The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1916, Page 8

+ NO, 20,110 ABRANZA'S decree, inewed to-day, calling for the eection of « Copetitutions) Assembly on Oct. 1, le not only & mort im portent proclamation for Mexico but also the begining in country of » course of events whieh will determine the attitude the United States toward Mexican affairs for powsivly many youre E been Corranza’s claim that his de facto Government of bring that disrupted nation to 4 point of readjustment be trusted to re cetablish its constitutional system, and reasmime its place among revogni¢ed republics fe et hend. The Constitutional Assewhly will reviee the Constitution and immediately thereafter a Presidential ele Until the new government is actually in place it of necessity remain in charge, policing the nation, sux pervising the election machinery and dealing with such remmante of the revolution as may ¢till seek to make trouble A moet critical time is thus at hand both for the Hirst Obief | end for Mexico. If constitutions! convention and elections all go! through to @ succesful conclusion the result may go far toward re- habilitating pot only the country but also the m In euch an event the judgment of those who banked on him as, after all, Mexico's beet hope must be more than ever vindicated. Furthermore it happens most fortunately that while Mexico is Prepering to get itself politically in hand an American-Mexican Com- mission at New London is accumulating exhaustive information about the Mexican people and their habits and problems which will greatly help the United States to understand developments in Mexico during the next fow months, eri. efit iH on You say you have the men. The police are giving you all the protection you could ask for. Go shead, Mr. Shonts, and tun the surface cars. TRUE AND TO THE POINT. BE speech in which Vice President Thomas R. Marshall ac- cepted this week his renomination for the office he now holds deserves to be noticed as something more than merely a loyal and modost wish “to assist in the re-election of Woodrow Wilson.” Mr. Marshall hes @ knack of putting things in way worth noting pfor itself: “The one bright, peaceful spot under the sun this day is Ameriea, and it is so because the President pleads gullty to the charge of using words rather than shot, shell and shrapnel. If Americe is to lead the world toward that now scemingly far distant goa) where brute force shall be bound by wisdom and conscience in fetters which it can never again break, then these are the bours'for more words.” Or again: “The fact rewains that under a Democratic Prosident and a Democratic Congress this country {s enjoying the greatest pros- perity in its history. The business is here, the work is bere, the money is here and no prophecy of our opponents can pufi them away. Our banks are stacked with money, our mills are filled with orders, our farms revel in prosperity as they pevor rovelled before. And the song of this prosperity, the bum of industry, ls better than all the war songs in the world.” The country is supposed to have lost the habit of listening much _ to its Vice Presidents. Just the same the present one has summed yp the situation in terms that it would take some thought to better. —_————_- ¢ 2 —___—_. Court House Project Postponed Once More.—Headline. What's the bill to date for a Court House that can't even show a@ foundation wall? a DENATURIZING “DIXIE.” HE proposal to take the negro dialect out of familiar old . T American songs like “Dixie” and “Suwanee River” for fear public school children will grow up to speak “darkey Eng- lish” ought to be promptly asphyxiated by its own absurdity, If the English a child hears constantly from his teachers isn’t _ Strong enough to hold its own against occasional experiments with harmless dialect, then something ought to be done at once to improve the quality. if he sings “Old Black Joe” from time to time in its original form ia like saying that his mental stability and seriousness will be affected ¢if ie is allowed to listen to jokes, It seems to be one of the afflictions of the age that somebody is always telling mothers they mustn’t talk baby talk over the cradle, or eliminating improprieties and solecisms from Mother Goose, or put- | ting logic into fairy tales, or modernizing the Bible, or toning down the hymns or otherwise devitalizing some portion of our heritage. Unfortunately foolishness of this kind sometimes secures the backing of authority. It would certainly seem that the New York City Board of Education and its Department of Music ought to have too much to do to waste time in serious consideration of a purify “Dixie,” plan to ah doa What the public of this city would like to know: How many weeks more must it lead the “menaced” life? Hits From Sharp Wits A judge declared that a perfect Maybe we are too prone to look at Duman being is a nuisance. A lot of the high hat instead of the head that human beings are nuisances who are! it covers,—Philade|phia Telegraph, far from Derteot.— Milwaukee Newa.} ° What's become of the old-fashioned No man 1 hero to hia valet, ana| pastor Who used to preach religion dan't even very big pumpkins to! instead of political economy ?—Boston wife either.—Philadelphia In-|'T quirer. ee 4 > 2.8 oriticiam of tho; A restaurant keeper dcoused of to disp eruelty towards a lobster insists it ” from those other women no figures to display. Macon News, é an animal, Still, it may be timore America You find it gratifying to know that te yours.--Toledo Blade, To maintain that a youngster’s speech may be spoiled | ' ' @ Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudle; | Covretaht. gis My, The Proew A Evealog Worle h® “W HAT do you think?” suid | Lucile the waitress as the friendly patron took a seat at the lunch counter, “A fellow was in here this morning who was a war corresplendent in Oscar Hungry and Germany. He told me all about the fight between the Kaiser and Caesar of Russia and all those other Andante eilies,” “Interesting, eh?” ‘Oh, yes, but I got to thinking he too talkative, You knew I do hate @ gabby man at meal time, Kirst this fellow tells me about the big killed like water. Then comes the invitable, He doos a Teddy and ‘ns to talk about himaeit, “When 1 was in Germany,’ says, ‘I got an Iron Cress! “L thought he meant @ sear, so 1 up and ask him what part of his poysiolovy it’s located on, “On! he says, ‘TE left it home, It's medal.” I just look si:aple and say: ‘Ah, | me! You must be great when they will waste iron in Gormany like that. Then it is that T eet my first bean in the eye, He almost explodes witr anger. “Poot! he may at me, ‘Ti sharpshooter” “‘So 1 see with my other eye, 1 | tell him, rubbing the injured opti- jan, “Oh, L beg your pardon,’ saya he, ‘O, K.' LT pay. ‘Only the next time you feel like poofing swaller first! | “‘Iron is searce in Germany,’ ho | Koes on ou had the right idea. They have been importing it from | America,’ | 1 wonder who hes been sending | the iron ore,’ I slip him, It's Just a (Joke, you wee; but I'll never be so careless again,( He got it all right, and he busts out lvughing, Well, wir, about eleven more beans reach my face, Bay, but I'm gore, “‘Tdeten, friend, I gay, with my anger in suppression, ‘Wat ‘em the other way--down, not up, There you set peppering me like as if 1 was Hilt No, 74 on the Verdain Bount, You're a bum of # conversationalist, he ending the bean | have you know I'm a he, You ain't never et here ye rT what's the desser or both all gor Jy that in jealous of ry would be better off w hel most smart people think along the ocoanut pie? They're Jealous of himself.—-Knoxville same lines and have opinions similar I guess you'll have to take some of the chocolate pudding @ la awful,’ battles reeging in France and men| And out he Koes, | "You were absolutely right," said] eminent engineer, \the friendly patron, “1 oure was," maid Lucile, “Now, | | The Wee le 66 ELL,” remarked the head W wits er, “thie is certainly a funny traction strike, I get @ seat on the Ninth Avenuc in the morning now and I never ould before the strike was called.” “This ten’t an ordi ike,” sald the laundry man, “It is a strike stago- managed by lawyel Mr, James Quackenbush, the well known legal pilot of the Interborough, wrote the running Girection for that corpora- tion, The man out in front with the megaphone cheering on the striking motormen and conductors is a Ma Fitagerald of Troy, but he is entirely surrounded by lawyers, several of whom cannot be restrained from jumping into print every once ip & while and voicing the woes of the downtrodden laboring man, “In the good old days when a sirike Was @ etrike the leaders of the atrik- ers were men wilh callous on the palms of their hunds. The callous in the prevalent sirike appears to dec- orate the brains or some of the gen- Uemen who promoted an attack on the Laterborougb which forced that highly unpopular corporation to carry | from 800,000 Lo 450,000 more passengers every day since the strike Waa called ‘than it cu on the corresponding i dates in i “as for the surface strike, could there be anything funnier than ask- ing the police to suspend street car trafic on some of the streets of the! east side go that the parade of the| striking street car men could get by? od was properly distributed a parade of strikers wouldn't tue thing like @ few street cars them. “In the battle of lawyers the Inter- borough has outgeneraled the Amal- wamated Associauon, It is not sur prising that the hould, Mr, Quack+ enbush is a lig League lawyer, who bas been in the game of instructing traction magnates how to juinp over or crawl under or horn around legal hurdles for many years. He had the ald and counsel of two pretty well qualided pinch hitters bearing the obscure names of De Laneey Nicoll and Jobn B, Stanehfield. q By Martin Green Copyright, 1016, by Phe Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), In the good old days when the callous | h Bwell out of the puballe sehool k’s Wash chance the union lawyers had with thove three birds on the job!" The “Maine” lesue. { eee “ OBS the Maine election mean anything?" asked the head polisher, “The Maine election,” replied the Jaundry man, “means everything, It means the election of Wilson and it means the defeat of Wilson, accord. ing to the newspaper you read. Gee Whit, What gome parties can do with res! } Without attempting to do anything! with figures, We can't get away from the fact that tho issues of the cam- paign didn't cut much tee in Maine, The accomplishments of Congress didn't appeal to the voters because they turned down the only two Maine Democrats in Congress, both of whom | had been consistent supporters of the President, | “The election established that a very large percentage of the Progres- sives are back in the Party and a very small percentage are fn the Deanocratic Party, It ts to be & two-party fight. lf Woodrow Wilson ts more than 2,600,000 yotes stronger than his party—that being proximately the number he was shy of a majority four years ago—he will win, If he isn't he will lose, “Here in New York Mr. Wilson re- ceived approximately 190,000 votes | less than Taft and Roosevelt com- bined and about 267,000 vot lens than all the candidates combi a he is more than 267,000 votes stronger than his party this year be should carry the State of New York, and if} carr! this Ste he will be cleet~ ed. That's about all there is to it, The iswue of the campaign is Mr, Wilson's popularity with the opie.” Arr $ Begin at Home. “J SE sald the head polishor, “that they are going to cut the durky dialect out of songs In the public schools.” “Liasen," said the laundry man, *Folst and also seck’nt and thoid, they ought to cut the Noo Yawk dialect @ The Inventions of John Ericsson. T's first ecrew propeller for navi- engine seen in America were) |, the inventions of John Ericsson, famous in the annala of naval war- 1,:| who was born in Wermeland, Sweden, | 1),, 118 years ago, In his young manhood | line and out of the reach of shot, Ericsson attained the rank of captain man bean,’ says 1 in the Swedish Army and became an| Lator he went tol civil War, revolution: fected several inven- | fare, Bngland and pe tions, as well as winning ol Railway for the bea! actounding speed of Afty miles gation and the first steam fire| eller did not moot with the appro ullding one that attained the then] wor aa 'bourd a United States cruls hour, His invention of the screw pi of the British Admiralty, so Erios: to Amerioa in 1849 unc in New York, In 1841 he w to apply bis propaller to “TH never eat in here again, | fare as the builder of the Monitor, | States warship Princeton, which wis the first steamship ever built with the In 1840 he constructed the first Amorioan steam fire engine, The Monitor, which fought the Merrimac in th naval war pis famous craft Mriesson rive | utilized the revolving turret, invented pam or co-| offered by the Manghester and Livi 80 by T. 1K, Timby, Ericsson died in Ne pelling iachinery bolow the water | > America’s First Newspaper. ‘T Monday will be the 226th anniversary of the date of the! first newspaper published in America, ‘This pioneer gazette of a continent which now supports nearly 80,000 publications was the project of Benjamin Harris of Boston, whose ad- dress was given as the London Coffee- House, and it was printed by Richard Vierce, ‘The journal consisted of four pages, but only three of these were printed, one page being left blank so that pefsonal sages might be writ- ten ther cach page was about seven by eleven inches in size. Benjamin Harris, the editor, referred to governmental and military matters in A way @Maxpleasing to the Boston au- thorities, who would seam to have been very of skin, and his journal was suppressed within twenty-four hours of the appearance of the first—and i \ | ' ! last--number, It was charged that Harris had printed “reflections of a very high nature,” and he was for- biiden to put “anything in print, with. | out license first obtained from those Appointed by the government to grant th same After the suppression of the Harris venture nearly fourteen years passed before another atiempt Waa made to establish a newspaper ‘on this side of the Atlantic. John Campbell, the Postnaster of Boston, was the éed- itor and proprietor of this. sheet, which was called the Boston wae Letier, Campbell's paper was nite ed by authority,” and it existed for) seventy-two years, ‘Phe first big "scoop nerican jour- ° the New: Letter in June, 1704, when a reporter was sent to write a “story” covering the execution of six pirates on Charles River, ‘This pioneer reporter turned in an excellent story, and it fille nearly halfof one issum of the pape The feature of the article, however, was the prayer uttered by a min tater on the seaffold, which was re- | produced “as near as could taken in writing in the great crowd, 4 * HE firat successful example of the lithographic art was pro- duced 120 years ago by Aloya Senefelder, a Bavarian, who produced f music printed by this pro- felder was a composer, but poor to the cost of He then sriment with the hopo a some cheap method by which he could do the printing him self, The Lithographic process was suggested to him by his having made for his mother a memorandum of rthes to be sent to the washer- woman, He carelessly wrote this memorandum on a elab of atone, in- tending to copy it, As the atone lay before him he thought of trying the effect of applying printer's ink to the lines and thus take an impression, The experiment led to others, and in 1796 Senefelder produced a piece of music from lines drawn in slight relief on a slab of stone, Tho inven- tor obtained @ patent for his process in several of the German states, and labored to extend his art throughout Lithography. cess, he was te having his works published, si . , September 16; 1916 eptember : paring at hor rival in diamay The Woman of it By Helen Rowland eer Ae Te em Pantene te foe tee ones Wee She Baye @ Goad “Enemy” Te Vow len Friend in the Game of OT ie tne wont ome whe hes 4 tm the werd!” eacleiow “aed roman ® eyes met Ad ware fot epeak as you pase by!” “Certasniy nol” anewerd 0 ) OY dearest enemy, Mr Won! ore tor me then anybody omaremen|, os the © ( renmed wor! he a) Witew win ey We howe + ohe-worpered ou another eo: daily hehetully, simoereiy, paseioneioiy) A the poem sare, 1 whould seaiior roeee we) nyTHING te eof Heaven, ond hin 4 whe ahve with (rie mem ultne deasty ihe Widow, “Thet would be fatal. To lowe @ fri map be wed bul to lowe & food, el neers enemy Calamity! 1 hy one oF Woo onomine and | can’) aflord Ww pert & bom | jwet 147! enemies, don) yout” “Can't sey | do,” returned Ur Bachelor leconially ing for ME “Well, mine have done everything for MIL” reiterated the Widow “Mine wover @ and astonish them, end them envious, or ‘sorry.’ My enemios have kept me stoking in the social gine, and climbing the red-hot born bohenvan, at heart sround to y preferred to be lounging ty uid dunt naturally bed with a good novel and a bow of ebocolat and getting fat ung #todey- except for (the fact that 1 couldn't permit enemier to patronize me, They ve driver to all forte of expedionte keep my Agure and my complexion. and my eiyle ond m avoir faire, my radience and my elarnal your) when | should probably have elumy down comfortably inte commonplace middle age, ex for the cold fear being called a ‘frump’ or a “iowd' or ‘passer. or 'p thing!” Hometimes, I think my enemies have even Kept ine in the path of rectitude and duty; but, above all, they ve made me « genuine OPTIMINT!* “An optimist laimed the Kachelor "Ye mols! What is there about! an enemy t SumRee's ‘HWweetness ond lieht? I should think enemies would be the one excuse for pesetmiem, if you hed enourh of ‘em.” AAA RRA ARR ARR RAR NS ne Enemies Are Ne ° sorry for yourself, But you've got to go about with @ victorious attitude and @ brave heart, and « einiling foce, when you are in danger of meeting your enemies, And, if you keep it up long enough, somehow, the @mile seopa through, and you soon discover (hat vou have a amiling heart, to mateh ft. Friends make life too soft and easy for you, Friends are eda. Uves—pleasant and comforting, but weakening Hnemtes are stimulants. “ and the Widow shook her head sadly, “your friends are thet Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, whieh perfume and tify tt. Enemies are the weeds, which keep you hustling and #pading and digging and reising your muscles, They strengthen and inspire you. Friends are the oheck-rein and the halter enemies, the spur and the whip friend may be a delightful running-mate, but a good enemy ts a PACE. MAKER! And that's what every one of us is, The average human being never knows what wonders he's capable of until you make him good and angry and arouse his determination to beat somebody!” “Hear, hear!” erted the Bachelor, “in the Game of Life, our friends our worst enemlos—and our enemies are our best friends! By the wa: added maliciously, “that’s a funny looking hat, friend ‘Enemy’ ta wearin “Great heavens!" exclaimed the Widow, putting up her lorgnetts vs hurry! I must rush up and aee ‘Ch this minute, How DARED she sell that woman a ‘model’ two weeks tn vance of mine!" A good The Evolution of Flour wheat into the earliest HE conversion of flour was one of developments of civilization, and even the primitive races in the dawn of history submitted the grain to @ coarse pounding between stones, Perhaps the oldest flour “milis' in existence ure the rude stones found among the remains of the anctent lake dwellings in Switzerland, By « mortar and pextie arrangement. the wheat was reduced to a coarse meal, Crude as this method was, it eon- tained the germ of the modern floar mill, For countless centuries the Preparation of meal and flour was u purely domestic process, The refined white flour now the part of dietetic students physiclans to denounce this fangled flour as destructive of hi and vigor. Some of White bread go so fa to it many of the ills whieh afl latter day humanity, It is all that the most valuable properties th grain are lost in the refining pi thus greatly reducing its value, and that the fineness of t! 4 » causes constipation. revolt against “denatur is now” rapidly gaint und, both among physicians a laymen, and bakers everywhere port a istantly inereasing dem: for Graham and whole wheat bre Hundreds of physicians of the hig gen- erally used is a comparatively | ext standing, incl modern innovation, the elaborate! father of the pure food mor processes to which the grain is] America, are among the advocates subjected in order to make the “fn- ed product” fine and wh.te having been largely developed within the last half century. This flour produces bread highly pleasing to the eye and palate, as compared with the coarse brown’ bread of our ancestors, bi there is now a growing tendency on ul use of Graham bread flour was the Rev, 8 a New England clergyman, who dit in Northampton, Mass, sixty-fit years ago, having devoted the maj part of his life to the advocacy of vegetarian dietetic theory, {The Big Ideas Behind Big Successe No, i--E. H. Harriman. he Was Mr, Harriman, and @ y, 4 se Yours later simply Harriman, DWARD H. HARRIMAN, once |/iiccest man in his busin master of seventeen railroads} Of all the men w comprising 25,000 miles of road | across the stage of | Harriman was the most fascinat and representing almost one-third of the country's railways, succeeded be- cause he wanted to, ey called him Harriman the enigma, the silent, the man who never smiled, But through all the grim years that he struggled for u footing in Wall Street Harri- man never lost sight of his one aim personality, Silent, inflexible, commanded men and shaped eve as @ matter of course. To him not ing was impossible, With each fr success he looked still higher yearned anew to really succeed, brought one great railroad after other Into a marvellous transcot In life—to succeed. Born the son of|neatal system, solved transporte an obseure minister he had little | tion problema that couldn't be sol } schooling and less opportunity. His ; built bridges that couldn't be b Men looked upon him as a wi 1 his merest word was enough Wall Street aflutter, first job was in a broker's office and his last one was master of railroads worth more th $4,000,000,000, Tattle Eddie Harriman, as Wall] Year aft y year Harriman Street firet knew him, was an ob-| sisted, In little more than a_ doc serving youngster with a prodigious} he rose to be the most powerful f willingness for work and one burning | tor in American fl oo and t desire-to got ahead. After a while|died quietly after achieving eno they began to call him Ed, the rising | suc to com ate a whole young broker, He Waa fairly on the|oration of men, He started with way to the top when the panic of! trrevoeable determination to wit 1898 almoat broke him, By that time | and made good, Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer ‘Cony right, 1916, by The Prose Publishing Uo, (The New York Evening World). T would take 546,898,777,582,019 years and five minutes to soak up tl ocean with blotting paper. If tt were not for the fact that it came in packages, birdseed wow be awfully loose, Bottles can be made nonwrefillable by massaging them with an aze, What makes Bunker Hill Monument so tall is the distance between th top and bottom, In spite of the fact that they aren't edible door knods are very useful, | An armful of the amoke from burning leaves will be found to be highly efficacious in odscuring the face of a highly polished watch, Scientists have figured that the angle at which shoe buttons drop eff has nothing to do with climatic conditions. sent to his native 8 Burope. Everywh: it met with favor, capocially in France, It is not against the law to huné for ostriches nm Vermont, oe