The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1915, Page 3

WAY NOT? JUST AS FT AS THE ME Dr. Sargent of Harvard Claims Sex Is No Handicap to Army Training and Explains Why. QUESTION OF TRAINING. Natural Attributes. of Women, He Says, Give Them All the Needed Advantages. BOSTON, June 7.—Contending that @ex ts no handicap to military train- ing, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Har- vard University, holds that woman covld be made aa fit for army duty aa men, Dr. Sargent bases his claim on his experience of more than fifty years, in which time he has given deep study to the problem of physi- eal training. “All theories to the contrary,” says Dr. Sargent, “women are capable of Marvellous endurance, and so on this @eore cannot be rated ineligible for training for military service. But in spite of the actual proof to support this contention, many persons will shake their heads and say that I am forgetting that women are the bearers Of the race, and that, potential or actual mothers, while they may be able to endure cold and exposure, their penalty for physical hardships will be gure and far-reaching. “Again, I must remind you that 1 am speaking of the physically trained ‘woman and the woman as her Creator Intended her to be and as she may be m to-day. Nature, in giving to her /txe task—or privilege, whichever you @hoose to call it—of child-bearing, en- @owed her with the bodily strength to Perform this task easily. “Woman's sex is not a handicap, either mental or physical, unless ‘woman chooses to make it one, The @reat~stretches of Russia could show up countless stolid-faced, big-mus- eled, sturdy women, who plough fields, reap the crops, make the black bread and bear the children, and who have never even heard that they are a weaker sex. “There are in most of our large cities to-day foreign-born women who are familiar to us chiefly as picturesque figures on the streets as they are homeward bound with a week's fuel balanced gracefully on their heads. They walk upright and easily, and the careful observer will note a sturdiness that will eurprise him. “Nature has given an extra protec- tion to women against cold and ex- posure in a layer of adipose tissue which lies between the skin and the muscles. This helps to protect the clroulatory system and to furnish ex- tra fuel to the muscles in a time of great need. “This layer of adipoise tissue is wer so fully developed in men, Physiologically, then, the healthy woman is better equipped by nature ‘tto withstand cold and exposure than average man. Every one knows that in regions of severe climate yn wear heavier clothing and more it than women. To say that a wo- n’s pride is keeping her warm as sweeps up the street on a blust- zero day with open coat, thin waist, exposed neck and thinly ckinged feet is not altogether true, nature is aiding her. She will, of suffer from unwise exposure, mot to the same degree that a ‘would. “But the sad fact is that few of our jean born women, the descend- ts of our early settlers, are trained to even a moderate degree of bod- y efficiency. “An able-bodied woman who has vn- jrgone the same rigorous training @ soldier has should suffer no serious consequences than he forced marches Tf" pouring rain a sleepless night in a trench. The pe of modern woman who is a prod- of steam-heated apartments, mati- » teas and ennui is fitted neither wepreren meres <RD nothing of tasks savoring of mili- ism. But a woman of this type is ‘@ class by herself, To be sure, the is rather large, but the women of the theory and practise of modern marriage, and every June he preaches @ special sermon for brides. He te convinced that the tendency of to- day is to take marriage with insum™fi- cient seriousness, to slur over its eu- preme importance to the individual or motherhood nor for suffrage, tol 9 compose it are not the ones who shape the future either of our or of our nation’s destinies, 7 ua. bau ain i Teak ts He People Who Wed for What They Can Get and Not for What They Can ‘Give Slur Supreme Importance of Wedlock to Individual and State—‘‘First Aid to Cupid’? Says Love and Marriage Too Often Are Treated as Jokes—Happy Marriage Greatest Thing in World. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “In ali seriousness, 1s marriage a That ‘s the question which Dr. A, Edwin Keigwin asked and answered for the June brides last evening at the West End Presbyterian Church, Amsterdam Avenue and One Hundred and Fifth Street. And it is the question which we discussed together after the service, just because so many brides and bridegrooms everywhere are somewhat troubled about the answer. NUAL SERMON TO JUNE ‘Also, he has made a careful study and to the state, Moreover, he thinks that Cupldity too often displaces Cupid in his rightful role of match- maker, “Ig marriage a lottery?” I asked him. “For many of us it is,” he replied gravely. “Marriage |e a lottery for every person who goes into it with the i of getting something out of it, of deriving some material ad- vantage. The man or woman whe marries fof physical, social or finance considerations simply buys a ticket in the matrimonial lottery, and—as with any similar device—drawse a blank in nine case out of ten. “{ preached to-night,” conffmued Dr, Kelgwin, “of the woman who, Christ himself said, had never been married, though she had had five husbands. The period, you may re- member, was in many respects com- parable to our own, & time of lux- urious living and of easy divorce. We are not told how the woman came to marry her five husbands, but we may easily surmise that she chose each man for same transitory material gain, not for any deep and abiding affection, And we have the word of the Saviour himself that such mar- riage is no marriage, that the woman had no real husband.” “You feel that this type of marriage {se not uncommon in America to- day?” I asked. “There is a general impression, you know, that all our marriages are for love.” “They are not,” emphatically de. clared Dr. Keigwin, “I only wish they were,” he added with a sigh, its forms. all The Famous Chocolate Laxative EX-LAX Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion Keeps the Blood Pure Ex-Lax is a Selicious showo)a jicians as a mild, yet positiv were to Ex-Lax has made thousands ha; A 10-cent box will prove its value—at all laxative recommended by remedy for constipation in druggists, Dr. Keigwin is unusually well fitted to set at rest their doubts. For ten years he has been at the head of one of the largest Presbyterian churches in Manhat- tan, and during that time he has won for himself the ~ title of “first ald to Cupid.” He has officiated at a s Au record number of marriages, ‘and he is particularly interested in providing ® healthful social life for the young people in his parish. “FIRST AID TO CUPID" HAS AN- |. RIDES | Mot! lottery?” “The marriage based on some other ‘e than love is but another man- ifestation of the period of material- ism through which we have been passing, of our mad rush for money and pleasure, TOO MANY MARRIAGES FOR MA- TERIAL GAIN. “The modern American girl often marries for money or social position. And this type of girl is not confined to any one class in society, Tho daughter of hard working parents wants @ husband who can give her better clothes than she's ever been able to purchase for herself. The daughter of the professional man is crazy to get a young fellow who has an automobile. The very rich girl buys herself a foreign Prince, “The American man is not above bargaining for other advantages than money. He not infrequently starts out to select a wife who will be ornamental adjunct to him, like a fine horse or a@ handsome dog. He decides to pick a girl who 1s pretty, graceful, capable of attracting atten- tion, and whose social position is somewhat superior to his owd. “And yet the one right and splendid reason for marriage is love. The one question which each prospective b: and bride- room should ask ‘Do | reall, jove this man or this woman wit a love that is neither fancy nor infatuation, but deep calling unto deep?’ The pereen who once ex- Periences this love will have no difficulty in recognizing it and need have no fear that it will not last. The marriage based on it is lottery for man or woma: lut_ you and I have seen mar- riages which started with this wonder- ful love, on one side at least,” I ob/ jected, “and yet the result seemed to be unhappiness, The wife ran away with another man or the husband became a drunkard, Does even love take marriage out of the lottery class?” “There are certain human misfor- tunes which may fall upon any hu- man being,” admitted the clergyman. “Yet I don't believe that any suffer- ing or cruelty can kill real love, Therefore the inner life of a marriage based on such love is not a lottery, a taking of chances, whatever may be the outward forttines of the union, “Ob, I tell you, there never was but one real description of love!” ex. claimed Dr. Keigwin, his gray eyes giowing, and he began to quote the beautiful Biblical passage beginning “Love suffereth long and % kind.” Meanwhile I thought of two lines from @ sonnet of Shakespeare’s— 0 Which ‘ters’ when Wealteration finde, “Parents are largely to blame for the fact that marriage is a lottery to so many of our youn; people,” Dr. resumed. it's bad enough that our play: our novels, our popular songs, our comico ists, should make a joke of marriag: jut to joke about it in the home infinitely worse. How often does one hear parents say to the pretty daughter or the manly young son, ‘Just you make . ere catch and we'll all die rich.’ Such a remark from the father or the mother is disgust- ing, whether it be uttered riously or in jest. ONE CASE OF WAKING UP JUST IN TIME. “Only last year I heard a girl in my church laughing and joking ~ nN MARRIAGE 5 A COTTery FOR THOSE WHO MARRY THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1915. WOMEN SOLDIERS! | June Brides Told Marriage Is a Lottery When Cupid Is Displaced by Cupidity BY TS “SPY” MYSTERY AND WARSHE PICTURES British “Secret Agents” Take Former United States Marshal Along on Spying Tour. An envelope containing sixty-five snapshots of United States battleships, left behind by three young Engtish- men in Mra. Emily 8. Pike's rooming house at No, 63 West Forty-seventh Street, when they safled for Liverpool on the Philadelphia last Saturday, was sent to the office of the Secret Service in the Federal Buildidg to-day, Mra Pike thought perhaps she had a epy mystery on her hands T. N. Ballantyne, J. H. Mumford and R. Wilkinson rented three rooms from Mrs. Pike two months ago. They sald they were certified accountants in New York on special work. It was not ‘until @ truck of the American Thread Company, of No, 260 West Broadway, took away thelr baggage last Saturday and they had gone to the ship, that Mra. Pike found the envelope, which contained not only battleship pictures, but blue prints, John G. Wylie, secretary and treas- urer of the American Thread Com- pany, #aid to-day that Ballantyne, Mumford & Wilkinson are expert ac- countants in the thread line and came here two months ago from Manchester to do some special work on the books and accounts of the company. They were at the offices of the concern almost every day dur- ing their stay, according to Mr, Wylie. J. W. Jacobus, formerly a United States Marshal, now connected with the American Thread Company, suid he was with the young men and acted as tl] gulde the day they took the battleship pictures. They rented a jaunch and took many photographs for their amusement and as souvenirs, according to Mr. Jacobus. TO GET SOMETHING about her marriage the week before her wedding day. I simply said to her, ‘But don’t you love this man? It set her thinking, she broke off the engagement, she is free to-day—and devoutly thankful that she did not marry when love was absent. easy to see how deeply ma- terialiam has affected marriage when one reads the reports of the prose cuting attorney for marriage, or di- vorce proctor, as they call him out in Kansas City, where one marriage out of every three used to end in di- vorce. Tim Murphy, a newspaper man, started the campaign which re- sulted in the appoinffhent of a young lawyer, W. W. Wright, as proctor in the divorce court. He has cut down the divorce rate 40 per cent.,and he has found that in many cases a quar- rel about clothes, or money, or pleas- ure, has estranged husband and wife. “One woman came into court with a terrible tale of cruelty which proved absolutely untrue. The real difficulty was that she wanted to apend on cicthes more money than her husband earned by hard labor. She was convinced her folly and asked her hus- forgiveness; but, unfor- ly, her case is not an iso- lated one. Yet so long as persons many, for what they can get, in- stead of for what they can give, rriage will remain a lottery. “The trouble is that nobody tells young men and women these thing: concluded Dr, Kelgwin. “At home and abroad love and marriage are treated as jokes, and the church It- elf is too often silent. I cannot help feeling that these questions deserve thorough and reverent consideration, for I believe that a happy marriage is the greatest thing in the world.” And so 4: —_——— AUTO POSTAL SERVICE TO CUT COST OF LIVING Farm to Table Delivery Will Be Made by Department at Local Parcel Post Rates. WASHINGTON, Juno 7.—Postmaster General Burleson is prepared to intro- duce a system of farm-to-table deliv- ery which is designed to cut the high cost of living in cities. His plan is to carry farm products from rural dis- tricts to the cities by automobile at local parcel rates and thus benefit thousands by this special postal ex- tension, The project is outlined in a statement by the Post Office Depart- ment just issued and \which reads: “Memoranda are nbw awaiting the Postmaster General's | viding In many localities for rural free delivery service by automobile under the clause in the resolution of Congress of March 3 last authorizing the introduction of automobile ser- vice at compensation not exceeding $1,800 a year, Where roads are good and prospective business justifies it automobile carriers will serve routes not less than fifty miles in length. ‘This improvement will permit of fur- ther extensions of present routes, ‘The appropriation for this service will be available July 1, The first routes of this character will go into operation Aug. “The automobile service will also be utilized gradually to install rural routes which will radiate from the large cities. Suburban and ri¢h truck growing areas within twenty-five miles of the great cities when served thus will get the ‘local’ instead of the first zone rural post rate, Immediate stimulation of local parcel post ex- change, especially of the farm to table service, is expected to follow.” BEAUTY PRIZE WINNERS OF THE EVENING WORLD CONTEST STIR GHIGAG Hundreds Gather at Station to Cheer Girls on Way to Exposition. (Spectal to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, June 7.—Bearing the most valuable cargo ever shipped on any railroad, the Universal Beauty Special left Chicago at 6 o'clock last night, carrying fifty girls from the East and Middle West, including the winners of The Evening World's Beauty Contest, to Universal City and the two great California Expost- tions, Hundreds of Chicagoans gathered at the station and choered wildly as the train pulled out. The band start- ed to play “Goodby, Girls,” and scores of voices took up the words, Sunday afternoon Chicago citizens took the girls for an auto ride about the city. No banners are allowed on cars on Chicago boulevards, but the beauty of the girls nearly caused a riot along Lake Shore Drive just the same. A great Chicago lawyer saw the girls, took one long look and said, “Well, heaven help the judges.” The,special train is equipped with every’ convenience for the comfort of the girls, The cars have compart- ments instead of ordinary berths, and carry music machines and @ thou- sand records, Seven minutes after leaving Chicago the girls were dancing. GIRL STRICKEN ON “‘L” CAN'T TELL HER NAME “Hello! Yes, This Is Central!” Are the Only Words Victim of Syncope Can Utter. A girl whose only words are “Hello! Helfo! Yes, this ts central,” was taken to the Knickerbocker Hospital at 3.80 A. M. to-day from the down- town platform of the “L” station at One Hundred and Fourth Street and Columbus Avenue. fhe Is about nine- teen, 6 feet 6 inches in height, weighs 140 pounds, has blue eyes and dark hair and wore @ dark sult, white shirtwalst, white hat and black cloth top shoes. She fell after a train had pulled out from the station, and John Dufty, the ticket chopper, called Policeman Pyle. Dr, Frascolla came from the hospital and said she was suffering from syncope, The girl is conscious and clasps and unclasps her hands, but the only words she can be induced to speak are those quoted. She ts believed to be a telephone operator who was on ber way home from work. ‘ AMERICANS LEAVE MEXICAN CAPITAL TO ESCAPE HUNGER PERIL People of Other Nations With Them on Special Train Head- ing for Vera Cruz. WASHINGTON, June 7. — Ninety Americans, 44 Englishmen, 127 Span- taris and 57 others of various nation- altias comprise the first refugee party leaving Moxican City to-day on the special train which the Brazilian Minister has secured, acting for the American Government. Other refugees from the famine stricken cap!tal who will leave later to join the party at Vera Cruz will Dring the number to more than six hundred, The British Consul has ad- vised American Consul Silliman that many women and children are among the number, The Villa-Zapata authorities in Mexico City will send a train to Tizayuca, where it will be met by a train from Vera Cruz, in charge of Consul General Shanklin, An emergency supply of American food has been ordered to Vera Crus for the refugess. The Red Croas to- day telegraphed Galveston officials to ship 60,000 pounds of corn and 20,000 pounds of beans on an army trans- port which goes for refugees, The food will be consigned to Consul Canada. The Btate Department has no of- ficial advices to-day to confirm the reported Obregon victory over Villa forces at Leon, GROUT TRIAL MOVES INTO ANOTHER COURT District Attorney Cropsey Asks to Have Day Set for Trial of Kenneth A. Southworth, The trial of Edward M. Grout for making an alleged false report of the condition of the Union Bank, reor- ganized from the wreckage of the Mechanics’ and Traders’ Bank, was moved to-day to Part III. of the Bu- preme Court in Brooklyn. District- Attorney Cropsey asked the court to set a day for the trial of Kenneth A. Southworth, indicted for forgery for alleged juggling of $100,000 from the jaccount of Mrs. Elizabeth Cheene- borough to the credit of the Camden |\Construction Company which had big loans from the old bank, Edward J, Byrne, Southworth's counsel, protested that this was sim- ply an effort to get his client where him, but Judge Lewls set the trial for June 25. Horace Nichols of No, 205 Patchen Avenue, and Edward T. Gardner of No, 20 Eldert Place, testified tn the |Grount case concerning six motes amounting to $423,813, which they signed as officers of subsidiary com- panies, The notes were pmong the assets of the Union Bank The wit- nesses did not know w'/ they signed them, er side in the European/war, be two or three years before the con- filct ende and millions more men will be slain before peace comes.” of Nancy, where he saw, as he put it, the District-Attorney could question | & BOARDING HOUSE UPSET |STRUGGLE NN EUROPE | DYING OF WILL LAST FOR YEARS, SAYS HENRY PINDELL Editor and Diplomat Asserts Nations Are Already Asking Justification for Slaughter. “There te no victory near for eith- Tt will This is the opinion of Henry Pi dell, publisher of the Peoria Evening Journal, and once appointee as Unit- ed States Ambassador to Ruasia, who reached New York to-day on the Bt. Louls of the American line, in from Liverpool. He spent some timé along the second line of trenches extend- ing for thirty miles im the vicinity “everything but the actual rdering of the men.” Hoe returned a firm be- Hever in the necessity for this coun- try keeping out of the conflict. “I am not @ peace propagandist,” he said, “but if all Americans could see what I have seen they would never go. to extreme measures except as a last resort. The situation in Europe defies description. New words and phrases would be needed to tell the horror of it. “However, a premature ending of the War would be a misfortune. It is beast for future peace to let them finish, but I do not want to see America drawn in. France is a now, strange, subdued nation, but she is preparing to Aght to the end, Nevertheless, one already hears murmura of ‘After the war, then what? There is a growing in- clination to ask, ‘What ts the justifi- cation for all this slaughter?’ “I talked to a man near Carency, & regimeent which started 600 men, He was one of 200 that were left. He described a certain battle as a mingling of terrific noises, @ shaking and trembling of the earth, blinding, choking emoke hiding all ight of both friend and foo, the screams of the wounded and dying and then the canfusion of the retreat. Neither he nor his comrades had any idea of what they were ac- complishing. —_———_— “DOC” BIEGEL IS HELD; Former Is Charged With Robbery While Posing as ‘a Good Samaritan. Henry Biegel, known to Broadway, the Bowery and the cardrooms of transatlantic liners as “Doc,” was held for forty-eight hours in $1,500 ball by Magistrate Krotel in West Side Court to-day on the request of Detectives McGann and Daly. Arthur Moser made @ complaint against Bie- gel & year ago, charging “Doc” with having robbed him at Sixth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street of a quantity of jewelry and a gold-headed cane, Moser is not at the Savoy Hotel, where he lived then, and the police want time to find him, According to Moser, who is a crip- ple, he fell on the ice and Biegel and Irene George, &@ show girl, helped him up. Detectives sought Miss George, who said Biegel gave her a quantity of jewelry to pawn, saying he re- ceived it from Moser for a gambling debt, Biegel disappeared. Moser went abroad and on his return sald he saw Biegel with the stolen in London, Biegel returned to thie country on the last trip of the Philadelphia, Mias George has married and is living abroad, “Doc,” who wears a monocl says he is an editor and dresses ca) Uously, BOLD BURGLARS OPEN SAFE IN HAT STORE “Seasonable Safe - Crackers” $300 in Fourteenth Street. Bafe crackers visited the Kaufman Hat Company store at No. 148 East Fourteenth Street this morning and got away with $300, The safe had been placed in front of the store and an electric light burned near it. It is directly opposite Tammany Hall and the lights of moving picture theatres and arcades made the block one of the brightest, Despite this, six safe robberies have occurred there in the past few years, The bur s had filed the bara of 4 rear window on the second floor and then forced a door leading from the hallway of the building. They left their outfit of braces, bits and chisel but inspection by detectives indicated that they had used gloves and left no fingerprint clues. pts vhs as SUES FOR $75,000 DAMAGES Kate McGee, twenty-elght, was car- ried to-day into the Brookly» Supreme Court before Justice Kelly ahd a jury. She {is blind and dumb, besides being deaf and paralyzed on the right side, She 18 suing the company that owns the three-cent line of cars on Manhattan for $76,000. Surrogate Jonn J. of Nassau County, her counsel, her by shouting into her lett She answered by writing labor- icusly with hor left hand, which she has learned to use dur long in hospital. ep had a candy and Get iy bridge th rol. ‘The ear fell ov ‘They kept in t T will never be I cannot an embankment, hospital many months, able. to nee or walk or ear & Living.” POLICE HUNT WITNESS) =: i ja See aa EK, Malignant Growth Followed Bruise inflicted With Ruler, It Is Said. The fact that nine-year-old Bthel May Robbins of Carlstadt, N. J, dying of cancerous affection of her left arm has agitated the school authorities, the school children ané many others in Caristadt. The child's ther, Mra. W. W. Robbina, wife of a mechanic, saye the ttle girl's arm became sore i a g 8 1 Fa ri moved confirmed his 4 trouble was cancer, The principal of the school saye he veatigated, aft Robbins, and cou! child in Ethel May’s room whe called having @een her struck, thers and the teacher, the prin- cipal says, denied that the Robbing child was hit. struck, but no formal complaint Bas been made to the Board. a ROOSEVELT IN MISSISSIPPI. Cole Pase Christian for a Visit. PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., June T.— Col. Roosevelt and Mrs, Roosevelt ar- rived here to-day for a brief visit with John M. Parker. To-morrow the Colonel party of men will board the Leu- Conservation Commission's it rip among the Federal and Preserves of about tion “that the first, Pederal rr sere was established In Lousiana, but ‘The body of a man about fifty years was to-day found floating off nty-minth Street in the Nerth man mg > and mustach: He wore a Sive coat SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE ATERNITY Dresses ts. 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