The evening world. Newspaper, June 8, 1917, Page 20

—— Le A Ls & eet ETRE NS PET ES ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by the Press Publ " t Publtshed Dally Except one Wy fae Fubpishine Company, Nos. 63 to LPH PULITZER, President, Park Row. ba? ANGUS Saw Treasurer, of pant how” JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Matter. Buvecription Rates to The Evening|For Enstand and the Continent and World for the United States and Canada, All Countries in the International Postal Union. + $6.00/One Year, $15.40 0} One Mont One Year.. One Month. VOLUME 6 NO. 20,380 NOT SO FAR BEHIND. FFICIAL announcement that Gen. Pershing has arrived in England, taken with the news of yesterday that vessels carrying supplies for American troops have been safely convoyed across the Atlantic by American warships and are now being unloaded in French ports, will startle the doubters who have been quite ready to believe that the United States was still many months and many miles behind the fighting front on land. Nobody need be surprised to hear now that American forces may even be in time to join the great Allied drive to which the British yesterday imparted such sudden and terrific impetus. There seems every reason to believe the powerful blow struck by Gen. Haig south of Ypres was planned only as a preliminary to far more tremendous movements. If the million and a quarter pounds of explosives that tore asunder barriers on Wytschaete Bend have opened up a new phase of fighting in the west, Americans will doubly rejoice at indications that Gen. Pershing and his troops are more nearly ready than had been believed to join in the task of sweeping the Germans out of Belgium and France. a WHAT CONGRESS DOESN’T YET SEE. HE President’s anxiety to have Congress pass the Food Control Bill no doubt comes partly from a knowledge of conditions strongly hinted at by the Secretary to the British Food Contro] Department in a statement made to the House of Commons “It is of the greatest importance to the success of the Allied/ cause,” so Secretary Bathurst is quoted, “that the food exports from| America should be on the highest possible scale for the remainder of the war.” Great Britain’s experience has taught her that the only hope of eolving the all-important problems of food production, food conserva- tion and food distribution, once a nation is under the stress of war, lies in prompt centralization of authority. i Naturally, then, the dilatory tactics of a jealous Congress that shies at every mention of efficient food control are calculated to cause the British authorities misgiving. Naturally, then, we find the British public awaiting with something very like impatience the enact- ment by United States legislators of a measure that shall make Mr. Hoover food controller in America and “confer upon him plenty of powers.” In expressing this view the London Daily News adds: “We do not doubt that exportation will be on the highest possible scale, but our assurance will be sensibly greater when Mr. Hoover's appointment is made definite and his work has actually begun.” In the matter of food control, as in most others involved in the exacting business of war, Congress has not yet got its eyes open to the fact that fighting and all that goes with it has to be done quickly and without parley—not in the leisurely manner of legislatures, To make war there must be instant, ever-ready power behind. ‘The way to put the power there is to delegate it, And then watch to eee that it is diligently and conscientiously exerted. —_—__- + - —__—_ NATURE'S HINT. LOUDBURSTS, hail and wind at sixty miles an hour have played havoo this week with orchards and vegetable fields up-State, ‘Tornadoes are on the loose in the Middle West, while from Pennsylvania and Maryland come reports of floods and hailstorms with damage to ¢rops amounting to thousands of dollars. All which will remind the nation’s new armies of planters and gardeners that they too have their surprise attacks and heavy losses to bear and reckon with. What is worse, against the elemental forces) that sometimes march on them there is no fighting back. When wind, hail or parching sun starts a real drive there is never any ques- tion where victory will lie. Realization of this should be another incentive to Americans, old} and young, to plant so widely and grow so much that damage done| by storms or droughts shall detract but little from the triumphant} total of the country’s food yield. To talk of overproduction is absurd. With all her kindness, | Nature herself gives plenty of grim warning against sitting back and| leaving it to the farmer to raise all the extra millions of bushels and pounds of food the nation is going to need. Letters From the People tho United States Navy tn the Span- ish-American War. aw i Former enlisted men of the navy do not need first papers, but may ap- ply immediately for second pap Reservist Asks Ad To the Malitor of The Evening World 1 have been in this country two years, have declared my intention to become @ citizen, but am @ British reservist. Through sickness and neg- lect failed to report, Do I come under the jurisdiction of the United | States or Great Britain? registered, Am I lable to be drafted A Question of Nativity. ! ‘TF the Editor of The Evening World | Suppose that a man's mother and her mother and father for generations back were born here, and the man was born here and has never left this country, He has voted for! years and otherwise has proved him-| elf to be loyal to this country, of which he claims to be a citizen, But| his father was born in Canada and lived here for forty "3 when he died without taking out papers, What does this make the man in question? ee. into the United HIRAM. | Army? States oF Bettie ‘The native son of an allen father! You are, of course, atill an allen. fe an American citizen, unless he/It ts likely specifically claims his father's citizen- ship, on the simple requirement that 42 ceclare himself a citizen. Wants FI Y To the Editor of The Lrening W citizens in this country, #re now being accepted for the Brit- ish Army. Fir whose at fit, Made in Germany! 2mtuhe What You Should O a great many persons the thunderstorm is an extremely Know About | Thunderstorms unpopular summer visitor whose us panic Nghtning, hall and high wind. But Prof, K, De C. Ward, in Science, points out the thunderstorm clouds “Thunder- really have silver linings, ms bring us much that is of bene- he says, ‘To them we owe much, approach is viewed with dread and f but violent passing causes ‘The average person the electrical storm only in the light of the damage {t inflicts through in parts of our country even most, of| out our great staple our spring and summer rainfall, With- these beneficent crops east of the| Rocky Mountains would never reach | maturity . One good thunderstorm over a considerable area at a critical crop stage is worth hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to American farmers, Our stock marke! and again show the favorat jon of such conditions upon the prices of cereals and also of railroad and other stocks. ‘Thundershowers break our summer droughts, cleanse our dusty air, re fresh our parched earth, replenish our failing streams and brooks, bring us cool evenings and Mights after sultry and oppressive a ‘Thunderstorms are produced (1) by the excessive heating of the lowe } alr; by the over-and-under-run- ning of winds of different tempera tures, which in soe way cause moist air masses to rise rapidly; and (3) by | the cooling of the upper usually responsible for any thunderstorm; but| causes act in ce are not onjunction air individ These ually Of all sections of the United States Florida is most subject to sun thunderstorms, whic occur t according to ‘records kept at mmer here, the By J. H. Cassel | ‘The Jarr Family Copyright, 1917, ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) 66]T looks like rain,” said Mr Jarr, “Any other time than Tampa Weather Bureau Station, on| three during June, July The summer on-shore winds supply abundant moisture and sunlight t this low thunderstorms frequently Next storms in frequency of comes the district the Santa Fe, New Mexico, IT have) an average of two days out of every and August the latitude that definite plans will| tively overheats the lower air, ‘Thus be soon announced regarding British |the joint distribution of atmospheric Recruits |instability and int e ec moisture dominates and|centrate 4] =e |*O)' electrical || in which | station 1s| Witne Ar me know if I wi'l have located, eens, et in getting my final Final The great Shuntoyators activity at| apers. 1 got my first papers in the| To the Euiior of The Evening Word santa Fe ts favored by the mountain tate of Oregon, October 14. 11 Y took my first papers out in San ‘fio Grande. In June, July and Merch 1, 1918. In what year will I uid I Ket my aecond papora deratorma are less than half as fre get my final papers. P.U. [now without witnesses, No one has que tat the griew lower places, such | Final papers cannot be issucd In|known me for four years in New) as El Paso. | year mame until you have lived In| York Writ S| “ho Missinalppl River valley, takes country at least four years, an i third place, and New York fourth. If at least one venr in thin sta iy 0 Boe te ee ou would’ escape thunderstorma. in Seeke Citizenship, eevee Pb | summer, the regio ounding San Fo\the Baitor of The Evening World ott mosey and father are Ameri-| Francisco, Cal, a compara J would like to know if I could get} Canada, but brought to Chicago when | eeu there in the ton went, Helng second papers. I got my first|three weeks old Have neds ean Anor to iiihe and ell of thoes meouaing papers {0 1899 and sinc fies T have|in Canada since. Am 1 © Brisish to the pegod between Octonne aad wed @ seafaring life. 1 was in! subject or American? BET. March. : this I wouldn't have cared; I don't see how we can But you know I can't go anyho Mr. Jarr was silent. “The children have been feverish and I've kept them in the house, for there's so m 2h sickness around, and 1 know they are going to have some- thing. I do hope it won't be any- thing serious, Oh, I do hope it won't bei” Mr. Jarr making no remark at this, Mrs, Jarr turned to hin, “I don't think it would worry you one bit if ,th got scarlet fever or |any other té@rrible thing!” she said. thunderstorms | ‘Of course, it wouldn't bother you, for I should have to take care of them and nurse them; but at least they are your children, too, and you might have a little feeling!" “Gee! What do you worry .your- self for?” asked Mr, Jarr. ‘The kids are all righ They’ kot summer colds and that's about all; it's noth- ing serious,” ‘ Nothing serious?” sald Mrs. Jarr. | “Don't you know ther of chicken-pox, and I case, when I was a little girl, of a child that got chicken-pox and was| neglected and died,” “Our children won't be neglected, no matter what they !" growled Mr. Jarr. “That will be because I won't ne- wlect them,” said Mrs, Jair, “What \the Rangles. ‘8 an epidemic | heard of a| Successful Salesmanship do you do for them when they are mie do my best,” said Mr, Jarr. hat more can I do?” ‘And now Mrs, Rangle 1s going to give her husband's birthday party, and I can’t go; 1 know I can’t go!" said Mrs. Jarr, switching off. Mr. Jarr knew Mra, Jarr would go; she never missed anything of a social nature, but he sald nothing to this effect for various reasons. "You can go, of cour: Jarr. “Tell Mr, and Mrs, Rengle over the telephone I can’t go because the children are {Il and then you go and I'll stay at hom: “You know I won't go if you don’t go,” sald Mr. Jarr, “That's the way you always do!” whimpered Mrs. Jarr; “you drag me into everything. You know I shouldn't go, I'll be so worrled about the chil- dren I won't do a thing but make my- self sick, and then it looks like rain and I don't want to spoil my clothes, “Wear your old’ things,” sald Mr, Jarr, “We don't need to dress up for They're old friends.” “Yes, but everybody else will be all dressed up. They won't mind the| rain; but that's because they have more clothes than I have and can af- ford to got their best thins ruined!" “Oh, it isn’t going to rain,” sald Mr, Jarr soothingly, “and the children are just as well as they were last night when we went to the theatr “That's just it,” sald Mrs, Jerr, “We were out last night and left said Mrs. |sallied forth to the Rangle domicile | them alone and this means that we will leave them alone to-night, and I'm so afraid of fire. If fire broke out the girl wouldn't save the chil- dren, and I know it. You can go; I'll stay home.” “L won't go without you,” sald Mr. Jarr, “and you know you should go. The Rangles will be greatly disap- pointed.” “I know they would,” said Mrs. | Jarr complainingly. ‘They are the best friends we have, and Mrs, Rangle is always 6o good when one ts sick or has trouble, and they never missed one of our anniversaries.” “You'll go, then?” asked Mr, Jarr, h, I suppose I'll have to go,” sald Mrs, Jarr, "But I know ['ll worry my- self sick; I feel sure the children are going to be ill, and I just worry about thieves or burglars and it looks like | rain, | So, still complaining in this style, | Mrs, Jarr arrayed herself and they to attend Mr. Rangle's birthday party, “I feel sure I shouldn't have left the children,” moaned Mrs, Jarr. | “Why did you make me come? Now, don't you side with the Rangles and insist on ony staying late! I must} get back to the children as goon as I can," But once inside and amid the fes- tivities, Mrs, Jarr assured Mrs, Ran- gle, in response to that lady's in- | quiry, that the children were well, barring a slight cold that it wouldn't do to notice, and that she had to MAKB Mr, Jarr come with her, Knocking Competitors, B of the easiest things in the world for a theorist to say is that a salesman should not knock a competitor's product,” marked a traveling man, “Only r explain how such a policy inevitably reacted to the damage of the knocker how one should {gnore competitors how the proper plan was to so con- the customer's attention upon his own product that a com- petitor’s was forgotten, and so on. But what are you going to do when a customer demands a compar- json? What are you going to do when he says: ‘The Blank Company offe me the ame thing at 20 per cent. less, Why should I deal with you “There is, of course, but one thing to do, Get right down to brass tacks and demonstrate by tests tha yours is a superior product, cently, | heard some highbrow speaker | But, Mk« “From my experience, I have con- | cluded that there is enough in this| ‘don’t knock’ idea to justify its pro- mulgation, Unquestionably there 1s too much criticism of competitors, And undoubtedly the salesman wno always has his hammer out, hurts his own house and helps his competitor's. everything else, ¢ircum- stances alter cases, Often one has to! criticise, Often there 1s no choles between standing to your guns and firing some hot shot into the enemy, and surrenderin, “in such a ¢ there ta but one thing to do—clearly and convincingly explain that yours 1s the better prod- uct. If this involves exposure of a competitor's weakness, so much the worse for the competitor, “If you're selling an all-wool artiole, detach a shred of the fibre and make the dealer taste the ofl in it. If h produces a competitor's fabrio which is claimed to be all wool and which the price indicates is not that, expose t by the tests known to every student f textiles. "You don't have to exhibit any per- onal animosity. You don't have to call your competitor a blackleg, cheat and scoundrel. An air of calin toler- ance will endow your assertions with much more weight. It is perfectly Possible to be on the friendliest terms with competitors and yet not submit | to misrepresentations regarding the comparatiye values of your offerings, your flattery, your kisses and your cooking— | most powerful explosives, extensively | “It isn't so much what you say but the manner and spirit in which you say it that counts, To knock in an| ill-tempered, contemptuous spirit can- | not fail to harm the knocker, But to| calmly and impartially demonstrate | the truth in the case of opposing | claims will do you no damage.” | = ALL TOGETHER Now, HARLEY, dear,” said young | Mrs, Torkins, “this article says that the old-fashioned atump speaker bas almost disap. | it's “Well, Government ha strictions on outting down trees that the supply of stumps has probably given out.’-—-Washington Star, plained, imposed so many The re- oar eeriier ee epi ge oe r ' Friday, June 8, 19 Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 4017, by the Press Publidhing C2 (The New York Evening World), N’ woman has known the ultimate thrill of pride nor the ul stab of pain, the keenest joy and the most exalted suffering, she has seen the man she loves wearing his new uniform for first time, Call no girl “emancipated” so long tinues to blush, look coy and fluff up her hair whi is talking to a man over the telephone, s she Com she The honeymoon is like the first coast down hfld . your hew motor car; it gives you no idea of the » ?*, monial machine's ability to take the up grade nor the cost of running it. Time and tide wait for no man; but an um woman has to wait for any man who chooses to keep her waiting. ‘When you meet a man who a) 6 from a line of famous forefathers you are sometimes shocked and disayjointed to see how far he has sprung. If all the men were as good and wise and nobdje their sweethearts think they are, or as selfish and weak and foolish as thelr wives think they are, this world would be filled with angels or devils instead of just with human beings, When a man asks for your “love,” Dearie, what he really wants ts combination quite as satis fying and a great deal less nerve-racking. If you are marrying a man !n order to “reform” him, remember that most men haven't any big black vices, but just a little sepla streak of all of them, Poor man! No sooner does his mother stop following him aroun with a hot water bottle and advice than his wife begins following him around with a lot of questions and a bundle of bills. “Fate” is always represented as a woman—probably because she’s the deity most men blame for all their sins and troubles, How to Become a Citizen Told in Plain English Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), petitioner expects to ke applica! By James C. Young. ’ make application for his final papers. ee This is the second ina series of arti-|_In addition to the certificate cles describing the process of natural-|®rrival in the United States for per= tization. The first wae published yes-|80n8 covered by the law that went terday, and the concluding chapter|into effect June 29, 1906, the will be printed to-morrow. cant is required to furnish hi } HE second step in the mak- i | ing of a naturalized Amert- papers when seeking full citizenship. Here are the questions that it Is can cannot be taken until two years after the applt- necessary to answer upon a printed form: Name, placo of residence, pres ert occupation, date and place of cant for citizenship has made a declaration of intention to pledge his loyalty to the United birth, date and pl from which @p- plicant emigrated and date and place of arrival in the United States and States, And he must have lived ia this country for at least five years previous to the time of making appll- name of vessel. Day on which decla ration of intention to become & eftt> cation for final papers and at least one year in the State or Territory n was made and in what court. Applicant must state whether he is married or single, and, if married, furnish name of wife, place of her birth and present residence, He must where application is made, Not more|also give names of children, if any, than seven years may elapse between | 4 a declaration of intention and appli- cation for full papers. At the time of filing this petition for the privilege of oi place and date of their birth ant ship the person making such petition present residence. The petitioner for final papers must is required to bring with him two credible witnesse both of whom be able to speak the English lan. guage, and renounce in open court all legiance to any other State or po- tentate, and swear loyalty to the United States. If he has borne any must be citizens, They will be c title or belonged to any order of n | upon to testify that they have kr bility he must expressly renounce the prospective citizen during the five| such title or connection with such preceding years and have seen him| s with reasonable frequency through- ‘o petition may be heard until at out the whole of that period /and|teast ninety days after it has been know that he has ilved in the United L, nor within thirty days precedlaa Statee for the necessary length Of/4 general election. When a hearing me. is granted upon a day fixed by the They also will be required to bear| Court, the witnesses of the petitioner witness concerning his general char-) must appear and testify #o that the acter and especially as to his attitude | presiding magistrate may satisfy him- toward the institutions of the United | seif of the applicant's good intentions States and the principles of the Con-/andq cha When the court te stitution, convin f the petitioner's eligibiiity If a portiog of the five years has/to become a citizen the oath of al- been spent by the petitioner in some will be administered and a other Stato the affidavit of his wit- pate of naturalization Issued, nesses may verify that part of the fee charged in connection with applicant's residence which he has ithe filing of application for full elt- passed in the State where he then | izenship is $4, to be paid at the time lives. And the character of his de-| application is made. portment during the portion of the| soldiers of forelgn birth in the five years that he has passed outside |tnited Stat:s army may obtain oltl- the State may be shown by deposl-| zenship after a residence of one year, tions w his petition comes up for/and any alien who has served five a@ hearing. years in the navy or one enlistment If the applicant arrived in the United | in the Marine Corps may be admitted States subsequent to June 29, 1906, he | to citizenship without a declaration of must obtain tificate to that effect | intention on the evdence of an honor- from the Department of Labor, Waah- | able discharge. ington, D, C., which also will give the} In ddition to technical time and place of his arrival. The law | require ts, ary for Gee requires that this certificate be at-| would-be citizen to pass a mental ex- tached to the petition of all persons | amination intended to prove that he |who came to this country after the|is a man of good Intelligence. This date named, but those wio arrive The proper appli does not apply to before that time. | on blank for this certificate can be secured in Room No, 50, Post Office Building, and should | be obtained about ten days before the | test is not sev tions usually a puzzle a well infor but many ques- asked that might med man. An out- line of these questions and the eor- rect answers will be printed on thla page to-morrow | How a Flower May Win the War | HIS story might have been well|the wood from which it has been I taken from the Arabian Nights’ | heretofore extracted juantities of aceto: ntertainment, but it is true—| ‘ae obtained fran this ae a & every word of it. Cordite, one of the | expected source, rendering the Brit- sh nunition lem pasurably used by the British for shell making,|°sler. Berlin papers please copy. is based largely upon a substance called acetone, In the past acetone has been ob-| tained principally from wood, mate and starch. Once hostilities started, |" T°’ PLVE hundred and eighty-five all available means of supply were years ago to-day the founder taxed to capacity and new sources of the Mohammedan’ religion betame a thing of imperative moment.| ‘ed !n Medina, Arabia, and the ‘The British Admiralty had erected al irear of Mohammed is now recog big factory upon which many millions] careers in history, h,te® Break of dollars were spent for the purpose] desert, born with a keen re ac A of extracting acetone from starch,| sensuous nature, his early lite wae Still the eupply was not suffiicent, | fPANE In Steam visions and medie At this point, turn to the Arablan | inon him the com y cnere dawned | Nights part of the story. Two Eng-| of God, In his forth, iy peepee unity lish scientists in faraway Hydera- ot Proselyting be yaecuted by bad, India, discovered that acetone ee nar rellaion j y escaped could be extracted in considerable] ig the city ne Ned ne & m Mecca quantities from the blossoms of the|new faith “gained aunerenig® the mahva or mhowra tree,, Now this|forces of Mecca wera defeated, aa tree grows in great abundance with | % th" time of his death the whole of |a profusion of blossoms, which con-| army wan setting { orth hasan a tain @ greater percentage of acetone| Roman Empire of the East exactly. than any other vegetable substance one BUndred, years after he died his The blossoms are maid to be at least | disciples across the Peete, by, fle ten times ricer in this material thay tho plains of India. hees and om ‘ ‘ ( :