The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 8

MONDAY Tuscania Another “Maine,” Fans Again to Hot Flame America’s Fig — FEBRUARY 11, 1918 hting Spirit In All Qur Wars a Disaster to American Arms or Flag In variably Has Been Followed by a Rush of Recruits to the Colors, Eager to Avenge. By Albert Payson Terhune Goprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Not for montha have the recruiting stations been s0 crowded 4s since news of the Tuscanta disaster wae published, In many cities the reorufting officers have been swamped by overwork. Enlistmonts have more than doudled.—News item, HAT 1s America’s answer to the Kaiser's bogey of Frightfulness, T That has been Amorica’s eternal answer to every such disaster since our history began The torpedoing of a traasport, the wholesale drowning of helpless men, that sort of thing Was shrewdly calculated to show Germany's power and to make ricans hesitate foe, And it has had a patriotic crusade could have h If the Apostles of Frightfulness had taken the trouble to read American history and to profit by the reading, they woutd have found ft far cheaper to sink their own U boat than to let tt sink the Tus: cania Here are a few precedents by which they might have profited In our country's babyhood, the colonists were helping their Eng ish rulers t6 stem the tide French-end-Indian invasion, which threatened to sweep English: speaking races fre nit. The war was waged ha and at a steady our ancestors until @ force of the enemy treacherously ambushed and slaughtered Braddock’s expeditionary force in the forests near Pittsburgh. That murderous deed awoke the whole continent to @ flame of vengeful fury. Thousands of men left farm and shop and rushed to enroll themselves in the Colonial Army. Inside of a year or two the French-and-Indian menace was forever smashed—from Canada to Florida, from the Alleghenies to the sea. The land was cleared of the menace that once had been about to engulf it. About twenty years later the same Americans were peacefully | and hopelessly trying to obtain justice from the home-country. Most | g Am appler effect to enlist against so deadly a on enlistment than a billion-dollar of the heartedly losa bh of the colonists went at the reform In a spiritiess fashion or not at all ‘Then, a body of Redeoats fired on a crowd of unarmed Bostonians, tn fn an effort to scare the malcontents into submission. News of the Boston Massacre stirred the dull sparks of discontent into a raging blaze which never thereafter wae stamped out. When at last the Revolution began, barely half the country was behind it. Lord Howe and other British military leaders belleved one | heavy blow would crush the spirit of the patriots. at Bunker Hil! in June of 1 The {Il-armed Revolutionists made a gallant defense. But they were mowed down and forced to retreat before superior numbers and Letter artillery. The story of Bunker Hill sent a horde of men and boys into the patriot service. It turned the scales and made the Revoiution invincible. Howe himself declared “Two more such ‘victories’ as Bunker Hill will lose Amorica for us!” In the War of 1812 America was lukewarm. It was almost {mpos- sible to get men to enlist ew England even threatened to secede from the Union rather than fight. It was a Golden-Mush Age for pact- fists. And because of all thin apathy defeat stared us in the face Then the British Jooted and burned our capital city of Washington and heaped needless indignities on the stricken place. final humiliation upon the beaten Americans tury form of Frightfulness, That blow was struck This was done as a It was a nineteenth cen- It was also a deathblow to England's turned pacifists into tigers, It roused apathetic New England to death leas fury. It jammed every camp with recruits, Old men and bors, even women. clamored wildly to enlist and to wipe out the stain on our Nation's honor. In a few months the enemy had given up the struggle and we had fought our way to honorable y hopes of victory. For it A handful of American settlers resented Mexican oppression and sought to free Texas from Mexico's yoke. ‘The movement met with few supporters and {t seemed doomed to fall. Then the Mexicans hemmed in @ band of American men and women and children at the Al sion fort. ‘To teach the Yankeos a lesson in the folly of trying to op- | pose Mexico, the bestegers massacred practically every one tn the Alamo, inflicting hideous tortures on many of the victims, That was Mexico's {dea of Frightfulness amo mis. Every American in Mexico went mad with ra age at the atroctty, | Every American who could carry a wea | ‘on or walk @ inile enrolled in Sam Houston's tiny army of defense, A war to the death was vowed Presently the Mexican forces were sent reeling and shattered a: the border into thelr own country American Black Hawk, the Indlan chile the United States ( nmen For a time no power 1 ross Texas was free. And it was ralsed the standard of revolt against his ald every nearb to check him ove tribe seemed ab! Then his savages com mitted @ wholesale massacre whose horrors slckened the entire werd The quick result was that thousands of white men (young Abraham | Lincoln among them) enlisted tn the campaign to stem the tide at te dian victory. And Atly the once dreaded band of Black Hawt was annihilated . You remember, don’t the divided feeling here in America as | to our duty in declaring war on Spatn for Cubs’s freedom? ‘Ther ae ies here was er until, one February night {n 1898, our fr 0 Havana Harbor, There jas | Sapeny of that Spain was guflty of destroying the But | the Am: pople did not walt for pr Our ehip had is and n killed ina Spanish port. And a wave of ye 1 Paes us pel! to a victorious wa ‘ SROESS HUTS | Yes, In every crisis of our co orlous story, a national disas: ter (or an enemy's attempts at Frightfulness or at untalrness) aroused in us an all-deatroying wrath that has thronged the recrutthes @ffices and has invariably led us to Victory t For every man slain aboard the Tuscant any has arrayed | against herself many th Ww and fort enemies ms — - | Sound Waves Visible on Firing Line NTPRESTING data reganiing tho| flecked ky, Solentiate attribut ¢ n ate ] visibility of sound waves have re-| these phe ona to sound waves cently been published tn L'As- bara originate with the explosions and « Aaaall ab tronomte,” In from men at | And *Pread in ail directions Ike en- pie larming spheres, remulting tn suocea- the front, One wr # of seating pive and altomnie belte cf teeny curved lines of nating with |and compross: aye Popular dark bande f . Meohanicn cartain atmon- the sky wh nading | pheric condit the eun ta was in progress, A necond writer|the proper porition, portion of thaan @peaks of witnossing 4 series of aro spreading wavos become visible ot Usht traveling “T @ clouds! the form ot meri Arn ot . in| Daily siiratg A Real Novelty in New York azine RAND MO THEE (\ JAP DOLL (ACTUAL SIZE) CHINESE Dour (BEHEADED For, DisoveDIENcE ) isi \DEA ely INDIAN BABYY OF MAMA AFRICAN DOLL | CFATHE RIVERS) . Jazzakaboola Eskimo ee MADE FROM A PIPES WASHINGTON AMERICA & SPANISH N SPOOL INVEN TIO, NINE HUNDRED DOLLS OF ALL NATIONS AND OF ALL TIMES AT ODD EXHIBIT “ ae Le INDIAN DOLL CHIGH CASTE) Babies of the Whole World Have Played With Dolls + They Show That Kiddies of All Lands Havea Common Love By Will B. Johnstone. OLLS {fs the oldest game in the world. Cain must have had the first doll, for every child since hae loved one. When the Ptolemy Construction Company was erecting the Pyra mids on the Nile, history tells us that the children who were not being gobbled up by crocodiles were playing with dolls, The evidence, @ baked clay doll taken from an Egyptian tomb over four thousand years old, is in the British Museum. That every nation has had {ts dolls is proved by an interesting exhibition now being held at the Max Williams Galleries, Madison Avenue and 40th Street. This international doll collection {s the work of Mrs. Elizabeth’ R. Horton of Boston, Mass., and includes nine hundred baby dolls culled from all corners of the civilized globe, some N Named After the Snake That Swallows Itself, This © Particular Furnace Devours the Whole Bungalow, Which Reconciles Us to Senator Smoot’s Suggestion of One Fast Day a Month, to Be a Legal Holiday Wouldn't Be So Bad After All, for It Leaves Only 29 Illegal Fast Days Every Moon. ‘uptight View Publishing Co, (The New York Brening W wl I 1 peace conference ove Brest- ft oro minsing, Of course, that puts a ble dent in the set, but it t 1 bud record for a peace confer At the last fore the H when they held a po " tho silverware x dozen knives, spoons and forks we from t rollea w ©, we don't accuse anyt w t like to mention any 1 but tt 4 peculiar cireumstur t one of the Kaiser's sone 5 s) shortly afterward. While every n ni worried, every wor man isn't married, } a rule, they are, If you ogle ay king gent Nat-whee reet with enough wrinkle his ex pression to hold a week's rain, you ean bet the poor fi urriod, going to be married, or « escent, And you can't b With coal scarcer t w ows, with food higher thar girafte's whiskers, and t ereury always in the basement of the thermometer wellthia w iy certainly dealt us one off the bottom of the 4 The man w #8 house to heat ts for He e the Jazzakaboola s Jazzakaboola snake aticks its ta s mouth 4nd starts swallowing self, Hoe swallows and swallow just plumb swallows himself, in abont two minutes there ain't no Jazgaka- Doola snake, Ar n with a house to heat ti up all his coal, then he t © coal bin, the cellar steps, Kitchen table, the parlor furniture, the family toothbrush, the chiff, > attit steps, the front door, the ceilings, the floors and the f. album, In order to he e has to put the house tr ® furnace, Ho has one of those jazzakaboola furnaces that ewallows the house Hut after he hin worlen are ove vee Dooln bungaiow mone. the Hut the man w An to food a bungalow hina at inless he hag @ Jassukadooia family that oan eat the bungalow, But very fow BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER families can get any nutrition out t of cellar steps en casserole or a bird cage au gratin, A synthe beef atew made out of coat hooks and shoe trees makes poor chow, The ¢ estion looks like the answer to that old puzzle about why a mi ins, The reply was, the higher, the fewor, That explains tt, The higher that food gets, the less there is of it.) The higher, the fewer ts « Senator Smoot of Utuh t 49 the right angle on the food question by suggestir fasting a day cach mo. that we f¢ fay a mont He would make One legal tast day That wo the month © eatless da ach month Vt be so bad. only leave twer But 1 b UR khakt suits are good. “horizon blue,” the color wh: Oo the French use for their unt by washing (hem over with a mixture of ¢ — and blue, the borison blus. considerably, Furnaces and Fast Days We forms, is sald to be better at tinet | Agana artale oackaroueds tt 58/8 wearers appear, if not actua together invisible from a@ distance sorte: tantobas Ce acatt pees further away SHEE inet 1 since a man ts Hee PAHS BP Bs pe rather than by ei} Pulte) Rua Sah: RY Aing of his clothe a time of the year wh longer, Fasting a short ) day is all right, but a thing else again, The Senator certainly steps when he picke out these wholes A rt retall day in December wouldn't be so bad. tor person figures that the food saved on a non-eatable day wo! t the grub famine gal fust day each month. egal fast days for the rest of | Why France Uses “Horizon Blue” Uniforms| 4 makes it appear as if there were! etween the objects and our eyes, | At the objects themselves appear | uniforms of horizon blue tnake at Jeast con th ganized by than his cole s with the c horizon helps his “camoufage don't mind . but the Senator picks out from uncivilized corners and a few from Germany. ‘These dolls have been kissed and talked to in every language of the world What childish conf- have shared and what tears have stainedthelr faded frocks {t 1s easy to imagine. One large, frightful doll from Siam {is hideous enough to make any child cry. It is the most curlous to be found In the entire gallery. One cannot picture the Slamese twins crooning Siamese baby talk into the ear of this grotesque monster. It has everything except hoofs, horns and @ spiked tail. Maybe it was used to reconcile the twins to being born handcuffed together and happy in the thought that they would never be alone with the thing. Its flerce expression reminds you of @ com- muter suggesting to his dealer that he might relleve the coal shortage by washing bis drivers’ faces. No less a personage than the King of England 1s here, dolled up in full regimentals, He wears all his decorations, a medal score to which only John Philip Sousa {s runner-up. If you press the King on the spot where he formerly wore the double cross of Honorary Colonel in the Prussfan Guard, he talks—with a lot of English on his accent. They'll have to play “God Save the King” if the exhibition Plays Milwaukee, for some little Louis there will itch to take His Majesty and rock him to sleep, using a cobble if a rock isn't handy. Other doll nobility with royal sawdust coursing through thelr veins are on view. For instance, a high caste lady of India. Her brilliantly tinselled raiment proclaims her ability to etar in the role, even {f she didn’t have a typical Morosco cast in her right eye, due, probably, to the gold wire hoop that plerces her noble nose. This wire 1s strung with beads Iike @ billiard marker. Her disgusted look and the few beads she has racked on the wire suggest left-handed incom» petence. Descending to the opposite end of the social scale, we find a Rue flan doll, This represents a peasant or statesman type of the Doll sheviki class. On whiskers he appears to be a maximist, but as to clothes he {s a minimist a la Rip Van Winkle, His right arm, sew ered by some childish Hun, has been tied on at the doll hospital. He packs a gun on his back and a pal! in his good hand, standing with indecision between his two loves, gunnery and bunnery. The left foot {a advanced toward the pail, however, in the act of doing a Trotzky to the vodka works. Ambushed under his beard {s a medal of the third class of the old regime which entitles him to be arrested with a milf tary band. “Bar Njali" (Father of Rivers), an African doll, comes from the land of the Hottentot tots. You will note from the picture that his dress 1s of the same exqulelte form fitting material as that of the natives, being sunkist epidermis over cuticle, washable if customary, non-shrinkable, fashion changing every seven years, no bag at the knees, wrinkles easily massaged, hole-proof and self-mending. DOLL. THE BABY PLAYS With IN S1AM HE beautiful German dolls, mostly big Berthas from Austria Hungary (now spelled Hungry), recall our former estimate of a people kindly, home loving, fashioning dolls for children as subtle propaganda for passenger families, stimulating maternal in- stincts in tNe young and engendering the idea that a woman's place is behind the sink. § a people with many fine poilnts—like @ cactus, The dimpled hands that once Belgianized these dolls, strafing their unbreakable heads, are gone where Little Boy Blue went, only theirs 1s a shrill Prussian blue, Dolls in Japan antedated thelr old-time dynasties, evidently, from the anctent doll curios exhibited from that country. These ere ting bits of glazed pottery, stunted Ike the people. Everything in Japan seems to be stunted except the love of money. ie fact that the dolls survive to this day is a tribute to the loving carefulness of Japanese infants. These are the most valuable in the collection journeyed here from the Arctic attle of the 3 Monday attire fee! quite at home, in spite of New York's chilly reception. These friends of Doc Cook's have sent a request to impulsive Brooklyn—no flowers, please, A Chinese doll on exhibition bears the legend, “Beheaded for J1sobedience.” What deadly offense this dol! committed you may con+ ceive of on inspecting the remains, for some little Chink certainly made the punishment fit the ‘crim Children of the primitive cliff dweller seven kimo dolls who ha’ universe dressed in coal-] had dolls too, and high up the canyon walls in their walk-up apartments they nursed thelr cliff ables” just as our little dwellers do here to-day still attests as a doll relic Hi Indian tribes of tt at Southwest bestowed the best of thelr crud little clay figures, marvelously decorated and elaborately dressed, for their kiddies to cherish and entertaln with dolly dialogues. You find them from all the tribe Our fiercest American Indians, the only true unhyphenated Amer. leans who have successfully eluded our melting pot and the soup dish, encouraged this same human Instinct in their young. One of thetg funny dolls, contrived of buckskin with features ind{ ed by beadg, is a caricature of an old Slwash squaw. Its svlled condition ta eloquent of their Shywash propensities. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of interesting treasures American doll will take the grandmothers of this go art on fantastic ) one eration back to ya sid are, his the olor their happy childhood. This wax beauty has been opening and shut. ting her large brown eyes since 1854, and though her satin» basque {s out of fashion and her once rosy lips are kissed to obliteration, she scorntully her company with proud disdain human hair, which looks as if it had been grown eyes for her hair, real ace, faa on the crown of glory with its glossy colffure of ringlets The only doll missing is our old friend and comforter the ya baby. She {8 assassinated every suinmer at Coney * Island by baseball throwers and will goon be extinct, which 18 n9 way to treat an Old Bal, | Since the Days of Cain Quaintest Exhibition That New York Has Seen in a Long \ Time Made Up of Dolls From Every Age and Clime— Copyright, 1918, by the Press Pablisbing Co. (The New York Evening Worl®, ~~"