The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 16

{i | | | ——— The eathiitg World, SHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ed at the Port-Office at New York aw Second Bud: tion Ra 9 The | vening | Jor England @ =s World for the United States | All Countries tn the International and Canada. ‘ostal Union. One Y $3.50 + $9.75 One Mont olo saisie —. ee a ee VOLUME 5%. ’ ———___ “NO CHOICE.” communication is that HE upshot of the latest German i tf Imperial Governy lespairing of getting the peace con- clave it desired, from this day forth lares for “intensified continuation of the war Submarine warfare will constit rim part of the intensity. Barred zones are marked off on the seas which touch Great Brita n, France and Italy and jn the Eastern Mediterranean, American ships are warned against enterin these barred zones, unless they consent to travel, as in the case of transatlantic passenger steamships, by German schedule. American citizens travelling on ships of other nations through the barred zones do so, it would appear, at their| peril. Pledges that unresisting merchant without warning are off. So far as this nation is concerned, Germany's merciful intentions toward Belgium, her yearnings for freedom of the seas and the peaceful and undisturbed development of peoples, are for the momey utterly beside the mark. If the Imperial Government’s messag» means anything it means that Germany deliberately resumes the ruthless and lawless methods of warfare on sea against which in the name of humanity and international law this nation made its solemn protest. The latest German move may be only the last bluff of a desperate belligerent. But bluff or not, it arouses the instant and alert atten tion of the United States, Even from the “lofty heights of impartiality” to which the Impe- rial German Government begs us to ascend there is but one view of the present situation. In the final note on the Sussex case the President said: If it {8 still the purpose of the Imperial Government to Prosecute relentless and indiscriminate warfare against vessels of commerce by the use of submarines without regard to what the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of international law and the universally recognized dic- tates of humanity, the Government of the United States is at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. ¢ Unless the Imperial Government should immediately de | clare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight carrying ves- sels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Pmpire } altogether, | Nothing could be plainer. Nothing is more certain than that neither Count von Bernstorff nor the Imperial Government which he represents has done anything that widens the range of choice, to-day. | ——————+2—____ OPPORTUNITY, NOT BARS. HEN a gathering of east side organization workers in this rity the other night cheered the President’s veto of an immigration bill which would exclude illiterate immigrants, the cheer came straight from first-hand knowledge and experience Nobody familiar with New York’s foreign born has the slightest doubt as to what this country can do and is constantly doing in the, way of making good and useful citizens out of many who can neither read nor write their own language when they arrive here. Proofs present themselves by thousands, Thasa reveated attempts to put up literacy bara, whether insti- ted by jealous labor or by race prejudice, should be everywhere so thoroughly defeated and discouraged that they will cease, They «re an-American. They deliberately betray one of the nation’s most sacred trusts—to keep itself forever open to all who seek a chance, honestly and without danger to others, to better their lot. What woieed is not more bars against the immigrant but more opportunities and inducements for the immigrant to cast off his alienism and become an out-and-out American, Americanization, the principle upon which The Evening World based its Forum plan, should be the first aim and end of all legis- lation which tries to deal with the alien problem, At the present moment the tide of immigration is not #0 high, nor the supply of unskilled workers so excessive in. the United States, that organized labor or any other interest need feel impelled to meddle with the immigration laws. President Wilson is the third President to veto tHe literacy test bill applying to aliens. ‘This is the second time he has vetoed such a measure Il not be sunk a The moment has come for all good Americans to make it plain that a veto of this sort defends—and must always defend—their best conception of Ameri- canism, —_-4-—_____. History owes many @ dark and blood-smeared line to the kind of “consclentious objection” that plotted to polson Lioyd George. teacher and co-operate accordingly. ee — - a What 1s good for the goose is not al- ——~ | ways good for the gander. One student . > may be able to take up more than Letters Prom the People |pindttnt sees momien Can You Imagine Itt got there, ao elled 135 tear. To the HAitor of The Kveuing W fast he has travelled 185 miles | “ST sretore, it behooves the parent or In reference to the cannon ball! The whele problem is misleading, | #Uardian to view the child as an tn-} problem, it is ridiculous to conceive | Pecause a train rarely travels ninety . cannon ball golng only forty. | Mles an hour and a cannon ball never # & cannes ball going only forty: | coos slower than at a rete ut 1,800 | ‘five miles an hour, My answer to the| miles per hour W. st Problem 1% that the ball would be| FIM Im Anawers This travelling at the rate of 135 miles per} Janation, ARY WOLLSTONPCRAPT hour Te Bator of The Evening World “ . o | Imagine, Instead of a cannon ball, 4 United States Ciy vice GODWIN, ‘whe later became & man riding on @ bicycle at the rate | Commission application for examing the wife af the post Shelley, of forty-five miles an hour, Imagine | tion they ask these questions gine Ky _ ninety mile A jong, On | you ever in the United States military craft, author of the which this man could ride. Start | or naval service? In what company, | “i Facaan tt him at the rear end of the train iinent, or on what. vessel? ( 3g | the Rights of Women,” died sixty-six let him ride toward the front give service in State Milltia,) ||¥ears ago to-day. Her mother was a| train, travelling at the rate of clone to the State Militia and was {noted radical and revolutionist and a| awfully iniles an hour, would have progressed ) mustered into the regular service and |writer of ability, She attacked the | ninety miles in one hour from its| went down to the border, I received | institution of marriage, but after sev. | starting point. In other words, the| my discharge down there and am |¢ experiences of “tree rear of the train at the end of oi now about to take an examination | unic ame t hour would have gone ninety miles, | for a position with the Government. | Goer died in 1797 in. giving ‘The man meanwhile has ridden forty- | Please « Av isu me 4s to how I should |pimh to her daughter Mary, five miles an hour on the train and | answer these questions J. 8. | It was in 1817 that Mra. Bhelley is forty-five miles from the rear to- | Without Arrows or Rays, 61.50 to $4, wrote her great novel, “Franken. ward the front. The train stops and | To tbe FAitor of The Lvening Wor |stein,” and, after the death of her, the man {9 185 miles from his starting How much {# an 1858 quarter|husband in 1822, she wrote several Point, It bas taken him one hour to worth? EC, D, |other novela, Evening tl li 98 nad tic dene World Daily Magazine \ A Regular Customer Protests.:: MILK TRUST OTHE ER Be hi b OBR — | ¢ J morice | prices wit} | | by The Press Yor «,, BY J. H. Cassel | and hotly resented any criticism of his dear country. Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Copvright, 1017, by The Drow Publishing, Co, (Tie New York ventng World) © | NO. 45.—JAMES FENIMORE COOPER; the Boy Adventurer, paemeee 1 worthy Mr. Cooper of Cooperstown was in despair over the wie conduct of ‘his scapegrace son, James. . ‘The boy had every chance in the world, ‘The waye were smoothed for him by his father’s wealth and soctal position. He was ordained to live the placid life of a rich country gentleman of scholars ly tastes, And, in spite of all these plans for his future, the lad’s madly \iventurous spirit was forever getting him into disgrace. His father’s mansiow, Otsego Hall, was in the heart of the New York wilderness, The lad reveled in his home's remoteness, Instead of learning “deportment” and other dull accomplishments, he loved to roam the forests, to study woodcraft, to fish, to hunt, to watch the customs of the Indians. ‘ James was sent to a select school in Albany. There he studied well enough, But he speedily got into trouble with an aa are u States, James was an spoke slurringly of the young United Hs I on the subject. Indeed, to the day of his death, he was forever quarreling’ florcely on all kinds of subjects. At thirteen—in 1802—he entered Yale Collage. Lessons were easy Sow him—so easy that he did not bother to study. Instead, he roved through thie Connecticut woods when the weather was good. An@ ® when it was bad he employed himself in getting inte fesse dla } mischief, wilcomnmen’d His pranks at college kept him In contioual bot water. When he was fifteen a particularly bad sorape Back he came to Otsego Hall and to his diegusted led to his expulsion. father. ‘ The father sought some drastic method of curbirg the iad’s reckieag spirit. ‘And he decided to send him to aea, Acowedingly, James shipped Bee fore the mast on an England-bound ship. He had found a job that was to his taste, And when he returned te America he begged his father to secure a commission for him in the United States navy. Hopeless of doing anything else with the headstrong lad, Mr, Coopes consented. Family influence won for James a commission as midshipmait, and he was packed off to Lake Ontario, where a sixteen-gun brig wae to be built. The Ontario region was wild, And again the lad had « chance tq improve his knowledge of Indians and of forest-lore, This sort of education did not promise much in the way of advaneee ment, But, like all knowledge, it was destined to be useful. The boys exe perience with the sea, with Indians and trappers, and with the trackless forests, was one day to give a deathless charm and power to his books Yet, at this time and for long afterward, he gave no sign of the iterary genius that smouldered unsuspected in his br He had no especial tong ness for reading or for etudy of any kind, He much preferred adventure @ scholarly pursults. The colorlessly formal novels of that day seemed to him utterly worthe less. They told of tamely insipid drawing-room peninga, And Ji loved only outdoor life, Yet it was his disilke for this dull fiction that at last led him to writing. One day, in early manhood, he yawningly finighe@ Minging it dross the room im reading such a novel. contempt, he growled “L could write a better story myself!” “Then, why don't you?” some one idly suggested, “ shall,” was James's quiet retort. And he set to work at the task—throwing {nto {t all the zeal an@ Bery energy he had brought to his madcap adventures. To his own eurprisa:he found the work enthrallingly interest ‘ en if the tales he read e stupid, he found he could write tales were not. He found, too, that he could enthrall a waiting world with: Nana How Hie First Book Was Born. mo stories of the Great Outdoors—the chronicle of the forests, of the Indlang of the sea, of the adventures that ho loved. By Sophie Irene Loeb pyright. 1017. by The Pres Publishing Vo, COP Ta New York Brening Welt he ND now two high achool pupils dividual and not as a pupil of an en-| school tre scl what can accomplish Sometimes it is this ambition tn the ol—to be able to accomplish very other pupil in the school as well, are reported suffering from | Parent that makes him or bd less | lath ; cautious as to the effect of over- jd pla * nervous breakdown, on a0-|mudy. ‘There ts no teacher. in any | pl count, of over-|echool that will not willingly find study and “cram- ming” for exam- inations, One of them was taken to a hospital. And there are many unrecorded cases like thi When, oh when, will parents learn to keep watch over tired nerves, which have be- pass"—"'to pass?” How many chil- dren are on the verge of madness as the time approaches to take a test? The very thought of the ordeal ts some way to help Johnny if ho ts not well enough to study as hard as the others. 4 mishap or @ disgrace to not “keep up" in the class. Certainly {t 1s bet- ter for the future welfare to fall be- hind than to fall ill, There are various other reasons for these breakdowns, dren aro With a public school ny promoted by the efforts of The Lve- ning World, every child may secure & wholesome meal at school, ‘To study much and not to give the| play It should not be considered | {t Hundreds of chil- properly nourish lunoh syst not do not Sometimes they lose the spirit of play altogether; and {t is the most blessed thing in the world, for youth and age go out inte have enough play. As « rule, the great workers of the just ax hard, when thay y, as they work when they work. It is the spirit that Js put in work or that creates the benefit. To play with all your might makes possible to. work Parents should certainly promote the possibilities of play times: Hundreds of young men and women in the high school grow old too early. They assume the burdens of manhood and womanhood 4, Still be enjoying games. Too soon must such boys and girls | souvenir post cards, automatic cigar the world at the end of livelihood, | and overstudy may get! them the examination, but often it the same way. when they should to make a body sufficient fuel for the purpose | Undermines the strength which they Many children do not get enough exercise while they are studying hard. They come from the crowded school house into the close room at home. They do not have enough fresh air. come overwrought in am ansiety “ta f one of the chief causes of the col- | Need most in the work- Better spend another six months or @ year and take the educational meal @ little more slowly than afterward to call in the medicine man, After all, weight of the mental machinery, the most {mportant thing is to be physi- day world. in order to carry the often the forerunner of the break-| Others, when they get to high cally fit. down, The fear thought of examina- SE tion ts more often the cause of Ill-| 3 * They always talk who never think.—Prior, ness than the forethought of it, The average parent will blame {t on the school. They will say that too much ts given for the child to master. Many suggest doing away with examinations, Yet, when all is said and done, the whole thing depends upon the child itself, and no one can know just how much it can stand as the parent. From babyhood the parent has learned to detect every sign of weak- ness that is manifested in the little one, Therefore, the parent who watches closely ray surely be the best judge of the child's condition as to overstudy. When ident, every parent should take it up with the such condition is | other “saints, Bach elor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland. A woman's life {s spent on an altar. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, between bis golf-mania and his religion. them. ony The New York Evening Worl.) OVE 1s that emotion which occuples a spot somewhere in a man's soul Of course, polygamy ts dreadful; but, at Jeast, an Orlental wite can come within four or five guesses of knowing where her husband spends his evenings. The only perfectly sure way of being happy In marriage, dearie, 1s to forgive a man for every possible sin you can think of, before he begins committing When a man falls in love with a woman he places a halo on her head, a pedestal under her feet and then at Heaven because she doesn't grow wings and perform miracles, like ‘There isn't much you can teach a man about women who knows enough Were |Was the daughter of Mary Wollstone-| & Pretend that they are all such fascinating mysteries that he doesn’t “un- Vindication of | derstand” them, Any Httle man can forgive a woman for her sins, but {t takes an big man to forgive her for all her little foibles. Tove may have {ts I!mitattons, but there ts no limit to the price you wife of William | pay for it, nor fo the ennul of the one who happens to get over it first She is always worshipping some- ‘thing-—an ideal, a fad, an art, a dog, a man—or herself. Take care of @ woman's vanity—and her love will take care of itself, The Jarr Family Cardell Copyright, 1917, by The Prees Publishing Co. | | (The New York Evening World.) 166] OOK at that!” cried Mra, Jarr, | halting Mr. Jarr in front of | | that repository of all sorts —the modern drug store, where one| can buy books, candy, stationery, cigars, stamps, soaps, bathing caps, | salted almonds, temperance drinks— and, ‘tis said, even medicine. Mr. Jarr looked Into the drug store window, There, with framed pictures of movie actresses, electric trons, hair | curlers, fountain pens, dollar watches, lighters, encyclopaedias, and drugs, was a glass sectional beehive with the bees finishing up a non- union day's work mixing home-made honey. “We could have flowers inboxes on the window ledge and have our own honey,” suggested Mrs. Jarr. “So you want to keep a bee now?" queried Mr, Jarr, “Keep a bee to make our own table honey fresh every hour?” “I'm sure they would be no more trouble than the gold fish. Cla’ Mudridge-Smith told me gold fish were hoodoos; besides gold fish pro- duce nothing for the table,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “They could supply fresh fish suggested Mr. Jarr. You belleved all that your friend, that awful Dinkston, told you about {ce worms and his trained Moxican Jumping beans and making anchovy paste from ants,” Mrs, Jarr declared. “But I do know that bees make honey, and I do know they are neat and intelligent and industrious, “You speak as though you could train an intelligent bee or two to do your general housework,” remarked Mr, Jarr.” “They wouldn't be as much trouble as chickens,” Mrs, Jarr went on, not heeding his remarks, “Anyway, we couldn't keep chickens In the flat.” “Nor a cow, and cows lay milk. It's too bad that cows are not sedentary and house-broke, We might have fresh laid milk right in our own apartments,” Mr. Jarr retorted, “You talk nonsense!” said Mrs. Jarr, “I got to thinking about chick- ens because bees lay egge—at least the queen bee does “Oh! A queen bee lays layers of eggs, I'll admit; but I do not think there would be much nutriment in bees’ eggs. Still, bees would be less trouble, Bees don't cackle when they lay eggs. Bees don't fly into your neighbor's garden and ecratch up his flower be “Look! There's @ man tn charge | Honolulu, | Boola Boola! of the bees. He's dressed all in white,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “Let us go in and talk to him and ask him how much a get of bees 1s worth.” sald Mr, Jarr; “I don't think it’s a bee man. It looks to me like @ naval Heutenant tenor tn a musical show, You know, he always arrives In the nick of time to save the heroine from the natives. He is always ac- companied by a gallant throng of lady Jackies !n nautical tights diag- ging in a puasteboard machine gun and waving the Old Flag. Then he sings @ song about a maid he met in| Mrs, Jarre that who always danced the) thoroughly hula-hula and sang Wacky Woo Ga jay ¢ And then another gang that effect of dames prance In, dressed tn short) Myx. Jarr pour . petticoats made of corn husks and in a jittlo iain vox vhletaane twine and wearing orange colored | contained « honeycomb Paper necklaces three feet long and) When Mr. Jarr got them home and an inch thick, as though they had| Seened he box to let a few of them just escaped from a cubist lynch Xercise, you know what hap. pened ing’—— Mr, Jarr almost sald "Be Yes, he got stung good and plenty, but corrected added “party.” But Mrs. Jarr had left him and was entering the drug Mr. Jarr followed her was pleased to note on moro careful examination that the man In white was not a musical show naval lieutenant tenor, he was mage culine be he's a milkman, or @ street sweeper—one shouldn't Jump at conclusions and condemn anybody by Appearances," muttered Mr. Jarr te hims The bee herder himself in time and stor n white was telling all the bees were broken to harness and @ vuld drive them, or words te The History of H andkerchiefs- —— HE handkerchief ts associated) Vor nearly eight cent in history rather with romance pandkeroh ef would geem writ tee or with religious mystietsim tarepbesred | from general only than with the prosate, inently lot Fnghet, Png aye of Henry lL practical use for which It exists tn| ward it” figured tae ye ; strip of linen in ne x modesa mes, The first evidence of its | 8710 of linen tn nearly every aust exiaterce as an article of everyday | Mini", use 1s found in Egypt tn the time of |;pj.i% (ET Of Queen Elizabeth, thus in the promottos ‘ the Ptolemys, when as an object of and of all handicmty of art lettere rare price beyond the reach of the/*!"ning of the " © be- ustom of embroider. S with lac ne the initial, » 5 common people, it was coveted as an | j08 hindierchi amulet, the possession of which was | arms of the owure Mtns te coat supposed to Insure the bearer against Setting the fashion, By Sg Derealt all physical 1s, of her court. the ho ndkerentce es Among the Moors about one thou- lot tia fine Tetoken: long sand years before the Christian era | lace being tendered tems with gold this delicate strip of linen was ac-| Who we heir favorites, © the token In thetr hats. cgpted as a token of love, the ex-} But in contrast to the i change of a handkerchief between a |" ntle sido of its charactor 4 t+ sultor and the woman of his choice] has jon put aaah handkerehiet Ueing accepted an a pledge of thelr) played”in history, ° oe PAPE bea troth, And from this arose the prac- Hees tiovernment, in the absenes tice common among Eastern poten- orn pe Newspaper, did not dis. tates of finging @ handkerchief at | for casting inoalenen aml moana she who found favor in their sight, |lVered by Quern Aya th? ddrens dee From Egypt the handkerchiet| IM 0! Parliament, and this gees travelled to Greece, and thence to ue oF eee in eee Rome, there to find favor among the | the vietiriog et syeh, commemorated luxury loving women of the period of | French aud of the treaty my (NEE the Alcibiades. In old pictures and vases eS, Jacobite revolution aie Grecian women are tnvariably repre-|the old aon , Dethinking himselt of sented in pensive mood with large | Well in, Served the clothe held in their right hand, while | 4! eri’ of Anne's eign uot SHU Juvenal tn one of bis most savage Kerrhinry | N88 "ral thousand Nand: moods condemns the use of fine hand- | yong rreignner sat these. of the kerohlets by the fashionable women escaped and. worn iy ietents# who had of Rome as a y of affectation | portraits, sent all in hiding ‘These and extravagance likely to exolte the Jand hunt npon ser’ ,th® country resentment of the mass of the people |to the capture and seen ian Wall, ted and to bring about revolution. fugitives, Kecution of any