arty,-H will appear on the platform in kthes ef. normal capacity, batwhllefAe is talking te tne auaience ne w irm pocket his bed. and from the other his home residence: He Will prove to the astonished audience -that he can walk about not only ? contiorraoiy cioinea but comfortably furnished as well.! His house ' Is-'really a tent, but It is such- a marvel of - lightness - and eaail y so as to . Oecf py only eornvr of an ordinary coat tocket. His equal- - ly portable. bed slips into another. He is new ,devling a- bath that he can f-rrv- in. hla waiiif f oat Docket - With " ' :, - - - v.;1 - . : . ' ' ' - ' '