The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1917, Page 14

. ———— a eee mn eres Reet ntieinenttied mune: metentititn edindimmnetitni Che ef ‘BY si Corio ‘Putmehed Datty Racept Bung, by ihe Proce Publahing Company, Nos, 63 to BA teers PN he Hntored at the Port-Oftico at Now York as Seoond-Claan Matter, — Rates to ‘The Fvening| For England the Continent Wort’ tor te United "States “All Souter pe International $6.00 /One Year. + $15.40 1,80 | «NO, 20,363 FAULTY SHELLS. JHE sad and shocking accident by which two American Red Cross nurses lost their lives during gun practice on the eteam-| ship that was taking them to.Kurope presents an aspect so serious as to demand thorough and searching inquiry. | The Navy Department theory that the brass mouth cup of o powder case after leaving the muzzle of the gun struck the water and ricocheted back to the deck where the women were standing may seem plausible. But it happens that a whole series of mishaps has attended the use of ammunition furnished recently armed American merchant ships, In the course of target practice on the St. Louis, out of forty-! eight shells fired fourteen are said to have proved defective and one| burst before it left the gun—which was ruined thereby. From the St. Paul came reports of shells that burst within a few feet of the mouth of the gun. Where were these shells made, who passed them for use on mer-| chantmen and to what extent are our war vessels of any class de-| pendent upon them or others no more reliable? Here is a disturbing reminder of the fact—revealed last winter at the time of the negotiations between the United States Navy Department and Hadfields munition plant in England—that Ameri- can munition makere, including some of the biggest steel companies, | had repeatedly failed to turn out shells that met department tes With what sort of ammunition is this nation sending out its ships and its sailors to fight? | * It would be terrible indeed to think that slovenly work and| relaxed standards added to the perils of war the risk of having Ameri-| n fighters blown to pieces by the very shells their Government had| given them to use against the enemy. The shell explosion which killed the Red Cross nurses should start an exhaustive investigation of the quality of American ammuni- tion which has not gone abroad to meet the exacting specifications} of governments already three years at war, but stayed here to be} sold to Uncle Sam. | { It begins to look as if it were to be Ireland's own terms at last. The more reason for her to make them loyal and moderate. ——— ++. ROUND UP THE LOAFERS. [ WAS in Lexington, Ky., that a local newspaper recently be- thought itself to take a “saloon censas” and find out how many able-bodied men while away hours of the working day “behind swinging doors,” at a time when the country is going to war and farmers lament the scarcity of labor. And now we note it takes a West Virginia Legislature to pags Slacker! | UTR SIRE OR Ac RRSP Ne Fveping World Daily Magazine eu anti-loafing law which punishes with arrest and fine any man between sixteen and sixty who, though able to work, “shall fail to| or refuse to regularly and steadily engage for at least thirty-six | hours per week in some lawful and recognized business, profession, | vecupation or employment whereby he may produce or earn sufficient to support himself and those legally dependent on him. ‘The law provides that a loafer shall be held as a vagrant and put to work mending roads, building fences or hoving potatoes. It is also pressly stated that wealth and income make no differénce. While} i war lasts rich men and poor men alike are expected to do some- thing with themselves and their time in West Virginia. | It may be that an extra heavy accumulation of loafers in the! South is what moves that section to take prompt action against idle- ness. Whether that is the explanation or not, an anti-loafing cam- paign, wherever it starts, ought to spread over the whole couitry- North, South, East and West. Able-bodied men of all ages under sixty, who give the nation nothing but their society, should be located and reasoned with Whether they are found in the back rooms of saloons or in club easy! chairs, they should be led forth and given something to do. ie on hand. To round them up and get a certain amount of horse-power | out of them ought to be an important and early step toward national Seer ne OE married twenty-three yea My Idlers are a heavy burden upon a country with serious business; ®bout ‘my girl,’ since they always catch mo writing love to her, wardly and think to myself that those The Drow Pubilshing Co, (Tue Now York Evening W \Journed, a gromi- nent public official said to me, Well, I'm going . and I am so happy to go.” sigh of con- was surely convincing “I havo the finest the world,” he added, love her more to-day than were me say they letters war efficiency, fellows are missing much in not hav- a, Atlanta (Ga.) has bad a hard blow from which it is bravely determined to rally without assistance. That's the American | way. But Atlanta knows the help is there and ready if needed, Letters From the People others belleve it wrong to do so. This! word is per cent, or percent, : Lc, P. | Per cent. 1s plainly two w. rds and weil, You Are a Citizen. ‘Ve the Editor of The Evening World I came to the United States with my parents when I waa six years old. | should be w My father has been a citizen for|cent., as it is a contraction of the eighteen years, Now please let me| !#tin word centum know if I am a citizen or If I have| ‘Ty the Editor of The Breaing World to take out any papers, 1D. | ediindly let mo know which ix cor- | phone?” Per Cont, Is Correct Form, — [rect: A says that there ure fifty-two | bon ot ‘Tucson, Arizon ‘Yo the Editor of The Bvening World: States in the United States, B says | 22" aren I have heard many discussions in| ‘that thero are forty-eight. A.B, | the ‘ reference to the correct form or usage ‘Tuesday. blew in of a word which 1s used frequently, | 1» the Editor of he Kvening W. aidan And tha theatre Many individuals demand that this| Let me know on what d. particular word be separated, while 1876, fell, Nov. M.A | No Age-Limit to Physical Endurance If You Live Carefully ever = ‘“ REE score years and ten,";which must be kept active without !t ' A tradition says, is the span of /eing overstrained and nourished Met funds, @ human life. This must be| Without being overfed, in order that) “Cdusin John, who is the may be able to resist the attacks | tr “ divided into three periods to include | of milorosoeple resist the attacks | triot, and, H enemies which cause | y\y preparation, efficiency and decay, {disease and decay, Under favorable each period lasting nearly twenty-five! conditions these cells will live in. W844 more severe. Few men at th-rty-five it is said, have the reserve vitality |conclusion is reached that the “three and endurance that they had at twen-/ score years and ten" are not fixed by ty-five. Therefore the edict has gone any natural law, but ther by the forth that at thirty-five the athlete | conditions under which work and gradually back out of the|champion, 1! front rank best hygienic conditions and observes he law of temperance in all things te no scientific evidence this is necessary, say! Popular Science Monthly. The human busy ls simply an assemblage of cells, | he desires, : ‘| | Ing @ life comrade like mine. tten with a period after! Corrsit “ B ts Correct, 16, “At * |from Arizona, or Aridg think mere animal enjoyment,’ “Lf he has mon for his idle pleasures le ny of the very Mrs, Jarr, Jarr, nen live and, took the children out must let up in violent competitive | by their personal habits, The athletic tending n, Who lives under the Committee War League d at all times, should be able to &!¥e an Ibsen or it tight” on his pedestal so long as thing gloomy “They tlk about marriage being a failure, but in my ase I must say- I'm blessed inde J I urged him to tell me the elements © Pres Publisiing Oo, with this house all day that no tele- “Cousty yes, that's says— what- should than interrupted to ap \ Bood pa- and 1 was at- eting of the Dramatic er Matrons’ decided 4 Shaw play | think Ibsen to some- It would seem bad| fe aied baste to give amateur farce or comedy arriage That Was By Sophie Irene Loeb. Covyright, 1917. 0 that made up the twenty-three years of happiness. He answered: “I believe it 1s en- rely due to an undying respect tha’ we have for one another, together with joint interests in everyday af- fairs. “What 1 am to-day she has helped make me, and I have not forgotten it, Many men despise the hand that gave them the lift. It hurts their so-called pride, and they hate to acknowledge it. “But when a man makes a woman feel that she is a part of his success, when he isn’t afraid to tell her quite often how much ho ioves her, how much she means to him—these are the things that put Father Time tn the shade, and keep love as strong as on the wedding day.” I could not but reflect that this suc- cessful man, past middle age, spoke truth, He was going home knowing that love and appreciation awaited him there, He had never so far be- come involved in his success that he had forgotten the merits of his mate, And there are many such mar- riages if you but knew them, The big failure in the marriage inetitu- The Jarr Family — By Roy L. wouldn't it? I'm| 42, tue oorror of .t for such a cau on the committee to report on what play of Shaw's or Ibsen's would be vest for us to perform. You read al. that stuft and 1 don't—what would by said Mr. Jarr, after reflec- tho the first piace or rather the popular taste, ts for your cousin] what is vulgar without being funnay— and if you don't believe me go to see | any of the big musical shows, No, ,|plays, and 1 baven't time to read | them; what are they like?” Mra, Jarr | him devote | inquired. “I have to report to-mor- many war re- | row." “Well,” sald Mr, Jarre. “To show | @ you What a crape banger old Ibsen |was, I want to tell you he starts a 8 ready to do) play where the happ! Pleasure sofa when ters and says, ‘Olg rage Was a sad mistake, has an Inherited tend To-day 1 learned from your bed- {ridden aunt that your grandfather wore a moleskin vest till the da: The child we expect, Olm what of him, or her, or maybe them 7 "t think Slaw would do. ais | He's funny without being vulgar, in ee OME: and the modern trend, the right dope tf you} | want to do the gloom thing.” “I don't know a thing about Ibsen | " playwrights as|end theirs—with a married couph but you haven't answered my| ,."Take a play of Ibsen's calle years. With the athlete, it ts still¢ definitely without showing signs of Question as to why no one answered| “fhe Taint of the Tietjens, Qge or lons of vitulily, Therefore the the telephone." say, The | play begins with an interior set that indicetes many instalments overdue. ‘Oh, you know why!" replied Mrs | Olga Tietjens, the morbid young wife, Gertrude | 18 enjoying al headache all by herself tion may be lald to the door of dis- interest; the belief that you don't have to keep the winning process going after the vows have been taken, If couples would only look at it in the light of partnership the same as any cther in which the interest for the other must be kept aglow, there would be fewer failures. The troubje with it all is that they think the marriage tie bindg them forever and a day and it Is unneces- sary to keep up the game of pleasing as must be done in any other part- nership that endures. In the marriage instance they take ali for granted, ney have accepieu the d of “settle down.” If th are two words that have caused more unhappy marriages the: are these two old we “settle down Having the an last bachelor dinner, and 80 ight to the betrothec for the last time, a new era has opene: out and they down.” granted, He takes it for granted that she ts his until death; that love has been sub- sidized and settled in the bargain; that nothing is to be done now but to go on and “live happily ever after.” Having taken these prir » supposed to “settle Everything is taken for riples for “Olga, thy morbid bride, gives a hollow groan, and then they have a bitter auarrel as to whether she shall + ueduache weer dry oa the tongue Or a wafer with water. “in the next act Gloomy is dis- overs he has a wart on his nose, but paints it pink, so that his wife may think it an innocent rum blossom.! But she is suspicious and taunts him with the wart. She brings lunar, divorce. caustic and dares bim to be brave and burn it off. He betrays his physical and moral cowardice and she despises him, She then cuts open the! you admire his clothes; headache wafers and puts the lunar) & caustic in them and dares Gloomy | totes Gus to eat them with her, philopena. He falters, ode. Not a Failure granted they forget the things that brought about the paramount principle |+tnat is to say, the possession of cer-| any ondingey of love in the first place, and so they | let it dle @ slow death, things that seemingly Which later loom up in large |The typical inventor, for example, 1s tain v! c : matst by tee lene presence of certain weaknesses. /@rgo a, part He forgets the goodby kiss, or has been “too busy” remember the box ty or the bouquet of flowere {various labor-saving devices and, Complications came into his work and | when concentrating upon some CON~ | are strewn with wick con- |erete problem, forgets to eat or sleep. cancellc She gets busy in clubs and things, | But tt Is 43 he Won't mind if she isn't of candy or does not take her. into h lar | but after @ while they happen «more frequently and become a habit. A habit grows, and pretty soon the couple grows—apart. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, marriage | made @ success. must keep fhe fre five by adding yen reasonable pains regarding the - | Tuesday, May 22, 1017 |) Famous Heroes | Of the U. S. Navy} By Albert Payson Terhune |} a “Doprright, 1017, by the Prem Publahiag Oo, (The New York freaing World), 3 NO, 12.—COMMODORE on Naval Hero of a Land tle. 4 farmer’s boy, and he left the farm for the sea M Some ve at al t ehild, By the time he was sixteen—in 1778 —he was a master-navigator. ffi board the Revolutionary At eitrutser Hornet. Prom one ahip to another and troaf one rank to another the farmer's boy fought his way. Four times he was taken prisoner—twice escaping and twice being exchanged. After the Revolution he entered the French nav a Captain and was promoted to Squadron Com- mander, But he yearned for his native land, and be canie back home before the outbreak of the War of 2, ke: It was in 1814 that he fought his greatest fight ang made his name immortal in our country’s honor rei Oddly enough this. battle was waged on shore, not ‘ aboard his own flagship. It was in the darkest hour of our second war with England. A Britis H force under Ross and Cockburn had landed on the shores of the Chesupeake and marched against Washington. Bn Our national capital was in peril, And every His Best regiment that could be brought into action for ti Fight. capital's defense was massed at Bladensburg, Mil, aannnnrnrnnces (The regular troops and miitlamen were reinforced ‘2 ij “by Commodore Barney, who landed a body of 400 marines and other seamen from the Chesapeake flotilla and joined the He blew up his flotilla to keep ft from falling into the hanc nglish. Ross's redcoats advanced to meet the American army, drawn up to bar the invaders’ path to Washington. i: On the morning of Aug. 24, 1814, began a battle for which the United | States has not the very slightest reason to bo proud. But for Barney splendid work in it there would have been nothing to lighten the di to our arms. As soon a8 word of the British approach reached Washington everybody in authority shouted orders, And all those orders conflicted with one another. President Madison had one plan for defense. Secretary of We Armstrong had another, James Monroe had a third. Old ¢ (a Revolutionary hold-over, in command of the defenders), had unothe Directions and counter directions were hurled at Winder until the p old General was in a daze of bawilierment. Then, as the British were just about to attack, he was told to go ahead and do whatever he chose. Naturally, he had no time—even If he had had the ability—to form a successful plan of defense. At Bladensburg, within ten miles of Washington, the opposing armies , met. The British moved on, scarcely pausing for a moment as the American artillery and musket fire smote them. With ease they brushed aside tho first line of Americans, and smasied through the Banner second, A Stonewall Then they came to Barney and bis four hund Stand. sailors. And there they were halted, Orr The handful of bluejackets, headed by Barney, stood firm before the onslaught of their mightier foes. Again and again the British sought in vain to break through the thin line. Barney was saving the whole American army from rout. How long he might have beaten back the enemy—or whether or not the rest of the troops could have been rallied to his aid—no one knows, For, at last he fell, dangerously wounded. And while the surviving sailors sti! savagely faced the British over their leader’s senseless body, Gen. Winder ordered @ retreat. Barney was left on the field, to be captured by ‘the redcoats he had so heroically fought. 4 The British pressed on to Washington, seizing and looting the Capital and driving President Madison into hiding. Barney was paroled by his captors, He partly recovered from his wound. But he was never again well enough for active service. Ar four years later he died. smanship Barrett _ Successful Sale _By H. J ee The Defects of a Salesman’s Qualities. eRY ONE ts handicapped by| details of his work. the defects of his qualities,”|‘husiasm, thet grim N ;{4pon one point, orders, teh pemarked. 6) SAlsemAnanert | plain nis power seam te rob Sia e sense whi 8 to the details which Y A contributing to ar eeleria fit. As @ result, t lot of @ walesmanager {¥ not a’ ve fall imagination, He lives in the/of roses, The plugwers never ‘caus |clouds, {8 absorbed in his visions of | any difficulty, but they never tu, big orders. The phenoma | the house in business and inevitably implies tues alm: t jons, disputes seldom that one finds an in- | taken for goods net in wt regarding deliv ventor who possesses even the rudi- [rmuiine delivery date ments of commercial ability, A’ 4 culties, errors Im tha rule die poor. The inventor, | and dimensio Beagaed i f the ap- | thousans then, is a typical instance o} Pp 4 »| Which can plication of this axiom that every one fiO)°! | the defects of his qualities. pace ae [pas eee salesman is another example. | uscicc” js seldom that one finds a crack | his spots Lrtormer who can be induced to take | jain Tr leas and exhortations a: leopard cannot «change. the star salesman |)5 ‘9 but one protect. and that is to so surround him protective network of ayatem tl spite his lessness he cannot achelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland New York Evening World), ‘Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The , 4 OVE may be anything from platonic toeplutonic—but it’s always & coesmon. The If it came to a choice, almost any woman Would sales conferen rather be called a “fiend” than a “frump,” or a “fool” at which the salesmen ett; everywhurs than a “fright.” In bis moments of emotion a man is so unoriginal [0S 4s prizes for the lowest perc that you never can tell by the expletives he uses whether part of salesmen, you have broken his heart or only the cigar in his pocket.|, “In writing out an order, they ha ‘True devotion in a lover may be expressed in soul- maidish on the subject, but this ca, centration he erro! kisses and poetry; but in a good American husband it) bn on the error feature of o1 ° H is expressed by his willingness to give his wife anything dollars annually. And I have achiev on earth that will make her happy, trom the tenderest portion of steak to a/# lot in the direction of remedying o: r eternal happiness, don’t marry a man because wait until you find one who admires all YOUR If you are looking and confesses he has a chance to resign his position in the public library and be appointed a notary, and thus be able to do great! No matter how much a man dreads the thought of “a warm reception” when he goes home late, it is always a shock to him to receive a cold one, | sband 1s not one who rises to poetic heights on a goldec creator of that f antiae “Ulga tella him to kiss her to give An ideal hu hat famous gentleman, the warning signe. have evolved a system which Ways raises a laugh, but which ser its purpose. I made an analysis the errors most commonly occurs selected the princtpal ones and }., + them conspicuously printed in ta. ulated form on all literature going letter heads ui; em, the daily reports In, the order blanks room in which 8 are held, the desi which I write t which they se: themselves, ti they ari the evid staged onstantly confronted y be of their sing, TI have ey tests with scarf pins of errors for a given period to check with a pencil each item in ths er y men.think I'm ol business is saving us defect of a good salesman's qual | impatience of detail.” re or re E celved @ thrill in foliowing the adventurous career of Bherle Holmes—and who has not?—will joia in celebrating the birthday of the her courage to take the poisoned tab-| summer evening but one who rises to take the milk off the dumb-waiter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is to lets. He loves her, and, believing she a gray winter morning. will be happier dead, Kisses her. She|°” * 8T4¥ writhes and dies and ho goes insane. “At this juncture the bedyidden aunt ts carried in by the lame ner and a deaf mute auction is a friend of the family. trunk, and it isn't moleskin hide—there has been a take. he stage d. sets in—the curtain falls.” Never marry @ woman simply because you love ber blindly but be- burg on May 22, 1459, ‘arde- | cause you LIKE her with your eyes wide open, In the vicissitudes of matrt- who aunt mony you will surely need a FRIEND! John Doyle, was the declares she has found the grand- wh father's moleskin vest in an old but cow- errible mis- rkens, the six months of gloomy night of Norway Love is not a Cupid but a Goliat of bitterness or criticism is usually the one who kills him. Doy! | A man will go to all sorts of trouble tn order to catch a fish that he /iiustrations to Punch, while another day fitty-elght years old. It is n, generally known that Sir Arthue (nt Scotchman. He was born in iain. His father, Doyle, was 4D artist of cone le fame and his Brandfather, famous "H. B." the cartoonist, whose works are. dls- layed in the Bri and whoever silngs the first stone fact, the entire male aeeiee ms | fi been distingulshet fA His uncle, Hen:y Doyle, was a noted contributor of Chari side 3 8 and letters, “I think we'd better get George, doesn’t want—just for the pleasure of catohing {t, but he never suspects| uncle, Henry Edward ‘Doyle, was for Cohan to eaid Mrs. Jarr, vrite something for us,”’| me primeval instinct tnspirés a coquettish woman. many yoars director of the Nati Art Gallery of Ireland. bei