The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1917, Page 12

| } i ization movement cannot fail to find a powerful aid. The Mayor's! A Cpabiriee tm fhe te “- Pomel \ tee One oar... eine eee On Ly i” ee oF He Cre — ae a — fo om one © art S'S ‘te tail ale SUBiond eae NO, 20,474 VOLUME o..... AMERICANIZING AMERICA. JT’: results of The Frening Amoricanizgation mpaign begu thie city ve convinced the Mayor's Commit n Nat Defense that the time har come to bring official aid to the task of Americanizing that 80 per cent. of New York's population which is of alien character and which includes 500,000 pereons who can neither peak nor write the English languoge. The enthusiasm at the big school house gatherings held on the east side and all over the city last spring, those “American Com- mencement Nights” at which hundreds of evening school pupils received their first citizenship papere—all part of The Evening World’s American Forum—proved beyond a doubt that thousands of aliens in New York are ready to respond with a minimum of urging to the invitation to become Americans. The problem is how to get to them through the barriers of speech and custom which tend to segregate them as colonies of foreigners, out of touch with American influences and interest There are various ways of breaking down the fences—first and foremost of which must always be, of course, the teaching of English. Evening schools accomplish much. But the promise of immense further impetus in this direction can now be welcomed in the interest which employers of labor begin to show in plans to give their alien employees elementary instruction in reading, writing and speaking English; also simple, practical teaching along lines which have a . * direct bearing on working and earning power and in still others which develop an understanding of the institutions and ideale of the country in which these workers have elected to live. Men—and there are many such in the great industrial centres of the United States—who earn wages and support families without being able to understand or speak English, or even to reckon with anything like case in the American money they receive as pay, cannot he expected to count for much ag conscious, loyal Americana. It is one of the most hopeful signs of the Americanization mrove- gent that employers are coming to see their own advantage in helping to Americanize the workers they employ, thereby making Letter workers and averting the strikes and conflicts that are in 60 many cases due to ignorance and alienism exploited by professional trouble makers, Another help toward getting foreigners to become Americans is | ——— to be sought in a change of naturalization methods, Instead of a complicated, forbidding progress through dreary stretches of red tape, with nothing but indifference or worse from all officials encountered, becoming a citizen of the United States ought to be a cheerful, inspiring business, fagilitated by every possible means, with a hearty handshake and congratulations in the name of Uncle Sam at the end. Why isn’t it? i The notable success of The Evenfng World’s Americanization Forum in securing the use of public school houses as civic centres where alién elements can be gathered together fox recreation, instruc- tion, lectures, talks from public officials, etc., has shown what sub- stantial result8 can be counted on from this means. Yet another potent welding and nationalizing forcee—one which the City of New York has ready to its hand—is the Community Chorus. ‘ : Music is a meeting ground for all races. The impulse to get together and sing is common to young and old of all nations. modest beginnings the New York Community Chorns has grown into a great civic body of spontaneous, enthusiastic singers renresenting | all nationalities and all planes and cross-sections of New York life. It has given the city—in Centra] Park festivals, at Madison Square Garden during the Christmas season, in choral concerts at the Hip- podrome and elsewhere—some of the best musical treats New Yorkers have ever enjoyed. ; This chorus, invites men and women of all nationalities, whether their voices have been trained or not, to come together and sing for the joy of singing. In such an. institution, based on such an instinct, the American-| Committee will do well to give the Community Chorus municipal ‘support that will make it a permanent part of the city’s nationaliza- tion programme, Now is, indeed, the time to amplify that programme and push it in all directions—with every bit of co-operation that public officials, employers of labor, civic organizations and public spirited citizens can contribute. Committed to a war that will las® no one knows how long, the nation needs as it never needed before to be All-American. Cut through the walls that divide this city into colonies and ¥ quarters. Let the English language and American habits of thought tad speech become everywhere familiar and predominant, Though Americanization means a bigger job for New York than for other American cities, the time has come to tackle it with courage, intelligence and a determination to be satisfied only with the biggest results, hings in Science HE area of Canada’s forests is Norway hax established a national more than double Bureev's, Peat a) ee A metal clamp to hold two pieces of wood together at right angles has been patented, ia tee For home consumption Britain imports about pounds of coffee annually. When cooked by electricity meats shrink less than when cooked by coal. ee ‘The College of Hawali has added a four-year course in sugar tech- nology. Great 30,000,000 ee About $500,000,000 a year is being spent on education in the United States, ee A wireless station, open to the pub- 6 *e A new clamp to hold a cover on a milk bottle also serves as a handle to carry the bottle. eee Nine-tenths of Russia's gold min- From | \TicKLISH | / Would / M& JOHN > ~ re You MIND TRYING HIS KNITTED VEST ON 2 ee Love Letters To a Soldier) ONALD, dear: I, too, have enlisted for the war. ‘That ts the plan about which | promised to tell you ta my last letter, Firat, 1 Wanted to make sure that I could do the thing J have come to de- sire, The begin- ning of it, at least, is accom. plished, for I have obtained a job in the Necropolis Bank. The young man who was doing my work has enlisted, so that, in a way, I have set free an- other soldier for America, (Perhaps tt # my vanity, but I like to feel that I helped to set you free, dear one—a‘ least, that I did not try to hinder you with the chains of my love.) Unless I am discharged as incompe- \ tent, I shall not give up my job before the end of thg war. Do you know that, all over Now York, young women who never in their lives have worked for money are ac‘ing as 1 have done? 1 cannot say what swept them out of the charted channels of ornamental idleness, But 1 am perfectly aware of what changed me, Donald. It ts ou, This is what has happened, inside o* me, since you went to war: First, I exulted vicariously in your splen+ did service to our mother, America. |T am ‘afraid somehow I persuaded | myself that to me belonged a part of your glorious achievement. For so long women have considered that they stand or fall according to the erect or prostrate attitude of their men, Then I was invaded by a certain restless questioning. ‘Yes, he is ev- erything you think,” an tnsistent Jit. tle voice assured me. “Yes, he is brave and strong and dedicated to service, But what of you-you—you? Is it enough for you to hang flowers on his altar? »The war has made of the pleasant young business man you loved a ‘hero with @ flaming sword, What will it make of you?” Quite simply, I realized that, if 1 am to be the mate of a doer, I my- self must do. I cannot fight but I can work. I can add up long col- umne of figures, and I can use a typewriter, Thank fortune, I took that of domestic science school for girls at rE iy been opened in Terra de!/ing |s dome on lands owned or for- Tuego, ‘merly owned by the Czar, « the commercial course in high school, since I knew I was not going to col- Transcribed by Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) jege; and, for my own amusement, I've kept in practice with father’s typewriter, Dearest, don’t think I overestimate my new importance to the world I'm just doing a@ trivial chore. But it has to be done, and for it a man ought not to be spared from your work. Besides, the job is at least as good for me as J am for the job, IT am not lazy. I was. It's not a pretty, word, but it describes me a month ago. Father would never dream of letting me cook for him, and when a maid has only two peo- ple to servo she prefers the room to the company of one of them, As I told you, I've been trying to co-oper- ate with Laura in the methods of Mr, Hoover, but she assured me last week that she understood just what he wanted when she read about it in the paper. T am learning discipline, That one reason why I shall know how to love you better when you come back to me, So much feminine “tempera- nent’ is what our grandmothers valled “tantrums;" in other words, undisciplined egotism. Getting up at a certain time every morning, even yif I don’t feel like It; writing stupid ES when I should like to be day- dreaming of you down by the sea; silently enduring a sarcastic word when I make a mistake—all these in- eldents of universal industriak ser- vice are making me a person better worth loving and capable of a finer if not a flercer passion, Know, too, that it is easier to wait for you and work than to wait with folded hands! 1 claim mine, rade-at-arma, You have your fight; Your lover and com- ROSEMARY. 2NWRAL and Senator Count Lutgt Giovanni Antonio Carlo Gluseppe Cadorna, of the general staff of the Italian army and the man upon whom Italy depends to wrest “Italia Irredenta” from the Austrians, at which task, according to the latest reports he is proving very successful, was born in Pallanza on Sept. 4, 1850. ‘ His father, Rataele Cadorna, was a famous soldier and authority on mill- tary science and from his boyhood Luigi was trained for the profession ofarms, At the age of ten he entered the Milan military school, and on his eighteenth birthday, just forty-nine years ago to-day, he became a full- fledged soldier with the rank of se ond leutenant, When his her, then a ®eneral, led the army accompanied him. This memorable expedition resulted in the capture of the Eternal City, which thenceforth became the capital of united Italy, | The of the chief ich of major-general in 1898. marched on Rome, young Cadofnalchief of the Itattan general staff in What Analysis Has Done For Modern Business By H. J. Barrett VERY man makes mistakes,” sald a successful executive the other day, “but it's the man who doesn't make the same mistake twice who wins. Most men keep on making the same mistake all their lives, “It seems to me that of all depart- ments of commercial progress greater strides have been made in this direc- tion, the eMmination of mistake re- petition, in the past ten or fifteen years than in any other. Searching analysis applied to all branches of business 1s rapidly elevating com- merce to the plane of an exact science “Talk to an efficiency expert, for example. He'll tell you of thousands of mistakes, negative mistakes, which have been made dally for a generation or more in great manufacturing plants. Analysis has disclosed these mistakes with the result that in many cases output has iAcreased 100 per cent, with a 50 per cont. reduction of the payroll. * “For a century mistakes have been made in the conversion of fuel into steam. Tests covering scores of plants have demonstrated that out of every three tons of coal burned under the boilers of this country’s manufac- turing plants, one was wasted. Many factors contributed to this result, Incomplete combustion, too much atr, too thick or too thin a fuel bed, the wrong kind of coal; all these faults! letters, as the case may be, are pre-| Armies elder Cadorna thus bi the formost of Italian military heroes, and it Is the hope of tne present day Italians that tne son win complete the great work by conquer- ing that part of Italy which Is still unredeemed. ‘The future chief of the Italian army early attained fame as a military | oxpert, and by the time he was twenty-five he was the author of sev- eral pamphlets raphy, In 1883, with the rank of major, he was attached to the army corps commanded by the orililant Count Pianeil. éxpeditions to the frontier, of which he made a close study, It has been said that General Cadorna knows the location of every house and tree !n the neighborhood of the Austro- Italian frontier, and, while this is probably an exaggeration, his know. ledge of the district ts little less than uncanny. Cadorna reached the rank He became 1914, and immediately set about a thorouss reorganization of the army, which is now showing the results of his remarkably brilliant work, pame one ‘on military geog- | He was sent on many | | existed and no one thought of remedy- ing them. ‘To-day a steam engineer can step into your plant and by a horough analysis combined with ex- haustive tests cut your fuel bill, per- haps, 20 or 80 per cent. with no re- duction of steam production. Another case of nilstake which should not be repeated. “Suppose you have a new food prod- 1¢t which you wish to introduce by a sampling campaign. Which ts the dest method: to merely distribute your samples from door to door, to follow this plan but to combine ! with a sales talk to the housewife, or to distribute your samples through the grocers? Analysis has proved hat where the first method will re- sult in the sale of one package of your product, the second will sell three and he third will sell ten packages. So here's a mistake which it Is no longer secessary to make. “For years plants opergted without cost stems, Consequently in sub- mitting bids for contracts, the same nistakes were made year after year. An efficient cost system, which is y an analysis of your expenses ling you to apportion them cor- rectly, eliminates the danger of bid. ding too high or to low. “Advertising, a field in which nearly @ billion dollars ts spent annually in this country, offers another example of the value of analysis. Formerly | ads, booklets, sales letters and other | advertising literature were prepared | and published with the hope that the plan and copy were the best for the | Purpose. Now in campaigns of any magnitude, perhaps a dozen ads or | pared, tested on small units and the \results carefully tabulated and an- |alyzed. ‘Then the one best ad or le ter {3 applied on a national sci Another case of avolding mistakes. “Fifty years ago business men fuessed—we know. They succeeded in spite of constant repetition of the same mistake. We don't make the same mistake more than once, And if we're willing to learn by the other man’s experience, we don't make it | enee.” | NE battle of Lake Erie was fought on this date in the year 1813, The entire British fleet |under Commodore Barclay was de- jfeated and captured by the United | States fleet under Commodore Perry. |The action began about fifteen min- utes before twelve and lasted until |three in the afternoon, The British |forces consisted of six vessels with \slxty-three guns, the American forces being eleven vessels of fifty-four ‘guns. ‘The’ British loss was estimated at 200, while Perry lost twenty-seven Killed and ninety-ske wounded, nae & Pits, Sovorncy rs 3. 1 PHIL). vertiy, ap Deeghter, « rie thing’ Tor \ det) appear thet every man and lkee ee every SOE beth TWO codes: One for semmer end one for winter One for business end another for love One tor bis own ses —-and another for the other sem, Now, beboid, two damerls were 6 ne ole’ together ANG one damee! paid unto the other ‘ “Whatoever the tare may be i shall pay MY belt thereof.” And when they slighted, each damsel drew from her® puree © piece of sliver and paid ber own reckoning, rem Golo the last penny of the cabman’s tip. And lo, two men were lunching together tn a tavern And when the Highwayman-te-the-guise-ofe-saitey brought the? check, each man drew forth bis wallet paid for what be had eaten and drunken, and likewise bis enare of the servitor's graft, unto the Inet ee hoe Vee tag Corte cote of bower” ee verkete Vv * w Me Se a farth! {aereof, ' A other, nor to deceive the other in any’ Yet, behold, # dameel and » yout to buy champag cab, me. ¢ 10 stop af the florist’s for a “Yea, WHY shall I waste my good time upon him without SOME com- | pensation?” H And, meanwhile, the youth arranged his cravat carefully and winked ‘at bimseif in ¢ mirror, saying: “Behold, I shall take her thither | “And if she is kissable and fasci: pagne and partrid, | apple. sentimental return?” | ship. hoping to beat the other at his own Go to! Who hath said that a w For verily, verily, every woman her intuition! after marriage. woman's life object is annexation! And never the two shall meet burying ground! Selah! all wae friendship and fairness between them Yor they called it @ “Dutch treat,’ And the damsel said unto her bosom friend before departifig: “Verily, verily, here ts where I make a killing! nd partridge; and l!kewise to take me thither in @ tame “But if she is a RRUDE and unimpressionable, she shall dine at a | red-ink table d’hote, and feed upon spaghetti and a sardine and a withered “For why shall I waste my good time and shekels where there is no For behold, each was in search of GRAFT rather than of companion And all evening did they spar thus, one with the other, cach secretly 4 And every man hath a code-of-honor—but followeth his inclination! And the World War, now end forever, is not the War of the Kaiser, but the War of the Sexes, which is fought with a barrage of hot air and much camouflage before marriage, and finished with hand grenades and shrapnel and neither sought to “do” @e tt bh made @ compact to dine together. For I sball make him bunch of orchids wherewith to adore in @ taxicab. nating I shall buy orcuids and cham- game. oman hath NOT a code-of-bonor? 4 HATH a code-of-honor, but followeth For a man’s desire is for “personal glory’ and conquest, and a on any comnion ground—save the The Jarr Family 'T looked Itke rain and Mrs, Jarr had tnsisted on Mr. Jarr taking an umbrella downtown with him. Of course, there was no umbrella In the house that a man could carry and not be conspicuous. “Now, don’t carry on so because it’s “Yes, it has a big blue glass knob on it, But so much the better. was a man's umbrella, with a crook handle, you'd probably leave it hang- ing on the handrail of some cafe, Mrs. Rangle told me that she heard of a saloonkeeper who made a fortune collecting crook-handle umbrellas and selling them. His saloon was in @ busy business neighborhood and every rainy day men would leave dozens of fine umbfellas hanging on his bar. But this blue-knob umbrella I8 a lady’s umbrella, and maybe ite re- fining inftuence will prevent you g0- ing into such places! But it was destined to be a day of rare bad luck. On the way to the office Mr. Jarr slipped and in some way the big blue glass knob on his wife's umbrella struck him in the eye. Fortunately, he fell on the um- pbrella and broke the cussed thing. when he reached the office his eye was swollen and getting blue. “it was a long time coming to you,” said Jenkins, the bookkeepe! cheerfully, “put you got it at last!" “IT fell and the knob of my um- brella”—— began Mr, Jarr- But ‘Jenkins, the bookkeeper, laughed merrily, and called to aahas uuler, to come see Oh none ‘some husky had pasted on Jarr’s blinker ‘The stenographer pretended she had to file some carbon coples and came jer for a peep. oan fe though to indicate a male | in the possession of a black “tye made it a perfect day for her, “I slipped, I tell you, Mr. Jarr be- a lady’s umbrella!” sald Mrs. Jarr. | Tt it) She went away with | ail wan again, “and the knob of the um-« brell: “Yes, you slipped!” sald the books keeper, “You slipped when some Jobbio handed you a sweet Httle poke!" “Them as is looking for trouble kim always find it," remarked Fritz, ¢ shipping clerk: “Everybody's scra| ping these days since the war started, Every gink you meet is toting brass knucks,” “T'll bet he picked on some little fel- low with flat feet who had been re. jected in the draft and was sore about 1t," sald & ‘bookkeep: t luncheon he thought bis old Mr. John W. Rangle, might intent his truthful tale, But Rangle only gave a snort of joy when Mr. Jarr hove in view. “Ah, a blue boy!” he erted. “A fine shiner! So you will pick quarrels with invalids! Ho! Ho!” “Cut the jocularity!” retorted Mry | Jarr, “I've been up against the Smalle | Time comedians in our office all morning. I fell and the knob’—— “You didn't get it on the knob, and you know it,” interrupted friend Ran; “You pulled some persifi rson, or tried to Intimi 801 sickly haberdasher on the re down town and he busted you in the emp, Exetty were too!” “80 you don't believe asked Mr. Jarr, my oe Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Uo, (The New York Krening World), about @ black eye,” Rangle, He left Rangle flat, but on his w: home he met everybody Ase ne hens “Got a black eye, I see,” said Mr, Stryver, “How?” “Got it in a fight ina bar room and got licked," said Mr, Jarr, ho; would be ‘Delleved, pine ie “Never fight in a bar room,” Rafferty, the builder, whom he ee later and told the same story, “Blow can one man stand up against ao bunch of tough hicks?” “Oh, it was only a weak lo: \° low,” ‘said Mr. Jarr, Nai “A light welght prize fighter, tt' |disgrace,” said Rafferty. {rene But at home he told Mrs, Jarr th truth and she believed him. ‘She gut jout the witch hazel and ministered to him, It is because of such things that | marriage '# NOT a failure. returned Mr, annoy us most as a persistent vex~ ation, By this is meant that when some important thing annoys us we immedidtely set about correcting the ltrouble, but a small thing —too trifling to bother with—will worry us repeatedly and we give it no at- tention, A very good example of this petty annoyance ts shoe laces, Many times a day do we see people stop by the wayside and tle their shoe laces. Espectally is this true with new lace One extra turn of the lace about the first loop made will produce a secure fastening even if not drawn abso- lutely tight, says Popular Science Monthly. The ordinary bow-knot used to fasten shoe laces is shown !n Fig. 1. The string A is given one turn about the string B ata, before fige the loop of string A 1s passed through |By making two wraps as showin Fig. 2, at D, before Passing the loop in string A’ through, a fastening ta made that Will not slip or shake lense It is so simple that it is strange thas, you have never found it out before? but it does the trick and holds tightly, ? ait! »* “I wouldn't believe my own brother ” af