The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1918, Page 16

AT ees: | Monday, December Tel 1918 Mai or Axton, Military Aid| To ‘General Dan Cupid,’ Has Broken All Jersey's ‘Marrying Parson’ Records) g First This Busy U. 4. Chaplain of the Port or| Embarkation Married Hundreds of Doughboys| Who Were Going ‘‘Over There Now That They're Coming Home Again He’s Busy Every Day Marrying More Hundreds to ‘the Girls They Left Behind Them.” And All This Sandwiched In Between Nearly Forty Other Jobs He Has to Look After in Hoboken With the Help of Thirty-Nine Assistants. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall RST, the war weddings filled up every loose chink in the time of perhaps the busiest man in the army—Major John T. Axton, U. 8S. A., Chaplain of the Port of Embarkation. Now the after-the-war weddings bid fair to send yp the marrying record of this first military aide to Gen. Dan Cupid, who daily wel- comes home thousands of the A, BE. F.—and ospecially the bridegrooms—as for the last year he has been giving them godspeed on their way to France. Major Axton is a remarkable person and he bas a remarkable job. He has been seventeen years a Chap- jain, and through bis official headquarters, at Pier 2, lioboken, function some thirty-two war service agencies, such as the Red Cross, the Y. M. C, A., the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the War Camp Comauuny Service and many others. It is his task to see that there is jo overlapping of the work for the boys on the piers and in the hospitals | ‘of debarkation, on the way across and—now—on the way -back. For | at present one agency serves the men on the return ‘ports. with coffee, sandwiches and) doughnuts, another agency sends tel- | two before the departure of the young @@rams for them with. st charge, an- | husbands, sometimes but @ few hours Other provides postcards, and, owing| before, and in several instances the to Major Axton's careful manageme nt, | bridegroome have been permitted to there is no duplication of work. In his|come here for the tying of the knot fie there are thirty-nine assistant | when they were already on shipboard, chaplains, represonung some seven! Then we all went out softly and shut different religious organizations, and|the doors and let them take their last whenever a transport goes in or out] furewells alone in this office, one or more of the chaplains is very! “We can marry them without de- lay, being empowered by the State of New Jersey to fill out the licenses and other necessary records. Usually the young bride has had her mother lor one or two friends with her for witnesses, But whenever she came here without a woman friend I have sent out to some of the offices and borrowed a stenographer or two, who would fix her up a bit, stand beside her and make her feel ‘she was hav- ing a regular wedding. “We can furnish practically any sort of ceremony desired, and tho other day one of our Catholic priests gave a creditable rendering of the Jewish wedding service, since we were temporarily without a Jewish chap Inin, We give each bride a little white-bound Bride's Book, containing the wedding service, the certificate and blank pages for congratulations. “e are our own souvenirs,” and jor Axton asked his son, | Lieut John Axton, a chaplain in his father’s office, to pull out a certain drawer, It was filled to the brim with wed. tr ns Muck on the Job, seeing to It that the doughboys have everything they need and giving them a friendiy pe farewell or greeting and his assistants hav for @ year that not a matches, is being done in City Hall in York?" I asked. nal Major ARton ston his head. “Bach Major Axton couple has to bring witnesses,” be made sure pointed out, “who must swear that anaport Jeft WNCY are intimately acquainted with h New York without a full equipment that hey know of No moral or legal of games, gymnasite 4 -\obstacle to the marriage. Now and nogr: a coke to amuse the|then a man will come in with a opel ro woman several years older than him die ih ,|self, but that happens often enough But besides deine a sort of personal |in ‘civil life. I never really was Host and ca ker to almost two! fooled except with one couple, whom jon departing fighters. and giving|I married at a camp at the request er are ‘ee a royal hh ee of one of the welfare organizations. q re |T didn't exactly like the looks of the home, Major Axton has far outdis- liwo, but the organization informed fanced the justly famous marrying | me that all proper tnvestigations had Parsons ang justices of Jersey in the|been made. A few days later 1 was dd ich he s|summoned to the cam and found arene Of weddings & which be has itee” groupe of indignant. relatives ofctated, most of them in his OWM|gioring at me from opposite sides Private office. of the Hostess House, and assuring Certainly we have had hundreds|/me, in unison, that Both bride and dings in the past ye: bridegroom were already married to Seas tae caaeteany. cand now that {Other partners when T had performed my ceremony!" Eee wove are comin k the aftor. | What is the niost affecting war the-war weddingr taking place mance with which you have come tn daily, "1 asked Major Axton “Mobedy wants to lose any time,|, “Almost all of them have been af- fecting,” he replied simply. “I take you see. 4 \ ri, ‘Jus not to be curious, so T do not stick to u, dear, till | come back and| w tho details of the love affairs We'll be married rig wa So she| that have brought men and girls to office, But so often, standing © boken to meet him, an nis, eomes to Ho ‘ n, and front of a young couple, I have they want to be married right off to put out my hand and. gently Who blames them? I don't. T never] at the little bride to keep her felt 1 had the right to try to stop| fr y entirely Gish Siu awh é coat or quiet sult feet weddings. My owr Imost always has Married a young officer a year ago. bit of wedding Just before he wert on acti bouquet. And the If the war bride and the wa eo just es husky and de to take thelr chance to $ pridegrooms always groom decide er nee t . at have told ples 40 i gether, I can't the affair |iute his bride, os T always do after|s of any one ol ceremony, she usually has not Amd square-kholiidered Major Axton |! ing oe broadly that I knew st onco| ave told her that of course by, th the army, th Ihim“Friar|he will come back to her ard she after Robin Hood's jolly, mus-| must wait for him bravely. Ouler, intensely human chapiain! “Of course there are no decorations, ‘Then noke of my nor gifts, nor cake at our weddings he spoke of (he romances) sta jor Axton answered another ques Which bave flowered in his busy of-|tion, “but we usually have a wedding tee. march.” and he pointed to a tiny “[ have married officers and dough. | Portable organ tn one gomner, vane : . soya teging i ys the trail of rice has he remarked, “daughters ‘of a tact clanat clans Rouen Well-to-do parents and little girls e front gate,” he added with a worked for a living. They have|reminiscent smile, ‘Just yesterda @ome bere from ai) quarters of the a double Pi, ing, and 9 Vaited States, sometimes from hall Ad Ave couples in thle room all being married at once.” across the continent, 1 married one| And now the after-the-war we beautitul young woman from Arizona | dings seem tthely to be both mo: °adgorin Ae epee and merrier, The A. B. F. vetera $0 © soidie. Ge who had just come | echoing Harry Lauder—"Don't let » has tried to cheer her up, Failures Who Made By Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford. (Author of “The Job, the Man, the Boss," NO. 8—-FROM SCHOOLBOY MUTINEER TO INDUSTRIAL HEIR APPARENT. ARENTAL bad judgment {s one of the most frequent causes of misfits. ts are sincere and try to be wise, choice of @ child's Many fathers are domineering in their determination that their sons shall follow the same vocation in which they made their success. Par- ents are @{ten prejudiced in favor of vocations followed by dear friends or by men whom they greatly admire One of the most disastrous prejudices upon the part of parents is that in favor of w hat are called “the learned To make a lawyer, a physician or @ min- ister of one’s son is held to be the highest ambition on the part of large numbers of otherwise tptelligent fathers and mothers. The result of this kind of preju- dice is that the go-called learned professions are over-| college or crowded with men and women unfitted for their tasks, both by natural inheritance and by education and tra ining, The father of A. Ls, a successful lawyer, was determined that his son should enter the legal profession an¢ ultimately take a partnership ip the In this he seemed rea Even when paren’ life work is very dificult for them. ding ring boxew of every shape and] father's firm, sonable enough. and intelligent, the father he to give him a thorough education, and rhe opportunity of making a beginning with his father was one not to be pplicants for the license, and jt of her own, had learned to hate her profession, It was bad enough, she said, to have one lawyer in the family two was intolerable. To her mind the Jee of law had done things to her husband which were a great grief to She shuddered when it was pro posed, nay insisted, that her dart son should be subjected to the thing and acquire the same mark wanted the boy to be- a suc maternal grandfather would have ne practice of medicine a noble one. Her whom loved and re sful physician, He t ke him, A © oportunity to begin the of law with his father, she even better opportunity to gin the practice of medi¢ine with bis on his part, a lad of eighteen of either professior was bright and intelligent he was also very active and bi) study of every kind, The thou four years in colle four years in either iaw medical school! made him able to keep back the tears, } = FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING, Prick the skin of baked po! are done, T! the steam to escape tatoes dry and m Rinse milky ¢ 2 washing no difficulty stain thickly with appears, When the oak the stained portic The clothes will not freeze to th Washington, fee # ay br any more of war, just let us (apne innmapaiassseememaateanaes aaa Monday, This Bunch of Ordinarily Closely Co-ordinated Subjects Might Bear Some Relation, Each to the Other, Had Not the Writer Separated Them With Three-M Dashes and Cut Them Up Into Initialled Paragraphs—But Follow the Plot and You’il Discover an Intensely Interesting Novelette That Might Easily Be Made Into a Creepy Serial Story if Stretched Out a Bit. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. (Copyright, 1918, 49 the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) AISER 1s in Holland, That's the place where they make carpet slippers out of fence posts. Quite a jump from tron hate to wooden shoes, but if Bill- helm wants to get his ex-imperial flatfeet full of splinters, it's up to him, Doesn't make much difference what hap- pens to Bill's fect now. He ain't going to use ‘em much longer. IRD out in Central Park raised a black umbrella and chirped that ali debts were off. Fortunate thing that squirrels ain't cannibals. If you owe anybody any money, don't go out to Central Park and raise a black umbrella. Its owner might recognize fit. Declaring a world wide moratorium is good dope. The sentiment fs excellent, Unfortunately, the vaccination didn’t take, Raising black umbrellas is the bunk. Debts are still rat tling on east to west as eteadily as the sun, which ain't hesitated since it pulled that famous skip-stop for Joshua, Let's g0. B pretty tough if the War Department orders the girls to unravel those 15,000,000 sets of sox they knitted. It’s easier to crochet a sock than it Is to demobilize it. talkin it when I come haye gave up frivolity with the ex- ceptton of goin into town once in @ while to take a bath. Im strong for | this nity stuff under any condi- | tions. Im makin a study of war. Im goin |to tell you @ sekrut. Im workin on a plan to end the war. I got thinkin, as I will, an it struck me that no one had gone into this at ‘all. There all figurin how to go ‘on with it Qut none of em how to |quit it. Dont say nothin till I get it worked out. I guess you always knew youd here from me when I got goin, eh Mable? T also resolve@ not to put off till tomorrow what F can do today. (Old |motto.) For instance if I can get out of a fatigue today whats the use of waitin till tomorrow. The same | With sleepin and restin. T cut out cigarets to. Y was gettin |to be a feend. Got so I had to lite Jone whenever I got thinkin. I w ;usin up most a package a day. | Nervous and high strung. Thats me all over, Mable. I smoke cigars an LCOHOLIC wealth of America te six kegs of beer per capita. If @ man is twins, he's entitled to six. After next July, a rope of pearls will be easier to buy thane lavalliere of bungstarters. Well, as the Gov of Souse Carolina said, it's a long time between century plant blooms. LOWN Prince expects to get rich, He's invented @ may polish that’ will take rust off of iron crosses, (wi pPossiBe to figure how milk can jump from four cents to eighteen cents a quart in ten years. Nothing has changed except the price. Same cow. Same grass. me farmer. me public. Same pump. + | also the same quart. Only a trifle smaller. FTER Europe ts safe fr democracy, the alllfed nations might get together and operate on the B. R. T.. Cut out its schedule. ioe sald it then, stranger, ‘Analyzing Chartcter.” &c.) professions.” Themselves Successes thin, You remember what the fello that there was constant friction be- announced, he would remain until the | ture, tween him and both his parents, Fi-|rest of the family came to its senses. er to borrow pipe tobacco “ nally he failed in his studies during} “Thoroughly alarmed, A. L.'s mother 14 4m ¢ A ree dagets prieeraty what was to have been his last year| finally yielded to the pleadings of the | Ut Im tryin to show the fellos how in preparatory school, and then failed| son, left her Montana home and came P84 cigarets {s. Pretty soon Ill be still more signally in his entrance ex-| all the way to New York to learn it) all O. K. again. aminations for college. a domestic tragedy. Father stormed and said the boy should get his de-| not study. gree in law if it took him the rest of |active and ambitious disposition, in-/ his life, dependent and Hberty loving, so that| Christmas present cause this wipes {eclared that he would never go to| died for it a pipe instead. A fello with an active mind has got to have som what trained the high school show In school he was «> nearly a failure door and going to his club, where, he said when he saw me act. Tempera- Thats me. Of course its hard- possible what vocation the son ought| | I got that watch your father sent This brought the trouble almost to | to follow. |me for a New Years present. Tell It was easy to see why A. L. ‘eer | him thanks very much an not to feel He was of an Intensely | aq because he forgot to send me a Mother wept, and said that the son/ confinement in his room with his| ut the debt entirely, He sald it was should get his degree in medieine if | books or in @ class room or labora-| military watch an the latest thing It took her life, he also added aj tory with his professors bored him| good deal about the stubpornness, | "to rebellion and mischief, His mind | watch cause {t works two hours ard brutality and unkindness of father, | 4% @ creative one, so that he took | stops four, Its the latest thing lout. I guess they call it a militsry itth interest in following in the foot-\ round here. If I answered call by of dry-as-dust men who died that watch Id be fallin in for re- ago. He was intensely tnterest- 2 1 lees i ed in making money, and it seemed | ‘reat round taps. Its so slow it can A. L, both stormed and wept, and|! y medicine or law if he| It_ended by bright A meags The boy however, for reasons The thought of having ne ter, an, She thought the es in cold water mand you will in getting thers | | bronze drawn and executed by Sculptor F. Delteil of Cherbourg, |‘ aa intarponed, , Wine stains tn the table cloth shoul 1] France. Tho cost of the statue has been defrayed by a popular Pang ys ~s he wiih & po ed immediately after the mel | subscription among the citizens of the City of Cherbourg and will be a, 3 that ‘she Grst to be published in America, HE above photograph shows a plaster of paris mode! of a statue in| rected on one of the public places of that city, It ts a token of affee (ion and gratitude for the timely succor of America to France in the “You headed me off too soon,” | uour of her nevd, and represents a young American gladiator giving the emiled the young man, “I was going “coup de grace” (death stroke) to the German vulture, line if you wipe the line with a*cloth' wag sent from Cherbourg by a friend of The Evening World and is the wrung out ip salt water before hang- ing out the wash, ity to pore over books about theoreti-| I got the blacksmith over at head- ‘| Cherbourg Will Erect Praise Wittig ou. Sele a ee en esr mae tess ee Hes an awful good man. He was a for businass enterprise. Commemorating U.S. Aid to France) i. ras incon ty’ intecestoa 9 yee nen ge ptm a blacksealth whe ‘ machinery, building, and things that move e u ree, a or were built) eon to fiz it sos Til never be He had a good dea) of natural ree | bothered with it again. finement and love of beauty. Ho had| | got asked to a dinner New Years \he elements of good taste, which, | Bight. I sat next to a Colonels wife. with cultivation, might become very | It was kind of embarassing at first. December 16 Dere Mable ‘chil Letters of a Rookie By LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER (Illustrated by Corpl. G. William Breck) Tenth of a series of “DERE MABLB” letters which The Evon ing World is publishing on this page. (Copyright, 1918, by Frederick A, Stokes Company.) ° sta stop quick. | ther slamming the to him a waste of time and opportun- P they made him a blacksmith when| transportation he joined the army. He says hes| ON CROQUETTE: Su That's not the kind with the evenin dress tooth pick in the top, Mable. A croquette is a French society woman. Study these letters of mine an see how I use the words. You ought to be able to pick up enough French to understand me bome. Well, Mable, New Years are behind us again. Once more I made a lot of revolushuns, It's no use sayin there wasn't nothin for me to change. You’ can see falts where others can't. Underneath @ pleasant exterior I am made of sterner prejudiced. 1 the poets say. I “A CROQUETTE I8 A FRENCH SOCIETY WOMAN.” that funny lookin old bird sittin across the room with @ head like an egg. Hes very chic isnt he? (Thats a French joke Mable.) She says “Thats my hisband.” As soon as Id stopped laffin I started right in an told her the history of every man in the company beginnin with the As. You know me when I get start- ed. I didnt git her no chanst to get embarassed When she started to say somethin I just kept right on talkin just to show her that bein a Colonels wife the wasnt expected to make no effart I made good, Matle. I guess you kno I would. After dinner I beard her ask somebody who invited me Then she said somethin like “Hed ought to be known better.” Never miss @ chance, Thats me all over It may mean promoshun or anything Tt may be that shell bave me sent to Fort Silly to learn somethin. You cant tell. I cant think of anything more that you would understand, Dont show these letters to kno one. There is to many spize around. TI suppose you are awful lonesome without me. I dont get much time to be lone- some what with drillin an goin out somewhere. As soon as things get shook down a bit I hope to get more time to miss you. Hows yur fathers liver? Au Riviere, pas BILL. expert. He had a natural apprecia- |] put her easy though. I says whose tion of beauty in color and form, tn | The comrinte series of DORE MABLE letters is pmbsiabed tn book farm, line and in proportion. Hig inherent | \nclination wag to exalt quality rath. er than quantity, In view of all these things I sug- ested that he be permitted to go at once into an automobile factory, that every encoura By Helen ement be given aim to study mechanical engineering and designing, and that he vet as his soul |the highest invention, d possible position in the mn. manufacture, ad- vertising and selling of automobiles This suggestion was received by |the boy with delight, The mother |ave up with a sigh her ambition for |@ medical career for him, consoled by the thought that r Oh, she’s driving | engineering was jJust as honorable a profession as |medicine and might easily |much more remunevative. ‘The father, when he heard that the Bee | mother had renounced her pet profoct |, iW: J for the boy, submitted his stubborn will, and together they began to pian | for their son's career as an engineer | ind mannfacturer It is too early y be very Alas, romance mas trees nor any of the other really et to say that the The soldier who failed to be sent | !ad will become one of the great fg- ires of the automobile industry. it # not too early, however, to say vat jhe is making rapla advancement aud | that, if not yet a ruler of industry, |he seems an industrial hei > — NOT A WISE BET, | perfections he expected to find. what a woman will do," tal to say that 1 would bet that she would | Tho photograph | go the unexpected.’ the older man. “Even at lg wale bet.”-—Philadelphia ’ F . \ ‘Bachelor Girl Reflections Rowland. Copyriaht. 1918, by The Praw Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ARRIAGE 1s like a toy bank. Barring accidents, bad luck and mh. M aclcs, you get out of it just what you put into it. Where is the sweet, old-fashioned girl who used te call everything “cute,” from a man to the Pyran/‘ds” an army ambulance now and has changed ber favorite adjective to “efficient.” The most harrowing thing, to a girl, is to receive, letter from Him, orer there, in which he refers entbuy fastially ta “some French people” he's met, but neglects to say whether the “people” ts blonde or a drunatie doesn't last! But neitha #» sunsets, wna tolvane# roses, dinners, youth, operas, summer, dreams, Christ. fascinating things in this life! Per- haps that's what makes them fascinating. “over there,” probably feels as chag- \tined and burt as will the small boy whose mother puts @ woolly lamb in- stead of a gun in bis stocking this Christmas, A man regards bis wife somewhat as a emal] boy does his Christmas apparent. stocking. He complacently accepts al] her charms, attractions and virtues and then stands accusingly off and demands to know where are all the other The brand new lady voter has learned that it is as dificult to hold on to a remark with the words: “T jyour popularity and to your political opinions at the same time as it ts to bet she will,” when an elderly gen- | hold on to @ man with one band and on to heaven with the other, | = | T a social function one evening | ono of the male guests began | Yes, Mabel, you can @lwaye distinguish a hotel carriagecaller from a eity of his uniform andthe modesty of I) do anything, Yor ‘ |foreign officer by the simp! lesty of his ee ee a tlt dase Dever tell | caring—the OFFICER'S uniform and bearing! Somehow the simple fact that a woman married him always seems ‘to convince her husband that she couldn't attract any OTHER man— “Don't do it, young man,” eautlones | ana the simple fact that a man married ber always seoms to make a woman * | suspect, that he is trying to attract every other woman.