The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1916, Page 10

RE TEE A, pe ee a a Obe HAY Winid. WSTABLIBHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, wat Pubtidet Pr ishing Company, Nos. 63 to Datig Brees Sunday b7 she Frone Publi ing Company, RALPH. CRATER President, 63 Park Row, | J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 61 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Ire Secretary, 6 Park Row, Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Cinse M: i tee to The Evening) For Engiand and the Co World for the United States All Countries in the International | id and Canada, Postal Union. Pear... +. Mon: seeeNO, 20,024 THE TEST. HE Democratic platform upon which Woodrow Wilson stands before the country—the timbers of which ground solidly in national prosperity and peace—contains the following: “Whoever, actuated by the purpose to promote the interest of a foreign power, in disregard of our own country’s welfar or to injure this Government in Its foreign relations, or cripple or destroy fts industries at home; and whoever, by arousing prejudices of a racial, religious or other nature, creates discord and strife among our people #0 as to obstruct the wholesome process of unJfication, ie faithless to the trust which the privi- leges of citizenship repose in him and disloyal to his country.” No citizen of the United States, whatever his race or descent, is fn danger of suffering from the resentment or injustice of his fellow t. Americans provided that in thought, word and deed he proves himeelf im whole-hearted accord with the above, The desire of Republican leaders and iblican newspapers to create an impression that the Democratic Party is anti-German be comes more and more apparent. The Democratic Party is nothing of the sort. It is not condemn- img a nationality. It is condemning « class—made up of thoee who ate eomething else before they are Americans. If citizens whose fore fathers landed at Jamestown or on the dhores of Massachusetts Bay, and whose families for five generations back have never pnt foot on anything but American soil, were suddenly to be found conspiring against the Jaws and against the honor and good faith of the natton, the Democratic Party would denounce them and their associates in the same terms. Foreign-born citizens in thie country who are loyal Americans | know they ‘have nothing to fear from “unjust and unfair appellations.” What is more, their own self-respecting citizenship has every reaeon to demand a rounding up of hyphenates whose words and actions be epeak a false Americaniem. *No good American shrinks from the test. ——_-4 -____ ¢ THE NEW HAVEN WARNED AGAIN. 6“ RECK PREVENTION is the highest duty of railrowds.” W Warning to New York, New Haven and Hartford officials is cleatly conveyed in the report which the In- teratate Commerce Commission brings in on the Bradford wreck of April 17, in which five persons were killed and seventeen injured. Not only does the report draw attention to the fact that old- fashioned wooden cars lighted by gas—easily splintered and set on fire in collision—were largely reeponsible for the loss of life at Bradford, but it furthermore allows little weight to the overworked “human factor” excuse. Sinee July, 1911, there have been nine accidents on the New) Haven in which a total of sixty-six pereons were killed and 475 injured. | In the case of each of these accidents employees were blamed for fai ing to obey signals or rules. “The recurrence of such distressing accidents,” declares the report, “directa attention forcibly to the fact that competent and experienced employees are not infallible.” ° 1 ee. “If the human element repeatedly fails then safety requires that the highest degree of mechanical skill be applied properly to supplement the human element at the partioular point of danger.” A block system with an automatic “trip” stop to prevent trains getting dangerously close to one another, whatever engineers may do or fail to do, is not a dream. Anybody can study it, as The Evening World has repeatedly pointed out, in the electrified system of thie elty’s subways. Are railroad officials ready to assert that everything humanly posstble has been done to adapt and apply this practical self-acting safeguard to surface roads? { ee A THIRD PHASE? HATEVER truth there may be in the report, said to have W been brought in by prisoners, that German troops are get-! ting behind the Austrians in Bukowina and shooting them’ whenever they show signs of giving way before the Russians, there, seeme to be little doubt that Germany's immediate tasks are becoming | daily more formidable and complex. The Teutonic eastern front is crumpling fast. The Russian ariving power is estimated at 6,000,000 men, armed and equipped, with | nobody knows how many million reserves behind to draw on and, ammunition enough to meet almost any demands. In the weat Joffre is believed to have at his disposal at least 4,000,000 French and 2,000,000 British, while ome 2,000,000 Italians are ready to batter the Austrian lines the moment the latter show any signs of losing strength It is hard to see how there can be much more massing of Teutonic troops for any costly ventures like Verdun, If Austria’s aid coMapses, Germany will have all she can do to hurry her armies here and there to keep the terrific outside pressure from crushing im upon her. y agreed the great struggle has had but two phases, | the second lasting ever since the Battle of the Marne. May it be that ter the Russian momentum will be seen to have marked the begin- ning of a third? It is genera Hits From Sharp Wits Some people set the pace and then | A good conversationaliat is one who sit down and are content to watch | talks about things tn which his lHa-| the procession go by.--Deseret News, |teners are interested. Albany Jour- vee | nal. The most poplar hook agent in| ee | the one who knows how to take “no” In town are fo for an answer.—Toledo Blade, |stingy that hefore casting their bread A Agn upon the waters they always wait for Never disturb the woman who has | high tde.—Columbia State, | settled down for a comfortable ery,.— Sa § | Toledo Blade. Experionce har taught us that one eo 8 way to avotd digappointment is never A man who finds @ $5 Dill in the| to go fiahing. Pocket of last year's trousers is en- | [Woe oer} \ titled to faint. ‘This will enable his| This world can never he right to wife to correct an error and do it. the fellow who is always wrong. To- without causing pain. Pittsburgh ledo Blude. Bun. see Ld ® id ' any one hent un A man never fails to credit a good a ee on ont une? mane to bie superior inreligence Gavors receivedy—vwAdbapy Journal, |Balancing! by Thi (The Rew 2 The Discoverer of ‘“‘America”’ ” T in one of the ironies of fate that the New World should bear thi name of America, thus perpetu ating the name of an adventurer, Americus Vespucius, whose claim to being the “tirst discoverer” of the Western Continent was based on a falsely dated letter. Om the twenty- fourth of June, 1497, John Cabot aet foot on the soll of North America He set up (he banner of England and from that hour the fortunes of this continent were destined to be swayed by the Anglo-Saxon race. His discovery laid the foundation for the future supremacy of England In North America, Whother Cabot touched the shores ef the continent on “the dismal clitts of Labrador” or on the wild coasts of Nova Scotia or Newfoundland will never be definitely known, but the consensus of modern opinon seems to favor Cape Breton, which forms a art of What is now the Province of Nova Bcotla, Columbus had succeeded only in attaining the island fringe of the continent before Cabot set foot on the mainland. Cabot sailed over waters far stormier and more diffl- cult than any encountered by Colum- bus, and his equipment and resources were vastly less, for he had but @ single tiny vessel, the Matthew—the first vessel to American shores. His di y of the North American conti receded by more than a year the third voyage of Columbus when be came in sight of the mainiand of South America. Ake Columbus and Vespucius, John Cabot was a native of Italy and It Is belleved that he was born in Genoa, the native city of Colum- bus. Later he settled in the English city of Bristol and tt was thence that he sailed on his memorable voyage of discovery, having received a patent from Henry VIL, authorizing him and hiv tires sons to search for islands, provinces or regions in the Fastern, Western or Northern seas. a a Women and Temperance HE first tnternational women's temperance congress was opened in Philadelphia forty years ago, inaugurating a movement which has Since gained world-wide influence, The temperance crusade of the fair sex had its origin In Hillsboro, O., in 1878, and the following year the National Wom- an’s Christian’ ‘Temperance Union was organized Cleveland. The infant society almost immediately began prep- arauons for a world congress of the fair foes of rum to be held at the Cen- tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia tn 1876, and the congress attracted dele- gates from many countries, In 1883 the World's Woman's Christian ‘Tom- perance Union was launched by Fran- ces Fi, Willard, and tt tmmediately kained a large following in England, and has since spread to more than fifty countries and colonies. As a re- sult of the agitat lar societies th ment has made gr white ribbon of the W come @ familiar emblcmn the world, n of this and simt move temperance ne n all parts of 4 meena, The Girl Who Graduates —— By Sophie Irene Loeb —— qs Coprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), FATHER writes me as follows: A “My daughter graduates in @ few days, The members of hor clans have conceived the idea of hav- ing a ‘graduating’ album, I have been given the honor to write upon the opening page and em anxious to have something appropriate to inscribe, “I would like to write something | van that will have such an tmpression on her mind that she will turn to the page again and again in the years to follow and be a reminder of her happy school days and that will make her respect and re’ ence those who have helped her to thie momentous period of her life.” Another parent writes asking about the choice of occupa- tion for the girl graduat Indeed it is @ momentous pertod. It ie a parting of the ways—ways that may make or mer the time that ins to come, and the biggest thing of all Js to choose the way thet is wise, “To be or not to be,” that 1s the question. For many a@ girl gradu- ating this month means the end of school days and the beginning of work. Hundreds of graduates will needs take up some employment and be one of the breadwinners, when happy laughter is often muffled by the grind of the machine. . The choice of work |s the big thing. Sometimes it limited, and many a girl has Hobson's choice. Every parent plays a leading part in making this choice, ‘Che important thing ts to allow a child to follow its NATURAL bent. For example, I know a father who Inatsted that his boy be an electrical engineer because he had a friend who promised to give him @ position. ‘The boy had a liking for the print- ing trade, and by his own efforts was able to secure work in this line, The father disapproved, mit agresd to let him stay at it @ while, In the mean time he kept forever agitating the electric idea and endeavored to show the boy, how much he could advance, and how much more money he could make in auch a profession Finally this parent succeeded’ tn taking the boy away from hia chosen employment in an endeavor to make an electrical engineer of bim. The boy stayed at this new work for a few weeks, and then one morn- ing the father found a note from the young man stating that he was very unhappy and he had left. It wag a long time before the anx~- fous father and mother saw their son again, and instead of having ad- d in his work he had gone back. Thus many an overzealou has stood in the way of progress of the child. Again, it happens that there is too much burden put on young shoulders right out from school. ‘This is unwise and only makes later burdens heavier to bear. 1 would say to the girl graduate and to the boy, for that matter, that the greatest asset is to keep the apirit of youth alive as long as possible. Carry it everywhere and don't let any one or anything atifle it. If you must work hard, find some time to|{ play just as hard. Get recreation and keep up youthful games, for if you laugh it 1s conti few truths for t that have been tri in the sohool of lif Remember that the youthful spirtt is rather to be chosen than great riches. Do not try to imitate the rich girl if you are poor; you are only fooling yourself in the end, Realize that fine feathers only make fine birds to look at, but not to have and to hold. Do not forget that when you are earning wages that some one was earning them for you while you were at _echool. Remember that temptation succeeds only when the tempted agrees. A little study afier graduation has made strides In the school of success where others only stepped Always believe that the greatest confidante in the world is your mother. Do not insist on a night key just because you are grown up. Your beau will respect you more tf he knows some one ts waiting up. And above all, know that a friend 1s one who stands up for you to public and sits down on you in private, by the alumni Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Coprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) A NEW and tasty dish of beans can be prepared by having every other bean warm and the ones in between frapped. to have the odd beans warm and the even beans cold, Care should be taken At last a job has been discovered for used graphophone needles, Euro- pean belligerents are converting them into shrapnel and state that needles which have played “Hiawatha” and “The End of a Perfect Day” are espec- ally deadly, Tt is poeetdle to make cork sink By scooping out the interior and stuffing it with slightly worn 1U-cent places or the insides of a Swiss watch. This making @ cork sink, | operation ts cheap and interesting, although there isn't any reward for The egy of the gant orkork weighe AS pounds nestside, and when con- verted into an omelet is enough to eupply 2,892 patrons with | We proprietor Lor 237. daye of eight Pours sack, omplaints to Parent | w. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday: June 17; By J. H. Cassel ~~ eee By H. J. Barrett Supplementing Salesmen’s Efforts Through the Mail. ‘cc ‘TIX, we made a determined effort to build our mail or- der business we never re- alized how much trade we were lo jing." said the sales manager of large wholesale house. “We had al- 8 assumed that our big force of elling salesmen—over 150 of them —covered the field thoroughly. Now we know that many an order wi Placed elsewhere between the sales- men's visits, “Our aggressive campaign for matl orders has achieved several good re- sults, Not only has it increased our gross sales over 25 per cent, but it has added stability to our business— centralized it at the home office and , Weakened the salesman's personal {control of a territory, “ib was nearly two years ago that effort to build this branch, in com- mon with our competitors, we had for some years issued an annua! cat logue for distribution among the r tailers. The problem was to make them refer to it; to have it assume tative permanently stationed in their stores, “We began by Issuing @ new cata- logue: one modelled on the lines of those of the big retail mail order houses with every device included fo making easy the placing of orde: Perforated pages of post cards wero bound in the book; sheaves of order blanks were included. “Then we assailed the problem of securing the co-operation of our salesmen, We explained that our plan was to obtain more sales froin each customer and that this logically wouid increase the commissions of each man, “‘Between calls, your customers are inclined to place orders with com- petitors,’ wo arguod. ‘Persuade them to use the catalogue and you'll find many commissions credited to you for orders you never worked for.’ ‘This made a strong impression. “Next we staged a salesmen's con- text designed to stimulate mail or- ders. We offered cash prizes for the men who persuaded their trade to increase their mail orders the greatest proportion during a stated period, As another contest covering total sales wags run simultaneously, the tempta- tion to have legitimate personal or- ders sent Unrough the mail was re- moved, “at the same time we covered our customers through the mail, Let- ters, folders, and mailing cards em- use of our catalogue. Suppose @ customer asks for a certain article, your supply of which is exhausted,’ was one of the points we made, ‘Don’t say you're out and let @ good customer escapa, Consult our catalogue with him and send your order in the next mail,’ “Every ten days we used the mall to feature one advantage or another of catalogue buying. Within a couple of months we were hiring more clerks to handle our mail order business. The end of the year showed an in- crease in our business of over 25 per cent., most of which was attributable ‘te mail orders from regular custom. em inether We conciided to make & syatematio | the position of a personal represen: | bodied a series of arguments for the) 1916 The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. : Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), Who “Breaks the Spell’ of Love? A got news, now news, and such news as you never heard of," ree marked the Bachelor, waving his still damp evening paper as he sat down opposite the Widow in the little rose and gold restaurant, “Bobbie Heartley has got his divorce!” “HIS divorce?” repeated the Widow. was suing"—— “Weil, it's his just as much as hers, now that they have it, isn't it returned the Bachelor, airily, “He's giving a ‘bachelor dinner’ to celebrate, and she's planning a ‘grass widow luncheon.’ " “Isn't it sad,” remarked the Widow, unaffected by the Bachelor's gayety of heart, “to see two people so evidently intended by heaven and fate and nature for one another, and once so madly in love, spatting and parting and standing off like the Kaiser and the Czar, with their surrounding armies of friends, exploding gas bombs of vituperation at one another?” “Yes, it's sad, and it’s funny,” agreed the Bachelor. “I wonder who tt was that ‘rocked the boat of matrimony,’ anyway?" “If they could decide THAT,” returned the Widow, squeezing the lemon on her clams, “they would have been reconciled long ago and probably have |lived in peace and harmony together forever. It was because neither would acknowledge the fault and each insisted on accusing the other that they never could come to any agreement or understanding. Ho says she did #@ with her little suspicions, and she says HB did it with his little flirtations®” “Ab!” exclaimed the Bachelor, with true masculine intolerance, “She Ddiames it on the ‘OTHER woman,’ as usual.” | “Yea,” rejoined the Widow, with true feminine dexterity, “and he blames ‘it on HER mother--as usual. Isn't it silly? Just as if anybody elee could break the spell of love, Just as if any other woman, or man either, could possibly come between two people who were honestly and enthusiastically im love and steering their little hark in the straight and narrow course, Just ag if they could possibly be shtpwrecked, except by their OWN mistakes.” “I thought It was his wife who COW ewe remarked the Bachelor, malictousiy, “there's nothing ike @ gust of jealousy to drive the bark of love on the reefs.” “No,” agreed the Widow, ruefully, “If women would only reatize that. No other woman can TAKE a man who loves you away from | you. But the moment you show a spark of jealousy you practically hand Aim wight over to her. The only really happy wives I know are those who ere blind, deaf and dumb as far as other women are concerned, Because, appate Jently, in nearly every marriage there comes a point where a man's eyes | begin to wander, where he begins to see other people, other interests, other women; but his heart won't follow his eyes if his wife would just keep her head and hold her tongue and smile and look unconscious, He would alwaye come back to her for—for a rest, if nothing more.” “Then you admit,” said the Bachelor, triumphantly, “that tt’s usually the woman who is ‘the fool that rocks the boat’ "—— “I admit nothing of the kind, Mr, Weatherby! the one who show picton, or deceit. It's the one who ‘breaks the spell of love’ and tears away the vell of illusion, the one who starts the nagging and says the first unkind, | personal thing. Anyway, nobody OUTSIDE the ship has any power over it, ‘It all depends on those inside, No ‘other woman’ can take your husband away from you permanently and effectively without your oo-operation, and no ‘other man’ can take your wife away from you without your hearty laistance. It's not the sweet, alluring things the other person says, but th bitter things YOU say that turn the balance, It's not love of another, but [distaste for you, that finally causes the shipwreck, If husbands and wives jwould only atop trying to be critics,’ and judges, and detectives, and Jailers and would just try to be KIND, they might be happy together and ever and ever—just like two friends.” “Nonsense!” interposed the Bachelor, fippantly. and wife be FRIENDS?” { Love's Harp Strings Play Discords. i Lnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnanannnnnannnnnnnnnen!) 66XOU never think of getting jealous of a friend of your own sex," cons Y tinued the Widow, tmperturbably, “Just because be likes a few other | people, or wants to spend some of his evenings elsewhere, You never conclude that you must part forever just because you haven't exactly the same |opinions, or don't like to breakfast at the same hour, or don't admire on another's taste in clothes, You never tnterfere with one another's habits o try to curb one another's personal Mberty, But moment two people of opposite sexes fail in LOVE they seem to fall OUT of harmony. And them they blame everything and everybody else in the world except themselves for ' spell’ or ‘rocking the boat.’ " d the Bachelor, cheerfully, “Hear, hear!” cried the Widow, clapping her hands, “At least, don’t fall in love with the person you are going to marr appended. “There te nothing so inimical or fatal to happiness in marriage as that collection of vanity, suspicion and tender feelings, entirely surrounded by selfishness, which is called ‘love.’ retorted the Widow. “Its forever “How can a husband “Don't fall in love.” The way to wealth ia as plain as the way to market; (t depends chiefly on two woords—industry and frugality. FRANKLIN, The Jarr Family —- By Roy L. McCardell — Copyright, 1916, by The Drew Pub The New York Brening World) ‘é , I've been sewing around iny “You . Y this neighborhood for ten) Mrs. Du ? sald Mrs, Jare years," said tho sewing With an inquiring note in her votes woman, with her mouth full of pins) “\Well, vou mustn't let on it came | but her enunciation was clear and| from me,” said the sewing women, distinot for all that, “and I guess Ij lor I make {t a point never to tell ‘ could tell a tale or two if [ was that) What I know, because I always have kind.” | noticed that those who bring a tale Mrs, Jarr, who was running a draw-| °"'FY one away. Well, you know, | string through some mysterious gar- |‘ Poor olf soul came from Indiana ment by the aid of @ hairpin, shook! '° 'ive with @ married son, and ghe pag ay Gengghecey esi any h been with them @ day but wha ahing Co | “stil, (t must be a great temptation| S!e began to make trouble because \to you," Mrs, Jarr said, “especially in she found out the son's wife drank.* case of people who owe you and don't}, “Prank?” cried Mrs. Jarr, “Why \ pay for the longest time, as you say|! Know the son's wife, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in her j mouth! Atry thing! T always gues pected something was wrong.” “You know, of course, that the sonty wife ts a great friend of the Hicketts, and she and old Mrs, Hickett have their bottle together, and they broke @ mirror in Mrs, Hickett’s room in the boarding house and somebody | so many of them do.” “And that's not all," replied the sewing woman, “Where's that spoo of No, 60? Oh, here it is, right under my chwir! As I was saying, that isn't all! Why, although 1 wouldn't say a word about ft, you understand, still Iam sick of stew! It seems like at houses like Rangle's or Hickett's, screame! when the Hicketts were keeping | soe” sore Murai Sad there house, all they ever had to eat when} owiny woman Continued the I worked there was stew.” Wea case eee aeernee Mrs. Jarr winced when she re- “Well, old Mrs, Dusenberry and her son's wife had a regular pitched bat- |tle," the sewing lady went on Fe nally the wife told har husband that elther the old lady had to get out or she would. So old Mrs. Dusenberry took the ground-floor flat on this street and Mves on her penston, But she's a terrible old trouble-maker and | you have to be careful what you say |in front of her because she carries everything.” membered that she had told Ger- trude, the Hght running domeatic, to order in two pounds of stew meat for luncheon, “Yes,” the sewing lady went on, “I! suppose people think stew 1s good enough for a woman who comes In| sewing by the day, or else I guess \{t's all they can afford, But although T am a poor woman, I don't put on any atrs, and when I am home I al- ways have steak or chops or some- thing substantial of that sort.” Mrs, Jarr excused herself a mo- ment and, going out to the kitchen, whispered to Gertrude to put the Speaking of the Stryvers, stew meat in the icebox and order Of course, that Mr. Stryver was are chops for luncheon, ‘Phen Mra, dare | Euiae about fifteen years ago for |returned to the centre of neighbor- | 8windling and Mrs. Stryver was come | hood information, Pelled to Bo over to New Jersey an@ \— _ === | set the securities she had hidden over ‘Well, she'll not get much out of me," said Mrs. Jarr. “I don't iHsten to anything and I don't tell anything, uu know, fe | not to adding new names to our books | therel! | but to securing a larger proportion of| It was about this time that Mn the business of our old customers. | ‘ polit. “Thousands of concerns similarly | @7F arrived trom his office, “Why, situated could adopt this idea to their| hello, dearte!" he eried, “Busy? You profit, ‘Too many old established | missed a row on the street Just now," | houses with good sales staffs depen “We are not interestec |too much upon personal contact. 1 Plovented 19: ough 1 - ; supplement it with a catalogue and) P88 Sait Mrs. Jarr, coldly; and mailing campaigns means more busi. /'h® sewing woman murmured, “No, nee” Se eae ‘ the first spark of Jealousy, or temper, or coldness, or sume *