The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1917, Page 16

DU Aaah Md a see eve CFTR soriD, ESTABLISH 2D BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Datiy Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President. Trea 63 Park Row. Park Row Park Row, J, ANG BPH PL S$ SHAW TZE srer Jos rT Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Claes Matter Subscription Rates to The E ning|For England and the Continent World for the United States All Countries {n the International and Canada Postal Union. One Men Wiilone Months. F VPLUME 87..... Fees ea Eas (0 20,335 : THE FRENCH MISSION ARRIVES. NNOUNCEMENT of the safe arrival of the French War Mission will be received with the deepest satisfaction and enthusiasm A The thought that Gen. Joffre is on American soil where Amer- icans may presently see and welcome him thrills the national heart. No living man can be surer of a splendid greeting from the people f the United States than the hero of the most superb defense recorded in the annals of nations. Happily coincident with the arrival of the French envoys comes further official assurance that the new Russian Government is pre- pared to “make any sacrifice rather than concludg a separate peac With Mr. Balfour and his fellow commissioners already in close touch with the nation’s executive heads at Washington, with the distinguished representatives of France ready to enter the conference and with the Government of New Russia pledging itself to fight on| and take no step that will jeopardize or discredit Russia’s hard won freedom, the United States can feel that it now fairly joins hands} with its great allies for the drive that is to carry democracy triumph- antly over all forces that menace it. —_—_—_——- +e. -- The British are smashing the Wotan line, the cables tell ua. Getting duskier and duskier for Teutonic war-gods, made known to y ¥ occasional hints, A statement attributed to a member of the British War Commis- sion now in Washington to the effect that British war craft captured twenty German U boats on one day, April 10, would indicate that the hunting is good. Didcovering submarine bases, secretly destroying ‘hem and then lying in wait for U boats that must sooner or later steal back for supplies, appears to be at least one successful method of operation. What the United States is doing to submarine warfare is clear to anybody. It is nullifying the boasted effects of the U boat cam- paign by the sheer volume of food and munitions it still manages to pour into Europe, American exports last month reached a total value of #551,278,000, « figure only exceeded last January, which was the biggest month of foreign trade in the country’s history. Imports for March climbed to the record figure of $270,484,000. All this after the Imperial German Government had announced its policy of piracy and murder guaranteed to isolate the enemies of jermany, paralyze their neutral trade and starve them into sub- ion! The submarine campaign is doomed. ‘To hasten its complete collapse the United States has only to contribute three things: (1) Increased stores of food and supplies; (2) an endless chain of ships to carry them; (3) the vigilant co-opera- tion of the United States Navy. | U boat warfare is already breaking down by its failure to effect| —at what must be ruinous cost—the blockade upon which the Im-| perial German Government admittedly staked its hopes. It rests with us to turn failure into speedy and convincing dis- | a - DOOMED. HAT England is doing to German submarines is still the public only semi-officially and by _ Evening World Daily Magazine At Your Service, Sam” Copyright, 1017, be The Frew Pivliah (The New York Evening W r | Famous Heroes eee. — a ay nee | rhe, Ee, EN Ys , Of the U. S. Navy _By Albert Payson Terhune opyright, 1917, by the Pree Pubdishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 6.—RICHARD SOMERS, Who Killed Himself for His ¢ Country. ITE death of Commander Richard Somers has been called “The Beautiful Suicide.” His tragic story is an inspiration to every true American. Somers, like Commodore Stockton, was a New Jersey man. He became @ naval Lieutenant in 1799, when he was but twenty-one, And ho went with the United States squadron which satled in 1803, to Tripoli, to put down piracy, One sea fight followed another, off Tripoll Harbor. And in almost all these battles Somers did brilliant service. Within a few months he was Dromoted to the rank of Commander. | In charge of a little flotilla of gunboats he fought five great Tripolitan warships at close quarters, winning glory in a confilct that at first seemed hopeless. Again, with three of these gunboats he fought off a whole Tripolitan fleet that sought to overwhelm him, He won the reputation of loving | such reckless feats as other men deemed impossible. Wherever danger was most pressing and wherever the fighting was hottest or a forlorn hope was to be led—there always was Fichard Somers He looked upon life as a thing belonging not to himself but to his country, {and to be risked in the country's service, with absolutely no thought of ' seit. It was in September of 1804 that he planned “The Beautiful Suicide.” Outside the Tripoli harbor lay the blockading United States squadron, | denne g, Site in the herbor, guarded by the guns of the fort, rye tite Tripolitan fleet rode at anchor. i 7 anni H In apite of several victories of the Yankee ships § wcccenanns over their foes, the Tripoll fleet still stood aa @ barrier between the United States force and a vic~ ‘torious campaign. There was no certain way to put that fleet out of action, Then it was that Somers formed his immortal idea-—an fdea that might mean everything to his country, but which spelt almost certain death to the men who should try to put it into effect. ; He latd the matter before Commodore Preble and received a reluctant | permission to go ahead with It. ‘8 project, briefly, was He wanted to load a v ie] with explosives, sail it boldly into the hate bor and into the very centre of the close-packed Tripolitan fleet, then light , a fuse which should connect with the mass of explosives, The boat would thus be turned Into a tre Jous floating bomb. It would explode and dlow much of the Tripoli fleet to atoms, If the men aboard the boat could escape overside before tho explosion, well and good. [f n Somers insisted on taking command of the desperate enterprise, He called for twelve volunteers to help him man the “floating bomb.” And the boat he chose for the purpose was the Tripolitan ketch, “The Intre- pid,” which Decatur had seized and had used tn destroying the Philadelphia, Somers filled the Intrepid with 200 heavily loaded shells and 15,000 pounds of powder, On the night of Sept, 4, 1804, he and his twelve doomed volunteers sailed their powder-ketch into the harbor and headed her toe ward the anchorage of the huddled Tripoli flee. | ‘Then everything went wrong. The fleet sighted the Intrepid at once and opened fire on her ward she cam whose shots were whizzing about her. Whether one of these shots struck the Increpid'e powder magazine or whether the fuse was preiu- turely Nghted nobody knows. For no one on bourd o lived to tell, But when the Intrepid was still five hundred yards away from tho fivet {she biew up. mers and his twelve volunteers were torn to atoms, ‘The Intrepid herself was knocked to splinters, No harm beyond a ehak- jing up inflicted on the Tripoli ships. | The “Beautiful Suicide” had been committed tn vain, results were concerned, Yet the heroism of Somers’s deed awoke the applause of the world. It reflected glowingly upon the navy in which the man had been so gallant an omver, And for more than @ century it has served Americans as @ ‘beacon light of pure patriotism, far as direct The Jarr Family | By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), 66X OU read the paper. I'l look at| his life. ‘The submarine probably be- the morning mail," said Mrs.| lieved the calf was a machine gun, 0! Jarr at breakfast, “I just] something.” hate to read the newspapers these *robably something,” replied Mr days. Oh, dear, I wish we had “rit bet Uncle Henry came Peace all over the world! Don't you full of bitters, stumbled and remember what a nice time we had| fell and the calf chewed his ear. when we were abroad, and now Yo| However, if he got away with his think of the whole world fighting] submarine story I'm not going to cen- and killing each other, and all that|sor his report.” Jarr. home aster. es | The unrest bas spread to Sweden, where the food situation is sertous. Nobody stays hungry AND quiet long. —_— MERRY-GO-ROUNDS IN THE DISCARD? AVE New York children advanced too far to find fun in the) old-fashioned merry-go-round? Park Commissioner Cabot Ward comes to the dreary conclusion that the old carrouse) machine in Central Park near tho, entrance at Seventh Avenue South has had its day and can be carted! away to the dump unregretted and unmourned. Attendance and interest, he asserts, have gradually waned, the lease to the con- cessionaire has run out, the plant is antiquated and unsafe, and the) city has no funds for a new carrousel that nobody seems to want. Strange. Who would have thought the joy of securing the cam- el’s back or the favorite seat on the racehorse, and the delirious but not too scary whirls around the gaily creaking organ and the acrobatic ticket man, would ever have palled on youngsters? Are we to have nothing in playgrounds henceforth but rowing- machines and parallel bars? Let's hope Commissioner Ward is wrong and that somebody can prove to him that young New York 1asn’t turned up its nose at one of the oldest, gayest, most cosmo. politan and picturesque amusements that hus aurvived to link us with other peoples and other days, + ‘The great super-dreadnought New Mexico, launched at the New York Navy Yard yesterday, started down Ways ahead of time. A good omen and & hint to those whose Job is to com: plete her, Letters From the People Ka-Seld Wants Papers, have lived in this country for Usirty Jo the Editor of The Evening World, years and have a family, some of Am | a citizen? I came to this their children being i do X.Y. % country from London, where I was outta an alien cannot take born, When eighteen I joined a com-| Of her husband, fat nea im pendently pany here and served in the Spanish-! chizenship through her husband's American was. Dot have to take out / naturalisation papers? No alien can become a citizen (un- less bis father was naturalized while 1M Miller | Evening Word be was 4 minor) without procuring!) #@ 4 business iman, twenty-wix necessary papers. But an ex-soldier,| Years old, singel I support a honorably discharged, can obtain, ¢Mppled brother and nis wife, Could 1 final papers without first application | Be forced Into the army? 1 am an ’ Sta am Alten's Wife Rese pe ye sine eu mM u eae Be be Breaing Weed taken in the first draft. Although ‘Could the wife of an alien take out papers and become a citizen without Ber busband being a oy on? that Is usually understood to moan a | mother or wife and children, 1% prob- Both! wbly would apply in the presemt case, ‘ ) sort of thing!” “You shouldn't talk lke that,” an- “Well, I've joined the Defense|swered Mrs, Jarr, “Just at this time League and am ready to fight,” re- marked Mr. Jarr, “but I'd be willing e want to keep on good terms with and Aunt Hetty Uncle Hen It to accept any delicate diplomatic] we have war we may want to take miasion abroad to inaugurate a cessa-| the children stay on the farm tlon of hostilities.” this summer, We'll be safe there, “And maybe you'd be torpedoed by] “Not when submarines have been a submarine,” said Mrs. Jarre, “Oh,{ observed at midnight cleaving the I think they're dreadful and there] asphalt-like waters of Mud Creek,” should be a law against them!” veplied Mr. Jarr Mr, Jarr was going to t thar “Well, the submarine won't stay there were some laws against thom,|around Hay Corners all summer, 1 though certain combatants were not} hope,” said Mrs, Jarr, “And tt may obeying the law, but he had spring} have been a shark and not a sub- fever and didn't wish to start an ar-| marin Don't you remember how everybody saw sharks last summer gument. “This letter is from Aunt Hetty,” |, T can't sce how a shark could sala Mrs. Jarr, after some concentra. {have knocked Uncle Henry over and tion upon the epiatle she was reading, | Wounded him in the ear.’ “She says they are worried about} “That would be some fish story,” submarines, too. She says Uncle} replied Mr, Jarr 0 welf-reepecting Henry saw one coming Mua| shark could stand the waters of Mud Crock when he was returning homo] Creck, nor any submarine, etther. 1'11 from lodge meeting at the village. He] bet on that was fired on without warning, she "Well, please don't go writing any says, and woke stiff with the cold mart letters to Uncle Henry about and with his ear a the Alder.|it. 1 want to keep on good terms ney calf was at 4 ver him, and] With him, and maybe he'll send us he thinks the gentle creature sayed| Yesetables this summer by parcel t T "What ole does Aunt Hetty say | Popular asked Mr. Jarr. “Any Indication « : princely gifts of onlons and potatoes parcel post?" OMB superstitions about Onding but she her rheumatism the P Of tha as is very bad, Cousin Emma's twins aun Bas ve the mumps and Aunt Hetty i sts we ht send any clothes Kise ir children have outgrown. Abner, we the farm hand, can't work, as he y if ‘ ie when riding t nthe i. If found | strects dtr fas Paul Revere at the on Fri wealth. Ifl Wake Up, Hay Corners!’ cclebration found y fortune {and Unele Henry says he don’t think four 4 of he'll be able to raise any vegetables it + it At is laid up, as all the other Nowe ; “ ; “i menor farm hands bave gone away to en so eG tears ena} ist or Work in munitions factor ¢ Hower peversed| kt Liye luck “Well, what else?” asked Mr. Jarr, In t ’ Wdrops to a) seein, 3 good lady hesitate. no tha iene “Why, Aunt Hetty writes and asks recipies mm if we can’t send them a barrel of yp Jucky to curry the spray 4 tatoos and a erate of onions, sue BE re sec itean tiie y9 they are always cheaper in chs pinned a Womal tress a whe | OY Reiasatike: Ghe will hava’ irnine Suffering submarines!” cried My diate bad luck, [Jerr aud be grabbed bis bat and reo, Bachelor Girl Reflections | By Helen Rowland heey The Evolution of Old Glory By James C. Young | Copyright, 1917, by the Pres Put lshing Co, (‘The New York Evening World) This ts the opening article in a series | W no UST because a man pleads with you to love him a little it doesn’t slg: | telling the story of the American Flag. | de r coms nify that it will make him happy for you to love him a lot. The second wiil follow shortly. soe the tate ie | —— T was a yellow silk flag, with a delphia. When Washington lett ery man bas a different pet theory for growing mushrooms, winning at poker and bossing a woman. canton in the upper left hand cor- ner having thirteen alternate blue | and silver stripes, that waved above Getting a husband has become a fine art, based the podyguard of Gedrge Washington entirely on a woman's ability to make a man think he when he left Philadelphia June wants her when he doesn't, and to make him think she 1775, to take command of the Colonial doesn’t want him when she does. forces, There was an elaborate design we in the centre of the flag typitying Most modern men seem to fancy that “Opportun- jiberty, with the inscription under- ity" can be rung up on the telephone if one happens neath: ‘or these we strive.” to be out playing golf when she knocks at the door, The banner belonged to the Light Horse Troop of Philadelphia and appears to have been the first flag Whenever a woman meets a model husband she ts {uspired with # lot of respect and admiration—for the wife who modelled in which thirteen stripes were used him. to represent the thirteen American ; nase colonies, then fomenting with the spirit of independence. A woman may be either young or old, but the exquisite comfort of be Abraham Markoe, or Markhoe, cap- ing frankly middle-aged is reserved for man, the privileged, tee tain of the troop, presented the fag y,for New England the troon Ab h > Kingsbi A man won't eat anything that disagrees with him stmply because it to hls company and not improbably where he was met by other . hep originated the design, , ho looks enticing——but he'll marry it without a tremor. presorved in Philadelphia between . cee, sf cavalrymen thea ; glass 8. Markoe, Ww ; The first ktss, the first cherry out of a jar and (he first husvand ape — At the time that Washington start-| fag to a tonnany ee a yet e rest come easy ed for the scene of activities bIg| resigned his trptatoe et Dane. He BARE (0 Gttnn bt Phe Poa: HORS O88) events impended, Paul Revere had | ward when: Chrletie, Vin eee ea : made hiv historic ride, British and | mark issued an edict f of Den- A woman {Is never satisfied; no matter how many times her busband Colonials had fought, April 19, at) subjects to parti Abate ie eae his kisses her In order to please her, she still yearns weakly for him to kiss Concord and Lexington, Hut many against Great Frituin on ihe, war é ioane sel men doubted that the colonies would | conftise heir property. are . her occasionally In order to please t elf, break away from English rule, and | Serece't ie ele property, But Capt, others red that It could not be | of historic stieniticance. He nat thing done. On June 15 the Continental | ed together thirteen stripes ees Congress had granted Washington the | to become th ipes that were Insignia of an. D a of a new Nb- erty such as men had never known, of Commander in Chief of the American forces, World Now Wearing Wigs » ‘ . iefore he reached Cambridge, = ~~ ‘ . : »S . uss, July 2, where revolutionary | 1" 5 Pipes M ade ot (G h ne se Q ueu es ene ashy fe ing. grid | To-Day’s Anniversary had been fought, t ning through untry like @ forest ire, But the Declaration of Inde- pendence was a year away, and there | was ho open state of war. trioviam was run- | HINA ts the principal source to- | proxtmately half of the estimated male Many fne| population of China. 1 gentlemen| In the last year or T was a century to-day, c and a half ago on April 24, 1 that the first play by an Am y of human hatr and bewlg two the queues ands are wearing halr that}of men have not been so readily ob. 1 tus period new flags appeared | was produe n auihor Oe acraih ag OnIGEs Head tainable, and the hair dealers ace be, OVE night. Every company of vol- | a? produced at the Southwark The- ; er REACT Rideae 4 unteers, every home guard had {ts adelphia, The production On Nov. £), 1911, 1ore dependent ensign.” There was no single banner |bore the title of “The p of the Manchu dynasty, a resolution | combings of women, Men that could be called representative of | Parti’ and was the wae oe © was adopted in favor of the abolition} Who have dispensed with the queue. ill; although on prevailed. That | Goatioy jr as the work of Thomas he wholesale cutting of queues, In grow to a length of eight in many forms, ‘The Connecticut | Major Andre, the talented mines oe many parts of south and middle China 8 OF More, Andgsuch Jengths troops Nad standards inscribed with | eer xo was Ince British s appanage has pra y disap cut are saved Aer thw arms of the colony, cach regiment {eer 672 Was later executed fw hig peared, but the bulk of the populace : A be yt dor curr y ng a ata t dard of different color | rye es a Sher qireusonable in north China still wear it, and it 18] calls at barber shops and canvacn iG Armed ships fitted out by some of | burned in 1823 Ove Waa » th many million queues| homes of the Chinese, ec ‘cut, tho New York colonists are said to| The first profession.* olaywright or tinue to be worn in China for| Uoxs and combings and an occasional have had a black beaver as their de- | American birth was Win Dunta, : queuc, all of which tnd ir way to, vice, copled from the colonial seal of | Who Was by turn a portrak Y an indefnite perio the ‘central marketer where erway Se @ theatre manager ‘and dy xporfs from China of human hair| taken inh. by the wholesale on on James Island, | Another d.:tinguished early om 1910 to 1915 were follows: | Heal Rs ARY poor women sacrifice poling, was taken Sept, 18, | Wright ae gba Ds Burke, 1910, 3,626,983 pounds; 1911, 2,588,887 | are numbers of them during perens loca! Council of Safety, ‘The [and “Soun of Arc’ te Bunker Hin pounds; 1912, 3,299,600 pounds; 1918, ! of flood or famine, The United Starr ps under him carried a large blue | duel in 1808. John Howard mea? 3,667,867 pounds; 1914, 1,926,800 | 1s the largest buyer of Chinese hair, — flag having a white crescent in one|@ popular actor, wrote sixteen piyue pounds; 1915, 1,9 10 pounds. he hair of certuln antinals, gueh corner, Other accounts say that It|but is now remembered only Pg d we at @ China. 2% {he Yak. goat and others, is mixed | bore three crescents. ‘According. to | author of "Home, Sweat I *S Estimating the weight of @ China- py the manufacturer with human hair, Col. Moultrie “this was the first | uel Woodworth was a successful ony ¢ man's queue to be 8 ounces (the av- 10 a certain extent e hair of 4 American flag displayed in the|playwright, but is bes known as in, erage of 300 welghed queues), the) white yak's tall 19 particularly walus BowlMe” 6 a author of the poem “The Old Gaken e i a ve | ad! n only CAUSE oO! s | Some a ol eket.”” a 1 c| number required to make the above alas besa ana whitesbes nl wore av an slnbaria taclin’ dina (nian Alay which held the boards for years was “Briercliff,"’ th work of George P, Morris, the guthoe author of "Woodman, Spare That be for six joe than #Q000,000, which Is ap-|duces the desired allvery effect, nipments years would be whieh, mi ed with oth included many colors and fanciful in- jecriptions, The Stare and Stripes r shades, »ro- « nearer and nearer to the warships {