The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 10

Evening World Daily Magazine: Mal ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (The New York ivening World.) ‘ag Co, Bublished Daily Except 6 by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. ark Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. , 63 Park Row, 3, ANGUS SITAW, Tr JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. oretary, 63 Park Row. t_ New York as Second. Entered at the Post-Ome Subscription Rates to The Evening|For Wngland and ane Mat the Continent and ‘World for the United States and All Countries In the International Postal Union. Canada. + $8.60 One Year.. +40/One Month, One Month.... 18) ci TOWARD THE LIGHT. HILE here in the United States we are being impelled by past events to look forward to war, present developments in Europe promise to bring nearer the end of the conflict. | With the news of the revolution in Russia ringing through the | world, the Imperial German Chancellor hastened to go before the Prussian Diet with pledges of greater freedom for the German people | including “equal rights and participation for all in the work of the state.” ' Socialist and Liberal leaders in Germany jubilantly point out that, as the Vorwaerts pute it, the Chancellor has made “the strong»! , thinkable argument that liberty is a national necessity demanded in! the interest of German self-preservation” : Thoreby a, for Prussia, heretofore almost unthinkable step has been taken, a Prussian Government has postulated freedom a8 @ necessary basis of the state. Democracy is indeed stirring in Europe—who can say to what \ast ends? What happened in Petrograd was precipitated by suffering and scarcity of food. But ite deeper causes lay in conditions by no means peculiar to Russia, conditions found in greater or lees degree wherever autocratic dynasties havo attempted to control, under forms of con- stitutional government, the destinies of peoples. \ In the Central ‘Powers, military autocracy at this juncture may well tremble and try to square itself. It has not fulfilled its prom- ises to those upon whom it has imposed its burdens. The sufferers begin to ask why they are suffering and demand new pledges that their voices shall be heard in national counci War has worn human endurance down to the quick. mine has begun its terrible march, and revolution follows close behind. With colossal loads piling ever higher upon the shoulders of the poor and starving, with only worse privations and sacrifices ahead, the forces of democracy all over Europ@are bound to find themselves presently searching with one accord for some way out. Governments may still be intent on the struggle. But there arc} signs that the millions will not go on much longer giving blindly cf] their toil and blood. a Sy A deputy in this same Prussian Diet denounced the Ger- man submarine campaign as inhuman. The great chance for the German people lies in the fact that Kultur inoculation | t didn't always “take. _ es EE Te OBA oF heme nenee TREO. + NOT EXACTLY NEGLIGIBLE. EVENTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS is the sum the} Finance Committees have decided the New York State Legis- ; lature will have to appropriate this year to carry through their programmes of expenditure. | Y est Cr d ay ; i) M ot he it i Amid the general press of events this little obligation for State| fe) To-Day’ S. taxpayers to meet is likely to get by almost unnoticed, despite tie| fact that the total is some $14,000,000 more than the appropriations | of last year and $7,500,000 more than the Governor's budget called for. | Unless New York taxpayers keep at least half an eye for what goes on within the limits of their State, these stirring times are cer- tain to cover a oosy little orgy of extravagance at Albany. Up-State legislators particularly can be counted on to ladle out as many extra thousands of dollars for local improvements (to be paid| for up to 70 per cent. by taxpayers of this city) as they can get away with while public attention is concentrated on larger matters, If we are going to war we must economize, and wherever economy starts or stops it ought not to miss Albany. That $73,000,000 programme will bear watching. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. , Coorright, 1817, by The Prem Puldishiog Go, (The New York Erening World.) No. Hl. glaze of Unessential knowledge, which Y Dear Dorothy: I am glad my is guaranteed to resist all new ideas rl is well, Iam glad she is| °F facts. one ‘Aunt Jeannette so Iittle| The high school of necessity gives trouble, But Iam|/¢## Toom to educational fads and worry, sorry, sorry fancies. Nor are its rankings in- ‘about the last re-| Muenced by parental pocketbooks. port from high| YoU cannot scamp your work in school, And 1/4rithmetio or history and slide _| through because of facility in music must refuse post-| oy drawing. ‘The high school teacher, tively to permit) since her salary is paid by the com: you to go with| munity and not by a few peevish Felice and Laura] parents, can and does dispense an to Halidome Hall, | 6¥en-handed justice. a ‘That is how I know from your re- the private fin-| port card that you have not been Se eteRS terre ; Ishing- @chool| studying hard enough, little girl, And For a dinner menu consisting of “potatoes, onions and all \ which theirmoth- | I do not consider this an unimportant matter. I know that to-day's mother says indulgently, “Marks don't count One never hears of valedictorians after school is over.” Marks DO ers have selected, Besides your letter, I have one from Laura's mother advocating the |change. (By the way, what were the other delicacies of the season,” members of the New York Society of Restaurateurs will pay $12 per cover, It {s something to have lived to see the day when Jcount, ‘They are indices of your | bition, your memory, your reasoning powers, your concentration, your in- | dustry, your ability to express your-| self, And if you want to go to a girls’ camp next summer, instead of staying at home and tutoring for your college examinations, you must do better work next term than you have done. Aside from its superior mental |training and stimulus, there is an- Jother reason why the high school is the place for you, Dorothy. A great Englishman once said that the batt | of Waterloo was won on the playing | | felds of If the battle of | democracy is ever to be won in Amer- | ica, the victory will be made possi- | ble by the public schools. They are the nearest thing to equality of op-| portunity yet evolved. | Not merely as an American, but as | a girl of sixteen, you need daily in- Jections of the democratic spirit. The | Average girl of your age is a natural | snob, Even as the ancient Greeks, she ‘considers every one a barbarian who n-|18 not precisely like herself and her | “charming little set." 1 don't know if the daughter of a washwoman |» in your class, Dorothy, but I hope she is and I hope she gets better marks than you. I hope that the star of the basketball team ts the child who has the smallest amount of spending money. If I could only teach you that what matters about you is not who I am, not how much money your father has, but your own cleverngss, your own charm, your distinctive person- ality! But I can't teach you, It is a thing you have to learn for your- self and the quickest, surest course of instruction consists in being bumped against elegant ciphers and nobody-ever-heart-of-the-famlly ge- niuses, That is the only way in which you can rub out your sex’s greatest harglican—a smug satisfaction with surtaces. You will have to unlearn snobbery from life, dear, and the lesson won't be so hard if you begin to study it at school. Love from MOTHER, The Jarr F potato and an onion can chum with a hothouse grape. Laura's marks in her last report?) Her mother speaks of the “wonderful grounds” of Halfdome Hall, the “sym- amily By Roy L. McCardell | Hits From Sharp Wits When well developed vanity is) Geographers would lke to: thave rubbed the wrong way, how it burts!| Burope settie down a little to have ‘Albany Jour Its picture taken for a new map. Milwaukee News. ery pathetic personality” of the instruc- tors and the “really charming ttle set of girls.” My dear child, Just what bearing | does any one of these encomiums)| have upon the fact that you go to Jt, 191T, by Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) R. JARI was home first and hurried to the door at the wifely ring. Mrs. Jarr was so out of . It sometimes happens that an af-/ ter-dinner speaker i# too full for ut- torance.—Philadelph! a faquirer, | . Considering the high cost of shoes, M any one with a sensible barefoot fad| school to study? I am afraid you! breath that she couldn't do a thing but If @ girl ts inclined to sigsie, an| Mill, receive Tespectful attention. | yourself have been forgetting that| talk, as she put aside her bundles and extremely bald head ts enough to| a Sr sordid truth; if you had remem- | pulled off her gloves. start @ parogyem.— Toledo Blade. Of course, when the economiste| ered It there would have been fewer! “Well,” she said, “I've had @ time ‘There are various ways to lower| say everybody should make a gar-|C® OM your report card. I ain suf-|this day, running around those old the cost of living, but the trouble ts| den “who can possibly find a vacant) ficiently yesterday's mother to be- that most of them lower the living, | spot’ they don't refer to vacant | lleve that you cannot be educated in| too.—Charleston News and Courier, | minds.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal.| 4 forcing house for social climbers in a country club, The first reason why a good pub: ic school better for you or any | sirt than a private school ts because, | by and large, the educational stan | of the public school is higher, The trouble with a finishing a@chool is Its graduates stores, trying to make one dollar go as far as three used to before everything got so dear! | “I might have stayed home and been comfortable, but, no, I'm always thinks ing of everybody else first—for I never bought @ thing for myself—and much thanks I get! “Of course IT don't expect any thanks, but some of the salespeople are surely exasperating, You know a or x Letters From the People Another Anagram. To the Editor of The Evening World As a disgusted reader of your UN- | stand by him. American sheet I herewith send you| ¢ there are #0 many tn thie cours the true meaning found in the names|try so willing to fi of the twelve Senators who dared to|the other | better informed that he waa chosen as our leader and as such let us stand for the right in the face of hie all say with one are covered with @ shiny, superficial! have needed a breadth of cerise jingo press, nt, we are with | zn jG oo ea s you. Peace do what you | ukene think js best. 5 To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside, aUnirninas Y Who fears to ask, doth teach to be denied, —dierrick. jonEs To the Bat Inform me whether a person born in the United States and whose father 1s @ naturalized citizen can be rightfully called a Yankee. What | is the meaning of the word “Yankee?” S to-day ali over the world, Ac- , charitable society whieh ete or the D. 8, cording to some authorities this nonor paid to this day by Irish vol- Yankee {8 @ colloquial name for any/| te his birthday and others hold that) unteers among the patriots in Wash- charitable society which still exists, necessary, let it come and in this country ide nd let each do oven more common than Yankee, The|of the day was in 1737, when certain| March 17 never passes without a pro hie share, but always remember be- real Yankee is an offshoot of New| “Irish gentlemen and merchants” |cession or a banquet or a festivity of fore you criticise the man who is England stock. met convivially tn Boston and, while' some sort, | ‘ t taffeta, in remodelling a gown, and if time was money I could have bought @ new gown with the time I've spent trying to match that shade, At the) taffeta counter there were half a dozen salespersons, but I couldn't get) @ one to pay any attention to me, | “I think that's what got me ao ner- | vous, but, then, I always get nervous | when I go shopping. I'm afraid to | pick up anything off a counter to) examine it for fear I'll be suspected of being a shoplifter, I saw one woman stopped by a store detective |and made to restore some things- |t seems she's a well known klep- | tomanine, That is, she has a hus-| arm! Where do you think he'll be? And the heartless wretch, still think- ing he was funny, replied, “Try the remnant counter, madam,’ and walked off chuckling. “Where's the things? Let me sec | my list, Look tf I've got everything. No, of course, I didn’t carry every: thing home. Some things will ent C,O, D, Let me see what I or- dered and what I brought home, Here's my lst: Bed covers, dish covers, corset covers; sad trons, curl- ing trons, tincture of iron; moth balls ind large quinine pills-I brought them. Which are the moth balls? You can tell by the smell, Roach be! Fifty Failures : Who Came Back = By Albert Payson Terhune (Che New York Brening World.) ‘ailure” Who Ruled This promising candidate for the Down-and-Out Club was Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the thirteen children of @ hayd-up Italian lawyer who lived on the island of Corsica. In an carlier series, the story of Napoleon's bad-tempered and unhappy boyhood has A Soldier Without a Job. eee Cooyrieit, 1017, by The Pree Publishing Cy, No, 14.—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the Europe. }d was a hero out of a Job. At twenty-five he bad risen to the rami of Brigadier General by distinguished services—-and was thei i turned out to starve. ‘3 There was no longer a place for him in the army, As he | Was In dire need of cash, he tried to pick up work as a writer, But he waa / curtly informed that he lacked the skill to write and that he could never expect to earn a living in that way. * t He heard the Sultan of Turkey was in need of driilmasters and wot?! diers of fortune for the Turkish army. And he decided to offer his sword for this venture. But again he found there was no place for him, oJ Every avenue of trade or profession was closed to him, His clothes were threadbare, His purse was empty. He had no influence to help Him on, and he was personally too unpopular to have gained useful friends. His family could do nothing for him, In fact, he was expected not only~ to look out for himself but to help in his family’s support. \ Ho was a failure—a shabby, sulky, down-at-heel failure: stranded in a foreign land, and without a shadow of reason for expecting any change of luck. { y been told. The French revolution had caught him up for awhile in its ewirling progress and had carried him toward success. At s artillery Heutenant, at twenty-one a captain, at t een he had a on y-three a lieutenant colonel, at twenty-four a brigadier general, And now, in 1794, he wal cast aside by Convention (the new government); kicked out to earn # j his bread as best he could, Then, when things were at their worst with him, the tide turned, The Paris mob tried te out to storm the A few years earlier the Convention. ‘Thirty thousand fieree men set 4 Palace, where the Convention was assembled. mob had attacked the same palace and:selzed the King, who had made the mistake of seeking to pacify them, Napoleon Bon: weak behavior. 1 speech, rte had freely expressed his opinion of the King's President of the Convention, remembered the seoras take the unpopular task of jovernment trgops who were trying to defend the 0,000 rioters. apart nt argue with the mob, of artillery into Its advancing ranks and sent it flying His successful defense of the Tuileries brought him to the ful 4 He promptly empied a few helter-skelter. notice of Barras of soldiers this rabble an n effeetivt ganized troops and tho rest of the Convention whose necks hg had save: | He was put in charge of a ragged and disorderly t | known as the Army of the Interior, So well did he handic | » 80 auickly did he whip it into shape as barpenarvyaned tock | fighting machine that the command of } Italy—an equally hopeless crowd of dis i Changed. > —was given to him, be At the head of this army he thrashed Austria and, within a few brief months, made himself the military idol of Frances The politicians who had started him on his carcer tried again to shelve him, But Bonaparte by this time was too strong to be kicked out, Ho forged ahead, from one mighty success to another. He mads him= self master of all Continental Europe, Within ten years from tho time when he wandered, penniless and hungry, through the Paris streets he was |Bmperor of the French, When a Man Is Over Forty By Sophie Irene Loeb | Coorrieht, 1017, by The Prew Publishing Co, A (The New York Kreuing World.) MAN over forty writes me as) that the days are gone when it follows: “Your story in The tengured by the number of yea Evening World, the top line of | MY? ete Gaia 10? an, “you| 12 tlmes gone by, when work was more labored and man’s energies thus Who Are Weary) gave out more speedily, the man With Work,’ has| above fifty took a “back seat,” as got mo guessing. | !t bog and made way for the And the reason it} *Qungsters: Not so to-day. Machinery has ims has me guessing! proved. Man's work is more ment 1s because I am|than manual. He does not wear oul very weary from | 48 readily as formerly. trying to find), I" fact, he Is just “ripe” at the age work. Up until q| MS forefather was senile, He is more - active, more alert, and keeps more few months ago| abreast of the times. I was connected with one of the many depart- No, Mr. Employer, you make maay an error by turning down the middle- ments of this city's Government and have worked under all the different aged man and giving preference the youth. Look into it, is full of administrations for years, or from Robert A. Van Wyck's time until a Many @ man above fo! vigor and ambition; and besides he few months ago, and I have been all over town and answered numerous has passed the day of foolishness and Help Want ads," | 1s anxious to succeed, I have heard employers say: him because I felt sorr: This man goes on to tell how he had gone from place to place; how willing he is to start from the bot- tom; how well and strong and able | he is to work; but hoe finds that big quiet exterior there is not a purpose- younger men are “wanted, |¥r"am porry to say that this 18 the | fl, Bent to do your bidding and help general ri There is a dearth of good, responsi- tooit He The truth ts, such middle-aged m« do not want charity but a chance. rn They do not seek pity but @ posi- jon, Because they are not exuberant and do not plead for the job like ° youth does not mean that behind that who talk about | There ‘© those | ble individuals for trustworthy place: there being so much work and aj?) é place for everybody, While this may t the employer think it ire think of the prevailing means of con sorving health and strength—meth ods of defying Father Time. Let managers of men reflect on the’ hundreds of married men, good men, ' who have many a year YET TO GIVH IN FAITHFUL SERVICE, who get discouraged because of the deal thoy are gotting In the daily bunt for a be true, the fact remains that each | does not get his rightful place, | At the same time, there are hun- \dreds of positions that are waiting | for the right persons to fill them; and |the employer ts still searching. | | One of the things for which he Is searching is “young blood,” a experienced by the above’ see 1 teainood work. Mr. Employer, look to your interest | And yet how short-sighted 1s many) and have a heart! You may be glad uuch an employer. Doesn't he realize! you did so, T was little short of amazing to|Nicephorus, refused to do so and de read of present-day British gen- | manded thi erals fighting prosaic battles with | yy! modern machinery of destruction for had paid. To this nt his famous reply: ne of the most mereifug the possesion of a real, sure-enough|God, Haroun Al Rashid, commander os ps ‘ «of the faithful, to Nicephorus, th « y ned Bag To most of u p rus, he ity nam : A Passa te hore the Roan dog: I have read thy letter, Bagdad is but a dream city, where the | thou son of an unbelieving mother, Caliph Haroun Al F shid was wont to hou shalt not q hear, thou shalt be-~ hold, my reply." band who pays for everything she | food, breakfast food, goldfish food; | take his nocturnal strolls and where steals, Women who haven't hus-|face powder, baking powder, insect|he played the role of hero of those bands who will pay ‘for what they|powder; postage stamps, trading| marvellous tales set down in the steal are regarded with suspicion. | stamps, rubber etamps—no, I mean, Thousand and Ono Nights, The Mes- “Well, the store detective sald to|Tubber overshoes—but they're rub- | opotamian campaign has banished the Haroun was as good as his word, |He ravaged the Asiatic dominions of |the Byzantine Emperor and bi t | Nicephorus to acknowledge him tributary, Twice thereafter Nicephor- us thou T. PATRICK will be remembered | toasting their patron saint, formed a | ’ “He kept us out of war was the! ew Englander, but is often used it also is the anniversary of his foals nee o _TAGEeG, Co ah i J that slogan The World carned at election |#Proad for Americans generally, and) Wherever an Irishman goes he) iagul Mer a, fog” News York th So, dear “parlor patriot hy ba Lip haa ad aueliy 18.8 Liptdir se a Be Perens ma Sa a [Irishmen (on King George's side Ms ul sense, ne origin of Yankee is|in whatever part of the world of the conflict who sat down at} Aes trust in the President and let | Gounteul, but it frst came into wide. | happens to be it Is seldom that te!a great banquet in the Bowery to HIM lead us during the next four|spread popularity in the South dur- lets the 17th of March pass without)celebrate the day of tt eaten ‘i years’? If he deems thet war is jing t Civil War as & term of ap-,a celebration of some sort, In this saint and to drink to ¢ ‘old sot.” probrium for Northerners, Yank was country the first recorded observance! And ever since ther |her: ‘Madam, what's to prevent my arresting you for shoplifting?” And! |she said, ‘My goodness!’ And he said, ‘Your goodness is not very ap- | parent In this case ‘ | “I guess he thought he was smart, | | for there was another woman rushing | around wildly and pushing her way | through the crowds around the bar- | gain counters and she came up to the | store detective and said, ‘I left my }husband a little while ago! I left him right here! Oh, what shall 1] do? t my husband right in this e! Wha a lo? | “And he sald, ‘Madam, I cannot as- |sist you in your domestic troubles.’ | And the woman gaid, ‘l mean he was to wait for me here. He's so help. less; be only has one log and one ber stamps, too, aren't they? “That's all, for I forgot to put down veiling and gloves, and those are the things I needed most, and what 1 went downtown to get! “Don't stand there grinning at me Uke that! Help me off with my rub- bers, There, my handbag has fallen down to the floor and everything spilled out! “Why don't you sa something? Are | you angry to find me out once when you come home? “Won't somebody get me a cup of tea? I've got a terrible headache! “Oh, dear! I'm so tired I don’t care whether there's to be any war or not As it is, everything 1s so dear that we might as well be destroyed by eubma- rines as to starve to death!” Mr. Jarr said nothing, and Gertrude brought in @ oup of tea, \iusory tdea of Bagdad as a city ht himself strong enough to of fiction and has reminded us that Haroun Al Rashid was a real flenh and blood man who had a real exist- | ence outside the pages of the Arabian Nights. It was just eleven centuries and eight years ago that the greatest of afl the Caliphs gave up the ghost. He was bound for Constantinopie to re- venge himself upon the Emperor NI- cephorus becauso of the Byzantine ruler’s treaghery, when a revolt broke ut In Khorassan demanding Haroun Al Rashid’s presence and he was on the march thither when he died, Had Haroun lived a few years longer Con- tantinople would in all probability have been added to his empire, The Em- press Irene paid tribute to Haroun as long a@ she lived, but her # or, refuse tribute and each time he wa defeated in battle, his territories deso: lated and tens of thousands of his subjects slain, In Haroun's reign ‘of twenty-three years he not on great rior patron of the arts and science: cultivated poetry himself and prt a bled at his court many illustrious scholars and bards. Under is rule the emplre flourished as neves bet commerce attained — wnpreceden: volume and Bagdad was enlarged and adorned and made the centre of © civilization, lear ° finement Ting Gee a Haroun was cruel bloodthirsty on occa, respects he differed ferocious end jon, but in these ttle from the Christian rulers of that pert |learning he was far above thea na |he doubt! deserved to no small ex~ |tent the reputation given a Haroun the Magnifi bian Nights, cont oF ie a of but also a powerful *