The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1917, Page 14

EGenfitg eiorie. sbilening Compa rk I¢ ‘ cept Bunda Gs RALPH PL by the Press T vark Row, New Y LITZER, Prosider AW, Treasurer dr, Secret pana t-Ofice at New Yor Budbseription Rates to The Kvemng| For and the Continent and Works for the United States | All Counties tn the International and Canad | Postal Union. One Year #2.60,0n0 ¥ One Blonth 40'One M OP rise y is Ubivvisdcesieen ses cee NO, 20,828 BEGIN RIGHT. T IS to be hoped. once the distinguished commissioners from Great} | Britain and France are ull safely landed in this country, that the Americun public may enjoy every reasonable opportunity of | seeing and listening to them, also of learning, in the utmost fulnvss| compatible with natioual interest, the information, opinion and coun- el they bring with them. Secrecy would in this case bo a grave mistake. The American pcople aro deeply moved by the magnitude of what ‘they have undertaken. They feel at this moment an extraordinary sense of closencss and partnership with tho Allies, who are now their allies, This is the first chance they have had to hold direct, personal converse with Allied representatives regarding this nation’s part in} the war. In all that concerns that part the people of the United States properly feel that it is their war. The Government has nover for an ivetant treated it as anything olse. True democracy cannot make war) otherwise. Particularly at the outset, American citizens, who are to, bear the fighting, the sacrifices and the costs of the war, are entitled; to know not only why but how it is to be fought. They are entitled to regard any commission from an Allied nation as having come lo confer, in a broader eense, with them. The new War Committee on Public Information, of which George} Creel has been appointed head, is rightly considered first and foremost a Bureau of Publicity, and only in a secondary sense a Bureau of Suppression, It can set out to gain the confidence and respect of the public in no better way than by handling in a broad-minded, thoroughly Amer- ican manner the profoundly interesting and inspiring errand of the Allied War Commissioners. eT ‘The first alleged “war speculation” to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission is the trimming of American citizens by sellers of the American flag! —_—-+- INSTANT RESPONSE FROM ALBANY. ESTERDAY the whole Nation read the President’s earnest appeal for economy, Before the sun rose this thorning the New York State Legislature hastened to respond by jamming through a $60,000,000 Appropriation bill over the veto of the Governor, who had done hii | best to cut out at least certain lavish items meant to cover committee junkets and similar “contingemt expenses” to the tune of $470,000, Waste and extravagance forever! It takes more than war to startle a New York Legislature out of the good old ways. | | { Bening World Daily Magazine edie “Submarines or No Submarines” By J. Courriah. 1 (The .Ca H ssel —_—_—+- The buckling of the Hindenburg Line and the bread riots im Berlin suggest the start of what Dr. Johnson called “concatenated catastrophe.” et NO LEEWAY FOR PRICE BOOSTERS. EW persons in the United States can claim the President’s appeal passed over them. Certainly not the gentlemen who make a living and something more by handling—‘“distributing,” they call it—food and other necessities, “This let me say to the middlemen of every sort, whether they are handling our foodstuffs or our raw materials of man- ufacture or the products of our mills and factories: The eyes of the country will be especially upon you. This is your oppor- tunity for signal service, efficient and disinterested, The seum’s 30. N many quiet corners of the public dutldings of New York, women pursue, unheralded, occupations in which they are pioneers, They hold high office under the City Govern- they serve country expects you, as it expects all others, to forego unusual mae er a4 with profits, to organiza and expedite shipments of supplies of every | honor. In the kind, but especially of food, with an eye to the service you are rendering and in the spirit of those who enlist in the ranks, for their people, not for themselves. I shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the confidence of people of every sort and station.” We can’t forget, however, that profiteers have been showing the quality of their patriotism so long and so shamelessly that even im- perative national need cannot be counted on to change them, They ought to have more than the eyes of the country upon them. They ought to have the vigilant, expert gaze of a National Yood Board and similar bodies concentrated on them, with full power to keep them in live. In peace we have tried to reason with the price booster, Metropélitan Mu- seum women and men are employed in equal numbers, Wet Bea. though all the ranking positions are held by men. The Museum's curators are all men, And when a curator goes away, if his first assistant happens to be @ woman, she ts not asked to assume final authority during his absence, but is pasged over for a man below er, This application of the Salle law is ptill general in fields which are just opening to women, In an- other form it is enforced by the City We i i Government, for heads of departments BATERS ioe oF mervy. bo te on him in war, are. permitted to choose their em- ees ployees from two separate Civil Service Hots, & man's list and a Our Cos Cob correspondent reports that the honest plough: | woman's list, So a tionary off. in that ha) village are chargi: se \ cial may pass over all the women— men in tha ppy Be charging garden makers $1 per and why not, since they cannot hour for breaking up soll in response to the Government's call vote?—-choowing a 75 per cent, man for agricultural enlistment, | for a job rather than a 98 per cent, : woman, and the courts have upheld Shall we have to have a commission to regulate the peace the legality of this procedure. f ughsbare, or 21 One of the women who hold con- wil . EUR SAt LAO ENenNY 0 bg Sard spicuous posts in the Metropolitan Museum 18 Miss Lucie E. Wallace, as- ‘ sistant librarian of the Institution and Letters From the Peo p le direct guardian, of Its, $0,000 books Wallace joined the et- Cltine: Questl “who.” Aut . When Miss Wallace j To the Edilor of The Krecivg World pes, Authorities differ. The moa-| ——————— Bins oct | tondency I was born in Camberwell, Engiand, | profere: thirty-five years ago. 1 came to the United States when | was two yeurs | 19 to give “who" the It wauld be more appro- priate in the case cited, old, 1 have never been out of the) su. pasos otnt meee ree, United States, being raised and edu. | To the Editor of The Evening World cated here. Aim married and have} A claims that a Prosident of the HIS ts the birthday of the Man- raised a family, My father died | United Statea cannot be elected tor hattan cocktail, which is a mis- I do not know If he some years agu. three successive terms, also claims was 4 citizen or nol. that there is a clause in e) tution to that effect, ‘he Conatl, B claims @ President of ihe U States can be elected to inves ala |cossive terms, and that there ts no clause in the Constitution against it jbut that as a matter of precedent this has never happened, A. a. G. Py nomer, for the cocktail was born in Maryland. The name cocktali had been applied to Various mixtures for centuries before 1846, Dut it was on April 17 of that year that the cock. tall as we know it was invented py John W, Henderson, then the drink dispenser at the Palo Alto Hotel at Biadensburg, Md, The concoction was called the “Royal Jack,” Am | entitled ANXIOUS, your father was naturalized | you became of age it will t ry for you to take out papers, hat” and “Who.” ‘Po the Editor of The Evening World A Wagers (hat the following sen- fence is correct: "l was Interested in| Dusiness With a partne. that went to; a Burope eight days ago,” arguing that | T™ the lditor of The Evening World originally in honor of the word"that” may be used equiv-| I came to this countsy at the a |its inventor, but when the secret alent to “who.” B says that the word |thirteon, Now | am uineteen ge. 06 | 5 en “yyy Tg dow York the CAMNOt be Used corrvet ty the nen: ‘old. My father is not a Citisen, Mast name of cocktail wax applied to 5. V. W, |1 take out first papers to become an| Sale a and diacinentcnes Many writers of good Engitah use| American citizen, and, if 8, can'E| fom the old’ cocktatie ty prsbains “that” in the personal,sense for do it now? M. de ©, ing | “Manhattan,” By Nixola G Coprrigt, 1017, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World), “I Believe in Library Work for the Woman Who Pur- sues Other Ideals Than Getting Rich,” Says the Guardian of Metropolitan Mu- |,000 Books. ireeley-Smith. ropolitan forces several yi after taking special courses at Co- du University, she invented a fillng system now generally used in art Hbraries throughout the world. She has to-day direct charge of the photographic department as well as of the library, and she is engaged in indexing all of the pictures and plates contained in the library's rare books, so that when some one comes in and asks offhand for “everything you've , Bot on Moses,” as a man did last week, the library will be able to de- liver the goods without loss of time. “The public does not seem to un- derstand that the library of the Met- ropolitan Museum is open for read- ing and study every day," Miss Wal- lace sald to me, “and that men and women who come here to consult the Ubrary are admitted free, even on the ay days of the Museum-Friday and onday—or, as a park police: put it, Fishdays and Washdays.” Some- times I have had people in the library ask: ‘May I go to such and such & gallery and look just one picture which I need to ‘or my work?’ And of course permission is always granted to them, “I do not advise women who want to be big money makers to take up library work," Miss Wallace con- tinued, “The occupation offers a good living and contact with books and pictures, which makes it delight~ ful to men and women to whom such contact is essential.” In the photographic department, which is part of the library, a young) college woman, Miss Anna Chandler, is doling a most interesting work. Twic. a week she tells stories to chil- dren in the auditorium here, On Sun- day afternoon her story telling is for the general public and we have 500 children sometimes. She will tell a tale called “The Egyptian Cinderella,” for instance, which is a favorite fairy tale as it exists in the lore of Egypt. These fairy tales, of course, familiar- ize her hearers with knowledge of other countries and civilizations, In the Archaeological Department of the Museum Miss Ghisia Richter, @ young German woman of rai scholarship, is Assistant Curator, She had special training. My own train- ing Was obtained In Columbia Unl- versity, where I was fi an appren- tice and then an assistant librarian, I believe in library work for women who pursue other ideals than getting rich, and I do wish the public knew more about the 80,000 books we have here dealing with every subject re- | lated in any way to the arts, People think about our books as forming a/ private library, while they are eager to be public servants and are free to everybody—even on fishdays and washdays, | | Copyright, 1917, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Breuing World.) Ty HAT'S the sign mean, ‘Under W Entirely New Manage- ment?" asked Mr, Jarr as he took his seat in the chair and Fred, the sporting barber, tucked the towel under bis chin, Fred gave Mr, Jarr a delphic wink, ashe turned from stropping the razor in fox trot time, “It's a little bunk of the boss's,” he explained in a ventriloquist whis- per out of the corner of his mouth, ‘'Member him at the first chair with the Katserhof caterpillar?” Mr, Jarr looked puzzled a moment, and then remembered that the barber at the first chair had worn a fierce mustache a la Wilhelm IL, nodded his head in the affirmative, “Well,” continued the sporting bar- ber, “customers would look in tbe window and see that Kaiserhof cater- pillar and would go down tbe block to that Italian non-union torture chamber, They wasn't going to take any risk these days being shaved by hands from across the sea, especially when it looked #0 much like hands from the North Sea, Then the boss took the last cbalr and put tp a phonograph with a ‘Star Spangled Banner’ record, But that didn't do much good, made the customers nervous.” | “What do you aean, nervous?” | asked Mr. Jarr “Wouldn't you get nervous to have }to rise in this chair while I'm shay- |ing the front of your neck, when the |national air ts playe the sporting barber inquired, "So the boss made | 4 proposition some of the older |hands here to run the place for bim while be on a percentage basis, \ He |} Jarr understood this to mean that the temporarily absent —pro- prietor was breaking his mustache away from the military habit of some @ good guy,” sald the r, “and a real Ameri- can, He left the old country because he wouldn't stand for them milita Heinies pushing him off the sidewalk, and made bis getaway before doing his time in the army hisself; he can't never go back unless, after this war, Prussia becomes one of the United States of Germany, and doing time in the army for everybody 1s done away with Why don’t he shave off his mus- * asked Mr, Jarr, | wouldn't give in that much ys." explained the sporting bar. ‘But I think its all yhnnies say. sporting barb tonsorial artist, Now that there is 1 wouldn't be surprised to| him shoulder a gun for the Stars and Stripe he ain't too old, There's only another flag in id he thinks nearly as much ©: jerman flag? asked Mr, Jarr, the baseball pennant,” sald Fred, “By Hokey! You've got to hand tt to them Dutchmen for sclence!" “I don't Ket you!" puzzled Mr, Jarr, t YOU seo his little scheme waid (he sporting barber, “Why, he’ bugs on baseball—that shows he is a real American from the roots up. Do you think his wife would let him cut remarked the business to his hands on a percentage basis and keep away from the shop for war or baseball? Yep, this shop may be under entirely new manage- ment for the ¢t being, but the Giants n't, and the Cubs ain't, and the Pirates ain't, and the Dodgers none of them ain't “i I see!” sald Mr. Jarr. “Ana| “Ob, here and the baseball said Fred. “I'll have to/| figure out something like that on big game days myself, Want a shampoo?” | follows: | Fifty Failures Who Came Back Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York krening Worit), 23—HENRY OF NAVARRE, the ‘Failure’ Who Became King of France. NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD country boy came to Paris in 1572 to A Charles IX. The boy was Henry, Prince of Bearn—a gawky, hook-nosed lad with scarce a gold piece in bis pocket and appar ently without a care or # thought in his head, marry ‘his cousin, Marguerite, the sister of the French King He was the only eon of Antoine de Bourbon, King of the little Frenoh+ Spanish province of Navarre; and he himself is known to history as “Henry | of Navarre.” d’Albret, who had tried to bring up her waywardly dissolute sou to # nobler and purer life than he cared for. Jeanne dared not refuse the royal invitation to send Henry to Paris or to let him marry the French King’s sister, Yet she dreaded the influence of the corrupt French court om Aer boy's character. Ghe tried to keep in touch with Hen: it against court's evil effects by writing him letters full rf feoaen, mecnecty saves aan of news about hie simple country home. These letters! wore few in number, for presently Jeannie died—died A Mother's with @ suddenness that started whispers of poisoning, Tragedy. Henry, in the full flood of Paris's dissipation, soon mnnmncmnnnmy forgot his sweet mother and her teachings, Then camo his marriage, This union was designed to unite the two warring political parties in France as well as to tighten the family ties binding the house of Navarre to the royal house of France, The Wrench! King had two brothers, But neither he nor they had any obildren; and, after them, Henry of Navarre would be next heir to the Frenoh throne,’ which was just what the King and his family did not wish, So in the midst of his folly revelling and his secret ambitions for the | throne Henry discovered that the invitation to Paris and the marriage with | Meteorite had merely been baits to a cleverly set trap, io had been brought to Paris to separate him from the political | whose hereditary leader he was. ig: mi Thousands of that party's best men were soon afterward murdored in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, after which the French King and his mother, Catherine di Medici, threw off the mask of friendliness, Henry awoke to find himself a prisoner in the royal palace of the Louvre, and with the strong probability of a death as sudden as Jeanne d’Albret's. | Ile bad come to Paris as a bridegroom and a possible future King. | Skilfully his foes had shorn him of power and of prospects and of Uberty. | He was a Failure if ever an aspiring Prince was. Penniless, hopeless, a captive, he dragged out three miserable years in the court of his enemies.’ Then, by outwitting his watchers, he escaped. He fled secretly from Paris, dodged his pursuers and made his way safely to his own tiny king- dom of Navarre, There, bit by bit, he made ready to’ strike a blow for the French throne, One move at a time—and by infinitely slow and tedious progress—he neared the hour when he could strike that blow, » iis chance came when the throne was at last vacant. But even then Henry's political toes would | Qererrrreeva i} A Blow for } |} the Throne. |not recognize him as King nor suffer him to entor Paris; and only after a) | long and bloody civil war did he fight his way to the crown, In 1693 he entered Paris in triumph and began his reign. ‘The Failure had overcome obstacles which had seemed insurmountable, From prisoner he had become King; and not only King, but the wisest and most progressive King that France had ever known, | The Friend Who Forgets | By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Ereaing World), A letter signed “Al. N.” reads as To have a friend you must know how to be one. This fellow evidently doesn't know. He will learn bis les- eon. Everybody does, This {8 an age of reciprocity. The man who always tells you that he doen! things for friends without return is merely trying to make a heavenly hero of bimself when he is only bu- man, In the last analysis friendship | based on give and take. It expect return when the time comes for re- turn, While friendship can never be founded on seifishnes: d you don't sive so much for so much, or expect a “Is there such a thing as @ true friend? “I am twenty- two years of age and have gone through life with the idea of help- ing every one that I could, but 1 am beginning to realize that my pierre wrong | ffty-fitty settlement, yet the very .| beginning of friendship ts one of and that the ma-| nj utual understanding, mutual sym+ jority of us be-| pathy, mutual help. eve in seif-pres-|) When you do an act of kindness ervation. for a friend you feel somehow that he would do as much for yi 1 “My reason for this Is, I have) occasion demanded It; and ‘wh . es helped a young man when he was|do not expect pay you do anticipate « down and out. Gave him whatever I| similar sympathy, a similar interest could spare and shared all my bap-, When the opportune time arrives, The individual who gives every- piness, I kept him not only 48 @/ thing and anticipates nothing ts 130 but as a true comrade. |good for any use in this world, and “Words are inadequate to explain|&ny one who can take all and’ give the good things I have done for that|Pothing Is @ grafter on the trea of fellow. Now that he is settled, with! "4 real friend in one who doesn't ex- a good position and things begin to|pect too much from his friend and go well with him, he tn return for my plays the golden rule, fo wakennrt even seem to remeinber |, He does not impose on « frlend and expects that the friend my name. Now 1 ask you, Miss Loeb, | impose upon him. will not e such @ thing 4s @ ‘friend’ ?” He never forgets to reach do | may well say a friend in need | tne fellow who helped push ie & te always on hand, nd when thejtne top, help is given such a friend is flown. | ""iy6 Underatan There are many so-called friends, 1] yora obligation am sorry to say, ° Ho never misses an opportunit: Yet, my dear tnan, there ie auch 6 éo the friendly thing. > *% thing as a friend. person Boe | He doesn't seek friondsh!, day will find out what it means t0 | yarian purposes Poa ae lack for one. He can't forge “,| #riendabip means responsibility— ship and “get away with it.” Some] sponsibility of each for the othe. day he will realize his great mistake. | ‘There is much of it in the world, |The milk of human Kindness atili the meaning of the | Bachelor Gir ay laughing in his sleeve! To a woman, fence—to @ man, A man seems he Aa When & man put bim down as reas Rowan curves of bis conversation, A woman can forgive a man for a lot of annoying little faults, if only he possesses a few big virtues; but a man never asks what virtues a woman possesses, if only she has no Most brides will go to the altar in simple travelling gowns this season | off his mustache or turn over his} most bridegrooms, as usual, will go in a cold perspiration, When a man “admits” a fault he seems to fancy that the admission | thale turns {t into a virtue for which he ought to receive a halo and a gold medal in addition to his wife's forgiveness. ~ War-groom's motto: Conscription doth make cowards of us alll” By Helen Rowland —_ Copsright, 1017, by The From Publishing Oo, (The New York bvening World), HIS is probably the first time in the wor has been looked upon as @ safety-device, woman consists merely in looking through a trans- | America for years,and when Gouver- parent medium composed of her head and body while| he thinks of what he wants to say next, flirt!” hold om to your heart and head around the} flows. If you have made a mistake and are disappointed realize that there are many who when tried may not be found wanting, | Reflections “Almighty Dollar’ 400 Years Old id's history when marriage | How Hymen must be} T was in 1792 that the Congrese of the United States authorized the establishment of a mint tn Philadelphia, With the founding of this institution the “almighty dollar” began to come into Its own, The Spanish dollar had peen common in every love affair is another exper-| another experiment, to think that “conversation” with a neur Morris attempted to harmontae all the moneys of the States he took the dollar as a standard, Tho plang ot Morris were later amended by Jefferson, who proposed to atrike four coins upon the basis of the Spanish milled dollar—a gold plee of the value of ten dollars, a dolla in silver, @ tenth of a dollar in sliver and @ hundredth of a dollar in copper Although America borrowed’ the dollar from Spain. in origin it was German, the word dollar being the English form of the German “thaler," It was nearly four centuries ~ lin 1619—that Count Schiick mia began to lasue silver coing wore” declares “I never flatter!” you may an expert; when he says “I never | annoying little faults. ing one ounce each. These wee, | minted at Joachimethal, in’ F nd land th chemia, became known as Joac! ter shortened to thalog. ta \the sixteenth century they Tn common in England, wher were known as ‘dalers a 4 or ‘dollars, Shakespeare mentions “dollars” in \wecond scene of the first of "Macboun.” v Tuesday, April 17, 1917 : i He had come to Paris sorely against (he will of bis wise mother, Jeanne | ‘ q