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UESDAY,, DECEMBER 2, 1919 ; New York:-The Home of Hustle! ~ No @ne'Looks Poor or Ill-Fed; Everybody Seems Full of Joy! “A PRETTY LONDON GIRL’S OBSERVATIONS. The American Enthusiasm as the Ship Docks >, Startles—Though ‘Tis Pleasant; Taxis .., Ricochet to the “Wrong” Side of the Street. This article is the first of @ series by Miss May Christie, who ar- ‘ wm thie country Noo, @ uit Bnglana ucr books, printed “Mi Dagland, have atirssed consideradie atteaivon there, Her theortes “en “Love” and “Marriage” are entertaining and pique the curiosity La@he feminine reader. Her first article deals with her landing in 4 York, Her second article will be Afiss Christic's impressions of TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1919 Mexican Rurales Buy Oil For Street Lamps With Money Taken From U. S. Sailors When City Treasuries Run Dry an “‘Ameri- can Pig” Is Thrown Into Jail—After Ship Captain Pays His Fine He Is Released— American Sailors Are First Beaten, Then Robbed, Then Thrown Into Jail on Charges of “Disorderly Conduct.” By Thomas F. Barry Jr. THE COLLEGE BOYS Colleges Now Operate Like a Lunchroom; a College Boys Develop Into Great Writers Soon Guy Arrives With a Thirst for Knowledge as They Enter School; Either Write Home for and They Soak Him With a Set of Books— Money or for More Money—Three R’s of Our College Education Is a Great Thing; It Colleges Are Rah-Rah-Rah! The College Broadens the Boy and Flattens the Old Colors Are Red, White and Blue Against a Man. Poker Chip Background. NR; O Hara the average big New York hotel. bt New York. va AM fascinated by New York, No other city in the world p Bho first glimpse of New York's thdile towering ‘we | the “Immigration Man" now us is the “hustle” of the ition Man. He sits at a table ship's saloon, and we—a little of his que: Nise wv him. gojng to send us back to ? Or to Bilis Island? Al- important is the Immigra> Man! to! He is kind, though terdh. even hospitable. And has a of humor, too! English of- ym knows nO sense of humor. “passes” us with a friendly that our stay may be enjoyable. quick, efficient, and he radiates i. cross the ggngway to, the dock. dock is huge, immaculately nd sways a little to our Iy< feet. And behind the perceive a crowd of d, prosperous-looking cit- ing frantically to their in- coming friends. enthusigsm rather startles us. hough it pleases, for we British, and desperately afraid Ing any emption under the eye. We are self-conscious, embgrrassed. it none the less we are delighted our welcome. Customs man attacks our lug- He is quick, efficient and pos- fan uncanny instinct as to le” goods. Like the sleuth- he can scent them from afar, heaven! we are “passed” : ~ A “colored gentleman"—the like of = we've never seen before—col- our baggage and rushes it to a taxi, We wonder if he talks African, or plain Zulu—and ‘timidiy offer him a British half- grown piece—which immediately he ) Malls upon, with smiles and thanks! Be,climb into the taxi—which 1s “Picketty, but apparently knows its . for we dart out of the be- wildering medicy of a thousand otter fehicles, like von Gluck re- | | The Mystic aap joo! oN ro a " ‘HIS is the Mystic Book, It is J..; eut in half, contains @ ques- ( oh ton, hieroglyphics and funny customary when seeking in- tion to open a book, but the patie Book will answer the question If Grhen joined together. TO JOIN THE MYSTIC BOOK ‘out the picture on the four Mnes, fold ucross and back on id line No. 1; then fold this over d line No, 1 just meets dot the book and reveals the New York Girl, The New York Courtship and The New Yorker ‘ By May Christie: Copyright, 1919, ty The Press PubMahing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘Gheerfulness, efficiency, hustic and good-will. it? Our ship comes slowly up the river, and—with eyes glued on ‘ is of architecture—we murmur: _*“How did the builders ever do it? Perfectly colossal!” dj and‘\ratties a complete. railway boy The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Fening World.) Other articles to follow are: The and C —with his eyes shut. jossesses such a curious atmosphere of HUIS Paw T WEBS great sky scrapers—can we Londoners comes aboard. The first thing that treating from the Battle of the Marne! We merrily ricochet to the wrong » street—which is “right” in te . » New York, This change of “trafic regulations” rather frightens us—for in London ever; thing must keep strictly to the “left.” And oh! how furiously does that taxi-driver drive! But he is clever, We escape death merrily by the fraction of an inch each time, A curious, roaring noise comes from above. We stare up—and per- ceive a sight that Is extraordinary to our London eyes! For—on a skel- on“ framework overhead—chortles man, A down to work. They study the on the billiard tables. Prescriptions came into use. College fellers develop into enter school, train! “Dhow this dizzy gontraption dash great street cars packed with well dressed, happy looking people. No qne jooks poor, Ill-fed, or {Il-clad— ahd, besides, no one looks old! For New York surely spells Pros- perify’ and Perpefual Motion—and York is the Home of Hustle—and \tremendously ALIVE! shortcomings, too. *rithmetic. We should say not! left that cheers. winning a football game than a Coperiaht, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, OLLEGE BOY is the only guy that can quit work without striking. College boy can also quit without being fired, al- though a lotta them neglect to do it. appetite for knowledge like knowledge was a Bermuda onion And he tackles his text-books like they were Be Only redeeming feature of the college boy Colleges now operate like a lunchroom. thirst for knowledge and they soak him with a set of books. has to pay a cover charre. inside pages. comes along and wants to know whether both in the hold-up business, ference is that the term in Jail and the boy gets a four-year term in college, the boy at that—when the yege comes out he’s learned a trade, Football seasqg is now over and the collegers aré getting They study French at the swell cafes. And a lotta them are studying Latin since Have discovered that Latin may be a dead language but it ain't a dry one. (The New York E A collegian has an uda onions, too A guy arrives with a He Also for the Head waiter of the college he'll take a full course or a special. Guys that take the table d'hote course come in as dumb as oysters and when they leave they're nuts—that’s the full course. College education is a great thing. It broadens the boy and flattens the old college boy and a yegg man are Only dif- peg gets a four-year Kut the yege’s got it on stars at the Broadway theatres And they study English great writers as soon as they Either write home for money or for more money. The old man will always make allowances for the young feller's Only trouble is that the shortcomings are more frequent than the allowances usually. Threo R’s of our leading colleges aln’t reading, ‘riting and Three R's of the college to-day are Rah! Rah! Rah! The college hoy in America’s the only thing And the university undergraduate’s the guy that proves knowledge ts lung power. College hoy makes more noise Dutchman does losing an argu. ment. A thousand of "em can make it soand like the Germans had signed another armistice. © up that cheers has passed away, but they've still got the bow! that cheers in New Haven. As we get if, the college colors are red, white and blue against a poker chip background. | Students still burn night mazdas, but not in search of know!- Modern student may hot stay up edge. lat studying ‘his geography, stay up all night looking for an inside Those are the guys that gradu- ate with the degree of I. 0. U. straight college dormitory is the place studept would sleep if he ever came in at night. When the bars were open it was the college boys that first discovered youth" will be served. Those were the days the mid- but he'll And a where a when Tappa Keeg was the teading fraternity. But nowadays the bars are closed and the throttie’s eating up miles instead of drinking up smiles, to-day means the roadster has turned turtle. open. The speedy boys are now “Bottoms up" Youth is still being served, but now it's with summonses to the Traffic Court. Mid- night oil of the college boy goes into his motor now. And many ® guy that can't get 60 In his studies can get 70 on his speed- ometer, Young fellers enter college as freshmen. leave they're still fresh. And whén they When the collegers get out in the cold, cold world, all they can show are a few degrees, the same as a thermometer in a cold, cold world, Degree of A. B, proves a guy knows the alphabet. Guy that’s been through co}lege is an alum- nus, which comes from aluminum, meaning “light.” twice as senseless as the college He may be cheer, but he’s still an alumnus. College gives him a diploma. Diploma’s in Latin like a pre- scription. College graduate’s prescription states he comes fter meals or something to that effect. But the old man knows that without a prescription. Diploma proves he’s four years older than your other office boys. Also acts as an alibi to show where he’s been since he got out of high school. There's no doubt about it, diplomas are a useful thing. They keep the picture framers busy from June to September. But there's just one drawback to a sheepskin, same as there was in Aesop's Fables—a sheepskin won't keep the wolf from the door. July 22 of this year and t W | frequently at obscure Mexican ports lonstrations while in Mexico which |fully be said to be general of other lly occurring in various parts of Mexico proper. Probably the most bitter antago nism has been shown Americans in Puerto Mexico. ‘This port was exten- sively used by ships of the Amert- can-Hawaiian Line to discharge \freight in 1912-1919. The cargo, after being discharged, was’ tran shipped by train overland to Salina Cruz, on the Pacific side, and thus connections between the Atlantic and Pacific were made prior to the opening of the Panama Canal. The system of persecuting Ameri- cans in Puerto Mexico was both unique and profitable. The streets of this port, if they cam be called streets, were illuminated at night in 1912-1913 by oil flares. Frequently the town treasury became empty and officials had no mioney to buy oll to illuminate the “fair city.” But Mext- can strategy could still be used, and it was most frequent! So, what more desirable than to have a Rural rest “an American Pig,” fine him from fifty to two hundred pesos and with the money buy oil for the street lights, for the native popula- tion must not be inconvenienced by unseeming darkness! As an example as to the lengths to the Recent Trial in Ohio Proves That Women Are Not Governed by Sentiment, but by Rigid Logic and Reason. By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) HE first woman jury that ever sat in the Buckeye State acquitted itself T nobly the other day. The case that engaged the attention of this pioneer jury in Cleveland was that of a magried woman who had deserted her husband and run off with angther man. The woman made a very sympathetic appeal to her sisters of the jury. She dwelt long and earnestly on the “deeper love,” the “promptings of the heart” and her unspeakable joy in finding her “real soul mate” and all that sort of thing, but the programme failed to work. After listening to the prisoner unti! she had fairly got to the last word of the Iliad of her woe the jury told her that she was a bad citizen and that she deserved to be punished for her action. ‘The punishment came in the shape of three months in the workhouse for herself and soul mate, with the addition of a $200 fine for each of the offenders, Indeed, the woman jury discharged its duty in a most admirable and encouraging way. ‘The old argument of those who have been against the tdea of women holding any kind of public office, especially in connection with the ma- chinery of justice, that women are chicken hearted, sentimental and prone to be governed by feeling rather than by reason is exploded in this first actual test. ‘The Ohio women were not governed by sentiment, but by the most rigid and uncompromising reason and logic. The deceitful palaver about the ‘Meeper love" did not cause them to lose their heads, and in spite of all that was said about the joy ‘of finding the “soul-mate” the jurywomen kept right along in the middle of the road until they found their righteous and common sense verdict. All praise ang honor to the first woman jury of the State of Ohio. The women constituting that jury were not Bolshevists. ‘They had an idea-—and had it “for keeps"—that the man or woman who deserts the home and runs off with the “soul mate” out of deference to something or other they call the “deeper love” is an enemy to society, a rebel against the order which is the foundation of all decent human existence, and should be dealt with accordingly There is such a thing as legitimate and righteous divorce. There are honest mistakes made by honest peopYe, and for such mistakes the law pro- vides the adequate remedy; but the maudlin sentimentalism and, as is far Book : An 1] 122 gften the case, bald faced mithi Educational | ness of those times, deserves to be hit Puzzle hard, and it looks as though the women are going to do the hitting. In my oul I believe it is through the influence of woman in public life that humanity is to be rege ed The stone which for so long the builders r cted has become the head of the corner, the sure foundation of the new and glorious temple we are now just beginning to build. | stolbbenllie Sc INTERESTING FACTS. Squeezing the case of a pocket flash light invented by two Frenchmen op- 8 @ magneto that supplies sutti t current to operate the lamp. Portable arc lamp apparatus notion picture work has been put in such compact form by an inventor that two outfits can be carried by one tat et ee ee for Ohio’s First Woman Jury) Brief Speeches for Busy Men By Matthew: J. Epstein 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Testimonial to a Man Who Has Earned a Promotion. Copyright, Honored Guest: Your frends are here this eve- ning to offer their congratulations to you on your promotion. We are here with open hearts and with @ little admiration for you, You have been raised in rank. Yéu have shown your ability to such an extent that it has been recognized. In that way you have been fortunate. It 1s not always that ability is recognized, Sometimes it takes years and years, Sometimes acc!- dents occur and ability cannot under the circumstances receive the reward it deserves. But you have earned your promotion. You did not permit accidents to inter- fere with your progress. You were not daunted by the obstacles in your way You not only sought opportunity, you made your own opportunity, you ent circum- stances to advance your progress, and now your efforts are crowned with success. We who worked with you may envy you a little, That is not un- natural, We also wish to advance ourselves, We also wish to go to the higher places. But the places above are few in number and they are only for the highest ability and for the most deserving, Our congratulations are none the less hearty because we did not obtain the same promotion. In a way we can congratulate ourselves that one of our number Every One His Ow | Manufacturer finished chose the d en ‘Dan Beard io was deemed worthy of advancing. It is an honor to us. But more than that, it gives us an incentive. It leads us to believe that we also May profit by your example, It sets us thinking, and that in itself is a good thing, It forces us to consider howe we also may ad- vance in rank. It impels us to do our work in such a manner that we also may earn a promotion. One thing only do we wish you to remember. Remember that you were one of us. Remember the trials that you had to go through and that we in the ranks still have with us. Do not let your promotion turn your head and make you forget. We tell you this at the outset so that your conduct may be just toward your late associates, Again we wish to tender our congratulations to you, and we feel certain that if you continue to serve as efficiently in your new position as you have served in the ranks you will gain even greater By Herma TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM: by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World.) n J. Stich The Highest Order. OOD breeding is better tested in a a crowded car than at a bal bleu. Manners are a matter of habit rather than heritage; gentility is the product of hearth not heart; it is first impressed then expressed: It 1s an acquisition more than it is a birth- right. Rub the proudest of us hard enough or dig down deep enough and it will be patent that not alone Russia but the world was Tartary and Titledom Bumbledom. The progenitor of one of our haughtiest aristocrats was a Ghetto Pawnbroker, - One of the most stiff-necked grandees of the old world was sired by @ second-hang skin dealor, ‘The founders of Europe's leading dynasties were red-haired, ruthless vandals who manhandled opposing peoples before their descendants han- promotion, died imposing state pers; the; wielded incendiary torebes hare Courtship and Marriage Advice by Betty Vincent ECENTLY I received a letter R from a young woman who is heartbroken because she has found out that her lover is a byp- notist. “I have a good education and peo- ple say I am good looking,” she writes, “but all life hae lost its glamour for me, and I write to you for advice, “Six months ago I met a canvasser, At first his seriousness provoked me to mirth, Then one day he talked to me quite earnestly and I realized with a force that overwhelmed me. that I loved him, That evening we went to a show. Three weeks later he told me he loved me. He told nfe of his travels and his love of books | | ce N the old frontier there were no blacksmith* shops, no tanneries, no stores of sort, all utensils were either made by |the pioneer or purchased from some | wandering'Indian trader, But money |was almost an unknown article Jamong the hardy’ Buckskins, hence | they either traded pelts for goods or went without, consequently their in- genuity and skill ws highly devel- |oped and they sometimes even made | their own guns and knives. “The famous Bowie Knife was not invented by Col. Bowie, but vas made by a whitesmith from Philadelphia for the doughty © udopted by the latter, whos weapon still bears. ‘Col. Bowle, by the way, he smith a pattern drawn on brown paper, but when the ki and nature, Often on walks through a shady dell he would point out to me tho majestic beauty of the humble |sunflower, the splendid sunsets and k of the music in the ripple of water “1 was supremely happy and hope- lessly in love, A friend of his said that he was a hypnotist, but 1] laughedy at him, ‘Then one day my lover told me with his own lips that he was @ hypnotist, At @ Little She Fears He Has Hypnotized Her. sociable we attended I saw him put several subjects to sleep. I must confess that I was frightened. I re- fused to see him any more, He left town, and a week later I received a letter telling me his heart was broken. “Now, Miss Vincent, I am a wreck, physically and mentally, but on the other hand I am still afraid of him because of these powers he possesses. With all your experience in affairs of the heart, I shall look in The Evening World every day for an answer, I love him dearly and know he loves me, but I am afraid of all hypnotists, Do you think I could ever be happy with this man under thesé condi- tions?” If you feel as you do, why not tell him why you refyse to see him? If he loves you at all, most likely he will give up this practice of hypnotiz- ing others, As long as he makes his living along other lines I should ask him to eliminate that side of his na- ture, Probably, on the other hand, you are a little too sensitive. Cer- tainly it would be a good idea to talk things oyer before you part from this man, It is better to “agree to dis- agree” than to part focling that you both have broken hearts, their great-grand-progeny wielded monarchical sceptres. ' It is only a short flight backward since Genghis Khan and Attila and Olaf donned stone clubs and palm |leaves which their modern ilk, have |doffed for kid gauntlets and costly ermine, Titled rank is an accident a super- ficial artificiality, an artificial super- ficiality, a monstrous lie. Elizabeth, Victoria, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, George Washing- ton, Louis XIV., Lord Chesterfield, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander and Cyrus the Great—all the kings, princes, dukes, marquises, earls, vis- counts, barons, counts and knights— all the swells, artstocrats, blue-bloods and touch-me-nots of account or no account—were born in simplest’ na- ture’s garb and fuzzy-wuzzy croyn— LIKE. THE REST OF US, Good breeding and stalwartness are @ process of acquirement not en- dowment, Scions of most unpretentious an- cestry can be sympathetic, tactful, reasonable, can refrain from hurting the feelings of others, Men and women of humblest sire can play fair and square, be cour’ ous, courageous, loyal and honest. Generations of cultured antecedents do not guarantee nor does lowly lineage preclude reverence of woman, deference and respect for old age, honor of father and mother, upright manhood and womanhood, All of which, being, after all, the real sum and substance of true no- bility—anybody can be a member of its highest order—can be a lady or a gentleman. GOING . DOWN! (Copyriaht, 1919, ‘The Prees Publish: (tae ‘New Fork Bening Worl sl DEAR EVERYBODY: Every day is the day to clean house! Start with the kitchen, How any woman expects her hus- band to be a success when her Kitchen is untidy is more than I can fathom, - The greatest fun in going visiting in anyone's house is to go into the kitchen and pull candy or do something else. There is always something SACRED about the kitchen, Only the elect are admitted. Therefore, if you want to have your husband a success, straighten out your kitchen! Oh, yes! And if you want to raise your husband's salary, if your allowance is not, big and you want it increased, here is a simple way to do It: | STRAIGHTEN OUT youR | KITCHEN. And oblige, ALFALFA SMITH, SE Ee ele | Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. HILE the murder of nine American citizens by Mexicans since jon the part of the American citizens involved, and which can (The New York Evening World.) he arrest and detention of Consular Agent Jenkins have given the people of this country a distince shock, it is an old, old story to Americans who have had to make their | living im oil fields in Mexico and, to merchant sailors who have touched of call, ° ‘The writer has, upon several occasions, witnessed anti-American dem- were absolutely withon! provocation truth- overt acts of a like nature constant- | which thjs practice extended, it is shown that in the month of Octo- ber, 1913, eight Americans were ar- rested by Mexican Rurales in Puerto Mexico, thrown into jail for from three to seven days and then fined for offenses which they were abso- lutely not guilty of. In this month the total money: in fines levied on Americans represented 1,500 pesos. It is peculiar, but true that tho Mexi¢an police in Puerto Mexico never arrested, on frivolous charges, subjects of Great Britain, Asked why, @ Rurale explained in excellent English: “The British Government makes too much fuss about it if we do!" The most glaringly unjust of these cases was the arrest, imprisonment and fining of Louis Larsen, an Amer- ican-sailor, in September, 1913. The arrest of Larsen was the straw that almost broke the camel's back, for, following this outrage, it was war to the knife between Americans and Mexicans in Puerto Mexico. I'ecling was so intense that captains of ves- sels touching at this port received orders not to permit their men to go ashore, and thus avoid trouble with tthe Peons and rurales. Larsen was a quiet, studious young man, who spent every.waking hour studying navigation, with the inten- ton of facing an examination for a | 8écond mate's license for ogean-going steam vessels. One night during Sep- tember, with’ the ship alongside the one wharf the port boasted, Larsen, in company with four others, the writer included, went for a stroll “about town” and to make a few nee- essary purchases, Returning to theship at 11 o'clock, when near the dock our party was surrounded by a band of six mounted rurales, who, with drawn revolvers, held us up and took in all $75. Of this sum $50 was found on Larsen, Still covering ug with their re- volvers, Larsen, because he had had the most money on his Person, was ordered to step forward. As he did #0 a lariat was thrown over his head and slipped around his waist. With- out @ word of warning the rurales spurred thelr horses forward, Lar- sen was jerked from his feet and dragged a full half mile over the rough, uneven ground to the Jail, He was unconscious when be ar- rived there and, charged with dis: orderly conduct, was thro-n into a cell to await trial. The incident was immediately re- Ported by members of the party to the captain of the ship, who hastened to the jail with money to Pay a pos- sible fine, The official of the jat) was adamant. “The Gringo had committed a grave crime against the laws of Mexico and must be pun- ished. Yes, he was still unconscious, having resisted arrest of the kindly officers who took him into custod In vain the captain explained his ship was to sail in the morning. His Pleading was met with a shrug of indifference, and a threat for inter- vention by the United States Gov- ernment was received with a laugh of derision. “You Americans are too busy making money to bother with a prisoner like this one,” he was told. In the morning the ship sailed Mie “Duddiew" belng able, oe aes hace before they Wh ing able to see him month later, whe turned to Puerto Mexieo, Larne still in jail. A purse was raised ta defray his fine of 250 pesos, and if was given to officials of the port. But Larsen could not yet be released. “No, senors, not until a little hi bill has been settled, which reprerent. ed medical attention to the Gringo's wounds received when he resisted ar- reet ‘Phis hill was but 100 additional | pesos.. A small matter for the Amer- \icans.” ‘ The second bill was personally paid by the captain, and Larsen rejoined the ship. But what a different Lar. sen! His head was still swathed in bandages and the sight of his right eye was and has since been affected. | eS SEN AD CEES eet Bh