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Sere eee So ree Se reve eae : ' ° e ' VOT) Ol 1 Tuesday, February 27, 1917 Pitsy PF Gil She Evening GBiorld. Firty Failures m ~ A ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | Published Daily Except Sunday by the Presa Publishing Company, Nor. $3 to | W h es B k to are tow. New Fark | O ame ac PR, President, 62 Park Tow. irreaaurer és Pane itn By Albert Payson Terhune A Budsor Heghs| For maetant aoa ire Gh and Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) « World for the United States AN Countries in the NO. 6.—VON HINDENBURG, the “ Failure’ Who Becamea and Canad | Vostal U One Year... 01 One Year. sees War Hero. Oo ‘onth. 11 One Mon ‘ One Month 01 One Month MONG the crowd of stiffly methodical German Generals @ few VOLUME ¢ ‘ ee i | years ago stood a man who was grinned at as visionary and ee - -—- - — foolishly eccentric, THE PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS. Where others of the Kaiser's Generals followed an um- HOUGH fol t ‘ iy f , swerving “card index” formula for every military move, this grim-faced, ; : : ; ie 7 ada ha 4 : talkative, stocky old warrior had an uncomfortable way of thinking for } \ H eerie th Pees : 8 hia’ himself—of breaking all the old bard-and-fast strategle rules when such P day, wisely put the a . i a matter for immec rules interfered with his plans. eideracic ormis as pa Si ‘ on in terms as plain a He was Gen. von Hindenburg. And among his other oddities he had T request that you will authorize me to supply our mer- a hobby for manoeuvring his troops in the vast swamp region known ai chant ships with defensive ns, should that become necessary the M ion La b ht tr and with the means of using them, and to employ any other in \ Mordor barbie dbertclad hdc le Bh Soonidl herbed Malach Dror dAkeitat dhe 1 | strumentalities or methods that may bo necessary and adequate He believed that, soon or late, it was here that Germany and Russia must to protect our ships and our people in their legitimate and clash. So he studied the region from every angle. He worked out cam- peaceful pursuits on the sea.” palgn after campaign. And the climax of every one of these campaigns There is no doubt about the meaning of that. Congress need not left the imaginary Russian army wallowing up to their necks in the foecold waste an hour in analyzing it. Until the thing is done, until Ameri-| | water of the lakes can merchant ships, properly protected, begin to eail again from | People laughed at von Hindenburg, sneered at him, iampooned him American harbors on their legitimate business, the United States is! | for this hobby, Once, so the story goes, during @ set of “lakes manoeuy- r) submitting to Germany's blockade and showing, in the most con- 4 ring” the Kaiser himself had the bad luck tw get @ vincing way conceivable, heed of German warnings and fear of The Kaiser { drenching in the muddy depthe of the swamps, German threats. | 1% and the Swamps, and promptly decided the whole echeme was {diotic. Neither Congress nor the President should lose a day or an hour} ORPPPOPPLPLLAL ED Sey cee ven er euen ere. Van) Cree fic Sebald Kiseriean ibinolbet iat aRioGHth RERAHVOLY AE leat | dreamer and a crank. Also as a man who talked De ee toe Purr ee asUnh WHRY SOUR, Hegervely’s % | too much, He was retired from active service, Back to Hanover ha went to German control to drag out the remainder of his life !n idleness, embittered by the knowl- Yor the rest, the President’s latest address to Congress shows *| edge that he was tn disfavor with the Kalser, that his wonderful plans hed steadiness, a moderation, a calm grasp of the situation and its possible | been disregarded and that he had been laid on the shelf as old and useless. consequences that prove him more than ever worthy of the nation’s It was a sorry ending to his life of brilliant endeavor. confidence and support. He is not being pushed into war. But} ‘Then in the summer of 1914 the war broke out. Eagerly von Minden: neither is he letting his arms be bound in soft:pinions by the pacifists. Geet, Hive ccie see Said Gites Gicte Cat ote ‘hacasched trality 1} i t But it t | weeks fuming in enforced idleness while his beloved countrymen battled for he armed neutrality ik Proposes is not war. ‘4 t becomes war their Uves and while Russia's armies overran Kast Prussia—the region the instant German ruthlessness comes into collision with American he had so carefully studied. 4 rights, “Suddenly,” he wiltes, “came word that the Kaiser had placed me in In 1798 this country was in a state of armed neutrality toward command of the army of the east. I had only time to buy some under- France, following various outrages against American shipping sanc- clothes and have my old uniform cleaned before I set off.” ‘ tioned by the French Directory, which had been irritated by our Instantly von Hindenburg put into effect his long years of planning. He treaty with England, Congress authorized President Adams to create checked the mighty Russian advance, outgeneralied the Russian leaders and an army and a navy. Merchant ships were authorized to arm them booker eth Aled healt bntarthllteeinta dt rabdeetediis bic! selves. Some three hundred of them did. Naval hostilities actually Te eee oer eee, Pe let eccrievnee sutme sive. Spore mE 1 The United Stat fri C tellat 1 i | swamps,” writes Gardiner, “ls said to have driven some of the German began. io nited States rigate onste! Late captured al rench} | officers insune.” frigate in West Indian waters in February, 1799. Great excitement | This Masurian triumph not only wiped out three Ruasian army corps ensued. Yet there was never real war with France and all differ | and turned the whole tide of war in the e but it crowned the once enees were gradually adjusted. | : discredited old dreamer as hero of all Germany, The “abundant American precedent for armed neutrality” to A Queer Dream Fi He was Spe 49 his country's favorite non, the . i A fs Hae uil-conqueror, man of the hour, Wit which the President refers is not discouraging to those Americans to-| That Came True. § | uy ki - af Wials oa ' ; | aenrnnnnrnnnnce, diet months he had risen from the ashes of failure day who desire war only if honor points no other way. | s to w dizzy height of fame. “To safeguard in practice the right of a great people who | And he took a childish delight in his sudden onrush of popularity, res” 7 are at peace and who are desirous of exercising none but th: | Joicing gurrulously at newa that cities, villages and streets all over Gere rights of peace to follow the pursuits of peace in quietnes | many were renamed in his honor. Fortune had not come to him too late ; and good will—rights recognized time out of mind by all the | to destroy the sharp flavor of the yoars of iil-luck. civilized nations of the world.” es = - . a = The President has never put it better or in a manner that so} — - —_—__—_—_—__——_— — _ eee ne Se = challenges pacifism itself to stiffen its shoulders and stand forward. || M h d B l | k | By Roy I M (e | 1] | ‘ ‘ « i te) » wviCLE ci Sint i Mothers an AOY Ta at Mad MY arde And now the Laconia! We must walt for details, It Coxorient. 1017, ty The brea Publishing Co. | baby is, or how cute are hiv Uttle Newspaper or a book, or attended a| Covsrieit, 1017, to The Praw Publishing Co. | think!" exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, “They, “Why don't he marry and bave results much longer palliate intent? (The New York Kvening World.) ys, or what wonderful Intelligence | meeting, or enjoyed any pleasures be- ne Now York Hrening Works.) only say {t to married women--they [seme ot his own, then?" asked Mrs, > : na | he is displaying, or what a joy he 1s,| yond the hearthstone. ‘K SILVER 5 he hasn't|say anything to married women. But|Jarr. But then I've al eee ms By Sophie Irene Loe b. [3 ae This is all wrong and unnecessary. | 66 pas ss Ma Mnvita onl youl eeu: Inteoduaeila. Lanuelor: to kc Glee |THAt thowa Decals Hie raed pe either do pe: o kno’ A little caref agement 14 cer- orgo Ly , a x A pOf yy THE PLACE PAl finciiery, “Rays! you set) ay Heer Cesancs era Pane the etter Bae this mtirectione, It in| gave him,” sald Mr. Jarr as hej girl—a girl that would make him aj fond of children nevor have any of sited thought about eau everlasting |iubies. ‘The coming of the baby's deplorable to lose all Interost In every-| nung up his overcoat, “I mot him to-| Kod wife, and they are afratd to be| their own, Look at Mra, Kittingly!" 1 ry f t ) ry talk of your bables? tooth is only an event in the life of | thing. Lt too much of a sacritice 4 he'd come , [left alone minute, The night Cora] + ¥ 7 HE discovery of oil on Mindanao, the southern island of the And do you re-/the mother and the Immediate family. | for the woman herself and in common | day and in age We Deeck any enc|itlckett was hero/and the lighta went lors tire castht cata Me be 4 *hilip) e group, r » allur yrospe of easy hes alize th | Outsiders will be polite and listen to] parlance you “get no thanks.” and for that matter break any - ; L De "eal rr. Jerr, "I Philippine group, opens uy ng prospects of easy riche alize that that ie) vou only out of politeness. If you! That iy to say, you owe It to your-|gagement he had, fer, as he sald, a/out I thought that Jack Silver would] think they muat be selfish, too, ‘Tre * for fortune seckers in the South Seas. According to the one of the very] Koop it up they will get away from|self and those close to you i} avoid poor old bachelor” have @ nervous chil! He actually | unselftsh man always marriee~some | : things that keeps] you as much as possible. in a word, | getting in @ groove that holds only | P°° halneit! asked !f I hadn't a lamp!" ‘i Manija ‘Time & mothor “tied| the world at large le not interested in| the child element. 1 might say It is} “Poor old bachel or Bi Mp ro SPT EO ea HIP Tg hoy he dosen's now how to esoape.”’ 5 y : ay our baby talk almost unhealthy Jarr, “He's a rich young bachelc | . so?” cried Mrs, Oi) fields greater in extent than any ever known tn the doment | (nce ee ees leandes ony: ‘et Summed up, you needn't talk baby |" yell, no matter, he said a poor old|/home in the dark; a single man 49! «go that's how tt ts? Well, pcos Philippines and rich beyond computation have been discovered early years of ber . : ure to be. |talk all the time, It doesn't help the . ‘ ome cook- | @frafd to be in any home tn the dark, | ya. ’ cause it is not human nat t hauy ae we ill ever dispute] bachelor appreciated good home co Me rr, Tam glad to see that at last yo in the districts surrounding Lake Lanao in the southern little ones? Especially te this the case with peop! a Oey ee Ny Chur Gwe enue cntl ica? especially Jf there is a destening fe-|come out with the truth! But aia T island, and the tale of the find, spreading ke wild fire, has eae yon | ditticult for then to see your point of | You cant get sympathy In speaking] "Why don't he have a home and| male around,” ventured Mr. Jarr. ask you to marry me? Did T sun caused @ rush to the region which can only be compared to a ee In a | IEW. of your burdens in baby raising) wave nome cooking In it then?” asked) “Do you mean to say that Cora|after you? And what would have be- the mad scramble which followed the announcement of the Fut 8o, Tong, and | eye eee tt i& Pevond all measure for) an devise ways and means for de-|Mra. Jarr, ‘I know a lot of nice girls| Hickett fs a designing female?” asked | come of you if I hadn't married you? gold to be had in the Klondike. that you suddenly | culldren, yet there is such a thing as| Voting some time to other interests| who'd make him a good wife. Why) Mrs. Jarr, “She is a very sweet girl, | That set you ran with—e lot of drink. ‘ tory of |} \ eg imposing on their patience by @ con-|than those of wee ones. Hundreds | qoesn't he marry and settle down?" |and she was very nice to him and/ing, card playing, club going, selfish The story of how t oil was dois appropriately ro- : wake up and find) stant conversation on the topic of chil- of mothers G0 Ite ere peu! hap “T suppose he will some day when) was so Interested in him—asked me|men, and that Jack Silver was one of ) t ap , o vere r n that the world has moved on apace | gy, ou will not only b: nore hap- crc he nantic. It apy 3a par f camy in Mindanao built a fire to : “i i x you behind atill talking hae the other hand, | know mothers | piness into your own life but into| he finds the right sort of a girl," ven. i? deren times 1¢ he really did bave a| them ) cook supper ona spot that happened to be just over the seepage from. talk? who, during the tlne of rearing two) the lives of those about you. And | tured Mr. Jarr. jarge income, “I wasn't talking about myeelf, tt- f the hidd il, To th oe or i you will say, “What ts children, have rarely read a! you won't neglect the baby, either, “Any girl would do HIM,” said| “Ter work was rough,” said Mr.|tle woman, I was talking about Jack ne of the dden wells of vil Vo their astonishment, after ne. bid tie I is thane — Mrs, Jarr, “but that sort of talk is all| Jarr, “That's what made him shy | Silver,” @ald the astonia od Mr, Jarr. their wood had burned to ize still kent as if the ground} mother's love for her bat and her | [7 apm etait ee sects I] ] poso with a man hke that Silver!|off about coming up here. For, he| “Oh, bother Jack 1? ante § f 8 i of us. {II ™~e fs Ws h t's} sald, I : that th t|Jarr sharpl Silver!” eal ive Sere atl tac atnvoadael nitahat ; care of them? So say we of us 2; n ‘| R fi t They're too selfish to marr at's} said, I remember now, that the next|Jarr sharply. “I au : , r + the itest and » 2T1e. pose you ote cen een er - As, eluewe tt te the greatest and || achelor ( rll enecuod0ns ie |time he camo up ho Just wanted to| him! But some woman will sot ey, t Me fed States who demand the privi Yet there ia something to be said | Why, I thought you liked him?"| dine with us and the children, Ho's| yet, and then”"— - pursuing wealth unhampered hy such i terruption as sudden) about a little duty that mother owes Ry e | en. R oO wla n d id Mr, Jarr in surprise | just erazy about children.” And Mrs. Jarr smiled | n srimly, eed of defending the rights, here should be an ideal pi to hersele and friends, | in the Brat _ — “1 do like him,” sald Mrs, Jarr.| cedaaieiapesiaman un ie AD ANbe) Pigee the best friend In the world my ° Prema PY 20. (The New York Bvening World.) | He’ y fl t of a) RSE i nes, ieee: Gabe talk’ ail Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl |, |“He's really a rather nice sort of a . f retirement, Maybe mwould send a warship or two to)Gosens want to hear Rehy Wie’ & LAS! A woman misses half the happiness in life if she doesn’t) ie sce its @ shame to think of that| BME ne'er the rose without the thorn.—Robert Herrick, vatch over them until home becan ngenial again If you keep it up long enough the marry——and the other half if she does. big place he has and all furnished so ——_—-—--——- end will be bored to th ane a | i ¢ course, it lacks all those a >+o vo ru, Also, It ts most unwise om jarandly; of depaenny *y | ] ‘ ] ] M hi ¢ : ‘mathera to keep up a continual The trouble with most marriages 1s that a man al-| little evidences of a woman's care Ellabelle ae Doo itt l e There are persons who sec when enst side conversation with their ehtl- | ways makes the mistake of marrying the woman who| “F thought his place was quite By Bide Dudle mothers find potatoes ten cen t to go to the foe ee oy raw hata ihe carries him off his feet—instead of trying to find one| neat,” sald Mr. Jarr. : By Bide Dudle ) Fublie library: and. get: out. J Prinetples of fa RAD AGRA eakee ALDAnA DATA who will keep him on them | “Neat! replied Mrs. Jarr. Yos, Political Heonomy to see what xeneral thing. Nobody but a mother | 7 j!t's too neat, And yet, If he were Copyright, 1917, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) — — aaa ted “aeaL can really apprec now clever the | ne ees a married I suppose he'd have cigar LLABEL MAE DOOLITTLE, otnner, winter ” — | Being your husband's “economic equal” means! oo. over everything and the place the noted poetess of Delhi, saun- | ' Letters From People | merely being all of bis rib, and half of bis backbone, at/ 41) messed up. A man can be tidy tered Anta’ aha anocere ware’ cel ° n How # Satlor Would Run the Navy. 4 t } ‘ | the same time | enough when he is living by himself,| Curtis Botts, In her home city, one day | Torney Hicketta Vo the Editor of The E aw 1 ete | = | put as soon as he marries ho expects| not long ago and saw a barrel | tle nie Hayir oe f xit b . When a woman bas vainly tried fifty-six ways of) a woman to be a servant and a@ slave) pickles, The grocer noticed her €X-| sy), a — “oath i‘ ye Sth , 1 will celebrate to-day the| Smrviewmetey aking a man propose she can always succeed at the|for him, following him around and) amining the pickles closely and invited | ttle, handing him’ the pee Bee fell egal deat LIN el at a : nt hundred and tenth anni- | ce Shan aa” Ans GAAina? Sake picking up after him! I hate selftsh| her to try one. may have this rhyme, “Were Ite | I'm sending these de f what Jlelect toe nies: he hirthiof the bard, The | mer moment by ‘elving Aun UP mon, and a bachelor ts thorough! "Grab off @ nice one, Miss Doolittle," /Send It to a New York magazine I 1d. do. great navy t a : a Lonatellows cvense | souwe an selfish or he wouldn't be a bachelor!” | he said, “Sink a tooth tn ft, and tf you] )1F Oy nee vos dollars for tt, ene the head and Roy 4 thing : . his ohare ke arc acre y tales may not be the best mental pabulum for children—but It) mete an at the nice women are! like it let me send a dozen up to your | "4,2" 3 have ii free of cost, The Naval Reacrve in a failure they My Vangle tao? | is not such a bad {dea for little girls to get used tv hearing them before| jarrieq,” gald Mr. JJart. home.” thankfully. Thon he turned ah eee, and «ray 1 Wisea 4 T aw has two shrines of the | they grow up and get married. “Oh, that's what they all say—a Thank you kindly replied the | dressed his clerk fathom w ca i wtional Pa i fellow mu- | - very cheap form of compliment, I) poetess. “I'll accept your tavitation to! tlk he called, “wrap up « dosen Paeiaealonibe aan tae. Mi father? Seren | Hancos Vine| A man who has just escaped from a thrilling love-affatr has the same try one, but T cannot assure you that |B tiga oulittio, sa atte home transt to Whe A lh the | aizay feeling of relief and thankfulness as the man who has just reached ALPHABETICAL AID. I'll order a dozen. Our family ts not | mentaries,” en Maeght a : mine a oot where | the sidewalk after betng grazed by a motor truck HEN a popular sea captain had) prone to pickle eating, but now and| Tho poetess was profuse in her eniistinent to 8 : «Be Joe ‘ Nov esd pds alias | died four leading men of the | again I like one, hanks. At that juncture Mesdames ANA Radian ih Gam Ail experienced : Ep, (Re which | hamlet were selected to write| 80 Miss Doolittle selected a nice | O'Brien, Peterball and Scrogging: ot Broth of y nes a ed 1 © Departenent recently held 4 si | A tin can tied to a dog's tall will make him hustle—and a helpless wife jamiet ‘ars Selec ma ' pickle and ate it, As she swallowed |members of the Live and Let Live meet lots ¢ lows, quick witte ' nina . igo pea het eppaye yy in epitaph, and it was decided bite after bite she became inspired | C sr of the Women's Ret! pnd eens. appa vers mae | ol nevermtory | clinging toe man’s coatrtalls may have the eame effect cach should write a line, ‘The first! with an idea for a poem. When the| entered the stores mae . Foo Jonas” ay 4 ? lgnity domine wy adr aliee, | wrote his ys The second puzzied | tall-ond of the pickle had disippeared | grocer ‘proudly exhibited tie Reem u farsight be \ Aine 7 pd aN a aaaia oa ax t fs 08 Re she borrowed a pencil and a piece of and the ladies insisted th rd nese cere ianien |b nay Ainortean inf nasoctation For the first two weeks a bride wants to telephone to all the hospitals! | jiitie, then ne wrote his, The third | #0® borroned a pencil and & bloce of | nd the ladica inaisted ¢ hat lee r Naval | v 1 f the Gave pore Renita Hal dere ae and the rgue whenever her husband is late for dinner—but after that | roilowed even more slowly, But the| herself on a cracker box—oh, she is|to clamor #o to hear tt that "Ke ‘ bb MAN " Longfellow Socte ich has mem. | She discovers that there ARE other things besides death which will keep! gourth wrote as if inspired, and the) very Gempora de the pated postess | poetess held up one hand, , A he in vee bers in every aniry UF | 4 wrote the following tribute to the pre-| “Tut tn ‘ » Ereniag W ae in America. ‘The old house was | nu Han et te rile of Be oe On hen tay aaa “They did as she bid and Mise Deo. s country to; is ma + for restored and stocked with furniture Don't conclude that a man js in love with you simply because he says| oe Se ee Gee bee 0 To into ‘Be ek me ‘ens \ttle read the rhyme with th Proper un eltizen® " Prat eesti tal pertod, {has with | he dreamed of you all night wait until you can make him lie awake and hey ga a ri Rh ea a inanatianee At gbe, Salah’ the Hee 1 1 Ie wala MF € poet and his works, worry about you all night —Harper'a | 1 eat Cee 00 01! omasioon, ¢ All were pleased, Bey \ , = ' { ) ——$<_<_$ $$