The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1911, Page 26

After The Turkey By Maurice Ketten ESTABLISHED BY JOSMPH PULITZER. i Pwlished Dally Except Sunday by_the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 88 to Fee NGA Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. . }, ANGUS SHAW, 7 63 Park Row.’ - JOSEPH PUL 2 Park Row. Entered at the Poet-Omce at New York os Eecond-Class Matter. @ubscription Rates to The Evening |For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Courtries in the International and Cana Postal Union, + $3.60] One Year.. .20/One Month, wees sevescseesessNO 18,987 SSS == Copyright, 1911, bythe Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). No. 24—Thé Firet Clash With Mexico. HANDFUL of rough frontiersmen with their. wives and childret were huddled in a great mission-fort near San Antonio, Tex. 19 late February, 1836. Around the fort were twenty-eight time . their number of hostile Mexicans. It was a scene that will stan out forever in American history. For it was a black tragedy out of whic! Triumph was one day to rise. Mexico early in the nineteenth century had shaken off the Spanish yok and had begun {ts cereer as an independent nation. The population was of Spaniah origin. A large percentage of these Spaniards were part Indian Now, neither the Spaniard nor the Indian has ever proved a congenial next door neighbor to Uncle Sam. And from the outset there was trouble be tween our country and Mexico. The Mexican Republic had been formed in 1824. Its Government helpot to fill its depleted treasury by plundering United States ships inthe Mexi can Gulf and by seizing the property of United States citizens who lived ip Mexico or along its border line. Our Government remonstrated, but the plunder ing went on. In 1881 a treaty was drawn up between the two countries whicl pledged a cessation of the outrages and a full payment of damages. But Mexies The Siege of kept none of those promises, and the looting went om More than 96,000,000 worth of United States citizens’ prop the Alamo. { errr | ~ YOLUM MORE MEN TEACHERS NEEDED. ‘T ‘s assumed, and ought to be, that the decree of equal pay for | | men and women teachers in our schools will mean the gradual, replacing of women by men, This process will have limits, of course, but they will not soon be reached. Recent figures showed 1,303 men teachers and 14,246 women teachers in the elementary schools and 700 men and 754 women in the high schools. Seven women to one man in our school system presents a condi- tion a6 anomalous as a Mormon household. It should be corrected. | Now that there is no advantage in economy in employing women, the way to do it, other things being equal, or nearly so, is to give the pref- erence to men applicants for teacherships in all but the primary grades and where requirements specially indicate a woman. The Iroquois removed their sons from female tutelage as soon as they could use the bow, and this is the custom of all savage races. It has its analogy for us. Every boy is entitled to a man’s guardian- ship in the home and outside. A wrong is done him if he enters his teens under predominantly female direction. He should have & masculine pattern set him. His impressionable years should have benefit of the virile strength, the rugged quality that are men’s dower. Ie it much more sonsible to set a woman teacher in charge of a bcy of fourteen than of @ boys’ gymnasium or boys’ camp? Are not young girle also entitled to some contact with the masculine quality which roles the world? Not for this end did the women school teachers make their good fight for equal pay. Yet surely they will welcome it, for without onsting one of them, it will replace them with men as fast as they quit school work for marriage, and will assure to the boys whom they shall bear a boy’s birthright. tte TO THE RESCUE OF THE VILLAGE. S*= of the men in the moving picture business are former erty was stolen in this fashion by the Mexicans, Then, as our country grew more populous and peopl began to move westward, throngs of American pioneer settled In the great and rich section of Mexico known a ‘Texas, These ploneers were a wild, semi-lnwless crowd at first. Though living ta Mexico's territory, they not only would not become subjects of Mexico, but they clashed on all occasions with their Mexican neighbors and with the Mexioas Government. They hated the Mexicans. And the Mexicans hated them. The Mexicans made and enforced unjust laws for the pioneers’ discomfort. And the « pioneers Mealy grabbed all the land they could from the Mexicans. At lengih the United States settlérs decided to tear Texas free from Mextoe and to establish there a government of their own. ‘They had, of course, no more right to do this than a man Is justified in stealing the watch of a neighbor whom he dislikes. And Mexico flercely resented the effort. A Mexican army 4.008 strong, led by Gen. Santa Ana, marched into Texas to punish the land-srabbers. Col. W. B, Travis, with about 14 men, fortified the Alamo (a stronghold that had once been a mission) and prepared to resist Santa Ana. The Mexicans bee steged the Alamo, bombarding it and trying to carry it by sheer force of numbers, The ploneer sharpshooters behind the walls slaughtered the Mexicans by the hundred and drove them back from each assault upon the (ort. But ammunition and food were running low. Travis s two frontiersmen at San Felipe icans who were near enough to spond to th Knowing they could not stem the tide of thirty-two nevertheless /cut thelr througa t sieging Mexican army and burst into the Alam, leader shouting: “Boys, we're here to die with you!” And die they did, fighting Ike cornered lions, when Santa Ana at tase oo the fort, each falling with his ring of slain Mexicans around him. had been killed toa man, But the siege cost thé Mexican army 1.690 of the Alamo tragedy went through all Texas Ike wildfire. Men c eprang to arms. Under Sam Houston the frontieremen met Santy 1 larger army at San Jacinto a little later. They hurled themselves mpor t ers of thelr friends, yeYing madly: ‘ourlers for were te een “We're Here to Die With You! eee dosent thet race track touts, some ex-dive keepers, Yet they and their more conventional comrades of the films are doing a work of moral regeneration. They embody a beneficial reaction of city upon country. They are bringing wholesome distractions to towns too small to support a theatrical stock company or even be visited by ve iio Cy ms i ‘ shows that do one-night stands. Much of the cussedness of country life is the product of sheer ennui. Why are lynchings and feuds, and tar-and-feather parties, and fence-rail ridoeand dixordorly charivaris Tara! rather than urban phenomena? For the same reason that quilting parties and husk- ings and spelling bees and lyceum lectures and amateur theatricals and wet-and-dry campaigns are. Country people must be amused. Tn a neighborhood which has no theatres, no professional enter- tainers, no great white way, people must make their own entertain- ment, Therefore they gossip and lynch and pester each other and break loove in ways eccentric or horrifying. Man is a social animal. In primitive times he found his diver- sion in fighting, gambling and drunken, gluttonous feaste. In rural places abroad with an older tradition than ours he gets his diversion through a multitude of holidays, saints’ days and carnivals. But take an ordinary American village, deprive it of holidays, inure it to hard, monotonous work, immerse it in the Puritan tradition, make it “dry,” blow out all the lights at 9 P. M., and you may set the stage for a lynching, a ducking-bee, a choir fight. Thus are the Coatesvilles and Shady Bends “put on the map.” ‘The so-called “Berserker madness” of the early Norse—what was it but the frenzied reaction of disordered nerves against the monoto- nies of the long Norway winters. Modern Arctic explorers report the Eskimo as goaded by the dulnesses of boreal existence to fits of fury in which they tear off their garments and rush flaked across the snew. Pondering these things, one can understand village misbe- havior—and glimpse the service of the moving picture. +o— ——_ THE LATEST BROTHER ACT. HAT was a notable evening when Chancellor Day, Congress- man Littleton, Lawyer Untermyer and Senator Cummins put their feet under the mahogany of the Economie Club a agreed that the anti-trust law should be amended, supplemented Ps abolished. Mr. Day avows himself the high priest of industrial com- bination. Mr. Littleton’s mellifluous yoice has been lifted against combination just as often as for it. Mr. Untermyer is an situ corporation lawyer. Mr. Cummins is a receptive Presidential candi- date, with a reciprocity record that should facilitate Appearances in the dual role of “progressive” and ’ Something ought to happen to the anti-trust law after this mobilization of about everything except the courage, the conviction and the conscience of.a long-suffering people, : all subsequent reactionary,” nd formerly of Taylor Township, Indiana, was sitting up with the chil- dren and keeping them Interested with the tales of the primitive pioneer day’s of her girthood. “Yes, deartes,” she wi saying, ‘I remember when the bears would come into the settlements in winter time and carry off pigs out of the pen, right in thelr arms, and them bears, walking straight up on thelr hind feet just like soldiers! And, in summer time, them bears would come right in the yard when the men was away and turn over the bee-hives and sit down and scoop the honeycomb out with thelr paws and eat {t, and wouldn't mind the bees Copyright, 1911, by 7 onal. tha’ Newt R. and Mrs. Jarr were at the theatre. It was the night out of Gertrude, the maid, and Mrs. Du- senberry, an old lady of the neighbor- Sandman Stories Nustrated Teddy's Honey Hunt. the time, he = LESBEAELESOEDE EAL DS OASEREEEESEES ESE SELSELEOSESESIEOOL Did You Hear Yells at the Jarr Fiat? Here’s the Story: stinging them no more than if they)dlana when you were a little girl?” Was gnats.” ed the boy. "Q-0-0-0! Use atwald of big bears! | “The most cantankerous varmint in criew the Httle Jarr girl, ‘Tell me more about them!" And she hid ther head in| ter," delicious fear in the old lady “Oh, shucks! I wouldn't be afraid of| could hear ‘em hollering no old bears,” cried young Master Jarr,| prowling around fit to s with affected bravado, “I'want to hear | death.” about Injuns or Mona." “Did the painters kill people asked “Well, deariee, them bears when {| the littld girl. was a gal in Indiany was poison bad it| “Indeed they did,Syhoney. Them you worrlted them And there wasn't|painters was toodthirs| ind treach- no Hons in Indiany. Tdons come from They would hol Africa, in the days of Sqgson, as the| woods, like as # {t was a Yhild crying Good Book tells us. : that was lost. And kind hearted folks “What was the worst things Im Ji: bwould follow the sound out nto the yoods and the painters would jump on om a tree and fairly tear ‘im to replied old Mrs. “The woods was full of paint. You he By Eleanor Schorer “fs “Will painters kill people just lke that anywhere?" Dusenberry, shaking Her head solemnly, “No matter where them ‘treacherous critters {s to-day, thelr feerochus natura 66 UCH, ouch'’ screamed O Teddy Bear every was thrown against the sides of the box in which he was packed. He was in a big wagon with a lot of other toys, and the wagon was jomsing and rumbling over big cobblestones. Teddy was going to a little boy. He knew this because he had heand the lady who bought him say #0. And he certainly wished that they would get there soon. But Uttle, Veddy Bear was the | to be delivWred, for the little boy lived quite far out in the country. But it Was Worth the ride (so he told me after- ward), for Bobbie was so happy when he saw Teddy that he screamed and laughed for joy, and ‘most got a spank- one Letters from the People Chances tu Surveying. To the Raitor of The Evening World desirous of learning surveying, B wish to apply to such of your readers @s understand that profession for in- formation on the subject. What are the chances for a young man in this %@ela? Does a yor Work through- @ut the year, or has he any off months, @c.? What is the average length of time to make one proficient in this art? And lastly, how should I go about to make a start at it? This may interest ether readers, and any information wil) de appreciated. AMBITIOUS. Mate and Red Hair, ‘De the FAitor of The Evening World: A friend of mine makes a claim that 4eems to me wo willy that I would not dare present 0 your readera for 4 cussion were it not that several people | te wham I mentioned {t declare it is ored hair and other names.” Will read- ers tell me if they think this can be true? As T said, I have met several people who believe it. LN. B For Another Station, To the FAitor of The Evening World The idea expressed President of the road Company and a Penn: | third street should the is a large capital number one. the e jand money. road an enormous interest and popu: larity. by the Vice- | Pennsylvania Ratl- by members of the Public Service Commission, to build ania station at the junction of the Fourth avenue and Broadway- |Lexington avenue subways at Thirty. | Why of Long jIslanders be compelled to travel from t aide to the west, in order to be transported back to the east side jagain? That ts an absurd loss of time Te will tap the enbwrays, whers i) north and ing, into the bargain, for making so much noise, Bobbie and ‘Teddy slept #lde by side that night, and i. the morning both went out to have some fun on the |farm. They played under a huge apple tree where there were many beehives setting on a long board bench, Now, all bears love honey, even Teddy Bears, and this one thought It would be such Sport to put his paw into the hive and get ome honey when Bobble was not looking! Well, can you guess what hap- pened? I will tell you, As soon as Teddy put his paw in the hive all the angry bees came swarming out, stinging Teddy, and Bobbie, too, For the bees did not know that Bobble was Rot the guilty one. You may bet that the little boy and the little bear ran 4nd ran and never looked behind them, That night they were surely a funny | sight, all bandaged up as they were, with big, salt tears rolling down thelr The new station contem- | cheaks, Hee stings hurt, you know, and |Dlated will give to the Pennsylvania Ratiroad and to the Long Island Ratl- they could hardly sleep for the pain in their faces, | Teddy's fret and very eventful day on the farm iaugit him a iesson, It caught ‘him that if he wanted to enjoy eweet ‘ere more apt tp be had |south meet, at @ direct point of traffic, | sound slumber he must not meddle Shan gro parole Of athe ooh By ahi RGM WIAA Hed lager tem ‘ is the same. I would no more trust @ painter in the streets of New York than I would trust them in the wilds of In- diany.” But in the-morning the effects of the old “lady's recital were apparent when the door bell rang and Gertrude re- turned from the portal to announce that there were two painters at the door who had been sent around by the landlord. The faces of the Jarr children blanched with terror, Well did they remember the’ open warfare of years between them and the landlord in the matter of roller-skating in the ‘hall and chalking on th house front and pave- ment. To their terrified imaginations the painters sent by the landlord rep- resented retribution. The litte Jarr girl threw herself, screaming and shrieking, In her moth- er's arms, Master Jarr, though terri tied aimpst out of his senses, was mate of sterner stuff, He ran to the kitchen, seized a hatchet that was there and, dancing and yelling in his terror and desperation, dared the painters to enter the house at their peril. “But, my dear children!" cried Mrs Jarr, whym she could make herself be heard above the din. ‘They will not hurt you. They are only men come to do some painting." “Why, yes,” eald Gertrude. ore of them. And h fellow, and takes all makes home to his mother." But the children screamed that. Mrs. Dusenberry had told them better, And all progress was blocked until the old lady from Indiana was sent for, “Why, bleas thelr hearts!" exclaimed ola Mrs, Dusenberry, ‘the painters I meant was ferocious animals what eome folks call catamounte!’ And when Mr. Jarr came home he oft in the, “Painters is palnters*” sala old Mrs.) | them days {n Indiany was the pain- |" Duwenbderry. | ihe . out night and re you tol quiet “Tha | but th FISTIITSISSISIISS PSISSTIFSTIFITSSS FUTSSISIFSITIIGGT al MacDonald leaned back “Remember the Alamo!” 1 The Mexican army was destroyed and Santa Ana was captured. Tove « sae declared a free republic and Sam Houst came ite fir Houston's efforts It was annexed in 184 to the United sively been under six flags—the French, the Spanteh, the the bripf Texas Republic, Mexico protested furiously against our annexation of Texas and to back that protest by force of arms. President James I” ols 1 sent a suiall army under Zachary Taylor to the Mexican frontier, Our country was beginning its third great war. “Tt would do no g of, You would a [the Days Good Srorie. | wearily relied the A Cheerful. Prospect. ILL B, MACDONALD of city to escape the din and noise of town; f the trouble of looking after birds." Not Yet, But Some Time. rT HEN 1 took @ night train ont of 8b Louis to get off a a anal! town if ‘ashington ager to look after this 2 his family at breakfast one morn- hen 1 won't lave any more trouble, He ‘2 room op the top floor, and we will have a quiet, casy time “Twas due at th teld there was a} smiled serenely in ned peace. wer passed through y upstairs MacDonald stepped if he cared to have the afters ton of the coming rest ing the stunt when a man on as raised & opened fire of 4 instead of rinainz and stood he fired five more bullets at me I cromed over to him the de. vo his asked him noon paper, “No, thank you,” replied the fo ve a flute on winch T two hours before going to bed. ane, No Peace for Speeders. 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