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; j ' ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Daily Pxcept 8 peng by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to . 43 Park Row, New York. ' RALPH PULITZER, President, t J. ANGUS SHAW, Treas JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, 8 Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-C tion Rates to The Evening|For England and the Cootinem and ‘Works for the United States All Countries in the International | 4 Canada. en Postal Uniom i One Year... oo One Month... ose VOLUME 57. ..ccccccccssscoeees eovcccscccceeeNO, 20,081 TERMS OR DESTRUCTION. _ NLESS there exists a general paralysis of all Teutonic | brain action it would seem that increasing numbers of Germans must begin to see what they are up against. | The “eleventh foe” the Imperial German Government h made for Germany is ready to send immediately billions of dollars, | inexhaustible war supplies and a formidable navy to help bring , Germany to its {nees. Millions of fighters will follow as fast as they can be trained. | A nation whose yearly income is estimated to have reached | a total of $50,000,000,000 will make war on the Imperial German | Government with men and money on a scale never equalled in/ history. | Moreover the entrance of the United States into the conflict makes it clear to Germans that now, in truth, the final judgment of the civilized world has been pronounced in the name of democ- racy against the present German Government. | Prussian autocracy is doomed, morally and mathematically, te destruction. The only remaining question is how much of the German nation must be destroyed with it. | When an overwhelming majority of free nations decide that | humanity, peace and justice require that Prussianism shall be wiped out at any cost, isn’t it time for enlightened Germans to | begin to consider whether Germany is not a greater thing than Prussianism? Already Imperial German autocracy shows fear that such thoughts are sprouting and spreading among the German peop! Hence hasty promises of electoral reforms, “closer co-operation) with the people's representatives.” The only real hope for Germany is peace through a drastic | revision of its Government and policies that shall re-admit it to| brotherhood with free, peace-loving nations. Terms or destruction: That is the alternative Germany now faces, Germans in America to whom experience has given deeper ‘insight and broader outlook should be the first to see and urge the truth: The Fatherland is better worth preserving than false and dangerous ideals against which the whole world is arrayed. neni pees Vienva obeyed orders. After all, as time goes on, feeling for Austria turns to pity. It looks increasingly as if she | wouldn't tf she dida’t have to, | —_—— --+-—__— STRATEGY AND SUPER-STRATEGY. T* great Lens-Arras drive, in which the British took in ono) day’s fighting more than 9,000 German prisoners and 40 Ger-| man guns, shows every promise of developing into the most formidable offensive the Allies have yet launched on the western front. Coming at a moment when Berlin is still rejoicing over the sup- posed ruin of Allied plans by von Hindenburg’s “masterly retreat” in the Somme region, this sudden terrific attack upon the Germans at another point looks as if strategy had been out-matched by supor- strategy. : | The British, and particularly the Canadians, appear to have been| given the exclusive rights to the start of this great spring drive. No one need begrudge’ them the privilege. Vor two years and a half | France has had the honor of taking the lead both in the action and in| the heroic sacrifice by which German invasion has been halted and slowly rolled back in the west. This spring it is Great Britain’s turn, | oneeennmenins Nobody finds fault with the Colonel's restlessness this time. It does him credit. $2 ———____—. CONFIRMED. “At this juncture, and until discredited by some overt act of the American people, the President of the | United States is not a Democratic asset merely, nor even | an American asset, but an asset of the civilized world.” “It is due to ourselves, to the unhappy warring nations, and to humanity generally that we do nothing | to impair its value.” The above plea for the re-election of Woodrow Wilson to the} Presidency was written last October by the distinguished Massachu-| setts lawyer, statesman, former Attorney General and Secretary of State who died last Sunday at the ripe age of eighty-two, | It must have brought deep satisfaction to Richard Olney, publicist, | faithful advocate of democracy, one of the “grand old men” of con- temporary American politics, that } e could have lived long enough to hear the American people and the other free peoples of the earth} fervently confirm his judgment in all its breadth and fullness, Letters From the People Wants To the Editor 0 Proofrenider, brening World Yea; You Are Elig Phe Breit The Advise me of the steps necessary got my first mber, | fm order to qualify for the position of and was then are in this proofreader. MJ. tan 1 for second Proofreading i difficult to learn DoJ, gave by actual experience tn a p: A A Is Correct) Ge-rara, or newspaper office. It consi © thn Kitor of The Bye tog World @orrecting all of the errors made by| Please give me the meaning of priniers and ia @ highly sk the words “Hoch the Kats yx tion, requiring good Knowledge of | clalms they inean hurre the jpgiish, spelling and all the details of | Kaiser. # they mean an in- ‘ It mbassador Gerard's A claims Jero- A.D. the printing trade, A In Correct. To the RAttor of The Evening World child born to| foreign coun. |7° try 1s « true American and cen vote in| | America without taking out his! lik ere. |pr says that a male child born In a to © will you kindly foreign country of American parents/address of some junior o not vote in America without| which teaches young people to become ing out papers, ‘ {aoldiers or gatiore? =A PAT! rard Why Not Join the Boy Scoutet the Editor of The Evening World I am fifteen years of age and would to serve my country during the m not old - Freving World Da Only Half a Loaf _ mera orld.) By J. H. Cassel [Famous Heroes Of the U. 8S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1917, by The Kress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NO. 3—JOHN BARRY, Our Navy’s First Commodore. ' | ISTORY bas not given him the high praise accorded to Paul Jones. | H but our country did far more for him in bis lifetime, And tm | actual service in the Revolution, he perliaps achieved fully as much as did Jon Here !s his story He was John Barry, an Irishman,,who came to” America in 1765 when he was only eleven. His father had destined him for the sea, and young Barry quickly showed that the choice had been wise. He had ® posi tive genius for everything connected with shipping. By the time the Revolution began he was ® rich shtp master, He threw aside every chance of ease and safety and offered his services to Congress. His offer was accepted and he was one of the frst naval oMcers commissioned by our new-born Goverm ment. Soon he ro to the rank of Commodore the first commodore of the American navy. He was appointed to the command of the sixteen-gun brig Lexings ton, the first United States vessel to rail from Philadelphia. And, with the Lexington, Harry made our first capture of a British warship When winter put'an end to cruising he found his fellow naval officers were content to euperintend the building of new @hips or to do other routine jobs. This sort of inaction did not suit Barry at all. He was @ fighter from the hair to heel. When he could not fight at sea he wanted to fight on land. So he joined Washington's army for the winter as an artillery officer. And, at the head of a company of volunteers, he did gallant work in the winter battles around Trenton. During the summer of 1777 he hit on a novel plan for annoying the British and for providing food for his adopted country. Philadelphia was in the hands of the English army. Barry with his new frigate, the | Etflngham, and other ships was at Whitehill, further up the river. Manning a flotilla of small boats he slipped silently down stream under cover of darkness and made a raid on the Philadelphia docks. He seized @ great quantity of provisions belonging to the British and captured several merenant ahips laden with munitions and fvod. With four of bis row boats he then surrounded @ British war-schoones tn the Delaware, So suddenly and skilfully did he manage the attack that ne captured the schooner without losing a man. The British commander at Philadelphia, unable to check these raids, offered Barry a heavy bribe to deliver up to him the EM@ngham. Burry re- plied to the offer in a fashion that sent the commander's emissary scuttling to safety in fear of his life. Then came a run of bad luck, The Effingham was destroyed by fire, | Barry received command of the thirty-two-gun Raleigh. During. @ cruise with this latest ship a British squadron fell in with him. After @ hot but hopeless fight, Barry was forced to run the Raleigh aground ta A Fighter . Land or Sea. , epemeeenenenes) J eat eke SS netic oye wen Copsriabt, 1017, Wy Tho Vreee Publishing Co, (The York Brenig World.) FEW days ago there came a call A in @ fashionable school for young women who wanted to work during th war, Active ser- vice was being planned in nurse training and gen- eral “first ald to the injured,” In this case, ‘many were called | but fow were| chosen.” That 1s] to say that many volunteered to go, but after a few days the major- {ty returned home, not* so zealous— nme ont and why? They did not measure up| to the job. So much has been said about war and bravery and rising to the occa- sion that the glamour has crept into | tho thoughts of young women rather than the grime of it all, In a word, they dream of tho ro- mance and efface the reality. In the mind of many a girl who would work for war. !s the picture of a sick room in a hospital in which there is a very handsome soldier lying there help- less and waiting to be nursed back to Ufe-and possibly love Of course it is most Joyous to look ing hope to a convulescent--wheelng him about, reading his letters te hun and playing cards with hun, All those things come w pass oe | ‘To-Day’s Anniversary “1 wish we" could find trailing aybutus,” sajd Mr. Jarr, “or an old- HIS ia the centenary of the birth | fashioned well of pure, clear water.” ae of Gen. Jobn Cleveland Robin And take home typhotd!" erted who held hikh rank among | Mrs, Jarr, “No, indeed! I've brought the commanders of the Union armies|a thermos bottle of good city drink- in the Civil War, Gen. Kobinson was ing water, and as for trailing arbutus, born in Binghamton, N. Y., April 10,|1 know the woods are damp and we 4817, and died in that city twenty | couldn't find any.” years ago, Ho served in the war! “This i¢ East Malaria,” ead Mr. against Mexico, and tn the civil con- | Jarr, looking out of the trolley car! Mot took part tn the principal batties | window, “Let us call on yoyr friend, | }im Virginia and Pennsyiva win- | Mrs, Jenkins, who lives here." ning a Congressional medal of honor “My friend?” repeated Mrs, Jarr. and the rank of Major General. In 10s he was Lieutenant Goverr fow Yorke and also served as Commander in Chiet of the Grand Army of the Repubitc castonally and do prove attractive to | be an unwilling and unhappy worker. | cult for her to do who truly contrib- the woman who would work in wa: Yet there is much that is unro- mantic, ‘There is much whero senti- ment has no part, much that ts ug! to be encountered. It {8 dire duty—commonly cailed “dirty work.” It t# all there and tt must be done. You can't always pick and choose | that which you will or will not do when you go forth to fight. So, my dear woman, you who 4 ready to sign your name and appear willing to do your part, learn full well | what that part ta. You may not be so re | you prove to be unprepared, you will dy, and if You will pe @ hindrance rather than a help. You will not only do yourself an in- Justice, but needy ones will suffer cause of you, ‘Therefore understand thoroughly that which you contract to do in war time, And when you have written your name, LIV8 UP TO IT—every minute. Be the real soldier of service, Look the facts squarely in the face; do the disagreeable thing wherever it pre- sents Itself. When all is said and done, it is she who sacrifices some- thing in doing the thing that it's diffl- Penobscot Bay. eee A Battle ‘at Heavy Odds, p CRORCC OOS 3 Alllance in 1781, on deck directing the fight. Returning to America, he was se escort Lafayette thither, On the | dashed up, forcing him to retire, | ‘Then came peace. & position he The History of | FOROM the beginning of time | dog has been the companion and in many cases the pro- |tector of man, The ¢aritest human ———!]} beings of whom history affords any \ record were accompanted by a dog. ‘The first reference to the dog oc- utes the best of her in tho whole) ory in the Bible, in the story of the tian | bondage of the Israelites in Egypt. It is probable that the reverence in which the dog was held by the It is easy enough to do something | in the spirit of adventure or romance, or sentiment, but the big thing is tuans had a sound and cogent that in which the gelfish element {| reason, ‘The ancient summer over eliminated, |flow of the Nile, automatically irri- i Farehed fields, and on The women of the war tn Europe, EAE «00° yruspority of Egypt de- for whom tho greatest respect {9| pended, was concurrent with the ned held, and who are the real heroines | pearance of the sar Sirius, on which of the hour, are those who are doing | tne people removed their foci ane the menial things, the lowly acts| herds to higher, Brinn to the full benefit of the which tn the final summing up are|Pe'viving stream, In this way they the most important, ° ce of ‘associated = the presence of | n ate the fidelity and pistnres (yaar malat Wine Hindoos (like the Hebrews) regarded the dog as an unclean beast, believing that in its earthly form it Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Ty yawn, please, it's very rude," remarked Mrs, Jarr. | H “I've got spring fever; ex- cuse me,” replied Mr, Jarre, "I uch & nice day, and as I don’t have to go to the office, what's the matter with Jour taking @ little trolley trip to the | suburb; Swsh!" cautioned Mrs, Jarr, “I would like to, but if Gertrude knew forward to such sweet servitude. I was going to do anything like that Or there 1# the vision of a battle- | she'd give notice and quit. Maids |fleld, where ayid the crash of guns) can have daya off but mistresses the woman 19 there with (he red cross | can’t,” on er shoulder, whispering Kind!“ wpeaye it to me 5 can get Ger Met atl 1Y DARGASINK | rude's verbal consent, 1f not her writ- = 5 | « " DG ot Or theepicture of tho girl breath. |!" ove” replied Mr, Jarr. “I've go a couple of tickets for the Wholesale Woolen Goods Art Students’ Ball, jand she can take Claude the fireman, ‘1 bought the tickets from John, the porter at our office, Jolly dogs those W bolesale Woollen Art Students!” My this bribe the Jarrs escaped, "She's the wife of your friend, Well, 1 don't mind. But we'd better tele- firet and say we've had Then we'll be weloome, phone luncheon. e Jarr Family _ time to change her wrapper to a gown jand fix her hair.” | ‘They were welcome when they ar- rived at the Jenkins villa, after lagging for a due period on the way It was in the afternoon, and Mrs, Jen- king felt she would not be embar- rassed by company from the city and bill collectors calling at the same) time. In the suburbs bill collectors | ouly call {n the morning. Otherwise, | life on the outskirts would be un- bearable. / But there were other visitors, after | the Jarrs had been welcomed on the | modest plazza of the Jenkinses and had declared they were out for sun and air and would not go inside, The} other visitors did not seem to desire | t0 enter the Jenkins villa, either, In! fact they only came as far as the lawn, ‘These visitors were practical| botanists in the persons of several mature and obese Italian women digging for dandelions, ' ‘Then Mrs, Jarr and Mrs. Jenkins | discussed the war and the high cost {of living, until nally Mrs. Jarr said jt was time for Mr, Jarr and herself] to return to the city, | “ll walk to the trolley | you," agreed Mra, Jenkins, "1 wa | to get some things at the grocer's.” | In front of the grocer’s both Mrs,! Jarr and Mrs, Jenkins were struck | with the array of green, crisp vege-| tables. | “Ig this salad fresh?” asked Mrs, Jenkins. | | “I can guarantee !t. 1 just got tt) from some Italian women,” said the grocer, Mrs, Jenkins !mmediately bought | some of the salad and it was so much | | cheaper than what Mrs. Jarr would line with | By Roy L. McCardell | who happeus | was possessed of an evil and mallg- | rae Rpirit, condemned to do penance lw that form for crimes committed in previous existence, |®finny and. various are the parts | play y dot tory apal the way home Mrs, Jarr kept saying| played by the d fin bie ory apa tucy should move to the country, if| from Its familiar domestit tir ere for nothing else than the lower cost | Xenophen tells us of the tse of Apes, of salad. | tan dol rn en ed col- And Wwho knows." she added, “out| they Norn, Ue Starauion one of these what we might raise it ourselves, [ lars, While at we wonder Mrs, Jenkins doesn't animal By Helen Rowland : 4 showed such bravery that its 1917, by The Vrow Publishing Co, (The or sincerity that makes a woman automatically glance in the S tt vanity | mirror, powder her nose, and fluff up her hair before calling @ man on the telephone. Copyright, A sincere lover needs no large vocabulary, because when a man begins making love any woman can lsten faster than he can talk, And, besides, a woman never judges a man’s love by what he says, but by the things he tries to say—and can’t. “The woman of a man’s heart” is the only woman that be can be equally miserable with or without. ) ed aay one A man’s idea of an evidence of supreme devotion to woulen az Dis irresistible impulse to make love to any other woman to remind him of her, One rasson why George Washington never told a le may have been bocause be never had the opportunity or the temptation to “explain” to bis wife over the telephone. Nothing bores a man worse than a moonlight tetea-tete with “the girl before the last.” Many « man who !s too tender-hearted to pour water on @ cat or salt on an oyster, will pour molten sarcasm all over his wife's vanity—and then wonder why she always shrivels up inside hor shell at sight of him — There are only two things for which no woman en earth can forgive and it will also give Mrs, Jenkins! have bad to pay in the olty that all 4 rival--blond heir and « widow's veil. ‘Do their | Next Barry set forth for che West Indies on a privateering tour to prey on British commerce, his recent misfortunes. Sent to carry @ diplomatic group to France In the And here he amply atoned for Barry decided to follow Paul Joni example and to do all the damage he could to Bngland home. During this raiding tour he encountered the British ships Atlanta and —two against one—but Barry did not | before returning Treposa, It was an unequal contest snirk it. Pagerly he gave battle to his stronger foes. Farly in the action he was wounded. He refuted to go below, but stayed For nearly ten hours the battle raged. last Harry forced both the hostile vessels to surrender, at t to France once more; this time to y back he tackled a British warship ana was very comfortably besting it When several other British men-of-war And Barry was appointed senior officer of our navy— held with high credit for years—dying at Philadelphia in 1803, gs _and Cats . was engraved on the tomb of er, History also tells us of | the mastiff of the Knixhts of Rhodes |who knew a Turk from a Christian; the spaniel, whose barking and whin- Jing awoke William the Silent during the night attack by Louis XIV.'s troops on the camp outside Mons, |thus saving the Dutch Republic; the dog of Montargis, beloved of ail Bow- ery melodrama; and last, Punch's im- | mortal Toby | In the temple of Bubastis cats were treated as sacred animal death they were embalmed and stored in tombs, while history records that Cambyses stormed and captured Memphis with a brigude of cats used as projectiles, upon which the elty incontinently gave up the fight and surrendered. In Rome several centurles later tho cat gave the first evidence of pred- atory Instincts and hig value as @ mice destroyer, Agathicus, whose pet partridge had been killed and eaten by @ cat, denounces him one of the devouring dogs of Actaeoi Pliny and Palladius praise him for his destruction of mice and rate, while Caesar's soldiers carried tl aces of cats emblazoned On their nners, But the era of superstitution which set in with the mediaeval ages was fatal to the cat's popularity, hi gradual fall from high estate dating from this time, Through nearly six centuries the animal which had once been worshipped as a divinity was now treated as an exponent of dark- ness. In nearly every weird legend of theco times a black cat figures as t agent of evil. A story generally a cepted down to the middle of the twentieth century .was that when Satan desired to disturb the peace of mankind he assumed the form of @ black tomcat. In-Germany, England and France during the Middle Ages it was usual to wind up a religious cele- bration by throwing a cat from a height to the road below. Among the many popular fallact accepted by unlettered and ignorai persons 18 One that a cat can see bet- ter at night than in the day, and that it is able to see clearly in pitehblack darkness. But the real secret of the cat's ability to move rapidly in a dark {emmy [its im room lies in its feelers, commonly called whiskers, and in’ ite natural pure * Popular HE persons who sail as passen- gers on & ship which does not Tegulariy carry passengers are looked upon either with favor or 4! favor by the crew, The prosence of a child ts thought to be a good omen, while women are believed to bring bad luck, Ministers are reputed to bring misfortune to any ship that sails out of slight of land, although the presence of a pricat ia not con- sidered unlucky Cathollo patiors. Lawyers are looked upon with te eat dinlike, for they are considered particularly unlucky, The name “poa-lawyer’ {9 the worst term one toward another, tation on shipboard,