The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 16

Pate maeoh Suny, se Pree cmnmsnmmemnnnss:sstsveneessNO, 20,872 _NOT. “SCARED.” PUHE ‘American public must be scared into « realization of / the truth” oy On the contrary. The above passage from a letter le public by Supreme Court Justice Scudder in which en Amer- ‘naval officer now with the American destroyer fleet in the war the submarine monace in the darkest colors, largely effect bf the'mensage, public does not need to be “scared.” It needs and military authorities high and low the assurance 9) contrary it is to be given facts exactly as they are, and npts are being or will be made to work upon its feclings M gither OY daggerating or minimizing perils and problems which oon- Serta ¥ The itr in. question was written, {t fs trae, when the Amer- i first arrived in England, before subsequent operations’ further to check U boat activity. Nevertheless the tone ode quoted is bad. = The American public has its faults, but they will never be cor- by giving it reason to suspect it is being “scared” into a tion of its duties. From every officer in ta service, whether’ publicly or privately, it is entitled to the plain, uncolored + COMMUNITY MUSIC. HE National Conference on Community Music which Holds its sessions in this city to-day and to-morrow represents, at the . present moment of national stress, a meaning and purpose “he whicn the country might look for untold strength and comfort. “TS New York has’ learned to recognize in the Community Ohorus of the most valuable unifying influences in its civic life, To the of this chorus—which appears not work but purest pleasure— fe the singing concerts in Central Park and the great indoor song ne time to time in Madison Square Garden and elso- I of this city have owed a growing realization that } young and old to get together and sing goes deeper recreation, that out of it swell vast impulses and a spirit of brotherhood, of conscious national one- 1 Americans have never yet discovered a hundredth part of the An of popular music, ‘hey have nover had bands play daily _ tin the public squares of their cities. They have never met together, and often, in open places’ to sing songs expressive of national usiagm and pride. They have, indeed, as yet no accepted body of national music the fine simplicity of which ia worthy to be the lasting expression of the patriotism of a great people. _ All this America ought to hate. At a time like the present and through coming months of strain it would mean much to the ition to be able to cheer and strengthen its spirit by great, instinct- soul-refreshing bursts of music. More than any movement hitherto started in this country, the Community. Chorus has ehown Americans the way to musical seif- sexpression. It has appealed to them simply and directly. It has not! made them shy by presenting them, with patronizing insistence, to “Classic composers.” It has raised no question of musical training or evon ability to read music. It has asked no fees or dues, It has merely invited “all who desire to sing for the pure joy of singing” to come and join in, “Old Black Joe” and the “Suwanee River” have had full rights along with “The Messiah” and “The Creation.” For these reasons the community music movement has offered A and still offers the best hope of providing the American national ‘— _ heart with « means of immediate, spontaneous, deeply popular musical expression. It also offers to American composers the broadest op- portuaity for supplying the true, simple, heart-reaching music which the American spirit in its time of trial needs. In both directions it is capable of producing great national benefits during an epoch of war, The New York Community Chorus owes its successful progress “Thus far to admirable leadership and to the generous and untiring ‘wupport of a few citizens who have from the first believed in its aims, ere is a growing feeling that its further development ought to have id and co-operation of the city government, It has proved iteelf 9@ ponstant promoter of good citizenship. .,, The community music movement is spreading. In the State of Raneas there are over thirty community choruses backed by the Uni- Versity of Kansas. The University of Wisconsin has started choruses “Gri that State. The Oranges, N. J., and Buffalo, N. Y., have choruses} ai cver 1,500. It is to be hoped that the conference held in New| ‘York this week will open up new ways to speed the movement in its| sweep over the country, ic Americans are as essentially and responsively music-loving and! ifpsic-making as any other people. Give them the right chance, the| Tight encouragement and the right music and they will lift their] es and tinklings supplied by Broadway, 1 Letters From the People wants to serve Uncle Sam. "Fo the Kuitor of The Evening World: To the Editor of The Evening World Daty of Engineer: PULITZER. Fubilshing Company, Nos 63 to “Woices through war or peace to something better than the “patriotic” Famous Heroes Of the U. S. Nav By Albert Payson Terhune — Coprright, 1917, by the Prom Publidhing Co, (The New York ironing Woeldl, NO\ 14.—DAVID DIXON PORTER, Naval Hero of Vieksb B was a son of the David Porter—hero of the Mesem—whe & the Pacific Ocean clear of British warships and British merce in the War of 1812. (Five generations of the family, by the way, have served in our navy). In 1824, when he was only eleven, young left echool, to go with his father on ® cruise the West Indies pirates. When this exelting was ended the boy did like the fea of 4 tamely back to school like Any plodding lanfsmal As he could get no work under our own Gov he secured a midshipman’s commission in the fean Navy. He was thirteen at the time, For years he saw active service under the Mexican taking part in several hot battles with Spanish craft, Hie Count Before Alle In his sixteenth year he at Inst found a to Join our own navy, with the rank of midshipman. Promotion was notes | fast, nor were there #0 many chances for fame and fortune as in the oan service, But Porter yearned to serve under his country's colors, he eagerly accepted the opening, “His next few years were taken up by ui } cruises and on dull coast-survey work. Not the Mexican War did his next real chance come, served with distinction throughout that confilct. But it was in the Civil War that his greatest deeds were pe: On the outbreak of the war he was made « commander, \nd in charge of the “mortar fleet” of twenty-six vessels eent to al in the Mississippi River campaign. Farragut advanced toward New Orleans, but found @ Cont fleet drawn up to bar his way, und two Confederate forte—Jackeson St. Phillp—that bombarded his ships from opposite banks of the Mastering the Confederate feet Farragut passed on up the leaving Porter, to deal with the two forts. After @ four-day battle, Porter forced both forts to surrender, the river way free for Union vessele, i Then came the siege of Vicksburg. Gren wae ~~? «hammering at the seemingly unconquerable . xa land, and Porter shelled the Viduabort works en - the river. For six weeks, without any let-up, mortar boats sent a eteady stream of shells | all parts of the city. Porter, during this time, was also keeping the Mississipp! b free of Confederate guerillas, who tried again and again to plant ba: there and sink the Union transports that came up the river to Grant's “Though the rebels on several occasions built batteries, and. with large force attempted to sink or capture the transports,” wrote Pot to the Navy Department, “they never succeeded, but were defeated all occasions, with great loss, by our gunboa: For his brilliant services at Vicksburg he was promoted, in Sep! 1862, to “Acting Rear Admiral.” Two years later he was in comm of the squadron that captured Fort Fisher, the mighty stronghold at ! mouth of Cape Fear Riyer. a General Butler had declared this fort could not be taken by Porter, aided by @ land force, took it. For which he received a vote of thanks from Congress, This the fourth such vote of thanks he had received in three years, In 18% Porter was appointed “Admiral of the United States Na the highest naval honor in the Nation's gift. There ts more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret tha things, and more books upon dooks than upon all other eudjecte. We dq nothing but comment upon one another._MONTAIGNB, a By Sophie Irene Loeb. Couyright. 1017, by ‘The Ores, Pobliahing Co, (The N jow York Evening World.) HE man, Waite, was electrocuted last week, He committed a ter- rible deed and left a chain of endless sorrow and suffering. In passing, It were well to note his last words to a friend — words that are fraught with sound sense, sound conclusions that came too late to him although all who read may profit thereby, hese conclusions ts this: nd, had Lt paused many years 0 to Jearn what | am now learning, I would have caused less trouble in the world. “TL had never bothered much about vital matters such as honesty, truth, Kindness, patience, humanity, etc. The knowledge of them was not al- together lacking — probably most people would say I was very kind to them, [ tried to be a gentleman (ex- terlorly) and this covered many im- perfeotions, probably. “Really, at the bottom, I believe the greatest fault was phat love was absent. I was entirely, or nearly so, self-centred, ambitious, vain, contriv- ing, untruthful, But love—would not love for some other human soul have ~ Among t "Oh, changed all of that—taken me out of myself and given me devotion, which prompts all the other good qualities? This is about the way 1 am beginning to decide matte’ Well might many of us decide mi ters in this way—in ample time, The significant thing about it all te the sentence “At the bottom I believe the greatest fault was that love was ab- sent.” In the last analysis we find that love is the loaf of life, and each of us needs a slice. With Jove comes devotion, willingness to shoulder responsibility. And when one shoulders responsibil- ity he guards well his act ‘Therefgre it came to pass that this man cultivated everything but. love, He never sought this necessary thing. Vanity, ambition, gradually shut out the capacity for love, How many men, successful ones too, are crowding love out in the same way? There 1s nothing that so makes for the resolution of right as the kind of love that binds, Always love is the Invisible hand that restrains the would-be criminal in his moments of temptation, Every day you may find ai where love has lifted man far above his tendencies, Man should seek it and not walt for it to come—seek it as he would any other element of liy- ing to make him better, A long time ago in these columns I endeavored to define love as it mant- fests itself every day, and I repeat it now, I believe that love is the leaven of life, It raises the nope of the human and a of By Roy L. McCardell | and softens the strain of struggle. ‘The wolf may come, but love m fies its howl. ‘The firmament may be dark with clouds of despair—yet love the silver lining. ‘Time and tide have come and gone, but left love high and dry on the ‘shores of eter- nity. Yea, even though the angel of the end enter, love closes the eyelids and the soul whispe: Tis weil, ‘tis well with the world.” And thus love is the Joaf of existence. Grant us this day our daily slice. Love is the only key that has no duplicate. Love regulates the pendulum of time and puts wrinkles in the shade Love is the soothing zephyr in the seething centre of strife Love is the only unfailing traveler that reaches the road to reform. Love is on the right end of the horseshoe and draws the magnetism of joy. Love makes the arms of little chil- dren stretch out to you. Love is the only lubricant that makes the marriage wheel go with-| out screaching. j Love exténded at the right time} atops the tear and the closed fist. Love is the straight road to ness and there are no trans! sued from the main lin When love enters the hovel of the pauper it transforms it into the pal-| ace of the peer And if you are weak, wan, weary, and things all seom huddled in a corner—when love entera there is a guaranteo giving a now lease on life with a clear receipt at the end. Love is a habit—get tt! Coupriatt, 1917, by The Uwe Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 66] ET me have a little squint at! the paper, please," ventured | Mr. Jarr diffidently, “I want | to see if Halg or Joffre" —— | “Never mind Haig or Joffre; pay | attention to your egg and coffee,” re- |torted Mra, Jarr, “It isn't polite to! jFead at the breakfast table." "Why do you do tt then?” asked the | captive husband, “I'm not reading It; I am just try- ‘Am seventeen years of age and bave| A says that anybody who volun- & to enlist in the navy with severai| teers to work on the railroads in my friends. They were accepted! France will not have to fight in the trenc B says they will have t Biwas sasecied On account Of &) eet ne trenches. ™ A CONSTANT READER. The engineer regiments golug to France will not serve in the trenches. But they carry arms and share the it Weakness in one eye. _ 4F would appreciate it greatly if you iy i Suggest some other way in which Join in defense of this country, | | Ag I do not intend to be w slacker 1 W. T. M. Volunteer for tarm work when the| the scene of military f State consus is taken later. ‘ou Munt Be Na 1 To the KAitor of The Krening Work of The Krening World | Would like to know whether I have is & word of thanks and deep 0 take out citizenship papers, “Am = {twenty-nine years and came to r Bins clenlel Winton than this country in 1892. My father is dead and was not a citizen. J.J. M, Beth on Wednesday. ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World Kindly let me know on what days of the week did March 23, 1881, and May 26, 1586, fall? Jy Bh ean flag buttons, They look ry festive and pecictic with them don their blouses, and we owe thanks for them. GERTRUDE GOLDSTEIN, Crippled. '‘» Bchool, common danger of soldiers when near | |ing to glance over it, and if 1 don't t a look at it now I never will.” “If you'll just let me see what's | going on in Russia or on the Hinden | Durg line I'll not take the paper down town with me, then you'll get to read | it all you wish,” pleaded Mr, Jarr, | “If you left the place stacked with papers what time would I get to look | with all the work I have to I'm going downtown “Oh, don't skim through the paper that way.” “Yes, listen to this," said Mra. Jarr. “Fifty dollars reward and no ques- tions asked for the return of a bar pin of thirty large brilliants, with large emerald in the centre,’ Well, who wouldn't give fifty dollars? I've ® notion to advertise I'll pay a hun- dred, Why, if that’s all the reward they'll give it doesn't pay to try to find things. Yet, I don’t know, if I had @ piece of jewelry as valuable as that I'd be afraid to wear it! Ob, what's the use? "sald Mrs, Jarr, “I haven't | time to read the paper now, at that | Anyway, a newspaper nm never be) | read in comfort like a novel can, when| one has a box of chocolates and an| ctric boudoir lamp with a delicate | pink shade on a reading stand by | one's bed, like Clara Mudridge-smith | has. No,'I just want to glance at the! rhs, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, | Linen Sales, Avetion Sales and Lost @ Found" (a, —— "It that all,” interrupted Mr, Jarr.| news,” what would be the use of hav- ing it?" asked Mr. Jarr, with an eager glance toward the newspaper. He couldn't even see the big headlines, for Mrs. rr had the front page turned in and was perusing the adver- | tisements, “But if you are reading the advertisements give me the news ages, my doar, Have a heart!” add- ed Mr, Jarr, You eat your breakfast! This is the only chance the whole day long that I get to look at a nowspaper. U'll read you somothing, What do you want me to read to you? Now don't ask me to read the war news, Mrs. Stryver was saying the other day that while we could be patriot’c and put ‘Buy A Bond’ or ‘Enifst Now’ placards on our autc 08 although I ha AYO it n't Any d being depres wo oblle-we could sed distressed would just ignore the war “Read me the groaned Mr, Jarr, "I'll do nothing of the kind!" Mrs, Jarr declared. “I don't understand any of that stuff at all, and I don't see why they print it. Oh, here is a picture of Mrs, Swellerton, the society | divorcee, she's wearing one of the new | beach coat dresses of sport allk!" | “What color?” asked Mr, Jarr re- signedly. ‘It doesn't say what color, and you | can’t tell by the picture,” replied Mrs. | Jar, Here she had to put down the paper to pour herself some coffee, and Mr, Jarr's hand stole toward it, | | Mrs, Jarr e him a slap on the| jotfending hand and gravely took up the paper again, “I told you st was rude to read at sporting page,” | the table,” she said “Can't we split it fifty-ffty?” he |asked dolefully, “You take the part | that interests you and give me the! part that interests me," “Wait Ull [read this department store advertisement,” sald Mrs, Jarr, | After she had carefully perused it, | she separated this page and hand it to him, It had a display adver- tisement of an early summer household line: isses’ and gingham dresses, crockery, s de and canned goods, and the ot i} le of the page was all “Help Wanted” ads, But Mr. Jarr knew ere was no help for him, LU Temarked a gales manager. “We all tell, or at least act, white Hes, To avoid useless argu- ments, for example, we remain silent when views are expressed. with which we don't agree. And thus often we tacitly imply something which is not true. A world in which every one told the hard, literal truth at all times would be an unpleasant place in which to live, “T maintain, however, that {t 1s pos- sible to be absolutely truthful in bust- ness life and get away with it. I be- Heve that it is not only the right thing but in the long run the politic thing for a salesman to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about his line. “Only a day or two ago I received from a oustomer a complaint regard- ing one of our products. He said that one ‘one 1s absolutely truthful,” The Truth—the Whole Truth. gharacter on his face?’ I demandedy ‘Don't you know that if you eling this policy of deceit, for it is di even though tacit, as the y; pase you'll develop the shifty wyfand the furtive manner of the Har? Dow’ you know that if you can’t eell Product without telling the wh truth about it, it's up to. yo change your job? I talked to lke @ Dutch uncle and when through he admitted that I was “Now, as @ matter of fact, I thi never found that {t did @ bit of to tell the whole truth about article; one's willingness to the weak spots never fails to ct conviction regarding your since and, as & conseque: although everything that our salesman had said about it was true, he had left unsaid certain facts which exposed drawbacks in the article. ‘How about this, Miller? I ques- tioned the salesman when he came in from his trip, ‘Here's a letter from Roberts asserting that you didn’t tell the whole story about one of our products.’ “‘Of course I didn't’ was the re- ply, ‘I figured that it was his busi- ness to find the weak apots, I re- stricted myself to recounting the strong features.’ “well, young Miller will remember the sermon I delivered him for a good many years. I explained that not only was he hurting the reputation of tho house but that he was hurting himself, “Don't you know that as a man approaches middle life, he carries his reflects” the prospect. ‘He urged me tb pure I'm inclined to let his argu= way me. I'm safe in follo ¥ advice.’ y article's merits loom larger * because of the salesm: lon of certain minor dra‘ For ono customer you | your scrupulous insistence uy By Helen Bachelor Girl Reflections ling the whole truth, you'll . At | that has been Rowland Copyright, 1011, by the Prem Publabing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ‘T this season of the year the mei A bachelor stop right in the middle of a sensational conversation and begin talking chattily about the weather. It 1s the search for an “Ideal” that gives youth ite zest; and when a man finds his Ideal in his first love, the rest of life is robbed of half its piquaney, Most husbands are tried and trusted creatures—trusted before marriage, and sorely tried afterward, A man can tell a woman that he has made a million dollars in catnip, or that the moon is made of oleomargarine, it; but when he tells her that he was two whole hours coming up from the office in the subway she suspiciously investigates his breath. When people look awfully clean or awfully good on Sunday, one begins to speculate unkindly as to how they spent the rest of the week, A man never actually realizes that he is married until he receives a | scathing call-<iown for tracking mud on the ‘hall rugs, As soon as @ woman acquires one of those oute little hats, with a motor-veil attachment, she begins to feel 80 alluring that she can't understand why she shouldn't have married somebody who could afford to keep a car, So fertile 1s a woman's vanity that if a man gives her one grain of hope ehe can raise a whole crop of dreams, plans and illusions from it, Nowadays one can get a musical education through 4 phonograph or a plano-player, learn to dance by mail, and travel by the Moving Picture Limited—but there is no way on earth of knowing any- thing about a snow-storm or @ kiss except by experiencing the real thing. AY 31, 1s the date in hime tory on which began the famous fd Field of the Cloth of Gold" conference. ‘These meetings between Henry VIII, of England and Francis I. of Fran notable for their place of interview between the moms archs was an open plane, neat Ca. lais, France, and so elaborate ‘ the display that many of the Ki attendants involved thmselves:.4 mention of “rice” will make a debts, and were not able during rest of their lives to repair the splendor of a few days. ———o—_— IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. UST as Doggie O'Nails, pi sional cracksman, was o out of No, 18 Hardluck Te) the owner of the house grasped shoulder, ‘ n't give up!" Dogeio hoa: . you,” fiend—for it e engaged plying his trade tic, could he be truthfully, saa” be above doing wrong actions?” Doggie OWails gazed at him wil open mouth, “In default of an answer to ¢ went on Oddsen Ends; “perhaps jometihing connected with Why are ill-fed soldiers cull,” bega: cracksman dazedly, oi yu “Because they are short o° ¢¥ “ yl yor nd she will take his word for short.” rations) 8 But with one master! O'Nails had pushed him Jo: ne artesian well, and clambered over all, En uae how Ay chucked. Onmgen and dropped peacefully to Chicago News, dt wos Sa.