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an emeieyag tng 56 EE TS PI it F Mag od Fartaing Company, Nos, 63 to sireamurer, 3 Park how ‘Jr., Becrotary, 68 ‘How. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matler. neat Ee SD babr |x tate, Re fates jount rie, ond ‘Canada ad Union One Year. One Month AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE. MERICAN heads lift higher, American hearts beat faster at) A the definite announcement that United States regular troops have landed on the soil of France. | It is news we have been eager to hear. We would have gladly welcomed a chance to cheer them as they left American shores, But even as it is the national spirit swells to a pitch of pride and en- thusiasm that cannot fail to carry across the seas and mingle the welcome France is giving the boys now tramping toward her) ‘battle fronts beneath the Stars and Stripes. These are only the first. More will land and more, and more. Boon Americans will be fighting in the foremost of the far-flung lines on which humanity relies to conquer the world for liberty and peace. No nation that goes to war has felt the full, deep thrill of) national purpose until its troops have had their first baptism of fire, until it has counted its first dead. For the United States the moment is not fer off. The advance guard of the American army on the batile-scarred eoil of France! It is @ great day, a glorious day, a grave day—one that no Amer- ican alive to see and understand it can ever forget. | —_—_-+-—___—-- | Dip the flag to the old Olympia. She deserved a more heroic end and {t was not her fault that deprived her of it. | et WHICH? 2 ie paramount reason why this nation renounced the blessings of peace and eet itself the sternest task a people can under- take was that it might help the principles of democracy and) freedom to prevail over all other forces in the modern world. Is personal freedom in no sense included in the freedom for which | ans are to shed their blood? | “The only freedom which deserves the name,” declares Mill, ig) that of pursuing our own good in our own way, 80 long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” | Are a certain number of Americans to say what the personal good | of all Americans shall be, dictate how they shall pursue it, regulate their personal habits, decree what they shall or shall not eat and drink, refuse longer to recognize private standards of temperate, balanced | ing, impose one rule upon all? If so this nation will start forth upon its professed rally to the aid of freedom with a manifestation of tyranny which Prussia itself could not improve on. *No man,” seid Lincoln, “is good enough to govern another man Ame’ without his consent.” Is it Lincoln liberty that Americans are to fight for? Or are the Prohibitionists to define the brand? Oo Five cent bread and cheaper coal! Peace had no such victories. snteceeaeeiniitiemnnatioans THE POLICY OF THE HOUR. HE Edison Company wisely decides to accept the decision of the Public Service Commission and carry out the agreement to reduce its maximum rate for electricity from 71-2 cents to 7 cents per kilowatt hour beginning July 1. The company, it is true, seeks to reserve to itself the option of going back to an 8-cent schedule after Jan. 1, 1918, “should conditions warrant.” But there is little likelihood that the Public Service Com- mission will see any reason six months from now to change its view as to what constitutes a fair rate to be charged to consumers of elec- tricity or that the Edison Company will think it worth while to fight the Commission and the public in an expensive campaign through the courts. The sight of huge war profits piled up in various directions seems to have made many corporations restive. Whether it is the Edison trying at first to evade ite promises, or the street railway companies plotting to raise fares and thus pluck extra millions from the pockets of the public to cover the consequences of earlier stock-watering. and overcapitalization, or Mr. Oler putting up the price of ice so that the Knickerbocker Ice Company can pay 6 per cent. dividends instead of 5, the policy is always the same: While the public is being bullied into the belief that all price boosting at this time is born of extraordinary economic.necessity, make the most of opportunity, If corporation finances are fecling the effects of past mistakes or worse, get the public to make good. No use economizing or cleaning up at home if there’s a chance to do some pillaging outside. Letters From the Exemption Prob To (he BAitor of The Brening World I have three sons, seventeen, twenty Ne. 44 Whitehall Street. To the Bilitor of The Evening World: AREER TEENS ENTE Caer MS ” —_ ingratitude: the Trait of Treason. 4 : By Sophie Cow rita WOMAN writes as follows: “I was much impressed in reading the experience of in- gratitude found by one of your read- ers, “It may not be the correct view- point, but I have found great com- fort and solace in henceforth ignor- ing parties who have not had the sense to appreciate sincere friendship when it is prof- fered. “Flere 1s an example of appreciation that could have been readily given, but it seems the nature of some peo- ple’s makeup is often devoid of feel- ing for others, outside of their own sons and daughters, “There were two sisters, the older of whom was married some ten years before her younger During these ten long years, this latter sis- ter, being of an affectionate, lovable A | nature, derived pleasure from minis- tering many kindnesses to the two small daughters of her elder sistér. “Well, life's march proceeds onward and forty years later, God in His In- finite wisdom has seen fit to call home from her earthly labors this good Samaritan who has left a son and a daughter, “One would surmise that the old and twenty-one years old, The boy of twenty belongs to the N. G. N. ¥.| If this boy im exempt, will they take the oldest boy? will ? Iam a British subject, but knowing I would not the physical test If he is not rejected, they take the boy of twenty- CONSTANT READER. improbable that the question of relationship will have any bearing on exemptions. offer my services to the British Gov- ernment for munitions work, ship- building, &. for information? BRITIBHDR. Valid TH Now, 12, 1947, ‘To the Faitor of The Kvening World The Second Form Is Correct, I received my first papers Nov, 12, | To the Editor of The Evening W 1910 and would like to know if I have I would greatly appreciate a reply|to duplicate above papers, or to the following question which |get my second ones, PV. caused quite a heated argument. Is it correct to write “This years enter. tainment” or “this year’s entertain- ment?” RC. J, Net After the War, ‘To the Exiitor of The Evening World Kindly let me know if a German alien, having taken out his first pa- pers in 1915, can get the fina) papers now. I have been told that during dura- tion of the war final papers would not be issued. A. B. A Is Correct. ‘To the Maitor of The Evening World A says that the Amerioan colors ue red, white and blue. B saya that] Let me know what day Sept they are blue, white and red. 1870, fell on, L. | You Are a € ‘To the Kaitor of The Evening Am I a citizen if 1 © ne to Amer citizen here? I twenty am as yet » ‘To the Editor of The Evening W Kindly tell mo if I am a cltizen. out my first papers. any day for my final papers. A READER, Sa ‘To the Biitor of ‘The Evening World GW. D Wh 7 em When Finall ‘ones I was born in Sweden and have taken | I expect @ call | HE first coffee shipment tr ce, I would willingly | | Brazil was made ig tae one hundred and fifty-four years ago to-day To whom would I write | and consisted of a consignment of ten | vag sent to Europe, Brazil now pro- duces more than 85 per cent, of the world’s coffee supply and a large part of this 1s grown in the one state of can | Sao Paulo. | Coffee |in 1764 by Father Velaso, can monk, was Introduced into Brazil a Francis and nine years later the ica with my father, who became a | country began the export of the beans under | that are now Brazil's principal source jof wealth, More than half of all the grown is consumed in the |United States, and Uncle Sam's an- nual coffee bill, at the wholesale price, is about eighty million dollars, The Danes, next to Americans, are the |wreatest coffee drinkers, while the Germans came third before the war. ‘The coffee Germany is drinking to 10, |day 1s made of acorns, a bitter brew, indeed, 1917. by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Irene Loeb ister would show a kindly interest in the welfare of said niece and nephew, instead of manifesting no concern or interest in them. “I mention this merely as proof of what one often receives for doing well toward others.” I¢ there is any trait that spells treason it is that of ingratitude. It seems to be very near the unpardona- ble sin, Nothing shows up the char- acter of a person more than to forget @ friend, Contrary to the cynlo the law of compensation works as sure as the sun, When all is sald and done everything balances up. I know a man who helped another climb to the top of the ladder; who was the truest friend any mortal ever the man who made bis position possi-, person who never forgets; never for-| | gets a friend; never forgets a kinds ness; never forgets a man or woman ble. He has refused to reach down and lift up to a similar plane this great friend—when he had opportunity to do 80, The good friend looks with awe and heartache at the prosperity of the o.ber. He wonders why he must suffer when he has done his best for the welfare of the other, below him in the strata of striving; never forgets the date daughter. working parent He thinks the other man is su-| relation in time of prosperity. premely happy and that life is one! In a word the joy of life is tn him or joy every minute of the day. Ah, her who is EVER GRATEFUL, and but he docs not know, I could tell] never loses the opportunity to do him how this prosperous individual| something for somebody—a gratitude has been spurned by the thing he/ that 1s due for the privilege of life craved in all the world—the one} !tself. woman A po NARA Rt re a old-fashioned mother that helped make the up-to- Never forgets the sacrifice of bard- never forgets the servant in the house who makes life worth living; never forgets the poor cceeaindetietinsh inca msinaiaameentitatidapenmsassasn TTT eee Ce ea eer aa Conreiaht. 1917. bw the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl), TL my Beloved observe that Tam wearing a new bat this eventag? He will not! Will he notice that my shoes are a perfect ‘Will he take note that my hair is freshly and that my finger nails sbine es the pink lights Broadway restaurant? ~ He will NOT! He will observe only that 1 am fully clothed and “look all right.” Yet, I eay unto thee, if my hat were of last vintage, and my shoes were off<olor, and my ‘were frayed at the Gngers, my Beloved would not M them; for they would be as many motes in his 2 Behold, if I were a trump, my Beloved would it Instantly, and be exceeding miserable and sad of heart. ‘ And when he gazed about at other women he would wonder why, had picked MB, Doth my Beloved observe, when he cometh home an hour late, with — the fragrance of “the last round” upon his lips, that the smile with j I greet him {s sweeter than honey, though I may bite my tongue in ‘ to atifle the reproaches thereon? _ He doth not! | Yot, if I greeted him with tears and poutings and accusations, my Be loved would climb wp on his Dignity and his grouch would know mo brother. x Yea, in his heart he would cal) me “Nagger!” Doth my Beloved observe that even BEFORD breakfast I am all eweet ness and light, and that even when I call him to arise my voice is as 8 | sliver bell and my lips drip honey? Doth my Beloved note that though mine house resembleth an aque, rium after he hath finished his shower bath, and that though my | powder and my violet water be scattered about the floor when he hat swiped them and finished therewith, I am unreproachful? bi Nay, verily! Yet if I uttered the bitter complainings wherewith my heart is filed he would be exceeding “injured” and filled with righteous wrath thereat, | For this is the fate of every woman who weddeth: that she must become as a man’s TEETH, which he doth not notice save when they give him pain, Verily, verily, the faults of a WIFE are all positive; but her VIR- | TUES are all negative. ‘ | And a man payeth the woman of his heart the highest compliment,’ and the greatest honor, and the most beautiful tribute of which he is capable when he saith of her: . “Lo, she is the ONLY woman tn the world who doth NOT get upqa my nerves!” | Selah. i | | | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1017, by the Grew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), \t was apoplexy got him, but there ain't a jobble that ever put a het towel on him that don't know it was enlargement of the heart that took him off. Nowadays is the Age of Hard Boiled Eggs, and if a slips the barber a meg—a Ry plece—he acts ike as if he ought to be decorated with The Gold Medabfor Lavish Generosity. Why, yew | wouldn't belteve it, but a lot of eua- tomers is 90 tight these days that you could beat on ‘em like a drum. They think slipping @ jitney ts helping the Kaiser." 3 Mr. Jarr, who was on a war basis of economy for that week, shuddered, He bad been wondering if a five-eent tip this time would impair the established cordial relations bet himself and the sporting barber, “I see you got @ new manicures,” Mr. Jarr finally remarked to change Conrrigit M* JARR was getting his firse hot weather haircut, and Fred, the sporting barber, was, as usual, treating him more Hike an equal than a customer. “1 you had been around yestiddy you wouldn't have lamped me in this antiseptic snare,” began the barber. “1, was down at the track shooting my coin at the outdoor librarians.” ‘“ephought you didn’t let the book makers get any more of your money," said Mr. Jarr. ay, Mr. Jarr,” retorted Fred with a sigh, “you can train a barber to stop eating onlons—although onions eaten in haste will immediately re- move the odor of ice cream from the breath—but you can never break them ‘¢rom playing the races, Why, you know that old submarine shop at the) hotel where you first met me? The boss there wouldn't let the barbers/the conversation, ; lread the papers. They would sit} “Yes, blond Lilly blew us last \Neading the dope sheets—the racing|week. Served us @ marriage sum- charts--and couldn't see or hear a) mons” customer when he came in, even if it] “Ha, was old Mr. Dollar-Tip himself—you | Jarr, remember that fat old guy, that al-| “I wouldn't go so far as to say that” ways tipped a case note? Phoy said! replied Fred, “She got a bum pfe- | vider and a human grouch—y’know, @ romance!" interrupted Mr. He bas married another and is very miserable, Two of*his children have died and he himself 1s suffering from a@ mortal disease, There are countless cases of this Business can the stokers, who are far below deck, see the stacks so that they can regulate the smoke clouds to th proper density? By an electric “ey: ways Popular Science Monthly, eye 1s placed near the top of smokestack the and It records the exact density on electric muters convenient. ly located tn the boller room, This remarkably clever eye is sim- ply a wire coll of selenium which is! carried in a housing on the inside of | the ar stack walls. An electric} light, in another housing directly op- | posite, plays its b ms of light square- | ly upon the wire Now selenium, as} is well known, has the peculiar prop erty of changing its resistance to an | electric current when the light fall-/ ing upon It changes. The weaker the | ght, the greate resistance, and | vice ‘vers Evident smoke emit weaker t | the emoke then, the 4 ed through th hat electric ium. with enser the stack, the through mp and By connect- an electric mains selenium and the ship's lighting ing meter the electric current going through the meter will be lowered by the in-| | creased resistance, The meter Is very sensitive and shows the slightest change in smoke density, Moreover, | it is calibrated to Indicate exactly what the actual smoke dens: is, 50 had; who worked day and night! of. You can see them all around a people often ends—by hatl paiva | sort. can se ‘ound 5 a ends—by hating each Pate ie endoe that bls iriewd crigt| you. No one who practices ingrati- Proper Store Arrangement Facilitates Bervlee. tac. [ter Why, If she was over ee Sie Feel, tude ever “gots away with It.” ie | ¢ ¢ 1 Is a mistake to assume that the | conformation of so many Pineal eine that eee 4 And now when he has arrived on eereich intaest nniccseuetsiad application of efficiency princl- | "°CT)") wuding a great store, however, |Chalr she'd always get in @ joxglé so his high pinnacle he has lost sight of! On the other hand blessed is the ples is practicable only f0r| go many predetermined factors, such | Charley would cut the customer, who great industrial plants or large de- as size and shape of the Be ie | might start to fall for her by mattig — = = — 7 = partment stares,” remarked an ex- fluences the shape at she op iting | cracks that It was never safe to date How Smoke Screens Are Regulated ||| ser: “ainougn seis in tain nota) PAE Bere A 8 Ne? oor pian. But |e, Mende, as they were all gold lige MB scedichc |] | that the remarkable showings are) department store arrangement ia itrange these two shoula niaty, , Y loft of the draft to a nicety, give thought to this subject. ae hes Orakaay Well, it was this way,” sald the ot the smoke acreens {8 now |°"C).45 plates ure placed in front of| ‘Take the case of shop or store ar-| gins Of BUNNY. ot ron tne tittle| Sporting barber, = “Chariey was ale regulated during 4 battle 18/the iamp and of the selen voll to| rangement, for example, The latest! retailer i leas important. In even| Way® trying to get days away feom interesting. By partially shutting off| protect them from soot. The plates} eet pes retailer 18 no Mares there are. rush|fi® chair on account of funeraia'ts the dratt to her boilers a battleship is [are Kept clean by streams of com. | Practice in plant planning ts not to| the smabedt neve, Cieit a. perhaps | ie family and things like thats to get pie rake sn | Pressed air directed across them,| construct @ building and then to fit) Daten’ oo Tay pe iost through alt uigi’, race. HO when the boss made to emit clouds of amoke which |friy device was installed om theft | the machinery Jnto it, but rather to| Patronage may | be lost threwth | wouldn't fall for this any more screen her from the enemy, But how| sy. Conyngham and was called to| lay out the machinery in accord with| ford to keep enough salespeople on| for tha nest ave oe nee te, lay the attention of the Society of Naval| the straight-line principle of produc-| hand to ensure quick service for Ai Peiad next day for a friend's wed-, Archit and Marine Engineers by| tion and then to plan a building to| the busy periods. But he can lay ope Rear Admiral R. T. Hail, U. 8. N envelop it, That explains the odd| i,,'he busy pe Lillie, the blonde, she ikea to see Popular Superstitions book men. So she, v1 : |atsle, is a post. Like an island in a| funerals before asm ennumnet 4 OLDIERS have a superstition! with a stranger, or to have @ drink| stream, it slows up the current of|boss there's a wedding amon, that wearing the clothing or|Cheaper than that of the person who | trade, lowers his clerks’ efficl lady relatives too, Rie rw: her plays host. equipment any of the drink in the glass or to will of a fallen fellow soldi cause the death of the wearer. This supersitition does not|for the next one, It is unlucky to| study would evolve a plan whereby it] speedy powder by miat hich extend to the belongings of a foe, | #!N&, Whistle or hum the tune of a) could be removed, or, If this were im- Trenuaa la nade ictake ane sa It is considered unlucky to meet a| SYA In the canteen, and it is very | possible, @ rearrangement of fixtures |or just to do the meanest thing they 4 unlucky to whistle or hum anywhere | Would render it. innocuous. can think of to each others Ea cross-eyed woman on the way to|the tune of the well known Nead|" "tn this same store, the bread is|married, Of course, the minute Tat active service. Some soldiers firmly|March ip "Saul." kept in a case, which’ ts set on the|iie's got him hooked, she sits right believe that in such a case they are| One of the superstitions of the Eng- | floor, with perpendicular sliding glass|down on her contract and refused to almost certain pover to return, Meet-) lish “Tommy,” born in the pr doors. It is most inaccessible, The| work, leading a lite of luxury \ 4 man, however, is be-| reat war, is that of lighting ¢ contortions through which the clerks! light’ housekeeping in a furn the opposite effect and| Cigarettes with one match, To do so,| have to go to secure a loaf of bread |room and the movie show: od luck the soldiers say, means the speedy | are amusing, And bread, of course, is| “The new manicuress doesn't seem It is deomed unlucky for @ soldier h of one, if not all three of the|an articie for which calls are fre-|to be very cheerful,” said Mr, Jarr, who is lying awake before the busie|Sroup, nt, A case should be devised| glancing over at the morose brunette has sounded reveille to hear a dog| There are many explanations of| which 1s level with a person's chest,| who was ensconced at the little ie bark. He is certain to meet with some/this superstition, Probably the most| thus avoiding the necessity of bending | formerly presided over by the ae mishap before the day ts over, ac-| plausible is that of its being symbolic | nearly double. hatred Lillian, now the grouchy Bare cording to those who be! On the other hand, if the should be in “signs. ound heard the crowing of a rooster, of the three candles placed coffin of the dead, at the soldier is mightily pleased, All] head of the coffin and one at the foot, | will be well with him that day it has long been considered in Eng: | There are many superstitions con-| land a bad omen to have three lights {nected with the canteen, It is cun-| burning in a room, It 1s considered | sidered unlucky to refuse to drink! a “sign” that a death is soon to occur, __By H. J. Barrett __ It is also unlucky to leave | finish off one drink without wishing the Because it has en the custom to place two at the |Cheerful Charley down there on. the |fourch chair? ‘Them barbers on sth |last chairs is all grouches, Well; happy pair has got a good chance to |] Set along together fine, — they started off lke other Etticiency so that the clerks can) the ponies run, too, and she overs | fill orders without lost motion, Take) j\earg a hot tip on Slee: a the grocer with whom I deal, for ex-| wants the track odde-which he ti ample. percentage on what she can “In front of his cashier's window, around here from shoest ° square in the centre of a narrow ring hand is an annoyance to customer: post has stood there for years, dally | taking its toll of profits. A little meet at the track, stop for a Tittie dha to insult each other, find ‘ve picked a skate that's been ry Jenerally speaking, those articles which are in greatest demand should be assigned the most accessible lo- cations. But few small retallera de- vote any thought to a scientific lay- out of thelr stores. To do so mei quicker service, fewer clerks, and more patronage. era bride, “Can you blame the poor gir? in love with the Seventy-firat ment,” sald the sporting barber, used to work up In @ shop near their armory, and she gets word just yea- tiddy that the Seventy-first is” or- dered off to war!”