The evening world. Newspaper, July 7, 1917, Page 8

Daily Magazine ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Bxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to ti Fant tow. Kew torus SLITZI President, l. PLE UTA: Pesce Ee sosbrH PULITZDN, Jr Becrelary, 68 Park How. Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Matter, ‘The Bvening|For England and the Continent and ‘orld for the catted States All Countries ‘9, International end Canada, ry nion. | Year. + $6.00 /One Yoar....scseceseees $15.40) | Month. ..+++ + .60/One Month. seeee see 1,80) WOLUME 58. seeeesNO, 20,409 THE WAY TO WAR. {4 © ARMED to the teeth and let the enemy know you are coming.” There is merit and meaning in this old adage of barbaric fighting days worthy of consideration by a modern nation, undaunted and unafraid, the champion of world freedom, that excites iteelf over petty censorship leaks and sees lurking spies behind every door. ; Indian stealth and secret stalking passed out of warfare long years ago. The conqueror of to-day possesses might and right backed | by ships, men and munitions in crushing numbers. Making ourselves ridiculous is not a pleasing prospect for Ameri- cans who are so fond of gibing at the weakness of others. When England was passing through this same period of war adolescence we emiled at her bungling and blunders, yet we to-day are having fits of hysteria over popgun events. : The happy circumstance that puts grim and ghastly war threo thousand miles away from our shores permits these trivialities to attain inflated importance. A single shot on this side of the Atlantic—may it never be fired—would blow them into the realm ‘of common sense. White paper and printers’ ink that might better be conserved are wasted in thunderous controversy over incidents merely interesting at best; certainly not important. What vital difference does it make if George Creel, Director of the Government’s Bureau of Public Information, did “elaborate” for newspaper publication the official despatches about Pershing’s expe- dition? Navy officers are not experts in modern literary style. Perry, Farragut, Sampson and Dewey sent mere brief reports of their victories that were not elaborated and hence passed into popularity and history. : What need of Secretary Baker diverting to Washington all press cables because news of the expedition’s safe arrival was printed in advance of the theatric staging for a Fourth of July announcement. There are other holidays coming. The Government may yet have better luck holding back news for Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Ohristmas. What misdirected effort to keep foreign press despatches from loyal people at home while permitting secret information of plans and future movements to pass out to the enemy! This is plugging up a leak at the wrong end. Censorship is more necessary about things to be done than on deeds already accomplished. The cables that should be diverted to Washington are those going out; not those coming in. Spies are not hunted with brass bands nor caught by proclamations and newspaper headlines. The time of high officials wasted in these disputes might better be employed in speeding up arming of the nation to the teeth and planting the knockout blow in the German solar plexus, | ns | LEGISLATING FOOD PRICES. F GOV. WHITMAN has in mind a concrete plan to stop extortion J in prices and regulate the State’s food supply, he cannot call * together too quickly the Legislature and have done something tangible, something effective. The food and price record of the Legislature left to itself does not warrant the public relying very strongly on the announced extra sersion for relief unless a very definite programme is laid down and forced through. All last summer the Wicks committee investigated principally, milk prices for farmers, and made voluminous report. Result, higher | prices than ever in the metropolis, principally for milk. For four months this year the Senate and Assembly in session Omer Nae’ York mweting’ Wort By Sophie Irene Loeb. URING the week Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the Presi- dent's daughter, came to Ne York in the in and the eity ran democracy, ene Lone Miss = Wilson's saw skyrocketing prices for necessities, read daily about extortions, main plea from the platform was to corners and speculation and heard cries for relief from a suffering) urgo a greater democracy, In a Writing in the statute books some hastily hashed up, unworkable} 4, America," would bring the peo- law to meet an emergency is often the product of special sessions,| ple and the Government closer to To be made really effective, there must be a well defined executive plan, carefully worked out in advance, | : If Gov. Whitman has such a plan, then the extra session will be) worth while. If he has not, then the result is doubtful and the| wise citizen will begin preparations for home defense during the) coming winter. | The public is concerned, vitally concerned, in this food and price question, It will be a wise and prudent Governor who takes into his confidence his ten million constituents and tells them in advance what he has to propose so they can get behind him and accelerate egislative action There is no patience for further investigation, discussion and dodging. New York has had enough of that, and the usual fruitless results. The State is looking just now for some man in the Executive Mansion with courage to tackle single handed the pirates and boosters, The plundering syndicates are vulnerable, The Evening World alone knocked out the gang that kept potato prices four times above | ° their proper level, A month ago New Yorkers were paying 10 cents 4 pound for potacoes at retail stores. To-day the price is two pounds for 5 cents, Publicity and a few swift, well-directed punches did it. Tell the peorle your plan, Goy, Whitman, so they ean back you up and fee! assured that relief is coming, If you break one eorner, puncture one booster and one robber, smash one speculator, f was taken by cheapen the cost of living it will be the biggest achievement of your! Queen Liltuokalani herself, On Jan. | administration, 14, 1893, she announced a | the Constitution of Hawati, whten|* deprived all white citizens of the right . Letters rom the Peo Pp le to vote unless they were married t . Hawallan wounen The 1 States : an 1 no reason why the bonus ought to| Minister, J. L. Stevens Vo the Editor of Tb ing Wor be pald when the company was in-| prevent trouble, ordered in the Won't you kindly give your opin convenienced by having guardsmen marines from the United States jon of a very large express company | called away EET eaten. (Svine that withholds a bonus from an em-, Do you ca this patriotism or en- minittes of sate ployee, a National Guardsman, when|couraging to young men to answer iat guardsman is called to the colors! the country's call? two days before the bonus was to be No w y there are so many pata slackers” and need for actual draft ‘The General Magager waid he saw A CONSTAN® READER 4 ; gether, “Do you realize that, after jall, the people of the United States tion | © are not really tn vital conne with their own government? We must organize as a people so that @ can gain democratic control,” she said. Her father proclaimed war in ov der to “make the world safe for de mocracy.” The Mayor and other spenkers al ~ How One In the CCORDING to a soldier re- PX cently returned from the front this is a true stoty, It fs the story of how one trench sec- tion learned to meet a gas attack, he moment that a gas bomb ex- plodes they take to thelr dugout The first move, of course, 18 to put) below on gas masks. The medicine dog, 's Anniversary | INETEEN years ago to-day Hawaii came under the protec tion of the Stars and Stri The step that led to the immediate | desire for annexation proclama 1 6 fovernment on until the tion, Copyright, 1917, by The Frees Pubtiatai (The New York Brening World.) Your Meaning of Democracy? so strongly urged more “democratic” | ful effort for the emancipation of the 4s well as the palace of the peer 18, When promotion in an office means OW are you, Mr. Slavin-|name for bi A obser Br ‘H ‘or business, but for fighting— racy seems to be the word of| His biographers sald: “He soon be- came one of the leaders of the young members of the House, who were for bold measures and who disitked the timidity of thelr senior fellow Rep-| in So forceful did he be- the purely political point of come that the original draft of the | Declaration of Independence was his | handiwork. In those days he was naturally con- sidered a Rav the man with the “pull.” When no man asks another to risk a danger that he would not be will- % to take himself. When the landlord gets on with a yacht or two leas in order to make habitable homes for the tenants of his tenements. When the voice of the poorest man in public matters 1s as necessary as man of milli When a woma ‘Then what is it? Just what ia a of us usually “| Democrat as being opposed to a Re- resentatives,”” b est of opening the} view, What then is a Republican? schools of the city | The dictionary defines a Democrat 8 for community | centre and civic! purposes, Also Independence Day was celebrated | | republicanism 18 not so in political and legal equal- 1 as the issues for which each regards her servant | as a helper instead of a hireling, The dictionary defines a Republican | stands. a matter of character “one who advocates a republican miment which in turn is defined as a represented democracy ;" Presidency of John retting right the term democracy means to being democratic not @ matter for the polls on but for the people every rather than cash When a lawmaker recognizes the plea of the people rather than the favor of the few. When the elected official retains the best man even though he is his po- litleal opponent. When one never stoops form of Gove y with speeches on Therefore th | tittle differenc seems to be very) fundamental words; both stand for Lincoln defined it) | ‘or the people and by | It 1s not a matter of party votes election but selection, When strength extends {ts arm to raising of the weak. When woman man’s equal. the principle of being democratic are all “What's In a name?" | Actions speak louder than names. As a wise man has put tt, “A Demo- t is one opposed to a Conservative who was once a Democrat but who ecured more power than he should | b nizes the wrongs of the man lower given to the child of the foreign-born as well as the native. In a word when the Individual un-! his highest When the employer and employee discuss their differ- neces As Man to man. When the rich woman finds human | a Ay kinship {n the hovel of the pauper should be made to “live and let live. | | “It star be a Conservative: Jefferson who sounded the tocsin of | foundation for it after an unsuccess- t their ives in the early years of the flying machine's development/could come back to life and gaze upon the picture which accompanies this would first gasp in astonishment enthustastically * the men who | Cat Is Doing Her Bit ia . pare War of the Nations mand a the construction who traveln with the ambulance, has| which made It possible for sixty persons to crowd upon one- | half of a huge biplane's wings without breaking them. some of the early martyrs who drop from great heights went to their doom because builders of the structural ed to a terrible death mask for tho cat that keeps the Perhaps she doesn't no conception strength required says Popular Science that the wing section of the picted is supported from a heavy w. not from the floor, | wing section is held only on one side and extends | freely from that side into the dugout, twenty feet | »; biplane here de- eden frame and think that the gassing has sniffer" gets busy. He ts one of the who {# chosen, or who volun and take a sniff lat the air to find out whether or not | those of any enormous flying yacht, Although the moves his mask and sniffs, he will know soon enough, Hitions to S24P on his mask again and scurry muck into the dugout, dently sustain the weight of some one hundred and to go through the same they have not, of course, amount of lifting power. crew of the vessel probably amounts Hence the weight for available for in order to} companions that the alr is clear, they | Sometimes when the air thick with gases and might be danger for a man to | reserve strength. sails of an sing the nal god bir there out of the dugout to act can anift better than a man, and \ one-half tons. scrambling back fast as she can, xd a clearly does not overstrain the wings, .of the U. S: Nava a ay Albert Payson Terhune Convrietyt, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kesning World), . 22,—~MATTHEW PERRY, Who Opened Japan to Civilization. i E was the socond Perry to bear the rank of Commodore in our nav: —the first and more spectacular being Oliver Hazard Perry, of the Battle of Lake Erle, Matthew Calbraith Perry, younger brother of the Lake Brie, Commodore, was not only @ fighter but a diplomat as well. And, thanks to both these qualities, ho won high honor for Uncle Sam in the Far East. Here is his tery: His father and his brother were both naval offesrs,, And from childhood Matthew Perry looked forward naval career of his own. In 1809, when he was but fi teen, he became a midshipman, Three years later the outbreak of the War of 1812 gave him his first real advance, He fought gallantly throughout thet conflict, rising to a leutenancy, Then came dreary years of shore duty and of ether routine work, and @ gradual advance in rank, until in 1837 he was a Captain, A year afterward he was made commander of the | ,, Fulton 1, our navy’s first steam warship. Inns The Mexican War gave him another | paises” ees tunity for active service, As Commodore he com- i! to Fight. ™manded a squadron of six vessels, With these he ° captured the Mexican stronghold of Then he made himself master of the river and town of Tabasco, FLhey~ ting Mexico off from Yucatan. ‘ He was also in command of the squadron which, tn |smashed so big a hole in the walls of Vera Cruz that the United forces could march through Into the city, But it was after the Mexican War that Perry achieved the deed | which he has won {mmortal fame, He was appointed, in 1862, to the | mand of an expedition to Japan, to foree upon that inhospitable and hermt country the advantages of a treaty with the United States. | Japan had not been friendly to strangers, She minded her own buet. ness and expected the rest of the world to do the same. She dia not for outside trade or for outside customs or for outside people. She to be let alone. There were stories of foreign crews put to death in hideous manner ", the Russian diplomat, had tried to pave the way for a Ruago. Japanese treaty. The Japs had put him tn an fron cage and exhibited him, These were but a few of the ways in which the Little Brown B: : |had said “Hands off!" to the rest of the world. Perry, with four warships and 560'men, satled into Urago Bay. At: once the Shogun (Holy Emperor) ordered his people to pray that the Invad- ers might be destroyed. But the Americans were not destroyed. Nor @id’ they do any destroying. Perry contented himself with a grim show of force. Then he gave the japanese authorities President Fillmore’s letter setting forth the advantages of a treaty. He also landed a collection of American-made invention: of all sorts, from sewing machines to locomotive models, and explained the advantages of such things. After which he sailed away to China, saying he would come back a few months later for the Shogun's answer. Back he came. During his absence the Japanese had first made ewitt Preparations for war, But soon they had seen the folly of resistance, And Perry on his return with a still larger fleet. found them peaceable enough. ‘Tho presence of the Yankee warships had done its work. | After six weeks’ negotiation Perry obtained the treaty he had come for ~-the first ever made by us with Japan. Among {ts other terms Japan waé pledged to treat shipwrecked satlors kindly; to let foreign vessels provision and coal at certain of her harbors; to permit American ships to anchor at Hakodate and Shimoda and to insure the safety of American citizens, This treaty was the birth of modern Japan. It opened her porte to world commerce. When Perry went ashore to sign the document he was | accompanied by a “guard of honor” of 500 sailors, The sight of the armed | cuard also served its turn in impressing the Japs. Home came Ferry, a national hero, having won tremendous euceess where the diplomats of all other nations had failed. The Jarr Family4 By Roy L. McCardell | Coovriaht by the From Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), sky2" asked Mr. Jarr, ac-| they always use an Irish name in box costing his friend and|hting—and now he is a soldier he is ee ‘ | to fight also, and when he was a mur. en neighbor, the glagier, | derer in the movink pictures he had to Me? Tam fine, thank you!" re-! fight, and when he played t! in. plied the glass-put-in man cheerfully. |a cabinet he had to Aeht with the wadte ‘And my family is fine, and even my ers to throw out the collegers who oldest boy what was @ loafer what stp-ted something, and when he wasa played the plano and was a cowboy and dancer he had to fight to get and a murderer in the movink pic- Gookinge stout if he had stayed in tures is doing fine, and"—— lass-put-in business mit me, or “That's Sidney,” sald Mr, Jarr, in- into cloaks and suits with his terrupting the loquacious glazier. Uncle Heyman, he could have kept Sure, Shidney, my oldest boy what! his own name.” his thinks iss so fine, but| “Oh, well, Sidney is all ri i i ight at that. now he iss, too. But a loafer he was, | He had the artistic com ~ RC a0 Buy & Abeer Ree @ artistic tentperament, mercial pursuits were not for him,” said Mr. Jarr. “Perhaps you and were @ little wild, too, when we were young, but, any way, the boy ts no slacker—he's a food, stand-up-and- e man and called h fight patriotio, American. He's lively vin, the Dublin Dude?" and alert, and you'll y ‘Sure,” said Mr, Slavinsky, “and | officer! leads.) now he {8 in the army he calls him| “Sure!” sald Mr, Slavinsky, “Don't 5 ‘i | Shidney write his mommer and me « Mr. r. “Wasn't | letter in which he says he is studying the patronymic of Slavinsky deemed | all the time his ticktacs to be am off worthy of his professional and social | cer activities “His tactics,” suggested Mr, Jarr. when my boy Shidney| Mr, Slavinsky shrugged bis shoul- was a box fighter first,” said Mr, Slav- | ders, nsky. “Cutting the end off his name} “It was in tho letter he wrote his made it an Trish name. A Yiddish all right—he is desistéd In the arm he army, eh?” replied at's the boy that played as a song and i@ in the United State sidney like it in the training he Iikes it!" said Mr. Slavins- As a gun shooter he writes his |mommer and me that already he ic taking in over 80 per cent. My, that is making big money in the soldier business, but it shows you what it costs for things to eat his was a p atement to Mr, Jarr, and he pa think, ie, e” ulte understand you, My Slavinsky,"” he sald, “What do yo about the high price of thin at and your son Sidney's wi ptice?”" Vell, t's in the letter to his mi y and me that Shidney writes, he gets 80 per cent. shooting im th |prune position? That shows, any, |how, that shidney will be a bu: |man yet in the anmy. Eighty |cent, in the prune position} Be |my, that's a big per centage for prunes! | “Shooting in @ prone position, you mean, and he scorea it @ possible hundred at tne tar- ested Mr, Jarr, replied Mr, Slavinelkey his momimer {s afraid of the Indians, because our Ittle Iesy ex- | plained it when Shidney writes that | he was practising the wigwams, and our little Izzy, who 1 so smart, says the Indians lve in them wigwame. “Wigwags, signal practising 6id- |ney meant,” said Mr, Jarr, ‘The picture ts an object lesson in! rigid that they will keep its shape! “Sure!” ‘said Mr. Slavinaky. “tt! ‘The stoutest storm old-fashinoned were never subjected to such strains as those which must be en- dured by that fabric of linen, wires and lattice-work of which the wings of a modetn flying machine are com- A sail needs strength to resist in the worst hurricane. Only the all in the letter he wrote his mommer pilot of an airplane knows how ‘his |and mi wings are strained when he drops| ‘Well, don’t you care, Mr, @la- at @ steep angle from a height of|vinsky,” sald Mr. Jarr. “Sidney is five thousand feet in a swift down-/a fine boy and you see he has made ward glide for home. It must bend & m&n of himself, after all! no more than if it were made of “Sure!” said the glaziei ain't cast iron, To this stiffness the mod- got a boy what will ever be ladylike, ern airplane owes its superior sta> but bad manners they don't newer bility get from thelr mommer or m .