The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1917, Page 8

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THE LANSDOWNE LETTER. do dam One 1 hav t ali f la aj fiat. erthele 1 presen ment jie fi pacifician It in pe flevem becanae it tends to cast a pa t Nlanket of de and misgiving over Allied purposes and over A the very moment when the Allied Governments | important conference in Paria to concentrate upon military policies simed solely at pushing on with might and main until they win It in pacificiem in that, whatever message it may hold for the Ger man people, it encourages the present German ( ernment to believe the Allies have given up hope that the result can be anything better than a draw It in pacificiem in that—with Germany in posscasion of Belgium and Roumania, with Germans in France, Germans in It in Russia, and the German Government hop stroke in Petrograd—it neve # presents the Allies as ready to discuss peace with a Power certain to point with arrogance to all these things. There is no reason to believe that Lord Lansdowne speaks in any sense for the present Iritish (bvernment. There is no reason to believe that he speaks for anything approaching a majority of the British public. It is also true that Lord Lansdowne is a Tory of Tories. It may well be that visions of revolution and social read just- ments loom large in that,“ruin of the civilized world,” which oppresses hifh. y, Germans ful of achieving a clever Nevertheless Lord Lansdowne is a statesman of reputation who has served his country in offices of highest trust and responsibility, | What he says is sure to be listened to at home and abroad—and inter-| preted as significant of the British state of mind. ‘ At best, his letter was, as the London Times calls it, “foolish and mischievous.” For by publishing to the world that one of the best | trained intellects in British public life considers victory and compromise the only hope, it tends to hearten the enem: depress the Allies at an instant when the latter are plod other to fight on to a decision, $———___—— NEW YORK TROOPS IN FRANCE. EWS that 27,000 American troops of the Rainbow Division, | which includes former National Guard units froin thirty-three States, have arrived safely in France brings another thrill of relief and pride to thousands more Americans at home w weeks ago the boys were to sail. The certainty that former National Guardsmen of this departure from Camp Mills, the farewell furloughs, and the pulling out of the troop trains d hereabouts that will hardly fade, These men are now on the spot, close to the when called, to do their part in a way to win t left behind, In secrecy and safety the Gove: States haa transported them overseas and enemy, landed them behind the great front, the leavetakings ay after day are recollections great tas! , despite all efforts of the battle lines of the western New Vork will be eager for more 1 so far as may be, their moveime: of them with its confidence . 4 . . ; my - - Hits From Sharp Wits One of the hardest things 4 man is! graved on the han catled upon to do ix to make a sacrifice Philadeiphia Rec: q rews of them, | n to follow, nis and always and everywhere back and its hearty wishes for ood luck, id, bit. ‘This is true in baseball and also ee in human affairs.—Los Angelos Times. | g@alre—Loe J Limitg@ ability doing ite best pro- : : | duces results than does excap- it may be all right for a woman to! tlonal Ability Inclined to loaf, Albany marry in haste and repent at leisure, | Journal mae but @ inarried ian has no leisure * 8 6 Unicago News, Young men can aid in the ee ah vatlon of coal He Colhsere The man w " uo what he by term ip electric current at he by terminating thelr callw ato parte would do in_your pla bably never! hour i thelr calls at u patriotic Hevides, every Binghamton taln amount of sleop norte 1 iy ac Pittsburgh Ga uid be iT your place ress, * After u get by the rest Af of the Weel n't seem so bad Memphis Commercial Appeal & woman tus been married « or two she begins to marvel at the amout of big and Important busl- oo. i ness t has to be transacted Those who afe adepte at giving ad-|town after wuppers Deters vice seldom appear to have profited | Press. by It.—-Milwaukee News. . o ¢ 6 About tho casiest way for a man to|r Jose hin d name is to have it en- | % ry The slacker foat if the bleh to retre uld beat a strategic were places left ty teToledo Bla Little Talks on Astronomy Hi planet Saturn, second of the | of rings that rotate Around the planet Jovian group, gets only about | exietly one-ninetleth as much heat and sun, Nght from the sun aw our own earth | justice no latker than deen recelves. For it t# $86,000,000 miles! uutor ring ts, perhaps distant, whereas we are just 93,000,000 | vom the pl ies away, Twenty-nine vin revolution about the solar body, a Baturn exceeds the earth in size times, Saturn, Hke Jupiter, iy a Peele planet in the making, its density be furnish ing about three-fourths that of water. ty dixpute these imuny ye Bo it is in reality a great ball of fog the and mist that may become a habitable tne May Bee py pe World millions of years hence, At the (1) the Matete Seen Y - Hresent stage of its evolution Saturn most pleasing spectacle to the ane draws light from nine attendant teur observer % Rw moony, but their gfuigence is nut it | great, und we probably get more light from our one moon than Saturn does from his chorus of nine, expire befo The strangest thing about this fit t is the rings that surround it hese rings ure suppowed to be made! much that life bh up of odds and ends that were fleet-| to exist, So that th fg in space when Saturn began to and the ¢volation.. shape as a World. Instead of forming part of that world, these rin formation of these living thing could now exist on Sat the planet will be for habitation, and by that tim our own world may have cooled #o Will have cen aninals—per planet Saturn, i » dread of| impossible! iy and ging one an-! ho knew aix| Pr ‘a aia Tichly iain abld gine eriemnat ‘ The Everyday Heroine By Sophie Irene Loeb Soldier and His Pan- in which a soldier who bad tai : tate are already training on French soil means much to New York. The| «Co, (The oceasion, and the occasion does not ready, | he cheers of those they rment of the United | Sein samme Low | a letter froma woman who tells ab: ‘a friend whowe hug of bis umbrella, | mechante, vi Department York Evening World.) ‘ seem heroic to them. I know an old mother, She has money, very much money, hax a son—he is the only one would give every penny In and go out to work if ne she could keep the world fr nary not need to go. For he ix the a being in the world that means every thing to her he is ve ® and comfort. But when th sols my boy: though it kills me go.” And bh spot in the i from this boy If there ever was a woman is one. Yet she do gard herself as such, To boy “This friend has three children and is doing caretaker work with on added Job once In a while, and ant J bund's branch of the | baby and a young wife, 1 Just couldn't help but write this complains, but feels glad to think of My friend ever 'm sure you will do pletures ii \ | newapapers; he planet rotates around, "° 8"? Ne COMpONent purts of the S vary from huge meteorites to| their patriotism; nor proclaiming commitu.es 000 niles | {and the inner about! yd a halt | 18.000 {nites away, This ince ring ts tai GE asus ; ny) Fwenks . ‘ane | NEY an is likely that the) @ matter of course years are required for It to snake one | masses which ae into that! © svoner or later attracted to ‘Urn, Just as a magnet attracts al They go about doing their duty ain, nor do they “pat the right sort of stuit. rings bas 1 4 subject for astronomers % But rings actually do exist, as any| of self, ing through 4) sacrifices and gives | two sisters who ty. of own Hvelihood hud previously ne Uhree orphans, hot believed possible that any urn. Uniimited reaches of time muat e | fect aquare Process of lite tled when t) haps into monkeys and then into men should come to the will be bewun all over minute masses formed into a series aia aol | forefathers foregr her feel “selfish | U know a yor bride, and there | loving |delicate and lives with her moth in-law Her husband cau | ef on the ground of thi pendenc but no, th she said never was such | patriotivnm is jh he has Joined the navy And #0 L could go on enc instances of — he for diade: their sorrows in silence. Yet th j—the ere found wanting Americ: Jamestown, Va year 1615. Commenting on this fa ith lamented th he colony the manufactur of a nes means compe The indabitants of Jun did not agree with this vi and so howeve Indian massacre of 16 America to att an ambitious seal | at Temp N. H., by Ry Jtwo in nuniber,, w ers from the British army lessness of a workman | struction of the pl ed the | | m having a war, in order that her son might y oll, and he is her sole young man wanted to enliat, this | woman said to her son “Don't wait, you must went. The only bright ay is the letter she gets vine, this not re- ep her home when he should be In the und of the fight would make wife, Sho in still a | ir in all the world. She is Hi oung wife would not have It so, The spirit of | ive in ber, and so she taken the responsibility of the family on her young shoulders, and | sides, all these ladies are of the high-! lh realy WHD! have been tactful of me to muke per- veryday heroines who do not look but do their plain duty; who make their sacrifices and. suffer have one great satisfaction rst in all the workl—-to Know that when the time came they have been tried and have not been | be say U.S. Glass Industry : 300 Years Old iS was first manufactured in by the people of| » during the ‘thg labor Mas Deon misdiredted in he re of ashes, scap, glaaa ane ar, in whieh they could by no - e poor with Bwoden or Rua, | Pedder it is the poor whe vannot at- town | 1 afterward commenced the i i ‘ 4 erection of a glass works, the comple: | KNOW," remarked Mr. Jarr, who evie tion of which was interrupted by the | dently intended to make trouble. | The first glass factory in North| t the industry on was built in’ 1780 nt Hewes of Kosten. The building was siaty-five and the workinen, thirty + Gorman desert. | ‘he care Ht by tire in 1781 In 1803 a glass factory wan eatab-| They are just} lished in Boston and sinc on of thelr) the induatry has flourished and waxed | stopped. It will 'be good exercise | sen to the| great. that time Evening World Daily Magazine - The Jarr Family What My Parents By Roy L. McCardell (The New York Evening World.) | 66 POSITIVELY, my dears, our) Walk up and down stairs. Ladies’ Wartime Knitting and vay.” lot of coal” Young Hammond Was Encouraged as a Boy to Develop “It is a very svod Copyright by the 1% Economy League is a won- | derful success. I've had a dozen ladies | of the wealthiest class and highest | social standing calling to # nie, | Why, the row of handsome limou- | sine town cars, many of them with couts of arms on | footmen ax weil as chauffeurs in liv- ery, coming to my door and stunding down the st would have made you think there was a fashionable modern funeral taking place. And all | these car owners begged me to tell | them how to tell others how they can be economical!" ; Mr. » who hid been dragged to | the meeting by his good lad: to remark that the wealthy 1 tor car owners arose | ly mo) could have done a jit-| tle war-time ecogomy themselves by |walking instead of burning up| gasoline, “But, my dear Mr. Jarr, don't you vee that would have thrown their | chauffeurs and footmen out of employ~ ment,” remarked Mrs. Stryver. “Be- | Jest social standing, and it would not sonal suggestions to them. But 1 did| give them pamphlets to distribute | among the poor showing how, if every poor fainily used a spoonful less of sugar to euch cup of coffee, 1 don't know how many tons of sugar might 1 also gave them the pam- phiet ‘Watch Your Garbag "Are you watching your garbay 7" asked Mr, Jarr. “LT have no time to watel bag nd I would not ¢ unless it were deodoriz and steril- Mrs. Stry ver "My s |vants would consider J was demean- jing myself and interfering with them if I watched the garbag The poc doing thelr own hou ork, are In di- rect contact with thelr kitehen refus my gare re to do it re ford to »aste, you know Nobody can afford to waste, 1 “We consider these matters are par ticularly the province of women, and | are not a subject that concerns men!” said Mrs. Stryver freezingly. While all | the other ladies murmured, “Yes, In deed!" “And I have a suggestiody” said Mrs, | Mudridge-Smith, “a suggestion to save coal. It is that all elevators in bust- ness buildings and workshops be | tor clerks and .working people to| Saturday, December 1,1 1 Americans | % » Under Fir By Albert Payson Terhune mgt WT +1 me Pm Pemmng te The See tore No, 46 -THE BATTLE OF TIPPEC. OW boom iittle of the Muttle of Tippeamem and days it 0d source count os more hae & Yet fo the days of your arandperente wae @ name as familiar and as (hrliling ao and “Manlia Way” were later to become, Tey battle mada a national hero of ite vetor and carry Dim to the Presiteney of the United Ha. William Henry Harrison tad been sent ae Governor of Indian Territory. ‘This wan te 1008, whee” Indian Territory” included such wilderness 4 ae Pitteburah and Vincennes Yor years Harrison keot rome semtlanee of among the sivage tribes Hut two savage ehiete causing him trouble, The two were and were known an The Prophet” and “Tecumseh.” The Prophet was looked upon by Div people ae & sort of god. His influence was tremendous, and he used {t all againat the United States In the spring of IALL the savagen went on the warpath, threntening the whole Middie West with flume and scalping knife, Hartson managed to ralne 100 men—neariy all of them farmers or shopkeepers, whe Knew netite int Of warfare-and wet out to quell the insurrection. Me led hie little army through forent# that were full of town sivagen, He moved northward along the Wabash In the Lair of he came to Terre Haute, in the heart of the the Enemy. country, Thence he marched straight againet the nn tified village of Tippecanoe, which was the stronghold. It was a daring move: feat, Harrison and hin men would be cut off utterly help In @ hostile region and would be at the merey of the Indians theless, Harrison struck fearieamly at the very heart of the Prophet's to face a foe that outnumbered hin own force many times over, | On the night Nov. 6, 1811, Harrison pitehed camp barely three from the Prophet's town, planning to ack at dawn the next realized that hin enemies might decide to forestall him and to do the ing on their own account. There was always that chance, for the had & way of carrying the Might to his foes, and Harrison prepared for A powsibility. He arran ’ “J his camp in the shape of an irregalar parell bogeame in the centre, then his militia, and next his few trained on the o igen. These veterans he knew would be less likely to uway to panic in the face of a might attack than would the raw who formed the mass of his command, | A heavy rain was falling. The night was pitch dark and chilly, 4 score of roaring campfires could not dispel the dreariness, | A little after midnight Harrison's shivering men were roused by # cession of blood-curdling yells from all sides at once, At a signal ¥ thelr chief the Indians rushed to the slaughter of the white men, Remember, please, that barely one in twenty these white men had ever seen a battle; also | were routed from sleep, in hideous fashion, at dead night, Then be proud of these frontier ancestors ours, for they deserve all praise. b In the first confusion of the attack every fire went out. The camp was plunged in darkness, through which the I to what looked like an easy victory. There, in the dark, a wild ensued, The militia were as cool as the veterans, They obeyed orders perfect precision, They held their ground, like heroes, and they coolly, unflinchingly. T » Indians were repulsed, They charged again, only to be driven back once more by the perfect discipline of Harrison's men. Severol times during, the Jong, black night the frantic attack was renewed by the savages, but lalways with the same result, “ ‘At the first streak of daylight Harrison turned the tables by command= ing his own men to charge, Beneath that dashing attack the Indians’ valor | went to pieces, They could not stand their ground, but fled in terror. The Battle of Tippecanoe was won—the battle that played so great a part in the winning of the West—and {t was won by “rooktes” who had no: experience in warfare, but Who were sane enough to stand their ground and to wbey orders. i by Discipline. Oe. Publishing Co. said Mrs, Stryver, suggestion.” ng to public school wore hair arked Miss Cora Hickett. passed forbidding lit- em, and with |8itls g “If a law wa tle said! Mrs, Jenkins, who jived in the sub- ‘it occurs to me that we con} at wholes: \ | clubbed together and all bought coal |f You could nave the same time. | and my coal could be sent wut to me this propo- The majority of ment houses and used gas for cook- “In case,” Mrs. Jenkins went on, a liver my share of the wholesale coal to wherg, I ages, a package as big as he could “And we must educate the masses to use cornmeal more and not to buy observed Mrs. of selentific round the poorer quar- ways of making bread, corn muffins, corn pone sandwiches, now being served, “And the poor could do without tea drinking water remarked Mrs, refreshments = Mudridge-Smith, inspiring the sugkestion, \Wnanimously “Do Without Tea what they are remarked Mra, her husband home, “Wonderful indee “After a while encouraged to do without food ~ Wanted Me to Be NO. 4—JOHN HAYS HAMMOND. Mind and Body and Learn Self-Reliance—Then His Parents Equipped Him With a College Edued: tion and Wisely Let Him Follow His Natural Bent. . owen World.) Coysrialit, 1917, boy the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening . HE inquisitive spirit which I pos-| hunt, shoot, make camp and forage | sessed us a child was undoubt-|for food. This boyhood experience cdly inherited from my parents, | helped me to withstand the dangers, Almost from] hardships, raid’ and revolutions, the \ me ubyhood they| Perilous journeys among cannlbaly encouraged intme| and semi-savages and the starvation the desire to| far from clvilization which I later delve into the| encountered in various far corners of nature and rea-| the world where my work took me, son of things.| The one thing I always wanted to ' My father was a] D€ Was an engineer, preferably @ min- ia BM) graduate of West|!ms engineer. 1 had @ passion fe Point. He was| burrowing far down into thé earth an ex-officer in| Where | could make unexpected dis- the artillery, hay-| Coverles of hidden treasure, Also ing fought in the| b#d seen how gold was found im the Mexican War. pg districts of California during He had an adventurous disposition | ™Y summer Mpresagyta't himself and understood to a marvel-| When Tt finished public school in i San Franensco, where I was bern, { fous degree his young son's propen- | prepared in the New Haven e sity for wanting to get at the Inside} schools fr te ia of the world, 1 do not remember ever| School of Yale, id father insleted my taking 4 full classical having been deterred by him or my|$P my taking cngineetinas na eee mother from my childish attempts at| cordance with his wish, after discovery, although these experi-| graduated from Yale in ist I took « ments often resulted detrimentally to| Post-graduate course al clothing and other articles, Hchoo! of Mines at Freiberg Samm My mother also sympathized with} When 1 .oturned to my love of outdoor activities, for! plied for a Job to beget her brother was Joh ‘offee Ha then the most prosperous owner the famous ‘Texas ranges ane aay |in the West, ‘The Senator, of us Texas ranger. She had}, practical turn of mind, emidt ¢ Passed most of her girlhood on al only objection I have to you is Texas ranch, Later my uncle was you pave fea. yer Sens filled pinte ° - jot of fool theories abroad,” epee ae the first Sheriff of San Il answered: “If you not to tell my father I will I early became acquainted with) thing. I did not learn a sipgle thing every branch of outdoor life, for| at Freiberg.” many were the expeditions planned for he enidi’ “Core anata in which we penetrated virgin forests | work to-morrow.” and camped out, I learned to swim, And I went. ; How December Got Its Name HE name of December for the Who reigned in the second month which begins to-day is| &ttempted to change the name ho longer appropriate, for it is| Cember to Amazonius, in honor “ mint fair favorite of that name, whem he erived from “decem," the Latln| had painted to resemble ab Amagon. rd meaning “ten.” The name) This Innovation was et popular, and poison, was first applied by the Romans| When Commodius died b feminine when the year was divided into forite the nate Cf Ateaaeaiaae ten months, with the addition of sup-| with him. 2 plementary days to complete the pe-| ‘The ancient Saxons called riod required for a revolution of tae! month Winter-monat, which Saee |earth around the sun. \terward changed to Heilige! or When the calendar of Romulus was| holy month, when they were amended in 713 B.C. by Numa Poin-| verted to Christianity. The pillus and the year was divided into| Germans again ch. the name 1; twelve months December became the | Christ-monat, because f the bie oe ot twelfth month, bot retained its orig~! tains the anniversary of the inal name, The Emperor Commodus, Christ