The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1917, Page 16

EO \ RALPH 8 PATAPLIGNED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. \ Gadtetied Daily Mrcapt/funday vy the Prese Pubitaning Company, Nos, 68 to) 43 Park Row. New York. | put ZPR, President, 6% Park Row, | AW, Treaguror. 63 Par! ¥, TZER, cretary, 62 Park Row, J. ANG lOSbPH FT Por ftige at Now York as Second-Class Matfer. \ to The { at For Paton end the Bontinent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the Toternational and a Postal Union. ‘One Year..... + $9.80] One Year. One Month. VOLUMY 57.. seeeNO. 20,265 MAKE IT PLAIN AS DAY. A T* President’s reply to the message transmitted through the Swiss Government to the effect that the German Government is “willing to negotiate, formally or informally, with the United States, provided that the commercial blockade against Eng- land will not be broken thereby,” is pointedly brief and conclusive, | The Government of the United States, declares the President, | 4ces not feel that it can enter into any discussion with the ‘crman Government concerning the policy of submarine war- fare against neutrals which it {s now pursuing unless and until the German Government renews its assurances of May 4, and acts upon the assurance. | The United Si as The Evening World said yesterday, seeks no understanding with mnterers, If the Imperial German Govern-| ment desires to discuss anything whatever with this Government it knows the indispensable preliminary. | This latest German move, however, confirms the impression that the German Government {s still beclouded in its notions of how thi country views the situation and what it means to do. | It would almost seem that, since the Imperial Government had! not expected the United States to sever diplomatic ‘relations imme-| Gately, the methodic German intellect finds iteelf unable to grasp} the fact that the break has actually come. . The suggestion that Germany has all slong meant to guarantee safety to American passenger vessels, schedule or no echedule, if she had to, is not in the least fantastic. It squares perfectly with the now recognized policy of the Imperial Government to provoke and prolong discussion as « cover for ita acts. | What the German Government must be mide to see is that dis-| eussion has been cut off clean and short. | It becomes more and more clear that the way to get this into the German mind is not for American shipping to admit that it {s practically blockaded in American ports, na if waiting for some fur-| ther halfway understanding with Germany to be patched up. | * The way to make things plain to the Germans is not to let! ‘them see their intensified warfare produce one of its firet effects in, ® tying American vessels to their docks, while British, French and Italian vessels sail from Atlantic porte as usual. | If we are going to uphold American rights on sea let’s ererciso Armed or unarmed, alone of convoyed, let American vessels stick | te their sailing dates and their eccustomed courses. | BTW eee OEY wee we ty Ale nk te te Meet | Mr. Gerard has learned how to deal with Teuton obstinacy. No man living has a better right to a reat, | i ° GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST THE CAT, HERE are not less than 25,000,000 cate in the United States and @ cat census might prove the actual number to be ‘twice that, according to Dr. Frank Chapman of the American Mu- seum of Natural History, . _O20 cat to every four inhabitants fs an amazing ratio, If trac, ¥ puts pussy in a position of uncomfortable prominence, liable to the kind of scathing indictmont found in the current bulletin of the American Game Protective Association, The greatest menace to tho bird life of to-day is probably tho domestic cat, the prosecution is prepared to prove. Cats in Masaa- chusetts’ kill approximately 2,000,000 birds each yoar, The farm cate of Illinois get away with 2,600,000, And in the State of New York the cat bill of fare requires annually, it is estimated, at loast 3,500,000 birdlings, Now birds eat bugs, which if not eaten thrive mightily at the expense of fruit, field crops and foresta. For instance: A potato bug will produce fifty to sixty million in @ sea- | fon; the green-leafod louse, destructive to hops, fruit and @ vegetables, reproduces ag the ‘rate of ten sixtilion to the pair im one season, while the natural tnorease of a pair of gypsy moths would dofoliate the United States in eight years, Cinch bugs alone are said to have lowered the value of Mississippi Valley crops in one year by $100,000,000, while the total annual loos attributed to insect life in the United States is estimated at $1,200,000,000, Most of these destructive insects and thelr larvae constitute the chief food of scores of species of birds, while other spocies include in their diet numerous varieties of. noxious weed soods, Wherefore, in the interest of insect and weed dostroying birds, the Now York Stato Forest, Fish and Game League recently adopted 4 resolution urgently requosting the Logislature of New York to| |dariized programme. [Sufficiently Identified eS Ren eo vening World Daily Magazine By J: H. Cassel | ‘. se | | GERMANY'S DEMAND —_ Us smea Mus GE PARKED were VERTOCAR STRIPES AAR : What Wom en Can Do if War Comes| | When you aift By Sophie Irene Loeb. TTS NY Hoek bveting Wert )* URLNG the week thousands of women were organizing and of- fering services te aid Uncle Bam in case of war. Resolutions were adopted to “organise the of all. There is they can control sane action. By By creating the ways as much as The combined the nation to werve the Govern- ment and the peo- ple & the United States in this critical emer and “to the con- ot omer- and work out a stan- ty women, ffragioes, anti- | gista, pacifist, militarists and | in fact every kind of woman Inter- ested in the world's work and who has been identified with civic move- meny—all, all want to enroll under the Stars and Stripos in solid service— which is commendable and as ft | in case o! prove country. is that we bec stricken long ee get over fainting ore — look eof war worry but work, diately about her women can perform the tion that may arise—BY K LEVEL HEADS. excited at the first sight of a soldier. By continuing the even tenor of their women's power Of | woman to cuitivate such an attitude conflict» could actually them the saviours of the Tho great trouble with many of us ne Unstrung and panic In fact it i# rarely necessary, The worth while women of the | World are those who make themselves ble squarely in the face. every woman can do is with hersclf— to #0 conduct herself that the right direction, If the women of thé’ family are un- strung and full of fear it does not ft right down these Rest one way ‘by which any domestic situa- EPING By insisting on refusing to become help the others, V epirit of calmness, possible. efforta of every far away, ore it is necessary. eitber at a pin prick and there is no time for The greatest work | sense. one imme- juenced in will be and Calmn x it of the children and the at woman needs to du He i hav e scarce, &o. ° should be. But what about the millions of ‘women who cannot, go forth to fight or take up the burden of business or assume a civic activity because of duties that call in the homo precinct and In the immediate community of that province? | What is it possible for them to stan! dardine? How may each help and perform her part for the welfure of the whole achome? onect &@ comprehensive law providing for the licensing of al! valu- adie domestic cats, and for the destruction of all unlicensed eats by thorough and effective methods, | When we think of those ten sixtilion proveny of @ groen-leafed louse that might never happen {f there were one less cat and one, more bird, will any man deny that 25,000,000 cats may be too many? | —_—_1+ -—___— At the same time hoi. courage and patriotism aboard aft | American steamship compauy directors, | <_< —__. Hits From Sharp Wits The only time a woman docs not, Some men would be thankful tf a @are about the last word is when ae! were devised of making an in- fs talking to herself-—Memphis Com- ‘euse: in wages apply to oj tow, mercial Appeal. ‘Florida Times Union. . eee oe | Dealers may s00n consent to sell Women are said to dress quicker uncut coal by the bagful at wholesale | now than they used to do, but in @ gee. but individual chunks will be} list of reasons aberibed there wasn't posed of as at present, by the/ the one that we had thought of, dn kerat.—Hosion Transcript, jour unfeeling sort of way.—Columbla ga" ¢ (8. C) Btate. Many « boy whose friends expect | him to become @ shining light d eedinadinaa| . has so conserved and loped it as A man's illusions are hand-painted and easily rubbed off) @ women’s) tered bie private [oe rath, ae h | conserved and developed 4t ns ence ft nomont, x into a dull thud.—Toledo! “Look out for #lippery places or to not only supply her are woven into the tapestry of Ber soul, futtered; » ne Bide Rena you may break your watch" warns a ments, but alm 19 bo —— ‘ | "Cheap humor: 1 never sould laugh ontemporary ex the editor jon nearly i qua Speer a ap . 1 Joy confeth tn the morming—to thebeurry his waton nyway?-waplwaus ho Py Say Hg ge er Sometimes tt fs almost as hard to live with your ows temperament as|t that od and Bobbte wemer—Toledo Liada, s News Ks _ with anotuer payson's, a re SRE RAE Lz a | unre | sinning ~—7-—— | French Efficiency Now Sets Mark For Germans} E have long been taught to be- W Neve that eMictenoy ts but a eynonym for Germany, but, | viewing the eoonomlc wonders accom. | plished by France afice the beginning of the war, It seems that the Irench have beat the Germans at tholr own game, It 1s not alone, nor even chiefly, in the perfection of her mill- | tary machine that Frenchmen have manifested a marvellous talent for or- | {ng $10 worth of ganization and the elimination of} waste, but rather in the development and conservation of natura ob resources, quarters of her iron and steel manufacturing plants and nine-tonths of her @ron ore by the Touton in- | yasion, France was in a bad way in- | dustrially When the war was just bo- France has taken what was left to her of her coal and tron industry and bachelors; all the rest are “Belgiums.” ‘a little assistance on your part. memory. at ALL, don't marry him, silk and $50 worth of imagination, ee cette Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by The ‘Pres Publishing Go, (The New York Hvening World.) l this dasgerous age there are fow marrying men and many confirmed lon of the most now is to summon the fore- thought of preparation rather than the fearthought of desperation. Don’t give heed to the ever-present 4oleful dealer of disaste: you that your son ana that money will But look at the facts. This country Was never in a more prosperous con- dition, Money cannot possibly scarce for a long time to co: sides, the warring countries aro far, ill tell to die be Be It ts fine and certainly tmportant to make ready for prospective contin gencies, just as it is important to look to the rainy day of the future. Certainly whatever comes, nothing oan better facilitate any activities, toward »mecessitous military manoeuvrdés or promotion of peace than for woman in every station of life to do soldierly service in sound So every woman who has her home ard country at heart, by appotnting herself the Captain of Common-senae can do the biggest work for speeding the solutk most oritical situations, > In the game of love ft is not so often the Sther woman's skt!l as your own poor playing that makes you a loser. Nobody can take a hiisband worth having away from you without a A man is never really old until he oan think of Bt. Valentine's Day without @ aingle thrill of hope—or Tf yon want a man to think you supertor, don't flirt "with him; {f you want him to think you perfect, don’t fall in love with him; if you want him to think of you Of course the price of silk HAS gone up; but that doesn't seem to be a vital reason why a woman should pay $60 for an evening frock contain- The, most tragic moment in married Iffe is not that in which you dis- i of half of her coal supply,| cover that you can't get along with each other, buy that@ which you dis- gover that you can get along perfectly comfortabfy without each other. A man fs so apt to mistake his love of ‘experiment for love of a woman that half the Ume he doesn't know which ts which, | said, The Office Force ._ By Bide Dudley Oaurright, 1017. by The Prem Pubiishing Oo (The New York Brening Works.) 66] SEE by the papers,” said Popple, | the shipping clerk, “that « safe, robber is trying to escape con- viction on an insanity plea, but the alienists aay he isn't crazy.” “He's no safe robber,” said Bobbie, the office boy, “And what is he, then, ff you please?’ demanded Miss Primm, private secretary to the boss, snip- pishly, “Ho's a safe and sane robber, Now, if I_were to’ “Oh, by the way,” came from Miss Tillie, just thought of a dandy joke. Why are safe robbers like #o- clety women?” “The higher the fewer,” suggested Bobbie, “Oh, shut up.” “We give it up,” eald Spooner, the bookkeeper, “Because they're always having blow-outa. . “And whén they get the dough it's the case of blow in,” said the oMoe boy, “I never heard euch awful humor before in all my life,” snapped Misa| Primm. “Careful, dearie! “That's said Bobbie. a long time,’ is# Primm turned on him with a deop frown, “That's an insult,” she “I have yet t@ece my thirtieth birthday." “What was the matter? Did it get by you when you weren't looki: murmured Hobbie, “How's that?" she demanded, ro ery good, I thought,” said the folks,” said Spooner, It! the sub: ud wrangling, The papers at the National was night because somebody the sheet iron with which noises in the storm scen “It's wrong to steal another per- son's thunder,” eaid Bobbie, | “Cheap humor!" came from Mise Primm, “I could never laugh at that Jok “Good morning, folks!" said Mr. Bnooks, the boss, who entered the| at that juncture. “You all look | happy. “We are happy,” sald Bobbie, “I went to sce the show at th tional last nignt, but it was ba storm scene fell flat because th der sheet Could not be found. I under- stant it was stolen, It made me think of @ good joke, I told Joe Bartlett about the show as we came up in the it's right for anybody to steal an- other person's thunder.’ How's that?” Miss Primm laughed tmmodorately, Gasping for breath, she sald: “That is an exceedingly bright one, Mr, Snooks. How do you ever think of anny jokes?” I just think of them by acct- dent, 1 guess,” be replied as he en- Famous i By Albert Pa: Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) NO.50—WOODROW WILSON; H alphabet until handicap he was ready for college known as “Tom Wilson.” the youngster that hinted of future greatness was his luridly brilliaat The first serious outcropping of this trait almost led to & tragedy, Bofore he was ten he had become fired with @ yearning te imagination. “play Indian.” hand and to ambush imaginary plainsmen. He taught a little Once, tiring of this sport, he decided on a hunting trip—with himself | the Indian huntsman and the girl as the game. At his command ghe climbed @ tree while he aimed an arrow at her. arrow grazed her face, she tumbled Catching her up in his arma, th@terrified boy carried her into the house, ee ’ “I am a murderer! career as an Indian huntsman ended Would not quit work, At fourteen he became the Admiral of a tremendous battle fleet sent te scour the Pacific Ocean in search of a pirate flotilla that had long terrorised , the whole world and had ewept merchant shipping from the high seas. The United States, it seemed, had at last resolved to crush this murderous pirate horde. And who wag The “Boy Admiral.” better fitted for old Admiral Thomas Woodrow Wilson? For months the boy wrote out an exhaustive series of daily reports for the benefit of an imaginary Navy Department, telling of his fleet's ad« ventures in tracking the pirates to thetr lair. ‘ At last, so ran his report, he sighted a mountainous teland in mid-Pacifie, Bending a boat to explore, he found there was a narrow channel between the rocky walls of the cliff—a ohan: island's centre. Admiral W:! espera: In tl 01 80 wisely manoeu' ptured, The fanciful reports were full of sea terms, nautteal diction and accurate technical information about ahips. Yet, mind you, young Wilson at that time | oa nor a real ship. His knowledge of the subject was gleaned wholly from what he had read. At seventeen he was sent to Davidson College in North Carolina, had never seen t! | was @ primitive inat! tion, The pup! | own rooms, fetch water from the campus pump, cut and carry thelr own firewood, fill and trim thetr ol! lamps. Wilson, according to one biographer, prompe'y “established a record in the minimum time necessary to dress, cross the campus and be In hts seat when the before-breakfast ohapel bell stopped ringing.” | Skill and haziness, j He also won Gemmmmrrmrnnnnn® College bascdall | his work on the diamond was marre up in the following rebuke: | day to become President. series will handle a big theme t tractive way. Fifty Boys and Girls E .was the son of @ Virginia clergyman, and, as @ boy, he of @ family of scholars—he did not so much as learn the he wae nine years old. in spite of thts & bow and arrow; to stain her fae and hands with pokeberries, Tt wasn't an accident! Though the supposedly “killed” girl was not .even bruised, Wilson's hidden lagoon lay this whole pirate fleet at anchon own ships rushed to the attack. “Wilson, you'd make a dandy ballplayer If you weren't 0 —— —— lasy!® An elm he planted on the Davidson campus still flourishes there. | boy was growing too fast for his strength. At the end of freshman year his health broke down, This called for a year’s rest at home, after which he was sent to complete his education at Princeton—a college of which he was one ‘THE END. “Fifty Failores Who Came Back,” son Terhune, will begin in Thuraday’s Evening World. This n History yson Terhune the Boy Who Became Présidént For some reason—though he at seventeen. The only thing about - girl cousin to join in the sport; to Losing her balance as the to the ground, momentarily stunned, I killed her!” then and there, But his imagination ~ the perilous task than fourteen-yeara nel that led to a huge lagoon in the After @ grievously vred his vessels that the pirate flotilla ba ils were expected to take care of their local fame by “making” the Davideon nine, He played ball brilliantly, but 1d by one fault, which the coach size jew series by Albert Pay- in a strikingly unusual and at. The Jar By Roy L. r Family McCardell Mrs. Jarr of Gustave Bep- ler, the overgrown son of the propristor of the local beefeteak studio and namesake of Gus, the sa- gecious proprietor of the corner cafe. Mrs. Bepler, within the ginss case of the accounting department of the meat atelior, answered for her son. “My husband has gone to swear out his citizen’s papers,” she ox- plained. “Mr. Schmidt, who keeps the delicatessen store, has gone with him.” Returning homeward with a sen- uine piece of steak weighing at least six karate, Mr. Jarr encountered Mr, Slavinsky. “Have yon taken out your oltizen's papers?’ Mr. Jarr inquired of the glazier, “Sure, when I landed,” sald Mr. Blavinsky. “By gollies, this country 1s good enough for me and all my people aa econ as wo got hero.” “I hear you are a citizen,” sald Mr. Jarr, as he paused at the bootblack stand of Tony, in company of Mr. Slavinaky. “Sure!” wae the reply, “I got da onkal what is beeg contractor and ho getta me da vote.” “shine " orled Tony, pointing at the Slavinsky shoes, “Why should I patronize your’ asked Mr. Slavinsky, “A bootblack ain't no good to me in my business, A bootblack stand ain't got no win- ders to break.” “Bimeby 1 go in oddor beesnes,” said Tony, “Mebbe I get a store an’ sella da fruit and Italian groceries.” “Say,” remarked Mr, BSlavinsky, Row aroused to a point of interest, “| got my store divided and I eub- let the other side to a cigar store, but the feller is going to quit and go clerking for the Oonited Tobbacco Stores, You shine big shoes for 5 E oareer of @ remarkable nava!) Vere Broke, The Shannon, frigate | I officer came to an end just oof fifty-two guna, was one of the vee quarter of a century ago to- elevator. Then I added: ‘I don't think | William Parry Wallis, Admiral of the | frigate Chesapeake, | fleet of England, died near Chi- chester, England. Sir Provo had col- ebrated his 100th birthday in tho April previous to his death, The feat of Wallis which has gained a permanent place in history was tho part he played in that ter- rible naval due! between the Shannon and the Chesapeake, fought off Bos- ton Harbor in 1818, Wallis, then twenty-two years old, was second Heutenant on boat ‘the Shannon, arnned, ° ded by Cap J'biip Lowes | Conrright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) SN Oh rae Mr. Bepler?” asked day, Feb. 18 1892, when Str Provo| commander st ent: CAbt: Lawrences ] cents, Just the same as iittle ones?” he added, regarding his ample wealth of feet, “Sure eaid the bootblack. “Get hap.” At this functure Master Issy Slev< insky came joyously around the cor- ner, propelling @ pushmobile, con- structed of portions of a soap box and an old roller skate, “For why you got such dirty shoes, any?” cried his parent, as the boy halted, astounded at the sight of bis father being ministered to by Tony. Is little boy shines only three cents, when they get them with thelr pop- per?” inquired the elder Slavinsky of the artist. Tony shook his head decistvely mm the negative, “No ecab da job!* Re said firmly. “By golly! What costs te. te stylish!" said Mr, Slavinsky with @ sigh. “Well, wait till you look at that half-store I have, and if you rent it from me 7 shall get a busines shining lazy and little Becky, and my boy Shidney wot ts grown up, and his mommer and"——~ “I queet da bootblack business when I have da fruit stand,” said Tony. Mr. Siavinsky waa taken aback, “Woll then, it ain't no @ shine, Izzy, he wid “maceeens yes, you can’ have them ‘Tony takes our store.” Then he ered fiercely at the boy, play with that thing?’ “Why don’t you play streets?" “It ain't time yet, want you should tell the he Jarr and Johnny Rangle has been stones at m throwi! ond broke winder down the street,” ad Where?” cried Mr, Slavii citedly. “I'll be back 5¢ shoe ~g to efore stylishness! Show me the vinder, Izsy! And remember you are an American uitizen if the war comes and maybe every ae) country is shot down mit ai jow- “Why you asked. he ball in the per, anes pollce Wile sola then blockading Boat portly 6 Boston Harbor. the new American r request Chosapeake to meet the sheaaoee “ship to ship, to uy ¢ our 'renpoetife ‘fase he merits of This proposition was accepted by Lawrence, and a terrific battle was fought, in which the British ship was victorious, the Americans losing 14@ 0 & in killed and wounded, while the British loss was eighty-four, Capt, Lawrencd was mortally wounded, and Capt. Broke also received a serious wound and was unable to take active command, As the first leutenant of the Shannon was killed, it fell to the lot of young Wallis to take pharge Ghannon, ns ot the 4 —