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Evening World. ees Publishing Company, N tow, New Yor President, 62 Park No The Published Dail; JOSEPH PUL k ae Rocond-« socccccccecse NO. 20,264 THE RIGHT TO MURDER. Tis is no evidence extant to show that since last May, when the Iinperial Government pledged itself to sink‘no more mer. chant ve Is without warning and without saving human lives, Germany has not exerted her fullest undersea energy in destroy- ing the commerce of her enemies, Few days have passed without new lists of ships sent to the bottom by the favorite German weapon. For the comparatively small number of neutral lives lost in the process the Imperial Government has pleaded such legal justification as the often doubtful circum stances of a case afforded, vee Matter, H ngiana and. the Continent and | 1 Countries in the International ostal Unto Just Like That! Evening World Daily Magazine ee 2. Gp teal en From any civilized point of view, then, why the sudden change? What new right does Germany reach for in its proclamation of Jan. i, beyond that of murdering innocent non-combatants who earn their livelihood or make journeys upon the seas? Would it not be just as easy for five hundred submarines to warn their victims as for the lesser number presumably heretofore engaged in sinking ships to do so? The object of German blogkades or of German submarine enter- prise is to prevent cargoes of food or war supplies from reaching enemy countries. Why add to that object the deliberate murder of human beings whose destruction can have no bearing upon Germany’s fortunes? ‘om every point of view the privilege of barbarous and indis criminate slaughter seems to be the chief gain the Imperial Govern- ment grasps at in breaking its pledge. That Government may be prepared to start another red chaptor in Hohenzollern annals, But neither the United States nor any other eelf-respecting neutral nation can permit even the first line thereof to pase unchallenged, —— 4 The newly arrived Austrian Ambassador has gone through enough to entitle him to e ¢ew nights on shore ——+-—___ SISAL AND STEEL. IDB BY SIDH in the news this week appeared the announcement that United States Steel profits totalled $389,625,086 net last year and a notice that the Federal Government had begun suit to dissolve the so-called Mexican Sisal Trust, which, it ie charged. takes $20,000,000 a year out of the pockets of American farmers and wheat growers in excess prices for binder twine, Some idea of the size, power and practices of the Sisal Trust can be gained from the assertion of Federal Prosecutor Marshall that farmers will be saved $25,000,000 o year by its dissolution. It has raised the market price of sisal, from which binder twine {s made, from 8 1-2 cents « pound to 16 1-9 cents @ pound in the last five years Mhe sise, power and practices of the country’s steel corporations ere much better known. Their stock is gambled in to the extent of millions of shares every two or three weeks. Their present enormous profits are derived from war and a settled policy of selling stec! te Americans at prices so high that it oan be sold in Europe or else- where for what it is actually worth. ‘American steel manufacturers alvo make largely on munitions veld to the United States Navy—when the tests are not too hard or no foreign competitors bid. There is, ef coursé, no Steel Trust, or hardly any. But sisal of etecl, the leverage is pretty much the same on the pocketbooks of American consumers, ——_- +-__—- ——— NO FARTHER? ‘“ EVER, not even et Frankfort,” declared Blamarok in his N Reflections and Reminiscences, “did I doubt that the key of German politics was to be found in princes and dynas- ties, not in publicists, whether in Parliament and the press, or on the barricades. The opinion of the cultivated public as uttered in Parliament and the press might promote and sustain the determina- tion of the dynasties, but perhaps provoked their resistance more frequently than it urged them forward.” ° e e The great Teutonic master of the blood-and-iron method con- stantly reverted to this theme: “In order thet German patriotism should be active and effective, it needs es @ rule to hang on the peg of dependence upon @ dynasty; independent of dynesty it rarely comes to the rising point, though im theory {t daily does eo, in Parliament, in the press, in public meeting; in practice the German needs either attachment to @ dynasty or the goad of anger, hurrying Bim into action.” ° 4 ® “History shows that in Germany the Prussian stock ts that of which the individual character ‘s most strongly etamped.” “No one could decisively answer the question whether, sup- posing the Hohenzollern dynasty and all its rightful successors to have passed away, political cohesion would survive.” 1 ts it possible that is where fifty years of progress in democracy still finds the German people—chained to a dynasty for whose crimes it must pay the penalties an outraged world exacts? Hits From Sharp Wits Ons thing that must be holding in bad and yet not tn back railroad building in China Is the Soluinbla (8. C:) State, difficulty of finding brakemen capable eee of calling out the stations,—Pitts- burgh Gazette Times, . As a calamity howler it {s hard to beat the wolf.—Deseret News, ° . oe The country paid almost $30,000,000} Alcohol has some medicinal value, last year for ice cream. An Interest-|and some medicines have @ consider. {ng sidelight on the high cost of] able alcoholic value.—Columbla (8 courtshlp.—Baltiggre American: {C2 State, The ground hog can eve more dhadows than bie own to-day, | joda Fount and Bon Bon Box Special Perils of New York Women, Who Dine Too Well and Work Too Little, View of Dietary Expert—Eat Less and Grow Thin, His Injunction to th e Stout Woman. By Marguerite Mopers Marshall Coyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing (Thee New York Evening World) Hy A the last of a sertos of talks | eating the right eort of food and the with Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk on good | right quantity of it?” health and correct diet for everybody. Dr, Fisk ts director of hygiene for the TAfe Extension Inatitute and co-author with Prof. Irving Fisher of “How to '7 HAT ought women to eat? And, as to eo many of my questions about the food habits of the average individual, Dr, Fisk's enswer wos negative, “If you compare the food consump- tion of husband and wife,” he said, There was a time whenh—|“you will find that the latter eats as Pudbloly—tt was not ladylike | Much as the former—sometimes more. with the matters on one’s plate, and one was supposed to subsist on an- gels’ food and humming birds’ wings. It must have been a terri- bly uncomfortable y time, but it ts iH 4 definitely @ part \ ee of the past, The average woman of to-day unasham- edly eate as much as her husband or her brother or her host at luncheon, And—says Dr. Fisk—ehe shouldn't! Having obtained nie dietetic pre- scriptions for three of the most im- portant groups of men in the com- munity, the business men, th and the clerks, I said: ‘hat about Mrs, and Miss New York? Are they HIS {9 the day when the humble groundhog passes bis decision on the duration of winter, As is well known, that intelligent animal, failing to see bis shadow, abandons his bole in the firm assurance that spring 1s at hand, whereas if the day be sunny and bright he returns to his burrow to snooze for six weeks longer. atieth century winter is a rent and much milder seas than our grandfathers knew, ‘T seems to be true of Europe as well ay of America, In the history of Europe trom the fourth to the eighteenth centuries one reads of the Dardanelles, the Black Sea, the Adriatic, the Danube, the |'Thames and of all the rivers of Italy toeat. One trined | ¥ ‘et she probably ts pot so tall as her usband and her normal weight is less than his, She is not Mikey to get more exercise than he or to do more physical work. She should eat less.” Then Dr. Fisk instanced again the sctentific table which the during a twenty-four hour day (eight hours of work and sixteen of rest) by individuals engaged in certain occu- pations, Tailoring and hand sewing are comparable pursuits. Yet the man tallor in this table is shown to have consumed 2,712 calories, while the woman hand sewer consumed but 1,728 calories, She was four and a half inches orter than the mi a‘ table counts; ¢ Copy by The Tress rhe New York Eveoing almost twenty pounds lighter, A number of the women cited in the table used well under the 2,500 oal- ories which Dr, Fisk says is the re- quirement of the average man, “Many modern women, like many modern men, lead an essentially arti- ficial existence,” continued Dr. Fisk. “They a rd Httle or no physical ‘ith labor, Mmousine, a taxi or the street car at their disposal, they do not even walk, Some women, of course, are taking an interest in ath- letics, and that 1s an excellent thin; But y others do little or nothi to use up the large number of calories their food contains, “Women do not need as much food as men to repair ‘muscle cells, for the muscular development of women is much less than that of men, Natu- rally, too, women possess a greater allowance of fat, Their auty of figure, their graceful curves, may be described in one word—fat.” “But not too much fat,” I eug- a. * ‘ot too much,” agreed Dr, Fisk. “And if woman wants to avoid it let her avoid the candy box and the soda fountain. “A little candy taken directly after a meal as a dessert ts not especially harmful, But most women eat candy between mesis, and A ae nad whens ously to their daily rate = les. Often they seem to think that consum: only the food they ponmaee chocolates, the fudge sundae, the bit of this and nibble of the other thing swallowed in the middle of the morn- ing or afternoon have no effect upon their health or avoirdupois. “Women overeat between meals. There is no reason why the person in normal health should make additions to breakfast, lunch and dinner. And women eat too many sweets, That is an American characteristic, but it is strongly marked in women. Even those who are trying to reduce often omit from their diet the wrong thing: There seems to be a general feminine War on the potato. Now, potatoes are mostly r. There ia as much starch In @ small plece of butter or a teaspoonful of sugar as in a potato of good alze, Everybody needs some arch, and it is better taken diluted, In the form of the commonest of 2 “Often women drink teo much—too muoh coffee or tea. One o day of each beverage does little harm. But three or four cups of either every twenty-four hours constitutes a habit that menaces bealth. “I do not urge women te omit any of their meals, but let them eat more Ughtly, include plenty of fruit and vegetables in their diet and exclude some sweets. Let them resolve not any longer to indulge themselves in the habit of lunching between meals, i Coperight, 1017, by The Press Publishing Oo, (Ths New York Evening World.) RS. JARR was greatly gratified M to notice her friend Clara Mudridge-Smith’s new town car had stopped in front of the door, to the great interest of the neighbor- hood, but her expression gave no in- dication of this gratification when Gertrude, the maid, admitted the fair and opulent visitor, “I think you are the most wonder- ful woman I know!" said Mra, Mud- |ridge-Smith, after the ladies had pecked at each other's cheeks in greeting, and Gertrude had retired ‘back to the culinary department of the fat. “You've had Gertrude for years and years; everybody speaks of it, Why, I can't keep a personal maid, paying her dreadful wages, and | she having no work to do, you might \eay. I'm changing all the time! How do you do it?” “I's Mr, Jarr’s influence with the | Fire Department,” explained Mrs. Jai “Gertrude has a beau who is a y i} Bomet a We presume that the baseball union | being completely frozen over; of snow | Mreman in the engine house down the recluse merely because disposed | would insist on the elght-inning day,| fifty feet in depth; of travellers by| street, and Mr, Jarr prevents his fo mind bis own busi Atchison | —Loston ‘Transertpt hundreds perishing of the cold; of| belng transferred 6. Truth crushed to earth rises but in the meantime falsehood | If you do not believe that th ain, | and wolf are ins man's ehlld: itor poor ‘om rk| frost; of thousands of Hngil forest trees tn England split by’ the birds frozen, and of starving wolves howl- # long start.—Albany Journal, . mercial Appeal ing in the streets and attacking citl- song fn Vienna and other cities, Mrs, Mudridge-Smith was much im- pressed by this statement, and then Mra, Jarr noticed for the first time The Jarr Family of torture Hewallan instrument known as @ ukelele. “Are you going for a music lee won?” she asked. “Why, no,” replied the visitor, “but I'm so excited I don't know what I'm doing—I'm expecting to go to jail, you know!" “Bigamy, Clara?’ asked Mra, Jarr, to whom it occurred that her friend could only be in trouble that con cornea marrying muchly—beart trouble, tn fact. “The idea!” cried the opulent young matron, “No, I am in much agita, tion that I have been carrying this ukelele, thinking it my document case of—is Mr Jarr or the children around?" ‘Mrs, Jarr assured ber friend that | Mr, Jarr was at his office and the children at school, “Of the birth control orusade pamphlets,” explained the lady with the ukelele, “You know I'm work- {° for the cause and I expect to go to jail, and if I do I'll go on hunger strike, Jall food ten't Mt to eat, any- way, I've heard.” Mrs. Jarr gazed at ber friend in surprise, “Why, Clara Mudridge-Smtth!" ehe exclaimed, tet her friend was carrying that’ ‘Well, birth contro) is all the fad By Roy L. McCardell " paid the visitor, yes, I know, goolety took {i up long ago—birth control, I mean,” answered Mrs, Jarr. “But just how do you come to be ao active that the authorities are after you?” “Why, I'm on the Propaganda Com- mittee,” was the reply, “You never told me before,” marked Mrs, Jarr. “I only became interested the other day,” said the younger matron, “and I knew you were #e busy with your children that you might not have time to join the movement: Still, I wae thinking of bringing you some of the literature.” “Literature!” of white slavery etuff you used to carry around? Weren't you ever afraid of getting in an accident and having it found on you when you were taken to the hospital? I never go out but what I wonder tf I'm golng to be run over in the street, and worry if my lingerie isn't cheap or mended"-——~ “This is more dreadfully interest- ing literature,” interrupted Mra, Cla Mudridge-Smith. “I've. dis- tributed some to Mrs. Striver, Cora Hickett, Mre, Swisher and Miss Pruyne.” “But none of these have any chil- dren," said Mrs, Jarr. “Didn't T tell you people who have children think the propaganda dread. ful?” asked the visitor. “No,” said Mrs, Jarr, “you didn't @ay that. But I wouldn't look at such. stuff!" But she gazed at the ukelele case es though disappoint Why Wives | ~ Copyright, 1917, by The Irew Publish OMETIMES, % S Wher. HE looks at me, With that dumb, beautiful, « they do It! And tells me ho And that I bay that, I know that I o 4 thrilled! etad But I don't. 2 I Just feel weak And cry: “Oh, please, PL! “Because I know just what ft all “Only when you are feeling wort or unhappy, or very, very dull! “And that I shall always be \ and ‘reform,’ and good resolutions, “And improving lectures! ‘gingham apron, “And fried potatoes, and cabbage, “Instead of associating me with and rose-colored ligh | “It means thet I am beginning ‘good for you,’ “Like medicine, and conscience, | “And uplifting books, “And that, while I am appealing “Of all those who a: “And why, oh, WHY fs it “She ceases to be a temptation? “And why, oh, why, the moment ously “Because, dearest, By Helen Rowland And then drops bis eyes ’ And yearn to put up my hand, like a traffe policeman,” . "Stop! “It means that you are deginning to ‘take me seriously,’ “And that hereafter you will come to see me ssociated in your mind with ‘remorse,’ 4 “Like « ‘morning-after’ headache—or a bottle of brom!{de! “It means that you will stop taking me to cabarets, “And places where there are lights, and music, and laughter, “And will bogin taking me to picture shows, and concerts, “It means that you will soon begin to wonder how I would look im @> “And will think of me in connection with broiled steak, nd intoxicating waltzes, and poetry! “Instead of all the things that are attractive to you, “Like flowers, and champagne, and flirtation! “It means that you are beginning to take me SERIOUSLY, “I shall be tortured with Jealousy ar ppealing to the other 99 per cent. of you! 7" “That the moment a woman becomes an ‘Inspiration’ “Does he stop taking her anywhere “That is why WIVES are #0 dull!” Are So Dull na Co wtie New York Frenne World) doring, reverentia ob, well; gaze i YOU know how wmuch I “mean to hin,” e made bim a “better man"—and @8 : light to feel exalted, and Inspired, and and hopeless aud mleerable, EASE stop! means! hy, and noble, and good, or repentant, and kitchen soap, violet perfume, and Hawalian mule, to represent all the things that are ak and religion, and eelf-control, to your ‘bigher nature,’ @ man begins to take a woman eerft” i? Great Revivalists ’ Of Former Days, No. V.—Ignatius Loyola, By Augustin McNally. IFTEEN years after Columbus discovered the New World and laid it at the feet of Ferdinand and Isabella, @ good-looking boy en- tered the court of Ferdinand as a page. This page became a knight— bold, dashing, a lover of adventure, an ardent seeker after glory and fame. He laid his sword at the fest of a beautiful lady. “More than a duchess" was she, he sald, long years afterward. He wrote sonnets to her. He dreamed dreams of feats of valor performed in her honor. He was in love with the fairest lady tn old Castile, and she encouraged him to the edge of that border which sep- drates the servant of love from love iteelt. Well, a# the revivalists say when @omething good has happened, “God be praised!” for if that Lovely Un- known had accepted him we should never have heard of Marquette or Jogues or Francis Xavier, of Ford- bam or Georgetown or of the “Black Popes.” The romantic dreamer was the future Saint and first Jesuit, Ig- netius of Loyola, Ignatius went ¢o the ware and was Founder of the Jesuite, 3 wounded, and all his life, he in the shape of a limp, a of the slege of Pampeluna. convalesen picked up the Saints’ service of his Creator, his sword in @ church, f, cave, and there, under a spell, parently ‘of heaven's own wrote the “Spiritual Exercises,” The man who came out of the cave. was a knight newly consecrated the doing of things, He began counter reformation Inatde, inside of his own reiigion, where it was needed. He went to Rome. Pope Paul IIL, no saint, signed the doom. ment which brought the Jesuits ini being, with this remark— “the of God ts here!” 4 The Reformation had stunned Catholic Church, It had taken away, pretty nearly everything but church, Now began a great that lasted elghty-two years—| 1684 to 1616. Ignatius was the pi hind it His passionate sanctity, spired it. Poi Contarini, Car Borromeo, Fri 3 Borgia, " Saurez, Pope Pius V., Philip Ne * ‘Peter Canisius, were revivalists and reformers inspired by his examy : The revival worked wonders, “In @ single generation,” Macaulay “the whole spirit of the Church. Rome underwent a change." “4 ds this: “But the change 1 @ reversion to Catholic principles,” = —_ Old friends are best. King James used to call for Nis old shoes; were easiest for his feot.—John Selden, they { Dollars a By H. J. nd Sense Barrett A System for Eliminating Errors. ee RRORS cost the big stores huge sums annually,” re- marked the superintendent of @ large retail establishment. “Not onlygis Use immediate cost of an error often @#reat, but the indirect expense in the shape of lost customers also is heavy. “Fifty-seven verieties of errors may be made in filling out a sales check Mistakes may be made in the name Jand address; by the omlasion of the date, amount received and amount of wale. Or these items may be incorrectly entered. “It 9 amasing to see what can be accomplished by concentrating on this question of errors. Just as the ‘safety first’ movement has already borne fruit in decreased accidents, so percentage of errors be vastly ed by focussing the attention of the whole organization on the problem, “The first step in decreasing errors is to make every one realize that any mistake made will be brought home to the offender. No particular pen- alty need be exacted; it is enough for most people to know that an error slip has been made out and filed in their folders. Some stores have a system of fines for errors, I think this negative method is a mistake. It creates discord and disloyalty, Some clerks are temperamentally s0 constituted that they cannot avold making mistak this despite the best of intentions, Better to shift ted. | these to some type of work where {Ro risk t9 involved, or if no | available, to quietly drop a to offer’ rewards for a ira there is the difficulty, which heartiest co-operation, mulst# the. “For every two month ing which no mistake against an employes 19 awarded, This ts bay for the standa quired to attain suc “Eternal es Vigilance a, f. which will enforce tots ie is ret of reducing mistakes, One we store decreased {ts errors 15 per {n one month after install: system. We have ‘Achieved "almoet equally good results,” > —____. py iit ea, a 5 i the price of ink soaring” to keep pace with paper, and the cuttle-fish see: fds will probably be glad to have thetr attention called to a river of« tho purest kind of ink waiting t@ an* the demand from a seem{ inex. haustible source, It is of the ya a blue-black variety and is guarant by Nature not to fade, ‘te pat Mt 49 rather a long way off in ria), but that 1s not m con.” sideration. uch Of oa ‘The ink river is formed by ¢ of two stroams, the water feat vhic ated with acid and the other with 4 Popular Science Monthly, ‘These eee phe twa neccesary elements of the