The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 13

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918 Popular Favor Now Way—Watches the Welfare of Sailors. By Samuel M. Williams. opt, 1918, ty tv ewe Plating Co Now York Evening World). UT of cyclones of criticism and torrents of ridicule emerges Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, no longer a joke, but praised by critics and commended by tnves- Ugators, There bave been many men in American political history to feel the etorm of popular disapproval and most of them have gone down before it. Not often has the victim had the good fortune to live through | it still holding office, Rehabilitation Vin public favor usually has come too late. DeWitt Citnton was a notable ex- ception in New York politics. But recognition of Grover Cleveland, after his repudiation by the Democ- racy, came too late for him to again occupy office. There is a saying in Washington now that the fade of Daniela which provoked so much denunciation in| early years of his Administratton | upset only the ewivel chair feet and | disturbed bureaucrats who had ac quired through long precedeut the attitude of merely tolerating a Sec- retary ag a politically necessary fig: | ‘urehead. | He Never Lost His Temper. Through the long siege of criticism Daniels presented an interesting study of a man under fire, Doggedly | and grimly determined he went ahead with his work, never losing fis temper and never relaxing his | @fforts, Probably no man in the Cabinet stuck to his Joo with such plodding persistence. It the ehafts of ridicule struck deep he concealed the wounds and his personal feelings, Every morn- ing he came up courteous and afa-/ ble, sometimes appearing worrled and perplexed, but unfaltering tn) determination and never complain: | ing. No man could tell whether h ~ For Secretary Daniels | Stood Fire of Ridicule Stolidly Without Flinching and Now| Keeps Plodding Along in the Same Old Country Editor london in the War, New York Away From It Wiss Bennet Burleigh Drews a Contrast That New Yorkers May Profitably Ponder—London of Darkness and Limited Food, New York of Light and Plenty to Fat. ES — | |By Bertha Bennet Burleigh. | Daughter of the Famous English War | Correspondent. Written Exclusively for The Evening World. Coomtet. 1098. fy Thin Pm Prittahing Oo, OPTR wo why the wort pplied to strangers ca and partioalarty New York, Well, I can eay tho question answered itself, when I ar- rive here on my first visit to the United States. You've got to have a neck made of rubber or fimed on a swivel to be able to take every. thing in—for every yard there ie a freah item of interest—every yard a now type of face to be acen—every yard @ building that rises Digher than ever, competing with the sun, the moon and tho stars for ite place in the aky, a First Glimpse of New York. I shall always remember New York from the first glimprs [ had of it on board whip rather than by the days T have spent in tt, Now York seemed to lle at one's feet as I stood on the deck of tho huge vessol I had Journeyod tn Going up the river, as one approached nearer to the city, the lofty buildings loomed ike white ghosta from the surrounding bluey-gray mista, all around nature had put on her most beauteous garment — snow — white snow. ‘The trees feathered’ and fairied with white frost, the houses hooded and capped with white, the boats garianded and bedecked with teteles, formed a picture never to be forgotten. Then to me the glowing rising sun tings with rosente pink the surrounding country outlined against a vivid blue clear sky. I can only say I waa tn @ “alther” of excitement to @ee it all. IT had heard #o much about it, and then to nee tt—1t just surpassed my every possible Might uf the imagination, New York butldings have « gran- The creed of Daniels !s that the most important man in th fe the quarterdeck. A & bo sun’s mate holds high rank {n the Se “poye” always is bis chief concern Putting Dantels democracy into the snglass organization, was ¢ cized as olyane. But war developed a navy of bound! for gervice, of discipline keyed up to the top notch of ‘A cook jumps overboard {n a storm to rescue a man an tm orders from the Secretary. Suflore write home let Christmas dinners aboard or of the happy Ufe th stroyers in the midst of the un yedds of them with joy. Plugs Away Day and Night. | The sudden shift into popularity has not changed Daniels, He plugs away day and night, 4 Uttle more | uino able seaman, a first class gu | navy is Jack Tar, and the forecastle 1s as vital otury’s eyes, The welfare of his} vy, which had been c experiment dangerous dis | i ¥ r : c 3 | é \ wrong impressions, It amounts w pretty much the same thing, when enthustasm, of eagern ficteu y lead on was callous to criticism or holding] QMO “MISS -JOLIA’ WALKER IN HER: sate = _ ——— = = . | REO GWYNNE VANDERBILT AND OVerev HMOnNTINGlTON: WILSON.OF NEW-YORKKG | dour all of their own. Anybod: e his ground by clear grit | SKY BLUE-BATHING Suit. ONS ACERED ONCE LERT GEOnGE © WASHINGTON. fee SIL ot belts Sts Anse ety, tae BRIGHT Quicerwoopn ano UND FERWONe = ropean towns and New York haa | rot himself an imposatble task, for it is ike trying to compare the regions of the North Pole with those about the Bquator, Bach has its special beau- ties that allow of no contrast, The architecture of New York, I think, reveals the true temper of the American people. For tt te the easiest thing in the world, through casugl ances, by the people ous wees and mects tn the streets, to form unner or a good | acqual visit London and Judge it by what they see tn the Strand or when “a ( sit Paria to Judge the Fronch by the people met in the Champs mmended | ‘ : < » PRs § >, Elysees or round about Montmartre. es mi } Verhaps one of the things that has amused me the most out here has : beon the people who find New York dark, owing to the recent Fuel Ad ministration orders. Tt takes a great effort of imagination on my part to | realize how Hight it must have been before. The lights must have out- shone the sun—for the lights I see now are daylight compared to whet ; Wo have had in England for the past three years. In Engiand, of an eve- ning, everybody is equipped with a |smatt torch or an old-fashioned lan- torn to be able to get home, When of won tarried and worried than before. | Ho was a country newspaper editor | ‘and still remains one in manner and | habit. Gideon Welles, Lincoln's § retary of the Navy all through the ] ‘Sivil War, was a country editor from {Gonnecticut, and he, too, changed but | Te Maduring that ordeal. | (SS nvee oudhe Cabinet, Daniels ts the » MLUOMS!) P84 ooegs and most approach: | Of all Men his office ts closed for eaatest of tne telephone in his house edie. ringing. He talks in little, the MEY ntences, sometimes cryptle, | 1s @1¥ 47 og wtartlingly frank, with an ¥KYomite screwing up one side of Wo have oneyf our choice pea-soup fogs—by the by, we don't get eo | many as people think—there's some fun, I remember embracing a wal! under the fond delusion {t was my front door. And then food— The Dlank spenks for Itself. I'm scared to eat tt when I think of bow I did without tn | London and when I think of home anc how little they are getting. Out here I have the sort of feeling that Lord Hhondda ts still looking on, Well, | Just makes mo feel like a pig when | |eat a piece of butter and don’t bave |to worry about tt as to how long ft has got to Inst’ Why, when I left taco. | home we considered ourselves lucky if n these war days of vast expend! |wo got half a pound of margarine for / tures he fs pained by extravagance | tin) GAVE. Sikcone sd caine cat Menard and would like to save a few dollars had had no moat for practically a for Uncle Sam. You have to wateb Raekalent. apa wouver onto lace ct es running @ newepaper tn rder it and you get tt. My mother rolina. It is hard for him sp urs trying to get some still to sign a document appropriat: | avand WO, ba or etl s thre ing money, yet he mustered up cour hoary ithe) thar far: Hatter, ago yesterday to tell Congress that) eh shebe Te BEA gatas he had already spent nearly $2,000, i. arg festa Oe 000,000 and warned them to be pre-| del witha ; : pared for him asking for more, | thing Nat & sa But the navy lacks nothing for ser aay tha ee vice or for comfort. Somehow Dantels bo read, "A hon teeta b, and his heads of departments had | woh" iis RS aaee ee ‘. f ise w dy the day war began, | everything —_—>—— HE WAS HELPLESS. N Irishman in a town in the South was carcless enovgh to ) let his priest catch him em / ng from a’ saloon with a demijoha inder his arm. The priest w J nim’ and waid “Mike, what is it you have in that 4 emijohn 2” Ri “Whiskey, sir.”, | " “To whom does it > i “To me and 1 ae Dat “Well, Mike, pe ant And ad le a good man.” 1 can't father,” suid J the bottom.”—Ch jis r at i n of the peor uti buildings to nt ple carry- me ao atrive em atid 4 \