The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1918, Page 16

‘fighting force to the special demands of this greatest of wars, and ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily xcept Sundsy by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 te cet Sun hark Row, New York.” RALPI PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 F J. AD ‘k Row. JOSEPH PULITZMR, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF TH® ASSOCIATED PRESS, ated Trem in exclonizely entitied to. he Joe. for remrblication, 2a ory Serpeneen @redited to It oF not olberwise cawited in this paper aod als the local a VOLUME 58..... — sccccccveccsewessesocccsceoN@, 90,057 CAN PATIENCE GO FURTHER. T the moment when the Soviets Congress meets in Moscow to accept or reject a Bolsheviki-made peace with the Cen- tral Powers, the President of the United States once more appeals to the Russian people with an assurance of the interest and sympathy of the people of the United States and the earnest wish that Russians may yet sever themselves finally from autoc-| racy and “become the masters of their own life.” | Can history produce a greater example of patience shown by one nation toward another or a more impressive instance of the Government of a strong, united people striving with disinterested | effort to inspire, by dint of faith and encouragement, a betrayed, disrupted people to recover itself, reintegrate and take a place, among self-determining, self-respecting nation: oo SECRETARY BAKER IN FRANCE. HE announcement that Secretary of War Baker is in France was certain to be received throughout the country with, " atisfacti to which may be added no little admiration for the success with which the fact of his departure was kept from too) general knowledge. . Tt had been felt for some time that the Americpn Sccretary of War could not afford to be without first hand information as to con-| ditions at and behind the war front to which hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being sent to fight with the full fighting power that is in them. | To a very large degree the Secretary of War is responsible for that fighting power—for the organization, the equipment, the muni-| tions and supplies upon which the strength and also tho safety of the tion’s fighters depend. He cannot know too much about their! needs either as soldiers or as men. With the best of the advice that! is brought to him, he should be able to combine the results of his own | direct observation and knowledge. Secretary Baker has shown that he has not only the energy but also the receptivity and learning capacity of a man not yet arrived at an age where ideas are hardened and immovable. He has the mental alertness a man should have upon whom devolves a great part of the taek of adapting the Nation’s newly evoked and developed who must at the same time do the utmost that in him lies to prevent the waste of American lives through the failure or inadequacy of the methods by which they are put inty and supported in the ficld. At American headquarters in France, behind the trenches, at the ordnance bates, along the lines of railroad and other engineering work, in conference with members of the French Government and Generals of the Allied Armies, Secretary Baker will have opportunity to find out with his own eyes, ears and brain how the United Statos can best back its sons in France. Every American earnestly hopes first of all that the Secretary of War may return ten times better fitted to make his Department contribute efficiently, directly and unceasingly to the strength, well- being and safety of the men overseas. | —————-¢ =. | Meanwhile, Judging by the way the American troops have been Jumping into the German Iines opposite the American sector in Lorraine, the boys thought there ought to be a little shindy to welcome Secretary Baker to France, ——-=+. FIFTY SEVEN CLOSED RESTAURANTS TO-DAY. HE closed doors and vacent tables of difty-seven restaurants in this city, forbidden to do business throughout this day and evening, ought to be coavincing evidence that the power of the Federal Food Administration is not the tpothless kind. These fifty-seven restaurant proprietors appear to have thought it might be. At any rate they decided to take a chance and disregard the meatless Tuesday rule. Now, when they find the penalty is sure and swift, they will be in better frame of mind to heed the further warning of the Food Board: Informing th4 proprietors of restaurants that the food reg- uletions were intended to be observed, and that even more drastio punishment than the one provided for the offenders in question will be visited upon all who decline to obey, * Few restaurant keepers will care to run the risk of having their supplies cut off and their business suspended indefinitely—it being in the power of the Food Administration promptly to visit these pen- alties upon persistent offenders, Meanwhile the sign “Closed for the Day for Violation of the Regulations of the United States Food Administration” is a poor advertisement to attract the patronage of a patriotic public. Prudent restaurant men will avoid euch advertising. ——————_-4--—___. After all, no fault should be found with the extent of a lady's shoes when we consider how large a part of her present costume they have become. Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words, Woule Wave “Fine Ladies” and Slack | forty-eight ers Work hat the ‘Po the Editor of The Evening World Ip answer to Mra. H. P.’s propos tion to give the dep/ndents of sol-| diers and sallors pref rence for tarm work, 1 think it would be better to A MOTHER make work wio have done| ow # Woman Can Wis the War | nothing for the country, Most of] 7 the Kaitor of The Evening World But I seo tn the papers daughters of prominent | Hted States officials are getting Jobs | a good salaries, Why can't some of these fine jad work on the farms? thone tting a b | Botting EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, Again He Must Defend Him i. ISIE, by The Trew 1 The New Y: Paes © By Sophie HF little woman who cleans by the day had just finished her work, atid asked permission to take a paste- board box from tho cupboard, 1 asked her about what size box she wanted, She answered: A “Just for a few rose leaves.” It seem@d that during the day some dying flow- ere were to be thrown away, and she carefully saved the rose leaves to take home with her, Asked what she intended to do with them, ehe ids “I will put them in a rose jar end make some perfume, with which to scent my room.” And I hyd a Iittle picture of the woman going home after a hard day's work, sitting back quietly and th of the perfume along with the reflections of the day. ‘This ttle lady worker 1 one of the real life savers. Bho seeks nothing | but the salvage. She goes through everything that Is thrown away, and] takes home the things with her st} which she can make use. Bhe told me how many pretty little | hats she has made, cushions and other things out of floworm bits of ribben, hat frames and old clothes that are dally discarded in her round of work. She had utilized that she bought very household or herself, using every- thing—wasting nothing, She knows | that she ts poor, but she does not sit | down to weep because of her poverty. | Bhe finds ways and moans of gettiag | tho things she can have even if they | are not nearest to her heart's desire, and all she has ‘s acquired honestly, Demin inne oe these things #0 Uitte for her | Thus, things that are not wanted she scrubs and clean’ and makes aew again, so that they may be further useful. ‘There are hundreds of such people, and they ure the great savers of society these slackers are foreigners who, in, If D. B. 8, whose letter appeared some way, have avoided their duty,|in The Evening World on Maron 9, ‘They come heie, live on the fat of the Jand and then do nothing in return, 1am a mother who has been selfs porting for the last twelve years. I raised my four boys by the work of my own bands, and three of them have voluntarily joined the army. 1 dress to the Land Army of America movement, which has just been started, I believe they could give her & wonderful outline of what women | can do to serve thelr country, make a little money and have # wonderful | we not had steady work in some) vacation all at the same‘time, Their time, although 1 am capable and address is No, 22 Mast 22d Street, willing. They tel) me I ada too old—~ A. B. would just send her name and ad- | constant mavers I got weary of soeing the propa- ganda that ts sent to poor people to save, save, eave, When they are the Many & person who propounds this propaganda is among the wasters, Never in the history of the world has the human brain been so concentrated on conservation as it Is to-fay, But Just what ts con. servation is little known among many of those who want everybody else to conserve but Tho serious savers, after thuse vou. ae Irene Loeb Copsright, 1018, by the Press Publishiog Co, (The New York Breaing World), who take something which apparent- ly has lost its use and, by energy and effort, make it useful, Then there are those who, out of calamity, bring compensation, Marshall Wilder was such a one, In the vernacular, he was handed a lemon and made lemon- ade out of it—this hunchback who caused the world to laugh with bin at his deformity. And there !s my little woman who is going blind. She knits and kits and knits, She closes her eyes as she does her work. "It rests me so,” she says, “and I feel I am doing my part in the work of the war, just as other women, “It knitting were not so necessary I would not have this to do, and, fur- thermore, L would naturally feel more dependent, And, besides, even though ono ban not the best of e g00d to realize that my effort counts counts with the others who are sending their work ‘over there.’ ” Down tn the crowded centres of this great city there are thousands of mothers saving, @aving, every min- ute; making over this, that and the other thing to make ends meet, Such women to-day ean proudly believe that they are the prominent soldiers of the war—the daily savers of ser- vice and strength through sacrifice. | They never fall to score. What a true example for the flufts who give up a bit of candy or eat brown bread instead of white, or at- tend an enjoyable tea with the pre- tence of sewing for soldiers—what & blessing if they could go among the real savers—those who may truly be credited with helping to win the war— those who save as a matter of course, and not as a pose, Our Own “Tropics” | States is there real tropical vegetation, says Popular Science Monthly, Florida and California have What is called “subtropical” vegeta- tion, In the midst of a desert in the extreme southern part of California is @ truo oasis, The oasis, Palm Springs, lies 200 feet below the sea level, So hot 1s it there that there 1s a riot of vege- tation all tho year round, Enormous fig trees and mammoth grapefruit and oranges are always to be had. The Jemons that grow there weigh two and a waif pounds aplece, The responsibility for all this may be laid to a beautiful little stream which is fed by the Colorado River and which flows through the oasts only to dls- appear iato the ground at ite end, eee at one place in the United it ts! The By Roy L. Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Woy). e LL I got to say 1s, some guys have it pretty soft,” re- marked Johnson, the cash- Jer, as Mr. Jarr came with an ad- vance order for $20 on his salary to the wicket, The cashier epoke with feeling, for the advance order was initialled by the boss, and it could not be well re- fused, “What do you mean?” asked Mr. Jarr, “I am going to employ this money patriotically, according to Hoover. I'm not g®ing to wa: it, I'm not going to hoard it"—— . “Never mind what you are going to do witb it,” grunted the cashier, “All T got to say is that it's pretty soft for some guys, spending the firm's money before they earn it for themselves, And if there wasn't some eMotency In the auditing department that catches the errors that go all the way through the books till they reach here" “Aw, don't talk shop!" interrupted Mr. Jarr. “What's your rave? What's th) matter with you?” “There shouldn't be any of this ao- celal thing in business. When the s0- clal bug gets into business, why, then good night to business,” remarked ‘the cashier emphatically but not very lueldly. “What do you mean?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Aro you inferring that be- cause my wife knows the boss's wife and they both belong to the same knitting circles and Red Cross drives and all that sort of thing I get a 6al- ary advanc “I notice Frits, the shipping clerk, and Jenkins, tbe bookkeeper, don’t come running with those advance money orders inittalled by the boss, grumbled the cashter. “However, it ain't up to me to say a word when favorites is being played.” old “Cheer up, top,” replied Mr, Jarr. “Come fill th tnd tn the fire of epring, Your winter gurment of Nepentance fling; ‘The Bird of Time bas but a Lite way To fuitermand the Bird iy on the Wing,’ “Aw, nix on that Shakespeare stuff!” said the cashier grumplly. All I've got to say is that the bird may be on the wing, but the bird better be careful.” Mr, Jarr took the four $5 bills that the cashier passed out to him reluet- antly and only replied: @ at the spring, @ at the mom— on the wing ‘The enail’s on the thorn'—~ At this point, Jenkins, the book kGeper, camu up. "What's good to get rid of snails?” he asked. know, at my little place in the coun- try I had a war garden last year an the snails ruined everything, ate up my cabbage”——, “The boss's pet has got an advance of $20," explained the cashier, ind! cating Mr, Jarr, “That's why he's chucking that poetry from Shake- Speare and Lord Bacon"-—— “An advance of salary?” repeated the bookkeeper enviously “Not as bad as that,” replied the cashier, “An advance ON salary.” “Oh, what's the good of that?” re- marked the little bookkeeper, “you never forget to take It out of a fel- low's envelope.” “I should my I don't,” tho cashier retorted, © been handling the cash for this firm for fourteen years disadvantage of the firm; and yet— does the boss appreciate It, does he give me any advance orders on MY salary? No, I'm one of these ,over hardworking guys who accounts balance to the penny. “Yet the boss falls for his wife's Poetry to him about winter gar- mentsa—and all I say is that if somo guys change their flannels and get pneumonia when out blowing money they got on salary advances, these hard times when war prices make everything cost double—well all I got to say to those guys who brag about being birds on the wing, they had better look out, that’s all!” “But Johnson, old top, you don't need an order from the boss !f you need @ little extra cash during the week, the cash is right in your keep- ing, isn’t it?” asked Mr, Jarr, “Yes, I know it 1s," grumbled the cashier, “but the principle is tho same, isn't it, Jenkins?” And the: bookkeeper agreed with him that the principle was the same, and besides, he nover could stand for poetry or snails, elther, ne SHOE-TESTING MACHINE, gn ‘thas been essential !n equip- ing shoes it was not possible to test them by actual wear to see if they came up to specifications, The Bureau of Standards came to the aid of the Quartermaster'’s Department by devising @ machine for testing samples of sole leather, These are mounted, both wet and dry, on @ re- volving wheel, which brings them tn contact with a rough surface, per- fectly reproducing the wear and tear of actual walking, ° | ROLLER skating party was soft, id A held by the Merry Hour Sec- | floo and I've never made aymistake to the| friends who como up reciting spring | ping our new armies, so in buy-| “Personal Devils’ Whom We Meet | By Helen Rowland * COURS Nobody believes in a “personal devil!” At least, nobody DID—— 1918, by the Dress Publishing Co, (The New ore brening World), But sinco this war started, tt seems as ‘though the world wore FULL of “personal devils,” popping up everywhere! * ‘There is the Kalser, of course, who needs no éxplanas ton, u And his Chief Assistant, the Pacifist, And the Slacker, and the War-Profiteer, and the mam who invented the new safety matches that are alwayg setting things afire, And the woman who takes Mer knitting to the opera, And counts out loud and clicks ber needles all during | Vaated owen the performan And the “knocker” who grants that Colunybus discovered America, | But takes personal credit for having discovered all tts FAULTS, And roasts everything about it from the to the climate, And the man who invented polson gas, Aud the friend who invented the new spring etyles and ts trying va | force women to wear tight corsets and cultivate the walst-line ia ' (But he WON'T succeed!) , And the grocer who manicures bis natls and stares out of the window with that bored, pained expression | When you plaintively sigh that “prices aro high,” | And the woman who boards sugar and feeds it to her dog, | And the person who goes around telling everybody how this war | Administration “OUGHT to be run"— And, besides, Everybody has a PARTICULAR “personal devil” of his own—- | His mother-in-law, or bis janitor, or the nelghbor who begins mowing his lawn at 6 A. M,, Or his taflor, or his employer—— Or the “personal devil” to whom he happens to be married! And every woman has a “personal devil” of her own—— | The one who breaks all of her favorite chinaware, and practised |@chrecklichkelt on her pink silk clothes, and serves the boullion in the | wrong cups. | Ana every boy knows that his toacher ts a “personal devil,” And sometimes, after a bad night and before I have had my coffee im morning, I suspect—merely suspect—-that I MYSELF am—am one! Because a “devil,” according to the authentic, orthodox idea, Is a boing who goes about deliberately and intentionally | Causing» untold suffering to everybody! | And sometimes {t seems a pity and a shame that the “personal devil is no longer-a part of religion, | Because {t must have been at times a lot of comfort to feel that there WAS somebody worse than one’s self Somewhere! But if there are lots of previously unsuspected “personal devils” the world since the war, There are also lots and lots of previously unsuspected “personal angels” —— . Men and women who have awakened to heights of heroism, of selt- sacrifice and self-abnegation of which we never DREAMED them capable! | And there never WAS, tn all history, so much kindness, and unselfish: \ness, and gencrosity, and brotherly love in the world 1 As there {s at this very minute, | While the god of HATE is making bis last stand | Against the God of Right and Love! | | the } Ellabelle Mae Doolittle | | | By Bide Dudley | Coorright, 1918, by tho Press Publishing Co, (The Sew York Drening World), | weet voice, “I'd like to have the “You had !t most of the time you were on rollers,” said the Promptress, smiling prettily, although quite tx “But I feel certain thie mesemblag? will be delighted to hear what you may have to say. Proceed.” “I wish to suggest that ladies who desire to discuss liquor repair to some barroom. I do not believe Mr, Petti+ bone had a drop.” “He had a drop about every five minutes,” said Mrs. Heck Skidmore “Ha, ba, hat” Then it was that Miss Doolittle stepped to the fore on the rostrum. She had kept herself in the back~- ground up to that moment, As she came forward it was seen she was gowned {in lovely brown burlap, trimmed in mosquito net. A murmus of approval swept over the crowd. “I will answer all charges with an original poem on roller ekatinj ohe sald. With complete abandon she gave her back hair @ slap and read ag follows: | tion of the Deih! Women’ Betterment League in Hugus |Saturday evening. Thirty of the |women enjoyed the sport, for two | hours, and then @ Aiscussioh meeting was held at which thoso who had \tried the #rollers talked it all over. | Mrs, Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress lof the league, presided. “We will now tell our experiences on the skates," ehe announced, after | giving the gavel a couple or raps, \"Member Cutey Boggs, how did the sport strike you “1 wish to say," replied Member Boggs, “that It was the floor that | struck me most, It seems to me | about all I did was get up. However, 1 was not hurted to any great extent.” | “Phat, Sister Boggs,” came from |Member Mrs. Skeeter O'Brien, “Is |because you are fat. Now, @ lithe, graceful lady might”"— “Just a second!” said Mrs, Boggs, interrupting. ‘I'll have you know I am not fat, I am quite lean.” “Truet” shouted P. Bilas Pettibone, |the tonsorial artist, “Most of the time she leaned on me.” It was nearly a joke, but Mrs. | Boggs refused to look on It as such. she replied, using the Monsewer 18 nl women kate toget Hut they should not hod handa, Fitting at the rick "pute you on the bilak re ‘had plautaea, “Pardon,” More than one French pronunciation. % mistaken, When I couldn't stand up| mat was wrong: ‘i I sat down, I noticed Mr. Monsewer ates # Joke f coed teal P. Silas, himself, had a hard time pag le of tutoe erg. making bis clodhoppers behave, It ts Our iitle city will go “dry, my private opinion that in one fall] at the finish the great poets he rulned a goodly quantity of liquor.” Labelle Mae Doolittle, the noted poetess, caught the last remark and | was dumfounded, Rumor has it she | may marry Mr. Pettibone before the | snow of another winter falls, and to| | think that her friend carried a bottle | was reprehensible to her, “Mrs, Promptress,” she sald in a paused to permit her in, One poor w sho began to cry up one hand, ie “Teurs are out of place,” she tly. > The ladies arose In a body r& plauded with great gusto, gtr All were pleased, lesson to s! nan was so affer Miss Doolittle a2 Newest Things in Scier A machine has been invented for {chopping out young cotton plants at rest a bracket to bo clagy* side of a boat or any con® to hold the pole hus beer |the same time the crop ts being cul-| portion of it peasy | tivated, work that heretofore has|on the reel. s |been done by hand at much expense 0 How jot time and labor, Japanese scientists. hr , * 8 for an explanation of ate lationship between t earthquakes at Toki of rainfall and snow; of the empire, ibd oo wt .nor Some of the peat mined in New Zealand 1s so well filled with kaurt | gum particles that it can be made to jyleld oils that are valuable substi- | tutes for gasoline or benzine or for \use in varnishes, NEA To enable fishermen to get some A patent has Tiinols inventor cylindrical in shay to possers the t more familiar iny