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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918 Homely Girls’ Champion Tells Why They Make Late at Night, Put Movies Before Business or Get Married, Says Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel,War Employment Department Head. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Goprright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HW pretty girl cannot have things all her own way any longer. Her place may be at the matrimonial altar or in the front Tow of the chorus, but it isn’t anywhere in the front line of ‘war workers. Not that the pretty girl is lacking in patriotism—perish he thought! But her devotion to her country h trick of taking a personal instead of an impersonal form. No sooner is she well trained in making a uniform than she ups and marries one. That is one of the reasons why Mra, Olive Stott Gabriel, one of New York's best known clubwomen and head of the Employment Department of the Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense, is making a special attempt to place plain, middle-aged women in war work. Presumably authorities at Wash- 4 ington were actuated by similar motives of caution to = choose brunette typists in preference to blondes when enlisting a young army of women to handle the clerical work fnvolved in paying our increased military forces, Three thousand bru- nette typists were busily at work in Washington before a single blonde was employed. “I am niaking a special effort to induce employers to take on mid- dle-aged women who frankly have not the fresh prettiness of youth for important war tasks,” Mrs. Gabriel told me yesterday at her home, No. 118 East 17th Street. Her work with the Employment Department ts done at No. 53 Waverley Place, and she has found hundreds of posi- tions for women in the weeks since she joined the Mayor's Committee ef Women “A very pretty young girl usually Most Efficient Workers They Don’t Powder Their Noses, Watch the Clock, Stay Out @inks of her job as a stop-gap be- tween school and matrimony. She Goes not take her work seriously. She Watches the clock, 1s chiefly Inter- ested in the contents of her pay-en- velope and is not regular in attend- ance. “Of course,” Mra. Gabriel quickly qualified, “I don't mean that all pretty @irls are industrial misfits, Some of them have sense and ability. But it @lways has seemed unfair to me that they should be preferred to the plain, superficially unattractive worker, who, because she hea few distractions, ta Ikely to prove @ competent and faith- ful employee.’ “Don't you find that employers are almost unalterably prejudiced tn favor of the peaches?” I asked Mra. Gabriel. ‘Then we both laughed. “They say, particularly the factory men, that they want the dash and go of youth,” she explained. “They seem to think that only the very young can be speeded up sufficiently to perform , the work. “I point out to them that, though the middie aged woman may work a trifle more slowly, she is infinitely steadier im her application, She ts on hand every morning and every afternoon. Bhe doesn't stay away to go to the movies or come in late because she has een dancing al} night “I placed tp a munitions factory re- cently a woman who has been married forty-twp years. J know that she will make good, because she has experi ence, judgment, reliability and quite enough physical strength, “I often think that plain, not too young women would be more success. ful in offices than these little fufty Deauties who must powder their noses .* dozen times a morning and who go out #0 much in the evenings that they do not get enough sleep to keep their heads clear for work. “While they work, these girls whow less concentration than thelr plaine! sisters, and it is perfectly true tnat about the time they have acquired ox. perience they leave to get married. The lure of the uniform is #o strong just now that !t must be particularly dim. cult to keep employed @ young, pretty, unmarried girl, On the other hand, there are many slightly older womon, the wives and relatives of soldiers, who are being forced into employment, There are other mature women whose regular work is some sort of ‘luxury trade’ smashed up by the war. Why fot give these women a chance In the factories, offices and in our own kitchens?” “Then how much less distracting to the male workers in an office t# the presence of a plain young woman instead of a rose-and-gold blond I suggested to Mrs. Godbriel. “When the latter passes down through a row of desks to the water cooler every man in the place must waste at least 4@ minute lifting his head to look. But surely you don't tell the plain women whom you place tn positions that it is their lack of pulchritude which is getting them the jobs?" “I wouldn't be so cruel and untact. ful," Mrs. Gabriel protested indig- nantly, “For that matter, every woman has something attractive about her, I simply believe that the woman who has to win her way in the world by something besides her face qualifications 1s likely to prove a more officient and purposeful work- er than the pretty, empty-headed Mt. tle creature. And after all, when an employer hires a typist, a factory hand or a cook, he 1s not selecting a window decoration. “Get Off the Earth” an Order It Would Be Hard to Obey © GREAT ts the power of gravi- tation that man is practically a prisoner upon the earth's sur- face, even the aviator who temporar- fly escapes to a height of 20,000 feet or more, Yet a human being might leave it forever, if he made his de- parture at sufficient speed to ove ome the weight of the ball upon which we live, 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, The muzzle velocity of a shell from the most powerful cannon 1s about 8,000 feet per m 4, but this pro- Jectile will fall to the ground traversing a few miles, so ita specd ‘would have to be greatly exceeded by the individual desiring to penetrate into space. after Development of R. WALTER CLARK of Phila- D delphia has recently made some interesting investigations to find out how the old-time lighting coull- {fens in his city compare with those Of to-day. Popular Science, reporting the results of his studies, says: He has discovered that until as late on 1855 only flickering sperm oil sud candles were in use. Not until the following decade did the “highly im- Proved and universally used" kero- @ene ulmp appear. Gas did not come out until the period between 1865 and 1876. And ‘then only the wealthy could use it Ir @eld at $3.50 per thousand cubic foot! i cael , t « If @ projectile could be fired at a rate of 000 feet per second, writes Charles Nevers Holmes in Popular |Sclence Monthly, it would probably |never fall to the surface, Its rate of {motion would just equal the terrestrial attraction, so It would become a satel- lite, always revolving about the earth, | When science make possible an in- jitlal velocity of 37,000 feet @ second, |ahout seven miles, then a projectile jmhy be started on a journey from | which it might never return, This | tremendous speed should enable tt to burst through the attraction of our planet and rush on into trackless spa The fact that it will not return would doubtless dampen the ardor of Jan adventurous pass Artificial Light ut ten artificial prepared later, ilumination. mantle came revolutionizing The present era begain in 1895, when gas and elec tricity into general use, gas selling at $1 per thousand cublo feet and electricity at 10 cents per kilo- |watt hour, Since this time the was nantle and the electric Mlament have ween Vast ‘ovements, Bo that to- age family ts obtaining times as much Nght as the people of half a century ago had, though they pay only about three-quariers as much for it as thoir ‘grandfathers did for the dim lights of other days, years came im day the av pout el« | Ws « ¢] Plain Girls Best for Front Line of War Work PRETTY ONES, AS A RULE, LACK STEADY APPLICATION AND CONCENTRATION, EXCEPT ON eet erttatie tiamenrmiton renee MATRIMONIAL CHANCES aan a r WASHINGTON EMPLOYED BRVNETTES INSTEAD OF BLONDES FOR WAR WORKS RM: HY \SwT FAIR TO THE: PLAIN. GIRLS) FOR: HIM 0 PREFER AINA GOD LOGKER ‘THE DOLL Tyre USES HER JOR AS A S'TOP-GAP BETWEEN SCHOOL HAND MARRIAGE He | PEACHES : GO TO THE MOMES - AND PANCE ALL NIGHT: A Yard More of Daylight Starting the Day an Hour Earlier Is Going to Be a Tough Job—Why Should a Commuter Be an Hour Ahead of a Morning Train That Is Always an Hour Behind Time?—If Anything Is to Be Shoved Ahead Let It Be the Lagging Mercury—No Alarm Clock Ever Lost an Argument, So the Outlook for the Rip Van Winkles Is Discouraging. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Pubtlahing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) LD Gus Pithecanthropus never had any buttons on his vest. But ff Gus did have buttons on his vest they would have been the most venerable buttons in the world, for Mr, Pithecanthropus made out his income Ddlank over 600,000 years ago, There {s even a few bushels of doubt that Gus ever looked et the world from the inside of a vest, @s you can't even get a 500,000-year-old vest down on Hester Street, We have no eyewitnesses to the fact that Senor Pithecanthropus ever Golled up in a waistcoat, as the only kind of eye that would last for a half of million years would be a glass eye. And a plebiscite of New York's police blotters shows that a glass eyewitness is unreliable, If Gus never had a vest, then he never had any vest buttons, And if he didn't have any vest buttons, what's the use of arguing? Even if he did have vest buttons, they would all be off by now, for you never saw a vest button that would stay any place Dut on the floor. Qus probably had 4 fairly good time of it a half million years ago with no vest buttons to worry about, no shoes to have buntons in, and no alcohol to take by mistake in the dark and by tntention in the lght. He may have had alarm clocks, measles and other epidemics to bother him, but by stuffing a toe in each ear, Gus could easily defeat the alarm clock and absorb a little sleep, Stung one toe in each ear t# @ corrugated recipe to mix when you are paging & little more sleep, but the Pithecanthropus was an agile suburbanite. This insomnia cure is a difficult formula, but it's the only way to bilk an alarm clock, An alarm clock never lost a debate yet. Arguing with one is like throwing biscuits at the moon, An alarm clock has a voice, but no ears, And even if Congress does pass that bill pasting ancther hour of Gaylight onto North America and fringes, doe: from the geared clutches of that A, M, Bolshe that release democracy 1, the Blg Ben? Why move the alarm clocks one jump ahead? They are two jumps ahead of us now. ! Giving the alarm clocks an hour's start on the public ts going to add another two-ton bead to the fine lavalliere of grindstones already festooned around George Public's neck, A yard more of daylight wouldn't be @o bad if we Ket it in the cool of the evening, but 6 in the morning te early enough without making tt an hour earlier. Moving the clocks a yard ahead js Hable to establish a rough prece- Gent, Suppove the taxicab drivers move their taximeters a yard ahead? Buppose the waiters move tho check a yard ahead? Imagine getting two yards of bill for only a foot of food. If they have to move every- thing ahead, why not move the thermometers a few yards to the front. ‘They've been @ yard behind all winter, A few feet more of daylight 1s a good stunt provided we use it right, The idea is to make hay while the sun ehines, But making hay isn't any inducement to the Rip Van Winkles who would rather hit the hay than make it. It 1s also going to install a complete set of confusion in the breakfast department, How are you going to order two four-minute eggs an hour ahead? And why should a Long Island commuter he an hour ahead of a morning train that ‘s always an hour behind? Also, why should a man get up an hour early to miss @ trolley car that he can miss just as well an hour later? It robs him of his snooze and doesn’t help the trolley car, Taking the clock apart and putting tt together again ts a complt- cated Job, It's something like taking a filvver apart and having enough parts left over to make two flivvers, If Congress isn’t careful, it 1s going to have three or four orphan hours on its hands that won't fit in any- where. What ts Congress going to do with that extra hour? That spare yard of daylight won't be so bad if they tack it onto dinner hour, But morning bulges enough into night without putting another bay window on tt. Starting the day an hour earlter ts going to be a tough Job Fact ts, that starting the day at all ts a tough assignment, Bar) “Shiga of Fish’ HE next time you read of ajthe wind Reddish dust ts also Ak shower of fish or toads do not| brought down during rainstorms. regard the story as entirely the| Showers of “worms” may be caused product of sprightly imagination.|by hordes of the larvae of Insects, Such thiugs do happen from time to] such as the soldier beetle, emerging timey, It 1s quite possible that a vlo-| from goll saturated by @ heavy down- lent wind may scoop the water from] pour, Quantities of pollen from trees a pond or stream and deposit it, to-].nd ‘plants are often carried by the gether with its inhabitants, some dis-| wind, which would explain the re- tance away ported rains of sulphur, Showers of blood or sulphur or] Tornadoes have transported for con- wérms are often described as super-| siderable distances far heavier ob- natural happenings 1n ancient writ-| jects than those mentioned above, A ings, says W. L. McAtee tn the] curtle, 6 by 8 Inches and entirely cov. Monthly Weather Review, but they] ered by ice, is said to have fallen dur- are easily explained, Inyvtances of| ing a hailstorm in Mississippi, while, “plood rains” have been shown to bein the same $ @ 675-pound tron due to the presence in pools of rvin| screw was lifted by @ hurricane and water of vast quantities of Insect or| deposited 999 feet away, A church animal life, the eggs or spores of| spire was carried s¢venteen miles by which were probably transported byl a tornado at Mount Carmel, 1, ' MONDAY, U. S. War History Proves Untrained Americans Make Brilliant Military Leaders , They Spring From the Soil at Their Country's Call and Lead Us to Victory—Men Like Washington, Putnam, Warren, Scott, Paul Jones, Houston, Jackson, Sickles, Mile Woods, Whose Names Are Written in Our Annals, By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ERMANS, from the outset of the war, have scoffed at the idea that the inexperienced citizen-troops of a non-military country like ours could prove themselves able to cope with the long-trained soldiers of the Central Powers. The sneering claim has been “made in Germany,” again and again, that it would take years to shape our citizen-soldiery into anything like an effictent fighting machine, and that our {nexpertenced officers could contain no true generalship material. We were likened to China, for unwieldy weight. Even now, while our boye are etill new to the trenches, Germany is beginning to learn her mistake in sizing us up in that way. Bute single glance at history would have saved her from making such @ dlunder of judgment in the first place. From earliest days, America has proved that her sons can quickly be brought to a perfection in war quite equal to that of foreigners who have spent their lives in the practice of arms. Also, that the best general 1s not always the man who has made a life profession of war. To touch at random on @ few of many hundred such cases: George Washington (whom the Prussian Frederick the Great called “the greatest general of the age”) was not a soldier by trade, He was a farmer. Beginning life as a surveyor, he served for a very few weeks as a militiaman in the Braddock campaign, when he was @ mere boy. That was his sole experience with war—that single, short expedition through the forests against an Indian foe—until he was forty-five. Yet, at middle age, he took the fleld {n competition with British generals who had been professional soldiers from boyhood. And he thrashed them. With armies smaller and worse equipped MARCH 18 Benedict Arnold, up to the time of his black treason, was second only to Washington in martial genius. Yet by profession he was a druggist, not a soldier, At the Battle of Saratoga— the turning point of the Revolution— Arnold, the druggist, forced Burgoyne, the lifelong strategist, to surrender. Israe| Putnam, one of the Revolution’s foremost leaders, was a Yankee farm- er. Gen. Warren, hero of Bunker Hill, was a doctor who had absolutely no experience in any form of warfare. Winfield Scott, later the commander of all our armies, was a lawyer, with no martial knowledge at all. When our War of 1812 was impending he joined the army, and In @ short time rose to the rank of Major General, winning immortal war-fame at the Rattle of Lundy’s Lane against a British commander whose career had been devoted wholly to arms. Sam Houston, the man who led a handful of rough pioneers against the carefully drilled Mexican Army and who won the independence of Texas from Mexico, was @ politician and frontiersman, not a soldier, His op- ponent, Gen, Santa Ana, was Mexico's foremost professional tactician. Yet Houston outgeneraled Santa Ana, just as the untrained Texas frontiersmen outfought the far larger and profes- sionally martial armies of Mexico, Perhaps the most shining example of Americans’ natural genius for fighting (and their superiority over the trained soldiers of other lands) was shown at the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815, Gen. Pakenham, an English tactician of note, led a strong force of British regulars to the capture of New Orleans, These troops were vet- erans of the Napoleonic wars; men who bragged that they had not slept under a roof for years, and who bad overcome every European foe they had faced, Opposed to this formidable enemy were a handful of backwoodsmen and shopkeepers and dockhands, many of whom had never been in @ fight. Their leader was @ lanky young law- yer who had no practical military ea- ucation and who had very little edu- cation of any sort, His name wa Andrew Jackson. He and his raw militiamen met the British veterans and bestowed on them such a defeat in fair fight that the Invaders were aj but annihilated, Gen, Danial E. Sickles of Civil War fame was a printer who later became a lawyer and then a politiclan, At the outset of the Civil War he raised a brigade of volunteers. For this ser- vice he was made a Colonel, In a short time he was a Major General and Corps Commander, The Civil War bristles with euch cases—where @ man with no military experience developed @ genius for generalship. To take a single bright instance, out of many. When the war began a Boston clerk threw over his job and went to the front. He knew nothing of fighting, but he wanted to serve his country, When the war ended he was a Major General— Major Gen. Nelson A. Miles, jrant, Sherman, Stonewall Jackson —all had had a West Point training in learly youth and had seen actual ser- vice, of a kind, But all three had long since left the army and had de- yoted themselves to civil life, along one line or another, before the Civil War made them immortal. None of the three were professional soldiers when the war began; nor had they | devoted more than @ very few yeara than theirs,he outgeneralled and outfought them: of thelr middle-aged lives to the study of warfare. Gen. Leonard Wood was a practis- ing phystclan who joined the army, as a side line to his own profession, as a “contract surgeon.” Presently ho found his genius was for war rather than for pill-rolling. Paul Jones, first of our ea heroes, bad no experience in naval matters when he Joined Uncle Sam's new born navy. He was merely a merchant + Captain—a peaceful skipper of a peaceful cargo-carrier. Yet he beat Capt. Pearson of the Serapis—a man trained from boyhood to naval strate egy. As for the American rank and file: Our forefathers had never seen a bat- tle or (presumably) read a book on “tactics” when they faced the Brit. ish veterans at Lexington and af Bunker Hill; or when they chased a force of redcoat regulars all the way from Concord to Boston. Washing= ton welded that undisciplined rabble into a weapon that beat back the best # vrofessional soldiers on earth and drove them out of our country, leav~ | ing us free! The Civil War armies on both sides. were made up of men who, for the most part had never smelled powder, Yet the herolo deeds of these armies soon won the amazed admira~ tion of the whole military world. To come down to Inter days, it was the Rough Rider Regiment, almost all composed of non-military men, which cleared San Juan Hill of the pick of the Spanish Army; an army whose men had for years been in the sere vice, Can American citizen soldiers to« day hold thelr own—and more than hold thelr own—against the veteran professional armies of the Central Powers? Read history for “past per. formances.” And then watch them! _ “ ” Newspaper “Logs KEP warm with the newspaper log! It burns from three qua: ters of an hour to an houranda half in any fireplace or stove, Popus lar Sclence Monthly exp ‘ains how it is made. Spread five sheets of new folded once, on a riaarta table, folded ends toward you them Into a tight roll section 18 completely another section, and continue until the “log” ts from two to three inches in diameter, Saturate each pell thoroughly with keroseng, —— with the Begin to rol) Before the firat rolled, insert