The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1918, Page 12

ee ie MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1918 Feats of Valor Performed By Our Boys ‘“‘Over There” Her Fighters of To-Day, for American Military Annals Record Innumerable Tales of Individual Heroism. By Albert Payson Terhune 1918, by Tho Press Publirhing Co, (The New York Pvening World) VERY day, Over There, our American boys are performing feats of valor. deeds of personal courage apart from the mere square and angle of th work—which are winning for them not only the admiration of Durope’s veteran warriors but special decorations, These decorations are the highest award @ soldier can ask. They stamp their proud winner as a hero among heroes. Now the United States is to have new decorations, a distinguished service cross and @ distinguished service medal, to award under similar circumstances. While it makes every true patriot thrill with pride to read how gallantly Uncle Sam's kbaki-clad nephews are comporting them- selves, yet these men are only living up to all that te highest in American military annals. The story of Yankee arins ts crowded with tales of heroism. Innumerable Americans, in every one of our wars, have proved that there are no braver men on earth than Old Glory’s warriors, Here are one or two instances, taken at random from many thousands which are as worthy to be retold, and which show that the boys in the trenches to-day are following the best American tradition: On the first morning at Gettysburg, a nineteen-year-old boy, Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, was in command of a light four-gun battery sta- tioned on a knoll in the very path of an advancing Confederate brigade. A twelve-gun Confederate battery on a hill above opened fire on the knoll, Southern musketry began to scourge Wilkeson's posttion. His gun tenders wavered. To give them fresh courage, Wilkeson rode out in front of his battery, exposing himself to the brunt of the enemy's fire, meanwhile shouting orders and Jokes back at his men. His horse was killed. Wilkeson, on foot, continued to stand in front of the guns, encouraging his men, A rain of bullets and shells mowed him down. He would not let his gunners cease firing even to carry him to the rear. Sitting where he had fallen, he sought to Gress his wounds, and went on with his directions as to alm, &c. A comrade crept out to him with a canteen of water. Wickeson, parched with thirst from his wounds, would not touch the water, but handed it to a wounded man at his side. Then he fell back dead. The pluck of the American officer in the Spanish War who jumped overboard and pushed the nose of a torpedo away from contact with the bull of bis ship, Is equalled by that of an American artillery officer fn the Mexcan War. Asked by his Colonel why he had ceased firing, the officer declared that the shells sent to his battery were defective. To prove this, he picked up one of the loaded shells, lighted its old- fashioned fuse, and held {t in his arms until the fuse burned out. During a sham battle at Fort Monroe in 1910 the premature explosion of a charge of powder in one of the “disappearing guns” killed eleven men, The ground all about the gun was covered with a debris of flaming particles and with sputtering sparks. Charges of powder were stacked close to this mass of fire, Lieut. G. P. Hawes saw the peril, and dashed through the smoke to where the powder was stored, Stamping out flames and sparks as he went, he caught up bags of powder and dragged them out of the radius of danger, returning, with Capt. James Prentice, for load after load of the mur- Gerous stuff, at every instant risking death in an effort to stave off an explosion which would have meant a wholesale loss of life. Gen. Doubleday vouched for the herotsm, at Gettysburg, of a gun- ner whose name {s unknown but who its a ntohe in the Valhalla of Heroes, A Union battery was ordered to retreat from {ts position, A young artilleryman was mounted on one of the horses attached to a gun carriage, and was guiding the galloping team and its gun toward the rear. A squadron of Confederate cavalry overtook him. The Southern Lieutenant in command Jammed a pistol muzzle between the artilleryman's shoulders and yelled to him to halt. ‘The driver paid no heed to the command, but lashed his horses the harder, ‘The Lieu: tenant fired. The ball passed through the victim's body. But the dying man would not halt. With his waning strength he flogged his horses and guided the precious gun safe back to the Unton Ines, Gen. A. P. Hill of the Confeder this Union man’s fearless : “A Yankee color bearer floated his standard tn the fleld, and his regiment fought around it. When the regiment was obliged to retreat, the color bearer went last of all, turning around now and then to shake his fist at the pursuing enemy. I was sorry when I saw him meet bis doom.” Nathan Hale, a twenty-one-yea of his regiment tr information for Washington. This was a far than be could have accomp!ished In not only certain death but the shameful death of the rope. This he risked, And this befell him. Uncomplaining, he died a hero death, Grieving only that he had but one life to give for his country, Farragut not only led the equadron’s way, in his flagship, {nto the Geathtrap of Mobile Bay, through waters sown with mine and torpedo, Tut hed himself lashed to the lookout post, in @ position that must have barred him from all chance of rescue in case of disaster to his ship. He gambled his own life on the hope of victory for his coun- try—a stirring example to every man in his fleet and to all future American fighters. Yes, the boys battling under the Stars and Stripes tn France to- Gay are brave—splendidly brave. But from enlisted men to highest officer, and from the Revolution to the present hour, the examples of Buinberless American soldiers and sallors shine itke a deathleas alg: nal flare to point them unswervingly to the road of Herotem, make report of another comparative safety und ca to New y 1776 p to gain d Yor discovery meant rus de any battle. First Umbrella in America that an um-|centuries and was considered a MORE HYSTERIC THA! A farmer ye U. NO WONDER ISABELLA 46 \——— — —_ ——E “a ‘ i = aaah A Tradition of U. 5 Arms New York’s ‘‘Follies of 1843’? Old Glory’s Warriors of the Past Have Set the Pace for, THESE CITY SIGHTS MOVED J. a ORK } TO INK AND INDIGNATION, AS REVEALED BY “BU IN anveie LEAPING uw Hor GRiDOLE LiKe AN HOUR GLASS, Bur emPpr TWO QUART HIGH HATS ON PINT Heavs |! “as? a2 Mo © te! HOCKED HER JEWELRYTO BUY THAT EGG FoR CoLumBus]] CHANCE MUST BE GIVEN THE GATE | lico, by Wearing Her Curls | Styles May Change, but Girls Don’t Three- Quarters of a Century Ago One Shocked Old Veritas, or Pro Bono Pub- Combed Back and Her Ears Positively Naked—Men, Too, Wore Two-Quart Hats on Pint Heads. BY ARTHUR Cooyright 19 on ‘ v ning W HIS letter was found hidden in a tub in Greenwich Village | It {9 exactly seventy-five years old, The reason why it was hidden three-quarters of a century bathtub in Greenwich Village. history stuttered sald a chinful it was in @ It shows that the bird who sald that was because MARCH 11, 1848. To the Editor of Goofs Basaar, Distinguished Sir: It 1a with the most sorrowful enjoyment that I grab my quill in mitt to squawk against the rash of crime, vice and clothes which has busted out in New York. The time ts ripe for all reputable citizens to protest, In fact, the time is more than ripe, It fs unripe, No later than yester eve did I lamp « brazen minx hoop skirting down Brovway Lane with powdered cornstarch on her saucy Httle nose, Now, being very unbia and also very astigmatic, I did not condemn the young lady on elreumstanclal evidence, As I said before, I am very near-sighted, so I took squint at the young lady's beak and made that it was cornstarch by the taste, Now, friend editor, the eyes may bilk you, What 18 America coming to when young ladics powder thelr noses? And the bonnets they are now wearing! Not being satisfied with re- tall immodesty, our women must gl us wholes I saw one hussy with her combed bi POSITIVELY NAKED! another sure but the tongue—never ale shocks, ALS curls k and her 'T wan 148 yeors ag wine breila was first rcen on the streets] bol of royalty and dignity, In Bng- And the hoop skirts! ‘Tis impossible for a man of business to of an American city, Baltimore] land, as on this side of the Atlantie, reach his office on Wall Road because of these travell clrens tents, has the honor of Introducing that) the umbrella was at frat greeted with| Fifth Avenue on a Sabbath forenoon ts clogged with minxes escorted most useful contrivance, To the) scorn, Jonas Hanway, the philan-| by dandies ring two-quart high hats on pint heads hardy Marylanders ot that peries ae opist, 18 said to have been the first An article tn your valuable paper bo 1 shamelessly that there Gmbrelia was an effeminate device, /Englishman who generally uscd un| was walteing at Mrs, Halibut Fish’s toa yester afternoon, Are Amer- and the man who first carried one} umbrella in the stroets of London : nt F 4 ae L ons! soans to give imitations of ants leay.ng up and down on a hot griddle? was hooted and jeered, The umbrella was bitterly denounced ign “ al f fur Tho Baltimore umbrella was aA ckney coachmen, Whe eae] WY Rot leave thoro simian gymnaatica to the perfumed dandion of French importation, crude he & prosporous business on London and Paris America’s untrammeled feet were made for corns and dere slight resemblance to vainy du ad w feared that s | and not for apish gyrations to t of 4 Mat-wheeled 5 te, umbrella of to-day, Barly keneral avoption of the device would IT must also Inviall a protest against the tight lacing much and American dictionaries defined tho] work injury to thetr trade. | gm vogue among the unfalr sex, Women are now t ttling r waists umbrella as "a porani Penthouse to} Some eight years after the frst um-| with monstrous corsets that recall the days of the Inquisition, With carry in @ person's band to screen }prella had been introduced into Amore °: aspiike Walsts and bule hoop skirts the ensemble ho him from violent rain or sun.” jen John Macdonald, a London foot. age with the ox mee that an a in ee ¢ n : sar Portable they but far too/man, wrote an antoblography in| OMenOM Oo’ pee wes nist 1 . st heavy for the age woman, which he remarked t he posse acl ch Ree seca ae (i Hata al as France, Spain and Italy were 1 a fir umbrell which he| the diminist f sugar, M hear ft surer'the first European countries ty adopt the| brought ¢ Guain but which’ te ther day fi " Ally market man that cont ee ey eine umbrella, which cu to them from] could not use in the streets of Lundon| #and. the Orient, where it had been used for \ because of the taunts of the populace, While both my wifey aud myself ase (ond of (ue bewch yo summgs (BUGS) we must 7 BAER. test ugainst bh Eggs und other foodstuffs a her than the top na giraffe Peeling hungry the other eve, bled into a chop house and ordered two eggs. Imaging my me 4 financial consternation when the brigand of a waiter charged me two shillings! At that rate ‘tis small wonder that Isabella had to hock her wrist watch to enable Columbus to stand that egg on end, If Columbus had foozled that first egs. America would still be undiscovered, And the chop house bandits have further augmented thetr plunder- ing system by having @ rascally hat boy who wheedles patrons out of thetr hats and then holda the hats for a ransom, Kidd was only a Captain, hese pirates are nerals. I also must enter a protest against charades, another vice which eema to be popular among our younger folks, Charades, backgam- non, parchees!, tddlywinks, tck-tack-toe, lottoes, old matd, checkers and other profi t nes of chi must be given the gate. he cackling of geese saved Rome, but the cackling of our young geese over these rnicious card games means the ruin of, America, Everywhere the mania for swift living seems to be spreading tts fearful claws, While walking along Broadway Lane I was actually Passed by one of those horse drawn street vehicles. I was walking very rapidly, so imagine the terrifle velocity at which this Car of Jug- gernaut must have been spe 1 move that the Legislature pass @ bill reducing the speed of horse-drawn vehicles to a safe and sano standard, An ordinance should be 1 immediately, As a compromise, each car horse should be that he walks with the other two feet of speed while in reality the Bulli to gallop with two feet, providing This will give the sembiance ear horse will be proceeding very slowly, es are also violating all our Ame n ideals of correct Hy- ing, When I was a lad there was not a building in New York that was so high that « reasonably tall man could not eat ple off the roof, But now, in lower Broadway J there is talk of erecting a six-story building. Do Americans imagine that can reach Meaven via the mason's trowel and the bricklayer's hod? I warn you and point with tower of Babel as a terrib! pride to th xamplo, A six-story building ts tho invention of Satan, One layer of Amer- tea was good enough for the Indians, who managed to grow healthy miles on th ound floor. Is New York to be built In six layers Hike a chocolate Trustix 2 will tlon and ine tn outrages, 1 Your dutiful servar 4, PULLER MOss, A LETTER SS | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1918 Necessity Spurs Talent Of French War Victims Copyright, quarters at No, 22 East 42d Street. The French Arts and Crafts has been organized Mr Lucille Cram, a vivacious, darkeyed, charming young wo who {s—most appro- for her mission—a member of an old an aristocratic French » married to an American b and. Behind her stands the Gow for dolls | work ¢ organization. It is and thu “We do not want people to bur things because they um, be cause they sympal with ous is and our destroyed home- .” Mrs. Cram told me, with | @ tlavh of her dark eyes. Unlike which up to this encountered, the pr any “war reli | time 1 French Arts and Crafts refuses to beg. At the were not even any sales, al orders for duplicates of the lo’ | things could be given. The wholo have | exhibit was instinct With the spirit of a people who manage to oa artists and to give value a the shadow of | battle and death For the New Yo French Arta and C to mean ‘ rag doll kiddie fts is going of the d can be proper g doll, a such as 60 taken to the soft, squeezat many litt bed and made one, the con 1 the rag doll In the f the city child. mothers and fathers New York the of rag dolls. most a are made of canvas, shaped ry about. lated—even th pled, The faces ure | prench a with | | © joints are articu- knees are dim- painted by waterproof go that the Httle girl mot 1 her doll baby's face pderfully the diminutive un- made—even derthings have real buttons and Everything can be on. Many cos- puttonholes taken off and p v re of ft mined corduro, whieh the Fr ise for dressing r ehtldre are of fine } linen and ha ted with flow- | ers, chickens or rabbits, | Hesides the dolls there are many other toys, beautifully carved and painted by wounded and disabled | soldiers, There are whole sets of | | | wooden animals—foxes, goa cows, roosters, mice—forming the complete cast of La Fontaine's fables. There are peasant cradles ae and peasant carts, exact dupli ture of those used hb country folk a absolute American ren ¢ 18 a French Punch and Judy show, its “poupees gul- even including a German novelties to | To Practical Handicraft Laces and Lingerie, Tapestry and Toys, Made by French War Widows and Wounded Poilus, Exhibited Here by French Arts and Crafts Organized by Mrs. Lucille Cram and Backed by the French Government. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall 191%, by The Press Publishing Co. RENCH women of the people sat in Nancy and made iac F German bombs fell in the city streets; seriously wound lay helplessly on their backs and worked at tapestry letter cases on looms suspended over their beds; great ladies in ruined chateaux of the invaded districts painstakingly copied in silk and velvet the blossoms in their trampled rose gardens—and lace, tapestry and roses effect another American-Fre between American women and beautiful things, and Frenct! war victims who need 80 desperately the wages of th It 1s to create this new entente that the et Metlers Francais (French been holding a remarkable exhibition at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton and has established permanent head- ent of France, and the wife of 4 working to open an toys, laces, ngerle and all sorts of lovely, individual handi- encourage the efforts of a brave and ravished people to keep themselves and their homes alive. (The New York Evening World). while d poilus bags and re here in New York to h alliance, an alllan children who lov r lovely handiwork. Arts Arts and Crafts) has mbassador Sharp 1s honorary pr American market made lace, mu h of ity ugot by nes were actually e at the time. Th: ordinary t ¢ aro patter generations have belonged trousseaux of daug! families, Women who never in thelr lives did any work for pay are now cheerfully jaboring in the most corner of their ruined estates to provide us- ance for themselves and their ldren, habitable he lace ts made into charn and ldren ba gees. and overs, blouses bride's cou and No outfit will be com sone of it bead rp: i collars. withou are bead Birdies and bits tapestry and tooled leather done by returned soldiers who too weak or too disabled to m hard labor. Hu 4) roses have been fa n the living flowe iodel4, and represent the many different French varies tes. “Some of these th ngs were sent to me las ing by friends of mine," Mrs c course | wante Ame ‘ans Would be interested well-made Mrench articles of much that used to be ‘m Germany,’ summer, de in io 1 went to Paris jast interested the French Government tn my plans, formed @ French comnmittee to encour, the work and collect it and ar ranged with t vernment to transport it to ¢ From now on Steady stream of articies ‘M in France’ coming to America fast as Americans want thei My people are glad to work, even the men whose legs have been cut oft or who are blind, even wom who never have t even the children—if only we may keep our homes,” Mrs, Cram, Mrs, Robert Bog: and a few other American women are giving their time, money and services, so that the French Aris and Crafts may be a clearing house for bringing together the French and Amert ean people without imposing on either the middleman's profits, there ues French and | {TERE ts a market T hand cars, and fourth |the day finally Jerable relic, hay nd are sold, for second and doubtless third but 4 when the ven | # allotted | ence | tle: en to its last resting place~ | the automobile Junk yard. ‘Thera are | law sadder spectacles, and so anclent do some of the melancholy wrecks | s hard to believe th omparatively n a in worn ars ta a that when brisk one 1 it may b you fancy & passerby ta admiring your new lime is really esti: | mating what It worth as junk V ven it nes to Lim, themselves, are placed xe etorawe bing | before, What Becomes of Vou Old Auto? minum, pounds @ poun fifty -to two is worth hundred 2 cents and 85 for sheet; Ays Popular hair from c © brings Month on sella chiefly from ole the There ts also tries, brass and cus is classed all nts a nes It vans Ve atitos, of course fure Junkman, ire 89 high that $50 ld for cars because of bring on the scrape iuite the iny 1920 model ain melted and reshaped Ne one you bought ten yeare |