The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1918, Page 16

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D., co-author with Arthur Newoomd of “Analyzing Character,” "The Jod, the Man, the Boss,” and inventor of the Blackford employment pian, has authorized The Evening World to reproduce from their books a series of articles describing how to fit each type of man to the job which will bring him aucr THE MAN WHO LOVES MACHINERY. © multitudes of men and women the lure of levers, cranks, wheels and pinions is as seductive, as insidious, as heavenly in its promises and as hellish in its performances as the opium habit. The crav- ing for opium, however, is an acquired taste, while the passion for m: chinery is born in thousands. We have seen children while yet in their baby cabs fascinated by automobiles, sewing machines and even little mechanical toys. We know a boy on a farm who built a fairly workable minjature threshing machine with his own hands before he was old enough to speak the name of it in anything but baby talk. We have seen boys work in the broiling sun day after day hoeing potatoes, pulling weeds, gathering crops and doing other hard jobs for small pay, carefully saving every penny to buy a toy steam engine. ; Parents usually look upon these evidences of mechanical ability with pleasure. They regard them as sure indications of the vocation of the child, and oftentimes do everything in their power to encourage him in these lines. They little realize, however, the supreme danger which at- taches to this very manifestation. Nor have they looked far enough ahead to see what is, in so many cases, the lamentable result. The boy of this type hates to sit Sas tame cake auletly pe @ hard bench in # schoo! | re boys and girls leave school, and study books. Some of the boys who went to eclioo! with us had tml- tation levers and valve handles fas- tened about their desks in inge- | nious way, and instead of studying pretended that they were locqmo- tive engineers. With a careful oye upon the teacher, who was bis sema- phore, such a boy would work the reverse lever, open and close the throttle, apply and disengage the to juletiy and try to learn things in whieh they are not interested, out of dry, unprofitable books. Such pupils need to spend a great part of thelr time out-of-doors, They can be thus taught far more easily, will take a greater interest in their studies and can gain both knowledge and skill which will be more valuable to them in the world of work, | They also need to be taught Indoors Manual training, domestic science, brakes, the lubrication and other-| printing, laundry work, scientific wise go through the motions of run-| horticulture, scientific agriculture, ning a locomotive with great seri-|dairying, and many other such ousn and huge enjoyment. branches. The recently projected These boys usually have consider-| vocational schools, continuation able trouble with their teachers. | schools, and other such contrivances They do not like grammar, fre-|for giving the boy or the girl an quently do not care for geography | opportunity to learn a useful trade and history. They flounder dolefully | while he 1s mastering the three R's fn these studies and are in @ state of!are a very important and valuable more or less continual rebellion and | step tn the right direction. With an disgrace. Because of their intense | opportunity thus to find expression activity and restlessness they irri-| for his mechanical ability and his tate the teacher. She wants quiet in! great activity, the boy will be en- the schoolroom. Their surreptitious | couraged to remain longer in school, playing, rapping and tapping On| Those who have left school at an| ! Ye BUT ALWAYS LET @ PA CAVEMAN ELOPED, wit (NOM ae HIM BRING HER BACK. AND THE FRUIT OF HIS TOIL WAS WORRY! cauanean Mag emit ao nk OT a oe coe ‘ \ » Biiano. ten A Mabe You GIVE UP) BRIDGE ~- “sans MADE: You. © Get VENT 2AM. No deaks and other evidences of dammed: | early age on account of Featicaantaa | up energy and desiro for more free-| should take very seriously ‘to heart | éom and more scope of action in-| the fates of tens of thousands of men terfores with the desired sanctity of and women before them who have} silence. done the same thing and who have | Outside of school hours and dur-| made a failure of their lives, because ‘mg the long vacation the fatal fas- they did not have sufficient education | ¢ination of machinery draws these| and training with which to realize young people to factories, railroad their aspirations. | yards, machine shops and other! Oftimes a few dollars @ weok Is.a\ places where they may indulge their | very welcome addition to the family fancy and craving for mechanical income. To the boy himself three, motion. The boy who hangs around | four, five or e1x dollars a week seems machine shop or railroad yard is like @ fortune, Neither the parents always pressed into voluntary and nor the boy look ahead. Neither ot | delighted service by those who work them sees that when the Mttle salary | there. has increased | Even if the boy does not begin in| eighteen or this way, the’ result 1s substantially the same. He may take the bit in his teeth, leave rchool and go to work at some trade which will give to fifteen, sixteen,| twenty-five dollars a | week the boy will have reached the | \zenith of his possibilities, There will | then be no further advancement, ur- jless, during his apprenticeship and at least temporary satisfaction for | Journeymanship, or previously to his mechanical craving, or he may,/ them, he has secured mental train through economic necessity, be|ing which will enable him to gO forced out of schoo! and naturally gravitate into a machine shop or factory. j Meher, hold more responsible posi- | tions and earn larger pay Al Priddy, in his iMuminating book | In former days the boy who left|“Man or Machine—Which?” says achoo) and took up employment in| "The most convincing way tn which a factory learned a trade. He be-/ Man may master the machine ts came a shoemaker, or a barness-|Wben he invents a new and better maker, or a wheelwright, or a gun- 8, OF Improves an old one. This ts maker. To-day, however, the work the real triumph of mind over mat on all of these articles ha’ been so | ter, of skill over machinery subdivided that the boy perhaps be- comes stratded in front of a ma- chine which does nothing but punch Out the covers for tin cans, or cut | Pieces of leather for the heels of The Seal Which Is Used | on Our Paper Money shoes or some other dner operation \A BRC at fie Rovotuttonary in manufacture. nation atl poly hent baste Once he has mastered the compa- pape: money, says Popular Sclones Fatively simple method of operating | Monthly. The seal which appears on | Dis particular, machine the boy 18 |every bill issued by the Government M&kely to remain there for all time, |contains the abbreviated words His employer—perhaps short-sighted “Thesaur. Amer. Septent The has no desire to advance him, be- full phrase is “Ti ricana| cause this would mean breaking in SePtentriomaiis Sisiilum,” which mim. | another boy to handle his machine, PY means: “Beal of the Treasury of money he sald with dign’ Ad to a h 4 40 be wondered at that jn Latta. News Crazy Quilt It’s a Weird Job as Performed by Reporter Baer, Still the Morals That May - Be Extracted From the Day’s Happenings and the Lessons They Teach Are Valuable to Humanity—For Instance: The Idea of a Small. Percentage of Alcohol in Your Near-Beer is That You Will Get Drowned Before You Get Drunk—And Talk About Sporting Accuracy: Ben Hur Never Lost a Race. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS’’) BAER. Copyright, 1918, by the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), F the first robin of spring was robining around New Jersey yesterday I his wife is now @ widow. New Jersey tore off an encore to the Black Tom explosion. They had « nioe day for it. Next Monday is the day to move your watch up ar hour. That is, if you hnve a watch, If you haven't got a watch, move your necktie up an hour. Yea, bo. The Germans think they are going to capture Petrograd, but the Bullsheviki will fool ‘em by ohanging the name on ‘em, There was a man arrested in Yonkers for robbing houses without a license, They are now wearing tin hats in London. The English order thetr hats by the pint ut man has invented a new gun that looks up your address in the telephone book, pages you in the hotel corridors, shoots 1,000 miles around corners and finally blows you loose from your fedora, Some gun, You said tt, Some guy out in Kokomo says that he saw Gen, Lew Wallace's dratna wixty-three times and never saw Ben Hur lose a rac crooked, the Idea, Germans caught celebrating in Milwaukee were sentenced to life in Milwaukee, No extenuating circumstances, Thé drive'on Baupaume was costly to the German Army. The Kaiser had six sons when the drive started and only ‘Ras @ half-dozen left now, He cried four tron hats full, He is roundshouldered from cartying medals on his chest. Ladies have decided to economize on Easter millinery by getting @ new hat every This prevents the old hats from wearing out. We don't know how many buttons the ladies are wearing on their shoes, as we can’t count over two hundred and fifty-six, American Army has a sniper who can shoot a yard of epaghettl through the eye of a needle over a transom, That guy 1s a dead atm. The only thing he ever missed was the last train back to the cantonment. Talking about those New Jorsey explosions reminds us of that last Black Tom blow It tilustrated the difference between life in the big and small towns, It happened at midnight and blew everybody in New Jersey out of the hay, It simply blew everybody in New York off thetr Look around and choose your exit now. Don't try to beat your t Conne: yet, Looks chairs neighbor to the str worst thing that we could wish on the Keiser and Trotzky is y exchange photographs with each other, Trotsky would suffer most, as he is nearstehted. Changing from woollen ones to summer- weights Is dangerous in March, but changing ‘em in March isn't half es dangerous as changing ‘em in New Jersoy, By moving the clocks up an hour, the Interborough has moved the 6 Yawning Fishes Imitation Leather ID you ever see a fish yawn? Mr. Richard Etmhirst, an Eng- | INSEED oll, certain paints, rosin, sum, and a chemical treatment WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1918 | Corra | ‘Do Cave Man Methods . . Give Husband a Wife Who Really Suits Him? Harris, in Her Book, “Making Her His Wife,’ Has Her Hero Try That Plan on the Bride With Whom He Elopes, But the Result Isn’t What | He Expected! By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | 66] WANT to make the woman I marry a good wife to me. I feel t | | must marry an enemy. A man generally does, anyhow. It's | the right way; always was the natural way until man fell into the | weakness of love-making. Ist’t marriage savage? Of course it is. Fiercest relation on earth. Can’t make it anything else until you make your own wife. If you don’t, she'll make you. Al- ways tries that.” Easter brides, attention! That is the philosophy of John Arms, caveman and hero of “Making Her His Wife,” the newest book by our most brilliant epi- grammatic novelist, Corra Harris. You should all read it, either in the light of a warning or of a counsel of perfection, according to your temperament. It is the very latest version of the tragi-comedy of Petruchio and Kate. Personally, although I confess to a keen admiration for Mrs. Harris and her scintillating tales, | think the caveman is “old stuff,” and I don't think that he gets away with his role outside of the movies. There still may be men to-day who say to their wives, In low, thrilling tones, what | dena than alive woman's elub dn John Arms said to his Olive: | Valhalla, Ho frowns dourly because \*There’s one thing every wite | she admits to a neighbor that she must learn—to obey her husband.”|Dlays bridge when she gets @ But does euch @ pronouncement| Chance. “Won't you ever,” Olive carry conviction, even to the mind| herself appeals to John tn a mo- of the epeaker? The joker in the; Ment of humorous insight, “quit marriage service ts that word “obey” | Sawing your Ten Commandments —when it is allowed to remain|@nd just enjoy something because there at all. |{t's entertaining?” Laughter, {a the modern woman’s| But that is after several further almost infalifble “weapon against|episodes in the business of wife- the caveman. Lf she. fs devoid of aj taming. John decides that Olive sense of humor) or ff /he {s particu-| Shall cure her boredom by helping larly atavistic in his methods, any | him out in the hardware store, and policé court will gtve ber protec-| sets her at the business of stock- tion. Evén ifsshe feverts to cave| taking. In one inspiring moment of tactics herself, and takes the law!rebellion she deliberately throws his |into her own-handa, she usually is| dishes on the floor and smashes [abeotrea of diame. In a recent New| them, Jersey murder case, a wife was ac- Then he sends his mother and the mald off on a visit and makes her cook and housekeeper, although she never has done anything of the sort before, She runs away—and takes an express train, meets | n the station at-the end of her journey and calmly elopes back home. Now comes what seems to me the quitted promptly for shooting down lone type of cave husband. vertholess, Mrs. Harris has | made a moet entertaining tale of him.! | A Southerner with an Indian great- |gfandfather, a hardware store and Jan fron mine, John Arms falls in Hove with hte “enemy,” @ beautitul,| |charming, overindulged New York! most significant admission in “Mak- girl, who makes his acquaintance ing Her His Wife.” ‘To all outwagd y nearly running over him with her! appearance, Olive {s made, the automobile. ; Wears flat-heeled shoes, a home. Instead of driving ler made dress, and blacks the kitchen Thy b home, as she requests, he'elopes with her for Stove. Yet John is “anxious about @ long drive in the country, A fow| Olive. She certainly was not like days‘ tater they elope again. (At| berselt, this point I must say that T think] “No woman ever Mrs. Harris poi out Incidly, “after her bus- band actually succecds in adjusting her to his own ideas of what a wife should be, And no man would ever | choose such a woman if she was in that state of silence and submission before he married her. But this is one thing you cannot teach a man. He will object to the very qualities jin his wife which attracted him to her as a girl. If he has his own on, when'she {s taken to her hus-| W4¥ With her he will put her in flat- home in. Valhalla, one of the) beeled shoes, though he was in love “peto’ the wah” towns with which| With her little French slippers, He the South {s filled. |says to her that he wonders why Honorably enough, John refuses) She fusses up her hair so, when it to live on her money. But he also! W4% these same vagrant curls he refuges to allow her to spend on her- noticed the firat time he saw her. self the income from her own for-| 50 be reduces his wife to the prose tune.. And he makes of his poverty | °f his own masculine mind, and then a smug virtue. spends the rest of his days vaguely |» “John had married a rich girl and|{!" need of that girl she was before |hne was himself almost wretchedly | be changed her into this plain |poor, He had. no compunctions| Woman who wears broad-toed shoes, {about that, He believed with a sort|#Mooths her hair back and clothes of elemental dignity that if a man|herself in sensible frocks that are was poor, endured hardships, his 8 Nely as hell.” wife was no better than he was,| The man who tries to reform his {She must endure the same condi- wife, by cave methods or politer tion and accept the same hardships, | Ones, lives to be sorry for it. And In his opinion, there was nothing that is just \tragic, nothing to regret, in having) 48 for Olive, she runs away once | aken Olive from an existence based |More, and then her husband appears upon false ‘standards of wealth and at a fancy dress ball in the costume indulgence. He was not responsible|of his savage ancestor and clopes |tor the fact that she had started, With ber for the final time, There life wrong. She would not begin it! 1s the distant flutter of stork's wings Jright. He had this understanding| “Being a man, he did not consider with her before their marriage. She, how much he was indebted to na- John's ultimate success with the lady of his affections was due less) ‘to his cave and club tactics than to his incurably romantic habit of eloping at every opportunity.) “Oh, thank heaven IT cannot es- cape from this man!’ she murmured) with a sigh of surrender, when he told the chauffeur to drive to Christ Chureh, | Bunt she changes ber mind later o'clock subway crush up an hour, However, you will be able to recognize lish biologist, tells us that) and we will bave a cbmpound was not to spend her own money ture for this victory. And if Olive it without the ald of blueprints, A subway crush Js a subway crush, no | yawntng is & common habit of cod.las tough and as duruble as leather! (5ne must live .within his moans, | knew, she refused to admit that, matter how many biscuits tt takes to make an Hawaltan dancer's cos- | saithe, cee pisic and Poti Such are the wonders of ‘modern| @djust herself to the cae even to heraele ie tume. They say that Cheero only containa 1 per cent, of alcohol, You | other kinds of fish, says Popular | chomistry, and necessary economics of thelr| - mere” can drink {t until you get corns on your elbow without trying to bend @ | Science Monthly. From his deve | ho process for producing thts tmi-|etation in life.” Wells That Work Nights table around the waiters neck and tying it into @ lover's knot, Tho | 4°? Lee ag Pan sptinlyol jtatlon leather is based upon one dis-| His next #tep in the campaign to) PN the desert of Western Australia idea of the small percentage of alcohol te that you will get drowned be- ferry Is done under water. Tle enya: |COveTC4 48 long ago as 1864, saya Pop-|‘'make her bis wife,” remould her |] there are well whieh yield water fore you get drunk, That's @ bright future for a guy who voted for | pom numerous observations I am war Science Monthly. At this time|nearer to his heart's desire, is to) only at eh Paictds Popular Wilnon, ain't it? Easily, A Hoosisville lady with St, Vitua dance started | ted to think that this action of fishes | Frederick Walton found out how a forbid her to speak to a divorced, ¢ ; Mon “Refore the w to knit a sweater for the soldiers, Every time she took a atitch the wool | is @ real yawn, and serves the true) durable and sanitary floor covering | woman although she tells him fran} ial - OMG: Alias hissings and would break, But she'd knot it, ‘Then she'd knit, Then she'd Jmot, || physiological purpose of a yawn—|could be made, This covering—the/ty thet In the past she has known 1.114 jenomenon ‘Then she'd knit, She wasn't knitting @ sweater, She was knotting a | that 1% Sushi » drain with Died | forerunner: of our mi dern pert iee ~|as many divorced women as any lo ty due to & han » form of t The y wh t that sweater must feel Uke a pickle with during period ugalshness, Whe | consisted of strong ¢ . oe ©Ov-| other kind, He is horrified because L by OBARDD be i which the \ warts | conditions ¢ to yawning are|ered with an oil-and-rosin compound] a» of gheer impishness, she does a. flows, ahd to “the extreme a slight incre erature, and,| heated and hardened while exposed die (Wrench Gon and danas’ to Ba aden oh tween day American liner escaped when tho Captain tossed out a smoke sore | 1 suppose, the accompanying diminu- |to the alr, A modification gtves pat. Roh sone And | Sanse. 1015 ae ame ff Sele reatods It's @ lucky thing for American Uners that Pittsburgh didn't copyright yon of oxygen. bent leath ]eaieyee tae fours,” ® more! the advance of the water, i