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van ae “Peoe Of their alliance, { i i / } { FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918 The Most Striking Things I Saw on 15 Battle Fronts In the Big World War Types ot Women “Misfits” Described by Dr. Blackford | WIFE WHO BURNS THE DINNER MAY BE ONLY WASTING TALENT USEFUL IN ANOTHER SPHERE, WHILE MATRIMONY IS ONLY “CAREER” SOME GIRLS ARE FITTED FOR. © BD. Thomas Curtin, American War Correspondent, Who Ha: | Seen More of the War Than Any Other Man, Tells Evening World Readers of His Most Impressive Experiences. By D. Thomas Curtin. Part VI. XV. France Still Holds the Line—Verdun, January, 1918. O NE of the early questions we were asked when be, inning the stu fy of science at school was “What happens when an irresistibe Nothing happens, force meets an immovable object?” I have seen it on the western front—and no place fetter than at Verdun. In any shell hole outside Souville, back of the Meuse, one may meditate pon this truth. | While | stood there, ready to duck if the whistling and screaming In * the air turned to an express train shriek, a German airman hummed over , head, and a few moments later an observation balloon in the rear burst into flames. There was a streak below it, a parachute opened, and the Quick-witted observer could go up again some day. The boom of artil- fery, the splintering bang-bang of shells, and air fights bespoke war wividly, but all were merely incidents. | The graphic truth lay outspread before me, A colossal drama had Been played on that narrow stage, of which the rectangular mass of Douaumont was in the background, Vaux on the right, / Fleury in the centre, and Dead Man's Hill across tho | Meuse in the wings on the left. An awe-inspiring, bleak and dismal wilderness, where the sliell holes are 60 thick that they overlap and lose individuality. Two | Years ago some of these slopes were so thickly wooded that their follago shut out the sky from the man beneath To-day you could search these slopes on your hands and I~ knees and you would not find a twig or a good-sized splinter, But you would find battered and rusty helmets, | an iron mine of shell fragments and duds, and if you Yoo: scratched @ little beneath the surface you would find ver" one of the grimmest and vastost sepulchres in the his @ery of mankind. But you need not turn the earth for all such evidence, Pho bones of the battlefield have often a peculiar way of falling to ste buried. Even the boots I have stumbled over will often contain the bleach fag framework of a leg and a foot, | And what does this war stage of Verdun signify? As I surveyed its dev: | @station my mind went back to scenes in Germany, the fall of that rec tangular mass of Dovaumont electrifying the whole empire to a joy that Panished the food shortage depression which had set in. Then the mov-| fing catapult of @ nation’s might concentrated on a few square miles, Vaux, @hiaumont, Fleury, Dead Man's Hill and the crushing pincers press around | France's mighty fortress. Again I hear the Germans talk boastfully of | mashing victory and indemnities. Social Democrats again forget their Profession. Verdun was in the German grasp; to the average German It @eant Paris, and Paris France. Then with one chief enemy out the rest {would topple. So I hear them speak. But to the military caste Verdun would mean even more, When they Picked it for attack they carefully took into full consideration that the Orown Prince, at onco their greatest supporter and puppet, was nom! pally in command of the Army of the Meuse, the Fifth Army. To take Verdun would be to place him among the people on a pedestal higher than Moltke and Napoleon. This would strap the military caste more @trongly than ever in the saddle when he succeeded to the throne. Truly fam alluring project and a mighty gamble with the lives of men, | THE MORAL. VER three years and a half of war have convinced me of the follow- | ing: For any appreciable time any great offensive will clog in its own weight, no matter how successful in the initial stages. That one of Germany's greatest war advantages {s that ehe dom! f@Mates her alliance and that she in turn is dominated by the most deter- @ined collection of men in the werld—rendered partly so by the fact that @heir whole system ts staked on winning. Another advantage is that she makes use of every scrap, human and material, that she can muster—legless soldiers mond uniforms; prost!- tutes are not given free rein to put German soldiers out of action, but are | founded up to fill cartridges to put Allied soldiers out of action; the | ebildren are mobilized for countless collections, And so on and on, 1 think that the decision will rest upon endurance, There ts no| short cut to victory by either eide, and there never has been one since the battle of the Marne, The side which cracks least Internally should Bowe out at the finish, The Central Powers have the advantage In homogeneity tn the dominant From the military point of view, the Centra! Powers have a tre- mendous geographical advantage. From the endurance point of view, the | (Allies have just as tremendous a geographical advantage, Our vulnerable front is the Atlantic Ocean, We must not lose sight of this fact for a moment. Another German advantage is that she has had to pin her faith all glong on herself alone, Thus her leaders had Increased incentive to make mew and rapid adjustments to fit the changing phases of the war Preparation is another mighty advanta Although defense does, and probably always will, overtako any new offense, there come times in the history of the ages when it overtakes {t too late to save the situation, The German siege gun and the German submarine are cases of partial | @uccess. We overcame the first, but only after it had blasted Germany | through Belgium and well into Northern France, The defensive battle to overtake the second is still being waged ‘The only way to make a Leaguo of Nations worth the cost of printing fts rules and regulations wi!) be first to beat Germany and then invite} her in. And we can beat her ff, collectively, we sufficiently want to. But we must have the will to win and we must have no thought but to bring all our resources into the one task of winning. Guns of Ice That Fired Real Powder. ORE than 175 ingenious Russian workme conceived the idea of structing a building of solid ice in the city of St. Petersburg, now Petro grad. It was 60 feet long, 16 feet wide | ears ago ome) of an explosion of nearly 2 | of powder 00 grains con- | _> | QUITE TIMELY, | IR HUBERT VON I/@RKOMER, | the wel actiwt, who own and 20 feet high. Before the palace | using story Sad wed fy tan an they placed six cannon of the six- Pane aA mn nar dil or pounder size, and these too Were | sions of th dy de Drees ies made entirely of ice, They were) 000 | o pproach- | @urned on a lathe, The cannon were| Ona ae tuene Gls tirel Ga clesea tn more than ornaments, They could |i gow window, but it did moe wn and did shoot actual charges of pow | At iene in urd silva IP > SERVICE In ANOTHER, | EBL ; ‘\ SPHERE... < THE mismiT” HOUSEKGEPER MIGHT RENDER EXCELLENT AND & womm~n’s HOME =-MAKING. INSTINGY tg WASTE IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, y? APTITUDES A JUSTIFIED IN LOOKING FORWaRD TO MATRIMONY AS THEIR, TRUE CAREER. PERMIT THEIR, WIVES TO WORK OUTSIDE OF THE Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) B careful of what you eat, Connecticut man found a piece of glase B in @ diamond he purchased fi an affable stranger, Herlin gave a monster hanquet to the Kaiser, You know who was the monate We have saved six hours of daylight since April First, but where fy 1t? A cow can't run and look dignified, In fact, a cow can't even stand still and look dignified, As the Kaiser ts a few centurles younger than the famous Greek statues, w t know how the Venus di Milo go t way Considering that it teu't compulsory quite a few people live on Staten Island Shoes cost elghty-three fron men a@ palr in Hungary. Now the Hungarian who gets bis leg shrapnelled off will be accused of being @ t speak sharply over the telephone as you are llablo to spoll Central's nap. Patriotic knitterines are requested to stop knitting July earmuffs for the boys in Frar New York State Lagislature says it 1s legal to catch fi Sun- days, When a trout gets @ hook in his gills on Sunday it will make him feel better to know that he ain't breaking any laws, Yoa bo. Right now La Foolette ts as popular in Washington as a rainy day | with a bootblack Trotzky 1# great on promises, but we wish he'd get away from in der, says Popular Science Monthly. | Although the bore of the barrel was ),. ely four inches, the ice was euffl- leucn. q@eatly strong to withstand the force Loudon o the pleture, ho the words, for a woddl Pit Lita, present," pecially | front of that mirror and do something, You said a chinfu Teddy Moosey loesn't object to Woodrow making the wor for democracy #0 long ay Woody doesn't spell it with a capita That's an estublished fact about that cow, You never saw one that could run and look dignified at the same t Belts on coats are about the only atrocities that we can't blame on vou Wilhelm, Another Metre of Words Where Is All the Daylight We Have Saved Since April Fool’s Day? A Cow Can’t Run and Look Dignified, but a Fish Can Get His Gills Tangled Up With a Hook on Sunday Withput Breaking Any Blue Law—And So It Runs, From La Foolette to Moosevelt, to Kaiser Bill, to Woodrow Wilson— But That Statement About the Cow, That Goes. | BY ARTHUR (‘BUGS’) BAER. SOMB HAVE TAKEN UP THE STAGE WHO SHOULD GE LEARNING To cooK . Wwe HAVE MET Women TEACHERS wtHo OUGHT TO +tAVE BEEN PHYSICIANS You Tell— Queer legal tangle, Should @ pickpocket picking $10,000 a year pay an income tax on his excess profits? You never thought of that, | did you? The guy who thinks that Count Czernin Js sincere could be caught out in @ blizzard of brains without getting hit once, Owing to the stringent censorship established by our stringent censors we are unable to tell you where you can get @ drink after mid~ night, but {it's nowhere in an Atlantic port, The bird wearing his first high silk hat ts very much disappointed when he discovers that he can walk under a bridge without compelling | ‘em to open the draw | We have doped out the most unnecessary thing in the world Even more unnecessary than oats in a garage, It's a Chinese laundry~ ay own," man singing “There's a spot in my heart no colleen 1 Does your cuckoo clock know that you are trying to save an hour of daylight? | Strange, but we haven't noticed any firms advertising the brand of heels worn by the Bullsheviki on their famous run home. destruction they want to. Evon @ gun that shoots four tons of measles for 8,000 miles couldn't make noon hour in a one arm lunchroom any worse that it is at present, Keep your feet dry and refrain from carrying @ package by the cord, lab Keep this article away from the children, We stick to our original statement about the cow. Let ‘em invent all the engines of | LIFE ALOFT, STYLES NEVER CHANGE, SAN ANTONIO man, to get|FTVROM fresco paintings of w Do you know, get,” eho ree| sacs soe A away fr the bustle of life in the Cretan palaces of about! marked in ac nual manner,|_, Why wus tt that we knew go little at the street level, has built] 2000 B. C, it 1s learned that the «that if you wash your face In hot, | Sout other cour 8 400 years ago, himsolf a bungalow on top of a steel| women of that time pinched in thoir y water it will make you beauti- Jimmy she id, springing the warehouse and is living in tin com-|waista, had flounced or accordion ful? os iy a wonder yo niver| mon when hun veal “lawns,” while adjoining it there | With high heels and hats which mght 8 surprised and surprising answer, ® Moment’s hesitation, “because wy a |» @ fing tennis court \bave come from # Parisian bat shop, macy SINT | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, “A Misfit in Marriage?” _ Cheer Up! You May Fit * In a Business Career 1918 And if You're a Misfit in Business, You May Be Intended for. Success in Marriage, Says Dr. Blackford in Article on “Picking a Woman for Success.” Katherine M. H, Blackford, M, D., co-author with Arthur Newcomb of “Analyzing Character,” “The Job, the Man, the Boss,” and inventor of the Blackford employment plan, has authorized The Evening World to reproduce from their books a serics of articles describing how to fit each type of man to the job which will bring him success. . HE present day finds women at work in practically every field of * és human endeavor. There is no profession, business, trade or call , ing which does not count women amongst its successful repre | sentatives, Perhaps the saddest of all the misfits are to be found amongst. 1 women, or it may be that their cases seem to us to be saddest because there are so many of them. Women have entered nearly all vocations, But even yet there is much prejudice against the woman who “descends” out of her traditional “sphere.” Husbands, except those who do sov through necessity or those who are unafraid of convention, do not pet , mit their wives to work outside of the home. And so thousands of” women sigh away their lives at work they hate, while a hungry, sadws world suffers for what they would love to do. | The waste of these misfits is threefold. First, the women lose the opportunity for service, profit and enjoyment which should be theirs, Second, the world loses the excellent services which they might render,” | Third, oftentimes these women are very poor housekeepers. They imply have not the aptitudes, Their husbands and their families suffer, $ Another very large class of misfits, and perhaps even more to be pitied 2 | than any other, is composed of the women who are compelled to earn a » | living in the business world, in the professional world, or elsewhere, whose —* true place {s in the home. ‘he natural tendency of the majority of women * | for maternity and home-making must be taken into consideration. Educa- | ton ought especially to develop the natural aptitude of most of our girly % | for efficiency in home-making and child-rearing. Most young women enter. | apon the vocation of wifehood and motherhood practically without an training for these duties | Occasionally we find a girl who has no talent for housework or home | management. She {s not particularly interested in it. She finds it mons otonous and distasteful. For these reasons she probably does not do it, well. On the other hand, she may have keen, reliable commercial instinet# and be well qualified for a business career, or she may be educational, artistic, Mterary or professional in type. Such a woman has, of course, no business trying to keep house. She may have a strong love nature and ardent maternal desires. If so, there is no reason why she should not marry and become the mother of childrene« If she does, however, she should turn the management of the home ovef to some one else and seek self-expression and compensation in the voce tion for which she is best fitted. This, of course, is no easy matter, Many men either have violent or stubborn prejudices against any such arrange- ment. Whether or not she can take her true place in the world depends upon the courage, determination, tactfulness and personal force of each individual woman, The profession of teaching, for women, is overcrowded and becoming more overcrowded, Thg work done is, on the whole, mediocre or worse, and as a result of these two conditions the pay {s pitifully small consider ing the importance of the results, Because women can become teachers without losing one notch of their social standing in even the most hides | bound communities, thousands of women become teachers who ought to be housewives, * Thousands of others struggle in the schoolroom, doing work they hate and despise for a miserable pittance, when they might be happy and successful in a store or an office. We have met women teachers who ought to have been physicians; others who ought to have been lawyers; others, many of them, who ought to have been in business, and still others, + | thousands of them, who ought to have been in their own homes. : The true teacher has three fundamental qualifications: First, a love of | Knowledge; second, a desire to impart knowledge, and third, 2 love of young people. Added to these should be patience, firmness, tactfulness, knowledge of human nature, facility in expresston, reasoning power, en- | thustasm and a personality which inspires confidence, | The business world suffers from the presence in the ranks of its work- | ers of thousands of hopelessly {neffictent girls who have no aptitudes for | business, or even for the minor detailed processes of commercial activity, Most of these girls belong in the home. ‘They are quite justified in looking | forward to matrimony as their true career. How much better if they would only earn the necessary pin-money in domestic service! From @ monetary point of view, thirty dollars a month, with board, | room, laundry and many other necessities furnished, is a princely compen- | sation compared with the five or elght dollars a week recelved by most | girls In an office. From an economic point of view, the coming into our homes of thousands of intelligent, fairly well educated, trained and am- bitlous young women would be a blessing and benefit, Socially, of course, the first young women who adopted such a radical change in custom would be pariahs. They would also, doubtless, suffer many hardships in the way of irregular hours, amall, dark, stuffy rooms, unreasonable mistresses, no ’ adequate place to entertain their friends, and other such injustices, But alll with a higher and more intelligent class of household servants doubtleag {" | these abuses would disappear, i. A One of the consequences of our deplorable self-cons matter of sex Is that we have been too prudish to become successful wives and mothers. sclousness In the frankly to train our girls ! The result ts that when i be- | comes necessary for them to earn money before their marriage, instead of 1 gaining experience in housekeeping, cooking and purchasing, they havo taken up tho stage, teaching, factory work, office work and retail selling, A great many of them are misfits In these callings. Good food is wasted good stomachs are impaired and good brains and nerves deterlorate be. cause, a8 @ general Tule, only those who are too tgnorant or too ineffictent for offlce work or factory work can be induced to take service in our kitchens, | ASTONISHING! ! ABSOLUTELY CorREcT. ’ RIDGET had proved to be all HE teacher was trying to show that a servant should be in re-| the children how it wan that | gard to her duties, but, unfortu- nately, her energies never seemed to extend to kesping her own face clean. | Her mistress desired to tell her to| navigation, the smallness of ships wash her smutty countenance, but,}and the fear of the ite en | not wanting to offend such a treasure, | she noticed that J joticed that ny wa ashe resofted to y was not ate our forebears were so Ignorant of other countries, She talked for an hour about the lack of knowledge of} nknown, & . ”. Chicago News, weren't born,”—Chicago News, ¢