The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1917, Page 14

<a ne a ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podlished Daily Except Su say. by the Presa Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to ‘ark Row, New York. | t New York as Second-Clans Matter, vening| For England and the Continent and | ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union. VOLUME 57... TWO GREAT IDEAS. I ORD NORTHCLIFFE’S appeal to America for an expression of views on Irish Home Ruiv which may help the British Gov- ernment to a solution of that ever-pressing problem is another | sign of the mighty leaven the war has started working throughout the world, { Democracy now constantly calls to democracy to recognize that | the principles of freedom and the protection of free peoples have | emerged as the paramount issues, | In Russia, in Hungary, in Sweden, in Germany itself, war, tyranny | or hunger has produced or is producing vast reactions from forces of democracy more or less conscious, In England and America, on the other hand, where democratic ideals were already in command, statesmen and leaders of thought aro rnestly seeking ways and means to close once and for all long- standing breaches, to reconcile conflicting interests or to assure the | rights of peace and self-government to persecuted peoples, | Even as Lord Northcliffe asks American democracy to lend ita! aid in bringing England and Ireland into co-operative harmony, from American democracy are heard strong voices pleading for a new | Valestine where a people long oppressed may gather from every corner } of the world that still denies them liberty aad find at last their | national salvation in a Jewish Republic. These are great ideas. dominate men’s thoughts, no one can say the struggle out of which they have been born or raised to power has been in vain, Week by week, day by day, almost, they grow stronger. Moro and more clearly free democracy stands forth as the master issue that has absorbed all lesser issues of this war. And that is why we no longer hear men lament that they cannot see what the conflict means | or what it promises, ——_+4 = —__——. PRO-GERMAN MOBS IN PETROGRAD. NTI-AMERIC demonstrations by Socialist mobs in Petro- grad need be taken for no more than they are worth in representing the actual state of affairs in Russia. It is well known that German agents have been hard at work trying to turn the Russian revolution into a disruptive force favorablo to German ends. Money and agitation can stir up almost any kind | of trouble in a mixed populace like that of Petrograd, after a great | political upheaval. The new Russian Government declares itself heart and soul for| carrying on the war side by side with Russia’s allies. There is every | If they and others like them henceforth | reason why it should prove stronger than the deserters and mal- contents who must always be reckoned with at such crises as that through which Russia is now passing. There is only one course for the Allies, including the United States: Give the Government of New Russia every chance by giving it prompt and practical support. begun, | Nature does not do all the rest. Unless they are ready for} plenty of healthy grubbing and tending and water fetching, they need | expect no reward of robust carrots or fat beans. Prize vegetables expect to be spared the trouble of wresting their natural sustenance from ravenous weeds, And they recognize no obligations toward any one who gives them a drink only after they begin to look pain-/ fully dry. | A lot of soil the garden-makers break this epring will be of indif- ferent quality. It will lack the richness of patches that have been| under cultivation season after season, Gardeners must remember} this ahd be patient. ‘The more necessary the care, the more formid-| able the difficulties, the greater the satisfaction of a flourishing plot next June or July. Then there are the bugs—about eleven hundred varieties above and below ground—beginning with cutworms and ending with eutte | worms. The Department of Agriculture issues tons of pamphlets and leaflets telling how to fight bugs the stock lasts, He who studies the habits of the enemy, plots out his campaign and wins, is entitled to feel like a general, Win or lose, every minute of hoeing, weeding and eprinkl means tighter muscles, steadier nerves, a healthier appetite, a rested mind and a constantly deepening interest, “God Almighty first planted a garden,” enid Bacon, “and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.” To-day it is also the most patrioti¢ ——————— HOE, WEED, WATER! ST a word to remind plot planters that when they have put) the seed in the ground their responsibilities have only just| Letters From the People . r Prat watt To the Biitor of The Brening Worl To thi The Evening World I desire to compliment you upon} I made a deciaration of intention in | viously such teachings do not tend to | bett Better lay in a supply while| ; oniiitas,, (The New York Even! — Frening World daily Ma \Gazine Is the Modern Girl Minus Modesty ?_ * By Sophie Irene Loeb | Conyriaht 1917, by The Prow Publishing Co (The New York Erening World) MAN aligning himself “South- erner” writes at length decry- ing the modern girl, and blames the pres- ent day writer, claiming that sh “denounces the good, old - fash- joned things of life and favors some of the mod- ern vices of to- day. It seems that the tendency of all our women writers lies in the same direction, and that they are en- deavoring to lower the moral stand- ards of their own sex by advocating the same privileges for women that men ‘enjoy.’ What is the matter with them, anyway?” continues the letter, “Ob make the New York girls finer and , and it is no wonder husbands are scarce in this city, where so many feminine libertines exist, for the aver- age New York girl is unfit for mar- riage, Men admire virtue, modesty and dignity, and this is about all they and from their prospective brides, We want to look up to woman, re- spect, honor and reverence her, She stands for all that is high and fine Consequently, when she drags her pinions in the dust the tragedy seems to us the greatest in the world. “The average Now York (Manhat- tan) girl is lving in an atmosphere LTHOUGH F Scott Key's “Star-Spangled Banner” Is gen- erally accepted to be the na- tional anthem of tho United States, there are those who pre be sturdy American spirit which breathes in the the editorial contained in The Eve-|St. Louis, Mo. in the month of Jan- | frst of the republic's great patriotic aing World of 23° entitled |uary, 1911. I resided there about two 588% Joseph Mopkinson’s “Hall, Col. “Grain and Liquo years; then lived in Chicago, a, Wnbla: ee Sor paees 5B You are simply stating unvarnished | about two and @ half years. Came to * and it was consid- fac There is one point, though, I] New York one and a half years ago would like to call your attention to, I want to take out citizen papers, but anthem vor years ong Was written ' containing too much freedom. In s0- clety she speaks unblushingly of things that a virtuous girl would not think of discussing, and she knows more about cabarets, modern dances and new movements than the good, substantial things in life. ha nnot feel any respect for what alled ‘modern woman’ repre- Neither have I any sympathy for the woman who tries to be ‘broad- minded,’ ““For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; “‘Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.’ “I wish you would write something on this subject. I sincerely hope that 1 am wrong in thinking the morals of women are on the decline, for I would like to retain and cherish the high ideals I have of them without having to leave New York to do s0, or to just take it for granted that the majority ‘of women here are no good.” Indeed, my dear Mr. Southerner, you are wrong in believing the morals of women are on the decline, and you are also mistaken in thinking that men demand from their prospective beter only “virtue, modesty and dig- nity.” The fact is the world has moved on apace. Women are not sheltered, shrinking little violets put in their place at the hearthstone, there to get from mere man “respect, honor and revers .”” The same mere man does not want @ woman with a halo, but rather one with @ heart, head and hand—one who will be his best “good fellow” as well as the mother of his child . When man calle woman out into the industrial field, he moved the plane of her orbit a few degrees nearer to him. She rubs elbows with him in her daily duties—duties, mark you. Millions of women are working side by side with men, Labor that was “for men only” is now shared by Eve's daughters. When the industrial cycle of things is changed, the soctal element moves with it Women are taught more about life than they were yesterday. Much of the old-fashioned modesty was false modesty. The keynote of teaching to- day 1s preparedness—preparedness for womanhood, Years ago, ignorance was bliss, and “the sins of the fathers was visited unto the third and fourth generation.” To-day the tree of knowledge ig blossoming everywhere The same old mistakes are not made. Women are as modest to-day as thetr great-grandmothers, except that they to stifle the truth of things because of foolish modesty that has outgrown its usefulness. Mr. Southerner, you have probably skimmed the surface. Truly, ‘he who would dig for pearls must dive deep.” You have probably seen only the cal aret kind. She was also alive tn grandmother's day, but under a dif- ferent name, She hid behind a closed shutter on a side street, She too danced and dared. Do not lose courage. Seek, and ye shall find. The world is full of thou- sands of studious, industrious, mod- est girls with hearts that remain steady and true—who still look for the great love of one man and who represent the best of womankind that has yet come to the world, You have only sought on the sur- face, Mr, Southerner, and have ther fore seen only the foisamn and jet- sam, Look deeper, Cooyriait. 1917, by The Press Publihing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) “ © you think the Government Will close the breweries, 60 that all the grain can bs used to ent instead of drink?” asked Gus anxious “Maybe they will, but they don't do {t abroad,” replied Mr, Jarr. “I guess 1's being done just to put me out of business, what?” remarked s sadly. “I'm a good citizen, but I guess a lot of fellers has got it in for me.” “Now, don't get the persecution mania, Gus,” said Mr, Jarre cheer- fully. “If the worst comes to the worst, you could go Into some other business, you kno’ “Yes, L know,” gloomed Gus, “When business was good, when there wasn't any war, when everybody friends, I used to be always kicking and wishing I didn't have a liquor store, I always used to say I was go- ing to quit and go into real estate or| which both the Government and {somebody told me I must bh Columbiat” was first sung in | delicatessen or something else, and I , 4 M4VO (WO public at a benelit given at the Chest- | i people seem to overlook, namely, the | witnesses who know me five years, bur sereet Theatre it 1" had @ standing offer I'd sell out my curtailment of the output of the! H ng resided in three different young actor and singer named Fox, | business tf 1 got my price, but T breweries on account of grain fam- |, Inge ait ine. On the other hand, there is no! Sas am afraid J am un- objection in sending grain to foreign |#¥le to produce such witne countries out of which the Govern-; ment derives no income. On all the| Applicant for 4, ; L. O, al papers must have Tiis aitair was staged MY years ago to-day, Joseph Hopkin. | son, the autho @ Philadelphia | lawyer, the son of Francis Hopkinson, Apri 23, And now when It looks that maybe I'll have to close my don't want that I should.” never got my pr business, I My wo a distinguished lawyer and jur-| “Away With such passimistic re- barley converted into mait and going !IIved tn the State where application jgt. ‘The fathor had gained fame as aq flections!” counselled Mr, Jarr. Into the breweries for the manufac: ;is made for ut least one year, and poet by. writing "'L HA Pas 4 bee noeee aan yur psi em ebaare me ture of beer the Government derives must be accompanied at timo of 'mak- regs," and the son inherited his one 8 @ tax of $1 per bushel, jing such application by two witnesses of the normal individual under ab- poutie Bits, At this time, when we require and /Who will testify to his general con- \ PM qiswer to an appeal from Fox|hormal conditions, No matter how re looking for available sources to|duct in the preceding five yor for & song to be sung at hi nefit, congenial one's vocation may be ect taxes defraying our war ex- | Where a portion of that time has been Mr. ‘Hopkinson Wrote “Hail, Coulee jay be, ditures, these facts should not be |spont in some other State the appli: Mal” It waa received with great cn, | were Are Occasions when one yearns everlooked, not taking into account jcant may at affidavits from pers thusiasm, and noon spread cates ita for an incursion, perhaps a perman- the laying off of the men employed in |sons who knew him in that perlod, whole countty spread aver the oot ene, into some other field of t houses, making such properties Virst papers are valid for seven years the “President's March,” thon very | endeavor.” pa cal, * popular, evs" wish you wouldn't was| wolds to me when you see I ain't got the heart to Insult you back,” said Gus mournfully, “All I was saying was I wish I could sell out my bust- ness and quit, no matter how much { lose, for I'm going broke right now, And all you do,” added Gus with deep emotion, “all you do is to holt my feelings by bawling me out in high- toned woids. I am ashamed of you to use a language like that educated loafer Dinkston might use to me, when we been friends a long time! If we are sore at each other let us cuss each other in woids like old pals should use when they bawl each jother out!" “Why, I was just saying that once in a while every man gets to feeling that he'd be happier working at some other trade or business than his own But it's only because he knows what he is up against in his own line and |imagines he wouldn't be up against such things in another line.” Qus, “But don't come around talking that way, or start to sling Insults when you see I am not feeling good and so ain't got the heart to fight with my best friends, But I want puts everything on the bum, been thinking it out, and I want to tell you it's th want to shut \aber not the liquor business | “I don't get you, Gus, explain,” sald | ° | Mr, Jarr Why look here," replied Gus. use them qvess makes the bigh cost of living? “Well, | accept your apology,” sald) By Roy L. | | | to tell you right now it ain’t the Mquor) business that hurts everything and] ¢¢ I've | Gasoline. What has everybody broke? Gasoline, What fills up the jails and E the hospitals? Gasoline, Even the Judges know what harm gasoline ‘a doing.” “How so?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Well, if a fellow has a jag he ‘s only fined five dollars If he ts @ speed scorcher mit his oltermobile he gets soaked twenty-five dollars. Who kills little kids in the street, and runs over old je who can't get out of the way? Gasoline. Why don’t real estate property setl any mor cause poor people is buying for flivvers? What the Governor | ought to do ts to stop the sale of gasoline, Lread in the paper you ain't | allowed to buy more than five gallons of gasoline for pleasure in the old country, So if they are going to stop the sale of beer for pleasure, let ‘em stop the sale of gasoline, too.” “And as between the two, I don't think I'd care to drink gasoline.” ventured Mr, Jarr, ‘It might not inebriate, but !t also would not No, 1 wouldn't like to even try sasoline 8. “Now your're I believe in live and let live, 38, out of busi- uu enchoy ” talking! and if T am to go out of busin gasoline sellers should g: hess, too! Besides, ean playing pinochle in a — NOT QUALIFIED, WANT to be excused,” sald the worried-looking juryman, ad- dressing the judge, “I owe a asoline business they|man $5 that I borrowed, and as he | black and white, And every Saturday p if war troubles come,|is leaving town for some years [|] go over my notebook and transfer! want to catch him before he gets on the train and pay him the money,” “You are excused," replied — the judge in icy tones, “I don't want anybody on the jury who can ie like that."—Kansas City Journal, ‘Misguided Patriotism” Source of Danger to U.S. Howard E. Coffin of National Defense Commission Warns Against Wave of Hysterical Economy Which Would Swamp Business at Time y | When Prosperity Is Most Needed. . HAT, in a time when calm, clear thinking and a careful conservation of business prosperity should be the nation-wide rule, a “disastrous stampede of misguided patriotism” threatens the United States, is the | warning sounded by Howard E. Coffin, member of the Advisory Commis sion of the Council of National Defense. In a formal statement issued through the Committee on Public Informa- | tlon, which {s the official Censorship Board, Mr. Coffin say: L “After nearly three years of refusal to take the European war and its lessons seriously, we suddenly launched forth in a most feverish activity | to save the country overnight. Patriotic organizations, almost without | number, are milling around noisily, and while intentions are good the re- | sults often are far from practical. | “Because of an impending and possible shortage of foodstuffs we have hysterical demands for economy in every line of human endeavor. Waste is bad, but an undiscriminating economy is worse. “Some States and municipalities are stopping road building and other public work, General business is deing slowed down because of the emotional response of the trading public to these misguided | campaigns for economy; 80 savings are being withdrawn from the | danks, reports show that some people have begun to hoard food sup- plies, and thousands of workers are being thrown needlessly out of | employment, All this ts wrong “Unemployment and closed factories, brought about through fitful and ill-advised campaigns for public and private economy, will prove a veritable foundation of quicksand for the acrious work we have at hand. “It fs true the President has said ‘this is a time to correct our habits of wastefulness.’ Certainly, but the keynote of his message to the people was this paragraph: | “It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farm, | in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific |and more efficient.’ “We need prosperity in war time even more than when we are at peace. Business depressions always are bad, but doubly so when we have a fight on our hands. The declaration of war can have no real evil effect on business. What bad effects are apparent are purely psychological an® largely of our own foolish making. For our markets are the same in April as they were in March. “We need more business, not less. There is real danger in hysteria, Indiscriminate economy would be ruinous. Now is the time to open the throttle.” ‘The Woman WithaCountry | By Helen Rowland | Copyright, 1917, by the Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) Sita co I think That a Country ts like a husband or a wife. You have to tako a little vacation from it !n order to appreciate | and to know how much you love it. That is how 1 “discovered America.” I had gone abroad in eearch of “culture” and a!) that sort of thing. I wanted to see great pictures and hear beau tiful music and learn bow to babble in foreign lan- guages. I felt snobbishly superior to my Country, And spoke patronizingly of its “newness and crude ness” and all that. (Perhaps you've heard snobs taih that way.) And after many months of pursuing “culture”--and never catohing up with it— 1 had come back home! ‘And as I stood on the deck of the returning ship while she into the harbor, My eyes filled with tears, so that I could not eee the Statue of Liberty. And a sweet, strange, aching, choky little pain tightened my throat, And my knees trembled weakly, And I longed foolishly to drop right down on them then and there And thank Providence out loud for the most wonderful Country in the world! For the blessed sight of towering skyscrapers— For free speech and good plumbing and porcelain bathtubs. For ice cream soda and rocking chairs and Pullman cars and hot and cold running water, For American shoes and New England ples, and watermelon and corn-on-the-ear, and the best dentistry in all the world— For American humor and American jokes, and the Rocky Mountains and the best newspapers on earth. For beautiful, glittering, dazzling Fifth Avenue—the street without a rival! For corn bread and doughnuts, and steam laundries and pie-a-la- mode and efficient elevator service-— For asphalt pavements and smartly dressed women and California oranges and the hest department stores on earth— For chivalry and democracy, and, above all, For handsome, clean-limbed, smoothtaced, broad-shouldered, wel)- groomed, keen-eyed, hard-working, beautiful, unsurpassed AMERICAN MEN! And so, last week, When thousands of children marched under my window carrying banners and flags and singing “Columbia,” I KNEW what it meant, And that {t was not Just a flag and a name for which they stood, But the greatest and most wonderful Country on earth! And when my eyes filled once again and my throat ached with a sweet, strange pain and my knees trembled a little I was not ashamed! Because I have “discovered America!” Have YOU? eame | Succe ssful Salesmanship | By H. J. Barrett | Prospects: Next Year's Customers. USED to try to carry names of prospects in my head,” re-| mers and hence more business, in addition to this, it iner “3 BS, | marked a salesman, “And it! own effic | wasn’t until I had seen many of those! manage fat ee ; which had slipped my mind develop a | 6g In the first place, it means new custo nent that office help will work at hf Into prosperous accounts for soma| peed only under the Pressure sat |competitor that I concluded that it!) of unfinished work, 6o the sales. man tends to relax his efforts unless he has a_ prospect spurring him on. Hat constantly “Every time I cons: | paid to write them down in my note- book, with @ definite date upon which | | 1 was to see them ult my notebook and atudy tha | "Now whenever the name of a live] tp walkt mons Mauka wee prospect reaches me, down It goes in! quickly and actually” “ quickly, y lnk mors > plenty of pro ahea: Is my advien to the saloon eee wants to push himself up into tho ? $100 a week class, And don't tryene carry them in your head, Put ther, down in your notebook and th, you'll be sure to get to them.” some future date the names of 6 who, from press of business, I been unable to reach during the to the ematio handling of pros- in more than one benefit,