The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1917, Page 14

0 ‘ 1 % i ; i i (abe, end @STARLISUED RY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunray by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to 63 Park Row, New York. LPH PULITZER, President, 63, Row. foe mNGGE SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Eek Rey JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park NNN cel it maleate Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Matter, Bebecription Rates to The Evening ‘orld for the United States ‘and Canada, For England and the Continent and Ali Countries in the International Postal Union, . $6.00) One Year, . .60/One Month . seeeeeeeeeeesNO, 20,414 One Year.. One Month VOLUME 58..... HEP. NE war blunder has been corrected in time. New York is to O have opportunity of saying a cheering goodby to its departing soldiers marching threugh the streets of the Metropolis. Secretly sneaking volunteers away from home is as ridiculous in @ democracy as the ostrich hiding its head in the sand or # hob-nailed cop trying to tread softly. The Evening World chalks up one more wictory on its scoreboard of common sen nn MAKE AMERICA SAFE. Bi we set out to make the world safe for democracy it is quite important to clean up # certain autocracy at home and make America safe for everyday existence, . For a full year millions of people have been crying out against ertortions in prices, particularly pf food and common necessities. The Evening World has repeatedly charged that prevailing prices are fictitious, the result of inflations by middlemen and speculators. It has exposed corners, combines and crookedness, but the game still goes on without interference by government—Federal, State or City. At last one man has the courage and the clear sightedness to hit straight. Hoover is his name—Herbert ©. Hoover, who will be National Food Administrator if Congress can ever get through wrang- ling over the Food Control bill. Reporting officially to the President a diagnosis of the case and putting his finger on the crookedest part of the whole rotten system, Hoover says: t speculation and extortionate profits must canse the deepest anxiety. er has suffered from 50 to 100 per cent. and the producer gained nothing. bck Ae ping World A Day’s Catch! id, ‘This unbearable increase in the margin ee producer and consamer {s due not only to rank speculation, but more largely to the wide margin of profit demanded by every link in the chain, This is harsh indictment of the great American commercial aystem that developed out of shrewd Yankee trading. But American business is running amuck. It is crazed by profit and excited by extortion. Its moral conscience has fallen to the low ebb of those days when smuggling was a triumph and slave trading was a virtue. Self-restraint seems now to be a lost creed in commerce. Ohecking greed for gain is more important for Congress than curbing the appetite for drink. : ‘The Evening World news columns yesterday noted the enormous profits made in sugar, of a par with gambler’s rakeoff or policeman’s graft. Here is a concrete instance of manipulation, for speculators have converted the old Coffee Exchange into a Sugar Exchange and the price of this necessity of life is made in a betting ring. Public service corporations like steam railroads, street railways, gas companies and electric combines are public benefactors and mod-| Covsrigue. 4017. by Th By Sophie Irene Loeb YOUNG woman writes me and strongly urges a warning to all| Urged her to be a “good fellow” and wirls who want fellows.” She tells her story as an example to others. It seems that her mother was a very strict wom- an, She never al- lowed her to “go| els of moderation, thanks to strict State regulation, compared to the unlicensed pillage of private business. The great body of the people at the two extremes—producers at A one end and consumers at the other—are the victims. Business in between has a hand in each of their pockets, Hoover has touched the right spot. Back him up, for he is the one man in all officialdom who gives promise of doing something sensible, something practical, to help the public. Politicians, office holders, legislators, lawyers, uplifters and parlor socialists have not lowered a single price. Go to it, Hoover. Hit greedy business on the point of the jaw. The audience is with you. SLOW STARTING. EW YORK is having trouble trying to get the draft machinery N started. Many people are wondering why. Mr. Martin Green’s despatch from Washington to The Evening World locates the friction. “The trouble is that the tratned army officer {s an efft- ciency machine. In his environment he anticipates and exacts obedience. The selective draft machinery is now in the hands of civilians, many of whom do not understand the rufos and regulations they have received, There {s difference between military efficlency in preparation and civilian efficiency in execution.” It was military authority that thrust into commandeered civilian hands a new and complicated piece of machinery for which the oper- ating rules are not even yet complete. Military authority demanded immediate action without taking the trouble to provide equipment of any kind—pay, quarters, supplies, not even a lead pencil. How would an army get along under such conditions? But resolute America and our patriotic civilians are going through with this business, a little slowly perhaps, and doubtless with some blunders, but in the end they will make a very good job of it. Letters From the People Wants War K fef Fands Properly | committees, and we question in many re hay By J. H. Cassel ee ‘Thursday, oc Famous Herces of the U.S. Navy - By Albert Payson Terhune | | | “Ceyaright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 23—ISAAC CHAUNCEY, Hero of the Great Lakes Blockade. NTO Boston Harbor, one day in 1778, sailed a ship that had set forth | some months earlier from the same port. Although there was almost no wind blowing she carried little sail ¢ crept Into the harbor. This fact drew the attention of dock loafers and eailors, They looked close at the incoming ship. A figure was visible at her helm. But not another soul could be seen on deck. This was odd, for she had carried a goodly crew. Boats put off from shore to investigate, The first men to board the ship as she moved to her anchorage saw at the helm a sixteen-year-old boy, Isaac Chauncey by name. He was as thin as a skele-~ ton. His eyes were glassy wit! fever and his face was like a death-mask. As soon as he was relieved of the helm he sank to the deck in a swoon. And for weeks afterward he was dangerously ill. Nor did searchers ‘find any one else alive on board. They found the ship's log, however—a log kept first by the skipper, then by the mate, and last of all by young Chauncey, And the log told its own story. , Bcarce had the vessel started upon her homeward voyage when an epidemic of smallpox had swept the crew. One after another, the skipper, the mate and the foremast hands had been smitten by o ® the scourge. Presently there were none to tend the On arias ShiP§ sick—almost none to bury the dehd. p lsllistiirecr sie At last only Isaac Chauncey was left alive. He was an ambitious youngs.er who had picKed up @ smatter- ing of navigation. Dangerously {Il though he was, Chauncey would not give up. Single handed, he sailed the ship safe into port. For this gallant achievement the vess owners at once promoted the boy to the command of the ship he had saved. And thus began Chauncey's real sea career, There was @ good living in the merchant service, especially for a cap~ tain of Isaac Chauncey’s character, But, at twenty-seven, he gave up his | profitable merchantman berth to serve his country. War with France was threatening. And Chauncey joined our navy. At once he received a lieutenant’s commission. Three years later he was captain of the thirty-eight gun frigate Chesapeake in the Tripoli War. | During the Barbary campaigns Chauncey did brilliant service, and was raised to the rank of Commodore, But his chief exploits were performed ainst England in the War of 1812. In that war the command of the Great Lakes was among the most important strategic points. Both America and England struggled for com- mand of these big bodies of water. Chauncey was just then in charge of the Navy Yard at New York. Ho was put in command of a squadron sent to guard Lake Ontario. Most of the squadron's ships were still unbullt. Chauncey and his men had to build them in the forest at the lake edge, His British foes,eunder Sir James Yeo, had to build many of their ships in the same way. Then began a series of exciting naval fights, varied by the blockading of the various British ports on the lake. These block- Had to Build } ades of Chauncey’s did much to curb the British power io in the Lakes region and thus to ald our sorely dis« Own Fi tressed country in maintaining the disastrous war. ———w For all this Chauncey deserves the thanks of Amer- ica, But the Lake campaigns themselves were noted for dozens of silly and costly mistakes on both sides, and were starred with a succession of lost opportunities. First, the British would have a group of American ships at thelr mercy, only to lose this advantage through a commander's blunder. Then Chaune cey would have an opportunity to deal a crushing blow to the enemy, and for some reason he would let the advantage siip through his fingers, His subordinates grumbled that he was overcautious, : ‘The declaration of peace put an end to this queer campaigning, Chaun« cey’s period of active warfare was past. But he served with distinction im various high offices in the navy until his death in 1833, reve Pyptishing Co.) girl had ne young men chillers were forbidde her home, She ex- plains how this mother was not unkind, but only acted | in this way to shield her child from | getting out in the world tuo early As a result of this, during her high | confidence of the child | bunch” fing quaintances and formed the habit of not telling her mother about her little | had a big h fiirtations to and from school, So that later on, when she did ar- rive at the age where she was al- lowed to entertain young men, the | habit had grown so strong in her to| many, many young we keep things from mother that she did | dow it as @ general thing. On ‘one accasion she was invited to a dinner party at 4 restaurant on outskirts of quite @ merry party with some six or elght people, Cocktails were ordered but as the $30,000 Worth of F he Inventor’s Plan Works. BROOKLYN genius has hit crease mortality fish family | ! many times over, ne # jcases whether a large proportion of| He proposes to build a boat having) water covered by. the aiveetie Bo the Palit ; v ae os of the | ‘He funds that are contributed really|an apparatus at the bow and under in front of the scoo he fish slay ¢ ' oe so to the aid of the cause, the water somewhat like an inverted Which have gathered will be thrown Cary Manufacturing Company, 18)” Where there are ao many organisa Macine torts into confusion by the sudden disap nuch interested in your ¢ ; _ . he! pearance of the light, and guided by gery hak tniaceetad 15 3s) tions there must be a great duplica- the inventor would] the walls of the scoop to the speed me the be 4 tion of work, which involves a large| turn searohlights upon the water jing conveyer will be safely landed fect Our War Relief Funds” Wel expense even if they are cond \on dock. ; x ley are conducted think that something should be done “4 be tea a aS 1 | would attract all of the fish in the] “The machine after the first hour's at once to restrict these appeals of f y in your use of the light will actually pick up Jous committees for funds in aid re 18 NO assurance what- | them in the scoop. By pul all the fish from a strip two miles var’ mt at they are even conducted on| the fiah would be carried into the| wide and 100 feet deep at the rate of of the war Peed business basis ship on an automatic con The|cighty-eight feet a minute. We xave a very substantial sub- | we ining “Estimating 1,000 pound: a TRG aE oe : 000 pounds of flah a goription in ald of the Red Cross\ine G iat Ea ll that] end them into a cold # minute, the boat would pick up thirty ‘ ay Hee 0 0 ( ‘ No ve cents a pound fnavgurated by different papers, paper will make further efforts to| scheme in his own words: this would bring — $30,000 2 on8 Where we felt there was undoubted rectify this evil, Surely all the’ ‘Three large searchlights are used} night's cateh. Six of these machines Fesponsibility for the proper use of Meney that Is contributed now should to light the water ten tiles ahead of{ will keep the United States supplied Whe funds, but we are flooded with Kooy 'rcukn the right sources to be As our spocd with fish, fish oil, fish meals, fish used economically scoop in position will be about ten} scrap and fertilixer. Thirty-five more @il kinds of appeals from different SPENCER ©, “~ wiles an hour it will give the dsb @ will supply all the world.” 1 4 } r drank anything she refused, The other members of the party began to her, calling her prude,” “Mama's baby girl” and not “spoil the party.” Seemingly she did not have: the courage to combat this harangue and therefore became a “good fellow.” When sho returned home sho knew her mother would not approve and 1 not mention the occurrence, E jut she attributes all her later sor- rows to this first time when she could not withstand the jibes of her com- rades to be a “good fellow". with |them, Her story 1s one of the every- |day variety, where Queen Pleasure and the 4 re to be “one of the ty became her nemesis, Her mother died broken-hearted, blaming herself for her early strict: ness and ber inability to invite the Fortunately for this young woman |she met a man who was big enough | jto understand and sympathize. He rt and naturany forgot Jand forgave “the woman's past.” she is now happli anxious that ¢ in her footsteps. her girls do not follow Her tale rings true. ‘There must be alt Kan with the first desire ned & “good fellow" -- a to be di “good scout.” Usually such girle know right from wrong, but cannot withstand the bantering of baneful companions. They AMither dread being considered prudish or in, Ah, if they ag others see them, full hour to get into line, As the ray of light is very wide at the farther end and becomes con- ntly narrower as the boat ap- aches and as the width of the bt is reduced eo gradually aa to| permit all the fish in the vic be drawn into the nary married, but is very | nen Whose t-laced, so they join d see themselves It they could only realize how men | Cooycigrt and women as a rule respect a girl ¢ who has the nerve to say no 66, an Perhaps at the moment it may be embarrassing, and a girl may think | she 1s “spoiling the party.” Yet after- 17, by The Prens i’ybliching Co, w Yack "brenine, World.) would read the paper for me, Mr, Jarr.” said Mrs, Dusen- her course think better‘of her jn their! somewhere in France, and I want to heart of hearts é know what the navy is doing. I don't And if they don’t they are compan- ; ions that are not worth while, Tho| 20 Why he fined the navy: he was people who really resent a girl's re-|* Plumber and doing well—but I sup- luctance to join in so-called pleasure | pose he was just like his father, who are the very people who will forsake a girl when she finds herself needing member how his mother orted about friends. it “good fellow,” 1s she who will no and 1 married him, and now I tolerate any’ one dictating what 1s | pet 5 de get a pension as a soldier's widder, best for her against her own better PeaTen ee She will refuse when she thinks she|Jited the navy, and, oh, dear, I won- is right, regurdiess of what “they” | der tf he'll ever come back!” will think of her, She will under-| “He'll come back, never fear,” eald stony for bo eeod Bu tae ms the| Mt: Jarr, “But you know there isn't wise girl who, pereu to be a good| Much definite news about the navy fellow, akes certain that the per-|0r the troops; it's all censored. _ Bachelor Girl Reflections | By Helen Rowland. Mi ecosinen is largely a state of mind. Some men are mentally and through the wedding ceremony, e There is nothing like a before-breakfast gas attack, followed by a curtain of rapid-fire argument, to dig trenches in a man's love, The first conjugal Me usually springs from the “What-excuse-have-you-got?” attitude and the man's “What-excuse-do-you-want?” attitude, Anybody can be an optimist after 10 o'clock on Wace ow Ane Monday morning! (I. «6: After the laundry has gone out, the milkman has collected, the mald has shown up, and Hubby has gone off to the office wearing his Monday morning aura of sainted martyr.) awakened him from “love's young dream,” by dropping @ bomb on his vanity, ’ much as a small boy dreads taking a bath. Going into marriage with a sensitive soul and an uninsulated vanity {ts almost as foolish and painful as going to New Jersey in an open-work blouse. When a man declares he has lost his patience his wife sometimes as to suppress her surprise at this discovery that he HAD any, Alas! it takes such a tiny lttle discord to turn “Jove’s sweet song’ from a eulogy into an elegy. \ i Jarr Family drapped in to see If you) ward when all is over, the very peo. | Derry, the little old lady from Indiana. | ple who have urged ‘her to change|"My son Gabe jined the navy and he's! she does not belleve is best for her| went off to the Civil War; and I re-| |it—And me only a little sip of @ Ral | The girl worth while, the truly|those days, And then Gabe come| judgment and here's my boy left his work and | cuader ts not @ bad fellow. | “I would read the papers myself,” | ug DY forever, no matter bow often they go} There 1s no use trying to lull a man back to sleep, once you have | The average man dreads meeting a strong-minded woman almost as | By Roy L. McCardell | explained the old lady, “but I set on/alres run off and married schoot my pocket and broke my speca, I/ teachers or actresses?" carry @ buckeye ag’inst rheumatism | Mr, Jarr looked over the paper and and a piece of calamus rook to chew|then declared there was a dearth of for heartburn, and my specs broke|sensations’ and runaway matches in aginst ‘em. I'll have to send out to|high life.” Shellendarger’s general store in Tay-| ‘Well, it do beat all bow young lortown, Indlany, for another pair, I| folks will carry on! No matter how reckon.” you advise ‘em for their own good, ‘why, I never heard of general|they ups and marries jest who they stores carrying spectacles,” sald Mrs, | tkes—which, come to think on it, all Jarr, | young folks allers did, and allers will, “That's because the general stores |I expect. I know I did—my Gabe's have more enterprise in Indiany than | Mother didn't want him to marry me, in this big, foolish city," said the old|4nd my people didn't want me to lad he general store—Shellen- | Marry him—because our familles was ger’s—has a box full of specs on|!awing over father having the hardware counter, steel specs, | Sealded one 6f our hawgs what ruint and you pick out what suits you,! his kitchen garden—but loving hearte your choice for a quarter. Preachers|!s tenderst, as the Bible says, and I can wear gold-rimmed specs, but 1t| know it.” is vanity for poor people to do It; “Yes, Youth and Romance will not sides, I hear tell as how they cost aa|b@ denied, and ‘tis Love that makes saan an 80. |the World go ‘round!” said Mrs, Jarr “I dink you had better go to an | Sentimentally, optician and have your eyes exam-| “And it happens everywhere, not ined, rather than send out to your, #lone in the moving pictures and in home town for spectacles,” suggested | Dish societ; said the old lady from Mr. Jarr, Indiana, “Out in Taylortown there “I'd jest as Hef go to a freeknowl- | Was Dolly Dingelbender, who played edgist to have my head examined to| the organ in church, and as pius a gal see what kind of a bunnit I needed,"| 48 ever you seo, and yet she runs off declared the old lady, ‘Shellen-|and marries a hoss doctor with red barger's clerk, Eddie Saurbaugh,| hair, and who was widower with six bi knows what giasaes Io use x could culaned, and win an infiddie and cat send my Gabe, when a little boy, for Leaen meee mies basen And there a pair when I bruk mine, for I allus! with a tin peddler, and Rinicn ene was doing tt. Anyway, them profes-|ing even his red wagon, which was sors allus wants you to buy them big| Mortsaged, and so it goe toftershell spectacles what makes|,/0r DOUnE Mrs. Jarre was going you look ike an owl. But I'm used|own observation, Mr. Jarr mado ats to my steel specs, and them I knows escapg,. . where to git and what I have to pay| for them. I only needs them to read with, When I go to see the moving plcters bean see as good as anything. Sometimes I think it’s sinful the way| 7, I enjy moving plotures, especially 1f they { full of murders or them wam- J Cela AE Protestants, pire women what drags men's souls | one indeed to wear green in Glad to the shores of sin, as the Bible says, | While the order is strong in Canada becaus critters always gits pun- a has lodges in 0 oO ni » use She sriitere Miweye ait Dune Oita oe ihe Uiilted: Maton at ete ished by suicide for their wicked |{yiater that the anniversary h doings.” by ry of ae | battle of the Boyne ts ce “Shall I read about the fighting in| most enthusiasm, Orangemen take France, Mrs, Dusenberry?” asked| thelr name from William 11, of Or- Mr, Jarr, remembering what the old| ji; ttle ST isk bearer te Font ne lady had come for, |lodge of Orangemen was formed at ‘If there 1s anything about the | Armagh in 1795 navy, or any mention of my Gabe, A LONG DROUGHT. read about it to me,” said the old WESTERN Congressman, ta lady. “But jest fighting news and PN discussing the droughts that starving gets me 80 upset and worrlt sometimes afflict his g: that I don't sleep.” sale hiner: is State, Mr. Jarr scanned the newscolumns| © “One day some one asked an old but found nothing he deemeg would | farmer, ‘How would you iike to see it be of interest to the old lady. rain?” , ‘ “I don't care about It myself,’ sald ‘Is there anything more about them | the old man, ‘but I've got a boy aix Anniversa ry | 4Y 12 {8 Orangemen's Day, the high soclety romances?” asked the old| years old who would like to see it lady. “Hag any more young million- rain,'"—Harper's Magazine, OR >