The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1917, Page 14

cee eee ‘ wen She EGA sdiorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, Rates to The Evening; For Kngland and the Continent and All Countries in te International Postal Union. World for the United States and Canada, One Year.. One Month THE BRITISH MISSION. ‘ the President to-day and to the other members of his com- mission the American people extend most cordial welcome. With profound appreciation of the importance attaching to these first conferences with the representatives of a great ally, the Govern- ment of the United States and the people of the United States will leave nothing undone to makeethe visit of the British envoys a memorable one, productive of far-reaching results. It is particularly to be hoped that thé conferences and also the entertainment of the nation’s guests may be brought as close to the public as the national interest will permit. This ie a war of democracy, for democracy. Nothing is more certain to fill Americans with the spirit of co- operation than the feeling that it is 60 far as maybe with them all that the Allies are come to take counsel. oo —— Is sinking British hospital ships with German wounded on board the jast word in Prussian herolam? pe GRAIN AND LIQUOR. ‘£ IS perhaps only natural at this moment that advocates of nation-wide prohibition should make zealous use of statements which they wish to believe true and of figures which they hope are accurate. With the nation at war, arguments for restricting the production and consumption of liquor in the United States are just now plentiful enough. But do they gain anything from the support of hasty exag- geration and inaccuracy? The New York State College of Agriculture was recently re- sponsible for the statement that prohibition of liquor production in this country would save for food purposes 625,000,000 bushela of grain. Striking figures—but do they represent facts? ee According to the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal ‘Revenue the official record of all kinds of grain used in the produc- ‘tion of distilled liquors during the fiscal year 1916 was 39,748,992 bushels. Brewers’ statistics show the total amount of grain consumed in making fermented liquors to have been just under 55,000,000 bushels, Here, then, is a grand total of 95,000,000 bushels of grain used G liquor production, which, it will be noted, is 530,000,000 bushels less than the startling figure given out by the College of Agriculture. Moreover, it is claimed with some fairness by the liquor interes! that, since after the carbohydrates have been extracted from the corn, barley, etc., there still remains 65 per cent. of the food value of the grain, which is dried and used as a valued cattle food, this 65 per cent. should be gubtracted from the 95,000,000 bushels, leaving the amount of grain devoted solely to the production of liquors at 85,000,000 bushels, The “bone dry” proposition is one the American people are en- titled to consider in the light of something more than recklessly trumped up figures and sweeping overstatements. When real estate men tell us that extreme prohibition measu.cs| are certain to affect at least $800,000,000 worth of taxable hotel and. restaurant ptoperty in New York City alone, and possibly throw a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of real estate on the market for sale or rent, it becomes plain that such serious derangement of values can only be justified after careful weighing of the advantages to be. When the Hill-Wheeler bill, which was passed by the Assembly | last week and which extends the right of local option in this State to cities, is taken up this week by the Senate there will be considered along with it the Emerson-Brown bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Taxation and Retrenchment, one clause of which pro- vides for a State-wide referendum on the question of making the State “bone dry.” It mightn’t be a bad idea to get everybody down to cases on the “bone dry” proposition and have a thorough educative campaign that would clear away exaggeration and folderol and show the public in this State at least what it really thinks, So far as the nation’s grain supply is involved, we may start out with the premise that if the total annual production of cereafs in the United States is more than 5,000,000,000 bushels, the quantity totally consumed in the manufacture of liquor, while it may not be less than one per cent, as the liquor men claim, is considerably shert of two per cent. and far short of the 121-2 per cent. figured out by the zealous food savers at the State College of Agriculture. i —_—-+ + $6.00) One Year.. . 60] One Month... seeeeNO. 20,334 Spring has at last started, jn this section, a weloome drive of its own, Letters From the People Wants Full Papers. this will amount to com) : 0. © compulsion has Me the Biitor of The Evening World | not been indicated. A friend of mine came to this coun-| Men without dependents and of try from Alsace in October, 1912, and| suitab! recived his first papers in February,| son e 1915. Now, what he and a number of others wish to know Is can he get final papers next October if the United States is at war with Ger- many at that time? H, O'N It has been held that all German citizens who obtained first papers pre- age who are not for any ~ea- npted, will be drafted into che United States Army, Citizenship Question, ‘To the Editor of The Evening Work | this country at the age of eleven from Russia, Is it necessary for me to take vious to the declaration of a state of | OUt papers to become a citizen? And war are entitled to second papers, | 1s It necessary for me to enroll at the census bure ? L provided that they filed application fore the declaration by the United Btates and other usual formalities, Unless your father has been nat- uralized you must take out neces- sary papers. All persons of an age to be selected by the State must reg- ister as possible army recruits. You Are a Citisen, To the Biitor of The Brening World: 1 am a young man twenty years of age, boro in London, England, 1 came to the United Btates when I was four years old, and have resided here ever since, My father became @ citizen tn 1913. Would like Jo know Army Service. To the Editor of The Breaing World Can the Italian Government recall ite citizens in this country, and can the United States Government force Italian citizens to go back to Italy? How are the men drafted for tho army or navy? L. G. It is reported that the Allied Gov- @ronments may be permitted to open O the distinguished Britishman statesman who is presented to) I am twenty years old and came to| When Autoc | rat Meets | | Autocrat er ote ARS 4 gs Pip? Hig “eS oe esse With A “The Monday, April 23, TheWomanWith aCoun logies to the Author of lan Without a Country.” By Helen Rowland 1917 LWAYS, They have sald of her, “Why shall she vote? A And shudders at Well, With her soft, white, useless fingers A hundred deaths in every one of th Everywher Sowing, reaping, harvesting, And thus saving thousands of liv: For Her Country, She is taking battered, bleeding, dying men into her tender arms, And binding up their wounds, with but one thought— To bring them back, from death to life, That they may FIGHT, again, For Her Country! And here, at home, She is not shirking, But has leapt to the colors without thought of self. No longer is she satisfied to give the She 1s eager to offer her own life Vor Her Country. She is eager to learn how to do men's To plough and plant—to nurse, or to With one mighty stroke, 4 oe Courriaht, 1917, by The rw Publinhing Oo, (The Now York Evening World.) The Millstone Wife. NCE upon a time there was a man who worked tn a depart- ment store, He was only a flat was necessarily located miles away from his business, On these occasions while waiting for the store to close she would often noto his attentions to the girls, Almost from the first she began to misconstrue, did not look with ap- clerk but gave] proval on them, and would make sar- Promise of r8-/castic remarks now and then, fog higher, He At first the young man met her at- \itude in @ very light way and joked with her about it. But when he re- ulzed that she was serious he ex- plained that he only meant te be kind ') his associates; that no one in the wide, wide world meant anything to him except his wife and wasn’t he Working just as hard as he possibly could that things might be better for her? For a little while the matter would be smoothed over, but the next time sho went back to’ the store her tem- per would rise and she would go 80 far as to say something to one or two of the girls. They tn turn complained to the husband, who felt very much hurt indeed. ‘The wife went further than this, She even deemed It her duty to tell fell in love with & young woman but realized that he was hardly making — enough to keep one, to say nothing of two, He ex-| plained hia cir- | cumstances to her fully and left {t to her as to whether she would | wait until things were better with him, as he did not wish her to spend her Nfe waiting for his prospects. The young woman as usual rose to him, and reasoned that by economy {t would cost very little more to keep two than one, So they were The Jarr Fa married, € neniee SET. LBs Matar phere Oo, They engaged a cheap flat whore! ¢¢ Ue Chas ise a cartanall sho was going to do all the cooking went downtown and ordered and housekeeping. Now this young another one,” Mrs. Jarr ex- man's work, as stated, was in a de-| plained, as she came in the other partment store where there were a ning just after Mr, Jarr, “And number of women working. talk about the high cost of every- He was one of those kind of in-| thing!" she went on, “Flags are dividuals who try to be pleasant|twice as dear as they were three with everybody, Often he would help| weeks ago when I bought the one lift boxes for the shop girls and mad himself generally agreeable to his cu workers, He was very much liked as a consequence |that blew away." “It wouldn't have blown away tn the night if you had obeyed the eti- quette of the flag,” said Mr, Jarr. “It should be put out at sunrise and brought in at sundown “Who 18 to get up at sunrise and! put tt out? asked Mrs. Jarr, ‘Me, | I suppose, Well, I have enough to do without getting up at sunrise to} put out the flag, except, of course, If |the town was being bombarded, then |1'd be as patriotic as Barbara What's. | Her-Name or Joan of Are or Molly | Pitcher or who ever tt was wha said ‘If anybody shoots the flag, haul him down on the spot!" Mr, Jarre gazed at her in admira- Now it came to pass that the young | wife in the early days of the honey- moon would call for him at the store and ride home with him, as ihe little | To-Day’s Anniversary HIS Is the birthday of two Amer- J ican diplomats who have played important roles in Europe since the outbreak of the war—Thomas Nelson Page, Ambassador to Italy, and Frederic Courtland Penfield, who tion, “I wish I bad a memory like was recently recalled from his post| yours," he sald, “There's #0 many as Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, | things I would like to forget. Mr, Page, who 1 distinguished as! “On, I can be as patriotic as anv- novelist and lawyer as well as dip-|pody else," answered Mra. Jarr, who Jomat, was born at Oakland Planta- | tion, in Hanover County, Va,, sixty- four years ago to-day, while Mr, Pen. fortunately for Mr. Jarr missed his sarcasm, “But I do think there Feoruiting offices in this country for| whether I am a citizen on my *ather’s te of rounding/up their ell-| papers or must I take out own hie living hapa. ‘Whether | papers, ms! ch — c- should be a law against flags being so dear just at a time when, If you don't put out your flag the neighbors field, a native of Connecticut, is just two years bis junior, the occasion and decided for both, the boss abo it, whereupon thy - They would be married right now, | ‘Ne boss about t pon the hus She was willing to start in a very| [= —= — modest way and would work with band was called to the office to ex- plain. It put him in a very em- barrassing position, and {f 1t was not for his fine record it might have cost him his job, So it continued for a period, the husband growing more unhappy as the time went by. However, he kept close to the grindstone and pretty soon he came home with the joyful tidings that he had been made manager of his de- partment, Instead of {t pleasing the wife as he thought it would, she re- torted that he now would have more opportunity "to flirt” with the girls, as he would needs hire and discharge them. ‘This was a blow indeed. He wan patient, however, and attempted to show her her mistake, explaining that he could not help that his work brought him in contact with members of her own sex, and that he hoped that she would look at it in a differ- ent Nght However, nothing seemed to allay her foolish hysteria, not even a more delightfud home and pretty clothes and the comforts that came with his new poaltion, She would come to the office and make his life miserable, Her actions almost cost him his new position, At last he decided arat to paid her bil would s' millstone that was The woman nearly shame of being sen the opportunity he hearts and, except the store, women uf he begged to be ho refused. worries in his wor! how she had falled ances, and that all nd. She promised joved him 80.” I do not know whe ed in winning him The wife who t little clinging vine stone aroun without her, although his heart was was firm. The man heavy, The woman had what a fool she had been. makes Jack a disgusted Kk with dif-| yes on the whole scheme, for there was but one , 2, her mother and . He realized that if he ceed he must shake off this around his neck. died with the nt home, but he progressed faste: him followed everywhere and learned to her sur- prise that even though now he had had no sweet- for his work in were out of his taken back, but He would have no more ik. She realized She saw to make «!low- wife and no lib hus. to lo ther she succesd- back or not, but whe learned this moral: nks she le but a usually a mill- her husband's neck, Roy L. McCardell | talk about you. I met Cora Hickett buying a French flag. It's all the style to have 4 French flag.” “Yes,” said Mr, Jarr with feeling, “France is the sweetheart of the world!" “You'd think Cora Hickett was the sweetheart of the world the wav she talks about all the beaux she has and how they all want to marry her, but she won't marry a one of them, Let them go fixht for their country first, she says, and then she'll marry them. And that's what all the girls are saying these days!” “Don't you think they are swank- ing?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I remember gestion. If she had be glad to go fight, a she won't get a hu Jarr. “You?” said Mrs. safe enough, you are a rich husband.’ “Married or single, ested in the young answered, “Young lady? as Tam!" said Mrs. complimented to he not intereste | were a@ husband he'd nd I know it, But sband, Even a slacker wouldn't marry her!" “I wouldn't, I know,” ventured Mr Jarr. “You are married already Besides, Clara Hickett ts looking for , Tam not inter- lady,” Mr, Jarr She's nearly as old Jarr. “She'd be ar you say you in her. a But hearing my father say that all the| there's a lot worse than Cora Hickett old maids of his time used to affirm that thoy were true to the memory of thoir finances who fell in battle, Now days the girls who have been on t shelf for years are declaring they won't marry because they would blush to be accused of being a slack- er's bride.” “That's a nice way to talk!" Mrs. Jarre answered, “Did Cora Hickott ever disparage you? Why, no, she spoke of you in the nicest way sald ‘I suppose nothing will keep Mr Jarr from enlisting? “Well, nothing will if they'll take me,” Mr, Jarr declared stoutly. “You will do nothing of the kind!” c#fed Mrs, Jarr, “Let the young un- married men go fight! I don't thank Cree Hickett for making such « eus- ' She took me to lun |more than a lot c | would do “Why, I think a | cheon and that's of your friends lot of my friends would take you to luncheon," began Jarr. wouldn't M | I snapped Mrs. Jarr, to tell you that the country is just wild over war economy and patriot- KO ism. We had tea and the sandwiches with narrow little blue ribbons, Wasn' “I suppose it was, “But where d with them “But I was going and sandwiches were tled around red, white and t that patriotic?” ," said Mr, Jarr, the war economy suggestion come in?" “If you had seen sandwiches were, yo replied Mrs, Jarr, * | out the fag.” how small those 1 wouldn't agk,’ Yow help me‘put ‘ | id She has cast aside her softness and timidity, Her vanity and gay frivolity, Fought back her tears and fears, and cried: too, stand ready, if my Country calls— ‘Ready to suffer and to sacrifice; “Ready to don the khaki, the Red Cross linen or the workman's blouse and overall “Ready to starve—but not to weep; “Ready to make the weapons that inflict the deadly wounds, “Or to bind the wounds And make men whole agatn. “I, too, stand ready— “Ready to soothe and heal— “Or to fight and die, if need be, “For ‘MY Country'!" Copyright, 1917, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Rrening World), “In time of war, what could SHE do to defend hee Country—if she had one? “Poor, foolish, tender, clinging, helple: “How she babbles of ‘Equality!’ “SHE—who trembles in a thunderstorm, “Why shall she vote? SHE cannot fight, and kill die, if ned be, for her Country!” It has come—HER Hour! And, with her “tender, clinging, helple She is making munitions—for England. @ 1s ploughing, planting, gathering, : little thing! the booming of a sunset gun! " bands, he is fashioning shells— em! lives of the sons she has borne, work— shoot, ‘ Successful Salesmanship By H. J. Barrett OO often salesmen are judged by the single standard of re- sults," remarked @ sales man- ager. “While certain factors which play @ large part in determining the results are not given due weight. “An incompetent farmer can raise more corn in the Mississippi Valley than can the best farmer in the world on the coast of Labrador, And often there's almost as much difference be- tween the territories allotted saies- men as there is between the two ographical divisions I have men- tloned. “When I joined this organization I found that we had a force of seven salesmen, two covering the city and the balance, the neighborin s. The original causes for the territorial divisions seemed lost in the mists of antiquity, The men worked for straight salaries and these were de- termined by a rule-of-thumb method into which entered such factors as volume of sales, length of service, ‘age, and, last but not least, amount for which they were willing to work. There was no scientific method of de- |termining each man’s actual sales | [ Mothers of Am Handling Salesmen Scientifically. By Lafayette McLaws jability, The assumption was that were equally valuable but that fortune in securing a rich territory played @ part in the rate of remuners ation, “I began to analyze the situation, First I ascertained what proportion of the possible oustomers in each man's territory he w. ing, So vast a divergence appeared here that it was plain that some men were seeking cover too much ground while others had not enough, §& promptly readjusted the territorial divisions, “Then I learned what proportion of the entire consumption of the product we sold in each territory each man cov This ts not exs actly the same thing as the first test J f proportion of the total number of possible custo’ Then came the question as to the net profit to the fi on each man’s sales, This served to show up the men who overlooke@giy Wy profits in favor of mere volume. “The application of these and othee commonsense ideas resulted In a r on of our estimates of each man’ if 5 paid ccordance with thetr ability and iM value to the house, not merely upom the basis of results figured from @ hap-hazard allotment of territories,” erican Patriots Nellie Conway, Mother of James Madison. ‘T may sec:a a dart, + statement, yet it is one which the writer believes to be true, that we owe the re- |ligious tolerance of this country to @ woman, That woman, Nellie Conway, was the wife of one James Madison, and the mother of another, James Madison, President and patriot. Nellie Conway was a daughter of Gen, Henry Conway of Port Conway, Va., a believer in freedom of speech and religious tolerance, who !ncul- cated his teachings in his daughter. She became the wife of James Madi- son, another Virginia gentleman |'Their eldest son, James Madison, was born at Port Conway March 16, 1761, when Nellie Madison was visiting her mother, Although there were six younger children the tie between the mother and her eldest son was very close. Religious intolerance was common | World’s Wo [ :LDOM has a nation endured such extre and long continued pro- vocation as did the United States in her efforts to avert a confilct with Germany. But many of the wars which have afflicted the earth have had causes comparatively trivial, Differences of opinion in regard to |religion have cost millions of lives, and the blood of other millions has been because of the ambition or the vanity of a monarch, Sulla, the Ro- }man dictator, ed a destructive war on Athens because a wit of that | city had pietured the debauched ruler “mulberry sprinkled o'er with Turkey and Venice once waged a war costing 150,000 lives ‘because, when the Venetian Ambas- sador boasted that his countrymen wore no beards, the ‘Myckish Grand shed as a neal.” rst __ Due to Trivial Things in the neighborhood and was ea: estly opposed by Mrs, Madison, she U caused her eldest son to be taken WJ \ from the neighborhood school and prepared for college by Thomas Martin, who had religions views as broad as her own, she also ts said to have chosen Princeton for her son rather than William and Mary, because the then president of that famous Virginia institution wag too rigid a church man for her tast Later Nellie Madison had the s« isfaction of knowing that {tt wow chiefly through the efforts of her be: loved son that freedom of conscienc was established by law in Virgint She lived to complete her ninot; seventh year. Her last days we spent at Montpeller, where, surs rounded by quaint furniture and keepsakes, tenderly cared for by exe President Madison and his wonderful wife, Dolly Madison, she lived a typts cal “Madam Placid.” Her eyes neve. \ | failed and she devoted her time to reading and knitting. the Rev, Wars Vizier ‘replied, angrily, “Neither do monkeys.” ; About 250 years ago China was) plunged into a clvil strife costing half }4 million lives because of the smash. | ing of a teapot belonging to @ favore ite of the Chinese Emperor, France occupied Algeria, after a war lasting twenty y » bi se 3 a trifling debt, ‘The Bey of Algeria de- |manded immediate payment, and | when the French Consul refused, the |latter was beaten and thrown ‘inte prison, France exacted revenge by |dethroning the piratical monarch ana Jtaking his country, “Oom Paul” Kruger 18 sald to have raised th |standard of revolt in 1879 becaush, the British authorities reduced the” salaries of all the offictals of the col- ony, Kruger’s cut being $250 a year, A clod thrown by a Huguenot ohiid at a Duke of Guise started a riot, a massacre, and @ war that ‘lasted thirty years,