The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1917, Page 18

OPEN EET EBT * ESTAMLISIED HY JoAnne PULITZER York Ratee Fivening |For for United taal be Ti ‘anada, 04.00 One Ten 60) One Month, MEMBER OF THE ARSOCIATED PRESA, Aanettated Prose te extusitely enticed to the tne for republication af te 1 OF Ot ctherwiee comtited in thie payer aod alto the loral news published herein. «NO. 20,540 AT ITS PUREST. from wishing to see any popular movement in the direction | of preferring hasty, ill-considered charges against the patriot- ism of New York’s public school teachers, The Evening World Believes no such charges should be either made or acted on save by sober and responsible authority. | The three teachers in the De Witt Clinton High School suspended by the Committee on High Schools on the ground that they hold views “which are subversive of discipline in the schools and which under- mine good citizenship” are entitled to fair, unprejudiced hearing. But let there be no mistake. Toward any public school teacher found guilty, after due investi-! gation, of having attempted in any way to subvert or cool the loyalty) of children committed to his or her care, this city will show neither patiénce nor mercy. | For some time past there have been recurring rumots of attempts, to start insidious anti-American propaganda in the New York public, schools. | The probability that enemy agents or sympathizers would select | this great community of many races as the finest breeding ground in) * the country for disloyal influence and suggestion calculated to weaken the Americanism of the younger generation is far too strong to be ignored. | » New York can afford to take no chances with such a menace. _ The patriotism of its eight hundred thousand schoo) children | constitutes as solid an asset as ony it possesses for its own civic future as well as for its contribution to the larger national life, At a time when Americans of the present generation must work for the nation, save for the nation, fight for the nation, and, if need be, die for the nation, when Americans of a coming generation should be | taught from their tenderest years the duty that will rest upon them! to preserve and carry forward in safety and security the freedom! defonded at such cosis—at such a time it would be unthinkable negli-| gence for the biggest city in the United States to leave the minds of, its boys and girls exposed to the poison of disloyalty deliberately in- fected by secret influences in the public schools, Tt is not to riek such a peril that New York taxpayers provide the millions of dollars spent on the schools and for the salaries of those who tench in them. “Only a few weeks ngo the city was shocked by the spectacle of twelve-year-old school children using strikes and stone throwing tv express their alleged feelings toward the Gary system, while boys hardly in their teens mounted soap boxes and spouted violence and sedition at the street corners. LA AF FIEO ES IE BH OME RATE ror} Amana eae, ma Evening World Daily Magazine . | To*whatever extent these unseemly child riotings may have been due to unscrupulous political tactics and parental complicity, they vertheless showed how imprcssionable—for lawlessness as well as good citizenship—is the youthful mind hereabouts. They showed the need for counteracting forces of discipline in the public schools—the discipline of @ law-respecting Americanis: sound and earnest in teaching and in example. | Agitating pacifists, pro-Germans, lukewarm Americans and con- firmed critics of the nation’s war policy are not wanted as teachers in New York’s schools. Now is the time to find them and turn them out before they do more dama If, in order to locate them with certainty, it is necessary to pro- ceed to a comprehensive examination of the city’s public school in- structors, then such examination should be accepted in the right spirit by loyal teachers, many of whom must be only too well aware of con-| ditions which make it necessary. Nowhere must standards of loyalty be kept higher or more| atrongly safeguarded than in the public schools, There, if anywhere—as The Evening World has insisted since the first disquieting reports of pro-German propaganda in the schools were heard—patriotism ought to he 100 per cent. pure, Hits From Sharp Wits Even the fast young man is handl- effect on th 1 capped. He can't travel at such a Commerolal Apres 2ctoF-—Memphis Fapid pace that trouble won't sooner 5 or mar overtake him.—l delphia There are no germs in the milk of eae human kindne: Toledo Blade, the meatiess chicken.— Anyway the average woman knows |&% much about politics as a mi about feeding « baby.—Chicago Nore . . Lage’ people are born to trouble, geome borrow trouble and some have! ‘here ts no virt trouble thrust upon them. But others| sees no vittue In othorg eae who marry of their own free will.—Colum- | Pre . ehamton bia (B.C. Star, 678 If you want t ” A horseshoe over your door may give | level best and y Berg Rhee Ms your You & soothed mentality, but it has no | consequences,—Milwaukes News °° Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words, esas niin et tee wrentae' ay. Beate Platte registrants as to thelr legal In view of the stirring appeal of| tions asked by The ae un Which ques- the President to the legal profession | be answered. verninent are to im connection with the now draft) Precisely what th regulations, publicity should be given] are to be cannot og new regulations to the effective and patriotic service | they have beon officiate need until which the members of the bar of this| provost M. oMcially issued by tho city have already rendered. litte MOUbT thee repeals but Ihave Last July the Adjutant General of| bers of the bar wil the State designated a lawyer to act! to the appeal of (ea peekerly respond the representative of Provost bot gt OY tbo President and co. al General Crowder in giving! ment for the comet, (ke Govern. advice to each of the 169 EX-! in an effective si etion of the draft Boards of this city. These| HENRY Wore gente. lawyers devoted themselves to the ae . TAFT, Chairman War © 3 juous task and have very materl-| GF the City of New York of the Bar contributed to ¢ successful of the law. A ls Correct, service has been entirely gratu- | T° he Eéttor of The Erening World They were all selected by the| A boy was born in Turkey (though iermment on the recom: dation|an Armenian) and arrived tn this ofthe War Committee of the Bar of | country at the age of eighteen years City of New York, and that oom-| His father ts dead and never tee had given careful considera-|citizen of the United States. ‘A sg to their qualifications. sists that he fe not a citizen becau ‘TE understand from the published|/he hae never taken out citizenship te concerning the new draf » B se that A is @ citizen tions that it is proposed to deen livt: b in posh, Sreniecien District an t Who Io lebih sic of three lawyers to ae to me as follows: | vided t “As a reader of | paper, 1 am tak-| ing the liberty of give your opinion, | Gonianemees® =f am the mother | of two children and have been one | of the happiest women until severa! days ago, over iu France, he seem to bo living 4s in @ trance, and all he keeps saying to me 1s ‘If I only had some money to leave you for the children and your support 60 I could go help my country I'd be #o happy.’ “Now, please do not classy me as @ slacker, for {f my children were not 80 young maybe I could learn som. trade even now, #0 as to earn'my jiy. Ing. know any ocupation, umn.” flecting. To-Day’s | land station. The wirele r ¢ Ever since my husband has read | tho casualty lists of our boys fighting | “What can I do in & case such as mine? My children are too young to be given in a day nursery, and I don't “Please don't lay this aside, but jet | me have a little advice or your opin. ton on this matter through your eo}. My optnion, dear woman, !s that your husband needs to do a little re- While it ts laudable to be patriotic, and wo deplore slackers, yet there ts something almost bigger than want- ing to go to war; and that is to put aside a man’s natural desire to take his place at the front, in view of the with the gun. eras the man |him. Certainly HE first wireless message sent patched by the Amortcan liner St. Paul to the Needles eighteen years ago to-day, Nov. 15, 1899 The vessel |was then sixty-six miles from the first used tn gay- tng lives In 1909, when Jack Binns sent out bis memorable call for help from the stricken White Star liner Republic, after her collision with the| (he Wireless calls for help which ar- Florida off Nantucket. Later in the | sane year help summoned by wireless ulted in the rescue of 150 people | from the steamer Ohio off the coust of Alaska, After that hardly # month’ uimost ~The Married Man Who | _ Would Be a Soldier By Sophie Irene Loeb Copvright, 1017, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) responsibility ef those dependent on signing) him. “Mrs. Brok-| He must needs realize that if he! , enhearted” writes left bis loved ones inadequately pro- | } ey would not only become | harges on the community but might After all what are we fighting for, if it is not for democratic indepen- dence which in the last analysis is the direct benetit for the immediate home ely delegated patriotic duty as well in time of war. It 1 Just as soldier-like to conserve the welfare of those at home and battle for the livelihood of little ones as it {9 to go forth in the fight of armies. What if every,man felt as your husband does? ‘The country would not only be In a position of fostering such families but financing them 4s well, and until this is deemed abso- lutely necessary the real patriot. will submerge his fighting spirit and stand by those who cannot defend them= nelvos. " Leastwiso such @ sacrifice to become a Soldier is no! ye! - beco t yet tinpera. Besides there are man things a man can do to aid his coun, try and remain at home as well. While the spirit of conservation is in the alr, he can conserve his resources and those of his family so tha So that less will be needed by them and more ci go to win the war, BaRe. Oe faithfully face the burden The gioat test after all as to Patten ism and each doing bis share for bis country Js in the tndividual com. science. That is the answer If your husband feels th not done enough let hitn Inst oy there is much inore to dor »k about; ight around enough that he ¢ feel as much of @ soldi 18 SAD passed without a from @ ship at sea way de.|the utility of the ing of lives, The Canadian Government ste of icebergs by 4 messa from the Grenfell station ont} coast, and had been } The Canadian cruiser went on the rocks o; 1911, also summoned help by Then came the Titanie aoxeret lobe, whic! rived too late. The has led to a tremer in wireless communic is to-day vessels as the as Decessary, TE rm aN ae: org PONT OE 7 ingress Americans Fa Mm Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Rrening World), NO, 39.—THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA, fought in the third year of the Civil War, on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863. It would nowadays bo called the first half of one great battio—a battle which the next article of this series will describe, The Union Army, under Gen, Rosecrans, was trying to drive the Confederates out of Tennessee, And it was having a hard job. The Confederate Army, led by Gen. Bragg, was intrenched along the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, There were other Union forces in the Upper Tennessee Valley. Bragg expected Rosecrans to manoeuvre 60 as to get in touch with this other Union Army. But Rosecrans did nothing of the sort. Al- though his own force wie smaller than Brage’s, be moved rorward, without warning, and captured Lookout Valley, which wae the key to was thus obliged to leave Chattanooga in some haste. Then came one of the blunders that were forever marring the best plane if the Union leaders throughout the Civil War. Rosecrans's maps of the surrounding country were miserably defective and misleading. Because of the faulty maps, a column of the Union Army, under Gen. Thomas, was left stranded and cut off from immediate support near Dutch Gap. Hrage sent a strong detachment against Thomas, to cut his column to pleces before help could arrive, Meanwhile, Rosecrans had massed the | bulk of his army on Chickamauga Creek, facing Bragg, who had just re- | ceived large reinforcements: le © On Sept. 19, the Confederate right wing ber {tae Blunder ina hurled against Thomas, ‘Thomas stood his groun ike a rock, fighting against fearful odds. Next day Brought Defeat. § the main bodies of Union and~ Confederate Armies ORR lashed Here came another blunder. Rosecrans had word of Thomas's des- perate condition and sent several divisions to reinforce him. Ono of these divisions was taken by mistake out of the very centre of the first battle | ine! of the Union Army, leaving a wide gap. | Throvgh this gap charged the Confederate centre, cutting the Union | Army in two. The roads were alive with fleeing men. The Confederates were quick to follow up their advantage. For a time there seemed nothing in store for he whole Union Army but pantie rout. The gap left in the centre by the R \ removal of that one division had proved a doorway to victory for the tri- umphantly advancing Confederates. Half the Union forces were literally swept off the fleld—Rosecrans along with it. A single error had started Rosecrans’s army and Rosecran: campaign pell-mell on the road to destruction. | A chain is no stronger than {ts weakest link. But the strongest lnk | may sometimes help to save a weak chain. And the one strong link in the Union Army tn that hour of stress was Gen, Thoma’ ‘Thomas and his tsolated and sorely battered column did not share in their comrades’ flight. Like a rock Thomas had stood from the first. | Like a rock he now stood, while everywhere else panic and defeat were rife. In vain the Confederate hosts sought to dislodge him from his position. Not only did he hold his own ground but he sought to check the retreat of the rest of the army. . He reformed the shattered Union left wing in Caer"? {Trem snl half circle, and thus, for six long hours, held the overwhelming Confederates at bay, while Rosecrans, Double Burdens $ pack at Chattanooga, was rallying his own fugitives PLL PPPPLSIIIOE into some semblance of order, eppe tury of Bragg’s assault,” writes one historian, “spent itself use- |teasty on the herole divisions under Thomas, who remained on the fleld Es wieght, and then withdrew tn good order to Rossville, imposing respect Upon the victors. On Sept, 21, Rosecrans had re-established order, and Themas fell slowly back to Chattanooga, whither Bragg slowly pursued. momar fell tam nad been a Confederate victory in apite of Thomas, Yet, out of the 70,000 Confederates engaged, the losses in killed, wounded and | out oners. were 18,000, to the Union's loss of 16,000 out of 67,000 men en- aged. Bagel second half of the battle was at hand—the second and tar more important half. _ Bachelor Girl Reflections es By Helen R owla nd ‘opyrigat, 1917, by The Prese Publishing Co, WON may have been the richest man in the world, but there is no} ¢¢ record that any sincere bachelor ever actually envied him. (The New York Evening World), r, a slender man may be more romantic than Mrs. Jarr when Mr. Jarr came home a fat man; Lut as a husband, there is something awfully the other evening. restful and comforting about the kind that hates to miss | an Rangle his dinner, and {s built for endurance rather than for uffer as possible objects of charity, | the weieht of which might be more, rushing than the enemy he would| destroy. | A girl makes a fatal mistake when she forgets that @) ang str, Jarr did man doesn't devote himself to any woman in order to be \, Gus's place sitting morosely in a reformed, but tn order to be amused, not a bonfire, nor a kitchen fire, but a sacred | by exiling himself from his home. “Served you right,” The Jarr Fam By Roy_ Corgright, 1017, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Eveving World), yf Mrs. Rangle is in a dread. ) stand It, I don't drink, hic--excoosh ful state. She was crying on |me—and I won't stand being treated the telephone to me,” began |lke a dog.” “You never worry about being “She and that) treated lke a dog. You go home and and I never did like the |scratch at the door, and your wife man—have quarreled and he has gone | May think it ts the dog and let you off, You go get tim and make him|in,” advised Mr. Jarr. go home. I dare say you know where | ‘So when she opened the door,” Mr Resets Rangle maundered on, “I told her { Yos, Rangle was | Wouldn't stand it. And I kicked the Joor shut and said I was boss in that corner and grumbling at the high|house. And you oughta heard what cost of getting square with his wife |she sald to me!” a ae ily L. McCardell replied Mr. ndents waleh not} only is @ natural duty but becomes a} Savoir faire in a woman is merely the psychological effect of know- ing that her clothes are “right.” to say--and can't. give a man for leading a double life; metines it tukes more bravery to | than to face the battles at the grog ‘Little Astro world which we call Venus ar very much all} a slight difference in thelr elze @ the force of gravity upon each. nd| that we do. it ts quite Pp inhabitants of Venus are much the) e sort of folk as ourselves, planet 1s just 67,000,000 million miles | from the sun, which is 26,000,000 miles world we inhabit. It ig Venus that wo familiarly call the evening star, and every one know how beautiful ts this great disk of stant reptiles like the | roamed its swamps, the huge mam- i moths stalked through its forests and though—not over half an hour late, the frightful pterodactyls Sapped thelr] ] swear. And my wife was sore amense wings in the air. One astronomer has advanced the etimes appears as night| interesting theory that the human in- habitants of Venus may y. He says that an ordinary man ace tmosphere of greater rte Benlty than. our ow his|said Mr. Jarr, "Come on home, you by?the aiference in blg boob, and say you are sorry. You sed be- nearer than the demonstration of Wireless in the aav- light that som begins to fall. The year upon Venus the time required] density th for one revolution about the sun, the course of this revolution she ap-| cause of larg 26,000,000 miley of] the iabrador ra | weight taken off In} gravity and his strength inc: | vitality received from Sun, might make that man able|women have got the vote, and every- r might | thing guys like you pull of this sort will make it harder for good men, | proaches to within the earth, which ts nearer than any other planet ever gets. omers believe that there ls no change} the dwellers 9), Venus, that it is perpetual summer in one place and 5 anotner, as governe | from the poles of that plane, ’ jo this it might not be necessary that he have wings, This scientist ’ ! that wings would be unnecessary, and | like myself. ‘dwellers of Venus may cir-| Mr, Rangle regarded bim with | r exactly as we | f Cape Sable in 8. disaster, and ‘The astron- | seury, and War, of course, dous development Ation at sea, and | ax much a part of the war uns they carry, and) culate through th would Uy simplify the problem of trans- without subways. altar fire; and the penalty for playing with it {9 a seared heart, parched) “I tell you I won't stand it,” he 8, withered {lusions, and a burnt-out imagination. said, when Mr. Jarr attempted to yank him to his feet. “A wooden man wouldn't stand it. I'll go and killed in a practice fight!” he added, knowing well they don’t take a man Never judge a man’s love by what ne says, but by the things he tries/in the aviation corps after he is Real love doesn’t spill over in words; {it just chokes | twenty-five. up {n a man's throat and leaves him dumb and helpless. “Get up, you bonehead, and come home,” said Mr. Jarr, the rescuing A man may forgive a woman for double dealing, and a woman may for-| angel. but a double chin—who can bear it! "Go home? Not me!” grumbled Rangle, “I'll never go home till she Distance lends enchantment—but too much of It between sweethearts speaks to me, Sbe hasn't spoken to will lead sooner or later to another enchantment. me in a week.” “She'll speak to you, all right; come out of that!" said Mr. Jarr severely, When the modern girl says “Oh, this {8 so sudden!” it 1s merely the) But Mr, Rangle only shivered and conventional camouflage for “Well! At last, you stupid UR own earth and that other! On accoun: of her nearer orbit to the sun, Venus recetves about twice ke, There is only|the heat and light from that source It also has been deter- So|mined that the atmosphere is much ible that the supposed | denser, with considerable water vapor 43 @ constituent element. This | scientists to refused to come out of that, Perhaps what his wife would say when she did speak to bim had no attraction for him. Mr. Jarr rightly surmised that tt might be better to let Mr. Rangle ex- patiate bis own troubles. It might soften him. “What's the trouble with you, any- way?” he inquired “No trouble with me. You know ‘This leads |™e I'm quiet as a lamb. I had to ig|pay my election bets yesterday, The now in about the same state of evo-|guy cornered me that I've been dodg- was this world when the] ing for a week and made me come dinosaurus across. I was home, home on time about that and didn’t open the door. And then I kicked the door, and that able to| started It." “Well, you started It; that's plain,” want to look out, my good man, ‘Th jscorn, “You may be squaw ruled, but I ain't, and never will be!” be Venus ig|declared. “I'm a sober, industrish and dragged her husba man, bic—excoosh me—and I won't! Jarr, “What makes you think you jose win a game on the home Srounds? Come on home with me |ana be thankful if you are let in.” enlist. I'll be an aviator and get} |make me “Ain't going home, and you can't "sald the deflant Ran; " gle. ‘As for the women getting the vote, that's what ruining this country, That and the war. What's the ‘use to be a sober and industrish int home ‘all my money" Pring ere Mr. Rangle ste Mr. Jarr smelled a rat ee? *ruptly. “You, didn't bring money," he sald, “You lost it o election, I hope you didn't’ lee oe batting that the Woman's suff: se amendment wouldn’ amend Idn’t win in New At this Mr. Rangle be; “G jan Got the nices’ I'l” wife in the Week, he whimpered. Wife tn the world, f a8 all—a bum! Here Uh am Jn company like this in @ place like this, when I should’ be Fe nae Mel home, with nices’ iV" wife in. the Reailzing that now was the ‘ t! act, Mr, Jarr grabbed the repenront outcast by the collar and yanked him out of the place, and, keeping him on the run, that he might have no time to change bis mind, he haled him up e stairway to the door of ment and rang the bel ig nde 8 Rangle opened the door. A greeted Mr. Jarr with a stony ates within, she cried, home your t the nices’ iI’) An’ Um a bum; Bt th gl what kept you?" shaking the aby t Rangle. * 14 you o drin and then home to make a show of A ™” And she slammed the door in Mr, Jarr’s face. Bi reward, But virtue is tte ows = _ WORKS BOTH ways, X.--Bothered with time. Wasting callers, are you? Why don’t you try my plan? M Y.—What ts your plan? MF —Why, when the b { put on my hat and gloves: eyes press the button, If it proves to be some one I don't want to see I simply say,,"So sorry, but I'm just going out, MRS. Y.—But su; 1 one you want to seer” ‘** some MRS. X.--Ob, then I ga; tuna V've just o burgh Despatch, °®