The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1916, Page 12

The Eveni — ‘ Retrn rir 1 ANGUS m) 08TH POLAT EO® Fever i the Poet Oeripicn heme te te ‘Werks for the Unies & Seto —- VOL ME f? 0 CRC OF BUSINESS Moe TO CROWD US OUT 3 OBS Kagiand mean forma.) te eat ag United States’ (Or ie this country’s cor t quietly beid up and ar ated in odd corners wntil Mr trode interests foe! weeured of future supremacy! Bleckiisting Awericon buriness firme having become @ recognise pert of Great Liritain'’s commercial policy, it ie soarcely to be wondered ef if Uncle Bam begins to put two and two togetler to gain eome Betion of the magnitude of the plot against him Are the efforts of Great Britain to establieh « dictatorial euper vision of this country's foreign trade aimed solely at cutting off sup Plies which might reach Mngland’s enemies? Or is the persecution of American business, while ostensibly @ war policy, in reality a deep laid, systematic scheme for tightening the grip of Iiritich trade—after the war—upon the markets of the world? : British threats have taken many forms, British pressure has been applied in many wa American firms have beer. forced to dis-| charge officials to whom British authorities objected. Banking houses bave been refused the handiing of their drafts, Couling privileges were denied an American verse! at Colombo, @ British port, because the carried goods shipped by blacklieted concerns, Coffee consigned to the United States har heen held up in Brazil because representatives of the British Government threatened to cut off the coal supply of Steamert upon which the coffee was to have been loaded | In the Pacific, British purpose appeara even less concealed. There, where the American flag no longer counte in shipping, Ameri- can cargoes carried in britieh vessels are held up by British cruisers and treated as “ene:ny goods.” The regular seizure of American mai! in English ports was ox-| Germany, Yet now the British Minister of War, Lloyd George, has admitted that Great Britain makes use of information she obtain through opening neutral mails to further her own trade interests. The State Department at Washington has received apecific complaints showing that British firms have in various instances secured business first sought by American firms whose letters were intercepted. Britain is about. Neither war methods nor war manners can be long tolerated in open trade competition between two friendly nations. | Congress has just furnished the President with adequate retaliatory powers, To use them would seem to be the quickest way to find out how easily the British Board of Trade thinks it can crowd us off the map. \ + : WATCHING THE PRICE OF BREAD. HE attitude of Fe‘leral officials in Ilinois toward the proposal | T of the Master Rakers’ Association to bake only ten cent! loaves of bread without specified size or weight, bears out The Evening World’s contention that no such scheme to shift further dis- proportionate burdens tv the back of the already overloaded house- holder can stand Government scrutiny. Nor can the bakers escape the charge of collusion by their in-| genious plan to have one of their number boost prices and the others | “voluntarily” follow suit. | “Such a tacit understanding is a meeting of minds for unlawful | purposes,” declares Assistent United States Attorney Joseph Fleming. “It comes within the Bakere in this city have not committed themselves to the ten-cent loaf proposition. If they are wise they will not. The new plan car ries no assurance that the ten cent loaf will be twice as big or weigh | twice as much or centa‘n the same quality of bread as the five-cent | loaf. The master takers’ real purpose is to force the public to buy at # round price a new loaf “of a weight consistent with the present cost of flour and wheat,” the baker to be the sole judge of that con- sistency. i Not for New York, thunk you. This city has its eyes open, ready | ope of the Anti-Trust law.” | | to look closely into any bowsting of the price of bread. public inquiry can show cvund reasons for advancing bread pric that is another matter. Meanwhile, as Commissioner of Weights and| Measures Hartigan says, ‘f dealers deal fairly with the public they! will “let the consumer know the weight and quality of the bread he| buys, especially the weight.” feet . Consumers expect sooner or later to bear their FAIR share of all ; burdens. But there is no reason why they should carry double loads in every instance where yroducers and retailers see a way to turn, exigency into increased profits, | Laws, State and National, against conspiracy are ir good working order. Public prosecutors are there to enforce them, should the hard-pressed honseholder look for protectior Tf impartial i Where else ? Letters From the People A Is Right, ‘Tenth To the Diitor of The Evening World A beta that when the old Gutten- berg track in New Jersey was in op- eration that at one tine they raced Avenue Fitty-Ninth Street; Registration Sept. 18, To the Paitor of The Bvening World; Whoro is the nearest public night school to Lexington Avenue aad Sev- by electric ight at night, J. O. 8. | cnty-sixth Strest? When does It be. Yeo) Secretary of State, No, 227) "0° | ALC West Seventy-Vourth street, No. 70 Fifth Avenaey Ye To the DMQOr of The Bvening World Where Is the Muste League of the People's Institute located? Are young ladies eligible to become members? M {Fo the Piktor of The Evening World Do I have to have a license to run @ motorcycle? If #0, where do I apply for the license? Cc RF. danuary, 1916) No. Fe the Baitor of The Evening World: When did widowed mothers begin to receive their pensions? Can a mother receive a pension for her chil- dren if she remarries? CONSTANT READER. Useally About Thirty Days, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl: How long must one wait before At City © To the Extitor af The Bren Where may I app! about the Music D City Colle Murray Bp Brening World: re can a boy obtain free tn- struction in the evening on machin- ery? Y they learn whether they will receive peneate under the Widows’ Ponsion B In Riane, To the PiMtor of The Breniug Worid A contends that when the father's name is James Cassimer Smith, and ANX10U8. Boys. the son's James Cottrell Smith, th Syeare ann 1 Ost free lnstruction on won may #ign his namo as J.C, gasoline engines *® [Smith jr, the father having by Wednesday. Usage established himself as J. C, fo the Battor of The Brening World: Smith, B contends that Junior p What day did July 10, 1878, fall on? tains to same name only, not ini. _ . ale, A READER, " ( ' a s plained by the British authorities as part of the attempt to moerane | It is high time for this country to discover exactly what Great ng ‘Men “Vil slip In @ visit to some friends a. the expense of the firm Who Fail Nn ee wore ~! m we sale _ Cassel f —_—~_—_7—~7~_-<“_[-_<_—-_<_—_—5—-_—-—-—_—_—~_"‘~° How Weapons Began W168, by Th. Prem Vuniianing Oo, ‘New York Evening World.) No. 14—Macnin Guns. HE dream of a mechanical gun that could send 4a shower of Projectiles Into the ranks of the enemy filled the minds of inventors for hundreds of years, Indeed, it us argued that there was a sort of ma- chine gun at the very beginning, the art with gonnes,” one of the oldest types of artillery, This was @ wagon, the wheels fitted with pikes and scythes to break the opposing line, d carrying severa! hand-cannon. A train of powder was run from one tu another and they could by fired to- wether. Later came the “organ,” which got ite name from the number of pipes or barrel: But none was @ succe: ¢ Couyrign.. (Tie ; there was no great dimeulty in firing them quickly, but the Job of loading was a staggering cue, So the rellabie machine gun had to wait for the working out of the breechioading idea and the invention of metaliic car- tridges. Kichard Jordan Gatling, our own fellow citizen, solved the problem, bis turned out about 1860, barrels attached to a revolving shaft, mounted on wheels and was operated by a crank. When perfected the Gatling gun Was a most reliavie and effective Weapon, having a record of more than 1,000 shots a minute, About the same time Napoleon IL. | instructed Commandant Reffye to build a machine gun in the Govern- al, Tremendous secrecy And although rumors of what was afoot got about, the details could not be learned, But the secret was kept even from the army that was to use the gun and when the Prussians invaded France Reffye had to issue his “mitrailleuse” to soldiers | unfamiliar with its use, while the jorman artillery had been ordered : smother the new weapon whenever tt appeared, It was a bitter disap- | pointment. Sir Hiram Maxim, born in Maine, | |ut who later became @ British sub- | ject, invented in 1884 the first auto- matic machine gun, the force of the | recoil being made to extract the shell, reload and fire again as long as ammunition was supplied, This was a far lighter weapon than the Gatling and mounted on a tripod, | Then came other automatics, lke | the Colt and Hotchkiss, which are operated by part of the gas of the! explosive; but even though their fire equalled that of fifty or sixty rifle. ‘men, the demand was always for a simpler and Nghter gun, one that | might in @ pinch be handled by a! \4 nd has been met by th wonderful Lewis gun, of Col. ‘ured ie the invention Isane Newton Lewis, a re.) American army officer, tt weighs but twenty-six and a’ halt, ounds, Is alr-cooled Bnd is effective | poth on the ground and from an aeroplane. Unfortunately it was not | at first accepted by our own War! Department, but has been eagerly | adopted by’ the allied governments | and has proved to be one of the sen- wations of the great war, iT Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) MAN'S mind is like a non-refillable bottle—once he has received the impression that you are in love with him the only way to get the idea out of his head is to extract the whole brain. Hope ts a chain of iron which holds a man to a woman's side-—grati- sude a silken thread a million miles long which permits him to wander at will. Alas! no man can be full of romance and hay fever at the same time. Most men select @ wife for about the same reason as Adam did— simply because thoy happen to be lonely and bored and she happens to be the only woman at hand. The man who extracts the full measure of joy out of life is the one who always gives more than he expects; sometim pends more than he can afford and occasionally loves more than is wise. The most successful men are not those who have been inspired by a wise woman's love, but those who have perspired in order to gratify a foolish woman's whims. Usually the only act of kindness a man shows to the woman who loves him too much, too lcng or too obviously is to refrain from marrying her. ‘The Modern Girl’s Slogan: Let me sign my own checks and I care not | who may sign a wedding certificate! Seaeec yr vanren cogneetgenreeis 1 Ria: < 1tenT peniaeeie waa 7 1 ° {The First Vegetarian} { The Roumanians 8 RNA! | RRR ARAARARARRRAARAAAARAAAAAAL “THOUGH Roumania ts com- monly supposed to be Slav country, like its Balkan nelgh- bors, there is excellent ethnological basis for the claim of the Rouman- | fang to be descended from the Ro-| man colonists who @ere sent beyond the Danube in the second century by | the Emperor Hadrian, The language | of the Roumanians is Latin in con-/ struction, and while there Is a large percentage of Slavic roots in the Roumanian Mngulstic tree, these are) gradually being uprooted, Intermar- riage with the Slave has produced a mixed race, but the Roumanians are almost certainly more closely related | to the Italians than to the Russians and other Slave. The pride which the “Roman!," as they call themselves, fect in their! Latin ancestry has Nad a pr @ und | political effect, and the Roum *®.ians followed the lead of their cousins of Italy in siding with the allies in this war, It 1s probable that tho traces | of Latin descent are due in greater | part to a later Immigration, Kbout the twelfth century, from the Alpine dis- tricts than to the original colon’ tion of Romans early in the Qh: tian era, Aside from the Rouma HE first preacher of vegetarian- ism to gain any wide fame was Roger Crab, an eccentric Eng- Mshman, who died 236 years ago, He fought in the Parliamentary army under Cromwell and received @ wound in the head, which may have accounted for some of his later VA- garies. After the close of the Civil War he sold all his goods and dia- tributed the proceeds among the poor, then took up his residence in @ hut near Ickenham, where he was said to have lived on three farthings a week, Having decided that it was sinful to eat any kind of animal food, he subsisted on a dict of bran, dock leaves, mallows and grass, For dessert he had a pudding made of bran and turnip wops chopped to- gether, When he attempted to spread his ideas he met with much popular opposition, He then denounced his opponents in m urid terms, and was on various occasions cudgelled and put in the stocks, Four times he was arrested on suspicion of being @ wizard, and was sent from prison to prison. He pergisted in his course in spite of all persecution, refusing to eat any animal food while in jail. He wrote two pamphlets, entitled “The English Hermit, or The Won- der of the Age," and "Dagon's Down- fall, or the Great Idol Digged Up Root and Branch; the English Hor- mit’s Spade at the Ground and Root In the population of the country ai the Jews and the gypsies. The for- ” amaeaeaeerr_5_cc_-_-__+>re5r_~r'V’'-"''1!"“'ern’ —=+ + ~~ Dollars and Sense ¢ By H. J. Barrett. An Endless Chain of Boosters. “Ww handle the medium and heape: ft goods,’ aa Ren preset of a furniture store, “and a good many of our sales are made on the instalment basis. “A great deal of our business has) always come from the recommenda. occurred to me that here was @ splen- did fleld for tucreased sales. “Suppose we made It @ real object for our customers to boost us? I re- flected. ‘Isn't it possible to create an endles chajn of personal representa- uves throughout the city? “It was @ simple matter to draw off @ list of customers for the previous twelve months and to circularize them, offering 4 per cent, either in cash or, in case they still owed money, in credit, of the total purchases made by friends sent by them. Within @ couple of weeks the effect of this began to be felt. People took particular pains to tell us that so and so had sent them. In many cases I know that the com- mission was remitted to the purchaser by the reciptent. But we had no ob- Jection to this. “About four times a year we cover our mailing list, reminding our cus- tomers of this offer, “It has resulted in @ very substan- tlal increase in sales. Although doubtless, we pay commissions on some sales which would have gravi- tated to us anyway, tho profit on the business which would otherwise have been placed elsewhere far outweighs the loss thus represented.” “I find that most purchasers of office furniture fall into one of three divi- sions," said the manager of that de- partment of a furniture stote, “They are new arrivals in the city; they are residents moving into larger quarters, or they are residents starting @ new business. “Any or all of these types are likely to select their quarters before they begin to inspect furnitu ‘Consequently the building superin- tendents or rental agents see them before I do, What is more logical than for me to line up with these men as allies? Practically every empty office in this city has my ad. hanging on the wall, And as there is something in it for the agent or superntendent who shows the property of commendation {3 put in for tha a tore. “1 call this pretty inexpensive ad- vertising. Of course, my windows bring a lot of buainess and so does my newspaper advertising. And the two latter media support the former, h mer number ,about 300,000, and the latter about 400,000, The great ma- jority of the people are adherents of the Greek Church, of Idolatry.” Crab lived to a ripe old age, but made few converts to his doctrine, beauty of this commission ar- nt, however, Is the fact that {t costa nothing until the sale ts made. I don't have to pay in advance” tions of our customers, One day it) World Dail) Magazine. Monday. September 11, 1916 By ]._H " . . , . _ Stories of Stories ' de of Immorial Fiction Masterpieces i By Albert Payson Terhune enewnnnee. eee . tren an © the hee Hot tommy Mend THe WHITE WOLT, Sir Gilbert Campt eft i tL, OENGRVITONM #00 « Kuselan seble whe bad digreced bim ° druvees wd dueling ond gambling end by every ou view The y Say of puolehmont, eniied Poul to wet Toor eae loved, the beclehed en epent “ chi le brandy ewlgwing. His wile died Me ‘ boby daughter Katrina shared bie entle The (We children were looked after by the servants, os Paul © bean! herd to ther upbringing, ledeod, te gave bo special heed to enythi eacept brandy aud hunting The estate was lef to Michal, bis old ve One Michal reported ta ter bite © [ *ae a the ayterers, cating only the hearts of Michal eheved the mons the power to change into a @ Poul led « party of poaranta int They sithted the wolf and tracked it the thicke easants prepare noke out the lurking creature Just then « gloriously bea district and tb wow ment of bis family and of bis het rer te & ter that @ lar brute bed & bie vietime wolf (9 humen being whe hae » the forest In search of the marauder, a thicket” Dorming « eirele around fire to the undergrowth and to Woman stepped forth from che thicket he was clad tn a white fur ma and her eyes shone like fire b ‘| as @ fugitive from the Mussian politica! r said 6 c en in the bushes on her Might through the forest, fearing lest the peasants were a cordon of pur- ¢ eulng pol Bhe added that whe bid ther, @ } j reat olf bad dashed past her 4 a, Paul at © fell In love with the beautiful stranger, ee ae Me beawed her to hon by & view to his eqatie, eolaring she would be safe there from the poli Hhe ageepted the Inve tation, When the enamored Paul asked her name, she bade him call her Kayi O14 Michal, ¢ he first, hated and muspected his master’s lovely guest, Mo did betle Alexis, But Katrina wos fascinated by her beauty Alexis, too, Was grievously disappointed at his father's fatlure to humt the mysterious white w Ile declared loudly that he himself wee to be a wat hunter as pve he should grow up. In the wean time old of a Tusty, old brassbound horsepistol which he loaded, Armed with this awkward weapon, the child used to creep around the casye warden at night One evening 1 Paul besought her “If you Ko from hete, you will taki “You may be speaking more trut under her kgeath. Continuing aloud sundial at the bottom of the garden al The nicht was bitter cold and at from the castle and hurried down thi mundial, As he neared the bottom o for him. She mantle. man at aight of in bis arms. aler } was cla 4 H The Ste of He A thrill of unreasoning terror swept o' pretending he was hunting the white wolf, na told Paul she must leave the castle on the morrow. way and to be his wife Hee my heart with ye hfully than you th she murmured : "Meet me, in two hours, at the old nd@ I will give you my reply. arlit when Paul Sergevttch stole forth ark walks of the garden toward the of the garden, he saw Ravina waiting med id from head to foot in her white fur the p her her, But he ran forward to “Ia it yes or no?” he cried, eagerly. For reply she snarled and launched herself bodily upon him. med in her hand, Little Alexis, wolf hunting as usual | the attack, and he hild fired pointbian The servants came running out of the house at sound of the shot | found their master dead. Near him Paul crashed to earth, with the blade in his heart, the woman bent above him, a pistol shot split the silence of the win A knife As r nicht in a nearby clump of bushes, had seen ik at the murderess, They lay the slain yody of a gigantic white | wote—with Paul Sergevitoh’s heart gripped between its forepaws, Just a Wife—(Her Diary) Edited By Janet Trevor Copyright, 1016, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Word.) CHAPTER LXIV. CT. 20 (continued). — Madame Felice glanced at me coldly. | “You know Marie? she inter- | rogated. “I never saw her before,” I replied. | "But I am a physician's wife, and I | recognize malnutrition when I see it” Madame shrugged, then remarked: “The girl has had her wages. For some time she has appeared listless and has taken little interest in her work. Now she has ruined one of my best models,” and a white, scorn- ful finger indicated the mass of crumpled eatin, marred with dust marks, in the midst of which the girl still lay as she had fallen. “She is discharged,” Madene ended, with another shrug. Again she stooped and seized the girl by the shoulders, none too gently, I felt as if I were seeing a child beaten. “Let me lift her,” I eaid quietly, and in a moment I had half lifted, half carried her to the nearest couch. * jase of water, please,” I added, I felt @ touch on my shoulder and turning, saw another young woman with a tumbler. Mutely she offered it, then Lurried away as Madame in- quired coldly: “Is that trimming all sorted, Faustine?” Dipping my handkerchief in the water, I dabbed Marie's temples and closed eyelids, The latter fluttered. I slipped my arm under her shoulders o Copyright, 11 O comes around, leap ahead and before they can revera chine in New York, ie ’ Travelling salesmen generally pinochle, Statistica show that an average | the stranger all the elephants he can Motorcycling is very healthy. as fore, remember that (here ta alweyea Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer by ‘The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) E of the easiest jobs ts photographing Halley's comet every time Jt and raised b oO & sitting position. 1 put the glass of water to her lips Obediently she took two or three sips. Then her eves opened wide and |focussed on Mme. Felice, who stood coldly regarding her. “Oh, what have I done?” she mur- ured weakly, "Get up, Marie," employer. |m: commanded her we off the dress which spolied and for which I you tu pay. Your services As if she had been pricked with a tag) the girl was instantly on her feet. “Oh, Madame, not that!” she cried, “I @ill pay for the dress, I will do | anything you like, only—please don’: discharge me. I know that f shouldn't have fainted; I am 80 ashamed of myself, I was rather tired and the room seemed unusyally warm, But NA neve: oi again. Please, please, let_me stay “It is not possible,” said Mme Felice, inexorably, and after one glance at phe Bard. the girl ‘urned away, her slender shoulder shaking ws sobs. siceee in an instant she up at me. “You have been very good, Madame" she murmured. I took an impulsive decision, “I ehall wait for you, my dear, until you have ged your dress,” I said. “Then you will come to lunch with me and we talk over what you are to do next,” I turned to Mme. Felios, who had Deen listening with raised eyebrows, . “I don't care to look at any more gowns Ca I said. “Very well,” she answered tmpas- sively. “I regret that madame has been disturbed by an unfortunate metdent, Marie, do not keep madame waiting.” A few minutes later Marte and I went down the steps of the Maison ‘lice, A satisfactory method of removing freckles is to rush forward rapidly and then run backward, The momentum gained will cause the freckles to je you can run out from behind them, Chauffeurs’ licenses are not required to operate a chewing gum slot ma- peak two languages, English and of twenty-four out of every two dozen New Yorkers eat dishes that they can't pronounce, ATA word| One of the toughest things to do ts to push on a rope. When the King of Gazump is exceedingly pleased by a visitor he gives carry away single-handed, the walk home does you a lot of good, This Is the thine of he year when colde are enatly contracted, There draught blowing through a dutto: hole