The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1917, Page 14

tA Bi ne ach it i a ABR oe « te i SRR RENTER SAE A Nf SR ae Vhs eee mR A gh a RAR a RSL. has a Fy ACA: amous Heroes OF CAS A. S. Navy| j Ij tM By Albert Payson Terhune Entered at the Post-Office at Now York as Second-Class Matter. wee y tH. f = —— sey mene ML, MoSuairie tin ‘the, Saterootional’” a Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World), ripti The orld tor ing, United tates Au Countries tn the Tateraational No. 15—GEORGE DEWEY; Hero of Manila Bay: Ney +0 One Mon: eh | tone) if jij 4 | APTURE or destroy the Spanish fleet! a , ( 6 ‘The terse cabled command reached a gray mustached, sixty-year-old naval officer in China late in April, 1898, ‘The officer was Commodore George Dewey of the United States .60/ One Month 1.20 | He was on the spot when his Chance came. That, in ® measare, was luck. The advantage he took of his Chance was not luck, but sheer genius. { Dewey was a Vermonter who was graduated from Annapolis In 1858 when he was only twenty, He did f splendid work as @ leutenant throughout the Civil + re War—fighting under Farragut in the New Orleans campalgn—serving later in the blockading squadron and taking part in the flerce assaults on Fort Fisher. ¢ After the war was over he had a thirty-year stretch of uneventful drudgery at various naval “chores.” Part of this time he was an instructor at Annapolis, part of the time on cruise and he served in various positions on the Lighthouse Board. rs NTIL 9 o'clock to-night men of military age can enroll their Bames upon the roster of national honor. After that hour it will be too late for honor, By virtue of its sovereign right and in justice to those of ite ‘titizens who have stood oy it, by registering in compliance with the, iw, the Republic will use its full authority to deal with the few who) wilfully dodge their duty. | These latter will be punished. They will be made to porform tf the service they sought to evade. Their names will form a separate! | toll of dishonor and compulsion, | JUNE 5, 1917. | : A | « $ One routine duty after another was assigned to Dewey, To all ot Before such a choice who could hesitate? é | them he brought an enthusiasm and an executive ability that were ae To any who have been tempted to take the coward’s turn, the | noteworthy in their own quiet way as were the more spectacular qualities ; he displayed when at last the hour of crists arrived, Slowly, too, he rose from rank to rank until early in 1896 he was @ Grn, Commodore, © passing hours of this day still afford opportunity to think hard and at oe ~ think in time. . F ‘ . . | ‘, 4a Tirng of long and uninspiring shore service, 1 Will the platitudes of the pacifists, the mouthings of Anarchists, | Asks for Duty he asked to be sent to sea. In November, 189 | 7 at Sea, his request was granted. He was put in comman | the arguments of so-called conscientious objectors serve the slacker the . ! ie a fe 3, § of a ‘United States squadron bound for Asiatic | Pest of his life? Will they win him confidence and credit later when! y te P Baretta ; iy Weethien Dewsy teresa one clach with: bpein—Whadber (he COTE | he needs them? Will they strengthen the friendships he has? Will + | ; y men foresaw it and went a flest to a point whence the Philippines were , Rit Naar ys ” ees F fj ‘ | ; | within striking distance—these are points which need not be touched on © | they gain him new ones? Will they satisfy his questioning children ‘here. and andchildren? | | At all events, the declaration of war with Spain found Dewey at Hong je ite gt Kong. And the cabled order sent him straight to Manila, in whose bay 2 Sl iJ s z a > = 2 = & 2 = = s 3 > = = z 2 3 FY} 3 = 2 3 = Admiral Montego’s Spanish fleet was resting, All sorts of alarmist stories regarding the fleet and the bay itself had come to Dewey, The several great Spanish ships, for example, were said to be peerless fighting machines; far more terrible than his own squadron. |The bay was supposed to be honeycombed with submarine mines. | Dewey was not deterred for a moment by these calamity tales, He ; jhad been commanded to ‘capture or destroy the Spanish feet.” And IV : was there to obey orders, That was Dewey's way. (As a matter of fact, the Spanish fleet was anything but “peerte: And if there were any mines in the harbor Dewey had no trouble in | dodging them.) Into Manila Bay, before dawn on May 1, 1898, steamed the American squadron—its ships in single file, 400 yards apart. At 641 A. M. Dewey ¢ a ’ ‘ | / ‘ at - Let him ask himself these things and answer whether even self-| interest does not counsel a prompt trip to the place of registration. | No American wanted war. But every American, even the most selfish, wants America. He wants a safe, gelf-governed America, | guaranteed for al] time against the menaces of arrogant autocracy +) stretching out its armored limbs for more “place in the sun,” He} Wents security for himself, his fortunes and his descendants. | eto “ Is it America’s fault that the only way to win such security | Sommer turns out to be to fight for it? “ ron It is from neither selfishness nor calculation, however, that mil-! | lions of strong, loyal young Americans to-day set down their names’: | for the use of the Government. It has come to be fully understood : ery ‘ ' H * it to-day? i ‘ opened fire on the Spanish fleet. The Spaniards returned the fire, So Barnes «slid ihe shore batteries. The first fight of the Spanish-American war was on. First Fight For two hours Dewey continued to hammer the of War, foe, the American gunners finding thelr mark with Pt nw~$ murderous accuracy. At 7.85 he gave the order to withdraw—but only long enough to enab to eat breakfast in comfort. Ls ig nie one Then he returned to the attack. Within a few hours all the Spanish ships were destroyed or sunk and the shore batteries were amashed into silence, Not one American was killed, Not one American vessel was seriously injured. Dewey finished his work in the Philippines by capturin ’ i the city of Manila and by establishing the first American Government on the lsleada, {Then he came home to receive the praise of his fellow-countrymen, All America was turned out to welcome him on return, He was the adored hero of the hour, Dewey was as touched and delighted as a |child at the plaudits and honors and gifts showered upon him. Among the giftafrom the people to their hero was a house in Wash- ington, Dewey gave Vhis house to his new-wed wife. And straighoway the fickle crowd that had split tts collective throat chcering him set up a howl jof angry disgust at his perfectly normal action. (The Spanish-American War unmade heroes almost as fast as it made them.) ‘The noisy and unmerited blame of his fellow-Americans cut De |the very soul, But {t was more than atoned for by the action of the Gos. ernment, which had in March, 1899, revived for him the full title of ‘Admiral.” which up to that time had been bestowed only, upon Porter and ‘arragut. that they do this not to be conscripted but to be selected. With) the courage of performing their duty quietly, methodically, in| | the manner designated by responsible authority—which is the best > kind of courage—they step forward in preliminary review before the } “op nation that has need of them. Against their patriotism there can be no just discrimination. | i In the history of American democracy this will remain a deeply) ~ significant day. May it prove a proud day—a day by the results of| which the country shall be glad to judge itself and be judged. | What is needed to make it such a day is for every man in the} Tinited States not less than twenty-one years old and not more than e upcntia thirty, to ask himself, if he has not already done so, the most serious Adventure and Hard Work Make Up Army Engineer Ss Day question American manhood faces at this moment, and to record i .—————— ee Se slimes cake ntilieatai ‘The Jarr Family) } individual answer before 9 this evéning. The Man Behind the Shovel Has Become a Big Fac-| 9! ,™8%¥ complications, | ‘There arc ind suitable locallons for army camps By Roy L. McCardell t : : enches, suppo yenches, bp make -sanita eo sul en ae etl fone tat ath dle I —_—_——-+ — tor in This War—-How the Regiments Going serve trenches, etc. Instead of run-|rounding sectic This means the —_ | z $34 i ning on @ straight line across a given |digking of drainage canals, looking Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), { Remember, also: Unless hundreds of thousands of young to France Will Help Win the Conflict. stretch of country, they wind about | after the water supply 1 similar | ¢¢ IMME a dime, paw, gimme a|we should move out of this neighbor. like a snake fence, and are cut into | tesponasibilities, 1 dlbitas 5 ¥ Frenchmen had been drafted year after year without disgrace | B ; J ames (o Y > = divisions with little headlands of] | In times of peace our engineers give CG dime!" wheedied the ttle | hood, the example of the other chil- there might be no France to-day. Je s . oung eurth between, That is to prevent an | their ‘ation to the erection of new Jarr boy. |dren around here $s dreadful!" aes + Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) enfillading fire should the enemy pay | ‘orUifications, harbor works sim “What do you want a dime for, a| “Willie's got 9 ce: he made selling or a dozen{ railway lines, hastily built but|an unexpected call, Then there are|ilar matters, ‘ey have Pa titan RARE A iGt SECA ENO ; one naaheesed 4 tant part in the dredging of Am. | dine is ten cents, a lot of money for | things he found in the ash cans,” sald rivers and harbors, and also @ little boy,” said Mr. Jarr gravely. |little Emma Jarr, “Izzy Slavinsky 1 hand in the great irri- “When 1 was a little boy | was glad| sive him the 9 cents, then lzzy Sine slowly On- to have a penny to spend. And you|Vinsky took the stuff to the junk- + aBNO| never used to ask me for more than|™an and got 20 cents for tt!" |4ob ahead of the 1» 1 & pike sl Beale See oie ¢ Mn he | the engineer as part of his daily | ruiy eaual “th ther ookanlbnk 18 “What good will 6 cents do the| Poy. ing men whoare| American forces no doubt will be He eee ee ee to ee | volunteer regiments which are to form | Child?” asked Mrs, Jarr, breaking 1n. Collecting things from ash bare to follow, and it] supported by the same kind of ord-|mude over for the beneftt of the urmy:| tng backbone of the foree, have ac | “Why, even the picture shows, the|Tels!” exclaimed Mrs. Jarr in dismay, will be the busl-|nance, And that means more WOT Ne marmaking, | tracted the highest type of American! eheapest ones that used to let cbil-| “Suppose Mrs. Stryver or Clara Mud- ness of the engi-| for the engineers, They are the mMeD|' “permanent fortifications are, of /MOrkingsmen. — Machinists, — bridge- c n o ps whic }p Aiania: of kee | thoibowhiy. “warelcennia. oO i communication trenches which run} oie oF horoughly serviceable, on whieh} ro. miles, dug-outs, underground | ¢rican e going |ammunition and other supplies are] pospitals and many other phase to France gsoon,| hauled, The French have in opera-|trench lif are the special con- | # They w be the} tion many heavy batteries which}cern of the army engineer M “tite Ps eye am paint te paint. ¢ Artillery emplacements and other | Productive farm vanguard of the| move from point to point on just] _ Artery, emplacements ty fall to], The men going to France have a big haif million fight-|such railways as these, and the “But when you view everything with reason and reflection, of all connections none is more weighty, none is more dear than that between every individual and his country. Our parents are dear to us; our children, our kinsmen, our friends are dear to us; but our country comprehends alone a!) the en- dearments of us all."—Cicero, +4 gineers jt of American proclamations to . ridge-Smith should have , 3 ° builders, tron work artisans of al]/dren in for & cents, now charge ay id have seen a child Berlin—sigued in the United States to-day, neers to see that/ who must keep the wheels of WT |course, located and erected by engi-| kinds ace enlisting to do their bit in| dime admission, That's the way |f mine digging in ash barrels! Now, everything is ready for them when | turning, 9 [RegER MNS, MigNE Ne truly called the /ihe way for which they are Dest oyerything is going up! Why, T have |JUs for that, Willie, Iam going to tell crate iid (o ammmnmenauaeeal ; ase e ver must be crossed and | ¢ i D S| equipped. | $ i no he |¥ t ! aes ey slit ice wi " ee me Hy ori a or fords, |thelr special function to understand “the shovel has proved mightier | Just been looking over Bepler, the |Your father on you! I am going to “What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that No branoh of the service will have/there are neither bridges ‘tall branches of the science of forti-|than the sword in thie war, and {t| butcher's, bill, and he has charged | "ow him your school report!” may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil that may @ more important part in the win- | the army engineer is sent forin a hur-| fication may well be that the man behind the me 33 conta a pound for pork tender-| At these words Master Jarr eet up ing of the war, although most of us|ry, He proceeds to build a pontoon! Another of his many duties {x to! shovel will yet win the conflict are inclined to think of an army |bridge, which means a string of bo engineer as a man who has some| with a flooring laid upon them from loins! And Muller, the grocer, has|* ™ournful wail, while his dear little charged me 70 cents for a head of | sister capered in her joy and whis- leabbage! Here it ts: Cabbage, 3%| ered to her father to give her the a befall a great country !n a orisis like this, and in the midst of te great transactions which concern that country's fate? Let the 1 o what they will, T am careless. No man can o' 7: cr | » shore. Some of these pon- ||! . ne . | consequences be what thoy will, T am carsious No mun cen vague connection with fotieations,/ snore to snore, some of ere 50n- 11 Bachelor Girl Reflections. | mus a2 cents soins ‘Thinr|i2 cont a9 she wormed to touch aan he fall in defense of the liberties and constitution of his coun- tion with fortifoations, and a good| struction and may be thrown across Re tWelen Reward or rage with «tana avon aonb: [ohare ite sat was. 2 fever | ‘ try."—Daniel Webster | many lores dg shames lending | tt, anchor 1, the flooring mad | - = assis ea bage, can think of it by the pound, but | daportment and study standing, "nt ae | secelrsttg haaanahe A miprican sarees |THbe tins wie Haidin tha hing Serovar Coysright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Poot Sete Aaa cdg tl tardiness and Tenavin te cee Letters From the People to the front held by them will be] Artillery and supply trains cross with LL the beautiful sentiments a woman may feel or utter have less Another thinks’ replied Sn "Jouasio Bepier, with. ntehettnging ¥ Mr. Bruere Again. Wants Citizenship Articles, the immediate concern of the engi: | ontoon iitidge must be built unde A weight with a man than the lightest curl over her ear, “Well, that just goes to show why |t00!” volunteered little Miss cane Me the Wiitor of The Brenig World icy Matha Bias of Phe Srenias War o neers going to France. Not only wi ‘That is the time when the stuff nce ae agaeillie Riactn ORR toe Katina! ine Now, Willie, if you haven't been they repair right of way, look aft fo oh, bi Mf which @ man is made shows forth. | « task (o tax the courage of the} st rmanent trenches, where sit dow dug er (he sup! vision of engineers, This branch of| their business is a science within| | good at school, I cannot give | Pocket money." said Mr. Jarry “Ang as for your little sister, I do not think she deserves any pocket money either, ur old friend Henry Bruere gets| Please send me, if possibie, the four ers again for a re-|articles which you published some wival of his “city manager” idea./time ago on “How to Become a upon occasion they will bulld a ra W with ite Mayor, city oMcers, Board of |Citixen Told in Plain English." 1) %8¥ Nine And army engineers are New York wants etill|had these articies but 1am unable to| ‘ined to do that task almost over another office to add to the number! find them AP uw, | Rlent of city employees! Is Henry getting| These articles will be reprinted in| THe of the allied front Tired of the Guggenheims or are the|the next few days in answer to many | Romeycombed «with narrow gau Gusgenheims getting tired of Henry?| requests for this information — —-----—-— . tage tg yell Papen Ply dB L ad Popular Superstitions | Kindly advise me if a foreigner — § onid coming to this country when Many a man’s idea of cultivating “individuality” stead of a nickel,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “It's appears to’ consist in encouraging the hair to grow in just dreadful, the high cost of livin odd little spots on bis face, “lazy Slavinsky has money, maw,’ os spoke up Master Jarr, “He collects |she,,enould not tell tales out of ‘There {s always a point in matrimony at which a f4&s and boues and old shoes and sells| ‘Whereat ttle Miss Jarr began man’s eyes and interest begin to wander, but bis heart them and bis papa gives him a cent | (0, sorecch. | while Master Jarr wouldn't so often follow if his wife would only keep, He? he's playing ball and any glass jist ag a drummer’ doy aeg ‘deny! her head, hold her tongue and look un {1s broken—oh, his papa don't give him | hero, to the everlasting sorrow: o the money for breaking winders, but|his parents, upon the field of battle. oe for running home and telling him they|_ He confided to Masier Inzy @la- ther envious com. ¢ panions that if he wasn't accepted ag is drummer boy he would enter the rolling stock, shops A modern trench system ts a thing scious. Two years ahead ts farther than any man can see witen he ts looking into a pretty woman's eyes, NY turfmen believe in truly) Many blind b around hollering ‘Glass put in! Glass To the Bator of The Bren: us profit. by the | ten vagy i superstition of «a turfman, that to — put in!’ Gimme the 10 cents, paw!” aviation corps and devastate all ty > s of d was! y o would have childish superstition. If, on) SUF tition of . : Pade © all the 1 aos Frenty-twe year pia Aad wae ties dyet i mld ve to take ou the way to the track, they’ eee 288% a blind man without giving him When a man marries a business girl he may miss a lot of feminine “Young Master Slavinsky’s activities |°v°™Y 4mmunition depots, born : or, unde papers when ho becomes of age, if he wa ‘ @ small coin will surely bring” bad ; : 9 f ' UE ceoveroment 1 bave psd ang sas heal piety af 28, it) ine corresponding with the name |luch ing bad) frilis and filusions, but he at least gets some one who knows what it is af¢ profitable, it would seem,” replied | ——>>==== ean Tha, Sfuliad ttaten for hel Ki. Mt, fof aihorse which In to race that day,| When tho saddle girth of a horae|to come home at night dead tired and yearning for nothing tn the world | ‘he! nd father, “It's too bad, my “Day's Anniversary by past ten years, My father has had| Ves, tf Me Does Not Ciatm Father’s|!t 13 taken as a sign that the horse | Tot | einount eg hy ieKe | but food, sileuce and the hand-lasp of one who understands. that your own proclivities are Stren ather than commerci jon't yc + Chis first papers for the last five years} Nationality, fail win lightened, this is called “putting, on| . nr mer Don't you tor of 4 e d luck to meet ayt think you -ou hake yc om T was jus i § and will cet his final citizen papers | T° the Editor of fhe Krening World i very bad lu he cinck nk A 1 make your own} JuSt Sixty-three years ago us it happens The more wild oats a man has sown, the more particular he is about re ~ Res, young man a citizen the an on the way to the they hurry ry a bet on that ‘| ‘ pocket money too?" | that the reciprocity agreement be- eeortly, Wil I peered citizen When log twenty-one if born in thin eens poms-eyed woman, | horse | the choice of @ “stained-glass angel” on whom to bestow the remains of his} “1 can go around with Gussle Bey tween Canada and the aye pems father recelves his papers, be- of German parents who never took on the $A sign of Rood) If you put « , he remnants o pmotions § f e * 1 enter ecto, mieten sned! . ; (gauge | was seventeen yoars old when | citizen matt bad Y ook OWL Taek, ie nothing which! OnMordas heart, the remnants of his em is and what is left of his nam ler when he's collecting butcher b. 1g | mae was signed’ June 5, 1854, ‘Thi, e Sip declared himself, or will 1 be con-| angel will bring better luck than to meet ajday, they wil —_--- for his father,” replied Master Jarr,| #™Po!ant trade arrangement wag i eeree 82 alien MEM I wa, nate the kraing eee OaNOT RS OPRED ois is extremely lau ee When a man shows any genuine sentiment or a little romantic en-|“He takes 5 cents when the change |™ pared the Governor-General h ning Worid * eel a al i emely sult; ‘or da ou wi nt dow: io . Aumbwait and Lord Elei c 1 | iaees toe logy ora 8 Be an Teame to this country from Russia (bad luck, although the meeting of an|neat and olegant; on Mriday, 9 thusiasm nowadays he always seems to feel as though ae had deen guilty 1" sent down th lumbwaiter, and | ty vesotiations Whit as sssisted in sities ot Tho Toe bay jin 1903, 1 was eleven ve a smpty hearse i# a sign of succe be happy as long as the suit rer est exp heart tells his father It must have dropped shington, by Francis Hing ae "© Twas born in Warsaw, Poland, and! ty father became oP ara of age. | OMP animals are supposed to fresh dnt y mains| of immodest exposure of the heart, he dumbwaite The: Wasblogton, by Francis Hincks and ° de America ten y ne father became a ¢ nN May 7 Certn yi nm Saturda you will be taken joft th umbwaiter, Then his father! other delegates from Canada Peas 0 America ten venrs ago at the) i902, Ain J a citlaen or must | take i mood oF bad Tuck, if met on thei! goon: on Sunday, tells happl- eons hits him over the head, but Gussie| Maritine Provinces = and -thp 4 a Bince| out papers to become one? to the track black ca ness and ease - A sella. ‘Minaa ety" 3 " ey | yy 7 wrt time, as you well know, Warsaw pape wv am ne M. LL. Mi nas a IRR an iat oad Swi Take away a man's belief in a “personal devil and he has nobody left don't mind that. It don't hurt him to one eet sfars the people of the won by Gern My father! In Correct, On Monday, » slen to blame for his sins or hie troubles except his mother-in-law—but then be hit on his head except he saws it n demanding some ] arrongement whereby that’s about the same thing makes his feet hurt If he's standing! products could on anything hard.” {the United & wphat will do, Willfe!" ead Mra.| Provin agricultural biain free entry to and the Maritime free entry of fish to put his first papers and in a few | To the Fattor of The Freving We the author gues Ln-| ‘To dream of 3 arian, B but bets are not Thousand Le be F of grea Nothing bor n c ch fo wor veh 1 lov the marke ! mn, time it runs. On the se time,}man’ or other calamity; on Saturday othing bores @ man go much as for a woman to give bim al her love js... nen ahe turned to Mr. Jarr| largely resmemncie (ete, alsin ae a oy tag % |bowever, it 1s considered sure to win, genera! pestilence aud great mortality, (When he only wanked a little bitof ity nd whimpered, “That's why I say the reciprocity m the success of ON f ’ 5 a 2 nsieraeall