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TUESDAY, ov Sitting On a Live Wrecked Balloon Only the Sea Service. H hand grapades surprised at the ringing warmth of t \«nnot de filled until you come back sont you.” terial with the aid of Lieut. Wells Hawks, Passed Assistant Paymaster, U8. N. R. FF, and his stories are authentic, thrilling and, for the most part, new to the general public. There is, for example, the trely remarkable feat of Clef Boatswain's Mate John Mackenzie of the Naval Reserve, who was serving on the U. 8. 8, Remlik when, during a heavy gale, a box containing a depth bomb broke and the bomb “went bouncing about the deck, threatening to blow the ship lo pleces.” | “This depth bomb," continues Mr. | Collins, “weighed several hundred | pounds. No one could lift it, and the roiling of the ship made it impossible for the men to lay hold of it. To in- crease the excitement, some one no- ticed that the pin had come out and shouted out his terrifying news. The crew, though realizing that the next |“ moment might be their last, failed to) form any concerted plan of action. | “At this highly critical moment | Mackenzie rushed forward and grap-| pled with the bomb. He flung his) body against it, exerting all his strength to stop its plunge, but the bomb was much too heavy for him. He repeated the attempt again and a third time, Each time he almost suc- ceeded in getting his arms around It, but it tore itself away from him. “At the fourth attempt Mackenzie made a supreme effort, secured @ firm grip on the bomb, and heaved it up- right till it stood on its flattened end, Having won this advantage he calmly sat on the bomb and held it down until assistance came.” In recognition of this feat Secre- tary of the Navy Daniels has award- ed a Medal of Honor to Mackenzie and @ gratuity of $100, Henry W. Robinson, graduated from Stevens Institute and Columbia before his enlistment early in May, 1997, un- doubtedly saved Submarine Chaser 121 last January, and all its men, By his miccessful fire-fighting in the engine room, of which he was in charge. “The submarine chaser,” relates Mr. Collins, “was well out tg sea, far from any assistance, when an ugly fire broke out in the engine-room. ‘The engine had back-Qred, and some gas- oline in the bilge was ignited, threat- ening the entire boat. A fire on so small a craft is extremely dangerous. The stores of gasoline and ammuni- tion must necessarily lie so close that a few seconds may determine the fate of the craft and all on board, “Robinson rushed the room, to find that the gasoline had flashed up and flames were licking the floors and walls, While the crew ran to safety Robinson stood his ground. He fought aguinst terrifying \ odds, The flames soon reached a can ot grasoline, which went off with a to engine- DECEMBER 24, : New Heroes of Our Navy _ Added to Our War History Feats of Individual Bravery Bomb to Save a Ship, Fighting Flaming Gasoline in Blazing Clothes at Close Quarters, Swimming Through a Heavy Sea to a Courage Which Has Marked Young America in By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyrieht, 1918, by The Prews Publishing Co, OW a chicf boatswain’s mate saved his ship by sitting on a bomb which, with its pin out, was running amok on the deck in a heavy sea; how a young chief petty officer, with his clothes aflame, slung a fire in the engine room of a sub- marino chaser, thus saving it and the crew from de- struction; how a ship's fitter saved the life of an officer entangléd in a sinking balioon-these are only three of Ane many instances of superb valor and forgetful- ness of self listed by Francis A, Collins in his re- cently publisged record of American sailors in the great war, which he has called “Naval Heroes of To- Reading this “book of golden dee¢ Navy by Sir David Beatty, when he said that in the hearts of the world’ ateatest historic navy our seamen “have left a very warm place whicb Mr. Colling has cellected his ma- c roar, and a m ent later spread to Robinson's clothes “To abandon the engine room meant the loss of the ship, Robinson stood his ground, ca ating chances with @ skilful eye, Making his wa to a rack of hand grenades, he swung} the globes with a sure aim at tt 1918 \ - Three Instances of High (The New York Brening World) one is not he tribute paid to the United States or send another squadron to repre ondition by a tug boat, shore for treatment. “Krom tho hospital he was or@ered to report to Annapolis, where he x examined for promotion to Ensign How many people know that the first American medal to be awarded for “extraordinary heroism’ in the war with Germany was presented to Patrick McGunigal, a ship's fitter of the U. S.S. Huntington? He met and overcame a danger new to the seas, ang Mr, Collins tells his story “The captive balloon on the Hunt- and taken ington had been struck by a squall, driven down and soused into the sea ina flash, The officer observer in the ‘basket was drawn under the water and on rising found bimself a Prisoner amid a tangle of re the partially supmerged bi wreckéd balloon’ is an exceedingly dangerous craft. “Tho officer in the b drenched a d blinded hy Was tho first to re climbed down the , dragging a ropo after t vam to tho balloon. The bash and sank and supporting the struggled with the tangle “While supporting the one arm, McGunigal tried to hold to the balloon for continued to elt the slightest touch or drivi before the wind with each pulling the two men along in wake, It would be difficult to | ceive of a more baffling object Gunigal managed to fasten tho | he carried about the officer, who was | now thoroughly exhausted, | two were finaliy drawn on’ board, “Naval Heroes of To-Day" is pub- | lished by the Century Company. | M Who Is Santa Claus? By HELEN ROWLAND. Coprright. 1918, by The Presse Publishing Co, HY, he is the spirit of childish dreams— The mystical, mythical spritel— The ghost of what-isn’t-but-merely-SEEMS, And the Prince-of-heart's-delight! E is the spirit of mist and snow, Who sails through the starlit air, And carries the song of the mistletoe To sweethearts everywhere! E is the breath of a million pines That glitter in candle-light. He is the glow of the lamp that shines For the lost on Christmas night! E is the magical artisan i) Who fashions a dream from Truth— THe BOY that lives in the heart of a man, The soul of eternal youth! E is the laughter that leads each band Of carrollers, joyously, He is the spirit that guides your hand When you give sweet charity. E is the music of lovers’ sighs, And the tingle of finger-tips— He is the thrill when eyes meet eyes, And young lips meet young lips. H, you fancied him merely a fat old squire Lugging a bundle of toys; But he is the spirit of heart's desire, The,soul of a thousand joys! ND you neyer will find him up there in the skies, And not up the chimney-flue— (The New York Evening World) For he is the Spirit of LOVE, that lies . Deep down in the heart of you! TUESDAY, The Thre Of Opp DECEMBER 24, 1918 e Decades — ortunity When a Man Is Forty He Should Have Built the House of His Business Career—Success After Forty Is Unusual—But the Years After Forty Are Harvest Time for the Man Who Has Improved Himselfand = His Opportunities in the Years Behind Him. je By Joseph Fr Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishin W to getting the fullest and found the work he sense of responsibil. labora. that. re smen a genius of the future, But the years after forty are har- vent (ime for the man who has im- proved himself and fis opportunities in the score of years behind him. He is the man who is wanted for the big posts, He is tho business states- man. There is no prejudice in the business world against years, as such —only against the years of the ad- mitted incompetent, ‘The man who succeeds in the rank and file between twenty and thirty and as a junior ex- ecutive between thirty and forty is the recognized material for chief ex- ecutive between forty and fifty, We oven after his sixtieth birthday, The most conscientious and hard- working young man, how@Vver well he understands the inanimate tools and processes of his business, cannot have an intelligent and sympathetic com- prehension of the human components, the employees, Not every one is cap- able of learning how to manage men from those great teachers, Time and Experience, but they are the only in- structors for the efficient executive. An executive in business must have the qualities of a political statesman, He must be able not merely to plan but to drive his plans through to successful execution, He must be able, therefore, to make others do his will, He must pick men who will un- Mince Pie and Xmas Surrounded, BY ARTHUR ( Copsrtaht, 1918, HAY overripe portiere of hand-painted whis- kers dangling off Santa Claus’s chinpiece a Bol y shevist, may make the old bird look like But right there the resemblance stops quicker than Von Hindy did at Chatcau-Thierry. There's an honest Adam's apple beating under Santa's chin frieze The old boy wouldn't paint a sparrow yel low and sell it for a canary, and he wouldn't put a burr under a flivver's frout seat in order to make it gallop f it twelve h When he wishes you fun wishe inches to the foot. There hasn't been m fun in the world for the last quartet of Christmases, but when old Doe yon Gloom flatwheeled thirty miles past the Rhine he carried the whole Gloomenzollern family with him Now the world has nothing on its chest but the Spanieh fu and carpet slippers, The only thing we can do with the Spanish tu is to change its name There doesn't seem to N burning floor and wa!ls, ve grenafes were required, but the fire on the floor and walls was finally put mut, ‘The oil can, however, was still] aflame, and’ Robinson's clothes were burning in several places, st making sure chat the fire in he room was out, Robinson picked "up the burning oi] can apd started for| the ce He was already badly| burned it his neck and face, Struggling to the deck, he hifMed th blazing can overboard, and himself plunged into the sea, It was the and blame it on the Kaiser be any cure for carpet slippers, They seem to be a part of Christmas, like ingrown hairs are part of a 10-cent shave. New York shoyld knock off a real Christma to-morrow, Same as they have in big citic ‘or lowed to approach within one hundred yards of the water, That's exactly one hundred yards nearer than most of ‘em ever approached since Noah dis- juickest and safest method of putting | out the fire on his burning clothing, | covered somebody had gone off and left the spigot thesis running. To-morrow’s casualty ligt will consist ind he had just enougn strength left} ‘y to carry, it Gut, Some minutes later exclusively of turkey killed, pumpkin pie wounded he was picked up ina Se and cranberry sauce surrounded, Yea, bo. The ti Ne it ed ee ver “To-Morrow’s Casualty List,’’ Says “Bugs,”’ “Will Consist Exglusively of Turkey Killed, Pumpkin Pie Wounded and Cranberry Sauce The Miners and Sappers Will Be Digging Trenches in the Mashed Potatoes” “BUGS”’ fy the Press Publishing Co. ) BAER » York Byening World.) miners and sappers will be digging trenches in the mashed potatoes, and the engineers will toss pon- toons over the cream of celery soup. Tho Indoor Tank Corps may rumble into action, but don’t be- Next July mezzanine aviators may grudge ‘em their last Christmas afloat. they go into drydock, The hit the ceiMng once in a while, but then Christmas only drop in once a year. And next Christmas won't be enlivened by the popping cry of a wild calling to its wilder mate, No Christmas is complete without water. You got to have something handy when Santa gets his celluloid whiskers tangle: up with a crossed cir- cuit This is tho last Christmas that the Jugo-Slays will have a chance to celebrate as Jugo-Slavs Starting neat July, the Jugo is clipped off like a bull pup’s tail, No mora jugs, Nothing to fall back on buc mince ple. The Jugo-Democrats and the Jugo-Bull Moosers will take their mince pastry With one foot on the brass rail of the nearest bak ery. There ain't anything in the law that chirps a thing about mince pies. A mince grenade loaded with the old nose polish wi.) be the darb. Any citizen can step out to the nearest biscuit saloon and get mince pie-eyed without leaving the neighborhood cop the sligntest legal loophole for a The Neither will the citizen squawk luw won't have a leg to stand on No Xmas. seems officiak without the old mince pie, and any good baker should be able to obtain a ilcense to operate @ mince pie buffet. What dif- ference does it make if your pie slips off your knife? You can use @ spoon on this kind, Coiffures for the Holidays Arrangements of Unusual Charm and Individuality Suggested by The Evening World’s Fashion Expert for the Woman Who Is Planning Her Part in the Holiday Festivities. a ee By Mildred Lodewick 1948, by ‘The (The New York Evening World.) hing Co, enjoy this Yuletide seaso! lve 1 am showing these distinc- urrangements, Dach one holds a mod ed at Interesting places. At the left a jewell (Dean Schoot of Commerce, New York University; President Alexander Hamilton Institute; Author, “Busine MIDDLE-AGE—40 TO 50 HEN a man is forty he should have built the house of his business career, and from that time forward his life should be devoted the structure he has erected. habits for accomplishing that work, having developed his good care of himself physically, he stands at the threshold i, of the decade of middle age equipped with power and op- portunity to perform his most profitable and important I do not say that it is impossible for a man who hae been a failure up to bis fortieth birthday to succeed afte. But such success is exceedingly unusual, because in the first twenty years of his likely to become fixed—including the habit of succeeding or failing at the work in hand. Employers understand this fact, and are prejudiced against the man over forty aeisese who never has made good. would have shown it before now,” they say. they can give him a position of importance commensurate with his years, and for subordinate positions they prefer the year's crop of young men, each of them afire with energy and ambition and one of them possibly have learned—especially since the war|aged man’s ‘lost enthusiasm of cI —that his competence Is likely lo go] youth.” No man between forty and ny on incxeasing after his fiftieth and] atty who is worth his salt and who ench Johnson and the Man.”) ww York Evening World.) Co, (Toe most far-reaching usefulness from In other words, having } wants to do, having acquired correct lity and his initiative, having taken reer a man’s habits are “If be had ahything in him he Therefore they do not feel that derstand his purpose and he must know that his instructions are obeyed, He must have intellectual power, a FS vivid imagination, intuitive knowledge of men, and a personality which makes olvera keen to do his will. Ho must radiate energy and enthusiasm, and so must have a strong neck, largo lungs and a stomach not afraid of nails, Finally, and most important of all, he must have the power of prompt decision that is associated with « strong chin; lacking this be will fail As an executive. One often hears about the middle- is doing the work for which he is best fitted has lost any of the true content of enthusiasm. Some of its foamy bubbles may have been blown away by the years, but the tang of delight a in the job for the eake of the job bas only been sharpened by the paswage of time, I never knew a very success- ful man, whate¢er his age, who did not Jove his business next to his wife : and children, Wisdom and good judgment are qualities rightly stressed in discuss- ing what makes for supreme success between forty and fifty, Yet there is another equally important quality, which is needed by the gen- 4 erals of industry as much as py the generals of the army. That is the 5 gift of courage, A timid or ultra- is cautious man must lack initiative and be incapable of great achighe- ments, He is born to be commatided but not to command, In business, cowardice of any kind is a+ serious detriment, for it will make a man + hesitate and hang bask at the very time when he should be pushing ahead, The business executive must bo resolute and stout of heart, He nvtist not fear his competitors, but on the contrary make them fear him, If he is weak and timid he will vacillate, and his subordinates will have no respect for him,’ They will f pretend to respect bis wishes, but behind his back they will speak of him contemptuously and do as they 4 please, All great business men have : been courageous. They have dared things which would have frightened and paralyzed weaker men, The odds were often against them, but they : kept on fighting. They had courage ¥ as well as initiative, Because he bears the brunt of the fights and because he is growing no younger, the executive between forty and fifty needs, even more than bis utive, to watch his phys- it is an old saying Ry Saas junior exe ical condition, that it is not work but worry that & kills, The ambitious executive never “f can be entirely free from occasions # for worry and anxiety,» Big orders 2 may be coming in and large profits seem in sight, but the newspapers are full of reports of labor trombles, “Will my men, knowing of the increase in my business, Wtrike at the eritieal myment and demand higher wages?” This is a very serious question In the minds of all business men with large payrolls, In business, man is exposed to counticss such sources of worry HE woman who brushes her hair uatit {t 4a smooth, |OF comb confines the bangs or a soft puff of hair at the] ang unxiety, If he ts physically weal | hiny, and fluffy to handle, and then arranges it|{ront, while the remaining hair is swirled about the! 5. untit he will sooner or later break head. Rather long locks are necessary for such an ar- , ns becoming manner which Individuatizes| jsngement, In the centre, however, Is en, excell A dod ma pans ne arttcula o t ‘a bobipieca jowever, n excellen (oo many business men over her 4 + type of beauty, Is indeed a mark for ad-| suggestion for the woman with short, fluffy hair, Al dig their oraves with their teeth, as ation, The bright Mghts that sparkle in the evening | sem cular shaped pin, like the popular bouquet or| the old saying has it, Men at this ream first on her head, then on her shoulders, and then | veil pin, is used effectively to hold the hair at the back | Period should make @ point of eating » her pretty frock—but her head first, remember! {so that It may escape in a pretentious loop that tends | ee then 5 thelr cartier year They ; Therefore is the wise woman ever conscientious in thia| height to a low {rout arrangement. ‘The a | Reed no} BAve She te ee > pasrators is the. wie us in th : tow Ihe nt arrangement, The hair may be lete, but they suould have the strong I grooming either combed directly back, or parted on the side and) joay, in which all the muscles, Be= 4 Most every woman has some regulartway of arranging | dropped over the forehead, At the right is # suitable! cause in dally w perform thelr 1 y her hair, which she deems more becoming and practises | suggestion for a miss, with the hair puffed at the sides,| functions properly, giving th mie every day, but there is no more reason for a woman not| but more to the back and higher on the head than is| sary support to the vital dhanging the style of her hair dressing than there is for her not changing the style of her clothes, Both con- tribute equally in lending th® enchantment of variety to one’. personality, For the many festive occasions which women will popular at the moment. A soft figure elght knot com-| 8 pletes the coiffure, but an enormous filigree tortoise. shell comb is thrust én one side, as shown, to lend al-| ‘ most the effect that a large ribbon bow would achie It {9 especialy youthful and pretty,