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ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. jow, New York. 6 RALPH PULITZOR, President, 6% Park Row. ="J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row, ————$ $$ Matter. — Desered ot the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clas tes to vening}Ior England and the All Countries in the International Postal Union. $8.50] One Year. 3010ne Month IER yee iciieiisucies(yivel NO: 1088 ‘he VOLUME 54..., WHO THINKS FOR MEXICO? HE crux of this conflict is the Mexican mind. T inconceivable to the people of this country. A despatch mailed to Havana last week stated that the de facto President “had concealed ‘even from his intimates all knowledge of strained relations beween Mexico and the United States,” and that “the general public was even more in the dark, since the press controlled by the Government published columns of glowing accounts of victories gained by the Fed- eral armies in the north.” ; Shortly before the serious break in the relations of the two coun- tries, Nelson O’Shaughnessy, the messenger of the United States Gov- ermment to Huerta, declared that “more than 99 per cent. of the total ignorance of the crisis.” We proclaim our friendship and good will toward the Mexican people. Who are the Mexican people? Despite all bar troubles, Mexico still claims to be a republic with & quasi-representative government. Where is public opinion in Mex- ico? Shall we seek it among the 3,000,000 who can read and write or among the 12,000,000 who cannot? Shall we seck it among the 3,000,000 whites, or among the 5,000,000 Indians, or among the €,000,000 hhalf-breeds? Shall we seek it among the 3,500,000 who pay taxes or among the peons, many of whom have never seen & piece ‘of money? Who has any permanent hold on su¢h public sentiment as may “exist? Huerta, Villa, Carranza or some unknown figure who will emerge in the presetit crisis? * A few years ago there were 459 newspapers and periodicals pub- lished in Mexico, How 'far do they influence popular thought, even when the censor loosens his grip? Mexico, convince it of our honor and good faith, strengthen it, educate it, induce it to act for its own good and repudiate the Huerta type of head? ‘ gi Or has Mexico no real mind? If #0, the outlook would be grave indeed: Over a territory of 765,000 square miles, among a population of born fighters already at odds with one another, deceived, deluded by their leaders, kept in a state of ignorance and suspicion, conflict might well be long and costly. When we discover the full measure of the task we have under- taken will it prove to be a conquest of enlightenment? ———_+4 -—____. up in arms because Gcv. Glynn has approved bills which take away the Board's authority in va- directions—notably its power to regulate traffic and the first time in years the city has o en that shows signs of self-respect, intelli- tor public good. Is this the moment te and humble its pride? ap . LET US HAVE NO WAR DANCES. \TRIOTISM sounds its call in various keys. But we doubt if its best interests are served by open air rough-house antics of Columbia undergraduates who blow tin hhorns and cry: “Down with the Greasers! We want war!” If the nation is supposed to understand anything it is the em- * phatic protests of Congress and the President (1) That we did not and “do not want war and (2) That we wish no harm to the people of Mexico. Boys will be boys and exuberance is pardonable. Universitics, However, should do what they can at a time of excitement to eet ex- amples of soberness, clear thinking ayd consistency, Columbia stu- dents especially should remember ‘that they are in the midst of a big city and fe to it that their patriotic demonstrations are not war dances. . ————e¢o— ess Now then, V. Huerta! ——_——_—_-42— CONTEMPT NO CURE. i E WISH we could believe the near-riot, precipitated in Park W Row yesterday by I. W. W. and Anarchist orators who dared to proclaim the American flag “unfit to defend” will be a Jesson to these cheap sedition mongers, When the abuse of the nation and the flag became too shameless for the patience of the crowd, it tried to get at the speakers. The police behaved with caution and forbearance. ‘They clubbed the belli- - cose and protected the assuiled Their clubbing was “fatherly,” their protection effectual. ~ As long as these open air agitators are allowed to go on with their herangues and insults until ghey disgust and enrage their hearer#to the point of violence, so long will they continue to abuse and sully the fair right of free specch. Contempt is lost on the T. W. W. -+-—--—- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Born April 28, 1564, He was a man of universal genius. From a period soon after his own era he has been universally fdolized. It is difficult to compare him to any other individual, The only one to whom I can at all compare him is the wonderful Arabian dervish who dived into the body of each and every man and in that way became familiar with the thoughts and secrets of all hearts. He was a man of obscure origin and, as a player, limited fm bis acquirements. But he was born with a universal genius. His eye glanced at the various aspects of life and his fancy ‘Portrayed with equal felicity the king on the throne and the ‘clown cracked his chestnuts at the Christmas fire, 4 Whatever note he took he struck it just and true and @wakened a corresponding chord in our bosoms.—Sir Walter Your’ move, Published Dally Except Supday by fhe Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 tu Mexican residents in the Federal capital went about their affairs in) Nontinent and ! | The censorship established by Huerta is strict to a degree zine, Thursdsy, April 28, 1914, The Story of Our First War With Mexico. By Albert Payson Terhune, - Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Kivening World), NO. 1.—HOW IT STARTED. e. | )} HIS is the story of a war in which te United States troops almost | always were outnumbered, always fought on foreign voll and did not lose a single battle. It was also our first war of conquest, Up to that time we had fought merely to defend our own land, Back in the first third of the ninetcegth century thousands of sduthern and western pioneers drifted acrors the border into Northern Mentco, ‘They were fearless, quarrelsome men; rough-bred and not overcareful of other people's rights. And they had a thorough contempt and disitke for the “greasers,” as they called their Mexican neighbors, * | From the beginning there were clashes and misunderstandings between {these United States settlers and the owners of the soil. The pioneers ac= cused the Mexicans of oppressing them with unjust laws. The Mexicans charged the pioneers with land grabbing and general lawlessness, last the smouldering hatred blazed into war. 4 The frontiersmen resolved to seize for themselves the huge’ * tract in which they had settled—the region that {s now the State of ferns, Mexico sent an army under Santa Ana to subdue The Alamo them. hed the following brief mee- AMOR ME GIRLS SHE 1S WILLING To LEARN | " Ff small forces of Americans stormed subordinates "In this war there are no prisoners!” ind at Goliad and elsewhere the Mexicans penned into towns or fortified enclosures; then beateged, id massacred them. At the Alamo, for instance, in February and 188 pioneers, under Col. Travia and James Bowie (inventor of the bowle knife) held the mission walls for days against about 2, Mexi- cans. When the Mexicans broke through the puny defenses every was killed. But it was a victory that cost Santa Ana 1,600 men, A few weeks later, at San Jacinto, Sam Housto: ‘Man of Mystety"— almost annihilated a Mexican army far larger than hin own and cap lured Santa Ana, Texas was free. For a time it was a republic, with Houston for its Thef he succeeded in having it annexed to the Yi ages. , ident. Pir esr dank Americai and American merchants’ property seized in various Mexican cities. O1 Government had remonstrated, Mexico had promised redress. The earns ises were broken. By 1840 no less than $6,009,000 worth of Americans’ Property had been confiscated by Mexico. All this, combined with the Texan ‘war, ing everywhere. When, he climax came. Mexico made a formal protest. had roused intensely bitter feel- early in 1845, the United, States annexed Texas denied our right to annex the new territory and ¢ SOHN. WE ARE Lucy! Is there any conceivable way we can get at public opinion in| Then arose the boundary dispute, The Texans claimed that ti Grande was the dividing line between Texas and Mexico. The Mecuins | declared that the Nueces River, much further north, was the boundary, The strip between the two rivers thus became “debatable ground.” =f 4 President Polk, in July, 1845, sent Gen, Zachary Thylor to Texas’ wit ] | 1,500 men to protect Texan interests, A fleet under Commodore Connor ‘Sa | rushed to the Gulf of Mexico for the same Purpose thero, i: Old Zachary Taylor was the Mexican war's real hero, Me haf been a \. pioneer, a farmer, an Indian fighter. He was supposed to be simple and | bluff, a mere unthinking obeyer of orders, which was why Polk chose him as a catspaw. Here in brief is the idea: The prospect of a war with Mexico States. A large fuction, including and believed it was planned by the ve State to the Union and shed Tas Gir is! LEARNING $0 FAST SHE KNOWS Now 4S MUCH As 1D0 ABouT THE WORK was not wholly popular in the United Abraham Lincoln, declared it iniquitous Administration in order to add one more dull if on iid Administration itself, was in @ ticklish position. And, according to most his' ‘lane, sent Taylor—who was a Whig and hia political enemy—into Texas ae ow end der any unpleasant responsibility that might arise. Thus, should Taytor encroach on Mexican soil and should the move be unpopular in the United States, the Administration could disclaim it. So Taylor was sent—with somewhat indefinite orders as to what to do. But Taylor was too wary an Indian fighter to be caught in such » trap. Gmmnmnnononcans He halted his little army and refused to move forward The Advance to one step until he should receive definite and public in- the Rio Grande. $ structions from the Administration. Polk's hand was \° forced. And he was obliged to take the responsibility. He ocsered Wael’ helene into the strip of “debatable ground” and (in juary, when his 1,600 men had been reinfo: FGrtreal Ora ltida tated reed to 4,000) to push‘on And there the first blow of the war was struck. ° , Chapters From robbed belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, & powerful local Magistrate. Jail, the cropping off of the thief's ears, and even worse punishment, were the penalties for such an offense, “Bard of Avon” Was Born at Stratford Just Three Hun- dred and Fifty Years Ago. doing other odd jobs around a London theatre. He was thence uated to the Stage itself; but ver made any special reputation as an actor nor A Tradesman’s Son, He Ran Away From Home, Became} a‘Vagrant,” and Won Im- Shakespeare fled by night from his | was intrusted with important roles, 4 9 e home and family, and long afterward | Actors in those daya were, in the oo oO os f Cee ee eee eae er | ene een ic teciteal wementae| mortality, 3 \ a Oman s 1re Coparight,_ 1914. Ces ie woud Co. Thomas Lucy up to bitter ridicule injand were li to arrest as such ~ Cae aw ‘ one of his plays. unless they or their managers had read that “Titus Andronicus” at the Globe Theatre was “turning them when other London play- ould not make enough money the luck to be under She patronage of| some rich nobleman. Earl of Leicester, Queén Elizabeth's favorite, 1s aaid to have been the patron of one From Stratford vanished the twen- ty-ye id deer-thief. And what hap- pened to him during the next aix years ts not even clearly guessed at. By Dale Drummond N a rambling wood-and-stuc- co bullding—house and shop a combined-—set flush to the houses c: Copyright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), , ved Joho} H» simply disappeared. of Shaki re's companies. to pay for heat and light. Cc E) i ee Cadi one | Hot uni 1680-48 he heard of again.| From acting, the immortal “va-| Until Shakespeare's time most Eng- HOSES ER X21 ‘ akespeare, Then, says the story, he was pick-|grant’ took to writing pla: And| lsh plays had either been unspeak- ELL, they seemed to en- want you to look m He was an illiterate but fairly | in. up a living by holding horses and from that minute fame was his, We bly Toul oF slay of « sonolerly. drank oe foy themscives,"” Jack| Mr. Howells will think dent wae \- _ er oO I. * la eet yp aaiery Aas petal S Ab t Shakespeare wrote plays that were fener at ud break- pie 3 Beatty woman ia,” and ghe « e 4 — not only beautiful in their poetry, but fast le, ‘You seo, 7 ik could barely write hig own name. | What Shakespeare ays ou that’ were alive with action’ and Sue, that even the), Very much ‘excited nd, apparently, nt Rhian tn ‘ through my luncheon, terest Banks put Emelle to dressed. My hair was troubl and I finally coiled it simply around my head,as usual. I put on my Best afternoon dress, a soft black matérial trimmed with American beauty satin, I had worn it several times when I was with Mrs, Somers, and I wished T had a new one. But it was all I pee. and I really looked very well in it, About 3 o'clock she came for me ih her machine, J ran downstairs quick- ly, so that she would not come up, and as I took my. seat beside her phe WAR. “Bewdre of-cntrance to a quarrel, but being tn, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.” “Thrice ia he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose consctence with injustice 1s corrupted.” Naturally he scored on instant and mighty success— ceas that brought down upon him storm of hatred and envy frowh his | fellow playwrights. Robert Greene—one of the men whose playa were shelved in favor of Sheneapearc'e-—wrote enarlingly of For, irs didn't prevent that “No, but did you notive that the janitor had put out the lights ip the halls? I was so ashamed! You must speak to him, Jack, and tell him that when we have company and they stay late you will attend to the lights. “All right, girlie, I'll play janitor or anything else to make you happy,” kiseing me tenderly he went out. 1 looked proudly at him as he passed down the street, tall, eréct, good-look- ing. even write that twice alike, among the records of his signature, it Is found that he spelt it no less than sixteen different ways. In the rambling old Shakespeare | house, on April 23, 1564, was born the third of John's eight children (his! first son), who three days later wus | christened William at the Stratford; Church, and who was destined to; make the ignorant old glovemaker's | name immortal. | 1 am going to sketch briefly the! story of William Shakespeare. It is only fair to say in advance that moat of its happenings are bullt on word- “This upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, is, in his owne concelt, tye onelie ‘Shake-scene’ in the coun- tfie.” “To be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in @ straw When honor's at the stake.” Of all Shakespeare's piays, tie plot of only one was original. ‘That was “Love's Labor Lost,” one #peare’s handwriting (except the six- natures of his wills) exists, Not a single manuscript line from his plays or poems, It is even doubted if his portraits | are genuine, His “death mask” itself | has been proven a fake. | Thus, no on , absolutely, whi he wrote, whether he wrote at ull, nor how he ‘ludked. Jt ix learned fron town records when and where he was horn, christened and married, and the date and place Of his doath, ‘That Ja almost ull, ‘fhe rest ta | nade up from a hodge podge of | jors that may or may not be true, | popular version of his story 1s t He was taken from grammar school at thirteen and was set to work, | ‘Thin. work Included the killing of calves, whose sking his father used | for loves. The boy used to make a tragedy event of each killing, and, according to Aubrey, “would do it In a high- | style and ‘make a speech." | At eighteen, sorely against his father's Wish, he was married to Anne Hathaway, a rustic spinstor | eight years older than himgelf, There | is no reason to believe he wanted to marry Anne, that he lived happily with her or that he had any great affection for her or for their three children, In fact there are several reasons to belleve the contrary, ‘wo yeurs after his marriage came a series of wild pranks that forced | Shakespeare to leave Stratford in a hurry: protracted drinking bout which scKndallzed tho good folk of Warwickshire wus followed by- the crime of deer-stealing, Theedeer park that Shakespeare | “Bricf, as woman's love.” “Doubt thou the stara are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.” “There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” WOMEN, ailty, thy name is Woman “She is a woman; therefore may be wooed. She {8 @ woman; tWemefore may be won.” “Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low—an excellent thing in woman!” “Such duty aa the subject owes the Prince, Evcn such a woman oweth to her husband.” HONOR. “This above all;—to thine own self ‘be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, tou canst not then be false to any man.” “Corruption wing not more than honesty. Be just and fear nat.” FRIENDSHIP. “Those fricnds thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy sout by hoops of steel.” * “Ngither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” Ld ra ——EeE———eeEEE months, or as often as his company red a new one. la sald to have written “The Many Wives of Windsor,” in three weeks; at a hint from Queen Eliza. beth, that she wished “to see Fal- staff in love.” It is not on record that Shakes- peare, during all his London life, sent to Stratford for his wife and his three children to join him, Yet, with the savings of these years he returned at last to his old home; where he remained in homely comfort,—the typical rich, self-made, returned wanderer in a small town,— until his death in 1616, ‘This is no place to thresh out again the old question as to whether Shake- speare wroto the plays that bear his name, or whether Francis Bacon wrote them and used Shakespeare as @ mask for his own authorship; nor to ques- tion how a man of Shakespeare's lim- ited chances for education could have written such masterpieces, Shakespeare, in every way, was literature's premier “Man of Mystery.” And the mystery will never be cleared Up. Perhaps it was a fear lest some se- cret of his life might be discovered— perhaps it was only a precaution against having his skeleton exhumed to make way for a new body in the Stratford church yard—that led him to write his own strange epitaph (if in- deed ho did write it): “Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here! Bleat be the man who spares these stones, But curst be he Ddones!" that moves my would have gone with bim, Hut while I played very well and was fond of the game, I would not go because I did not have the latest in golfing clothes. I had not as yet used any of the $62 I had left of the money I had borrowed of Mrs. agi bg pate make myself belteve was to pres until I could add enough to it to repay her. But all the time I think I knew that I would not, that I would not go without some- thing I might want to pay this debt that had almost ceased to worry me. I soon began ordering little things over the telephone again, It was so easy, as Gertie had said, and saved so much tim Their bills having been pal he shopkeepers were only too willing I should run others,*and, although I knew as well as they did if they were not paid promptly ould again be made uncomfort- ble, I allowed myself again to run in debt, I did not want to be anything but ite I I would have been very one had said that I was extravagant and lived out of all proportion to our means; but I did. And this even though I kepf no maid and did most of the work, the baby's sewing and the mending, In all that I did I was laying up sorrow and trouble for my husband and nfjwelf. Mra, Somers had not forgotten her} M: promise to take me to Mr. Howel studio, She called me up one morn- ing and wanted to know /f that after- noon would be convenient, “Put op something pretty,” she . of his poorest, For the rest he took| “Any woman might be glad to bel looked me over critically, and thet ree of-mouth stories that may or may | his plots and ideas from earlier plays | Dia wife,” I thought. ¢ tite ana | marked: be not have ‘been true but hat ae Love. or stories or from history itself, He ee ae carey So) Fe tee ut look Very smart, I am. gure n generally accepted for 0 “Lev, ° ” acted in some of his own works; rT. Howells will not be disappointed anything more accurate to Ko on. | Love sought ts good; but glean 'unsougAs te better Playing the Ghost in “Hamlet” and| be had been obliged, for various rea: in! you ‘Then, with her head ones all the world's story 0 10 Jens “ ” thi a i in really known, No scrap of Shake- RneER IO 1 BOW SPER Tone ae amare, than & decade he wrote| te £0 °Mfernoois, and. play golf, if i|tfied wearlng orange? Not . “Why, ni I replied, “it has - ways seemed too conspicuous @ for a dress, when one has to wear it ee 4 “Just the same you would be sten- ning in it. A black hat with wings would be pretty for you. I wish Madame Loraine could> dress you,” Madame Loraine! Noted for ter extreme dressing of her customers, and for her fabulous prices, I fairly guaped. ‘Oh, I couldn't think of ever hav. }/ hor make anything for me!" Vex- _// claimed. “I know,” Mrs, Somers sata, “® sometimes she has very pretty m not qujte the very latest, that some réason have not gold. One can sometimes pick mp Wonderful war- gains in that way. Perhaps YOU might, I'll take you with me when [ go to be fitted to-morrow, and we can see if she has anything now, You can open an account,” wading rightly the look on my facc, “And pay when MO you “I ahall be delighted to <o with but I haven't tho slightest dem ‘eng Will have anything [ can afford,” fT was tying to think if, it ‘were not Mme. Lorai who. 1 had heard, charged never less than $100 for a le cotton frock ell, VN call she said as we efi studio, £4) AH} you anyway, ne car at And | murmured a ue although I knew I ought ni irs. Banks again, How little I dreamed, as of the small sum I had paid hei time, of; the unwarranted ex gance I should soon comiit (To Bo Continued,S T'thougi ch