The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1919, Page 22

Mi EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, March 6, 1919 pe ee J. H. Cassel How They Made Good ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | NA IE it Ne Mle FE rrr carer By A ! be tt La ayson herby ne. Be Feyushine Compsny, Nos. 68 te Presidcat, 63 Park Row, No. 5—JOHN GUTENBERG—the Inventor of Printing. Park Row, B printed the first book and he made the first printing SHAW, uirer, 63 1 TZEU, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, aod FS SS Press—this long-bearded, fifteenth-century wizard, John Gutenberg. And he is known as the Inventor Aoreigted Prom i eet de. Tad Geo aN RN of printing. So 1s Shakespeare known as the author Mets viNO, B1,0it of “Hamlet.” Yet anuther “Hamlet” was written, long before Shakespeare's. And printing had been in use 800 years before Join Gutenberg was born, But Gutenberg’s genius was none the less great becat he merely rediscovered an art that had flourished and had been forgotten, Sad As far back as the sixth or seventh century, A. D., thé Chinese had tried their hand at printing: They were its real inventors. This was their simple process: | They inked sentences, heavily, on sheets of smooth paper or parch- fog |ment, and turned the paper upside down on a slab of soft wood while ei iy . i ae pryvw, | the ink Was still wet, Then they cut out blocks of the board, bearing . ety bes inked charactera primitive type for inking other sheets | | “VOLUME 59... ‘NEW YORK’S OWN TWENTY-SEVENTH. URTEEN THOUSAND HEN of New York's ‘own Twenty: | seventh Division are home again to-day. will ndt have a ALL that means to this city the chance to.show for a few darsiyet. But the boy must wait to get at them. Though New Yorkers can at first only heer them from tugboats and from behind picket lines, the real come Their fellow citizens do not hava to be reminded what these men have done. Th gotten part in smashing the Hindenburg Line-—every word bas been sare here even if w ill lose nothing in the waiting. d . ae 2 i ; ; ans - of paper, This practice hod | since been forgotten, It had never travelled sa | far ad Burope, But another form of Chinese printing had been taken ap jin France and Germany This was a variation on the ma glorious record in France, their never-to-be-for- ng of words and letters. The Chinese ad also used their queer “process” for the marking of cloth designs, The | Buropeans, a few hundred years later, copied this process for stamping intricate patterns on cloth, But nobody thought of using !t for the printing of words, Nobody, until John tenberg saw what none of his fcllow artisans had ead and re-read in New York homes that are eagerly waiting for) F more and still more of a story of which they never can have too much, 'o% That story is New York's proud page in the largest writing of j 0 Mistory the Nation has ever done, New York is going to know the ‘Page—down to the last footnote-—by heart and hand it down to its g saw the chance of putting this printing ; Biren and its -children’s children ad « precious ‘herita of city | process to the sume great use as had the early Chinese, and the glorieas 7 hil ; possibilities of the idea, Me had never beard that the Chinese had : and commonwealth. printed words, Thus the idea was bis own. And be set secretly to work y To-day, however, the special word for New York fathers, moth to perfect it. ere, wives, sisters, brothers and sweethearts is—patience. Up to that time every copy pf every book had been writ 1 ‘ ie ‘ laboriously by hand. In the case of long books, like the Bible, or of books All must try to understand that military organization and dis where a large number of copies were required, this was not only terribly j ‘ aot ‘ terious labor but it often involved dozens of mistak 0 care- 7 Cipline cannot end with the fighting, that whemanen are being handle , Mateeh Se uke UiFed Coppice stakes, due to the ca: : y in large numbers the clajms of love and kinship cannot be considered firet. The Twenty-seventh Division must go strdight to camp. Wash ington must busy itself with the Division records, payrolls, &c. Hach “man must be phy will be some days before the mustering out can even begin. Mean-, } while there is a good chance of twenty-four-hour home leaves and open camps next Sunday. New York will try tovbe patient and rea¥onable toward nev > delay. But it hopes it may go hard with any official Uungler respon | sible for holding up the proceedings one needless hour. ‘ Along with the welcome and the grand parade goes the assurane« of 12,000 jobs for returning mon of the Twenty-seventh not provided for, bat practical proof of appreciation is among of the things the State and city can offer them. These boys are coming back to be citizens aud workers in civil life, again. War for them was no profession. They neither sought it for glory nor looked to it for gain. Since there was a, fighting job! that for justice and humanity had to be tuken on, they wanted to ; Bae pane fe ad made" get at and through und done with it in the shortest possible order P4 © Immortals ‘ In that spirit they fought, In (hat spirit many of them met ce Bt eet enlimee sr te Meddling Mother-- The Jarr Family |The Romance of Word , ‘ Ne y Roy L. McCarde y James C. Young the military experts of Burope. | , | : _ tan fh ‘ | -= Copyright. 1919, by the Praws Publisuing Co, (The New Yors Wvening World) How Ever da Ex, ressions Had Their i Yet they are coming back to us—as Major Gen. O'Ryan put it in| un aw Mr. Jarr Almost Buys a New Spring Suit E Adare ¥ Sit Mel hari en core y Cae i For example, one edition of the Bible, written in longhand, was se carelessly transcribed that the word “not” was left out of all the Ten Commandme giving readers o decidedly startling idea af the moral law when they read the mandates “Thou shalt kill" and “Thea shalt steal.” et hn Gutenberg evolveds his first fdea of type and then went on te mprove on it. Not content with such slipshod metho@s as the Chinese had employed, did not mal his transcriptions by slapping a fresh- ink on a blank sheet. Instead he worked over the problem until - ;, he had invented « rude form of printing press—the { First Press i in the history of literature—and had devised ically examined before he can be mustered out. It Was * and movable type. Crude. n the printing of his first book—a He printed in on vellum—six hun- t—with “script” lettering and with hand- hs. He began the job in 1450 and finished dred and thirt made iluininations it about five ye Like most of movey for hia experin vf German ¢ the w foremost men who made good, he had little So he moved heaven und earth to get a clique ted in hits scheme. In terror lest. his precious he employed in his printing office onty such d tru: And th h bound by solemn was doing. nics i their oath, But his German capitalists blabbed. arrelled with Gutenberg and brougut suit sgainet him and ight to rob him of his glory as well as of his profits, And when t of was suddenly recognized as something which was des- vige the werld, a dozen Germans claimed the glory due reads | oc}, And hia right to the invention was press had given him a wore tee his wireless message from the Leviathan to the people of New York, » Ss i “c“ AY Avide Your Regimentals,| “I get you, and L say it ts a n encountered within the last few| ported the matter to Cyrus, The | »..through The Evening World—‘the sume clean, confident, efficient By Sophie Irene Loeb Buy Our Nobby Occidentals!”| replied the virtuous Mr. Jarr. weeks a number of headtines| Persian leader also was at a los. to : » Cl " Ory res a is sign in Jake the Square] A sallow youth chewing gum, and reading some ke this; “Solons| understand thes 0. young Americans you turned over to me at the beginning of iy (Children Must Stand Alone and Work Out Their ‘ Sinear tose cae , 5 5 Clothier's window caused Mr. Jarr to/a greasy man of ing B® war’—level-headed and peace-loving as ever. Own Salvation. pause, had paused ane e hadn't because he t sentiments even here or over there, but he did | idiers, need a new sult of clothes. bd | wen It would appear by the signs in the | from h window that the obby Oceldentals”| “Be gaod little pi were for "Young Men of All Ages,"| vised the greasy man. Dry Law, vor The word Solon is|himself to the funcral pyre, offers { the headline writer when| ing to spare Crocsus if he would ex- must designate a legislator, for the| plain his meaning. ‘This offer Croesus good reason that it is short and espo-| accepted, and recounted the visit of !e as a general noun| Solon, with his warning. Cyrus af- for lawmakera terward carried Crocsus with him to Sogethers" ad~ Solon was one of the world’s grea Persia, and the one timo richest man i : % Cy he a place among the is r I. pea each i ge ded Se ed Pe etisade and | Seven Sages ¢ Rese . Solon ae | It is not very long ago that one of whatever that meant, ant peri Pee out a complete system of reform laws |th€ most popular horse drawn vehicles. y Pi picky colt you, recreant catitf?”| Which did much to settle clashes be-|W48 called a fiacre, Older readers wilt in idle curiosity cried Mr, Rangle asx he turned to the Man and boy Uyve served him ars, an’ now he turnsh me r atiating manner, 4 Q 1 eho! n When the city bade the Twenty-seventh Division Godspeed those ;\QQOME Ume ase T wrote in thes€) young people are better living alone, wth ee columns about the returning 40l-)no macter how modest, ‘There 1s Mest days of August, 1917—the parade of the Division through the! dicts und the mothers who suf-| yor ‘ning about two families Hving city streets was on Aug. 30—The Evening World said: fered moat on |towether that usually makes for dis- : : ing their loved | cord, It isa rare thing for two fam- The boys who are going know there is just one place on earth ones who had been | jHiey to Live any th of time under where they will meet anything like the good wishes that go out avo samo roof without struggle ond * to them as they feast to-night, or hear anything like the cheers at will greet them when they march to-morrow, clatly appropri | n soe | t¢ doors! Hic veral WIVES) digsension sane aca wrote me that she cass ere,’ ‘ eres ¢ the! Ths is human nature, So that) Mr, Jorr was wavering between ah very motherein-law who hopes fin): Kut Hair Line Stripe” and a tz"stio) oN mother were noth | ncop ness might well do everything ‘of Nations Invisible | a Mr, Rangle turning indignatly | tween the poor and the wealthy of nis | Feoneener, these conveyances very a And that place is right here in New York—when they come ing compared with | 10 hop young couple to live|check,” when he felt a hand upon|on the man, time, And ever since that faraway | Wl © eratety two-wheeled affair, 1 aE” home again, ‘ thowe of the Wife.) sions whe will avold much trouble| his shoulder and turned to look into) ‘A friend sere friend,” was the| day lawmakers have been caited| with the body of the vehicle mounted : < gain. Various tales Of) 00) norwelf, as w as for those about |; “A = tace of his friend and reply of the asy man. He didn't! Solons, although few of them measure | between, Originally made in France, , How about it? warsuee the meddling of |), : i Lal reukoan ye Rangie. mean it, Shake hands!” up to the rank of the maa who Srst/the flacre became a common sigat om ‘ q - | the mothera-in eaaiinn gence eal uelght ve Sait ike man, the want Jarr gazed indignantly at the! bore that name. New York streets of twenty-five years 4 also came, and now I have a letter + long time ago I told in these x lothes e ans cen nnEr, r ago, Letters. From the Peo ple ‘rom a neighbor whe tells of one so. |B OF the tmentoki ioe them the talaw = ANTS eee) in were you wlth the Test BAl>| noe genous ine : | ‘This vehicle took its name from Mt. ; dier who @ bo die awa She is leather and pr * talion in the embattled depth of happy till he is dead.” | Fisere, a notable on tho Brench ec- A Trivete to the r Stripe are taken away trom thelr Polke Pepe Gite ith tanly a gres rvement over her glibly quoted, “But” he ea, tah acsaatheaaeit he aak I Ae map Happy. Wl Me b clesiastical calendar. In the 1 To the Biitor of The Kvening Work! duties tor the slightest possible ex- ts. His last days were very | Predecessor, who was the to of|"What ‘prunelle! te I dunno! Some-|What's-its-numecforest?’ he BANS circumstances under which this . early Your article on the “Silver Stripers” cUse. Hoth of these hands are purely ere! biel tay a 0,” replied the greasy man, nL nt was made are worthy of |™@ddle ages he became o hermit in was not in active service abroud”—| ge scriotion, Solon paid a visit to/O@ Of the northern French forests, “Then be in active service at home | Croesus, that noted King of Lydia,|t far from Verdun and scenes ot Fie, Harold! You've been drink- and lose yourself in a dense forests” | vn4 was reputed to have been the the recent war, Soon the good saint unhappy, owing to the little differ- | #!! the Joke makers, thing made from prunes, like home- t he found existed between he hax learned many lessons, She (made un-Constitutignal booze, I sup- Sar methar jhas voine to realize that she enn't |pose.” r girl forever, Taat iu @ recent imue paid a timely and) oom fraanizations and should f y be allowed t 60. ences tt well merited tribute to the officers| tor affairs coune. ON ge eror pgeer iraqi and men engaged in the Port of Em-|departments. Neither of these bands however, beged | Hid her boy or ae a , ar ls dying wo! : errupte : 1e, “Um com- Ss , : rig, | came to be celebrated for his healings varkation. In my oapacity as Direc-| sare about Improving their playin a dying wo some tim \ cried Mr, Jarr, knowing Joha interrupted Mr, Rangle richest man of all the ent world, ng, tor of the Junior Officers’ Hospitality Zhe ba d ie a fine excuse for freeing |for the ture of his wife, mince the | AI mune Ore Be Hobdy Must stand | OF angle hated to be called Harold,|muning with a friend, and with |W. sti soeak of a wealthy person as|224 Many persons went long jour- House, whose success has been mainly | +), tr meee tae” dutles for which | parents were in fairly good cireum-|0 She 8 2 ar Own Malye. Me Rangle laughed merrily, bow- nature!” being “rich as Croesus.” This Croc. |2¢¥ to beseech his aid. He was re- Yue to the generosity of a group! If Commissioner Enright is short |**!™ Sow the. nelanber selta Baw | Mt even and awayed from side to side| And turning from the greasy man,| 8 PU) he noiane of his power |Puted to be particularly successful in Of patriotic New York society ludies.|of men ho would do weil to let the {tie Youns wife has practically been) | She also has learned that her ad-|2h4' oniy saved himself from falling |Mr. Rangle took Mr. Jarr by the) wien goion came to visit him, After|CUFns ailments of the legs As Ris 1 have come in constant touch with | {ind members do tho work for which Dut out, @ short time after the death j vice should not be regarded by her | the window by throwing his/hand and led him from the store} ei te iawmaker the wonders|MUt Was far from beaten ways, and fany of the officers handling troops Wetpaint iad here are enough’ of her soldier husband “ tl only one upon which her obil-| 0 ound Mr. Jarr. “Just the| window. of his capital and displaying somo of /°°UBArY carriages could not reacki-tt, going through New York. As an|the necessary music, Provide! ‘rho wife has no one to turn to,/ dren may net, party I wanna see!" gurgled Mr,| ‘I never drink in business hours.” | ine wealth that had earned him fane,|* Bumber of the sufferers ware Desaiser 1 have been able to judge|*hoold be paid for, ik ing |{"The 1088 of the husband,” says hur) J....or to let them make thelr mis- lfansic said Mr, Rangle to Mr. Jarr, “But! Giocvus asked Solon if he might not |Fousht in a litter or seat slung impartially of their efforts and It is | ¢lse. y. M, |friend, “has been bad enough, but to| takes, even though the advice was| ade hensively {Uh ain't working to-day, What say?"| 04 6 : h é 1 {tween two low wheels, ‘Travelin, ‘with pleasure and admiration I think A i 4 Mr, Jarre looked apprehensively Well be accounted the happiest may) ir spirit and devotion. Tote ele ee ny iwht Saving, be treated in this manner by the/ good, t..n to insist that the way of/aroung, if any of his downtown| “I say ‘No!'” replied Mr. Jarr, dein tno world. The King, of coucse,|t¥8 means they reached the # Le pan cristae’ 29, ee got ed Krening Word j mother in-law has doubled her sor-|the other-in-law shall be carried Pusinosereo felendi caw bio thus . "You've got your nerve with| «. oecteg a pretty compliment ip humble abode and he endeavor ly of officers In positions of tm-|,, reference to continuing the | row.” Jout, It always leaves a bad taste | ced he felt he would be dis-| you, making a show of me in publ but Solon astounded him by |@?ive away their ills, It was logmmet portance that it ls a pleasure to state |“48y light saving” plan adopte, pee ” |embraced he fe My ; _{turn, but & ’ y . ; What my own personal experience has | last year, when pied here) «rhe neighbor also tells of the ex- \graced forever, For there is nothing| “And you are loitering and ing) exciaiming: “Call no man happy till|@t the queer conveyance use Decent A pumber of the Silver | anead he ee ee was moved | ¢-iient qualities of this littie wite and| 1 Bileve the troublesome motier- |fo embarrassing as to be clutched in|here with mendicants and alcohol~ |i 4s dead.” carry persons there should com im this port. J Po law, By, Aisin @ lattes 19 oe) m ar how the mother-in-law had a apite- | in-In~ is getting very scarce, 1 amine embrace of a partially inebriated | le said Mr, Ran, reproachfully ‘All the importunities of Croesus called a fiacre, Later the car eam SFO contiy, ‘wtated thar ode ee OHM | fat and jowlous attitude toward her |of the opinion that she ts understand- lejund in broad daylight, |*Shame on you, a man with a fam-| Au ade Solon to explain bullders adopted the idea and y * daylig 1 eling more e the !¥ , t! ' » | WO 0 ade Bolo! 4 Ey cleaners’ Ba: Malema ery Sale’ ak hs vis it *av-land made her life miserable all (he |ing more and more the importance of] “Gona buy shoot of closhe?” mur. |ily! You break my heart! What arc Lerten more fully. But Croesus |D&me of this good man has been Much hea been said and written |4nd a nulsance to the city folks. || ime tie, boy was at the front, Inde, -sdence of the young married |mured Mr. Rangle a3 he regained his|you doing idling here?” aoa ae eee realize the troth ue (served by & mere chance, when Mt the affairs of the Police De- take exception to each atatoment. | or tre eee OF ns YOURE Woman | COU ne dens eho meddies thelequitibrium, “Ub'll go with yub.| “I was idling here to buy a sult of/ 10° warning in a traglo mannyr, |S*vout character and labors for It has been said| phat daylight does sar | will adjust itself, Doubtless she will {bette will she be treated and thelyou might get cheated. Um a busy (clothes, if it's any of your business!" |"! Re hey It of Unfortunate have been long forgo and time again that the depart= | tye taaret et mink ‘ast longer 18) ¢nd work to do and perhaps a more |: — beloved will she “ccome, Some tow years & he vialt | -—— tig short of men, end still in of most of us, The farmer, man, but Ub'll go wiz yuh, Uh jus'/retorted Mr. Jarr, “But if buying a/ happy ainent, As time is the| A. a sensible A | | aed aes leaving off 3 Id , | Solon, the Kingdom of Lydia was ENTERTAINMENT, days, ‘wen crime is ee tara, |t° MY mind, was the orlginai, dem: | MIDbY ‘vironment, Hime ie 3 ‘a senaible woman gid to melpought a shoot of closhe muhself.” (new suit, leaving off an old habit, | Ty OM owe Oe an ide oe pore | sin UURRTAINMENT, ant, the Police Band of nearly sev- light waver. His day usually be healer of a! 8, it is pe e, too, only . very short time ago, ve Mr, Ranglo went on, “When man| Means renewing the old habit of /#NOPt Dy Ah yee te Mule o| BASED c conidia enty-five men is allowed to play | with sunrise ended ¥ began that sho may meet another mate aud | man: ohtldren, married, but I leave! wearsh shoot of closhe thesh days—| drinking you have renewed when |*ians Hele ‘ y 0 receive last month trol. imost dally instead of attending to'and so far Ne te con RUMaet: again be the wife of a good mun ht alone, I have made ‘> to |\wee shoot of closhe, 1 mean—overy. (You bought your new sult, then [ am| Wa. No part a ths 5 hqueror’a crecd Now York vaudeville mange aty. They play for thi makes no difference what tie tt! Yet there is something to be sald | i 1 h ne }00 she, —< ‘ mimate ; in that ti ten the proud Croesus a five-figure offer to deliver sh : oO dif at time. thy! Yet there {8 somethin sald |jsive advice only when 1 am asked /pe bi he tan dua Gar of & glad L did not buy @ su i sen $8 § : i sheet Bemine sie aod for athe tanciions clock maya it In. “in the city, Where |aboct he mischievous and meddting/and to visit them only when Tam body hin she ish J my! LSiasaak BE 8 Ay Aull’ sq leetined (0. Kabel otore Cyrus aad (anilp pus ising ia. whe oeudet wence. The Street Cleaners’ a ee Se be, fanswcted wt more | mother-in-law certain they want me, Sol find that| sor shame!” sald Mr. Jarr, “You | Worm for Virtue's sake!’ quoted tho| implore his favor, the Persian ors | houses throughout America. Band hes also done little ar no active |reguiated by the clock, ‘Wrietyee| Walle the exigencies of the war|they seek me and welcome me be-| nave been drinking, ay i said.” ! “ , dered him burned alive, A funeral) The Genera! did not reply to tile Gily Ip many weeks. Our streets are | respect to our children, our workers | afd {© cconomies of tho situation |cause they know I am not easy to Oe ony acetates bala maic in nol tiene Cormups Good Mane | pyre was built, and Croceus placed at | Megat .*M\, Gacvitig © aman sea oy; badly in need of Peg Are these | should have our consideration, I|make it necessary for this wife to get” This, too, is human nature all| uniform, at least he can legally do|pers,'” @nd he crossed to the other the summit, Just as the flames were | agai 1s tan | ree Pg RE et Dd areljive with her husband's parents, yet|over again. It ts wise counsel, Don’t | go tii! July First, nex’, Hic!” replied [#40 and lett Mr. Rangle fat being lighted, Croesus recalled the| “Have you entertained my propo- hy . Rangle laughed lightly,and Solon and, in his turn, ex. | sition ‘bands tio will ‘daglight sav. | it 8 : bad business and not conducive |; sddle with the affairs of married |My, Rangle, “I got a new shootal teats 5 words of Bol ” “No,” Gen. Pershing wi itt teas ia again pane. to peace ‘in the home, people, no matter how much you leve | ciowne . hy Webinar the ars of foe, Areaay, Sa ; B hae vauterininnd) nm fii ne! ai nd I had to inisblate ‘em,|waiked off with him discussipy the| claimed: “Call no man happy ¢ ‘your. propositio: saad 4 a -. A TPRSTORE EWN Oar aes PUENTE ORR = Rh ORO Sa eC nes Sa a sete een