The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1918, Page 16

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918 Soldiers on Tuscania, True to Tradition, Sang Star Spangled Banner, a Ps How the American Soldier, Sailor and Civilian Have Died at, Sea~ Facing Their Doom With a Smile or Showing Their | National Grit by Chanting the National Anthem, | By Albert Payson Terhune. 4 right, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). HE soldiers of the Tuscania-—with “The Star Spangled Banner { I on their lips as the ebtp was sinking—only carried out true |. Yankee traditions. The grim old ghosts of Perry and Lawrence and @ thousand other American sea-fighters may well have uodded approval as the shouted National Anthem’s strains arose from the reeling deck of the transport and reached the sea-beroes’ Olympus. | For to die not only bravely but gaily has ever been the untaught sacred creed of the United States bluejacket, The Tuscania boys died true to form. Here are one or two tnatances of (hat same “form The 24-gun sloop-of-war Cumberiand—# fragile and old-fashioned wooden warship—challenge¢ the invincible fron monster Merrimac, whieh demanded death-tol! of every Yankee ehip in Hampton Roads one March day in 1862, Tt was the defiance of a willow wand to a bar of steel. ‘The Cumberland’s shots bounded as harmless as pebbles from the Confederate ironclad’s sides. The Merrimac’s solid shot ripped the Cumberland to matchwood and set her ablaze, ; But the Cumberland would not strike her golors. Sinking, blazing, she etill flew her flag. Her survivors stood at attention on the shat- tered deck. As she eank. a broadside roared forth from the guns which were atready awash. Her crew broke into a cheer. Then the riddled ship settled into water that was shallow enough ve her flag flying just boyond the reach of the waver, | The Chesapeake sailed out from Boston one summer morningearly | ‘m the War of 1812 to do battle to the larger British frigate Shannon. She was manned by raw recruits who did not know how to fight effec- | tively. But every mother's son of them knew how to dle, And they died, fighting, yelling, langhing. OUNG LAWRENCE, the Chesapeake’s commander, was one of the first to fall, mortally wounded. bis battling men: “DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!” That death cry of Lawrence's echoed around the world, putting new heart into thousands of other Americans and teaching them how to die. A sear later Lawrence's death words were blazoned on the banner of Perry's flagship Niagara {n the Battle of Lake Erie. The British fire was centred on the flagship, The gunners were mowed down at their batteries. As fa: gun servers fell, men sprang forward from the | Marine Corps, unbidden, to take the dead gunners’ places. And they kept up @ running fire of jokes at one another's awkwardness tn the | | unaccustomed jobs, Presently the Niagara sank in a swirl of flamo, enatch the “Don't Give Up the Ship with him, under a hall of shot victory! You remember, don't you, the glad shout of triumph from the Yankee battleship as her Spanish foes were battered into surrender— and her Captain's swift command of “Don't cheer, boys! Those poor fellows are dying Paul Jones—-first of American sea-heroes—was at death grips with arhip twice the size of hisown. His own frigate was burning and was riddled Mke a sieve. Iie best men lay dead and dying al! around him, Dressed as for a bal!, and jesting with his crew, he calmly fought on. Seeing the Americans’ desperate plight, his English foe asked if Li Jones had struck his colors, tol He lived long enough to shout to Perry had time to flag and carry {t In a rowboat | to his nearest uninjured ship—and to sire aaa TOSCANIA # got WHICh SANK WHILE Ammrrcans yee aenrey Cy PRR NUR ANS FERRES 1S MAG aes ns “Jone Bary. OF Jonk © WAKE ERE, WHO SAID “I HAVE NO*, Yer se. . Rear rs To FiGune | DOMiRAL WHO CRIED . af *“DONTSIvE YY 5 OP THe, sHie" ASE Lease ro UM BERLAN O CHALLENGED Ter ¥ MERRIMAC HER GON. WERE In ACTION 5 SHE. SAM: PROM A SHORT ATOR Y OF UME Cimecus s¢msners sous, o* “Struck?” echoed Jones. “I have not yet begun to fight!" And a roar of laughter from the stricken American crew followed his words—a guffaw that presently swelled to a cheer. HE Titanle was sinking There wae room for pi sin the overladen boats. Then it was that Americans—safl and clvilfans alike—took up the shout of: “Women and children first!” They knew how to die, these warriors of a peaceful age. knew how to die. A mission ship far out in the Pacific a few years ago struck a reef, The sea was too rough for the launching of boats. — Americans who were on the w fully few passen- Yes, they The women aboard y to the mission fleld—gathered at the c Fish Scales, Targets and Dunkers Those Who Don’t Know Whai the Latter Are May Go to Washington Square and Kind Out—As to Targets, it 1s Easier to Hit a Garage Than a String of Spaghetti—And Every “Pooy Fish” Ought to Be Able to Tell How Old | He Is by Counting His Scales. | By ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER | Pal New York Evening World) covery would bo a great trt tf \t were applicable to human fish. rail and met death singing, “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me : owes tougher it is to hit, It is And if you could apprehend the age of an egg by counting its scales tt Another band of non-combatants, more recently, went to thelr GecdeelGh Gauls acuuitiatens se than St Is to hit a ° would be a territt w to the ¢ t industry | death from a submarine’s blow aboard the Lusitania, And the same " ferely, \itustrating. that In apite of the fact that an Folks who we mning to over the proposed U-boat cam~ | bravery—even gayety—dominated ther, adult sized war is : pubs lahod over on the wrong | palgn of the » families tha perturbed over the increased | “Death is the Beautiful Adventure!” were the last words of ono | janti We accor’ of war dont niki avers ms * A of bis 1 wealthy bre who view the alarming spread PANEDEST | » gO on living thetr small, narrow Ives regard! of the fact { epia BOE BOS will ail) ve:rolieved to learn The Tuscanta'’s men had splerdid precedent for the brirht courage Uhe Clown Prince is ambitious to get a souse on in Pari habyou cas tell th hae Ol 8.8 SOURH Ay Ate Beat that sent them to their fate singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” ‘Although: ther know: t at the Bolshevikd are massacring euch Long may wi Americans at sea know how to die And they can meet fate, not stujenlly, but with a song on thelr lps other's w ers by the bale, the dunkers of Washington Sau: ey, - teil go on dunking. 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Ilis » increa they were smailer n-|f u , 1 Weetrocult a science of keleton underwent imp: 5 eth a lan w y ‘i Vnig y 45 ure, Husband of One | Most-Married Persons Copyright, 1918, by the Press Ir FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918 — fe, Wife of One Husband; Three Years in Movies a in the Movies Are Being Divorced (From the Movies), but O/F Stage They Are as Much Married as Ever and Glad of It. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Mikhing Co, (The Now York Lyening Worlé. HE most married perscns in the movies are being divorced—from the movies. . For three years Mr. and Mrs, Sidney Drew Lave boen appear- ing an the screen cach week in a new conjugal comedy, Always Mrs, Drew has been Mrs Wife, in- variably Mr. Drew has been Mr. Husband. One of the supposed alleviations of life on the stage or with the films is that, once a season or oftener, the actor ecquires a new wife, the actress tries out a new husband—for rehearsals and quring the run of the production Mr. and Mrs. Drew, however, have been married to each othe, as inveterately before the camera as before thelr own fireside, So when I heard that at last they were leaving photoplays for a legitimate play I hurried to the Pennsylvania Statior—the Drews were leaving New York yesterday too —in order to find out if thvee years of movie matrimony had been a failure or a suce From the Drew point of view, which 1s what matters, the success of the experiment is complete. * “We are just as much married, just as happily married, as we ever were,” pink-cheeked, blue-cved, happy-looking Mrs. Drew assured me. “Indeed, T consider that «ur third and Inst year of movie married life has been the pinnacle of our success, artist! y and in the favor of the public.” owe ts ft like 1 asked “For it's just being Mr. Sawn ‘ to be married in the movies for three years?” and Mrs, Sidney Drew all the time, and why shouid we oc anything else?” frankly queried Mrs. Drew “I think {t would be absurd for me to play a poor working girl or an adventuress, or for Mr. Drow to appear as a rich banker or a rah-rab boy. “As you know perhipe, we have boen seen In a new comedy of married life every and T have written the comedies. What we have tried to do is to take the back off the watch and show its per- fcetly normal but interesting and really marvellous workings. Iv other wee, and Mrs. Sidney Drew. words, we have tried to let peopte sec American home home, Mr, Henry Robinson's how We have felt that we we not merely laughed hut nudg ‘There—ten't that just like uv that last week? ‘Isn't Henry LT Neg what seem to American home She smiled broadly. “OF course one undoubted fact In the American home {s that the wife always knows what her husband is doing” she said. “it is Just as true, on the other hand, that he will not do ansthing really bad, He makes mistakes and blunders, often immensely funny ones, hut he does not commit crimes, He fs a pretty good husband, take him all around, and his wife cannot be cross with him very often or very long Hvery little situation, or angle, as 1 call it in my plays, ends happily. “A policeman spoke to my husband once, when I was with him, and ed him how he got away with things In the movies ip In Harlem,’ said the po How do you do it? I ean't “And I al sred like a flash, Drew, with a reminiscent twinkle. OS aes though, we do not quarrel, almost no quarre he nice, funny your Lome, Mr happy, average not our hone alone, but John Jones's cessful when audiences under the breath, Do you remember how you acted like the Image of puesband!'"* ach other and said some of the salfent ch cterletics of the f asked Mrs, Drew. ‘I've seen you et away with It, . ‘and you always do {t at home nu bet he doesn’t!*** admitted Mra d that's why I have Of course Mr, Drew doesn’t do everything in real life which he does on the screen, let him do anything on the screen which real life in my pictures but T wouldn't would be beneath him in “For instance, he never chases after a lot of women in our do- mostic comedios because he wouldn't do such a thing off stage “Marriage, in this country, is not often a frawe dy, vor even a melodrama. It is a happy, sentimental comedy. “TE ON'T you find it good fun to work with Mrs. Drew is one of every day with her own busband “It is delightful to w your husband " T asked the two women 1 who lunches know ork with a husband, particularly since I have such @ good-tempered, generous one,” she answered, “Our compan fonship {8 so close, and J can save Mr. Drewaa lot of details which would only annoy him, You know, the truth {s that my husband néyer bores me It was five minutes before the departure of the Plorida train “Mr, Drew, how do you like movie matrimony?” T avked the dis tingw 1 actor, who had been checking while his wife was b: “Being married in he Drew dog Palm Beach nterviewed he movies is all right as long as 1 am married to Mrs, Drew," he replied. We had reached the train gate, and he had to restrain the Drew dog from going over the top toward an enemy dog, But as he, Mrs. Drew the peared own the staire tea his la nce, VE ol in the movies tsn't pearly 4