The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 18

i PRA NEI YE RON Made American Doughboys © Clean Fighters From Youth Sportsmanship Learned in Boyhood, Points Out Will- iam Heyliger, Author to the Battle Lines— Mother's Understanding of a Boy’s Viewpoint Great He p in Developing His| Character. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Mren Publi ILEAN books and clean games have made American boys clean fighters. | That is thé verdict .of a man who understands boys from the soles of their stubby, scrubby ‘smoothly barbered heads. He is Wil « . and most popular Captain of the Nin teams and as scou ship, the honesty boy—irrepressible, an eminently straightforward and decent little chap. As the Persian youth was taugh' truth, so the American youngster, says Mr. Heyliger, learns in his boy- hood these three vitally important lessons: “First—There are ways that no “white.” “Second—There is a price so great in dishonor that no boy will pay it win, and this price is what he call “Third—A tainted victory is something to be despised.” And it is baseball, football and standards. ‘Many American mothers,” Mr, ¥ ‘out of sympathy with that period in a boy's life when his baseball nine or His football team tops all else in his period principally from the standpoint of soiled clothing, torn stock- en and lost buttons, Within reason, a“ healthy, active boy must be ex- ied? pected to do damage to his raiment. Though a stocking maybe ripped in ‘the course of an afternoon, that same afternoon may witness in the depth “Of t - boy's nature the firet blossom- ing of a creed that will fight to hold “him straight should he be tempted in after years to play the game of life with dirty hands, What Germany stand: for to-day is more or less Yorically the result of the games a a boy does not play and the [sae unfortunately, does read. 'Nwwhat matters it if a boy does rip ‘ome stockings, does tear some cloth- fing, does lose some buttons, if he “poquires a mind that sees the prob- Jems of his young life in a clean fash- fon? Millions of American boys have Adopted this creed of clean sports manship, and nearly two millions of them have carried it to France. oatter all, America went Into this war ‘more or less as a demand for fair for the other fellow, Germany “eannot at heart understand so altru- astic a motive, Her philosophy !s to ‘win, at any price and in any fashion. And American boys, thank God, can- not understand that. “At an early age the American boy learns to play baseball, the principal ‘ational sport, He becomes # mem- her of a ning that plays the game with a maximum of noise and a min\- mum of skill, Even at that early age he learns that opposing nines have rights that must be respected. He gets @ faint idea of fair play and what it means. “A tow years later he begins to read juvenile fiction, Because his in- tere:t in bis gaines is so deep and 80 vivid, many of his books deal with athietics, Now, for the first time, he finds interpreted the spirit of fair play that he heretofore has accepted unconsciously, He reads of boys who accepted defeat rather than stoop to Gishonest tactics; of boys who sacri- ficed their own ambition for the good Of their team or their school; of boys ‘Wuo were tempted to play foul and TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, “Bucking the Line, term as coach for high school So when he hears people praise the good sportsman- new American Army in playing the war game, he is proud, but not at all surprised, and he argues that the father to the American doughboy is the American small 1918 of Boys’ Books, Is Carried | @ Co, (The New York Brening World.) shoes to the crowns of their not too liam Heyliger, one of the best known writers of such real boys’ books as_ * "The Brother of a Hero” and “The | ¢.”" Also Mr. Heyliger has served his baseball and football tmaster of the Boy Scouts of America, and fairness shown by our splendid but still | destructive, exasperating, it to ride, to shoot and to speak the boy can play and still be considered js ‘dirty playing.’ boys’ books which teach him these leyliger pointed out, “are altogether eyes. They are inclined to view this © ERR LEITRIM TE ae : \\S Gogazine Failures Who Made Themselves Successes No. 6—FROM A BUSINESS “DOWN-AND-OUT” TO $100,000 A YEAR By Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford (Author of “The Job, the Man, the Bo Copyri 1918, by The Press Pablishis & mental and physical equipment. ONSIDER the stone wall against start in the race against those using the! r One of J. N.'s mo: dog determination, make bis way in the There were two first was that he was altogether too generous and contiding; the second, that he bad an absolutely fatal gift for buying thirigs just before they went out of style, or the price dropped. So of course the more determined was to succeed in business, and the longer he kept at it, the worse off he becan>, He probably would have been at it yet, however, if he he to m sponsibilities which they e Co, (The New York Evening World.) He uses only his second rate, his third rate or even less effective weak legs, but powerful-arms and shoulders, trying to win a foot race instead of a hand-over-hand rope-climb- | ing contest. The man employed at work for which be is unfit finds it not a means of self-expression, but a slow form of self-destruction, ts directly upon the efficiency of the worker. Once he set out to do a thing, noth- ing short of death could stop him, But he made a great mistake when he set out to | sy of the world. But at what a cost! J. N. went to @ santtarium where 98," “Analyzing Character,” €¢0.). |nervous patients were treated, and worked out of doors to pay his ex- penses in the institution. In his spare time and with the little energy he had left he Segan his studies. By the time he was well enough to put in a full day's work he had learned so much about the care and treatment of pa- jtients that he became an orderly. His knowledge of the work, backed up by his personality, made him wn- usually successful, so that after a few months he was able in his spare time to earn enough to pay his expenses al medical college. During his senior year a prize was offered for certain yeclal work, the winner to be sent for a post-graduate course in Vienna und other European cities with all ex- penses paid, which the misfit batters his head, He is thus handicapped at the ir best. He is like an athlete with All this wretchedness of spirit st outstanding traits was his bull- world as a business man. very good reasons for this, The J. .N. determined to win that prize. Despite the handicap of having to make his own way, he won it. ained in it so long that a change| Two years later he returned to their true vocation is practically | America with another nig determina- npossible, They have assumed re-{tlon, He had determined to become nnot » ading authority in his specialty had not suffered a nervous breakdown |'The education and training ny To-day, although not yet fifty years and come to the very point of death. |! would take too long and would ‘ld, he draws his patients from every That disaster gave him something |too much. Yet many have toiled |part of the country and from abroad else on which to fasten his bulldog teeth. Why had he broken down nervously? Why did other people! break down nervously, and how was he going to get well, and how were| other people going to get well? When | he came to me with his problem, 1) told him it was just the problem for him to try to solve. He had an intensely curious, inquir- Ing, scientific mind, He lked people, | he liked to handle them, he liked to listen to their troubles and help them out. When he in good health he| had a strong, cheerful, optimistic, courageous personality which in ftsclf | to who were stronger than the tempta- tlom, All at once he discovers th there js such a thing as moral vic tory. His game he finds phrased in term. of honorable conduct. His reading and his sport crystallize to| form now his conscious standards.” Tben Mr. Heyliger made an earn- est appeal tor mothers who will “un- Gerstand fellows,” who will appr late the cosmic importance of a @hampion high school team, “In those early years,” he sald, “when the boy's mind truly as Plastic as clay, his greatest need Is sympathy and understanding. It to # natural trait for him to come burst- ing into the house with his joys, his ‘porrows and his problems. Where @lse should he go? The mother who Ustens to her boy and who tries to appreciate his viewpoint will remain bis confidante all through life, But Tet what he tells her awaken no re- ) Bponse, and she will gradually chill is } something within him that will never| type of book than the German boy By and by he will take and enjoys a different type of sport. warm again. Bis confidences to more ready errs. ; ; “When it \s apparent how vast } # mother’s duty to try to view these from a sympathetic angle. The | tale of how some neighbor's boy ‘Was dropped trom tho baseball mine, wase than @ month, the influence of his games, it becomes) was a big asset to a pnysician, Ho) radiated health and courage and hap- | | pines and made everybody who saw him feel better, healthier, happier, | J. N, took hold of his problem with haraoteristic determination. It was| a knotty one for him to solve, Ill, ! land without resources, he had to look | forward to years of special training jat a time of life when most men} are supposed to be successfully | |launched tn thelr careers, | | Hundreds of men and women come |to us, only to find that they have |wtarted in the wrong work and hav because he did something that was not ‘square’ may sound like tdle,| boyish chatter, In reality It ts an jeplo, “Football and baseball may be @ bit rough, but though they leave a rent in @ stocking, they leave no scars Jon the soul, | “The American boy reads a different | He develops into @ different type of man,” _ | “BURSTLESS BU es.” British scientists have succeeded tn preserving soap bubbles intact tur) away at night and in odd moments, | I and have thus, finally, won their way|that his income is one hundred thou- have been told on good authority their rightful places in the work |sand dollars a year. | Kaiser’s | TUESDAY, DEC EMBER 10, 1918 How an American Indian Saved a U.S. Army © At the Fismes Bridge “Chief” Was a Full-Blooded American Indian Brave in the U. 8, Forces on the Veale. Death Trap Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishi HIS is a story about an Americ His namé might have been brave to a brave. It makes as noble at,the bridge made for the Romans, found his immortality upon a bridge. He ed unknown amid the tri- umphe host, up from the Marne, up through Thierry, ‘through Fpied, pursuing relentlessly the fal- tering Germans through Beuvardes Wood, Sergy Farm, Seringe, swept over the bloody fields of the Oureq at Villers-su , up to the River Vesle. bebind which the flower of the Prussian Guard found se- curity upon the base of a flattened salient. On intrenched on the Vesle, the Germans looked across the stream to the now famous Town of | ismes, On their side nestled the Village of Fismette, bound by foot bridges to its parent city oss the water, One foot bridge joinkd a road- way leading into the heart of-Fisn Upon this road, commanding a view of the River V and Fismette be- yond, rose a bridge, or stone viaduct, Ancient Persia Dresses Modern Paris PERSIAN SHAWLS INCORPORATED IN GOWNS, HATS, EV: By Margaret Rohe (Special Staff Corrasuondent we United I'ree), Persian fashions are blended in The folds of a Persian shawl, And quaint cashmere they'te wearing here Most any old way at all, PARIS, Nov. 19 | with polyglot perfection to uny n * Omar Khayyam only could come | {iovality or age to Paris now I'm gure he'd fvel] Then there are deep collars, saua or pointed, made from choic r ae re quite at home, ‘There's such 4) o¢ persian shawl, whole walstcoats Persian atmosphere, what with every) tor woar with smart tailor suits, one who is chic at all affecting a|bandings of the fringed borders of touch of a cashmere shawl some- | the shawls trimming the tunic edg where about her person, still, on|‘e Becks, cuffs and girdi f th i one-piece frocks and evening wraps second thought, perhaps it’s just @8/ evolved from an entire shaw) with « well he can't run in on us, for al-| buge coliar of suble fur, Leven suw a though he'd have no trouble im sorap-| ¥20le gown made from a shaw! t ne ing up a jug of wine or a book of| \ther day on the Rue de la Puix, The Verses or even a “thou” to sing beside | Potton’ of the yhort narrow skirt was him, just fancy what a sheaf of bread | the fringed border of the shawl, and more of the fringed bor the long, tight sleeves. band of the shuwl with fri made the girdle black velvet around tickets he would have to cough up for a whole loaf of bread. The exquisitely blended shades of old tues und reds and rose are so charming in the alluring scroll de- signs of the antique Persian shawis, it’s no wonder they have gone to Parisian heads in the shape of chic little turbans, It doesn’t seem to matter whether the turbans be Rus- sian, Turkish, Moorish, Hindoo or Just twentieth century Parisian, the the squar trast. touches of old Persian are much mo: artistic and effective than such gre maswes of it When it comer to handbags—wel lovely cashmere shawl adapts itself War and the Subway “Looks Like the World Is Getting Better; First Thing You Know the Bulsheviki Will Be Using Soap and Will Stop Reversing the Telephone Charges on Each Other—That’s, Real Peace,”’ Says “‘Bugs’’—But No Wonder. “‘The New York Boys Were the Cuckoos Who Folded the Gray Gorillas Up Like an Opera Hat; They Knew How to Battle; They Were All Educated in the First Line Trenches of the Interborough.” BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), IGHT now the map of the world 1s 80 scrambled that you can take R it down to a Chink laundry and get @ bundle on it, Bwitserland {a trying to trade off eleven mountains for enough level country to plant a Dillard table on, Over in Jersey, all Newark flappers must serub the war pink from thelr cheeks or abdicate, Looka like the world {s getting better, Firet thing you know the Bulsheviki will be using #oap and will stop reversing the telephone charges on each other, ‘That's real peace. The mills of the gods are slower than an army carpenter, but, buddy, they grind smaller than a war portion of ham and eggs, It's going to be @ rabgoobled poor Christmas for the Kaleer, and we're here to tell him #o, An an ex-noldier, who fought out the war on sou. ventr post cards and who wears two wound stripes for injuries received in the end chalr in Whoozus's Barber College, we fee) qualified to de. mand @ representation at the peace meeting which decides Just who gets the Clown Prince's left ear for a watch charm, ‘The Hohenzollern dynasty is going to be ripped apart like minnows snapping at wet bread. And while we ain't any minnow and while we don't like wet bread, wtill we sure will ke to Jab @ spoon in the gravy when the auc- tloneer knocks down the Kaiser's plated crown to the gentleman in the brown derby and purple vert, Yea, bo! It will be @ great moment when that takes place, And it Will be @ greater moment becanse the eld Bally hooing 69th are the birds who made it possible to take place, ‘The dope sheet shows that the New Yerk hoys were the enckeos whe folded the gray gorillas up like an opera hat. Hach Yank fighter that went out of New York wag a combination of wildcat, porcupine and a New York, New Haven and Hartford commutation ticket, They were so tough that they ate slumguliion made of broken bottles and rubber heels, Those babtes knew how to battle. And why not? They were all educated tn the first line trenches of the Interbor- ough, Mustard gas couldn't curl tp a dird who had inhaled a complete courée in the Brooklyn subway atmosphere for ten years, A g00d bayonet would be ruined trying to stab a New York soldier who had charged across No Gentleman's Land tn the Grand Central Station through a barrage of freshly honed elbows. Shrapnel would seem milder than hellotrope confetti to the fish who tossed off squads east and squads west in Mr, Shonts’s communicating trenches for fif. teen years, And spending the fashionable winter season in a trench full of water isn't any worse than the Canal Btreet Station, Only differ. ence is that they soak you a nfefel for the Canal Street stuff, The trenches are free, There isn't one of the New York buddies who twisted the Ka: ‘s army up like a pneumatic bairpin who didn't earn the Croix de Double Croix on the B. R, T, long before this war started, We have te thank the subway Beard ef Directors for building the finest intensive train- ing camp in the works, And ne matter when or where the next ballyhoo breaks eut, Uncle Sam will always find New Yorkers keyed right up for the reughhouse. Armistices may come and armistices may go, but the subway flat- wheelg on forever, You ald dt r finished sed ends and a binding of ut rather low neck was the only cop- I must admit I think the small re at li, that’s what puts the purse in Persian, (Wow, get out the gas mask, quick.) The lovellest handbags are concocted jout N HANDBAGS of these old Persian shawls by young Parisian fingers, They ure mounted on tops of tor- viseshell or amber, and the most elaborate and expensive ones have the blurred old Persian designs, all y picked out in tiny beads of cut or steel, Adorable coin purses, nice brong card cases and vanity cases with inirror, lip stick and a pocket for powder and powder puff of swans- Jown, ce apiete in cashmere charm- fil up your handbag if t resist their Oriental temp- tation that you haven't any room left for mere money, anyway. ° Bead bags ure as bewilderingly hoau- 1 and om ent ever, al- though the Persian b; are more exclusive and new The latest bead bugs are mounted on tortoise shell, but some of t st, rlotous in colur flaunt tops of bright orange, blue, green € or white composition, th» beads in Paris, however, aren't © bugs or beer, Byery feminine neck in Yown is encircled by some sort of @ hain, The more bi re of the more vivid of coloring, the better, Most of them are finished with @ large ornament or plaque of weird design and color, while others are content to dangle a graceful tas- se] made of varicolored and varisized beuds, Quite the very newest of these neck adornments is a chain formed of links of tortoise shell, from which depends a large medailion of the shell eut out in a beautiful and delicate op@nwork design, ‘These me- dallions are either of the carved shell alone or surrounded with a bordering band of pearls, One may look for pearls in oyster shells these days only to find them in turtle shelis, Be a Better Salesman and Earn | Bigger Pay! ET A SALES EXPERT SHOW YOU HOW YOU CAN MAKE GOOD Read the Articles by Roy Griffith in the Evening World Beginning Next Monday All) ng Co. (The New York Hvening World), an Indian and his heroism. Eagle Heart, for his heart was that courageous, or it might better have been whatever in the Indian tongue is the equivalent to Man-not-afraid-to-die. Names aside, he was simply known as “Chief” to his comrades in khaki, who went into the jaws of death with him in France, and they will hand down by word of mouth the legend of his valor, a tribute from the a tradition for our people as Horatius for like Horatius this sombre redmay , Srching over a street that ran at right angles parallel to the river, Advane- ing upon Fismes came the American Army, the hardy offspring of mingled European bloods, tough as ramshorn, fresh, undecadent, of mongrel vigor; cume also a pure American—an un- hyphenated American—an Indian, and | destiny beckoned to him from the | arched stone bridge. | Im force behind the Vesle the then [Crown Prince's army lay in Fismette, | behind which rose a hill of rock half | quarried out from the rear, a stone | bastion from which cannon, raining high explosives, shrapnel and gas. It fell in a circling | barr uround the doomed City of Fismes, wherein lingered the Prussian “forefield” (rear guard) posts, await- ing the American onslaught. Impre, nable in position, the Germans rei ontident; the river was impassable; efficiency and forty years of military science had seen to that, and wasn't t nius of the Crown Prince direct- ing all? Being so, this hysterical bar- rage was an unconscious complement to the “fool Americans,” who were too green and raw to understand caution in face of an insurmountable difficulty such as this, oss the river——never, Fismes was t American objective. They took tt! Heedless of the German dd “forefield” snipers. Foe nt to rest, but possessed by ambition, the Americans u prepared to cross the notwithstanding the “plain ém- possibility.” Fismette was now their bjec The narrow streets of Fismes leading down to the river were choked with debris, some were mined and raked by German guns. The ankee troops were con ess could not be proper direction. The turough the ruins were Jwafest rout ascertained by the Indian “Chief.” {f he could post bimself im a con spicuous pli View of his on- coming cow and indicate the proper cou luken, the situa- tion might be saved and’ the death avoided, The only place of vap- he White Stone Bridge, od the street running down Without hesitation the Chief volunteered to station bimself jen the parapet of the bridge, chose to expose his body a8 a human sema- ph at the most dangerous spot in Ue Fismes inferno, The hot summer giving a dazzling waite stone bac Mouvit sun beat down, brilliance to the hground of the bridge J tue Khaki-clad war- rior, ho stood as erect as an arrow in plain view of every enemy eye. Across the Vesle in Fismette the Ger- man lookouts spied the Chief with | their powerful glasses and ordered his annihilation. In Fismes, artfally concealed machine-gun nests opened their withering fire upon the bridge. Leaden hail chipped the stone para- pet from every direction. Death wes only a question of seconds. Unper- turbed as he was, the primitive in- stinect of the Indian, so long dormant under civilization, ‘began to assert itself in the brain of the Chief. He had a duty to perform, and this was more important than nature's first law of preservation, He must stay on that bridge. How? It meant the lives of his brothers-in-arms, the success of the attack, the honor of h: The wily -unning of his cestors came to his assistance and expressed itself picturesquely in this dramatic situation. The Chief stripped his khaki-colored uniform from bis khaki-colored body, which shone as plainly as ever against the white of the bridge, Then amazed officers and men saw the Indian prepare to per- form a custom of savagery charac- teristic of his people, The Chief pajnt- ed his wiry, graceful body, from his Jet-black crown to his toes, But not with the gaudy colors of a brave on the warpath did he decorate his skin. Garish pigment gave way to @ cov- ering of —unromantic kalsomine. Whitewash splashed his hair and stote face, hia lithe body and sinuous limbs, Again the Chief stationed himself at his post of danger and ; held the bridge,” his whitened body losing itself against the white | parapet. All that blazing afternoon he mo- tloned to the oncoming troops. This company to the right; that company to che left; conducting: them swiftly to thelr positions for the attack, In this grim instance there was nothing ludicrous to Ue boys in the Indian, perched aloft in his bizarre “make- Up." Tt was the acme of heroism, as | they tell you, In sheer bravado the American Army took Mismette, the “impreg- Nnable position,” guided by the “white’ red man, In the dusk of evening, after the hurly-burly of battle was done, some of the returning wounded who had swept past that day in fall vigor limped back over the bridge in Fismes, and there on the parapet they found a whitewashed body lying hud- died, The Chief, his duty performed, had been forgotien in the rush of eon. filet, ‘They mined his white tn» erusted figur white, now stained with crimson, and he was dead) Fismes Had Been Taken and Our Soldiers Were in a” “Chief” Alone Knew the Way to Safety. His Copper Body Whitened, He Stood for Hours on a White Stone Bridge and Pointed That Way—Until He Died. 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