The evening world. Newspaper, June 27, 1917, Page 14

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One Year 0|One Year. 15.40 One Mont 1.20 VOLUME 67... .cccsccccsccorccsecssevevcoescee NO, 20,899 DON'T SCATTER: CONCENTRATE. 0 ONE could wish to belittle or discourage the spirit and fatent) behind the organizing instinct which has seized communities and individuals throughout the country. | Nevertheless it is not good economy at such a time to let even it effort and enthusiasm waste any part of themselves through | lack of clear-sightedness and concentration, | There is a certain degree of danger in the vast effusion of organ- izing zeal, the manifestations of which are seen on every side. The| average citizen is besought to bring his help and sympathy to a hun-| dred causes at once, until he is fairly bewildered and appalled. ‘There is not enough of him to go round, | Furthermore it has to be admitted that with many of us the! “special work” in which some organizer asks us to join often looks more attractive and important than the daily job by which we earn & living and contribute to an economic soundness and stability which we take as a matter of course. Useful, indispensable as it may actually be, the humdrum daily task shows drab beside the patriotic ally colored movement which somebody organizes, with bugles blowing| and flags flying, clone by. Despite distracting and dispersive calla upon our energy, let us not forget: What the country needs as much as anything to win this war is about 10 per cent. more working power and efficiency from every individual whose everyday toil contributes directly or indirectly toward keeping up production and industry upon which the life, prosperity and endurance of the nation depend, Those who organize for this end make no mistake, The more American energy, concentrates its force and compresses itself into plain jobs useful to the country, the bigger and more satisfactory will be tho results i —+ German prisoners taken in the fight for Lens say they had been promised peace definitely ty September, It's a bad sign when an army has to have its morale braced up by prominsory time achedulen. — “IT CAN BE DONE. F ANY ONE wants to see what initiative and action as contrasted | with talk and promised investigation can accomplish toward getting real hooks into soaring food prices, let him note what The Kvening World has done to the wholesale cost of potatoes in New York, As everybody knows, this democratic vegetable was long ago boosted into the luxury cla The food speculators have tried hard to keep it there. Months ago this newspaper determined to help the potato to climb out and down to the popular, useful level where it belangs, One day last week an Evening World representative with his eyes open went over to Meadows Yard, Jersey City and counted hundreds of carloads of potatoes kept standing on the tracks, With a hundred thousand bushels more arriving daily, tho wholesale price was atill held at from $8.50 to $10.50 per barrel! The Evening World published the facts, The Pennsylvania Rail- road last Monday doclared an embargo on potatoes, ‘lhe price of potatoes has already boen brought down $1.75 per barrel. And this newspaper is going to soo that it goes down still further to a figure consistent with the supply on hand and with a square deal for the public, * , What is moro, retailers will be reasoned with until they do their part. Along with wholesale pric the consumer, There no potato famine, On the contrary there is what amounts to a glut of potatoes just outside the markets of this city. If The Evening World can go ahead, get a grip on tho facta of potato speculation and cause a quick drop of prices toward normal lovels, what's to hinder the State from doing as much and more in the case of other foodstuffs? Has departmental authority in this commonwealth no driving power? # must come down prices charged —-¢o-— In there anybody in the Polloe Department, high or jow Who DID do his best to find Ruth Cruger? It beeing to look a» §f w ample method of elimination might be tho shortest way to settle how many shall be tried, _- &- ——.- - Letters From the People View of Cramer Case. )Kotting his second papera Do the Katitor of The Hwwning World oltizen? READER , sanmpester. (Yourot proriges ihe An American woman who has been ry of the day married to a forelener and thereby | when hiv “Inveatigation" showed (At | jont hor cltisonshipe may: rem her the polloe were working from the| nationality atter the th, start. on the wrong theory, “they were | provided she does not ung week kena not for a| hie nationality, No lowal process wat \ eanary wit © understood that It te up Auention of N ‘TO the Kaitor of The Keening World My * and friends of « girl who i» iniasing to find out If he te father came this country caimeing or murde | Germany twenty-seven years ie murdered to find out who murdered After nome years here he took pr ond, an the Cramer cane showed, /OUC hin threat cith pers, HW they might a® well find t who | fled before } thin Recond papers, helped and where abe le buried to 1am twenty years old and was born | give the police a che got on |! this country. Am Tw oltiner the right track BOM A CONSTANT READER, | They Are Noe The native-born children of allen Wo the Kaiten uf The Ke maidered to bé citizens Try earl me on a ain ple olaration of nationality, te natural f a ‘ forelaner yd hie family pier the United Mtnten, thelr children having been born in one a Hritiad 01> Tops ne tatitorot tthe Boe wy voles, ‘They live tn thie country fOr, AT se tine 1 tn Afton y and Hever take Out Ole | ear ihe Arie TL clal ee bHeation Wenehiy yp Are theao children | {if 1) Doted thre Bast notin ‘one BHD. TNational Guard and got a full honor A Widow's Nationality, at fivcharme - onty found out Te the of Tee Brenig World J late y that Lain not a citizen. What Tam a widow, born in tye United) must | dot .M States, my father being a oltisen When | married, my husband Had, ine pamor of The F only his fret papers, Was married! Kindly ist mo know what day Nov fow joare My husband died before 10, 1869, fel! on, READER, | US. NavyY in Evening World Daily oe en UNITED STATES WAR BULLETIN CuROPE } PERSHING . IM F LIBERTY LOAM oveR } SUBSCRIBED FoR DRAFT. $00,000 men keane ACA ee eS > ae a ne 9MILRLIOM READY ALREADY VOLUNTEERED, RANC E. Have ‘Magazine | By J. o. Cassel | B had been running belind for somo time, and that sort of thing cannot go on forever, you know. So one night my husband and I called @ family council to ‘an to be done. son the oulko Was mc me was beciise Nt v ew what his Income was going to Ho wan a lawyer in businosn for paelf and sometimes ho earned a wood deal of money by his profession and at other Umes very little, So when business was brisk wo lived kenerounly and when it was dull we economlzed all we could and worrled about the bills, We both found this state of things very unsatisfactory, but Stewart thought I waa doing my best and ho war no busy most of the time atudy in rf his profession and trying to hia practice that he left hold bills to me, I atood tt as The Grave-Digger Beetle Nature's Sanitary Policeman HIN an animal dies tn a gar- den or in the woods and de- composition begins carrion bugs come from far and near, A dead trd, @ mouse or a harmless anake wantonly Killed by some wan derer provides a banquet for hua dreds of 1 a. Among these the “grave-diggers” are found, embracing forty-three spec twelve of which are found in Kurope, the rest in Amerioa You can identify those beetles by the dd yellowinh-red or ped bands upon thotr says @ contributor to Popular Sotence Monthly, 'Phoit sctentifio name (Necrophorus) moan: no more than “buriers of the dead Aw undertakers the line ospovially adapted for digging Krave-digKer ber ‘eer extraordinary sense of He can detect the pecullar odor of decompo nition a away and flies to the dead thing as straight as an Jarrow, His remarkably keen nose ts situated In Dis Chib-like footers: Aa a rule several Krave-diggers are found near a dead body, ‘They crawl under it and scratch the supporting oarth away, so that the body soon in w holley adually the body is le A UNE it #INKA below the surface l'rnon tt is covered with earth, The around th aw for the ne plentiful food supply It in Interesting to note that these grave-diggers can produce a curious Creaking Hols, by rubbing the ftth abdominal cing, whieh has two longitu dinal bars, on the under edge of both wink covers. This noise is only made when the bug is attacked; it haa there fore been conalde an expedient to frighten away Ite ene The grave-diggers are among the most useful of beetles. ‘They have been Gesignated nature's sanitary police. How I Helped My Husband By Eleanor Clapp _ How a Lawyer's Wife Adjusted an Irregular Income | Jong as I could but finally I revolted, |'There must bo some solution and ff there was I made up my mind to find it, And the first thing was, in the language of tho atreet, “to know where I was at.” “Stewart,” said 1, in a year?” on't know exactly,” rably.” me to some fort the average “How much do Stewart said that he thought that this might be done, and the next day after consulting his books at the office he brought me home some figures, 1 found @ looking them over that during the pre nt year he had {made more than he did the year previous, our bills were about as troub aw that we must | have sp though neither of us had 1 was anxious to | try a plan t T had thought out. “you aay,” I told him, “that you fully expect to make more this year than last, but you can't be absolutely | sure of this, so, with permission, I should Uke to cut down our ex- penditures to the lowest figure your income has been in any one year dur- ing the last four years since you be- camo firmly established, ‘This will mean self-dental but will, T think, en- able us to pay as we Ro, for when you get a big check we can apportionate it so that It will last a certain num- ber of months instead of indulging In little extravagances as we have boon In the habit of doing. ‘This will help us to get rid of bills and the worry of making ends meet with nothing too 1t with, And perhaps T can do something to help the Income along a Ittle.” “It's all right for you to economize if you can do It," he sald, “but 1 won't consent to your working for money." "We won't quarrel about that,” 1 id, “but we are going to live with- out debt or worry even if T have to rerub floors.” | ‘The first thing T did was to dismtas Jtho maid and it was surprising what t made In our grocer's and but Ms. T suppose we had heen & good deal in the kitchen 1 put the house on a weekly schedule, If t bought anything pars ticularly nice for dinner T alwa lo up the increas pmething very t over my old dr os instead of wart seeing conomical was ashamed to nd so much on himself | “1 watohed the bills closely and often found unexpected chances to econo | miao without Intorfering greatly with our comfort, and at the end of atx | months we had quite a decent balance Jin the bank instead of a lot of un pald bills, Stewart was delighted and did ompectally well in his profession that year, 1 © sald tt was because he Was not Worrted about money and could put his whole mind on bis work 1 continued this practice ever since, and though our income grows every year we always spend less instead of a Ja tite ittle more, Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Courriadt, 1917, by the I'ress Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). | © woman worries about how much her husband gazes at debutantes | and “chickens” after he wears a fifty-two belt. IN Marriage 1s the miracle that changes the act of | taking a woman to the theatre from a privilege into| @ Cavor, Every man secretly and passionately hopes that | somebody will some day invent a clay pipe that will look handsome enough to be smoked on the street, and every woman that somebody will invent some sort of clothes that she can cook in and look fascinating in at the same time, ween mow ane, When a man marries a grass widow he may be gambling with his happiness, but at least he has the comfort of knowing that she never will clean his pipe with soap, hang his trousers upside down, nor take prussic acid simply because he forgets to kiss her goodby after breakfast. Men's clubs are all started ostensibly as a refuge for those who have no homes to go to—and end by becoming a refuge for those who have homes from which they want to get away, No woman should expect a man to go through life collecting a fortune with one hand and waiting on her with the other; still, that is no reason why the moment a man begins paying @ woman's bills he should stop pay- ing her any tender little attentions, Nothing bores a man quite so much as a wife whose conversation {s so setntillating that he has to stop and listen to it between his muffins and his morning newspaper. You may find a man who keeps six motor cars, all in good conditien, | but you'll never find ono who keeps more than one practicable working | collar button at a (ime. | | began to get busy and as the days went by the postal offictals got busier and buster until they were fairly buried under the weight of mail| which descended upon them like an| avalanche, | A hurry call went to Washington for extra help and mail was delivered to Miss Schenck by the truck load Now that young lady began to fee! the effects of the scheme. Her home | was Iittered from cellar to garret | with letters, letters and more letters, all containing dimes, Before the thing “died out” of its own accord she had received more than a quarter | of @ million dimes, Fakirs all over | the world heard of it and, as fakirs will, they immediately ‘got busy. | Hundreds of thousands of people | were swindled out of money in this |manner, until the postal authorities put an end to it, The famous “end less chain” prayer, which threatens endless punishment to any person who breaks it, has been one of ‘the hamdiest survivors of al *s Annivers ary HE first of the “endless chain” Al schemes that have proved such An annoyance to postal offictals in all countries was launched just nineteen years ago to-day, June 27, 1898, by a young girl, Natalle Schenck of Babylon, L. I, Her protect was purely benevolent, and was anl- mated by a spirit of patriotism, De- siring to raise a fund for the ald of American soldiers then — fightin Spain, she originated the “endle: chain" {dea as an adaptation of a scheme that had a vogue in England | until It was stopped by Aet of Parila- ment. The “chain” was started with four letters written by Mise Schenck to as many girl friends, Each was asked | to contribute ten cents and write four similar letters to other friends, A | few days later the Babylon postomMice s | tertes, | By Albert Pa Famous Heroes of the U. S. Navy yson Terhune Coornaet 1917 squadron, I have described Santiago Harbor fn an earlier article. Bat to make plainer the situation 1 am going to quote Dum can's vivid description of it: “The harbor of Santiago is a flask with neck. The city ts at the large part of the flask and the neck of it gives into the sea. and crooked and And mines were The Spanish-American War of 18: much doubt as to the whereabout: For weeks its whereabouts was u: The Spaniards Discovered. bor, And every the fleet there our own navy was ob! warships which might have been put to splendid use elsewhere. words, though the Cape Verde fleet was prevented from doing any damage, jour own fleet w. Just as useless for Santiago Harbor mouth, Acting Admiral Sampson, Spanish flies to buzz, while he wont The “stopper” decided on was th | this collier could be sunk across the centre of the narrow ship channel the bottled Spanish vessels could not possibly get out, | Richmond Pearson Hobson—a young construction teacher at | Annapolis—headed this desperate enterprise. Seven volunteers formed his |crew. The Merrimac was to be stea: of the shore batteries; was to be swung transversely across the narrow 4 there torpedoed and sunk. Lieut. ship way All this must be done in face of Hobson's Fa- hy almost certainly mous Choi: , oe bor mouth under cover of darkness. channel was less than 200 feet wide. Yn these narrows, Cervera’s fleet would be safely bottled, The crew were in their underclothes, with life-buoys As they neared Morro Castle a pilot boat opened fire on them. Them |the shore batteries began to blaze away at the collier, {Kept steadily on. Then an exploding Spanish shell smashed her steering | gear, and all the heroic adventure had gone for nothing. No longer responsive to the helm, the Merrimac drifted past the spot chosen for the sinking. In vain wa: sank at a part of the channel so wide that Cervera’ {go past her without danger of collis Hobson and his crew clung to @ raft, keeping themselves afoat unt @ launch from a Spanish warship found them. prisoners to Morro Castle. By Roy i by the tree Putlishine Co NO, 20.—RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSO. Heroof Santiago. ITHIN the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, lay Admiral Cervera’s “Cape Verde Fleet.” Outside watched a strong United States naval One wall of the harbor entrance is a cliff, capped by Morro Castle. Twisting through the crooked neck iss thin ship channel.” Batteries lined the sides of the narrow “neck.* was no chance for the American feet to dash inte the harbor and there to attack the foe. of Spain's powerful Cape Verde fleet, nown to the Ameficans, ment It might appear off the Atlantic Coast or might block the plans of our At last the fleet was discovered in Santiago Har- Tushed to the spot to keep {t “bottled” there. As long as the Spanish ficet remained bottled it could, of course, take no active part in the war nor strike a blow in Spain's behalf, It was a deadlock. commander of the blockading equadron, | “wanted” (as Duncan says) “to put Even should the plan succeed there was no feasible way for Hob- son and his crew to get back to their own fleet. If they were not shot or blown up or Growngs they would In spite of these risks Hobson eagerly volunteered for the exploit, and hundreds of enlisted men begged. |for a chance to go with him. Whole ship's crews clamorously volunteered. On June 3—long before daybreak—the Merrimac crept toward the har- The Jarr Family (Tee New York Erenina World) ‘a crooked The neck is slim ¢ ned with high jungle-covered banks. « strewn under its waters. So there 98 was at its height. There had been At any mo- rmy and navy in Cuba. available United States warship was But to keep liged to concentrate many of its best In other any purpose other than guarding the a stopper In the bottle and leave the about his own affairs with his fleet.” © big tron coaling ship Merrimac, If med into the channel under the guns a fearful bombardment from the bate be captured, She was headed for a point where the If she could be sunk, broadside on, and revolvers strapped to their bodies, The Merrimac 3 she torpedoed. She sank—but she ships could easily, lon, Then they were taken as McCardell Coovrieht. 1017, by the Press Publishin ‘ec HAT'S the matter, Gus?" W asked Mr. Jarr of the sometimes genial and oc- casionally urban proprietor of the »pular cafe on the corner. Gus looked carefully” around and | noting that, save for Elmer, the bar- |tender, polishing glasses at the far end of the pla alone, whisp he and Mr. Jarr were “I'm afeard to say “Why?” as free country.” “It's free to speak the English lan- guage in, and I'm a good American what has bought a Liberty Bond and give money to the Red Cross and would like to treat soldiers, only the law don't let me do it. But it ain't popler to speak German woids, any more, and I've been used to speaking them. So now they stick inside of me and it hoits."’ “The war has brought about many distressful conditions,” said Mr. Jarr, “but 1 know you are patriotic for the country of your adoption, and if it will do you any good to get a little German out of your system, why, fire away. It won't offend me.” “This is a Telephone and Radio In Wartime France HE French army has perhaps made greater use of all electrical means of communicating intelli- gence than any other military organi- gation of the present ume. Central telephone, switchboards are main- tained at army headquarters, and many thousand radio stations can be found just back of the battle lines, The telephone, telegraph and radio stations are ofte: ment of @ once beautiful chateau or church, To the oc board cable ntral telephone switch- es are brought in from every important army division, says the Electfleal Experimenter, means of a flexible cord and attach- ment plug connected to a wall tele- phone instrument an officer of the commanding staff may instantly ring up any division commander and transmit orders or receive a special | report as to the progress of a baltle at any certain part of the front, A head phone set {3 used to listen in secretly into any line run- ning from the trenches to headquar- ters. Thus the officer In charge may know at once if unauthorized talk is going on, @ But to the radio operator comes a full share of mystery, romance and action, He sits with his head receiv- ers clamped tight against his ears, while from out of the boundless ether there comes the ne’ of victory or defeat—the call for reinforcements— messages of every description and from many points along the battle front, Needless to gay, the military radio operator holds a most important position—an importance which the peace-time operator never even dreams about. In his hands there may lie the difference between life and death for hundreds, even thou- ednds, of men. He must not make a mistake and his instruments must al ways work—so long as his antenna n located in the base- | By | n€ Co. (The New York Evening World), * “I don’t mean it to offend nobody, sald Gus doletuly, | “But 1 cane got no good out oP Elmer there swearing at him in American, Hess used to that from the customers, but from me he only thinks I'm | to him as a friend and not a boss," Gussie Bepler, the butcher's st ¥, boy, came in at this point to get Gus his to change a five- father: dollar bill for “See, vatch,” sald Gus, over the change, mostly ry ee wo the butcher's boy, “You've dropped 20 cents foolisher!"* cried Gus ight® boy only grinned and {0 #0 Out leaving two dimes on the “Dumkopt! Spitzbube!” Gus, giving him a resounding wee Whereat the boy brightened up and came back and secured the twenty cents he was leaving behind, if Ou see iow it is." In this cquntry. everybody" je tts, , but when wolds 1s spoke ima Janguago that shows: somebody s, ee en it 1s understood who "Go as far as you i1k discipline tn ‘the language af seatere fulness, I won't tell anybody,” gala Mr, Jarr, \ nc Well. took “ n't done nothing rij bad to stop talking in German tetas Ow ¥ slasses right.” "°t Washing them Elmer, hearing } loned, looked “around and’ grinsen ot him the e¢hrecklich ” pugs wested Mr. Jarr. Net tooy “Schurzenschliggel! Hie Bc F ko: bawied Gus, Whereat the frightened 1 dropped a tray of sinashed them. At this Gusta shed both plensed and relieved, * hat fetched him!" Gus remy prondly to Mr. Jerr. * sohureeee college’ means ‘apron loafer,’ ” “imer ‘came forwa: written all over bie eis moment previously whistling cockily ag lasses ¢ arelensly, he bad wibed ie Don’ pay yi ‘ott n't I pay you ten dollars a "asked Gus, and there mit ce!” Bald Gus, He at Elmer down meekness nance, he. bad. ‘bean Imer grinned placatingly | Rodded assent Weill, don't laugh in your f. USchnurbartwichse, what you are!” “That's calling him “CG ~ & tytater,” Gus explained to in dame i shows hin c . and makes yim What T think of him stand etter, you will see’ + °° his works But,” said Mr. Jarr, “f gh sghut” sal _Jarr, “I should say mer, hasn't much of'a wustache to * “That's tt!" sald Gus, “He' looking for it, and so he dave eae ag clean like he should.” pn S Reena ner stood at attention, I busy and clean things fi mahded Gus, Amer jum away busied himself most indu: over the piace ' “Well, it worked," briskly and Striously all remarked Mr, T don't see why you” are or two. body will take an’ a@t that, I'm sure.” Y cnaee “Well, don't be too sure," repli \"My brother Meyer Care t!" In the street the pther Dita crack in the face!” " “"4 Be eae dty.