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‘ oon . ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sense: 4 r J Presa Publishing Company, Nos, $5 to ‘ari OF, J. ANGUS SHAW, Tre JOSPH PULITZER,’ Jr. it the Post-Office at New York as Rates to The Evening| For Engl World for the United States and Canada. One Year.... jn@ Month. VOLUME 57. urer. 63 Park Row. Secretary, 63 Park Row, 9 Matter, Continent and $8.50/ One Year. .t01One Month EFINITE a the seventy-two American sailors from the Yarrowdale, and! the same assurance that United States Consuls and their families are not being detained in German territory, can alone satisfy | sthis nation that Germany is not wilfully ignoring American rights on @and in Europe. Nor does the Imperial Government’s reversal of its order against the continuance of American relief work in Belgium indicate any- thing beyond a policy of semi-propitiation to gain time, with which Germany has made us wearisomely familiar. But even if the situation, from the point of view of the United States, remains ambiguous on land, there can be no mistaking condi- tions that exist on sea. Germany’s submarine blockade has already tied up American shipping to an extent which is disorganizing the country’s freight | traffic and threatening serious shortage of food and other necessities | at many points, Nobody can blame American shipowners for not being anxious to send unarmed vessels across the Atlantic, But why need they go| unarmed or unprotected? At the present moment the most obvious and imperative duty of the nation is to come to the support of its shipping. Arm merchant vessels, and if necessary convoy them with ttleships. Unless we are to admit that Germany has scared us off the seas, | Soe ep ee C the President should call for an immediate plan to protect America ships with the American Navy. Put Congress to the test — oj “I am determined,” Republican Leader Mann told the | Houre yesterday, “to do everything in my power to keep our country out of the European war.” Even to the extent of keeping all Americans shut up tight at home for fear they might bother some belligerent? | ee THERE WAS A LEAK. AVING finally agreed that no Government official or Member | of Congress was concerned in the “leak” or profited by ad- vance information concerning the President’s peace messa, f last December, the Rules Committee of the House of Representa- lives has managed to crawl out of that labyrinth of futility and get back to more profitable work at Washington. The committee has convinced the country that there was a leak, and a bigger one than any for which newspaper correspondents were responsible, There was a leak of foolishness, sensationalism and low-minded svandal-mongering out of the Lower House of Congres’ which has viven the nation a deeper feeling of disgust than anything that has appened in Washington for years, Neither Representative Wood, who started the unseemly busi- ness, nor Lawson, who was allowed to bring it to a climax, deserves the ightest consideration on the score of good intentions. The whole thing began in a mixture of vicious, loose-mouthed gossip and blatan| self-advertising. It ended, as it was bound to end, by losing itself in the sand. It was a leak through which Congressional dignity and respect flowed copiously. May no House spring such another. {t might be worth while to scrutinize Cuba closely for possible traces of Kultur. + NEW YORK PAYS WAR PRICES. AXIMUM prices for milk and butter fixed by the French Food Ministry ought to make New Yorkers open their eyes After next Monday the price of milk in Paris must not | cxceed ten centa a litre over the counter, or eleven cents if delivered. | Kutter cannot be sold higher than from $1.12 to $1.34 per kilogram, aceerting to quality. In quarts and pounds this means twelve cents for first grade mfx and about sixty-seven cents for the best butter. | Right here in New York milk costs the same, twelve cents a! quart, while grocers have been demanding as much as fifty-three | cents @ pound for butter, and more if they could get it. The French prices are established in a capital which has had two| years and a half of war, where the need of food is so pressing that meals in hotels and restaurants have just been offic ially limited to} TEN I the }run rtoons for Women Sa Resta Ey, By J. H. Casse ‘German Women Vital Link in the Kaiser’s I ron Ring. Burdens of War Rest Largely Upon the Shoulders of Fath- erland’s Devoted Daughters—Old and Young Are Tilling the Fields and Running Nation's In- dustries That the Men May Fight On. By Marguerite Copyright, 1017, by The Prow P. American among them ives as to how they may in the event of war, Tf they will profit bu the experience the women of Lurope, who for two years and a half have been engaged in solving a similar problem. The following article deals with the patriotic service of the wo- men of Germany. the days befe the Great Wa supreme ruler of the rman Empire set his benign seal of ap- proval on only activities for German women— cooking three chure and ehild Other times, other jobs, Since the men of Germany been mobil sized for the gi- % antic war ma f hine It has been 1M that thelr wives and sisters and daughters can admirably almost y other machine in the Empire According to a recent computation almost 6,000,000 women in Germany have Wire found ev are employed in industries outside the two courses, !home, The women now form almost y, ‘4 ‘ : lone pf the persons covered by N cers ve been living ix Plaka yy joneshalf of the persor ve pel Yorker hav been AVIng in land peace and NY ithe insurance system. In several Yet they are compelled to buy common necessities at prices which «n Paris are war vrices, | Why? te Who's heard how the Colonel feels? Have events ren dered him inarticulate? Letters From the People | {der a treaty with England and took ‘Fo the Editor of The Evening World Taing-tao, the German stronghold in | Kindly state if a man who came to|China, Since then she has had no this country when a boy eleven years| part in the war, although her navy | old and who has been in this country |!s doing patrol work in the Bast and | thirty-four years but neglected to/#he is among the nations arrayed ake out his naturalization papers | @eainet Germany ean @et bis full papers at once, or Maun Abani Waine, will he be able to get only first pwpers | to ie Rditor af The Eveuing World now? Also please state what day of | A In the discussion of “Wher the week July 2, 1871 fell on, 8. K. | Noine Not a Nolne” lot ay ‘S| Waste to Know About J | the definition of what a noise really To the Kaitor of The Evening World 1s, A noise is @ sensation, caused by I have been unable to convince a|the vibrations of the alr upon th friend of mine that Japan is engaged |drum of the ear, which is tri in the European struggle. ted from If you throu, uditory |¢ branches of Industry, including tex that the frst size passed through the Suez Canal from the Mediter ranean Sea The completion of the Suez Canal imposed upon Great Britain the gl gantic task of protecting the sea route to her Asiatic empire. Gibral tar and Malta, already in Britain's possession, Were important links in |the chain no peninsula of Aden, ’ ling the entranee into the Red Soa, Was fortified on a vast scale, and & protectorate Was acquired over a large inland region. Cyprus, Sokotra Island and the Kurta Murla Islands, off the Arablan coast, added new links to the defensive chain, and it has been said that the Red Sea is now “more distinctively British than is St orge’s Channel between England will scribble a few brief sente and Ireland.” Great Britain obtained below regarding Japan's position {1 wr, it evident that, unless proprietary cont f Sues Canal the war; whether she is fighting! the is & p on within radius of tn is by pur ir en of inst Germany, for Germany, or the alr vibration, no noise ¢ ake the Egyptian Whedive about $20, rietly neutral, you will greatly place; for noise is, reality, only 000,000 although it was a French ge. C, J. N.° the effect of the air vibrations upon project and \ts completion was duc to WN. B—Jepan entered the war un- the brain? V. A. E. | French gentus l n, | Mooers Marshall bitsting Oo, (The New York Evening World.) omen are taking counsel | tiles and paper production, there are | more women than men at work, and the number of women seeking em- ployment is constantly increasing. Since 1914 the number of feminine workers registered at the employ- mont agencies has increased by 80,000, What are the women doing? Before the war 41 per cent, of the factory hands were women and 59 j Per cent, men. Now the proportion is exactly reversed, Within eighteen months the number of women factory hands iner lion and a a | half, Y are working in coal mines and found Tae Krupp works [alone employ 10,000 for the heaviest | Kind of labor, and ‘the largest electri- cal company in Berlin employs double that nu Thousands of women are engaged jin doing the hardest and roughest kind of work in the bullding trades } 4nd on canals and subway Jobs. They er much the tools of women as were the | broom and dustpan. | As in other warring countries, the railways have discovered the value of women's work. Women serve as | |railway guards and railway police, and in many instances wear a special uniform, consisting of jacket, cap and | baggy, gray trousers. Women sell and collect tickets, clean carriages dining cars. The elevated and sub- way roads of Berlin have organized force of women, and they act as | conductors on street cars and omni- buses and drive cabs, Gray-haired old women drive, load and unload coal wagons. Nearly all the clerks in the leading ary goods ses and department stores are women to-day, They are employed by the banks, and in many of the Government offic women taken important posts, which, be the war, w: by men. ‘There |are large window-cle tablish- j ments in Berlin whi et with | private as well as with — business jhouses to clean windows the year jaround, Up to Aug, 1, 1914, all the window-cleaners were men. Now the work is being done by women, many of whom wear men’s clothes Overalls. to say trousers—are not | becoming increasingly popular among the women of warring Europe. | As in Paris, there are post-women have dug a new subway in Berlin. in The pick and shovet are becoming as| Chimney sweeps and women in busi- and stations, and are waiters In the, Berlin, There are also women nesslike uniforms who run elevators Telegrams are delivered by women, and they are street sweepers in some German cities. least one woman has qualified as a journeyman butcher. Of course, all the various farm processes, frgm the sowing of grain to the harvesting of it, have | Deen largely in the hands of women. An interesting feature of women's work in and for wartime Germany is that some of the female workers have begun to conduct a little struggle of their own for fair pay and fair treatment. It is one thing to be # patriot and offer one's services to one's country. It is another thing to be cheated and imposed upon by a private employer. Many reports from varlous quarters of Germany show that women everywhere have been paid smaller wages than men for doing men's work At a recent congress of women held 1n Berlin these demands were formu- lated: The eight-hour day for adults and the six-hour d: t workers under sixteen, half a vacation once a week and fifteen days yearly with full wages, prohibition of the employment of any woman two months before and two months after the birth of her child, free baths for all factory hands, universal suffrage and equal pay for equal work. Apparently the women of Germany | are unwilling to exchange the tyranny of “Kirehe, Kuche, Kinder’ for the | slavery of the shop, al , The Week much surprised,” narked polisher learn the clerks and State offl- in the Capitol Building at Al- work under ¢ ditions that would not be tolerated tn a factory, “Naturally you were surprised,” re- plied the laundry man, “And you'd be surprised again to learn that th report on the plttable condition of S head “to vany ployees and officials of the St is Very much exaggerated, ‘The rea- son for the report on the poor sant- tary condition of the offices in the Capitol and other State buildings wasn't very long in popping into view “Phe report Mat clerks and officials suffer from eye-strain and hous maid's kneo and gianders and every~ thing because of the px and Light poor ventilation of the sta was immediately fotlowed by a rec mendauion he State erect office building to cost $5,000,000, 17 remedy is to nulet for $5, 000,000, on which w build Jing on a site to be provided by cer- tain) gentiomen with Influence, and stick New York City for $3,500,000 of the expense in the shape of a taxation true nany of the offices 4 not hygienic, but yuld wily improved at nt expense, and there are people who wouldn't be hygienic tn any surroundings, ‘The offices in the re- built part of the Capitol are up-to- date, comfortable and are well lighted Just across the street from the Capi- i tol grounds a towering modern Jotlice building, owned by the tele Phone monopoly, which is almost ex- lusively occupied by State ments and bureaus, | ated on one of the high t points in Tho gist of the matter ts that cer- tain people want the State to put up 4 new office building in Albany, and, |inasmuch as ab the expe of New York they away with th project. Of course, if they get a new and commodious office | building too big for the present gov- ernmental machinery of the State it | will be an easy matter to fill It by the Joreation of new bureaus and new boards and new commissions.” will probably get “ INS to look as though we | were on the road to nationas prohibition,” aaid the head polisher | “Not right away.” answered the \iaundry man, “but national prohibl- tlon appears to be on the wa things reach @ state that permits the adoption of @ resolution in Congress clearing the way for a Constitutional amendment which will permit States depart- | ‘This is the tall-| | Get building in Albany, and it 1s situ-/| ¥, So there is plenty of atr and | t three-fourths of) will be borne by the city when | a ——} that want prohibition to extend pro- hibition to States that don’t want it There will be determined opposition to national prohibition, which would reduce the taxation income of the country enormously, but the prohibi- “on sentiment is spreading, and the liquor People don't know how to head oft. herally speaking, the men rep- | resenting the liquor interests are a fatuous lot. Kyery fight they made against prohibition or tion has been based on g and the public knows it. ‘There can be no widespread sympathy for a movement which is plainly meant to serve nothing but the booze interests, There are more ways of Killing a cat than by hitting {t with a piano, but the Hquof interests don't know It as yet, and although they are waking up in some parts of the country and act. ing with intelligence it will probably be too late when they are all awak- ened." ula Iishness, “ys said the head polisher, “that offlctal Germany was shocked by the prompt actior President Wilson in the case of Ambassador von Bernstorft.’ Many more shocks are coming to of ple abroad and in the United States who think that George M. Cohan and not George Washington wrote this republic,” sald the laun- dry man. Fifty Fail Copyright, 1917, by The Pre Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) No. 2—SAMUEL MORSE, the ‘Failure’ Who Invented t! | Telegraph. is heavy with age. * * * Isleep onthe floor. * * * My cash is gone. What can I do?” So wrote Samuel F. B. Morse, a Massachusetts portrait win fame and fortune. But success eluded his fervid grip. And he found himself staring into the eyes of starvation. He was a failure in life. Every one knew it but himself and his loyal rest of his neighbors. He had branched out on a career. And he had fall With a wife and family to support, he had no means for supporting or himself. At the climax of his ill-luck his wife died. | at last as an artist, and later went to Europe to study. There he labo hard, but with scant reward. And in October, 1832, he sailed for New York. That sea trip was to change his whole future as well as the future At dinner one day during the long voyage the talk turned to certain electrical experiments that had recently been made. Morse, as a boy at | college, had dabbled idly with electricity and had been of the voyage his mind dwelt more and more on the subject, Ae And, loafing in his berth on a stormy morning, he | and dashes, He did this more to while away the time, at first, than for } | any better reason. But the idea began to fascinate him. He improved & told them of a qu use to which he thought its signals could be applied, “Since the presence of electricity n be made visible In any part of \ the circuit,” he explained, no reason why intelligence may not be The germ of the telegraph was thus conceived. And Morse warted na | time before developing it into something worth while, i But the desert of failure still stretched before him. Abandoning the energies into this new invention of his, For twelve tedious and hungry years he worked to perfect it. People thought he had gone insane. His friends eyed him askance and | who had called him a failure in the old days now felt they were more than Justified in their belief, He was a penniless inventor scourged on by a single tdea—an idem charitably sympathetic with Morse’s idiocy. The ‘Fatlure” lived and worked in o | and making his own castings, smugxling | By Albert Payson Terhune Y clothes are threadbare. My shoes are out at the toes. My hat painter who had gone to New York to grip success by the throat and to wife, He had not been content to stay at home and plod along with the | Turning to work to drown his bitter grief, Morse forged slowly ahe of the world. | interested in its mysteries. Now, during the weary hours | 3 A Shipboard | 3 Amusement. evolved an “electric alphabet, alphabet” and carried it to his fellow passengers for inspection, He alse le transmitted instantaneously by electricity art career that was trying to afford him a livelthood, he threw all hie | one by one they dropped away. In grinding poverty he labored on, Those which was seemingly so crazy that those who did not laugh at it were corner grocery unc ne room, whittling his mod 8 meagre food home from th his coat. He kept himself aliv wer by taking photographs \$ 0 Triumph Not until 1844 did Morse's triumph come. tt | at Last! then that he forced the public at least to believe in him eee by proving the practicability of his telegraph invention, ' His hair and beard were g His face was wrinkled and haggard. His life was darkened by the memory of his terrible struggle, But now fame and fortune poured in upon him, And he lived to reap rich | benefits from his years of heartbreaking toil. | The “Failure” had at last taken his rightful place among the world’s | Immortal, | | The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell DON'T suppose you would care to do a little shopping for me les “Going anywhere?" asked Mr, Jatr, noticing now th, he little curl right to-day?” asked Mrs, Jarr. in the middle of her forehead wes | “I'l do it af it ts necessary, of | pinned up in a little packet of paper, |course,” said Mr. Jarr dubtously,| presaging social activities later, |*but"— “Well, I did hope to be able to | “Oh, yes, ‘but!' replied Mrs, Jarr! over later to Mra vers war re- with some asperity, “if you were to/llef meeting this afternoon,” said ask me to go shopping for you I'd) Mrs, Ja But of course something |be only too willing to do it! But no,| will happen to prevent me, I never | you don't want to give me a hand « anything.” “But, my dear, I'll go to the store for you if you want me to and if you are too busy to go yourself,” sald Mr. Jarr, mildly, “! thank you for offer- ing to go shopping for me, but, really, | there is nothing I need, | pe “Now, don’t say that!" said Mra. Jarr. “I mean don't say you'd will- ingly let me go shopping for you, Goodness knows! If I do see a sale get | “Is this meeting this afternoon so important?" asked Mr, Jarr, “What re you going to do Why, Mrs, Stryver wants to ¢x- pose a scalp massage ointment that ie has found out is only olive oil ' fumed, She has been paying @ |dollar for a small, three-ounce via of It, and her new matd, who used to work in a beauty parlor, tells her sho used to mix it up out of cheap , Jof neckties or collars or anything|salad oil, Do you know that it ts |like that and buy any for you out|impositions of that sort that make of my own money you scarcely thank| Women doubtful of the motives of all me, and you never do wear them!" |humanity? While wo are on the sub- “But—ahem!" faltered Mr, Jarr—|Ject, Mrs, Stryver wants to tell us “you really do get me ties of light | all about the lotions and beautifiers, {blue and lavenders and such colors |She says that she has found out that that I'd look odd wearing, As for |th re all fakes.” | collars, I only wear one etyle, and you What do you care; you don’t us never get me that one; and I wouldn't |them?” sald Mr, Jarr, who believed | mind that so much, but you never get she didn't. (Mrs, Jarr belleved sho | my size.” didn't, too.) | A Little alfference in size shouldn't! “Of course T don’t use them,” she | make you angry and turn you into aid, “but it is a shame that poor fiend,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Oh, I hear| Women who haven't good maturab | you tearing up the collars that don't |Complexions should be cheated so. | suit you! If men wore sensible col- We have found out that the flesh liars, ke women do, they could pin rush Is tnjurious to the skin, also, them on and adjust them so long as| “Nothing ts good, then?” asked Mr, they were somewhat near the right |Jarr. “But say, I thought this was to anywhere!" size, and, anyway, you're getting fat!" | be @ war relief meeting?” | “Yes, I believe I am," sald Mr, “Oh, there 1s to be a beauty expert Jarr stolidly. at the meeting to demonstrate a new And I don't belleve you care; you kind of vibrator for facial massage care for nothing! The greatest trag- that is marvellous!” replied Mrsca Jedies in life mean nothing to you!” Jarr, “besides, anything is a war re- | declared Mrs, Jarr, lief that is a relief from war!" | eet epee Beware the fury of a patient man.—John Dryden, French Royalist Movement WL __ Killed by the War HATEVER else it may bring, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon, have about, this war will almost #cted as stretcher bearers in the am- s bulan ervice, and have be y 0 o death ‘ 53 a certainly prove th MD) awarded the Croix. Militaire or tha 4 blow of the royalist movement in|repubiic, Prince Gaston of O-leans rance. Up to the time that t ed as & private, and, becagae of eras Gneaden range the caval advanced: years, was given ¢he Nn ‘ eee Hall of patrolling a rallway trace, nd othe imp \ mong the dead honored by Prance Jearry on a} ropaganda,|are several scions of princely aad with ila. patr ened by the! ducal houses, including ‘the Di With p itohaa, the Du oth arch enemy, political divisions were forgotten, subside Only the complete ‘en this war could sentiment in Prank formerly held a can activities, and » cf Lorge, the Duke ince Hearl of Polige parre, and man, brs. Several of the descendants of ho nobles created by — Napoleo! {starch Honapartings all, are serving e head of the F st movement | 4 Arenburg, I the Duke ¢ and the roy at of France vive royalist nobles ¥ m all repubil supported the nch royalists, hilippe. Duke of O1 alist or Bonapartist movemen been permitted to enter the eee among the first to offer their pene Taw OF the Reap renee to the republic on the ¢ & of w hibiting such service by a. pretemder and many of them have been killed /to ‘the throne, and aif ap Pretender or wounded falling have. refused hist prmapee. ‘Two royalist acions, Prince Sixtus sword offered made up of certain dote d \ (| if