The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1917, Page 18

The Wg Corld. PSTANLISHED RY JOSEPH PULIT: "Published Daily Except Sunday by the Pre 63 Park Row, Ne RALPI PULITZER, President, 61 Park Row. J, ANG SHAW, Treasures, 62 Park Row / JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second Cla Gudscription Rates to The Evening|For England ant the ¢ Soria for the United States All Countries In the International and Cana Postal Union. atter. One Year. ‘One Month. $3.60 One Year 80,Ono Month VOLUMIE 57... ees seceeeeeee BEGIN WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN. Noa recent letter to The Evening World, commen: paign for the Americanization of the country’s foreign-born, M Frank 1. Frugone, one of the proprietors of the B: Sera (Italian Evening Bulletin), made a point wth empliasis “The most important work for the Americanization Com mittee,” Mr. Frugone suggests, to teach equality of sent ment, equality of respect, love and affection for cach other among the children of different nationalities In the public schools, Livery teacher, man or woman, shor fuel these sen Uments and teach them “Such unpleasant expressions as ‘dogo,’ ‘guinea’ and ‘wop should be abolished. Every boy and girl in the schools should be taught and impressed with the fact that all are equal, al buman beings, all capable of the same good sentiments The reminder is just. It is also needed. If aliens are to he asked to put off their alicnism and become Americans, there must he no contemptuous naincs, no exclusiveness, no snobbery of race or nationality on the part of those who happen to be Americans of ng» etanding. In the first day lem. Yet the America rivals in this country “in a body” “By so doing they retain the langua habits and prin ciples, good or bad, which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they or their descendants get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws; In a word, soon become one pcople.” Opportunities for quick assimilation have mu is as sound and pertinent as ever Aliens must not gather apart, Nor me they anywhere | forced by the attitude of American citizens around them to regard themselves as separate from the national life. Bringing up children to point fingers or call names at’ childron of other races can never Americanize our city populations. The public schools of New York should set a powerful example by y shoulder Americans, Eo ‘The Father of Our Country,” sald Senator Pomerene, “was not a peace-at-any-price man, but took counsel of bis reason not his dreams. A good many fathers have done that. Descendants aud heirs are the inveterate dreamers ———— 9 , “BONE DRY.” FTER ail it is not surprising if the dealer vibrates when he discusses the “bone dry to the Post-Office Appropriution Will whi both houses of Congress A measure which forbids absolute! shipment of intoni of any sort into prohibition States, even where the laws in such Sty has now pas have allowed a certain latitude in the matter of private consignments, ie about aa absolute and sweeping as anything that Americans have yet accepted for their “hi There is no doubt whate ‘Anti-Saloon Leaguers, powerfu r liquor interests in many pa near to persuading the country that it needs nation-wide prohibition. Pretty near, but not aui libert Regulating by law fe a tricky business, Just wh Jator is sure he has everyb eta in hand he is liable ti ilatees into sudden resis f e the reg The passage o victory, but it is fhe sort of victory that draws ¢ itself and its consequences, Which is why t qu lebra y much attention tly ex . too. —_—— $2 Don't eat onlons, Save money and iinprove your breath , Letters From the People Another Cannon Th Opinion, | oarne To the Exitor of The Krening World | ment 1 note with much surprise and some cha 100 per cent, on the tnve yet that dx not way a me 8 profit Is fleured solution included. expenses of conduct Of course, the bal! travelx at 1% | usually figured on the miles an hour, While it was lying! sale and not on the cost of t dormant (in so far as the gun and{|chandiae, ‘Therefore, If b train were concerned) in the breach|fxure the cost ofthe gun it was travelling at the|the amount of 1 rate of ninety miles per hour along | Meure his with the train, and it already had that | fool himself every time. For exa velocity when the explosion of the) ple, a dealer sells an article for $1 powder imparted to it a further tm-|cesting him $1, fgurin, ey taken in y rofit on the cos of forty-five miles, making the| profit: as r cent the same velocity 185 miles. |dealar has on expense tn conducting ls agreed that when the gun ts) business of 20 per cent 1a apt to stationary and is fired the ball leaves re that he has im i oper cent the muszle with a velocity of forty when [1 real five miles. Then, will you, and those | Por 20 per cent. on $1! of your readers who agr with you, ‘ ER lease explain what happens to that! wo, vom Are a Natl . Sarelty cf ninety miles which the ball |, nou, ven, Are 8 ative Amorionn, eet Sef, the gun was fired? My father came from Germany One correspondent says that If you sje" y od ft @old an object In your hand in a mov. | {BAY qpuntey @ Rood m ing train and let It go It drops to the | wie tyey yc out alti ground: Of course It does; due to! S York ( ee avity, But before It has reached| whether or not’ ft je ground it has travelled a lateral | paetben or pot it Ay years » pay @istance equal to that travelled by wm I @ natur the train iu the same period of time | have always SBC nay a rN Hom in Profits, fer We Simm We the Editor f The Evening Worl: Wack: Any i Tn a recent issue of your paper vou To tie Filtar of aid that if a dealer sold an article) Give mo the na the auth Met coats him $1 for $2 his profit was! of “High Spe y ' Waile it i9 true that this dealer! IRVING i ) Strengthening the Nest By J. H. Cassel £3 to| yotinent an@ ng its can ettino delia | | | matches Into thy waste basket—even as another. s of the republic immigration was a minor prob- m of George Washington was sound and farseeing enough to grasp its importance and lay down the only sure and lasting principles for its solution. In a letter to John Adams, Washington included a especial warning against ecttling foreign ar | “Wherefor then doth a woman divorce one husband for another? \ Selah. plied a thousand fold since Warhington’s day. Yet the essential part of hia advice | : THe, | God and for Fran They | By Augustin McNally. |fiitgett chat dance wnicn in theme have been sons of the same r- ously discouraging all growth of prejudice or eonscions alienisi in ile rt t had one p minds of boya and girls who ought, one and all, become shouldersto ! Many Plants Ready to Make Munitions if War Breaks Howard E . Coflin, Noted Automobile Engineer, Perfecting| Plans for Manufacturers to Begin Production of War Supplies--He Is the Man Who Made Low~ Priced Motor Cars Possible. By James C. third ina series of articles | Upward step by that make up Advisory Commission an he bullt a gas eng sorely neede of his efforts t evelid of the liquor In the two following years mendmen in important a Young. ety of Automobile Olds Motor Works of Detroit | Er Hing who the ‘Tristram Coffyn who ks who would be eligible for nent devoted | fe » Coffin had found company had is country from Englan ninth In direct de Through his lean tadustru in the eve is) appoint « Civilian Advisory President of the Hudson berty-loving Car Company, Detroit, and the | {hm to show steady Kind of service though he Is a niin Miami Co or th » Probibitionists and che i} er that the Prohibitionists and da Mr. Coffin attended | andardization of Mr. Coffin is accredited with being y aided by the suicidal policy of law Jesaness and indifference to public decency displayed by saloon and duties of th times, and It is expected the sity of Michi of the United States, have come preity Oe a eae nition factories at s |back before the sons of Vol | They knew f | mere pe Jacross the altar to seize place and! preaching six thousand men got up | powe sand from 1 conduct and n the enthusiastic regu of further train gain took up avac for about el npantes owned by med to warran If war should come to-morrow he responsible for the provision of guns and ammunition blow effective, — to wa | had a de Hudson Motor he 1s Vice | would merlean plants to ; See at rlean 5 relinquished studies to acc of Automobile En ad - [inteliectual, “He was the \group. While Oz the Reed amendment may look like a great ff \rghteous living and or Jconferences Lammen | paper. FY > | wrote for that paper. They were very |this-—the last of three good men of | young men and very enthusiastic for‘ France, ——--++ » Liquor seller ean smpiled, desertbing tions of war, Coftin also Is a me Naval Consulting Board and has had | unt paet in carrytn, ‘ve got all I can When a woman gets as few clothes as I do she has to take care not to dresses made too pro- nounced in style, or the styles will! so before she’s gotten any wear | Yet if one ts too| (Die New York Frening JARK stood by the window musing and Mr, Jarr gave her a playfal shake ar industry and | your thous other women| y oft as I am,"| not heeding his r women like | tth slit talking to | clothes and $18 shoes and say her life ts blighted, ows she married for money— und got it!" y were as bad “A penny for st” he erled gayly “[ guess that's all you would givé| Clar * sald Mra. Jarr, out of her things, conservative one might as well get a new dress.” Mr, Jarr could offer no advice on so! burning a question, not | United States, & life with no spectal ad- fin has won his wa or should be ret the numerous Snoorrect nolu-| figured. Be he merchant, retailer tiohs to the cannon bali problem, your| manufacturer or wholesaler, all his ng business are amount of the “Only because of my modesty,” was | body k nis reply, “because I know you were thinking of me." “Don't flatter yourself,” sald Mr right!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “Stand there and say nothing; much | you care if I have a new dress or| customer in point of intellect, Alinost|/ must be appreciation of what the “Oh, don't say that!" was the reply, | everybody prefers to deal with his own} other party to the conver “I was just thinking—yes, I was go- “Yes, and you forget he's my boss, | !ng to say, you should got your new very latest style, etter, and if I make ney yw can have all Get it in the mer- should doing business on “It you knew her husband as well as I do, you'd know the only way to | get his money from him was to marry | who was in a high good | him for ft," sald Mr, Jarr. Huena Vista there we worry him except his debts and a bad} Smith through us? asked Mrs, Jarr. | cold and the thought of how long he'd | if business kept ¢ bad with his firm, laughed lightly the $5 cents mbers it too, he looks at me it Is evsion that seems to say, Business may be a little extra the new duds you want, | military style.” milltary styles may go Suppose we have peace, and then ice th tell me once| the military styles go out wo hadn't tntroduced her to band she might have m |Juck Silver and been happy! As f} col didn't give Jack? Silver every| reaks even i?" he asked, surrounded the t you worry, T know too much “But she out * was the reply ) many sales, with dresses going almost nothing, now that end of the season pose the styl: material for @ but all the dress- have gone to work t you can't get | ew for you for love | "cried Mr. Jarr. | "Get the dress in any mode as to con. tried | struction, but be sure the cloth is dove d, then it will be right in atyle if peace comes--Dove of Peace, you\time, giving the prospe rn in know who would bi Jarr gave him the look of an indignant war eagle, and be beat lining @gain th itrality on the to: This was a subject long torm to) Jarr unthinkingly re 4 good Woman to turned to th {ng your dress that he would jeometbing to take off, generally thelwerrying about?” retorted Mra, Jars, |buue aud dorly minuiem — sad OKO WORRY, 4D Jetting she Proepedt old usde, * ayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyriaht, 1917, by The Prem Pubiisbing Co, (The New York Kyening World.) ‘ ~~ ERILY, verily,” saith the Widow, “WHY shall I remarry for change? “For lo, as far as woman {s concerned, all men are as OND man, And she that weddeth a second time but repeat eth her own history! “Yea, behold how, the first time they call, they all talk brillfantly. “And the second time, they all tall eentimentally, “And the third time, they all talk foolishly. They all begin by trying to impress thee with how ‘dlaké and worldly and experienced they arc—and end by trying to Impress thee with how noble aud spotless es en || esha and selfeacrificing they are. : Smet “They all begin by running after thee—and then | Tuning away from thee—and end by running BACK to thee and begging tu be put upon 4 leash. | “They all begin by laviehing flowers and dinner parties upon thee—and end by taking thee to picture shows, so that they will have plenty of money wherewith to lavish fowers and dinner parties upon the ‘next girl’! “They all begin by assuring thee that thou art perfect and flawless and beyond compare—and end by striving to ‘make thee over’ according to a stock Ideal. “They all begin by trying to make thee Jealous—and end by declaring ; ditterly that the Lord mado thee that way. | “They all mako the same vows and promises over the telephone “And the same apologies when they are late. “They all begin by wondering if they'll ‘DO'—and end by wondering it THOU wilt ‘do’ “Yea, verily, verily, one man’s chin {s as rough as another’s—and one man’s lies are as smooth as another's : “One man’s razor {s as sacred as another’s—and one man’s excuses are | as old as another's, | “One man streweth thy rugs with cigarette ashes and throweth lighted “One man growleth like unto another when he fs hungry—and groaneth | ike unto another when he hath overeaten, “And there !s no novelty tn them! “For exchanging one man for another {s as changing a bundle from one hand to another, ! “It affordeth thee only a TEMPORARY relief!” iGreat Revivalists j of Former Days} No. X1.—Three Men of France. ve selves Were prope st. But they BOUT the middle of the nine- | Selves Were proper and ju ere @ hundred years ahead of their teenth century there came Into ties.” ‘The Pope, Gregory XVI. bade the spiritual lite of France! them stop this activity, He did ét in tree remarkable men, They might|a fatherly way, Lacordaire bowed hate mother, M8 head; Montalembert bowed his ng wos the bend of unity ad still lower, Lammennats had so strong wa im. |torgetten how to pray. He flung his which bound each to the other, They |cassock from him and went out into mon—for ¢ the night oe thre friends wept aan {titer tears. it they wasted no Mieclieaiee They heard the youth » crying out to them. n the qnuibblers in theology and clan, | the mere politician and all the small baila stitution berty, and| men in their ehureh had gotten weary var Gh conatltn Hab al Merten aes itietal vl backbiting, Pere Frederick Ozanam, professor of the | 2% CruttIRin® antl atin cscend the Sorbonne, friend and companion of) pulpit Notre Dam The Arche mpere, Kach had a special talent| bishop of Paria swept all objections ty each planned his talent on the|asile wish a gravity that emphasized 1 j his own position ordalre began altar of the church which all loved | Ore toeteciiadon thar’ andean ta with an uncommon love, Ozanam | ng the Parisian churches, en- dt militia of charity which 1 aged the v roused new is called t joctety of Bt. Vincent sin the hearts of good Bishops, de Pauls and wherever you meet a) ) 1 slowly but surely brought long rue son of Oganain you Meet a man os of young men up that sawdust who has just come from the house of | trail which led to confessionals all over the land. widow and the orphaned and who | °‘y); in nt ordaire knew hia audience. said: was a sceptical one. He had been an ‘Do not worry. John the grocer s|tinneliever himself. He knew what our friend. We know Hans the was need He called his sertes of butcher--and here is the money for | gormons a@ mission nor re- your rent.” ival. ‘They were “conferences,” he Montalembert wrote a life of @ i e nove of treatment, the Hungarian saint, so simple that a) freshness of that eloquent voice, the ld in the ¢ mentary classes can ading--all this the men d for } | Fran two were laymon—Count Charles de] ‘qj Montalembert, French Ac foun ba | ha: read and understand 1t, He became wve souls affected to the champion ot his ret in phe They larmed for legislative halls of his country. ‘Te ey calied “the faith” and lacked made rell nm beautiful ven in the pirktual ener to go out and eyes its enemies, Vietor Hugo aod) proclaim, — daire never faltered. Thiers and Gulzot and the other, Qzanam worked larder. Montalem- brilliant men of that day loved Mont- pert applauded, The walls of Notre alembert, loved him even when he Dame resounded with this pew wascrying out: “We are the sons of| preaching for two years, the Crusaders and we will never draw on Lacordalre went to Rome anéd re!” | became a Dominican monk. He came m for what he was—no| back again and again to Notre Dame. Uctan stretching his bands|Qnce in the midst of his powerful r for him and his, land cheered. The ‘ord was born to preach and! He went to and to restore, Now all three | Marseill r friend, and he was n 1) Lacordaire brought the youth of the licite Kobert de Lammenn. He land to confesstonal. Then he pr He was reputed to be died, Ozanam had gone before him. est of (ho | Montalembert was summoned at the m was trying to| time the great Council of the Vatican paths of, was in session, Pius 1X. went down to anizing his| St. Peter's, accompanied by father of uls founded a|the church from every country on Montalembert and Lacordaire | earth, and presided at a requicm for y were Frenchmen. Lyons, to Bordeaux, to and wherever he went win young men to the Liars ought to have good memortes,—Algernon Sidney. | You and Your Job By Willis Brooks tell the stories and in doing the Article No, 9. laughing himself. fa [PSMAN should try never to| A good listener usually makes more BSALDSMAN ghowuch above. or| friends than @ good talker, But lis- acer 7 hi ctive|tening does not consist in merely much below his prospe keeping your mouth shut, There tion ta Te . for instance, | Saying. K1nd. TOO ne aeRO oo aeeap to| Showing yourself off will not selt addressed to 4 person 0 is ni Pp goods, Hringing out the best in your ft {9 likely to excite a suspicion of) prospective customer is the surer snobbery, while less refined epeech to| way, Appreciative listening does this oh fe . . }and at the same time constitutes ore one who 18 above such language al 3 the highest compliments you can pretty sure to cause disgust. Your Day him.” Wo all think well of the prospective customer's first words! person who makes us appear at our ould tell you about where to place | best. ee ee In matters not vital to the sale, the Dime eulesman abould not talk too | salesman should elther agree with thi much. Overmuch "boosting ' of goods ; RvaPens ie aaa. fineeroukeinaas has spoiled many a sale, It ts better | dangerous when the customer te de- to cull attention briefly, not boastful-! tented, ly, to their strong point ani ont are too should be considered , ~|hiong the same lines as speech. The portunity for the consideration of} ultra fashionable dresser, elther be- each, | hind the counter or on the road, ts in Unless you know your customer! at joast as much danger of offending weil, you should avoid, so far as com-|as he who Is noticeably behind the mon politeness permits, all conversi-| styles. Pope's advice on the cholce ‘ton not pertaining to your sale of words for ¢ ne ideas. applies old-fashioned “drummer” who velequalty. « to the 6 of gare for a reputation as a goc , ler | monts for clothing sorte e « . 7 ew-fashloned Re not whom the f wt t th tear ’ e last t lay the