The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1917, Page 8

_Krening World Daily Magazine ‘i | The Cat Came B ESTABLISHDD BY JOSHPI PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 3 Park Row, New York. be SCLC eee 4 at Rew. bf . ‘ar’ / sos LUTZ, Je Meo ta Park ‘how, « $3.50 30 One Year... One Month. NO. 20,23 AN IMPERIAL BLUNDER. HE more one studies the Allies’ answer to the President of the, United States, setting forth their objects in continuing the war, the clearer it becomes that the German Government has, manoeuvred itself into a tight place. - Unless the Imperial Government is now prepared to tate its aims and terms of peace with the fulness and frankness displayed by tue Entente Powers in discussing theirs, the recent German peace proposals are finally exposed as nothing but a war move, and no) amount of the sort of recrimination and accusation toward Germany's adversaries which fills the latest German note to the neutful Govern-| ments will change the judgment of the world. \ So far as that judgment is concerned, the Imperial German Gov-| ernment is already distinctly worse off than it was at the beginning of leat month before it made its peace proffers. Its sincerity ie more than ever questioned. It is confronted by its enemies with an open- ness and candor which it has not matched. | Just how much longer will the’'German people be content to have | their character and motives presented to the world through an Im-} perial Government which speaké solely the language of Pru: How much longer will they continue persuaded that Pruss saving or can save them? How much longer can they be convinced that Prussianism is worth the sacrifices it has exacted for the glorious pledges it has not redeemed? | More than ever, the formal and united declaration of the Allied! Governments makes it plain that Prussianism is the vital issue of | this war. Prussianism itself cannot prevent that fact from getting a foothold in German minds. What can it go on offering in return for the blood and money it has taken and means still to take? | Once Prussianism is fairly caught between the upper mill-| stone of Allied determination and the nether millstone of a disillu-| sioned, starving German people, its day is over and the war is done. | The more the Imperial Government takes refuge in bluster,! evasion and deceit, the sooner, it would seem, must the German neople be ready to provide the under stone. No civilized nation can be expected to commit suicide in honor of a dynastic policy which has, turned out to be a menace and a curse, ——_—_- 4 Peace makes her grateful acknowledgments to the President. ——-4 NON-INFLAMMABLE FILM. PROPOS of a recent fire in 4 Manhattan motion picture studio, when thirty-five persons barely escaped with their lives, The Evening World raised the question whether the moving pie- EVENING WORLD CARTOON OFC I4-/9/6 Setse> sob ede err nty me ack! .1S8fkva, By _J. H. Cassel Aone } ' ‘ GERM ture industry would not do well to spend some of its profits in trying to make film material less inflammable, The millions of feet of film constantly being turned out, handled, stored, shipped and used in thousands of theatres appears to be now inade of a substance as combustible as celluloid, Is there no way by which film can be chemically treated to make it a less formidable additicu to the list of fire risks with which the community already has to reckon? Letters addressed to The Evening World on this subject, some of which we print elsewhere, show the question to be pertinent and of practical interest to the public. It happens that the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry has just issued a bulletin “published with a view to encour- aging greater caution and care in the handling of motion picture films.” This bu¥etin earnestly recommends managers of moving’ picture studios to keep plenty of water and sand handy, guard electric lights, box steam pipes and radiators, use only metal furniture, ete. | The very multiplicity of the precautions emphasizes anew the question that first suggests itself to common sense: NE-HALF of t O called man, means @ pessimist, Why not begin fire prevention with the fila? some enlightening conclusions from his researe) work as the head of an acer institution that proposes to make men ‘Talking to the New York Kentucki It Ls lve Joniger, | rs anes ntuckians the other night, Speak- “We live in an age of pushbuttons,” | er Champ Clark remarked that if he was as rich as Rocke- Pare sk Tactie Gant quarter! feller he would set up @ printing shop in St. Louis: and get out @ dictionary that would pronounce words the way they Were spoken out thar. But why the bother of a dictionary? become much more Letters From the People Fireproot itm, has been rendered To dhe Piiitnr of The Evening World eee iv did Bow, SHAE he J ~ In a recent issue of your paper an|. The next is, that the fim editorial article was published with Busi ie, Niable, Where the beading: “Why ‘Not Fireproot! !",! no Work! does he get this in- hs ation from? If he would investi Film” and reciting the danger from) gate very thoroughly the moving rt his physical life mo: 2 of those homely ball. _Age of Pushbuttons he American peo- ple have somo defect, accard- ing to Dr. Bugene L: ‘man Fisk, Medical Director of the Life Ex- tension Institute, who belleves that only @ few of us get the results of which capable. wo are And he lays failure to improper un- derstanding and our treatment of®the| delicate organism But Dr, Fisk is by no and has century man has laid violent hands) on his environment and transformed , it In many ways, some for the better, | some for tho worse. Civilized life has complex, and the | devices by which man's mental life more active and » inactive ha 13 that this infammable material industry he find that the O shall never die is “Phe Old T beg to advise you that there |e endows profit made in the busi- Oaken Bucket" of Sumuel euch a thing as fireproof film and it Por his informatie than bot” Woodworth, to which special interest has been in existence a number of|stute that the very cream of the POW attaches from the fact that this Years, but by reason of it having been | Profity of the indusiry is year marks the centenary of its pub- patented and a high royalty charged | At. (his (ny Pe a errr ae in 1817 young Woodworth, for its use, thé flim companies bave|jittle, if any, in npr A tree lance journalist eking out a declined to use it. stances as a legitimate rather precartous existen in New Tam very much pleased to know) tremendous moneys inveat ¢ met a friend who invited bim that you have taken up this very im-| unlimited time consumed by everyone ve portant subject and trust that you will continue your efforts until this} menace to life and property has been in carrying on the business LOUL L. LEVINE, sorved to W , | To che Buiter of The Evening World can not be known, In any event, it uh : ‘Ds. can y S| remove} CHAS, REYNOLD With reference to your editorial in tickled the poet's palate, and he ex- ‘To the EAlitor of The Evening World The Evening World of the ath inst, pressed his appreciation, “Yes, it is I always take pleasure in reading | entitled: “Why Not Fireproof Film fairly gvod." remarked the friend your editorials, even though at Umes | your views do not meet with mine, In ‘The Evening World of Jan. 4 an edl- torial appeared with reference to fir proof lm. Tho editorial seems to he I should like to way a few words Fireproof, or perhaps I should say non-inflammabie, film has been pro duced long ago and ts also actually lt used by some moving picture con- cerns, at least in Hurone, “Fairly xood, Sam; fer a drink of the Oaken Bueket he phrawe use but I'd much pre- clear, cool wa tha@ hung in the by ts friend re- ve | r we used to drink when lads from the nultiplied in marvelous nment investigation ¢ ne one million workers shows an annual average loss for the who’ out two hundred and lion days on account of tllness. been This does not by any means reveal the de- jsree of physical impairment, There are millions of people who do not lose | who work year after year ph below par of inetfictent been counted. “The moment question jeally work that of effictlency and the causation of age. death and decay. We are wont to consider that the bod- !ume-—that they bring them to pass. time that we have rking to prolong hw activities that adversely to nan , but ! ‘amassing billions of days | entity, never have) whic that we take up this! flu y physical | of r fitness we are confronted by evidence | But as one unsettling traditional ideas regurding | shown to be t | food deficienc Jor a ‘poison tre fly changes which end in decrepitude | we come to view and death are largely a function of| disturbances du are inevitable—and | definite |we seldom stop to inquire ax to the| who is either drawn! intimate and immediate factors that | me Time itself straction, death rate, and fixed by any imum lt Endangers Health of Nation a | a mather ral ab es not govern the death rates are not nutable law, T no effect without a cause and every factor responsible for old age and death will be found a material cause, something that can be grappled with and most likely conquere a day's work on account of illness, but | hum n life can ceptle 4 mys edical ise fluen) ing down gr duet |, In so far as be extend n of di ‘ocess to in some exerts its in- » upon the attitude lence toward the body: ase” after another is result of infection, or or emotional excess, n within or without, ‘diseases’ merely as ration of that a man rowing old is nisin ix break rf 1 somo de- ener eed he must ork with every Man Must Be Physically Fit to Be Efficient, Says Dr. Eugene L. Fisk, Leader in Effort to Prolong Life. By James C. Young. i | care | an: ful examination given establish the health and raise the pr | capacity of every man in the | This is not only industrial effic jit is doing something for th the broadest sense.’ | The Life Extension Institute recent ly inaugurated a plan whereby appl! Institute, and afterward receive their health—thus prolonging life. “This is simply utilizing a by- | uct,” explained Dr. F wo havo had exhaustive examina }to show whether a man was eligib for insurance, and the inform watered as a reault of that exam tion has been wasted wow to tell men d rg v i 'The Week’s Wash By Martin Green | Co, \6e to Riverside Park?” asked the head polisher. “A number of very earnest |profess that they are trying to save people the park from being converted into a freight yard by the Now York Cen- {tral Railroad,” answered the laundry man, “I read very carefully ‘the arguments of the most velumin- ter writers among these volun- ter park rescuers and can’t find \that they know very much about \what they are writing about, which | preponderating peculiarity among such folk. have is "In the first place, (he plans have | not been fully agreed upon, In the next there is no ground for statements or insinuations that the | proposed waterside covered way will lobstruct the view of the river from the park or the drive, to the riverfront from the |park below One Hundred and Twen- ty-ninth Street nov except by bridges or grade crossings, The pro- ce, | neces There is no} and the Now York Centra! are trying to do in Kiversi de Park, except that the INinols Central in Chicago uses > power. long. that is in him. Woe have found that a f employees in . followed by individual and specitio advice, has re- sulted in @ prompt increase of effl- ciency. Through monthly health letters and subsequent periodic examinations, coupled with suggestions to the local | canus. doctor, we have been abie to improve “They are active, they are obedient.) mathematics, We will have numbers ductive! canta for insuragce are examined ac- | cording to methods perfected by the} live for the pecuniary advantages of |e May be simpiiied to the infant a course of instruction on the care of -| but to die, “itherto | tality are | they can live t our bodies in the course of time. ‘ounce of energy and all the enthusisin | longer, and help them to do It.” Somebody will have to quit before | he had mofstened his thorax. Up to this time all the con- | could tell you, Mrs, Jarr’-—for he did testants are on the’. feet with thetr | not dare to tell it to Mr. Jarr direct—| is active in education, coal fuel and the New York Central le | [purposes to use el ~The Woman of It By Helen Rowland Coprttaht, 1917, by The Press Mublishing Co, (Te New York Evening World.) She Chats on Man and His “Sacred Saturday Evenings.” SN’T that the Imit!” exclaimed the Bachelor as he jammed the phone receiver onto the hook and emerged from the booth red perspiring. | ‘ | “Not a man in town available on Saturday evening! I've been ringing two of ‘em ever since half-past four, and I mght as well have been calling Villa and the ? King of Greece!” “Available?” repeated the Widow lifting her elie cate eyebrows tn astonishment as the Bachelor lef the way to a table and helped her remove her scented sables, “On SATURDAY evening? Certainly net! A man’s Saturday evenings are sacred, Mr. Weatherby, —In this town anyway!" “Sacred?” inquired the Bachelor bitterly. “Te what? Momus or Bacchus?” . “Or Hymen or Venus or Terpsichore!” rejoined the Widow. “To whatever he holds dearest. To the son or thing in which he is most intensely inter- ~ ested—at the moment. Before marriage they are usher ally dedicated to some girl"—— “And after marriage to ‘the boys'’.” grinned the Bachelor maliciously, \ “or the club or the lodge or the caaret or the card table.” » “Or possibly to the family,” added the Widow virtuously. “There ARR” / | some men who actually enjoy lolling around the house in slippers aad ‘| smoking jacket, and getting acquainted with thelr wives on Saturday eve- nings, you know. NOT SRY man who ‘marries for a home’ spends the rest of his life in trying to get away from it. But wherever a man spends his Saturday evenings you may be sure that that 1s where his heart or bis linterest is, And the safest way to judge any man's character is not. by his choice between a church and a game of golf on Sunday mornings, bot by his choice of a pastime on Saturday evenings.” “Umm!” mused the Bachelor hastily reviewing his own record. “And | yet, though I've spent forty-nine out of fifty-two of mine with YOU in the last year, you won't belleve that my heart is”. | | @6FSN'T tt funny,” interrupted the Widow, quite Ignoring the Bachelorw I sentimental deflection, “to observe to what lengths a girl will go | in order to find out the exact status of a man’s affections—when @he | might solve the problem without even using a brain cell? She'll muse aver & | his {dlest words, and read over his letters a dozen times and look for « | tender significance in his slightest little acts of chivalry. She'll wonder if ‘he ‘meant anything’ by the way in which he looked at her or the way in | which he held her hand when he said good night, or by the particular kind |of Mowers he sent b She'll consult fortune-tellers and the stars and the leaves in her tea cup in order ‘to be sure’—when the only thing on eartia she need be SURE of is that he spends his Saturday evenings with her!” h “Bt suppose he DOESN'T spend them with her," protested’ the 5 i away"—— Bachelor. “Suppose circumstances or a vital reason keep: bim | hen she may safely conclude,” declared the Widow positively, “that | ‘Circumstances,’ be she blonde or brunette, Is more interesting to him, or that tho ‘Vital Reason’ has a more fascinating way of doing her hair | There is no supposition about it. On six days of the week a man may bow down to duty and the press of work and his social obligations, but on Sat- jurday he does what he WANTS to do, whether it is sitting around the house and fighting with his mother-tn-law or going for a Joy ride with hi: stenographer or playing pinochle with the janitor or proposing marriag. or playing golf or counting his money or committing suicide. The mow ‘dramatic things always 1 turday evening. Because on Satur- day evening every man ¢ off the shackles of habit or duty or eelf-re | Straint and becomes prime He feels like a dray horse out of harne: and rushes right for the hay or the pasture or the oats or the open ron: jaccording to his tastes, ‘Tell me how a man spends his Saturday eveninew |—and I'll tell you what he i . ce ELL, I spend forty-nine out of fifty-two of mine with yeu,” an- 1 W nounced the Bachelor, “and the other three in wishing I was with 1. What kind of a man AM I?" } “A very foolish man,” replied the Widow smiling up at him, “ana ay | very sentimental one, Mr. Weatherby.” “And !f my heart is where I spend my Saturday even!ngs"——persisted’ | the Bachelor doggedly. } “Sh!" cried the Widow putting up her hand. “Don't ask me to marry you. Because I want you to go right ON spending all your Saturday e@- nings with me!" The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Puldishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ATE could not harm Mr. Michael) gilded gambling hell, the BTOSs asso~ y Angelo Dinkston—ho had dined. |clations of the groggery, shall never Ho had dined at tho Jarra‘! blight their innocence! They ahall be hountiful board, for excited by the used only as playthings and as én- ; acrobatic exhibition his pet Mexican jumping beans had given, both Mrs. Jarre and Gertrude, the admiring | kindergartens!” maid, had set forth a supper well| Seeing Mr. Jarr's incredulous loole® | worthy of the intellectual bard and) Mr. Dinkston explained, | patient trainer of Halticorid Mexi-| “We will get the Board of Educa. tion to adopt them to teach simple Structive objects, as living ‘jacks'~to teach addition to the infant min@ io ;I am master of their destintes for) painted upon them to stand in line good or evil,” sald Mr, Dinkston- |and be counted up, Then, when a “And I know you will not employ | number is to be carried into another jthem for anything but 20d ex- column, the jumping beans can carry claimed Mra, Jarr, | it themselves. To the mind the “I would blush to do #0; I do not! Vision presents itself of how arithmes |commercial adaptability in the pres- | Mind by the employment of these ac- ent,” replied Mr, Dinkston, “I live|t!¥e enumerators. Think of short and T exist but for immor-|!0ng division to instance in which the My future fame will be se-| 2umbered Jumping beans will arrange cure, fou upon literature, and| themselves as the sum, the divisor inculcating moral precepts even in. and the dividend! Think of little ehtl- he lowly jumping bean. Do [ care! aren chanting to these animated dig- for drink? No! Yet, my physician i“ " : pe L < ‘ut down Six and carry Four! advises me to keep my thorax con- Heedpranricioet Jump up Three, Jump down Two! aes 2 You can jump and jump a Mrs. Jarr took the hint and set ott jump ond jump ond sump Gea you are numb. before er guest the for-medicinal-| 1 gon't care what the teacher says, | purposes-only bottle—giving Mr. Jarr| I can’t do that eum!” a significant glance to tell him to} “I don't think it will do. ‘The touch it at his peril. scheme is impractical!” maid Mr. “No,” continued Mr. Dinkston after | Jarr. “T} “Why won't it do?” asked Dink- ston. “Isn't it the essence of all that against the old methods, stilted and sedentary? | | “that the liquor interests have prof. | e hear a lot about the magnifi- ly of the Allies to the fered me millions to permit my active Isn't it up-to-date?” view from Riverside k and | President's note indicates that thoy little friends, the Halticorid Mext-| "No," said Mr. Jarr impresstvely. | a Dp iy. ce If a view of miles | would like to see a finish sinilar to | °@us, or Jumping beans, to be used! “Ir your mathematical jumping beage Hee a ere nneys: |that of a prize ring battle between | #4 aN active substitute for olives and) had figures painted on them, they'd to the manufacture of sugar, cits, |*%°. Harlem sluggers whicn was) cherries in cocktails | be back numbers right away!” |fertiitzer and various products that |S el uled ta, Be ar ten rounds, At) "The great gambling interests have! ‘The point is well taken,” replied Jamel to high heaven and Harlom, | pixers’ hed NS Ree Tone One of the said to me, ‘Name your price, Mr. Mr, Dinkston solemnly. “It makes * mda aa a naDse eM Aoi 6,984 pokes on the visage and he was | Vinkston, and let us paint your care-|me hoarse to think of it,” and ge & rieke frame tenements porched |®Stremely anxious that hostilities | fully trained jumping, beans white! moistened his thorax again. Sud- along the sides of the Palisades, piss cease, but his manager and |and spot them so we can use them as|denly his face lighted up. “Aba! grain elevators and warehouses, is |#econds urged him to keep on. At dice!’ In gaming my moral Mexican, he said, joyously, “there yet remains magnificont, those who adhe! the opening of the sixth round he Soames Seems Who entertained a smash that jarred hig |JumpPmNs beans!” And Mr, Dinkston a moral occupation for my active lite is nothing else on the Jersey ‘ore | PheUMogastric nerve, Turning to- | sbuddered at the id and again tle friends We van lease them to below Fort Lee. While we tight and Ibs his ore he yelled; ‘Hey, | moistened his thorax bald-headed men te samp abrah 3 angle over a proposition to improve |throw Up that sponge.’ “His manager! «No, he went on. “Bho Fifa their denuded craniums and “dep of Feraneie oven & Dienos sien to HiBN vo | ve ‘We ain't got no ‘sponse. ; No." Gp went one “Bhey A5a)] only tes in summer time-and us will lthe ‘Riverside property capitalists | moaned the distressed gladia- | °°F the merry cries of guiicless chil- | the Halticorid Mexicanuy swat the Jare calmly building up, right across | tt, ‘throw up the bucke dren! The hectic atmosphere of the| Musca Domestics uid , right across i dren! elle atm o ca masta |the river from our alleged garden | Allies hope to r Germany Japot, the most hideou ask that the bucket be tossed into eas a —— fact tside « the ring.” : . : “a at night the be anitary Method of Sealing Envelopes | A ny) |lamp from Riverside Park ty a coll.c 4 " a aie cn Si idle IRM tie } |tion of electric advertising sign A Senatorial New —— | : : Year Resolution? | JJ AVING quite a number of en-y | {> Peace in Pieces. § ¢ “ J. velopes to seal, and not wish- 4 ¢ ; H BEB," sald the h . ing continuously to sample 667 SEE.” said the head polisher, | ine taste of the particular brand of | 66TYO vou see any signs of peace that the Senate has voted) mucilage with which they were oe | | D in Europe after tho latest that nobody shall drink con- | gummed, I used a small, fat bristle a : : . rlet of Co | brush with excelient results, says a if tnternational correspond- jvivialt in the IstrloL OF c Jumbia | BEN wit eine Mananen eat ence?” asked the head polisher. Yea," said the laundry mal, and) A prush can be had just wide ¢ “Peace js in sight,"” declared the |fome of tho statesmen who voted | to moisten the gu Aaa pgs ve nop rada y | Washington dry have been continu- | out touching any outside surface of | QOTTER Jaundry man, “but not close enough | ously jingled so long that they are|the envelope, This brush method ts so that 1) ¢.n walk right up and slap |actualiy pickled in alcohol, lke |a great deal better and cleaner than | ood vi. « | » Y afl righ. in a general way, vut in two, 1 have seon non-inflammable flim | WAined, Is Woodwortxs minds and | sowed pian will open the entire river- particular instances you are wrong.” myself and know that it can be duaned off "The Old Oaken Bucket" | front ‘rom One Hundred and Twenty- You state that thousands of audi-| manufactured, ; ng only about hulf an hour in| ninth Street to Seventy-eecond Street ences in smal! theatres are exposed| Several patents—American, English mposition, It ts probable that |, uy h i to chances which no fire laws can do and ernan shave heen Er nted for ket aad well which appeased |to users of the park, sp AY More than reduce. If your writer| diferent methods of producing this ongly to Woodworth's recollec- | “One of the chief paid objeotors to knew by personal experience the/kind of film, but 1 do not know tion were located somewhere in the| the | provement comes from Chi- etsiet Ore ans building regulations) Whether it has been successfully vicinity of Scituate, Muss, for there | cago, In that town they are doing, that any moving picture house must | Manufactured yet in this country, was born 13% years ago to-day, | °° iricepial vee * comply with, whether small or large, ZACH OLSSON, in, 18, 1785, and there he spent his| ter Many years, on the lake front he would readily, without very much Consulting Chemist youth, in Grant Park, just what this city | f 1 a any of the be rents in the face. things in jars in a museum.” using agponge.