The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 18

The EGNg siorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Purtished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York, LITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, ‘JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. tered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Matter, Rat T Eve For England and the Continem® an@ All Countries in the International =» $3.60/One Year... Postal Union + .80)One Month... erreterrererir gL VOLUME 57......000005 ..NO. 20,226 MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE. SUPREME COURT decision announced late yesterday threat- ens to withhold from Brooklyn residents of the Thirtieth j and Thirty-firet Wards the eighty-cent gas secured to them by mandatory act of the Legislature last April as « result of The Eve- ning World’s campaign. The appointment of « referee to go over claims, assets or oper- ating costs of the Kings County Lighting Company can only moan long and needless delay. : The people of South Brooklyn waited ten years for eighty-cent gs. Last year, with the approval and support of the newly appointed Public Service Commissioners of this district, who recognized the man- datory as the quickest method, Senate ahd Assembly passed « bill pro- viding eighty-cent gas in all districte of Brooklyn served by the Kings County Lighting Company end the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company. | Yet the Kings Oounty Lighting Company even now finds it pessible to put the courts between itself and the carrying out of ~' plain duty which the Legislature hae ordered it to perform toward tha! pablic that supports it. Hore is cogent argument for a Public Service Commission with power enough to issue orders which public service corporations wil! Tegard as the end rather than as the beginning of litigation. ’ Brooklyn consumere should not lose one cent of the saving whie> | the law secures to them. Every extra penny they are forced to pay because of injunction or delay should be impounded and returned to them. D economy, as revealed in the late campaign, persuaded Gov. Whitman to include in his programme for the present year, he nevertheless asks, to meet the running expenses of the State, a sum bigger than any hitherto appropriated to pay a year’s bills. For the taxpayers’ comfort, the $65,000,000 figured out by the Governor looks better than the $80,000,000 which the various State departments had decided they must have. But wait till the Legisla- ture warms up to the pleasant task of burrowing in the bag that holds the public money. There is no reason to believe that Albany is less full than usual of legislators who believe the best of prosperity to be spending other people’s cash. It will need courage to hoist the modest banner of economy and keep it flying amid the general move- ment toward extravagance, The Governor’s budget estimates do not indicate that State offi- cials mean to stint themselves to any marked degree. One hundred thousand dollars per month for the travelling expenses of State em- ployees does not sound as if anybody were planning to save Pullman fares or keep down hotel bills. Five hundred thousand dollars for telo- phone, telegraph and express charges ought to stretch over for consid- erable private comfort and convenience. One million six hundred thousand dollars will provide about as handsomely as usual for the printers. ¥ ‘The Governor has done some paring, though the consequent suf fering seems nowhere likely to be intense: Mr. Whitman had and still has a great opportunity. If he is strong enough even to start & genuine movement for retrenchment among the departments which handle the State’s business, this Commonwealth will gladly seo that he gets the credit. Ae « man interested in stepping stones he should net ovealeok this one. + + = THE PERIL SPOT. SHALL never get anywhere in making the streets safe, , declares Magistrate House, “until the right to regulate motor licenses is greater.” A chauffeur must be convicted three times before his Moense can be revoked, and then he may have it restored in «ix months. An owner may be convicted three hundred times under the Btate Highway law without losing bis license, He may be intoxicated and run over and kill a dozen persons to- day and be out again in hie car to-morrow. Yet the intoxicated driver is a far greater danger ®han the elmple speeder. | The Magistrate has put his finger on the peril epot in the! Btate’s present system of automobile regulation. Secretary of State Hugo reports that last year 446,205 persons Feoeived their motoring credentials from the Secretary of State’s office, and before the close of the license year ending Jan. 31 the namber is likely to reach 450,000. From the point of view of the vl of the community consider FIGURING STATE EXPENSES. ESPITE plans for retrenchment which public demand for what this means. Even though a cert: ercentage of all these mo- torists show themselves unfit to be tru@fed behind a steering wheel, ee eee venind World 6 AILSA D ODEN OIA. FB MOR URI N LUM A le A REE POA aah Daily M QGaZ © ANON dee ine _.« <a_amz,' > Cartoons for Women Conretet, 1917, q (nk Nie iurk ena Ey By J. H. Cassel Xe Amer “Hubby pa oe werks hard. What a Sales Manager Should Know. “ ERELY because @ man ie a necessarily follow that he will develop into a good sales man. ager,” said a manufacturer recently. “In fact, there are some grounds for believing that it is unlikely that the crack salesman hag the oharacteris- tics necessary for the dask job. Most people have the defects of their quali- tes, Theoretically, an able salesman is @ motor type, and hence, is not eaulpped to conduct the scientific, analytical market investigations which are required for the successful prosecution of 4 salea campaign, Mental types, who as @ rule are poor Kingdom of Arabia Born of War's __ Turmoil. | HE Kingdom of Arabia—there is romance and mystery in the very name of the new nation T which 1s now appealing for recogni- | tion to the United States and other countries, Born of a revolt against the Turks, led by El Hussein bin AU, the Grand Bheref of Mecca, alded by his three warlike sons, the new monarchy seems to have established ite sway not only tn Mecca, the holy city of there is still no guarantee that they can be kept from continuing to the Moslem world, Bus ik ah ne : . OW: along Se . endanger life on the streets and highways. One of tie resujts of this revolu- ri i eee ., ,{tion has been to remove any fear of Will the new Legislature give New York an adequate motorists’|a holy war on the part of the Moham- license law? }medans in the British and French dependencies, ax the Grand Sheref, by espousing the Allied cause, has Letters From the People | brought about a division in the Mos- lem ranks that renders any concerted revolt impossible, It is reported In This Correct? sends that ball is forty-five miles par | trom Egypt that the first work of fo the FAitor of ening World hour. Theref he y | r ’ ore the initial velocity, of the Grand Sheref, as monarch of Regarding the cannon problem} which is ninety miles per hour, plis the Arablan kingdom, was to. glve Rate? sPpeared in your pap 4 bay the Wrpuleg, which is forty-five miles | Mecca a thorougit cleaning, not only ace b> Woe My, eseurning, Haat] Por Tia #8 oa 1 to final ve riof the dirt that had accumulated 5 ape oan bn is fired in the sume direc ules per hour, U \through centurtes of Turkish misrule, em es that in which the train is Hotlan |but also of the human riff-raff who Bering, then the apoed of tho ball | my ube patio of Tx formerly preyed on pious pilgrims to per hour, "But the speed of |.. We would like to get some informa. |e, Mohammedan Holy City Fthe ball with respect to the ground | Hon on BP raaiece wale h is very much |, The State Depa v4 ay Washings aE inilca her hour ed b ‘ © are in a constant ~ We ry A Yow. |areument because both sides think rnment, dated vor ll sada Rega tam News they are right, and they have a right from Mocca and signed by Shereft Ab- @Bvery body continues at'a uniform |’? 'Mnk so because they all have dullab as Secrotury of Porelgn At te of motion in a right line unless | Bioof Now what wo want to know js faire. Ite {@ supposed to be the eldest wgte of cpotion in a right line unless | wnat is the capital of Holland, ‘The #0n of the new King of Arabla, One pelied to change its rate by some] teachers hore (New Maven) are teach: of these communications was a pro- J Now, from the problem we have, | Ni that The Hague ts, and some of us teat Aiba erin (ete Ms + | who tell our children that it ts Amater- the alos and brutality of | the ball is going at the rate of ninety » told that w od the Turk r t 1 Miles an hour before {t is'fired. So at we Reed to Muay, | 5 PR Abed fae { eT ere ot ren BO} e take it from the World Al- | ment of prison It is believed that after fis fired te only force that /manac and some encyclopedias that it the Arablan Kingdom has the sup tends te a a ee ihe re e 0 motion | ts Amster L port of the British, French, Italian of ape ey the force that sends! WN. B.—Amsterdam is the official cap- |and Russian Governments, and that the ball in the same direction as it!ital, but the court capital is Tho they will demand Was going oud the rate at whieh Lt Hague, its perpetuation etter the was, Left neeh salesmen, are demanded for thie sort of work. In actual practice, however, one often finds the most contradic- tory traits combined in the same man. “Too many sales managers think that if they have the men's sales by, months and the total sales of the con- cern, they are equipped to imtellit. gently administer the duties of th: job. The analysis of the bookkeeper's them put thelr fingers on weak epote the Instant they develop, te distasteful to men of thia type. “AS @ matter of fact, the sales man- ager should keep records which show, not only the men's total sales, but their sales by lin by grades (high or low), new customers added, new Prospects called upon, proportion of sales to new and to old customers, in- crease or decrease of sales to each old customer, average “value of each salesman's shipments compared to house average and to other sales- men's averages, number of returns, distribution of consumer advertising material to each salesman’s cus- tomers, and #0 on, “Thus, in writing to his etaff, he he tell them exactly what they're we ‘ift y Boysa nd Girls Famots in History _By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Drow Publishing Co, (The New York Eveuing World) No. 34—HENRI DE TURENNE, the Boy Soldter. E was brought up in the French garrison city of Sedan, of which | } his father, the Duke of’ Boulllon, was military commandant, | From babyhood lite Henri yearned to become a soldier, But , he was so fragile and delicate that his parcnts half despaired of rearing him to manhood, . They declared that a soldier's rough life would crush him; and they | set him to studying Latin instead of the manual of arms. Henri was bored by the need of learning a stupid dead “aguage when he might be gaining a military education. The only pleasure he des rived from bis unwilling knowledge of Latin was that it enabled him to read Quintus Curtius’s “Life of Alexander the Great.” This book he read and reread. His brain was fired by the exeamp’ of {ts hero; and he gravely announced, at the age of nine, that he himself | was a direct descendant of Alexander the Great. He pointed out that Alexander had been a sickly boy like himself and yet had become the world's greatest general, He saw no reason why he Toes sunre te pesouent Ws parents to lot him bea goldier, ‘The night on which he made this plea was bitter cold and stormy, His mother answered: eee |) A Test of “If you were a aoldier you would have to sleep } Courage. out of doors on nights like this. Even as an officer you > } would be obliged to make rounds of the camp im the now and elect, You would not be strong enough for such hardships.” Henri mde no reply, but presently quitted the room. At bedtime he was nowhere to be found. He had wrapped himself in @ cloak and had gone straight to the ramparts of the city. There, after the manner of an weaeeet) Here : various posts, walking from paint to point in the tcy storm. he lay down alongside @ cannon, rolled himself in his cloak, soldier fashion, and went to sleep. ‘There his panic-etricken parents found the nine-year youngster at dawn, covered with snow and half frozen to death, “T can stand the hardships of camp lifo,” were his first words when they waked him. “And you shall be a soldier,” his father promised, ‘You have there ts no other life for you.” ‘ A year lator a famous general came for a visit to the Duke of Boutlllon's he made a formal round of the After which HRISTMAS tn Russia, Roumania, C Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece falls on the seventh of January, and will be celebrated this Sunday by adherents of the Greek or Eastern Church In all lands, A change which will be sorely regretted by the young ‘# is the abolition of the Christmas tree, This pleasant [custom was introduced into Russia by the Germans, and because of its Teuton origin It 1s now taboo, Tho Orthodox Church, of which the Czar te the official head, has issued & proclamation denouncing the Christ- mas tree as of heathen origin and wholly alien to Russia, The “Star of Bethlehom,” constructed of pieces of wood and decorated with tinsel and colored paper, an old institution in Little Russia, fas now taken the place of the Christmas tree through- out the Czar's dominions. In Russia Christmas is marked by @ complete cessation of business for DISCRIMINATION, “é MOKING cigarettes Is @ very bad habit,” sald the stern parent, “You should aban- don it.” “But you smoke them yourself,” re- plied his son and hetr, “Certainly I do; but you ought to be able to distinguish between those of my practices meant for your emu- lation and those Jntended wholly as horrible examples."—Richmond ‘Lunes-Disparch, of (he enemy in daytime, while the direction, A compass, a clock, ftlald tration of how the car looked, ¢ chateau. On the evening of his arrival he found Henri buried in a big arm= & chair, reading for the fifiieth time Quintus Curtius’e “Life of Alexander the Great.” 4 “That te a fairy story!” scoffed the general. “Historians have shown that Quintus Curtius was an unmitigated Mar. No morta] man could have ‘ performed half the exploits he attributes to Alexander.” “Tt i@ all true, sir,” contradicted the child, respect for the elferly guest * i lost in a flame of defense for his adored hero, “Alexander did all the ji mighty deeds told by Curtius. I believe that I am descended from Alex~ h ander and that I inherit his spirit.” { ‘A guffaw of laughter from the general broke tn on the boy's bombastio ‘At once Henri drew ‘himself up otiffly and bowed in stern ceremonyy to the chuckling guest. ’ “Bir!” he said coldly, “you have insulted my hero. And your laughter * {naults me as well. I demand the satisfaction due me!” \ ® “Will you do me the honor to cross swords with A Queer me?" Duel. The general, with ereat effort keeping his facd Pawn straight, returned the bow and said ceremoniously: i “[ shall give myself the honor to mect you tm mortal combat in the garden at daybreak.” , When the general arrived at the meeting place at sunrise he found Henri already there. The boy had gotten hold of a sword as long as hime eelf and was patiently waiting for his opponent. The two saluted and crossed swords, Then the general, lowering hie weapon, sald: “1 beg to present most humble apologies for my rudeness in laughing et @o gallant a soldier as yourself. And I retract what I sald about Alex« ander, Quintus Curtius told the simple truth about him. And @ lad of your courage may woll be his descendant, For I propheey that one day your fame will rival his.” . The olf general's prophecy was fulfilled to the extent that Henri de ff 4 Turenne, Marshal of France, was acclaimed within a very few years as tha We're partners—l'll do my part.” foremost soldier in all Europe. h « McCardell dotng in comparison with their own| Cvorigtt. 1017, by The Praw Pubiidting Ov, | tion running down their grimy faces, | kept standing, changing his weight past records and the other sales- (The New York Brening Works.) were not loath to do. from one foot to the other and press- past and present showings; he RITZ, the shipping clerk, being) Mr. Jarr made a marathon to the/ing the greasy receiver to his time Foes opel Ch lett ees Load tf, Mr, Jarr had been sent by dock office. “Let me use the tele-| patient ear till sald tmpatient eae \ in a position to maintain a smoothly his employer to take charge of, phone!" he gasped. was chafed, for an hour. ‘ running, well oiled machine; detect|the unloading of an important con- ‘“Gainst orders,” eaid the clerk. “I| Finally Mra. Jarr’s voice cama 283 lenceus he snoment Ley ABPCAE|elenment ot goods. which Dad ar- took a messiton for you because they through apace, ““Waat la ItP” tae derstanding to the proper bearings. rived that day from the West Indies. | said it was important, but we had a/quired the voice, “All this data are on the books in| There, engaged at the end of a long, | lot of trouble about unloading firms) “What is it? Thunderation! Dida® every office. To take them offand pre-| dark, shedded pier, with boss steve- | using the telephone, and it's a you send me a message to call yea * ent herr fa Sabuieres form receires, dores, tally clerks, Custom Houne | rule” up?" shouted Mr, Jarr, Clerk. ‘Three dollare thus expended |™@0, longahoremen, Mr. Jarr checked | “Was it a woman's voloe?” asked! “Well, you needn't be 60 angry monraly wept greatly jnorease the; and counted and signed slips all day. | Mr. Jarr, f Or rr about it” replied Mrs, Jarr. “I only effictoncy of the sales force. The in-| Toward 8 o'clook a grimy hand| “Yes,” sald the clerk. | wanted to know !f you would try te ede ce, afeineds inteltigently | ¢nrust a grimy note into his, The office porter to take tt down, as it's|come home early enough to get mo tween operating tn the dark or in note read; [eavinat orders"”—— ine yards of pink baby ribbon from road daylight, But it ts a fact that] «mr jer is wanti. “Did she seem anxlous—the voice,|the little store around the corner be- many sales managers lack this infor- | , ¢ to call Up Ris| | nant” asked Mr, Jarr, fore it closes, because you know mation, and consequently manage | house to once on the tiliphone. nat; t we thetr staffs about as Robert Owen,! Dire thought eucceeded dire! BUT@!, She suid it was mont Im-) are golng to the theatre to-night and the famous English economist, man- | 1, vs T©' portant,” said the clerk, “Telephone| I'm #0 busy I haven't time to ge out a al were, . a te twenty-one, at a tine when he hadn't | shouted at. the top of bia voice to!, Mr Jar took It on the run and)serle—the woman jn the stare will the remotest {dea of what were the | ston the unloadi: ,found a telephone in the thind saloon, ; kno’ functions of the various machines—|*t0P the unloading till he returned, | wren cents!” said the bartender.” “Great Scott! Did you step the by peeoing {heir mouthe shut and} Which the weary clerks and still more| wmwyny, it" only 5 cents for city calls | Unlonding of a ship and scare me te Ja 5 | m iz wise. wearted Jongshoremen, the perspl \anywhere,” said Mr, Jarr. jdeath thinking the house wae on fire, — ———. “It's 10 cents here,” replied the bar-/you had been murdered or the chile ‘3 - a tender, dren Killed, to ask me to 4 © Oo aD Ore No Yule Trees for Russia’s Xmas This Sunday bes eRe aeesrerrrmitriract gree rn | time got his home on the wire, half the time it takes to go upstairg three days, and, although industries| For the peoples of the Balkans | “Who is it?” anawered a voice, “Oh, | @24 gossip with a grass widow?" erted directly connected with the war will] this will be a very unhappy Christ-|{t 1e you, Mr. Jarr,” and he recog- Mr. Jarr, for he was very angry, shut down only on one day this year,! mas. Ths conquering Bulgarians aro nixed the voice of Gertrude, the faith-| “I'll ne never ask you to de the custome will be adhered to by| little better off than the conquer! ful servitor. anything for me, never!” gala the all private industries, ‘The thres-| peoples of Serbia, Roumania and! “Yes, it's me!” gald Mr, Jarr, S>by votce of Mrs, Jarr, and he could day holiday begins et §€ e'olook| Montenegro, for the military vio- |quickly, if incorrectly, “Where's Mrs, "ear tho recetver hung up on the Christmag eve. On Christmas day| tories of the Bulgare have been. Jarr?’ other end, , even the street cam in Potrograd,| achieved at the price of reducing tho| “She's upstairs with Mra, Kit-| The boss ts threatening to dock ” Moscow and other large cities stop! people to the extreme of poverty and tingly; I'll call hi said Gertrude, him for the time lost from his worl, running, | destitution. that he was, ut Mr. Jarr doesn't mind that as —_—_—_—_—_—_—_————— ————————— | uch 5 the tact that Mra, Jarre won't ° = = speak to him, and all 4 ® x y “shag d allin the glad New ~» ) Zeppelin, Observation Car Has All Home Comforts |] ¥:" ONDONERS recently had an op- gon = perme portunity to inspect one of the CERGONE Vie 1s" famed observation cars carried be *RY @go the Maryland by raiding Zeppelins. It was found village of Bladensburg, near in a field, having been abandoned in the City of Washington had a hurried visit to Britain's shore, The an unsavory reputation as a duellin car was brought to London and field. Most celebrated of th . placed on public exhibition, ae Bladsnanie ; jose slain It was described as having the gen- 3 ‘6 was Stephen Decatur, eral shape of a headless fish with a a | i gallant naval officer, Commos length of fourteen feet and a diameter | J. * * dore Decatur had quarrel of four feet at the smaller end. The Hide ED he Py Commodore Taree oy rrelled with car was made of thin aluminum | | PRM Min latter demandad sain ee sheets and weighed only 100 pounds, | | bomen Ns .,, manded satisfaction, ‘They #0 that it could be easily lowered or fought with pistols at eight paces, raised from the airship. This was ao- and Decatur was fatally wounded, complished by means of a cunningly while Barron also received : contrived cable, made of several smail ester ed @ serious wires wrapped about a larger central leanne wire. ‘The central wire was used for Stephen Decatur was born 198. 9 telephone communication between tha Zeppelin itself hovered out of aight. glasses and similar articles wero| Years ago to-day, Jan. 5, 1779, at Si aerial lookout and the Zeppelin, | Because of Its small sige the car also | within easy reach. Two electric light| nepuxent, Md., the son of ay By Two cables, one at either end, main-| Would be invisible, or nearly 0. bulbs furnished illumination. who bore the same name eng scer tained the observation car in place.| Within the car was a mattreas upon| ‘The car was kept in a vertical posi-| the sane rank in the ieren nd, Bela These cables are believed to have been | which the observer lay. By sliding tion by means of the cables and two|the United States, Decatar subnet 8,000 feet in length and would enable | # curtain that ran around the sides, | flange like fins, ‘The accompanying hie greatest fame by vector eened the observer to watch the movements | made of glass, he could see in any!drawing 1s Popular Mechanics’ tiluss |{ ' roying the fate Philadelphia in Tripol in 184, ‘oe Tae