The evening world., February 01, 1918, Final Edition, Image 13

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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
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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.
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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
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MH"5 H ONTI NCaTaN-Wll.aON.Ol-" N CW-YORK'
AND WAiHlN&TQN.
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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.
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