The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 16

pepo ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Publshed Daily Except Sunday by the Pres Ne . at Park Rew, Now Torey Commeny, Nos, RALPH PULITZER, President, 44 5 J, ANGUS SHAW, Tri a rs eh er JOSEPH PULITZER, J} retary, 63 Park Row, Entered at Ral the Post-Otfice at New York as Second-Class Bubscription s to The Evening For Bnglane and the 8 te Satine and World for the United Stat All Countries in the International and Cane4a, Postal Uniom Onp Year...... errr 3 0 }ONne Yoar. anssseesenssssmncorsen OF H One Month... 0. seeeueeee OMe MOnth..sceisrermremmemesone Bl VOLUME 87........ NO, 20,823 THE FIRST DUTY. N accepting the Chairmanship of the National Food Board Mr. Herbert ©, Hoover states a truth which the people of the United | States cannot too soon or too generally adopt as a governing principle of their attitude and conduct through this war: The foremost duty of America toward her allies is to see that they are supplied with food. avery spadeful of earth turned by our farmers, every seed we plant, EVERY OUNCE OF WASTB WE ELIM- INATE, is just as much a contribution to the joint cause as that of a man in the trenches, Think it over. Saving may not have the thrill of fighting. But| for many Americans it can be almost as heroic. and peate depend on it. ——_- 4 -$ —__——— Brazil {s with us. Make it all-America, a oe _ GETTING TOGETHER. NNOUNCEMENT that the British Foreign Secretary, ‘Arthur J. Balfour, is about to start for Washington on “a special mia- sion,” together with reports that France means to send to this country before the end of the month a war mission which wil! include ex-Premier Viviani, Marechal Joffre or Gen. Foch and at least three other distinguished French leaders, is certain to do more than anything else could do toward making Americans feel an immediate sense of oneness and partnership with the Allies. Along with the consciousness of the stupendous wat preparations this nation is making goes a certain impatience and regret that @ con- siderable part of our force cannot be at once directed, tangibly and visibly, against the enemy’s strength. The idea that we must wait a year before we can have troops worth sending to Europe and that meanwhile batches of American army officers must be taken on personally conducted observation tours along the western battle front, is a little dashing to American ardor. Fighting with money and supplies from the last trench in the ‘xtreme rear, while the navy does guard duty and hunts submarines, can never appeal to our imagination until we are convinced that by +o doing we are contributing the very most that may be effoctively applied at present to the task in hand, That is exactly where a good, practical talk with Allied war experts can ease our minds. For two years and a half they have been conducting the side of this conflict which is now our side. They know its demands, but they also know the temptations it offers for costly mistakes and disastrous waste of life. We should be fools indeod not to listen carefully to what they say and cheerfully conform thereto. And final victory en | The City Clerk's oMce report shows twice as many appli | cants for license to marry as the recruiting records add up for army enlistments, J Ob, Cupid, Cupid, what a rogue you are! HELP THE BLIND TO HELP THEMSELVES. LTHOUGH its able leader and secretary, Miss Winifred Holt, was hard at work in I'rance, the New York Association for the Blind bettered its record of helpfulness last year. The tenth annual report of this association, which holds its| annual fete to-night at the Hotel Astor, and the aims and activities of which are by now well known to New Yorkers, shows it to have paid directly to the blind, for work and for relief, $42,021.16 in a} twelvemonth, Its workshops, where blind men, women and children are trainod in trades for which they are fitted, turned out articles which brought $13,000 more than the sales of the preceding year. More than a hun- dred blind men are now employed in the Bourne workshop, and the Lighthouse provides instruction for men and women not only in broom- making, basket-weaving, caning, braiding, package sealing and the like, but in cooking, sewing, typewriting, piano-tuning and switch- board operating as well. Such opportunities as those the Lighthouse offers the sightless for self-help, recreation and cheer only the blind themselves can ap-| praise at anything approaching their value, In addition to what ité regular subscribers and friends contribute, | the Lighthouse is anxious to secure a guaranteed yearly income of | $15,000 until one year after the end of the war in order to relieve its| workers, during these extra trying and busy times, of “the haunting} need of finding funds.” | From the Lighthouse has gone forth untold aid and comfort in the shape of practical methods of instruction in self-help for the blinded soldiers of France. No call is needed to bring it to the service | of its own flag. Surely New Yorkers out of their plenty can spare! the sum it asks for and far more to assure and extend its work. Letters From the People A In € To the Mtitor of The Event | the year 1799 is worth. On the front] It ty father came to this ‘country | ia the head of “Liberty” and the name| y “Liberty” and thirteen stars; on the from m: and took out back e 6 Wo “U 5. to take out papers to States seal 0 A bets no. ny never been born here, AH No Allen Can Vote, i B bets yes, 1 To the Buitor f The Kreaing World; | Is an alien coming here at an early! Let me know if an alien can come age privileged to vote without taking | over from any country and vote for out papers? Lf #0, at what age must the President of the United st ha peach bere? A. B.C, | Without being @ naturalised cit If the father of an allen brought| @Py three Btates of the Unton, here in his youth becomes a citizen, | C, that also confers citizenship on minor | $1.76 for This Coin, ghilares wef the fier if not Bat. | To the Kditor of The Evening World; sralized before such children reach) w ve thelr majority they must obtain the| ihe if 558 YaIbe OF" hn IT: ono usual papers to become citizena dollar wold plese? HR Trentrfve ©: become a voting citizen? H, and apparently the Uniredy - Fvenind Wo Copyright, 1 by The Prew Publishing Co, (The Yort ening World.) The Love Calamity. NCE upon a time there was O woman who loved and was be joved by a man. Everybody call them 4 ' pal.” were walt be mar making per The ing riod ready, She was youns and attractive and had the mos: joyous, happy nature in the world The young man had much to do, and Was ambitious to Baye UP & ough for the comfortable home neat and all that goes toward making happiness by way of creature comforts Time went on and the nest ese grew larger. Both were looking fv ward to the eventful wedding diy when they would embark on the sea of life fully equipped Everything was beautiful, It was ali ideal and not a cloud marred the plight of their dreams, Ag the t time drew nearer something Gecurred that was & source of worry to both, cold, which at first seemed trivial, but the trouble grew until he bi me ill Soon he was very ill in- a ‘Phe prospective bride spent nxious, sleepless nights tn misgiv ing and analety, she tried to be brave, but feared for the worst ‘Alua, tt came, He died, The girl seomed to crumble in a heap, Her xorrow was greater thin she could bear, she thought, Here was the cup of joy, the greatest in the world, held to her lps and then broken, Her great cry Was, "Why don't I die too? It seemed Impossible to arouse her from her despair, She would not fight fo nor vuld she Iisten to anything that spelled hope. ‘After a long time there came an- other man who aso loved the woman, She was not nt, but some. how she co forget the dead hope, and always between them came that calamity, Its J almost sacrilegious to her 1 tho present generation, eon- ie cerned with an even greater | struggle than that which tn. J volved the United States in the ‘60s, \the 12th of April has | No special sig niffeance, t survivors of the Blue ang the Gray, the ds alls begin [ning of the gr onfiict in’ whiek they participat Was on April $11 to o13, | ening ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wort £ tp Bete 3a Bebe © Let me know the value of | Inform me what a wel preserved| . large me foler Valves Gates DE nose of — plece dated 1807, Arcpricen rs ; 12, 1861, that Mort : upon, and the hopes of those who wore working for a peaceful sblution of the differances between the States were biasted. nter was fired | The young man had contracted a! rid Daily Magazine ° li ouina Wor.) fty Failu Who By J. H. Cassel By Albert Payson Terhune res Came Back NO, 22—JULIUS CAESAR, the ROMAN General—thin, dreamed of world-mastery, land. He beat the wild Germans in boundary. His victories delayed th | barbarians for five centuries, ( ‘Then, flushed with triumph, he turned homeward to receive the thanks and the rewards he expected his enthusiastic fellow-countrymen taked everything upon his series of id to lavish upon him, Caesar had s' | for popularity In the gigantic move | On his way back, In 49 B.C, he separated Gaul from Italy. There, was 1 The game of pol eee to continue his Journey to Rome as shadow of a traitor’s doom hanging ment was an excellent specimen of I warfare had availed him nothing. was in dire disgrace, Failure. To obey the Senate's commands of his relentless foes, To disobey, Rome. In either case, ruin and death Caesar did not spend a he made up his mind at once as to having decided, there was no turning Ho crossed the Rubicon. At the head of his v thus declared himself an en his life, This did not trout He marched upon Rome. Ther people loved the hero who had won far better than they loved Pompey a who were trying to sar's successes. ieee | refused to bo a Failure, By Lafayet ' Sarah Winston, Mot Fables of Everyday Folk_ ut or forget, for a moment, y that iaight have bi to shut that oth ~the and gave promise of such perfection, and although the woman Was young and lovely she bade all suitors begone, She 1 to hug her horror close to her t The girl became Hl, for she cared so litt to go on, A nervous fever was her ailment, and there were uncon- xeious days. Now it came to pass ns this physical weakness— perhaps it was a delirious dream, 1 know not—but the angel of love came to the woman and said tg her, “Lo, here is your lover, I bring him ba to you and your hopes may go on, Hymon's altar was now not decked In vain, ‘The lttle nest that wa furnished was filled with their pres- enee, After the honeymoon they settled down, her of the other women he had met, She realized that he had tired of her, and she almost died with the degrada- tion of it all. She could not have be- Heved it possible to have suffered so much, The loss of him in the first © was as nothing compared to ‘To make a long fable short, the m her iilness, bav- held another vision of the “fu- ing ture” she had formerly bullt. Try a# she would, she could not go back to the old view without having the doubt in her mind that tt mleht Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, ‘The New York Brening World.) R. JARR came to the breakfast M table wheezing and sniffling “There now!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “You never will listen to me! I told you to take quinine last night, and now you've got a wore cold than ever," “I did take the quinine: at quinine said Mr. never does me any good, Jarry Well, take some more of It," re- plied Mra. Jarre, “At this time of ‘year, with the weather as changeable as It is, one cannot be too careful, It is had enough with the war and the high prices and the way Gertrude ts acting--walking out on me when I have compawy and sulking all day in the kitohen and never giving me a hand with tho rest of the work— without you getting sick, Little Mary Rangle, just because the sup was out yesterday, took off her shoes and stockings and danced bare- foot in the street Aren't children just simply ter “What has little Mary Rangle doing barefoot interpretive dance on the dewalk got to do with my having a cold? asked Mr, Jarr with a shiff. “IUs got everything to do with It | You have to be watched lke a child yourself, But it is very funny that 1 child is never too young to take off lta shoes, it seems, when they are al- most grown up before they can put their shoes on themselves properly, Even now, our Willie, as big as he {s, and wanting to eniist in the Junior | Naval Militia, runs out without bis shoes laced, and sometimes he puts} the right shoe on the left foot." “And what has that to do with my having a cold, pray? asked Mr. Jarr. “It has everything to do with It. | YOu are just as careless as tbe obil- ‘dren and have to be watched 48 much,” Mrs. Jarr retorted. “I don't go out with my right shoe on my loft foot and my left shoe on my right foot, I don't dance on the cold sidewalks In my bare feet In early spring. T don't want to enlist in the Junlor Naval Militla—dog gone it!" “It would be a good thing if you dld—I don't mean put your shoes on wrong or dance in the streets In your bare feet—I mean join the Junior Naval Militia, only, they only take boys, of course, Still, women are going to drive ambulances and be airless operators, and all those sorts of things!” sald Mrs. Jar. “Is the ttle Rangle girl vory| sick?" asked Mr, Jarr, not replying | to the charges. "You know how] Rangle loves that lttle daughter of |his, It would break his heart’—— | “The only thing I know that would break that man Rangle's heart would | be the spread of prohibition and the closing of that Gus's saloon on the jcorner, And 1 know a few other |hearts that might break too, but as T | was saying” “What were you saying?" Inter- jected Mr. Jarn. "lL know what tin Why, Mary Rangle isn't Her mother gave her castor Dil and a good whipping and the obild never even had a sore throat, That's why I say you should take care of yourself and listen to what I yin replied Mrs, Jarr, “And yet Mre. | Rangle told me thut the child had |had @ bigh fever the night before,” “Maybe it was the barefoot treat- |ment that cured the child's cold,” ed Mr, Jarr, Jarr gave him a hard look, ‘Do! ou see Willle jlstening to lqnat you are saying? ane sick at alll IKE. mother, like son,” Is the - a ie pcan conclusion one _tnevitably a] Hf | Col, Will \ draws on reading > fs By, Sophie Irene loeb lle svat csrccr sco: oss Reais) alse Sey cescnineeeeceeneeses || aust inenting with, the mother of went dnd still another, The| ROt have proved as Joyous as soe naa Matrick Henry ; his business formed many| thought, She became more interest- Colonel Byrd after visiting his of which she, the wife, was] €d tn things about her plantation in Hanover County on his no part. He met other women. He} She saw’ possibilities where before Westover stopped at learned how to drink--drink mucn.| she would hot even consider them; | return trip to estover Often he came home and she was sick | 4nd now when the man who loved her | » y, the home of the late Col. with the sight of him, besotted with | cume she looked at him with different) 011%) me, to spend the night. When alcohol. In his stupor he would tell| ¢: nounced the young widow, e WAS 8 a cving bim to be another suitor for heart and hand, drew @ long face assumed @ sorrowful mien, a e Hiearning, however, the identity o! love grew dimmer with | visitor, ber cheerful gracious! promptly returned, e a Preis widow," writes Col. Byrd, “Is She saw more of him and soon she | began to cure, She learned to love |” him even c# she had never bellev it possible. The dead the constant growth of the present one. Soon it became ® beautiful memory, the pain of which was cov 4 “Aerig eed 4 Ais ered by the pleasure of the real, liv- 4 person of lively, che reul conv Atags ing love that was now hers. Hon, with much less reserve than She lived happily ever after and) most of her countrywomen, be held up this mor: jcomes her well and sets off her other Realize that w 1g, 1s better than |agreeable qualities to advantage.’ ed fand the “might have been” that might! A few months after this visit of NOT have been, lthe master of Westover the widow Syme married her second husband, — = John Henry, a cousin of her Col. L M Cc | ll | ‘They continued to live for a LV t Jhumber of years at Sudiey, and there « WicCarde \Patnck Henry, their second son, was — May 1736. re bis t wus not inany years after the “But just let me catch any one of /pirth of her second son that Sarah you taking off your 4 in the |ijenry became a member of Fork street! Do you hear met nn. |Chureh, the pastor of which was the dren QuEitUliy The Bis: RE ot eee ee oe ease eee ti ensy the quinine pills and dosed the whole |# Sunday 1 iS ie adouee ie aae family all around, except herself. She | drove y Patrick. During thelr but It would pass away, she said, return trips born 2 re- Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland iabeall O WOMAN has any trouble holding & husband who can manage y tongue, ber temper, and her cook, Nothing seems to depress a man so much as to dis cover that a woman is trying to “wlevate” him, An {deal wife is one who can pee! .afons with one hand, swing an incense burner with the >ther, and at _ the same moment put up ber mouth with » welcoming + ktes A woman will take anything that is offered her “tree of charge” from a trading stamp to a dose of medicine; put a man is awfully suspicious of anything that looks like a bargain, from a cigar to a kiss. mun an ounce of audacity {8 worth @ pound of dis. fool” rus i In courting a w cretion; and many @ wi tread. fool “angel” fears to jes in where a means merely seeing bim tn the Sometimes being married to a man mornings Instead of in the evenings This {e the time of year when a girl with her bridesmaids all picked | out, and nothing on her mind but her wedding vell, has to sit silently by | and walt for the love germ to penetrate the thick layers of resistance that cover the bachelor mind, | Nobody {s ever so surprised at an unexpected wedding as the bride | groom, hook-nosed, scurrying for safety beyond the Rhine. military successes against the savage tribes. by mossenge A Threat different from our own. In Ca of Di jor 2 law, Pompey, had gained the 1 annem py Pompey dreaded to lose that power Politicians had decreed his ruin, He had staked his all and he bad lost single hour In hesit sar at Mothers of Americ Copyright, 1917, by ‘Toe Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World.) ‘Failure’ Who Ruled the Earth, undersized and bald— . To this end he built up a strong political party at home and then set forth to conquer Gaul— the stretch of savage country that is now France and Switser- For eight busy years he led his little army of veterans against hordes of fierce barbarians who had threatened to engulf Rome. the wholé\wast region, He crossed the Channel and invaded England. He conquered battle after battle and sent them He made that river a Romaa e fall of Rome at the hands of the It was his one great on which he relied for rulership. reached the Rubicon, a stream whi before he could the river, he from the Roman Senate. ities, in Caesar's day, was not wholly r’s absence, his son stery of the Government, by Caesar's return’ cre So he incited the Senate to send letters to the home~ coming conqueror, ordering him to give up his command as a General and a private citizen, This Caesar was commanded to do under penalty of arrest for treason Degraded from command, his fruits of victory snatched away, the r at that mo- urs of triumphant ie He was @ over him, Julius C ure, His elght y was to deliver himself into the hands was to declare himself an enemy of seemed to face the luckless Failure. on, For good or for Ml, the course he would take, And, one back, he forded the river into Italy. Me the State; and, technically, he forfeited all public feeling was with him, The rritory and renown for thelr country nd the other sta -home politicians make capital for themselves out of Crossing Pompe w how matters stood. He had no army the Rubicon $ fit to cope with the advancing legions of his rival, So he Dawe fled. And Jultus sar entered Rome {n triumph, The peop spplauded the returned General to the skies. The Senate, scared and leaderless, accepted him as its master, Caecar had no trouble at all in persuading the Government to declare him Dictator. He was the undisputed ruler of Rome, A few more campalgns made him master of practleally the whole world, Hetore a faction of envious men succeeded tn murdering him tn 44 A.D, he 1 risen higher and won a r namo for himself than perhaps any other man in history. And he did so because, in a crisie }when most victims would have given up in despair, he had stubbornly an Patriots te McLaws her of Patrick Henry. duired her son to give the minister's text and pcapltulation his ser- mon, in way une sciously training t for the great part | Was to play in firing his countrymen to throw otf tt ha of vies is been in point eloqu' second only to Whitefield himself. Patrick Henry in after life declared that Davies was the greatest orator he jever hour Sarah Winston was a daughter of | Isaac Winston and Mary Dabney. Like all the Winstons, old chronteles | q re, she possessed to an unusual degrea their rare gift of eloquende. One of her uncles was equally famous as an orator and an Indian fighter, | On one occasion the men of his com. pany, becoming discouraged, declared thelr determination to give up thetr expedition against the Indians and return — home. Capt. Winston mounted a stump and hara\ j them to such good purpose that they piped Pa bed rd, met their Indian ‘oes and defeated them w: a tous of @ man, hen ae Sara lenry was a woman - usual intellectual gifts and ei 4 markable flow of language. Al cheerfulness as described by Ci Byrd never left her. In the manage ment of her family she is sald te have combined to rare degree firm. ness ond gentleness, Certain it fe that like Mary Pall Washington «he bas Sver ready, on her sewing xaple or in er apacious aproi n fresh plum switch, ~~» Pockets, | Remaking the Map| of All Africa 8 Big Job H has been written of the changes to be made in the | map of Europo as a result of t wer, but it ts Hkely that these will be insignificant, in extent of tar. | Fitory Involved, as compared with the changes to be made { Africa, ae ce ¥ The so-c, now a hod | } d “dark continent” ie »-podge ac distribution of the ieee “ the allies Is almost certain to ba bg in order to bring about @ Prise sumogeneity, Such a rewhitune, a bow.ury lines would add greathy bs the development of the vartous colonies, ex coust, ‘rho Fritisn drecae othe, West ast, "itish drea « rall” “route trod Calta ny eae Rill be rea Hi 4 int sorption ot ch has been alr mph oF the forces of the Union peed BY | Africa, mn OF waate T's latter dom \s already in | full possession of Mn Southwest Africa, If Great Britain ca deal with Porty i ton na een M4 ot Africa, the whole southern eae of the continent will be benge meet British flax. lt 1s” understood” thos Britain, in the redistribution at Africa, stands ready to give up hee possessions on the west coas: to obtain supremacy in the euat eee south, Belgium and Portugal will vet tain thelr hold on the de: are |ikeiy to be Increased in oxi ‘The changes to be made will provide , connected areas fi coum ieee Canes for each i