The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1914, Page 8

EATABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Macept Sapter by the Prose Publishing Company, Nos, 53 te, Rew, , \ aaa IS EVERYBODY SATISFIED? CCORDING to despatches from Washington yesterday “Gov. ‘ernment officials felt satisfied with the progress made toward relieving stranded Americans in Europe, except as # nding shipe to bring them home.” “Except!” What in heaven’s name is the all important thing AB Rot to bring them home? Thursday we were informed that th: Government was actually ships abroad to eave time. let yesterday Secretary of Gerrison had nothing more definite to offer than abuse of >) Asmatican steamship companies who jumped prices for the use of + their vessels, a cable to representatives of the United States in Eu- fopé inquiring whether the number of Americans gathered at their mae wee posts is sufficiently large to warrant sending « ship for \ their trensportation and a vague premonition that he may have to | tie atmy transporte! Secretary of State Bryan thinks “the situation daily.” ae >: Which is exactly where we were four days ago. Will nothing wake up the War Department? What the country | Gemande is not talk but action, not satisfied dawdling and red tape p)-dut initiative—ships on the spot. ce, —_+ > 2 If we may believe the news from Belgium, for once “the ery of the little people” makes itself heard. } +> | PROTECTION WITHOUT PROTECTION. RECKONING up ways in which Burope's catastrophe may help this country let nobody overlook the matter of protection. The fact is while the war lasts the United States has all the benefits of « first-class protective tariff without the bother of one. Innumerable classes of foreign goods are for a time com- «pletely out of the market. American made products have the best " @bance ever to rush in, prove their worth and establish themselves ia Permanent favor. ~ “Ones again something hes happened to save the Democrats from pe tinteward consequences of having their own way. They tinkered iad élipped the tariff to their heart’s content, leaving their high pro- fe yoaerg no choice but to accompany the country to the Abd lo, of a sudden, tremendous circumstance issues forth to B the industries of the land with something far more fattening a the olf bigh-tariff pap. anne oe ee Ie it to be the Dual Alliance and the Quadruple Entente? — A NEUTRAL CITY. 18H and timely is Mayor Mitchel’s proclamation asking New Yorkers to wave only the American flag and to refrain from war parades or other public demonstrations showing thy with any one of the European nations now in conflict. febody wants to deprive citizens of German, French, Austrian, or English blood of their natural sentiments and opinions. f after al) this nation ie neutral, this city is neutral. It is the of all New Yorkers, whatever their patriotic leanings, to go their affairs without stirring up ill feeling in their fellows. Uncle Sam is glad to offer all a safe and happy home where they Warn their bread and live in peace and prosperity. He expects to leave the shouting and the bitter words to the nations im- bes ——— + the war news vead in the Times: “The passage of a war budget for asked Mr. 000 im the House of Commons without a dissenting ‘velee and the granting of an army increase of 500,000 men 4 ° ° show Great sort on the corner, after @ fiank + feands to the plough.” sia Lida gd oa llcad movement through the side entrance. Really? We should have gathered rather that she left Pea Sit OS sechiog 90 Licey $8 standing in the furrow. German paper ing, “you come to chust as good a See peered place to get war news as any. I Hits From rom Sharp Wits. Much of the going away going away to spend & vacation is for the sake of being able to say that one has been away. Among the pr fealy @ man can get @ reputation for greatness by talking about the Peoompleiaent ot impos- sibilities.—Albany J Journal. “To conduct ‘ matters and never commit a fault is above the force of humaa nature,” said Plu And matters may console ourselves witb the same realjsation. Omaha Bee. ' whi FROM THE WHOLE COUNTRY. Pee nS ere re LL, the rest of his life one of President Wileon’s most procious| "Why belleve anything?” inquired memories is likely to be the whole-souled way in which the | “"“vou got to believe something even > nation turned to him with ite eorrow and sympathy in the pig = {t ain't 60," Gus de- ‘ef his loss. seers 6 Seren you Seople realized the private trouble and anxiety that lay upon bevy you area Republican ples Exovutive. Distracted by the mighty rush of events) eve the Democrats fina gE eg Americans had even forgotten for the moment the perplex-| lieve neither ain't no good unless you ‘hres, the important legislative programme, the Mexican prob-| en ney unt much, "But for wer that have kept him all summer patiently and uncomplainingly | Revs, 1 want it thet it should be our im the hot oa) 1d, and so T German se The news ot his nl OO drew an instant response of deep ape F game tno me of me eee you iy from every State, city and town. ‘The people of this country 0 Very bumen, very warm-hearted. As one man they clasp hands & the President and offer him such comfort as they oan. ¢w Allies Are Old Foes +In Europe's Present War has done a bit of tronto Sa ree aha Perk Sa sont connected by marriage. England and Russia have more than at] Once wied M4 at each other ipremacy. A few it would have been hard officer mepeor cues oy the who it or “Wserapelves ry those who hire press agents.—Nasbville Banner. apres Very often the kind of man who har ol much pride to beg you for a dime id the Kien to borrow a quarter. afveston lows. Pal. ot Austria at that time filrted wi poten Uaing at ee to an some reaping Bo there you Beye, the situation: France and Russia me Aer at “walk ia to be the ae Ne Rouse it to the orosatng.- = Indlanapo News. ae See tC PY Criene Je. i At 4. at 1nd o tara ten on on there wil’ be | Can I F.ver Untie Em?” a sascansumaundvans aumeemnencnemaneainmeeamemmene are rome OF it Ip wieh why don't yeh pene it up your-| being made in every place but Ger- many!" declared Gu: stoutly. “Twant to get my war news mit the label on self?” asked Mr. i “And so I could ‘ina better than it's — fF By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1014, by the Press Publishing Oe, (The New York Evening World.) y, deal and Jack was in it! That was CEAe IER Ce) t-| the reason he had made so little fuss RS, SOMERS told the chauf-| about the bills, He already had a feur to drive to Gerry's. : Lit raged wR - Kaew Bothing—te that mee’ em. ie hot, angry yor do not remember Wnono-|Tushed to iny checks.” I could have spoke, excepting ered out In my indignation. What syllables, all the id begs right had Jack to Keep from me what Mildred rallied me upon my ing #0) even Mrs. Somers knew when it was quiet, and I all but blurted out the rai an eee aneeare given him cause, But suddenly the thought/ "there! 1 knew I was right, and came to me: : ond ei eleet hee. a Sno iti” t know. You] she exclaimed, misinterpreting my Piyaee tes bl ie aad it will be Kept aa ran ee that Jack never 14 \e] an: ‘om you!” five hundred less that you will have) ““twell’ | don't know MUCH about to plan for." jae t ‘stammared rie tinea i a I had determined not to tell Jack| kKnowledge—after what she Prt —that Jack had said nothing what- of the picture until it was absolutely | oye. tg me about ‘any. information necessary, and it would be easier to/he had received from Mr. Cosgrove. confess to the five hundred—if I had ‘One doesn’t need to sow BUCH ton inter- rea gett ecnangttingy ted be Once or twice is all that me, the feeling that Mildred had ed in, some ulterior motive in doing #0 @x- travagant @ thing. The luncheon was most elaborate. As she ordered the cocktails Mildred recalled the firat time we lunched to- wether, when I waited to order them had getting settled, then Christmas came, and with my sittings for my picture, | have had Bo little time, that I, paid scant at- tention to what Jack had to say about what happened at She looked keenly at’ me, but I arrived, fearing to/ flattered myself I had spoken natur- t that| ally, so I didn’t flinch. “T should think that with all those things to take money you would have been more keen on knowing what he doing, so that you would have known how much you could spend,” abe returned. "Oh, I have only ordered what we absolutely needed, and Jack and I will do the rest of the shopping to- gether,” I told hei “But the pictur she insisted, “it would have been nice to have made enough to cover the cost of that, wouldn't it, instead of hundred out of Jack's ir? 1 knew that neither lack of money nor anything else could em- Boging ‘net barrass me as I was embarrassed then. Surely I was growing wiser in the ways of the world, had more sang-froid, and consequently was worth while to my friends. Not knowing in my pte ignorance and selfishness that I was, by these very things | so admired in myself, lay- Ing the foundation for my own mis-| Would she never stop? was ery, and that of others, nearly frantic. At that moment I Suring luncheon Milares chatted | hated Mildred Somers as I have never about trivial things 1 known ber brighter or mere fed any one before nor since. | knew she was driving me distracted. taining, She absolutely acinti |I could feel it, The way she looked ‘at times. We spent a couple of hours, both showed that over our food, and then ne ordered & cocktail, As we sat sipping it, she remarked so causually ener! hed it not been for the episode of the morning, I whould have thought nothing of it. “How is Jack coming on, Su Pp to think. It took what little clever- to parry her ques- u may bring me the check,” she finally said to the walter, much to my relief, Then, “I shall drive you jyour business on account office,” | a By Robert Minor Core a Te A) PASAASARBAABAABAARAABAIAAAAABAAABAS Mr. Jarr Learns That Good News Is Lots Better Than True News RRR PPP PP PR PRP ee eee eee) It (ade iy Germany’ then I'll know it 1s good, even if it ain't "* t cites you, axtltoa you? queried Mr. Jarr, “A lot of things excites me,’ piled Gus. “Here our fighting everybody. And I guess 1 gotter fall out with Rafferty, who is from Ireland; and Slavinaky, who is from Russia; and Tony, the boot- black, who is from Italy. Then there is Albert, the street sweeper, whose People come from Brussels, and Chon W. Rangle, who's father brought him to this country from England—by [yee when I look around I see may- as t have @ customer left but you “But no hostilities have been de- clared yet—1 mean among your ous- tomers,” remarked Mr. Jarr. ‘So you should worry, let the war news be what it may.” “Let It be what it may, if it was only what it may!” cried Gus. “Lookey hese! Already comes the news that German warships is cap- tured, Then it's ne’ they ain't captured, Then fighting is heard « Indianapolis, and then you hi f} only an Eyetalian wedding. T' its in the papers that rich Americans get their ottaring pies, taken away froia them, id the French Army takes a cow lay from som mit a three-decker name, and he Is hojler- ing about, although look what Shakespeare says how it don’t do you no good to cry from split milk!" “Have you noticed any ene of ie a Gue mm) my customers all come in my pla and fight the war till I get a head. ache to listen to them, “Clancy and Cohen, what run the Bijou Dream Little Jewel Moving Picture Theatre, tell me business falls off a dollar ninety @ night be- cause all the barroom patriots come to my place to talk of how to restore ooniversal peace. And the things I et to Msten to about our Kal ‘ell, if it wasn't that everybody sa: ‘Anyhow, he’s a good fighter, you to hand it to him for that,’ you I wouldn't stand for it!" “You bet!" commented Mr, Jarr, “You do well to admire the iser, He may be wrong, but he's fighting all comers.” “He can afford to do it, maybe,” said Gus, “But I can't. But if I was running a place in the old country ou bet I wouldn't let auynedy come in and knock our rr.” “You wouldn't let anybody do it here, would yout Mr, Jarr inquired. “No, I wouldn't,” said oe, ‘But A t starting something!” ie “I thought so,” she said meaningly. I tried to change the subject, she came directly back to Jack and hig Position, in the office,’ "Il saw that Mr. Cosgrove at the theatre the other night and I couldn't * won if he had let Jack in ie ale, she insinuated. oe th sae 3 home, Sue, I've nothing particular to do, and I'm it crazy to see you! chases. Then, I owe Mrs. Grant a I haven't seen her new home “It's lovely!" I exclaimed, glad to have something I could talk naturally about. “Really it is Fue. Ved rettiest Uttle house you A come Mensa taste, nor your perce ar), imagine—the means tity Would she pares ee inting about our Grenoee fortunately for me —I was as * citnost hyaterical— that was s the last reference she made &, ther And in talking of foe ings, enjoyed mm and by the he tae we arrived, t bp LMOST—forgotten that I o> ‘Be Centinnedy | win is to trample on everything that ot | over. ated MMll- wit! Coprright, 1914, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) AS TO THE RADIUM OF SILENCE: 6c ID you ever read the ‘Desay on Silence?" inquired the glancing toward a group of girls chattering animatedly to young men who leaned back and puffed their cigarettes in ' petite, patient boredom at the far end of the piazza. “I'm reading one now,” replied the Widow, following the Bachelor’ gaze with @ comprehending smile. “What a collection of aplothb, com- pletely surrounded by femininity!" she exclaimed softly. “Why—oh, WHY, don’t those girls sit still and let the men entertain THEM?” “Shi" murmured the Bachelor, “don’t interrupt them. SCINTILLATING! They just LOVE to hear themselves talk!” “It makes you feel that silence isn't golden, but RADIUM, doesn’t it? sighed the Widow. “Ah, if a woman could only realize that she is méagt t , be a ‘picture show’ and not a ‘talking machine!’” %. “A ‘PICTURE SHOW?" repeated the Bachelor questioningly. 4 ‘The Widow nodded. 5 ARR DRRPRDIOP ODED DODODS DDD DLODLDPODODDL fy f . When Silence le—Radium. } TD you ever consider the object lesson presented by an audience at & motion-picture play?” she inquired. “Think of it! Hundreda.of people sitting perfectly SILENT, hour after hour, watching @ pore | tectty silent drama performed by perfectly silent actors! And every brains coll in the place working, every emotion stirred, everybody amused, hi and interested! It is the greatest ‘essay on silence’ that ever was writ Mr. Weatherby. Why," and she fluttered her fan excitedly, “it makes wonder how speech ever came to be invented, and of what possibie use on earth it is to any one!” | “Oh, well,” laughed the Bachelor after a moment's astonished pause, “speech has its place—in the home! What would little wives do without it? How would married couples amuse themselves if they couldn't express thefr opinions of one another occasionally? Robbed of free speech, matrimony | would lose half its charm: * ! “And all its dangers!" added the Widow emphatically. “The average Man marries a woman merely in order to LOOK at her anyway; and he je always disappointed and annoyed when he finds that he has to LISTEN toe ; her most of the time. a Hi A Talk-Proof Mental Mackintosh. j . Ot NR eee eee eee «Bier roe it never does any good to talk to a man, A woman's chag: They are ter goes right in one masculine ear and out of the other. He never believes that a woman means what she says—or that she knows | what she means when she says it. Her arguments roll right off his con- sciousness like water off a mackintosh; he merely closes his eyes and watts for her to finish, as he would wait for a choo-choo car to go by. The only way on earth for a woman*to impress ANY man with her meaning ts to | ILLUSTRATE it, Mr. Weatherby.” “To illustrate it? How?" queried the Bachelor satirically. “With lem tern slides or a diagram or’——. ms “With a little convincing ACTING!" corrected the Widow. “Every man is from Missouri, as far as a woman ts concerned, and until she shows him, by her actions, that she is devoted or indifferent, wise or foolish, in earnest or in fun, a serf or a sultana, he never will believe her, She can go on | TELLING him her thoughts and feelings forever, and merely waste her | Precious little breath, As fur as married people are concerned, it's not ; Money, but TALKING that is the root of all evil—of all quarrels, all nagging; all misunderstandings and all divorces.” “Hear, hear erled the Bachelor. 's 2 wise person who has ‘nothing jto say.” Talk ‘he root of most people's troubles, anyway. When @ poli- | ttctan talks his doom is sealed; when a lawyer talks his is lost; whea |@ financier talks he soon talks himself into trouble; w! bachelor talke he is sure to propose"——— Hi A Widow’s Veil for the Sphinx. 66 ND when a woman talks,” broke tn the Widow suddenly. A “What!” exclaimed the Bachelor eagerly. “Is there any king of woman who DOESN'T tal ‘here ts the kind,” declared the Widow, who never says anything but *Yes,' ‘No,’ ‘Really?’ and ‘How clever!’ who never, NEVER talks for the sake of making conversation, No girl on earth can fascinate or interest & man by ‘making talk;' she has merely to ‘make eyes’ "—— “And the MAN will make conversation—and love!” added the Bachelor with enthusiasm, “No wonder the Sphinx has Interested and fascinated men all these years!” exclaimed the Widow thoughtfully. “She has so much TACT: nd such wonderful, mysterious eyes!" sighed the Bachelor. ‘And such a deep, dark ‘pasi!’” murmured the Widow. “And she wears a WIDOW'S VEIL finished the Bachelor mockingty. =The Weck’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1914, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortd,) 25 Date way the American press;own in South Africa, If Germany panning ‘our German beans been afraid that France and <5 england would attack her from the cousin,” remarked the bond rear she might polisher, ®P-)| more than moral aid in that war. pears to be get. | soning eration is this se oF tlantic would be a handy Uti ting a large flock | 2e) tor Germany in the present dist of German-Amer-| turbance, fean goats.” ig the war news is anti-German “GQ now, because it is coming from = Generally) ish,’ French and Russian sources. If speaking, Fr) Germany wins we will pat her on the plied the laundry] back, for a winner is always popular. man, “Germany| If she loses she will get the lcser's js in Dutch, This is natural. Ger- many has chal- end everywhere.” ¢ > ; Our Own Capt. Kidds, § lenged the whole of Europe and is going into the fight with commend- * ° “ce OW does it com sked the head polisher, “that the war able courage and determination and &@ disregard of the rights of other in Europe trometidtely raises the prices of provisions heré?” countries which is inseparable from war, but looks wrong at a distance “Because our merchants think the of 3,000 miles. people will stand for it,” sald the laundry man. “In time there may “The German Emperor takes the matter-of-fact view that the way to have given Spain A be a legitimate reason for advancing the prices of some commodities, but to do it now is commercial piracy, | “With our meat exports cut off we | have more meat here, and it should | be cheaper. But the Mi a corner on the mark storaging the surplus in the hop: of big profits when the war is over. The meat combine Is so cleverly manipu- lated that !t can regulate the supply to meet almost any circumstances. “The packers say they have to charge more for meat because we are not getting any from South America. They forget to say ve ical have absolute control of t! ly from stands in the way. War, with the Teuton, is not a kid glove or pink tea proposition. In the days of lynch law in the West they hanged of- fenders before trial. Germany saw @ road to France through Belgium and decided to follow it, irrespective of Belgian rights and with the idea of salving the Belgians after it is all To ‘the utter astonishment of Germany, Belgium blocks Germany's first lead and refuses to stand for jynch law. “So far as we are concerned, none of the European nations, with ‘he possible exception of France and Russia, has any claim on our sym- pathy. France's claim is based on the ald she ‘gave us in the War of the Revolution. Russia was friendly during the civil war, As a nation we are hated and feared all over profits, Instead of going down, under the new tariff, the fag of meat bas gone up because all the frozen it, coming from the Argentine Reputaic goes Into the refrigerators of the trust or Into the hands of men whe dare not undersell the trust. Hi a chance for the Government ade little profitable sleuthing.” a in the oO Jj he United States should } when we were war in, The esteemed German| ¢¢ EE," sald the head patisher, ress on poor old Uncle Sam, 4 brass Tis whiskers, spat upon him hat Brother Gulser has wisted and eubmitted him to every indig- himself om the Progressive nity possible in the German lan-| party.” ‘ which is considerable. sympathy of all Europe was “Well,” caid the laundry 1s this to say for Bro’ tate the exception that Pro uppl; South America and that oy exercising that control they Have made immense (