The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1917, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pavlished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. $8 to) 63 Park Row, New ¥ RALPH PULITZER, Prewiden J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 ¥ JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Beoretary, Entered at the Post-OfMice at tion Rates to The Hvening rid for the United Btates nade. Park Row, | ‘ik Tow. Park how | ‘ew York a# Becond-Class Matter For Bngland and the Continent and All Countries In the International Postal Union, ‘ $3.60 One Year .20/One Month.. 86 NO. 20,511 FLAG DAYS! : UESDAY or Wednesday of next week the President will go before Congress to outline the war policy of the United States on the eve of what may prove the most momentous conflict in its history. On those days the flag of the United States should fly from every flagstaff in the land from Atlantic to Pacific, from Great Lakes to Gulf. It should be worn conspicuously by every man, | woman and child proud of American citizenship. It should be displayed in every public conveyance; on every horse-drawn vehicle; on every automobile, private or commercial. It should float from every public building, institution, bank, hotel, store, office building and factory; over every home; from the windows of every flat and apartment. During the hours when the President and a new Con- gress are entering upon a task of gravest national import | there should be no doubt where the American people | stand. No national crisis can ever be so acute, no national peril so great that the raising of the Stars and Stripes shall not symbolize the rise of courage and confidence in Ameri- can hearts. If the Nation goes to war next week it should be with | every flag flying and every American proudly and cheer- fully displaying the national emblem in pledge of loyalty and faith. Make next Tuesday and Wednesday memorable Flag Days. VOLUME 567... Who's going to tell us at what point the German retreat in northern France ceases to be “strategic”? ENEMIES WITHIN. REDICTIONS that food prices in viis country will yo sual higher*are not based on guesswork Shortage of crops all over the world, the continued with- holding from productive industry of millions of human beir | tolling only in the interest of destruction, enormous and pressing demands from foreign ¢ American food products—all these are sound reasons for believin that the high cost of living haa not even yet upon American consumers, Figures furnished by the United States Department of Labor show that the annual food bill of the average American family la increased from $339.30 in 1913 to $ have gone up, the cost of food has climbed so much faster that (i workman whose pay was $3 per day in 1907 now finds himself with a daily 69-cent setback. 1907 buys not much above seven pounds to-day Much of the blame t zar conditions and crop shortages. But, it adds significantly, “ther is reason to fear that other elements are conspiring to untries for far more than the surplus of Jaid its maximum loud at present. Though wage he money that bought ten pounds of food im t upon Department of Labor is ready to y se prices, “Cold storage, rebilling, reshipping and withholding of commodities from market are suspected to contribute to the present abnormal rise in the prices of food. Whether some persons have conspired to engross the markets the Departm of Labor cannot state, But the reports of the Bureau of Labor seem to lend color to such an opinion, viewed In the light of a conditions revealed by a compariion of figures through # ran of years And that is the point at which the Government of the Cute States must help the people of the United States, by pr against the impositions and extortions which food-g boosters and profiteers ADD to the inexorable workings of economi law, tecting them mblers, pri The food conspirators take advarttage of economic conditions to concea) their plots and raids, They must be dragged out, lined up and punished for the traitors they are. If Americans must go to wa en more wnoever they have a right to ask for protection against organized bands of thieves and looters who prey upon the country from within Among the immediate duties dhat lie before t ew Congress the duty of taki p that can be taken to safeguard food products for t shouid not and must not be o ee “When proud-pied April, dressed in all bis (rim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything Only remember that in these latitudes he isn't certain to show up to-morrow in his suimmerweights Hits From Sharp Wits A correspondent wants to know, N cader, they do not heep what is the highest temperature la freig which @ man can jive; and a scientist, pantry of a caboone ays it is “the boiling point.” But] and Observer nany @ married man, coming in at) Pee 2G. QL, knows it is the bolling-over) Db polnigaMemphis Commercial-Appeal. | have « for fame? W constant bother, Toledo Blade The top of the shoes and the bot (Sieh eet» tom of the dresses have not yet 1 rhe alin weenie sumed diplomatic relations, Mem-| y pais Commercial Appeal ier nber to mean numbe Unheard of prices are heard ¢ every day Pittsburgh Gazette ey ‘Times. | wet Firet of month Fashion Hinta: qt eas “Pay your bills’ lumbia (8 C) dens ors @ News ttle ¢ Hobe rid Daily Magazin Padded Sword Fvening W Toe New York Krening ¥ J. H. Cassel al —. at Annapolis, Famous Heroes | Of the U. S. Nava By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The [ree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 1.—JOHN PAUL JONES: The Man Who Taught Europe We Had a Navy. -—— Li was a Scotch gardener’s son. And the fire in his spirit drove im to gamble his life against Lie perils of the sea, rather than to plod along in the smugly safe path of bis ancestors. He vecame a sailor when he was only twelve, Before he was twenty-two he was a ship captain. Soon afterward he left the sem and settled down to the humdrum career of a Virginia planter, (“Jones,” by the way, was not his real He was John Paul. In Virginia, for some reason known to himself, he tacked the name “Jones” to his two others; being henceforth known as John Paul Jones, or Paul Jones.) He could no more live in contentment ashore a bunting dog is content to spend bis life in a barnyard. The American Revolution began. And Jones eagerly offered his services. Congress commissioned him @ senior first lieutenant and gave him the command ef | a little sloop. With this puny vessel Jones proceeded to scour the Northern Atlastlo 7 coast, dodging foes too strong for him, fighting and thrashing everything © |near his own warship's size and capturing sixteen British craft jm six 7 weeks. 4 In March, 1777, he sailed for France in the Ranger, Armed with authority to “distress the enemies of the United States by ea * —"__ or land,” he scourged the waters around Great Britain, 4 A Perilous With his one leaky old tub, iJ] manned and 1) armed, ; Venture. he defied the whole British navy. He seized fat Eng. enn slit merchant ships under the very noses of prot ing frigates. He raided coast towns and fearful havoc on the enemy in a dozen ways. He always managed to be somewhere else when punitive squadrons searched for him. ! Up to this time Europe had looked on our newborn nation as @ group | of colonies feebly trying to keep up a defensive fight against a force. It was Paul Jones who taught England and al! Europe that the Ui States could not only hold its ground, but could strike back. Jones realized that he could do infinitely more damage if he had ships to do it with, so after a year of tireless effort in France he m 0 collect a fleet of four battered and wornout vessels, which he patébed for service, The largest of the four was the Bonhomme Richard. Tei he used as a flagship, and with his second-hand quartet of Moats he; down once more upon the English coast. On Sept. 23, 1779, Jones sighted a fleet of merchant vessels along off Scarborough under convoy of two mighty warships, the (forty-four guns) and the twenty-elght-gun Countess of Scarborough. bore down on the rich prizes, Of Jones's four ships omy two were able to be of use in the battle followed. They were the Bonhomme Richard aad little Pallas. Leaving the Pallas to thrash the | 5 The Crowning of the two English warships Jones, in the omi ‘ Sea Fight. Richard, rushed to attack the great Serapis. The duel een tat followed between the Richard and the was one of the most brilliant sea fights in histery,| For nearly four hours it raged, After the first few broadsides the two shit were locked together and fought thus to the finish, Soon most of Richard's big guns were smashed. The Richard herself was efire seemed to be sinking. The British Captain bellowed a question as whether or not Jones had surrendered. “I have not yet begun to fight!" yelled Jones in veply. Nor did hie cease his seemingly hopeless onslaught until the wreck and her Captain surrendered. The whole world applauded Jones's splendid victory. The United Government showered thanks and praise upon him—and let him.@e, um ed for the rest of :he War, In spite of all he had done our ts could fi no fu! use for his services. such ingratitude, he drifted into the Russiag navy e resently conspired against him, Thence he went | Paris, where in 1792 he died, After more than a century of neglect o, Government had his bones brought to Am: in 1905 and interred then Arr md was By Sophie Irene Loeb The Week’s The Strict Mother. New York Brening and natural tove profes: |) the out enjoying things; be can find other young people of her age. head polisher. replied the laundry} tne san analysis of! United States. pathy above the law can do profes-| pig honest pacifist forgets that| harm in a few months than common would reveal 2/ Germany deliberately started the | Sen*e administrators can repair tn 1e composed of a substance analo-! i oat destr ks Friends,’ read with interest | som for the young girl confined DAK Lo come home nother and little Lacks Friends mother’s part is not the pleasure prevalent! e the United States often do we not suitable, precinet and confidence becau are the {M-) +o Gay, In military efficiency as strong pacifists. ri's life is sadd 8 old before her tine fal or financial) ainough her enemies have recently prominence they are out waving the} developed strength and mobility that white flag on the front line. the sinister of being censur of freedom great danger, Pack of manipulators | as against the tend business col- are mis- aiding seeibicespedioniil see other girls on for this, | beliey Iam not known Jarr Family By Ro ‘Aw, she makes me tired,” said Mr. !-phe professional pacifist asks us to “Besides, she will cal! me ‘Ed | parter words with a nation which has | name is Edward (Wie New York JARR was awakened \ and ite doings by hearing Isn't a war right | Jarre She| Wa me to go to the Your I suppose 8 think it's dr mother’s an old trouble-1 other than that she's all right Jart | not | nurmu ed t it wasn" te | Views. If we go to war some of the at night at all) » strange reason up the gauntlet jold up your : pected she could r atlemen of the hildren | Prof he |! the ground and abide there until for |men able to deal with conditions as ho eompanios akfast and school by rapping them |"hey are get yy on the head with her knu kleg|ditions, But the most of them will then |keep right on crying ‘Peace!’ while | turning to Mr, Jarr she said: “I've in. |thelr countrymen die for principles teresting news fo you was cry ) alive and the “90 apparent to ber This mother should understand that “Its rude and and to prove he commence “What do you tell him that the} asked | 6 “and you mu ful nice and To-Day’ Javr Tut {up very well,” remavked th ‘and anyway, T didn't tak “He punched Willie tause T °} asked him to do it” cetved from on the ratiroads ino the 1 Nova Scot elgh News in . Mrs,/borne took charge of Sing Sing and then jstudy the laws gove to tell me that |the institution, Judging by his acts and as Warde the fire-| “Now comes the Court of Appes Fane would be a england on the wus able to s At Utreaht the Duke of Savoy | dangerous trend Mr that her beau Claude. in of events that Mrs. burn-|out reavon 0 we| gives Deely things with the| Ang the Superint { Gertrude, and | * when her | fires Osh By Martin Green nany they can injure England, — that a doctor froin Tennessee plan | ye honest pacifist would make you/ in the prison by Osborne didn’t ever if he didn't make you sick, The | have a ise to practice medicin sis of his arguments in the present | in this State. Furthermore, the end \crisis Is, of course, that Germany is|i# not yet. A prison reformer whe kind of a nation as the, #ets 4 place of power and pute BAY mo’ ive and brutal war in| tive years.” tho history of the world and has been face of waging that war all over th «] S| sald the head pol the earth for two years and elgt “vat the proposed compuleos months; be forgets that Germany ts, sewicoe act forbids recruits ining for the army or navy to as she was when she entered the war, | “Thank heaven, though,” 1 ia the laundry man, “the boys not be deprived of their ice |soda. And I understand the | Department will supply each with just the cutest sachet hang around his neck, so be always smell sweet and fresh, annoys the German war lords, Ger- many's navy is intact, fully manned and ready for business, and the pro- sionul pacifist overlooks that, too 0, oblivious to the actual, the pro- fessional pacifist asks the United States to deal with a nation warring Jagainst all the rest of the world, a) bitter, savage, disappointed nation, as | the United States might deal with a jnation at peace with other nations. shush!" forced us into the necessity for de- fending ourselves and now cynically = | tells us we are at fault | «Under the laws and customs of] our beloved and careless country the} professional pactflat is free and un-| |trammelied in his tight to voice hi on pacifists will hunt a hole} | through with such con beyond their understanding.” 1OMAS MOTT OSLORNL'S) Sing Bing Prison machine doesn't appear to be standing 0, Davia) a picture of the largest wine in the workd; at CRe rien an this ts the proud boast of is legal,” sald d (Col) barber whe col, a Mr, Og-[ lected most of it from taundr bundles left in his shop. ie On Adinission Day seventeen years tne te lob on| a8 Si6 De started the bail roll- ing To-day the ball contains forty miles of twine, is two and one-half weighs eighty ed by the Call. ni is still growing, : te te eas ete ¢ no longer reach around hal ry old of the loose end of the 7 oni ast steing, this barber can start a ting laundry pins, an ambitlon e's pick for superintend-| which there is considerably ent of industries, and it is discovered | point head polisher, “No mach loan endure unless the laundry man tion Duble to | Prison he didn't t he didn't even read them et in diameter pounds, and, asi and reinstates cipal Keeper 1 Pear ly, who was by Osborne with. back pay ident of Prisons