The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 14

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. +} Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to} 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Presh J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasure Entered at the Post-Office at nd-Claas Matter, Bubscription Rates to Tae Evening|For Kngiand and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries in the International ‘ and Canada, Postal Union. One Year F ++ $3.60/One Year.. One Month : .20,One Month VOLUME 57 os NO. 20,280 THE LACONIA. HE sinking of t » Laconia without warning, and with the con- sequent loss of at least two American lives, fulfils all the tech nical requirements of an act which was only formally needed to prove that the German Government is and has been since Feb. 1, in intent, overtly hostile to the United States That there will be more such acts there is not the slightest rea-| eon to doubt. If American women passengers have not been earlier drowned or left to perish of exposure in open boats on a winter sea, it 18 only because ¢hance has saved them from German murderers who now eagerly scan the horizon for more Lusitanias Enough is known about the torpedoing of the Laconia to prove beyond question that it was another cruel, inhuman attack upon the lives of non-combatants, incl “in heedless contra ding Americans, vention of the just and reasonable understandings of international law! and the obvious dictates of humanity’—-words used by President Wilson on Feb. 3 when he defined what this Government must regard #8 an overt act on Germany's part. If any hesitating and reluctant element in Congress needs further evidence of the German attitude, let it study the cold resentment end| sneering hostility toward this country only half concealed in the Ger- man Chancellor's speech to the Reichstag yesterday. Armed neutrality the President proposed in his address to Con- gress Monday. How long can armed neutrality Jast in the face of calculated outrage and deliberate murder? Cong vss might as well realize the situation for what it is and rise to it. If American merchant vessela are to be armed it does not mean that they must take the chances of bi sink, as fate may decree tle and survive or American merchant shipping on its lawful errands must have behind it the American Navy with every gun and every man alert and ready. If Germany will have it that is war, then war let it be. ee It is suggested that the big German retreat on the Ancre may mean that trench warfare Is to be abandoned for a “war- fare of motion.” We notice the motion starts off toward Berlin, a THE REAL QUESTION. UBLICITY and the flat refusal of increasing numbers of people to buy certain foodstuffs at the seandalously high prices de- manded have caused @ sharp drop in many of those prices, Chicken for which dealers asked thirty cents a pound last Friday could be bought yesterday for twenty cents, The price of vnions came down 100 per cent. from last week's figure, and potatoes now sell for seven cents a pound, So far, good. But is this the only way to keep food prices from jumping to higher and higher levels? Must we have constantly recur- ring boycotts, demonstrations, food riots and investigation’ merely to force food supplies for the time being out of speculative corners into normal channels of distribution? Ie the food gambler a necessary evil? Must his manipulations forever disturb the relations of supply and demand and render hope less all attempts to get at the natural and nec food prices? To admit it would be to admit that though the public has power to enforce its right to continuous and adequate performance of various public services by private corporations, it has no power to ray how its food shall be handled, uo way to protect itself against the schemes of food purveyors who find it profitable from time to time to} starve or exploit it. | Food Commissioners appointed to meet emergencies by buying} food for public sale, as contemplated in a bill introduced at Albany yesterday, can do nothing toward removing the fundamental cause of the trouble they are supposed to treat, The time has come for the] people of New York and their legislators. to set their minds seriously essary fluctuation of PAELLA Ee PIT Ie TER Nae teeter wee er em ‘Without Warning ! Julius Rosenwald, Genius of the Mail Order Business, Dele- | **¥'"s expanding at a rate that made more) gated to Handle This Important Work [f Need Should Arise—How He Got His Opportunity in Life and What He Did With It, ‘tig! By James C. Young. Afth in a series of arti cles telling who the men are that make Advisory Commins io Was then the s, and the slende r capital of young commenced to grow latter should enter the busi buying a half in-| with another man for $70,000. ‘Sears | drinker, though no slave to the habit. | deser Rosenwald has been in di-| tow long he kept this up is not im-| has ch of the business, and tt is| his supervisio! *| stories are fiction. Only this is true 1 in the manuf of summer jthat Sam Jones was once a hard amid flowers and trailing vines up the Civilian appointed to help th tablishinent He has| vowed to stop drinking and he did the public eye his interest In civic, eduva- philanthropic supporter of nd started to manufacture ne of those employee and sntiment had not been tried. the enterprise individual tn the tosenwald’s retin yneern in 1895 it had be ness’ of considerable ent from the Rosenwald’s presence on the} Commission ause of his unusual large vol-| away from Carter uld seem to dl business with merchandise it would be his special duty to supplies for truly a task equal to the man nd a good deal Is to work on a simple question: | How ought the distribution of food in a community of 5,000,000} people to be regarded? Rather as a regulated public service or as al more or less open private gamble? ——— t= Record Prices for Hogs. Headline. Also some record hogging of prices. Hits rom Sharp Wits There are few old-fashioned “mis-) not have time to know #0 much about tera" left. Nearly every man is alher neighbors.—Memphis Commer guy" to the modern youth.—Toledo | clal-Appeal Blade. | e ° ° tae | Appe cts mear | tself; hunger takes any reach.--Albany Journal aba ile 8 to satisfy Capital punishment may be a litt » severe for a murderer but not the fellow who walks on your feet tn the street car-—Pittsburgh Gazette Primes ica 4 school of robbers, we are told, Reports don't specity Whether it is @ school for dentists, A woman v} we herself does | News Letters From the People raise fo dress, Mr Phillip Brenne a uplifting editorials, would| ‘The amittee Would deem it s. BRENNER I te to our tn stion of “How to treat emp EMPLOY EBS firm of Brenner Brot at ASSOCIATION ivieed Street, New i Committe fron the bonuses IRVING GOLDMAN their one red and HERMAN &. SENCER employees, New Years MISS M. MAINE & special meeting Fet JOSEPH FRANK 6, 1917, Announcement waa made that all salaries would be increased from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, ef. . Te the Kaditor of The Brening Word fective this date Can a young man who was born , I appreciation of their just treat-/and brought up in this country vote jy ment, We, the employees Brenner’ if hie father was born In Germany Hrothers, through our committee, ox» @nd has never taken out his citizen's press our unanimous vi f thanks. papers? Bl A We earnestly believe the question of co-operation between employer and Viret Papers Good Seven Veare employee would be practically solved FX) tor of "The Evening Wor were all business 1 y tr Is It necessary to obtain first employees with the sume consideration ou Ip part of his brief and pointed ad- failed to g ers to become nature BIN second pa Phe . New York Brauing Work Jarr ‘amily By Roy L. McCardell | rehandising or- tbout in sear friend husband I was speaking of my father's new Civillan Advisory Commission, 16 my rice pud ‘Some ‘Misunderstood’ Men By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wert@,) The Elderly Lothario. HE most fascinating man I know is just fifty-eight. The dullest and most uninteresting man I know is just twenty-eight. The youngest man J know is just seventy. He has all the # lusions and enthusiasm with which he started out in life, and a lot of new ones gathered by the way. The oldest man I know is just twenty-one. He ts SO blase, and cynical, and world-weary! It takes a long time “for the cream to rise to the top"—and maturity gives a creamy richness to the qualities of a man’s mind, a polish to his manners, a ripeness to his thoughts, a tenderness to his attitude toward women which make blatant youth seem erude and awkward. Age should improve a man as ft doosh, wine or cheese, But this is true only on the assump- tion that the man has a mind to start with. The elder- ly Lothario never had a mind, or he would not be a‘ sthario, A “mitten ish old lady” is a pathetically funny thing; but a “kittenlsh old gentlemas” is positively heinous, You have met him, of course. He is always well-groomed, well-fed, saucy, pink, dressed to the last word, and decorated with @ boutonniere. He would be SUCH a picturesque and charming person, such a delightful dinner companion, such an attractive and interesting change from the usual run of raw, green youths, if he would not INSIST on being so cute and boyieh; if he would not insist on calling you “Kiddie” and “Baby;" if he would not insist on looking soulfully into your eyes and pressing your band on the slightest provocation; if he would not insist on tnpressing you, at every turn, with what a devilish young colt he is—in short, if he would mot insist on being a Lotharto. Yes—and if he would not insist on keeping pace with “the boys, N this age of hustle and indifference, and half-baked manners, whem polish 4 and chivalry are found scarcely anywhere except in the dictionary, what a refreshing and fascinating thing it is to meet “a gentleman of the old school,” a really old-fashioned gentleman! Age cannot wither nor cus- tom stale his infinite charm for women, How he stands out amidat the hasty crudeness, the boisterous carelessness, the raw uncouthness of mod- ern youth! If the Lathario would only member this, he could still be woman-charmer at sixty, A man is not old when he loses his top-hair, his teeth, and his figure—but when he loses his Illusions about women, when he loses his personality, his dignity and his poise. There is no reason why a man should not be in love, and loved, at sixty—but there are a thousand reasons why he should not make himself ridiculous by trying to flirt with every debutante in his grand-daughter’s set timent is beautiful at any age, but sentimentality after fifty is dudicrous; after*sixty It is nauseating. JE may be loved forever—if one ia loval But there 18 an age ‘at which man should stop trying to be “a boy," and a woman should stop trying to be “a girl;"” at which each should stop trying to be cute and fascinating, and should ¢ nirate on being interesting, and charming and chivalrous and dignified, There 1s no more delightful ‘arson in the World than the man or woman of fifty who has skilfully pernaged to retain all the enthusiasm of youth, and to acquire the poligh ang reserve of mucurity, But there is as much difference between a charm. ing man of fifty and an elderly Lothario as there is betwen a charming L ly.” An old de an't learn new" enough not to try! It is an try- ad of trying to live up to the it the elderly bothario loses his charm foi sd at by debutantes, frowned on by matrons” woman of fifty and a "Ki tricks—but alas! an old f ing to live down to the n ideals of his own genc women fnd finds hims' and “misunderstood” by both No. XI1.—Sam Jones. By Augustin MeNally. enthusiasm of th new preasirer. | Be sermon n brought that rural con- to its Knees. The shook 1 by Sam's flinging to the the uired traditions of ryatism in speech. neant nothing to bi rds and phrases, © i-colons and dashes were rful and effective weapons. ry amused by the witty which he illustrated his 1 they were brought t | their knees by his urgent appeala, . That was f years ago, No. ifter that first sermon he the ion of a revival- tremendous pathos, whose sht-from-the-shoulder talks brought thousands to the pent- tent seats There is no question about t novelty of the methods 1 employed to drive home @ lea- son, an s no question of hie indulging in slang, but exaggerated tions of his ortginal methods apened the work of the real revivalist and given us a cirous per- ruer and a hard, unchanging @e- omer, rather than «a soul-saver AM JONES is of too recent mem-| S ory to properly have a place in a series ling with great revivalists of former days, if the in- | tention were to hew stratgat to the | gi, ne. But it would be an unpardon to come down to the ds all able blunder times of Moody and Sankey ¢ pear to ignore the work of + popular preacher There are fifty-odd stories told how alarming pace, stopped suddenly turned about and forced himself up the ‘mountain with the help of ¢ and a will of tron, Some of th up | most am Jones went backward at an | homely portant, At his father's deathbed he That's one side of Sam Jones, This) Sam Jones was essentially @ soul is the real Sam Jones: He was a Sis! Write fi | Gee d he became a Methodist © preached to above a milion Georgian and he became a M 1ist| seople during the last five years of minister, his work, In the hills of South Caro- His grandfather had charge of a|'Ma he was a mountaineer, it God into your J . small congregation two or three told his rough’ and sendy opens Ga. One day ion, “and there ain't no place short he had @ sore throat and decided to|of hell for the devil. I'm just a y indoors. He sent for Sam and ereuacey Reaeaty tf any OF be div. m started in with all the vigor and! 1), 1,, that means I'm @ devil arteore In the dvyawing rooms of the South he was a man who respected the dig- nity of his auditors. He preached all through the South and the Far,’ West and often came to Northern towns and cities, No town wag too , = small for him so long as it hed one Well,” said Mr. Jarr, “if you are] saloon and two sinners, He pitehed & going to be peeved and will not tell| tent in the flelds and gathered the me what's the matter I'll unbosom all | COUnUTY fell about him. He spoke my grouches too, 1 tell you I'm will. |/ Specially built tapernacies to from = was this’ding up against it once, when I was pudding may n the veins of your side of the house, | best of husband's won homecoming, is sentiment und went to ur side of the house” did not smile whieh ininiatar me like this, when th world {s at war.” Mag within | was as though he a time all day had not had t fearsome thing Suceesstul Salesmanship Barrett \ing home crying wouldn't stop do anything pe campaigns of I'm going to be as blithe y as possible Why This Woman 1s) 3s a Suecess at Selling plumbers or lawyers. Milwaukes | No me mad by playing the ‘s times every national anthem, ¢ ism to have to get up and yell when a fat young female person comes out rico pudding, a flag; and an actor | ncle Bam, with his face ited red and a palpably false chin | beard and a wig, leads out @ hatchet) Ing spectacles, a frock that ts, he doesn't he carries ft ig supposed to represent our Presi- dressed like L Jarr declared. andfather's side of the house faced man wea n thoir| wear remember it dis a nice state of mind to 1, having tage “But al) such pointers are rice was all put on,” ten to fifteen thousand. Tobacco ware- ing to defend the flag~eager to if I] houses were converted into tabere have to, but I hope 1 won't because I|nacles and opera houses and audi- don't want to shoot any foreign na- | ruins Were Used tor overflow audi. ences tions whatsoever—but I'm getting | "phe humber of men Sam turned sore at having to bob up and down|away from barrooms ahd eet. Up when showmen'® orchestras continu-fiAm0ng th men ae ‘Teepe, table citizens wi rt ally play national airs and make al jf, beta nity) MN in 1908 Tae travesty of symbols that should be) road train. The South mourned Bim revered" — ws /t has mourned no man tn recent “Well, don't come home and fuss| times. He would jump out of his ae eee Re SUS PON grave if anybody called him an th mo ' ald #. Jarr./ty" We give him. that) white’ he “You're making supper late and I| would prize most when we clalm hi want to go out to the moving pictures | for our ow Jones, the man wir and see the million dolla tonal | One #8 as chuner vay eh | omits screen star, Clarice Larue, she is| poots. ° playing in her great masterplece ‘Bes onitieersemceeia sie, the Beautiful Beggar.’ They say - those are real tears that roll down her |S ™4n and all of the higher antmais cheeks~ and she can cry whenever she the nervous system centres tn the wants to brain, and life is dependent upon | “Huh! sneered Mr. Jarr. ‘She! the condition of the bratn, ao that the amelig an onion f i no, | forgot shghtest Injury to it means death or onions are now too dear for even a derangement of faculties, But in the million dollar star in the movies to case of the worm and other creatures snift at.” of the lower Kind, the nervous tissu D she can think of the price| are distribute over the body, an , suggested Mrs. Jarr But, do not centre in the head, @o that come on, dinner is waiting and we a worm may be cut in half and till | have real potatoes for supper!” live, To-Day’s Anniversary ANY veterans of tha South African war will c@lebrate layed and brushed and polished, but “Ladysmith Day” to-day, this | their tunics hung on them eg leosely being the seventeenth anniversary of as the flag around its pole; the ein, the relief of the starving garrison | on their clcek-bones was aw tight ‘ which had withstood a siege of 118|as yellow as the belly of @ @rumi days, When the relieving column en- their teeth protruded = through of the correspond: present, wrote: hey were in clean khaki, _ pipes | tered Ladysmith the men of the cracked, parched lps; and funger, I knew your smile | rison presented a strange spect fover and suffering stared from ous The late Richard Harding Davis, one | their eyes." a ?