The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1917, Page 16

Oe CO ee oe tt _) Published Dally Except Bunda by the Pre: ESTABLISHED BY JOS Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to ark Row, Now York. meee ‘ RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, 'Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York ax Secund-Ciaan Matter. tion Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and ‘orld for the United States Ali Countries In the International ‘and Canada, 15.40 One Year...... 1.30 One Month. . sesoccvecccecevevseNO. 20,884 VOLUME 87.......6.. A NEW SITUATION FOR US. F THE Liberty Bond issue has not already been subscribed and oversubscribed sufficiently to satisfy everybody's hopes, let us not overlook certain extraordinary circumstances which ought to be considered, In the first place, the nation has had to float a loan about four times as big as any it has ever asked {Sr in a lump and without the neual help of a world for the most part at peace. Most of the very peoples who could ordinarily be counted on to absorb considerable quantities of United States bonds are now unable to absorb any. The eountry must take up practically the entire issue itself. Remember also that we have had to supply these same nations with enormous credits in an epoch of colossally destructive warfare, suspended production and trade disruption. We have had to keep up our courage and confidence in the face of an increasingly dark and chaotic outlook for world finance. Furthermore, in the past three years we have had to take back millions of dollars’ worth of American securities from these peoples at war because of their pressing need of gold—another unaccustomed state of things which tends to make us more than ever conscious of being thrown nationally upon our own resources, That those resources will be amply, triumphantly sufficient there ean be not the slightest doubt. The Liberty Loan is only a first test which the American people are applying to themselves. Once they realize their unique position, the potentiality of their power and in- fluence, the extent to which civilization depends on them, there will be found to be no limits to what they will give and do. ——-+-—____——_ CONTROL PRICES OR CONFISCATE PROFITS. ARNING the country what it may expect if coal, steel and iron prices remain uncontrolled, the Richmond (Va.) News-Leader presents the following comparative figures: In 1913 coal could be purchased at the mouth of the mine at an average of $1 a ton. To-day it is held for a minimum of $4 @ ton. In 1913 steel billets were quoted at $19 a ton. from $80 to $90 a ton te demanded. In 1913 wire rods were $25 a ton at Pittsburgh. To-day they are $100 a ton. 1n°1915 wire was $1.35 a hundred, To-day it 1s $3.46, In 1916 structural steel shapes were offered at Philadelphia at $1.10 a hundred, To-day they are listed at $4.40, Pointing out that each of these items, essential among necds of war, has increased 400 per cent. in price in less than four years, with the exception of wire, which has increased 256 per cent. in two years’ me, the News-Leader draws attention to consequences that threaten: If these conditions are allowed to persist the increase in the nation’s coal bill for 1917 will be one-fifth more than the total raised by the first Liberty Loan. If the coal mines are allowed to fix their own profits the operator who was making 15 cents a ton in 1913 will increase his net profits thirty-fold, or three thousand per cent. If the steel makers are allowed to control prices, the oom- panies that were making $2 @ ton profit when steel was at $20 will make thirty times that profit on every ton of steel sold to the Government, If the steel mills turn out thelr normal production of 40,000,000 tons of ingots and are given the prices they now ask, their profits on this item alone will exceed $2,400,000,000, Wages in these industries are declared to be not more than 20 per cent. greater than they were three years ago, and, therefore,} Postal Union. + $6.00) One Year. + .60/One Mont To-day . “for every dollar laid out in increased wages at least $20 is now| =~ i j | demanded of the purchaser.” We agree with the News-Leader that Congress should be ponder- ing figures like these. As in the case of food, so with every other necessity; whether un- Umited profits are extracted from the Government or from individ uals, they are ultimately paid by the great body of consumers and! Wage earners, who must buy commodities for their own use and at the same time be taxed to supply money for the Government to spend on war needs, Unless the pyramiding of burdens is stopped it will crush the country. No people can be expected to find billions for war and billions more to swell the incomes and dividends of a comparative few who fatten on war's demands. Either prices must be regulated or profits aboye a just and rea sonable amount be summarily taken by the Government and used to ease the load on shoulders where taxes fall heaviest, Letters From the I -eople Brondway Aanoctation Not 4) the full consent and sy nd permission of the Pate | British Government : : ; | Now my point ix tht Yo you, To the Laitor of The kréning World Mr. Hditor, know, ‘or gcse In a New York paper it was stated |reader of Tho Evening "Wand that the rou y Association had BBO. h 1 can help Uncle asked for the privilege of partici, weln Ry Profession I> am an ; i actor, and when IT came here I in ing in the formation of tae platform tended pursuing my career as suck fa Fusion Committee, | But now I should like to help in’ ied Thi The Broadway As- |Cross work, making Red Cross sup ry » no such action, | plies, or agricultural or sou ube an & political agantaa: |work, Field service or heavy manicg thon it is nhed to participate | work ix obviously out of the gues fo aug poll novement t F | tine a bale « Executs | salari¢ as T have a wito to Anxious to Kerve United states, | SUDI 4 tong, long times he Editor of The Evening W an mn). 1 have read much and 1 know 1] yA! said noneee shall read a great deal more at| aa English ackers" in America, Now » Berks Cltlnenghip. 1) the Hotitor of The Kvening Wor Tam an Englishman, twenty-tve! yan a woman who waa t prk, U, 8. A but To am not a ebild with my br r i ables lacker!” Why? Because I did not| came cittzens when of age. AY" ome to this country till August 14] citizen or not? A READER,” 9916, and 1 only left England after] You are not a citizen unless sour I had been many tim rejected us her Was naturalized bef you be. Medically unfit for any branch of ne of age, or unless you have mas enlisted military servic | ried a citizen, But you may apply tor I first ¢ 4 my services to the| naturalization if atill unmarring Red Cross (British) before the war! Ke i had been on twenty-eight days. My Ho Papers Kesded, Offer was refused, and I have beon | To the Faitor of The Evening World consistently rejected at intervals e A young man has been voting o @ince, My last ‘je on certificate | his father’s pap The father dies. Was dated June 20, 1916, and I aatled|Can this young man continue to vote for America with British Foreign |on his father’s paj OMice passport, and thgrefore with} ain bis own papers? f ‘* or must he ob- M. 8, nae —— oo nececnman pits Saeco BOTS, WOO ete [ Ar Bees Serre ee i —_ ce By J. H. Cassel Fifty Failures Who Came Back] By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World), No. 35.—GEN. SHERMAN: The “Failure” Who Helped to Save the Union. LEAN, bearded man, forty-one years old, was dropped from his army command in the autumn of 1861 because his superiors in office gravely decided that he was a fool. It ia not always to be the only wise man in @ group of fools, And Gen. W. T. Sherman learned this to his cost. If he had been content to nod owl{sh assent to everything the majority ald, he would have gotten along very comfortably indeed. But that was not Sherman's way, . So he spoke his mind and he epoke it freely, What he said was eo unbelievably sensible that {t was laughed at as idiotic, And he was laid, on the departmental shelf. In brief, he was branded in his own chosen profession as & vistonar$ Failure, He was left to cool his hegls on the bench while less able men strutted pompously to the field. If he had been of ordinary calibre. his career would have ended then and there, But, for that matter, if he had been an ordinary man he would not have had the brains to make the prophecy that caused all the trouble, Sherman was a West Point graduate, Like Grant, he served vallantly in the Mexican war. And, like Grant, he saw so little chance of promotion in the army that after peace was declared he resigned and went into business, But on the Civil War’ outbreak he again followed Grant's example and offered his services to his country—giving up a lucratve business to 40 #0, He received a Colonel's commission, Soom afterward he was promoted to Brigadier General, j War Brings { Opportunity, On Orr Then it was that he qualified as a Failure, Here ta the story: : The bulk of President Lincoln's advisers—espe= cially the army men—looked on the Civil War as a conflict that would quickly be brought to an end without calling on the reserve forces of our unprepared country, Some even declared it would all be over within three months’ time, Tho President himself at first merely issued @ call for 75,000 men to serve for three months, Sherman had studied conditions in the South. He realized that the contest was not of the @ort that Is put down at a single blow. Publicly he prophesied that 76,000 men would not be enough for the purpose and that the war would last for several years, He went on to say that fully 200,000 troops would be needed to quell the Confederacy in one } | Southwestern State alone, Now, looking back, it 1s easy for us to see that Sherman was right im his estimate, and to see just why he was right. But at the time his forecast |was received with derision, Some military authorities went on record as | saying he was crazy. Sherman vus deprived of active command and was shelved {nto a rowe tine department Job. His career as a soldier seemed at an end. But Gen, Grant, a@ Ittle later, began to forge to the front. And Grant had the brains to recognize Sherman's value, He used the discredited gure g, Prophet in his mighty Southwestern campaign and | Recognition gave the War Department glowing accounts of Shere man, } at Last. 3 ‘As a result, the Government gradually began to p yovsdunpoevenn realize that it had sidetracked the wrong man, Sherman's prophecy, too, time went on, gave promise of fulfilment. Steadily the man rose in rank. Officials who once had laughed at him now listened with flattering deference to his opinions. For example: In 1864 Sherman announced that the Confederacy was a hollow shell, formidable only on its outer crust, and hollow within, To prove this he volunteered to lead an army straight through the very heart of the South, capturing every port and city in his path, His offer was accepted, The result was the famous “march through Georgia,” which turned the one-time Failure into @ national hero, Copyright, IIT, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Wrouing World,) HAVE several letters on the same subject. ‘They are from young peo- Sach tells of his and her anxlety to please a mother and yet remain loyal to @ great love. One, a girl who 18 twenty years of age, says: “Sho (his moth- er) won't Ilsten to any of our Inten- tions, thereby making Ife mis- erable for both of us. Sho is in ill health and cannot be excited. “{ understand my position fully and | I am willing to do all in my power | to win over his mother, Is there any- | thing in the way of vising me that | will lessen my misery “Her objections, and to my mind} the stron, t, are ‘social position’ and “family,’ although she knows nothing | concerning me.” A young man, after telling about | | meeting a girl and the friendship that | | ripened into love, says | ‘My mother, noticing this close friendship, soon ordered me to stay | away entirely from the young lady, | | which I refused to do. : ‘Any mention of the young lady's name would immediately bring her to w state bordering on hysteria, None of my pleadings or arguments has any effect upon My moth: hol to her own, She steadfastly and magnifies her arguments. Her Jmain points against my sweetheart | are; My family is suy wd to be ao far above them that a ch between 1s is impossible, “My heart and myself are agreed to everything p le, have al te understanding of one an 1 appeal to you to offer m course as you deem it possible to follow." 1 wonder if such a mother ever| heard the problem, When an im | yvable bod mee an irresistible force, what is tho In these cal inte force | Is love, and W & mother mak herself the |mmoveble body, being a human equation unlike the problem, something does happen. In_ ninety cases out of a hundred love wins out And the mother is the loser, She joses much of the respect and de Votion that Was hers before she made |herself the immovable body | Now, mark you, my ar young | people who have written to me, these Pases do not mean that you are al- | ways right about your love, and that the a ris wrong; but if all you] | aay is true, that you are both anxious to do the right thing as far as po | sible—that there ar complications | |by which your married life might not | he a successful on en mother may be right But as a gene It does come to pass that some mothers aa sume a Very selfish attitude when it lcomes to parting with the be or girl that they have always looked such mothers refuse to realize that they co grow to manhood and wom- anhood and should have opportunity to live their lives according to their hearts’ desire, even as thelr own parents have done before them. In truth they should be encouraged, rather than to be made disheartened as in the two Instances recorded here. 1 know @ man fifty years of age. From the time he was a boy his mother clung to him and exacted a promise that he should never leave her . She held him to her with a rod of iron, He was attractive and suc- , and when the tine came, as that he met the girl of his his mother exerted enough influence over him on the plea of “duty” to her to make him give up the young woman, ley both loved each other and later on they again tried to win the mother over; but this tine she cholee row ill, and was like a millstone around the neck of the young man, where she clung to him and begged him to give the girl up, which he did, You will say this young man did not have backbone. Ah, but you do not know the arguments and plead- ings and reproaches that a selfish By Roy L. Cor yigtat been wire- this ple early summer evening that Mr, Jarr and Michael Angelo Dinkston were In Gus's place on the corner, for sald house of call began to lose Its aspect of being de- serted, as the business men of the neighborhood be n to drift in, Doubtless it was no great regard for the peripatetic poet and Bedouin of a big city, Mr. Dinkston, (nat drew the throng. In fact, they regarded ant him with disdain, an attiiude whieh the heavy-weight champlon of the English language received with au- perb good nature. “Have you bought your Liberty Isond?” he asked them each and all. ? 1 trust not “Are you a slacker? Let every individual do bis bit by paying a bit." Gus waved his hand. you hit him in “Outside don't any of he sald matter, but not in my pli anybody hits him in he let it be I never lke to put my customers to any troubl “I ain't got no use for him," sald Slavinsky, the glazier, ‘I wouldn't hit bim in your place for nothing, Gus. But if 1 had tside I'd my place, that is anothe: him o. |push him through a plate xiass win- dow!" For although on tighting he bent he had @ business mind, Upon as just @ boy or girl, Vhy the antagonistic attitude?” When Mothers Are Selfish _By Sophie ene Loeb The Jarr Family 1017, by the Prem Publishing Co, | ORD had evidently lessed around the nelgnborhood mother can put forth in order to win her point. She uses the motherhood duty business unul it is overdone. This man 18 a sad one to-day, His sweet- heart married another and he cannot help reflect that his mother was the cause of it all. He goes on just the same, but this mother has lost much of respect aad love that might have been hers in her remaining days. When, oh when, will mothers real- ize that children must some time go thelr way, even though 1t seems to be an uncertain one? When, ob when, will mothers un- derstand that they cannot hope to hold by mother-love alone (when they make themselves the STUMBLING BLOCK) to the greater love—that which came with our first ancestors, Adam and Eve? 1 might say that some mothers are almost criminal in their attitude of keeping loving hearts apart. | ‘They cause untold misery and find only regret in the end. As for caste or “social standing” it has rarely broken up the thing that was real love; especially in this coun- try, as long as youth is young and strong and wholesome, the rest mat- ter little. Every mother might well reflect {cCardell (The New York Evening World), asked Mr. Dinkston mildly, “Why be hellicose?” ‘For things you have did to me I would be anything!" remarked the truculent Mr, Blavinsky, “Loafer, what you are, didn't you come and borrow 60 cents fr me, telling me where there was a greenhouse busted by blasting uptown? And when I got up there I found tt was an old shanty painte yreen and not a ns p tall! was ante-bellum days,” | Dinkston; “let the incident n statu quo.” “LT won't let It want my 60 cents vinsky. “slavinsky 1s right," sald Gus, “This feller Dinkston ‘looks at you like he pitied you and was good-n » in thing, 1 declared Mr, Sla- tured mit you because you hadn't Kot no edu n like he's got, I wouldn't say nothing to you that would hurt your feelings when I know you are going to spend money in my place,” he ided, turning to Mr, Jarr, “but there is an old saying which is that everybody has got a pet bum. But your pet bum, that loafer Dinkston, ain't no good, and don't you forget it! “pure he ain't no good!" ered Mr. Blavinsky "He ts a feller what would break a pane of glass but wouldn't never pay you to put one fn “Have you bought a Liberty Bond?” Mr. Dinkston politely inquired of Mr. Slavinsky Mr, Slavinsky muttered that he was going to buy one. to-morre “Have you bought a Liberty Bond?” he asked Rafferty, the builder, “When Ireland Ils free 1 will; ana ( How I Helped | My. Husban Help Fight War OW great has been the change which has come over every phase of political and economia what was once the land of the Czar can best be judged by the an+ d Chickens and a Garden Bring IHHREE years ago I was at my)P ale wit’s end to know what to do. My husband seemed to #row worse every day and the doctor told him he must have more outdoor air. How he was going to get it when he had to stay in the office from 9 until every day I did not know. I wanted him to give up his position and let me go out to work, but he would not listen to me. So I made up my mind} that I wasn't going to let him sacri-| fice his life for his wife and children if I could possibly help it. If he could Health and Prosperity] ,,,. ,, beans, corn, beets, turnips, &c., in ground, I did not put in any) cement th in the ground, 1 did not put (ns aa | punomenta that numbers of monks those days und the other things would |42 Kussla would be sent to the front, those in more money. But 1|_ Here js a class, constituting thous ands of able-bodied men, which had |been hedged about by laws and cus toms that kept them from all the rough paths of life. They were never in want, except in isolated cases of voluntary deprivation for the sake of piety, and they exerted a powerful ine fluence among the people, ut with the overthrow of the C: monks themselves. After the revoluc tlonists were in the saddle, they de- manded equal political rights with me bought two dozen tomato plants and some onion sets. dim found that they were tearing down a wooden house in the next street and bought enough second hand lumber for to build @ small hen house, He hired a carpenter for one day to help him frame it and put it together, and then he finished it| by himself and put up the wire for the runs, I was only able to afford fi 8 and a rooster at first, for I anted white leghorns, and they are not get much outdoor air in the day or expensive, but I knew. ¢hetr | 6 lay population, including the vote, time he must have it at night and the ox sell the best, and | fences ap nay been giving other evi. first thing to do was,to move, ‘ pelpesl Keeping Suite, Hoek “5! diametrically Obboaed to thelr eae After much hunting I found a nice ren Or Jina leave Gt abeancel Mreee six-room cottage not far from a trol-|found us well settled in our new| {> ley line within 10 cent car © dis-| home, with some of the vegetables) beginning to show above ground and| enough eggs from our few chickens to more than pay for the grain and table sera y ate. Jim felt won- | War Cripples Trade | in Diamonds derfully b for the change and| work out of doors, and thougn he had| Ne economy and scarcity of to get up earlier in the morning to} coal has hit the Amsterdam get to business, he sald he enjoyed) diamond trade a serio ¥ ‘erlous blow. the long ride in the open car back|The Dutch Government rec, “ and forth ecently ore very week or so I added |dered the Industry to reduce Its con ance from the city, It was only $20 1 month and It had quite a lot of land around it. We had always paid $30, | 40 this would make a saving of $10] 1 month six months of the year and nough to cover the 10 cents extra car fare in the cold weather when we had | to buy our own coal for heating, We Hen Ont Greene Cay oF Ace to my flock of chickens until by fall /sumption of coal by. 25 per coms . 7 lo, I had over a hundred : |Twenty-four of the principe Sie agers lly rl a | The garden did well also, We had|lishments in the city, walch {aes recuperate in. He paid him quantities of fresh vegetables to eat| centre of the trade, decided to’ cone uparS ; swular sum. |ourselves, thereby cutting down our|Centrate their work, Some cig ; week of it in Hou of his regular #um=|¢ooq bills enormously, and I managed | smaller concerns wero compra ts GE Wacution child 1 had lived|to sell over thirty-tve dollars’ worth |close, but it Is said that many et ete In Ween ointiy and I kaew the ecun-|fight in the town where we lived.| workmen thrown out of employmere in the coun na fnew that we had | 2Ut, of course, I had to work hard in| will be taken care of in the (ince, ony Se Oe yas bound to have| the garden all summer, but being out | factories jarger a little land 1 was bound to have! acise like this did me good, and I| Such concentration wo: Oe A HO eat and nig [Dever felt so well in my life, 'T don’t| practicable tn normal times, Mae yoe ter from his priet reat and agi (nave to worry any more now, for|der present conditions, with ine Ua nights spen |Jim 1s perfectly ‘well, and I” get| preventing purchases b: i not to “bite off more than 'y some coun. advised m. & the shipping to seventy-five cents a dozen for guar-| tries and reducin; w,” but I paid no attention I could ¢ i antecd new lald eggs all through the|important market like yo an to him and hired a man for $8 t9) winter, and am putting by a nlce|States, production of polished ied ough up and teeta 4 good part little sum for a rainy day: |monds is much restricted, 4 of the yard for a garde ; the other side I reserved quite a spac for a chicken run, Our garden s¢ 1s | did not cost much and Jim helped ith the planting, 80 we soon had! sae 6 1981, that the, marched into London and inet Rebellion broke out fm] the palace of the Duk d made for ib net ADE Ae neat SRF M i which the i ike of Lancaster, way!" retorted Raiferty, The movement began) Sthor pulling, ket and” burned, ree | ton Itty. “Unt such {0 other counties, The peasantry, took refuge in th ly nit jgourt times as you can say to ‘I have|armed with bludgeons and rusty | ‘hr ‘ ae ane done my. 4 yours |if the King did not nghold lone my duty, have youd ind flourish before my eyes a Libert come swords, first occupied the roads bY/speak t ; hich pilgrims went to Cant Bond, then and then only will I dige|WHICD Pilsrims wen! ‘antePbury fy you with a refutal of your ebul- made every man swear loyalty jouw of rancor! tto King Richard and refuse to ree- And so saying, he took Mr, Jarr’a/ognizo King John. The people had hange, which Was lying on the bar, many grievances against John, chiet raised his hat and bowed and walked) among which was the imposition of a out with easy dignity. ‘poll tax in the previous year, “By gollies!” said Gus, “he always leader gets away with it! None of us asked|Tyler, bis principal associates being | dred him if he bought a bond. Anyway, | Job 1 Ball, a priest and preacher of| street. I'm glad be ain't no pet bum ofjdemocratic and socialistic doctrines,!an armed escort, them, out and phils the King was porsuc put the insurrectionista aa satisfied and broke into ee Res Archbishop of Canterbur i |the Lord Treasurer were. f¢ 7 Ce beheaded. After this the ingd ahd of a) tionists set out to kill and bury pec, 0 The | eigners belng thelr principat eee for of the insurrection was Wat|It 1s sald that more than four fam ns and aded to do, min jand another man known as Jack|camp and invited the ‘And Mr. Jarr, to save his standing, | Straw ee set conference, had to deciare that he had not only| it seems that many Londoners,| In the midst of ¢ bought a Liberty Bond, but that he! among them some Aldermen, wel-' followed Wat Tyler he Darley which renounced Dinkston and ali bis Works, comed the rebels, who on June 13 bis horse and killed, ruck froma