The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1917, Page 14

TT Che Esty asters. | ESTABLISHED KY JOSEPH PULITZER. Publishes Dally Except Suntay by the Press Publishing Company, Now 68 to a3 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PU 3 Park Row, 3, ANGL 63 Park Row. JOSEPH Pr vark Te LITZER, Pr = nd-Clase My fr. and the Continent? and In the International Entered at the eat New York as Se Cudgeription Rates to The hvesing Por Pngian ‘World for the United states All Count Postal Unt Que Feer.es.s--: ef te |Ond Linh sossveevens sccm 9.7 One Month. . 620 One MODthssrecseererrerreoseom VOLUME 57......ceeeeeee eoececcseccccccccccee NO, 90,966 COMPLETE. (neni HE German Government has declared an end of grace or mercy. T It asserts full and unrestricted right to murder. Yesterday's official notice from Berlin that all {mmunity periods have expired and that from now on, in prohibited nones, “shipping can no longer expect individual warning” leaves ruthless ness unrestrained. Strange record! May 4, 1916: The Imperial German Government notifies the Government of the United States that German naval forces have re- ceived the following order: “In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessela recognized by {international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war sone, shall not be sunk without warn- ing and without saving human lives unless the ship attempt to escape or offer resistance.” Jan. 31, 1917; The Imperial German Government notifies the Government of the United States of its intention to “do away with the restrictions which, until now, it has imposed upon the use of its fighting means on sea.” Barred zones are marked off, Neutral chipping is granted a few days to escape. Then: Feb, 13: “From now on the warning which has been issued is tm full force: “Vessels which enter the grohitited arese Ge eo with full Knowledge of the danger threatening them and their crews.” Tho madness is complete. The abandonment of law is complete. The insult is complete. Tho crime is complete. The last certificate, the final proof is in. What about American shipping? Is it to be safeguarded and Gefended? Is it to be encouraged to uphold its rights by not ro- nouncing them? Or is it to keep off war as long as possible by hud- dling in home harbors? —_+ ‘We have done our duty by Count von Bernstorff. We can ‘wish him nothing better than a voyage on which he may have the luck to encounter none of his fellow countrymen save those on board, : ——_+—————_— BLOCKED AGAIN. BOUT once every year it becomes ni to nafleome inno-| cent looking bill or amendment int duced et Albany with, the more or less elaborately concealed purpose of giving real | estate operators # chance to break through the city’s protection of water front property in Brooklyn and Queens. This week the samo old scheme turned up in the shape of the ‘Mills bill, which would amond the City Charter so as to allow the, Dock Commissioner, with the approval of the Sinking Fund Oommis- Stand sion, to sell lands under water in Brooklyn and Queens to adjoining owners. The interests behind this measure hoped to sneak it through ing Behind UncleS America’s Women Ready to ‘‘Man’’ Nation’s Industries AM xnteln., By J.H. Cassel, as a supplement to the emergency war bill which authorizes the city, Militant Femininity Takes Lesson From Britain’s 3,000,000 to cede land at Rockaway Neck to the Federal Government for pur-| Women War Workers and Prepares for Task of Running Country’s Plants—Vast Industrial Reserve Would Free Men For Fighting Line. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. poses of fortification, Luckily The Evening World spotted the danger in the Mills bill, just as it spotted and spoiled o similar plot last year. A number of Senators, including Minority Leader Wagner and Senators Thompson, Burlingame, Brown and Foley, mounted guard yesterday and will see to it that neither beaches nor valuable marginal sites aro put within reach of big Brooklyn realty speculators who have been after them for years, without a fight. Constant vigilance has been and is still needed to defend Brook- lyn’s water front from real estate operators of the ex-Senator William H, Reynolds type, who began to reach for immense profits there directly the marginal railroad plan was proposed, The Mills bill—which, now The Evening World has exposed it, Senator Mills appears anxious to disown—is only another disguised grab, It should be thrown out without waste of time. eons Wider opportunitics falling, the Oubane are fighting ———_-+4 + —____ THE P. S. C. STEPS IN. each other, HHETHER the Public Service Commission’s decision to in- W vestigate, at Gov, Whitman’s request, the proposed west side improvement contract between the city and the New Work Central Railroad is in all ways pleasing to Mayor Mitchel and ther municipal officials or the contrary, such an inquiry can at first do nothing to the contract itself beyond further analyzing and explain: ing it for the benefit of the public in whose name and interest it has after all been drawn up. Public Service Commissioners ought to be peculiarly fitted to consider complicated questions of franchise, service values and com- pensating balances of public or private privilege. With the mass of data the Commission must have already on hand, it should be able to take the Riverside contract to pieces with more neatness and despatch than could possibly be expected of a legislative committee. The people of this a3 we have said before, are entitled to feel that this highly important bargain has been scrutinized from every angle and explained to them in all its essential bearings, It is their bargain and, whoever makes the terms, it is upon them that all the obligations and consequences fall, In theory at least they should have to look nowhere for more eonscientious revision of their contracts or more careful protection of their interests than they can count on from the Public Service Commission, 7 Hits From Sharp Wits One of the busiest men we know; When @ woman marries for money American women are taking counsel among themacives as to how they mav serve their country in the event of a declaration of war. If they are wise they will profit by the experience of the women of Europe, who for two wears and a half have been engaged in solving a similar problem. The follow- ing article deals with the patriotic ser- vice of women of England, HAT can women do in time of war? ‘That question has been an- ewered in terms of fact; not by aspiration or sen- timentality, For two years and 8 half the womep ot the warring nations of Europe 4 have been prov- uy ing that they P could be of ines- SRBM timable help to BEES their respective countries. The ancients liked to play with the notions of Amaszons—martial women who met the enemy in actual, physical combat with shield and spear. To the ro- manticlats of yesterday the one pre- eminently fitting role for woman in Ais heart doth ache.—John Bunyan, Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) war-times was that of nurse; “when pain and anguish wring the brow, & ministering angel thou,” as Sir Wal- ter Scott devotedly phrased it. The efforts of feminine nurses are still recognized. But during the Great War the supreme value of women has Jain in the fact that they constitute @ vast, competent and loyal industrial reserve, They have shown them- selves able to carry on practically all of the peaceful occupations of men, thus setting free the latter for the battlefield. For example, it 1s estimated that in England 3,219,000 women are doing 's work at home so that men may fight. Thousands of these women have never done work of any sort before, have not even worked in their own homes, since in England the woman in moderate circumstances usually bas kept two or three servants. During the frst two years of the war the increase in women workers, exclusive of purely feminine occupations, waa 866,000, Of these, 766,000 directly replaced male labor— an industrial brigade of more than three-quarters of 4 million women. ‘Arsenals, dockyards, breweries, farms, factories and railroads have greedily absorbed the English women workers since the beginning of the war in August, 1914. The munition ae other accidents. It 9 calculated that the number of women employed in railway work has increased more than 200 per cent. There are women ticket collectors, porters, engine cleaners and work- shop bs apart In some cities women are being utilized as street car opera- tors and bus drivers. In the building trade the number of women workers: was almost doubled in the first twenty-one weeks of war, having been lifted from 7,000 to 13,400, Even the coal mines were able to in- crease their female employees from 7,000 to 9,200, and an addition was made to the worhen whd were already working in the quarries. The women workers in the hosiery trade increased by many thousands, and at least one large British employer has thirty. three women to one man in his plant. In the boot trade women are meeting with great success. London street lamps are being lit by women. London fires are being put out by women who have taken the place of firemen. In 1914 there were only 2,000 women employed in Government arsenals and dockyanis, Now there are over 70,000, The cen- tral government makes use of 107,000 women in various capacities, and the local governments use twice that number, Women have organised on a large scale to do the farm work in the agricultural districts of Great Britain, Last November it was estimated that 66,000 women had taken men’s places on the farms, This ie the tribute paid to the fem- Walter Runciman, ‘Preideitane unc! resident of Board of Trade: “Women are = forming every kind of work which is not too heavy for their strength. In one firm they are m: electrio Some ‘M Isun Cuyprngea, ii, oy The 1 iH He thinks of every little And yet Achillean heel. I pression” ie just You know tn sourceful, so flaw! unconvincing. the latter variety. He calls you pet tion; he helps you so tenderly over gutters that you wonder if he to propose; he gases adoringly into your eyes before the oysters served and tries to hold your hand before you have reached the salad, 1s always “too previous.” When you you so intently that he appears to be ish he {s always ready with a flash of wit, a burst of applause or an ever done compliment. Never for an inst: you to the musio or the food or the waiter. conversation to flag. Never does he allow you to forget that he ts Every timo he makes an effective grandstand play or an epte gram be flashes an electric sign to call your attention to it. His buraiag desire to make you RECOGNIZE his effort to please you is ever palpable, THERE! When you agree to spend an evenin; going to a continuous performance of mental and sentimental gymnasties, In short, you are going to be ENTERTAINED! And, next to being ignored, there ie probably nothing so boring in this whole world as being “entes> tained.” after all, co-operative affairs, not one-sided games, And in the sentimental 4° game no woman cares to be merely an onlooker, The trouble with the-man-who-overdoes is that he ts not con: derstood’ Men By Helen ree The Man Who Overdoes. EB always does things SO nicely!” you say. “He takes you the most interesting places, He entertains you 2 a he bores you. There is the mark of @e man whose flattery is just a shade too highly colerel, whose devotion ts just a # re and boots and fingernalis are just « bit top brilliantly polished, whose anxiety to make an “tae utterly perfect, so scintillating, so unselfish, eo He je busy, busy, busy every and working overtime to be agreeable, brilliamt, fective, entertaining—to make a “hit’—and he makes you tired! : Thore are plain bores and refined bores. The-man-who-overdoess ts @ Rowland. On, (The New Tort Kreming Werkty thing! And yet"-— fe is the man who OVERDOES—the de too obvious, whess @ trifle too patent your heart that ao man could be @ *¢ less as he appears to be. And he names without the slighest ‘abet talk he leans forward and looks Hetening out LOUD. Wher you ant does he turn his attention from Never does he permit the i with him you know that you ase head or heart. Even the Lorele! wouldn't be fascinating if she sang to loud—or never stopped singing, like the phonograph in the flat next door, —— Successful S By H. J. No. 2—Selling by Questioning 66JN selling diMcult prospecta I I have found that a method somewhat resembling @ cross- examination yields good results,” sald @ successful ealeeman. “I aim to ex- tract affirmatives to a series of care- fully planned questions and then by summing up the evidence prove that but one conclusion can be drawn—a purchase, Here ts about the way the interview proceeds: “Te it not true, Mr. Brown,’ I In- quire, ‘that if this machine will save you the labor of two employees, its purchase will be @ good investment? “ ‘Yes,’ replies the prospect. “Ie it not evident from the testi- monials which I have shown you that this is what ft has accomplished in concerns which were confronted with practically the same problems which meet you?’ “Yes! “Does tt not logically follow that, everything else being equal, if your competitore operate at lower cost than you do they will eventually have @ distinct advantage in gaining @ motors. In another they are doing all the work in manufacturing tw: inch howitzer shells, including t) testing of them. And they are do! many other kinds of work requiring the emplo: it of end yymen' calling for «reat skill.” [The Jarr Family Coperight, 1017, ty ‘The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World.) XCITED by reports of a school- mate's birthday celebration to which she had not been invited, little Emma Jarr had been asking her mother all day tf she could not have @ party of her own, and Mra, Jarr had finally replied, “If you are & good little girl every day, mamma plants have been largely “manned” by women, of whom hot @ few have lost thelr lives in explosions and ——<——————————— Bome things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle whtle YING to Its position between O four of the warring powers, Switzerland has had to grapple with a multitude of difficulties and problems in the last two years, Not the least of the worries of the Swiss Government 1s the spy problem, Under the Swiss law espionage by foreigners is strictly prohibited, and @ large force of detectives has had to be organized to spy out and arrest the spies, Swiss jails and prisons and prison camps are now crowded with convicted spies of both sexes, the great majority of whom are Ger- mans and Austrians, ‘A large proportion of the German [Swiss Kept Busy Catching Spies morally sure that they are spies. Most of those convicted are fined and sentenced to terms of imprisonment of varying lengths, ranging usually from a month or two to a year, Upon their release they are deported and warned not to return, One flourishing enterprise which was wiped out by the Swiss police was an employment agency con- ducted by a German who had for- merly been @ petty officer in the Kaiser's army. His system was to find employment for Swiss matds in France and Italy. In addition to the pay they received from their em- ployers, these girls were also liberally paid by the German “employment agent,” on the condition that they write him long letters describing con- spies are women, and many of them are elderly and respectable, and have found time one morning this week to| She sete tt, even it ehe has to divide etop fifteen minutes and watch «| pith ® lawyer,—Wimiagton (N. C.) Workingman cement glass blocks in ? eee sidewalk ekylight. How do wel Te would be just well (f some ? Why become | personal?—' things that tho talled tone ta! re- hia Inquirer, mained forever jate,—Albany, ditions in the places where they lived. The police obtained the names and addresses of all the maids, and long lived in or frequently visited the Mountah, republic, To obtain evi- dance pereons ts a difi- cult matter, and the Swiss police are constantly engaged in watchin, women Who escape every net plac | toe them, although the police will let you have @ party—sometime.” The date specified was just a Little too indefinite for the applicant, and the little girl whimpered, “No; I don’t want @ party some day. I want it to-morrow.” . “But no kies games, I ain't going to no party and have to kis» a lot of girls!” declared Master Willie, who was an implicated bystander. “Aw, you kissed Mary Rangle com- ing from school yesterday! You kissed Mary Rangle!" cried Uttle Emma Jarr. “1 did not! I id not! Maw, make her stop saying I did!" cried the boy. “Yes, you did, She had 5 cents and you said if she'd buy candy you'd be her beau. And she bought chewing gum and caramels—and you kissed her!” said litde telltale Emma Jarr, “Aw, that ain't nothing!" admitted the boy, thus displaying the deceit of the male mind even in youth. “If she was softy enough to gimme hi ot the candy, why, of course, I let her kise me. But I didn't let Gertie Sla- thei: 0) vinsky kiss me, and she had 6 cente, ria_ were. then eutpped Deck" to| tool” ‘and ail were arrested | ‘Yeu, tut che wouhén’? buy conéy,” 1 $24 aprisoned. The penaky CF |easa Nttle Mla Jarr, “Bo there!” qrably sreater in the ange of natives “There are plenty of other games 01 i the doctors ay that little children catch the mumps and the measles and all sorts of sickness kissing.” “I dont care,” pouted the Httle girl. “If there ain't no kissing, I don’t want @ party!" “And I don't want any games that teach you something. I don't want to learn anything, I know everything now!" cried Master Jarr. “But Willie," admonished hts mother, “you must have an education or you will not amount to anything tn this world!” “I don't want to amount toenything in thie world; I'm going to be a chauffeur or have a moving picture show of my own. And I won't let anybody in to see the pictures I don't Uke. No girls is to come to my mov- ing pictures.” “Oh, if you feel that way about ft, we'll have @ party Just for Little girls,” said Mra. Jarr. Master Jarr saw opportunities of cake, candy and ice cream escaping him and changed front. “Well, I don't mind going to the party, but I ain't going to let girla kiss mei” he de- clared, “Willie is right," remarked Mre, Jarr, “I don't believe in promiscuous kissing, efther.” “Oh, but you are married, mamma,” sald little Mise Jarr, “When I am grown up and married I won't delieve in Ktesing, except to kiss my husband new dress of eome- tu ear “Whee , By Roy L. McCardell oven oot| Dart of fee ouster, a,” age ote teativel Ap equal number of market?’ “Yea! “Well, then, Mr. Brown, you have with me that your probleme are similar to those that have been solved by this machine; that ff your Wille Jarr, “They don't kies you be- cause they want to kiss you, they kise you because they want something.” Mra. Jary opened her eyes to these revelations of juvenile observation and asked the little girl, “What do you want a party for?” “Oh, I Just want @ party,” said the Uttle girl. “You want ft for eome reason,” anid Mre. Jarr, “What ts the reason?” “Bhe wants to show Mary Rangie the has more beaux than Mary Ran- glo has,” blurted out the boy, “Say, maw, gimme five cents to go to the moving picture show and I don’t want @ party.” “Beaux!” oried the surprised Mrs. Jerr, “Et isn’t possible that you babies disouss such things, is it?” “Babies? replied little Emma Jarr, drawing herself up proudly. “I'm a young lady!” But on @ promise of chocolate cake for supper, and no rice pudding, and @ visit to the moving pictures, Mra, Jarr has bought off the party. HIS ts St. Valentine's Day, which has been observed as a festival of love for many centuries, The celebration of the foast of the lovers’ saint is alluded to by the fifteenth century English poet Lyd- Chaucer oe Shako alesmanship Barrett competitors use it and you don’t have the advantage of you; that installing it you are not risking and that if it will do what claim (and our testimonials are *.-] that it will) tt f@ a good investment— t your name Dlank, ‘applying for a thirty-day tae entirely at our risk and expense?” “Does not our offer of a free tu- stallation—you to have the of returning the machine without og cent’s obligation if at the end “In most cases the prospect tates a moment, reflects that fe no way of extricat! the predicament in himeelf and elgns. Sometimes, howr ever, this 1s not enough. ‘! problems are not tdentical with of the cases you have sometimes objects, ; 2 “That ts the only question romaine ing in your mtud? I then remart. I could remove that objection gow would give it @ trial? “*Yes,' he replies. “Then comes the struggle to ahew him that in all essentials his probe lems are similar to those of concerns ' where She machine has heen eucossee uly applied. ring this process, which often involves some work into his office routine, I ‘= trusively emphasize the fact that he ‘himself has said that the entire tion hinges upon this one point, is to prevent his advancing till s other objection when this feature fas deen effectually covered. ‘ lems do resemble those of others, @t | least in #0 far at the machine is corned, I do not hesitate te olay ' state: “*You recall, Mr. Brown, that you anid that if I could remove that o®- jection you'd give the machine @ trial? You admit that you're convinced. Then now is the time to put your name down on thie biaaia? And almost always he does it. “My theory Diet | this orese+ examination atyle of sclling as come pared to the usual simple afi on the part of the salesman ie it tmpresses the prospect more like an honest effort io get a@ the truth than @ mere attempt to ’ q { , @1 force a sale, Still further, it makes the prospect fee! that he hes vineed himself. It works well me; doubtless it's applicable to sale of many other commodities? pase lan atahcaticits OME of the finest motor cars ia existence are owned by the princes and potentates of India, Many of these Oriental rulers Rawe dozens of cars, One owned by Her Highness the Regum of Bhopal is @ six-cylinder 50-horse power 1 Iimousine, painted in Parma vi ‘ U and with Its interior upholstered Dublin woven tapestry to matoh, maida and bachelors got to, q each writes their true or ome fel name upon asparate billeta, they roll up and draw by way the maids taking the men's billets and tho men the maida’; #o that of the young men lights upon @ that he calle his valentine, and af of the girls upon a you: tie calle. bare. Fortine having @ cempany into 6a sive balla fevers days upon dillei ya, upon thee Boma or gieeves, and this | j ties ade is leva" ie