The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1917, Page 16

“OE YO ORT S Pe ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, the Preas Publish ; Dafly Except Bupday. by the | reas Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te ‘or! A Presid 63 Park Row. due shaw: srroawurer, 62 Park Row ER, Ir., Secretary, 62 Park j Entered at the Post-Office at New York @s Second-Class Matter. World torte United states "| Au Countriedin the fnveruadonal rles_in the In ‘and "Canada, Postal Union, 00) One Year. .60/One Month, Month. WOLUME 57.0... ...cscccesseseeseees HALT IT. HE more one studies the way men supposed to represent the country in the Lower House of Congress have let Prohi- bition step in and use the great emergency of war for its own particular purposes, the more preposterous the situation appears. Say nothing of the grave economic disturbances threatened by wae wilful destruction of an industry. Say nothing of the sudden wiping out of national revenues esti- mated at anywhere between 300,000,000 and $500,000,000. Say nothing of the injustice of imposing upon 100,000,000 people summary and sweeping regulation of such a character without refer- ring it to popular vote. é Consider only the special and limited point of view of the Prohi- bitionists themselves: Prohibition professes to aim at saving lives by removing the eurse of liquor. Is there not grim absurdity in seeking to attain that end by taking advantage of a national exigency which itself threatens to destroy lives at a rate impossible to calculate? Is the terrible business of war to be seized upon and exploited for the benefit of reformers and social regenerators of all sorts? Is moral uplift to block national war measures unless its pet programmes are at the same time put in action? There ought to be a saving element of stern, uncompromising common sense still left in the Senate of the United States. We hope there is enough to halt this joy-ride of Prohibition at the expense of national need. a The Red Cross has its $100,000,000 and better, feans are not to forget that that is only a starter, ——_++ + NO. 20,398 “ J But Amer- FIND OUT WHAT CARRANZA IS UP TO. ITH the Carranza Government starting a campaign of taxa- W tion and restriction against American and British oil interests in Mexico, and with German agents known to be busy in the Tampico, oil district, it was high time to warn Carranza that the Allies do not propose to be cut off from legitimate sources of an important part of their oil supply. American oil fields are not able to meet present demands. In- dustry needs oil. Navies need oil. Aeroplanes need oil. Coal and il, we are constantly reminded, are absolutely essential to Allied success, There must be no question of either failing. Not only does the routine of military transportation on land involve the use of enormous quantities of oil, but the special plans of the Allies to be carried out on sea and in the air will call for extra heavy oil supplies. More and more does up-to-date warfare rely on the gasoline engine, If the Germans have designs on the Mexican ofl fields the time to do something about it is now. Experience has proved that unless Carranza is reminded from time to time of his duties toward his best friend and neighbor he too readily avails himself of the chance to forget them. — ++ + ———_— . Of the “bone-dry” amendment attached to the Food Control Bill, Cardinal Gibbons observes: “A law of this kind interferes with the personal liberty and rights of the people and creates hypocrisy on the part of the public. The history of the world down to the present time demonstrates the fact that people have and always will indulge in intoxicants, irrespective of any restraining power that It 1s attempted to saddle upon them.” The country is indebted to the Cardinal for a contribution of sound, ripe wisdom at a moment whey the commodity is running painfully short. TO THE RUSSIAN ARMY READY. HE Russian revolution raised no such ructions with the Russian army as Americans have been led to believe, A World cor- respondent who has had exceptional opportunities for observing conditions at the Russian front reports that Russian soldic are eager allies of President Wilson and democracy, that desertions have |‘ been far less frequent than rumor would have had us think and that the Russian forces are at the present moment amply supplied with munitions and with the spirit for a great offensive. It would not be strange if revolutionary perturbations observed among the factions of the capital had been ove have their parallels In the army. learn that Pp fighting men under arms than with restless and liberty-daz: astily Nor need we be surprised to assumed to German ypagandists have been less successful with 1 ele ments among the working classes, If the Russian armics are ready and eager to fight, why not let them? There is nothing Russia should do—now without further delay or hopeful talk about it—more certain to clinch the confidence and good will of her allics, Letters From the People The Act of Voting Would Constt-| identification to Ing to become an that he ts will- merivan city I noticed a question asked and an- swered in your columns the other evening which read something like She Ina To the Bitor Since 1 be: this: My father was born tn Ger-| tn T marriey many and never was naturalized, 1) ()* ee Se take out ‘vas born in this country. Am I an] citizen also? RAGS HEP a American citizen? The answer to the question was: “Children born in this country of alien parents are citizens of hs country if they so declare themselves and do not specifically claim the citizenship of their father.", What I don't understand is what son's birth? HW mean by declaring themselves. Bo you mean that if when one is born Seeretary of War, fn this country and reaches the age! Te the Kiitur of The krcoing World of twenty-one that when he casts his’ Kindly inform me the prop first vote he is @ citizen; or do you in Washington, D.C., to whom I cou Mean that such a person has to ob- submit un invention which the Army tain o certificate or Dae form of could use for its horses, R 1 Be Eligible, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Is 4 man eligible to be President of the United States who was bor the United and whose father was born in ope, bul who was a Naturaliged citizen at the tine of his nin States rte In ge ooh ans TI tn eS, IEE man dite ah Sonn he de The Flirtatious Employer And the Stenographer By Sophie A for a downtown firm for the dependence of @ Keone eure Lane I wish there could be a law pi as to why I was discharged by the squarely before the President of the ‘Tho letter in part follows: “Being a good stenographer and leave mo entirely in charge. “He 1s forty-nine and has a son | to go to lunch with him, oughly and liked it, and I had felt so very miserable, ever, he was again nice to me—and would be putting it mildly. the very ground were taken out from was left without a position. not satisfactory? long in his employ? understand.” }war loan scriptions with duplicated rom the E [asked for $1, lexceoded $3,000 any's upon French the opening mo half dozen methods, running $3,000,00,000 mark | the first call glish initial 5,000,000 subse amounting to but they quickly natsed. Every Man N three months of war the United States has ac- complished vastly more than most of us realize. Al though we have scarcely struck @ blow as yet, our power grows hourly, The time is not far away when we will be able to play @ part that befits our stature as a nation, We have just raised a 10,000,000 amazing ease, sub- well above the In this we bave for money England purse, 0,000, Subscriptions 100,000, war loan was The first demand ts was small, 00,000,000, which France financed s of the war by @ nd the size of that loan does not tell the true story. Mer military | $20,000,000 & month, We have to loaned $1,000,000,000 expenses were then our allies close since entering the war, and the purse strings are bang- | To-Day’s Anniversary- | | A Live! } tes lithe don Ensiand, Ku were banded against b e fence von t that i N was | asa, between Prime M at Dresden, that the two # an outburst exclaimed sir soul, You have You have not life of another wien need be men!" 4 | are lw , that ‘may hear you.” 2 mor years ago Europe was @ bat round, ing ft historic leon ister of In its early stages You have not learned What ¢ than a hundred as it is to-day, and was Napoleon Prussia and Sweden Austria It was June interview Mot ra, took place be ich, and Aust It was to be seen In man, i Greater Progress Made in Preparing Peaceful Nation Than Any Other People Ever Achieved—But the Work Is Just Beginning and Must Help. By James C. Young Convrizht. 1017, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ing loose for their next demand, S80 much for the financial side of the conflict, Recently @ great deal has been heard about slackers, resistance to tho military service law, and our general unpreparedness. But In three months the United States has raised an armed volunteer force of more than a half million men, which ts better than Britain could do even though Imperilled by an enemy who reac his hungry elaws across the Channel, That 1s by no means a re- flection upon our ally, whose native man power is much less than ours, but it 1s a fine testimonial to the spirit of America, When President Wilson declared a state of war to exist we had ap- proximately 800,000 men In the army, navy and No reg- ular © of soldiers included about 100,000 men at that time, ‘To-day its nks have been expanded to almost 0,000 men, The National Guard, which had 150,000 men last April, now numbers 260,000 effectiv The Marine Corps has been increased | J A of the oddities to be found in Japanese waters, Not only that, but the face is surprisingly like that of a Japanese warrior in the “old, unhappy, far off days of the past." This face is formed by th strange figuration of the crab’s back. bo one of the creatures crawling on the sand is to see what apparently is w/ human face moving across the apanese Crabs I CRAB with @ human face 1s ono According to Japanese history the nation was beset by a plague of piracy a few centuries ago, The coasts were ravased, Vessels sunk and terror spread generally by marauding Kea rove Then the people organ ized a fleet and set out to exterminate 1© pirates, A great battle followe: in which all of be freebooters were slain, At this point legend steps in, It ta | said that not long after the battle the first of the crabs appeared, With ad- vancing years the crabs Increased in numbers unul they are quite common And not only do they bear the face of aw derce old warrior, but it is strangely Half Mill ion H a ve Volu ntee red. from 17,000 to 80,000 men, navy has just doubled its Jumping from 60,000 to And the person- 120,000 men, We raised twelve new regiments of engineers numbering 1,000 men each, which soon will be ready for service abroad, No less than 40,900 Americans are striving for commis- sions In officers’ training camps, Per- haps 25,000 others are enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve, the medical and engineer corps, inde pendent ambulance units, and so on. The total of Americans who have lat aside peaceful occupations for the grim business of war 1s thu# easily 500,000 men, That is the largest number of volunteers ever raised in so short a period, All of us remember the days when “Kitchener's Million” was being put into khaki, The world looked on and wondered at a nation which could raise such @ huge force by the volun- teer plan, It is not possible to say how soon all of that million were in France, but it Is certain that Bri- tain's War plans for her new troops were not so well advanced in three months a8 ours are to-day, At least @ year elapsed after Britain took the plunge before she began to render any Very effective ald to the French, who fought that first bloody year al- most alone, It would be much near- er the truth to say that two years elapsed bef Britain was ready to fave Human Face | liko that of a dead man who had been drowned he superstitious among the natives say that the souls of the s entered into the forms of the “Glistening Bayonets” Thing of the Past | ON the romancer no longer wilh i} be able to write about the col- umn of American troops that marehed into battle with bayonets glistening in the sun, For the United States Government has about de- jeided to t of the glisten out of a bayonet and have it o blue steol, Lt is argued that just as int uniform attracts attention even ut a distance, so the lustre of 1 polished bayonet may be seen far Away. If this step is taken tt will be only one more blow at the panoply war, Which has become a grim bust- ness and not an affair of dash and honor, Every army in the fleld has discarded by de, rything that presence of | he enemy. The war is getting to be a struggle of ano- nymity, silence and drab gray, of} _By Roy L. do anything like the part that fell to the world's greatest empire, But to-day she is ready and doing mag- nificently, and the “thin red line of croes” 1s a memory of the past, for British millions are surging to the front, The high tide has set in, “ec U heard the Rangles were dare a fortune, didn't you?” | asked Mrs. Jarr, ‘why, yes, I belleve I dia," replied |r. Jarre, “But 1t wasn't a fortune. But those two years—and what the|Rangle told me it was just a small Wrench 4id—must never be forgotten | le so long as men remember valor and | they'd better be saving It honor the glorious, |these hard times, with war taxes on We may feel proud of our half|everything, and things to eat and nillion good men and true, But that| things to wear getting dearer all the is no reason to relax present efforts | time,” said Mrs. Jar, oward increasing the number, Thig| “But what about the Rangles and s the week that the President has | fe isked every one to help in raising the |” “Well, they are spending ft like sil- army quota to 300,000, It Is the time |lies!” said Mrs. Jarr, “And tt wasn't for the man who feels the urge upon |a fortune at that, It was only four jhim, the tug at his heart, to get in| hundred dollars, The money was @ uniform, \ieft by an old uncle who Mrs, Rangle Business By,.H. J. Barrett | 66 (7X BEAT strides nave been taken /of an lnter-departmental inating , : system, henever one Wished to - mn aie ye tnct. | conBunieate with a distant depart- applying efficiency She it he cailed @ messenger boy and ciples to production problem) d him with the note, Most marked a ane aiiclency 6 pisties were not of an ur- gent character, They could just as Well wait an hour for delivery, “It Was a simple matter to lay a route without ove: be covered hourly by a couple of girls. is in charge of what is termed the planning department of @ great de- partment store, | “Pho opportunities for effecting vast NF i. A central pitice equipped with pigeon | savings In this direction are immense, | \ fay tral einen, CaP eS MD Dee Take my own case, for example. The] mail matter, As a consequence of |books Indicate that reforms which installation of this simple system, It have instituted during the two uplé of carriera take care of ‘on connected with | (Rousunds of messages which were years 1 have been connected with) previously despatched by scores of this concern have cut expenses to the} boys, This step still further reduced tune of nearly $250,000 annually—|the duties of our force of messenger this with no gacrifice of sales or | °YS. Reeiiak My next step was to centralize oe ie the messenger servi: Instead of ‘1 came in here behind the counter) having the boys located in squads 48 a youngster of twenty-two, I felt that here was @ chance for the ex- ertion of my effictency training, I be- gan to suggest reform atter reform tthe store 1 had them assembled central point under the direction a ata of a despatcher, who sits at a switch- board board. Before him is a long divided Into numbered compartn aud it was not long before 1 was as-|one for each boy. Supp signed a roving commission—to cons | Cotes ful a& messenger tcher sends at tho s sider the entire establishment my Held and to elfect changes wherever they seemed practicable, | “One of my first steps was to study | he messenger service, The bays di- Vided into squads, were located at Various convenient points about the | store, subject to eal) y any one to the compartment which | who wanted a message delivered, 1] 1), assisncd ni ate BA. umulated ng out a slip which h spaces for Time Lett, Time Dept. No, , Date, Me 4 No, ——, and placing tt In the boy's pigeonhole. Upon the latter's return the time consumed is entered and the slip 4. placed in a numbered box cor }felt that thid idea was wrong, eat the nt the knew that before I devis day's activities, better method 1 must ascertain “At the end of each week the time consumed per three rrand Is ay prizes awarded the ing the best showing. To-day our messenger force numbers over 100 less than when I assailed the problem and the service 1s Improved, he daily payroll of over 100 boys is an item of Importance, A few weeks’ study upon my part, coupled with efficiency experience, resulted in this saving,” how their time was consumed, 30 per cent. of thelr time, It devel- oped, was dévoted to obtaining sales books from the central station at which they were deposited, An analy- sis of the situation revealed the fact that it was perfectly practicable to keep the books where they could be secured with little effort, thus saving |over 80 per vent, of the boys’ time, ‘Another plan was tho inetallation ‘aged and boys mak- Congrizht, 1017. by the Prom Putlishing Co, YOUNG woman stenographer who was formerly employed by & United States Senator in Washington and who has been working Copyright 1017. br the Dress Publishing Co the fortune left them?" asked Mr,| () ene Loeb (The New York Evening World), Ir past two years writes me a remark able letter as to how sne lost her position. Her letter rings true, and 1 am confident many other modest, refined girls suffer from the attentions of a flirting employer. in this world it is for a man to force his attentions upon a girl who ts working for him. Many a poor girl, compelled by circumstances to hold on to her Job, suf fers miseries as this girl has at the hands of such men, Nothing 1s more cowardly than for a man, knowing the If there is any despicable act girl on her Job, to deliberately use 4 his power_as an employer to practise such imposition. ed by which an employer would be properly punished who discharges such a girl because he has been unable | to win her over to accept his attentions, for it 1s a form of white slavery. It I were the girl in this position I would demand a full explanation manager and would put the matter company. I am confident there are good men at the top of great enterprises who have proper respect for their mother’s sex——at least enough to discharge even an efficient manager fora poor stenographer when she has sought to protect her bonor. “The firm is divided into differont departments and every department ‘\has its manager and every manager his stenographer. scattered and no department knows what {s going on in the next one, ‘The offices are fairly intelligent, my employer (man- | ager of the advertising department) came to rely on me so that he seldom if ever reread his mail, and very often he would go away for weeks and of nineteen as well as a lovely wife and daughter, whom I have met. Lately a change came over tim. Several times he complained about not I!king to eat alone and he began asking mo I refused on one pretext or another. | not an attractive girl; certainly not the sort a man would ask out to lunch, “I had been very content heretofore, for 1 had learned my job thor- Now, I'm very, very sure of it, for my employer had often said that he wouldn't know what to do without me, &c, But when he began asking me out I felt a reluctance to go to work and was e “Then he began to find fault with my work, found little flaws in my filing system, found misplaced commas and undesirable semicolons. Ho’ then asked me out to dinner, I re fused. I am sorry now that I did. For the very next day he told me that my services were no longer required, To say that I was horror-stricken “I had come to regard this office as a sort of home and permanent institution and myself a permanent fixture—and now it seemed as thougb under me. I could go to no one. The Vice President of our company was very much surprised when he learned about {t and remarked that it had taken Mr. B. a long time to find out that 1 was unsuited for the position and promised to ‘do something.’ “On Saturday nothing had been done, for they had evidently de cided that a manager was more valuable than a mere stenographer. So I “Would you have left the position docilely as I did or demanded the reagson—which he refused to give other than to say that my services wero “And what other possible motive can a man have after my being so But again I say I am not attractive—and still cannot McCardell (Tbe New York Evening World) says was an antiquarian, But Cora Hickett’s mother knew him well, and she told me he Was only an antiquarian it you want to put on ais und call a junkman an antiquarian, Cora Hickett’s mother says he was a fa- miliar sight on the east side for years, goig around with his cart buying old iron and lead pipe, and had cowbells on his wagon that Would make you think of cows and ivesh butter’ and milk with real cream, but it was only four hundred dollars after all.” * “kirst time 1 ever heard of four hundred dollars making a noise ke fresh butter and muk with read am,” said Mr, Jarr dryly. Uh, you Kuuw Wout t mea ta Mrs. Jarr. “When you bear’ thoss cowbells on a junk cart coming around the corner, you always think is @ herd of Aiderneys or something ike that, although 1 am dreautully afraid of cows, “But the Kangle fortune, tho y $400 that L was we had, wast were JOU going to say ubout’ that before you gol lo Wakuering of among the cowsups, 80 to speak?” asked My darr, “Why, there they go now!" said Mrs, Jarr, lookiag out of the window, ane Mm & Laricad, tou! if 1 don’t call down after them, Mrs. Rangle will taink I'm envious, and L woul want her to think tout, Soe's - 406 rignt up at us, too!" one “Weil, if you are not own after them," Jarr, envious, call suggested Mr, “L won't do that, It's too mi + 1's too much Ike poor people why live in tli f suid Mrs, Jarr, es aa Before Mr. Jarr could ould ask if they, | the Jarrs, wore wealthy people resias ing ina mansion, Mrs, Jarr nad come Vuving genteely at the les enjoying of, thelr legacy. 1S SBe 1uxurieg “And what di ‘ou th ia | Mra, Jarr turning from thee “it was one of t 1 cabs, and Mrs |Senrf over the said window, Hose open top taxi- Kangle had put her taximeter so people & private motor car |can seo it’s only a taxicab oo will think it is th let thom enjoy to live, hemselve: Jarr philosophically. Ives,” sald Mr, s Jo) themsel ve 7 money these (ecven wasting thes times ? hey'd better s; bills. Or If they don't they buy 1 porine to the Ke would If I had it to spare. “That reminds mo," maid’ “I did a little p erled Mra, Jarr. vit oF ‘ay thelr st spend it, wh: iberty bonds of eube 1 Cross or something? + Said Mr. Sarr, 1 iece of extra busine: for the boss this week and he had the cashier slip me fifty dollar We put it in bank or give so. to sume of the war relief f D wwiWby, yen" sald Mra, arr “Tut wo dollars is enough i family needs war teliet if ses ee di ff Where Is the fit F “Here it isa check," sat “You put it tn b tnd Tt ave aek two dollars for “Well, you «i the two de the Red Cross,” sald Mra Janet 88 she took the check; “tb enemy were to conquer us, I'd be ashamed to be a pris my old dude” Or HOner of war fe