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fy World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. {Pudtiened Daily Except oe 7 the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 63 Park Row, New York. ALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Row. ‘ JOSEPH PULITZER, Jrg Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Clans Matter, mn Ra to The Evening | For England and t Continent a@. id for the United States All Countries in the International ‘, One Year.. Oni $3.60 One Year. Month 20/One Month..... and Canada, VOLUME 87.......... STEEL PATRIOTS. T NOW appears that the British ordnance firm of Hadfield’s, Lim- ] ited, which offers to supply ‘the United States Navy with 14 and 16 inch projectiles at figures from $144 to $237 less per shell than the prices which American companies proposed to exact, can back up its bid with the ratification of the British Government. Not only can Hadfield’s promise delivery in half the time demanded by . ‘American concerns, but it can get to work on the contracts at once. The British Navy hus an adequate surplus of shells of these sizes and kinds, It is to be hoped no pari of the lesson will be lost on American steel manufacturers, who, unaware of forcign competition among the bids, thought. this an opportune time to squeeze war profits out of their own Government. This is not the first occasion upon which foreign bidding has saved Uncle Sam from being mulcted by steel corporations that prosper under his protection. A statement from Mr. H. A. Gillis, the Washington representative of Hadfield’s, recalls that in January, 9914, several foreign firms, including his own, bid on a shell contract for the United States Navy. “But the American manufacturers, knowing that foreign competition had been invited, cut prices from $586 as low as $315 for 14-4nch projectiles, and the Navy Department claimed to have saved a million dollars through our competition.” By some singular concatenation of circumstance the Bethlehem Stee] Company notified the Navy Department last Friday that it will) eut 10 per cent. off the prices it quoted recently for steel forgings, and castings for the new battle cruisers called for in the Naval Ex-! pansion Bill. j Can American steel manufacturers be startled into patriotism only by the shock of disconcerting bids from abroad? _ po “The world’s history records no parallel case of a power victorious all along the line voluntarily walking along the path of humility, abating the violence of its righteous anger against a treacherous and implacable foe."—-German Press Comment. Nothing in Germany's peace move but the quality of mercy | unstrained! | ——_++. WHICH WAY? ° HE automobile industry claiins it now rivals the railroads and| T the steel business as an index of prosperity. | Therefore persons interested in prosperity—even from! positions once or twice removed—can get a first rate line on it by | going this week to the Automobile Show, which, needless to say, New York welcomes as the bigest apd best to date. One billion eighty-eight million twenty-eight thousand two hun- dred and seventy-three dollars the country spent for motor vehicles last year, $921,$78,000 of which went for passenger cars. ‘The total output of all classes of cars reached 1,617,708, an increase of 80 per Cent. over the 892,618 turned ont in 1915, Nobody has to‘be reminded these days what the automobile has done for pretty much every class in the community, including the! farmer and his family, who have forgotten what isolation and lone-| liness mean. Nobody needs to be told what it has done toward saving time, multiplying facilities for business, widening recreation areas and improving roads. The automobile is accepted with cheers, What a lot of people| would like to know now is how cheap is it Going to get? Some makes are already down to figures that look fairly reasonable. Will it ever| bbe possible to keep a motor car for less than it used to cost to keep a! horse and buggy? Will as many people be convinced that they can afford the ope as were formerly-persuaded they must have the other two? For a long time bicycles were sold at prices around $100 and over. The time came when some of the best could be had for 830. flypewriters have shown a similar tendency. Sewing machines earlier went through a course of progressive cheapening. Will it be the same, relatively, with automobile prices? Will they move further to meet incomes, dr must the latter go all the way | and more? | | | | ‘The eclipse of the moon this morning occurred, it happens, on the anniversary of the death of the fret man who fashioned & telescope and turned {it on the lunar secrets, Galileo's first observations through his “little tube with which magnified thirty times, were of the surface of the moon, which be discovered to be rough and irregular. What he saw subsequently through that or slightly better “tubes"—the satellites of Jupiter, the crescent form of Venus, the rings of Saturn, the spots on the sun—above all, his bold assertion that the planets probably revolve about the sun, scandalized beyond measure the early seventeenth century philosophers, one of whom swore that he “would never grant that Italian bis new stars though he should die for it.” The Inquisition clapped an extinguisher upon Galileo and his theories, Under that extinguisher he lived quietly and resignedly until he died Jan, 8, 1642the man who first gave shape and force to the inextinguishable truth which was to become the centre and pivot of all modern astronomy, epee eeneee . Letters From the People vT jay | mw aday. ‘Pe the Edjior of The Evening Word | To the Bator of The Even!ug World: Let me know what day of the week| Please let me know what days Feb, 8, 1877, fell on, J. A. G. | April 4, 1897, and April 1, 1896, fell Five to Fifty © | om A. H.W. To the Bator of The Erening World | Five to Twenty-five Cente, Let me know the value of a une-cent | To the Falitor of Tue Brening World piece 1857 flying eagle? 0G Kindly inform me what the value a ty of a large penny dated 1798 D. B. Wo the Kditer of The Evening World by Let me know on Wher, fay of the week July 4 came on in 186: LW. M. Ww. To the Editor of The krening World Allow me to state that “Destiny,” | Just published in your paper, one of the best stories I ever read, Cc. 8. Bo the Editor of The Evening World To decide a bet:—If 1 am a Jew born in Germany, came to Amertca, @nd received my American citizen- ehip papers, what nationality an 1? 25 to TS Cente. ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World ; What is the value of # 1797 penny? L halt- a was o Frening World Daily ! | | artoons for Womer me Magazine ai Coprright, 1817, by The Press Publishing Co, | rns, New York Evening World.) 66 (VET out of this, this 1s @ busy It was a very harsa voice that sald this to me as I was wait- ing at the tele- phone for my number, Whea I suggested that she might be on a busy wire she called more bols- a And In order to get away from that high pitched sound I hung up, left my number go until I could again reach “Central.” 1 could not help reflecting, that if 1 had gone to this woman's door by mis- take, rung the bell and asked the number of @ house near her, if this woman would have answered “Get out of this, You are in the wrong plac Of course not. She could not have had the “face” tu doit. Yet when un- | ween she has the “voice” to do it. Like the ostrica she hides her head | in the sand and thinks no one sees her, If the friend she was trying to get, heard her manner to me, I am con- fdent she fell somewhat in the estima- tion of that friend. I should not want to know such @ woman, She tsa selfish creature, She would turn @ deaf car to the need of any one but her own. She would with- hold the helping hand to the strange human, She thinks that she was made for everything and that everything was made for her e 6 ls the kind of person that rec. ognizes her own rights and forgets those of others. She would push in a crowd and grab the last life-preserver away from her grandmother, Why ts ft that people put on their | company manners when they see you and forget to don even the light coat of courtesy In long distance? There is much to be said about tele- |phone talk, Oh, the heartaches and sorrows und unkindnesses that come over the Wire cannot be estimated! NO PRECEDENT. RS. LEWIS had made it a practice every night just bo- verses from ones. fore bedtime to read soine the Bible to her little Among those verses which she rly endeavored to impress young ininds was, *Whoso- ever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also, |. The following morning Jack came into the hous ng bitterly, “Why, What's the matter?" queried the mother, er hit me.” you forgotten about turn. he other cheek? N-n-no, boo-hoo!” “mut 1 couldn't middle."-~Harper's Magazine, anxi. he RAZ WOMEN WHO Faia f] oh ——— oe “Il dont care if my Nusband does go broke. Irn going to dress well.” . Fift F ° . amous in History | By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Vublishiva Co, (The New York Evening World.) "| No. 35, RAMEBAU, the Boy Prodigy. et E was destined to be the foremost inusician of his day. But he was forced to fight for every step of his long journey to fame And the fight began when he was only six years old. He was Jean Philippe Rameau, son of @ church organtet Dijon, France. From babyhood music w second language te him: At first bis father was well pleased with the little fellow’s queer aptitude for melody. He even bragged that the child was a prodigy. 5 But presently Jean’s family began to worry. The boy was six years old and would not take the trouble to learn his letters. He would mot even play with other children, but spent his every waking hour in studying music. Me He was packed off to boarding school, But {n an amazingly short us he was expelled. A letter from the school’s Principal explained that . used to sing to himself during recitations, jotting down musical notes ‘em his copy book and that he even replied in song to bis teachers’ examina tion questions, . a¢ The Dijon organist pleaded with the Principal to take Jean back, de« | claring that he himself had thrashed tge nonsense out of him, and that @ few occasional whippings from the Principal would doubtless make the lad a model pupil. p It was an age when Solomon's maxim of | i the rod and spotl the child” was vigorously enforeed/ | ourfor Singing 3 both at home and in schools. A modern teacher Who should inflict such merciless punishment on @ pupil as was then the fate of all schoolboys would be sent to prison for groms Jeruelty. A bunch of tough wooden switches and canes was part of the lregular equipment of every schoolroom. Study hours were long; holidays: | wore short and few; beatings were as common as demerit marks, } 2) Back to school went the unhappy Jean Rameau. And, as before, he was so absorbed in music that he unconsctously sang aloud in class-seom. He was whipped brutally and frequently, | “They flogged mo,” he wrote later, “until I cried. But I cried in tame.” When whippings failed to cure him he was locked for a day in a dark cupboard, He spent that day of darkness in composing a song of despair, | (This song, by the way, ts the principal aria in his opera “Dardanus.") The Principal gave up the task of breaking the sensitive child's spirit, and ence | more expetled him. | The elder Rameau at last reulized that Jean could never be anything | but a musician. So he sent him to Italy to complete his musical education, | There the happy lad threw himself heart and soul intogthe study of {adored profession. ( | By the time he reached his thirteenth year he was so brilliant am organist that he was engaged to play at the great cathedral at Clermoat | | France. In hiring him as organist, the authorities made him sign @ Com | tract to remajn in the cathedral's service for a term of years, ‘ | Jean was willing enough to do this, For a time everything went Throngs of people flocked to hear the marvellous boy organist, Jean thoroughly contented with his position, Then he paid a visit to Paris, And at once he saw that the French capital was the only possible place for his career to develop as he wished it to. . { He begged the Clermont authorities to free htm « 1 ‘® from his contract. They refused. Next day there Ne tai was to be a great organ recital. Rameau seated ° Organ. himself at the instrument and to play. At fir the note: ‘Then, suddenly, under the boy’s deft fingers, the organ began to play two tunes at a time—one sacred and one operatic, The big audience was aghast. But a minute later a hideous series ef crashing discords shook the whole bullding. The organ was now playiag | three airs at once, and playing them horrtbly. The recital broke up ig com. | fusion, Rameau was asked to explain. He answered gravely: “L think the organ is bewitched. I think {it will keep on being be- | witched until I am allowed to go to Parts.” i The authorities, after a storiny conference, released Jean from hie 6on- ltract. He hurried to Paris, There his real career began—a career thay ‘ was to make him immortal in the world of music. idea By Sophie Irene Loeb | And why? Why not make it send the Don't make engagements with the message of consideration and joy in- thought that you can telephone and stead of the instrument of insult and| change them. Too long has the tele- injury? phone been the dealer of disappoint- After all, when you stop to think, It ;ment, 8 invented tor one purpose. ‘To| Don't always be “in a conference” bring humans in closer touch with} when a person calls with whom you euch other, Certainly it should not be} don't wish to talk. It is ike the wolf the cause of losing its humane ele- | Story-it won't work all the time. Be ment frank about it Whether it be friend or to8*pauper| Don't e another person called or peer, stranger-or servant, the key | while you are “busy on another wire.” note of the wire should be KIND- Don't tell the secret of your soul on NESS. How much more pleasant the|a party lne. day is when you hear a sweet voice, Remember the central ts strictly & prompt reply, a Kind and gractous| disciplined and may not answer your manner! Tt costs so little and creates | abuse as you deserve, You are taking so much that is worth while, unfatr advantage. I wish it were possible for a course of telephoning {to be added in all schools, Life would be made much happier if a few golden rules were maintained. SOme of these might b Don't Realize that the largest switchboard may be fully occupied, Don't ask too many questions to learn 1¢ you have the right person, Ask the most direct thing. Remember the telephone Is a tem- let your stenographer hold| porary speaking apparatus and not a the line when you call somebody while | tea party. you are finishing up another’ trans- And, above ail, think of the person action; the person you have called directly before you and accord him might wish for the same privilege. the courtesy accordingly. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland _ Copsright, 1917, by Tue Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) MAN meets a “goddet falls in love with a “siren,” wooes a “queen,” Proposes to an “angel”-—and wakes up to find that he is married to & perfect stranger. A Tt really isn't bard (o please a woman; the average manos difficulty arises from his foolish attempt to please two or three of them at the same time, Just about as a bachelor is convinced that he has found “the only girl in the world,” he meets another one, and discovers that he was mistaken. It costs less to consult your heart, your income and your judgment before marriage than |t does (o consult a \ lawyer afterward, eee a - A diplomatic genius is a man who can think quickly enough to answer “The sweetest woman in the world!" when a feminine voice says “Guess who this is!" over the telephone, Walting until after you fall in love to find out about a man’s character or @ woman's temper is like waiting until your house catches on fire before taking out a policy Once a girl has laid her head on a man’s shoulder and acknowledged that he is “big and strong and wise” enough to be her lord and master, she can do pretty much as she pleases with him Never judge & woman's love by the price her husband puis on it to an “alienation” sult In matrimony, as in motoring, the “amash-up” is always the other per- |son'e fault, Copyrigtt, 1917, by iy tol v. The New York Bring Worthy = © “W ELL, what's wrong that you smile so?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Aren't you and your wife speaking?” “You are a nice feller to come and @x such a question about my vite. What?" repited Gus, the’ proprietor of the cafe on the corner, as he hardet Mr. Jorr bis change. “L saw you going down the street with her this morning and you and she were far apart—about four feet. What bas caused the separation?” t's them vig hats,” said Gus. “Such big hats I never see. You can't get near a woman but what them hat brims gives you # poke in the eye | was jast roasting her about such a hat as she had, but I wasn't mad at her.” “Big hats are out of style,” sald Mr. Jarr, “Military hats are all the rage now. My wife has one that is a bird.” “And my vite has ove what Is such an austritch, That's the name of the bird what takes his head out the sand and sticks it in the mud, ain't it?” sald Gus. “Oh, you're thinking of tho old story that the ostrich hides its head in the sand and thinks {t's hidden from the hunter,” replied Mr, Jurr. “I knew it was something like that,” said Gus, “But them aus- tritches is big birds. People ts afraid to shoot them, because when they ts hit they might fall down on you out of the air and kill you. What did you get your vife for Christmas? Mino got von of them squealskin bags.” Anniversary | [ To-Day’s ‘T was just two and three-Quarter l centuries ago to-day that Galileo Galilet died of a fever at Arcetri, Italy, The victim of a relentless pe! secution,, totally blind and almost completely deaf in his latter years. Galtleo yet continued his investiga- | tions to the last, and was planning a continuation of his “Dialogues on Motion” when death seized him, He was then in his seventy-elghth year, and had been employed in scientific investigations since the age of twen- ty-four, To Galileo belongs credit for being the real founder of the sclence tronomy. ae having enjoyed the favor of Fupes. 4d churchmen for years in 1616, he was accused of hav- Ing taught the sun is the centre of the planetary system. the Inq tion pronounced this doctrine . pressly contrary to Holy Scriptures," and the philosopher was forced to promise never again to teach about the motion of the earth and the cen- tral situation of the sun, either by speech or writing. ¢ “Sealskin sacks," remarked Mr Mr. Jarr has yet to learn, but Gus turned to a drawer behind bim and “Has your vife got any diamonds?"|from a small box brought forth — asked Gus. “My vife Lena has two! handful of what looked like animate big, fino yellow ones that go in her|coffee kernels, These small bro one objects began to hop over the bar jh ¢ “Yes, Mrs. Jarr has some Jewelry,” | the most eccentric and disconcertiag said Gus, in response te replied Mr. Jarr, “butt her diamonds | manner, Mr. Jarr’s eager gaze, “them's tbe Jarr. | has that to do with Rafferty?” “Well, Rafferty is the smart feller,” said Gus “He iso tired of buying Christmas presents for his vife, and what he iss going to do next Christ- mas ve can do, what?” “What's he going to do?" asked Mr. Jarr, Gun burst into a roar of laughter. “L don’t think I shall tell you what several | it 19; it ts# something I keep to laugh at myself," eaid Gus, “but Rafferty is a smart foller.” “Well, out with it!" sald Mr. Jarr. “But you and Rafferty are way be- hind the times. Christmas and New Year are all over. You and he should be thinking about Easter and the |real national holiday—April Firat!" “A wise man forgets everything,” said Gus solemnly, What this meant It's all the same whether it was@ Mexican boarder or an Irish boarder,” / said Gus. “Rafferty and me"— ) But the great secret must be held over for another day, for Gus gave a) whistle, the beans jumped into Bis hand and he hid them away and grew mysteriously silent-as Michael an- ‘ gelo Dinkston, poet and peasant, and heavywelght champion of the ng- are not big and yellow. But what| ‘Them, celebrated famous Mexican ehump) ¢ ing beans, and your friend Dinkston, the gedichter, wart you call a post, bought them from a boarder, and sold ‘em to Rafferty, and Rafferty asd me 1s going to get rich on ‘em,”” “Dinkston brought them from the border, the Mexican border and mot from a boarder, I take it,” eald Mr. Jarr, J lish lan entered the cafe, You and' Your Job By Willis Brooks , ——s | | Article No, 7. ET us assume that you have cured @ Job as salesman, ) for that hour and bani matter from your mind.” *| 1 bought the clock and found Tt a I could buckle into my first task 1s to become thor-| Work with undivided mind, sure thet ougily acquainted with your atock.| 1 would be informed when the hour |It Is not enough to know the names | Arrived. Later, ‘ the whole ieee’, Later, recovering from an pa t evs, I had to take a certain medi: jand prices of the goods, You should) cine every two hours through the |make yourself familiar with every) day. Keeping half my mind on Process of their manufacture, clock seriously Interfered with Your) valuable aid, \o iy Usually in large stores the depart-| Work. After T had missed the medi- | ment buyers furntah this information| Sf eet neeal times I hit upon the plan jto their sales people, but, even so, it! will pay you to dig deeper for knowl. | of that Heenan Wha | edge, One of the leading sales man-| Forisod for mien tueh & COCK MOAy | agers of New York tells me that! ing-one in the mondo ha | when he begun ae a salesman he de-| It is also a good Idee to learn all | voted two or three evenings a week| you can of goods which ate sold in to encyclopaedic study of how the competition with yours, 1 recently different kinds of goods in his stock oo * giore window an article were made, where the raw materials] Which 1 do, mont of cre Trane ere’ gat ;came from and how they were pro-| cause the manager is my friend, a cured, He says this information has salesman showed me what appeare been of inestimable value to himever|/to be a duplicate of that ratiole since. quoted at $4.75. When I asked him It is also Well to search out new} why his price was 77 cents above th | uses to which your goods may be put, | competitor's he could not tell me. It often happens that an article de-| For friendship's wake I took the signed for one purpose may have| matter to the manager instead ef many other uses. A clever salesman going to the other store t once sold an alarm clock to me by| purchase, as most tustomners a ald of setting the alarm cloek to remind me; and every time I did it I thought \ of that salesman who had. firat sug- telling me how I could make tt useful | have done. There J learned what the j In my office. salesman should have been able “Suppose you have an engagement) tell me—that the competitor's article i) at 4 o'cloc id he, “Set the alarm was really an imitation,