The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1917, Page 10

‘ublahed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, e 3 Park Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 6% Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Row. / JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Tow. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Claas Matter, Gubsoription Rates to The Evesing|/Por England and the Continent an@ « , World for the United States All Countries in the International i a and Canada. Postal Union, Nom. 62 to) i ‘One Year.. + $3.60 One Year. stemmeeveet 69. One Month. eveves + .20)One Month, totems, OR , VOLUME 57... eee ++ NO. 20,264 THE ONLY WAY. . EITHER with the German Emperor nor with any other part N or person of the Imper@] German Government can the Gov-| ernment of the United States have anything to “talk over” 60/ long as German submarines continue to sink merchant vessela with-| out warning. z Whatever the foundation for rumors that the German Goverfi-! ment is anxious to discuss matters further with this nation, they can| be whistled down the wind, so far as the United States is concerned. Since Jan. 31, 1917, discussion has been at an end. On that day} the German Government announced its intention “to do away with’ the restrictions which, unt now, it has imposed upon the use of its, fighting means on sea.” It indicated the limits of its barred gone. It declared in plain words: “All ships met within the zone will} be sunk.” Until the German Government in equally plain words recalls both that announcement and the order to submarine commanders which started a fresh period of lawlessness and murder on sea, the United} States can have nothing to say to Germany except the formal words | that must follow the first evidence that American ships or American, lives have been sacrificed by a German commander, “in heedless con-| travention of the just and reasonable understandings of international Jaw and the obvious dictates of humanity.” The United States seeks no understanding with a murderer. If the Iinperial German Government desires to discuss anything what- ever with this Government it knows the indispensable preliminary. teenie gemeemae Are its directors content to have tt: THE Ametean LINE? ay on ney NOTIME TO PAY TOLL TO EXPLOITERS. T THE direct request of the President, the Federal Trade A Commission and the Department of Agriculture are at last to begin a comprehensive inquiry to determine why food prices in the United States have risen and continue to rise at a pace which leaves small incomes behind and threatens to cause acute dis-| tress among the poor. : “It has been alleged before committees of Congress and else-| where,” the President declares, “that the course of trade in important | food products is not free but is restricted and controlled by artificial | wad illegal means. It is of the highest public concern to ascertain the truth or falsity of these allegations,”) Never was it more so than at a time when the people of the, United States may at any moment be called upon to make great sacrifices. If they go to war, if they resolutely set themselyes to } face the economies, to bear the extra burdens that war brings, then| ib it should be one of the first duties of their Government to shield) them from the rapacity of food gamblers and price boosters whote | patriotism in time of war will be no stronger than it has shown itself in peace, | | We have had enough half-way, hit-or-miss investigation of the| increasing cost of food. Now let the Federal Government make an exhaustive examination of the problem from a national point of view. At a crisis when Americans stand ready to give their all to uphold the rights of their country against foreign insolence or aggres- sion, surely they deserve all possible protection from exploiters and plunderers at home. i t i r —_—_—+-—____ Citing @ shrewd remark about courage, Gen. Lieut. Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven picked a good quotation from Gen. Sherman. But he passed up the most popular and widely known, _ HEAVY TRAFFIC PAVEMENT. ERHAPS some of the Manhattanites who are disputing how P Broadway should be paved may have noted the discussions at the fourteenth annual convention of the American Road) i Builders’ Association in Boston last week, Most of the experts who spoke at this cénvention seemed to agree that for city streets where the heaviest motor truck traffic must he considered, smooth granite block pavement grouted by Portland! cement on a concrete base makes tho best-wearing, most satisfactory roadway that modern road engineers have evolved, Advocates of wood block pavement or asphalt have a strong argument in the noise steel-tired vehicles are bound to make in pass- ing over granite. But as Chief Connell of the Philadelphia Bureau of Highways poiwts out, the steel-tired vehicle is rapidly disappearing and a few years more will find all traffic rolling on rubber or simi- larly resilient rims. So far, then, granite block pavement | hest adapted to ci ing have to be ree ¢ most votes as the form y thoroughfares where t® heavier kinds of truck- Iwith. Is it any too good for Broadway? a Abraham Lincoln. Born February 12, 1809 “He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide, Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last a silence comes; { These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, j Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New ‘birth of our new soll, the first American.” Hits From Sharp Wits But never delay the mending because! A woman likes to hold her age well one has said that it's never too, but she doesn't Ike to bo told that ie to mend. Albany Journal, does.-—Deseret News. ; a of men could afford to get mar-| If all the illterates were kept out of b Mf the bonds of inatrimony were | the country how long could the doma- terest bearing.—Columbla (S. ©.) peeves hold their jobs? -- Boston 4 ranscript kon World Daily Magazine [x= ‘United Anterical! wy pet v BONDS OF FRATERNA 3 aT abe TIMES REmMemee Rican CITIZENS ARE BRoTy COUNTRY,AND SHOuLD Owens Conrright. 1917, br Te Hrcag Mhitlaing Co (The New York Evening World.) By J. H. Cassel: FOREIGN BORN R THay €Rs OP a TOCe 4 FELLING » THER The Anti-Divorce Decalogue By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Take Friend Wife to Lunch and Keep the Lawyers Away, Is Advice to Hus- bands—And Don’t the Old, Old Story Now and Then. Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) IGHT commandments to prevent divorce have just been issued by a volunteer Moses of mat- rimony, the Rev, George L. Hale of St. Louls, As if he considered the wife primar- {ly responsible for conjugal cle age, Dr. Hal commandments ¥, are addressed ex- +, 2 clusively to her. rv / BRET Here they are: No. 1—Thow shalt not love ag man but thy hus- band, neither shalt thou flirt with an- other. No, 2~Thou shalt not neglect thy husband and thy children for the club, picture show or dance, ». §Thou shalt not keep thy hus- band’s nose to the grindstone by buy- ing $75 hats while he buys socks at six pairs for a quarter. No, 4—Thou shait not nag at thy husband, for verlly thou shalt reap | what thou soweth, No, 6—Thouw shalt not E os neglect to pray for thy children, neither shalt | thou neglect to spank them when the occasion demands No, 6-Thou shalt not rear thy chil- dren by proxy, No, 7--Thou shalt not dress after- as Often as You Can Afford, Forget to Tell Her s salvation of the world depends upon thee. @ Yet if it takes two to make a quar- rel it assuredly takes two to make 4 divorce. Believing that the wife is neither the sole guardian nor the acle disturber of domestic peace, that of- fenses against the comity of mar- riage are by no means confined to one sex, I suggest the following anti- divorce decalogue for hushands No. 1—Thou shalt not forge afraid, to be too busy to un Prompted and at least once a week: “I gave you.” ‘There is no income tax on these three words, and the most concelted woman never quite takes them for granted. Nor does the most prosaic woman tire of hearing them. No. 2—Thou shalt show discrimina- tion in thy burnt offerings—not pre- senting @ wrist watch to her who hateth the obvious, ‘nor @ barbaric silver necklace to the wife who liketh ehiny furniture, “glad” plays and “wholesome” love stories. No. 8—Thou shalt take thy wife to lunch at least twice or thrice a@ month, and as much oftener as thy purse and thine office hours mit. One reason why marriage falls is because breakfast and dinner are the only meals which the» modern bus- band and wife eat together. In the morning they are sleepy and cross. At night they are nervous and tired. At lunch time each is 100 per cent. awake, amusing, sympathetic, No, 4~Thou shalt bo the ke of taine own mind and thine own ®on- science, A woman loses respect not only for a henpecked man, but for one who {s employer-pecked, or who is afraid of “what the fellows will aay.” f No, 6—Thou needst not be “p'lson —f 0q—— ALL POLITICAL neat,” but thou shalt pick up thine own things. No, 6—-Thou shalt not cause thy wife to censor her story of the day's | events, or blue-peicil the frank ex- pression of her inmost thoughts, Thou shalt like her well enough not to be shocked by her. No, 7~Thou shalt not object to thy wife's having @ conventional ac- quaintance with other men. She will but appreciate THEE the nfore! wanted to meet my husband at | the station with a brass band! wife vehemently assured me, after describing @ day spent in entertain- | ing the man engaged to lecture at | her club, No. §—Thou shalt always SAY thou henrsd thy wife's clothes—even if thou Hest No, ®~Thou shalt not snort at thy wife's enthusiasms, though thou| mayet not share them. No, 10—-Thou shalt remember ways that the last and*grea vention of civilization 1s manner and that manners, like charity, begi at home, ‘ ‘Oeouright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, 4 (The New York Evening Work.) + ‘T out of order again!" cried Mr, Jarr impatiently, as he jerked the hook up and down, “What I care?” asked Gus, in whose! [establishment on the corner Mr, Jarr had dropped in to communtcate with | | his friend Rangle and find out tf he| | could come out and play pinochle that | evening, “You can't run your business with- out a telephone,” said Mr, Jarr, HIS doggone old telephone ts noons and evenings in a kimono, but “This business I run mitout a tele- | ways got oxcited to use tt, and used German wolds, and them folst ones was no good to use German wolds fn." Vell, telephones are @ modern necessity now,” said Mr. Jarr, “You have to use it now." “Not me,” eald Gus, “Can I eell a pint of beer over a telephone? Don't most all then orders to send @ dozen bottles of beer and some case goods around to apartment heus wrapped up to look like groceries, | Come from people who tell Elmer, my bartender, to charge it when he takes use paint and powder as freely after | phone before it was ever inwented,"|{t to them; and he's a big dummer marriage as before No, 8—Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy heart, for verily the sald Gus, “At least I don't think they | was inwented, for I didn't have one, And when I did have one folst, I al- — HIS js the birthda 1809, on @ Kentucky farm, In theso troublous days the concluding paragraph of Lincoln's second inau- sural address is well worth repeating: “With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the | right, aa God «gives us to see the right, let us strive on'to finish the work we are in; to bind up the na- tion's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans; to do all \which may achieve and cherish a |Just and a lasting peace among our- jeelvea and with all nations.” Pecullarly apprepriais to the pres- , ont period in the rid'e history, too, 4 x oF Abraham porn Feb, 12, is Lincoln's famous stricken mother: “I have been shown in the files of | the War Department a state nt of the Adjutant General of Massachu- setts that you are the mothe sons who have died gloriously on tho | field of battle, I how weak and} fruitiess must be any words of mine! which should attempt to beguile you from tho grief of a loss so bver- |whelming, But I cannot refrain from | tendering to you the consolation that may be found In the thanks of tho republic they died to save, I pray that the Heavenly Father may as suage the anguish of your boreave ment, and leave you only the ch ished memory of ‘the loved and and the solemn pride that mu yours, to have laid so costly a rifice upon the altar of Freedom, letter to a] of five| what comes away without axing who it 1s got the stuff, or not remember- ing what apartment house it was, Not that It makes any difference. The people what wants everything brought to them is the high-tone trade that never pays for what they get anyway.” “But the telephone 1s handy to you to order things, and a convenience in many ways,” persisted Mr, Jarr “It ain't never no conwenlence to me," said Gus, «It ain't nothing but a conwenience to other people, Before it was a nickel in the slot machine, Elmer used to use it to talk to his friends, and my wife Lena's people used It to call me up to bawl me out every time she left me, and then rewerse the charges, Cheat- vrs used to come in and get long dis- tance calls when I was out and only pay Elmer, my bartender, for a local call, Even now people what live “round here use that telephone when , =| theyeare downtown and ask me to run out to the top floor of their flat, two blocks away, and tell somo- body to be sure to feed the cat and put the canary bird out for the night.” “Well, there's one in the drug store down the block,” sald Mr, Jarr, “I can go there, “For drug stor telephones ts all right,” sald Gus, “Them drug stores can make money delivering telephone messages for nothing and selling stamps at cost, and letting people look at the directionary, but I can't, #o I say ‘Raus mit der telephone!’ “You'll stop receiving the mail next,” remarked Mr, Jarr. “Sure, I would Mke to,” was the reply. letters but bills and insults or burns axing you to recommend they won't steal If'they get a fod they are after, and other bums what has swung you writes they is starving to death and to send them two dollars? wimmen write you" them animosity letters what don’t tell who they) are” “Anonymous letter: Jarr, sf “Yes, them,” replied Gus, “and they say if you let their husbands spend another cent in your place they will have your license taken away. No, I think it @ good thing if no letters came to anybody, Is any money or good news ever in any letters? No! But I got a good way with letters that I don't Itke, at that,” ‘What way?" asked Mr, Jarr, write on them ‘Opened by m! take’ and sign my name to them and wend them back!" eaid Gus, “| Those who are too mnsophisticated to be interesting— @ preaching his sermo “What does anybody get by,“ And | suggested Mr, | “a a eEDSaREn , What Every Woman Thinks | | By Helen Rowland _ Copstaht, 1917, by The reas Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) | OMETIMES it seems to me S ‘That all life {s like the plot of a musical comedy, ‘The same yesterday, to-day and forever! | Or like the hotel soup, which Is always of the same ~ | stock, 2 And differs only in name and flavoring, from meal A to meal, One day is just like another, one dinner-party fe just like another, » One filrtation ts Just Ike another, and one heartache is just lke another, And, in all the world, there are only two varieties of men— Those who take you serlously—and those who take you for granted, Those whom you cannot trust too far—and those whom you cannot trust too near, | And those who are too cynical to be fascinating, . | 'Those who keep you worrled to death—and those who bore you to death, Those who try to dazzle you—and those who try to “remodel” you, Those who read Nietzsche, and Shaw, And those who read the sporting columns and the red-and-yellow “funny” J nd do not care to, And those who yearn to kiss yot—and do not dare to, Those who talk nothing but nonsense and flattery— And those who talk nothing but “shop” and golf, Those who admire you for “beauties of the mtnd”— And those who invite you out t8 luncheon, " Those who are long on hair and art, and short on money, And those who are long on money—and short on {deals, Those who have to be dragged out of the house in the evening And those who have to be dragged into it, | Those who think they are “Woman-haters”— | se who fancy they are “woman-tamers,” \fthese who make ire so expertly that you wonder where they eoquired the practice, | And those who make love like correspondence-schoo! graduates, Those who are less stimulating than pink-lemonade, And those who are more insidious than champagne, \ Those \ _) want somebody to cure their headaches— And those who want somebody to help them to acquire then) Those wlio treat you like a marble goddess, And those who treat you Iike a kitten! And this ts the tragedy, or the comedy, or the sweet consolation of It That, out of the lot of them, You will choose ONE who fs exactly like all the rest, And marry him “Because he is SO different!” [Great R | evivalists * Of Former Days No. VII1.—Charles Spurgeon, ‘‘Last of the Puritans.” | : Zally reached in the open alr and By Augustin McNally. | Raited fs ‘another Whitefield, Tm i {1886 Surrey Music Hail was or T alxteen Charles Spurgeon ber) i) SUCtTiteincod folk “who hes gan telling a lot of simple folR) tated about going to a Baptist Chapel in Cambridgeshire that they iA ess eat CTRL a. oe oe oer t usic Hall. atosim wero plain, everyday sinners. That/ ih We? cudy. hit Socloty domasned ni was in 1861, His first sermon Was & goats, Gladstone and Livingstone, the success, He was original. He was)yord Mayor and the Lord 8} a eloquent: Lady Rothschild and Florence Night- * ingale were among his auditors, | ‘The year of bis ‘frst preaching was) 'nii vite o icotland and preached |also the year of his admission to th} in the flelds to countless thousands Baptist Church, Six or seven months| He was a hard worker, They butit after that first sermon he walked up Rerepeues Tyeeraesie for him, and ShEAanA Baia | during the thirty years Spurgeon oc- to a dry old preacher an | cupied its pulpit there never was an “I have come to preach your anni-/ empty seat. He built Ge orphan versary sermon.” Young Spurgeon] asylum and colleges, nursed persons a alc! of the fever, vi ‘aged offered prayer. None present had| anit nia the strong. Ent rae ever heard such a prayer before. Then | ing Americans offered him $25, for he preached a memorable sermon, | twenty-five sermons. He told them His fame went before tim. At! nat he had never been in the habit of twenty he was in London. On the! gelling the Word of God. He wrote ruins of, the New Park Strect Con-| thousands of sermons and they were gregation, Spurgeon built a new life,/gold by the millions during his life- and around it gathered people from) time, He got tired of the prefix all parte of the city, Before a year|“Rey." and dropped tt It rolled by some of the clergy were) nothing to his ministry, he sald, H. Tho New| fell out with the Baptist Union and Park Street Church was too small for! severed connections with it. the crowds that flocked to his pulp! Ho | Gladstone calli towns, of the Puritan Spurgeon “the last Successful Salesmanship| By H. J. Barrett | travelled to nearby \*] No. 1--How One Salesman Increased His Earnings, One is that the salesman lacks 4!- T 1s fatally easy for a salesman to invent excuses for not |/Teet supervision, “Another {that vt vast proportion of the salesman’s ef workings’ id & censened/ iin, la weated Under aur arene veteran recently, ‘It's no use to|gtances, “In many lines not more try to sell anything Monday morn-| than one out of a hundred calle re- ing,’ he reflects, ‘nor on Saturday, sultan in a sale. Nevertheless, every- nor on @ rainy day, nor when I) Wn0S ove belng equal, the salesman |feg tn a listless mood, nor when! make the most sale thd customer's mind 48 distracted| “How did I overcome this tendency by thoughts of tmpending war, nor/to lie down on the job? First, I tried late in the afternoon when his mind forty talie a days inte ete 's on catching his train; nor early| practicable because in the event ofa in thé morning when he's going [through his mati, nor on Frida: lengthy Interviews my echedule was thrown askew. Thon 1 tried the (dea i : of working steadily so many hours; |because tifat's my unlucky 4ay,'! rain or shine, Saturday or Monday. t and so on ad tofinttum, ‘0 work | started promptly at 9 and quit at 43; |under these untoward auspices re-|bewan again at 1 and knocked of wt |suits merely tn spoling prospects,’ Fi", But gradually I began to back- he concludes, and as a consequence, | had an over, “Finally T discuased, sy the average outside” salesman 18| droplem with « felhiw act eM about 80 per eent. efficient, too, was tryin; to hola himee a “Now all these obstacles are pure! gcneduie, We concluded tester soon! figments of the tmagination. 1 know | Other $25 that we would nat troalt It because I've proved it. They have | achedules; this to be a weekly pene, ag little basis in fact as the bogies! alty. ‘That was four years ene by of childhood. Hecause he lacks the | once has elther of us been otiiged t vil power to overcome that inertia | pay the penalty, ‘This het hed ects which we all must combat, tho sales- | Ag’ a permanent and automatic weet |man invents thom as a justification| to sustain us in our efforts, Wit in of his attitude. Soon he succeeds in} two months of inventing this incen- |kklading himacit “Into elleving 4m | tive, gu commissions had ino | thetr reality. | er cel ‘ow t | ‘I don't blame him, I've dono 4t| working by seiedu e nernie at | myself, It's due to several causes.' planted that we do lo 18 90 firmly ine. it without effort my Zi ||| How French Soldiers Got Their Pet Name “Pp applied to the rank of the soldiers of France, 1s a word which in ) The torm was forme: to the army recru!ta w! their second or rly applied on), ‘ho were ao third year in uniform, In times of pence the {ts present application many persona) French infantryman nerves a term of . a 0: definition, literally translated 1920} rdog ae ‘ion bieus,” meaniyg ty Englioh, is “hairy.” While tt {# true! biue ones," which in’ an appropriat: that the French soldier {# moro given) tongltsh translation moans “green.) to facial adornment of the hirsute! horn.” After that the soldier 4 | vartoty than his comrado known aw “lo poilu,” on the suppost. |Thomas Atkins, there tion that he haa more halr reason why the French « face than tl eux,” Siinoe je be distinguished from the civilian by! the word “potin” has ber | the appellation “hairy,” ell soldiers of the line, sh: |