The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1917, Page 10

ity Corio. JOSEPH PULITZER. Pr Publishing Company, > York. “ogt- Offige at New York en Aecond-Class Mater, Te real For Engle and re ts Sonatien tnt inter VOLUME 87...csccccccpeomescesesssscesseeeees NO, 20,255 | ALREADY SEVERED. HE tone of the German press, the speech of the German Chan-' cellor to the Reichstag Budget Committee, the further German memorandum which announces with curt barbarity: “All ships met with in that zone will be sunk”—only make the troth: clearer ; The relations between this country and Germany are, to all intente and purposes, already severed. Tt does not need the pointed assurance of von Bethmann-Hollweg that Germans are ready to “accept all the consequences which unre- stricted U boat warfare may bring” to suggest what Germany’s atti- tude toward us must be were we to continue to address her even in formal terms of friendship or esteem. i Insults of the sort the Imperial Government has offered the United States are instant. They do not need diplomacy to point out, or interpret them. Diplomacy has only to register, according to its codes, their prompt and, it may be, progressive effects. ! The plain fact is, in all that relates to national friendliness, for- bearance or respect, this country turned its shoulder upon Germany, the hour the proclamation by the Imperial Government of @ return to submarine murder was made public. | The more one considers it the more heinous, the more unpar-| donable appears Germany’s repudiation of her pledge. In exacting that pledge the United States acted in no small degree as the Tepre-| sentative of law and humanity. When last May the Imperial Gov- ernment agreed that unresisting merchant vessels should not be sunl:| without warning or without saving life, it specifically admitted its | agreement to be “in accordance with the general principles of visit | and search and the destruction of merchant vessele recognized by| international law.” | In repudiating her obligations toward humanity Germany cor.-| mits a crime far worse than mere breach of faith affecting another | Government. From the point of view of civilization she commits the | worst of all crimes—deliberate descent and degradation into depths of brutality and barbarism. In spirit, at least, this nation is not waiting to break with Ger- many. The thing is done. The cleft opened sharp and wide four! days ago. Diplomacy can fuss with its forms. But all good Amcri-| is are at last convinced that Germany under its present guidance ta a desperate, murderous, menacing force and are prepared to have to deal with it as such. -——--——_————— A RIVERSIDE CONTRACT FORUM. OPENING its columns to a public discussion of the Riverside | improvement contract between the city and the New York Centrai Railroad Company, The Evening World aims first of all to giv the average citizen a chance to learn the points he ought to know as! to the bearings of this most important bargain directly from the men| who have looked after the city’s end. | For many montlis past the Mayor and members of the Board of timate have been responsible for careful scrutiny of the Riverside improvement plans and conscientious safeguarding of the city’s intor-| ests. The form in which plaus and contract finally appear is too bulky and technical for busy New Yorkers to digest and appraise for themselves. Yet they have a right not only to know the essential out- lines of the plan, but to hear such criticisms and objections as more expert analysis produces, It would scem, therefore, that city officials who have given their best brains to the contract and who assume responsibility for it might welcome an opportunity to answer questions and clear up doubtful points by means of concise, simple explanations that everybody can grasp. The west side improvement project involves not only important realty and traffic readjustments, but the treatment of one of the! finest water fronts possessed by any city in the world. It involves besides land transfers, conveyance of permanent overhead, surface and underground rights and transformation of special franchises into perpetual private privileges to an extent which may mean the loss of millions of dollars in taxes to the city in future, | The sooner all weak or doubtful spots in the contract are frank!y| gone over the better. In pronouncing it constitutionally and legally sound, Lawyer Hughes did not say it was the best and fairest deal from the point of view of the city that wisdom and foresight could! obtain, The latter is for municipal officers and experts to demon- strate. | If it is a bad bargain, now is the time to find it out. If it is a good bargain, misunderstandings should be got rid of. Hither way, the Mayor and the Board of Estimate can perform no better service than to answer questions which arise concerning it in terms that will] make its provisions and probable effects clear to a wider public _—_—_ Judging by the first three days, the shortest month means |tain which was right. VELA ot Rein peligcn, Copyright, 1017. by The Krewe Publishing Co, (ive New York Evening World.) No. 46—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the Boy Strategtat. NINE-YEAR-OLD Corsican boy wes sent in 1778 to the great French military school at Brienne, His name was Ni Buonaparte, You know him as “Napoleon Bonaparte.” He wae a shy, bad tempered youngster, with an enormous bead, « thim H Nttle body and epindling legs. Big as was his head, his eyes looked too big for it. He spoke French with a strong Italian accent—he did this to the day of bis death—and when be was angry his harsh voice rose to a ecreec®, | “9, i ha was Feenimater your own schooldays know how a wut aa be | ikely to treat such @ lad. His schoolmates teas . | Sieraraipautst tae hea of seeing him fly Into one of his screaming rages, A teacher once warned him to keep his crazy temper under better contrel. hed back the hot retort: | why. weed I keep my temper? Is it a general's place to keep hie | temper? That is for subordinates. I am going te be — a general, All I ask of my fellow-students here te | A Shadow } that they keep out of my way and leave me atone.” 3 of the Future. From the first, at Brienne, young Bonaparte showed | ® an almost uncanny genius for strategy. While other ! lads were spending their brief lelsure time in play he | was forever reading military tactics or the atories of campaigns and was | making rough sketches of imaginaly forts and of battle formations. | Life at Brienne was cruelly severe, The boys slept in stone cella; om hard cots, with no covering but a thin rug. Thelr work was endless, thelr ‘food coarse and meagre. The school course was six years. During that time no pupil was permitted to go home. Ilistory, mathematics, geography and military drill were hammered into the young cadets’ brains from dawn to dark. ; On all this treatment Ills brilliant skill as a strate egist led to his election, by his fellows, as a company commander, He drilled and otherwise ruled his comp: so dictatorily and treated its mem-~ bers with such contempt that presently the cadets degraded him from rank. Yapoleon throve. Instead of feeling shame at his degradation he calmly went back to hie old place in the ranks, saying: “1 refuse to answer the charges made to me whether I am a captain or a private, The lonely boy well knew he was the most unpopular school. But, if it made any difference to more and more remote from others and study for no one and lived solely for lily His genius for tactic one of the two sides in a apr ted to command the de Such forts hitherto had be to defend. But Bonaparte set his followers to t scientific principles. When {t was finished stratex miles around came to stare at it in admiring wonde For it matters little inst me member of the m, he did not show it, keeping ng more diligently, He cared to choose lim as leader for the winter of 1783, He was easy to storm, hard \iding & snow-fort on ts and old soldiers for of snow Bonaparte did more. He so manipulated defenders that the ate tacking party we not only unable to capture the weer fort, but were claverly caught between two fires and i The Mimic } forced to surrent it was an achlevement wholly ttle. new to Brienne school histor And it belped give APRs Llekaaee | Bonaparte his first upward step. For, through the t of his skill as a strategist, he was one boys chosen out of the whole school to go to the military academy tn 'PI here to learn to be an offer in France's army. he Unpopular, solitary, utterly selfish, feared for his deadly temper, Botte parte then began his ¢limb of life's laduer, a climb that was ene dayste crown him Emperor of the Fren - > But, like all who live for self alo’ as the boys who feared and hated hi of his captainey at school, so later did th feared him combine to tear him down repe not saitng, Even once combined to depose hin: European rulers who hated an ‘om his throne, ° i There are many things that you By Sophie Irene Loeb. | .,7¢r,,tr3 many things that, you Congright. 1917, by The Pree Publishing Oo. | wedding. It is “for better or for (Tan New York Brening World.) URING the week the courts chronicled the case of @ mau who is suing his wife for di- worse.” There is no experimental stay The time for experiment is before aud not after marriage. It ts the preliminary proof of the Possibilities of the partnership. ‘Too many people marry on the advice of others. An honest instinct is much more sure than all the advice tn the world—where the happiness of two lives is concerned. Too many people (ake marriage as an event rather than an epoch, an experiment rather than an existence, as a@ short lei rather than a long lifetime, When the trial is over they beg for a dissolution of the firm in divorce proceeding Some go on and are happy again; but for others, many others, the probation has proved such a bitter experience that the capacity for later love and more companion- ship is tmpaired, if not lost alto- gether ‘Thus those who in the spring of life Mghtly turn to thoughts of marriage Her answer was that he bad married her as an expert- ment. Some of her comments are as follows: “He taunts me with his superior } education and just a nature study | did he marry me. Many people ad- vised him to marry @ girl with the ex- act views he has; others advised him to marry just the opposite ‘This he claims be did, and wants to ascor- Thus I am vorce. ‘ get overturned in thelr fancy and classed an experiment wake up to find that marriage is an “Perhaps I am very foolish and / institution and not an invention, sentimental, but I do so long for love cele Aerie it oad yl it otiol y ect he: and affection. All my life it has been Those who think long and marry denied me, and I thought when I] slowly rarely end up like this couple married I'd be happy They are more willing to study each me smile, for| other before the vows are taken am I not supposed to be happily| ‘They measure up the values of each narried? Have J not a beautiful! to the other, home? But that 1s all they think.| After all, the true test is the en- If only they knew. It is the old case} durance of love. If it falters be- of—what will people say?” fore it will certainly fail after. —_————_-4-——____ Virtue is like precious odors—most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed,—Francis Bacon | Dollars and Sense _ By H. J. Barrett , “ce OW that winter is upon us,” | brakes upon a satisfactory volume of to leave ite mark this year said the superintendent of a [OW!PUL | manufacturing plant, “te {yar problem te be ean itt L ette Ts F rom t h e P eop 1 e heating and ventilation problem |compotent specialist. But, in general, ahead of the car at five miles an hou Your correspondent, C. L. A., com- Piicates the question by introducing gravity and air resistance, which | would put the solution of the motion of the bali beyond the capacity of or- dinary readers, SCIENTIST, eke Colm Values, To the Ealltor of The Waning World I received no answer to my coin | query recently submitted, so I pre. sume to your knowledge they are Worth face value only. However, 1 have certain 1. V, D. Lincoln peonies and 1909 Indian head pennies, for which | understand a small premium ie offered. May I submit the question to your readers? the rate of forty- ring the speed of an object we should always remember that we are dealing with @ relative quantity. In thie case the train has a speed of Binety miles an hour relative to the earth, and when the ball is fired from the train in the direction of {ts mo- Mon at @ speed of forty-five miles an hour, then (leaving gravity and re- sistance of air out of the question) the ball has a 6 of forty-five miles reletive to the train, and forty-five miles plus ninety miles, or 185 iniles an hour rei to the earth. Supposing the ball was fired trom vhe back end of the car towards the front. It would go through the length of the car in the same time as it would do if the car was stationary provied, of course, that the car was| ANT READER, | | ve Conta, | ‘mere with uniform velocity, And | To the kau oo oe there was 0 gravitation or head What is the value of a J eo resistance it would continue to move! States penny dated 1803? J, BG looms large It is only of late years |!t that efficiency experts have realized the close connection between these factors and volume of production, “Just as @ reduction in working hours has, to the management's sur- prise, often resulted in a@ greater out- Put, so the installation of an expen- sive heating and ventilating equip- ment, for purely humanitarian mo- , almost always proved ty be @ did investment, 4% been found desirable to ba ® warmed incoming uir discharge at @ considerable height floor and distance from The stream from the the walls, then directed toward i It cools and descends N exit in vents located in the wally near the floor. I am re. ferring now to @ combined heating and ventilating system in blowers are used to distribute air from outside, “But the main point is to have the Man's efficiency is just as de- jone best system no matter what the Pendent upon a copious supply of}oost. For the proper conditions react pure air of the right temperature as! promptly upon the operatives’ effcl- it 18 Upon is having a suificieat IT know of one caso where the @mount of nourishing food volume was increased 30 per cent. as An overheated shop means ener-|a direct result of substituting a good vation and listlessness; an unders em for one which was totally in- heated one means restricted output | adequate. Against this gala, the cost because of the stiffening, paralyzing|of the system and lis upkeep. was effect of cold negligible, ™ the final analysis, it's “And equally important as the tem-| your men who make your money. perature item is that of the per-)Give them satisfactory working con- gentage of humidity: ‘Too much! ditions, and you will reap a rich ro- huaidity ta one of the most Dinding ward tn actual dollars and cents.” whioh | When love is “on the Job" you can give and forgive much; and when it gone you may as weil quit. | ‘What people say” will not ease the |sorrow of the heart; and keeping up the appearance of love is a travesty | that produces double punishment, “To thine own self be true” ia the [best thing we have yet—where real | happiness is concerned, Therefore, |learn the faults and frailttes before | |the wedding tune ts played, Consider long before you marry. | There are those who will teil us| that you can't know anybody until | You marry them, but if you know | jthem long enough before marriage there will not be much to discover | ‘afterward. ‘The big mistakes of mar- riage ave those made in haste. Re- pentance always comes more leisurely It is much better to be sure of your chance for happiness than to expect | happiness on ac The Week’ s Wash remarked the head polisher, “the German Government has certainly handed us something.” “It depends on how you look at it,” said the laundry mane “If you are built along the William Jennings Bryan plan you will look on the German note | from the standpoint of a man who is standing on a corner meaning no harm and gives three cheers for an- other man who comes up and expec- torates in his eye and kicks him in the abdomen. If you look at the note from the standpoint of a man who reganis his citizenship in this public as a right to be defended with bis life there is another side to the question, “Certainly It is the quintessence of i German gall for that Gavernment to’ city sa By Roy L. McCardell st or wrong, waiving aside all erations of International law, tral should think a while be- Stands on his right to enter lone ship a week to @ certain | bngland and that we must d that ship like @ barber pole and # the sitp through certain channels designated — b Germany it the, | United States can stand for that we per | fo tha danger zone,’ Think of feeding that to Amert+ ibs cans! pn if Germany i9 wrong, might ax well make sauerkraut and | even Is about to violate internas liver sattsage the national dish, put tonal W~-as she has done sinoe on wooden shoes and corner the rope | the opening the war—we Ameri- mark: cans must submit to her colossal {m5 fs a limit to what a nation, PeTtinence! You'd imagine the people would aroun ean assimilate in humiliation and in- tear the root dignity, We are inside the limit now f the editor who | But [ notica fr #4 comment ont, but, strangely | throughout the country and from ad- is a considerable pere herence to the principles of William pe in this country net Jennings Bryan, as typified by sup blood who think along }port of his peace mass-meeting in {Madison Square Gorden, that many ‘Our ee ranism is getting |Americans still think we ought to nd ed, ® Jolt. Germasiy jtemporlze with Germany. ve? us one. ‘The pacifie | "One in a Middle Western Whether Germany's stand rut > greatest bluff in hh. in the belief that had caught sight of old| Dusenberry peering cautiossly | Mrs, jail, too.” “Do yo mean that argyment in the papers from wimmen that ain't got no children telling other wimmen who| has children not to have any more?’ asked the old lady loftily. “If you do, I want to tell you that while Iam old and pore I have allus been respect- | able, and believes that the Lord lov- | eth a cheerful giver, even when peo- “The neighbors objected and c plained to the Bourd of Health, then?" "To bilin’ soap, to bilin’ soap in my own kitchen!” cried the old lady. "No wonder the wimmen of these days in this town ta lazy aud good for uotbia’ Cuprright. 1017, br Die Pree Pobiishing Co. | when the constable and the p'lice in- The New York Krening World.) _|terfere with a body's housework. If COs UR aoeeettea tire {804 shaken 4 rag out of yer winder do you do i erted Mrs. | you kin git arrested, toa Jarr, "I haven't seen yOu!” wen 1am glad it wasn't for your for a tong We re a whispered | 8ctivitles in birth control, for which the old lady from Indlana looking | M{t# Mudridge-Smith expects arrest cautiously around. “The constables | #24 Prison,” sald Mrs. Jarr, sinilingly han haan A rinithe koepeed |"As you are all nervous, you better from the Board of Health, and I'm all |COM® over to my house and have a hentanivani nice talk. It will do you good Mrs, Jarr was on her way home| “Ihave no truck with them wimmen from personal marketing In the neigh-|&"4 their botherations over sich borhood (she had read in a newspaper {tgs which they should be ashamed that ordering by telephone was one/°f!" old Mrs, Dusenberry remarked, reason for the high coat of living) | "aNd tt will do me good to drop in fer a good neighborly talk—you and me is yout the only two wimmen I knows Gut of the window of her little ground" Who has respectable idears left. ae eat Don't you hanker ter git at yore “I hope you are not in birth| #PFing cleaning, dearie?” control propaganda, like Mrs, Mud-| “Not especially,” replied Mrs. Jarr ridge-Smith js," sald Mra Jars. “she| “30Me time next month I'm gojng to told me she was afratd of going tol i _fo-Day’s Anniversay _ am ix afraid to call it.” |sive my flat a good cleaning, bur I'm ores | waiting on the landlord to do som 3 Calories and Salaries. if papering and painting for mo first,” * pannnnnnnnnnnnnny, “come over and give | 1 0166 you strong for this hand,” said the old lady, “The smeli} A of eating calories and pat of bilin’ wat 1 sc does me} down the cost of good in air 1 was readin’ a (he head polisher, than @ mook turkey said the laundry mam And guess what It} + many often ‘Votes fer wim O88 Who eat too i men,’ and club Jelmingly outnum-~ work and settlement work, What do! so don't get enough the wimmin of this town know about settlement work? Did they ever live in a settlement, like I did when I was the food expert, says 8 young offspring nothin, wheat bread, butter apa |fust married before the war, and we} andl uate ore 08, young to go out |come out to Taylor Township from! Aa soon ne thee ee fr ohaaee ta Ohio, and the woods was full of/away trom the foremanship of that painte d other varmints, and wo] re they will go to pie and cake and had to build up the settlement by|mty and meat and gravy and Te. Fraisin’ log cabins—that was settle-|{y son inten fans, ment work, and I'd like to see the| ized ca . un wimmen of this town and these days| starve ih Wy ont. aro bd doing it” the Who aif: " is behind vhat financial influences are behing It halt the effort expended tn it? teaching the poor to enjoy het Was directed toward inne abet HE same alliance of powers— Great Britain, France and Rus- Sia~now engaged In fighting Germany and ber Austrian, Turkisb and Huigarian allies, brought about the liberation of Greece {nom Turk- ish domination. It was elghty-soven y ago to-day, Feb. 3, that ple does have more children than they| the independence of Cresco was ohae kin pervide fer, No, the constable} claimed by the ullled powers, thus may have been after mo, it was] giving reality to the deolaration of only fer bilin’ soap on complutat of| independence made by the Hellenes ; eight years before, In 1826, when the neighbors to the Board of He eA Aa and Rute eine themselves by the treaty of London to aid the warring Greeks, tbe latter were in a very bad way. The Egyptian army of the Sultan hud captured Missolonghi and held ne the whole of Morea, and a war of eatcrminution was being waged @ condition of comfort. . meals for everybody theres ouldu't against the Greek patriots. The al-| be so many hungry le fi led squadrons destroyed the Turkish | town” beople is a fe and thelr armles carried on the war with such vigor that the was glad to make terms. Remembering these facts, jority of Greeks have been pr the present war, has Leon intenaifled by the fact that their ditary enemy, the Turk, is in the German camp. by believing tA nnnnnnnay, tan $ The May in Mayor, t 667 SEE." said tho head polisher, that there iy some talie of William Randolph Heat ", for Mayor on the ‘Taramieny k,"" replied the laundry the ma- sally tn ntument If encouraged | he ailies, there ts good ground for that the Hellenes would "Mt We . man M arst i9 #oon t long ago have raised a cessful ; n to be the Fovolution against the pro-German dinners over gicenn ny Of the bigwest King Constantine. It is probable,| tha plans work out. ye a » it Romeyer, that Frenge slone ars rf ‘oy Mitchel and Wilify Papel 1 ‘owers avored such | dergust r * a programme. As republicans, French: | 4 cendidare on ye sates: OF elther im 4 candidate on the fuston liam Randolph Hearst te foevante buster in the next camped i than «@ Centipede on roller akates,” {men naturally sympathize with the Vonerelist party and their republican espirations. 7 , / ’ \