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Se = RE re an ee RS free oe eS EET FTE Taw 4 t iy World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Pre Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to 43 Park Row, New { rk Row, \ PULIT: President, urer, 68 Park Row, ‘JOSEPH PULITZBR, Jr., Secretary, 68 Fark Row. RALPH J. ANGUS SHAW, Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second. Subscription Rates to The Evening » World for the United States a and Canada jane Matter, For England and ¢) All Countries In th $8.60/One Year... One Month. VOLUME 57... .ceccessccccccecccececscsssssess NOs 20,208 SOMETHING NEW AT VERDUN. T= French advance at Verdun, in the course of which Louve- mont, Bezonvaux and Pepper Hill were retaken and 9,000 German prisoners marched to the rear, marks another sharp sétback for the German Crown Prince. It also shows the swiftness and economy with which the French are nullifying the effects of the supreme effort to which Germany applied herself at Verdun through lest February and many ensuing months. So carefully planned and brilliantly executed was the latest French attack that the losses among the assaulting columns were amazingly small—a most significant development in a kind of warfuro that has come to seem the mere recurrent exchange of thousands of dead for a few yards of ground not worth a hundredth part of their cost, This quick advance from Vacherauville to the Woevre with the lows of ao few men may have been partly luck. But the French nation is certain to see in plans for the movement the genius of Gen. Nivelle, the new Commander in Chief. What Gen. Mangin and his four divisions accomplished at Verdun is, of course, no final proof that a way has bee. found to break German resistance without impossible sacrifices, But for almost the first time in the warfare on the western front we hear of something gained by flanking movements and new methods of infantry attack—by strategy, in short, instead of solely by the annihilative or stupefying force of explosives. It is well known that the pick of the German forces have been concentrated at Verdun. If French troops continue to buy back ground there at such comparatively low prices, the continuance of the war will certainly appear no less imperative in the eyes of France, while Germany may be expected to show more diligence than ever in urging a conference to which she can come before downright reverses in the west begin to appear on the daily bulletins in Berlin. Verdun has already furnished one of the great tests of the war. Verdun will remain, whatever happens, one of the great names in the history of the war. Upward of a thousand years ago a famous ‘Treaty of Verdun roughed in some telling lines on the map of Europe. Tt may be that History sees another propitious moment to repeat itself. ot Does this city want 300 more fast motor mail trucks turned into its crowded atreeta? If not, let {t eay so loud enough for Congress to hear and heed. The Post Office bill authorizing the ~ discontinuance of pneumatic tube mall service in New York has not yet been passed. It never should be while it contains this preposterously unjust provision, SS WILL THE P. S. C. MAKE USE OF IT? Continent and | Evening World Ril throughout the five boroughs subway, elevated and surface lines shall permit care to carry a number of passengers no greater than one and one-half times their seating capacity is to be applied with too many “ifs,” “ands” and “buts” to establish anything more than a standard. ‘The Mayor hastens to explain that it will of course be out of the question for the Health Department to attempt to force a railway company to put on more cars if experts of the Public Service Com- mission have decided the company is already running « maximum mumber. , Everybody knows thet during rush hours subway, elevated and @erface cars are Jammed to more than three times their seating caupecity. Everybody knows that, unless constantly watched, tho rail- way companies ran no more oars than they find conducive to the col- lestion of the greatest number of nickels for the lowest cost of service. knows the Public Service Commission long since discovered fet the easiest thing for it to decide in all emergencies is that the public must wait for the opening up of more transit facilities. Last year the Health Department made an effort to apply the W80-per-cont.-of-seating-capacity rule to certain Manhattan surface Manes. The company concerned promptly threw the blame upon the Petilie which insisted upon cramming itself into cars to suit its own e@xnvenisnoe, A regulation of this sort covering subway and elevated lines can Hip, provided the Public Service Commission can be induced to accept iq 0 standard and show some energy in compelling transit oorpora- Hons to approach as close to it as conditions permit. Are Public Service Commissioners ready to use the new ordinance er is the public to regard ft as a mere comforting picture of what might be? a ar ere oe “Let us dishonor war, Bloody glory does not exist, It is not good and it ie not useful to make corpses. It cannot be that Ute should travafl for death. No, O mothers who surround me, it cannot be that war, the thief, is to continue to take your off- spring. No, it cannot be that women are to bear children in anguish, that men ere to be born, thet communities are to Plough and sow, that the peasant is to fertilize the fields and the workmen enrich the cities, thet thinkers are to meditate, that industry ‘* to perform ite marvels, that genius is to exe- cute ite prodigies, that the vast human activity is to multiply In the presence of the starry heavens its efforts and creations in order to produce thet frightful international exposition which {s called the fleld of battle."—Victor Hugo, at the com- memoretion of the centennial of the death of Voltaire, Paris, May 30, 1878, Hits From Sharp Wits By and by we shall hear, “Mother| Money talks, but. ye gods! how #ent me over to borrow a potato."| much it takes these days to speak out Milwaukee Sent Joud.—Memphis Commercial Appeal, ° . “Trousers warmed by eleotricity,"| The middleman ts tn the best posi. says an advertisement. That isn't the| tion to make both ends meet.—Colum- pa warms little Billy's —Memphis| bia (S. C.) States. jercial Appeal, =| oe 8 8 lany @ man praises his wife for eke of coffins having been| having made him what he ts, ae it almost to live in spite pernene it ten't the poor woman's Albany Argus. | fault, at all. —Roohester Union, T* new Board of Health ordinance which provides that “T'll Make a New Ye Goorrtaht. 19 Yon Rveuing Daily Magazine ee rae 10e4 Jak dvevasren OY FeaTi mon 8400 TN ‘ar’s Resolution to Open an Account After the First.” Fi ifty Boys and Girls . . Famous in History . By Albert Payson Terhune Covrriaht, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brenlug World.) NO. 28.—ROMULUS; the Wolf-Boy. BARBARIAN adventurer, about 2,700 years ago, seized the walled city of Alba Longa, in Italy, and proclaimed himself its “King’* His name was Amulus, q By way of making sure of his new position he imprisoned his aged brother, Numitor, the city’s former King, then murdered Numitor’s only son and threw this son's newborn twin babies into the River Tiber, It was @ pretty clean sweep of the royal family and it left the throne’s title clear to Amulus. But the twin babies did not drown when they were tossed into the river, The wicker basket in which they lay was caught by an eddy of the current and was washed ashore among some tree-trunks at the base of a hill, The hill, by the way, was the Palatine, later the first site of the City of Rome, As the two newborn boys lay crying in their basket a she-wolf came down to the river to drink. The wolf had just been robbed of her cubs, So, instead of devouring the babies, she carried them away to her den and fed them. (This odd trick of Nature has often occurred in savage countries, ling makes use of the phenomenon in his “Jungle Book.”) The bables dwelt for months in the wolf's cave. There Faustulus, @ herdsman, found them. He took them home with hing Kip. Gummmnnnornrnn ® and reared them in his mountainside hut, giving thens finds fork: the names of Romulus and Remus. wdaletad The boys grew tall and strong. They became shep~ herds long before they were out of thelr teens, an@ their greater strength gave them the mastery of all the local bands of herdas men, Romulus and Remus led these herdsmen upon raids into the richer lands below their hills, In one of the raids they clashed with the troop of Amulus. Remus was captured. Romulus rallied all the peasants and shepherds for miles around en@ went to bis brother's rescue, In the ensuing scrimmage old Amulus wae killed, Numitor, released from prison, met tho two boys, heard their story and |told them they were of royal birth, He wanted them to rule, after him, ag | Alba Longa, But Romulus was not content to walt for a dead man’s throne, |He declared he would establish a city and a kingdom for his brother and himself. | The site he chose for a city was around the hill at whose base he and | Remus had been found by the wolf, Remus urged another site, But Romu- lus was firm, and overruled his weaker twin, Whereat Remus set himself to making as much trouble for the youthful city builder as he possibly could. He was that kind of boy. Romulus staked out a site and had a yoke of white cattle draw a plough line over the quadrangle where the walls were to be erected. This line wa then deepened into a foundation trench, Gaps were left at places where the gates were later to be hung. Tho twin brethren’s followers were encamped inside this trench, Ro-? mulus already took on himself the airs of a king by forbidding anybody to enter or to depart from the city except through the gaps left for gates, He | vowed that he would kill the man who should step over the trenches that marked the Imaginary walls, It was a childish command, But it bad fatal resulta. Romulus set one of his followers to watch the trenches and to prevent any one from crossing them. The watchman he chose was a shepherd called Celer, the swiftest runner in all Italy, (From his name we get our English word “celority.") Remus had no Intention of obeying his brother's silly comn prove that he was not going to be bossed by any one he Jumped |trench, Celer struck him dead with a spade. Romulus’s only comment | whon he heard of his brother's death w | “So perish all who seek to pass over my walls | But it fs one thing to lay out a elty and quite another thing to populate . » it. Romulus had only a few dozen followers, So he eee hit on a plan to bring people thither. He issued a Watchman } proclamation declaring his new city a place of refuge Kills Remus. ¢ for all criminals, paupers, outlaws, &c, This procia- rer mation he issued in the name of the god Asylacus, whence our word “asylum.” } People flocked to the city, which Romulus named Rome, in his own !nonor. The forty-year reign of Romulug had begun. The boy king had ‘founded a power that was one day to rule the world. By Roy L. McCardell An Analytioal Brain, Explanation of This Man’s Success. HERE are various ways of classifying human beings,” said the treasurer of the concern which operates a chain of men's clothing stores. “Phrenologist: talk about mental types, motor type! and #o on; sclence speaks of meat- eating types and vegetable-eating types; palmiste refer to practical types and artistic types—but in busi- ness life I've always been impressed with the fact that there seem to be two strongly marked divisions, one containing the constructive types and the other the controlling types, An {deal partnership should comprise these two, “What I call the constructive type is the energetio, imaginative man of vision and enterprise, impatient of system and detail, He it is who runs @ shoe string into @ fortune and then, ae likely as not, loses the fortune. America offers scores of examples of this type. He can construct but can’t control. The other type, of ‘which I'm an example, is analytical, Cautious and, as @ rule, strong on conservation and control, He de- Ughtes tn dissecting & business and in reducing all its elements to a per- centage basis, He seeks to visualize its trend through graphs and charts, and hopes to so reduce business to an exact science that every question regarding future policy can be 4 cided merely by @ reference to pa: records, “The President of this concern wil! tell you that were it not for my! steadying hand, he would never have dared to expand his single store into our present prosperous chain, And I can truthfully say that were it not for his initiative, nerve and tmagina- tive power, factors which built this business to {ts present proportions, I might very well be an underpaid clerk or accountant, sidetracked for life tn some obscure job. ht yerrs ago I was selling clothing in the single store of the man to whom I have referred He was doing a big volume of busi- neas but netting only about $9,000 a year. The store lacked system and succeeded only because of the shrewd | a: food senso of its owner, Rule of thumb methods prevailed, The rec- ords told nothing regarding previous years’ experience; serious errors were made In figuring costs and, hence, in figuring mark-ups. The owner was a genius at advertising and full of prac- ticable schemes for constructing busi- ness. He knew nothing of con- trolling It, “*There'’a room for a systema¥c brain in this business, I reflected, 1 vegan to read up on store systems, One booklet in particular—here it is” (the speaker reached into a pigeon hole and extracted @ slim volume)— “proved particularly illuminating. A manufacturer of clothing issued it for free distribution to dealers. It con- tains @ simple exposition of a plan for maintaining @ perpetual inven- tory, with dafly entries under four- teen heads, “I showed It to the proprietor and suggested that he let me install It. ‘Go ahead!’ he exclaimed, ‘"Phat's just what this business needs, Keep your eyes open for more data along those lines, ‘That's where I'm weak, and T realize It’ HE first paper to print a contri- which also was the first news-/| paper published In Nevada, began | vada, under the name of the Terri- torial Enterprise, It was soon removed to Carson, and with the Virginia City Chronicle. Bamuel L, Clemens joined the staff man with @ soft job usually! Man old until he begins most of his time the down or to keep young Tolete News. Fy 4 of Mark Tratm Mefose becoming © of the Waterprise as a reporter in 1802, | and ft was asa local writer for that known as Dan de Quille, who also paper that he first assumed the name achieved considerable note as a hue |Fewular momber of the staft he had| bution by Mark Twain, and) been a country correspondent of the} nterprise at Aurora, signing hia let- ters "Josh," Upon his arrival in Vir- pusiness Dec, 18, 1868, at Genoa, Na-| ginia City all the Enterprise staff called him "Josh." He didn't Hke it, and in casting about for a sobriquet more to his taste he recalled his in 1860 to Virginia City. It was a fa-| steamboating days, when soundings | mous journal in the period of Vir-| were called by the mark on the lead | ginta City’s glory, but gradually de- || clined, and not long ago was merged | ine. Thus he came to adopt the pen of “Mark ‘Twain. iiant wetter employed by the En- rise, and @n associate of Clem- William Wright, name | te ons, was morlat, Another | Detter “Next I changed the basis of pay- ment for our gales force, The new plan cut down kicks and expenses of returns for poor fittings tremendous. ly, It made it an object for the sales- men to see that a man was correctly fitted before leaving, A certain per- centage of the savings effected went to them, Previous to this they had been so anxious to Increase their commissions that they had hurried the customers. A simple idea, but ‘acticable, “We bought from vartous make! and I kept records which showed tie rate of turnover for each line. This served as a gulde to the next sea- son's buying. It wasn't long before I had that store running like clock- work, Buying became practically ‘omatic, “"You've Ifted a vast welght of detail from my hands,’ the oa re- murked one day, ‘I¢ wasn’t that it required so much time, but tt sapped my energy and affected my nerve. I knew things were at sixes and sevens but didn't know how to right them. Now I'm going to open a store and put you in as manager, “The rest hag Been easy," continued the speaker. “We now operate nine atores, and shall continue to expand 48 opportunity offers. I attribute my Personal success to the fact that the type of mind I happen to possess served as a splendid complement to that of my employer.” | the broken basement winders. Coprright, 1916, Presa Pubitshing Oo, Utne Now ort ring Wor.) ELL, how ts the world treat- ing you, Mr. Slavinsky?" asked Mr. Jarr cheerily, as he encountered his neighbor, the glazier, at Gus's' place. “Business is so bum that It ain't no wonder people do what they do for to build up a trade,’ replied the glazier. “Me, only it 1s fashionable now to put in looking glasses In closet doors, T would ‘ve to death. What we need is lots of snow and a big strong wind,” ‘Not for me!" said Mr, Jarr. don't care for snow and wind.” “You would if you was In the glass business,” replied Mr, Stavinsky. “Comes a snow and the boys throw snowballs, then my telephone rings to ask me to come around and fix Comes a strong wind and the glass fronts blow out, so it all hel; “T guess you the only one that sees it that way,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “Sure,” was the reply; “but every- “T body sees it @ different way. Here is Berry, the feller what is an under- taker next door to me, My! T make |The Jarr. Family " =i my throat sore coughing for that feller, just so he'll be sociable.” “Tell me about your cough. You got rid of it, all right,” said Mr. Jarr, “T didn’t have any cou; replied the glazier. “Only about a week ago I am taking out an order for a glass what {» broken in a@ china closet up the street, and I see Berry, the un- dertaker, atanding tn his door, and he looks as though nobody ain't going to die—all down in his heart like; and #o me, you know, I'm al- ways the feller to do a good turn to anybody when it don’t cost any- thing, so I coughed for Berry and that makes him stop me and shake “Well,” Mr, Slavinsky continued, “we had some of the free lunch, too, and I said I wondered why they had salt pickles and salt herring—every- thing salty, And Berry says every thing {8 sour and salty mit free lunch, 80 a8 to make customers thirsty. There was tricks {n every trade but undertaking, Berry said, and then I ‘oughed for again, And then he treated agal “He had an eye to business, too,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “That's what I thial®” replied Sla- vinsky, “And every day I would cough for him and every day he would treat. But what good ts it te hands. do it now?’ "Generally he only says, ‘It's nice) “Why not?” asked Mr, Jarr. weather, ain't it? or, ‘It's bad| “I can cough now till my head aches weather, ain't 1t?” But when Icough|and Berry turns his bac! said that way he asks me into Gus's to| Slavinsky, with a sigh. “It's all bee have something, like you do. Berry ‘My! What a bad cough you And I say, ‘Yes, it don’t seem to get no better, and I'm going to see the doctor about it.’ Berry says to me, “Take my advice and don't see no doctor, They only soak you and they don't do you any good. I never speak to a doctor.’ cause my wife tells his wife about her father’s and mother’s golden wede ding we was to.” Mr. Jarr’s gaze bespoke his interes est, and Mr, Slavinaky went o1 wedding, and how an undertaker sends flowers and fifty camp chairs for the people to alt on and don’t charge nothing, because people who have golden weddings can't live long, ‘People like that,’ my wife says, ‘you could die for, #0 I wok his telephone number in case anything happened, ITHIN ao year or so there will be added to the United States |navy @ new hospital Jehip, the first of its | ind to be built in the world. The American hospital ship will dif- fer from all others, in |that it was planned and designed for a floating hospital from the very beginning, whereas all those now in the various navies of the world were originally intended \for transporta or despatch boats, or, |in some cases, for ocean Mners, The United States, with a navy ‘anking fourth among the sea fight- ers of the world, says Popular Me- chantes, has but two hospital ships— one @ fairly well-equipped vessel, now |serving with the Atlantle flcet, the other too aged and frail to bo re- moved from its present anchorage in Philippine waters. Congress, how- has agreed to appropriate $: 0 for the construetio: _ hospital ehip, Equipment Will Be Most Complete Ever Installed and-Leave No Need Unprovided For, at an American Navy Yard, accord- ing to plans. and specifications lald down by the highest authorities on shipbuilding and hospital: construc- tion, Tho building of the ship has com- menced and it is anticipated that the new craft will be launched “late In 1917 or early in the following year. The vessel will ‘be 460 ft, in length and 60 ft, wide, giving her an ordinary capacity of Di or,\ in an emergency, 500 may be accemmo- dated. A set of stabilizers, designed to minimise as far as possible the roll- ing of the ship, be inotuded in ber conggruction, and it is prodtoted Mr, Slavinsky has @ had cold.’ “But didn't sho know Berry was treating you for your cold?” asked Mr, Jarr, “sure!” was the reply. “That's She don’t like me to go in at anybody's expense, ever.” » that’s too bad,” sald Mr Jarr, “I was just going to ask you to go in at mine." “Oh, that's ail right, Mister Charr," nawered Mr, Slavinsky — briskly. my vife don't know won't hurt > AINE farmers are feeding whales to chickens—that is, sround whale meat, which ree bles bee r that thie eect ne Ahee aril ue aucn |Mimeiee beef in texture and appears ance, W that major operations can be per- formed, even in a comparatively high sea, E have 100 different varieties As compared with this new hos of mosquitoes 4 pital ship, with its clectrical devices Aisin eke Gi ee and its sclentific therapeutle equiy » and all have healthy ment, the hospital ships whiah have | “PPetites according to last reports, been ‘refitted for, tho purno ° coe still but makeshifts, appear simost ME fire to medieval in construction, ‘The United | I one in tile county States navy's tloating hospital will not only be tho last word In vessels in its class, but it will be a worthy showed @ large falling off last Progenitor of specially designed hos- | A ae sO aad year, totalling $182,836,200, ow oraft, which other nations of 5,100 less than in 1914, This te ie lowest figure for a decade, The 0 wegld will undoubtedly construct. uverage yearly loss from fire 4 $426,000,000, ah) —