The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 16

itm: ia a eee ' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918 American Artists’ War Bit Putting the Big Punch Into Enlistment Posters Char! Montgomery Flagg and Others of the Country's Com- pany of Most Popular Illustrators Representcd in the Big Exhibit at the Ansonia. By Will B. Johnstone. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. N exhibition of American war posters by such popular {llustrators as Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg and others, now being held, free of charge, at the Ansonta Hotel, Ved Street and Broadway, is not only a great study in practical and Bpiritual appeal to .né patriotic imagination, but a great etudy in the Pfect of the war—our war now—upon our artiste and their work Formerly the output of these talented designers represented such Bouldnspiring subjects as a pretty girl's head looking west. And {f her dol) stare was lifted toward a sprig of mistletoe it was intended to Mean “Christmas.” If the same pretty girl looked sou'@ou'east and held a wishbone, that meant “Thanksgiving.” But now no more. Rupert Prooke, the brilliant young English poet who went forth to battle and die for England at twenty-eight, wrote how war “wakens us from sleeping, with hand made sure, clear eye and sharpened power,” which truth is the dominant note of this {nteresting collection These American artista who have enlisted their services In behalf of Uncle Sam didn’t have to be called to their colors. They volunteered &t once for the duration of the war, and Frank Vanderlip’s dollar-a-year salary is a princely Income compared to their remuneration, which ts adsolutely nothing. BORGE CREEL realized we are @ poster Nation and can’t belleve anything unless we eee {t on a fence, so when the artists organ- feed, with headquarters at 200 Fifth Avenue, he appointed Charles Dana Gibson Chairman of the Committee of Public Information, with Frank D. Casey as Vice Chairman, to reach the public through their favorite pastime—sign reading. Chairman Gibson, 100 per cent. American as be {fs artist, and Mr. Casey, foremost art editor {n the country, together with the ablest painters we have, became inspired by their country’s need and to date have turned out nearly 200 posters and cartoons for the various departments of the Government, many of which are eo In- elibly imprinted on our minds by now that the memory of them will survive long after they've hung von Hindenburg to a sour linden tree. About 100 of these posters are on view; come you have seen before, but many that have not been released as yet. The new ones by Adolph Treidler, Herbert Paus, C. B, Falls, Henry Raleigh, Wallace Morgan, Frank Spear, Henry Reuterdah|, Ilion and many others, including the ‘well known Academician, Kenyon Cox, N. A., who represents the most dignified ideals of classic art in America, are a vigorous, stirring, im- DPressive expression of our crystallized {deal, “Freedom for All For- and pictured sermons on the duties and sacrifices necessary in order that we may realize that ideal. Too high praise cannot be showered on these zealous minute men of the brush who are acting as the barkers for Liberty. And minute men is right. Mr. Casey related yesterday a record-breaking effort In connection with the famous Liberty Loan poster by Adolph Treidler. “We got the call for this poster in a hurry on a Saturday at 2.90 P, M.," said Mr. Casey, “and Treidier, dropping e on it. The following Tuesday there were ready for distribution by the Government.” Incidentally, this poster was an inspiration in simplicity, with majestic Liberty in gilt against an electric blue background, and carried a “punch” which you still recall each week as you pile up your Liberty Loan receipts at the cashier's window, Mr. Treidler’s newest poster on “Farming” in this exhibition {8 a beauty and is going to result in Mother Earth having r back scratched by many a plough this spring. hing else, went to work 000 prints finished and ERBERT PAUS, whose War Savings Stamp creation we see every- where, the cute baby sheltered by Liberty's mighty hand, the one that teases the quarters out of your pockets and has all our children Pleading the cause, is represented at the Anson!a by some more striking works, One cf C. B. Falls’s new gems, “Books Wanted for Men in Campa Over There,” {8 going to put the second-hand book stores out of busl- ness. We hope that none of our interned citizens sends in his cast off copy of “Ten Ways to Avoid the Draft, for 10 Cents.” ‘This would be as welcome as a Canadian dime. The catalogued name of Ilion has three artistic posters to {ts credit—one o strong head of Cardinal Mercier painted over a cal) tor food; another, “L'Italia,” a head of Gen, Cadorna over & call for soldiers, in Itallan, and the last a head of Kosciusko, the Polish patriot of our Revolutionary days, over some Polish that looks lks the call of the wild Crawford Young has a humorous stad at the unpatriotic trencher- man who keeps on chewing food even after he ts too full to swallow {t Wallace Morgan, Henry Raleigh and Abert Sterner have turned out forceful drawings that rivet the attention with thelr masses of black and hary smoke effects done in crayon, or what is known as the F burgh technique. ENYON COX shows a symbolle figure of Liberty, beautifully drawn and composed, with drawn sword aloft in one hand and in the other hand a lettered scro!l that presses home her justification, “Woe ean do no otherwise.” Frank Spear also appeals to our spir fect of tragic grimness that grips the {1 burr, It shows a mother with her babe through a cold, green both watery grave. In w war filled w eo deeply as the thought of th tual side in choosing a + agination and elngs ab Uke a east sinking in the agonizing death of a lusped to her by deep locke! horrors nothing moves 18 ruth s slaughter of these tnnocent tender, defenseiess victims at sea. Spear brings back the spirits of these dead to haunt us and rekindle the righteous wrath that will put & wholesome sting in the blow pur crusaders. ‘Th 41 pleture needs but the single word {t carries—"Enitst.” Mr. Gibson, creator of the Gibson Gi done that suggest a man deadly in earnest. He makes 3 earlier work that brought him fame as a portray ness now seems trivial in this hour of heights. which ts true of all these artist are inspired, as Mr. Gibson Wilson, to whom he pays the following tribute artist In the country, because he is an idealist. He ts the great Moses of America. He ts leading into the Land of Promise. His words are tneptration enough to make any artist wake up @ continent Each successive poster has (improved in vigor as the war bas drawn nearer to our hearts, and these men need only the occasion of our ap. proaching sacrifice to immortalize tt with the grandeur and strength the French artists display in such masterpieces as “They Shall Not Pa: ba some fine things hat alt mu fee his of Amertean lovell He in their war pt stress has risen to new They Woodrow alism “He ts @ greatest us through dangers Wooden Shoes in Paris. MONG the current Pari modes in footwear are womlor sabdots of trim, rather surprise fag kines, says Popular Mechanica Althou fon, their purpose fundamentally to conserve leather, the boys in the trench Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, James| (The New York Evening World). sarily an extreme fash- is much needed by | | | | | | | ray \ ay \ The U.S. Boy Working Rererve Yeuny, “Men 16 40 2t The Army behind the Army A PRACTICAL POSTER BY ADOLPH TREIDLER. 4 ie If ont waste while ‘your wile saves ~~ Adopt the doctrine ~ ‘the clean plate. ——do your share ABOVE, — INITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION KEN CARTOON POSTER CRAWFORD YQUNG BY AWARE IVIL FRA IN COX NAY Any Fish To-Day? Nope? Giddap! Raise Your Own and Avoid High Cost of Dodging Mausoleums; Easy if You Catch ’Em Young and Don’t Let ’Em Get Dusty, for a Dry Fish Gets Irritable—Raising Shad Instead of Hens Advised, for the Shad Lays the Most Eggs and Makes Less Noise About It, and Nobody Ever Will Invent a Collar Button That Won’t Roll Under the Chiffonier. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER 1918, by the Preat Publishing Co, of problem has (The New York Evening World) though awful pi the learned Bullshevik lot this itself things bent winter oven up into that 1 the ¢ un of spaghettl, we body will ever ffonier, And cadenza off the southern at least are certain button that "t roll Velo Pasha doeg the of hemp or whether he checks out via the guillotine route, invent a co! matter whether end of a ple: we under no ozone there Is one thing of which we are reasonably sure, And that is that nobody will ever manufacture a shoo lace that won't lose its tip just when you are getting all flutter to the opera And although the world {y as full of sorrow and anguish as a trick yuntain pen ts of blots; even though La Foolette evolved into a f mouset foot of f pe n fect pi » bait; even though tt takes a ya kels to get a nd att Automat, there is some sureease in thin corruguted old existenge to know that spring fashions in ladies will be limited to fourteen buttons in height and four bunions in Also that parce Kages when mated tn the firat or second yones for delivery st, second or third zones may be as heavy as seventy pounds, Thix is very cheering, espe y when you rea that seventy pounds js equivalent to about twenty bottles of that ra old Kentuc rand tt nake @ tadpole drop his knitting ant chase a whale right yeeun, And even th it still tanes two tive uk: en, we tt to register so much chagrin now that th n wh, head janitor of the Aqua as figured out a way to unravel & above the te grou Doe Townsend, who {# one ers at the d told the ng out of mausoleums. Aquarium, turned tents how t Columbi » of kee State's evi niversity a untangle the high pr Doc tells us that the only way to cheat the tall cost of dodging silver handles and other crematory paraphernalia is to aim veal, beef, mutton, chicken and turkey for the exit and to live on fish, Doc doesn't advise us to buy An adult fish costs nd a is to get ‘em young and train ‘em, If every Yorker had @ fish ranch in his apartment the high cost of living Ket #0 low that we would get round sho lanting halibut in the having our breakfast the fish, however. too m would By sure ¢ ered looking for it, parlor jan bushe nieres we can be ith a whale around in the Dutch reception hall we can hand the butener the same kind of a reception in the umbrella rack, ght on the premis v loitering With a herd of docile sardines browsing upper is right In easy paging distance. And for dessert we can take the fake bottom out of the Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica and have cavies dm @ minute, | \ | And consider the shad not only cackles every t never get any flounder could be pl There but we advan lays more 58, Dp. cal. the old man was going to ma a million ways in which a fish bet that no prodigal son wou sacre a fatted po e it lays an egg, and if a shad dl Besides furnishing ayed on the graphophono if we like us wit ld ever returr age of keeping shad instead of hens. but jt doesn't chortle A about it, A hen that we would h eats, a nice fat uld be me our fish musi- made useful, if he thought | | | | fire and then to cook one's meals, | | | | Fish will siap the high cost of living right on the double chin. They ra so long as the n't get dusty re's nothing te and irritable than a dry fish, Write to your Con ssman now ask him to frank you a collection of seeds, Line forms on the le New York's ‘Star Wiccan the U, 5. Flag. 1 the mans, the flag flying | in France may seem quite the same as the one the Spanish faced years ago, but there is a dif |ference—there are now forty-eight tars, three more than fluttered tr jtriumph at Santiago, The three new Jones are for Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, They are not added ut random, but at end of the bottom rovv By Government regulation the star of each State Is given a fixed posi- New York's Is eleventh War of the Revolution the flag had thirteen stars, elghteen dur- iny the War of 1812, twenty-nine in the Mexican conflict and thirty-five at the time of the Civil War, T original flag was adorned with thir teen stripes; these were Increased to fifteen in 1795, twenty-three years later, by Act of Congress, the former number was restored. The list below shows the order in which the stars are placed; tlon. In the but ir st row--No, i Delawa 2 : g w Jersey; 4, Georgia % tiedt; 6, Massa- chusetts: 7, Maryland; 8 South Car- Second row—No. 9 New Hamp- re; 10, Vil nia; 11, New York; North ( ; 18, Rhode Island; Vermont; 15, Kentucky; 16, Ten-|} see rd row—No. 17, Ohio; 18, Lou- isiana; 19, Indl 20, Mississ!ppi; 21, Llltnois; 22, Alabama; 23, Maine: 24, Missourl, Fourth row- Arkansas; 26, Michigan; 27, Flordia; 28, @exas; 29, h on: lowa; 80, Wisconsin: 31, California; 32, Minnesota Fifth row- 83, Oregon; Kansas; 35, West Virginia; 36, Ne da; 87, Nebraska; 38, Colorado; North Dakota; 40, South Dakota, Sixth row—No. 41, Montana; 43, Washington; 43, Idaho; 44, Wyo- ming; 45, Utah; 46, Oklahoma; 47, Dew Mexico; 48, Arizona THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918 Titled Lady, Judy O’Grady, Sisters in Real Hard Work | To Help England Win War Scrubbing Floors, Making Munitions, Nursing, Farming, Directing or Being Directed, Asking No “‘Who’s Who?” but Only Obeying Orders—The ‘“‘Women’s Land Army” Teaches American “Farmerettes.” By Bertha Bennet Burleigh. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). ‘ Ww": are you women in England doing about your careers?” an American woman asked me the other day. The ques tion somewhat staggered me, for in England just now the war 1s the first and last consideration. “We've got no careers,” I said. “The only thing we think about {is = ~] ‘helping our men for all we are worth. Helpmates and comrades {s what we alm to be in this war.” “But what do you do, then?” she queried. “Oh,” I sald, “work, either in factories, at mu- nitions or help in hospitals or out on the land—tn fact, do anything, from scrubbing floors and bottle washing to directing and organizing welfare work.” “Surely you leave those things to the lower classes to do?” There {s one thing, I told her, and that is, this war had done away with class distinction in Eng- land, and you'll find a Duchess working beside » regular charwoman. We do not worry as to who should do it—we do it, and then we are certain that {tis done. “Carry on” is the motto of the British woman—carry on till the mep come back She did not seem able to @rasp the idea, what a stupendous amount of work the women of England were doing, and, talking with her, I felt perhaps there were many others who would like to know what was happening tn England and that the following facts might interest and help. T° take one specific case {n point, there {s the Women's Land Army. “If It were not for the women, agriculture would be at an absolute standstill on many farms in England and Wales to-day,” was the tribute paid by the President of the Board of Agriculture, and we can never be thankful enough to those gently nurtured women who went out and worked on the land During the recent Lord Mayor's Show in London a just and spon taneous recognition was given to these women of the land as they passed through the city in thelr neat unfforms and their carts and {m- plements. The soldiers cheered them, the sailors cheered them, and the cheers rolled and were passed on by the tens and tens of thousands ning the streets on elther side ag they went through. Attired ip khaki or drill suits, with top boots and slouch hats, they formed an attractive picture as they marched in rank formation, leading their farm horees gaily bedecked with ribbons, found ‘nat short skirts and b; Ty experience, they have ches, or trousered garments witb leg- gings, were the most useful and serviceable. HBESE girls come from every class in society, from the highest to the from the girls who in former days spent their hburs in enjoying themselves, from the girls and women that handed out rib All heard lize that every effort tarve us by sea, and that at every opportunity the 11 sink our ships and so prevent food getting across the lowest n by the yard, to the servants working in homes urgent call, for the women of England re will be G na waters, the de to Their bit 1s hard work, above everything; for it {s no mere song to have to get up regularly, day after day, before sunrise and prac- tically work till su t in all kinds of weather. For in England the weather we have is inclined to be cold and damp and very variable, sunshine one moment, wind and rain the next. We have fine spells sometimes, but since the war the weather has been, as aptly called by the French, “boche.” Each girl before she takes up a position has usually a six-weeks’ training, which enables her to get a good idea of the Jobs she will have to do and an insight into the work. This short | training enables her to get Into the necessary physical training, exer- cising gradually those muscles that will be brought frequently into play. The work consists of getting up at 6 A. M. and milking the cows— all right in the summer time, but quite a different proposition in the bleak winter, It means also a certain amount of isolation and lonell- ness as well as personal discomfort, for there 1s nothing cheery to com- ing home at the end of a day's work In bad weather and start lighting a Yet in spite of all the unattractive. ness of the social conditions and the hardness of the work, many of the women declare they will never go back to work indoors again, yt the introduction of modern farm machinery many are able to do the heavier work on the farms, such as ploughing, and row in England the Ford tractor 1s finding popularity, In all of dairy work the woman has proved herself eminently suitable, | and for her it 1s the best branch of the work. The woman on the | farm can practically do anything within reason—cleaning out pig sties, muck out the cattle sheds, look after the poultry, feed and rear the ing stock, spread manure, set and gather potatoes, attend to the turnip flelds, help in the harvest work, pick the fruit; while many with practice and time can manage the horses and the farm machinery, These women, so to speak, fresh to the work, under capable direc- tlon can do a vast amount of work, and after the first year many are to guides, But first they must become well inded {n the lore of agriculture. They must learn the hour and the season; when and when not to plant potatoes, turnips or wheat; that tpone a task which should have been done in the month of March to the month of June; that in Nature, above all thing and a time for all things. able work without you cannot po there is a place In the beginning of the war the initial obstacle to the employ- ment of women on the land was the obstinacy and prejudice of the average farmer against women labor, They mistrusted the, ability of the women to work; they could not understand that a well-educated girl was willing to put her heart and soul into the Job. It was the steady attitude and application to their work, their cheeriness abo’ all things, that broke {t down and paved the way for others to take up this patriotic work, Their pay averages 18s, a week—roughly $4~ and they work ten to twelve hours a day Fach person enlisting in the Land Army receives this advice from the British Government: Never forget that you are doing National Service, and set yourself a very high standard of work, Never be satisfied with second best, Do not be discontented {f you are found fault with or put to work that you do not like, Think of the men in the trenches and on the sea, and of what they have to do. They do not disobey their officers or shirk +heir duty. Your employer {is your officer and you must obey bim, And you, unlike your brothers, can always appeal against anything that seems hard or unfair, You have been given exceptional opportunities of making a career for yourself and at the same time doing your duty by the country which has reared and protected you. Make the most of your chance and be worthy of the trust that has been placed in you, | | | |