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Fvening World Daily Magazine | @ eseHy, word. §— | “TI Can't Hold Back!” »xvetie. By J.H.Cassel | Famous Heroes of the U. S. Navy] By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), No.6—STEPHEN DECATUR, Who Swept Piracy from the Seas HE American warsh!p Philadelphia dashed into Tripoli harbor ] hot on tho heels of @ pirate bark. Midway in the chaso she ram upon an uncharted rook and stuck there, helpless, ¥ The Tripolitans boarded the unlucky vessel, making @ prize }) ¢ of her, and tmprisoning her captain and crew. A young naval offieer— Stephen Decatur—of the United States squadron lying outside the harbor, formed a daring plan to recover the captured warship. He overhauled a ketch full of harem beauties which the Pasha of Tripoli was sending to Constantinople, : 3 He ronamod the ketch the Intrepid, manned it witt seventy-four volunteers—himself at their head—and sailed by night into Tripol! harbor. The harbor sentries, seeing a native craft creeping along the moonlit waters toward the docks, had no suspicion of danger. Decatur brought the Intrepid alongside the Philadelphia, which now carried a strong guard to protect her against chance of rescue, - Decatur led his men over the Philadelphia's de, “038 There was a bloody hand-to-hand fight, in whioh all the @utitleties Daily Except Sunday dy the Press Publish! * 4s Park Row, Hew Yor, eC menh Now OF to ALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, 'T er, Row, ; JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Bearet bark't E 4 Entered at the Post-OMce at New tk as Becond-Class Matter, e @ebsoription Rates to The Evening |For England and the Continent and ‘ ‘World for the United States All Countries tn the International f and Canada, Postal Union One Tear § One Month.... VOLUME 57. marine yet” in the western part of the Atlantic will be taken for what it is worth, te The experience of the United States as regards declarations and «S43 assurances from the Imperial German Government, even when the ¢% two nations were on terms of friendship, has not been such as to “ inspire unbounded confidence. As against the Berlin assertion, we have the confirmed and re- confirmed report of an American naval officer and gun crew, “all ex- perienced torpedo men,” that a submarine periscope was seen four >, mere hundred yards from the destroyer Smith and that the wake of a NEN ety” Encyclopedia, Tripolitans were killed or thrown overboard, Decatur torpedo crossed the Smith's starboard bow. bs 7 . ’ "4 F " could not get the stranded Philadelphia away in safety, so he set fire to Mistakes are possible at night. But it would be a sorry begin- Ke. aka ‘ ie Lem her. Then as ae rath. Wie: HARBOE 1A ite soled pa and his crew escaped ning of war for the American people to be persuaded that their naval & haar Fight (Remember the ke , officers are “secing things in the dark,” on evidence no more con- $ 5/1 { in the om | See hE KLAR. Prinolt, nn Tati, Decatur was vineing than a statement from Berlin, (Pos ys command of a Yankee gunbont, With this he gai American nerves are in no wise unsteadied by indications that ere pba Ce ee shat (Wariel (GE Whe Tonle German war craft are on this side of the Atlantic. Nevertheless iz Springing over her ratl In advance of his men he wag met by the. i i giant captain of the boarded craft. A hot sabre duel followed and Decatur would be the height of foolishness to belittle enemy operations the Siew his opponent, after which his men easily drove the demoralized native ’ extent of whiclr it is impossible to foresee. crew into the sea and took the ship, Decatur at this time was only The Atlantic Coast is in need of all the protection that can be Be CeCe eT OaIRianyT co at nincteen, and in ix years provided for it. Atlantic ports and harbors should have every | His exploits in ‘Tripol! made him famous, The War of 1812, a tow safeguard. Over and over again experts have pointed out and are still urging that among the most indispensable of such safeguards is a highly} efficient aeroplane service. Strongly emphasizing the importance of) air scouts at all strategic coast points, Major Henry ©. Davis of the! United States Marine Corps says years later, added greater lustre to his fame, At the beginning if this confilct he was put in command of the frigate United States, His first deed of note with his new vessel was to give battle to British frigate Macedonian off Now The Macedonian was far large! and better armed than her Yank But Decatur's fighting skill more than made up for this handicap, After a fierce struggle he forced yes Macedonian to i fe On Now Year's Day, 181%, he brought this rich prize into New Yo “Assuming seven hours’ endurance, the air scout, at say \Harbor, All the city turned out to welcome the hero. In honor of thi seventy-five miles an hour, will be enabled to proceed out three ‘hours and return in three hours, leaving one hour for a safety margin. At an elovation of 6,000 feet in clear weather the scout should have a circle of vision the radius of which is ap proximately seventy miles. He ought to be able also to locate an enemy fleet or a convoy of transports at a distance of 300 miles from the base from which he started. Assuming the enemy epeed to be twelve knots—it 1s more apt to be ten—we have thirty hours’ advance notice of his approach.” event his portrait was painted and was added to the munictpal gallery. | It stilt ha City Hall. Congress also awarded him a gold medal tor the Macedonians capture. | "As soon as our war with England was off our hands our country turned to the Algerian pirates who, like the Tripolitans twelve | years earlier, were making the Mediterranean unsafe for our merchant who had imprisoned hundreds of American sail ecatur was sent to Algiers to put a stop to these atrocities, With The supply of aircraft available for the nation’s marine defense . ought to be reassuringly great. As a matter of fact—much too well ‘ kmown to be “concealed from the enemy” at this late day—it is alarmingly small. That the imperative need of acroplanes is fully recognized by naval and military authorities and that, even more to the point, enough skilled workmen can be found to turn them out of the quality | — and in the number required, is one of the first assurances to which | i} if its attentlc Nea ive Americans, but he won for our navy the ade jon of all the world—the world which, until we he affair into our » hands, had meekly endured | the pirate outrages or had ‘ers and Tripoll, and to other Barbary states for immunity from | Coming back to America, Decatur had but little time in which, to seeey the fruits of his renown. He quarrelled with Commodore Barron a Duel. Killed in { Duse- Wye ke sae and a duel resulted. The two commodores fought with pistols near “¢, March 20, 1820, and Decatur was mortatiy wounded, He died o received a severe wound, but recovered, — ‘The whole nation went Into mourning for the hero who so foolishly had thrown away his life in a private quarrel, ‘amily By Roy L. McCardell _How I Helped My Husband, |[The iron hand he smashed Algerian piracy, Not only did he » payment of heavy indemnity and the release the American people are entitled. es Without a German victory the German monarchy wil! soon | From Twelve Doltars a Weel: | twelve dotiars a week, n't it? of head clerk at shteen dollars a} Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Co | per and pull off a hand or two at auc-|“nything thay was mean you'd think cease to exist—Count Reventlow, tc St f Hes. ate hard work te save on a small] week, pls emplo telling him that} Vhe New York Breaing World.) | tion pinochle before the open season i; pee It There! Stand back and 0 a Store o us Own eckly wage, but 1 managed to put|he had been so faithful and had so OW plainly you ea ear that) » 1 rm | (° “At Hight from the window fall With the help of events, truth percolates. uC ots ne {fe dollars by at the ‘end of exch |inany userul ideas ie well deserved $6 Bo raereaieelaeiat a {nat tor pinochle ended with the Warm on you like It was & minute ago! pu EORGE asked me if I thought . We paid $ month for our] th 6, PRORORTAD: SRi Ah Ve weather, it isn't the ; it's your color, te | 44 ¢ " yor . that two people could Hve cu roorns. George walked to his work Things went on In this way for five] | PN areheD the stillness oi “Why, it's that phonograph at that a soft teh ae ue Abii 5 aaa and took his luneh from home, so he] years, when one day a young man iny|the mild April evening the strains of} «1,04 6, ape * cried Mrs, Jarr replied Mrs, Jerr, 4 LOYALTY AMONG ITALIANS twelve dollars a week. “Many| had no carfare to pay, and we both] husband knew. asked him to x0 M|“Poor Butter floated upon the of ie O9F igs egob apie But she was ° Jo it" 1 said, “and some are} had a pretty good stock of clothes to] with him in opening a litte grocery | pr, Me conden ie (lathe phone and pulled fone oe be gn eg ne ‘ ; ; ney, happy on even less.” start on. Ht seemed to me that per-|store in a suburban town, George 5 he phono- | «1 jnow it because they have that ol No, I'm in earnest,” Mr. Jarr oon- \ q HAT there is already plenty of the right national spirit aud} 1 way cashier in Sehurman's grocery | "PS E could heip my husband to ad- proposition very much, graph of those r us people Who] ora with the nicks in it that plays|tinued. “And [ want to tell it| Something In confidence. Rangle has Nee friend who has a big factory that the) made tron beds and busted about a had enough mone have just moved in and who are so vance by finding out how other peo- ; 1 to save five hundred | {nterested in Billy Sunday's revivals? plo in hia line succeeded. Every time ‘The Old Folks at Home’ Huh! a ) would be well if the old folks that there is going to be still more of it in New York Italians,|when 1 first met my husband, lemonstrated th other night when The I ning Wor % scemed to take to me right away and/ 1 went out to the friend thought so] 7 wb: iy ta. tir aiid weed : Oar ny 6 World's! was not long before we were keep-| to the shops as ma s ability that he was| 22° husband and wite both called, | ong folks and the middle-aged folks | year ago because he couldn't get fron, Americanization campaign found hearty welcome and support amony} ing steady company, and the next | 4d and looking at cloth willing E ssion. The| YU remember, and asked us if WOULD bé home and not in a| That friend was in to see Rangle and ; 4 * ; wfford to b I went to little store was a success from the| Were a church member and ¥ . told Rangle tf Rangle would he! the 25,000 Ital. f the lower east side year when George was only twenty ears ip bin aliens of the lower cast side. ; 4) jeorg : y twenty, | prosperous it stores I first, for We all worked as hard as we| volunteer as an us! BROOR faiae fome capital he had @ sonema With Italians the patriotic instinct is inborn, Only let the need, |‘Nree Ant T Was twenty we decided (| fo if it was not possible for me|could. I kept the books for the first] Mr, Jarr winced. He knew where| AS a wincer Mr. Jarr was wincing|t© make camp cots for officers—war is married, to discover some little thing that] two years. ae se, for Rangle had| SUPP you know, and he'd let $ rs ago, and to-day | the phonograph was playing, for now] “ll over the place, for Hank “" | Rangle in on‘it. No graft, but patri. Sometimes 1 bought] That was ten the nation they have chosen for their home be sufficiently im- ed h srandmo' would help, of y v4 I bad lived with my grandmother article | 1 box of | George has two stores and is think. | he some inexpensiv could hear the seratched rd of [covenanted with him that he, Ran-|otism in the scheme, for he'll get a pressed upon them and they aro bound to repay it for what it has|ever since my parents dled and 86 crackers, then agaln Tm priced|ing of starting a third, but he stilll“Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose,"|sle, would play the “Old Folks at/Government contract at 10 per cent. people led her old-fashioned, but 1) thin ithout buying anythin but| talks over his affairs with me, and I] No, 7 don't think it's the Wilguses’| Home" record as a signal that the fbove manufacturing costs—of course anism, : will cover 6 i phonogra said Mrs, Jarr nusingly,|#ame was only lacking one player and everything.” wanes, over. Wasn't their name Wilgus, or Whit-| 4nd he, Jarr, had better hurry if he What good will that do you, or —I always confuse those names, | Wanted to sit | hereupon Mr, Jarr|me; what has it to do with your given them with a quick realization of their Americ think she knew a t deal more | Whatever I did I always kept my eyes} am just asx keenly Interested as 1 A day or two ago 250 bersaglicri who served in the war wilh|than most of these folks who think | PPen for Meas. T carried a little note-| was when We only had twelve dollars book, and whenever [ saw anything|a week. Turkey in 1911 came over from Newark and marched through the} themselves ao up to date, she sald | that’ struck me as novel and attrac.| This article is the first of a sertes| take Pi ome to me as 9 Kissed me | tive 1 Jotted " joon a phich The Eve Vo ol vi 4 7 Bia : ‘ ¢ | 8udden_ realizat ” streets of lower Manhattan followed by thousands of their fellow |* ee ne ee cme oe | tive 1 4 tt bd at wn 48 soon as I got “ hich thes vening World wilt uy rah Wilgus or Whittaker or Bissington— reised guile, for a pushand ie the | Fugden, real zation of my charms?” i yood ‘ edd [OMe OF hop. eton f . on’t kKnuw why, No, it isn’t thelr| most subtle of living creatures, “Why, don't ” 7 veterans were eae: > ree Jinado reat difference in my after} The ond year of our marriage| their husbands to “make good” in J « ” ‘ on't you see,” Mr, Jarr countrymen, These Italian re eager to recruit Italian FRAde ®. aF9A ne was promoted to the position | business. phonograph, for they only play How well you are looking!” heJon, "angle couldn't raise two conte Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland | citizens for the service of the United States. The interest and enthu-|" “No man can thrive untess his wife! siasm they evoked gave every promise that their hope of an Italian) |*¥’, ee rien y Pi ree regiment may be realized. band eli When questioned as to their officers, these Italians replied that | cce aural? they expected to serve under Americans, There could be no finer ia example of what practical Americanism can mean just now amon: “Brighten Up The Corner” and some| cried, “By ¢ ge, I never saw yous?) We as or Biryver aid oe of Mr. Rodeheaver'é trombone solos.| looking better! Doggone it! It 48] nroposition up. Prd tess rik 4 I wish somo corners around here} hard to think a pretty girl lke you|finance the thing Til hohe on ie 1 would be the fine clothes to set off |< mil have Money, and when Wwe mould bt ma have mone. I'm going to dre: ao like a Maypole! “By George!” You : an outfit that will udridge-Smith look ike + dit, to talk tt over htened up, by the way, | hasn't corner where that Gus] fine fi has his saloon." “Now you stop!” said Mrs, Jarr, Mr r winced egain, for the|don't know what you are starting to onograph was playing at Gus's| barney me for, but if it is to let you 1 wanted George tos hoset me th ht, 1917, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Covyria ; orn. aay ner 7 4 “ s : And Mr, Jarr knew that| have two dollars or ¢ Hike { the foreign b LAS, a woman never knows her own mit d—and a man never knows serie ther dile nasal thr BANRIE ened Catanraee fue Was gone, You, it was a —--+ | his own heart had conspired with him earlier in the] “Well, listen to the woman!” erled|¢ “at pinoohlon guarded, Cer ‘ — | day to steal away to Gus's after sup-| Mr. J in astonishment, “If I said| course, . New York “wakes up” to-day and dares any American to Y By Le Taking the conceit out of a man is almost as cruel — snooze. Reape eee Bue T Anaily as telling a small boy that there is no Santa Claus. i ei sfinig ee ‘acemed ratne 7 ONDE Ine OY | “Reforming” wouldn't be such a painful thing in a || . . al u O a a anc a es 7 > , covery day a y Letters From the People tho ery trade as | husband if be wouldn't always {osist on beginning to | (cxcomsscssssssossxeceseetesmcmm ee An Three War Questions, [sect to all laws, duties and responsl- be the wife of 4 sive everybody good advice the moment he stops set: Improved Armored Car Steers Both Ways and Shoots in Any Direction. To the Editor of The Fvening World bilities of any other citizen, bu that my | bes | ting a bad example. ERE 1s the latest = How many times did the United States and England go to war against | 75 ino gator ambition on It 1s the tantalizing vision of those little breakfast armored motor ine pra BARE TINE Gun on each other and how long did the wara) ay rather, a Bohemian, came to this table tete-a-tetes that lures most men into matrimony—jcar for Uncle Sam's OPENING VANE ing TURRETS last? Did England get a loan of) country thirteen years ago. He died — and the tantalizing reality of those same little tete-a-|armics, It 1s the first Mk the of its kind to be built CRANK HANDLE TO START ENGINE FROM RIVERS SIDR «INSIDE ENING money from the United States in this, and left my two sisters and myself. | war? Has Germany got loans from He never took out his citizenship pa- | a % “4 pers, Are we citizens or not? We any country? READER, | ro here over ten dears, Oue sister | | | tetes that arives so many of them out of it into the divorce court. by the Government, | The chassis is # times Ik these it is inspiring t 1 to Apr Te Yaa War of sia, | married TAT | recall he y ovious death of Lord) yfake an Idol of a man and hel tolerate you; make a chum of him and | powerful machine, finawronxwwen i ; © 2 | on, for, alth t) 0; i ; . i Sune 18 4013, to’ Feb, 17, 1815, Enge| 1 YOur slater married an American) vvssey away in bed, the victim of diy. [RO lke you; make @ baby of him and he'll propose to you; make a fool of| driving and steering FRONT neRKING ' land bas not borrowed officially from $2" thereby bec veuen: As your! case, he was as truly a martyr to] him and he'll adore you, [on all four wheels and N the United States, but has aold bonda | father was not naturalized you and | jiciy as a idier who meets his =i | with a steering post i here and had dealings with American | Your Unmarried sister are atill aliens, | Hers 48 i) oh —— [OVA 8 SAR Eee : cane penal ae fon rere a Wants to Be Citteen, It was on April that the There 1s nothing about which every man {8 80 optimistic as his ability |i wit) run in. either ave borrowed money from any Other | To to Editor of The Evening Wor at bard, then th a a Coa cal LATWHAE cn a ‘he ae | , | Tettenmrnt, aithouan any of her of The Bening Work [great band, then thirty six, breathed | tg anulhilate space and get ANYWHRE on earth tn “ten minutes. Men factmine claot { var bonds have doubtless been bought) Am TI @ eitizen? 1 came to New| he had Kone to. Ault mmere es Jequul factilty, accord- } We eerne calmer MeMaaMHOm IRs) vet Lore fittyctour years. ff nots (Sok tice yche eat dee eee ‘A man Js constantly decelving himself—most of all when he fancies |I2& to Popular Science ; One Citizen's Qu Ra eR fale 8 [tirtnt, Nyrdn hot only devoted hin! that he ie deceiving @ Woman, Sho can catch him in fifty-six varleties of MOMMD. ‘ $e the Biter of The Brenig Wor'd J eret Zou Were born in a foreign voun- | services, but also a large part of his! fps and he Will still confidently belleve that he can niake her swallow ener ates f Tam a law-abiding German, twent and your father did not bocome| fortune, to the cause ot ellenio! tre arty. seventh, , jrets for machine guns, t two years old, who came to this coun- | one it will be Ait Tey yer sor eet tA aon hk ee 7 eae a fo arranged that the ‘ ix years of age. My futher) ciizenship papers. 0M he wae any hettinte orm | Red | guns may fire through ; efore t reached | cormany, 00,715,000) France, |the poorly eduipped a 1°| A truly brilifant woman 1s one who {8 brilliant enough to outshine a|the root upon attack- consider me a citizen and will she! 20,001,300. disciplined Greek army proved that) man at repartee, and wise enough not to, jing aircraft if necos- J ho litle ability ae an or- Byron's physique, never s00n gave Way, and he was “Delicacy” {8 a word which eome people seem to think applies only nted, hope that he force me to fight in her army against | To the Editor of Tue Kvening W my own people, or make me work in| What Js the population of Germany ammunition factories? Ww. and also the population of+France? You are an American citizen, sub- N. 8, sary. The armor cov- Jers all vital parts and will resist a The only objection to this a rry four men, Actual tests hay [service bullet at one hundred yards. said to be tts weight, which verges The radiator door may be opened and|upon 12,000 pounds. It has two ma- to something to eat, . the car cranked from he interior, ‘chine gun turrets and will ordinarily vi shown It to be powerful o machine that undoubtedly, wot &@ wood account of itself in battle” ”°