The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1919, Page 19

Sunday Baseball By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Ceprright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Svening World). es in my oul that the Rev. Charles Nelson is right. ‘This reverend gentleman of Grace Temple, Long Island City, is or. Ganizing a Sunday baseball club among the young men of his congre- — and he proposes to play games every Saturday and Sunday after- i “I shall get right out upon the diamond and preach @ shert practical Sermon,” says Mr. Nelson, “and in that way reach some who would not Otherwise hear the gospel.” All healthy, sensible people, whose minds are clear of jaundice and bs will feel like taking off their hats to the Rev. Mr. Nelson and is “Bravo!” b} Said Thoreau fifty years ago, “A healthy man, with steady employment, wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not Be & good subject for Christianity.” And why? “Because,” continues Tho- ) Peau, “the church is a sort of hospital for men’s souls, and as full of quack- ey 8 aro the hospitals fof their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their ‘Sailors’ Snug Harbor, where you may eee ® ). tow ot Teligious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.” | __ When the famous Concord Transcendentalist bent his bow he bent “it for all he was worth, with the result that the arrow sometimes went _ beyond the mark, but it is safe to say that no man’s religion is the worse | for an infusion of a good bit of the red blood of Nature. A No man’s faith in the Living God and His Message was ever woak- ened by wholesome exercise out in the open where God's breath can reach iy him right off tho bat, and His sunshine play upon him without havimg to Nght its way through stained glass obstructions. But what about the desecration of the Sabbath? phemy of this Sunday ball business? The question reminds me of @ useful bit of information that was con- veyod to me once by Bishop Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Detroit. Said the Bishop to me, “Sunday {s as good as any other day—if it doesn’t rain.” To the person whose head is clear and whose heart is clean all daye are holy. Only bad people fcel that they can do things on Monday which it would,be WRONG to do on Sunday. Wrong is wrong on Monday as much as it is on Sunday, while right is right on any day, Sunday as well as Monday. There are “wheels” in the head of the man who thinks that baseball om tho first day of the week is a “sin,” and on the other days a virtue. But it may be said, “While it may be well enough for the Rev. Mr. Nelson and his young men to play ball on a Sunday afternoon, what have "you to say about the games where admission {s charged?” The anawer ie as simple as “falling off a log”’—those who do net be- Meve in Sunday ball will not be affected by the fact that admission is charged, while those who believe in it will be perfectly willing to pay the admission, since they will not expect to get something for nothing It takes money to run ball, just as it does to run the Gospel, and there- fore it is perfectly right and proper that the game ehould have its admis- sion fee and the gospel its “collection.” How to Bea Better Salesman and Earn Bigger Pay By Roy Gnffith Coprright, 1919, by the Preas Pubushing Co, (The New York Bvening World). i would be of @ great deal of advantase Answers to Questions. | %°)\3, of « sreat smanship is con- HEN approaching a prospce- cerned. You already write ® W tive customer, the simpie business hand. It isn't fancy, but its grecting, “Good morning + logible, which is more than T'can say. of the penmansbi: has never had a successful substitu ‘i P of quite a fow H. F. writes mo for suggestions re- business men, garding tho approach. YT recommend the abovo statement for his consid- eration. He is looking for a new ir original greeting. Ho now asks, usually, “tlow is business with you? This at wnce opens the way for provpect to refuse to listen, becac he may answer that business is qal* OF poor. 1 would suggest that after eheery “Good mornii you might add, quickly, “Do you know, I just ran across a peach of an idea down street. D's store has ¢ window dis- play of so-and-so, &¢." Go on and give the prospect some concrete mer- chandising idea which he may be «blo to use, You can surely find one good dea a week. Use ihe same greeting with all your customers week, Then get another on ap opening at once gets the proup interested in increasing | ness. With that initial you cun go op and talk woods, M. G. went to college to mechanical engincering. Comp to leave college beeuuso of lack of funds to continue. Worked two years as a mactinist, then enlisted in the army ently discharged, Now, as he says, “the old ambition to learn a profession consumes me.” He thinks | he would like to enter the salon Held. Believes his schooling and experience | should help him to sell a line of tool room specialties, machine tools, or & similar linc. Says he must make, be- cause of home responsibilities, thirty | dollars a week. ‘The question here is not whether | fou can succeed us a salesman, but lwbether you LIKE saleswork bet- ter than anything else, If it is only @ profession you want to learn, why do you choose salesmanship? Would you be better satisfied as a salesman than as &@ mechanical engineer? If you want to| Jearn a profession, there are oppor- tunitics fur you to complete your studies at ho through a corre- ypondence or extension course, Fig- ure out if it is really salesmanship you want to learn or whether tt is only thut you want to learn 4 pro- session and you think salesmanship would, perhaps, pay you better than some other Line, What about the blas- a rf the World War Hd Harmon in finding © reeruiuing office, enlists day 1m ramce be tons 9 sir! Jeanna, whe le.be vary are fn for ai | and they 1 ak ch| ot] t 8 own busi- advantage, your ee, tiirha. i own, | * iter t@ Londen. CHAPTER XY (Contioued), UT I am getting ahead of my story, J and I must £9 buck, before I tell you about what happened to mo ‘uo London, and ict you in on @ piece of news that isn't gene.- ally knewn, expecially in Yonk- ers, Joe, I have gone to work and shook the hand of no leas than Pershing. No doubt you have heard of him; he's the manager of the American team which is tryin’ for the pennant over hero in France. Joe, o's one regular guy if they ever was one! He looks like Rockefoller’s in- come in his uneyform, too, Joe, and the French people is wild over him and do everything for him outside of pronouncin’ his name right. A few days after me and Slim White brung down that German areyoplane whilst comin’ back from Paris, they was rumors runuin’ ground wild that Gen Pershing , was comin’ ‘to visit our sector, Our captain, which same I will soon be pallin’ around with, pro- vided he’s on the level with ptomisin’ mo a commission, sends for me and claims he bas a surprive in store for me. He says can | guess what Jt Is. “| have no doubt been made deputy admiral in the aviation,” I says, thinkin’ @ job like that would be about right for what 1 had did He gimme a laugh. Gen L. M. Wi-If you have an oppor- | tunity to get In the sales field, try it out. Don't worry so much about “No,” ho suys, “But Gen, Pershing whether you CAN sell, Go out and] will be here to-day and, having had a DO it. A good course in salesman- | Perc: |report frou me of your activities since re woud De onbd selling “P| you've been in France, he has ex- es | pressed a desire to see you. 1 am going to use my influence in an ef- fort to have the general act favorably upon a mendation that you be commiasioned."* 7, R. C.-Of the two schools you mention.there is no particular choice. They are both good, The first one ts perhaps e little more practical, I fail t@ see Where a course in penmanship SMD allepee ally married junk befor be legred for, the HOME PAGE Tue May 13, re WELL o'r! | ALWAYS CET THe TENANTS Oo THE REPAIRING THEMSELVES To Suit Tem TASTE AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE { HAVE SPENT LOTS OF MoNeyY OW SOUR HOUSE. MR LANDLORD (S RAISED Per CENT. THIS MOUSE IS EASILY WoRTH “THAT Now... Hot From the Box, Ed. Harmon, the World Famous Pitcher, Slides Into and Scores Big. (Coprright. 1918, by Amati, Maynard & Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, to tbe the judge known to be severe. bow I stole from Jeanne, my charmin’ young bride. “If I can grab a chance, I'll put iu a good word for you, too!" I figured I could be a good feller the sume as him—heh, Joc? Joe, he gets all red, prob'ly from simple embarrassment at my bein’ so big-hearted, and he coughs a coupla times, “Bh, that will not be necessary, Harmon!" he says, "Now, there tg something I want to warn you about in advance, should the General spe to you. in your You must be most respectful answers, for the General might not understand that—eh— rather free-and-cusy address of yours, and he is a great stickler for the strictest military etiquette at all times—do you understand?" “That's all right, sir” I says. “It Gen, Pershing gets talkin’ with me, I'll try and make him feel at case.” Wasn't 1 right, Joe? Why should L put of airs und get stuck up, simply acred a couple dogen ain't that what I'm gettin’ paid tor Well, Joe, the Captain must of thought of somethin’ funny, because he begin'to grin and waved biv hands for me to leave, About tree o'clock in the after- noon [ am sent for agin, Joe, and this time when I get to the captain's dugout I see they ts a lot of officers standin’ around ut attention, Also they ie a couple second-hand auto- mobiles with K’rench soldiers in ‘em, and from all wigns, Joe, tt looked like the Bar! of Belgium or somethin’ of the sort had come to look us over, wait outside until the captain's or- derly gimme the sign to enter, which same I did with firm and steady “Thank you, ‘sir! I says, with @ tread, ae the papers alwgys says of ins APM Ont, Joo, 2 over tih I felt as nervous a - congratulate you. It appears from the ‘ report of your captain that you have By H.C. WITWER. @ gsuy whieh is on his way to gut hung. Situ’ at a table is Gen, Pershing and a coupla other big leaguers, and standin’ around is our captain and his staff of lieutenants, The captain salutes and says: “General, this i Sergeant Harmon, who you desired to see.” With that we had a salutin’ spree all around, and I like to wore my The general looks me a guy awaitin’ his first jail sentence and Here IT am up before the bors of the whole American Army, Joe, and I ain't even got a clean collar on, Gen, Pershing is @ stern lookin’ guy, and the way he's gazin’ from me to a long piece of paper he's got in his hand I cao't figure out if he's friendly or is con- templatin’ leapin’ up and bustin’ me one in the nose for luck! Fin'ly, just when I'm ready to give way under the strain and make a crack of some kind, so's we can get the conversation goin’ and be done with It, Gen, Pershing smiles, “Sergeant,” he says, “allow me to with tho generosity of my offer, J thought all the other officers was gonna faint dead away, and our cap- tain gimme a terrible look. I'll petoha they was all @ bit sore because I didp't declare them tn on it—hey, Joe? Kor almost a minute they wasn't a sound, outside of the rats doin’ thelr daily Marathon around the dugout. Gua. Pershing keeps lookin’ straight at my eyes, and I must say, Joe, that 1 never received such @ piercin’ glauce in my life from ne man. J looked riguc luck, grinnn’ pleasantly, go's he vould see I was on the level with my offer anc simply wanted to do the right thinic vo's he wouldn't bave to ream around Paris all by himecif. Fin'ly, Joe, the general begins to grin and all the other officers lets down and doer the same, “Very well, sergeant,” says (jen Pershing, “I am sure I would be yery glad to take advantage ef your kind- ness—but I'm afraid I'll be joo husy for quite some Ume yet!” He looks around, smilin’ at the other jays “This here war sure does cut into a Buy's afternoons, don't it, sir?” 1 gays, very respectful ke the capuun told me and noddin’ my head with sym- pathy Joe, they was two young tieytenunt pveloped coughin’ fits and a major xcused himself and went outaide. You oughta seen the way the res, of them birds looked at me, You'd think 1 was,a new kind of fish or somethin’ Joe. “Are you th named Harmon Look done your bit with a vengeance, I wish Thad a million men like you!” Joe, with that he gets up ar shakes my hand. ile’s a good guy, heh? “Much obliged, sir!” I says and stands there like a boob, with my face as bot and red us a four-alarm former ball player fire asks the genoval. They ts angther one of inem pause Joe, when a guy is famous things, Joe, and the captain hisses in my ear; "Say something!” Well, Joe, here they are jookin’ at me and waitin’, and I like to bust my brains tryin’ to think of somethin’ to say to make the general feel at home They is nothn’ stirrn’, sn'ly 1 took @ chanee. “Ahumph!" T saya. “Tabi —1 hear you are livin’ in Paris for the ume boin’, general, and I know burg that 1s for a don't know nobody and can’t speak the French, I have grabbed off lotta 1 epuid of told you more, friends there now, and T'll give what letter to them, tellia’ ‘om who you are, jike, Any tme you want you can go down about himself! there, sir, and if you mention my nano jittle modesty, expecially they'll see tbat you don't yawn yours strangers—hey, Joe? self to death, anyways!" “I often saw you pited when | was Wall, Joe, Gen. Pershing straighiens in Washington,” saya the genera) up and looks at me like he's .vercome “It'g quite # change from the dia. he's knowed everywhere! to this V'll betcha day they's plenty of people Which has heard about Napoleon and Columbus—hey, Joe? “Yes, sir,” I saya “I'm not Marvelous kd Harmon, knowed us the Speed King was good I had more curve corkserow, and when it cure to cou trol, 1 could hit a gnat in the eye wilh @ pou ut forty yards, As for boy! Well, my fast one would mabe @ bullet law down and quit os than fornv'ly When I than what a gloom pood, oli whieh Arierican Joe I was, and the a@ guy that blows Vhoy's nothin’ 1 you 4 a good pitcher but I hate nt a IN BEAUTIFUL white pine had stood for ages far up the mountain side. It had been admired by generations of the valley folk. When tho terrible fire swept the mountain it caught the beautiful tree. Later, when the fury of the fire had passed, there stood a tall black- ened stub with only a few black stumps of branches at the ajdes. Every one called it “The crows’ roost.” ‘The crows’ roost it was in fact, for thero was seldom @ time in summer that crows could not be geen roosting there. But Billy Boy, so long a dweller in the wildwood: could understand crow talk, He often sat on his mossy log and listened. “Caw! caw! caw!" yelled old grand- pe crow, and very hoarse his voice was, to be sure. “I’ve been laughing all day at that scarecrow down on the Green farm, It is too funny, haw, haw!” “Sort of a joke on old man Green,” a young crow cawed. “Yes,” added a third, “I'll admit I wa fooled when I first saw that thing. It was @ gvod imitation of o wan.” Cawed another, “It fooled most of us sharp crows, but the pestiferous English sparrows saw through it in @ minute.” “Good joke on old Green,” another cawed, “Td give more for « tat deld mouse than for @ doren hills af corn.” “Caw,” sald grandpa, “I dig in his corn hills more for the great fat grubs which kill his corn than I do for his old kernels. But hates ws, sets traps, and"—~- “And makes scarecrows for the sparrows to nest in.” & young crow chimed in, “i was amused,” eald grandpa, “the Inst time we went South, We crows just straggied elong in a& bunch, from one good feeding piace to another, and. kept ahead of tho cold weather, But the goesc—some \GGUZIDE | The Evening World’s ~~ Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Copreight, 1919, by the Prem Puntiontng Os, (ihe Mew York Brening World) The Crows’ Talk By Uncle Bill class to thone geese, They form an enormous V, the oldest gander at the head, and mounting very high in the alr, take long, long flights. Well, one day a bunch of us black fellows were flopping along, hardly above the tree _ tops, when @ flock of geese swept — past high up. "4 “‘Honk! honk! honk!’ they, pelted (i) exactly like a group of autos, ake then one shouted, ‘Slow poles! another eald, ‘Get an alrplané}y Wi we felt like 30 cents, and I suggest that wo form in line and take the trti in styl But it's slow work teaching old crews new tricks, “Well, we got down South, inte & nice Pod of live oaks near the guif. And would you believe it? there we found those geese, what wag left of them, in the sea, They had been there a month, and more than half of them gone. Duck hunters had got them. My bunch was one thi shiny green black, fat and chuck of caw. Safety firat is, to my notion, worth @ pound of style.” as 6 magnet Is to a needle. Only the moon does not draw the sea close half ‘and | Fespond, THE LITTLE HOUSE UPON THE ‘ HILL, | Thero is a little house net far away mond to the trenabas, eb?” “I ain't kickin’, mir,” I says, “I'm gettin’ well took care of at no ex- Pence to me, and I don’t have to “Certainly not!” he tells me, stand for a lot of abuse from a mob teanhoaeid + eee La rag Ms 8 a 1 8. jou’. wan' lege necag gonad irda ee to be nowheres except where they's ° serapin’. I could of had manys the they's another thi: sir, When I g> office job before I got In the infantry, Higher than your present remunera- ton.” “The Germans ain't in Paris, are they?” T gays, in @ treich here and get busy with Dut I guess | can't stand the smell of | We @ machine gun, they's one thing 1 {°A,,0%,2ometn! used to hear when I was a pitcher a sergean that nobody yells at me now!" “What t# that?” asks the general. “Take him out!" 1 says Yours truly, BD HARMON, CHAPTER XVI. Vivela, France. . If that’s the best Vl have to worry along as t till one of the rear ad- mirals quits, or somethin’, up my mind to give the the triminin’ of thotr live 1 seen ‘em do, and I oun have twice as much fun with a baynct, sir, as I can with a foyntain pen!" “But how about your wife?” she soyn. “Don't you think she'd prefer : o have you out of danger?” GOT interrupted in that last letter, “Not this dame; no, sir!” I says, Joo, ‘The censer wouldn't let me “Jeanne would never of married me tell you why, but it had some- !f she thought I was yellah, and if thing to do with the enemy--if {,PPoduced a streak now the bonds of matrimony is twelve feet too you know who they are thin to held her to me! Believe me, Well, Joe, we all partook of a good fe Abd leance i# considerabie girl. : she'd bee he Garden of Eden laugh, and then the general asks mo Y Ned been jn t Breen ' dam would: ay if 1 am satisfied with the way I am > giraffe?” Bt OF SRO wen ve the trouted, or do | want anything. i “Well, ait,” 1 gays, “if it's all the t i 5 prow game to you, I'd like to get a dob “S America ts sendin’ over to him, Then assistant colonel our somethin,’ be- he picks up his gloves, which ta the cause since comin’ bere I'd wed tho sixnal that the party ts all broke up champion girl of the world, and tho bis fn Pd a He aiaims, he hopes to ‘ sie ne nore of me and that ot an dough : Vo draggin down nOW Al chance of bein’ un officer, Retore wouldn't keep her in nail files Went out I heard him tell our cap- He taps the table with his fingers 1aln to soe (hat 1 got Atted with a aot nei Hr rn ea at of books to study to help me over the for o minute and thea he looks up at Ga nissiion and: io pub me weiter te ine. the dope I gotta know, The captain "You have been recommended for is as tickled as I am, because he was commission, sergeant," he says, afraid I would get in dutch with Gen. “but it will be necessary for you to Fal Pershing, instead of which I pass @ rather rigid technical exam. turned out to be @ riot inauion to try for it, What would Yours truly, you say ! T appointed you an ald to ED HARMON, Sergt. the American Military Headquarters | (Joe,1 hear a oficer hal got to buy | in Paris? You would be out of the his own uneyform, so now I hardly trenches for i while, and perbaps know what to do. "They ain't no per your wife could take a hotne in Paris centage in ¢ temporarily, The pay would ( smiles and remarks right stuff in me and of the Kind ef guys a . is they? o Be Continued.) The Clue in the Air By Isabel Ostrander A Detective Story That Will Puzzle You With Its Mystery and Surprise You With the Unexpected. | “eé 118 one | tald you about, when | met you on the corner, I recog- le nized the ears of him, and the funny long face, as soon as I got 4 look at him under the tight in here, He was banging around outside there, and as soon as he saw mo he began staggering and feeling, and [ passed him the wont to be getting on home. Mac, he must have ober as we been as ave this minute, “Twas a blind This is only a bit from Isabel Ostrandor’s new detective story... Who is the girl that McCarty finds on the sidewalk? Whose body is it that Stephen Quimby claims at the morgue? What becomes of Ivy Collins? These are the questions you will ask yourself—you ound to—if you love a good detective story. Begins on this page vext Monday. Where happiness existed every day, re mother with love and a noble yon ‘waiting her boy who for home dl start. mothers heart was onco very To-day her heart is very glad. Aad ibe is proud of ber boy in olive ral A here #0 A soldier - signed. great and so big and without fear, nore for dear U. 8. A. and mother ear, Now that the war is over, which we glad, fret and so refined ike Uncle Sum had de So proud of our here His wonderful experience wil give you a chill When listening to ht» story in that little house upon the hill. 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