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¥ SONA Oc ee wenn oe ae ay Senne EDITORIAL PAGE te, » Che Wlorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. aay »: GeGtietvs Datty Except Sunday by Peet eastirer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZAR, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. » RALPIL 9 fro fe) pW kramer 3 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, ‘o ‘The Evening |For Hngland and tho Continent amd ‘All Countries in the International Postal Entered a Bubsoription Rat ‘World for the United Btates ” end Canada Leah nns severe Mortis «ass ae ere me VOLUME 57........ THE U-53. OR a German war submarine to glide around and under British F fleets and cruisers, cross the Atlantic, mail a letter at Newport, R. L., and politely pass the time of day with Amprican admirals who happened to be in the neighborhood, was another brilliant naval euploit to Germany's credit. or the same submarine to cally forth and within « few Sours ttak several British ships only fifty miles or eo off Nantucket Léghtshtp, Mb nobody knows how many allied cruisers just ever the herisen, le 0 tent eo closely akin to positive naval genius that allied shipping in dtlentié ports may well bo paralysed by something stronger than amasement. It ia not yet clear just what the U-53 was doing when It stopped the Kansan, which flew tho American flag. But the treatment ao- eorded to the British vesscls, West Point and Strathdene, appears to have been rigidly correct, according to the rules. The crews were given time to get into boats before their ships were sent to the bottom. Here is something loose in the Atlantic lanes more terrible, more hasive than e Moowe. Wireless can warn steamships. It caunot pro- tect them. Merchant vessels, “both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not bo sunk without warning and without saving human lives.” : The United States Government will assure itself that that pledge ‘still holds. The rest is up to the British navy. ee pe FIRE PREVENTION. MID « press of public business and campaign exactions the A President wisely finds time to remind the people of the United States that to-day in forty States of the Union is Fire Prevention Day. Let observance, urges the President, take a practical form in every city, town and household. Get rid of rubbish and inflammable weste, clean out chimneys and put them in shape for the winter, {mspect all public and private inatitutions, overhaul building regula- tions and fire protection laws, and givo special attention to improving fire drills in public, private and parochial schools. Excellent advice, the kind the average citizen of the United Btates applauds and hopes his neighbors will follow. But,does the average American realize how much the country needs this counsel? Dees he know where this nation stands among civilized peoples as wegards the prevention of avoidable fires and the loss and waste Gesulting therefrom? Here are some easily grasped figures that ought to be hung up where every American real estate owner, householder, tenant and public school pupil can see them constantly: PER CAPITA FIRE LOSS (1914). ihe Frese Publishing Company” Now” 64 to In 47 American cities, according to the American Year Book, the per capite loos during 1914 was over $4, in 34 cities over $5, in 19 prer $7, in 15 over $10 and in 10 between $12 and $33. We are constantly revising our building laws, we have fire regu- lations and restrictions galore, yet the per capita fire loss in the {United States remains appallingly and disgracefully large compared with that of European countries. Why? Mainly because with all our fuss about fire precautions wre have never until recently got down to the most important factor of all—the responsibility of the individual for fire on his premises. Ta most cities of Europe a fire due to carelessness is a crime for which somebody can be arrested and punished. That is why there|no are eo few fires in most European capitals. The best hope for fire prevention in this country lies in the fact that State Legislatures and municipal councils have begun at last to Becognize the wisdom and justice of holding individuals personally Hishle for damage done by fires due to carelessness or neglect. Last year the city of Cleveland, 0., passed an ordinance which places upon the individual on whose premises the fire oocure the entire cost of extinguishing or attempting to extinguish a fire which oan be traced bo neglect of any order of the fire department or to any disobedience pf municipal regulations, The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a similar measure applying to cities of the first class. Every city in the country would be the safer for such a law. There were 13,416 fires in New York City last year—1,000 fewer than the year before. There will have to be 10,000 fewer before New York ranks with London. General advice to the public may accomplish something. But the best fire prevention is strict accountability for the individual. Letters From the People ‘Try O14 Book Stores. Bo dhe Bitar of The Drening World: Ie there any sale for old papers? If @0, how much do they bring and where do you send them? A READER, Yes, ‘To the Raiter of The Prening World: Can a Catholic be eleote: ° dent of the United States? oly vil ‘To the Kaltor of The Kvening World: Could I get back one shilling I loft eh Ne. We We Daior of The Evening Wort Does Cubs belong on deposit in an by ty to the United ty five years ago net twen. ? M. T, LKR Friday, tunday, Dollar, oF 60| 75 we pattor ut the Actual] *: =. © Tee Bresing Westts Let me know on what da: t, lowing dates fell: Sept, 25, fe Bator of The Brening World: %, 1678, buys an article for 60 cents and| Jews in New York City ©00,000, U, §, 2,0. ‘To the Pittor of The Evening World: A claims that there are more than St ISS Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. “My Partner, the Tickler.” 46] 'D Uke @ dime for every foot pound of human energy which is wasted daily in the effort to Femember items which should ha’ been committed to paper,” said a suc- Ceasful executive. “Actually I be- eve that the incapacity of clear, straight thinking about which ‘so many complaint. ‘e made is largely due to the distracting strain to which many men subject their memories, “A note book for your pocket and these act as supplementary brain, the man who avi himself of them and, used to their fullest extent, go fur toward increasing efficiency. “More and more is the budget = tem for monetary expenditure being applied in business houses; the bud- get system for time expenditure is jess important, The tickler sug~ gests this plan, “Bit down at your desk Jan. 1 and pian mo iteme will rol Enter them 4 your tickler, plan your month. Here you find the memory- burdening details beginning to crop up. Enter them also, Then plan ir week. The convenient tickler Yikes care of the separate toms and ur mind is free to grapple with Sroad questions of policy instead of peing hampered by the thousand and one petty details which keep the un- systematic mind In @ constantly dis- traught condition, “Furthermore, the budget system for time means that subjects will re- ceive their share of an executive's t in proportion to their impo Too many executives devote ot new developments in profit-sharing or bonus systome of payment, In case of accident or sudden Sliness, the tickler enables your lieutenants to cope with the problema which cen- tre upon your desk, “The tickler 9 strain and brain fag, aves errors and omissions, raves time and tempers. ry executive should have one as his understudy.” —_——— Guenacnmnnanenncnonnmronnranann, } To-day’s Anniversary. j T was 156 year fo to-day, Oct, 9, 1760, that Berlin was taken by the Russians and Austrians during the Seven Yours’ War, in which the Prus- sian forces of Frederick the Great were pitted against the armies of Russia, Austria, France and Sweden ‘The seventeenth century had seen the Imperialiete and Swedes, under Wal- Jenstein and Gustavus Adolphus, within the walla of Berlin, but it was | then a village. At the time Frederick the Great ascended the throne |t had become a city of nearly a hundred thousand people. Again in 1806, on another Octoner day, Berlin was captured. 'T) it was the neh unk is time \ pe Ghat dollar is pront, 1,000,000 Jews in New York City, and CONSTANT READER, Napoleon Prussian capital, which who took t more than 2,500,000 in the United had become a city of quarter of a Grates, ® | million people 4 i veping. World Daily Magazine a aeetots <a aa i Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) HAPPY marriage is the afterglow that follows the sunset of romance, ‘ A Fi Rib: That part of a man’s self of which he thinks the least--and brags the most. Where is the sweet old-fashioned girl who used to hesitate at lifting her dress to step across a gutter? Gone, gone, alas, with the sweet old- fashioned man who used to hesitate to stare at her! - A man is never sure of @ woman until she 1s perfectly frank and natural, and a woman is never perfectly frank and natural until she ts pertectly indifferent. No men ever will understand a woman's way of “reasoning;” for in- stance, a husband never can perceive why, when he smashes a Satsuma vase in a moment of wrath or carelessness, he should be expected to re- place it with @ new fall bonnet. ‘To have your vanity extracted without an anaesthetic go to “Old Doc- tor Hymen,” specialist in all heart diseases, Cures Ingrowing Egotism, Chronic Romanticism, Lovesickness, Swelled Head, Sentimental Hangovers and all other forms of paranoia—Adyvt. “Peach: A pretty woman to whom a man ts manoeuvring to be fa- troduced. “Prune:" The same woman—afterward. In dealing with a man @ foolish woman argues; @ sane woman argues first and then acts; @ wise woran simply acts and leaves his conscience to do the arguing, Oneness i The World’s Longest Wars. } | ‘OW long will the war last? Can ft, by any possibility, be ex- tended through many yearns, un- 1648 the ravages of war extended from the Po to the Baltic and from the Danube to the SPheldt. Nations til the warring nations have been 80 completely exhausted that further fighting is impossible? Answering these questions from the viewpoint of history, ft must be admitted that a struggle continuing through decad ta @ possitdlity, although highly im- probable, The longest and fiercest ware in the annals of the world have heen tn- spired by religious bigotry ond the; most remarkable examples of this) kind of warfare were the religious conflicts of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, Catholic ultramon- | tanism's war against the Reformation | began in 1555 and for thirty-six years, thereafter the struggle was carried on | in France, England, Scotland and the Netherlands, laying waste and reduc- | ing to ruins all that country between the North Sea and the Pyrenees. Ul- | (ramontaniem, defeated in that part! of the world, renewed the struggle tn | Germany in 1618, when what has since | been called the Thirty Years’ War! eommenced, Between thes year aad were ruined, whole populations almost wiped out, cities razed to the ground and Central Burope reduced to & oon- dition of barbarivm--almost of aav- agery. “Men entployed two-thirds of 4 century,” as Duruy says, “in mur- Jering each other in the name of a God of charity and love" =e { Home-Made Bath Sponge { . ERE t# a small economy for cleanliness and comfort jn the bath, says Popular Soijence Monthly, ‘As is well known, large sponges soon break up and become useless, and again they are subject to being clogged up by impurities |awhich are now recognized to be due to microbe growth within the sponge. This is diMcult to remedy in the caso of a large sponge. A new idea is to assemble small pieces of sponge in a bag 80 a8 to give about the same fhape as an original large sponge. The bag can be made of Turkish toweling or any suilable material, Thus all small pieces of sponge can be utilized and can be kept clean Just a Wife (Her Diary.) Edited by Janet Trevor. Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Pablishing Oo, mths New’ York Hreulag Wont CHAPTER LXXVI. | OV. 7—This morning Mary N brought to me a@ long florist's box. 1 looked at it in surprise, for Ned had! just gone out and I knew there) wouldn't have been time to deliver anything he might have ordered. | "Are you sure my name is on the tag?’ I asked. be some mista! “No, madam,” sald Mary. She is determinedly formal, since she be- came our maid. And she read aloid, “Mrs, cdward Houghton,” So I out the etring. There was a wonderful mam of tall white roses, As I liy .« them and buried my face in them, a@ letter fell to the floor, Mary picked it up and handed ‘t to me without a word. I recognized Mr. Soames's handwriting. “Put the flowers in water, Mary,” I said, “I think you'll have to use the umbreli. stand.” Then I tre open the envelope. “his ts what I read “My dear Mrs, Hougston: I am) going to ask you once more to forgive | me, although I am afraid you think! me beyond forgiveness. But will you | at least believe & what I said, what | I did, the other evening was in no- | sense inspired by any lack of rever- ence for you? i} }@ “I think there must | white rose among women; that is why I send you white r Your goodness, your sympathy have meant ho much to me these last few weeks, }and now [I have, in @ rash instant, | | | thrown away all that you could give} | y only exouse ts that I am n vously exhausted by all that I have) been through in the past montha. | Otherwise I could not have lost oon- trol of myself. I was wholly to! | blame; Iam not trying to evade any- | thing. But 1 shall suffer for my transgression; 1 merely endeavor to explain it “Lam going away for a week or} ten days to try to win back the power | to sleep—also a little of my self re spect. Then I shall make a last effort to see Mrs. Soames and to come to some definite arrangement with her in regard to our future, What hap- pena after that is on the knees of the gods eyry ness of “Yours most faithfully, “RALPH SOAMES."” Qugas 1 @ abow this loiter to my to think with a Ite kind | King and Court Jester, ai “To me you have always been a Monday, October 9, Plots of Immortal Yich and #0 powerful was the Almighty Himself. “'Tis well,” sneered the King, jonly by priests and in the Latin tongue. me from my throne!” ‘Thrusting the weer who wore royal the blasphemous Robert. shouted: “I am the King!” the presumptuous stranger. onlookers he was merely some broken in on their banquet, 1916 Stories of Stories Fiction Masterpieces. By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Bren. KING ROBERT OF SICILY; by Henry Wadeworth Longfellow OBERT, King of Sicily, was the proudest, most vainglorious mon- @rch in all Europe. One of his two brothers was Pope Urban; and bis other, brother was Valmond, Emperor of Germany. So + World! Robert, that he grudged allegiance to One afternoon at the cathedral he heard the priests chanting the Magnificat, When they reached the phrase, “Deyosuit potentes de sede, eb | exaltavit humiles,” he asked @ courtier what the words meant. The courtler | translated: “He has thrust Kings from their thrones dnd bath exalted the humble.” “that such seditious words are dung There is no power can pusb Finding the service tiresome he leaned back in his chair and fel! asl When he awoke, darkness had fallen. He was alone in the cal Angry that he had thus been deserted by his retainer#, the King rushed to’ the door and began to hammer and yell for some one to let him out. The septor heard the racket and opened the great doors, Robert, half- naked, in rags, wild-eyed and muttering, darted past aad ran headlong through the darkness to the gateway his own palace. Wondering servants and guards cside he into the palace and to his state banquet hall There he halted, dumfounded. The hall was full of cour- tiers, and in the throne chair sat a man who was Bis own exact counterpart in looks and in manner, and im into the etrest dashed rabes of the King. It was an angel, sent from Heaven to punish But all the courtiers believed it was the King, Robert, recovering from his amazement, sprang forward. Loudly be He denounced the angel as an impostor, and called on his guards to But no one recognised Robert. Te Tagged and noisy madman whe had They would have alain the intruder, but the angel interposed. said he would employ the maniac as monagerie, For fodd he had kitchen One day the angel asked him: “Art thou the King?” And Robert fiercely declared: “tT am the King!” , He his court jester, Bo they had Robert | decked out in cap and bella and lodged in a straw-floored cell, For | companion and bedfellow they gave him @ jibbering ape from the royal soraps. The courtiers roared with Inug}ter at the jest. Several times, during the next three years, the angel ask: him the same Question, And always Robert yelled back at him the same furious reply. Then, one Easterdawn, in his cell, hie spirit broke. He felt the holy influence of the season, and It softened his stubbora pride. Weeping, he knelt in the head and prayed for lead a better lite. pardon for his eins and for help te That day he was forced as usual to attend the supposed King at a royal le before the throne chair. x The angel glanced keenly at the madman, then beckoned te him, motioning to the others to leave the room. Robert stood meekly “art thou the King?” gently asked the angel Robert lowered his head, murmuring: “Thou knowest best!” He begged to be allowed to atone for his eins by @ life-time of weeping Robe: ‘The Angel's Farewell. in some cloister, A great light of joy illumined the fac Standing above “Il am an angel. In benediction he whispered: Then art the King!” the ———————r Robert looked up with wondering awe. He was alone in the throne room and was clad in bis own royal raiment, as of old. The angel had vanished. ‘When the courtiers stole back into the room a@ little later they foung King Robert kneeling upon the floor, absorbed in silem prayer. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1010, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), KNOW that you have plenty to worry you at your office during the day,” sald Mre. Jarr, with a forced calmness, when Mr, Jerr came home the other evening, “and I do not lke to trouble you about the children and their conduct, but"—— Mr. Jarr could notice by the raised tone in Mrs, Jarr’s voice that these remarks were intended to reach the ears of the children, who, by the way, were nowhere in sight, being, aa Mr. Jarr rightly surmised, incarcerated in their bedroom, through the door of which Mra. Jarr intended evidently her voice should pehetrate “You don't mean to tell me that they have been bad again?” said Mr. Jarr, speaking as though solely to Mra Jarr, but aleo loud enough that what he sald might reach the children. “T can’t bring myself to tell you how bad they have been, especially Willie,” Mrs, Jarr went on talking AT Mr, Jarr, but TO the children, Then she sighed loudly, and ddded: “I guess I will have to do as everybody advises me and send them to a reform school, where they will have their heads put between their oars and be made .o sleep in the dark and drink cold water!" This triple, fearsome threat had been used upon the children by Mre, s mother on @ recent visit, and so terrified the youngsttre that Jarr bad treasured it im her mory, and now repeated It in all its gruesome realism. Mr. Jarr sighed loudly, also, “Yes,” he sald, “I suppose we shall have to 66 isenthrall them into another anticl- pation,” this being another terrifying threat that Mr, Jarr had found efficacious in restoring law and order among the junior members of hin household, “but what have they been doing now?” “They have been fighting,” sald Mrs. Jarr, in solemn tones, “With each other?” asked Mr, Jarr, “No," was the reply, “That would husband? Ought I to tell him about what happened last night? I have thought and thought. It seems wrong to keep anything from Ned, Yet, if 1 told him everything, he would be angry and unhappy. He joould not help what is paat, and I am firmly resolved not to Mr, Soames again and not to answer his| letter. 1 do not think t any way to blame for whi pened, but I shall do my best to avoid ¢ ibility of a similar oc I think that all tell him frankly that the rose from Mr, Soames, and that he has gone away for some time, But 1 do not beileve that | ahuti tell him anything eles. 1 do not believe that one ougnt ever to give unnecessary unhappiness to the per- eres fighting with all the children in the neighborhood.” “This is dreadful,” said Mr, but his eyes twinkled. “Bring ry out!” ‘ “I didn't do nothing, paw, indeed I @idn't,” cried Master Wiille Jarr, “Izy Slavineky hit me in the nose and I didn’t do nothing!” “And Johnnie Rangie hit our Witte too and he didn’t do nothing,” expos. tulated the little girl, oI “Didn't you strike them?” asked Mr. Jarr, “No, I dtdn't,” replied the boy. Just told them it was wicked to fight and I had promised my Papa and mamma I wouldn't do it.” Ana he rewarded Mr. Jarr with a oteady gana the picture of pure innocence. “And Gussie Bepler threw our We le down in the dirt, and our ‘Wille didn't do anything to him ether,” watled the Ntte girl. “Guesio Bepler is twice a our Will He had no Meee rs ‘tha: id Mr. Jerr, Then he tunes: to the boy again. “Did Johnnie fo and ney Slavinaky fight you et bist ame time? he asked. ‘aeter Jarr admitted ties hall bean, eoperate: ana tate tinct, and again repeated hig recital of his moral heroism in too brave to fight because he had Promised his parents not to do eo. “It 19 very ead to say,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, “but I know Willte ia not truthful in this matter, I have want Gertrude around the nelghborhoog te find out just what DID heppen; ana {€ Willie has been the aggressor, er i Withe 1 telling an untruth, en@ le we La 1 want you to punted At this juncture Gertrude, the Jarge’ Nght running domestic, pire a anog wits excitement, ) mum, and Mr. Jarr,” orted, “Insy Slavinsky is all patil sol, and has a swelled nose, Johnny Raw gle 18 got @ sprained wrist and hép eye 18 swelled, too, Gussie is sick in bed, and has » Iaay Blavinaky ‘sald. our Wit “at him in the face with a hoop attoh, Johnnie Rangle tried to take the hoop stipk from him and he beat Johnny Rangle, Then Guaste Bep- lor threw Willie down to make thes stop fightin’ and Willie hit him dreads garitn't tt disgracetult cried org, should way it ts," Ci you send them righ ‘4 rh net ¥ But all he ever aid, eo f |be learned, Was to ‘ell his office PClAtes next day thi that could lick hie welwhtad & lente, and if an kid of hin in encours ef ae |