Show Ii WAT WHAT IS YOUR SOCIAL SOCIA STANDING j I 4 Copyright 1923 1023 New York Evening World Press Publishing Co By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB What Wat Is your social standing A A. well wel known know society writer has divided the social scale scle In New York into two parts He calls cals one the old guard gard and the other tho the cafe cate so so- so I In the tho old guard gard he mentions people people peo peo- Pie he says who did not belong to I the real old guard of ot years yeas ago I because they were then regarded regarded as i newcomers Fifty FUty years however Is I a long time he be says and the tho climbers of ot half hal a century ago are the old guards guards' of today gards' gards It I is a a. formidable list of names this writer presents under both classifications tons most of ot them money made H He further lurther states that the well wel remembered remembered bored four tour hundred Is now because of ot these newcomers But there is a newcomer In the soca social so so- 50 cial field today who in less than fifty years ca will be the old guard of at to to to- morrow wl These newcomers will wi be become become be- be come come- the highest s section c on of S society Already the tho signs SigS or na nu times ures uz 3 point pOlL to them as the real leaders of so so- so If I you ou do not believe it it go goi goto goto to any worthwhile o drawing room h hwi here i and even v In struggling I Europe gg You will vill wi find there among the old guard gar garand and the tha cafe care society this newcomer new new- comer corner who is in reality realty achievement personified personified-he he or she who has made mada something or contributed something to the betterment of the world They are fast tast becoming the tha idols of ot society and the day is i not far tar distant when those who are ara Idle idla and do nothing to make the world better beter that they had lived will be relocated relegated to the vanguards of ot the commonplace The Tha old guard gard and all aU the other social leaders today are aae ae drawing toward them men and women who are doing things scientists Inventors artists and people who make for tor the progress of or p peoples oples and not mere mero money making Even Een the tha social leaders themselves are going into all al kinds of ol endeavor in Ira which they can show some accomplishment besides merely motoring to parties and d t teas and vying with each other to tot reach chan oc s social heights Much of this Is duo to the war and much of it i is du due to the development of ol the tho race Isel Itself On the field of hattie battle batte there Is no social scale and the fittest survived This generation learned leaned a great geat lesson Men and women are awakening to the realization that hat mere money making without some come good ac acom- acom om- om pUshed In the interest of mankind leaves one poor Indeed both in the social scale and in them atter of ol accomplishment ac- ac The society of ot tomorrow will wi be based on not Who's Vho's Who but on What's What The climber will wi be a n. different type hpe He lie will wi only reach the top by his own efforts rather than by legacy or Inheritance which have heretofore smoothed t the tha rungs ns of the ladder Besides Be Be- t tt sides the fruits I of his I own dal labor ie will not ba be mere money making but ac ac- ac- ac thai ual work accomplished not for tor himself him him- self set alone but those about him That Is the standard of ot society for tor which the basis Is being laid today by this elite elte that the writer wier has classified Today you will find among them men and wom women n wi frn on 11 1 no I j of ote life who have have ii made a place I in the tho h sun lun as against him who has paid for a ulace in the cafe cale Th Tho big question queston to bo be asked aked to tomorrow to- to morrow of ot those who would enter the highest society will wl be Is I the world better beter for tor your coming All Al of ot which is presented to point tho the way to young youn People to be ba doin doing do- do in ing rather than Idling to be ba building rather rater than bowing to take their place In the Salt of ol the Earth Erh society as It is being formed toda today It I is unnecessary to be able to tell the world that tel your our grandfather was a Beau Brummel or that your aunt led the first cotillon cotlon with the Prince of ot Wales or that your our fancy tancy dress for tor the ball bal c cost st What you will viIi have ha to tell tel in order to enter the se select select se- se vl lect societY of or the future In order to be fit lit for tor it Is is What have you done yourself And this great gat society Is being I drawn today from what has long been called calEd the tha common crowd those crowd crowd tose those who suffer suter and bleed and die to make Mother Earth Earh a better beter place in which to live They come the doers doer off olt the worlds world's work |