The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1917, Page 12

° JOSEPH PULITZER. jay by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. §3 to ESTARLISHED BY Published Daily Except Sun’ ' 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 64 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. » ‘JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. | a ED x the Post-Om. t New York as Second-Class Matte Pebseripiicn’ Rates to The Evening | Vor England and the Continent an@ ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International @ 4 and Canada, Postal Union, VOLUME 87....... NO, 20,271 NO EVADING IT NOW. HE sooner the President asks Congress for power American merchant ships with arms or convoys or both, the sooner the country will know whether or not it must continue to endure the spectacle of its shipping shut up in port to suit the lawless designs of the Imperial German Government. | Line up shrinking Congressmen like “God-knows-where-we-will- land” Mann, Minority Leader; Representative Meekness Moore of Pennsylvania, Senator Stone of Missouri and the rest. Find kal exactly what and whom they represent, If any considerable part of| the nation is anxious to follow them into the cellar where there is less/ danger of provoking enemies to shoot through the windows, Lat quicker that portion is found out, measured and properly labelled, ) the better. This is, after all, a democracy, and everybody is entitled to save | his ein or his honor as he may elect. He who takes an insult and) turns away will live to be insulted many another day. i “We love peace,” a British publicist of the last century put it, “as we abhor pusillanimity, but not peace at any price. There is a peace | more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive | of his material body.” Do we believe it? Not even Congress can longer evade the, direct answer. | to protect Letters From Never Read His History. | A NEW POSTMASTER FOR NEW YORK. | | [ NAMING Thomas G. Patten for Postmaster of New York the} ness of the biggest city in the country. Without seeking to fix the blame in any one quarter, it has to b. | the opposite of efficiency and progress. Deliveries are uncertain Mail boxes have been located with small regard for general conven- has produced endless complaints of delay and laxity. } A new force of administrative energy and method is needed in As a Congressman from this city Mr. Patten has proved himeelf an intelligent and practical upholder of its interests as well as its experience, which includes the management of the steamboat line founded by his father, should fit him to be an executive and organizer, New Yorkers do not regard Mr. Patten’s appointment as a political reward or his job as a political job. They welcome him to a position 5,000,000 people. H& can count on something more than party ap-| preciation if he makes good. | MOBILIZE BY MOTOR. N VIEW of the high importance of motor driven vehicles in pre- biles and 105,000 chauffeurs in any emergency wliere they are needed. The Secretary of State reckons that New York could furnish Military plans call for the use of all cars big enough to carry five or more persons. has already grasped the fact that there is no service they could offer more promptly and acceptably in time of need than the service of the country. The example of automobile owners here should be! trong enough to insure the Government all] the cars it needs all over Ble Correct. Lew Editor of The Evening World: Tothe & «A The Evening World: President makes an appointment which means much to the busi admitted that New York’s mail service has been moving in a direction ience. The handling of letters mailed and delivered within city limits the New York Post-Office. able representative in matters of national concern. His business which is what a Postmaster ought to be. where he can be useful in @ highly practical way to a community of | paring for and carrying on modern warfare, it is interesting to learn that the State of New York can contribute 317,865 automo- 26,000 motor trucks, and it is estimated that 100,000 men could be moved one hundred miles in any direction on land in half a day. We doubt if many cars hereabouts would have to be com- mandeered. The patriotism of most New York automobile owners their care. New York State has about one-tenth of all the automobiles in the land without the trouble of commandeering them, the People 8 there is no national holiday} A claims there aro more Mongoll- for the United States and B says/ans than Caucasians, B claims there there is. P. KK. |are more Caucasians tha i N. B.—There are several nationallans. Which one of us an mane | holidays, but the one big day of the TWO EVENING year falls on July 4, which ts cels- WORLD READpRS, | brated as the anniversary of the) N. B,—There are 620,000,000 Mon- signing of the Declaration of Inde-|gollans in the world and 795,000,000 pendence in 1776. Aryans, which include the Cau Wie Fives Panere 1 | casians. ‘To the Editor of The Evening rid Lansing 1 In 1893 I took out my intention pers in New York City, but h since lost them. I never made plication for my second papers, Can | you advise me where and Low I can| obtain a copy of them and if I can still use them to get my recond pa- pers, or must I again take out inten- tion papers’? H. K. N. B.—Apply to clerk of court which papers were plicate, } To the Editor of The Exening World A bets B that Secretary of State! Lansing is of foreign birth, If 80, € To the Editor of The An Amer fn Italy wit hin wife gives birth ppens to be While there “ child, Is in | issued for du- to the child an American citizen or not? eaLF, Itallan Army Service, | To the Editor of The Evening World | Is a citizen of the United States born in Italy subject to military He Ie So Quoted, To the Editor of The Evening World To settle @ dispute, will you kindly vice if he goes back to Italy? J. F. state if Lord Kitchener mad 4 N. B—No citizen of the United| ment at the beginning of this Ser States ts subject to the military eer-| that it would last about three years? viee of any other government, ac- cording to the view of this country, aid to have forced some WA 164, One Handred and Sixe teenth St, Neme L Pr. 8 matprplized citizens of the United) aes, ned to Italy to en- | Faditor of The Rreving Wor ter the army. This is a vexed ques-| Inform where T can take pte- nography und typewriting at n free of churge ai a school in the vie cinity of East Seventy-ecighth Street. preaing World MERIAL N. J. ¥, A child born in Europe in Novem- |, e R 4-4 Ler, 1864, comes with his parents to | 72th Feitor of The brening Word the United tates tu March, 1865, His| | ‘To decide an argument, kindly state father becomes a citizen in October, ! Which language Is the more widely 1869. Does this person need any in the the Tnglisi, law ¢itizen papers, never having loft the BYLsO oF tho ( an lungaar United States? £0c Hu. { t g , ‘ ooo ee Somer Evening World Daily Magazine Se A dc IEC, Men Who Fail See eis = “I wouldnt go out in this weather for the best job ever.’ By J. H. Cassel 1 ‘OCR Suceesrey ay FROST AVE RiCMMiOMO MILE On Daniel Willard, President Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Rests Responsibility for Moving Nation's Troops and Sup- plies—What He Has Done to Merit Country's Trust. By James C. Young If the United States should become involved in war the task of mobilizing would rest in the hands of seven men, who form the Civilian Advisory Commission, the Nation's resources one of the estate by his o1wn efforts. rise in life will follow. tactics, tered swered be to “git thar fust.” ly move men by the military supplie sunds of tons. his Every seven has risen to high Each ts qualified to do one thing better than almost any other man in the country. This is the story of the former railroad trackhand who was chosen to head the counct. The account of his associates’ SKED about theory of military a certain famous but unlet- Confederate cavalry leader an- “Git thar fust with the mostest men.” Back on the paternal farm Mr, | There is the) Willard looked around bim and con- whole science of| sidered his outlook, He decided that | war in less than a| nutshell, and if the} United States was to suddenly find it- self embrotled with |another power, the vital thing would Which would mean that the railroads must Instant. | thousands and in uncounted thou- Not only that, but the great centres of populatiun must be fed as usual, ‘The Government looked ahead to day when this necessity might ise and cast about for the man who would seo that things ran smoothly when the pinch came. So Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore and Ohio and fifteen other American railroads, was selected for the job. Mr, Willard is a living exemplar of the sturdy traits that Americans most admire, He was born in 1861 on a Vermont farm where rocks abounded more than crops. During his carly years he attended the district school near his home in Windsor County, and at the age of sixteen turned th meagre schoollug to account by be coming @ teacher in the town of Hart land, Such time as he could spare frori his tutoring was spent in studi at the Windsor, Vt, high school, and be was gradusiod from that Institu- tion In Juno, 1878, Vermont farming was 4 thankless task and found employment as a track hard on the Central Vermont Railway. ‘The man and the oppor- tunity had met In & few months he had learned to for the Connecticut and Passumpsic River Ratiroad. Then followed a day and night struggle to master the running of an engine, in which he succeeded and was duly advanced to the post of engineer. Things were going very well Willard, and most ‘men we thought about buying ah e and “settling down.” Not su with biin, He concluded railroading was ouly a shade better than Vermont farming, and strucis out for new fields, becoming an en gine driver on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ratlroad tn 1883 A little later he recelved his first rea setback, Hard times caused the road to lay off many men, Mr. Willard among the rest. He took the first opportunity that offered and became a brakeman for the “Boo” Line, a growing road of the Northwest. In 1885 he went back to Vermont and married a girl he had left behind him on his westward venture — Together they returned to the new country and Mr, Willard took hold with fresh inspiration In fourteen years he held almost every position in the operating de- partment of the “Soo” Line, advanc- ing from brakeman to engineer, con- ductor, train master, assistant yard- ster, assintant superintendent and then superintendent Word of his ability to get things done had travelled abroad, and he Was appointed assistant general man- wer of the Raltimore and Ohio Rail- voad in 1899, Two y later he stoke an engine and became « fireman | By Sophie Irene Loeb. 8 left the comp sume the post In the first place match makers a — oe _—— —_—— | a general thing have been relegate ; Conmnght, 1817, by The Pree Pubightag Co | to the rear, and a girl's mother ha | To-Day’s Anniversary | The New York tivctina World) little to guy about the girl to b | a ITHIN the week would-be husbs | Chic siniaias The fact 4s, if every man would g N this as in past European wars in large audience o! 1 to the mother of girl for advica as Which England has been involved Eee ee eigen | (2, mnarrylng her moat ences Be choosing a wife, 1 get the tr Mothers the the supreme hope of her enemies | + over want but one thing--hay has been an invasion of the} et ess for their children, It is the iene little isiand,(' but afl avon arate | - i woman indeed who wilfully Witt | to marry unless ects have failed Most ambitious of | seek the biscuit of her welkare there echoines was that of Napoleon, | makers: Look in ional mother who It was 113 years ago to-day that the to the gitl’s fam- Seeks Wealth and who would sacrifice Corsican “man of destiny” completed and don't take @! else for it. She ts not the average the concentration of a great army for | er mother’s word! pectin, cay Bad Bee when people get St EONT MEE SPH Alar nileg: ic together and choose for themselves, the tnvasion « be First tor overything. no man may blame his prospective | Consul on to be Emperor of | s try. Mother-In-law for his marriage wally supervised all the 4 bad tics show that the n ong for this project. He had | u is somewhat a asny of 180.00 mated ma 1 ‘ la of flat-bo Mt Soe wae ta| Renee n por of this concentrauion of men) Mated make Roepe Yo CUlsp J very woman knows that she can't j with a flirt and ta not a rner of “pass a bad bargain” withoul sorrow sileh Invaston | religion, ¢ should soil their and suffering later on t while man | Austria, | white hands more often, @ i is finding out all about the girl h 4 coli: learn to make good biscuits and aarn)| probably withholding much about hin immedi. | 6 kings f that she s th ait afior Ko up Mis camp at Boulogne | All of which is goud, old-fashioned the v an aald. 1G mpl {hurled his trained armies againat | philosophy from man's point of} where John has taken a ew foes At Vin and Austertita | view, Hut the twentieth Atury fod ist to make a fovial meal, w ‘ . to fo'gnle ‘eh : ® something to be said on the J after such ocvasio ready. fan's side of the schowe. A litle enlightenment as to due | Seven Men to Organize i. S. for Victory if War Comes f assistant to the President of the PTR ne? 2 Py, 44 Sayings of Mrs. Solomon [ By Helen Rowland Oopyriatt, 1917, by The 'rese Publishing Co. (The York Evening World.) H” shalt thou measure the depth of a man’s love, my Daughter? Vortly, verily, by the hours he spendeth with thee, Dear Heart, shait thou gauge his devotion. For there is no OTHER tnfallible slgn. Behold, his words and his flattery and his burnt offerings may be matters of courtesy or policy, but his desire to be WITH thee fs a matter of taste, I chargo thee be not puffed up by any man's eagerness to meet thee once—but bf his eagerness to meet thee again, For, lo, a man will try ANY diversion once! put when he reeketh thy company a THIRD tine, (len mayest thon say in thy heart: , | have dim going!” Not by the ardor of hig greeting shalt thou judge the state of his heart but by his words at parting. For behold in tho beginning of a flirtation every man saith eagerly: “When, oh WHEN may I see thee again?” And later be saith, “When SHALL I see thee again?” And later, hen dost thou WISH to see me again?” And later, “Behold, I shall see thee again to-morrow.” And later, “Behold, I shall TRY to see thee again.” | In the beginning he calleth half an hour too early and departeth only i when he is dismissed. | And later he oalleth promptly and departeth at the conventional hour. And laser he calleth at the last possible moment and departeth prompt ly upon the stroke of ten. | Then, I charge thee, my Daughter, put away thy tender sentiments | and place thy hopes In cold storage. For when an evening spent with thee becometh an effort instead of a delight, and an obligation rather than a pleasure, HIS infatuation is pean Rowan | already inthe refrigerator. Yea, behold, eo long as a man 1s Interested in a woman above alt ; other women, nothing on earth nor fn the heavens above nor in raths- | kellers beneath the earth can keep him from her side, i Verily, verily, SIX WEEKS doth @ man flatter a damsel and do all | his courting. | But upon the seventh he considereth her won—and resteth, | For this, my Beloved, 1s the length and duration of an a | | | tation. Selah.+ age Ain The Jarr Famit By Roy L. McCardell Copyrtaght, 1917, by Preae Publisiing Co. (The New York Brentng World.) ARS alarms had aroused the) walls to make it bard. Ain't you, W patriotic fever the | Gussie?" youth of the Gussie shook his head slowly, but, ‘and the report that Master Jarr had/ as though resolved not to betray bis enlisted and uniformed as a Boy] training secrets, did not reply, Scout had caused great excitement “We ts all going to be boy scouts, Master Rangle, Izzy Slavinsky and| said Master Slavinsky. “Then you Gussie Bepler hurried around the cor-| can’t join our gang.” ner with the informer to see Wille’s| ‘Chis Jast was addressed to Master | cout suit Jarr «aw, that ain't a scout sult!” sald| ‘T'll be a boy scout too!” declaret Master Bopler when the {nvestigators| Young Jarr, “My father will get mv hed the Jarr portals, “That's a | @ boy scout suit too, and he's going tu y | vowboy suit!” | take me to see the soldiers drill samy “You fellera ain't got none, any-| day!” way!" said Master Jarr with an air of| ‘This was too mucn of “The Greet great superiority. “Sure, I don’t want any ter Slavinsky, with "What I wants is ful like my big broth rt “[ wouldn't have a oither!" said Johnny Rangle scoffing- | ly. “I'm going to Join the Boy Scouts too! “Sure, ceased from jibing. 1 got to have a dollar of | your own in your savings bank to be & boy scout,” suld Iszy Blavinsk) “I got $11 by the bank already, and 1 can be a captain.” ‘ “L got money In MY bank too,” aaid Master Jarr stouuly, He had 19 cents, sald little I lavinsky, | Erle Rallroad, Later ho was civcted «+g cowboy he is out of date. My big| “But you got to have @ dollar what First Vice, President and generel! prother Bhidney says that them cow-|70u earned.” continued Master Bla continued until Jan. 4.1904, when| boy pictures is played out in the mov.|Vinsky, who had evidently studied he joined the Chicago, Burlington | tes, What they wants is the gentie-/ UP Om the boy scout question, “It's and Quincy Railroad as Second Vice | °°, what murders people stylien in| S%t to be earned honestly, Youcan ! President, in charge of operation and | swipe lead pipe and sell it and get in maintenance. modernizing and Mr. Willard und took to do it with an energy that soon made the rafiroad almost # model. He is said to have received a present of $260,000 from James J. Hill for his work in reorganizing the company, The Baltimore and Oblo interests took heed and on Jan. 15, 1910, he re- turned to the road as its President, with @ stipulation that he have a free | hand in its operation. His first step | was to persuade the directors that they needed $40,000,000 worth of new equipment, and they gave it to him. Mr. Willard became a student of railway economies in his early days, He has had more to do with negoti ations between labor and the rat{l- roads, and the railroads and legisla- tors, in the last other railway executive, His success has gained him the title of “trouble man” for the raflroad Interests of the country. As head of the Civillan Advisory Commission Mr. Willard has general supervision over the work of that body and in time of war would unde: take to handle the movement of all rail traMfc through a sub-committec over Which he also would have direct control. lis Mate ber and habits and his tdiosynerastes might go a long way toward making a irl look before she leaps. . But whit does he do as a genera! thing? He shows hla very best side. He makes himself a interesting as possible, = He woos with winning cards. He leaves too much learned, He makes love much than he makes good enicy Ube marriage market, decade, than any! The Burlington needed | full evening | dress. Master Jarr looked at his fringed) trousers and the red bandanna hand-| kerchief around bis neck and stirred uneasily. “Aw, I guess you fellers ts only fore ‘cause you ain't got any cowboy suits!” he said finally. ‘or me, I would never wear them! oatd Master Slavinsky. “Would you | Tse vant eiphons, but they under sient Bepler, who was a stolid, | ood him aster Bepler, Od, | vagy, slow witted boy, and, tn consequence, | tne magnerhtras pert ee ee tere supposed to think much because he|to the drug stores,” added Izey said little, regarded the cowboy out- ae By, Sood for 6 conte What we fit dully, and then remarked that) fi), Cy ‘ ch some sickness prize-fighters didn’t wear ‘em. nd ery for magneshyum and ginger ale and sipbers of seltzer soda water, “And Gussie is going to be a prise- | and hide the bottles till we get weil” fighter, ain't you, Gussie?” aaged| $2 the candidates for sooutsbip’ pol started on the quest Muster Rangle, “That's why he t0|Snce, ecarlet fever Being repsetean aes always butting his head against brick|in the next street. — “How are you going to Izzy?” asked Master Rangle, “Bottles is the best way.” “Bottles?” chorused the others. “Sure!” said the youthful finaneter “Don't you get 2 cents when you take back the big ginger ale bottles, and * |don't you get 5 cents for them eoda | water seltzer siphers?” earn Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.—Thomas Fuller. Successful Salesmanship | | By H. J. Barrett | Py _ . Jin black and white: ‘i ‘0 sons Bo mam No. 3—Clever c aes OMS | time at so Mucho rate erates ‘ much @ yea 1 Help This Salesman. yoara. By thet time Tim ilene te Tm talking in t until that point do I ‘T'S not what you say that counts, | thousands. * remarked be th: of my machine, ay “The | low by contrast samme plan is pursued in retat? price of almost anything, whether it's| A woman enters a shop, plan- mmodity or personal services, ea 2 “PERG. Perhaps, $5 on & waist a co fer to fMirt—with him. She must pe made to appear low. But the} casually brought wi Pipl pd meke herself as pleasing os b 4 | | r attention, 6 and if he neglects nereand | Proper contrast must be made butt is that when she pays $10 sha finds she ts attractive to other men ‘or example, ab acquaintance of| joven tyre iat paying @ low price he thinks he is very much abused 'iaing, an efficiency expert, is paid a/multi-mill amaleee ereans ty merice® As for her “soiling her Iily white | salary of $20,000 by & great mercan- | Crt! Kindred thousand dollars for an hands tnore often" in thia day" ef tile house, ‘How did you ever gouge| fi) nesrer. Not even a pork pecker work-sav Inventions, eapecialiy that much out of old Marden” T in-|uren were hen mt tacthilly: catiek fis when the family {8 small, there are quired, ‘It must hurt him to pay| boosted via the clever oom and jualities every woman should have shat Amire method." Somparioon, | s ecrubbing and cleaning ang &PY one ' . ie oS king. “He signed a coatract guarantee oo eee Ho should rather encourage her in ing me 15 per cent of the net sa | IF cidewt pieces of writing wing Ming of the world’s ineg 1 ghould sticcecd in. effecting known to us are gala to be ork, & little hess to stiny en om the Babylonta Tinta a bit'oe interest Donides that ag | was the reply. ‘And it worked out At) coniiy accinhered be nn nee te 30,000 par ¥ Fifteen t. ot \ , Prot, Barton of 1 family $20,000 per Year f Univorsity of Pennsylvanie: whe _I have seen too much of the with. the net savings didn’t sou ike 1 with events as far back ered lithe Woman whe signifies the much, But I knew suet about what at 0B. ¢ rulsm “Man's work is from eun to denis . . otal in, but woman's work is never done.” Youd t OMEBODY por Things have changed, Mr. Minister; “In. selling my lpe—high-priced S {ERODY possessed of unttmited and Mr. Man, While you are finding aading machines—I follow the san fe and patience has figured ut y about han w hich you think iy! principle. My entire canvass consists |... out tha h 6 ible conthing 8.586.» DAT el a ee and tn ‘a of the savir B tetti orming 775,698 wor ow ‘you measure up be you In painting @ 4 ¢ tt t 1 verses, 4,189 chapiers andy which will be effec 1 Agure it out bo .