The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1917, Page 16

toe She Even ESTARLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by the Prees Poblisuing Company, Nos. 59 to 63 Park Row, New Yc RALPH PULITZPR, President, ark Thow. | J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 62 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row, ne dnetelatitenneniedntnh Mesa Entered at the Post-Office at New Yor\ an Second-(laws Matter, Bubs Jon Rates io The EveningjFor England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries jn the Internationa) and Canada Postal Unton. penien ‘ 60.78 One Year... One Month ++ $3.60) One Yoar.. + .201One Month... 0. 20,272 NOT ALL PRUSSIAN. | EEPLY significant is the British conviction voiced by the) Speaker of the House of Commons that Britis statesmen can never come to an agreement with the German Govern-| ment as the latter is now constituted. Before Great Britain could} eubscribe to any peace terms, Speaker Lowther declared, it would be} necessary to insist that it must be with a German Government “dif-| forent in essence and constitution from the present one.” Implied distinction between Germany as a nation and the Ger- man Empire as now governed appeared eurlier in the formal reply of, the Entente Governments to President Wileon’s request for a state- ment of their war aims: It goes without saying that if the Allies wish to liberate Burope from the brutal covetousness of Prussian militariem, it has never been their design, as bas been alleged, to encompass the extermination of the German peoples or thelr political disappearance. How much or how little the German popular mind has reflected) along theso lines it is, of course, impossible to say. But that hero} and there, even in Germany, are thinkers who eco the situation as it ia, there can be no doubt. Only a few woeks ago there was published in Munich, by an} organization calling itself the “Association of Male Citizens of South-| ern Germany,” 4 pamphlet called “The Only Way Out,” which flatly declared that the one hope for Germany lics in getting rid of the Hohenzollerns. 8 things are now going, the pamphlet asserts, ultimate defe: for Germany is “mathematically certain “But with the disappear. ance of the Hohenzollerna it will become possible for Germany to promote and cement cordial relations with England.” oe) “Even as France avoided terrible peace conditions by deposing Napoleon, so Germany, faced by the vision of final catastrophe, will one day be driven to decide on deposing the King of Prussl: oo, ee It matters little that this South German pamphleteer ia boosting the Bavarian House of Wittelabach as the best dynastic guarantee of peace for Europe. The significant fact is that there are Germans in the German Empire who refuse to sce their national salvation in being bled white to save the pride of militaristic Prussia. The increasing number of such Germans may well be what has driven Prussianism to a final desperate effort to prove ita power and hold its prestige. Whether coming from within or from without the boundaries of Germany, such appeals to German reason are the most dangerous enemies of Prussian dominance. From the point of view of the Im- perial German Government as now constituted, no expense is too great, no method too ruthless, no intensification of warfare too terrible, if only suggestion of this sort can be prevented from starting more German minds along non-Prussian lines of thought. Hohenzollern influence now depends upon limiting German con- sciousness, 80 far as may be, to two things: Obedience, sacrifice. Anything is safer than reflection, — A Riverside contract hearing produces hot words, It may also yield cold facts. The former are waste products, The latter are worth millions, ———_——— POTTED A U BOAT. HE French liner Guyane arrived here yesterday from Bordeaux with @ lively story of how her sixty-five-millimetre gun on the after deck sank an attacking submarine in two shots some- where in the Bay of Biscay. According to the Captain’s account, in the midst of a stealy fire from the U boat, the French gunners on their second try ecored # beautiful hit Just belaw the conning tower and the submarine dis- eppeared. This and plenty of earlier evidence to show how easily a good gunney can pot a U boat from the deck of a merchantman if he seeg his mark in time, make it quite plain why the German Government is menacingly opposed to the arming of merchant vessels, whatever flag they fly. The submarine is a weapon of stealth, For any murder it may do the German Government has refused to hold itself henceforth responsible. But the submarine is a thin-skinned reptile. If it! misses ite first thrust against the peaceful merchantman, the peaceful] merchantman has an excellent chance of saving himself with any} modest shooting iron he happens to have aboard, i Yes, indeed, we can understand why it would pain the Imperial German Government to see every American merchant ship n th lawful paths of commerce equipped with a handy pair of deck guns and two or three expert gunners, Which is a most ¢ gent reason for mounting the guns and providing the men at the earliest possi! moment, i The more shooting one can do the less one has to do. ——-4 Headline, “Let the sky rain potatoes!” cried Falstaff, ning: Ruin me these rascal middlemen! | we " Letters From the People Wants Shops Closed Feb, 22. | Wa Many stores, especially the smal View Hung Highs of The bvening Wovu 8 with Germat ones, remain open on Washington's Hirthday, and at the same time die. |‘ fas Tas been shown a: gr play in thelr windows portraits of jute "Mt tRFOURL IRnoranice ty ott the great President entwined with | of people do not know that there is ar the Stars and Stripes, right wrong wa ang ‘This is & shallow sort of patr flag A closed store with the employees FT think that this is a good time t joying well-earned rect and recreation 8¢! the people rig If hung in a would be much more appreciated by Borizontal position the stars should intelligent anc thoughtful patrons. be in the upper hand corner, If In the meantime Jet us resolve n Vertical the stars should be in’ the to defer our shopping until @ holiday. | upper right-hand ner Of course. If we would only remember this the this rule does not follow when the meres would very soon remain closed flag is on a pole, only when hung on OB those occasions a flat surface CONSIDERATH 6HOPPER. NATIONAL GUARDSMAN, World IPrepared! — Daily Magazine BY J; ti. Cassel | _ Austria’s Women Ably Fill Gap Left by War's Drain cause every capable fighting man was | ters of soldiers have been ¢ needed on the battle line, time there has been a preponderance: of women in all sorts of occupations More than nine-tenths of the elec- tric cars are driven by women all the conductors are women. jclean the cars and do practically ali In Counting House and Workshop They Are Doing a Man’s Part With Maximum Efficiency —Italy and Russia Also Resort to Their Woman-Power as Conflict Drags On. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. 1017, by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The American wome among themselves as to how ti aerve thelr country in the event of a declaration of war, they will profit by the exrpertence of who for two vears and a half hate been engaged in solving a similar problem, lowing article deals with the patriotic aervice of the women of Austria, Italy various civ! departure of Less than a year cab drivers appe thi pr ‘ow York Breuiug World.) d for the Army of Construc tion, Here is another reason whu the | On + eight or nine million American women who work outside their homes are—as | alwavs have contended among America’s most valuable citi- They are ready-trained to take the places of the men who go to the conductors Rome, Genoa and Leg {one woman barber is doing @ thriving business, Women ha jselves w tural work. vices on the farms and {n the vine- | yards have received generous gov- It| ernmental recogn | night watch is composed of women, | If they are wise walters have Women bank el in ever-growing numbers. is impossible to find any male shop| In| allowed to compete for the Medal of | the hotels most of the reception clerks | Agricultural Merit, a muol are women, and there are many wom- n managers, Florence Nightingale was the war- offering of nineteenth century woman- self-supporting woman ts it and broad- patriotic serv! BPRHAPS no one of the nations now at war has been compelled to make a more decoration given and faithful farm laborers each year There also has been thrown open to them membership in various agri cultural societies, = "Without — the splendid efforts of women,” the Ital- ian Minister of Agriculture has stated publicly, “the crops could never have been gathered.” postwomen and women bus drivers and grooms, ultural districts the number of women employed form a majority of In the professions varied and extensive use of its woman-power than has Austria- the one who has the est equipment fo the farm labore: still do admirable and de- voted works But what is the special contribution of the women among them dentists, doctors, archi- tects and engineers, warring countries Italy in the past probably has been most munition | conservative in the matter of public employment | in Italy the wives, daughters and sis- In the long cam- vere d ‘ted 0 Russia the drain vere ote nee the Austrian been progressing too slowly and be T saw him now gotng the way of all flesh.—John Webster, be an efficient, and not me eager pi of need, must learn how to do at least one thing well enough to | it. That 49 to be a mode Pite! BSR losses have con- sisted not merely killed and wounded, but of thou- sands taken as prisoners Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland ‘Tho New York Evening World.) ranks must be filled meant more men removed trom the industrial and agricultural } and the subsequent | mati 1017, by The Prem Publishing Co in most unhappy marriages {8 that the man expects too sts too much 1) ion of women lesson of the much and the woman susp | war to American women is that in ime | of similar natignal stress they must be e started it all by offering Adam the apple woman's punishment has been to have to supply the consequences Anniversary When it disagrees with him nowadays appears to consist | of a Hawallan orchestra playing ragtime in a Louis hung with Turkish tapestries and Oriental atmosphere” rve Tuesday, celebrated Latins as Mard! Gras 5,000 Bushels of Potatoes Held for Higher Price Al | Quinze tearoom, scented with Chinese punk, vat mirth and charactertzed The wings of love are not clipped .»y marriage; they merely molt from lack of exercise jon of {deas {s so spontaneous that somehow every time a { woman hears of another powder plant being blown up she anxiously feels great parade on + emind @ man that he“ lie heavy on the soul, aud are apt to cause sentimental indigestion, you anything, Claims, like clams, Sometimes a man never realizes that he is married unt!! he stops to think how many rounds of drinks he could buy for the price of a pair of wounded by t athe before the Bo. Botticelli may have had his thrills—but they were nothlug to that of the husband who has just fluished painting the bathroom, an occupations me 6 trenches, re first women in Milan, al n hardly ap- 1gh public 1 of the Now, how departu er, there are women nd motorwomen in orn, At least thr into jole-heartedly agi toule Best of all, thetr ser. For the first time they have been prized o the most efficient In Ru Ja, too, the pe ant women |have worked faithfully and loyally at the tasks from which their menfolk |were called away. Russian women have served as night watchmen, as railway po capacities ters and in many other The American woman who would riot, in her coun ‘s hour td for 1 Molly ‘The J Copgrigit, 1017, by The Press Publishing Co, The New York Evening Work 66 LARA MUDRIDG and the Stryvers were out last night and had a lovely time. Mrs, Stryver sent for the doc- tor, and Clara Mudridge-Smith told me over the ‘phone that it must have been something they ate, for she has @ dreadful headache and is so fever- ish that she has been drinking ice water and bromo seltzer all morning.” SMITH “They must have had a grand time. What did they eat?” asked Mr, Jarr. “She couldn't remember, but they were at a cabaret show,” answered Mra. Jarr, Here she sighed. ‘We never go out and have a good time - }like other people do.” ts of Ways of makitg a woman seem irresistible toa man| “We can't afford it, maybe!” sald but there are none more effective, Mr, Jarr. “We can't afford anything,” sighed Mrs, Jarr. “Life seems to be only meoting bill after bill; and when we're dead what good will it do us to worry over everything like we do’ “None at all," Mr. Jarr agreed, “When we pay the debt to nature It will be settlement in full and not just something on account! But cheer up, bonnie bridel We too will gojlimated Byench maidy tig olied, ‘Please take me home,” n them- | y an} arr Family ‘Fifty Failures | Who ‘Came Back” By Albert Payson Terhune | Couvright, 1917, by The Prem Pybitshing Co, (The New York Evening World.) \ ‘WILLIAM THE SILENT’ —The “Failure” Who Freed \€ the Netherlands. DUTCH Prince dreamed of freeing his beloved fatherland from |} German and Spanish slavery. When he strove to make that | dream come truc, he was so lamentably unsuccessful that he ‘ brought down upon himself the ridicule of all Kurope. and was looked on as the most hopeless failure of his century. ' He was William, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau. He is knowa to history as “William the Silent’--although he was quite as talRutere jas most men. Ife earned his nickname in queer fashion. | During a visit to the French court, in when he was only twenty- | two, William learned of a plot to massacre a throng of his fellow-country- men. He said not a word to lead the plotters to think he suspected or cared anything about the matter. Thus he was able to send timely warn ing to the victims and to prevent the French King from advancing the dato for the proposed massacre. This self-control on the lad’s part gainek -¢ him the sobriquet of “William the Silent.” The Netherlands, in those days, were ruled by Charles V., who waa both King of Spain and Emperor of Germany, Later, Charles was succeeded by his son, Philip IL, a cruel, bigoted monarch who brutally oppressed the Netherlands and made the poor Dutchmen’s lives 4 burden. Then it was that William the Silent planned to freo his suffering country from Philip's yoke He called his fellow patriots to arms. Philip, learning of the insurrection, sent the Duke of Alva into the Netherlands at the head of a punitive |No. 3—* | | | v vised an army to meet the invader, But the smug Dutch Larghers were not yet ready to make tho sacrifice at every nation must inake if {t hopes to cast off the yoke of tyranny or of invasion, The burghers complained loudly of ill-treatment. But gy. they hesitated at spending the money and time needed for repelling the “Sj | foe With such slack support, William's to stem the tide of invasion. It meckly disbanded. William found hime self helpless. His dream of freedom had Vanished. He was a Fallure—@ [man who 4d backed down tn the presence of a stronger enemy. Philip jand Alva ¢ scornfully amused over the collapse of the liberty bubble, But William was not content to rest under failure, Since he could not yet meet Philip in open battle, there were other ways of harassing the tyrant. He stirred up Duteh privateers—"The Beggars of the Sea," they jcalled themselves—to prey on Philip's ships and coast. These sea- beggars reaped rich harvest for themselves and almost crushed Spain's commerce. | Meanwhile, William was steadily and secretly working to rouse the Dutch to the polnt of rebellion, In 1572, he at last succeeded in making them revolt, The uprising was successful; and WiN- KX Blow $ fam was made Governor of the Netherlands, Realiz- f render, ing that the Dutch were not yet ready for the aacri- iad tAdoanbdlel fice that would bring entire freedom, Willlam gov- —er erned for a time as Philip's nominal vassal. Then, the moment his people were prepared he struck for liberty. A terrible war followed. Against tremendous’ odds, William fought the / encompassing armies of Philip; and, little by little, drove them from the country. tle patriot army was too weak ; Failure had “come back.” He had tid his fatherland of the oppressor and had made it uid spt no personal reward: not even the je of King did ser es. Nor did he live long to enjoy the fruits of his In the height of his triumph, « hired assassin murdered him, | Great Revivalists of Former Days’ | ~William Booth, Founder of the Salvation Army. | aiiatiin MEGNEIIV, ave found my destiny." | By Augustin McNally be the Pope of that pop- f Salvation Army sent up its anity which lifts mea and | bree tei Sec tant wetoudl f the gutter by getting J : thas into the gutter to do it. He over a graveyard in White started in on the untrodden ways jchapel—that Whitechapel which has) or'ao-cuiled Christian cities. Hercte. been the inspiration and the scene of ab army and called it the Sa all the cheap sins the human animal) vation Arms has committed against society, oo! ane is In midsummer, 1865, Willlam Booth | Booth ana hi rilowers made the had parted with the Methodists of | strect corners of London the scenes of the New Connection, He had been) tier « activity, ce rain fairly successful as a travelling re-| Come sue y were living, mov- sfed|@ble chapels. Prayers | volley-tiring, hymns we ent up like sung to the but was far fre 6 fruits guthere ns under the viva with t ist supervis: of aut ty which ham-| rolling of drums 1 the screaming of i ad Lee ry irritable, For| ffes. Now and again the tambourine ava the world seemed to have set up| Was handled with a softness that la el bar between him and the! ! ade religion realistic, ‘The taste of Kind of opportunity he sought orthodox ministers was shocked In the midst of these shadows came/ by this spectacle, Nothing human ‘ail from Whitechape was too degraded, too repulsive to be The regular tent-preacher ts stck.| #aved under the flag of truce waved Will Mr. Booth take his place?" by the Salvationisis, but the penitent Booth went into the gin shops andj feat seemed never empty |the dark alleyways and the cellars} They tried bullying Booth and his and brought them out—a crowd of/army. They put hallelujah lasses ia human wrecks, He gathered them) jail asa nuisance more they put about him on the street corner. By,in ja!l the more there appeared to jand by more wrecks joined their| take thelr places, They were stoned. |down-and-out sisters and brothers,! Booth was often tn the thick of riots. together with a dozen or so more of, But he stood on that imaginary firing He brought them| line he bad drawn and never re treated, filled tt. Booth stood head and) 109 ers above any man in i aUdi- Here and crevices in towns e. He was even then picturesque, | trom Lapland to Honolulu Sheeae though he had not turned thirty, H@| kind of religion had entered, ‘They was not reflned in his talk and|¢urned their troops loose and let the showed sparks of that passion to rule | daylight of popular Christianity into and to dictate which came years | these nooks and crevices. They went later when the Army was on the |to India and tamed a large part of march, He preached in bold and fiery the criminals, a task that defeated lang. he vy of God and the| English ministry after ministry, terrors of deviltry. He described an escorted the criminal to the imaginary salvation line and invited | prison, comforted him during exile his audience to cross 1t. He had the | from the world, and met him at the gift of teary. Two or three went up| gates when his term ended. They ind told their story. These encour- |founded reform colonies, homes we aged o hera The penitents became orphans of the degraded, homes for outspoken Hescribers of biography | the Marys of Egypt, and made enc- that would have interested any man|cesses of human failures. You can of Booth’ inclinations. When he! still hear the roll of the drum and the went home that night he embraced|song of “We Are on Our Wey to s wife and said to her: ) and his followers found eor- B Roy bE: McCardell | roaming ike the Romans do; we! ylelded up their hats and wraps and shall a-cabareting go! |were led by a sub-assistant deputy 1 “Wh are we going?” asked Mrs.| manager to seats at a table, | Jarr | One strident female was featured | “Well,” sald Mr, Jart, “Johnson, the; on the menu, among the cheese, as & Jeashier at our office, saya ‘Cush-| "La Irrepressibie Irene.” It was La grabber's Restaurant has best | Irrepressible Irene’s merry way to Review." | sing # ditty, during which she elrou- “How about the food?" asked Mrs,|/4ted among the victims of the es- es |toblishment, and if she saw a bald. “Johnson didn't say he ate any. | Beaded man she made “a mark of |thing, but ihe told me that wine was| Mim," as the Jarrs's waiter expressed fsix dollars a bottle, on account of the| t by kissing him on this hatriess Ss dome and leaving red marks rom “\What nonsense!” cried Mrs, Jarr, her excess of lip rouge there—to the joy of those who had halr end were ot “nade marks of.” I've got a terrible headache! Oh, | Wen't they ever keep quiet”: whim oe ‘3 Restaurant and Cabs! wos Griving a @our-inchand of meee Here at a broad doorway guarded| silk ribbons, through f..~ audience, by bandits in livery—such as hati] “You're not eating @ thing,” pe. marked Mr, Jarr, port pages, carriage agents, tHe remarked it loudly, #o his wife “[ bought a bottle of port wine the Jother day and only paid a dollar for it, and it was the highest grade, the man said.” bouncer-detectives, seating director,| could ‘hear. a istant managers and hat and wrap| “It isn't fit to eat,” she answered, abbera in the shape of several, “You're not listeuing to the song,” ho, said, ung women {n the costume of eub-| "it isn't At to tisten tol” she gee