The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1917, Page 10

ReTAMAsHeY PT JOorrn maT ee ee ee ip aed the Docee Putiehing Company yt how Rew Fork VATE President ?, Lee neo Les Te TR NATEED. 3) Beoretary, 68 Derk tow ‘et the Port Ofte o hee Fore Coren’ veer Mer “Faas wt oP Come ites Postel 0409 One Nee veer ™ THE RIGHT MAN. Nation has found the right man. At the start Herbert C. Hoover shows himeelf » Federal Food Administrator who believes that control means control The Food Bill did not become lew until last Friday. Already M+, Hoover has pushed straight to the heart of the food situation. In the interest of the American people and their Allies he is ready to seize the Nation's wheat and flour supply—by all odds the most important element in national food production—in « Recognizing that the war has thrown into confusion the nor- mal movement of wheat from the wheat producing countries of of American wheat shall be put once and for all out of reach of manipulators and profit-seckers eager to take advantage of any crisis to stuff their pockets. From the time American wheat is harvested until the baker buys it as flour, Mr. Hoover is determined that the eye of the storehouse for any one’s extra profit and that it is bought and sold with no speculative scheming to advance its price. Government licenses for elevators and mills, careful regu- lation of export, one fair price for wheat “and flour the year round -——that is Mr. Hoover’s programme to protect Americans from being pillaged at home while they make war abroad. And if it is necessary for the Government to buy the entire wheat harvest to carry out this programme, declares Mr. Hoover, the Government will do it. | The argument for such assumption of Federal power is un answerable: It must be evident that the United States Government cats] more justly deal with the situation than any other agencies or interests involved. The people of the United States MUST have the protection which alone will conserve their resources, keep their burdens within bounds and prolong their powers of endurance. They are fortunate to have a Food Administrator who so well undorstands this that he strikes quick, hard and fearlessly at | the. toughest part of his task. T under the auspices of the Pennsylvania and the New York} Central Railroad corporations, which give a privileged cab company! the exclusive right to take passengers from their terminal premises | in this city—such passengers being required to pay to a starter, in| advance, arbitrarily fixed “zone” rates in excess of the legal taxicab! rates established by city ordinance. It would be interesting to know what service these railroad corporations profess to be performing for their patrons in depriving them of the advantages of regularly licensed, metered taxicabs. It cannot be comfort. The unmetered station cabs are no better and in fact not as good as most of the public taxis, It cannot be protection. Municipal regulation provides that for patrons of licensed taxicabs. | It is certainly not economy. The station cab rates are admittedly higher for al! distances than the legal taxi fares. What, then, is the excuse for compelling incoming passengers arriving at these terminals either to take high priced cabs or to leave the railroad premises and find tax The President of the Pennsylvania system, which proudly calls itself the model railroad of the countrys is Samuel Rea. Will Mr, Rea kindly explain whether he thinks the Pennsylvania adds to ite reputation for studying its patrons’ needs by refusing them the benefits of New York’s cheap taxi service when they arrive at the road’s great terminal in this city? Would President Alfred H. Smith of the New York Central maintain that the interests of travellers on his road were being prop- erly looked after if he saw a constantly increasing number of them turn from cab starters at the Grand Central Station and, at however much inconvenience, seek the street, where they ean find licensed taxicabs at lower rates? / Those responsible for the management of these railroads profess to be desirous that nothing shall which may add to the comfort and convenience on their lines, Whose eyes were shut, then, when “although it is a matter of common knowledge that public taxicab service in New Y ata high standard and that taxicab companies are finding it good business to advertise lower fares—a company operating private un- metered cabs at fancy rates was given exclusive terminal privileges at the Pennsylvania and Grand Central Stations? ————— FOR WHOSE BENEFIT? | HIS is not the first time The Lvening World has called’ two leading be overlooked of persons travelling ork is now Hits From Shite Wis, Actions speak louder than joint) wyin ¢y, ns : je threatened incre f Aedates.—Toledo Blade, Jeon! prices, consumers needet tech? Lait about railroad = shipping char Artificial wreaths upon graves seem They can just have it sent along hy to say: There; that's done for all) mail or parcel post.—Nashville Han. time; no more bother.—Albany Jour- | ner. ea" « Words and foliage have this in com- the;mon, that where the former abound 4 to|deeds are few and small, and where wiish language.—Chi-|the latter ts luxurious tine fruity are |aought in vain.—Albany Journal, ery | ‘allie wear If you fall in love at first sight,; Love isn’t blind. A girl veo! the thet thing to do is ta have your! see ten times more eae ene een eyes tested.—Memphis Commercial | her affections than any one clue can, appeai. ar Ciswamy dem, . oy ‘Will the increase in t The women of America are enter- tend in any way to improve|ing into the spirit of economy with price of iA “ - attention to the daily extortion practiced upon the public! ~ IGerman Stuff! patente se a a How Wind a From Ancient Times to the Plans of By James It had not rained on the night of June 17-18, 181) the future of Eu- rope would have been changed, A few drops of water, more or Jess, caused the downfall of Na- poleon.” That is the way Victor Hugo sums up the tragedy of Wa- terloo, Within the last few days we have seen how the rain in Flanders has halted the British advance and possibly worn off the edge of an offensive that was many weeks In preparation, The elements have been the Germans’ kindest ally, Since the earliest days, wind and rain have been a major factor in the shaping of nations’ destinies, All of us remember how Xerxes, the Per- sian, set out with a 6reat fleet to overwhelm the Greeks, The Persians were the Prussians of that day, All the culture in the ancient world seemed ready to disappear from the face of the earth, For three days © hurricane tossed about the ships of Xerxes, scattering his forces and saving Greece, He had been defeated by the god of storms when the Greeks were well-nigh helpless. ery school boy Knows the story of the Armada, how the mightiest fleet ever assembled came from Spain ———————— ATURE would seem to have got- ten her seasons mixed when she created two strange caves, N one near Coudersport, Pa. and the other at Decorah, Ia, When tt ts summer time on the earth, it is win- ter in these caves, and when the north wind rushes over the world, it js summer in the caves, On a hot July day the visitor finds their tem- perature just mildly cold, The ther- MoMbter reyimiere mudieiwurry UW Lue fee to remain in these | throusbout the hot s¢ juat the reverse when winter comes, alfalfa the quality of our smoking tobacco?—| fine zeal, It has even extended to the Philadelphia Inquirer, bathing oults!—Baltimore American, the caves’ temperature being suff. | It Is Hot Even During the Winter | inv U.S. lce Mines caverns) when son, And it 1a] seeps In. Battle in Flanders the Elements Have Played Pranks With Conquerors. C. Young Copyright, 1917, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The Now York Evwuing World), to lay Bngland low, and was broken up by @ storm that saved Englund. ‘True, the English fleet had a part in the victory, but it was the storm more than the English whioa broke the pride uf Spain. The battle Crecy, which meant so much to England and cost France so dear, was won largely because the English archers kept their bowstrings dry during a rainstorm that hegan just as the battle started. The French failed to do likewise and were over- whelmed, In soon after the outbreak of our 01 Revolution, the English had one of Washington's most important commands in a tight corner, It had been caught on Long Island and the royal troops were mustering forces the Revolutionary Army. Then came the day of Aug. 22. A fog hung over the bay, the New York shore and most of Long Island, In this pall of mist nothing could be seen, The Americans selzed the o} portunity, got their men and stores safely away and reached the New York shore before the English knew what they were about. More re- markable still is the statement of an old chronicler that as the Americans began to move the fog lifted, permit- ting them to see thelr but re- maining like a parting wall between them and thelr opponents, That fog really saved the Revolu- tion, Had Washington's force beea smashed, as the opportunity so richly promised, the rebellion of the colonies probably would have been halted, All through history, from class: times down to the present, this inter- vention of the weather has turned the tide of wars. No wonder that commanders, kings nations useo to pray for favorable weather when thelr fortunes Were at stake. There was a time, both in pagan days and later under the Christian ey that > army went into battle without of- fering devout supplications for a fw | bathing in lakes—if one de- ciently warm to permit the underground | sired, Here is the explanation. Both of these caves, known tn scientific elr- cles as the American ico mincs, run far into the earth, Their formation ts not unlike the modern trench of warfare, turning and twisting as they dip far underground,” The formation of the caves is such that the cold air of winter does not pene- trate their depths until early spring, and it remains unt ite summer, the outside heat gradually This process tx repouted year after year, so that the seasons are just reversed in these wonderful ice mings, uay of @ foul, as best suited the: | plete. aims, When all mankind seemed unapiw tv checkmate the great Napoleon, tLe | lements took & part in the gamo of | mpire and began to play him jests. It | Was the severe winter of 1806-1807 that kept the conqueror from crushing Russia, Again in 1812 Napoleon haa the Russian bear by the throat. He | had penetrated to Moscow, furthe than any modern army ever has car- ried conquest, and the Russian forces were at no point able to stand against him. The moment their hordes weie rallied for a test of strength, the French veterans sent them fiying, much as the Germans have done in this war, ‘With Napoleon in Moscow Russia's prostration had become almost com- Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evening World,) PANG of pain shot over Mr. Jarr’s shoulder; some one had slapped him right on the back where he had an irritant sunburn that he had gotten from his near-to- nature swim on the outing of his favorite social association, the Huck- leberry Indians, The Jarr Fa Mr, Jarr turned, crying “Ouch!” to] look into the countenance of Jack! Silver, his bachelor friend, | “How's the boy?" asked Mr, Silver| affably, | “Pretty good," replied Mr. Jarr.! “What you walking stooped over for and with a muffler around your neck this weather?” } “‘Prald of the draft," answered the) bachelor, “Oh, don't laugh, 1 don't mean an atmospheric draft. I nieqn| the army draft. It's all right for you} old married dodos, who can pull the} ‘sole support’ stuff for wife and a} lot of kids, My only chance is to! get all run down, I ain't eating a thing, and I hope I'll fail in the flat foot and eyesight test.” | “Why, Jack, you aren't a slacker, I hope,” said Mr, Jarr, | “Well, I don't want to be a slacker,” | retorted the bachelor, “but if 1 should| be rejected for being color blind, or for anaemia or housemaid's knee, I/ am not going to kick. I'm @ bum} swimme! “What's that got to do with it?! asked Mr. Jarr. “Oh, yes, I see—sub- marines!" | “Don't mention ‘em,” replied Jack Silver, “Capt. Tynnefoyle, who was twelve years in the militia, and always auch wa guy, he been worrying me to help him get a job at something that he can clatm| exemption on--farming, shipbuilding, securing recruits, He's got me nervous, But the city was burned about Ais head and the retreat began. ‘Cold, frost and snow,” says a his- torian, “did for Russia what armies never could have accomplished.” But it was at Waterloo that fate handed Napoleon the unkindest blow ofall, The night of June 17 it rained Without cessation, ‘The ground be- came an expanse of mad and water. It Was almost impossible for artillery and cavalry to manoeuvre, The Na- poleonic tactics were as nothing on such a fleld, The soldie out tents, their suffering a aration for the battle that cide twenty years of strife, } could not attack before noon the next day. The Prussian reinforcements arrived. He was too late, The storm had won, mily | Will you come to dinner with me? I'm Worried!" it The prospect of spending the evening with some one whe was worried on & ‘matter that did not worry Mr, Jarr at all, he having so many other things © Worry him that did not worry Jack Silver, had its appeal. ‘ait till I telephone my wife,” be “Want to take dinner with Jack replied Mrs. Jarr over the pl “I thought you had given ap THAT kind of company?” Now Mrs, Jarr knew nothing what- against Mr. Jack Silver, but in arried woman's eyes @ bachelor 1s ra husband. ing & irresponsible life and take din- Mrs. Jarr over “I i » Cora Hickett 's just the girl for Jack Sil- ver, SHi'D make him settle down But she finally gave her grudging permission, and Mr. Jarr went with Mr. Silver to the latter's bachelor apartments, Mr. Silver had swell bachelor Mr, Silver had a Jap-| » Valet, sly drought 8 and @ pre-dinner cocktail, arr wonders you have never sald Mr, Jarr, settling back in a very easy chair, Buch a chair When a married man’ has tt at home| is always oceupled by some one else. | “L couldn't afford it,” replied the bachelor, looking around his luxurl- ous establishment with a sigh, “If I could have gotten a wife like you have gotten—a good manager, eco- a, oT might) have married, "sa woman for you best in the world!" Mr, Jarr 1, But it occurred to Mr, Jarr best woman In the world was such a good manager and so eco- nomical because she had to be—on what he earned, “You have it pretty nice, at that,” id Mr, Jarr, as he beheld the at Noe pie hia feet un on the plano and fleck his clgar ashes right down on the rug. TWo things never permitted Mr. Jarr. “But look how lonely I am!" sald Mr. Silver, “Nobody cares for me. Monday, August 18, 1917 Sayings of HO w THE ber Puediedeg when ohe end fir torrta ony? Whe ts thie th ‘ast womame eMnAry and upon the baae Who ts this that writeth ing her to “enjoy herself.” and ies hat he te “doing perfectly well” with Verily Who ts this that putteth the cat By Helen Rowland Ce TNT te te Pome Pontaning Oe (he hee Tot Reming Ware, bel packet hie wifes (runks ad parchesetd war teket at great price and toveth with college Dille and @rawercl checks, tolleth at bitebee end sleepeth ta vom ereth the rubber plant, ta ber “Winter4iaréen” bathing evit? is thie that @ineth tm cheap cafes and goeth home to wash the wromktnet dlsore and toll ie bis wargarden labor? Le, It fe tne Summer America . eet: rs. Solomon g z Hebold, 1 te HE, the Mode! American Husband! at getteth bie own breakfasts ts the hen he hath finished Bis day's Husband! wife faithfully thrice a week, beseech like @ geutioman when be declareth jout her? it is the Much-Maligned American Husband! out by night and taketh the dog out by day and washeth the poodle on Sunday morning? Who fs this that bangeth the pic ‘tures, putteth up the screens, taketh down the portieres and moweth the lawn on his “day of rest"? Behold, it is HE, the Overworked American Husband! Who Is this that goeth about boasting of what “a wonderful Iittle | woman” his wife ts; yea, even his pride and his joy, bis pal, his comfort {and his ineptration? | Lo, It 1s HE, the Adoring American Husband! | | her rugs? Who fs this that taketh his OWN b and lobster and alligator pear eth a ham turn to e‘are aft the payer-of-biils and digger-of-shekel | mate and his pressed-over two-dollar | Behold, it ' Who is this that cometh home {bis wife his Pay Envelope, meekly fiftleth part thereof for carfare? Go to! Vertly oppressor: yon’ @) and tyrants! And not a shot!" An¢ not in all the world do I kno Husband! For nobody else WILL! Selah! Busi no Bybee’: | Team Work “ce E psychology of a sale has ie been analyzed from a dozen different angles,” remarked an advertising man, “And unques- tlonably many valuable findings have been established. “Only recently a life insurance sales- | man explained his canvass ‘to mo, It consisted of three parts: 1. The ex- planation, with five points to be; thoroughly covered; 2. the proof, with | three, and 3, the closing, with seven, Of course, this systematic procedure | makes for efficiency, \ “There are, however, many inde- | terminable factors in a sale. And/ one is that half of the transaction Is anybody clinging around my neck and begging me-to dilute my heart or acquire strabismus, or to tell tho examining board that I am the sole Support of a half dozen dependents? I ead a lonely life. Give a dinner here once in & while, play cards at the clubs I belong to, Ko to the ca- barets or the theatres, drive out to the roadhouses with & few friends In. my. automobile occasionally, but it's a lonely life, a lonely life." | “Why don't you give it up, then?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Enlist; don't walt to be drafted.” | “It may a lon-ly life, but it's all I have,” sald the bachelor, “I wonder if I could get to be Red Cross Major General like Taft, or be kept out of France like Roosevelt, or disappear like Bryan, How do they dot Mr. Jarr didn’t know. He had a wonderfully fine dinner, which his | host did not touch, as said host was trying to get under weight, and then Mr, Jarr went home. | “Throw up the windows,” he sald after he got home and as a recruiting fife and drum corps went by. “I a'n't afraid of the draft.” | | I s Anniversary N Manila there will be a celebration to-day in commemoration of the American occupation of the town, | which took place just nineteen years | ago. | "There are two Manilas now, One |i the old Spanish city, inclosed. by | picturesque and massive walls, with narrow and tortuous street, This Manila seems as old as time itself, |and it affords a remarkable contrast to the busy, bustling Amerioan city |that has grown up beyond its walls. | There nothing like tt In the world, save perhaps Algiers, where an Afri- in Paris has arisen beside the old Moslem city which was, once. the headquarters of the Barbary pirates. Nineteen years of American occu- pation has made Mania the cleanest and healthiest city In the Orient, with the possible exception of Hongkong, ness Eff Who {fs this that trembleth when he droppeth a spot on his wife's Jamask, or putteth bis head on her best sofa-cushion, or tracketh mud upom Verily, it 1s HE, the Humble American Husband! wife abroad with bim when he goeth unto the tavern and the merry cabaret? Who 1s this that feedeth her on and vintage wine, even thowgh be ndwich at a quick-lunch when he {s alone? Who Ie this that awelleth and ts puffed up with pride when other men his wife's Doucet gown and Louise hat, even though HE, is adorned in his last year’s ready- hat? HE, the Self-acrificing American Husband! every Saturday night and handeth Ypsceching that she “allow him” @ It 1s HE, the Long Suffering American Husband! verily, come not unto ME saying: 11 men are brutes and Summer Widower would I trust be Wor lo, even to-day thou shalt find myriads of THESE in Babylon. w of any one worthier of a harp and » gilt throne and a stained-glass window than HH, the Avense American ‘Then, give him the fruit of his labors and let bis works praise him! ieiency| Barrett. | in Selling 1s represented by the prospect. There is no man living who can sell every man upon whom he calls, In my pro- fession two problems face us, We must first sell our services to the client and second sell his product to his publle, “In our organization we find that team V ork {8 @ great aid in selling. We like to make an appointment with @ prospect and then present ou; case en \.sse with four or five of us present. For some reason the moral force of a group solicitation is much greater than that exerted by a single Indi idual, Here again is a indeterminate factor, difficult to ex plain but undeniably a fact, “As the scquisition of a new elient may mean an addition to our income of $30,00) or $40,000 a year, we find that it pays to devote considerable thought to presenting our claims clearly and convincingly. As a con- sequence we conduct rehearsaly of our canvass, Each man represents 4 certain specific phase of our work and he ts selected to talk upon it. Then when we are actually in action the canvass proceeds without a hitch, By the use of a code of unobtrusive’ signals the solicitation is passed from one man to another without any break in the continuity of the pro- gramme. “This Idea of team work in selling with @ rehearsal beforehand is ap- plicable to many lines. In closing a difficult prospect in almost any fh two tongues are better than o Perhaps other salesmen will find the tip of value.” Newest Things in Science Artesian well drillers in Argentina discovered a rich deposit of copper where none was known to exist, ce Virginia has the largest vine; factory in the United States, operated almost entirely by electric power, a <6 38 A tree the leaves of which yield an ofl from which camphor can be ex. tracted has been discovered in Aug. tralia, Ciew ger A wire clip has been Invented te: hold the handle of an idle brush out of tho paint in @ can and keep it clean, ? AAA China has established a do: standard of welghts and mecounle that includes the metric system and a native one, . oe An OMo man ts the tnvento: device for filling and welling tee cream cones without touchi: them with the hands, ening 's gee He Tho greatest ee] breeding farm in where British sanitary science has ac- complished wonders, » the world 1s in Italy, the {i having been carried on in Rp for centuries, |