The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1917, Page 16

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N’ immediate declaration of war by Congress is necessary to enable the United States Government to defend the nation against the war Germany is waging against us. | When on April 25, 1898, Congress formally declared war against Spain, the act read: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, First—That war be, and the same is hereby declared to exist, and that war has existed since the ®ist day of April, A. D, 1896, including said day, between the United Btates of America and the Kingdom of Spain. On April 21 President McKinley had already proclaimed a Blockade of the coast of Cuba and ordered Admiral Sampeson’s squadron to enforce it. On April 23 the President had issued a call for 125,000 volunteers, | In 1898 war was well started before Congress formally declared it, and Congress in plain words recognized the fact. In 1917, with the Imperial German Government ordering and, German submarines executing acts of deliberate, unqualified hos- tility toward the United States, the President’s duty is to summon the navy to play its immediate and proper part in a war that has been thrust upon us, < Stand by the guns and leave the forms and dates to Congress. A “systematic evacuation,” Berlin calls ft. About eight more of the same system and magnitude will take every fighting German off the soi) of France. aS a LABOR AND PUBLIC RIGHT. HE grounds upon which the United States Supreme Court holds T the Adamson Eight-Hour Railroad Law constitutional and valid are even more interesting than the immediate effects of the decision which were anticipated a few hours earlier by the yielding of the railroad managers. In announcing the Supreme Court’s opinion, Chief Justice White dwelt particularly upon the nature of transportation which makes it both a private and a public interest. The inherent, constitutional right of private parties to fix private wages is, the Chief Justice de- clares, unquestioned. But when railroad managers and railroad em- ployees, after every opportunity for conference, failed to agree, when arbitration was refused, when the country was menaced with a serious tie-up of its railroad facilities, to say that the Government authority did not have the power to fill the void would be to declare that the private right had destroyed the public right. It is to be hoped that this upholding of public right will not escape the attention of the Railroad Brotherhoods and all other labor organizations in their hour of rejoicing. Let them remember the rule may be made to work both ways. If private right is not to be permitted to destroy public right, then what about the right of public service employees of any class to |__Yesterda 's Mother to To-Day’s Dau hter strike or even to threaten to strike in defiance of public welfare and safety? Nobody is forgetting that to obtain what the Supreme Court has given them by due and orderly process of law the Railroad Broth- erhoods were ready to tie up transportation and thereby embarrass the whole country in an hour of crisis, Such methods are not to be condoned by pointing to the justice of the end. Labor has not heard the last of public right. ey Ol The latest plan of attack upon the high cost of food is by strategic movements with a spade in the back yard. No IV. BAR Little Girl: Although I am D afraid you do not want even your mother to call you that any longer! Read- ing your last let- ter a quoer choke came into my throat, I had the same feeling one day, not long .be- fore the doct AN EASY FUTURE FOR NICHOLAS. patie ee ah HE world need waste little of its pity or sympathy on Nicholas Ld jem sourney, when 1 Romanoff, if a vas buying ip ie ons Neither his character nor his career has shown him to BRED newest party be a man who will suffer deeply because of what he has lost. Im- perial prestige, the power to exact obedience and adulation, the petty privileges of a solutism—these he will no doubt acutely miss at first. never an autocrat of masterful purpose or com- pelling strength. His soul was possessed and enlarged by no mighty ambitions or vast designs. He never saw himself as a moving personal force in which a nation realized itself and which it could not do without, Nicholas was in no sense a great ruler. He was not even great frock. A lady beside me sald, “A yard and an eighth of red and pink and blue and that bright plaid.” It was the familiar measurement, and 1 knew it meant hair ribbon for « girl as little as you used to be, a girl who wears a bright, perky bow atop her square-cut gold. Now you are writing: “Mother, may I put my hatr on top of my head? 1 am REALLY too old to wear it braided even when the braid is turned up; but Aunt Jeannette says she is By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Covrright, 1917. by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World.) self look like a mature young woman of twenty-five, But do you realize that !f it were possible for you t convey the impression, and I allowed you to try, by the time you really were five-and-twenty everybody would be giving you @ handicap of at least ten additional years? If you rob Father Time before you're out of your teens you have to pay him back with compound interest later, When I read of your desire to be a mind-the-paint girl I realized that I aan indeed yesterday's mother! 1 don't dare think of what your grand- mother would have said to me if I had made such a request in the days when @ shiny, red nose was accepted 48 an advertisement of adamantine virtue—instead of indigestion. How- ever, I'm glad you were frank with me, and I'll try to answer you with reasons in place of preachy platitudes, The morality of makeup cannot be Questioned, unless one cavils at every pretense, every borrowed feather— the shoulder padding in men's coats, the unnatural trimness and slender. ness of a corseted figure, the inches added by French heels. If it 1s wrong “to change the face the Lord gives you,” than every man who shaves imperils his immortal soul, 1 don't want you to use cosmetics, Dorothy, because for you tfey are unhealthy and unbeautiful. The young girl who employs rouge and rice pow- der 1s not necessarily on the road to ruin—anything except her complex- fon. Isn't that enough? You learned in your physiology that if the pores of the skin become clogged the body cannot do its laun- dry work properly, cannot cast off its impurities. You choke your face, if you keep it covered, day after day, with artifictal pigments, Actressen, who are obliged to make up because of the unnatural light in which they do their work, spend as much time and care in removing thelr complex- fons as in putting them on. Besides causing slow deterioration, | the cheap cosmetics your friends buy in “cunning Uttle vanity cases” are always likely to contain some power- ful acid or alkali which in a@ single application may severely injure a sensitive skin, That is the answer of science to your plea; the answer of art, little girl, is that you are a hopeless ama- teur in artificiality. If you powder your nose it will seem to have been dipped in a flour barrel, If you use rouge you will look as if you had tumbled into the baby’s paint-box. You won't really paint your face, if you try; you'll only daub it. So don't try, and don’t grow away, too far or too fast, from YOUR MOTHER. Tuesday, March 20, 1917 of Conquest. Oe eee } A Career and Poland and part of France. for conquest, he actually made war om € Who Came Back By Albert Payson Terhune No 15.—BARBAROSSA, the “Dead Man’ Who Came Back MAN—gigantic, red bearded—was left for dead on the battle A panic-stricken followers fled without trying to recover his body. ‘The red-bearded man had just lost the battle. He had lost ‘a lifetime of statesmanship and war. Death was the only fit climax for such a series of failures as he had undergone. than a prolonging of failure. Yes, it was high time for him to dit there on the stricken fleld, in the scrap-heap of his smashed fortunes, world. , From his flery red beard, his Italian enemies had nicknamed bim “Barbarossa.” of twenty-nine, he had resolved to model his life on Charlemagne’s and to conquer everything in sight. bandits. If he had been nothing more than a mere warrior he could never have set matters right. Put he was a statesman as ‘And out of the tangle of disorder he bullt « strong and united and happy country, starting Germany once If Barbarossa had been content with this grand achievement he might have lived on in peace and honor to the end of his days. But he went ap- satisfied with fallure. And the old Charlemagne ambition tormented bim into fresh action. aid waste Northern Italy, by way of punishment, and then marched across the Apennine range at the head of a huge army down into “Holy Roman Emperor.” Next he conquered Bohemia elf. marched against His Holiness. But now a terrible pesti- at the battle of Lignano, Barbarossa’s forces were not only shattered, but Barbarossa himself was left on the field for dead, His life was a failure. But he was not dead. clared—and, a few days: later, rejoined the broken remnant of his army 4, at Pavia, in Germany. The captive countries were slipping o away from Barbarossa’s grip. The Climax of Disaster, ann enabled him to gain back control of all Italy, to restore order in Germany, and, in short, to win again all he had lost. courage and cleverness. ‘Again the love of conquest goaded him on. He set forth to wres: the {nto a river, where he was drowned. Truly, an inglorious death for the man who had made himself master of most of the continent of Europe! Copyright, 1917, ty The Prew Publishing Cs, the New York Brening World.) . . Fail Fifty Failures Comrriaht, 1017. tr The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Wrening World.) ~ field of Lignano, in Italy. His horse had fallen on him. His his imperial power. He had lost everything for which he had spent Everything else was lost, and life henceforth could be nothing more ‘The man was Frederick, Emperor of Germany, conqueror of half the When Barbarossa had mounted the German throne in 1162, at the age He found Germany a.hotbed of disputes and rebellion and overrun by wall. more along the path of progres on the principle that any man who is satisfied with success would also be been a vassal state to Germany and had shaken off the yoke. Rome, where (still in imitation of Charlemagne) he had himself proclaimed in his arrogant lust lence swept the German army, killing its soldiers by the thousands, ‘All his mighty edifice of conquest had crumbled to nothing. He escaped—by a miracle, #0 his followers de- ‘The Italian campaign had failed, Rebellions were breaking out again ‘Then it was that the man showed his true greatness, ¢ Greater even than before, he set himself to strengthen what he had Holy Land from the Turks. But after two splendid victories over the | By Sophie Irene Loeb. Making his peace with the Pope, his gentus for polities won—and lost—and won again. The “Failure” had come back, by sheer Sultan's armies he was killed, not In battle, but by falling from a bridge R dati #0 long that he hesitates to ask for & recommendation from his employer in order to seek a better Position. ANY communications have come Again there are those who, having failed in varous kinds of work, are concerning the letter of | handicapped in getting @ hearing be- recommendation, cause they have no one to recom- One man wit!|™end them, complain of the| After talking with various em- employer who in-| Ployers in different kinds of business, sists on several|! find that one bellef prevails among serobetons. them, The letter of recommendation # not the one big criterion by which nother who has| | 2° ' Pen in a clty|* Worker ts judged, One employer says, “I pay no at- department finds} tention to recommendations: T just It difficult to #e-| size up the individual and if he seems cure employment| to be what he represents, | give him ny because no letter @ trial.” x Another tells me that the only Bomerasase Of approval has been given him, recommendation he wants ts one in which he is assured that the worker having worked for different admin- istrations. is “honest and energetic,” I am told by still another that he Another writer deplores the fact that he has remained in one groove judges the employee by the length of time he has been able to “hold down” his former job, And finally there is one kind of 'The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell employer who belleves in giving @ man a chance, not because he hag & recommendation, not because of age, | not because he is unmarried, but Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Ce, (The New York Brening World.) 66JN 4 measure,” remarked Mr, Jarr, apropos of nothing, “in a measure, the laws of society are like the laws of nature; they are not written, but instinctively we know them, and when we violate them the result is serious, “Oh, well, I don't know," replied Mrs, Jarr., “I never noticed any laws of society except that those people who were out were trying to get in, and those that are in are trying to get out.” i “Do you think I was wasting thought and breath on what you call soclety—little circles of snobs, one superimposed on the other?” asked Mr. Jarr with fine scorn, | enough to know now the pangs of arrested ambition, of uncompleted hopes and plans. One feels no tragedy of anywhere near heroic size io the overthrow of such a monarch, For the rest, nothing at all dreadful is likely to happen to Nicholas. A comfortable part of his immense personal fortune will no doubt be left to him. After the war he can go to Paris, paradise of exiled kings, and, with a villa at Cannes or Monte Carlo, round out 4 lazy and luxurious life without responsibilities or dangers— adding another to those picturesque figures of fallen majesty at ease for which Europe never quite loses its weakness, new te ht in Russia The dead who have died in millions, |The privileges denied at ho ne, What have they wrought! |Of hand unfettered and of Lo! at the borders of the Kast, fo tan’ the Chinen There where the nearer West has| (jr deannte anaes Spee brooded, mysterious and vast, Ons and singael ate; Through ton long of darkness | So tar'the echoes sound ‘of woo; Of prayers for thankfulne There where the Iron Heel has songs for Freedom gain 4 marched and, marching, The Russia new Ground to the dust men's bodies, homes of yearning soule— There a new dawn appears, The in of Freedom breaking through the rifts, Blown by the cannon’s shock in clouds of rank oppression. Cxars and the age old shackles fall, While Russian hearts up to greet the blessed day! No continent confines the tumult and as new— An empire worthy crowned a# emperors fall, @un doth shine, woe The splendid fruits of Liberty, Hal, Roeta brave! sb lor rave— unthinking way, To alien shores of those who sought Wari awWw.o. pind un- and Her gods grant she be great and kind of men now A land #0 shining 4s her fresh risen A Hght for all the world, that ali may srant she be strong as ‘the joy. Far as the tide) spread bas made its| A giant masterpiepe, the amase of an| weeks | fore Mis Kalserbund — of sufficiently lusty ' Bachelor Girl Reflections |) "s: T'rst"sstioe ot win be ______ By Helen Rowland | ization, the observances of the ethical | =m regulations that make for the better- | Covrriaht, WIT. by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The Now York Breaing World.) = higpe aeabatctentd Fos. how a woman will go right on gambling for love, when ehe| “Well, {f you haven't anything to not going to take the responsibility | of letting me make the change. Motb- | er, please write and tell ber that you are willing. “And can't I use Just a little rouge and some regular face powder? Iam sure that I would look better if I had more color, and almost every girl 1 know carries a cunning Mttle vanity case to school, Mother, why ts it | ment of mankind.” | do but to sit there and talk a lot of b.g knows that the dice are always loaded, and the cards are alWay8) 4, 7 aon't understand and you| stacked against ber. | don't understand, that only give me| a headache, you'd better stop," said wrong to make up? There's nothing Perbaps the reason Solomon shone out so brilliantly! Mrs, Jarr with some asperity, “for in the Bible about It,” as a perfect husband. was because he had so little com-| you are getting beyond my depth and| You will be seventeen tn a few petition for that honor. your own! months, honey, and you may do up your halr op your seventeenth birth- day. 1 think you'll have to be con- tent with that. | am perfectly aware “Let me make my meaning clearer! When a woman begins pinning her faith and hope on| by # commonplace comparison,” went “4 »|on Mr, Jarr, for he had been filling the beauty specialists, she is “travelling on the rim’ re ae Rpailcstnay trom the| | Mr. Jarr. * a how he measures up to the job. This employer of many people says: “I take @ man on how he impresses lations, I might even say time-tables me in relation to his fitness for my ‘ and schedules, soclety does its vast , | Work. It makes no big dt ‘ work of making us live in harmony, | me who had employed: tun formerly guarding our own rights and others’, /or why he lost his job. If I have and accelerates progress, liberty and|a fair assurance that he is not a the pursuit of happiness to the ad- | thief or @ scoundrel; If he shows frankness of manner, and does not try to fool me about his capabilities, I figure him as the possible man for the job “I have been rarely mistaken, If vantage of all.” "Ob, bother such talk! I told you I had @ headache!” said Mrs, Jarr. “But listen,” persisted Mr. Jarr, "I | think I have s great idea, We are /f,00n, oka aquarsly ot me, ang all trains, running under the scned-|in inc, and he gets the chance.” ules of society, And we start out from | | ahere 1s the big thing, CREATING the cradle and run to the terminus | Te acktee oe nating deat coe of the grave smoothly and safely. Let | jook the fact that's position is likely those who would violate society's | looking for you. schedule beware! They have colli-| If one employer demands a recom. } sions; they throw the whole line out | Mendation there is SOS wae hag a a of order; they wreck themselves and |oiq copy book motto of “try, try they wreck others \again” has not yet failed, Courage! iN aia 1k you are a fast| Now as to the employer, There is ieee Ming te ual ai Mra, /N@ meaner person in the world than 4 | train, according to that, '\the relfish one who refuses to give Jarr, |the letter of recommendation to t “No, I wouldu’t say that,” replied | worker who wants to leave bi ‘d vather compare myself | ploy. It 18 the most narrow al to assume. Just because the employee hes found something better 1s no reason why you should not be willing to tell | what good qualities you have found in him, It is your debt to humanity to @ good, steady, slow accommoda- | tion train. ‘The great financiers are the limited flyers, the big business men the express and mail trains, “On all sides of us we see the wrecks, the men and women Who ran | of the fact that you would be en » of romance, popular magazines and felt that he| chanted now if you could make your nEaea a cant tor ha idean, “blow, nd , ; Occasionally, the wife who won't get up in the MorM-| . ciety, the social fabric of civillzu- ing is the primary cause of the husband who won't) tion, is bound, governed and held to- come home in the evening, and now and then the empty-| gether by the ethical laws, as @ rall- | chatr-across-the-breakfast-table 1s the main reason for tho full chairs|road is by its rules und regulations. ble. There are the Jaws of business fair ATounG' Ge PONT dealing, the laws of personal decency, “Good breeding” 1s something that always gets in your way when you | the laws of sobriety, (he Institution of | page reds | marriage, the love of family, the de-| Went to do anything amuring oid | tense of home, of property"—— | [on 4 , ey : | To-Day’s Anniversary | HE earth will to-night reach that Aj point in its annual cireuit which ts called the vernal equinox, and which marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemiaphere. Officially thig is the last day of winter, and to-morrow morning we shail awake to find spring already several houra | ra | | tn Rowan “Or, ‘One wife, one flag, one coun- | You can sum up a man’s whole character according to his idea of a try!’ as you used to suy before you) old. It ip true that the calendar ia | “good time;" for inetance, to one man {t means staying up late enough tO ».oame ao intensely bighbrow,” sug- not dependable in marking off the | see the sun rise, and to another, getting up early enough to see the BUD TIS®, | costed Mow. Jarr. @oasons, for spring weather {s al . ae i ae ready an old story in southern climes, ‘Precisely aid Mr. Jarr. “Society A cynic is merely a sentimentalist who has ruined his Aigestion | sampling the sweets of romance and sipping the wine of imagination while in the northiand King Winter will continue his reign for several Forte Se | t ounce him \the theene, 2 Musband's maite: If ay first she wan't believe, lie, lle again! has laid down rules and regulations | |by which we all mugt conduct our affairs, By moving In @n orderly man- | cr, Sulded by (hese gules and regu rs 5 é at large to teli what you know as to the train of their lives in defiance of | hig quallfications, society's schedules. ‘The stalied trains t think of the little old golden 4 of the incompetent, the wild-cat! rule a bit Think of the number of trains of the reckless; the smvoth- | y men who just need your word funni trains n who give|of approval to HiSLP them on their care 10 me mind the|way, It means so little to the em- signal | of danger'~ | ployer and so much to the other, You say everybody is like @ train," |" And then there Is the other extreme, interrupted Mrs, Jarr, ‘Well, the Way |he who goes beyond the truth and our janitor call him a dirty,| “lays it on thick.” There is another 8 rt behind time.” ponsibility each has to humanity not quite just,” | at large—to avold exaggerating in re- janitor is a slow | lation to the employment seeker, 8 @ good, You think you are dol: bim a ‘favor, but in reality you are injuring the school teacher him, You are making him live up to a switching engine?” asked Mrs, Jarr, something of which he {s Incapable. Mr, Jarry gave her a look And he gives disappointment rather, ¢ marked th than satisfaction, ' “Humph!"’ said Mre, Jarr, “and }| The fine, purposeful to muses as the ow! train you will be making the home stution late again as usual!” the word ‘of approval IT 18 NEEDED, with consclencesas guide, Bild