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

{ | ‘ ' ' Che CHMily sorid. tetar ’ rere Perens tele bee . “« when of vow we * ‘ a Pare Mow , + Park how ———— — ' ant ’ , heme . oe , ¥ ‘ nl ' a) o VoUlN NU. Bue —————— . a WHAT'S THE MATTER AT ALBANY? HE State's legislators are convened in special session to enact » food law. To date they have progressed no further than passive contemplation of a Food Bill which takes only a half-grip on the situation Besides the general fault of being over-complicated this measure hat two marked weaknesses (1) Power to buy and sell food in emergency is given to municipal instead of State authority, the latter having no right of initiative but only a sanctioning function. (2) Corporations handling or distributing food are per- mitted to combine—without guarantee that such combinations | shall be to the advantage of either producers or consumers. What's happened to the Governor and his earlier emphatic assurances that no food bill without a stiff backbone and a bite could satisfy him? What about the Democrats in the Legislature who have stood by the Governor's programme of drastic food control? How are they going to feel if he backs down and leaves them in an impos- sible position? If Gov. Whitman needs encouragement to stand by his guns and admit no Food Control bill that does not provide control, he'd better take a look at Washington where an Executive refused to | compromise with a Legislature on a food measure and where, @ result, a Food Administrator is now administering Federal law in a fashion that already dismays the food gamb' IN GOOD WORKING ORDER. O SMOOTHLY and swiftly has the Federal machinery worked that the three draft officials dismissed from the Local Board of Division 99 on charges of improper conduct have already been replaced and the reconstituted board # at work to-day re-exam- ining the 700 registrants for whom it is responsible. Justice has moved with equal promptness in the case of the accused men and a thorough Grand Jury investigation may be counted on effectually to discourage fraud in other exemption boards. Be it noted, however, that with the exception of this one case instances of such fraud are conspicuously absent. ‘The most exacting, complicated administration of Federal law which ever had to be pro-| wided for at short notice throughout the entire country bas so f proceeded with gratifying regularity, Now that the District Board for Greater New York is ready to act as a court of last appeal for persons dissatisfied with the decisions of local boards, we may expect to see exemption claims inthis city handled with expedition and finality. i New Yorkers have made no mistake in thinking Charles E. Hughes an admirable selection to head this District Board. His in- terpretation of the Federal instructions for the benefit of his fellow members set their duties before them clearly and succinctly, particu- | larly in limiting the claim of industries upon man power and in laying | down the principle that marriage is in itself no ground for exemption. Whatever limitations Mr. Hughes may have revealed under trying tests and circumstances, no one doubts that he possesses the mind, the training and the judicial instinct to ren him a highly competent Chairman of the largest district exemption board in the Empire State. Even the highest talents are not wasted in bringing clear thinking, speed and justice to the working out of the Selective Draft. : _ MORE AND MORE CALL FOR AIRMEN. IRPLANE encounters and airplane raids reported in ever increasing numbers from European war areas continue to bear out expert prediction that this phase of the fighting is destined to assume the highest importance, German aircraft dropping bombs on Sunday excursionists and French airmen executing successful reprisal raids on Frankfort-on- the-Main are only a part of the story. Most of the battle fronts report fiercer and more frequent fighting between aviators. ‘The iy British, though not yet yielding to a public opinion at home which urges them to avenge the slaughter of British women and children in kind, are nevertheless systematically dropping thousands of pounds of explosives on enemy munition plants, airdromes and other points of military importance. French and Italian airmen are busier than ever, while the Germans appear eager for air conflicts which shall either reassure them as to the strength of Germany’s air forces or show them what must be done to meet the danger, in | a a who ceased being active When he had made his pile. But he believed in men who could be do his bit by donating some of his business brains in the inte country. rt the distribution where in France.” he began to look about for a suitable Fvening World Daily Magazine The First Round! By J. H. Cassel THE MAN WHO WAS “IN A CONFERENCE.” By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1017, vy the Press Publishing Uo, (The New York Evening World), NCE upon a time there was an (Gate methods of management. He owner of a big business, By |"ad graduated from w school where at they spell efficiency and economy hard work and close attention with capital letters, and as for eys- be had built an|tem, it was like an algebra problem establishment |to him, with no “unknown qua . Saailk ¢8 ow, this owner believed in that spelled suc ency and economy and system, but cess, So much 80/he had never learned it at school. that his invest-|He had dev it in the lessons of ment yielded @|daily experience. But he concluded return to warrant | Mat the new theorles of the manager might be better than his own, So his retirement} the concern was left in the care of from the man-|the newcomer, agement. ‘The owner went off and became He was not the|{nterested in bis, patriotic pursult. He did good work, for he u e kind of individual) game judgment in serving Uncle 6am as for himself. In the course of his endeavors he had with mang individuals wh He had energy plus. ee innicn te to the United States, relled upon for accomplishing things | With several, mianonw, a always and to shoulder responsiviity. That Jgont, them ‘om ‘by ‘saying, “Get in 1] great’ enterprises }touch with my manager, Mr. Ef- Poet igre GI - BEORy. SAEED ficiency. Give him this letter of in- . troduction and he will get busy.” As there was a War in progress usp this merchant deemed it desirable to] , But after the person had departed he never heard the result of their proj- ect and pondered about it considera- bly. One day an important matter came up which required immediate trustworthy action “back hom secured a rellable emissary and gent est of his could best rve by going abroad and directing of supplies “some- He made his ar- He found he rangementa and looked about for| im across with instructions to “get gome one to manage his business in touch with the manager, &o. While he was away. He waa “retir. | There was no time to lose. When the messenger landed he telephoned the y other wo ie" ip order to do other work, 80| manager at once and explained to the Every day brings added proof that the $640,000,000 assigned by| supervisor, As there are many in fonnaenrs secretary thet he bad @ the United States Government to the cre: rote i ay|the market he found one—a man who | létter from his employer, te ation of air fleets is money knew something about this partic-| As this secretary nad been acous- wel] spent. The moment seems to have arrived when the nerves of| ular business. tomed to sealing people instead of the ine reid : A is man came “highly recom-| manager, and having had several let- fighting nations can no longer stand the horrible, oa lating deadlock ih He was accredited with| ters before—which, in his judgment, ‘ . af fc crifice ‘i A “ e latest u 01 o| Were unimportant—he gave the well which is all supe Thuman effort and sacrifice produce between armies| Knowing all the la nd most uP to | Clown exouse, “ine manoeer car in on foot, Air fighting, if its scale can be sufficiently increased gives & conference” and couldn't be inter- the promise of new movement, together with a power of destructive- ness which not even artillery can equal rupted, The messenger made several efforts to see the man, and after a couple of days cabled the owner of the busl- HE case of Mme. Marie Capelle Land fighting has proved indecisive ra Allie Can't reach yo ghting has p ecisive, On sea Allied fleets stand Lafarge agitated nineteenth con- | {y always “In a conterens og guard over powerless Gerinan fleets, while German submarines destroy tury France for several decades. | count of th mossenger was and are destroyed too slowly to bring the en " y This notorious woman was born 101| unable to perform his m n and , y ) f din sight. Naturally, years ago to-day in Villers-Hellon, | Was forced to report accordingly instinctively hope turns to the air, Aisne, Bhe came of a good tamily, bu The owner reflected that there was SEAN A CIEE _ ‘i loft an orphan when « child and | something wrong, quietly returned Not for one instant can Americans afford to forget that from] Wis carelessly brought up by her aunt | home and began 4 little Investigation this natio mus B e the flying legions h r . Garat, wife of the Secretary | On bis own account He had several 8 n must com ying legions whose arrival at the front Nee, ee the Bank of Uranee A; | friends oall up his manager presum- may help to start a new phase with speedier results. the age of twenty-two, in 1838, she | ably to transact iness, but the an- sr if became the bride of Pouch Lafarge, | 9 une back “He ix in a confer- — The latter had represented himself and the friends would be re- as a man of great Wealth and there- | ferred to @ subordinate fore the young Woman, who was ayed| The owner summed it all up and | to all the luxuries of Paris, was muon | found the "sore spot." 'T | disillusioned when abe Was estub-|to Mr, E ney someth N electric ght has been invent- Designed for seashore resort lite | shed 11 an old, dilapidated house, eo are longer re AwhOI i © . yen months ot marric cuse of being * 4 to be mounted on a phono-|£UAFd» Iya California inventor's Hite: | AftEE aixteen ielaed win tS atraane is threadbare au te vires graph to illuminate the needle! gril (nat Is non-capsizable and self. | {ivegs, His wife nursed him with | map in the face to the parsons and disk, automatically switched on eae e | great 48, but he died two| would do business with you. The when the lid of the instrument Is] For iuminated road sien | weeks lates he suspicion grew that | busy man who is truly ‘ina confers ped a road signs an! ne had been poisoned and it was ex- | ence’ will leave instructions either to raised. hale | yene generator has been Invented | tablished that Mme. Lafarge had |be called out when the a atter fi re . Srope that requires attention only twice purchased arsenic to nt or Will, wit f i the % yo Geemanlonce a month k “i, recall the Sho wes sent to prison and t na lane who seeka him when to register thr produced by| 4), K hd - y ® wrote her memoirs, claiming Inno- | ence ts over i : paratus that determines the per- cence of bo’! robbery and poison “The 1 | 01 the heart and istribution enable: Pp cence o! v ing. ‘The man who {s inaccesath u hysici Senegal gambles centage of carbon in ateel by burning ‘phe whole World Was rouned to Ih: |excumablen Ne aa met ig eee IB physi ‘ cure a {tin pure oxywen under pressure hax terest in her case and she was finally |with the basis of the busneeg ay Frenchman. Nomen the pulse heat of nicsine nea , ress. ficiency and economy and system look well on paper, but each must be put into practice in order to test its worth, “When 4 man makes his secretary the stonewall between him and the person who would sce him he js shut- ting out unexpected — opportunity. Some of the best things have been cured at the chance meeting. “The manager who is alert will not so seclude himself as to-exclude the stranger at his gate, Many such a stranger has proved a friend, Nor can he run his business continually from the close confines of privacy. The man who ‘confers’ the time usually constructs only with a pencil. “The fellow who always makes ex- cuses never makes good. The big man 1s the busy one who takes time to listen as well as to give orders— tg hear complaints as well as com- phments. You are not that kind, You are always conferring.” Moral: The man who constantly ex- cuses himself by being “in a confer- ence” soon finds he is not only ex- cused but excluded, Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World,) OU'RE looking bad, old 6 man; why don’t you take your vacation?” asked Jenkins, the bookkeeper. “Are you afraid the boss will get wise to how easy it will be for the es- tablishment to get along without you, not alone for two weeks, but for- ever?" Why don’t you go to one of those officers’ training camps for a couple of months and try for a commission In the army?” spoke up Johnson, the cashier, “A captain's pay is as much as you get here, and then a captain or other officer gets free quarters and heat and light and transportation for After you serve twenty years you can be retired on half pay. You won't get any pension here, Why don't you try for a commission?” Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by the Wress Publishing Go, (The New York Bvening World), ALAS! THE PETTICOAT! , IS gone! jp No more sho'll tear its folds in sweet alarm To make a bandage for a hero's arm! No more she'll lash it to a splintered mast, To call for succor, when the storm has passed! No more o'er grasses wet with rain or dew, She'll lift its dainty ruffles to the view, The petticoat! "Tis now an empty name! But “slackers” HIDE behind it, just the same! A chivalrous man is one who wouldn't say anything to his wife that he wouldn't say to Jess Willard, Cleopatra changed the history of the world, but a modern girl is quit satisfied if she can manage to change the history of just one bachelor, Usually, in lovemaking, 4 man can make a woman believe that he means everything he says—except what be actually means. A modern woman's idea of a “delivering angel” is one who massages away her past, brightens up her present and insures her a rosy future—at so much per bottle, After the summer vacation you realize that a job is like a wife or a home; nothing makes you think 80 much of it as @ little absence in which you don’t have to think of it at all, Fair play ts @ virtue which every man belleves peculiar to bis own sex and which he exercises toward.everybody but his wife. A man’s love for a woman {s often as sacred a no wigu, de & eupe ol fi : . After all, the straight-lino effects are rather appropriate—that 1s, if the modistes really believe in “no walst in war time.” “amily Tucsdny. Aucust 14. 10197 amous Ileroes of the U.S. Navy By Albert Cons gee No, #.—DAViD FAR KAGE 7. Here of Mote Bey | GRIZZAAW wave often: cary ’ oma lA curt commands from the Navy beye Moet was David Giasgow Karine orders given bum Pavson Lerhuaunme We owe i ss | 1 spared f | PH this “soratch” @ _ | wp the Miscissipp Riv ay wt + ened simple enough But all orders ere cimple = li ie only the onl that te bend. Here is the story of Farragut’ fait of b= Ow ernment s commands In April, 3 be forced bis way up the Misslesipgt ee Opposed to him, on both banks of the river, Were forte, Gunbosts, mines, booms and other obstacies o¢ ) cvellous blending of caution and dam Ge bles .f after drove tack the MY oats, broke past every warriet, AOn mm | Fosse vanced on New Orleans, The Crescent City ome the & ¥ rendered to him April 26 caegenennmenaenet.d The Miasi«s ppi's entrance was clfar now fer United tates ships to pass, But many of the upper reaches of the giant river were ettll in Confederate hands, Bit by bit Farragut achieved the clearing of the lower river Not until this was accomplished could he move against Mobile—e ety, and port whose capture was of t pendous importance. 3 On Aug. 6, 1864, he fought his way into Mobile Bay's entrance, Thee ensued 1¢ of the moat dramatic of all « fehta. uphin Island and “Edith’s Hammock” lie on each side of the chanmel Both were bristling with Confederate fortifi ions when Farragut entered the bay. From each teland rows of toped were strung out into the chann When Farragut was warned against these submarine peste he and presmed on. erely said: “D—n the torpedoes!" mer yaeide os, lay the huge Confederate tronciad Inside the bay, beyond the tory ram Tonnessee—a far deadlier foe than the Merrimac or Monitot On Aug. 5 at dawn Farragut entered the bay. He chose a time when the strong flood tide would wash the torpedo-triggers to one side, thee lessening the chance of their exploding in contact with a ahip's hull, Farragut had himself strapped to the rt : 4 of his flagship, the Hartford, and gave the ot Farragut Strapped § it davance. A larger ship of his fleet—the Broolte to the Rigging. lyn—led the way. T Tecumseh, one of his mont- ” tors, atruck a torpedo and went to the bottom ‘The Confederate ram Tennessee charged the Hartford. Three game boats also attacked Farragut's flagship. The Hartford dodged the ram but the Union vessela that followed fell foul of her, Farragut ordered a gene eral assault on the Tennessee, After desperate resistance, the ram's Gap. tain surrendered. The lesser Confederate vessels followed sult, Mobile Bay was in Farragut's hands, He had won the battle by refusing to believe anything was impossible, He had not flinched at the torpedoes—which were supposed to protect the bay frdm any chance of Invasion, He had overwhelmed by sheer daring & ram that otherwise would have destroyed his vessels one by, one. Because he could not recognize Failure, he forced a glad recognition from Success, Here ends my series. I have recited the deeds of American naval heroes of the past, hoping and believing that their example will nerve present-day Americans to be worthy of these men who fought so gallantly for our dear country. God grant that the United States may be as splendidly guarded and served by her sea-fighters throughout all the future! “AMERICANS UNDER FIRE,” « new series of historical articles by Albert Payson Terhune, will commence in The Evening World MONDAY, AUQ. 20, By Roy L. McCardell | himself and family if he’s married, |#me of them scenarios. his religion—but that e/ “pm glad enough to get a salary,/0n the farm to escape the military that's why,” replie r. Jarr, “and]@raft and because he is falsely ace . One vation, I'll go| CU%¢d of murder ut the snow as for going on my Wacation, on thelr shoulde at the snow when I'm ready.” B'gosh!’ it's snowing some. But My, what a grouch!" remarked | none (of the supers get as much ag @ . nowflake Jenkins, the bookkeper. a be | Pant i ze ‘ q sa Wild We: ovi ” cause your liver {8 affected. You don't tng dramatic. siping ise! nt get enough exercise. You should take all paused to listen to ‘him’ “ove @ Uttle place in the country and have | milltary mov a kitchen garden to work in. ot | Borer OF Fa will fix you up, Take my ady by William H Hoe bas just run move to the country, It will do you|over from. Lazy Elbow Ranch te eacd oke the murderous half-breed and “Are you still writing moving ple- | 0)" danse bel Suitina esate Baas asked Fritz, the shipping | dust on his shoulders and boote that clerk, “I am; so 1s Tom, the truck-| he dusts off with his buckskin gaunt. man, and Ben, the porter. MY sister ee Has any other of the cow gen- 1s writing them, too, She was lady's alkail on them? Nis! ‘Or in eat “4 maid to an actress, and she sen| movie, Lieut. Ladyfinger: whow a It's @ cinch. | falsely suspected of being & spy and She saya she knows how to write|hMs ridden nine miles in nine minutes movies and plays, and I'l tell you.|Sf machine paint yA! i hae You give all the fat to the star.” slap himself two minutes se Pos 4 “Yes, I noticed all theatrical stars| (ust off. Nobody else in the army have @ tendency to fat, but 1 didn't|USt have a bit.” That's the wayto know it was the playwrights that|\jref-P/@¥# 4nd movies, take my ad- give it to them,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “I mean the fat parts; all the situa- tions,” sald the shipping clerk, who, being a shipping clerk, felt that his lald on the Mexican where in France.’ ‘cowboy King, played "itchers Don't Hold Much ‘Go, chase yourselyes!'* And, heeding this last advice, his “I don't y a furnish my own advice and hand tt forte was the drama and lterature.|few. Listen; “"“*'™# Here are a “I seen a movie in which Pettie Pink- Sarbolic Acid Should N. ley, who gets ten thousand dollars a] TAKen Seriously.’ ‘ever! ee week, played the part of a beautifull jroart’) “2°Wd be Seen but Met scrubwoman who was pursued by a] "Little F millionatre, who gave her diamonds | Beer.’ and swell motor cargp with evil inten- tions, That movie had the real stu | tormentors faded civg in it, You could tell it was written ener by @ real serubwoman who knew her business.” “I've no doubt she knew her bual ness as @ scrubwoman, but did sh¢ A Soldier's Feet His Best Asset know it as ap author?” asked Mr Jarr. HE moat What’ q . 2 most important thing ‘What ‘® that got to do with it an infantry soldie about Anybody can write movies, everybody oldier is his feet, does,” said the shipping clerk, “And ot alone does he have to give my sister is writing stage plays, And,|them the greatest cure himself 3 take my Up, she knows what staré| nis officer helps him — want, they want all the fat. If YOU! tnem, Whe take care of don't give them the fat, and that “ip 4 soldier draws a pair means the moon and the dust, too,/Of shoes that same ofticer, if he cam the star won't take the pi possibly do so, is present whil the “What do you mean, the moon ad }are being tried on. yr Ne they the dust?" asked Mr. Jarr, . n. Formerly when “Why, didn't you ever ‘notice how]* M48 In Uncle Sam's army received a palr of shoes he them and in bucket of water. the moon only shines for the stars the stage, I mean the stage stars asked the shipping clerk, “The scen had to stand in eh hand hold a big This is the old castle by moonlight. Where] order to weush the was done in is the moon? It's waiting for the| the. shoes Were compan teyae it star, ‘The star comes on, saves the | those conditions they were ee giftaer child, seizes them papers, baffles the] nt for him to wear » conulderga murder, jumps through the old castle] Naturally Uncle and is gone, And the moon goes the Sam ts very ticular as to the quality of the shes very minute the star dc z ae duality of the shoes “It 1» winter in Paris,” the shipping| to standard or. the Inspect Be clerk continued, “or winter on the| them back on the manutucturar Hay, old farm, way down South in Mich- | jritish army shoe is cut in one plene igan, See how the snow falls past/from toe to heel and seamed a the dingy skylight of the poor artist’s| back. ‘The average sige or tg age he studio In the Latin Quarter! Or past] inh soldier's foot Is seven amt quite the window of Farmer Corntassel’s|Compare ‘Tonimy Atkins’s foot wie Kitenen, An, Here they come wow!) cir vf ht tah Ginblist ite Alphonse. the starving painter genius,|has a rewula opper of @ ft or Fif, the virtuous model, or els] the average size helig nine amd tog? {t's Harold, the handsome farmhand.! T r of shoes at the trom