The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1917, Page 18

ee { i} Boe * World, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Bxce| the Press Publi Daily pt bar 4 We Fotasting Company, Nos. 63 to ER, 6 Row. een gt TaAW ‘Trea park how, JO PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Claas Matter. ubecription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada, ‘One Year. : Postal Union. + $6.00/One Year. .50/One Month, “OUT FOR THE STUFF!” T BECOMES increasingly plain that speculative elements in industry and business in the United States are not only consist- ently holding together in raising the prices of necessities, but are also conspiring to keep Congress from taking action calculated to restrict the bounds of their rapacity. ‘At a time when the country is responding with men and money to the call of a great national emergency, these men cling to the too, too American motto: : “OUT FOR THE STUFF!” Their patriotism is for their ownjpockets. If allowed to persist in it unchecked they will bring calamity beyond measure upon the nation, Prosperity can not long endure at the rate they are undermining it. For example: The Evening World is informed on the best of authority that, taking into consideration every element of cost, in- cluding the price of wheat, Ameritan‘consumers ought not to have to pay more than $9 a barre! for flour. As a matter of fact the price has ranged from $15 to $18. ‘here‘is even the threat of flour at $20: barrel in the near future. . According to expert opinion, $9 is enougli to cover cost of pro- notion and fair profit. The rest is plunder, Here is a form of economic oppression not to be endured by 8 free, self-governing people. Bread IS the staff of life. In country which admits no tyranny and fears no famine, every man who works honestly to earn bread for himself and his family is entitled to buy bread at prices fixed by justice and not by greed. . If war begins by convincing Americans that there is no reason why they should be pillaged by price’ boosters and profiteers among their own fellow countrymen, it will:have taught them a lesson of enduring value for war or peace. , ® Just now it is for Congress to come to their immediate ald. It is for Congress to stop listening to,the whisperings and threats of the more powerful among the pocketbook raiders and provide effi- cient Federal control to meet the needs of war. If Congress is ready to do its duty by the nation it cannot refuse. If Congress is a truly representative body it cannot pretend it has no interest in the fact that American consumers, facing the sacri- fices and burdens of what may prove s long and bitter etruggle, are forced to pay $16 a barrel for flour Which should not cost them more than $9. +4 If Congress retains any sense of its responsibilities toward those for whose protection and for the-promotion of whose welfare it exists, it cannot subscribe to the “Out-for-the-Stuff” policy of plun- derers. bi es The Flag: At whatever oddt”'may it be borne steadily aloft by land and sea until has triumphed and bound the world over to lasting eécurity and peace, ——— A CHARACTERISTIC ‘GERMAN SUCCESS. 5 ERMANY scored another. great victory over England yesterday. : In a magnificently warlike aerial attack upon the poor of London, Imperial German bomb droppers killed or mangled scores of non-combatants, including babies, women and old men. One bomb, by a lucky chance of war, fell on a school house, where it exploded, killing ten children outright and inflicting more or less hideous injuries on fifty others. This was the most brilliant stroke of all, though another bomb which hit a railway train just entering a station, thereby killing seven peaceful travellers and in- juring seventeen others, is worthy of mention, ‘The Imperial German Government must have proved by now to its complete satisfaction that airplanes aro greatly superior to Zeppe- lins for murdering women and children on land, and in fact approach in efficacy the submarihe as used, when fortune favors, for the same purpose on sea. German Frightfulness licks its chops and hugs tighter than ever its fond belief that it can end the war. et — It you're not already @ bondholder you owe it to yourself to become one before noon to-morrow. Try it while there's time and see how good it feels. —_— Letters From the People Power. (1) Year (2) Yea. ee es Weil To he Ratton of Tes Ervaine Worne To settle @ dispute Kindly inform! My father landed in New York stx- me who is right, A claims that/teen years ago, and although he im- England had an alliance with France| mediately declared his intention of Se Rai to assist each other in| becoming a United States citizen, he Throw Him Out! FN an ite hs lls ed ang Magazine Famous Heroes Of the U.S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune Consciedt, 1017, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The Now York J.vonng Wri), NO. 17—WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY; the Man Who Cap- tured Cervera. 18 fame was smirched—like that of more than one other Spanishe American War hero—through no deed that really dimmed the glory of his achievements. Even as Dewey was blamed for giving his ows house to his own wife—as the memory of Hobson's heroism’ was momentarily drowned in ridicule because » 9 |our Government in 1884 to command the third relief ship sent in searoa_ a hysterical woman kissed him—as Shafter was acc of lying in a hammock on a hot day when sensation lovers thought he should have been capering about om a white horse and waving a sword—as Sampson has been derided for being on duty elsewhere at the mo- ment when Cervera’s “bottled” fleet chanced to break out—so a curious controversy has slurred the gallant = oe exploits of Winfleld Scott Sobley, Here is Schley’s story: He was a Marylander, graduating from Annapolis e Like Dewey (who was two classes ahead of him in the Naval Academy), he fought with distinction in the Civil War. ‘Again, like Dewey, he spent a goodly share of the next thirty years in such routine duties as teaching at Annapolis, serving on the lighthouse bureau, & But, unlike Dewey, he was also on plenty of acti duty of an adventurous sort during a part of those at twenty-one, In Duty Afloat and Ashore. three decades. He was an officer in Rear Admiral Rodgers’s expedition to Corea in 1871. During the expedition Schley was Adjutant of the American land forces which attacked the Corean forts on Salee River, winning high repute for courage and for shrewd sense. It was partly because of his Corean record that Schley was chosen h¥vy ot Greely, whose Polar expedition had roused the whole world to exclte ment. Greely had vanished somewhere in the frozen No; that he and his crew had died from exposure or starvation. Two rellet he It was feared expeditions had heen sent to find him. Both had failed Then Schley was sent. Schley found Greely, near Cape Sabine, and rescued the explorer, along with the six surviving members of the latter's crew. Two months before the outbreak of our war with Spain Schley ‘was made a Commodore. Soon afterward—although he was lowest on the “Commodore list"—he was put in charge of the Flying Squadron for active service in Southern Atlantic waters. On June 1, 1898, Acting Admiral W. T. Sampson took fro him the command of this fleet. Schley, henceforth served under Sampson's orders, The Navy Department was mystified as to the possible whereabouts of Spain's formidable Cape Verde ficet, under Admiral Cervera. At last this fleet was located in Santiago Harbor, There was no chance for our ships to enter the harbor as Dewey had entered Manila Bay. For the entrance was very narrow, with scarcely room for a single big vessel to pass in or out, and the high banks on either side bristled with batteries, The harbor and its entrance were shaped like a huge bottle with a tiny neck. In this harbor Cervera's fleet was “bottled.” And Sampson's squad- ron, outside, watched the harbor-mouth as a cat nnn > watches a mouse-hole. Trying to Sampson on the morning of July 3 set out for Reach the Foe. Stboney in his flagship, the New York, for a necessary conference with Gen. Shafter. Scarcely had he gone when Cervera’s fleet made a Aash out of the harbor, Schley, as senior officer in Sampson's absence, was in command of tl United States squadron, and thus conducted the fierce, brief battle thi followed, The details of that battle are too familiar to need recital here, As Gy err Bay, the American marksmanship was an example for all the world. run aground or were forced to surrender, More than 600 Spaniards were | killea and wounded, Of Schley’s feet ten men were wounded and one maw | was killed, For “eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle” Schley was made @ Rear Admiral. The Navy Department then decided that Sampson should be promoted over Schley's head. Already bitter wrangling as to the battle's conduct had begun. And this move stirred up a veritable hornets’ nest... |The Senate would not confirm Sampson's promotion, : 75 Cents a Ton For Anthracite AllChina Asks ITH a coal, commanding $12 to $ fair grade of bituminous brought from Japan, gold per ton in Hongkong and Canton, 4t 1s possible to buy coal of good to fine quality at Chinese mines in the case of war, B claims that only neglected to apply for his second pa- France and Russia had such an|DPers until last year. It was then, of agreement and that while England | Course, too late, and he was obliged |to take out papers again. 1 ar Was in sympathy with them, she did/ nveq here trom Russia twelve years not have an actual alliance with interior for @ price that seems al- most ridiculous, Native mini removed fro ers at workings not far m waterways will sell the produot of their labor at 10 cents Chinese curr ‘ency per 100 catties (75 cents gold) per short ton. This rather amazing state of af- fairs is pointed out by @ writer in a Hongkong ni alzes the need of a jewspaper, who empha- comprehensive transport system to take advantage of China's great resources, article he say: The writer has recently had the opportunity of visiting some of the coal fields of Kwangs!, which are sit- uated near Sipa in the Lohch'end Prefecture. The region is alive with men, women and children, all busily engaged in either mining the coal from the various shafts or carr, tt to adjoint private consumption, the best quality No, 1 anthracite and is being mined in fairly large quant!- No machinery is used, picks ls and the ordinary carry- ing baskets being all that is required by the hardy workmen. In spite of | the primitive methods in which the coal is being mine the different shafts are yielding erage 10,000 cattles per day. 8 of the shafts are about 30 feet d though at the present time the pits seem to be producing th best coal and the greatest yield, ' rice of coal varies according to which it Is bought. mouth ts sel per hundred al carriage is delivered adds ago and am now eighteen years of| original price. ng ing markets for sale or ‘The coal ts of pi Coal at the pit's ling as low as 10 ce catties, but when the at a distance the considerably to the either. 8.1. | age. |°\When a new railway, now bullding, Before the war the balance of| Will I become a citizen if my father | 4g completed it will cause some of the in Kurape was maintained by | tes out his second papers within’ districts which are barren and unpro- power in Europ, and the ‘Triple | te Next two years? Or, if not, will) ductive to become Hidorados, the Triple Entente Alliance. ‘Tho first group of powers | included England, France and Russia zs and the second group Germany, Aus- (1) Yeas (2) a tga and Italy. What the terms of | To the Kditor of The E 14 Mise nati I came to this country at the age of ten years from Denmark. Have tremely close is indicated by the| taken out no papers. My father was rompiness of action on all aldes./a naturalized citizen, Am Ia cite I be obliged to apply for first papers? H.W, 8, Noy Yes, w agreements were no ry one can say, but that they were ex- Maly, natural foe of Austria, after-|zen? Must 1 have papers? Can I ward joined the Entente. | enlist? TWIN H tsemehip) lt Would Be a wed. | Prove ite Good Fa * To the Editor of The Evening World: | To the Exlitor of The Evening World I am &n American—married to a| Kindly advise me whether it would Spaniard, but he went to South|be safe for an alien enemy who has America twelve years ago and 1 do! his first papers and whose second not know if he is living, As he only|papers are past due, but which he had his first papers, would like to|cannot obtain, to invest in Liberty “know if I have lost my citjzenship.| Bonds at the present. I would thank If go, what must I do to regain At? you for your reply before the 1sth. B You are a subject of Spain, and, to law, may regain your ip at termination of mar- relation by simply continuing in the United: Statps. You Mast Register, To the Editor of The Evening World; I will be fifty-one years of age on July 15, 1917, Am I obliged to regis- ter? T. W. M. HAT reptl recen ‘Real F lying Dragons n Borneo to be is said le that can fly has been ntly discovered in Borneo. the only lnis creature 8 a lizard about ten | | usual understanding of the term, lely extended, enable the | its ribs, wid ligard to soa that an aer @ current of These fly travel in 8 deepest fore: they are said with their Science has Excellent Way to} inches long, 1t8 body brilliantly col- It does not have wings In the but rin much the same way ‘oplane or brd drifts on alr ing lzants commonly warms, frequenting the sts, Been at a distanc 4 to look much like birds, brilliantly-hued — bodies not as yet bit upon a name for the newly discovered specie of reptile flying dragon, cellent nan have called it the which seems an ex- everything considered, but In this] There is undisputable proof of her By James C. Young HE enlistment of women as yeo- men in the United States Navy has been remarked upon as @ new departure for the sex, But as a matter of fact they are merely fol- lowing in the footsteps of Miss Loulse Baker, a Massachusetts girl who saw service in three of the hottest sea fights that took place during the War of 1812-1815 with Great Britain, Un- lke the girls of to-day, Miss Baker did not enlist in ber proper person. She assumed the name of George Brown, put on the uniform of a ma- rine and spent three years upon that fagious man-of-war the Constitution. achievements, which rank with the finest of fin heroic age, when Ameri- can prowess at sea threatened all the maritime prestige that England had gained in several centuries, After the war Miss Baker was hon- orably discharged, and later was mar- ried to @ prosperous Massachusetts merchant. She became the mother of a large family and lived to write of her days afloat in a most interesting biography, Many men of that t!me wore their hair long, tying it behind the head 1) a kind of cue. ‘This ace Three Sea Battles Fought Aboard the Constitution by Louise Baker, Marine tice made it easier for the girl to dis- Guise herself. Miss Baker was twenty years of age when she went to sea, enlisting in the good city of Boston. “Having provided everything nec- essary for my entrance in a character on the stage of life,” she records, “I seized upon a favorable opportunity, early one morning, to equip myself therefor. Being garbed completely suit I quit, unnoticed, my lodming: the public street. m my awkward appearance {a attempting to assume the character of a male, I was not without my fears that I would be suspected; nor were my apprehensions relieved un- til, passing through Court Street, when I ventured to accost a woman I met, who, answering with a prompt "Yes, sir,’ strengthened my confidence that I would pass for a male, 1 bent my course toward tho old mar- ket where, entering a victualling cel- lar, I procured breakfast. The ra- mainder of the day I spent rambling about the town, Next morning, passing through Fish Street, I en- tered a houso where there was a public rendezvous for the enlistment of men to go aboard one of the United States frigates then lying tn the harbor and shortly bound on a cruise.” This was the forty-four-gun_ ship Constitution, to which Miss Baker was assigned as a marine It was Aug. 2, 1812, that the frigate and passed sailed from Boston, Miss Baker con- d to being slightly iil ut first, but seventeen days later she took part in riere. This was one of the most spe tacular engagements of the whole struggle, Throughout the battle Miss Baker was stationed in a fighting top with a half dozen marines. It was their special task to pick off British sailors on the deck of the Guerriere. “L was busily employed in the top plying my faithful musket with the best success whenever the smoke would permit me to see a bluejacket of the enemy,” she no! “In the heat of the action a grapeshot struck and splintered the butt of my musket. lt was noticed by one of my com- rades who stood a few feet away from me, who patting me on the shoulder exclaimed; ‘Never min George, you have won enough laure! to recammend you to the pretty girls when you return to port.’ ” In December of that same eventful year the Constitution fought and cap- tured the British frigate Java off the Brazilian coast, Miss Baker again had a hand in the victory, remarking that “I discharged my piece nineteen times, which, as 1 now had learned to take pretty exact aim, must, I think, have done some execution,” Two more cruises were made by Miss Baker on the same good ship. Upon the second of these she partici- pated in the Constitution's victory over the Cyano and Levant. The three vessels met near the west coast of Africa Feb, 20, 1815, by ‘fio Prem Publishing 09, New York Prening Word.) ought to be proud that so many of our boys regls- tered for the selective When the Kaiser hears of our youth rallied to the flag give up!” said Mr, Jarr, the| optimist. es, and if he hears how many of they are the sole supports Avatt. how | he'll them say of widowed mothers and want to get out of it, the Kaiser will be encour- aged,” said Johnson, the cashle | who was the office pessimtst, “Name one!" said Mr, Jarr, Johnson murmured that he didn't want to tell tales out of school. “There, 1 knew you couldn't name one!” sald the patriotic Mr, Jarr.| ‘You are too old to register, but maybe you're @ slacker for all that, you bought a Liberty Bond | yot?’ Have you?” asked Jobnson. “Well, L would if | could afford it," Mr, Jarr declared. “I'm going to ask the boss if he won't buy a bunch of | the bonds and hold them for u#@and let us pay for them on the instalment plan, A lot of business houses are doing that.” tho pessimist, partly paid for, you think the boss will have to keep you on the pay roll amily By Roy L. McCardell | ull it’s all pald for?” “Why, no,” said Mr, Jarr, “If he's a real mean guy he could fire me, aud if 1 couldn't take up the bond he could.” “There's something in that,” said the cashier, But whether he meant it would be a good thing for Mr, Jarr t explain, Jarr, after Us silence, think the office © ought to get together and talk this thing over, It's a good idea, a patriotic idea, let- ting us buy 4 bunch of bonds that way.” And the boss financing tt" said the cashier, who had paid out the office money so long he hed come to think it was his own he was part- ing with, ‘ow don’t be a grouch,” said Mr. “You know we ought to get; nore than we do, sald Jenkins, Jarr, together m ‘ “You'r the| right!” book who had been listening, “All we out of life is a little kind. | | ness to e other, Everybody should | be cordial and friendly, Then there would be more real happiness in this world—and from that would come wider fellowship, and that would mean the end of the dreadful hates’ and wars that are such @ curse and horror to humanity!" “'g' matter?” asked the cashier, “'g' matter, Jenk, isn't the wife speaking to you these days?” “You never mind about my priva’ affairs!” sald the bookkeeper, fusi ing. “But it would be better for the whole world if there was more con- geniality and comradship,’ “Yes, you are a bachelor; you don't know anything about these things,” said Mr, Jarr to the cashier, “What do you say, Johnson, for us to have a little office get-together luncheon to-day, and discuss this Liberty Bond | Schley tried to refute his critics by demanding a court of inquiry as to his own behavior during the battle. The court found him guilty of deline® quency on several minor points. Schley filed a protest against such treate ment, but got no redress, In October, 1901, ho retired from the Navy, dyi ‘ten years later. oe Building Up Your Sales | Territory — Being “On the Job” All the Time a Big Factor. | This Salesmanship article is the second in a serics which The | Evening World will present on this page, all extracts from addresses | delivered by men of recognized authority at the World's s Congress, held this week in Detroit, By Spencer Welton, Vice-President and General Manager, Sterling Tire Corporation | (NONCENTRATION 1s the founda- (Ce tion of efficiency, particularly in sales making—concentration of mind, concentration of effort, concen- | tration of territory. | It 1s and has always been the ten- | dency of salesmen and too frequently of sales executives to regard the ter- ritory farthest away as the most pro- ductive and the eastest to work in— just as to the grazing steer the greenest pastures are just beyond. Yet there never was a better maxim nan that of old Bob Fitzsimmons, | it from where your hand 1s,” al- | though it might be improved by adding the words, “and keep hitting.” | As @ matter of fact territory has little to do with whether you sell or whether you don’t, In moments of discouragement you may think it has —trequently weak-kneed salesmen use it as an excuse, but that's all it ever really amounts to, Give me a fair salesman who calls at frequent intervals persistently all the year around, partly to create Sryat tenacity, | business and partly to take care of|pig or Nite’ w that which already exists, and at the |be really intere, lend of a year or a decade or a life- | Tequirements, ‘alesmanship not be equalle: bert Hubbard bined ; Some saloernan and 00, get discouraged bec: aren't the immediate reeultene than eftorts, Things that are really worth any line of bh 2 are never mushroom growth ayer must always be a period of sere tematic preparation, and usually eo longer and harder ‘and the more ‘i tensive that breparatio, the success in the end, ote areata t is one of our natlo: istics, I fear, that we and yet successful sale: business of infinite detaj jtematic development of mY aw and of one’s territory, “e The salesman sho v a future sale by careloanerer ae Ing one, rather being careful to stn: ote the development of re gives in his present sales, “Rect honest-to-goodness sympathetion ae terest in the customer pete 4S business where plain logie fail enitis Possible to oftend by. ency in your away a lot more business thar te d by Billy Sunday, Ble and Demosthenes cone some managers, mal cha abhor detail smanship tals, isa bd lots of 8. Y Dersist- t on with custom, sted in them and their | where ladies couldn't go. matter?” ” - atter? ( | 1 will show you more sales at It's a go!” said the cashier, who| ‘!™*® i ; wasn't really the pessimist he affect, | higher prices than can be taken from to be, | q carefully selected, hand-picked ter- Mr. Jarr could hardly wait to get| pectacular salesman who ritory by a spe home to tell bis wife of the new era! cats once in six months and on that of fellowship and universal peace and Liberty Bonds that was dawning at | occasion makes an oration that could the office, “To-morrow?” cried Mrs, Jarr. “Why, I haven't a thing to wear “But ‘you are not going, my dea explained Mr, Jarr, “It's just. ¢ fellows at our office. I explained tha “Oh, it's Just for you men, is it? queried Mrs, Jarr, | “I might have known it was some selfish scheme of that sort!" “But it isn't selfish, It's for fellow- ship, and patriotism and Liberty nds, don't you see? id Mr, Jari, urely you don't object?” “Obj Me object?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “Of course not, but I might have known you were going somewhere | To-Day’s Anniversary TE lth of June 1s the annivers- ale ary of the adoption of the American Flag by @ resolution of Congress passed on that date in |fhe year 1777, Until that time the Mimerican troops Who were engaged {hvresisting the forces of Britain had fought under standards—the York, the Rattlesnake Flas of Southern Colonies, the Creace: displayed by Col, Moultrie at Chi fon, and the flag unfurled by W ington at Cambridge, showing thir- teen stripes alternately red and white, with the Union Jack of Great Britain in the corner, var Beaver Flag of New the “But the ladies—our wives—will get the Liberty Bonds, you know.” Mrs. Jarr said whe didn't know. Marriage bad taught her that there were no such things as Libefty Bonds, When you talk to @ perfunctorily and in remind yourself that ne ia enners being and he probably knows mee of interesting things you don't knot and if you show yourself intennow? in him and sympathetic to he eted and his wants, you will ney mood make @ customer, but you way scaly 4 bully time doing it By nave with the other fellow and puman be human with you, ei Imagination ts a successful walcsmansntn’? factor tn overlook the development of that gat aginative faculty, because goat im= work isn't all a’ ma around and calling and over ag man dont do th An All-wise Pp: dence gave you a head as wel 29 and intended you to uso bono” £88 Whatever your job ma , iv the best that ts in your.” Pe Rive tt You never know who you, and you can't tell tunities will come to you Treat everv customer o customer as if he were a po ployer and you were condueting. ee ie to prove your fitness fo: Job, rhe bite {8 watchin, = what oppore unsought, ¥ Drospectiy, ‘Se RO pie slate ie 4 . 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