The evening world. Newspaper, June 20, 1917, Page 14

| ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to es ark Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63. Pa Row. J ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZ Heoretary, 61 Park How. Entered at the Port-Office at New York an Second-Cless Matter Bubsoription Rates to The World for the United States and Canada, Evening |For England and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Union, $6.00 One Year., .60|One Month “LET THE PUBLIC MAKE GOOD.” HETHER or not the proposed two-cent transfer—which amounts to the transfer of an additional $7,000,000 a year or better from the pockets of New Yorkers to the treasu | ries of tho street railway corporations—was expressly designed to cover the cost of last year’s strike on various city lines, the public hedring on the Third Avenue Railway Company’s petition has re- called a significant fact: * Five years ago the Public Service Commission ordered the Third Avenue Company to set aside 20 per cent. of its gross receipts as a depreciation fund to insure the public against extra demands the corporation might be moved to make to compensate itself for losses sustained by reason of strikes or other abnormal conditions. The company declined to obey this order on the ground that, since there was no depreciation, no such depreciation fund could be needed. Highly pertinent at this moment, as Assistant Corporation Coun- eel Rosensohn points out, is the reminder that “if the Third Avenue Company had obeyed the order of the Public Service Commission in 1912 and set aside 20 per cent. of its gross receipts there would have been on hand a fund sufficient to pay for the strike the company faced about a year ago.” “The public should not be compelled to pay this 20 per cent.,” adds Mr. Rosensohn, “for that is precisely what the company asks this commission’s permission to do.” Last year’s strike may constitute part of the damage. But there is a long, complicated record of stock-watering, overcapitalization and inside profit-taking behind the street railway systems of this city which amply accounts for their present efforts to push @ little deeper into the public’s pocketas , Directly anything happens which threatens to reduce by ever so little the dividends these corporations are able to declare over and above the cost of carrying old loads and paying fancy returns on leases inherited from old deals, their firet cry is sure to be: “LET THE PUBLIC MAKE GOOD.” a em —ae — Evening World Daily Magazine bs AS, Ea Rr Py NCE Convetaht 19 by The Prem Publishing Co (The New York Krentn, That is what is behind this two-cent transfer drive launched by the street railway companies. That is why the Public Service Commission and every organiza- tion interested in the protection of the public’s rights should rally to ita defense, bring the drive to a standstill, and force these corporations to meet the consequences of their own past reckless methods of finance by some other means than an additional levy upon the earnings of men and women who have to subtract from wages the nickels and dimes it costs them to go to and from their work. te “In the last five months,” Mr, Hoover told the Senate Com- mittee on Agriculture, “$250,000,000 has been extracted from 1@ American consumer in excess of normal profits of manu- | featurers and distributers.” i “With reasonable manufacturers’ and distributers’ profit the rice of flour should not have been over $9 a barrel. Yet it | averages $14.” | Face to face with such conditions and no guarantee as yet | ast worse to come, can the average American wage-earner | Yearn to fight for his country, leaving wife and children to struggle with plunderers and profiteors as best they may? \ If he is selected to serve as @ worker rather than as a fighter, can he fall-to with courage and confidence that at least ae will be protected from treachery and pillage as he toils? Upon him depend industry and srosperity, Upon industry and prosperity depends national strength to endure. Upon endurance depends victory, Surely he is worth considering, 4 ——____ HANG OUT EVERY ITALIAN FLAG! TT will be nothing lacking in the city’s welcome to the Italian Commission, which arrives to-morrow The Italians of New York, who have proved their loyalty to the nation, can count upon all good citizens to join them in enthusi- gatic greeting for the distinguished guests who represent another Ally & the great cause, One detail, however, deserves all the emphasis the reception com- mittee has put upon-it: Italian flags should be displayed in the greatest possible numbers,. The principal streets of the city are already bright | with the Stars and Stripes and the flags of Great Britain and France, | Nothing is more certain to give heartfelt pleasure to the Italian visit-| ors as they are driven about New York than to see the flag of their| country holding its own among the flags of all the Allies, It is unfortunate that the supply of Italian flags is limited by the| fact that more work is required to make them, But, in any case, by The Way to Catch the Rat! _ Faithful Performance of Every That Lead to Bigger This Salemanship article is the seventh in a series of extracts Jrom addresses delivered by men World's Salesmanship Congress, held last week in Detroit. By Patters District Manager, E. ROMOTION opportunities open P up at every turn to the man who has developed and is de- veloping now each day his capacity four-square and who has all throug! his business career, be it short or long, Ini@ a broad and solid founda- tion of confidence and satisfaction, Often it is, apparently, some minor thing that secures promotion, when in reallty it has been years of concen- trated application that prepared bim for doing just that little thing so well. It was mere polite attention by clerk to an apparently plain uninter- esting woman who stepped into a store In New York one rainy da; when the other clerks were absorbed in talking to one another, that s cured for hjm the entire charge of the furnishing of Skibo Castle for Mra Andrew Carnegie, But polite and in- terested’ attention was so long a fixed habit with this young man as to be constant with bin. That is it; make ood qualities Mibits and make the abit so fixed as to become character- istic, If you satisfy the highest standards that you yourself should accept for to-morrow there should not be a single one in the possession of any New Yorker that is not aloft or draped where it can be seen, i ay Oe Supreme submarine chaser \s @ fine title. May Admiral Sims earn a permanent right to | Hits From Sharp Wits A Florida counterfelter has been | who wants to save an hour of day- | making tin nickels, Maybe that ac counts for the shortness in the tin| phta Inquirer can crop,—Memphis Commercial Ap- a. peal. Siig a When women get men's wages will they reciprocate and turn over the pay envelope?—Philadelphia Inquirer, To the jealous eyes’ the success of another is the unpardonable erlme— Milwaukee News. co 6 It may be fortunate for a fool that What would be tho result if we! "# does not know he is one, but it's always followed the advice we give) <Nfully rough on the rest of us— Perea stan itcre News, Memphis Commerclal-Appeal, ia Cae ally) Never grant a privilege unless you! are willing to have it come to be re- garded as a right.-Albany Journal, ee ea: When a woman gets @ love letter from her husband she appreciates it if it has a check in it.—-Chicago News. oe € Food manipulatérs make a specialty of hitting their victims in the stom- ach.—Toledo Blade, er It's queer, but the man who never says anything is often taken at his word,—-Binghamton Press, ( saa Souler) Those who have least worth saying| A convineing orator 13 one who has Milwauljee to get up at 8 A. M. nd@w hae a son’ the! U@ht beginning at 9 A. M.—Philadel- | your work, your superior is bound to find the quality in it meriting your promotion. If I were asked what is the greatest essential to achievement to success, to promotion, I would say a great de- termination to accomplish that end, a strong unbending will Without determination Watt would Work Determines Promotions _ Day Duties Constructs Steps Jobs “Higher Up.” n of recognized authority at the F on armer L. Burnett Co, Inc. nor Franklin his electrical discoveries and application, nor Fulton his steam- boat, nor Morse his telegraph, nor Bell his telephone, nor Edison his phonograph, nor Parsons his turbine, nor Marconi his wireless, We can ail have healthy, vigorous wills, And next in point of prepared- ness for promotion is the finish we put to our every transaction. Most people think too much of quantity and too little of quality in their work. Accept nothing short of your best. Put such a quality in your work that any one who comes across anything you have ever done will see character in it, individuality in it, your trade mark of superiority upon it. Your reputation 1s at stake in everything you do and your reputation is your capital, You should regard every task that goes through your hands, every piece of work you touch as Stradivarius regarded every violin he made, not © of which was ever known to come to pieces or break Every Stradivarius now in exis- tence {8 worth from three to ten thousand dollars or several times its weight in gold. Your work must be that human skill can proauce, There ts nothing like belng enam- the very best you can do, the best | Copyright, 1017, by ‘Tho Prem I (The New York Evening Workl.) ag YOUR family going away for than expected. Employers do not say . all they think, but they detect very quickly the earmarks of superiority They keep thelr eye on the employee who has the stamp of excellence upon him, who takes pains with his work the summer, already yet?" asked Mr, Slavinsky, the glazier. “Why, no,'t replied Mr. Jarr, “It's John D, Rockefeller jr. says that|too early, already yet, as you might the “Secret of wuccess is to do the|say. We never go away ull August common duty uncommonly well.” The | or ge 7 ' * pte that | of September, Why do you ask? of people do not se the steps that lead to the position above them are constructed little by little, by the faithful performance of “Because I vish it that my wife was going away for two weeks instead ne aitheul Ms only over the night to stay mit my nelr common, humble every-day du-! ticle Heyman by B af id ties of the postion the ial eyman by Brownsville,” ea! Ra, f the position they are now fill- | y4r, siavinsky with a sigh. ‘“Yol, visi f she wa it is doing things a little better than TeGka CEO RENiA Holmen County those about yoy do them; being a Uttle neater, a little quicker, a little more accurate, a little more obsery- ant; it is ingenuity tn finding new and more progressive ways of doing old things; it is being a little more polite, a little more obliging, a little more tactful, a little more cheerful, optimistic, a little more energetic, helpful, than those about you that at- tracts the attention of your employer and other employers also, in the Kittskills.” “Sullivan County in the Catskills, ean,” said Mr, Jarr, “I guess yes,” said the glazier dole- fully. “But why they call them Kitts- kills or Catskills? My boy Shidney, what is a murderer in the moving ple ture, 1s out in Denver vonce and he says the cats can’t live there because the mountains is too high they can't breathe, Is it so the Catskills kills cats?” ;, "Why, no, its an Indian name or) blue smoke that makes wolde weeks or a month in Solomon County | ifty Failures é Who Came Back] By Albert Payson Terhune Copstiaht, 1017, by. the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvea'ng Worl), 37.—W. M. THACKERAY; the “Failure” Who Became | NO. an Immortal Writer. © was the lonely little orphan son of an Englishman who had lived in India and who died there. bd As a child William Makepeace Thackeray was sent away from Calcutta, ‘his birthplace, to be educated in England, | At eleven (in 1822) the forlorn child became a pupil at the celebra\ |Charterhouse School, The life he led there may be guessed at from the) — fact that he nicknamed it “The Slaughter House.” His school career was a failure. Later he went to Cambridge University. There he got into all sorts of trouble and was finally obliged to leave college without graduating. Another failure, After drifting aimlessly about the Continent he came back to England to study law. One more failure, He next took up the study of art, but with little better success, He had learned to gamble, and he was the easy prey of every sharper, notably of a blackleg whom he afterward depicted in several of his stories as “Mr. Deuceace.” ’ When he was twenty-one Thackeray inherited a fortune of about $100,000, The bulk of this he paid out at once to settle gambling debts he @ had incurred. The rest was lost in foolish specula- Tries His Hand tion. at Literature. All but penniless he now proceeded to marry. enn Early In his wedded life his young wife went hope- lessly insane. The man was a failure—a fallure in finance, in profession, |domestie life. . He prospered ty nothing. He was the sport of every breeze of bad luck. In 1837 he moved to London, where he tried to pick up a living by literature. From the first his writing was brilliant, strikingly ofiginal, fraught with scintillant genius, But somehow it failed to win him fame or a competence. | He filustrated much of his own work—which may have accounted for its flack of popularity (as any one will understand who is familiar with | Thackeray's drawings). e | He even asked leawe to illustrate one of Charles Dickens's books, but was refused. (Thackeray and Dickens, by the way, in later years were enemies), Not until -he waa thirty-five did the unfortunate Thackeray meet withy the first taste of real success, to sbften his dreary long period of failure, It was in 1846 that he published as a serial his master novel, “Vanity Vair." It ran serially In a magazine for the next two fears, In epite of the fact that he himself illustrated {t the story made an instant hit, One ¢ biographer, in speaking of “Vanity Fair," says ‘ “When it began his name was still generally unknown. But Ste popularity Increased with every number. And at its close he was universally classed with Dickens and Bulwer, among the foremost British novelists,” Success had arrived. Renown and a comfortable livelihood were the reward of this first hit of Thackeray’ And the author labored hard and consctentiously to maintain the repu- tation that “Vanity Fair" had given him. He was forever at work, Never again, perhaps, did he rise to such heights of literary greatness as in this wonder novel, But he followed it with book after book which at once took their place as classics, He won new laurels, too, as a lecturer, an es- , le as $ Sayist, a poet and an editor. bettie bande Sel | Ho had the raro gift of dissecting human peereary Senue: nature, exposing {ts pettiness and weakness, yet tanwrnn condoning its faults with @ kindly charity that took away much of the sting from his keen wit, i The failure of other days was now on the pinnacle of literary fame! Throughout the world his genlus was acclaimed, * Nor was he ashamed of his early misfortunes Indeed, he has woven a recital of them again and again into his stories. ‘At the very zenith of his fame Thackeray died—on Christmas Eve, 1868, The memory of the one-time “Fatlure” was honored by the placing of Bis bust in Westminster Abbey. All England and America-mourned his death. On ash tray, ‘May All Our iz laroKs! ‘Troubles ‘maa “We ain't never used that tray only to put on the mantalpiees be- cause it looks nice, and Muller lets « match drop on {t and it burst inte am explosion and ncorches all the it off mommer’s new dining room table and burns a hole in the tablecloth andj the carpet and smokes up the ceiling, and when I pour water the water run: down the floor through t into the store and the ceiling down to-day, Ol! O1! Such @ agh tray; {t boined like gasoline!" “It was celluloid, most likely,” eug- bach ore Jarr, “And them wolds on it, May A) End in Smoke Our Troubles moaned the glazier, ‘My trou! vets with gu 'y troubles will “You should have used of some kind,” San dagen “I should have used that’ what I know now!” declafed Mire Y vinsky. "Glass is ‘honest goods. It don’t boin, and if it dos break, don’t that make business better?” “Well,” said Mr, Jarr, “when you play cards at home with a bunch roughnecks like Muller and Dutch name—I don't know which. Kaaterskill, I think 1t was originally. | Yes, 1 guess that's Dutch. “It ain't Yiddish, anyway,” said the glazier, “but I vieh my vife was there Jtor three weeks, so I get a chance to fix things.” “Fix things what? Mr, Jarr, “Well,” said the perturbed Mr. Sla- vinsky. “Yesterday my vife takes the children and goes by Brownsville to my Uncle Heyman’s, because it costs So much to eat at home, that what good 1s relations if you can't visit them? So I have Muller, the grocer, and Bepler come to my house to play Explat aaid Yoi! Yot! asked the im- patient listener, “What a bawling out I am going to get from my vife when she sees the dining room yet, Taurus!" cried Mr. Slavinsky, with his hand to his head. Vait, I tell you, Muller ts smoking stogies and I get out an ash tray. It has a picture of a feller on it, a dude hugging a fine-looking lady mit yellow blond hair and smoking a cigar mit How Ss hra pnel HE wide and effective use of | “shrapnel in the present con- flict has invited general curi- osity as to just how this much dreaded missile works. ‘The two pictures accompanying this article, reprinted from Popular Me- wid travels as @ unit until the flash from the fuse reaches the powde: pocket, when the ignition of the pow- der charge occurs. What then hap- pens has already been described, ‘The Surapnel balla are scattered with a velocity which makes them very de- structive within a radius of about where the shrapnel ored of accuracy, being grounded in thoroughveas as a life principle of al- ways striving for excellence. No other characteristic makes such a strong Impression upon your superior as the habit of painstaking, careful- ness, accuracy. I ha¥e known many instances where udvancement hinged upon a little over-plus of interest in what you do, of painstaking put into not have produced bis steam engine, | Makes Its your work, of doing a little better Appearance fighting trolley car so far re- corded, It has proved to be a | distinct success, filling a particularly pressing need, ID'S Minn,, has the only fire- A narrow strip of land running into! be done promptly to keep Park Point | Lake Superior forms the harbor of Duluth, It is about seven miles Jong ‘and only four to six hundred feet | wide. jeated Park Point, an exclusive rest | So narrow 1s that only one street Park Point, ‘here News. pire Depariment to render effective | over, the| possible for a tug to get near it. ts| of pressing a ald, So the development of Park | Point was held back, and there was a leaning toward cheap construction, thereby marring the beauties of the suburb, It was felt that something must from losing {ts caste, Under ordinary cucUmMstanees w tire tug would have } solved the problem, but the shore on ‘On this strip of land is lo-| oth sides of the point shelved far| |down into the lake and made it im- In this hour of need some one thought trolley car Into ser- vice, The street. railway ; . often do the most talking,—Albany| sense enough to shut up before his {uh the suburbs sine Te AER Dus | eet seated: aia haat tee aot eos Journal. audience acquires that tired fecling.— | ¢he road leading to it are of sand, |car of the kind usual . ae Siar ; Chicago News Whenever 4 house caught. fir summer had been conv to a fire- The devil likes to run across a lone- Lay ere Park Point total | gene fighting trolley car. It carries 1,500 some man in a big tgwn.—Toledo| Of course the divorce problem ts the result, The distance from the| fect of hose and all the appurten Blade. one of substraction—Patersagh Call. gity and the difficulty of driving a\ances of a fire engine, When a blaze ee A | fire engine over the sandy route ade| breaks out on the point the ear is The old fashioned faryfer who used| All nice man, Unless jt almost tmpossible for the Duluth| summoned and the trouble is, soon chanics, give some idea of shrapnel's | mechanical construction, The one at | the right shows a cross section of a | three-Incl\ shrapnel, which contains | from 240 to 250 bullets, | ‘The smaller picture diagrams what happens when @ shrapnel breaks | properly. During flight, at the Ume jet, the powder charge is ignited, | the balls are scattered by the dia- |phragm ploughing forward, and the | head of the projectile flies in advance | The bullets are imbedded in resin A timed to break accurately at any pre- properly built shrapnel can be determined distance in its flight, not- withstanding the fact that it may be traveling at a speed of 2,000 feet per second, The time fuse controlling this function is carried on the end of the shell casing and forms the nose of the projectile. The cap of the fuse contains three slugs, or pellets, the upper one of which fits firmly into the nose of the cap and serves primarily as a cush- and fill the steel casing above the|!n against which the centre diaphragm, which, closes up. the| moving slug rebounds on the di powder pocket in tho base of tho|°Darge of the gun, The free-moving lug fits loosely in the cap, so that on the instant the shrapnel leaves the cartridge case on firing {t is thrown casing. i ty In this powder pocket ts con- ft i plodes th powder charge, which o shrapnel, A timing device | from which emanates the flash which | forcibly against Ene lower aus. Sale [{gnites the powder charge at ‘somg| explosive slug carries on its upper pre-determined instant, caps the shell | end ® small quantity of tn ea jeasing and forma tho nose of the) itunes exploded with a flash when On nring a gun loaded with shrap. | struck by the free-moving slug, nel the cartridge case is Yeft behind. | |‘Tho shrapnel ty projected at a high | encircling the inside of the timing velocity, revolving rapidly in its flight | "ng and connecting with the lower of the two powder trains shown in the illustration as leading to the guncot- tube, ‘Adjustment of the timing ring regulates the time required for trang + | BH viosive on the end of the explosive ‘slug to the powder under the dia- phragm, so that the shrap will its flight. This regulation is accom- plished by atmply increasing or de- \Greasing the length of fuse which |ton im the upper end of the powder mitting the flash of the sensitive ex- break at any predetermined point in baa to be consumed hatween{ the | } HOW SHRAPNEL EXPLODES. Operates | This ignites a powder train, or fuse, | you should use a metal buckel coal gouttle preferably—and mak them throw their ma ‘4 vf moane: 7 sorrowful glazier. irat I went ate leeerivg armeate Zerarionany ue | the Kitchen and brought out a | tin pan and put it on the floor for 3 them to throw things In. It was dark | "neeMovine MUS | in the kitchen, and I don't see what I took, and after everythin, guess what it was Fe Mr. Jarr couldn't guess That tin pan that ts aH full of holes to strain things thr * the glazier, seed “Oh, I know, the colander,” ‘Sent ander,” sald Mr, a That's Mt gure that's tt Mr, Slavinsky, “And what do you think it will coat me to clean up the carpet where it ain't boint into holes?” : "It will cost you your marital peace,” said Mr, Jarr. ““If you only | had time to buy a ne things w - new Tus oon But I von't have time, Mr, Charr,” imine #NO | ned SHELL CASING. Ty 3 3 2 SHRAPNEL wyww9rr | con o\8 \ whimpered the m journful Sta : | onivine nut let this be a lesson teva: | oan Quncorrow / body! Home ain't no place for el | choyment, a time that | eowesr DIAPHRAGM nid rocker | PACKING | canrmvoe par T VIRGINIA fifty-four years old to-d Tt was on June 20, 1863, that the “seces- sion from secession” of the people in the western part of the Old Dom\ jended in the birth of a new Blate, | with Wheeling as its capital, THE INSIDES OF SHRAPNEL, The alliance of the West Virginia point at which it ts ignited by the| mountaineers with the Union had flash from the explosive slug and its | profound effect upon the fortunes of connection to the train leading to|the Confederate cause, It prevented the guncotton for one thing, the success of the pla: Should the free-moving slug stick,| for the invasion northward to Lake is {bowever, and fall to strike the ex-| Erie. Eastern and Wester | plosive ‘slug when the gun is dig-|had had differences long hegre the | charged, the:shrapnel will not break, | outbreak of the Civil War, ‘This con- but explodes when it strikes a firm | Mict only served to bring thesp differ. object, i ences to & head, - js t