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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918 I Popular Favor Now London in the War, New York Away From It Miss Hcnnvt Burleigh Draws a Contrast That New Yorkers May Profitably Ponder Umdon of Darkness and Limited Food, New York of Light and Plenty to Fat. For Secretary Daniels j i Stood Fire of Ridicule Stolidly Without Flinching and Now Keeps Plodding Along in the Same Old Country Editor Way Watches the Welfare of Sailors. IBv Samuel M. Williams. ,Z' v-W f. I m ffHlJI ,UW ivrn ii'tiuui ,.v,,u,, UT ol cyclones of criticism and o torrents of ridicule emerges Josophus Daniels, Secrotnry of the Nayy, no longer a Joke, but praised by critics and commended by Inves tigators. Thero have been mnny men In American political history to feol ' the etonn of popular disapproval and most of them havo gono down before It. Not ofton has the victim had the good fortune- to llvo through It atlll holding office Rehabilitation In publlo favor usually has come too late. DoWltt Clinton was a notablo ex ceptlon In Now York politics, nut recognition of Orovcr Cleveland, after hie repudiation by tho Democ racy, came too lato for him to again occupy offlco. There Is a saying In Washington now that the fads of Daniels which provoked eo much denunciation in early years of his Administration upset only tho swivel chair fleet and disturbed bureaucrats who had ac quired through long precedent tho attitudo of merely tolerating a Sec rotary ae o politically necessary fig urehead! Uc Never Lost His Temper. Throueh tho long slego of criticism Daniels presented on Interesting study of n man under fire. Doggedly and grimly determined ho went ahead with his work, nover losing his temper and never relaxing his efforts. I'robably no man in tlie Cabinet stuck to his Job with such plodding pcrslstcnco. If tho shafts of rldlculo struck doep ho concealed tho wounds an J his personal feeling. Every morn ins ho came up courtoous and affa ; blc, sometimes appearing worried 1 and perploxod, but unfaltering In determination and never complain ing. No man could tell whether ne was callous to criticism or holdlns his ground by clear grit. The creed of Daniels Is that the most Important man In tho navy Is Jack Tar, and tho forccastlo Is as vital as tho quartordeck. A genulno ablo seaman, a first class gunuor or a good bo sun's mato holds high rank in the Soarotury'e eyes. Tho welfaro of his "boyf" always Is his chief concern. Putting Daniels democracy Into tho navy, which had been essentially ,lasB organisation, was criticized as an experiment dangeroiu to dis clAne But "war dovoloped a navy of boundlwa enthusiasm, of eascrness for "oor'vlce, of dlsclpllno keyed up to tho top notch of cfllcicucy. A cook Jumps overboard In a storm to roscue a man and Is commondrd in orders from tho Sccrotary. Sailors wrlto homo letters of Tronderful Christmas dinners aboard or of tho happy Ufo they lead on submarine do strpyers in tho midst of the unceasing duty, dangers and Hardships. Ho reida of them with Joy. Plugs Aivay Day and Night Thn auddon shift Into poi)"!"' haa not changed Daniels. He plugs ( away day and night, a llttlo moro harried and worried than botori. I Ho -wan a, country newspaper editor and still remains one In manner and i nablt. Qldcon Wollefl, Lincoln's Sec- I retary of tho Navy all through tho Dlvll War, was a country editor from IvConnoctlcut, and he, too, changed but t To n.t.durlng that ordeal. x4.ilueo ouho Cabinet, Daniels Is the , uttlcv'fh puacCM3 and mo9t approach. ot aU .(ten his office Is closed for eaalcat of tJj0 teiopuono in his houso able. Wb rngjni;, He talks In little, tho nlsh.cntencc(,i somctlmcu cryptic, l fllw5mcs etartllngly frank, with an IfW&mllo Bcrowlng up ono side of l fnco. n these war days of vast expendi tures ho Is pained by extravagance and would like to save a few dollars for Uncle Sam. You have to watch tho pennies running a nowspapor In North Carolina. It Is hard for him still to sign a document appropriat ing money, yet ho mustered up eour ago yesterday to tell Congress that ho had already spent nearly $2,000. 000,000 and warned them to be pre pared for him asking for more. Dut tho navy lacks nothlns for ser vice or for comfort. Somehow Daniels and his heads of departments hid everything ready the day war began. HE WAS HELPLESS. N Irishman In u town in the South was cnrolenN enough to lot his prle.ir catch him cmorfj- inj: from a' saloon with a demijohn finder his arm. The priest waited r jr lilm ond Mid: "Mike, what is It ou havo in that IlemlJohn7" "Whiskey, sir.". "To whom docs It belong?" "To mo and mo brother, !at, Hlr." "Well, Mike, pom juuih out, ami a Rood man." "I can't fathflr.'' nid lolm ."miiu's la me bottom." cnicaeu Nuns. 5KY PALM BEACH, Where v,;"n' & rll' "ti-.. L-'s - ' JULIA'WAl.KE.R in HER BUUE.-BA.THIN6 SUIT. CAMP UPTON, Where All MRS.ALH-RED GWYNNE, VANDCRBICT A,NO Q" HER 50NS- A,l.FD OMT-4I I rc-tr-r- rirrD&E ON THE CM Cj HT undehwood awd UMDrewnno All Is Fun and Summer Is War Business and Winter r :$ ' , 4- MH"5 H ONTI NCaTaN-Wll.aON.Ol-" N CW-YORK' AND WAiHlN&TQN. 4 !.' set himself an Impossible task, for It Is Uko trying to compare tho regions of tho North Poln with thoso about tho Equator. 13ach hns its apodal beau ties that allow of no contrast, Tho arcliltecturo of New York, I think, reveals thn tnio temper of tho American xvplo. Tor It Is the emJlfst thing In tho world, through caouaJ acquaintances, by tho people ouo i)es wd meets In tho ntreots, to form wrong Impressions. It nmounto 10 pretty much Uin earno thing, when peoplo vlult Iondon and Judge it by what thoy eeo In tho Btrand or whon you visit I'urls to Jmlgo the Kroncli by tho pxplo mot In the Champ I'llyscos or round about WonUnartre. l'orlmp.i ono of tho things that has am need me the most out here has boon tho pen phi who find Now York dark, owing to the recont l'Uol Ad ministration orders, It takos n gieat effort of Imagination on my part to rrnllzn how light It must havo been before. Tho lights must have out hone tho sun for the lights I see now ore daylight compared to what By Bertha Ben net Burlcidi. Dauahtsrof tho Famous Enoliih Wjr CorreiponHent. Written Exclusively for The Evenlno World. OvrVit. 1M tr, IV Itn PUilf f 0. Th fw ork Ki-nim Wffrtd), OFT 10N wondoroJ why thn word "nrtber" was .ippllod to strnngern VdltitiR America and partlouUrty I New York. WWl. I can imy thn (juration answered Itself, whon I ar rtvo horo on my first visit to to United BtAtee, You'vo got to b a v s a nek made of rubber or fixed on n to take everj. thing in for every yard thero la a. frrsh Item of Interest every yard a new typo of face to bo seen every yard a building that rises hl-har than ever, compound with tho win, the moon nnd tho stnrs for 1U place In tho gky. , First Glimpse of New York. I whnll nlways romnmbor New Tortt from the first Kllmpro I had of it on bnnrd ship rather than by the dnys I havn spent In It. New York seemed to lie ut one's foot ns I stood on the deck of tho huso vessel I hod Journeyed In. Going up tho river, an ono approached neari-r to tho city, tho lofty buildings loomed llkn whlto jrhont from tho surrounding bluoy-gray ml.ita. All around naturo had put on her most boautooUA carmont snow white snow. Tho trees feathered and falrtod with white frost, the houses hoodod and cappd with white, tho boats ffarJandiHl and bedeckod with Iclclee, formed a picture novor to bo forgotten. Then to ho tho glowing rising tun tlngo with roseate pink the Kurroundlng country outlined tufatn.it a vivid blue clear sky. I can only say I wnji In a "either" of cxcltomcnt to neo it all, I had heard so much about It, and thxn to see It It Juit surpufliiod my evory possible flight of tho Imagination. New York buildings have a grnn. dour all of their own. Anybody try ing to draw comparisons between Eu ropean towns and New York han wo havo had In Kngland for the past three years. In Kngland. of an eve ning, everybody Is oqulpped with a small torch or an old-fashioned lan tern to bo able to got home. When we have one,of our choice pea-strop fogs by tho by, wo don't get oo mimy an people think there's Boron fun. I remombor embracing a wall under tho fond delusion It was my front door. And then f.iod The Maok spoak.1 for lUielf. I'm scared to eat It when I think of how I did without In Iondon and when I think of home and how llttlo thoy are gottlng. Out here I havo tho sort of fooling that Lord Ithonddu Is still looking on. Well, V Just mako.i mo feol like a pig when I et n pleco of butter and don't have to worry about it as to how long ft han got to Inst Why. when I left homo wo considered ourselves lucky If wo got half a pound of margurlno for ten days. Ilnfom I came out hero I luxl had no meat for practically a fortnlKht. Hero you'vo only got to order It and you gt It. Sly mother tins opent hours trying to gt some, standing one, two, nomotliuen throo hours In a queue either for butter, meat, cheese or sugar. It finally came : to tho state that If wo couldn't get It wo bud to k without In Kngland belts havo to be tightened and on 'tliln,. nd.h.tn Vat.ntAnn1. . . - . I ,, army fights on Its stomach.' can now bo read. "A mtlon lights on Its stom ach " Kor It Is tho nation that can get thn most food that Is going to win In tho long run. And people, partlcu Urly out hero, uiiUervntlmjta enor mously thn food n sources of Osr many and luu night or the fact t-ha was lattoned tho moment war was dnclarrd. In the o;irly morning hours of Now Y rk one feels tho keenness ot the light to live, tho hustle and worry of life. In tho glaro of the day things sieni somewhat harsh. When even ing comes, with tho lights shining through thn windows like myriads of si irs, peoplo homo or going hine, It 11 hero one gets at the Iduullsm of ths AmnrltNUt people. The tall buildings noorn to hereon to tho people carry ing n message for them. to strive cm V . w if -1 and upward. iiiiUMTi,