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_Puiitshed Datiy Bxcept Sunday by ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. hi Publ " 2s hy Re gating Company, Nos. 63 to ZUR, President, (63 Ht A Row. } Oe aHAW . b soe aue Tra Hecretany, 63 Park How. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Matter. mend sor tine eited states | e: <i All Countries 1 the international Postal Union, | seve $6.00/One Year, | $15.40 | One Month. ‘ NO. 20,381 A DRIVE THAT MUST BE STOPPED. F'the outrageous drive ploticd by the street railway companies) of this city on and into the pockets of wage earners cannot be halted except by a vigorons defense, then let all right-minded| New Yorkers promptly line up for the fight. The proposal to increase surface car fares is evidently not to be downed by an outburst of public sentiment. The Interborough and} corporations similarly interested have set their lawyers the task of| putting over a proposition calculated to keep dividends from eagging by extracting millions upon millions of additional pennies annually from the public’s pockets. The prospective yield is too tempting to relinquish until every battery of corporation argument has been silenced. To the well-to-do, seven-cent fares might not much matter. But upon the many for whom a weekly sixty cents for carfare already fig-| ures as a very real item of family budgets wherein every cent of wages has to tell, the daily levy of these extra pennies of toll for fares or transfers must put a sensibly heavier burden, Why, in the name of fairness, should they be asked to bear it? For years the big street railway systems of New York ran their notorious course of stock watering, overcapitalization and ruthless finance. Some of them, even though reorganized, still pay startlingly high returnsyon inner stock and leases carried over from the old! regime. For these corporations to propose to shift the consequences! of their own past recklessness to the shoulders of the public is shame- less injustice. If their profits are not big enough to satisfy claims descended from old swindles and etill pay 8 per cent. or more on current invest- ment, it is not for the scantily lined pocketbooks of men and women RCIA | OOS BePanG “Well Play Our Part” wage earners who ride on street cars to suffer eo that the dividends may not cease to swell. es “American Army Headquarters in London.” Sounds like business. “Removed to France” will sound better still. oo ate WOODEN SHIPS OR STEEL. HE row in the Emergency Fleet Corporation has not disturbed the country, and the dismissal of the two engineers who started the wooden flect campaign and have since tried to) make it appear that Major Gen. Goethals was holding up their pet) programme, is not likely to call forth much question or protest. | ‘The fact is, in the minds of most Americans Gen. Gocthals is too proved a man to be suspected of incapacity or prejudice in such a practical matter as settling the relative value of wooden and steel ships for defeating the submarine blockade. The judgment and ex- ecutive capacity that carried through the building of the Panama Canal are not likely to fail completely when it comes to determining whether steel or wooden vessels should be built first and in the great-| est numbers, | The two wooden ship engincers were men of one idea, Their| attitude toward Gen. Goethals proved it. On the other hand, while it is well known that Gen, Goethals favors steel ships, he has by no means ruled out wooden ships, but has only opposed a policy which would immediately absorb all constructive energy in the turning out of @ vast wooden fleet. As General Manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with fall authority to decide all questions, Gen. Goethals will be held re sponsible for the rapid construction of vessels of some sort, and the chances are that when the war is over and the trade of the world| is taking a new lease of life, his fellow countrymen will be found con- gratulating him and themselves that he gave first place to steel ones, | In any case they know that Gen, Goethals’s career has included @ careful study of big problems and the making of important deci-| sions. The results have been of a kind to inspire their confidence, | They would rather see him working with assistants who support him than with subordinates who have special axes of their own to grind, ee Mother Earth seems to have felt herself challenged, So she did some grim mine exploding of her own at San Salvador | Letters From the People | Wants to Buy Liberty Bonds, Ty the Editor of The Evening World T drew a check for $1,000 to the onder of certain trust company and filled out a form for ten $100 United States Government 31-2 per cent jberty Loan Bonds, They sent back ny check and requested $20 or 2 of Records. To the Bittor of The Hrening World Tam thirty-six years old, born in [veland, and was eighteen months old | when I came to the United Staten. . My father never became a citizen. |cent., as they said I might not be at Do I have to get out my papers? If | t? get any of the bonds, But I notive . »|You keep advertising the Libert #0, bow can I go about wetting tos" | Bonds, Let me know if they are over- sold CONSTANT READER ae Sneetinn of Raome i There ts some mistake here. This Editor ta wening Warld iasue as not been subscribed, Tr I have three sons of military age, | another bank and am told that our Government will take only one out of a family Kindly advise me if this Is the case CONSTANT READER, How tot ‘To the Balitor of The Even! John Jason “ nith, married, Details of the exemption plan have 8% His brother, George P., has a mot been announced, but tris prob. {#0 named John’ Jason, wito user able that all ten of military’ avo | Junior after his name, Is that prop: without dependents will stand on an|" or could that only be uved by Smith sr's aon if he had one? Is | not the proper thing after a nephe equal footing, without regard lo the question you submit, Hoth on Tuesday. Ly i . Is 4 Hindu an English or Britt ‘Po the Editor of The Evening Word: subject or simply an Indian? re Kindly let me know on what days| (1) Both “junior” and "2d" ar of the week did Sept. 4, 1894, and) wrong. He is plain John Jason. “Cy July 26, 1892, fall? KY. M. A Hindu js a BN, h subject Auctioneers’ Jobs in Danger MB auctioneer, like Othello, may | bring, then is slowly moved to lower foon find hix occupation gone| [sures until some trader indicates ff @ acheme used by the Dutch |, Willingness to buy should win favor here. ed with the dial whic At trade auctions held in the Neth-| press when « erlands instead of having an auction- | the m in er call for bids there is a large dia) Ader pre are which t price sutisfactory to wn by the dial, As the # @ button his number connect traders “provided with an index hand, ‘The | {he lot of moods tegont eet, Ane . taoe of the dial is marked with prices,| price indicated by the index hy imoreasing in clockwise fashion. The| There is no noi ie eet at « price abo’ that thi uctions are the goods offered probably wi!l markably short 4 or confusion and finished in @ re space of time, By H. J. Barrett ee ‘Oo my way of thinking,” re- ale marked the superintendent of a department store, “a good Miaposition is one of the most im- portant factors in selling goods over the counter, And, becwuse of this be lef, I have tried to develop the fac- ulty of determining whether or not an applicant has this quality. “Stupidity, ignorance of stock, care- leasness, ail these faults can be for- given if not too often in evidence, but discourtesy—there is a positive fault which drives customers away, vowing never to return. “A good disposition, coupled with ordinary intelligence, means a patient, courteous salesperson. “When you stop to think of the tremendous implications resting upon the over-the-counter contact between clerk and customer, it is surprising that the former should ever forget to be courteous, A store's only in come ts the money which is passed over the counter And upon the salesperson depends, in large meas- ure, the amount of this income, All over the world, thousands of work- ers have been producing the goods which she handles, vast liners have brought them to our shores, a huge edifice has been er ed to house them, executives have racked thelr brains in evolving better methods of organization, the advertising depart- ment has spent great sums tn seek- ing to attract the public, the window man has exerted his highest quality of genius, millions of dollars have been invested—all of this that wary customer can be lured td he counter; and then, with an insolent manner, or @ mere lift of the brows, the salesperson may giv fense, kill the sale and forever allen- ate a patron, “1 tell you that when one once awakens to a realization of this he thinks twice bef {ll temper, Courtesy, howev ‘8 virtue which, although it can a quired, {8 natural to those blossed | with good dispositions, And that ts the type we are looking for in this HAR home at Gadshill, land, on June 1876, On theday before his death the novelist had been steadily at work upon his last book, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” and bad finished « fine de: iption of a summer morning, When this was complete he became uncon. sclous, He died the next evening, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, The news of his death was tele- uphed ull over the civilized world, and was received everywhere with grief and sympathy, Men and women of every rank and ty Joined in the expression of sorrow, for Dickens, through his intense humanity, ap pealed alike to the noble and the lowly, giving vent to his | by ‘The Prew Publishing Co, New York Brening World.) you have got a French flag out at the window with the Stars and Stripes,” re- j marked Mr, Jarr when he came | home the other evening. | “Why, yes," said Mrs, Jarr, “The ' French are our Allies, you know, and our little Emma has been talking | French They are teaching it at achool Of course the schools are | about to close, but I think it is pa- triotie for her to speak French, Ber sides it is a refined accomplishment. I know I studied French at high school, and took extra lessons that | cost my father and mother hundreds of dollars. I studied French very \nard, for I realized tt would be very | valuable to me some day, but I have | forgotten it enti So that is why | 1 insisted our little ma should be |gin French now, although she is so young.” | “A good idea, just as you say, see- along with the language of La Belle France?” “Oh, splendidly “Come here, “I fordet,” “Mamma, be hard you what the | coached the Fre “Will papa div me tandy?" the little girl, “I fordet it,” “No, you must }aarling. ‘Then jeandy, ‘Tell paps | word for ‘yes.’ in hc lack Pely by Boy L. McCardell Emma, father the French for ‘yes.’" whined the little girl. {t's so hard!” Now try to remember and it won't! Mamma was just telling neh fond mother “Yes, a lot of candy,” said Mr, J “What is French for ‘yes,’ dear “Can I have de tandy now? try you wha What would you say rench if papa should ask you in| said Mrs, all the way home? You know: ‘This little pig went to market; this little pig stayed at home; this little pig had bread and butter and this little pig Jarr, and tell your | home’ “Was hea French piggte, mamma?’ nquired the little girl. for ‘yes’ was,” “No, he wasn't a I {what he squeaked was French for asked | ‘yes,’ >w tell it to papa.” “I fordet it,” whimpered the little arr, \s rl, “Can I go to the mov and rv? have candy? You promised. said the little girl “I promised if you would show papa how nicely you are getting to Memember,| along with your French lessons at said Mrs. Jarr. ‘Wee,’ ‘wee’ all the way Now don’t you remember the can have the} t is the French hool,”” ld pig sai hom wor French if you wished to go to the] “What did the little pig say that movies?” | Stayed home sked the little girl “Can I go to de movies now,| “Come, ald Mrs. Jarre firmly. mamma?" asked the child eagerly, | ‘Never mind the little pigs now, Tell | had none. This little pig cried’——|of articles describing the process What was it he cried all the way| naturalization. nch pig, but I whe Tittie| ng In this country? A, We have NO, 16—JOHN RODGERS; Who ‘‘Fired the First Famous Heroes Of the U. S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune (The Now York Proa'ng World), Shot in the j Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, War of 1812.” m E BYGAN his meteor-iike naval career in 1799, during our Orte sea war with France. He was a Heutenant at that time in our tiny new navy—Lieut. John Rodgers of the United States frigate Constellation. Fe P ‘The Constellation fought and captured the French frigate I'Insurgente off Nevis, Rodgers was sent aboard the conquered ship with a mere <a ful of saflors to take formal possession. Before he could get back to . own ship a gale blew the two frigates many miles apart from each oe /' Thus Rodgers, with his few men, was left on French warship. The captured frigate was almost a j wreck. Her crew far outnumbered Rodgers’s men and threatened to retake the ship. Rodgers had to man- oeuvre the battered frigate through a gale and at the — same time to keep an tron hand on the rebellious) captives, An ordinary man would have failed. Red- gers succeeded. For three days he ‘ Pars kept the leaking bulk afloat and a the Constellation in St. Rain oat an exploit which won him a captaincy. In the Tripoli War, a few weeks later, he fought with the same dashing heroism, winning the rank of commodore. Not very long after Rodgers's return to the United States the relations between our country and England became strained to the breaking point. It was a deed of John Rodgers's which did more than almost anything else to push the long quarrel into actual warfare. Though the battle of which I am going to tell you was fought in May, 1811—a year before war was declared—yet Rodgere has been sometimes called “the man who fired the first shot in the War of 1812.” 4 Commodore Rodgers was in his fiagship President, lying off Annapolis, when he heard that the captain of a British frigate near Sandy Hook had halt- ed a peaceful American brig and had forcibly taken a In Every Fight a Hero. man off the brig to-serve in the British Navy. barr held the mutinous crew at bay, last safely rejoined It was Without wasting time in studying the finer points of international law, Rodgers crowded on all sail and started northward for Sandy Hook. Just south of New York he sighted a warship. Tie President, flying the Stars and Stripes, drew nearer the stranger and came within short range at about 8.30 at night. Rodgers demanded: “What ship is that?” The only reply was a@ repetition of the same question from the other ship. This was followed at once by a shot from the stranger which ripped into the President's mainmaét. Rodgers retaliated by opening fire. Nor did he let up until the enemy vessel was badly crippled, Theny he demanded once more the name of his foe. This time he received prompt answe: 1. B. M. ship of War, Little Belt twenty-two guns, Capt, Bingham,’ commanding. The Little Belt was badly injured. And she had lost thirty-one mea during that brief night battle. Her commander afterward declared the President had fired the first shot. Rodgers denied this. 1 have given his version of the fight. The incident did First Battle much to widen the breach between America and Eng- of the War. land and to bring matters to a deadly crisis, It also taught the British that the stealing of American sailors was not always a safe form of sport, In June, 1812, Rodgers received word that the war had begun, Less than an hour afterward he was putting to sea with his squadron of four vessels to search for British ships. In the very first fight Rodgers was badly wounded. But he kept on, During the next two months he captured seven British merchant ships! and recaptured an American ship the British had taken, For the entire period of the war he was In brilliant active servic | After peace was declared he devoted the remaining years of his life to t h upbullding of the navy he loved and in which he had so gallantly warveg ‘At the time of his death, in 1837, he had long been the navy’s senior officer, 4 | How to Become a Citizen | Told in Plain English | Copyright, 1017, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), a |the Vice President, who presidés By James C. Young. |the Senate, cannot cast » baer spa This te the third and last tn @ series| ite deliberations unless thera ia a tie of| ? The first wag pub-| &. What are the three branches into Net wel | which the. United States Government it Sat a The legislative, execu- 4 } .|tive and Judicial. The first 4 -» HE following questions heap 1 sented by the Congress, the seccudty swers are typical of the intel-/the President and the third by the the prospec- | Federal courts. Question—What is the function of the Federal courts? Answer—To in- terpret the meaning of the Constitu- tion, to try offenders against Federal laws, and particularly to determine waethe: other laws are in accord with the spirit and lette: - Bae r of the Con Q. When did the United States be come independent? A. July 4, me, Q. How is the Government main- |tained? A. By taxation, © test which ligen tive citizen must undergo before ob- taining the privileges and assuming the responsibilities of an American: Q. What ts the form of government under which we live? A, The repub- lican form of government, A. Who is the ruling emperor or wl no emperor or king, but a President elected by the people, © In what or Pe taxon: tart Q. What Is the United Sta A.| A. By act of Co s, : A federation tes bound to- int How are fhe laws of New York esther’ bis thie’! tio! State made? A. By the Legislature gother by the Constitution, Q. What is the Logisinturet & Q. What is the supreme law of the|The State legislative corre- United States? A. The Constitution, |SPonding to the National s Sony and having @ Senate and Assernbly jing you got so much satistaction out| “Yes, if you tell us what is French | us what is the French for * Ita| & Baw hs the Pacer iki Q. Who presides in the State # of it,” replied Mr, Jarr whimsically.| for ‘yes,’ coaxed Mrs, Jarr. “What|0-u-!, pronounced ‘wee,’ isn't it” | framed? A. By the Constitutional /ate? A. The Lieutenant Governor. | "And how is our Uttle darling getting was it the little pig said when he ran 8," said the Uttle girl, “Can 1|Convention of the original thirteen| Q. How many State Senators are im | ave the tandy now?’ | States, held in 1787 pfioe, and what is their term of serv~ ame ial ain wi i sige aca is aaa There you see!” aid Mrs, Jarr,| @- In what way can the Constitu-| (ior, slotted tor can ene State spn | , , t "5 ht be changed? A, Amendments 1 be ee P ylagce ] od urning proudly to her husband.| tton Q. How many members iy iry Language Developec And sho Is omly. golne on eignt;|must be proposed by at least a two- | sembly and what ie thelr Ratatat Ate W ’ | Pil ‘ou thou, . *t know it! | thirds majority in both Houses of| ce? A. Assemblymen numb . , P ~ ru * ¥ ought she didn't know it! You! thirds ouses Of) id are el b umber 150, By ars Ss KY llots heap ner aay aa diatinatiy.’ |Congress and ratified by at léast |" 4r° tlected for one year, : _ — 7 Fine, fine!” remarked Mr. Jarr!“tee:fourths of the States, loginlators chosen’? oie, freee Sta ; at . arr)". How are the Federal laws made? | 8! # chosen? A, By poppian RIAL warfare has developed a] forming before an audience, prefer-|stavely, “If I had only known it t/a, By Conxress, sityng in Washing- a ‘ new language of slang, Some] 4)!¥ feminine. is an “up-stage actor.”| would have taken her to meet Papa | ion, rrmonts tt cae need of the State of tts phre vcs are so cclorful| Nig" Hoth. terms, carry, acon ae Jotre when he was her saat Tan, the, whole remponslbllity |\5 slocted tor 0 twacyens inen nae im to seem likely of adoption by the| the deepest aye with them, and In-|, “I thought of that," said Mra. Jarr. | Prugiggnt must sign the lawe that | op, W2at | the business of the Gov. American public, which has a fancy] dicate that the man in question need: We saw him pass in his carriagr,| Congress makes, Aig’ A. He is the executive head jfor taking unto Itself every vivid] {a,hot water bag for his feet" | but we couldn't get near enough to/ Q. Must every law be signed by the |Noad. of the ndiege venient te the term that helps to make its ideas| jon hy oven ther h ee oe Sete: | hire | pr de nt? A No, Tho ‘President powers in regard to" legislate a ‘ e { Stood ¢ he la . a = : os wy, can keep a vil nis hands for ten Aw acento, ; clear, | Nox does it take long for the bud-| | ‘But Tm afraid her vocabulary | favs utter passage by Congress with: | of Wert ett lawa made for the otty It seems especially appropriate for | ding ateur’s companions to decide | Francaise would have to be just aout either siguing or vetoing it, and 6 Waet te a y the Legislature. the air pilot to indicate his readies | Has “ needs the hot, water b s.| little bit more extensive for her to| the bill will automatically become! states citizer nes OTe of a Units ‘ | tc aia py ne decision is against him. vl aga ha “ ate 4 | without his signature. bach ak zen . Must obe to Ascend by the remark that “the|are likely to remark that hen ver | have held any lengthy conversation ay A ia there any way that the Pres- ail iawa in all things, uphold the | bus is buzzing.” Who could gay more}can wield “the Joy stick,” which 1s| With the distinguished French hero,”| iene can prevent a bill from becom- ution and American institu< fittingly that the motor was working and the airplane waiting? The word “spin” has a sinister implication on the fighting front, A spin usually ends in death, and tf an r reports th “had a litt it means ¢ he missed de struction by inches, When an air- plane loses balance, it begins to volve like # top, which is the genesis of the word spin in the flying man's vocabulary, For an aviator to say that he has! a little “elevator inspection" on hand, 14 his graphic way of Indicating that h® must examine that part of his airplane's mechanism which governs its ascent and descent word “stunt” does not mean, as might be suppo: a trick of some sort For an aviator to say that he is “golng to do a stunt’ im- plies that he has been ordered on a bomb-dropping excursion over enemy territory, In the American atrman's eyes the |aviator who has @ weakness for per- which is the we colorful langua, nothing more or less than the control lever of an airplane, who shows unusual awkwardness in danger of being dubbed a rst appellation in a Popular T is considered unlucky to see the marked Mr, Jarr. Tho beginner! “That's just like you, never encour- ‘ans | 888 your own!" cried Mra, Jarr. ', | “Here is five cents for candy, darling, mamma ts proud of you, anyway! perstitions crescent shaped will be weak and | | | House of Rep tions, and in time of war answi the call of his cou + jaw? <A, Yes, by vetoi ing 1} y ng it, If stew he should take that step it cannot be enacted into law unless Congress —-——_— passes it again by two-thirds ma- D Neigh ———= Jority. anes Also en ne Q. How 1s the Congress divided? uilding A, Into two bran the Senate and entatives, Q. Can any citizen become Prest- dent? A. No. Only native-born citi- zens are eligible, and no man under Wooden Ships HB plan to build a great fleet of wooden vessels as a means |T new moon for the first time Short lived; those born at the full of| thirty-five yeans of age may bold that of offsetting the moon ‘will be strong and long] office. . 5 shipping losses due through glass, To see it outdoors | 8 M4 vd #1 O'Q. How long does the Prestdent hold ititmarine warfare finde @ par" jover the left shoulder is lucky; over| ‘Trees are thought IWkely to decay |office? A. Four years, i a in Europe, where the Danes |tho right shoulder is unlucky | when cut during a waning moon, ‘The It the President should die in| At nary ydkon the same exmedient Letters asking a favor should be con of a hog killed in @ waning| office, or resign, or be impeached, who traveen Denmark temporary writen’ in tha fill ok the wnon, is man 38 also said to waste much in voy since him? A, The Vice the ing Aaenee gn Nee | tac of e 001 ry c ror |S me | Preside’ Bo ind aA » bid n ships, full moon’ ts indicative of prospority. | dressed to the first now moon of! president wom to be removed for any |materiais, and tho eonack Of BSA It is considered unlucky to have) e year ts known in Mngland » Upon whom would the Presi-|he given’ employee here ean aud the eyelashes cut during the wane of New moon, new moon, I hail thee, duties f A pon the Sec- | yards building i Aipdaly in She - ithe moon. They will not grow well,| By all the virtue in thy body, retary of State The vessels being tors) oem but will grow awry and fall out, To| Grant this night that I may see Q. Is there any difference between lot a standard tyre, aparucted are have them grow cut while the m« Animals born ng n when they should be| He who my true love shall be. on the increase. the moon is ( supposed to see her true love, In her sleep that night the matden| sentatives and the Vice President? the Speaker of the House of Repre- three to four) | ading capacity These ships also h a motor, masts, and having a lo: of 500 to 600 tons. will be furnished wit 4. Yes; the Sugaker has a vote, but