The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1918, Page 16

To Wounded Soldiers Women Started “Unofficial Organization” to i 4 i France Wounded and Cheer Homesick Boys Who Have Come Back From in a Strange City—Club House and Extension of Work Next Step They Are _ Planning, Their Initial Efforts Having Proved a Big Success. By Nan FP to finish alone <f inded marines have dubbed “The » It is not much of a story, this on Toby when the first American wounded returned home, [3S three women started something which has grown too big for them I refer to the unofficial organization which the Big Sisters.” modest endeavor to find the essential of individual wounded soldiers—needs that overworked surgeons and , even if they guessed them, cannot supply. habit of smiling whether they are being carried to the operating room greeting a nurse after a long, restless night of pain. But now and then For our boys have got ry @ark hour comes along. The homesick boys just can't keep on smiling. Gt is then that faces are buried in pillows, ‘ eome trail,” and more than one lapses he would willingly give The boys call it “hitting the has confessed that during these soul- his remaining arm or leg just for the it of “mother or some of the folks.” you will hark back to your kid when you smashed your thumb atubbed your toe and just because om were getting to be a big boy | gwere too proud to cry save in the se- “estusion of your mother’s arms, you ‘© will know how the boys feel without 4 one to hit the lonesome trail Laith them. This is where the three _iomen come in. They started to hike trail with the boys and when the er hour came along to give con- yincing proof that they could make ci y good substitutes for “some of | Bie folks.” The undertaking has been than worth while, and volun- recruits who have opened their Joaned thelr “cars and pro- entertainments have proved in- the boys. For instance, on g up the Hudson arranged for the invalids, a young his sandwich and doulllon overboard. “Wehap next to le “1 can't look a sandwich In the face | BA I hope never to see any more soup! Gee, but I'll travel the food Hroute when I got home. Mother sure ~ean fry chicken!” =--Phe next week this boy and five S others ate fried chicken, cooked by| “pomeone else's mother. They sat n a big table in a cheery kit- chen: the waltresses were girls who “Shad brothers at the front. Not one of o boys had been in @ home for than sixteen months, and not one ‘of them had ever seen the inside of a York home. “One of the guests that night was W white-taced youngster. He had “mot his” at Belleau Woods and ‘was pretty well done for, On pre- vious occasions he had stubbornly “Ginétused t xo where he would have meet girls. Finally pinned down Ye sive his reason, his mouth “e-twisted wryly, “No girl wants to sce @ scrap heap like me—and | don't Want pity!” The boyish flush and ¥ t tone gave eloquent evidence of long pent-up emotions at being a ‘4 wreck. But he finally |. and before the evening was whalt over that lad began to believe “that he was all wrong about thinking ‘Himself out.of tho running. Now his erbid viewpoint has turned to op- . for he has been convinced “S4bat no worth while girl will ever Wok upon bim or any other American claws as a “scrap heap.’ ‘#--fo much for the simple homely ings of the Big Sisters, They no claim to achievement, save of having “started something.” ‘And it’s a mighty fine thing they ive started! This being just pluin Thome folks with these wounded boys, puwho represent every State in the Union, has gone far to restore tal poise lost in the din of bat- . Additional value has been given 4 the critters on the ranch.” We agres with him and are tn full sympathy with bis desire to acquire an educa- on in big business methoda. Any man who helped to send Old Glory up the Rhine and has wrestled with the tricky Missouri mule into the bar- gain is entitled to a place amoung the men higher up, On the other hand there are « lot of the boys who have decided upon thelr own jobs, and have set about getting them, “What do you plan doing?” I asked a clean cut lad on crutches, Tho question has got to be a aabit, and the replies are always interest- ing. He turned clear eyes on me, and with fine democracy answered, “lam going to be a meat chopper.” To him there was no grim humor in the remark. He hurried on to say that he liked the trade, and that it was only & matter of time when the flesh and muscles of his leg would grow back, and that peing lame would not interfere, I could go on indefinttely telling you intimate stories of the boys who “got theirs.” These hundreds of; wounded, homesick boys, most of them far away from their homo towns, are not here for a day ot week. I know some who have been here since early summer, and have two or more months in the hospi- tals before Uncle Sam will let them risk leaving the expert surgeons who are restoring them to a normal con- dition, Uncle Sam is seeing to it that his part of the reconstruction ts being done thoroughly, As indi- viduals, {t 1s up to us to back him up. The boys for the most part are in- humanly maimed; shattered in mind and body; fresh lots are coming daily, with more to follow. These boys are not going to be ready for business thoughts yet a while, so be- fore the job hunting takes preced- ence ita up to every New Yorker to hit that long, lonesome trail of con- valescence with the boys, Make it your business to hunt up that blind boy who was brought up in @ remote corner of Oregon, Hoe is the chap whose great ambition had been to see Paris. His one swift Journey through Paris was in an ambulance with bandaged eyes. Or look up the ex-cow puncher from the Pecos Valley who will never ride herd again. Both his legs and one arm are gone, Make these or any one of a score'of such boys reali that this big home town of yours harbors regular human beings, Don't ask them to formal dinners or society functions, Don't try to reverse the sit- uation, but-do for these lonesome bova what you would like to have done for you if you were sick in @ strange town, The Big Sisters have been sorely | ‘handicapped by not having a central | meeting place. ‘This necessarily has | limited the number of boys who could be looked after, They have also tin the work by the knowledge gained PWet the hopes and ambitions of these | brave reticent youngsters, who refuse Pkbeir confidences to philanthropic Sworkers or casual well wishers. So9"Phis has widened materially Originally planned. For, after an en- @ man who has jobs to give out. | Wounded. How does that sound to| In tbe course,of a disastrous trip Many of the boya are phyalealty | you? erat Food. T hope. ‘This is! to South America with « dearly loved ae be cupations, |BOt a charity Tam suggesting, b it for their previous occupations, | Parerul tribute to the tone Wie brother, we were under fire during a re now equipped: with a wider | Sorne our burdens so cheerfully | revolution as we travelled up an in| Op do not want to go back to! In addition there should be a fund|\and river on a tiny steamboat, After |for American wounded, to apply to! peing rexcued by the American gun for instance the young may | site or to finance temporcrity “ex? | boat Yorktown, my brother becam who hails from a Missouri mule |poys until their back Pay shows up, | ill and died within three days at the A fine strapping chap, wh» | Some of the boys have drawn no pay | hospital at Guayaquil of yellow fever t out of the fight on the | for mont! hey will get it in time, 2 va < pu ty lbettlew Yor without mons leaving me to make my way home, by @ poisoned bullet in his He opines that his “game leg ae the ‘eéope of the work the Big Sisters, Wire evening given to talking over with a hopeful ex-fighter how he is re-establish himself in business, it “M@ the most natural thing for the (Woman who has discussed the prod- Tom to sally forth next day to look Fasting with eosing on their own Anoed their own efforts, which counts 4s another limitation. The first big need to carry on the | work is a club room. American | | wounded in New York should have | | their own general headquarters, ‘This | | 18 particularly essential, now that the | business problem looms, and the boys jneed quarters, where prominent busi |ness men could drop in for infot talks. Th a bel invaiuncieens the boys f nall towns, and of equal importance to economies of the future. For the soldier, informal Visits from prominent business mer jof the city puts the ex-soldier on « |man to man basis, which is a more| pleasing idea to the boys than the thought of attending lectures. and business colleges, The New York Club for American Warm Fabrics and Collar Designs Insure Protectio Against n Winter’s Most Severe absorbing color, rhythm an phere, can be la pretty sad old tow alone and in terror. Weather + Coats for Combined Style and Comfort 8-BA TUCKING LENDS A SMART TOUCH, 4 eet: BACK OF THIS COAT , | MARKED By A \ STITCHED PANEL; LARGE PLEATS. FALL > FROM UNDER \STHIS PANEL. | Soe Soo at tote inn eM 21, 1918 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Failures “7ho Made O. 2—FROM TURRET (Author of “The Job, the Man, the Anally, all of his joylessness reacts his work. “I don’t know just what is the building machinery work, teen years old took in a machine shop. is the matter with me.” After examining the young man and the data submitted, we made the following analysis of an embryo financier While you have undoudted me- chanical ability, this is a minor part of your intellectual equipment. You are also qualified for commercial pursuits. You have a good sense of values. You understand the value of @ dollar even now, and you have natural aptitudes which, with proper training and experience, will make you an excellent financier, “You also have executive ability. ‘You like people and you like to deal with them. You ike to handle them, and because you cnjoy handling peo- ple and negotiating with them, you are successful in doing so. While you are fairly active physically, you are very much more active mentally, “Your work, therefore, should be mental work, with a fair amount of light physical activity mingled with {t, instead of purely physical work. You ought to hold an executive posi- tion, and ought fo have charge of the finances of some concern which is engaged in the building and selling of machinery. You have worked, up to the present time, with heavy, coal crude machinery. But you are of fine texture, refined type, and naturally have a desire to work with that which is fine, delicate and beau- tiful—something into which you can put some of your natural refinement and artistic ability. “You are still young. You have learned a trade at which you van earn fairly good wages. You ought, 1G business has a brand new re- cruit. To-day the junkman is a Captain of Industry, He is Saving to this country $1,000,000,000 worth of useful materials a year—# material that we used to throw away and a billion dollars is a tre- mendous oodle of money. The old leaky pots and pans that LARG CONVERTIBLE COLLAR 18 A NOTABLE FEA. TUR “How | Began My Stage Career my future impressionistic dances by nd atmos- t boys who like to do a little sight-| To recover from the experience I de- account, to take up the work which had | We used to hurl over the fence into the vacant lot have been discovered by the junkman to have @ market a value, Hence he has become one of LUBOWSKA. the country’s greatest conservators, Y career has led mo from an old | and in some individual instances has Spanish house in the shadow himself entered the class of of the palace of Porfirio Diaz, |.millionaires, A single firm does a in beautiful Mexico City, to the giant | yearly business of $46,000,000 in Stage of the Hippodrome, | scrap metals alone, It may truly be said to have begun But perhaps the best phase of his when as a jittle child 1 went with my business, highly developed since the mother to make our home in the cap- United States entered the war, is tle ital of Mexico, For pantomime Is lesson in saving he has taught to, the true basis of all interpretative | householders everywhere. The old dancing—and pantomime is more pots and pans no longer disfigure tne | natural than speech to the Latin peo | landscape, With the high cost cf) ble with whom I was surrounded dur- living and the consequent necessity ing the most impressionable years of | of ceasing our wastefulness we have | my life, learned that hardiy anything is un- | My real career is rather recent, for worthy of our care, |1 took up stage dancing only six yearg ‘As @ nation we do not only wear jago, Before that, however, was a long our shoes longer, eking ayt their use- | period of travel in Burope and Africa fulness by renewed half-soles and and South America, where I un- patches, but we now know that when consciously laid the foundations for they are beyond repair they can be reduced to valuable chemicals for the, production of high-grade fertilizers, That makes every scrap of leather worth money to us and to the coun- try. always been my Ideal. To begin with,! ‘The old newspapers that we used to I arranged a little group of folk|burn we now sell to the junkman, dances of the native Mexicans and and no part of them Is lost. Even the owsta South Americans. These helped n oink is reclaimed from them before find my metier, and my next public |they are reduced to pulp and made appearance, after a year of study, waa over into other paper and pasteboard. an interpretative dance called “The In 1917 no less than 1,840,000 tons of Evolution of a Soul." I made my/waste paper were handled by the debut in Canada, then appeared in| junkmen of this country, its value California with the Ruth St, Denis running from $8 to $60 a ton. Company in Bgyptian dances, M ‘Hye bones that we formerly threw Billion Saved Annually _ | From Nation’s Junkpile Rubbish Once Relegated to Ash Can, Vacant Lot or Bonfire | Now Has a Market Value, for Householder and Junkman To-Day Are Rivals in Conservation and Reclamation. therefore, to prepare yourself in some way for business, Work during the summer, and then during the winter resume your studies, preparing your- self for an executive position in con- nection with manufacturing and sell- ing fine machinery. “Study accountin banking, fi- nance, salemanship, advertising, me- chanical engineering and designing. At the earliest possible moment give loved to play with mechanical thin, away are now utilized by the thrifty housewife for the next day’s soup, and then, tf she but knows it, they still have @ market value, for phos- Phoric acid and many other useful things are extracted from them, Junk has come to occupy much of the attention of some of the greatest of American minds, Bureaus of reclamation ‘have been formed in nearly every branch of the United States Government, and the Na- tional Association of Waste Material Dealers walks arm-in-arm with the United States Chamber of Com- up your work in @ machine shop where heavy machinery {s manufac- tured and begin to get some actual experience in the manufacture of something finer and more artistic; for example, the automobile.” A tew years | in Boston, & young man came to us, well dressed, bappy and prosperous. He said he wished to consult us. After a few minutes’ talk with him, we said: “We have given you advice somewhere Wagers Famous merce, In th th vege Ay Brauch’ tf tee ona and |77r0 the betting giants of the pages Reclamation Division of the Quarter- I stp os dilbert dab resend the “pikers” of to-day would seem trifiing and lacking in ingenu- ity, In former times freak wagers were much more frequent than now, and often exhibited much more orig- inality and imagination, The craze for betting in England in former centuries was indulged in by the high and low, and an account of the famous bets would 4ll a volume, Queen Elizabeth was an inveterate gambler, and the wagers she made covered a wide variety of subjects. On one occasion she made a bet with Sir Walter Raleigh on the question of how much smoke 1s contained tn a pound of tobacco, A pound of the weed was burned, and then the master Corps is an important arm, and the junkman ts the foundation of the structure, The household ragbag ‘s no new thing, but the value of its contents has been many times multiplied tn the last two years, Cotton rags go into high class papers, old bits of burlap, Tope and manila bagging reappear in tissue papers, while linen and woollen rags (and nothing in this line ts to the wise housewife a rag until it ts absolutely useless for anything else) are made over into thread or fine woollen clothing. ‘The War Trade Board having fixed prices on old bags, the farmer who used to cast them away now gets from 7 to 25 cents aplece for them. It is in the cities that the greatest saving of worn-out things 1s effected, because the Junkman makes his daily rounds, In the country districts, where his visits are fewer and further between, the conservation is not so National Association of Waste Ma- terial Dealers recently proposed to the authorities at Washington that the Government undertake a sys- tic movement to send expert purchasing agents—glorified junkme — jlroad stations most conven- noticeable, Indeed, the American) to Fallroad manana tite and ins farmer has long been noted for his] Vite ¢armers to bring their waste stuff extravagant wastefulness, evidenced] to those markets. One feature of mem cm > 7 <A by the accumulations of farm imple- ments and tools left out of doors to rust and fall into decay, But even he is learning the lesson of conser., vation, President Solomon of the is to pay for this waste ans Se in War Savings Stamp: thus giving the farmer, or perhaps his boys, an opportunity to combine patriotism with profitable sale and excellent investmen'| 2 Themselves Successes LATHE TO TREASURY. By Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford Boss,” “Analyzing Character,” &c.) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) The misfit is unhappy because he cannot do his best; he is wretched because he feels that he is being defeated in the contest of life; he w miserable because he hates the things he has to do; he can take no satisfaction in his work because he feels that it is poorly done; and upon him, decreasing his efficiency and making him a more pitiabdle failure. BOUT eight years ago, while we were in St. Paul, Minn. a young A mechanic, J. F., came to us for consultation. He was about twenty years old, and expressed himself as being dissatisfied with matter with me,” he said. “I have I was always and, when I had an opportunity, hanging around machine shops and watching the men “On account of these things, my father was very sure that I had mechanical ability, and when I was fif- me out of school and apprenticed me This shop was partly devoted to the manufacture of heavy machinery and partly to repairs of all kinds of machinery and tools. at work in this shop for five years. I am a journeyman mechanic and making good wages, and yet, somehow or other, I feel that I am in the wrong place. I wish you could tell me what I have now been before. This is not the first time you have consulted us. He smiled and said: “Yes. I con- sulted you in St. Paul some years ago. At that time you advised me to se- cure an executive position in the au- tomobile business. This advice struck me at the time as being wise and satis- fied my own desires and ambitions. I lost no time in following your direc- tions, and was soon engaged as a me= chanic in an automobile factory. “I attended night school at first, but finally made arrangements to spend half my time tn school and the other half in the factory, learning every part of the business. At the present time I am the Vice President and Treasurer of the Motor Com- pany and one of the designers of the —————motor car. We are doing an excellent business and making money. Whereas I was certainly misfit in my old job, Iam well and happily placed since I have learned my true voca« tion.” To 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 hell- ish In its performances, as the opium habit. The craving for opium, how- ever, 1s an acquired taste, while the passion for machinery is born in thou« sands. Parents usually look upon evi« dences of mechanical ability with Pleasure, They regard them as sur indications of the vocation of the child and oftentimes do everything in their power to encourage him in these lines. They little realize, how-~ eves, the supreme danger which ate 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 may take the bit in his teeth, leave school and go'to work at some trade which will give at least temporary satisfaction for his me- chanical craving, or he may, through economic necessity, be forced out of school and naturally gravitate into « machine shop or factory, Oftentimes @ few dollars a week is a very wel- come addition TB the family income. To the boy himself three, four, five Or six dollars a week scons fortune. ve ike Neither thi look ahead, e parents nor the Neither of them sees tha When the litte salary has increased to fifteen, sixteen, eighteen or ‘twen- ty-five dollars @ week, the boy will have reached the zenith of his possia bilities. There will then be no er advancement—uni aprenticeship and journ: previously to them, h mental training which fo go higher, positions and s ‘eymanship, or ie has secured will enable him hold more responsible earn larger pa; of Olden Days. welghed. The matter of the weigh of the smoke was held tose cont factorily determined by the test, al« though @ schoolboy @f to-day would laugh at such its fallacy, * Method ahd point ous A classic example of wagers Is afforded in the Who bet a considerable o| gould stand for a whole d lon Bridge, offeri ° from the mint ene sovereigns tresh for @ penny api find no buyers, He won the wasec The “sack” coat worn by cay ie en to have resulted tron ’a p ade by Lord Spence; fighteenth century fashion arbiter, He bet that if he cut off his coats faus, such @ mutilated atyle of gars 8! would soon attain arity, and he was righ itaied n the middle part of the eight. century King George IL of ‘Mosinea bad as his master of the revels ona Heldegger, whose ugliness was a bye word throughout the kingdom. Tie King himself, it is said, joined ine wager that an uglier old huma than Heldegger could not be tounge all London, Sevaral weeks passed before a candidate was found intr person of an old hag, and a comm tee of artists were called UPOn to dee cide the issue. Helddegger pools naturedly consented to the test. At first. the judges were inclinea Aes award the palm to the old womam but one of them suggested that it wa her hideous bonnet which gave hee the pre-eminence. The bonnet. w, then placed on Heidegger's head the result war so ludicrous that he was immediately declared to be the ugliest person in the kingdom, tel