The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1918, Page 20

WX = \ FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918 ww New War Job Makes Baruch,| |i (O\) ' | Biggest Wall Street Bear, — | FRIDAY, MARCH 6&8, 1918 “Punch Behind the Line,” American Football ‘Tactics, = S Now Biggest U. S. Booster. New Head of Reorganized War Industries Board, Unknown in Washington in 1915, Had Eager Desire to Serve, So Forsook the Ticker to Help Draft Big Business Into Line; His Present Post the Natural Development. “Close-Ups’’ of Bernard M. Baruch. INTIMATE PICTURES OF HIS SMILE AND HIS HOBBY, HIS PAST AND HIS PASTIME, SKETCHED BY HARMONY. | Will Win War for Allies New Mobile Reserve System Adopted in Trenches a Winning Stroke, Believes Capt. H. C. Mathias, Young American Home With Wounds and War Medals as Battle Souvenirs. By Alex Sullivan y WV illi Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). By Samuel M. illiams ‘6c HB Allies are sure to win the war because they have the punch 1918, by Meh! " v } vt g y erbert C, Mathias, the twenty- Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Pvening World). behind the lino,” said Capt. Herbert C 6 HO 1s Baruch?” asked Representative Knutson of Minnesota two-year-old boy from Ilion, N. Y., who enlisted as a private in Congress only nine months ago, and Representative J, Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania made the sneering reply that he wae a Wall Street speculator who figured in the “leak” Investi- gation. This same Baruch—Bernard M. Baruch {9 his full name—pdelittied and criticised by politicians because he came from Wall Street, tn to- day Chairman of the reorganized War Industries Board and one of tho most powerful officials {n Washington. Hig appointment this week by President Wilson fixes a new policy on the Government, one in which the United States ts slowly following the tead of Great Britain. Business mon instead of politictans are bo ing put tn bigh offices for war service. We have utilized the brains and abilities of Big Business {n the past only in an advisory capacity in the Counc!) of National Defense. Now, with the appointment of Baruch and the previous selection of Hdward R. Stettinius as Surveyor General in the War Department, they are drafted {nto active service and clothed with broad executive powers. From mere staff duty, business takes command in the fleld. Very early in the morning or very late at night you can see strid- {ng through the streets of Washington a tall, lanky figure, taking steps of unusual length and going at a gait to make yo run. Men ‘hall bim at every turn, try to Intercept him, and bestege his office door, That 9 Baruch. He ts the all-powerful head of Government purchases. A little over @ year ago nobody in Wasljngton knew him and few persons outside of Wall Street had heard of him. His first public ap- pearance was as @ witness before the Congresstonal “leak” investiga- tion, in the role of a defendant, accused by innuendo and Tom Lawson of having profited in stock speculation through advance information about the President's peace message of December, 1916. Ho was d speculator then, for he so described himself, and he did tN SOUTH CAROLINA in the Second Field Company, Canadian Engincers, five days after Dng land entered the war. It was on Aug. 10, 1914, that this lad joined the army, and altogether ho spent twenty-six months in the trenches. He has lost two brothers, Phil, twenty-nine years old, and Stanley, seven- teen years, the latter having beon killed at the Dardanelles. Another brother, Willfe, has lost an arm. The fact that all four brothers, and all American born, should have enlisted years before this country entered the fight, and that all four should now be forced out of it, two of them from all worldly battles, ie remarkable. Capt. Mathias {s still suffering from wounds and gas, “Athletic knowledge 1s of the greatest valuo of anything to the boys in the trenches, I am glad to seo that the military, authorities havo recognized the importance of boxing and that {t is now being taught to all the men before they are sent abroad. Football, running, wrestling -* in fact, all of our strenuous American sports—aro often the means of caving the lives of men. “They have inaugurated a eystem in the trenches now that can't help but win for the Allies, In all the support trenches the pick of the troops of England, Canada, France and the United § Ss, always io readiness to rush to the rellef of the men in tho front line trenches who are attacked. This is the punch behind the line that I referred to. “The sending of reserves to the relief of any section © line that needs {t is a la our college football system, In football, you know. whenever a player {s winded or tnjured, they replace him with a fresh player, who has been sitting on the sido lines, aching fora chance to 7 prove his mettle, That {s the same way with the reserve troops—they are a)! anxious to get Into action. “IT want to urge all Americans to be optimistic. Tho Allies can't lose. And ey sho t of the boys at the front, but | ——— because of the lack of pi port from those at ho win, We are sure to ld lose, it won't be the tler Camp, Quebec, a few weeke when we were sent to Salsbury per wup- @. Don't listen to ganda Plains, where we finisbed our make money {n the market. He showed his books, revealing a profit | You seo what ft did Tussia. Be under most trying con- | of $476,168 in eleven days, but It was made out of ekt!l and daring and oheerful all the tithe. You can ditions. Wo built our camp, work- wonderful judgment in reading tho elgns of the times; not with the ald | abit fight better when ing knee-deep tn mud. of secret information or underground leaks. chee All that fs a bygone phase in the remarkable career of Daruch ‘The transformation of the man’s activities 1s no less amazing than the development of his abilities in new paths. Wall Street knows him no more. Tho stock ticker which he used to watch hour by hour ts bantsbed from his life. The chair he occuples at the head of the War Industries Board {s Infinitely more to his king than the sent on the Now York Stock Exchange which ho gave up when he entered Gov- “Wo had only been at Salsbury | have just as Plains for about four monthy when as those ermans thetr i "We received a wonderful wol- come when we first stepped on ~ ernment service. French soil. T dus Most men on the Stock Exchange either go broke or go on in the saree pocord- | to the fact tt were gamo of duying and selling until they retire or die. A few of them Gear gnis <3 hoe ‘ fal Bap sta many Trench Canadians in our use the extraordinary expertence to develop talents for igher and | iy Pius ay eclalon nat Le jes _We were three days oross broader activities when they break away from the market, Lord Read- | drive the Germans back any more | Sutacneree ou army Of 48.00 ing, British Ambassador to Washington, was a London stock broker ete Iines, naturally, eu being rled in younger days, tut left {t for the law and statesmanshtp. The knowl- mean that they ee edge of finance end trading gained on ‘change was of great help to men “What war was like was frat # tim tn both law and government, than | Dfousbt home to us at Hazel BD. H. Harriman was one of the keenest brokers on the New York Stock Exchange in his younger days, but ‘he graduated into the rallway kingdom with amazing knowlodgo of {ts intricacies, so that he riv: d Broukg Belgium, where we saw ans have been bat- and they haven't the same even James J. Hill, who had devoted all his Itfe to practical ratlroading, = : Fir vane fapaagay a mite ene : Bernard Baruch sapped information out of stock trading. His = a ~ pean lenthalad thanttomiette od any number of Geman first great coup in the Council of National Dofense {n the early days | ° ward thelr own country, but they | 2orees: with both hands cut off of our entrance into war was based on knowledge gained on the Stock \ etters 0 oor 1K 69 ar Yr . won't move. They remind me of | bis payment for aiding the Teu Exchange. Ho brought about an agreement with copper producers, e the ttle Jewish boy, who was tons, His daughter now sells fixing a price of 16% conts a pound for copper to the Government, when | ‘ fighting in the street. He was Coftoo there to help her dad cxist | the commercial markets were souring at double that figure. given a eovero beating, but he ens Base) ct he, fret Canada | Away back in 1901 Baruch began to study vopper, preliminary to In Which Jazzbo Dingleberry Is Admonished to Abandon the Evil Ways of the wouldn’s budge an tach, His fathe | o.{lee Dae made at Prandell j Bile frat great boar. raid. on the stock of the Amalgamated Copper Com- Unconscientious Objector, for the Lion and the Lamb Will Never Lie Down SENOS TOR MAIR Whe ARUN | cates) eur baptiam ef tte (ah | pany. It was selling then at $180 a share. Ie went gunning for tt in es is ; a a3 ; A‘ Pee uo | Neuve Chapelto, } ara ih ( avenavenuaiiy ta Sila ahare with anomunne prefis tp Together Except in Utopia, and Then the Lamb Will Be Inside the Lion. : ae why Sen! you step bac! i aera te eendscd ‘ when {t came about that tho Government wa , q ;. ve 7 : Reap sy eb is Wi eam | ip vehapagpedt yous | himself. So wh overnment wanted a price BY ARTHUR (*BUGS”) BAER | ‘I've got my foot on a dime.’ a, the first place tt wa. } on copper for war purposes, Baruch did {t, because he know the dust | “That 4 o way with the Ge: by the Germ | Copyright, 1918, b Publisht (Th w York Evening World). | yes with thy heels close together and thy feet turned out ie fay with the Ger- ermans. The | ness. Brother Jo. apleberru: Doublectess ‘Laas Marah Aes. e | mans. They have their feet on | some of us saved our- / | Harriman went out and studied the Unton Pacific Ratlroad tn tts | RGMs SAXAGGs ‘teka ath dntmmindind Echo ot eames ain AT Forty Five. dagrens | Valuable land and they hate to | Selves was by tearing off the tati: @ull days, until"he knew every rail and every tle. He began buying | F ia aoe @ Ri i a sf Filaasrinig not, friend Jazzbo, that those forty-five degrees givo any of it up of our shirte, wetting A ’ | the stock at $25 a share, and saw It go above $200 a ehare. | a p Phin Samer that: reoeleed thy en ing the meaneth not ahelt, “It 19 my opinion that the Al) | Placing them at our nos | Tho transformation of Baruch,*diggest of bears on tho Stock Ex: | hee wert an UNconsewnt! ped objector, Thy excuse that thoo How de war find Slackburgh? Or doth it not find Black- { ies are going to hold tho Ger- “This country made a wise move edenge, into Barnch, biggest of boosters for the Government, began es Were @ Quaker muketh ine think that thee art a Quaker about tho burgh? Methinks tf the war doth tind thy town {t hath accomplished mans at bay in France, but I | by making tho Selective Draft a ang d ' | kneos and thut thy patell unking Mke unto un orchestr thing S falls ; " at bet ‘f law. 1s tt ; far back as 1918, when he became enthustastic about rallying business manne se if y pa ae are quaking nto un orchestra of isda pala the bevel have been unable e be Ly kaa wes ane PATA ERE big neve) | Uren Wee eae ey ane seems to be securely hidden between the Appalachian Mountains an til de he issue inthe | als! t etter for fences tp co-operative assistance to national defense. Thoo sayeth that thou art not angry at tho Kaiser, But, friend > eyes : i iB Mes’ favor, The U t have | the country to have young He knew little or nothing of politics or polfticlans, excopting that 5 ws a Mrohinition, Tis. ween erase hathcarews jute auite an enisenih Put 4 ded aoa Ma bag eae be grt spi | Jazebo, remomber that the Kalsor art angry at thee, Thy hallucina for myself, during this miserable March weather, water is bad enough lost thetr punch.” | the fring line, as they stand tio he was an enthustastte supporter of President Wilson, He went to ton pertaining to a Utopia wherain the Sion and the lumb shall an tin eutalan Ge the cece walnut Navice tp aruvel Gown’ ea" the ine Mathias was bora Mion | gaff better than their older broti Washington in S@ptember of that year and had a talk with the Presl- gether, bmacksth strongly of « vaour: Sew itia aiganaianaa te ne Lae a hacia tighles, J ' to ae 20, 184, At the | ers. This has been proven ta the ~ § . a Men y ae ‘ aAcuuUm the tson and side, 1 Saiser havi eclared a restricte: r European "i " ih: dent about Sriiing big Bustnons into Hine When the Counc! of Reed tue Hit Aca tie Coan Hkawavar GiikON SALIO Wa tele (has sg ales aged aay depending cecal lage’ beeen debe for | BuBland declared war he nis | ey is t a w ors, I have trumped his lead and establish to! other Phil were ee a. National Defense was formed ‘ag made @ leading membor of its thine idea beareth fruit. But forgettest not, J d bird, that the American water, I restrict that desolate beverage strictly to the ba brother Phil were ce S. A. boys have the Advisory Commission. So eager was he for service and so willing for lemon {s also a fruit ee tate beve: one Atl J writers, Ho was on a right kind of p too, There is work that his present position, with broad executive powers, ts the WTA Aacen with: the. there: that at ears hance future date the tub and to handsome geranium which Cousin Dingleberry de- | trip from thts city to | not one of them that doesn't feo) 4 natural development. Pi a tt pill ; yi Ae ” hi pore spatched to me by the lust post. Oddly enough, the ge | when be et a Canad m 8u at Lell be pri oted, even ton and the la shall He do ogether. But w do the lamb sail + i 7 Oe caeee i | an a ri A ‘ " ‘When Congressional investigators asked Baruch on what he based minster earn wn tog y ue lam: well Med n doeful t » but, friend Jazzbo, I am’ no eerenium, And n the smo ing car of the in. | to as bigh a position as General, Ale stock selling operations in December, 116, he talked with amazing | papeyprngare ‘ cee We Shinkei Gens Gus scent seseniblance te that plant fy Remuaees he Saroneas war, | by Bla Aging: willity: Shetes familiarity about world-war affairs and policies of Buropean etat : I am sending thee two quarts of rare old Bourbou by the mid-weekly dida’t see @ uation as democra troops and pean statesmen, map Uko a reed bird upon a fork, I warnet © should (nana 1 trunt ¢ ie finder sa ih Blanlilineh anil it nt as England could get | tie Cana and even discussed events in Japan which had bearing on security x mifias’ thea Hath tha ohaice ; e Mn end ui doth thee tn Slackourgh @ He eats eae | = choose whilst th the chot le © option of tanvalh’ ihen ao: aaa HR CRP R TT in war’ said Mathias, Thea | why th ues, being elther the reed bird Olt the f anit ve fe and the ald cee ister aske { “With the But, edove all, he revealed those qualities which etamp the leader Paraamaawtchiwllt Nea ancecane oheldelhant inal miatanibeniat are Uitle ingenuity end the as of 6 1) aupacentic sound judgment, prectston, quick decision, swift action, coolness un- | pwimmeth tn the stew. To-morrow thou wilt bo the reod bird. The SASPROR WO Cake | eukfast food. " | dare to hope naan ak der firo and indomitable self-reltance. For more than ten years he oyster 18 a pacifist, friend Juzabo, which ts the reason why we have ae the ieee ee ris J sas ge tal fee re a ae saa oMcers on the field of battle if played a lone band in Wall Street, relying absolutely on his own re oyster stews. not in tho sligh sia ror es if, Why thee suffereth in aieeyat | 7 themselves worthy. ‘" r ¥ Hty. when theo can suffer in New York puzzleth me, but undoubted! b nals ik . Se spe ACRE: SE DIS OR TeNpeRA TET . Posafbly thee will answer that the porcupine 1s also a pacifist and suffering 19 much more economical in thy tow A than this ae} secant It's sure to be,’ said the ml | Jock the sone ‘There 1s a subtle charm ebout Baruch’s personality. Tt fstn his | nat we never have porcupine stew. But I answer thee in turn that eiegiose lige : ponpeuphrettned : Py | Naiar; wettee ali Aeweateee ace: | eer etre Gnd Conaaay face as much as in his manner. A tiny little turn-up to the corners of the porcupine 1s merely @ Monroe Doctrine pacifist and that i even charge thee ten conte to retrieve thy hat trom the cost room ser, Unlens AD Angie-Samons Ggat | trecpe, tr 8 3 a Mo Oe joctrine pacifist a hat any allen randit: | shoulder to shoulder,’ “I look 3 rs hnis mouth gives a perpetual smtle that spreads almost habitually over comar that evar érisd to invade Morte or Routh Poroupinia ress cp ait bandits, : ; er hee - nt look to seo Gen. Pershing @ his countenance with cheery s-2et!ng. His handshake ts given with enough needies in his complexion to knitteth all the sox for an army of W re to advise thee that there hath | Us with She sinister tm, | tablish himeelt as Commanderaty: five fingers and full palm is gray hair and straight-lined features centipedes, Further another reason why wo havo not p no Beek ne B Ituation, ‘The Kaiser hath forced | ie rite oonHnued | Chine of the datiry f9rpe of the Al- i are the symbols of the austere man, but life etill contains for him stew {9 that the p » tw rancid and dour to the 7 D eu paid) 8 Ty t : t reaking of yt unduy | over since we were tha clea swouid bain to'chatcan one move aerian cathusinen isiaeane boots, T ) binded a weak situation wb an iron trgaty, | oY 2 the war and yish enthusiasm and buoyancy, Wert friend porcupine @ toothsome morsel, then, friend bo, we Thee remembereth my slogan that the fool maketh strong knots with | War in America had decide victory in our 1 | The Baruch family came to New York half a century ago from would have porcupine stew, Hut enough of this dry lect and I as- two weak pieces of rope, the saphead maketh weak knots with two | been preparing for Mathias has two }, | South Carolina. Bygone generations well remember the noted Dr. eure thee that I wouldst have not engaged in rhetorical pyrotech+ 8 of rope, while the wise inan getteth a new rope. | “When I read t | one because of ehray wounds } Simon Baruch. In South Carolina, Bernard Baruch matntatns hunt- nics hadst thee not aroused our wpleen with thy self-condemnation, By SUES Yet, Serre Bete 608 SBGIeRG Lae Saeeine pane9 | Recelved at Wichatte : ad anoth: | ing preserve, where he likes to hide himself wit horses and dogs and the time that thee receiveth this we trust that thee wilt be of Teicha: pGRaINGIAT CASE int Ln ethan ae Lhe mrosiate | for wounds recelved . ¢ St. Julie | guns for his companions | @ Gifforent mind. And wo hope that thee hust that different mind in a } off, while the thrifty man shooteth not skyrockets at all, | | How Nf to be we Gince America went into the war he has put aside every other | different hat, Chango thy dra bonnet for ‘ S hoe ok Your cousin, eight times removed, thank heaven, { | home to ’ ne spent consideration but working for the Government He abandoned alt aiao trust that theo wilt te of a different feot, A lion } 4) POOR RICHARD JR, 1 rel eu dais io kl desing # dard Street sy n adly Pr. Se-l as - Prohibit i ect vit y desire t osp! peen he i Private businese and even has left New York, taking a residence in | with rabbit heels, and a war-liko mind ; une ri F { a 1 8 oni it al ph BER pt bieggeis | apa: been honorably % ' st ¢ 1 y wide Neve t: 5 { diseha the Canadiag ‘Washington so as to bo always on the Job. } feat When wo see thee next thy gi dalu ¢t e 6 ipa par bundle by the airing, PR IR e “I bad oply been at Valcar Army, . t 4 + ‘ é