The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1917, Page 16

ESTABLISHOD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sunday b paadi amen tole i 4 PULITZOR, President, 62 Park Row. RALPH J ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PU ER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, Bobecription Rates "io Evening| For England and Continent en@ All Countries in the Tnternationa) 4 Postal Union, e tf + NO. 20,329 THE FIRST WARSHIP ENCOUNTER. HE German torpedo which crossed the bow of the United States destroyer Smith one hundred miles south of New York, miss- ing her by thirty yards, effectually disposes of reports ema- nating from Berlin that the Imperial German Government had no intention of making war on the United States in a manner more ag- gressive than that already involved in her submarine attacks on mor- chant vessels, Germany means to make war on the United States in any way she can. Assuming that of course the Navy Department would not apnounce the fact of the Smith’s encounter with a U boat save after thorough substantiation, the situation becomes at once clearer aud more serious. Either German submarines have been already ordered to block- ade American ports, or they have been directed to lie in wait in tho Atlantic for supply ships, warships or any American vessels aiding tlio ‘Allies. In any case, we have a right to suppose the navy of the United States is already actively engaged in protecting the Atlantic Coast an} hunting for such submarine bases as the Germans may have established in the Gulf of Mexico or elsewhere, The attack on the Smith is significant only in that it is the first of its kind. It will scarcely require another to convince this country that it cannot make its defensive measures too thorough or its counter strokes too prompt. * —-+4+ +. Don't fail to note that Berlin puts itself on record at least to the extent of announcing that one of the greatest battles in the world's history is im progress on the River Aisne, That admission may come handy in appraising results. —_—————-+ THE VOICE THAT WILL MAKE PEACE. ISTEN again to Maximilian Harden, recognized as one of the bravest voices of democracy in the German Empire. -~ Pointing to the significance of recent events, the Russian eeevolution, the capture of Bagdad by the English, China’s revolt from _@ermany, British and Mrench successes in France and finally AR RR EA AA AR UR UY AN 8 VNR EYRE VOR RA RN A A = ® new community with 100,000,000 Americans who desire for ent themselves neither land nor money nor even repayment of the a cost of the war, and who, with their {deal solution, work upon = the nerves of all mankind, confident in the hope of Central i America and South America— these circumstances, Harden asks the German people, ™ Je it possible for any sober man who does not want to blush ox Defore our warriors to say in his madness that the results of c these three months have wearied our enemies and set them _ whimpering for feeble peace? « When words like these can be written and printed in Germany, echo says that German sanity is wholly at the mercy of Prussianism? Sy “Elevate the conscience of mankind and light up the German house also,” urges this clear thinker. “Then what the enemy demands! B too loudly, but what we in secret feel to be a necessity, will come to pass.” e Less secrecy, louder demands from the German people them- ‘= Belves, and peace can plan its speedy and triumphal re-entrance into , Christendom, ~ ed mn Despite his touchy Mexican temperament, a few plain words Ue with Carranza now might save a lot of expeditionary arguing = later. da —— " SIMPLIFIED MENUS. an Y ADOPTING a shorter, simpler bill of fare New York hotels and restaurants set a good example in the kind of practical economy the President urges upon the nation, ~ Nor is there any reason why the quality of the meals they serve | whould suffer. On the contrary. It stands to r forces the hotel or restaurant proprictor to offer his patrons a list of dishes filling anywhere from one to four square fect of close print, eomebody must pay for the waste of much that is never called for, He can afford to give better food for less money, provided he can con- ®entrate on fewer items, r Long before the war many European hotels that preferred quality } to pretentiousness were distinguished by the shortness of their menus. The food was excellent, the prices to the Ame ‘extraordinarily cheap, b New York restaurant keepers needn't have waited for war to argue that variety and high prices do not guarantee good fare. ——+-——__—. No Sandy Hook boats this summer! That ought to put the war spirit into @ lot of commuters hereabouts, an eye, Hits From Sharp Wits » Why not put some of those six-foot fists to work knitting socks for soldiers?—Philadelphia Inquirer. : . 8 Modest female soldiers would not make advances even upon an enemy. —Columbia (8. C.) State, Pasa Pea ®» When a man says, “Oh, my wife | @ilenows more about gardening than I | qeado,”” you know who will have to dc h if he could only get os ding and hoeing.—Memphis nt t eose™ reial Appeal, I the time,—Charleston News Bore one Letters From the People Alle WONe Citizen Can Be Call a" 92. Soule the LAitor of The Drening World gee Can @ foreign born fully natural- on citizen be classified as an alien "Now while at war with his country “or at any other tune? fe kindly let me know the value - a all ver dollar dated 1798. wae che: AN OLD READER, A Is Correct. GM the Uditor of The Evening World: er & bet that a child born in a for- ‘eign country of American parents dots not have to be naturalized when READER, The worst feature of the interna- tlonal crisis ts that the bass are biting nd there's no telling Twenty-Five Conta, To the Editor of The Evening World: Let me know the value of @ b-cent nickel plece dated 1880, thirteen stars on one side, with the figure 5 and shield on other side. MRS. K, P, Only @ Native American Can Be To the Editor « Can any the Unite can born? World President of States except an Amert- lS ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Let me know on what day May 21, uM « 1896, fell, ison that if custom} | ow many a fel- | are y De | ou iin row? spring. You You can't “let George do it." not the time for the few to bear the burdens. ‘The ery of the country ts for each to What can I do, you ask? yourse nsumption by y Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1917, by The Prew BP (The New York Brening World.) the of love; can't hh youns and str can offer yourself to jean go forth to fight as fathers did. You can help make life easier for thousands lyou can help decide the principle of | mankind for ages to come. In a word, u can take your place in the pro cession, If you are not strong enough for the front you can stay be a soldier thing before us right now Ket out of the congested place and be almost at the gates of the city. can get a little place and grow things Kyen if you grow enough to keep f you would relieve the food at least one person of wom of fou but young strongly spring a young’ man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts this spring man's duty turns to thoughts of war— and a young wom- an's too, This is the most tous spring history our country, What} plans?| mon in are What your ure you * tng to do about it? It can't be vie with the same vision as other springs. A different plan of action in the life of each of us is in progress, Are you going to prepare for tt build strong so as to save later sor- You can't hibernate— not remain 4 bit." It and ong ave welghted down with family tics, you| our fl 7 nen and at home od You Anniy HE 18th of April ts the birthday wyers who won inter- national fame as champions of unpopular the defender of Dreyfus, and Clarence 8, Darrow, who has been counsel for Moyer and Haywood, the M Yamaras and other labor 4 of twe causes dof crime, died in Paris last n . Was born in rs ago, and Mr rnand faitre Ls nth af Rheims titty Darrow in gO to-day laux, inhing Co, behind. "This ts ur fore- | children the most vital] Labori, » Wie Fvenind World Daily M The Slacker!. « iT. Rar no agazin teers es on " Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyriaht, 1017, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), Y DAUGHTER, by his ways in a POKPR GAME shalt thou read the secret of Man's Prowess and Woman's Subjugation. For, behold! where two or three women are gathered together there is invariably scratching and biting and gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, But the things which another without malice o comprehension. Behold! many times from behind the screen have 1 secretly watched thy father, Solomon, at play with four of his wise men. And mine ears were shocked with strange words and epithets, and mine eyes amazed at what I observed. For lo! these things did I learn, to my utter as tonishment: ; | If a man laugheth when he winneth in a Game of Poker he ts proe | claimed a “Hyena.” If he growleth when he loseth he {s declared a “Kicker.” If he seeketh to entertain the party with small talk he is a “Disturber,* But if he keepeth his mouth discreetly closed he ts Grouch.” If he stayeth out because he holdeth poor cards he is Tightwad.” If he cometh tn and holdeth poor cards he is a “Simp.” | If he bluffeth—and winneth—he is a “Professional.” | If he bluffeth—and loseth—ho is a “Boob.” If he winneth three hands (or pots”) out of every five he is a “gtute ton” and a “robbe: If he loseth three out of every five he is a “Thickhead. If he taketh away most of the money in’ the party he ts If he faileth to take any money he is a “Seed.” If he speaketh of “Home” he is scornfully bidden to “go there.” If he doth NOT mention his wife he is asked if he {s having “family troubles.” If he complaineth that he must “get up early in the morning” ft is “because he is ahead of the game.” But if he eryeth “The night's young yet” It 1s beca' If ho departeth a “winner” he {s “a fool for luck: If he departeth a loser he is a “Dope.” Yet, after seven hours of mutual vituperation, abuse and ridicule, will five men arise from the table, still loving one another in their hearts, and! depart in perfect friendship! Whereas, within the first half hour five women had been at one ane 4 other's throats, M en will endure from one bitterness are beyond MY ° “Shark.” he fs “out.” How then, my Daughter, can we wonder that men dominate over women in the Game of Life? For Woman is as a house divided against itself. But NOTHING can shake or alter the beautiful Love of Man for MANT Not even a Poker Game! Successful Salesmanship By H. J. Barrett What Makes a Good Closer. delivering my canvass, instead of Ine was when I was a very young quiring Whether or not the man de- man that I grasped one secret sired to purchase, I inquired as to | of salesmanship,” remarked &! how much he wanted to purchase, |veteran. “One day when making] Later J improved on thia, in some ins st aces, by naming the amount it to me he required, 1 found * that it acted as a potent closer. “This idea can be applied in a variety of ways. For instance: In seeking to cure an appointment with a man, I |don't say, ‘When can I see you?’ but rathe hall it be morning or afters some suburban points I found myself "SIy [at noon in a Iittle local trade centre <y | which lacked a restaurant. A push- cart man was passing. I flagged him and asked him the price of three ba- nanas, Without replying, he selected at Does This Sp ri ng Me an t o Yot of | wed to this | | you You and | can You Besides it will be a great experienc and Suppose you don't make as much "3 Jarr, the you can make it a great joy, money as you would tn the crowded streets—you would be doing YOUR SHARE in the whole scheme, You would be really helping to carry the load without much sacrifice, There is a call for boys—boys to the farm, Opportunity spreads out its hands to them, They may be sol- diers of the fertile fleld, as well as the furlous fighters, Remember that you are preparing for a great peace-this time an ever- lasting one, It is worth your sacri- ; it ly worth even your temporar; omfort, It is worth giving up a few things for, Copyright, 1917, by The Presa Publt The New Yor’ Brening Wo HEY may have more money than we have, but I am sure they're no happier!" sald Mrs, Jarr, returning from the window ‘om where she had beheld Mr, and Mrs, Stryver pass by in their costly motor ear Uh, hadn't sald Mr, Jarr. He cuught a word of what his good lady had been saying, for he was deep in baseball and war in the evening papers. But he was aware Mrs, Jarr had ceased to speak and hence his non-committal comment, which showed interest in what she was saying and approval of it, no matter what it might have been she huh,” sald, ‘L wouldn't marry that man Stryver for anything in the world,” said Mrs The idea of his saying to me: ‘Of course you r , as a patriotic mother, that your son is too young to be sacrificed upon the altar of the battlefield? Well, are spared ou that, I, myself, must make a great sacrifice-I will take fifty’ thousand dollars’ worth of war bonds, and they'll only pay me 34 per cent! Think of bim saying that! sid wouldn't marry a man like bim for anything in the world! “Uh, bub," interjected Mr. Jarr again, bis mind now being somewhere on the Polo Grounds after coming from somewhere in France, but the silence told him she had just ceased speaking, and he was due to coincide Yh, I know you that I couldn't very well marry a nan like that, seeing that 1 am al ready married to you! But the prin ple Is the same, And if there ts opped silly American heiresses from marrying wortblese foreign nmble- going to say] one good thing about this war it has] The Jarr Family No longer may those who are on the firing line bear the brunt of battle Each one at home must needs fortify that home and the country to hold out against the enemy in the hope of a humanitarian and swift conclusion to the long struggling war horror. And what d spring mean to you, young we to you who are in the office? unued job. Emp own, in an effort to eliminate waste You must not be a part of the waste and be eliminated. Arrange some time every day during the spring for healthful exercise that you may be strong in body. You may be called upon to do double duty, even a8 your sisters across the sea And you, young lady of the home, in your hands lies much in the way to hold down your $ will try to hold their men, for all the foreign noblemen are dying bravely for their countries on those dreadful battle fields, “What was I saying about Mr. Stryver? Oh, yes! He's the kind of }a man I never could like, no matter how much money he had, And yet, he didn’t have any money when Mrs, Stryver married him. People say he drove a truck in Chicago, At the same time, 1 don't see what he saw jin Mrs, Stryver to marry her, with her double chin and no waist line to speak of, even if her corsets AR made to order for her and she pays as high as eighty dollars aplece for them and more! “Of course, when Mr, Stryver mar- rled her they were very poor and so were her people, Her mother ran a boarding house and the table was | very skimpy and Mrs, Stryver didn't get all the rich food sho gets these days," and she weighed less than a hundred and ten when she was married, she says, and she showed me an old photograph to prove it, and sho looked like @ freak in the clothes she wore, but, then, everybody looked like freak in the styles of those days!" Mr. Jarr had come to the bottom of the page and in turning to the funny pictures had caught these last words, “Tho styles of to-day that women are wearing will look just as funny to us twenty years from now,” he ventured, “You can't prove tt by me,” sald Mrs. Jarr with a sigh, “I haven't a thing that’s in style for this spring and it doesn't look as though would!" Mr, Jarr immediately turned his at- tention to the last assault on the Hindenburg line. It was safer there, “But for all that,” Mrs, Jarr con- 1 ee three, put them tn a paper bag, and| | proffered them, saying: ‘Tenna centa.’ | You sse—by assuming that I would purchase, he exerted a sort of moral pressure which helped to close the noon—and will to-morrow sult you?’ “When I sold insurance I ‘never wound up with, ‘Now don't you want to protect your famfly, Mr. Jones? but with, ‘Now you'll want at least $10,000 worth, Mr. Jones,’ and go on. “Naturally, discernment Js required In the exercise of this little device, ome people resent even a hint of coercion, But the majority will submit if the pressure is applied with sufficient jtact a grasp of this prinetple which makes a salesman a good Study hard how to make the furthe Get into knowing how to cook things with common foods. ter all they are the best, Ie- aber that the less foc © in your household by choosing most nutritious kind, you are to apply to bigger sted, ‘That take-it- or-granted attitude is a good closer it is used with discrimination. om that time on I began to ap- principle, In seling merchan- | | lini nt | af thing: 7] ‘ the inaking it easier for your neighbor b leaving that much more in the mar- et We American women have been ply tt dise, after displaying my goods and | closer.” "ry credited with being more extrave than any other women in the world Let us show that our brain cells can} work in contriving economies as well as in 8 ng. Ah, truly, this Is a new spring~a different spring, with new desires, new hopes, new duties. Let us not be lakgard in sowing the thrifty of war time at we golden harvest of pet HE actual period of the begin-,of Pliny and Seneca, all prolix, heavy ning of letter-writing 13 like | 4d unutterably tedious, ; Tho earliest English le > : the familias “nglish letter of which other of the there appears to be any histori evt~ dence ts the charming note writted Probably the earliest historical |by Matilda, wife of Heury I : 1s of epistolary achievement are | bishop Ar | 4 . Egyptians |Mm_her found in the days of the Egyptians |) orioi¢ under the Pharaohs and of the Greeks | who wrote out their social or busi-| Four centuries late ss communications on blocks of|letter was written stone or wood. But for the first letter | Wuren, the writer of distinction it is necessary to turn to the Book of Kings, where} I many seeds! things of to-day, lost in the mists of may reap the tine. Roy L. McCardell | w “the of maidens of his Holiness.” rT another notable by an Englisn an, the tender qippeal of Anne y rom her doleful pr the Tower” to Henry VII. bien ee Letter writing in Europe, at first ‘tinued, “I will say that if I HAD the money I would know what to buy and where to buy It. At least I have ii in chapter xxi, verses 6 to 10, we | confined to royalties and nobles, ne {gure and some taste, poor as) tia now Queen Jezebel, wife ot | realy. rey ih custom and favor am,” “ er at 6 fifteenth cer 7 Ahab, wishing to compass the death) city merchant or nth Sure, sure!" murmured Mr, Jarr, tradesman or hi of Naboth, * » letters In ‘amity ‘ " 4 a wrote Aha ‘very one indeed ab Vell, I'm glad you'll admit that.” | and ed them with his ‘ank of the masses indulged Ie ee sald Mrs, Jar, “Yet you'd think and gent the letters unto the elders) form of communication that Mrs, Stryver, who can go to the and to the nobles that were in his ho art of letter writing {s well do- finest shops and pick out tho latest city ahd that, dwelt with Naboth, | fined by James Howell, who held that evita KAAToAe OTE ee these dignitaries suggesting @ plot/a true familiar letter is the art ° creations and say ‘Charge 1!" would | nich ended in the death of Naboth| pressing one's mind as if he Naa ane look good in someth but she never py stoning. coursing of the person to whom he does, But that man Stryver is a| Vile letter writing tn a somewhat] writes In succinct and strict torrm | brute, I wouldn't let him speak to /crude and Lycee sorgn Se. Bins PA hey nth century, which ; tised among the ancien’ ok -| gave je that {8 food or me as he does to her, for all her there are, strangely enough, nola: least remarkable in produsivernn charge accounts! | ng examples of the epistolary | aggregation of great letter writer | “Bawls her out, eh?” Mr, Jarr in- pondence of Socrates and| Horace Walpole, foremost in felloity , lquired, oatohing this last sentence phon, of Plato and Pythagoras. | of expression, heading an {lly a die papery age t a Dut of the correspondence between | list which includes Gray, the author 7 day I was calling (coro, the greatest und perhaps the|of the Elegy: Cowper, Chesterhela | there, and she asked him something and he told her to shut up, he was reading the market reports, and the Way she gabvled made him lose Wack of ‘what he was reading!" “He had his ne suid Mr, Jarr. But he was careful to keep any tone of admiration out of the remark, all letter writers, there are 800 Dorothy Osborn ley Montague, Dr. Johnson, Rich a Swift, wh tella preserve a most. attr and his frie examples, all of w n the purit and beauty of their original form 0} in the many translations, may be read by any one who visits the New York Library. The only other extant let- \ters of the Roman period are those Lady Mary Wort: idy Rachel Russell, rd Steele, Garrick Taltors $0 ble wife 5 ately old worl ha rm ‘Unhappily impossible in ye Other famous ei letters are those of J |nah More, shteenth century ane Austen, Han- ‘anny Burney, Burns (als and artificial), Laurence 4 Kish), Oliver am Cowper, Goldsmith and ERUSALEM, the holy city of both; which continued until 1187, when the| Of the nineteenth century J Jews and Christians, ts likely, as /Maracens “under Saladin’ captured | Charles Lamb, each falter coe J ~ (Jerusalem, © peculiar charn 4 result of this war, to bo pers |""siivdin's behavior was in marked|worthily holds Ata pitoe ie Pye! manently lost to the Turks, Who! contrast to that of the Christian] line including Dickens, ‘Thackerag |aiready have been deprived of Mecea,| captors of Jerusalem, for he pro-|Sidney Smith, Leigh Hunt, Macaulast the holy place of the Molamimedans, | claimed a general amaesty, and per- | Washington ing, Ralph Waldo That the ancient city which was for| mitted the surviving Christians to| Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, John fuse so long the centre of the worsuip of }depart unharmed, In 1217 Jerusalem |kin, Mrs, Carlyle and Edward Fite: Jehovah may again become the cap n by the Turks, but was sur- | gerald, tal of a Jewish state, under the pr to the Emper derick | France has in vario' tection of the Allied Powers, is more |IT, in 1228. ‘Tho Crusadera again en-|us such masterpleces of moon ae |than a possibility. tered Jerusalem in 1248, but it was|ence as those of La Rochetousaula, Jerusalem was taken by the }taken from the Christians in the|Margaret of Valots, Voltaire, Mme, ‘cens in 637, and held by them until | latter part of the century, Four cen- j|de Maintenon, Mme, du Deffani Prey the period of the Crusades, After|turies ago the Turks gained undis-|de Sevigne,' Mme, Roland, eon Withstanding for years the’ fanatic] puted possession of Jerusalem, and, |Sand and Prosper Merimee, but dee |Crusaders, Whose quest was the holy {except for the brief period in many, rich As she {9 tn Iterature, ha; sepulchre, Jorusalem was at last res-|when it was held by the French un-| given us but few men of distinetion cued in 109%, the Crusaders p.ously'der Bonaparte, the ancient Jewish in this line, Schiller, Goethe and Hume putting 70,00 infidels” to death, A capital ever since has been beneath |boldt alone contributing anything Christian kingdom was founded, the flag of the Ottoman Empire, worthy of blatorical preservation,