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wa » Pebishea Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publiehing C + 63 Park Row, ke . New Yor! if . RALPH PULATZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park w. hy one of olurat |{0UF Years of war ut their doors, 1s Baers 094 J gave as one of cigat | mourning the thing that Will win this | | Feasons, the followin) ‘If the frat} war? Why should we be sorrowful | Pratt bill, affecting men from twenty- |instead of going ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. t JOSHPH PULITZER,’ Jr, Secret 2 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ee ited Pree relist rely itl th tor poblication of all news desnatéhes Bee Oe a ea ty Se PL Sa ee Salle Be niet — VOLUME 59... +. eNO, 20,831 NEW YORK’S MILITARY RECORD. PWARDS of $10,000 men will have joined thé Federal colors from the Slete of New York by July next. Of these some 446,000 will be sent under the new Draft Law, according to calculations based on the earlier draft. A total of including 122,000 volunteers and 242,036 men sent to Federal training camps under the Selective Service regulations—rop- resents the State’s contribution to the military strength of the Nation up to the first day of the present month. These figures are obtained from the highly interesting report) of Adjt. Gen. Charles H. Sherrill, covering the twelve months’ work of the Adjutant General’s office since Sept. 1, 1917, when Gen, Sher-| rill succeeded Gen. Stotesbury. | The record is one of which the Commonwealth may be proud.| Results «peak for themselves, while methods by which they have heen accomplished—patticularly the conduct of the draft in New Yor} —| Lave been specially commended by the Federal Government. In the organization of the new State force now known as the) New York Guard, to take the place of the New York National Guard| DRAFT BoARD { SERVICE INCLUDES ALL MEN FROM { 16 TOYS YRS! od now serving in Vrance as the 27th Division, U. 8. A., Gen. Sherrili reports a total of more than 21,000 officers and men recruited,! equipped and armed. Ninety per cent. of the officers of this State) + Guard, over whicl. the Adjutant General exercises the duties of Com-} manding General, were drawn from the old National Guard; and the! ‘Adjutant Genera! notes that “all four of the Brigadier Generals| entered the Nationa! Guard as privates, and owed their advancement fo years of faithfvi service to the State. The New Yotk Guard has done admirable work in prepari ten for the National Army. “From Sept. 1, 1917, to date there have gone from it into the Federal service eighty-four officers and 5,546 men, almost all of the latter being warranted as non-commissioned officers ‘spon their enlistment in the Federal service. The War Depart- went has expressed its sutisfaction at this large contribution of non-commissioned officers, so necessary in a new army. Our ambition js to continue to be the Nation's greatest training school for non-commissioned officers in the Federal Servic Due to orders sent out from this office, New York Guard offt- cers are everywhere lending their assistance in drilling men of draft age so that when they reach the Federal camps they shall be equipped with rudimentary military training. i} Gen. Sherrill has a special word for the two regiments of yolun-| teers from the New York Guard whose duty it has been to guard G00 miles of State canals, ninety-five miles of aqueduct, important Pailroad bridges at Niagara Falls, Poughkeepsie and AYbany, and Yerious munition plants employed upon Government contracts, . | “Too much credit cannot be given to these volunteers from the New York Guard who, during the past rigorous winter, so loyally and skilfully performed this important duty as to gain for the New York Guard the amazing record of preventing a Single dollar's loss to the property in their charge. This force of 2,100 men replaced about 4,000 Federal troops released for service abroad.” As Chairman of the Military Training Commi Rant General reports that during the past year about 40,000 youths! from sixteen to nineteen years old have received military training ip ‘New York State wnder the Military Training Commission I “If we add that number to the total gf 21,000 men in the New York Guard and the 10,000 in the Home Defense Reserve scattered throughout the upper part of the State, there has been reached a tota! of 71,000 men to whom since Sept. 1, 1917, this State has given military training.” The people of | | | on, the Adja-| saw; »w York ouglit to be and are deeply interested $n all facts and figures showing the extent to which this Common- wealth is doing its part toward contributing man-power to the Wation’s war strength, The report of the Adjutant General will be read etrongest satisfaction as proof that the Empire record worthy of it in running its military first-class fighicrs (oward the from, State is making a machinery and startin _ tH The twelve hundred rolling mill employees in Stamford, Conu., who voted to work all Labor Day and cabled Gen, Foch that bis armies could count on 100 per cent, production from their mills every day, will not be forgotten on this one, other workers like them anywhere in the Unite when the parades go by, $$ sss Letters From the People in Green Intervtew.| Disawrees With M Te the Kaito of The Evening World | the haditor of The Preniag ma ad 41 want to express my grateful ap-| Your Martin Green makes a pretty | Preciation of the interview Martin | broad nd unthoughtful statement | Green, Evening Worid reporter, had when h classes all men of 21 to 31 With Martin Groen, war vorrewpond: |as slackers, He seeks to #et up hia ent. own opinion above the carefully | Those who do not observe the many | analyzed results of Government | men between 21 and, 21 not in unt-| classification. Many men 21 to 31 are form, probably have no doing more valuable service on thia | side of the water than they could on | the other, and many more have de- | pendents to whom they certainly owe their first thought, both as individuals and citizens. If the nation should undertake to send all of its breadwinners, Where would we be? 1 call such men slackers is an insult Mr. Green seems disappointéd on returning to this country that he does nor d States—even near rela- tives fighting and dying in Franc> indifference in 3 find all degrees of @mong those not directly intereste this struggle throuch one of their own blood. It is different with the Mother, the father, the brother, the @iater or the flancee of a soldier in active service. ‘They surely ask themselves how the slackers manag to keep out, and wonder how me of the draft boards attended to theic| not find all Of us in the throes of eety. sorrow, He says the country is no a . ‘ awake to “cruel facts." The countr le two wee © you printed a Home two woeks ago you printed alts awake to all the “eruel facts" that @emmunication expressing my dis- approval of the plan to reduce the minimum dvaft age limit to eighteen |" it can handle Just now, He seems to feel that we should in as deep vurning as Paris Or London, after be out our business one to thirty-one years of ay rit? “More strictly enforced, i wi in sane, hop Certainly Mr. H is correct about opinion, materially increase the|the wastage of gasoline and many | of our forces, other things, Lat ua store all the me to realize that our |pleasure cars until after the war and and 19 are going to be |save everything needful to win. But 89 many from 21 to jet us be careful how we tse the ugly it, M, word slacker, READER. FE With the mews France and must comes; | thizes with you bec Monday, By Nixola G Copsriat, 1935, by The Press Publi No. XVII.—THE HINK of rubies and hens’ teeth— | for her price—and by that I mean what she is worth—not what she gets—is above rubies, and at the present mo- ment she is scarcer than hens’ teeth in New Yor! ‘ Even the trained gt nurse who is still Aa among us is regis- tered for service in leave when the call meantime let us cherish her patient, most} ne of women, she deserves, most onderful, most s There Is the other kind, of course— the kind who tells you, just puzzling your sick he: over © her next ls come from, that the mere pittance she re- celves is nothing at all and that if it were not for the little additional presents given to her by grateful pa- tients she would have to devote her talents to some more remunerative work, But how we honor and love the real trained nurse, she of tho seft voice, the gentle hand, the swift yet silent footfall, she who hopes on through your worst hour, and rejoices with you in your best, who allays your fears by poking gentle fun at them, whose tact removes all terrors from the blood-pressure machine and as you| money to whe takes your runaway pulse, and your persistent temperature — with a little gay, casual air that con- vinees you they are just nothing at ail, When you get better how happy she is!’ And what a magnificent in- terest she takes in the most im- portant subject in ithe universe. your meals—and how she sym use your heart- won't come every day at the same hour, as you want him to, but insists on sopping in unex- bectedly when you may not have on less doctor your prettiest negligee. V a tricky, coquettish creature a doctor is, any how—not Tristan for Isolde, not Aucassin for Nicolette, not syrup for waffles, nor parsley for an omelette, has the importance of any physician to any patient during con- Valescence, Sometimes 1 ond what has of the the ancient, wondering woman for man, I am going to tell them. ‘The doctors get h—-., No become fait worship ot ~ New York Girl Types You Know | reeley-Smith 1g Co, (The New York Brening Work!,) TRAINED NURSE | spell their written directions—as alas, | so many of them do! ‘There are two weeks in every convalescent’s life which are just one long listening for @ certain footfall, one eager cherish- ing of hasty commonplaces that, for the moment at least, are freighted with destiny, How tactful your nurse is during this funny period! How} convincingly she tells you that she has never known the doctor to be so interested in a case before, how con- scientiously she combs and brushes and scrubs you up for the great moment of his visit. What a lovely! pride she takes in the flowers you receive, in the number of telephoned Inquires she has to answer for you. “The house dc admiring your flowers last night,” she tells you with a swelling triumph, “He said that we have more flowers than any pa- tient who has ever been in the hos- pital, And just as I was leaving last | night, one of the internes who was | going to a dance asked me fora} white carnation, He said we W.4.dn't | miss it, we had so many, The crowning glory comes in the day time, however, with every senti- nel lily at its perfumed podt, and every great husky rose calling you back to life and happiness, For the doctor a breezy “Ho ) this morning?” and ur nurse smiles a proud, proprietary le and you decide that a person so overwhelmingly popular as you seem |really cannot afford to dle. In your poor, sick egotism you fail |to think of other men and women in | the hospital who have no flowers, and who are too poor to pay for nurses or ate rooms, But there fore \tunately, one person that remembers ctor was Jcomes in |fower gard \y “Pink roses!" exclaims your nurse, opening a long “Didn't you say last week that you hate pink roses? ‘There is an Malian in one of the wards with a broken back," shi jadds reflectively, “Those people care So Much for flowers, And then there is the children's ward, One daffodi wiite box things happy all day subgestively, and you have a little momentary struggie with yourself, For, if you aro like me, you |love flowers so much you are stingy with them, though you might give away your eye teeth will: a shrug. And then you sa: i stops matter how old they are, or fat or dull, no matter how badly they mis-|is mo merit in wiving them away, | “Yes, I do hate pink roses, so there 4 \ EDITORIAL PAGE September 2, 1918 | 3 the} right. 1918, ves Fiabe iy (Tae New York Evening We'll keep them and send the Ameri-| an Beauties and the daffodils and the red t to the children and the Italian with the broken back.” Half-heartedly your nurse protests, But there Is one thing you love more than flowers, and that ig what the reneh cail le béau geste. You wish you could accomplish a fine action, which is not an accurate translation, for there is none, without a struggle -but it's no use. You ¢ a miser of beauty, wanting to hoard it all, So you part with half your floral for- tune ungracefully, as later bn you part from the lovely munistrant to your sick body and your sagging soul. But her memory is an unfading By J. H. Cassel uk — (The New York Breuning World.) W a fond farewell to his office Ja final wink to all, in high spirits. ten ‘his recently purchased railway | ‘The office viewed this premature bad luck to come back after saying HEN Mr, Jarr went away on associates, who all wished him a About an hour later, he had re- tickets and left them locked in his return with disfavor, Jenkins, the goodby, and cheerfully cited the case flower 'n the garden of your heart. Copyright, 1918, by The Prens Publishing Co, his vacation he had bidden | good time, and he had departed with turned to the office, having forgot- desk, bookkeeper, growled out that it was of a fellow he knew who had done A Series of Plain Making the Most of Our Children Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A, B., M. A,, President of the Parents’ Association Are Companions Teaching Your Children Bad Habits? T'S true—a rotten potato will spoil ] a lot of good ones if left with them long enough, < And it ts equally true that undesir- able associates can Spoil your children. But there 1s this difference: No quantity of good potatoes ean make a bad potato good, while a wise parent can do much to counteract and even change the influence of an undesir- able playmate, A mother once said to me “What can I do to keep my boy employed here at home? I can't tol- erate his playing with those bad boys across the way, They are simply | awful.” And then: The mother of those | very boys who were so “awful” came |to me with practically the same plea as the first mother, only, of course, she Was more than convinced that the other boy was simply ruining her boys, | Both mothers were right in a sense, | All of the boys influenced eath other, maple | apiece would make the poor little sick | 1 was only natural for each mother to overlook the fact that her boy In- fluenced other boys, You, ® parent, should do two ‘things: First, you should teach your child at home in such a way as to fortify him against the possible bad [influence of associates, Second, you |should co-operate with each other | as to proper supervision of the chil- dren as t Instead of shoolng little boys off the premises like chickens, show an interest in them. Give them some- thing to eat occasionally, On the basis of the confidence which will re- sult from this indulgence you can rest effective demands as to the be- havior of all children in your sight. Provide them with plenty of sugges- tions for interesting and wholesome activity and insist upon thoir execut- ing the play or task in a becoming | way, One mother made the mistake of eee @ neighbor in this way: “Mrs, Brown, I have heard your boy swear in front of Harold and I wish you'd watch him closely when Harold comes over because I don't want my boy to swear if I can help it.” This, of course, did not have a very strong appeal. The better way is to suggest to Mrs. Brown that you are just now making an effort to teach your boy certain things and that you would be thankful if she would cor- rect your boy if he needs it when visiting, Do not say anything about her own children, and the chances are Mrs, Brown will co-operate and help you all she can, ‘Too Trequently we find parents who feel no responsibility when their chil- dren are away from home, They fail to realize that most children are at their worst when away and without any adult supervision, If you have not already made definite arrange- ments about the wise supervision of your children when away from your promises, you have an immediate duty before you. Copyright, 1948, The Parents’ Avsociaion, inc, 4 The Jarr Family — - Wild Wives I've Met By Helen Rowland. 1959. oy The Prea Mab 4 “The Husband of a Woman With Temperament Has a Great Life Work Cut Out for Him--His Existence 1s One Long Copytiaht hing Co, (The New York Hvening World.) Series of Surprises, Thrills and Hair breadth Escapes.” you got “temperament?” “Temperament” is something with which poets, painters actors and a LOT of wives are blessed—or cursed! It is a “gift” if you have it yourself—and a “curse” if you are married to it. Temperament, in a man, is merely a pet name for dyspepsia, egotism, intolerance, selfishness, or it is @ pose. In most women it is nothing more nor less than ® determination to have and to hold the centre of the stage at ANY price! (Oh, yes, it IS, Anastasia!) * When a spoiled womar sees the spotlight turning the other way she can always turn it back on herself | again | w By bursting into a FIT—of “temperament!” | No ‘woman can have temperament unless she has i beautiful nose, a perfect figure, lovely hair, a professional reputation or a lot of money. You never heard of an unattractive, unknown, penniless woman pos¢ sessing “temperament,” did you? Nobody would LET her have it, even if she tried. | The HUSBAND of a Woman-With-Temperament has a Great Lifes | Work cut out tor him, When he leaves the office after a hard day's work he never knows whether he is going home to be met with a tropical reception or sunshine and smiles and caresses, Or a shower of tears, or a thunderstorm of reproach and rage. At breakfast he never knows whether he is going to have bouquets, | smiles and kisses, or the cream-jug thrown at him. He walks through life on egg-shells, torpedoes and hot tar. His existence is one long series of surprises, thrills and hairbreadth escapes that would give a moving-picture scenario-writer untold inspira- tion, He is always living “in the middle of the third act.” Every day is Christmas Day, for HIM! ‘That is, it IS—until he “gets tired.” And he always does get “that tired feeling’ sooner or later—usually, sooner. | ‘There always comes a psycholo revelation of the real REASON for his wife's fainting spells, hystertew, trances, “suicide” chatter or tantrums, as the case may be. (Great heavens! A continuous melodrama would pall on anybody | Even if Bayard Viller wrote it and Belasco staged it!) | After that, when Friend Husband sees a storm approaching, he morely | closes his eyes until it has passed, yawns | And goes around picking up the pieces when it is over, | | Bither he becomes a sardonic woman-hater—or he finds hls yoke sa | heavy | That he hunts up a blonde—or something—to help him bear it | But, whatever he does, he does NOT deserve any sympathy! He deliberately married a woman with “temperament,” for the same reason that he would pick out a fiery horse or a bucking broncho— ‘The masculine desire to possess something DIFFICULT to “tame.” He wanted EXCITEMENT=-and he got it! For, whatever else his life may be, no man, who is married to @ Woman-With-Temperament, Can complain that “Life is DULL!” But he could have gotten the same thrills, jolts and surpris#—at SO | much less expense By buying a second-hand motor-car! By Roy L. McCardell” the same thing and then, later, in | lars till he, Mr. Jenkins, got his va~ boarding a train had fallen under it ion money. “And,” added Jenkins, ‘and had lost both legs. I'm your friend. The whole time Jenkins was going out for the day | you're away I'll be kicking to the old \as Jarr departed for the second time. | man how the office misses you, and ‘Don't tell me you'd forgotten your] that noswo men around here can fill tickets,” said Jenkins, “You should] your shoes. not have come back till after we] Mr, Jarr did not lose his legs, nor had all gone. The boss didn't like] did the boss write him such a letter it, I could see that, If your tickets}os the unfortunate employee of \were really in your desk you should| Mudge & Murdock had received, for |have waited till we were all gone] Mr,.Jarr had his mail forwarded, and and got the night watchman to let | looke ich a letter with dread, you in.” |So he returned after his vacation to “But I'd ‘a’ missed my train,” said| chains and slavery as if the chaing Mr. Jarr feebly. were garlands, “There's a jot of other trains,” said! “it's great to be back!" he said. Jenkins. “Better lost your train than | “Doggone | A fellow thinks all he your job, I knew a fellow once"—— | wants is a vacation while he’s work= “And he came back again and then} ing, and when he gets his vacation later fell under a train and had his| he's aching to be back on the job!” You told me that cheer-| The office force, such as had not | had vacations, regarded these sentl« ments with silent disdain, “How I love my dear old desk and all the things I keep in it! Do you think that, if L asked, the boss would let me sleep in it?” hummed Mr, Jarry improvising rhyme and melody, “Boss wants to seo you,” said the office boy. “Mr, Jarr," said the boss, “we'r@ shorthanded, as you know, on ace count of the enlistments and the first draft, and as Mr. Jenkins has been given his two weeks you will not mind staying here at night for a week or two and posting up his books? tainly not,” “Jenkins is a good ms @ rood rest." | f es, he told me he could do youd work and his own when he comess%e back," said the boss, “and we must be prepared in case you're drafted, You're under forty-five, you know," Soneeneratiiperenence legs cut off? ful incident before,” said Mr. Jarr, “This was another fellow,” retorted the relentless Jenkins. “You carry an accident policy. You'd get $10,000 if you lost both“legs. No such luck for you. You might lose a hand, now —that's only five hundred dollars.”” “Gee whiz, man! Can't you talk of nothing but disaster when a man's going on a belated holiday?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Well, I'm only talking to you for your own good,” said Jenkins. “You know I'm your friend,” Mr. Jarr murmured that he knew that, “Well, this other feller,” Jenkins went on, “was as nice a feller as you'd want to see.” (It's always nice fel- lows these things happen to, by the way.) “And,” continued Jenkins, “HE came back to the office after he had @ good send-off, and I saw the boss give him a black look, when he'd been all smiles before—it was old man Mudge, Mudge & Murdock, white] NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE goods, in White Street—and, by Rubber covers to protect straw hata George, he sat right down and wrote | from rain ha the feller—his name was Whittling, Dick Whittling—had a brother at West Point—wrote poor Dick that as he had his vacation money for two weeks he could use the time in hunt- ing a new job, as his services were no longer required by Mudge & Murdock, white goods, in White Street, And his wife developed tuberculosis and Dick's a drunkard now and lives in a Bowery lodging house, if you can call that living.” With these cheerful possibilities saddening his soul Mr, Jarr was sud- denly aroused by Jenkins shaking him: warmly by the band and asking him as he, Mr. Jarr, had two weeks’ salary “in his kick,” would he mind| England that was built lending him, Mr, Jenkins, twenty dol- t9 in use, \ f bss been patented, ¢ 8 6 Italy devotes more than 11,000,000 acrcqgpf land to wine grape cultivae tion, Ane ally driven machine hag been invented for splitting is kindli wood, ie . n some, parts of Russia gold has b mined since 1744, without interruption An Iowa woman is the patentee of & now form of horseshoe with fee newable culks, eer es A bridge over the River Dee tg dn 1280 otug