The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1917, Page 10

tt ESTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. 4 pig cra ber! Wy he Fret | pam Company, Nos. 63 to cy Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, Shideoription | Rates ‘The Evening |For Eneland Continent and foi for the. United States "Ail Countian the fnternadional and Postal Union. One Year. $6.00/One Year, $16.4 One Month. 60 1.8 One Month VOLUME 57... «NO, 20,867 NOT FOR WAR ONLY. T IS intevesting to note how the extraordinary emergency of war shows the food speculator in such a light that producers, dealers ™ and distributers in practically all food industries are now declar- ing an earnest wish to have done with him. The head of a big wholesale market firm in this city, for example, faid to The Evening World: M4 ‘The speculator is a large factor in the maintenance of high prices at any time. He should be no factor in « time like this, ‘and with hie profits completely #iminated the Government should be able to work out @ system, in cooperation with the business interesta, that will materially reduce present prices to the consumer and allow a fair profit to the producer, the holder and the distributer, bi Is it not a reasonable expectation, if war impresses upon us the tiselessness of the food gambler and teaches us how, in the face of im- erative need, to get rid of him, that with the return of peace we hall have « new notion of the way in which food can continue to be produced and distributed at fair prices to consumers and with fair returns to producers, provided we eliminate those who juggle with the food of millions merely to increase the stakes and winnings of their game? We are etudying food problems made doubly pressing by the exis of war. But some of the solutions we find are going to stand and serve us long after we win our way back to peace and safety. ai ++ Cornell Men Under Fire on the Aisne—Headiine, It's @ mighty crowded show where American undergrad. Gates can’t find room down front. et REMEMBER STEEL’S HARD STRUGGLE. T*= was a rousing good indorsement Judge Gary gave the nation’s motives and purposes in going to war, ‘We note also that he thinks it can etand most any amount of taxes to pay the bills, provided euch taxes aro “equitably dis- tributed” so that “all the people can contribute” and levied, if pos- sible, “so as to avoid clogging the channels of business prosperity.” Which seems later to havo recalled to the Judge’s mind the fact that there is a little mite of « clog right now in the shape of the low prices to which the Government is holding the steel companies for plate, bar and etructural steel. In view of increases in wages, vost of raw materials, TAXES, &c., Judge Gary told the Iron and Steel Insti- | fftte members “it is expected the Government will be willing to increase its purchasing prices accordingly.” No doubt. Why should steel dip into its accumulated profits to pay war taxes if current profits can be boosted to cover them? —_—-+-——_ — | Ac the rate Gen, Cadorna and his Italians are pushing ahead the Austrians must begin to think somebody has wished a Hin donbdurg Line on them. ————=+- THE ANTI-LITTER LEAGUE MOBILIZES. what persuaded the Anti-Litter Leaguo to head its admo- nitions for the present season with: Don't throw ashes and garbage on the street and sidewalk fust because they happen to be covered with snow. Keep snow and ice removed from in front of your premises. Don't build bonfires in the streets, | Later on, however, if winter concludes to quit before the Fourth : of July, New Yorkers may also remember that fruit peels, cigar butte, cigarette boxes, peanut shells, waste paper and the like do not add to the summer attractiveness of the town when found outside the recep- tacles where they belong. The Anti-Litter League wants New York to bo cleaner and healthier this summer than ever before and to that end is mobilizing an army of “Block Captains” who will do steady campaigning in the interests of tidiness among the residents of each block, While they are at it we wish they would find time to say a word to gum chewers. The quantity of discarded chewing gum that daily finds its way into places where people sit on it, step on it or otherwise adhere to it is beyond belief. We should like to ask any New Yorker, with or without the gum habit, whether he has ever known a disagreeable thing from which it was harder to separate himself than a worn-out wad of gum on the sale of his boot. Keep the city clean and beg the gum chewers to be merciful, W' SUPPOSE May weather as it has mostly been this year is) 7 Letters From the People Answer “Firet Papers Only.” | a hea wane A ‘Te the Wiltor of The Krening World: Racticen: I bave filed final action in the Bu-| tm) the Btikor of The Evening We preme Court for my second papers! I passed my twentteth | lay and was told they would notify mein) Apri] 1, 1917 Would like to know ninety days when they were ready. | if I must register for conscription. New How shall 1 answer the question on 1.G_ (Janitor to do that, 1 are the| registration d. 5, YOU ®1 AN Men From 81 to 80, Beth ne) mont uNhandy man and are nd help naturalized citizen or an allen’ sive, Mast He, a around the house like Mr, Wilkins is, JAB y Are Not Exempt, ‘To the Waiter of The Evening World: Please let me know whether those 1917, Ast York Evening C4. on.) GERMAN y’s PROMISE oF U- BOAT FRIGHTFULNESS One MARION TONS a MAONT | The Chance for th 'By Sophie Irene Loeb. Cuporight, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World.) OME time ago I wrote an article about @ man who had written to the Evening World concern- ing the dearth of situations for men over forty, He sald that everywhere he went he was) “turned down" be- cause of bis age. ‘They wanted youns men, he said, and Be: he bad given up in despair, Comte nara eat Not long since the man wrote me that he had so- cured @ good position and that the| ®eneral feeling concerning the man of forty bad changed, On all sides I hear the same thing. Truly “It ts an ill wind that does not blow somebody some good.” With our entry into the war, young men will be called to the colors and older men will noeds take their places. Just as it should be. Already new industries are drilling new workers and paying them during the process of learning. They know| full well that soon, perhaps very soon, i} Coprright, 107, by The Prem Publishing Co, | (The New York Broning World.) 66] ET mo sec,” mused Mrs, Jarr. Phe metal window boxes will cost $3 each, and then they'll have to be fastened securely, or they may fall off the window sill and kill | | and I'll have to pay the | somebod: Why he has @ bracket saw and} make the cutest littl ornaments!" he's one of the cutest No tee Vaitor of The Evening World who are not citizens have to register! “Yes, and Kindly inform me if chemista are|on June 5. Also !f those having their little ornaments himse sald Mr, exempt from the draft system merely | first papers only must register, K, | J “He ives on the money his because of their profession? | You Must Be Naturalised, wife's father sen them, HW. L. D, | % te baitor of The “He's looking for work, and you A te Covvect. | I came to the U States with | *hould not criticize him," replied Mrs. Te the Bistor of Tue Evening Wor |My parents tn 1899 at the age of 12, | Jarr, “Besldes, ho says, his country ‘A says that if an American woman | M¥ father decane a citizen in 1904. | may call him at any thmo’— | y e S inaen OF Faue jake ou no 1 or wor | rn in this country marries a Ger-| papers? T was about 24 years old| “If he 19 looking for work then man living in this country, but a clti- | at that time J. C.. jmomething is wrong with his oyes," | r men ot Germany, she loses her citizen- | Up to 50 Cents, eneered Mr, Jarr, “And tf his coun- | MED. B says that sho does not lose |Tv of The Brening World: ltry ever calls him, I'll bet he'll be her citizenship, but ts still an Ameri. me know the v | eum oltize J.D. | dated 1357 with eagle on it? Sixty venus, READER, Be te EAitor of The Evening World Yess You Can Apply Now, | Please stato we value of a United To the Bilitor of The Evening World } fitates twenty-five cent plece contain- ‘Took out my first papers on Ma j ing thirteen stars and dated 18187 1%, 1912, Can I now apply for i P.G. ond papers? JM. © of @ penny | dea | “He's very kind to his wife, and! |ehe loves him and was = to me lyesterday because she says she knows they will take him off to war.| 1 told her that husbands Family With | etables thelr former workers will leave and they are making ready for the change. Indeed it is a chance for the man over forty—a chance not only to ae- cure immediate work but to prove for all time that age ts not the criterion by which @ man's ability for work may be determined. If the truth were known, there's many @ man up in years with youth aglow within bim. It 1s not the number of years but how much one has lived in them tuat counts in the long run. From the many letters I have received on this subject I must confess that evidently employers as a rule have not recog- nized this truth, and have insisted on so-called “young blood," ‘The present war will certainly make one big opportunity for the man over forty, and will likely demonstrate that in this day age is a matter to be reckoned with not as @ class but in the Individual. Before science and health depart- monts and sanitary inventions were introduced the coming of old age was @ decided tnstitution, After forty men were looked upon as growing old. They took @ pack seat in the achome of things. With women {t was worse, wera labelled “old maids” and rele- gated to the rear parlor, to the old arm chair and the knitting needles. Not so now. All are in the foreground of activity, on the firing front of the life line. If you don't believe it look at Dr. Jacoble, over elghty, at his daily ‘By I he'd be but whe seemed ta taken anyway.” think “I ehouldn’'t wonde: {a Mr, Jarr, “The Government can prove an alibt on Wilkins on the support thing,» Unless he goes to work he'll |have to go to war, But what's tho idea about the window boxe: “Everybody {s using the galvan- fed tr They are t nh metal o} painted green, right width for win- | dow boxes, and are almost as cheap as wooden ones, for the ordinary soap boxes that one might get for nothing and paint green are too wide So, if I got m nd they are ve window boxes- y neat and attrac- ildn't put unsightly windows—why, they will tive, and one she int cost me $12, not to mention @ dollar to tho janitor to fasten them ao- curely, and then I'll have to buy fas- teners and screws, so that will be |nearly $14—for I should have four window boxes to do any good. “What do you mean, ‘do any good?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Why, att ng of our Ladies’ nelation we had a lus to raise veg- flowers and plants, to support would be spared,|and we voted to uccept the sugges~ ‘Ley | | practice of healing the sick. Look at Mr. Choate, who has just passed away (over etghty), whose public activities up until the last mo- ment are a matter of record, Look at our own “Teddy” anxious to face the cannon after years of service in various ways. And #0 we could go on indefinitely in humbler walks of life and point to the atrength of tho man over forty. Always too he is the “man who came back.” by experience, Ho has suffered and profited | The Week’s Wash _ Having made mistakes in his early daya he 1s now more fitted for most | any task that requires experionce and wisdom, Because this 1s a young country, and youth {s found in the high places, the older man has been hampered in tho past in showing his ability. But @ new day has arrived for him. Opportunity 1s now knocking at h | door, | 2 fields of fruitfulness are spread- ing out before him. Tt {s up to him! By Famous Heroes Of the U. S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune Coprrigt, 1917, by the Preae Publishing Co, (The New York Kreming + orld), mf 13—WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE, Commander of “Old Tronsides. TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD lad—WillMam Bainbridge—was {nm come mand of the merchant ship Hope in 1796, when off the West In dies he was attacked by a Britis war echgoner. We were not at war with England, and there seems to have been no valld excuse for the attack. Bainbridge did not like the idea of surrender, So, although the British ship was far better armed than was his own peaceful craft, he returned the fire, Nor did he draw away from the unequal battle until he had forced the British vessel to surrender. This was Bainbridge’s first real fight. And ft was but the first of many. » About this time the English began to board Amert- can ships and selze our sailors for service in the British navy. Young Bainbridge, on hearing of this outrage, sailed the Hope against the firet big British ship thet crossed his path, captured her and took his pick of her sailors for use in our own navy, ‘Then, in 1798, he entered the United States Navy as leutenant come mander and did valiant service in our brief sam war with France, In 1800 he was eent on a diplomatic mission to Algiers. There ho proceeded to quarrel with the Dey, and forced the Algerines to release 400 luckless prisoners captured by them at sea. He also paved the way during this voyage for our first treaty with Turkey. | * Bainbridge served also in our Barbary War, being captured by the enemy and held a prisoner for nineteen months. On bis return to Amertem he could find no active work in the navy. So he went once more into the merchant marine, But the first hint of the War of 1812 brought him Beals to naval duty, Ho was placed In command of the historic frigate Constitution (Od Ironsides"), which had just thrashed the Guerriere. Almost at once Baine bridge gave the Constitution « chance for a second victory. He sighted the gigantic British frigate Java off the West Indies and bore down upem her, The Java carried forty-nino big guris and more than 400 men. . In a little moro than an hour of close-quarters fighting the Java eure rendered. Sho had been completely dismantled by tho fearfully accurate American gunnery, In killed and wounded she had lost 161 to the Cone stitution’s 34, Bainbridge himself received two sever uty but would not abandon his post of commands ee ota Ro a Commodore, he ras put in command of Boston Harbor. ‘The hreatened Boston, which w no 4 hanks to Balnbridge, the city was avers ae va efumiel! jcarce was the War of 1812 ended when Baintui Mediterranean at the head of an aggressive fleet, pela Baer ae pe ing into submission the crafty Pasha of Tripot, en@ j Figg Pra f making our navy respected all along the Barbary NO. ean a naan One Way to Pick a Crew. Hie Busin — $ sinese. Some time after Bainbridge’s return to @e \ errr United States the deadly duel between Commodores Decatur and Barron was fought, Bainbridge was Decatur’s dear friend and acted as his second in the duel, Decatur was kill acted aa | ‘as killed and Barron was badly Duelling was @ common custom in that day, and Bainbi was fittte ’ rid, blamed for upholding hia friond’s honor on the field of combat” Ho apent the rest of his life in Dunding up our naval strength as ceme mander of several navy yards. In 1883 he fell victim to pneumonia an@ died—leaving a record for courage and prowess that ha: been passed tn our country’s annals, peotoar ber | How the Photograph _Was Made Possible HEN we snap the button of a | camera and obtain the like- b ness of a friend, @ favorite | dog or a country acene, few of us ever! wor | consider the long process of expert-|plirey ‘Davy; Wien hefis Sit, Hams ment and the years of fruitless work| that time, had an tmportant ahi that made this result possible. For Pp cevelooment of Photograph: | the perfection of photography cannot Trad conenmed Francois Chauss | slor had contributed ai portant be credited to any one man. It has| {dens to the art in 1199. Event become the highly developed art of| Chaussier and phe dat ani the remult of their efforts, German em upon nitrate of silver, with observes tions by H. Davy.” This method wap used with considerable success, The H. Davy mentioned by to-day through evolution made pos. | [ sible by many hands. perinehtora had done a good dea® Hack in 1803 Thomas Wedgwood, an| *!ong this line. Tho first_man to Phote. graph unaftected hy exposure th was Nicophore de Niepce, ano’ Frenchman. Larly tn the last he brought his process to such @ | of perfection as to make numbers ve excellent — reproductions, | Niepce had the true inventive Englishman, published tn an academic paper the “account of a method of copying paintings upon glass and cf} | making profiles by the agency of light} Martin Green Coveright, 1917, ty ‘The Prem Publishing Oe, (The New York Brening World.) 66 Z\CR beloved and interesting O Government appears to be aft matter of levying taxes,” remarked the head polisher. “I wouldn't be so inclusive,” said the laundryman, “Following the principle of generations of politicians, the Gov- ernment is going after the people who can be reached with the least trouble In the collection of taxes the Govern- ment goes on the principle of the amateur with a rifle in @ shooting gal- lery, He shoots @ small bullet at « mark he could hit with a rock. | "I wish I had @ crack at @ tax col- |tlon, People who live in apartments |have no ground to raise vegetables Jon, but, as the speaker wald, we all can do our bit by raising vegetables in window boxes.” | “How about the earth for tho | boxes?" ked Mr, Jarr, | “1 never thought of that,” sald | Mrs. Jarr, “I suppose I can’ buy it |from the flower peddlers that come aroun¢ “And how about the seeds?” “Oh, I can get potato seeds at any seed store, that's easy,” replied Mrs, Jarr, ‘otato seed?” scoffed friend hus- band. “I was @ country boy and | qualify as expert on potatoism; in fact I'm 4 regular potato bug, ao lto speak, Potatoes, my dear, are | planted from what ts called ‘seed po- tatoes,’ At 1s, potatoes cut 0 sev- eral ‘eyes’ will be on each section, and It is best to keep them molst and start them to sprout before they are planted, For late planting you must select ‘certain variotles—preferably the ‘Irish Cobble: and does it occur to you that if you spend nearly §14 on window boxes, earth, fixtures, seed potatoes and so on, tt will be poor economy when only $3 worth of potatoes can bo raised?” But everybody wants to do thetr bit,” whimpered Mrs, Jar: bit more th they masticate," said Mr, J ‘Then sho declared triotism to talk that way, can efficiently Y had ng pa- about everybody in the | “and a lot of them seem to have | lection problem. Of course I would go |after the people who have the coin and spend it. But I would make a spectal drive at the grouches, nickel nursers, sock stuffers and hard boiled sks who make @ specialty of dodging taxation. “Our war taxes are directed almost in full formation against people who spend money. We are to be taxed right and left on our outlay. They are going to soak us for theatre tick- ets, baseball game tickets and all sorts of amusements, recreations and relaxations, Tho person who rides in @ elooping car will have to pay an extra tax. Beer drinker and grape juice drinker, ice-cream soda ab- norber and booze fighter will ° share the expense of the war, But where does the guy who would carry @ letter from the Battery to Harlem to save a two-cent stamp come in? “This party 1s passed over, angle worm has nothing on him when | it comes to getting under cover. ‘The | man who spends all he makes ts as obvious as a Hudson River night | boat when the tax collector lamps him. The man who makes money out conspicuous to the tax collector as a strawberry stain on a red flannel | shirt. |" “dhe Government has @ sleuth front of the public brary when it comes to going after a taxpayer that couldn't be missed, "The human jit- neys are never trailed, “It would pay the Government to spend a few hundred thousand dollars in this vicinity to locate patriotic birds who have been dodging the in- come tax. There are thousands and | thousands of them, and under the new liaw, reaching out after smaller in- comes, the number will be multiplied, Far be tt from me to discourage habits lof thrift, but In the name of all who |pay thelr taxes cheerfully I call upon | |some miracle worker to uncover peo- | hie who think the possession of money Elves them @ license to embalm it,” AVE you qualified as eponsor for any alien enemies resid- ing within Mmburger or | sauerkraut detecting distance of an armory?” asked the head polisher, | “1 know of many alfens who would quality as defenders of the armoriei aid the laundry man, “Hrom the “ and worked constantly to further | prove lila method, Tie tell” im Louls Jacques Mande Daguerre, @ An} of what he doesn’t spend ts as in-! hound looking like one of the lions in| standpoint of common sense {t ap- pears to me that picking out a Ger- man for registration because he hives on the even-numbered side of the street and paying no attention to a German who lives in an odd-num- bered house on the opposite side of the thoroughfare is @ policy that originated in an aching void under hat. “in passing I may note that the newspaper reports of the registration of Germans, who are suppused to be hostile because they happened to have an armory pushed within half a mile of their domictles, bring to light reports of many Germans who have been voting and doing jury duty for years under a misapprehension of thelr citizenship. Numerous cases are recorded of ans who have exer- cised the franchise privilege without trying to dis er whether they were qualiie’. ‘These people are turned ample United Statea Marshal, Mr, Mc- Carthy, But I have tn mind tn- stances, of not remote date, in which men have been sentenced to prison be: cause they were s citizens that they Government. offic! perplexing thing.” misinform: The law is & away with a few kind words from our | anxious to become | 1 the, countryman of his who also was terested In photography, Between they two of them they helped to develop photographs. Hut the art practised in that period was far ferent from the present day. “The time required to procure @ Photographie copy of a landscape is from seven to elght hours,” Daguerre,” but single monum when etrongly lighted by the sun, which are themselves very bright be taken In about threo hours, New | one two hundred and fiftieth of @ see ond {a required to obtain the ame re sult. Presently Nicephore died, and Dau. | verre survived as the Inventive geniue of photography. It te probable that before the death of the former the two n had made some progress in de- veloping what became famous as the Gaguerrotype. In all events Daj brought forth this process not Whe jafterward, and it was taken up the |world over. Many persons now living | will recall the vogue of the daguerro- type during the middle of the last century. After Daguerre many lesser brains turned to the work Which he bad ) great Impetus, and by de- raphy has come to be one preservative arts, The 66] SEE,” said the head polisher, | of the motion nicture, ea that President Wilson, in turn | "Ade possible by Thomas A. Hdleon, P ANF a the greatest achiavement in this ing down the one-man army, Col. | reuim since the time of the daguerro- Roosevelt, said, that this is an un-/typ It may be that ett | dramatic wa other and perhaps equally as revolu- “Without mentioning any names or|tonary uses will be found for the |Iocations because of the censorship: but excepting the White House—we | might say that there are numerous persons 1a authority who proceed on the principlo that ft is a musical | comedy war,” sald the laundry man, a | |BIG QUANTITY OF COTTON USED | IN EXPLOSIVES. to which the munitions industry is developing in this country may be gained from the fact that during the three months enging March 31 Ch BE {dea of the giant proportions cans pra of the future, , @ plague broke | of Marseilles, | It had been brought into that port the day before by a ship from | Sidon and it caused the death of an {mmense number of persons, It was the last time that this formidable dis« ease appeared in Western Europe in virulent form, Only by the most rige orous quarantine was the evil pree out there were 83,652,907 pounds of | vented from extending to the rest of bleached cotton fibre consumed in|irance, A monument was erected in the manufacture of guncotton and ex- | Marseilles to co orate the eoure plosives of all kinds, ‘This quantity |age ehown by the principal publi was equivalent to 167,308 bales of 600 |offictals of the city and by more than pounds each, and compares with 144,-|150 priesta and a great number of 988 bales for the corresponding quar- fer of 1916 ant 182,015 bales for the Guarter ending Dec, #1, 1916, physicians and surgeons, who died in the course of their efforts to relieve "the afflicted.