The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1917, Page 16

RAL LITA J VA AY. Br00 J08 NATEEM,' It, Reoret Entered at the Post-Orfice at New York as Recond Senoeyyiien Hates jo The fvening |For Knmian’ « orid for tha United st All Count ont Cana@e, al tn tees $4.00 One Tear finan One Year... ’ One Month... wieeeesese 60) One Montir., ) VOLUME 57..... eoeee ; ‘ NO. 20,357 SEND ROOSEVELT TO RUSSIA. EWS from Russia is not « Effects of inceseant pro-German propaganda are felt in Petrograd. Tie Russian enough established to deal with the pro-German movement strong enough to suppress anti-war and anti-American dew which, only sporadic at first, will, if not checked, degrade the purposes and ruin the credit of new-born Russia. | Russian soldiers are deserting from the front izes the heads of the Provisional Government, which has pledged itself to fight on, shoulder to shoulder, with England, France and the United States. Firet ! t fe immediate, imperative, al!-im- portant ' With the least possible delay democracy In Russia must be, strengthened, encouraged, inspired. The United States is ready for its part in the task. But now the! nature of that task becomes more clear, reinforce the American mis-, sion that goes with Mr. Root to Petrograd: Send Theodore Roosevelt. | Send an American whom all Europe knows or has heard of, | a man seven years President of the United States, a patriot vibrat- | ing with infectious faith in militant democracy, a popular hero | with a proved gift of rousing enthusiasm on the widest scale, an) advocate unimpeded by legal caution or judicial slowness, a dyna- mo of compelling, magnetizing energy—in short the very man to appeal to and crystallize the nationalistic instincts.and ideals of a revolutionized Russia. To provide Col. Roosevelt with a command in France is a proposition which embarrasses his country and promises no large | results. To send Col. Roosevelt to Russia to inspire Russian democ- racy and stiffen Russian purpose—thereby holding, it may be, millions of German troops that might otherwise come swarming to the western war front—would be a master-stroke on which th nation could long congratulate itself. Send Roosevelt to Russia. a Spanish patience ts also frarzling. a oy THE FIRST SHOT. APT. RICE of the Mongolia has in his log an entry which will long thiill American hearts, } Without overlooking the factors of uncertainty that enter! into @very reported case of hitting or even secing submarines, there seenf# Bo reason to doubt that the American steamship Mongolia, on| her way to a British port, fired the first gun of the war at an attack ing German U boat, and every reason to hope that the enemy vessel! was squarely hit and sunk. | That the first shot was fired on April 19, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, when a handful of Massachusetts farmers re-| ceived and amswered the first shot in the American Revolution, must! always be regarded as one of the mozt striking coincidences of history ering firw tier rations, new Government is no Consternat The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1017, by the Prom Publishing Co. “ HAT'S that in the window?" | corner and offered to kiss any man asked Mr, Jarr | who enlisted.” The New York Evening World) 4 , be | "You ‘ountry patrto: oluntee "asked Mr We imagine there was similar coincidence between what was in| Needs Yo ape ; a i gh | your patriots volunt id the mind of Capt. Rice as he gripped the rail of his bridge and watched! Jarr ‘Clara Mudridge - Smith] “One man did, but it seems It was | wouldn’ 4 her that menacing periscope and the words of Capt, Parker as he stood|Preusht It here to-d She is doing | be somebody bet he ., He | Wonderful work going around the] And after he kis en Lexington Green with his little band of thirty-eight men that early |town in her automobile covered with|he was over age April morning in 1775, watching the approach of six hundred: “[{| ss and distributing ‘Join the Army, Where were the young fellows?" they want a war, let it begin here.” | the Navy and the Murises!" placards, | Mr, Jarr inquired. She only had one left, and all tired out and dropped tn for a cup} jo, king f tea and left thi last one with me." | tho ne was] acy paid there your were three when she good made += men To-day is “France Day.” No effort we might make to [eee ea ease caM Tn” | ie oder 18; bisa! secre fon) tee celebrate it could be a hundredth part as significant as the self-sacrifice of service, with it?"| “Ran away repeated Mn daa happy absence of effort with which we do celebrate it. asked Mr. Jarr, “The only person] yes," said Mrs, Jarr. ‘They ran a who can read It from our window !s!away and Clara lost her purse, She | that dear old lady across the way,| thinks it was taken by the man who and she's an tnvalid y needs her? Do you think the crowd made so there was so much kissed her, But much nolse and excitement when a fight started be- THEY SHOULD BE THE GUARD OF HONOR. N planning its welcome to Gen. Joffre, M her coun Viviani, Mr, Balfour! ‘She thinks #0, and nhe's making i - et ees here : bandages,” said Mrs, Jarr. “And 1| cause somebody wouldn't pay the bet, and the other distinguished envoys from France and Englund,| visn you wouldn't. rpeak in that| that she did not miss her purse till let this city not forget those who of all men are entitled to take] slighting te:9 of the good work Ciara | later.” 8 foremost part in the reception. | Mudridge-Smith ts doing. She's go-| “But I can't see why the young men did not rouse to the call to arms and give the fair young matron a kiss antly enroll themselves as| |ing around getting subscriptions, too he had her automobile out all day nd collected three dollars.” and gall We mean those who have done active service with the Allies, wh ave fought from the trenches and on the fields of France, in Gal | poli, in Salohica—Frenchmen, Englishmen, Canadians, Americans} “And it cost her ten to keep her| Mesenders of home and beauty.” | : lara says she believes they who rr their stre: arve k stomobile runnin: emarked Mr.| ; h ve given of th tre y herve and blood in actual battle for| somone, ssa eres itt ” Rt | tango lizards and parlor snakes,” re- the allied cause and come back, many of them to humble tasks thing? marked Mrs, Jarr, Surely these men deserve to stand as close to the hero of t eh ian tel ii ipa and reptiles” said Mr. Jarr, “But Misha ax ie tsainont x, peri ; Naik avait had a pg 1) what does she mean by those asper farne as “prominent New Yorkers” who have applauded him frmn| ¥er time, ald sre dors lons?. Perhaps the young men who the easy chairs of their clubs and d # health at their bane T eee prego pares [beat a strategic retreat rather than anquets ‘ ¢ there when I'm nee . % When a reception for the allied representatives was first dis-|Mr. Jarr retorted, "As for Clara| apie f ee aye Reena cussed, The World suggested that all who have done service with the| Mudridge-Smith’s time: time to her! the National Guard | “ jmeans more than it does to a | Allies in Europe should be invited to form a guard of honor for the} cuckoo clock with the main epr "No, Clara says she knows they | city’s guests, 2 broken, As for her services: what| We" Parlor snakes or tango Mzards La. | Chey were well dressed and graceful, We hop at suggestion has not heen ] ray » been the result of her indefat- 4 i P : BE , r sight of. First place {gable endeavors?” Just ke those paid dancers at the to those who hare done the fighting eee . | cabarets, You know, the men who Lf She spoke to « crowd down at the (Supa atieeimeinet att dance with women patrons tn the afternoon, W that some of t I was glad to read cabaret proprietors tango lizards and > enlist, Clara thinks Letters From the People You Must Take Oat Usual of President if bh ° den his p v ot Become Citizen. citinena of the United Statess | To-Day’s Anniversary discharged the told them to rato } ‘To the Editor of The Breving World WA i] LL. Americans will Join in aym-| it was some of those discharged oncs I came from Liverpool, ve Are 485 Representatives, pathy to-day with those gallant | ‘#at she san without my parents when I was ten Ailor af The Broning W i sing now gray But if she used to dance with Years of age, I am now twenty-two.! Let me know the num ¢ mem. | deed with age and bowed beneath th id if she was willing to kiss My parents are atlll residing abroad | pers in (he House of Reprosentarines, | “, wh lige meat Rec aivantenan can | and are not citizens. Would De READER. will obser eat ABYO'® nee necessary for me to take out my first “ | omorial Day, Cit je dou suggested Mr and second naturalization papers ae Bs Correct r whose sons and | Jat And I believe most of those BL | hy itor of The Krening World | isons may soon be fighting in| Young men may enlist, Some of tho It Is Worth Up to #4, F the Givi ay, hay did no! another wa ea ind Dloodier | Wildest and seemingly most careless ‘To the Editor of The Brening World ‘a . even than the conflict of the ‘60s ale now to be young men do enlist and make brave soldiers. 1 know professional United States no men more| dancer who enlisted abroad, was dec And patriotic than these vet-|orated for gallantry in action and ts warriors of the Southland,| Mow a major, Give the tango lisards dent, {the Australlan soldiers Britian sub. as well as those who | @ chance,’ lt ote eae poll a elping to revive P) bre gis br é ad orn im this It le Worth 61.75, jin the breasts of the rising gener country who etaye —_ 1) he gota | Te the Bator of The Rrening World | tion that martial! spirit whioh will aid to be Mirty-five years Aid. is o! Please state valus of $1 go) in preserving the democracie bie to wot & nominatio: eT ce of 1861, mold drafted men tn Kindly let me know if there is any | mA Ny premium on a@ 6-cent nic! AMERICAN dated 1882, thirteen stars and figure 6 | They Are British § on one side and e#hield on the other. | To the BAitor of The Frening World | To eettle an argument will you i~| please answer are the Canadien and found in the eran These survivors, wore the blue, are ‘I'm willing to," eald Mrs. Jarr. “But don't you think it grand how patriotio Clara Mudridge-Smith an of the | everybody else is going around tell kaw everybody elas to enlist?’ piece _By Helen Rowland _ Copyright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘Bachelor Girl Reflections | usually the one who can combine the skill of a professional with the a OVE and poker are both gaines of “bluff,” in which the winner is 4 baby stare of an amateur, Somehow, only ten and start hunting for another, Home no personal rights, no respect for secret It ts easy to keep a sweetheart and 1s eure of you, meten mow ian in doubt; trouble 1s to keep him after he has stopped doubting s soon as a man {s sure that he is the ant in a woman's heart he wants to suclet St A place in which there are no private rooms, and nothing is considered sacredly your own except your toothbrush, the Many a wife would never suspect her husband {f !t were not for that_ air of “injured virtue” with which he goes about the house when he! knows he deserves a scolding and she won't begin. When a man says that “economic conditions” prevent him from mar- a bottle, dance in the chorus or rum on pneumatic tires. | rying, you may safely surmise that “economic conditions” either come in} Jof this flag had signed to the . Sides “Liberty or Death," the crown-| fet” ‘N° Alfred, Magship of the ing words of Patrick Henry's famous| It is sald that “Respectability” consists entirely in living up to “what the servants! will think” of you. Trying t sofa pillow by throwing bondons at it has no other eff at least tt If the war thing else to talk about | tue proper length of a woman's skirts, something besides hope [ Nature the Se j HIS old man of the woods was | | I made from a knotty bit of wood | | tree's | maple of the feat- taken out of @ The formation figuration was | | trunk. ures and their stran due partly to a whim of nature and damaged the partly to a fire that tree. | Alien Blanchard of Seattle, Wa who made this find, adde glass eye, some bits of hair and an earring to the head. is now ¢ duty as a parlor ornament, and rejoices in the pet name of “Ingomar, the Barbarian,” | ‘The features are a cross between | those of a low type of savage and our conception of the missing ink, for | which actentists have sought so long. Even without the eye, they bear a rs rather startling resemblance to a/| Photo by Agnes L, Hughes. |hgman face and by the addition of |quite an acceptable idol \ ube slase orbit the head would make savage tribe, arouse a thrill of sentiment in a husband by throwing | hints at him is about as effective as trying to make an impression on @ will give reformers some and then something else to worry about, besides Now {a the time for the amateur gardener to prove that he can raise for sdme rubles in 1018 was more than four'of all deposits in 1814 and THe por | pilgrimages to Bayreuth as to a shrine. | And on Fob, 13, 1883, he died. | spite v Jin savings ba | riod The figures first listed are | below 1,000 rubles grege jy | ’ uble ewated 1,612,. currency and the second for securi- | 800,000 rubles 612, Among depositors first place belo ties ' tee uars July Decem: January. | 12 Peasant landowners, Of next den Kitty Failures Who Came Back | By Albert I ivson Ts rhune WAG NER, the “Failure” Who Won Deathleas Fame. 6 of the seven children of a po vo %- RICHARD ork of Leipate, re of bie Here K was 6 court Germany first wiaty y He was born io 1814, and the ven of failures, life were marked by an almost unbroken # d-inek story rd Wagner wanted to be « musician, But bis p playing in ‘ boyhood w wretchedly bad that bis teacher despaired of getting any of the rudiments of music So he turned ils attention tothe drama He wrote a tragedy, in which be killed off no lens t characters, and had to bring some of them back on the stm order to finish the play. This choice bit of drama never saw the light. It was the frst of Wagner's notable failures, Next he undertook to write a symphony, It was so complicated and snarled up that nobody could play it, After which he wrote his first opera, The Fairies.” No manager would touch it, (In fact it was not produced until five years after Wagner's death.) His second opera was produced at Magdeburg and was a rank failure. He went to Paris in search of musical fame. And there, for three years, he nearly starved. Mo sold a few songs at $4 each and did odd Joba tor a Paris usic pullisher But he could get no recognition in Fran He could not even make @ living there, ny he had a momentar “Rienzi Hut his Tannhauser” for some years in his b into bis brain or into bis fingers forty-two of bia as ghosts, in bee } A Fugitive } ng batk to Germ From Justice $ good fortune with his opera hinan” opera fell fla ved Hithe bette Wagner had evolved a new wet of theories aby to those theortes, ‘The pubic could not yet apprecia from one fallure to another, He dabbled in polltics, and failed w the German revolution of 1848 sent into Switzerland, And wix years of poverty-stricken exile followed. He tried to mend his fortunes by @ concert tour in England, ‘Ther hia musio was derided as “an inflated display of noise, vold of molody. A similar tolir of France left him with a sheaf of debts, The failure of a Russian concert series put him so deep in debt that he had to go into hiding to escape prison, Dead broke, he tried to @et @ job as singer in a chorus, but failed once more. When things were at their worst, the King of Bavaria took Wagner under his royal patronage arranging to support | Munich, while the Failure perfected his eccentric musio theories and wrote the new brand of operas that nobody wanted to hear, At news of the King’s invitation, says Finck, “Wagner wept for Joy, and promptly proceeded to Munteh.” But here misfortune atill dogged the luckless man. Personal and political enemies made Munich too hot to hold him, And he fled again to Switeerland, Gradually, however, he was educating the public tion of his genius. People began to see the beau Critics who once had ridiculed the com and prociatmed him the founde Gewrrnnen> musical school. Ie was hailed as * i Belated i ern musie drama panne) Dl fo t music, » them, He stuck So he went ree there than ever before, For vim flying for his life across the border mat to a belated apprecta- of Wagnerian music. last took bim up & new and wondrous the creator of the mod- Glory An opera house was erected at Bayreuth by popular Geng mubscription as a temple to Wagner's and as a home for his operas, Folk formed @ habit of making musteal By this time Wagner was an old man, After a } ships he won tremendous s Deathless fame was his, But he did not ve long to enjoy it. Blographers have pointed out that the number "19" had been alternately his hoodvo and his mascot all throug life. e of failure and hard- oceNs. ‘The Evolution of Old Glory! By James C. Young | Copyright, 1917, by the Prew P r the months jus: preceding the bing Co, (The New York Evening World: also did some damage and had a rath- er lively time of it unt! chased away British, that time Maine was a part of achusetts and not until 1820 did independent State, when ree was adopted for its es- Revolution two flags typified the feeling of the American peop! The first was the Pine Tree Flag originated in Massachusetts, and the secund Was the Rattlesnake Flag, be ved to have been first raised in thi South. ‘The former came into general use throughout New England, and the lattcs was the p Hing standard of the rnorth as New York And these two banners served to indicate the attitude of the lonies as fa ina way two sections toward Britain, sentiment of the New Engle id flag s religious; that of the South lly defiant first bore the figure of a pine tree in green on a white ground with ‘An Appeal to Heaven” inscribed be-| yachaon, low the tree. The original design} Not long afier the activites the of the other ts thought to have been | {Wo Boston batteries, the Rattloemane a rattlesnake cut into thirteen picces, Eon also was to see service afloat, with the initial of one colony on each piece and the Inscription “Unite or Die,” But this soon gave way to what is properly known as the Rattlesnake Flag, depicting @ coiled serpent on a | sels. yellow ground ready to strike and| was appointed bearing this ringing motto, “Don't| Five vessels Tread on Me.” The snake invariably |The intrepid had thirteen rattles, representing the|of the five thirteen colonies, Another variation | commissione inscribed on both | | cutcheon Maine en known » State.” Continental Congress decided in 6 to establish a navy no open ober of 1 the colonies, although 0 ) although steps had been taken tool Authorit al force and on Dee. eventeen ves Esek Hopkins commander-in-chief. were ready for service. John Paul Jones, senior First Lieutenants to be d for the navy, was a address before the Virginia Congress.| who raised the gone was the man American fi In some cases the ground was white] over the first Ameroas ert inatead of yellow, with both mottoes| This was a hanner bearing the on upon the flag. tlesnake device, acco; ‘One of the first occasions upon| obtainable, informancn ky t%, Be Pine Tree flag nt into was which the under those colors t action was In Septembe 8. Twolof vessels sailed, "et the quintet floating batteries carrying this banner| After some delay and manned by American patriots| for the Bahama 1st were launched on the Charles River! 17th of M not far from Boston and opened fire bor apon that city, The batter two swivel guns each, and # in spreading considerable through the good city of Boston this fleet made inds and upon the ch. 1778, entered the har of New Providence. Upward of 100 cannon and other quantities of military stores were neized there, Such Jas {he beginning of American naval history. to Russian People eae eee INCE the Russian Government | tncrease of deposits made {ts famous pronouncement rubles was in equal proportion against alcohol Russian savings! Jun, 1, 1916, balances in excess of 10. have been Increased to Just nine/000 rubles amounted to 70,400,000 times their amount at that time, De-|rubles; balances between 6,000 and ar conditions further rapid ex-| 10,000 rubles to 69,700,000 rubles; and 4 | | those between 1,000 and 5,000 rubl to 605,700,000 rubles. All balances in jexcess of 1,000 rubles thus amo 'to 645,800,000 rubles, while fauas Ly exceeding 600 On pansion 1s anticipated The following table slows deposits ks for six-month pe june. 1916, | Portance are merchants, who are fol ver. 1 June, 1919, "ber porte Hubler, Rubles, Tublee, | Wed by persons in public or private 76,400,000 800,000,009 243,000,000 878,400,000 employment and persons belongi: o the professional classes, The Are | group made 16,2 per cent, of deposited of deposits . an * |i 1914 and 28.6 per 104,000,000 868,600,000 410 800,000 68,400,000 tn 1918; the wecont, S87 per cent, tn in 1016; the In 1914 deposits up to 100 rubles 1914 and 20 per cent. showed a decrease and those from 100/ third, 18 per cent. tn 1014 and 16.9 per to 600 rubles #howed little increase, | fe"{,i2 W918; the fourth, $8.1 per oent in 1914 and 167 The growth of deposits of 100 to 600| These four groups made Sid pap wee 200.000 46,000,000 178,600,000 892,900,009 times such growth in 1014, and the cent. in 1914,