The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 16

sanarieers Published Daily Except Sunday 63 Park AT J. ANGUS SHAW, Trei JOSHPL PULITZER, Jr. ESTABLISHHD BY JOSEPH “PUL ITZER, Publishing Company, Noa, 63 to York. Jenty 62 Park Row, f Park Row, 63 Park Row. ubecription Rates to The ‘World for the United States Canada. $2.60/ One Year. 201 One Month Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Becond-<Clasm Matter. Ovening| For England and the Continent and All Countries tn the Tnternational Postal Union. T | THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATIONS AT WAR. — HE note which the President of the United States has addressed to the Governments of the belligerent nations will go down in history as the first carefully considered effort of neutrality NO. 20,211 to seek a way out of the present unparalleled conflict and confusion. So sincere, so free from any hint of officiousness is the Presi- dent’s appeal, that no uation can reasonably refuse to heed it. It docs uot “propose peace’ or “even offer mediation.” It only “suggests | that an early occasion be sought to call out from all the nations now| at war such an avowal of their respective views as to terms upon which the war might be concluded and the arrangements which would be deemed satisfactory as a guaranty against its renewal or the kin- dling of any similar conflict in the future, as would make it possible frankly to compare them. “It may be," declares the President, “that peace is nearer than we know; that the terms which the belligerents on the one side and on the other would deem it necessary to inalet upon are not 60 irreconcilable as some have feared.” Immediately after the re-election of President Wilson, The Evening World pointed out therein a possibility of euch deep import to the civilized world that the people of the United States should have it constantly in view: At any minute, it was urged, may come a eubtle change in the attitude of European Ministers, a change born of pressure from ex- hausted peoples, a change due to reaction from the grim and desperate notion that the etruggle must annihilate eomebody and nearly annihi- late everybody, to a belief that rational human beings can work out an adjusjment that leaves a larger proportion of them alive. Perhaps the President too is wrong in thinking such a moment “and such a change may not be far off. But it can only be to the honor of the American people that he has taken in their name, with perfect dignity and tact, a step which, from the point of view of civilization, | has even a chance of such fa -reaching tesults. —\—- +--+ —____. BACK TO THE SOIL. A EVENING WORLD reader advises all boys who can get a small tract of land, even if only five or ten feet square, to plant eomething on it in the spring. “By eo doing they can tearn a great deal about farming, also whether they would like farm- ing for a living.” A back-to-the-soil movement is already gathering force in many quarters as @ natural means of keeping down the cost of food. Even city-dwellers in the East are beginning to ask whether the problem of lin the Way of Peace! ‘Brening World Daily Magazine a | | By J. H. Cassel, The Christmas Coward By Sophie Irene Loeb Covrrizht. 1916. br The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brenina World.) j ESTERDAY I was talking with @ man, He ts the father of a large family and well-to-do. He was telling , me about bis “wilful” @irl. She had gone away and married the man she loved, ‘This was two or three years ago, Bhe was glad to get away from thie father, and now this man | ace her, Time hed taken away his resentment and somehow, somewhere, the Christmas spirit had entered his make-up. But he was too cowardly to admit tt. He bad shut it out for so long. For years this father was @o busy piling up money that be had paid little or no attention to his family. Besides he had been very stingy with them, He gave grudgingly. Ve did not join in their hopes and ambitions. He left it all to the mother, the over-burdened mother. He was always meeting notes and business deals, but never his family —not even half way. That was why the girl was so glad to leave—wiiling to work her finger ends off with the man of her choice rather than remain as a4 parasite in the home of her father, who made each and all feel bis superiority and importance as the head of the house. | He never joined in their ohtidtetr | holidays or created any Christmas cheer for them. It was “all non- ‘was beginning to pall. A little baby had come to the daughter fie toved— with @ love that is too cowardly te admit its existence, He realized he wae a grandfather, and that Father Time had moved em, He finally had to talk to somebody about it and he told me. I advised him to tolegraph oe daughter and tell her and the and the bueband to come right Le | at his expense; to get the ni Christmas tree he could find and get busy on it. To promote some Christmas joy in the hearts of those who were near and dear to him, although he had al. oo been aa far away from Ct tranger. It le never too late to create thie chime of cheer, and to di the dirge of discord. I told this man to give while he was alive; to help hie children get the better education that they needed, To give their heire some of that heirloom now when needed it moet in thelr effort towa building strong. He smiled at mo significantly an said: “They won't think me an ol wil they?” and went on bie way rejoicing. I could not help reflecting that there are many people like this mat who want the Christmas cheer ani the love that it curries with It, bu are too cowardly to recognize ft. They harden themselves against 4 on the theory that they hate to mal any “show of sentiment.” Usually they wake up to find they have missed something—somethin, big, something upon which life I ts built. In fact, the great souls of the day are full of sentiment without boing Sentimental. The backbone of the individual grows stronger if he bends {t occ [one in showing sympathy ant Jove. Do the sweet gracious thing to-da: Tt 4s good all the year round; but this season of sentiment don't be Christmas coward. The mummy Ls still dead. “The Jar By Roy L. r Family McCardell Conrriatt, 1916. by The Prem Pubiidhing Oo. (The New York Brening World.) rT] AMMA Is going M ‘Christmas shopping and she wants you children to be | good to-day,” said Mrs, Jarr. | “Will you get me lots of pretty | things and a new dress?” asked little Emma Jarr. “Mary Rangle’s got a new dress and goes to church In It.” “And get me a gun, maw—a real gun that can shoot and kill people!” sald Master Willie Jarr. you mustn’t say such admonished Mrs, Jarr, “To such a wish {8 dreadful! Mamma's little man really doesn't downtown ; “Willie said that he wanted to see jit he couldn't stand it more than Johnny Rangle,” said the little ett, “And I bet he couldn't.” “I might know you wouldn't come home and tell mamma, you bad Httle girl!" cried Mre. Jarr, “Now, how can I go downtown and just worry ,Myeelf every minute I'm away won. dering what dreadful things you'll do next?” “And then Sidney Slavinsky bet that our Willie could pult.J ‘Rangle’s hair harder than & ~ Rangle could pull our Willie’s hair,” ,upplying urban populations with farm produce at fair prices would ;not be half solved if more persons could be induced to cultivate the mean tt, does he?" eald the Nttle girl, “And they took Mamma's little man rubbed the! i hold of each other's hair and pulled land that lies around and between the cities. A Connecticut correspondent of The Evening World, noting that zthe prices of foodstuffs in New Haven were reported two weeks ago “the highest in any city of the United States,” offers an explanation which applies to many other centres: “One reason is apparent. New Heven ts like an army eta- tioned at a long distance from its base and depending on it for provirions instead of living on the country. Practically every- thing eaten in the city is grown in other sections of the coun- try, and by the time it reaches } w Haven has passed through the hands of so many mifidlemen and accumulated so many car- Tying charges that it is bal! wonder the price ts excessive, “Nor is New Haven different in this respect from other towns and cities along the Sound between it and New York, With thousands of atres of land at their very back doors lying idle, they dep tables and fruit e these towns are ple care, while only a Upon Florida and California for vege i the summer time, Back of any of of orchards gone to ruin for want of walk away apples from the Pacific Coast are selling on the fruit stands for fifty cents and more @ dozen. “A generation ago !t was not so. From each little harbor and inlet along the shore market boats made regular trips to New York, loaded to the rail with produce, and brought back By James C. Young. Western Union Telegraph Com- pany will be presented with an educational op- portunity more comprehen stve than any previ- ous undertaking in the new in- dustrial movo- ment to reach the individual | and lift him up. | This will follow fast upon the distribution of “REVROME CARLV ond Commercial Arithmetic, ‘Theory of Accounta, Commercial Law, Western Union to Teach Employees Efficiency by Mail | President of Big inside, and the third has to do with the conduct of the company’s busi- N Jan, 1 40,000 employees of the] ness trom the commercial angle. ‘The first two are largely technical, Take a glance at the subjects under the third heading: Written English, merial Correspondence, Commorial Geagraphy, Bookkeoping Saleamanshi, Western Uniog Rule and Tariff Blewments of Telegraphy, It comes as something of a surprise to learn that salesmanship is an im- portant element in the telegraph busi- ness. All of us are accustomed to use the magic wire with more or less frequency, and would be surprised should any one propose to “sell” us And service to the pub- Wire Company. men to do. lic—real satisfactory service—will be given first attention under the new Every employee of the company has been invited to become a student in any one of the three divisions They will be taught by correspond- ence, pursuing the studies in papers to the instructors of a well- known college devoted to the dissem- ination of learning by mail. “Character is the supreme requtre- ment for success,” sald Newcomb Carlton, President of the company, “Training alone will not suffice, We are trying to develop men as well their | leisure time, and mailing examination Character the Supreme Requirement for Men Who Would Get Ahead, Says Newcomb Carlton, struggling to get ahead, there is the man we want to help. More than that, we are trying to arouse the average man to a desire for success. Perhaps he has never had a chance, has not been strong enough to create one for himself, but only needs en- couragement to make the effort, “Pride of service! Instill that into an employee and you are not only making him efficient—you are making a man of him, In work there is a glory that comes from nothing else. Make the employee feel it, make him know that he is an individual, a vital Ink in the chain, “There is nothing wrong with the employee. Be very sure of that,” ground in front of him with his toe and deliberated over the matter. “Well, I want to shoot an Indian or a robber or Johnny Rangle,” he finally sald, "Because Johnny Rangle ts al- ways hitting me tn the nose.” “You hitted Johnny Rangle in the nose first,” eald t ttle girl, “you know you did, to “He laughed at me when Sidney Slavinsky was lifting me up by the ears because I hollered,” muttered the bo: What? Who lifted you by the ears?” asked Mrs, Jarr, aghast, and examined young hopeful’s auricular appendages: } Pattletale! Tattletale! I’m going to tell on you,” eried the boy, “Dear me!" cried Mrs, Jarr, petu- lantly, “One can't let children out of one's sight for one minute! right has Sidney Slavinsky, that big, | overgrown, g00d-for-nothing, to lift you up by the ears?” “He was betting that our Willie had more piuck than Johnny Rangle,” What’ and pulled, and then they kicked each other's shins and then Johnny Rangle hit our Willle in the nose, and our | Willie Wt Johnny Rangle in the nose, |and our Willie got Johnny Rangle down and rubbed his face in the mud!” cried the little girl gllbly, as |ahe perceived from her mother’s hors rifled face that all this was causing her extreme anguish, “Ah, I icin lick Johnny Rangle with one hand tied behind my back,” said Master Jarr proudly. Mra. Jarr seized Master Jarr, prome |ised him he'd be punished when his father came home; then, although ale most out of breath, seized the little ; girl and gave her @ shake and a elme ‘lar promise. “And that’s what you get for telling tales on your brother! panted Mrs. Jarr. The Uttle girl made Willle’s solo duct, and then Mra. Jarr took off h hat and gloves and declared that she was a nervous wreck and wasn't abla to go downtown as she intended, |Gevtrude, the matd, entered at this $1,500,000 as the employees’ share in the company's prosperity during the year 1916. It will come as @ blending of reward for work well done and the unveiling of |new goals toward which the ambi- ous may strive. For many months the company’s The cost of each course has been placed at a figure within the reach) of all, and the company will loan the sum required, without interest, to em- ployees who are not financially able to undertake the work. But the man or woman who goes about this self-elected task with the idea that it will provide 4 short cut to success ts destined to be disap- pointed. There is no royal road to knowledge, and the path of promo- tion still will be difficult, The in- struction to be provided Western | Union employees is intended as a means of belping those who would climb, but they must do the climbing | | themselves.” Alms Hunting | | a telegram, But that ts exactly what|as clever brains and siiiled hands sald the Iittle,girl. “Ihe one that) moment and made Mrs, Jarr a cup of the company 1s going to train many! Wherever we find @ man who is EL didn't holler for the longest had the! fresh tea—woman’s first refuge under most pluck!" {all trials, exhaustions and emotional “And you let him do it. And I 40! stresses, declare if your ears aren't pulled out) Mr, Jarr returned in due time and of shape!” cried Mrs, Jarr. “Come | was informed of the enormity of Wil« here and let me look at them!” | lle’s offense tn fighting in the street “You can Hft rabbits up by the) with Johnny Rangle. |eara and they don't holler,” said Mas-/ “Who whipped?” asked Mr. Jarr, ter Wiille Jarr, sulkily, On being informed by the little girt “I'm going to tell Mr, Slavinsky on | that Johnny Rangle had been bested, that brute of @ son of his! The idea | Mr, Jarr grinned and said he didn’t of putting children up to such) seo what there was to fuss about, and things!" cried Mrs. Jarr, indignantly. | Mrs. Jarr asked how did he ever ex~ “And to think you are ao allly as to| pect her to maintain discipline that let him torture you that way way. You and Your Job | ___By Willis Brooks Article No. 6 backward. A machine does not think; é iVO. varied loads of freight. Now there are no market boats, no produce even for home consumption. Instead the local supply comes in every morning by Adams Express, The onion fields have been turned {gto golf courses, some of the mowings have been made into gentlemen's lawns, the rest, along with the potato fields, are grown over with daisies and bushes, while | ane Ganka. are dewarieg ARS FOMnAe: . | experts have been preparing, with tho What about New York State? A great agricultural commMON- | aid of educators in certain instances, wealth, certainly—but is it getting anywhere near the values it could course of studies designed to teach 5 : ; i the Western Union. get from wider and more intensive cultivation of its land areas? Hibhoenyerteniay bebe Mee The State School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island,! represented by an inside plant course, which trains boys from this part of the State to be capable farmers, | an outside plant course and a com- reports that it has all the students it can handle and asks for $70,000 moreial ee ae me wal ers os A r ‘ 4 prise everything that 8 newiful to 7 oF more to meet its expenses and enlarge its plant. Should the State | ,now about the operation of the great _ overlook this investment? . SS | wire system that extends across the operation o: o “Ah, my friends,” said Voltaire one day at Ferney, looking | hecoperation of tbat system from ¢ Reflections of a Bachelor Girl | ___By Helen Rowland. Covvright, 1916. br The Pres Publishing Go. (The New York Brening World.) His New Year's Reverie. HE bachelor sits by his lonely hearth, And dreams, with the dying year, Of all the girls of his heart's desire, And sweet ghosts beckon from out the fire. Of the girls that he once held dear, T Yot, it is not the ones that he loved and lost, Whose spirits hau .tingly call, But the ones that he loved—and somehow missed, The ones that he loved—and almost kissed, Or never kissed at all! | country; the second Is to deal with up with moist eyes from the history he was writing, “how miser- able men have been! How much they were to be pitied in past times! A man’s first kiss is an experiment, his second a @ successful store does. fools and cowards!” And their lot was pitiable only because they were Letters ‘From the People HI18 is the last day of autumn, and King Winter will begin his reign this evening. It is also the compliment, his third—a promise or a farewell, When a girl asks your opinion of the man she loves {t {s usually just in order to hear you “abus former times there were many I quaint customs connected with St, Thomas's Day, the twenty-first joe December, but most of those have him, 60 that she can marry him out of “aym-| now died out. In “Merrie Engiand” YOUNG man of my acquaint- ance, a football player, asks me what previous experience in business is necessary to obtain a job It thinks hard and needs the earnest thought of every member of its force, In your football days you used te strive with all your mind to think out new plays to help your team win, not give the same devotion A In Correct. A Is Correct. shortest day of the year and marks | pathy,” the children and young people of the| 4s #alcaman in one of the large de-| Why not give the same devotion to wer ag? 6 ae Hein World To the Editor of The Bvening World the beginning of the Capricorn period, humbler classes were licensed by | partment stores, weet It means pouch more * you: 43 1 i@ decide thi uestion: g 0 teh es ” a hie! " y a \s Oo see hor qu that the five boroughs voloolty oF 10 miles an hous to wigten | (ae syebo! of whlch 1a tho goat Christmas presents are like husbands—you are bound (o be disappointed | custom to xo begging at the homes| | In many of them—especially those) on ttt fo O04 Sul *Geay on the "New York City. B says tha on the front of a locomotive travelling| ,, 22° Brat State to secede from the) i 104 don't get any and sure to be disappointed if you do. of the well-to-do and the rich, Thig|that conduct their own schools of! tein” you put all there was in you m@bove is true technically, but by com- | at a rate of 90 miles an hour, When} Union just prior to the Civil War was custom was called “going a gooding” | salesmanship—no previous store ¢x- into studying and pracUsing the new mon usage only Manhattan is cal the cannon is fired, what is the ve-| South Carclina, which passed an act |or "going a corning,” and was usual-| derience is required, Indeed, some plays. Well, the game of selling New York City, M.N locity of the ball on leaving the can-| o¢ secession fifty -st : rag Oh, yes, there 1s a vast difference between a good man and a good bus-|ly accompanied by a general merry- ef = ersons whom| &' 8 as full of new plays as there No —Manhatian usually ty called) non'y mouth? A ays 490 mee ee enna ie eae cua, | band! For instance, golng to church every Sunday and never breaking the| king and tho singing of songa|of them prefer young p are different kinds of customers te New York City by its residents, and | hour; B bays 186 miles ay howe Secession was talked of, in the North 1 ; suited to the occasion, In some re- | they can educate from the ground up. the four ofher boroughs are referred to by name as we might speak of another city. But the distinction Is purely local, New York City including «il five boroughs. ry Saturday. pe the Dititer of The Evening World , Whi > t day of the week did March le, 1 fall on? Qi.F, Be Be Bitter of The Evening World To decide a bet, please state the papers printed on Sunday only Francisco and Los Angeles, Ca the price per « To the Editor of T shopping early,” American tory, Te the Editor of The krening World: Let me know the names of the newa- py irl's Xmas W oa World To help along the slo, why not suggest that A Shop Newspaper Direo- ‘Do your as well as the South, as early as 1796. The threat of secession was raised in New England during the second war with Great Britain, In 1828 South Carolina threatened to secede because of a tariff law obnoxious to cotton planters, and In 1882, following the passing of the nullification ordinance, many South Carolina statesmen were so certain that the dissclution of the Union was at hand that they caused @ medal to be struck with the inscrtp- Commandments may constitute ‘good man.” with his wi!lingness to hook your frooks and his ability to remember to kiss | But what has that got to do you goodby every morning and to keep on telling you that he loves you, just as though he meant it? mote parts of England poor families are otill permitted to make the rounds in quest of alms on St. Thomas‘a Day, but it hae now become a deadly serious business, and not the gay at- fair of former times when youngsters | went about singing: Real love may make @ man come home regularly (o dinner every evem-' “Wassail, waseall, through the town, Ing, but real fear has been known to be much more effective, When a woman dislikes earning her own living and a men dislikes hoe, if you've got no apples mone; | tf you've got any apples throw them | gern | Up with the stocking, down with the will do; But sugh stores do not take on every Tom, Dick and Mary who comes along. They have to be pretty gure thet the appiteant means busl- ness, has a mind capable of receiving | instruction and ambition to learn and ther persistence to atick to it, Don't get it into your head thet you are to be @ cog in @ machine, No tke a ine, It ie not content to. do the convince, You didn't use to hesitate to sug« it to Oeptain or coach an; hesitate to go to your wal jes in the same way? Hoe may not ad: you iseestions, but he will at give you credit for interest in success of the store, Tt {s not go Magog peat as probability of ure successful store is fixing his own bath and putting the stuils !n his shirts they exchange duties maoh! Jewish population of > —ang call it “marrying for leva” tion, “John C. Calhoun, Firet President | pf the Southera Confederacy,” ail help be paid a few days before The jug ia white and the ale ts brown ‘SHOP GLa “his ta the beet house