The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1917, Page 16

SSETABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. nas Pudiaiee Dany Bxcept Sunday by the Preas Publishing Company, I oO Nea Peru How. New York. RAURTOUS SIR Mrconueer “6s Par Rows JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, ect et Park Row, it, Becret 1-0 Y Becond-Clase Matter, aS oo PogOttice at Now York as for the United Btates and Caneéa, ening| For England and the Continent ea@ All Countries {n the International Postal Unt oove 09.78 ae One Tear. One Month. WOLUME 87....0..ccccccseeeeeeeeseeesneseeee eNO, 20,244 THE PRESIDENT ON PERMANENT PEACE. IIE President hes given not only the Senate but the entire country much to think about. The President of the United States, declares the Constl- “shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the| to make treaties.” No further explanation is needed of Wilson’s appearance in the Senate Chamber yesterday. the face of great events the several powers of the United States) ment ought to be able to act toward one another with oonstt- yn. Tirectness and simplicity. Nothing would be a greater) ‘soures of reassurance to the nation than to believe that they could| Mo 00. The thing for which the President claimed the Senate’s atten- thea is nothing less than the greatest plan—though still but partly formulated—that Civilization hae yet ovolved out of the bitterness! and tragedy of experience. . A league of nations to guarantee the pence of the world, freedom for all peoples, great and small, to edi] the seas and use the common, spaths of commerce without fear, government nowhere save with the «consent of the governed, limitation of armaments to a point where they shall become only a efficient police force in the service of a co-operative peace—all these hopes and ideals now present themselves as promising some gain, some after-compensation for the present struggle. ‘ The Prestdent has put them together. Ho has given their! © gppeal compelling concentration and force. And having done so, he asks the Senate, which shares with him the treaty-making power, to| “eonsider the practical question on what terms the United States, should be ready to enter an international partnership of peace. We beliove it may presently be seen to be the most important and far-reaching question thie nation has ever had to answer. If it Je answered wisely and worthily, it will not be by mere citation “ef old policies and refurbishing of old doctrines. The events of the: past two years and a half have put millions of human beings here and in Europe into a state of mind which a generation ago would have, “deen thought impossible. The past two years and a half have pro-| duced international problems for which neither George Washington “Jaor James Monroe prepared complete eolutions. \ “I am proposing,” the President declares, “as it were, that the| nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Menroe es the doctrine of the world: That no nation should asck to “extend tte polity over any other nation or people, but that every should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way! of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along | { with the great and powerful.” And again: “There is no entangling| t pilfance in a concert of power.” Washington would have been the last man to let his warning lagainst entangling alliances with European nations become al etambling block for his country in its advance along a broadening} path of progress and civilization. r The possibility that nations are nearly ready to declare them-| “selves eo-operative units in a larger human whole is the biggest thing | “the race has come to yet. The contemplation of this possibility, par-| toularly as it finds calm and careful expression in the President's, speech, is not unlikely to prove a factor in hastening the peace that “must come before there can be a start toward realization of enduring! nwhile the United States Senate can at least sce to it that! Gecussion of the subject is not painfully incommensurate with its size. | ; ————-+- WHERE THE NATION CAN SEE THEM. “QaECRETARY DANIELS'S presentation of the facts concernin, S projectile contracts amounts to a further stinging indictment | ‘ of the patriotism and policies of certain American steel manu-| Yacturers headed by Mr. Schwab’s Bethlehem Steel Company. | Not only does the Secretary of the Navy make it clearer than} ever that these American manufacturers have repeatedly tried to! hold up the United States Government for prices from fifty to sixty per cent. higher than those they dared bid when they*knew forejgu \eompetitors were in the field, but he also shows where the American | Airms, despite their enormous plants and pretensions, have not even taken the trouble to keep pace with the improvement in the quulii ‘of armor-piercing shells made abroad. | Out of thirty-four 14-1nch shells submitted by the Bethe hem Stee! Company for the test, three passed. Of the shells submitted by Hadfields, Lid, Wngland, consisting of three gample shells and six additional test shells, not a single one | failed to meet all the requirements. | And the Bethlehem Steel Company is the biggest and most com pletely equipped of the American projectile manufacturers who have! sbeen urging the nation to let them look after this part of prepared ness, boasting that no Government plant could rival the quality ar quantity of their output! * Mr. Schwab seems to think that inability to make shells half as good as those that can be bought from English firms is only the| atronger reason why he should charge the United States Government onble prices for the shells he does make. Patriots of this stamp jd not be permitted to eit down in the back rows. Push them! where the public can see and admire them. gure nd . Letters From the People > The Dictionary’s Correct, \ The Goods Are Seconds, Be Ge Wieor of The Evening World: | To the Exiitor of The Evening World; ome in a@ forest falls, and no| kindly tey , ing i rlich the goods 18 seconds. HLA eound. ks N, B.—-""Neeonds" al En WN. B.—When the tree fell li would {yen Bageanee ts tie! Bing. tn motion violent vibrations of | sentence. and plainly p air which, falling upon the ear of oe within reach of the waves, | Three to Twenty-five Cente, cause sound. But if there was ‘one to hear, the tree's fall would, oan Durposes, be nolselcss, To the Diiter of The Brentng World What is the value of an 1808 cent? wa B | By Sophie Irene Loeb out | oceastons makes tt bard, | | Cra omen THE MONROE DOCTRINE Wa Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1917, by The Pree Publishing Oo, (The Mew York Dvening World} No. 41—GENEVIEVE, the Girl Who Saved Paris, i Holy Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, was returning from @ missionary journey into England. One day in 430 be passed through the French village of Nauterra A little eight-year-old girl knelt at the roadside to receive bis blessing. Long and earnestly the Bishop gazed at the child. Then, summoning her parents, be sald to them: “Your daughter is @ precious ¢ift from Heaven. Guard her carefully, for she has a great mission to achieve.” The girl was Genevieve, daughter & poor shepherd, The Bishop's strange prophecy made a deep impression on her parents and upon their neighbors. Henceforth, Genevieve was looked On as consecrated and was treated with veneration by all her friends, But she did not let this interfere with her daily work of tending {her father’s flocks and of helping her busy mother in the household tasks. Nor did she presume in any way on her new position im the village, ; Soon her parents died. And Genevieve went to Purie to tive with her godmother, Paris in those days was converted only in part to Christianity, Many of the people were still heathens, Genevieve's gentle piety thus made her the laughing stock of her godmother’s friends, Then came the terrible raid of the Huns .into Sao France, The Huns were @ wild horde who lived across | the Rhine and were ruled by war-lord named Attila, APPPRPODPDR ICY whose chief joy in life wae to invade and crush other nations, Attila was eo proud of hie genius for destroy. ing more peaceful lande that he used to boast: “The grase never grows again where once my war horse's hoofs have At the head of several hundred thousand savage Huns he crossed the Rhine and marched toward Paria, On news of his approach the Parisiang made ready to desert their city and to flee for safety into the forests, Then Genevieve called together all the women who would listen to her, She begged them not to leave Paris to the mercy of the meruilesa, but to re« main where they were and crust God to eave them and their city. Like @ Prophetess of Old, the inapired girl pleaded with her panio< stricken hearers. Presently men joined the groups of Metening women. Genevieve'a eloquence, her courage—above ail, her calm faith in God's power to protect His peoplo—gradually stirred her half-heathen audience to enthusiasm, Hope replaced fear, Men caught up their abandoned weapons and be- sought Genevieve to bless them ‘They prepared to defend their homes against the overwhelming peril that threatened, Inspired by the sublime fatth of one fifteen-year-old girl, they made ready to fight. And, urged by her, they prayed that Heaven would vouch- safe a miracie and eave them. \o A Girl's Victory. There he was soundly thrashed, and the remnant of his invincible Huns expected no pity. Flame and sword were nearly always show mercy to his helpless victims, Struck by her piety and courege, the of Paris." The propheoy of wise old Bishop Germanus of Auxerre was ful- As though in @ direct answer to their prayers, Attila turned asite on wore sent scrambling back across the Rhine in stricken flight, On a later day, a Frankt#h army, led by Chilleric, . 4 } the fate allotted to ite luckleas inhabitante, The people of Paris gave themaeives up for lost. conqueror granted her prayer, And, for @ second time, she saved Paria from destruotion. filled. And what @ host of armed men could not accomplish @ peasant girl's simple faith made poraible. |The Jarr Family bie march toward Purie and attacked the far stronger city of Orleans, eeized Paris, That was an age when « captured city Genevieve, however, made her way to Childeric and fearlessly bade him She te known to history as “Saint Genevieve” and es “The Patros Gaint By Roy L. McCardell | Coprright, 1917, by The Prew Pubiititea Co, (The New York Brening World.) MONG the many letters that have come to The Evening World, encouraging American | forums for making citizens of the for- elgn-born, is the following. It is certainly commendable, and exemplifies the keen interest of the foreign-born to become a citizen but he ts ham- pered because of existing lows, which make ft 1m perative for him to bring two wit nesses at two different times, The lotter explains itself; “Gouverneur Hospital, “Gouverneur Si!p, New York. “It was with great pleasure I read in your esteemed paper that you had es tablished @ forum for foreigners wh: wish to become citizens of the Unite States. 1 am an Irishman, thirty-seven years of age. I have been in New York State seven years. I was here two years when I took my first paper I have also my certificate of anding, all properly filled in, I am sorry to say I find I cannot get any further, owing to the difficulty of pro- | curing two witnesses and appearing on two separate days tn court. “here is always trouble about the | witnesses, and appearing on two} “Could I not become @ citizen by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States in open court? I sin- cerely hope I can, as I am afraid 1 . 1 0-Day 's Annive rsary l DHN HANCOCK, the first signer of | J the Declaration of Independence, | was born in Quincy, Mass, ono} hundred and elghty years ago tovday.| Prior to the Revolution he was a! prosperous merchant of Boston, and| u member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, In the rule be took so prominent @ part hat his arrest was ordered, and to iL Hancock and Samuel Adams tn af the objects of the cord which resulted of the Revolution ed to the outlawin, of Hancock and the hastening of t Revolution was delivered before the Provincial Council at Concord, and wee @ bitter arraignment of militar. Aen early | ¢ days of the agitation against English | shall have to give up in despair. I love America and would be very glad to become a citizen, “I have been working at the above Institution for a year, and the euper- | p' intendent here knows me to be re- spectable, “Where can I attend your forum? Please help me {f you can, “Respectfully, (Signed) “LOUIS KEYDON." When @ man is as anxious to be- come your brother as this good Irish- man, inany of his kind being regarded to-day a the best cltizens of the country, 1t behooves you, Mr. Witness, to go with him. It behooves you, Mr, Employer, to make tt possible for him to Yin ahduld be glad to welcome the man who finds it to his advantage, | welfare and happiness to become the son of Uncle Sam, Give him the helping hand. It is @ fact that the laws have been dificult; that men are tn this country for many years and do not take out thetr citizen papers. Many of them are unacquainted with legal ways and keep putting it off. Often they put it off until It Is too late, If you don't believe it, go down to the Child Welfare Board. You will find thousands of cases turned away ecause the father of the family fatled to become a citizen, And after he ts gone his family too suffers as a consequence. Now that the Widows’ Pension Law, which cares only for destitute children of the widows of citiz in full operation, tt 1s necessary, order to save suffering for his family after his death, to join the nation he has adopted to live in, Hundreds of men have found their work here, have learned to love this country, and have no intention of re- turning to their native soil, but they have for one reason or another neglected to become citizens, You, Mr, Neighbof, might well help euch. It !s @ good piece of work to help make a citizen, Every effort, in The Bvening World plan, will be made to promote ways and means toward this end; and, if necessary, to simplify the law. But, until that time comes, the American can do much to aid his foreign-born | brother. | Reflecti ons of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1917, zl his purpose, Even when a man knows h, to, Just to please her, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World.) | 11 only woman in the world” {s the one who comes between the girl & man bas just recovered from loving and the giri he has not quite yet begun to love, Solomon succecded in making 700 wives perfectly happy; but, then, Solomon didn’t have a motor car, a stenographer, and the golf manta to distract him from Trying to infuse enthustasm into a man's dead in- fatuation is about as hopeless a process as trying to re- | charge dead champagne, Of course, women don't mean to be self-deceptive; but when @ thin woman steps on the scales she keeps on all her furs, while a fat woman carefully asks you j to hold her gloves aud her vanity case while the grocer adjusts the weights. Conyright, 1917, by The Prem Pubtidving Ov, (The Now York Breniog World.) 6eé O, really, it's just a cold. I N haven't been crying,” eaid Mrs. Jarr over the telephone. “No, really, you're mistaken. And if it were so would I admit it?” listened tn the front room. “What was tt? Who called you up on the telephone to have you tell them that ‘Although Your Heart Was Breaking You'd Be All Smiles To- Night’? asked Mr. Jarr when hi good lady came back from the tel phone. “Ob, you're generally not #0 inter- ested in what I gay,” replied Mre. Jarr, “but it's an olf saying that ‘Listeners never bear any good of themselves.’ * “Meaning?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Oh, nothing,” sald Mra. Jarr. “Clara Mudridge-@mith called me up |on the phone to say Mre. Stryver was at her house and wanted to know if I would go downtown shopping with them in her car, for they both have (helr own town cars—and I haven't.” Mrs, Jarr said this last as though her life were blighted, “T am a@ Uttle hoarse,” Mre. Jarr went on, “and poor Clara--although she ts the most seltish creature in the world—is #0 good hearted, she thought T had been crying, and I know ahe and Mrs, Stryver believe you have been abusing me." | ‘Didn't you tell them I wasn't— | that I never abuse you?” asked the | best of husbands, “Oh, of course,” eald Mra. Jarr, “but (they expected me to say THAT!" Mr. Jarr sulked and said no more, but when he came home the next evening he had forgotten all about the matter, Mrs. Jarr, it was evident, had gotten home just before him. Mr, Jarr ad- vanced to present her with # hus- bandly six o'clock kiss. “Oh, don't kiss me, your nose is @ can't deceive a woman, he sometimes tries ' cold!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Thy heart 1s colder, good dame,” said Mr, Jarr, in bis best Shakespear- A widow must be an acoomplished actress in order to appear blasé and | ean manner. | worldly enough to charm all the callow youths, and innocent and unso- phisticated enough to satisfy all the old worldlings. Next to the woman who fs always late for an appointment, nobody bores and anuoys a man so much as the woman who {s always on time. A girl can sometimes tell, the moment ehe meets a man, whether or not she could love him; but If she's wise she: won't—until she has kept him guessing a while, Sometimes a frock {8 a lot easter to hook than to unhook—and go {s a | nusdand, “The children will bear you talk- ing that way,” said Mrs. Jarr. “What will they think?” “They'll think my nose {s cold and HE Hidden River, in Kentucky, cl bi is so called because its source is unknown and its outlet un- discoverable, short distance only, It comes to light for a runs turbidly along without ripples or tides over its pale blue waters and vanishes into @ cave leading no one knows where, A Mr. Jarr pricked up his care as he you wouldn't kiss me Your nose, should be cold too, you've just come | home from shopping, haven't you?” and Mr, Jarr regarded her etreet a tire and also indicated by @ nod some) parcels on the table, “Yes, but Clara Mudridge-Smith had me in her closed car with Mrs. Stryver, and they brought mo home| to the door, And her limousine has| an electrio heater, Oh, I'll kiss you! when your nose gets warm, but I hate to kiss @ cold nose, That's why 1 never ike lap dogs. And that re-| minds me that Clara Mudridge-Smith | has the doveliest little white Pom, It) looka Iike @ curly feather for a hat, | it'e so small and white and fluffy.” | “It could be called a Pom-Pom then?” queried Mr, Jarr, who would have his little joke, even though his cold nose got # rejection in kind, “Well, I think it's @ ridiculous Iittle beast,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and I would as eoon think of kissing”"—— “Your husband?" suggested Mr. Jerr, “You don't deserve any kisses,” re- plied Mrs. Jarr, “Oh, if you could have heard how Mrs. Stryver and Clara Mudridge-Smith advised me) this day! What would they think, what do they think?” “I doubt if those two mush-minded matrons have any mental processes,” sald Mr. Jarr, “or if they DO think {t is too much of themselves and nothing at all of any one else.” “You never mind!” remarked Mrs. Jarr. “If you heard how they advised me this day, and tf you could have seen the things they bought me!” “I suppose I could see if you were to open yonder packages,” replied Mr, Jarr. “But how did they advise you? Any tips on Wall Street? Hes Mr, Stryver got any more Washington leaka 2” “You never mind,” sald Mrs, Jarr; “you never mind! And maybe,” and here her eyes filled with tears, “and maybe they are right. They are more experienced than I am; maybe they are right!" “Right? Jarr. “In saying that I am foolish te put up with what I do—from you!” sniffed Mrs. Jarr, “Why, look; you've been home half an hour and you haven't kissed me!” How right?” asked Mr. By Bide Ellabelle Mae Doolittle Dudley HE Women's Betterment League of Delhi held an toe cream} social Friday afternoon at the! home of Mrs. Pliny Boggs, for the! purpose of raising funds with which to purchase a new hammock for Gen- | eral Jackson Park, in the heart of the city. A total of $2.80 was col- lected and Mrs Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress of the J#ague, an. | nounced that the social bad been) highly successful. “I want to congratulate you, ladies, on your generosity,” she said. "For @ long Ume the hammock in General Jackson Park has been unsafe for people to recline in, and so raggedy looking that only those with little| self-respect would essay to ride it Now that we have raised $2.80 we can hammock and present it 7 “It will be a fine thing {f intoxtc tion can be kept out of it,” eaid M Skeeter O'Brien. "I have noticed | that every time @ certain man of this eity gets under tho Influence of | tanglefoot he makes for that park hammock and slegps there. What makes it worse, hid wife 1s a member of this league,’ | “Name him, please,” said Ellabelle | Mae Doolittle, the great poetess of Delhi, sweetly. Sha was the only un- married person present) The others arose from thelr chairs aud shouted “Nol” Ooryriait, 1917, by The Prem Pustshing Oo, (The New York Krening World.) “Seema to me you're all scared,” said Mra, O'Brien. “Yos,” replied Mre, Boggs. “We're afraid you'll humiliate yourself un- necessarily,” Who. me?" shouted Mra, O’Brien. LF creed But Miss Doolittle held up one hand. “Stlence, please!” she sald, "I have here a poem about the ham- mock which I would read. It ts orlg- inal.” The ladies became quiet and Mise Doolittle read as follows: 4 ou hammock for th park, meets with my a a roruag_ lar randy 1 ‘the “hemmoc! We can ming and hare 2 tn body, ~ . swing. in the hammock, Grandpa, at me that you do uot look ahoddg, id, Teeney Rickettd, edn ‘Dyas, Buin tiinow Juat_how tt oosirred, nd the complete ‘ata the new hammock And then there's old He can taal rest Brin B k tn thee 9 ry ‘eeredit to our t dat ly ow neeaking o'er the wa Aud little birds chirp all around, Finishing the rhyme, Miss Doolittle bowed and retired behind the cake table. Promptress Pertle arose, “T think we should extend a vote of thanks to Miss Doolittle for” her nebitudinous poem,” she said. “he has certainly honored us.” secretary was instructed to prepare the vote of thanks and Miss» Doolittle blushed and bowed again, ‘The ladies then stood up and cheered two minutes. All were pleased, cone f