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PG a j siteocaipe: ce J ‘ mere ESTABLISHED BY Published Daily Except Sunday by the Pr . Park Row, No PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-om Subscription Rates to The JOSEPH PULITZER. Second-Class Matter, Eve! England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States Al’ Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union. One Year... $8.60 One Year... reer rere | One Mgath.....- eae eeederede 30 /One Month. AIRPLANES FOR COAST DEFENSE. XPERTS agree that nothing is more urgently needed for the nation’s defense than a formidable force of airplan Besides an annual requirement of 1,000 planes and 1,000 aviators for the army, Chairman Walcott of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics recommends 200 planes attached to the fleet at sea and 800 planes for harbor and seaport defense. If anything, aircraft protection for ports and harbors should be increased beyond these figures. Once war is declared, the first great defense task is going to be the safeguarding of the country’s Atlantic seaboard. Provision to that end, whether by land, sea or air, cannot be too thorough. ‘ A night or two ago Rear Admiral Peary, speaking at a banquet of the Bronx Board of Trade, made a special plea for air service: “Recent exploits of the U-53 off Nantucket,” he declared, “have brought us face to face with the question, ‘What should we do if antagonized by a nation possessing a fleet of such fighting machines as the 7 “The aeroplane will be the quickest and cheapest antidote for the submarin Its speed and range of vision are three times that of the fastest destroyer. It can detect and follow | @ submarine that is entirely invisible to any surface craft. | It can destroy the submarine wheg it comes near the surface.” The war in Europe has not demonstrated the utility of bulky airships. On the other hand, it has proved beyond all doubt tle immense value of airplanes for scouting and bomb dropping. The , ations coast line needs as many of these eyes-in-the-air as it can get, for it will be its ports, harbors and undefended stretches thut will immediately need most watching. rr Gcrman newspapers say that the first time an armed American vessel fires on a German submarine the Imperial German Government will declare war against the United States. | Good. But will the Imperial German Government remem- ber to date its war against the United States back to when it began? i —— 4. THE MAYOR’S WORST FAILING. | | HE Mayor of New York should not have to be reminded tha') one of the first duties of a public official is the duty « self-control, | ther when he charges State Senators with treason because they oppose legislation which he favors, nor when he appears “whue with anger” on a public platform and divides the population of the country into “Americans and traitors,” does Mayor Mitchel worthily epresent the great community which has honored him with its ighest municipal office. There may be trying times ahead when strong men will be men vho heep their tempers and rule their tongues. The Mayor of New York should take care to be in training. ' Omen The Imperial German Government now marks out part of the Arctic Ocean as a new zone of danger. The United States is convinced that there will \be no zones of safety anywhere on land or sea until Prussian lawlessness 1s once and for Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to Tork, | | | ae — ad ‘Yesterday's Mother to To-Day’s Daughter, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, No VI. Y DEAR: There ts an Elghth Deadly Sin, It 1s Rudeness. M pressed, the World, It is a polite Daughter * of To-day, 1 think you WHEN WILL THEY LISTEN? | have manners, " ; * | my child, You HE telegram which Premier Lloyd George of old England sent had some when to Foreign Minister Miliukoff of new Russia contained pas | 1 loft by Poatt fi 7 ye ' ore’ sages which the Imperial German authorities must dread tu) Kye a aislay Rare ‘ave sink into the minds of any considerable portion of the German! bl 1am not angry veople. The Russian revolution, Lloyd George telegraphed, “reveals tl fundamental truth that this war is at bottom a struggle for populs government and for liberty’: “It {9 @ sure promise that the Prussian military autocracy which began the war, and which is still the only barrier to Peace, will itself before long be overthrown. “Freedom is a condition of peace, and I do not doubt that Asa result of the establishment of a stable constitutional gov- ernment within thelr borders the Russian people will be strengthened in their resolve to prosecute this war until the last stronghold of tyranny on the continent of Kurope 1s de stroyed and free peoples in al! lands can unite to secure for themselves and their children the blessings of fraternity and peace.” “The only barrier to peace,” “the last stronghold of tyranny u the continent of Europe.” Once these ideas begin to take hold of the German mind it is all up with Prussianism. After all, the German people are neither clods nor slaves, ‘Tho otion that, now Russia has climbed out of the dark, democracy all over the world is pitying the Germ ‘ powerful effect upon Teutonic pride. When will the German people have suffered enough to be read to Msten to the frank call of free peoples whose only demand is that Germany cast off the curse of a national policy which civilization cannot tolerate? ns, ought presently to have a suffi lent to bedevil a whole nation to final downfall and destruction ——+-—____. The French appear to be strangely unexhausted by the hard run the Germans have given them toward Berlin. Letters From the People Sat * To the Baltes of The Drening World: Please inform me what da 1887, fell on, “Against Deolin: ‘To the Batter of The Prening World Which 18 norreot: Prioge are guar mi ims iM ‘loatinatton? esines's venting Trade Seho: Seventh Avenue Near Fourth Strest, | Te of The Drening Wertt) how they rank at the present, Liat me know ef ony See evening! OITIZmN, the trade of a machinist, Two Years, Te the MMitor of The Frening World a... 7; July aL 8 secure my second ones? Kagland, Then To the kajitor of The Rvening World Surely neither Militafism nor Kultur is possessed of power echoo) in Brooklyn, where I can learn How much time muat elapse after receiving first paporm before I can Inform mo who had the largest |mavy before the war in Kurope, and RST with you. But, for the moment, \ *\1 am decidedly displeased with your |generation, Although I have called myself yesterday's mother, 1 think in |these letters 1 haven't harked back unnecessarily to “when 1 was a girl such things never happened,” Just this once, however, I'm going to say that I don’t belleve the little scene enact- ed on deck to-day would have taken place twenty y such chair s a steamer » iy two years plur y | haven't ma quaintance or that of her lit black-frocked mother, for the doctors warned me not to talk more than is necessary, | pair with interest. |" ‘To-day the little mother with the | tired mouth was taking her siesta ay near han you, b when the girl—whose name, 1 have learned, is Alice—hurried up briskly followed by an attendant young man Without a moment's hesitation she put her hand on her mother's shoul- der "Wake up, mi ma she com- manded in a ringing contralto, chai now, You room and finish and 1 want the | To-Day’s Anniversary ee Peeve ous the most novel ever suggested for ending a war was that proposed by the eccen- tric Emperor Paul of Russia, who of- d to settle his differences with other nations by engaging 1n_ single combat with their monarcha, This ec centric Caar had ruled but four years 116 years when he was assassinated, ago to-day ‘On the night of Maron 34, 1801, after f@ long carouse, about thirty forced a y into their imperial mast that he abdicate. nobli the bedroom But I have watched the! of |eninisters (The New York Evening World.) | Your nap. And, first, you might bring up my shell colored scarf; 1 want to put it around my hair.” Obediently the little, weary mother ‘There i9 an Eighth Wonder of| arose, although the young man had| the grace to make some low protest and even to start in the direction of the companionway, “You stay right here, Teddie,” Alice continued to give orders “Mam walt on me, and anyway ake her ten minutes to find that scarf of mine, I've no idea where I put it.” It was almost a quarter of an hour later that the parental peon re- turned bearing the filmsy bit of silk, Alice may have sald “Thank you,” but I didn’t hear her, and mother meekly withdrew to her stuffy state- room, ‘The daughters of China, of Japan. the girls of a hundred nameless sav-| be taught to think of his parents as age tribes, would not be allowed to| gods, It 9 equally treat their elders with such graceless, ‘#, #ub-barbaric discourtesy. Alice is not an isolated excep- I have observed many similar tances of rudeness and lack of from twelve to twenty. ‘The trouble is, I think, that the youth of America fs in its Reconstruc- tion Period. in the spare- day: slavery to thelr parents, Tike the slaves of the South, many children of | the past were well treated; neverthe- less they lived in a stote of bondage. Nobody wants to go back to that arrangement. In the period of reac- tion from {t, however, the sons and daughters of to-day have been given, and have taken for themselves, privil- eges and powers which they misuse. While it is absurd that a child should i | charity, begins at hom consideration among American girls|ing short of abominable, boys and girls were in a sort of | preposterous that | he should be allowed to consider them doormi One thing I hope you will never for- get, dear, 1s that courtesy, like It is noth- this bellet |of #0 many young persons that any |manners or none at all are good enough for home consumption, You know I have taught you, from the time you were a mere baby, that you nad no more right to borrow my hand- kerchiefs, to meddle with the appoint- ments of my dressing-table, the con- tents of my chiffonier, than to touch the belongings of a guest in the house, Courtesy is to character as lace is to frocks, frosting to cake, fragrance to flowers, So—in the pretty Colontal formula— “mind your manners, child.” Much love to you from MOTHER, By Martin Green | Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The York Brening World.) ‘“ HAT do you think of the W statement made at a legis- lative hearing the other day hat Sunday movies do the people more good than Sunday church ser- asked the head polisher. replied the laundry man, “gince #0 many churches have gone into competition with the movies and the vaudeville theatres and circuses it 1s certainly fair to make comparisons between these different forms of en- tertalnment. The pastors who ar most prominently in the public are the pastors who conduct their They eye churches on the hoop-la plhin. haven't begun to put colors in the jelectric Mght signs decorating the fronts and steeples of their churches yet, but that innovation is undoubtedly on the way, to be followed, possibly, ‘by the motion electrio Ught sign of Longacre Square, ontemplate, too, the ultimate arrival ist who will announce fo swinging by his toes 4 oscillating above the auditors, the honesty fanaties for pose of some of would p nt, reer of pu the ution or reason the fight of the Sunday movies. underlying on the and demanded | The tnevitable conclusion ts that the Prince Zubov, a ministers want to shut off all com- former favorite of the Caarina, be- | petition ao they can have the Sunday came violently angry when the Czar fel to themselves. In other words, refused, and, seizing a chair, struck they tigure that If the people have no and trate death, rage, then foll upon the pros 11 and strangled him rhe followh morning Rue ot an imperial ander announcing th the Emperor over the head. The other members of the party, mad with drink on fla wan astounded by the publication away every Sund roclamation by Alex- midden death father “of a stroke of apo. wh else to go they will go eloquence about things know something about turn Buch prea Empty pews predomina they jare few, in most of the New York churches | resource at the oy rvices | Department they present to the public ere about getting and there is « reason, The « who unday we can’t find any but 4 selfish h. “The New York preachers who talk to with as interesting as a moonlight stroll through a lumber yard, “As for me, I get more spiritual up- it of a Sunday afternoon in than I could from going to church and having a gentleman whose knowledge of the world has been gained from a limited reading of Looks try to convince me how I ought \to vote. And it is worthy of note that denominations which = atick closely to the old-fashioned custom of using church cdifices for religious purposes are able to hold services every Week day and all the way from thi to Nfteen or twenty iimes on Sunday building ne churches AYOR MITCHE remarked the head polisher, “appears to have run ahead of the schedule and started a private war of |his own by calling Senator Wagner plan | the kind so conspicuously displayed in |@ traitor.” It 1s reasonable to | tn seeking a buzz-saw to monkey with, succeeded in picking the most dan gerous buaze-saw in the State,” said the laundry man, "The Mitchel Wagner controversy will unfold it selt to the public, but there ts one int in it that the public should be ghtened on now, The public infers trom what May- or Mitchel say vat the Legislature lin not indorsing the Mayor's plan for transferring land ¢ Government is holding up a fortifica {tion of vital importance in) New York's scheme of defense against an ittack from the sea Phe fact is that the Government idy taken ove no ground the f rhe guns wer * % month ago weapons arrived ha been the Rockaway fort ready. | whether o n moving picture theatre, with | its magnificent orchestra and Its! sense-soothing liguts and shadows, Owing to the governmental policy of secrecy concerning defense prepara- tions the public does not know the fortification has been completed, but it 18 reasonable to as- sume that any hostile vessel of war sneaking around our front gate in| the near future will receive a warm greeting from Rockaway Point, So| Senator Wagner has not been the | peding Unole Sam and helping the Kaiser, but he has been impeding certain friends of Mayor Mitchel.” | i 66] SPP." satd the head polisher, “that Prof. David Starr Jor- dan says that all the money sent from German sources to his pacifist organization was returned.” ty sald the laundry man, “but the udite doctor's | explanation proves that the Germans thought it! {worth while to send money to his | pacifist organization.” | “The young man tn the City Hall, Rockaway to the lding the foundations for the guns was In progress before the! berg, who operates one of the big- available | gest corset factories in the world, the War expended in H ‘Give Me Tim ; | tons, | Itors. and see nothing! Fifty Failures Who Came Back By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World.) NO. 17—MARK TWAIN, the Bankrupt Who Fought Hie We to Fortune. [UTSIDE a downtown law office in New York in the spring of 1894 stuod a group of newspaper reporters—I was one of them, I member—waiting to learn the result of a business conference that] was going on behind closed doors, Inside the place one of America’s greatest men was watching dasediy| while the lawyers held a post-mortem on his life hopes, The saan on Samuel L. Clemens—Mark Twatn, He came out of that conference without @ penny in the world, Bile \AJ wife's fortune as well as his own bad been swept away, And he was ‘ Bankruptcy left iim with no legal indebtedness, At the age of fifty nine, and in fragile health, he was at liberty to start life afresh, if b/{.' could muster the strength and courage for such an ordeal. Or he \ Jonaires, who were eager to be of financial use to him. He did neither. That was not his method. He had fought ward from mule driver and Missismippl. boatman to wealth ry £4 foremost rank in Literature, Tho same fighting spirit now made bim Fee than $70,009 in debt, avail himae!f of the proffered help of H. H. Rogers and other multiqallk (18 Gers 5, fis to accept aid, It also made him declare: “Give me time and I'll pay!” And he paid. Here is the story: Not content with the success due to his writing, Mark Twain had backed the publishing firm of Webster & Co., throwing Nimself beart and soul into his new career as @ publisher, Nearly all his own money and his wife's went into the mammoth venture. Whatever other sums he could spare he put into @ type setting machine, which ewellowed cash much faster than it set type. Webster & Co. went to smash with huge Habilittes, machine was proven useless, Thus, when he was almost sixty, Mark Twain found himself broke, weighted down with debis of honor and seemingly !n no physical condition to rally from the shock, As business men account such matters he was @ failure—an elderly, hopeless failure, The death of his adored daoghter soon after his bankruptcy was an added blow that taxed his evecy re- source. Unchecked by his shackles of bad luck, Mark Twain set to work, He wrote steadily and brilliantly. The splendid vein of humor that had made all the world laugh with him was us fresh and inexhaustible as ever, de- spite the drains upon it. Ile had written little of late years. But now book after book and short story after short story was launched. Not content with the large returns from his pen, he went on the looture platform, He hated to speak in public, He detested the grinding routine of @ travelling lecturer, But he hated still worse to remain tn debt. So he started on a “round the world” lecture tour. In Australla, India, Ceylon, South Africa and Hurope he lectured, Everywhere he met with ovg- Halls and theatres were crowded to suffocation by the throngs of people who flocked eagerly to hear him, Seldom has ", any celebrity's tour of the world been greeted with such spectacular success. On his way back home he stoppeg for a time in London, There, says A. B, Paine tn hip “Life of Mark Twain,” a reporter was sent to investigate a rumor that the * old humorist had died. “The report of my death has been grossly exaggerated,” was Mark's grave reply to the embarrassed reporter's questions, Keeping for himself only enough money for the bares: living expenses, he turned over every penny of his literary and lecture profits to his cred- and I'll Pay!” roulnnnnr eee Stee The type oottingy Tide ; Turned. ae lad to seo those debts diminishing,” he wrote. “I'm getting more pleasure from paying money out than from pulling {t In. © © © We've lived close to the bone and saved cvery cent we could. There's no undis- puted claim now that we can't pay. ® ® ® 1 have abundant peace of mind again.” Long before his death in 1910 he had not only paid all his debts but had amassed a new fortune greater than the one he had lost. He had wen, too, the respect of every man who honors a@ gallant fighter, The Jarr Family, By Roy L. McCardell Aisbing (tm Copyright, 19 New York Eveuing World, ss ‘ET us go somewhere to-nigit,” | Want to take me for a trolley ride said Mr. Jarr affably. |said Mrs, Jarr, “That's al th “Oh, I don't fecl like going | way when you take your wife out: out to-night,” sald Mrs, Jarr. 1 did| Don't spend any money on her! want to go last night, but, of course,| “Who sald trolley ride?” asked Mr. you didn't ask me, Jarr, “We'll go anywhere you want “why didn't you suggest It?" in- | to." quired Mr, Jarr. “Woll, I guess not,” sald Mrs. Jarr “If you don't think enough of me to say it yourself I never will, And yet I am stuck in the house day and night, all the time, and get nowhere You'd never ask "I told you I didn’t want to go anywhere,” sald Mre. Jarr, with thd {alr of @ martyr, “and if I did you wouldn't take me. “Yes I will,” said Mr. Jarr. “Isnt that what I've been saying the last” half hour?” “If you had ed ome last night"——~ began Mrs, Jarr, but Mr. Jarr who knew she wanted to be coaxed so as to make the matter as important us possible, took her by You don’t really want me to ge |the arm and sald, "Go get ready, Put Mrs. Jarr, “You see that I have 0! on something that buttons inal xt Inclination to go out this evening be-| nooks, and let'a go.” jtead : headache, and that's! . sb ged gh Ras And then peel ‘Where shall we go?” said Mr, Jarr, wi J { ines when 140 want to go, es I did| “yen Mrs, Tore Tes af ioe way a "wal . Jarr, * last night, and you see I want to go0,! . { ; weit wey eDidn't I ask you the other; Vould have liked to Bave gone to they Las deed jopera, but you never thought of ask- night? ing me to go. “There is grand opera at @ theatre ily. va 2 the Bronx,” said M Jerr, that about last night or the next night! jwill be the very thing!’ iJ “But I told you I had @ beadache.”"| «A strange ‘ace to have grand id Mrs, Jarr, “It's mighty strange opera, away up in the Bronx,” sald that you get this sudden mood, PUt try Jarr, “Oh, well, we will have then I suppose you've been dolng | our choice of seats, anyway.” something and your conscience re-| 4) 47 » at proaches you, But you need not} oi us there evidently eared © worry, 3 never find out anytBlng | Poon well ror erang coo’ aeettaee You friends wouldn't tell on you, Bo! it) Vast pk Sune ope ane te what you did me “But I do ask you, I'm asking you now,” said Mr, Jarr, “Oh, you just say that for effect * al said Mr, Jarre heart- the night, never mind matter diMculty In getting any seats at all, “My conduct has been beyond r ‘Why do they crowd so?” asked proach,” said Mr, Jarr, “and if you Mrs, Jarr, shoving her way through, have a headache, being out in the | have they no manners?’ open air will do you good. ‘The Jarr seats were next te @ very "| guppose that means you Pr lady on the aisle and tm front. § of two young belles of the Brom, / » “I do love @ sad play,” said one ef | the girls behind, “and this i» awful | sad." only ANY of Europe's crowned hea are good business men—and | women—as well as rulers. ‘The| Kaiser is the proprietor of a cafe at | Potsdam, not far from the gates to} |the royal cast He ig part owner in @ dig brewery in Hanover, op ates a porcelain works at Cadinen eer is one of the largest realty own- Jers in bis empire, The former Czar of Russia ts a timber merchant on a broad scale and | holds much stock In Russian railways, | The now Emperor of Austria owns @ brandy distillery whose product is widely used, and the King of Sweden ontrols one of the principal brewer. | jes in Stookholr A strange business for royalty 1s |that of the Duke Ulrick of Wurttem - And the Grand Duk also a strange Journeyman butcher of Saxe Wetmar| taste, being @ himself and meat! “Them proprietor of a considerable Ttallan operas is all that packing business, Another German | way,” sald the other girl, “they ts all personage, the King of Wurttemberg,| sad, It's always something holds title to a string of hotels in the ‘ ing where Tilack Forest, which paid him some!there is death and stabbin’, Ain't #¢ the war, much the pockets of} awful?” “S-s-sh!" said the other girl, “ain't $50,000 a year before of which came from American traveller Hut the half-Prench and half-Ger-|that tall feller handsome, | man Czar of Hulgaria ty perhaps the| 1'm taking ukelete Lessons, weet hrewdest business man o: rope'a| sere thin’ Soyalty, @ He owns moving pleture |)! «lve it up for vocal lessons,” and legitimate tt dairtes,| At the end of the act, Mr. Jagr tobacco factorie been climbed over the feet of the stout highly successful asa stock specula-| iaqay ne lady and went out to see @ man. ‘Among royal women who find pin|When he came back Mrs. Jerr and money in trade, an Austrian Arch- | the stout lady had struck sf Gueness {a typical. She owna a candy | ghir UD & fallow factory near Budapest that brings” | Hera substantial income, ‘The Queen| And the girl behind asled her of | Holland furnishes Amsterdam |¢riend: “Te thie the one where every with a good part of Ita milk from her jog - Jairy at Het” Loo, near that city, It Doty Sets stabbed and dies singing?” fa one of the model establishments of The family headache lo Mit the Netherlands, Jarr'é poawession when they got home