The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1918, Page 14

AU 1) THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918 Drafted Men Good Soldiers? | YES, and Proud of It, _l Says “‘Conscript 2989" His Diary, Recently Published, Tells How Camp Life Soon’ “After the Battle of the Marne.” RIDGWAY KNIGHT’S PARIS SALON PAINTING REPURCHASED FOR $25,100 AT AUCTION LAST NIGHT FOR WAR’S BLIND BY ITS DONOR, W. N. CROMWELL, Turns Even the Unwilling Into Fighting Men Who | This painting, practically the most important of the distinétively | Aletta iG einige Blind Retief War : ind. At the i | rican cany: i ont P. Salon, was " ‘ Anderson Galleries last night the painting was auctioned for bene- Are Glad to Be in the National Army and | American canvases in the present Paris Salon, wa purchased there fit of the fund, Mr. Cromwell again becoming its purchaser. The Eager to Do Their Part. } by William Nelson Cromwell, then given by him to the American- canvas is still in Paris. | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall WV": Rudyard Kipling would call “the makin’s of a bloomin’ soldier” is described simply, humorously—above all, convincingly—in o: of the very first war books of the National Army, “Conscript 2989." There are thousands of men and women who at just this moment are going to be moro interested in “Conscript 2989" than in stortes of deathless deeds and hazards somewhere in French or Flanders trencho; For “Conscript 2989" is, as its dedicator frankly states, a book for the mothers and fathers of drafted men, written by a drafted man who didn't especially want to go until he got there, but who in less than a week could not have been hired to return to the tents of ease and plenty. “Life in the big cantonment,” he eagerly assures all the “folks at homo” on the first page of his diary, “contains a full measure of real happiness, and all hardships aro mitigated by a sense of humor which develops even in the worst of pessimists. We are contented, for to compensate for the absence of you and all that you mean comos the knowledge that we are doing everything that brave men and women tho world over would have us do at times like these, Wo are doing a man's work, and by the token of the service flag in your window you should know that the days of patchod trousers, darned stockings, of toy firo engines, play soldiers and nolsy @rums were not spent tn vain.” os “Conscript 2989"—he gives himself n tho world and @ noted Iandacape gardener. After being loaded pound bag of sand, no other name anywhere tn his book was a young Now York artist, and| ies aie so that his feet may spread as much as possible, he ts fitted with army shoes “more com be went off with a typical bunch of New Yorkers of every nationality af-| ter a typical scene somewhere In a New York raViway station, “I must) fortable than any shoes I havo eve: confess,” ho writes, “that all the|owned.” An Italian fellow-soldier is goodbys, and the bands, and tho/s delighted with his pair that “he weeping mothers and sweethearts, | just couldn't help exbibiting them to and the handshakes, and the pom-|me. pous old turtles (who dodged the| “ ‘Look,’ he sald, waving his huge raft in the Civil War or bought sub- | foot, shod with the trench shoes, about stitutes) who slapped you on the }promidcuously. ‘Look ad da shoo. 1 back and told you how they wished | like t' geev da Kais a keek in da face they were young again, and the dozon | wid-a dose shoos, Bet bo no smite ‘and one ‘comfort kits’ that every one| some more dan.’ Then ho added, by handed. you, and the mystery of what| way of showing bis qualifications to ‘was to come, and the scared look on/ muss up the Kaiser, ‘I belonga to an every one's face, including my own,! wreckin’ crew sometimes when I dor and the vacant feeling in the pit af come down here.’ one’s stomach, superinduced by #and-) hore are delightful talos of the ~ wiohes and coffee, fudge, oranges 4nd | goo4 timos at tho Y. M. C. A. shacks, chocolates In lieu of a real meal, aia the concerts, lectures and even prize RIOGWAaY KNIGHTS S4LON PICTURE,” SEPTEMGER 1914 AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE% Sy J THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918 How I Pick a Young Man ; For Promotion | No. 1. Personal History of Each Employee, Kept on Record, Shows N. Y. Edison Company His Fitness for Promotion from the Ranks | | | By Arthur Williams, | Chief of the Inspection Dept, N. Y. Edison Co, | ASA result of years of effort on the| ployment for his division of our coma Part of the New York Edison) pany, which includes sales and hand Company given to the development| ling of all matters pertaining to our of a plan of employment and promo-| relations with the public. tion, three of the most Important con-| ‘The record shows the employee's clusions which have been arrived at,| age, education, time in the service of are, that it is absolutely essential that| the company, history of such service, the employment and promotion of the| history of work done before entoring With the American Army in France. THE FIRST OF ASERIES OF SKETCHES DRAWN “OVER THERE” BY 1ST. LIEUT. P. D. BROW The Evening World has arranged with Lieut. Brown for the publication of twelve sets of drawings made by him in the trenches and in “billets” in a sector occupied by the American Army in France. These sketches intimately picture the way our boys live “Over There,” how they do their washing, the games they play to “keep get on my nerves. But, hang lt “© ents The men fought for passes to et Py greet: farewell, At inet, |go home over Sunday, and the decl- ‘The fret night at camp was event: | sion was left to the audience. Life Is ful. Dark threats of “the needle” | ioe au dritting at the conscript camps, from camp veterans of a fow weeks | trough there is plenty of that. | together with homesickness, kept the |’ : | newcomers awake til: a lato hour.| “Many of them didn’t want to) Then “some onc who had evidently CMe, ‘onscript 2989" sums up his) heard some wetra tales about tne, fellow-soldiers of the National Army. | punishment meted oui to those who |"Tbey bad their own ideas of army oversiept at camp brought an alarm life, suggested, doubtless, by tules lock along with him, and the bloom- | they have heard of service in the Eu: ing thing went off at 4 A. M, Of!ropean armies of former days. But course, we got up, switched the lights | When they were called they came, an4, | on overhead, and proceeded to get |behold, when they arrived and lived | ssed with that resigned, now-what- | through the first days they were sur- | are-you-going-to-do-with-us air. prised to find that thoy still we “But dressing was interrupted by a | treated like human beings, had certain | string of the most beautiful curses 1 {indisputable rights, were fed well and) ever heard, coming downstairs just in|cared for properly and worked under | advance of a mighty mad-looking Ser-| officers who took a genuine interest {a | pean! their welfare, This was something | “'Who in tarnation bow-wows |™Most unexpected. Right off they d has got that —— alarm clock? Pitch |clded that they were going to get a! it out the ——~ window and git back to|they could out of this new life and bed.’ wive I return faithful and honest ser Tbe tortures of “the need hs vice vaccination for smallpox and Inocula-| “‘It's fine; I like ft, assured a little tion for typhoid—proved greatly over- | Itallan friend of mine in the infantry @rawn and didn't prevent hours of |‘! like it because it help me make-u stamp pulling the next day. Then, on|me spick good English, make-a mo the sixteenth page of the diary, comcs | Strong, make-a me beeg, an’, best-a @ paragraph especially reassuring to fit,” how they are “billeted,” how they eke out their “smokes,” read and write their mail, &c., all wilh a touch of humor which makes you realize that “doing their bit”? ha moments of fun, too, Lieut. Brown's sketches to-day take you over on the transport with him, The next pictures will portray life “in billets.” its what is, make-a me good American, Mother at home, who is sure “the poor |Jus’ like-a de boas Licuten,' ” | One rather rough Hl dear boy doesn't get anything he can| Which is enough to reassure every day.a shavetai j PN at at that old camp.” good Amerk ent | élept rather late f ! \ I “stump pulling is rough on clothes,| "“Conscript 2989" is published by and when a wave 7 | \ I but it certainly is an appetite butlder, | Dodd, Mead & © swept cleas to the , | wy T've discovered already that it is goo] i aaitianiaianl oat deck. It woke IN \ — policy to be among the first in Noe! Coyne; him b usted ix. \ with a mess kit; then, if you can bolt | omeille, the Father of his ois port. "He | Mf, |e I your bref a la mode fast enough aud | French Drama tore above ina lite ii 11) get outside and wash up your kit, you meant tales preserver much to th {| | HI) stand a Joining the last | A ore ene eee musement of the rest ie of the line ting a second rama, Pierre Corneille, was ‘ ae tlds 4 helping. 1 al fellows have rn at Rouen in 1606 He was A last look at It down to such a acience already that |*!xteen years the sentor of Moltere America and aw they get three helpings before the cook | {04 thirty-th years older than doukt incach heart, begins to say things.” One Js not su Racine, but ho survived the former “ 0989" by several years, dying in 1684, just a d whe pscript 298: ecord, ve many-sided genius who upheld A to my ner weight and I f pounds to my fore ht an’ "| the traditions of the French drama NR bave never felt more fit In my life RA RALATHIDAT ina thhae Gree a i 4 Another of his discove is that iy F the ghtahinesta Gone “Hang it! I'm mighty proud to be iy nets eee ae ina =e to this company. Jows, Italians ana’ Binine wan atuaaial care i, &c, all look like fighters, act like : ¥ ray aeina wr legal p sion, but a love affair fighters, and a@ lot o! hem are NED | jivorte 1 hi from the bar to poetry ‘ cre too. Why, they are soldiers a A friend of the young lawyer took and glad of it. Which leads m to see his lady love, and that fo state quite modestly the surprising | foKie y ature Was #0 smitten fact that i think Tam nearly @ $0! with the newcomer that she quickly r too, and gol-dinged set up about | transferred ber affections to him it This romantic adventure inspired the i A little later he is transferred to the |iawyer to poetry, and the incident \ Ceémoufinge unit, which, as an artiet, | was the subject of his first dramatic - he bad been trying in vain to locate | piece, the comedy “Helite,” produced before the draft summoned him. An-|in 162). The French stage had then other proof, to his mind, of the busi- | existed less Mess-like eMeciengy with which the |naq men in the National Army are being | ge fitted into the places where they will \the fooblo efforts of his predecossors, 4o most good. In this unit be finds aland be has ever since been honored $10,000 a year song writer, a linguist as the real founder of the drama from tho biggest fnancigl institudos & than a century and Paris one theatre. Corneille’s s enabled him to vastly surpass but of interest R. employes should not be haphazard; that promotion should not be ac quired through puil; and that there should be equality of opportunity for the development of every employee and equality of reward according to the development of every employee One of the biggest problems con- fronting industry to-day 1s “men, namely all workers who make up the organization, from the office boy and the stenographer to the President Employment and promotional plans should all have for their ultimate aim the proper selection, training and ad- vancement of the employee. For pro motion and growth are the very life of a business Institution. volves a If we ha & question ) employee in our plant capable of fill a better Job, ve K him his chance regardless of how wel perfo the hi worker Is ay ass may be ming a py and to the company particular task. For watistied whose the individual The interests ure best sarved whe allowed to grow ond returns will be > of ems In the New York Edison Company vacancies are filled from the ranks | Making promotions or transfers tn nu ual | To solve the question of promotion and transfers the New York Hui Company has devised a pian of keop-| ing a personal record each em- lovee The records are kept by an a sistant to the m: of our bureau f education, who has char the present employ and conditioa of his health, Tt records his accomplishments tt educational tardiness, ale attitude of individual toward Is duties: whether pro..ot, accurate and the amount of supervision he r quires; whether he works well with whether ambitious, r adaptable; whether he p. « xe vo ability; whether euf- fapted to his work, and aug. ned to render ‘optable courses, sences, other employees ng Often the record may Indicate 1 » for a better To a laren extent tt rogis- fitness of the employ sition, ters eo itity, We have ha? our syst- of reconia lin use for five of six yr d have | found that when congelentiously com- | piled, the record will reflect a fair picture of the vid employee's sharact tics and ge worth, Our mana r he exceedingly iberal, fair an selfish regarding the question of fers and promo- tion r up t ends the person- y and spirit of our whole ore vn ization corporations in the ne time will come y all will have adopted eel- promotion and de- nt, and the personal side of | thelr businesses will be as scientifie cally conducted as any engineering jenterprise. whe enti ethods of ve Wit Tine ‘Latest After English Names Mean | \N this side of the Atlantic we | that groups 4f initials printed after the names of prominent those British citizens stand for high hon- lors conferre but throughout the te h and breadth of the empire on whic thé sun refuses to set each of eso letters has a significant mean- ing. The letters K. G. indicate that the |individual is a Knight of the “m noble” Order of the Garter, the su- preme honor the English Sovereign may confer, The familiar story that | the garter was adopted as the emblem of this order, the most famous In his- tory, as a rebuke to those | laughed when the Countess of Salis- bury dropped that part of her attire while dancing with Edward III. is d nounced as frivolous. It was founded | by that monareh in the middle | fourteenth century, |may tied and its inspiration leathern thongs Knees of some of his Crusader kni; by Richard L to them to greater efforts, $t | George is the patron of the order and its Insignia the garter ‘being of royal p gold Knights ot the “most ancient’ Or- der of the Thistle, which ranks next n dignit ichted by the let- ters "K. This order was founded by James LU. in 1687 and dedicated to have been th about the | nts insplt are gorgeous, le and are St. Andrew, Knights of the “most ustrious” Order of St, Pa » Ire- land's patron saint, are denoted by the letters “K. PB." The order was instituted by George II. tn 1788 and, like the two foregoing, 1s but seldom conferred. Next follows the “most honorable’ ie Mans who | of the| Order of the Bath, of which there are three classes ne highest ts Knight Grand Cross, K. G. C. By; next, Knight Commander, K. C. B, and third, Companion of the Bath, C, B. The Bath takes precedence over the most exalted" Order of the Star of India, instituted to reward Hlustrious sorvic the Indian F js s the Knight Order, K. C. 8. ‘ommander, C, 8. I. | panion of the Star of India. | “most distinguished” Order of | St. Michael and St orgo is award- jed for sn service. @, |c. M » Knight Grand Cross, K. C. M. G. the Knight Com. | mander, and C. M. G. the Companion. I, the the Com: This order outranks the “most ems juent” Order of the Indian Empire, bestowed for high servic in that foreign possession, It also has three Jclasses; Knight Grand ¢ ommander, G. C. 1. E.; Knigh: Commander, K. C. 1. B, and Companion, C. LE, Next follows the Royal Victorian | Order, instituted Jand having five el Knight Grand ¢ y Queen Victoria, ses, the highest mmander, ‘These are indicated by ths customary initle | als preceding V. 0. There are conferred only Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, |V. A. and the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, C. 1. ‘The foregoing |are inspired by the glittering display \< f chivalry in ages gone by, but per- jhaps the most highly prized British decoration is a democratic |the Victoria Cross, awarded | diers and sailors preme also twe upon British orders women, the to sol all ranks by su- on the fled of battle. herots: on |Scientific Facts Applying to Questions You Should Why Do We Fe UNGER is a H which we say comes fr ol Hungry ? peculiar craving accustomed to m the stomach business of the stomach tc change such food as we take into it that of the organs of the body which we have for the blood out of it When you feel the sensation of hun- that the ng on the s blood-making material » stomach prepares the food for production by mixing with it certain juices which the stomach {s ible to supply. As soon as the stom- ach is then upon to supply more blood-making material it to work on what {s in the stomach and begins things, If, however, there is nothing in the stomach, the craving which we call hunger is pro- luced, It is, th . then not alta- gether the stomach which makes us n such a way the rest urpose can make ger it means oe system isc! mach to h more blood called goes mixing producing Be Able to Answer. hungr but the parts of our body which actually turn the food into blood after the stomach has pre- j pared it, \Why Do Distant Wills Look | Blue? te s due to the fact that when the hills look blue you are look- ing at them at a distance, and there is a long stretch of alr between 1 the hills, ‘This air is Aled | with count 8 of dust and and what you se you a 88 partic r things, is not really blue hilis, but the reflection of he sun's rays from the jit particles n the air striking your eye, The color is due to the ang t which the light from the sun strikes these par- ticles and is reflected back to your eye and partially due to the character of the particles e oF From ‘The Hook of Wonder" by of Bureau of Indunstay Education, Wwokimiaaen 4