The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 18

SS ee eee eee fa re ce aad = oe aS ML » ——— Tintered ai the Feet Office ©! New Tork os Beeune-Chase Metter fewest Prensa |For Pnctant ent Continent * es ome ty Coy Au oumiriee ty the international Ont Cenete deta Ce Me cd } fh eh wens — Af ee en eer ee A ———— 0, MAB the the upon the The The along the v To the Editor of The Evening World Please state how much a large cop- ber penny, dated 1803, is worth. EB foria: let me know, if possible, did the United States draft men during the Civil War? A READER, Is Correct, ‘To the Editor of The Kvening World A suys that if an American eltizen when touring China with family be comes the father of a child, that ti child is @ Chinese subject. B says THE INDICTMENT COMPL TE. F THE PEOPLE of the United States at this bce date required further proof of Germany's Inperial diple: satic perfidy, they The disclosure of the communication wade last January by Count von Bernstorff to the German F oreiy .» Ofhce urging the use of $50,000 of German money to influen’e members of Congress suspicions ever entertained in this country as to the duplicity of that suave Teutonic diplomat. The conduct of the Impexial German Government and ity But what about the unnamed society in this country? What about sinister significance of the phrase “as for- merly”? What about von Bernstorff reference to the desirability Irish in the United States. Nation demands answers to these questions. day has come when the Jeremiah O’Learys and other ment which America draws up against them. —_ OH ‘PUT BOTH TO THE TEST. S at work to-day because patriotism was at last made to seem to them a bigger thing than the petty question whether or not a dock foreman who had discharged a union man should be himself When Federal officials pointed out that at the present moment loyal labor is the kind that declares for arbitration, the dock men decided to prove their loyalty—and proceeded forthwith to show it mail containing thousands of letters from American soldiers and sailors in Europe, These workers showed the right spirit. i salers and business men generally, setting examples of the same kind of Americanism? P Are they -treating labor on the one hand and the great con- of co-operation in either? Addressing the war convention of American business, held this week at Atlantic City, under the auspices of the United States bility for strikes and labor troubles squarely upon profiteers, whose “war policy” is first and last a policy of pillage: “I now tell you American business men that this is no | profiteering, as many of your members have been doing. If | you couldn't collect abnormal profits in normal times, you | shouldn't take advantage of the necessities of your country In What is the good of preaching patriotism and loyalty to labor if employers, whose duty toward the nation is every bit as obvious and compelling, deliberately and publicly proclaim that, having Producers, manufacturers, handlers, wholesalers, retailers, ought to realive that they are facing ay economic situation the develop- ments of which bear directly upon the future and, indeed, upon the If by a persistent, unpatriotic policy of exploitation they force the nation to take a constantly tightening control of the buying and selling of necessities during war time, do they think that what is from consequences of plunder and waste is going to be forgotten when the war is over? “One looming shadow of this war,” as Mr. Hoover points out, world is demanding a sacrifice of property. We will surely drift on that rocky coast unless we can prove the economic soundness and willingness for public service of our commercial institutions,” of the nation’s present need to urge its own demands, But what sort of example is put before labor by those who employ it, or deal in its products? If war were to mean “unusual profits” all The American laborer AND the American empl “ joyer must each take the test. The patriotism of the latter, no less than the patriotism of the former, will have to prove what Percentage of profiteer“essays no better than the striker. —+-______ Does it all mean that Purroy may become Puree? Letters From the People Movie Theatres for Schools, Wednesday, Mo: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl: bi of the week the following d: : idle houses in the mornings for the ote Just think what a chance for the educational film? Can you no* imagine what an interesting school- The exhibitor could almost afford to do thig gratis, as the advertising that would accrue for his house Who will be tho first exhibitor to throw open his doors and welcome the thousands of echoollese children VOLUME d+. have it to-day in concentrated form. through an unnamed society, “as forrarly,” confirms the worst was at least in character. of an Imperial good word for Ireland for the sake of its effect pro-German Irish pacifists can no longer escape the stern indict- IX THOUSAND striking longshoremen in this city are back dismissed. ‘ by volunteering to unload, without pay, 5,000 sacks of newly arrived Are employers, manufacturers, “captains of industry,” whole- suming public on the other in a way to inspire confidence’and a spirit Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of Labor Wilson placed respon time to stand upon your prejudices, nor to insist upon this time of cris! counted on big war profits, they mean to have them? very existence of many of them, thereby demonstrated of the possibilities of protecting the public “4s its drift toward socialism. For the gigantic sacrifice of life the Labor is rebuked for its disloyalty whenever it tak advantage line, why shouldn’t it mean unusual wages also? the all-important element of sacrifice it actually contains. The —_———$ rr Wouldn't it be a good idea to sug-| Please let me know on which day use of schoolless children? room,tbat would be? would more than pay for the trouble, of New York? 4 BC, . vm 2S enemam——a eet In the Breadbasket! | | Frening World Daily Magazine ~ By j. H. ssel F orWhomthe Army Camps _ Were Named By James C. Young 1917, by the ress Publishing Go, (The New Yorks Brening World), America’s former National Guard and her new National Army are being trained in thirty-two camps that bear the names of men who hold high rank in the country's history. This series of articles will endeavor to tell what these men did to merit such honors. 2—EMORY UPTON E was wounded three times, publicly honored upon a half dertook a study of the army and Its organization that led to the publica- tion in 1867 of his “System of Infan- try Tactics.” This was recognized as overnment detached Upton in 1875 tary organization bd fand sent him abroad to study foreign of the United linititary organizations. States. Such was! ‘The result of his two years’ stay the career of|in Europe and the East was a work Emory Upton,|entitled “Armies of Asia and Eu- ¢ ose} ope.” published in 1878, It was one he man whose! the best treatises of its kind that name ts borne bY] had been printed up to that time, and the mobilization | had an important influence op the de- camp at Yap-, velopment of our army lee. But hank, L. 1, |th@ most valuable contribution of BMORY UPTON gh * | Upton to military science still was to where the citizen} come, It did not appear until after soldiery of New York is being) his death in 1881, ‘This book, the trained for service in the National| “Millt Policy| of the United ° me! ; States,” was the most complete sur- Papen uid Pcie evee TED BAYS LAG nen and analyaia of the SUB IAOS TRAE 4 ye had been attempted, id place: has left @ record that could be better! Titian “among the leading military Emory Upton was a Now Yorker| Writers of his generation. himself, born at Batavia, Genesee| So the rookie going to Camp Upton County, in 1889. His home was on| has before him a record of difficult the frontier of thoso days, and he| service well done that should make grew up to a bardy life where danger| the name of Upton one to be remem- bered throughout his army life, The dventure were coms | ee Sin Ohio faee*.| rich reward won by the Lieutenant He went to college in Onlo for a Next|who became a General still Hes Young| Within the reach of the rawest re- Upton was graduated and assigned to|crult among them all. an artillery command, With other| doxen occasions, promoted) a work of merit, und his plan of ma- " nocuvres was forthwith adopted by from Second) the United States ’ Lieutenant to! Upton completed a similar textbook Major General, | relating to cavalry and artillery, and and became the| this became part of the army system , in 1873, From 1870 to 1875 he served Suthor of works! i, commandant of cadets at West that have helped| point, helping to perfect the already to shape the mill-|excellent methods in us@ there. The Mog? Sunday’s ; Intimate Talks With Girls THE COST OF HAD suspected for weeks that ths girl had been caught tn the whirl- Pool of the cabarets and the dance halls. And I knew she was cleverly conceal- ing the fact from her folks, One day I saw ‘my chance for an in- timate, heart to heart talk with her, and I didn't mince my words. “You are living in ain,” I sald. Cet sommnry “And you know it!” She laughed recklessly. “Sin?” he sneered. “Who says 0?” I glanced at her eyes, which had lost-thetr inn >t look, and the puffy rings which weré beginning to form under them, “You say so yourself by the way you look,” I told her. “You think you are clever, but ~>u are only blind and HIGH LIVING. way to keep from low ideals is to have high ones, Some one has said an idle brain ts the devil's workshop, so I add if you want to best the devil keep busy for God. A good many girls ars like the man in the parable when the unclean spirit went out of him and came back agatn. The unclean spirit found his home swept and garnished, but empty. There was no good spirit liv- ing there, It was a nice, renovated apartment, all ready to move tn. So he went and got seven other spirits worse than himself and the last state of that man was worse than the first. No doubt Heaven has many a fallen woman who has slipped once, or even Many times, on the different roads of virtue, diMcult to them because of the sins of their parents, or the temp- tations of a low environment. They have reached eterna! biiss, because ile aay slipped they were trying But Heaven has no room for those luxurious women living on the border line of outward respectability, who take a pleasure in self-indulgence, foolish, And unless you see your real, The keys of St. Peter have never self soon and your danger, it 1s going to be too late!” She tossed her head. “Oh, I guess I am able to take care of myself,” she said confidently. Not even her parents know where that girl fq now. And they haven't known for two or three years, I have seen many girls follow the same trail. They thought it was all gayety and high living—untll they found the cost of the high living. But if a girl keeps from sin because it does not pay 1s she safe? The best officers he Was rushed to the defense of Washington, The day of Bull Run arrived. Instead of the Confederate troops being swept back as the North conidently expected, the Fedural troops met & severe defeat, Upton NE of tho rea- was among the wounded sona why th But his wound healed and the Gov- sa na ihe ernment forces rallied from this first people blow, Promotion came fast to Upton, | Occldent are genc- and he was appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-first New| York Volunteers in October, 1862 rally disposed to agree with Bret Harte: Throughout the hard campaigns of| that “the heathen the quccesding months he saw much| Chinee is peculla fighting. At Spotsylvania, in i864, Ps ( be was shot & second timo, It was) the wnusual m then that he received the brevet of| O4 Of the Chinese in Brigadier General, U. 8, V, |handiing the sick Thin second wound as not serlous,| Novice tho ambu- and Upton soon took to the saddls| janes again. In the Shenandoah campaign| "ce !% the photo he had command of an infantry divi-| 8PPM, In which a sion and was severely wounded at| dying man is beihg the battle of Opequan. ‘The injury | transported It is of wicker bas- kept him out of action a few months, A but he recov in time to take part| Ketty of the same type as that used in the closing scenes of the war as| for conveying pigs and poultry to that the child ts an Ameri ject, Whe ts right? on Ww enacted In Georais and Alabi ‘When the con! ‘ tal a, market, ict was over be un. Crude as this type of conveyance! in seems, no rubber-tired automobile could travel with less jolting, says Popular Science Monthly. The car- riers work in relays, going slowly, with @ kind of swing, and resting at tervals. eee | zangied to let them inside the golden Bates (Copyright, 1017, by The Bell Syndicate, Ino.) Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland eee ee ee ee VERY backend © & Would-be Kornilo®every wits, « potential Kerepeky E Whee @ etdew remerries it lee sign thet oho Rap forgolion, when « divorcee remerries ee sign Gad he has torguitenAND forgives. An efetent wite te the keeper of ber hosten@e eonecience, the mother of bs opinions. the tether af bis sentiments, (he chaperon to hie manners ené he valet to bis vanity Don't pin your falth to a man whe elves whee man is honestly in love, dearie, he woulda’s recognise © tempiation if it came up and kissed him good morning. Marriage is the inst resort to which bachelor turns after every . other novelty im life has begun to pall on him The oftener & man falls in love the more gracefully and lightly Be does 90; the oftener » woman falls in love the more foolishly and @es+ | Derately she dose it, A woman keeps ber 4 loves locked away in the rosemary of mem- ory, as she keeps her commencement gown and ber wedding gown packed away io lavender; @ man forgets past loves as quickly and completely as be does the old clothes he gave to the janitor. HAIL TO THE CHIEF! “Lat's cheer the dashing officers, Let's cheer the lads in blue. Let's cheer the private in the ranks— Bach loyal heart and tru | And when you've done your cheering, Son, | Let not your efforts flag | ‘Then cheer the gallant ARMY COOK, Who's following the flag! A kiss is worth anything you can get for it, from a wedding ring tog The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), EAR me! I wonder how long) “They aint never moved into thie this dreadful war is going to| neighborhood,” said the old lady from last?” said Mrs, Jarr in a/ Indiana, “The Bender family lived worried tone, “I'm sure it's very up-/OUt in Kansas, when I was a gal, After one has been lectur-|and entertained right smart. But it was own child on the wickedness| W4s noticed that passing and the wastefulness and the un-/| W&s never seen again, and it healthfulness of smoking, and bidding| found that the Benders had « whele him beware of the deadly cigarette,|Ccéllar full of strangers’ corpses, all one is put on a tobacco committee to} Knocked in the head and robbed. They had @ darter, the send cigarettes to soldiers! a fine olip of a pal’ tenon 7 “Ot course that child's own father|Slie wasn't hung because she was smokes all the time, and if it isn't a ‘Pat, good looking. You what 5 ‘es men on juries is with good pipe It's cigar, but he has friends] jooking gals that murder . who come to sce him—Mr, Jarr, 1| When Kate Bender got out ote mean, not our Willie, who DO smoke cigarettes, and some of them show our Willie how to ‘roll their own,’ which isan expression meaning, I believe with one hand. And I actually found my- self applauding Cal, the Cowboy King, I think It was, when he shot a de: perado with one hand and calmly rolled @ cigarette with the other, in the moving pictures, And yet, if Mr, were to go around wearing leather clothes ornamented with beads and shooting villains with big black | revolvers, while he rolled cigarettes | with one hand, I would be annoyed out of my life, and I'm sure every- she went around the coun lecture platform givin, Nearing to young gals, and warning mothers umainst the pitfalls of great sition, where eir wayward might str “People"was moved to tears Usten to Kate Bender Jeut to ling what happens to young gals whet leave thelr peaceful ‘homes to” te great cities. Keep them on the old farm, in innercence, let never know of the great city's are snares of sin!” Kate Bender, eeid say, She knew, she had been raised on a farm herself and although it was said that she had helped to ‘ some twenty passing strangers, aa | she was always good to her mother | and, to the day of her death, no ene | could say a word againat ‘Ben- body else would! der’s mori! character!” x) All this language was directed to| “Well, I think conditions af gee her visttor, old Mrs, Dusenberry, for- | 4¥ are making girls bold, am / a glad she wasn't a bold ‘giri,” Mrs, Jarr. “She had her faults, fect Ie ou say, but she lived @ pure re. . “And that’s jest what I aay,” marked old Mrs. Dusenderry, bY young gal may do things in her ewn home, in the innercence of her heart, and be forgive, if her mort! character 1s good. But what can be said about a whole peck of women that will go off to be soldiers, like what I hear the women in Russia is doing?” “I read of that too,” sald are, Jerr. I can’t merly of Indiana, who had called in to show Mrs. Jarr the nearly lost bousewifely art of putting up home made preserves, “We'll start on termater butter,” sald |old Mrs, Dusenberry, talking of things that interested her. “You got to be careful not to burn it. You can't coc: {t In @ double biler, 6¢ you jest got to watch it. And while we're work- ing on termaters we can put up some ketchup. With ketchup you got :o careful after It’s did. You got to be | gure it won't ‘work’ after it's bottied. I have seen termater ketchup git to |working and explode, covering the ceiling till {t looked like human gore, and the work of the Bender family. “The Bender family?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “I don’t know them. When did they move into the neighborhood?” ‘And it made me shudder. seo how the surroundings can be moral for woman regiment, perhaps, a committee of good women watches over them.” hings in Russia must b sald old Mrs, Dusenbary ne I'm sure they must be,” Mrs. Jarr. “I have great faith ireent | know @ i Mr, Kerensky, though. I ae tallor of that name, and joes good work, at moderate prices, and he has the nicest mannerst 1 it | Love Letters to a Soldie Transcribed by Marguerite Mooers Marshall. | Coprright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Oo, ing surprise as I entered the recep-;my mother. I trie % (The New York Evening World). tion room. I had on the red frock| manners.” But I oats cnenae aE VI. that you like eo much. Do you think|the name of my country, Ins T shall turn into a careless, dowdy | name, Donald. | 2 oer ee ¥ Dear One: Iam pretending,|trump while you are away, beloved?! "Do you really believe,” 1 asked as most vigorously, that I am not|/I wear the red a# much as I/quietly as I could, “that I am doing writing to you at all, but that/C@”, for it is draped invisibly with|nothing for peace? Do you consider tb beside me,| ‘2° remembrance of your approval.|that I have made no sucrifies for it? you are here in the library | I shall not let myself grow pale and| For what is Donald, | \in your gray ¢: the kindly, humor~| dreary fed and droopy-mouthed. It/can, fMgiting except’ a {ous tolerance that is the only solvent} would be a poor compliment to pay the| made safe by the guar antees of ¢ \for the moods in which I want to|!9an who js fighting for me, and hejonly nation that wanted war? lacratch and claw. I never aball be| Nouldn't thank me for it when ho came negYou hold meetings to dlecuss ¢he vs . autles of peace. Ke able to “make allowances" for others,| we}, Miss Searle talked rather splendor 1 cor raking a iitetime te as you do, and the person in my bad) gonnily and soggily about the war| that gray half-world where unmated graces at present seems to me to di 4 my Personal relation to Ht, while,| women wander with the ghosts r] ne, 1 was wondering wuat|dead lovers. Ob, I am notin | serve nothing short iageadeol |e really was after, I found out./enough to believo that T reaihe meee She ts Elizabeth Searle, the of! “As a bleeding victim of this murder-| Donald to the front. He went w: that Settlement House in which| ous strife” she appealed to me to join|out any one's telling him, But Aunt Alice 1s so much Interested. /her own seditious little society and least inade his departure us easy ey I've only met her once or twice, but| 40, Propaganda work for it t could! E gidnt try to: Ralleq aaa | course we are careful to keep} with my love and fears, And |she heard about you and me from! within the law,” she explained. “Wel you ask me to Join you crusade to | Auntie, So she called on me this af-| have lawyers who pass on all our lit-|discr Don i everything for |tornoon, as a pacifist missionary, and erature and whom consult before! which he stands, and our dual ae aking action of any sort. You would] fice made in r jaince tt te @aturday, she found me at) one een ay unpleasantness, wad bout which you Yt. will» home, you would be doing something for) ki" | Her fret idea, I think, was to weep! peace, in which I know you must b stay after that, ‘There |with and for me, She wore a dre seoply Interasted your Aunt tells m joush F Inted about her and hi ‘ . t-| that you ai onald would have been| friends, but you must no | jof deep black; at one of thelr meet) married this autumn had he not zono| many of Us so warped: ac ustigmanie ings the other night the pacifists w to kill in the shambles in Europe.” | mentally and morally, ‘All the worths | pledged to don mourning for the dead! 7 sat and looked at her. I tried to| while women in Amert “4 democracy of America. Ghe save me a glance of disapprov- ca honor yours 1 remember that she was my aunt’ and one of them loves friend, that she was old enough to be