The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 20

\ 1918 ? FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918 ne as Fat Men Rule the World, - Asserts Dr. Blackford, _ — prvtat ; Ireland’s New Leader And Gives Reasons Why King Corpulent Sits On an Upholstered Throne ‘6 99 Snow-Covered Volcano IN IT HE JUDGES AND JESTS AT LUXURIOUS EASE WHILE HIS SUBJECTS HUSTLE TO FILL THE: ROYAL COFFERS. HIS MOTTO IS “LET GEORGE DO IT.” BUT HE BOSSES THE JOB! | eNda, dape *Wip Ace be fetes Chavonter Soateh, and Dillon Is the One Man in the World Who Can Unite Irish Forces Again. T’ an Evening World reporter, T. P. O'Connor, the Irish Home FRIDAY, MARCH 165, John Dillon, at 67, Lovers of Comfort and Luxury, They Commandeer Brains and * Brawn to Produce It for Them, and in Turn Make a Market for Thinkers and Workers, Who Couldn't Get Along Without Them, ‘ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Geprright, 1918, by tho Press Poblirhing Co, (The New York Myening World). AT men rule the world. Comfort and good cheer for the corpulent in this dis- covery by Dr. Katherine M, H. Blackford, who devised and for many years has applied successfully the Blackford Employment Plan of fitting tho man to the Je and who fs the author of two extremely interestirg volumes, “The Job, the Man, the Boss” and “Analyzing Character"! Re- assurance for the rotund in Dr. Blackford's bright lexicon! Not since Caesar expressed an amiable Rule leader, who has spent forty years of his seventy years in the House of Commons, yesterday gave his impressions, through association, of John Ditton, the new Irish leader. Following the death of John Redmond, there ts no ving person better able to give a character sketch of Mr. Dillon than “Tay Pay," as he ts affeo tionately known on two continents, A journalist himself for fifty yeare, Mr. O'Connor ranka with the first of the newspapermen of the British Empire and knows, as he atates, the “high spots” in the life of Mr. Dillon, During the years spent as a journalist and as a member of the House of Commons, Mr. O'Connor has deen a bosom friend personally and politically of the new Irteh leader, His character sketch for The desire to have only fat men about him hus anybody had such a kind word for the well upholstered, the softly padded, the generously curved folk. Never mind what the Life Extenston Institute tells you about the hygienic crime of being fat. af Never mind your wife's petulant comments on your EST expanding equatorial dimension. Never mind your fallor’s friendly tp that you'd better join a golf club. If you will read Dr. Blackford's extraordinarily interesting chapter on “The Fat Man” fp the new book written by her and Arthur Newcomb, “Analyzing pana re es He ar caer Soeeeeee oe Character, the New Sciences of Judging Men,” you will become oon- nee Bde - Pete dager $ Pinced that it {s the fat who Inherit the earth y, in ‘or O! e larg-| > (If you are slender you can, of course, console yourself with Dr. Blackford's admission that so were Shakespeare and most inventors, Scientists, aviators and men of intellect. But she Inststs that the beer and skittles, the cakes and ale of Ife go to the plump.) The explanation ts simple. We get what we want most. The man of intellect 1s chiefly interested in the exercise of hia brains, the “man of brawn tn the exercise of his muscle, The fat man uses both ‘of these gentlemen to procure the goods which most appeal to him— comfort and luxury. “The fat man was born to rule.” writes Dr, Blackford. “He en- Joya the good things of life. Ho 1s fond of luxuries. He Ikes to wear good clothing. Hoe likes soft, upholstered chatrs, comfortable beds, a goodly shelter. “He is too heavy for physica! activity. His feet are too small for the weight of his body. He does not care for strenuous physical ex- ercise. It is not his idea of a good time to follow a@ golf ball all over @ twenty-acre field. He does it only because he thus hopes to re Guce his flesh and enable himself to become once more the romantio figure he was in his youth.” For Dr. Blackford {s not blind to the fat man's tnescapable hand!- ceap, his secret, not-to-be-avolded woo, With ruthless veracity she points out that “whilo the fat man may be a master of comedy, and While he may be a ruler of the people, he ts not romantic.” I myself always have felt certain that—in the sentimental sense of the phrase-— Dobody loves a fat man, though bis heart, Ike that of the equally dis- qualified Cyrano de Bergerac, may be throbbing with poetic passion, However, there are compensations, and Dr. Blackford thus out- Mnes what, long ago, the fat man found to be his one best bet: “Taking the plans, schemes, Inventions and discoveries from those who thought them out, the fat man carried them to the muscular fellows, who were just spoiling for a fight or for some opportunity to exercise their physical powers, Theso he organtred into armtos— to fight, to til] the soll and to bulld and manufacture, These armies éafried out the !deas the fat man got for them from the lean and hungry thinkers, They gloried in hardship. They rather enjoyed roughing {t and took delight {n privation, The fat man was thus en- ‘able to sit upon a golden throne, in a comfortable place surrounded dy all the beauttes and luxuries gathered from the four winds, and senjoy himself while directing the work of both the intellectual giant gud the physical giant. “In many a large upholstered chair, which represents, In our mod- THE FAT MAN 1S NOT FITTED FoR ROMANCE AULES THE Dr. KATHERINE MH WORLD bY THE FAT MAN (18 THE 7 FAVORITE CLOWN Q FAT MEN ARE ON THE BENCH, ON SS THE POLICE FORC AND IN POLITICS W Harms Evening World follows: By T. P. Copyright, 1 i O'Connor. §, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work.) MET John Dillon for the first time about the year 1873, when he had just completed his studies as a medical man, shown that concentrated interest in Irish politics which has never Ho bad already left him for an hour, and he held then practically the same opinions as est measure of Mberty which this generation can attain. As he sald in @ recent letter, he 1s not con- cerned to discuss what shape Ire- land's Government will take in fifty years from now, and he constantly adheres to the now historic demand of all leaders, for complete self-government within the British Empire. “He was then almost the hand- somest man I ever saw—6 feet 1 or 2 in helght, thin as a lath, he looked so frail that one might well appre- hend his dying of consumption a: had some members of his familly. The face, long, pale and thin, was surrounded everywhere by hair, black and glossy as ‘he raven's wing, and eyes which werg coal black, full and dreamy. Even Eng- lish artists and novelists have been captured by his looks; to one artist, he stood as a model for his ‘John Baptist.’ George Meredith, English writer, in one of his letters, spoke of the spell of his wonderful eyes and expression, When he en- tered the House of Commons, Irish to the heart's core, he yet looked more Italian than Trish, owing to this darkness of complexion and his curtdus, rapt look. Ho might have been a Dante fn his youth. "Years of hard work and the !n- cessant worrles of Irish political life have turned the color of his hair almost completely white, but the dark eyes still retain thefr bril- Maney, thelr expressiveness and thetr look of reverie, Curlously enough, the apparently frail man the of the ex-Mayor of } time when John Mitchel returac: after twenty years of exile as a politied! convict, to contest a seat in County Tipperary. “He early saw tn Parnell his lead er, as against the more conserva tive policy of Isaac Butt, and {: te A speech of his that is supposed te have finally led to tho fall of th: old and the moderate chief and the rising of the brilliant and da ing young lleutenant who soon eur ceeded to tho chatr. “All his career, Mr. Dillon ma be sald to have formed the con |necting Mnk between the extreme Irish opposition and the Constitu ‘rn lifo, the golden throne of the olden days, you will find a fat man.” 2 hd A has carried ators, risks and/ttonal party, for though a const! Capitauists, Dr. Blackford thinks, are Itkely to bo fat men, as are | pri ng in ew or. anxtetles which men of more robust /tuttonalist and a parliamentarian ¢ butchers, bakers, chefs and provision merchants, (As a matter of | physique could not stand, and {n|his finger tips, he was inten: fact, the men fn the last four groups mostly belong to the capitalist ‘spite of his 67 years he {3 to-day Trish, as he always understood ever class these days of the H.C. of L.) And the fat man 1s a great success In certain other roles. “It ts left to the fat man to alt upon the bench, to listen to tiresome detatis of the woes of those who have had trouble with one another, Because he is nefther nervous nor frritable, Vecause his mind ty at rest, be cause he !s well fed and well clothed and has no need to be anxtous, be can take time to be impartial and to judge righteous Judgment be- tween bis fellow men, And so you will find fat men on tho bench, in polities, in the halls of Legislature, on the polico forco and tn other places where they have an opportunity to use thelr judicial ability.” Next Frid... will be the first day of spring on the calendar, but The aia: ban Keon trying to busc toto tee Gteeet tow eome peern Gut [Ue erie, Cre Gt ne: Tana | contra Tero, Rnd (At aR when t Yet heaven preserve me from a fury of fat men! You remember you can't spend your life on a calendar, which is gonerally about it ta always defeated by the tall buildings. They may get spring on | League, he has defied all the power Joined those who thought that Par Pope's line— eight inches square and doesn't contain enough parking space to hold of the British Government and) nell's leadership had become “and wretches hang that furyrien may dine.” The peevish may be Inclined to resent the fat man's ability to make use of the work of others for his own benefit, But, tn Dr. Blackford's opinion, he 1s following his star and developing his own talents. He finds markets for the {deas of the lean man and the muscles of the worker which neither could find for himself, The world benefits by the fat man’s interest in food products and his consequent ability to handle them. The world also benefits by the fat man's financial acumen, by hts lack of trritwbility, by his follity, by his freedom from “nerves” and by his ahi y to make us laugh. | | There May Be Such a Thing, but Nobody Ever Finds It--The Hicks Have It in the Suburbs, but They Don’t Let Any of It Come to the City, for the Supply Isn’t Big Enough to Go ’Round—Spring May Be a Bit of Fiction on the Calendar, but Did You Ever See It in the Subway, or in Wall Street, or on Broadway, or Along the B. R. T.? That Makes It Unanimous. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, Copyright, 1014 by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World.) T's pay epring Is on the wing, but it must be a busted wing enough spring to supply the rural trade, It takes a lot of spring to supply the suburban trado tn the U. 8, and by the time that the hicks have inhaled their share of the balmy plunder there {sn't much spring- time loot left for tho city slickers, Spring ts @ great institution in the country, After the warm sun stares a couple of times along the Rural Free Delivery route, violets and fiivvers poke their shy skulls above the terrain and the water gurgles down brooks but A fow steam-heated breezes from the South and celluloid collars glisten with a new lustre, Bunday boots squeak on Wednesda n the woods the robins not down throats. and bun isn't quoted on Wall Street, Spring Isn't Usted on the Stock Hx- change, Wall §treet, but not below the forty-ffth floor, There ts only one season on tho Street, and that’s the 6 per cent, season. Did you ever see any spring on Broadway? That makes {t unant- mous. The only things green on Broadway are cheap Jewelry and envy, The only Sowers that bloom on New York's main stem are subway explosions, electric Hghts and cigarette ads, Pop into @ cabaret look- ing for spring and you will leave faster than @ mushroom arrives. They have bouncers there who figure that spring would make the fitty-third card In the deck. What's the rectpo for apprehending apringtime {n New York? one of the most Incessantly active the opinions hi does not share, an he {s so {nstinctively Trish and «0 House of Commons. |tnstinetively democratic tn feelin: “There {9 a curious contrast be-| that he understands at once tke tween this placid exterior and the| {nner votee of Ireland and never hn soul within—always {n perfect com-| been mistaken as to what its opt{nion mand of his temper, he yet has! might be, and how the policy shoul? made flercer speeches than almost) reflect that opinion. any other man of his time. On oc-| “He was at variance only once ‘easton after occesion, espectally in| until recently, with a section of b and hard-working members of the served several terms of {mprison-| possible, and then he had, {n eo ment under the Coercion acts, He| parts of the country, to face ex |te a volcano covered with snow. | perated mobs that more than onc: “Yet again, the contrast must be| threatened his life: indeed, he ts one | noted that, extreme as his opinions of the men who have gone seathle: have always been, he {a in counse)| through all kinds of perils, some temperate, composed and extraord!-| times from the riflo or bayonet of \nartly ready to Ieten to all sides|the British soldier; sometimes frow land to all friends; and again an-|the shillalah of his own countrymen | other contradiction: when discussfon){n thelr hours of controversy, “yfillions are stil] langhing at the comic tribulations of dear old whisper to other robins without giving a hoot in Hades whether there se sheer moe Tee eee x A anche oan has been exhausted, and ho has| (ite has never been known to John Bunny, although he has gone beyond the power of things to are dictaphones Pianted around or not. she would blow a police whistle, You can nen fitneys inte the cet > |ionce: formed Ms: Opinen, ia fs a8) Bibah | Som Seeker trouble him,” ehe reminds us. “Wo have laughed and aro still taugh- Spring 19 epring !n the euburbs, and you can tell when epring has | f+ atota until you epralit your wriet, lut you wert to ahto ee ete | tafextble and as unchangeable as Such {# the man who now tends ing at Thomas Wise. From the days of Falstaff down to those of the arrived without the ald of an adding machine and a net, Tho warbling Gish of spring, All they Dave in those plunges are bear 1 wr & |e tnw.of seture Goal Iriah Decpley 3¢ it be: pousibt ‘movies’ we have enjoyed laugh at the plights of a fat man on the of the moadow lark ts accompanied by the utiful melody of an i 1B beans and warn- “His first public appearance {n| for any parliamentarian to unit In real life it 1s much th: stage. “The world ts a richer, pleasant fiappier place because of Sts fut n It fiitngs of life themselves, but, as a gene Gde others enjoy them, and well deserve the rich rewards they Feap. orchestra of rheumatic bones ar ripped off of rural sh plains and blizzards, tt ce You know when spring {s loowe tn t tet! when spring bas sprung in Now York? four seasons in the year, but the Partridge Club must have won ‘em. fanfare of f 1 of being annoyed by ehil- rous plasters being instrokes and mosquitoes, country Rut how oan you There are supposed to be ings to watch your overe Can you find spring tn a B. R, T. car? indemnity of 1,00) Does spring lurk in New York's big } f the four incandescent and sacred hinges which swing tho asbestos door that guards the entranc You might as well levy an 00 red corpuscles How in the name to the regions of the eternal junk heap can spring get through a re es again, Dillon {s the politics was to support the eandi-| the Irish for | ie World who can do ft Jdature of John Mitchel, grandfather |one man !n 200 British Peers in Army lad that so few of them are ever poor and hung: t h & 2 Duke of Roxburghe, the first | bers of the British aristocracy maere & : anid Nobody ever sces spring in Now York unless he can afford to buy it | volving doors All the seasons they have in New York's hotels are | BE Dyke of elacenle prisoners tn the hands of th : on —aame_| ree | check in and check out, with once in a whilo @ bad check in British nobleman of that name ae ~ he Ger ‘ : +. an. ® ® Ankit 7, eo "i | © be wounded le di z England Levied First Income Tz ~ If there are any shrinking violets in New York they have shrunk #o © |, Does spring ever get into Fifth Avenue? Fat chance, It couldn't to be wounded in battle during he Duka of Roxb we . J : ax much they aren't visible to tne eyepiece, Everything ts supposed to | pay tho rent, Riverside Drive? Nope, Hverything om Riverside Drive t war, (sono of eight Dukes! aiehth to 1 tho ¢ which wa HE first | @ tax imposed in Robert Peel's income tax pit way turn green in the epring, but tf any wise New Yorker saw anything is stylish and spring hus becn wearing that same lace curtain for ed thelr services to Great| created tn 1 His r was England was provided for in an 1. The tax was bled in the green in this town he would figure that it was verdixris and not | 2,000 years There ts only one seas n Fifth Avenue and Riverside Britain soon a hostilities began | doushter of tho sev ko of Act of Parliament 408 years | °imean War, and has often heen ins | gpring. Of course eome Krean things do blow tnte the burg, but they | Drive and that 1s gossip, At last reports there were almost 200] Marlborough, and he t: thus a de ; creased t venus for milt- on get wire, | While thé ¢ nmoent {s enlarging New York’s terminal fa members of the House of Lords serv-|scendant of the victor of Blenhelin ape to enadlo the King to e Niklgate omerationa, Sate tee Mais eae ee ree a . | ce a8 nits : K's terminal facilittes | ein the British army, including, ; and Captain General ngland, The war with France. In 1798 Mr, Pitt |imy tux tnt ; | How ere waite tal when spring geen) Arp inte:town’?! Boring tent || for coal BAF mi put In a little track for spring to travel |) ociaes the clght Dukes, ten Mar-| Dulko succeoded to t) title at th rogeed und carried, after greut op | - sinneg | wrenithy Sonus pastor a Stn t to tho eubw Wo have ence WANE TANT hug Fo 1 this burg for some time and have | ciisog, alxty-one Harls, twenty-two | as In 13 be married position, a tax on Incomes “as a all's pei "| been fatwhee ein th way for a inte of years and we novor n em we \ ofa ents, There ts Just one ‘ant RA ta aia) Sl BP ninety’ | aeawtinsints a lor cf Onden anaes forthe prosecution of the wa ro taxing | Jamped any spring In ¢ Interbor » dungeon, There ts only one that we would like to happen to us, and we wouldn't squawk ¢ irons. A number of Peers have been of New Y rhe Toxburghe es- agains: 1 Be e % the same country. Th w| States to | geagon In the sud, and that's the strap season, Did you ever seo any surance companies for compensation killed and a great many more wound- | tates consist of 60,000 acres in Soot. gee repealed to 1818, but in isis sir utruggle a t Germany, epring In Wall Street? You can’t have spring without the gum and the We would like to stud our toe on a} ed {n battle, while several otter mow- Jand.