The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1918, Page 18

} : PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, a Surg Park how. Now York. : PULITZER, Fant. = Park Row. |. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row. soda ae Jr. Secretary. 63 Park Row, re MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. M BR Pe Re Rey eR aE ny Se “ye , NO, 20,751 FLAG DAY. NE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE YBARS ago today the, Continental Congress passed an act requiring that the flag, of the United States be of thirteen horizontal stripes, alter- mate red and white, and that the union be thirteen white stars on & blue field. _ Later changes in the number of stripes failed to survive. Ssvo, That the stars have increased with the States to forty-eight, the flag, of the United States in 1913 is essentially the same as the flag of the United States in 1777. One hundred and forty-one years ego It floated over a mewborn Wation of 3,000,900. To-day a great and prosperous people numbering more than 100,000,000 proudly cherish and protect it. One hundred and forty-one years ago it rallied forces of liberty in their youth. Y . To-day it stands for the experience, for the matured purpose of fn great democracy resolved to lower neither its flag nor its ideals at ‘the challenge of autocratic arrogance and war lust. One hundred and forty-one years ago Europe had never seen it. , ‘To-day, as brave young Americans fight beneath it on French voi], British and French acelaim it as their brightest hope. The sur- vivsl of all that is best in European civilization and progress depends on it. What an hour for the American flag strikes with this anniversary! * What responsibility rests with Americans at home to show them- selves as worthy of the Stars and Stripes borne overseas to this gigan- tic task as did those earlier Americane—women, children and old men —who cast bullets, made uniforms and saved out of their slender food stores for brave handfuls of “embattled farmers.” It’s not merely by flying the fing thet Americans'to-day musi ™ prove their love for it. Cheering it, taking off hats to ft, shedding tears over ft are not enough. The American—man, woman or child—who really loves the flag is ‘the American who is making sacrifices for it, who by saving or service is giving some portion of his or her strength toward holding it aloft nd secure in the face of the most terrible and imminent danger that has ever menaced it, It is not standing by the flag merely to ealute it and hurrah for it every time it passes, A twelve-year-oh child who eaves twenty-five pennies for a Thrift Stamp or who faithfully learns and encourages the family to follow Mr. Hoover's rules for freeing the food needed abroad, is doing far more to support the flag than the grown man who makes a fuas because the waiter has forgotten to put a silken Stars and Stripes in the middle of the restaurant table where he is eating and drinking whatever a pampered appetite suggesta If any American is puzzled to know what more he can do for the flag, let him not fail this Flag Day to ponder what the Federal Foud ‘Administrator said yesterday about the imperative need for stricter economy in food consumption. Let him study Gen. Pershing’s urgent warning that if food, munitions and gther necessary supplies are to be furnished in quan- tities sufficient to meet the needs of the American Army and the’ Allies in Ecrope the American people will have to buckle down to real curtailment and self-denial “all along the line.” Sacrifice—practical service by personal care, thoughtfalness ard faving in small ways—everybody can help in this home sector. Flag Day needs to be celebrated with more than sentiment and talk. We must raise the Stars and Stripes these days as they were raised when the Nation was young and the flag was new—with the| Yea"? as they mado mistakes, and grip of every American hand and heart at the halyards, ——————-¢ Neutral nations Mkety to regard any word from the German Admiralty declaring the waters off the Eastern coast of the United States a danger zone @ needless formality, Yor three weeks German submarines have been preying on Reutral commerce on this side of the Atlantic after the well known German fashion, The other day a Norwegian freighter carrying 2,500 tons of copper was sunk by a U boat after the latter had taken aboard eighty tons of the metal—with which it ig delieved to be now scurrying back to Germany. Falling bigger echievement, German submarines readily become sandbaggere, pickpockets and booty-snatchers of the seas, From This Ship- the Increase in Ri Sol To the Editor of The byening People ya ‘To the Editor of The Krening World: Why don't some of those writers get a job in the shipyards if it is such acinch? I have worked there for six years and always worked hard, even harder since war was be- cal I knew my country needed the sbips and needed them badly. They gay the shipyards are filled with foreigners, but why don’t they beat the foreigners to the jobs? ‘The statement that shipworkers are not citizens is untrue, becauso when ‘war Was declared we all had to fill out cards, and all who were not citizens ‘Were taken from the ships. Let me tell them that we are not for doing nothing, as we have to late and early for our money. ‘we are doing nothing how about all ships that have been finished Jett the yards? fat of trie al neem a ee onan dier stationed at Camp Upton, home is twenty miles out on the shore of Long Lsland, do anything you can rades out? every two weeks or so, and it to coat $1.30, ing up everything! A lot of theen wi! y 4 Fares Hits) May T'repeat a comment made last |It they could-enly ket away from the evening by & well-to-do private sol- whose | north and ask you to to help bis com. “It is pretty tough on the boys down there, most of whom live in or near New York. About all they have to look forward to is getting home Now it costs $4.61 to| Now York, and we get $30 a month! Many send part of this home, They let @ policeman or fireman, who gets $150 a month ride for nothing, and then put it all over us, who are giv- feel they cannot go home often, and when they get there wil take their time tn going back, eo there will be a | EDITORIAL PAGE | | Friday, June 14, 1918 | i | | Forg He'll Be Out To-Day et It By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory | Copyright, 1918, by The Prom Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World.) RECEIVED a pamphlet tho other I day which informed me that its |* author was prepared, for a cer- tain financial consideration, to teach {me the “new art of memorizing,” by | which, in @ very short time, I could | strengthen my memory if it happened to be weak, or create one out and out in case I had none to begin with. I did not care to throw away 3 cents these hard times on the propo- sition, so I made up my mind that 1 would try to plug along as best 1 could with such memory as I have. Indeed, I'm afraid 1 have too good a memory as it Is, “Teach me to for- | get.” is a silent prayer that I have often lifted up, and I am certain thal | 1am not alone in the matter, ‘There are thousands of people who are wretched and whose energies are Practically paralyzed, simply because they are forever and ever thinking of the past. Last year, or maybe ten or twenty | to save their souls they cannot forget | them. A long time ago misfortune over- |took them, and the memory of the |ill-luck sticks to them like the Shirt jof Nessus, irritating them perpetu- ally. In the long ago somebody insulted {them, or wronged them, and wher- lever they walk in Momory’s halls, there before them is the picture of the evil that was done unto tham, jand they grit their tecth and live it all over again, om Like a ghost, the stitdow of the | misstep, the bad luck, the wrong, haunts them day and night and gives them no rest. Was there ever a greater misfor- tune? If they could only say goodby \to the past and forget all about it! ghost and its grimaces! ‘This done, they could take hold of lite with a willing, hearty hand, ‘There would then be a fair fleld and no handicap, and they could work to some purpose. But the ghost! ‘The accursed past, with its mockerles and incrimina. tions! How depressing it 1s, how it plucks out the heart valor and mak; the strong arm weaker than a baby’s! ‘And how foolish and unjust jt all is. We all do wrong. We all make | mistakes, There are “angels,” but they are in heaven, and “saints,” perfect, doing things that they ought not to do and leaving undone things that they ought to do, Yes, we all do wrong, And when a wrong is done, or a mistake is made, it belongs to the past, and the past belongs to God. There is no sense in living in that past. You may ait, if you will, in sackcloth and ashes and live on re- proach and remorse, but what good will that do either you or any one else? Be sensible, If you have made mistakes, try and profit by them in the future, If you did somebody’ e wrong, right it, if possible. If some- body did you a wrong, let it pass out of your mind along with the sight of last autumn’s falling leaves. It would be a grand good thing if at the close of each day we could manage to burn up the day’s books and begin the morrow with @ clean slate, 1 Into the West, along with the set- ting sun, sink all the regrets, vall th animosities, all the failures and bu- miliations of the closing day. Forget the past. Live in the pres- ent. Yesterday, with ail that marked it, 19 @ part of the irrecoverable eternity, To-day is yours, and if you will try hard enough you can make it something to be proud of — Newest Things in Science A new device for carrying spare | tires on the back of an automobile can be dropped to serve as a carrier | Of bagwase or freight, . To encourage boring for Government of S« Austral offered @ large | person or corp 000 gallons of er toleum from & we pnus to the first producing 100,- 9 Per cent, pe- i aS | Made in sections that can be built \up to any desired size, a heater bas beon invented for utilizing the waste gases from internal comoustion en- wines for heating water or raising low pressure steam, ger) H . Crude oll in its tanks Nmited the amount of water which could enter stea ship when it Kk rocks r Ceylon and punctured large holes in its bull, and enabled it to reach port tive days later , 8 |_ A Chicago inventor's hand signal for ltght for automobilists is moar put they are in the calendar, In the notwal world there ie te be found nly human beings, all of them im- ranged that When mounted on & man's flager the ex is hand to warn fol) - automatically switches on the cur- reat : Too! arnkttethe. | “Tike -jat By Roy L. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) having disorganized to be a firemen’s company in case the airship comes out of Goimany, I was never so thoisty before,” re- marked Mr, Slavinsky, the glazier, with a sigh, “When I could get schnapps I didn’t want them, unless | was treated, but now that I can't have any because Mr. Charr swore at me and made me a fireman, now Iam thoisty, ol, #o thoisty!” “I didn't swear at you; I swore you in,” Mr. Jarr explained, “You wouldn't expect—while our brave soldier and sailor boys, even when only drafted men and not in uniform, must respect the service and not drink—that you, enrolled as a home defender, while they go over the top abroad, are not restricted to sobriety, You would not ask privileges"—— “No, I wouldn't ax for them things; I only want a drink,” interrupted Mr Slavinsky. “Ain't beer considered temprate?” asked Gus coaxingly, “Beer now, by law, is only got two cents of alcohol in it, It won't keep like it used to, and it ain't pastured any more.” “It doesn't matter if it isn't pas- teurized and if it only has two per cent. of alcohol in it,” replied Mr, Jarr firmly. ‘When as auxiliary war time firgmen we went on the hose wagon We al in another, truer sense, went gn the water wagon,” “But I was reading about soap the other day, and I read it that soap has free alcohol in it,” murioured Gus. “Free alkall, a different thing,” said Mr, Jarr, “But if you think there is alcohol in soap and if you want alco- hol, eat soap.” “I do when I get shaved,” replied Gus. “Fred, the barber, always gets a lot of soap in my mouth, and I don’t like it.” “I told my wife about being a fire. man, and she said it was just an ox- coose to get out at night,” remarked Mr. Slavinsky, “and I had to tell her we wouldn't have any fires at night, I told her it was a Oonion fire com- pany we bad, mit an eight-hour day, and I couldn't have any schnapps any more, And it didn’t do any good, She said after the eight-hour day was over, as a fireman's business, I'd drink, and when she found I wouldn't get paid for my fireman's business she said I should walk out on the chob.” “But didn’t you tell her tt was for [patriotic service in time of war, a rractical way of doing our bit for “al MN ay we are war-time firemen, | r Family McCardell home defense, that we organized our fireman's war-time auxiliary league?” asked Mr, Jarr, “I told her more than that, but it did no good,” said Mr, Slavinsky. “I thought you were boss in your house,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “You al- ways told me you were.” “Nobody ain't boss in his own house, Mr. Charr,” replied the glazier, “Did you ever hear the story about the old king in Russia that found that out mit horses and cows?” “I never did,” replied Mr. Jare, “What have kings and horses and cows got to do with who rules the roost?" “Well,” said Mr, Slavinsky, “in the old times there was a king in Russia Samed Pedrovitch, the Big Feller, and | he said he would give a horse to every | man who bossed his own wife, and a) cow to every man who didn’t. The king didn’t care how many cows and | horses he give away, because he had swiped them from the Pollacks or somebody, and anyway, the cows and horses eat so much” —— H | “Never mind the superfious details, | 0 on with your story,” sald Mr. Jarr, | |. “Vell,” continued Mr. Slavinsky, | ‘the king heerd of a blacksmith that | had his vife bluffed and Was boss of | his shanty, 60 the king went to the biacksmith and said to him, ‘I hear you are a wonderful feller, so strong 4s an ox, and your wife 18 afraid of iyou?" ‘Sure!’ said the blacksmith fel- | \ler. So the king said, ‘Well, here is| @ million horses I got fer brave fellers what beat their wifes. Take one on me.’ So the biacksmith feller pushed {out his chest and rolled up bis sleeves to show his muskels, 80 proud he was, and said, ‘All right, Mr. King, ake the big white one, I always! wanted a big white one!’ And the! blacksmith's wife said to him, ‘No, a! white one will get all dirty around here and you'll be too lazy to wash it. | We'll take the big black one over there,’ So the blacksmith said, ‘All| |right, I take the black borse.'” And \the king sald, ‘No, you'll take a |ecow! | “What would you have taken?” asked Mr, Jarr. | “Oi! How could I keep a cow, Itv- ing upstairs over my, store?” replied Mr, Slavinsky. i ees | SUCH A QUESTION, If doctors were holding a com sultation beside the bed of a) man who was supposed to be harboring a diseased hip bone, | “I believe,” said one of the sur-/ geons at should walt and let ; him get @ little stronger before cut- ting into him, | Before the other prospective oper- ators could reply the patient turned | My head and remarked vo toe nurse: at do they take me for—a Horaid, cheese?" | The Eighth Deadly Si By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) “1 Wish to Call Attention to the Deadliest ‘Sin of All, That | Using America’s Participation in the War to ‘Sell Goods? EB have, all of us, at least a bowing acquaintance with the Seven Deadly Sins. 1 wish to call an eighth and, in my opinipn, deadiiest sin of all, that of using America’s partic!- pation in the war to “sell goods.” “Be patriotic, use otic, chew Jones's gum,” and similar cheap commercializations of the war | spirit greet us on every side. In a Sunday paper I found this week the worst of all exploitations of war hap- Penings—an advertisement which sought to profit by the recent sub- marine raid: “Beautiful house, miles from the U boat danger gone, for sale.” I wonder if any one after reading that advertisement would dare to buy that house? I wonder if there is any one who would buy a copy of a magazine just because it puts out a picture of American soldiers in France with a veteran of the Civil | War alongside and prints underneath, “Ho can't be with the boys on the fighting line, but he can make $30 a week selling copies of the Thureday | Boast?” I wonder tf anybody patronires a taflor just because he uses pictures of officers of our army and navy in his advertisements. I wonder tf shops are better patron- ized because they print appeals to women to “Buy something for him?” If photographers do a better business because of frantic adjurations to |"Send him what ho will like better than anything elso—his mother’s (or his girl's) picture?" 1 wonder about all the other ways in which the war, the flag, our offi- cers, soldiers and sailors, the love of young girls and the griof of mothers are exploited for selling purposes. I wonder if they sell goods? I wonder. And I fervently hope not. There is a law forbidding the use of the United States flag for adver- tising purposes. Why should this not extend to the United States uni- form? Why should money changers in the Temple of Patriotism be per- mitted to trade upon the soldier's love for his country or make a profit on a mother’s heart? There is, of course, legitimate ad- vertising connected with the war. There cannot be any difficulty in de- termining what that is. The firm now engaged in Government work is surely entitled to keep its name be- tore the public by recalling in the ad- vertisements the primary purpose for which it was organized. Then there are warnings such as those sent out by rubber firms warn. public attention to the ——_ ae ” ing the public not to dispose of rubber except through sources Ka! to be unconnected with German pathizera, which are excellent im wet effect. Thero aro genuine sugs tions: for food economy, but what about the slogan put out by a whol@- gale tailoring firm—“Save wool fer your country (in big black Neti and less conspicuously, the patriot reader's eye having been caught, “You can do this by buying one our suits.” For more than a year women have been urged to save wool by weartag sifk. Our shops are filled with etik suits and gowns, What effect will such printed idiocy have on this merchandise, on the finances of mem chants? I have not bought any at tlele of wool for twelve months as & result of the Government's campy to eave wool, There are hundreds thousands of women who have re frained in the same way, buying affk instead of wool, How must they feel when reading a statement that silk is a luxury and patriots will refrain from its pur- chase? How must Mr. Hoover feel when after a year dedicated to urging people who can afford It to eat per- ishable luxuries —lobster, game, chicken, turkey—ho reads “that the small hot bind” should be regardéd by patriots as an enemy alien? Statements of that sort, whfle sheer idiocy, are without maliciogs intent I have always regarded | idiocy as an aggravation rather than as an excuse for an offense, bat people generally accept it as a pal- lating circumstance. So perhaps we should forget about the people who use the war merely to exploit thetr, own folly, But the war shoul not be used to se goods, should not be made the means of rousing the worst and, thank heaven, the rarest of human weaknesses, cowardice, as in the real estate advertisement I have quoted. The uniforms of the army and navy should be as immune to advertige- ment as the flag itself. Granted there are many instances where it ts used harmlessly, there aro many thers In which it 1s made the cloak of ewindles. The uniform—everything pertaining to the government of the United States—shoutd be protested from this ignominious use, and alm- ple people, easily gulled by anything boasting a venecr of patriotises, should be saved from their folly, It we are to be worthy of our fing, worthy of the splendid young men in France now giving their lives for us, we must keep these highest exemplars of the American ‘deal safe from money changers. After all, the great- est war in human history is sumey thing more than a new ad: ‘tising dodge. Bh . if — Our Allies Join in Honori The Bir N this year’s celebration of Flag Day, the Mist anniversary of the Act of the Continental Congress which made the Stars and Stripes the emblem of the infant republic, the American people will take pride in the fact that the banner floats over our armies fighting for a cause which would have had the united support of the founders of the Nation, They will be joined tn doing reverence to our country’s emblem by the armies and peoples of our Allies, As for our ene- mies, they may well recall that the American flag has been the emblem of freedom sie Saas @ century be- fore the Ge: 1 Empire was born. It was on June 14, 1777, that the Stars and Stripes superseded the many Coloniaj flags under which the earlier battles of the Revolution were fought. It is said to have been pab- Uely displayed for the first time on Aug. 6 of that year at Fort Schuyler, near Rome, N. Y, and Jobn Paul Jones 1s believed to have been the frst to fly the flag on the high seas on the Ranger in November, 1777. A twelve-star naval flag, said to have been used by this great sailor, is in the National Museum, ng thday of Our Flag. famous American flag in all oar country’s history, This ts the original “Star Spangled Banner,” which stood untouched during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Har- bor on Sept. 13-14, 1814, and was the ‘nsplration for Francis Scott Key's immortal verses, It is of the fifteed- Star and stripe type and measnres about thirty feet square, though ft was probably once somewhat longer. It 1s battered and torn, with one star missing, perhaps shot away, Strangely enough, though s was Stripes was not carried into bat our land forces until 1846 ea 5 ie fought under the national colors or standard of blue, emblas- oned with the coat of arms of the United States and regimental insign- {a of the troops, This was not the case with the navy; from the day of (ts adoption, the Star Spangled Ban- ner was displayed on our shtps of war, There are also preserved in the Ne- tional Museum many other Amert~ can flags, which have been worthily raised in all quarters of the Blobe, from the frozen Arctic to tropical * seas, aes The Man Who Made Kansas__. An Anti-Slavery State T this time when America ts more united than ever before, it 4s dificult to reafze that only sixty years ago the nation was a house divided against itself, and that Kansas had gained the name of the “dark and bloody ground.” With- in its limita the pro-slavery “Border Rufflans” contended flercely with the Free State forces, led by James Henry Lane, for control of the Common- wealth, Lane, a native of Indiana and former Lieutenant Governor and Representative in Congress of that State, had risen from private to Colonel in the Mexican War, He moved to Kansas when the bit- ter struggle between the forces for and against slavery was just begin- ning. In Congress he had voted for the Kansas-Nebraska Dill, and for 2 time he remainad “on the fence” He was a member of the rival Con-! ptitutional Convention at Topeka and at Leavenworth, but he his lot with the antialsvery or Fie State Party, He was chosen Presi- dent of the Free State Convention held at Topeka in 1855, and the fol- lowing year he was elected United States Senator, but, as the ery forces were then in Lane was not permitted pro-slay- the saddle, to Washington, ap ‘ the meantime, from the Bast and Central West, parties of anti-slavery immi. rant, “Lane's army of the Nentt pouring into Kansas to ent John Brown, and other ‘twat Sta: leaders in their conflict. Lane leds Party of 600 immigrants and enteeet e territory through Io: braska, | Hor several years “Weartes was given over to batti, ¢, murder and pillage, but the Free "stare Pi eventually triumphed, and tm” Ips Lane was elected t States Senate. His health joa Jpited wo ever, and he beca: menial wreck, and In in6P az ted suicide at Leavenworth, In the same collection is the mest » a | Used as a garrison flag, the Starsema ” . oE) |