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te y, daly 31, 1919 | How They Made Gooa By Albert Payson Terhune Copyriaht,. 1919, By The Press Publishing Co, (The New YcA Brewing World), '‘HARLES MARTEL, the Hero-Who Saved Ik 1B was a French noble—ithe Duke of Austrasi lived aj a time when France was at her lowest National fortunes were crumbling. A weakling on the ttitoné, The Saracen hordes in the Near were threatening to overrun Europe, The b Germans just across the Rhine were planing to gulf France, ‘There was every nee® for some national herd make good if France and Wurope and civilization Christianity were 10 be saved, and Charles, Duk Austrasia, was the man chosen by Providence for the mighty task. A tine of monarchs, known as “the Merovingian Kings,” were governing the country. These kings:in turn were ruled by their © cellors, who performed prodigies of incompetence and graft and d: * THE PRESSURE BEGINS TO TELL. TLLIONS of American consumers vote with satisfaction and relief that they are at last remembered by at least one house of Congress. ‘The. resolution ‘passed by the House of Representatives recom- the sale of surplus army foodstuffs to the public is a wel- O dtaas ign that national legitlators are being compelled to, open their Dad to. national needs. They dare not dawdle on, tnactive, while the whose interests they are sworn to serve gets a harder and f deal at the hands of emboldened exploiters. ‘From a two-monthe’ tour inthe West, Homer 8. Cammings, - ghee of the Democratic National Committee, brought back to this week » report which Congress cap be sure epitomizes| the fe of ‘an overwhelming majority of Americans all over the |, Vanited States: “The people want the treaty quickly disposed of so that Congress may turn its attention to important domestic and economic subjects, While the country was never more pros- perous than it is now, it is equally true that the purchasing Dower of the dollar is far leas than normal. This the people have diftioulty in understanding. ‘Tho bigh cost of living 1s @ real problem in most American households. Every effort should be made to relieve this burdensome condition.” Ninety per cent. of the people of the United States are already utterly out of patience with Republican obstructionists who by fiblding up the Treaty delay the tackling of home jobs for which ee a al ee of ea Gee EA hy the land of its wealth and its strength. Charles built up his own run-down dukedom, Then he won for hilt che Chancellorship of France and annexed all the puny power of the had greater and more unselfish ambitions, He mare the weak Merovipgian King keep up the p torre? scattered provinces of France and to repair ravages of his predecessors’ incompetence, He before Charles's task of upbuilding was completed the German | began. The Germans in those days wete pagans and savages. They cared less. Their one idea was to conquer, and they set out to conqul France. 4 met them in battle, thrashing them unmercifully and driving them baxte into Germany, Meantime the Saracen hordes were gathering for their invasion the heathen Germans were menacing France with fire and sword. fumself. < j Yet he would not take the throne, as he might easily have done J j Refused the of rulership. Throne. Then Charles proceeded to bind together new strength and fighting zeal into the downtrodden people. Under spléndid rule Frauce took a new lease of life; and she had need of it, refused to embrace Christianity and they still offered bloody sacrifices their old gods of heathendom. They knew nothing of civilization and Across the Rhine they poured, as, centuries later, their di were to do, and they met with the same well-deserved fate, for © ‘There he hammered them into submission on their own ground, he. forced many of their heathen tribes to accept Christianity, He n the game of invasion and conquest so unsafe for the Germans that | industry, business-and ‘a sound, justly distributed prosperity arc How WELL dared not try it again for many a long year. ; ay We BAcance But by the time Charles had quelled the German savages and retui waiting HUBBY DEAR ! to the task of improving Franee a new and greater peril set in, The jel. The House has shown that it feels the pressure of public demand. Tt makes a start by asking thet surplus accumulations of army food ‘nged, as The Evening World has urged, to put more foodstuffs reach of overburdened: consimers in the United States, cen invasion began. Unaccountable hosts of Moslems entered Europe swept like a resistiess wave across the Continent, Their object was to overcome all Europe as they had overcome Orient and to make the entire world Mohamna But for Charles they must have succeeded, for 6 _ his, however, is only a start. ‘These same consumers need tho Smashe? Skulls $ other Buropean nation had the ability to p of Congress in attacking formidable cost-of-living problems all i With Battleaxe. thelr onrush. Gathering his armies together, Charles marohed against the swarms of oncoming Mohainm | He met them near Tours, France, in 732, in one of the greatest and mast decisive battles iu all history, In that Cog bolas cones mes fermceo invasion was not only ¢ but was sm: sen ‘rance from an almost certain fate, fe and all Burove wore ear Charles fought in the front rank during the whole battle, smasiin the armored skulls of his foes with the hammer-biows of his giant battle | axe. This deed won for him the nickname of “Martel,” or “hammer-man”. a name by which he was thereafter known and honored throughout all t | worl By Sophie Irene Loeb| The Jarr Family waste their lives in satisfying seit, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). Tt will come; and such @ person will! Ap, end Mrs. Jarr Are Still Talking Their Vacation, 4 = ie i Three hundred ‘and, two cold | storage plants which reported 5 of 68,202,000 pounds of butter in 1918, held on July 15 of How ere these ‘greatly’ increased stores of butter explained? How tao they stand for the same policy and practice by which the big peckere—aided and abetted by Federal authority—have for months - pest held food back from the market in order that they might keep “ap prices? The Busy Rich Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Byening World). It Is a Shame for People to Waste Their Lives in By Roy L. McCardell try or seashore before their husbands get vacations,” insisted Mr. Jarr, ® Wor is it. question of food only, What about coal? How far are consumers to believe tle predictions of the coal interests that a }eeal shortage next winter is inevitable? To what extent are these 5 a Propaganda furthering « deliberate plan of the big anthra- __ tite prodneers to.apsure @ steady rise of coal prices ? * p And clothing? ‘Alpo) shoeé?: If the consumer must buy both J “ca winter at, double ‘present high. prices—as the dealers say he the’ disquicting fact to pass under the usual vague pretest economic necessity, without a move of investigation or inquiry? the America) consumer has a right to expect help in answering questions and. others like them. He is entitled to help, first hd’ before all, fram Congress. Unless Congress gives that help and ‘gives it soon and liberally, Reconstruction in the United States is to be'a sorry record:of ill-adjusted burdens, exhausted strength, ragement. ard unjustly spportioned benefits. Congress means Senate as well as House. - +, Unless Republican Senators stop playing party politics, ratify 4 : _ | the treaties and clear the way for Congres to bring its full energies *. Soaghedgene tasks that cannot longer be put off, the Republican will presently find itself not only:destitute of issues but carry- Fi aeeaihtag Nad ot jobedee cagir ist rena esdok, ee ee ee ae See pagietaen pani shaleetidenintienatisililanny = ty. ee ie Ae ees ee Letters From the People Write to Washiagtes, is on each boat. My brother is with {Te the Waditor of The Brening World: the 6th Regiment of Marines, Thank- While looking over some of my)! You in ‘advance for your trouble. everdeus photographs I founds ple-| Omcers at the Tort of Bimbo wan jon yng Lieut, Col, Allan R. Williams’ | wii] give this information, Phone Ho- ‘He was n officer of the 38th| boken 3000. _ Infantry and was killed Oct. 8, 1918. T mould like to know if you could tell), to miitor of The Bening Would: me. where. the 38th Infantry eomes| Why are milk bottles allowed to be from,’ dr any news that would help) broken by the thousands on the my locate his nearest relative so 1/ ‘streets, or thrown into ash cans by | Papi wend them, the picture it they | janitorst Why ate large milk cans Aesire it Hoping to receive 4 f-| allowed to be rolled and smashed tn Lane sine May gy 4 crv tes the streets; fires built in them, which | destroys the cans or puts them in a condition unfit for turther use? It is & common sight to see these cans and covers rolled in the streets and gut- ‘ates Infantey is |ters. The milk bottles ure also broken bp: 7 Ro docs! by mischievous small boys just for 1 ded he T/ deviiment. All of this destruction is & Concerning Milk Bottles, JLT, Ht pas He irae t, BF | thousands, The public pays the Dill. iat Goperas ome, In there no way of stopping this waste? Tho police tell you that if amall for f Be festat, ht ee ee tie nas by the Judges. Den ee HARLEM | co) ADE New Satisfying Self. ‘WOMAN came to me the other day, a very rich woman. “Give me something to do,” she pleaded. “Some- thing feal Some- thing where I can feel I am doing things. I am sick to death.” She told me all about it. she is ono of the so-called “Idle rich.” Yet she has peen s busy every minute, her particular busi- snes in life. being spent in killing time, and the spirit of her is dead with weariness, Nearly all her life she has done nothing but study herself and what will please her most, and she has lived fevered years doing just that. She has had one round of social ac- tivity that has led nowhere. She hax been a woman of the hour with not a minute to spare-—and then she awoke. Her busy life of satisfying herself has suddenly spread itself before her and she gees its meaningleas trend. She came to this retrospection be- cause of @ sorrow that has come to her in one of the fatalities of the war. ‘The one whe has loved the best in all the world has come homo to her maimed, wounded, and a wreck of his former self, Thus she has felt the pain of the Poorest person and she has had the chance to weigh things, and to look at life through other lens than those of everlasting leisure. “True, I have done war work,” says. “I have written many chec! and thought I was doing ‘my bit,’ but as I look back on it I did not give up @ single thing that meant anything, bor did I sacrifice an hour of Pleas- TWO STRANGE METALS. UT perhaps the most interest- B ing metals of all are sodium and potassium, They are ually mentioned together because they. act in almost the same way. If a plece of either is placed on water it does not sink, says Boys’ added to the milk ill, which runs tnto | Life for July, but spins over the sur- face and often, in the case of. potas. sium, bursts into flame, After the metal has dissolved in the water, it will "be found to be soapy, If the metal is placed on water colored with red litmus, the water will turn blue. If the metal is placed in pure oe ng tsaan sulphuric acid nothing 1» but if Faded el t ‘ ¥ ure that was not fully made up all the time. Besides it was the fash- jonable thing to do war work. “Oh, the waste of it all,” she de- plored, Through euffering herself, she has come to realize how hundreds of others must be bearing trials and she weeks now to alleviate them. In common parlance, this woman is going to “find herself.” She will be big, and fine, and splen- did. She will learn what real pleasure is, 4 She will have a good comparison, She will say with Stevenson, “I know what pleasuro is, for I have done good work.” In ber present devotion to this loved one she has had time to re- flect on the eternal fitness of things, and it has given her the truest mean- ing of existence. I saw her etart on @ piece of philan- thropic work, in which she must give of herself, and with what enthusiasm and energy she went to it. I could not help thinking of the many, many wealthy ones like her who are losing #o much in the pursuit of pleasure. ‘They are so busy spending money and time that the purposeful oppor- tunities, the wonderful, beautiful things, have been missed — truly missed, The arrogant one, the self-sufficient person, will answer by saying, ‘What you don't know won't hurt you," and he will. go on deing very busy doing nothing. The world will be no better when much have gone, They will die, many of them, leaving nothing but money for people to fight over, They will have given nothing of themselves, and their parting will be marked only by a sigh of relief, As a contrast, people who do things never dic, They may be buried in body, but their deeds, their names, are ever present. But yet, in the middle distance I hear a voice; perhaps it comes out of the war, It squnds a new note in the big scheme of things. A new feeling of responsibility has been awakened im the idle rich—re- sponsibility to the brother-at-large, Bometiing has been added unto the makeup that will never, never die. Idieness Is beginning to de despised, Lairoaoy itearaia ess” bse E day was hot and humid, and vacation?” she asked peevishly. ciner DUM Ae EEE Game, Mrs. Jarr was fretted and out] ‘When am I going to GET my va- This 18 one, of os the ainwritten points of sorta. 4 cation, you mean?” replied Mr, Jarr. in the Peace T “When ARD we going to take your! “I think it's your own fault,” said Mrs. Jarr, “You could tell the boss TheGay Life of aCommuter |i en en now," said Mrs. Jarr. “Yes, and 'd say, ‘Weil, By Rube Towner 1919, by The Preee Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). don’t she go?’ was the reply. Introducing Mawruss Pleasantmann and Jumbo “You know what 1 mean,” said Mrs. Jarr. "There is a vacation coming to you, and you could say if you BELLOW COMMUTERS: Meet | soon as thé young plants were ready|didn’t got a vacation you would Mawruss Pleasantmann, Presi-|to sot out he put them under glass—| leave.” dent of the Paradise Grange, thé | white glass at first, and as the rays| “I might not get the vacation, but Burbank of the vegetable kingdom, |of the sun pecame stronger, bo|I'd leave all right, if I were to say the genil, who with one wave of his! changed to blue. But that is only a| that,” said Mr, Jarr. ‘These are bad magic wand could turn the Sabara| part of the secret. When he set out|days to make cracks like that, A Desert into the Gardens of Babylon; | the plants he got a champagne bottle | fellow is lucky to have a job these the discoverer of the self-canning | from one of his foresighted idle rich|days. Look at all the returned sol- bean, the man who crossed the red | neighbors, and with a hot wire, cut off |diers back from the war looking for pepper on the tomato and produced | the bottom. Then he planted the bot- | work!” the famous chili sauce plant; the in-/ tle, neck down, beside the young! “Well, I'd like to go away ventor aind developer of the Jumbo | plant and poured in water until the|Where,” suid Mrs, Jarr. “I was watermelon, ground would absord no more, and a mother yesterday and she wants By the aid of science, Mawruss | the bottio was filied, Thereafter it|\o 60 away too.” manages to keep about thirty days | was kept filled. When the first melon| “Well, why don’t you take your ahead of the almanac; that is to say, | was formed all the other blossoms | mother and the children and go some- he is eating his first crop of peas| were stripped from the vine. ‘Near| where?” asked Mr. Jarr, when the little lamb that goes with | the baby melon an tncision was made “And what will you do? said Mra, them is still gamboling om the green | in the vine and a plece of flannel was | Jarr, apd months before the New York | inserted and the flannel put in acan| “On, rll be all right,” saht Mr. Jarr. smart set begin to gamble on Long |of water, which also was kept con-|“1'l run the flat. I'll be home pa Island, stantly filled. night.” But despite ali his successes, his| John D. Rockefeller never got any| “What will you do home alone in fame as a plant wizard and the fact | more joy out of raising one American that he would probably be Secretary | Beauty rose on a bush than Mawruss of Agriculture except for the jealousy | did out of his Jumbo melon, and no of amateur war gardeners, the joy of | boy ever carried water to the circus his existence was sucked away by the|¢lephant with more anticipatory aphis of a bitter disappointment for| pleasure. Ho measured tt daily, many years, weighed it weekly until at last it About that time he made @ visit to| Welshed 80 pounds, Florida, but, instead of spending his| Then @ neighbor came and made a time watching voracious toads devour | Photograph of the melon with Maw- pacifist jellyfish, he devoted his time | USS standing beside it in a pose like to @ survey of the watermeion belt. 0 usk Seagreennae receiving bis first There he discovered a %-pound | Ofna icture was published in the watermelon ready for the plucking. casio ‘dtnien elit “ihe “iar aainas But the secret of raising a 90-pound watermelon was locked in the dreast|™ent of the day and date on which 4 Mawruss would give a watermelon of the owner. For years he had taken Geant ta the “huned.” the prise at the county fair because| '*D 1, ay tar as chis story ought to no one could worm his secret out of oe 9 0 S708 Shay pane go. ‘The sequel was published in the him, and Mawrass despaired of learn-| Poise News, as follows: ing until his Southern friend began | *® + to “cuss out” prohibition, “On Wednesday night a heinous crime was committed in this village. Some miscreant lost to all sense of shame invaded Mawruss Pleasant- mann’s garden and abstracted an 80- why Jarr, “I'll make myself comfortable and Tl read.. Lot of books I want’ to read, you know,” said Mr, Jarr, “Yes, I know,” “and that’s what Mr, Crandall told his wife when she went away last summer, And when she came back he pretended that he had been home every night doing nothing but read, but when the gas bill came for that month it was only for twenty-two cents, Oh, I know you, you are all alike!” “A man may be afraid to come home in the dark,” grumbled Mr. Jarr, “but that’s no reason why he wouldn't ‘be afraid to sit In the dark after he got there,” “And read?’ asked Mrs. Jarr. “Yes,” suid Mr. Jarr, “light sum- mer reading, you know.” Mrs, Jarr sniffed, “Now, why don’t you and your Mawruss, who was an apostle of preparedness as well as of peas, traded him a: bottle of his best the flat every night?" asked Mrs. | | waid Mrs. Jarr, | ood. “Well, it's the kind of women that don't care anything for thelr hus- | bands, then,” said Mrs. Jarr, ‘f think @ woman that will go off that way and have a good time while her husband is in the hot, stifling gity, working and slaving for her, docmn't care much for the man.” “But suppose he wants her to go’ said Mr. Jarr, “Suppose he kn he can't get away; is that any red son why she should sacrifice hersel and stay in town if he is willing anxious that she go somewhere?” ; “Maybe he's only too willing ang anxious," said Mrs. Jarr, “Noy +f think I prefer to etay till you oan come with w ‘Mr. Jarr gave her a took “Is it because yu wouldn't trust me amid the temptations of a great city?’ ‘he asked, “I guess not!” said Mrs, Jar em Phatically, “If a man won't behave when his wife's out of town he won's behave when she’s in town. ¥ simply don't care to go if you can't ga.” “Won't let me off the leash, mex how?” queried Mr,:Jarr, “I don't know what you meas, said Mre. Jarr, bridiing up, “but just shows bow much you care me when I stay in the city you can't get away, and you say things to hurt my feelings! T worry and annoy you by not | i tet h, no,” maid Mr, Jare “only I'd be all right if you and mother and the children would away; and it would do you « é ef “It wouldn't do me a let of said Mrs, Jarr, “and furthermore not going away and leave you to be out till all hours with wretch Rangle, who never when to go home, and have Mrs. Rangle throw it up to me when I come back! But don't you thimic one minute that I do not go far ti reasons you say.” “But the reasons I've said are the reasons you've said,” replied Jarr; “besides, the Rangles are goii away this week.” “Well, there are others just ag bat 4s that man Rangle!" said Mrs, J decisively, “and we'll go away gether or not at all!” “Bunny!” said Mr, Rangle to Jarr later, “but I can't get my wii “Cough Mixture and Liver Regulator” for the secret and one seed und came mother go somewhere, if you want to und watermelon. It ts believ ise La thd go,” asked Mr. Jarr. “I could run Constable Ike Smart that the villain and the person who does nothing |o being looked upon with disdain by his fellow men. home to astonish the bunch. ‘The next season he started early. He planted the Jumbo melon seed in the cellar near the furnace in rich down from Saturday till Monday.” “Oh, never mind,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Il can wait till you get your vaca- had assistance. “The pastor of the First’ Baptist Church of Paradise is co.operating with Constable Smart in tryt Greet Melon ferret out the, to leave town till Ido, Do you it's love or suspicion?" “You ought to be ashamed of self talking that!" said Mr, , virtuously, ow'd you like to “bal 's whose wives yy are or what. they, the wives, A secsentlh