The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1913, Page 18

—— Sve Paes aaiorio. ESTABLISHED BY JOSMPH PULITZER. WeRGebed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 62 Park Row, New York. Row, Ni RALPH, ITZOR, President, 63 Row. ANGU! AW, , 63 Ps Josie PULITZBR, Ire Nocrelary, @ Park Row, ont Entered the Post-Office @ebecription Rated to The Eve World for the United VOLUME 53... A SCHOOL TEACHERS’ UNION. ITE proposal submitted to the National Council of Education only because it comes so belated in the hietory of such movements. at Philadelphia, that the school teachers organize s union ‘There are so many teachers’ acsociations of various kinds that a na-| tiomal organization having charge of common interests might havo been expected long ago, especially as the profession is more or Jess | stibject to‘ political influences and teachers must have often felt the need of a solid support to sustain them in their rights. But the teachers of the schools do not appear to have euch need of organized union as do the professors in colleges and universities. School boards are sithject to the supervision of a more vigilant public opinion than are university councils. Professors have been discharged under circumstances that would have raised a storm of protest had @wch wrong béen done in the schools. Even their colleagues in most cases have stood silent and made no fight for intellectual freedom. (This has been especially conspicuous in departments dealing with questions of sociology, political economy and control of public utili- tes. But what the school teachers purpose to teach in this respect to-day, the professors may learn to-morrow. OO —— NEW BRAND OF LILY WHITE. F A WOMAN convicted of permitting a disorderly house to be maintained on her property, and who was supposed to be half willing to turn State’s evidence in a hope of getting a light sentence, if not pardon, her counsel eaid: “She is lily white compared with those that wish her to confess.” This was putting a new paint on the lily and the Court could aso means of advancing their professional interests, is odd | not avoid expressing regret over it. “It is a ead commentary on jus- tice,” said he, “that you should seek clemency on the ground as stated by your counsel that your peculiar code of honor does not permit you to betray your own kind.” ‘There is, however, nothing peculiar in the code at all. It is but a part of that “honor among thieves” that has become proverbial. The only novelty is that a learned lawyer and member of the bar ehould have deemed it “lily white.” It is a code of the underworld which appears to have warped the judgment not only of attorneys but of come members at least of the police. What else is the meaning of the denunciation of “traitors to the department”? In all lands and in all ages such ‘codes of honor have had dubious requirements, tat in the past these have been left as dark epots; no one called them lily white. SEE RES Cas TO DODGE PANAMA TOLLS. the report that the Hamburg-American Shipping Com- W's purposes to organize a company in the United States to carry on coastal trade through the Panama Canal be- | tween the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboard, we get an illustration | of how easy it is for cosmopolitan finance to evade the skill and | profit by the blunders of nationaliem. The report will doubtless be Probably it is not true to-day, but there is no warrant it will not be true to-morrow. @ With such a company in operation our ill-considered scheme of grenting free passage through the canal to ships in the domestic | ‘trade will result in a eubsidy to a foreign company. Out of it will come in the end a pooling arrangement similar to that which regu- lates trade ecross the Atlantic. There would then be needed more legislation to bolster up the legislation proven to be defective. ‘hus the purposed hidden subsidy in the form of exemption from tolls is not only s-violation of treaty obligetione but 6f common sense as well. EE EVER THUS IN ARCADIA. ONTINUANOE of criticism in Germany against the Kaiser's boast of success on his model farms is not without interest. Tt appears that almost every assertion is contradicted by his neighbors. He said he gets four per cent. cream from his cows; they say he gets less than threc. He said his potatoes were good when all around were bad; they say that hia potato field was smothered in a He said his new kind of rye stood up “like the lances of my whlans”; thoy say the crop stood poorly. In short, they @nply that the biggest return the Kaiser gets from his model farm is a crop of “Byzantine flattery.” These criticiems must not be taken for expressions of disloyalty. They are common to all farming communities and can be heard in all groups of farmers talking about scientific agriculturiste. It was ever so in Arcadia. Only among fishermen is a man’s word accepted by his 1 CANT STAY HER USAY~ 1AM GOING To MYCLUB ISAY Magazine, Wednesd hee le iW acknowledged society leader, on tour through past wid Plained thet girls, especial! ust- ot t these girts do not read the right kind of books, I have found many of that, Books of that kind make them unhappy an dis- contented. They become socialistic end of friends, e and, 1 thinking wealthy peaple their they grow to hate us.” While she may not fully realize the needs of girls not fn the swim of society in which ehe moves, yet there is eome food for thought as to what girls should read, A atatiatician has estimated that If the Teading matter on the market to-day ‘Therefore, in truth, there is something to CHOOSE from. While Ibsen may not come within the scope of some growing girls, yet 1t 1s commendable, to say tho least, that works of writers of that call- ‘bre may be found among the girls on the east aide, 1 visited the night schools on the east side, where many girls who are em- ployed during the day th bustness are rying to get some education at thelr only leisure, Here I found young women in this country but @ short time reading Shakespeare UN D E R STANDINGLY, though In very broken English. For, as |: thoy read, the sentences wore interpret. ed properly, I shall never forget the look of AP- PRECIATION that often came over friends without question. If the Kaiser wishes to indulge the joy of unrebuked bragging he ehonld sell his farm and buy a trout stream. ‘The Cleck Problem. ‘Zo the Editor of The Evening World: O figure the olock preblem as follows: , The minute hand, moving 4 Inches % minutes; 3 seconds each minute repre- wents 1.15 in X+60=69 inches, ‘Total clroumference of dial +3.1,416=22.02 Inch- es, the diameter of dial +-2=11.01 inches, one-half the diameter or length of min- ute hand. c.. 8 Marringe ‘To the Editor of The Evening We In what States of the Union can a ried without having a *. v, required tn all Mates and Territories except Alaska, Mew Mexico and South Carolina. flag is good enough to fly at all and any Umes, and it should, I think it 1s more disrespectful that the American flag doesn't fly from more of our public buildings than ft does, As the Stars and Stripes are the “Pride of the Ni Uon,” who can show me why the fly! of it except between sunrise and a set is disrespectful? know how and why? ‘To the Kaivor On what da in the year 1541? 8 4 problem that gw not BO easy a4 it eounds: “Find the num- ber of weeks in three years, five months a these girls’ faces at some momentous Passa@ that particularly PLEASED or created a sense of COMPREHENSION The Only Solution. Ch ay hat Girls Read and Wh them read Ibsen, I, €o not approve of; ‘This te certainly @ step in the jom- | Fight direction. Yet TOO MUCH of one thing, as anything else in the world, {s more than plenty. And no one may gainsay but that plenty should be the high-water mark, @o that girle who would read not ONLY for amusement must indeed come to earth ae well and search for their The Cuban Planter. ss ing up from a two and a halt inch headline, “I think it's about time fer Uncle Sam to go down and send ved without their supper, It's jus’ flerce the way they get up these here = revolutfons just to give the etreet - cleanin’ departmenta chance to get away with more graft on the strength uv clean- in’ up the excess shells an’ blank car- tridges after the ball is over! Honest, yuh can't imagine how nervous tt makes me every time I read about em makin’ @ ploture puzzle uv some poor gink with @ thirty-eight repeater!” “Well, it all makes history,” I mur- mured vaguely, ‘That's what a@ flossy gent what called up Long Island City says to me this mornin’, And he wus the kind that (f there wuz @ call fer volun- teers ‘a "board the midnight choo-choo fer Canada an’ begin sweerin’ alle- @iance to George the five times in the mornin’, One uv them dewy, carry-yer- hanky-tn-yer-ouff pastels, he wus!’ ‘What eort of history would there have been !f there hadn't been war, WAR?" I blazed in self-defense, “Aw, we're not fer makin’ history these days; {t's the verdant value we're after—the still, small voice that eays: ‘Just flash me a bit an’ watch ‘em all stick around!’ ‘There ain't na money in hiatory. Not n makin’ it, writin’ about ft, nor betn’ descended frum it! Why, history don't even go in vaudevee! now- adaye—eo it must be pretty punk!” “Conmie, you hodcarriert™ I derided, ‘It @hakespeare had known you he'd have put skirts on his Shylock.” “Brueh onward!" she warned, “There's quickeand right on that there @pot. I never heard of the gent—what circuit fe he out on? But, as t wuz sayin’, the indication uv Mexican temp'rament— why it's natoral that they Gave these Ittle shootin’ recreations every once in a while, That dish te the biggest lemon On rising, what are|to the green feeder, ain't tt? Just think wv clothin’ a innocent, childlike stew in : Y © jane Conquests of Constance By Alma Woodward Coprrigh?, 1918, by The Prees Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World). AY," observed Constance, look-) gunpowder, sprinkled lightly with ta- them Greasers to! Copyright, 1918, t fe) Publ Co, Evening World.) miné-food. They will not find it within the confines the “dest seller;” but rather that lite ure which, after a long period, hae been tried and not found want ‘There is just as fin mance im the RECOGNIZED histories of the world of Teal men and women as may be found in t ‘best sell {fw girl but put forth the effort to get just that. The libraries basco! An’ to put that flame out after it has once penctrated your Tittle Mary —b'lleve me, it can’t be did!’ “Haven't you ever had any Mexicans stopping at the hotel? There are lots of rich ones who come to New York regularly once or twice a year.” “I don't recollect none. But I had a experience once with a Cuban, an’ yuh cn hardly tell the difference between ‘em in the ‘lectrio Nght, Thie here Mother's Joy I'm epedkin’ uv'd come up here every summer with wad dig enough to choke off the investigation committee, ap’ what he didn’t do to this balmy burg—— Gay, that glossy guy, Nero, had nothin’ whatever on him! “Well, fer some reason or other, the second summer he wus here he got ju buzzy over my gesicht. Used to write Imericks to the delicate down on my @ainty cheek, not knowin’ that I like to killed the dame what sold me the cold cream what grew it! An’ fer three months I fergot what it wuz to call the conductor @ Nar when he said I didn't pay my fare, Life wus just one blamed tourin’ oar after another with me. Why, I got eo’e I could get into the darned things ‘thout even LOOKIN’ at the chauffeur! “Go, all went creamy until one night he takes me to one av them emall, se- lect cafes where they turkey trot till three, I had on @ Grape that night what wus slashed ix ways fer Sunday, and what wus left uv it wus knotted loose about me. T had that slung- together-quick look that comes frum Paris—an’ I knew I wus aces! Well, yuh know how chummy a@ bunch uv turkey trotters gets about two-and-a- half G. M.? The girls ‘spectally begin to tell what kind uv sachet they use an’ everything. An’ in one uv them lapses, when my tinted triumph had went down into the darroom to blow the bunch uv men, those skirts gath- ered ‘round me an’, by gowh! each one uv them had a poem writ by this Cu- Dan galoot, pressed close to their bo- ‘most I know uv this Mextoo ia the| chile con camne; an’ if thet eate ts any| gone on playin’ understudy to fifty- soms, with thetr powder rags and tip- | atioks, “Why, say, after that, could I ‘a’ womethin’ varieties? Nothin’ dotn’, der- Iinttt Me fer the plain guy what doesn't know # piece wy po'etry fram a jury summons, Yuh o'n CINCH that kind 'thout usin’ Dlindersgan' @ check Well, anyway, that's the closest rein! @ sauce that is concentrated essence uy2 ever come to Mexico.’ By Sophie Irene Loeb are full of them, Besides, the newspapers have some features along those lines that are cer- tainly worth while, When you can daily Dick up a paper and rend interesting, as well as instructive, stories, such “Women Who Helped Build America”— & series which not only pleases but ore- ates knowledge for the retentive brain— then, indeed, in the present day, ghe who runs may read—the VERY BEST of work, ‘The main thing for the young womas to-day is not to read ONE KIND of thing, Tt 4s quite natural that too much Ibsen MIGHT breed discontent, Too much anything might have the same ef- fect, however. ‘The idea 1s to atrike a VARIPTY that will not only satisty the tmagination, but amuse and Instruct as well. A little DISCRIMINATION fn this direction by every girl will result to her own inter- est. ‘Think whet and why you read! —_———- Historic Hymns Soom, 18s Ree als pik an NO. 11—-LUTHER'S HYMN, HIS great eacred lyric was named by Heinrich Heine “The Marselllaise of the Re- formation,” and Frederick the = Great called it “The Al- mighty’s Grenadier March.” ‘With the Reformation came a renais- ance in hymn-writing, Martin Luther was the first to realise that music and song were valuable helps in religious wartare, He called on poets to write spiritual songe in German, demandhis that the “words be quite plain and com~ mon, euch as the common people may understand; yet pure and skilfully handled.” There are many Engtish ver- sions of the words, the one beginning “A mighty fortress ts our God" bdeing, Perhaps, the bes: known. “Luther composed {t, words and mu- ‘sic, for the Diet of Spires, when, on April 20, 162, the German Princes made their forma! protest against the revoca- tion of their Iberties and #o became known as Protestants. In the life-and- eath witugsle that followed {t was as a clarion, summoning to battle without fear, Luther sang it to the lute every day,” A century later, before the battle of | Letpsic, Gustavus Adolphus urged his troops to sing i, and it was similarly gung at the battle of Iatsen. Frequent- ly during the Franco-Prussian war of 1810-71, the German troops went into bat- tle with Luther's hymn on their itps and notably at the bloody field of Gan, Meyerbeer, in his opera of ‘The “Huguenots,” introduces the massive mel- | ody te in the best style of the old perens Whenever man io reaiy otirred one te to fear the sonereas toate ware. tat Februs the Ger | ne iil EE GIOIA LEAN, ary 26, 1918 : —_ Women Who Helpe | Build America sBy Albert Payson Terhune § (i Oeprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) No, 14,.—ANICE STOCKTON, Revolutionary Heroine. HB British hed swooped down upon Princeton, N. J., one day @ 1776. They were in search of Chief Justice Richard Stockton, an ardent patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Even more eagerly were they searching for a sheaf of papers that were known to be in Stockton'’s possession. This package of documents contained o list of the Declaration signers, & set of plans for Washington's ragged army and other papers whose oap- ture by the British might mean wholesale executions and the failure of some of the patriots’ most cherished hopes. y Stockton received tardy warning of the enemy's approach. He {g for hie life from his great Princeton estate, Morven, and took refuge ia > friend’e home. A Tory neighbor betrayed his hiding place to the Brttish, who seized him and sent him to the military prison in New York. ‘There he was starved and ill-treated for about @ year, until Washing ton secured his release by threatening to give British prisoners @ like hattered wreck and died soon afterward. his captors’ search—the “‘treaeonable” e wit of one woman. ‘The woman ‘was Anice Boudinot Stockton, one of the truest of * Revolutionary heroines. Bhe was of noble French blood and was 0 stster ef the famous Milas Boudinot. Stockton married der and, oddly enough, Boudinct married Stockton’s sister, was one of the few American women of her time who was gifted with her beauty esd ‘er husband received news of the British raid in 1776 they servants to work collecting and burying the household ellver and god plate and jewelry. Then they fied. But Anice chanced to remember the all-important papers which her husband had hidden before his departure, and feminine intuition told her they were not concealed securely enough. Back she went, at risk of life and liberty, to her threatened home. ‘Taking the papers from their hiding in the house, out to @ nearby grove and eecreted thom in @ hollow tree. fi ‘The British captured Princeton and at once a search party was sent to the Stockton home, The mansion was ransacked from roof to cellar. Everything Was turned inside out. Had the papers remained in thetr original hiding place they must certainty fave been found. But ne one thought of sounding all the trees on thee: for & hollow spot. Furtove et being outwitted by a woman, the British Inid waste the she carried them whole 4! place, burning the Stockton Mbrary—the finest in America—gutting the houpe, " finding and digging up ali but one of the hastily buried treasure ches! They teft Morven @ dilapidated wreck. But they did not find the papers Ai@y had so cleverly hidden, And the life-and-deay 1 secrets of those documents were saved to country, 4 death Anice employed herself by writing flery patri- Otic songs for the army., The troops sang them es they marched to battle. And Washington himself wrote to thank and praise the ~* beautiful author. . When the girls of Trenton met Washington and etrewed his pathway with flowers on tis journey to hie first inauguration in New York it was Anice Btod- ton’e triumph hymn, ‘Welcome, Mighty Chief, Once More!” that they eang, *s Good i The Day’s Good Stories older woman, “What fe it you want to know?!’ Too Much of a Good Thing.) "war, you ove, my tusband bas gune out, eof 66] WAS very happy,” ald the confessor, “when, |he told me be was going to shoot clay pigeons i I after years of wootng, dhe finally this afternoon, and 1 know he will bring them "Yea!" home end “But why did you break the engagement 00 soon after!” asked his frieod, | “Mam, it was she that dimotred tt.” | “Really?” ead the friend, ‘How 414 that | | patos Ap Proof Positive. AT down ta Florida two darkies were-Gio- eussing as to the color of certain im Weal personages. One of them asserted happent”* “It wes due to my ecoustomed ness, When, @ few days later, I cal home, 1 again asked ber to mary me,’ that as Palestine was about ina line with Afiica the people must all have Leen colored, ‘Lor’ bres you' heart," said the speaker, “Bt, Peter an’ Gt. Paul and the reet of the Apostles was as white as that North'n geu''mas ober dere, An Exception. G6] OW 414 you find the roads up ereund Jingleville Comemt” eaket Biltine of Blathersberry, who hed fust returned trom « motor trip. ‘Ob, 1 wasn’t partioulasty stuck om them," eald Glathersberry, “Really?” sald Billdus, ‘Well, 1 gueas you're the only man that wasn't, 1 was stuck om ‘em for a whole day last year."-—Herper’s Weekiz, —_——.——— | Stumped. RB, MASON, who had been married but two months, came hurrying tate Mrs, Button’s one morning. re come to ak you to tell me something,” ie aid eagerly, “You eee, I don't knew bow to cook everything yet," “1 will be very glad to help you,” replied the , gab!” ead the man in opposition, “Pew may ha’ been, but St. Peter—no, enh! Bt, Peter was a culler’d gen'l'man “You're wrong, for if Bt, Peter'd been caler'é Gat cock wouldn't ha’ crowed more'n otce't,"m0 Chartotte Obserter, ake Sere A Dark Hint. 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