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on a eee eee “with the guns they carry, warships of the American Navy will have Fvening World Dai Haig Wiorld. ESTABLISHPD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Py Publishit , Nos, 63 to ee ee tn het teed ere RALPH PULIT: wewrreanet.| 63 Park Row. | = J ANGUS 8H ‘reasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSHPH PULITZ£! 1» Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Matter, Budseriptio: tes to The ening|For England and the Continent aa@ we) World for the United States All Countries in the Internationa) gq Postal Union. + $3.60) One Year.. . 69.75 8010ne Month A STATE OF WAR. | EWS that three more American vessels—the City of Memphis, | the Vigilancia and the Tilinois—have been sunk by German| submarines, two of them without warning and with the prob- able loss of American lives, only indicates that the Imperial German Government continues to carry on war against the United States in the manner threatened. | There is nothing to be said now that was not said when the Al- gonquin was destroyed. The United States Government cannot de-| clare war against Germany until Congress convenes. Meantime the sailing of armed American ships may give rise at any time to an en-| counter in which some German U boat stands a chance of being sent} to the bottom. | If American merchant vessels are unable to protect themselves ‘to convoy them on their lawful errands. | The situation is simple enough. German submarines fire on our) ships and sink them. As soon as we can mount the guns we shall fire on German submarines, As it looks now, Congress is likely to find itself declaring war only as the formal recognition of a state of things well under wi The God of Battles is not the only one who is now shaping Kurope’s destinies. —_—— ++. NOT LABOR’S VICTORY. «+ | HERE will be no railroad strike, The action of the railroad executives in authorizing tic} Committee of the Council of National Defense “to grant, whatever adjustment the committee deems necessary to guarantes the uninterrupted and efficient operation of the railroads as an in ispensable arm of national defense,” saves the country from a threatened transportation tie-up which at such a moment as this! would have been a national calamit | The Railroad Brotherhoods may think they have won a victory, | They are wrong. It is not they who have triumphed. It is che nation’s peril and the nation’s need, it is public opinion concentrated in the President, it is the extraordinary exigency confronting the American people, that has averted the railroad strike, { Let the Brotherhoods make no mistake. Whatever the merils! wt their case, the country has no sympathy with the methods they have used to urge it. Their threats, their challenges, their truces| ‘t a time when the nation should have had from them only loy:! pledges and guarantees of faithful service will not be forgotten. A vietory achieved under cover of a national crisis is no victory | re TIP ante. . Some Bear! ly Magazine ] by The (The New York Wreoing Fubtbing 09 " orld.) The Brotherhoods have little to celebrate. | $<. ‘The German retreat on the western front begins to look rategic” In the sense that, if not done now, it would have to be done on the double quick later, —_——_-++ AN IDEAL REFEREE. HE Merchants’ Assoviation of } sition to the proposed west side contracts between the ciry and the New York Centra! Ruilroad is not justified. M The city needs the railroad and the freight and terminal facilities which the railroad will provide if the city grants it what it wants. That, in the view of the Merchants’ Association, is a good busines: | argument for signing the contracts as they stand. | ; It is a lucky thing for New York that the west side agreement | lias been discussed from more angles than any other public tmprov ment planned in New York for decades. ‘The Evening World’s| recent Forum on the subject stimulated public interest anew, and | i is now certain that neither the business point of view, as repre-| vented by the Merchants’ Assoc iation, nor any other limited or biased | jig vacations are seldom longer view can possibly prev: The city is not going to be rushed into, than two weeks,” Miss Holt told me a mistake, in her office with the Macmillan . ; ‘ompa t No, 64 Fifth Avenue, “| A against the argument that the city needs the railroad, an in jeg publishing house offers creasing number of citizens, civic organizations and public officials, in ew York is convinced that op.o- B a" Comm rigtit 188 JEAN M'KINNON HOLT, | organizer of a library depart ment for a publishing house | which she de-/ education — exten- | sion department, | believes that the | publishing field of- | fers unusual oppor- tunities to the am- bitious business woman, “Though salaries are not very bigh MISS J, Mf, HOLT, | suitable women a chance not only to get cluding the Boroug’ President of Manhattan, are pointing out that |!\!9& but a rie * mene mare the railroad needs the city. doen not utilite the epontanelly and The more the contracts are studied, the more points are revealed originality which aré in her, she wherein it is assumed the city must give away unrestricted and irrev Mi generates inte @ machine sooner oF ocable rights as inducements to the railroad to make improvements eiquite apart from the contact with which the latter in its own interest should be glad to effect on te much less one-sided, The whole matter has now reached a point where the themselves, the business methods and general organization of publishing are interesting, and one gets a knowledge of office manage- rms | books community could welcome the judgment of a referee—as disinterested as ho| ment: advertising and promotion ; y . , which may pro ab ot careful, conscientious and at the same time public spirited opinion as) “One thing I have learned in o to the fairness of the west side contract in all its det New Yorkers could turn to a better man HH “Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things; The good of subjects ts the end of king How “end”? publishing house that is more im- ails, we doubt if portant than training, 1s an intelli- | liberal, wide-awako gent, attitude | Anniversary 'o-Day LE RED VON TIRPITZ and Wil fam Jennings Bryan were both Letters From the People ! ™ is m born on the nineteenth of} Panes ated American, = oa ti wae March, to the utter confusion of as- the KAitor The Evening World trology, whiel pute! - L, fo magi be Evening W €y, which tmputes similar qual Is there any fon which wou Wilson from runn immediately a! tles to “Hyphenated American.” A says it; means & man or woman from a foreign country who becomes natural- ised. B says it means any one born) ause in the Const born under a certain sign Prohibit President! Grand Admiral von Tirpita, creator for a th arr sccand 2 2 fF | of the modern German navy and chief New York Brening World.) toward life and the ability to turn information to account quickly. “The things which count against women in a publishing office,” Miss scribes as really an| Holt added, “are the things which | | but 1 have nev handicap them tn other businesses: tardy and irregular attendance, un-| dress, office gossiping, lack of tact and courtesy in meeting peo ple, the regarding of every male as- sociate as a possible husband, indif ference to details, including rebuts which may give a hint for future success, and finally inability to grasp business matters through serious interest, “Againat these avorable T want to emphasize tt efficient services of many whose work I know well, women who are thelr own keenest critics and a items plendid lack of | No Royal Road to Achievement for a Woman Except | by Diligent Effort and Work Well Done, Says Libra- | rian-—She Is a Doctor of Books Who Prescribes What to Read for All Kinds of Needs. Nixola Greeley-Smith IT, by The Prew Publishing Co, (T i ‘The Jarr Fami cept only the highest do not know one who has achieved success except in the usual way, by hard work 4 constant attention to the nas subject, wh ever it may be. ‘Those who ¢ do this and also keep a healthy | sense ef humor and a liberal attitude } toward life in general are sure t Jexert considerable influence in ad icing the success of others a well as themselves “My observation confirms yours, I sald to Miss Holt at this point thi sven women achieve tem- porary succe ties than intelli; ased on other quali pnee and energy, known such women women succeed without t n—an ex traordinary aptitude for the work sh chooses, How did you choose your job” “Why T grew up in New York| City.” M Holt replied, “and as a child T knew literary and dramati standards, 1) critics, art editors and authors Nearly all the talk I heard in child pod was of bouks, and when I was ready to enter the busi s world, foreé of inclination, association and ‘raining turned me to publishing. My first work was the editing and Ulustration of some material wito Which @ technical art course bud made me famili: After that T had some general publishing house ex | perience and finally, five years ago, | was selected to organize this library, which has nothing to do with the sale of books but ts maintained as | a source of public Information. “It is part of my job to aid in the | selection of books for campaigns to last. The tricks of flattery, political, educational and social 1| t S A | tense of inferiority, and all t) r|/have chosen books for Arctic and H y R » re ‘ . suave devices of the disy | selentific expeditions, | t have haan | ow to emove Stains | tion may enable a woman to asked to recommend uplifting books | ’ , . rs “nN ahead a little way, but not far and ‘a young man discharged from Ik (0) \ arlious K d ; Cl h not permanently, A successfuljthe army.” In one day an ox- bes s rom arlous . uttet ot ot woman does not rely on personal | porter may ask for books on Snland | charm 4 more than a man does.| transportation in the tropics, a cler- " a > She must succeed through cnergy,| gYman want a volume that will prove | Q TAIN spots of various kinds In| removed by soaking them in ammonia Initiative, or failing these—and some,a turning point In a young man's table linen or dress goods often | wa carecr, and a business magnate cla mor for something which will tell him how to get a higher per cent, on his investment. [tis all Interesting | varied, and forces one to keep ahead lof the field tn near.y everything re lating to books,” Copyright, 1917, by The Prew Publishing (The New York Brening World.) 66QY OU can't guess what's in here!" sald Mr, Jarr, holding up & pasteboard shoe box as the family gathered around him on his homecoming, “Huh!” sald the ttle Jarr boy, for despite his tender yoars he wes a pessimist, “I'll bet It's an April Foo! “No, ‘taint!" erled the little girl, clapping her hands, “De box has dot holes in it, It's white mices!”* “Oh, dear,” said Mrs, Jarr, “I do hope you haven's brought the chil- dren any white mice, They had them 4 dollar to rid us of them; the dread- ful little things!" ‘Ah, I don’t want any white mice complained the ttle boy. “What's the good of white mice? They can't fight!" “Ob, very well, then,” sald Mr Jarr, somewhat crestfallen, thought this would please you all, but aw none of you seem to care when papa brings anything home, 1 can | \f | the yy jaald Mr il, give me the kiss then, dear, ald Mr. Jarr, pleased to hear this bid ‘or his favor and affections. “And you see," added Mr. Jarr, turning to Ns wife and the Ittle boy, “it isn’t white mice after all, It's a pretty little rabbit!" So saying Mr, Jarr took the lid off box and lifted out by Its long ears a half-grown rabbit ‘Oh, goody! goody!" exclaimed the little girl "'At's dese what 1 wanted! A sweet ttle bunny! 'N I'm dotn’ to div it a tiss too!” “And I think I should be consulted Jonce before and I had to pay # man |efore you bring home any wild ant mal,” put tn Mri But it's only Jarr, Jarr. one little rabbit, “There, dear, you cui ing, Mr, Jarr passed to the delighted little have | 80 8 the antinal over gir “1 don't think show so much aid Mra, such th might t's right of you to partiality to Emma," Jarr, “If you must get 5 them home you for Willie ngs and br ve gotte in U, 8. A, whose parents come trom| pee, ‘ato of unrestricted U boat war-| are it pack!” “L thought one would be pet enough . country, INQUISITIVE. v4 and general ruthlessness, i!" «) want ‘em, 1 want ‘ein!" eried|for them both,” explained Mr, Jarr, “Hyphenated American” came into) win. |, renin World sixty-eight years old to-day, while! ene qittle girl, who was the true|“#nd as you hear, Willie says he use since the war ntarted as a term hich te the correct word to use in| Mr. Mryan confesses to fifty-seven cabal op scprenned |doean't want it.” of derision for citisens who placed slowing sentence? A. contonds| years, Alfred Tirpita wae | feminine type which always expressed | do ! love for their home land, or that of past” can be used, and H, saya! Frankfort Hitz was born at) ereat joy at any present in prospec Naw, I don’t want |t," said the boy thetr fathers, above loyalty to th ed” must be used: “Kindly have| burg, March ta in’ ie, Branden: | ether she knew what it was or not,| With fine ecorn, “and I know what,” United Btaten, "Tue auection of bien | seme pest (oF passed) for an’ ecr rg. March 19, 1949, son whether she , b i Suerte yment 4 tle « lawyer. He was bre “au’ Llove my papa and I'l div him | here he regarded his little sister sig has nothing to do with it. “Hyphen- | Paymea A.W. lupin the in town { . . 1 |nifeantly, “my dog will kill it, He's ated American” is derived from the AOt until he was alzteen'th Ie @ tiss for any thing I'm doin’ to det!” | nificantly, “mn i wil it, He's use of the hyphen in joining the name | Te 24 Editer of The Evening W: tap penukintenes Cr ine ce he mad From this it may be geen that the /a hunting dog, and he'll Jest grab 1 American with that of some other; On what day did Feb, 6, 1691, fall? he entered the cayy ray Fo Bg littlest Jarr girl was also au instinc-|by the back of the neck and he'll nationality, LL enclent frigate, tive ‘folliez.” shake it, and’— toy L. McCardell | But the Uttle girl, horrifted by the jthought, caught the new to her bosom and commenced to wail, | “Now, Willle, I'l whip you if you let your dog kill the poor little thin ‘an Mr. Jarr, But he was Inter- rupted by the loud sniffling of Wil He's dog at the closed door, “Oh, don't let the dog in!" erled the {ttle girl, He'll kill my nice bunny!" Maybe he won't kill ft," said Mr Jarr. “We'll have to sec, anyway Maybe they'll get along all right | Anyway they'll have to get acquainted. Willle, let the dog in, but bold him, |and we'll see ff he will attack the rabbit.” Wilh » Nothing loath, but mutter. ing that Rover was a fearful dog to kill things, opened tho di and led the dog in, holding that dangerous animal by the collar. The dog evi dently was in no bellicose mood. He | took no cognizance of the rabbit what- ever, So indifferent was he, in fact | that tho ltue girl was coached to put the rabbit down o: 16 floor, dog did not appear to notice it and the rabbit, seemingly also unaware of the presence of @ natural foe, sat up | on its haunches, Sic him!" cried Wille, shoving the dog at the rabbit, The dog sniffed the creature, which threw its ears for- wand and patted impatiently with its hind foot on the carpet, The dog gave }a yow! of fright and flew to the kit- | chen. i] Wille sald Mr. Jarre laughing |you'd better tle up your dog or the rabbit will bite it” But Mrs. Jarr says she secs no fun in searing Willie's dog with. wild ani mals Sul the | 1 Covrrielt, 1917. br ‘The Prom Publishing Oo, (The New York Brentne World.) HIS is my answer, | ‘To a really, truly letter, I received last week. . Mrs. —. Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Lady, I have your letter, Saying that you have been a widow, for over @ ar, And that you are LONELY, And would like to marry, again, (Just like that!) But, that you go out very little, and never meet any eligible men, And since I seem to know so MANY of them, You wish I would, tell you how and where to meet “A nice, solid, successful business man,” | Not too young—and not too old | Who 's ANXIOUS to marry! ! ! ! ? And “would appreciate a good woman's love,” ‘ | And give you everything you want, and treat you “just like a child, And always be good and kind, and loyal, and dependatile, and devoted, } And pleasant at breakfast, and prompt for dinner, and neat about bis appearance, and generous with his money, And never look at another woman (Wait a minute!), | Because, You have been married twice, already, To two of “the best men that ever lived’! And you wouldn't be interested {n any other kind And this {fs just a line, to ask you, If you are trying to corner the husband-market, And, if you think {t's fair, For one woman to have THREE perfectly good husbands, When there are hundreds and thoueands of women, who can't half-way husband, And woula dearly love to know, how you got the first two? Oh, yes, ! I DO sympathize with you, And I know just how you f¢ All alone, in Brookiyn With nobedy to take you out—no: And nobody's shoulder to ery on, And nobody's hair to run your fingers through, (Unless you keep a pomeranian), And how you miss the smell of cigarette smoke in the curtains, And the ashes in the pin-tray, and the cigar stumps {n the jardiniere, And the scented shaving stick, and the bay-rum on the bath-room shelf, And the newspapers all over'the floor, on Sunday morning, And the morning and evening peck on the cheek, Because, after a few years, marriage becomes a custom, and a husband becomes o habit, MU That you can’t break away from BUT—I ask you, As woman to woman, If I knew where to find a man like THAT, Do you honestly think 1 would be wasting my time Writing this column! one keep you IN, Successful Salesman : By H. fe Barrett ship Selling on Saturday, ) “ ANY salesmen work but five city salesman for a wholesale paper 0! days a week,” remarked one I sell chiefly to retailers, ger recently I quit a on on Saturday, on the plea that it was hopeless to tak “They know that they can't sell on to merchants on Saturday afterno mn, Sunday; they think that they can't And very often I did not work Sature roy ature. on Saturday. And the effect thin | F870 Morning: two-day lay-off is, as a rule, extremely | 0M \irday T concluded to ex- disastrous to Monday 8 Every | Perlinent. After lunch T took a ear to salesman complains of the difficulty » outskirts and began to canvass of getting warmed up to his work on small stores. Unlike the down. Monday moraing. y Uatlers, they seemed to have Sulesmen think Saturday ts a hi 7 De Ne te Cal doo becuuse many business h hie ad i. sheaf of orders, 7 ividually, but a goodly close at n And if they deal with oboe y retailers, they point out at it's i; aggregate, And on the followe Mond y I found that It required to get med up to my hus I derived two benefits , cnd-of-the-week effort then T have worked right up busy day, with the pay-roll to attend to, and that it's impossible to rivet a) w prospect's attention | from’ my “Now [ think that nine times out! "since of ten the salesman is merely kidding, to Saturday igh 4d himself. I's more diMcult to sel on | have shown in ine cond asa ree Saturday than on Friday, that 1'll| urday sales are not impossibie of: admit, but nevertheless sales can | tainment And money made on Ba made. urday is just exactly as good ep exactly 3 Take my line, mace on any other dayne) oe Me for example. I'tn sfigure-|_ RUIT STAINS of all kinds, peach, sfigure 5 distiguro:| grape, cranberry, & fresh, at| When they are fresh, by pouring bo!l= ing water over them, If the ataln ia f/ Id, the only way to remove it ts by ling {t in Javelle water, but thint sft to be injurious to the fabrie and wit become | ments because they can be re ved, while tthe time either is unknown or fo gotten, The following list of removal methods, compiled by Popular Science | Monthly, 1 out nd pasted permanent be manner can be removed in your housebuld scrapbook may remove the color in any col- prove a valuable possession in suing | OT Mi Caine future Une of need GRASS STAINS, when fresh, can be BLOOD STAINS when fresh and n soaking in yicohol, It still wet, can be removed by dropping | thé stains are old, rub with molasses snd allow to stand severa! hours be fore washing out, GRBASH spots can be if Cae caked | With gasoline or with NG-—If clothes are streaked | ‘i reful manipulation te soline and ether way from any flame, Pour enough gascline or ether on a tablespoonful of starch to make @ paste, place the paste on the under side of the spot | und allow to remain several minute Krush off the starch when it ts dry. wroxide on them, I old} Water and soup are most) hydrogen stains, cold etfective. BLU or spotted with blueing, boll them in dilute aoid, using abouts teaspoonful | of muriauc acid to two gallons of removed ether, But necessary. must be kept B12 stains should be rem from clothing before it is washed, hot water aud soup set the stains, washed while fresh with cold water| piner evaporate is an old stain, boiling ia Javelle| O45) unpleasant water will remove the stain! but may | “ORANGE STAINS are best Pia olate and cocoa stains shoul SAO 6 the spot with cold water, and hanging in the bright sun- shine, PAINT or VARNISH, tf on or nen, should be soaked tn pl treated in the same manner The recipe for Javelle water 1s given at, the end of this article, IODINE spots can be removed by |tine or gasoline, If on ailk di swabbing with alcohol on a piece of | {0° OF 8 i jo not absorbent cotton, or, better, by plac. |W" turpentine; ether will probably ing on the spots a paste’ made of | Pea 2 starch and cold water, ‘This will|,,RECIPIT for Javelle Water—Put form a blue spot, which can be easil ne § ¢ 1 soda in two quarts of boiling water, stir till dissolve Washed out with cold water an Rod a ho udd one-fourth pound of ehior Pa a Ue are sail lime, stir well, tot settle, pour ree ot short time in dilute muriatic acid retin lng careful not to get any (one part acid to one part water.) | Of the powder settled out in the bots Bo sure to wash the acid out chor. | fom) Tut In a bottle, cork well, ang oughly or it will rot the fabric, Rinse | l4bel. | It is safest to dilute this with in ammonia after using acid on any |" ial part of water when using, fabric, | MEDICINE STAINS will almost all dissolve in alcohol, (66 MILDEW can ve removed by soak. | Ing in Javelle water and then hanging in the sunshine 1 ot all removed the first time repeat the treatment | MILK can be easily removed while ————— HAD A PROPOSAL, AD a proposal from any of the fair sex this leap year? inquired Fitznoodle, rh T had @ proposal from young lady at my lodgings,” be “Philoplis, but you are ve. In luck! | fresh with cold water and soap. After | HOw did she muster coura | milk has + boiled inte is it ta] lt, and what did she payee makO laim impossible. to rve, ale | cll, You see, she keeps | though boiling in Javelle water’ will| for her mother, so she eae ee *| some times help, and prope y DYES Clothes are sometimes Yos, ves, lucky dog! Go on. ‘ splashed with dyes in jdyeing at ‘e proposed that I pay up my home, These splashes cage readily arrears or vacate,’—Chicago News, ’