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exeomneeserecere erncernrtiet: Poblished Dally Hxcept Ountey 7 237 Futsiting Company, Nos, 63 to RALPIL PULITZER, it, Row. SoA LIRR hatatads BB, ~Bntered at the Post-Ofiico at New York qs Becond-Class Mattor, ‘The Evening | For nd 1 the Continent ami forthe United States | All Countrton | fhe taternational and Canada, sueiPoatal Union. $6.00 ‘Year. 18.40 50! Month 1.30 vee WO, 20,351 a | WHY BUYING IS CHECKED. T IS no use trying to disguise the fact that there is’s distinct pause in business in the United States. | Retail merchants complain that admonitions from Wash- P VOLUME 57.......... buying is due, we believe, mrinly, perhaps extortionate prices now prevailing for the Housekeepers who have to pay from $15 to $17 per barrel for F slicks F Reports trom Mexico tell us that Villa has given up al) pretense of warfare and gone back to brigandage. , Well, there have been powerful examples. — BUREAUCRATIC BLUNDERING. T IS HARD to say on what principles of business the Post Office Department is run. The proposed increase, in postal rates on newspapers and periodicals is so excessive even for war time that it is certain to force inuch of this class of matter out of the mails into express or freight carrying systems, thereby diminishing postal revenues and causing lows instead of gain to the Government, The Postmaster General who thinks the way to get more revenue out of printed mail matter is to charge it #0 heavily.that it won’t be mailed at all is the same who wanted to take away New York’s pneu- matic mail tube system and set a few hundred more juggernaut motor mail trucks tearing through its streets. Penny wise, pound fodlish, appears to be the settled policy of tho| present Post Office administration, Are short-sightedness and stu- pidity eny more serviceable in war times than at others? te New York never appears to better advantage than when it | is really glad to see somebody. | EE THE LIBERTY LOAN BONDS. ~° lr offering the well-named Liberty Loan Bonds to the public in denominations as low as $50 the United States Treasury invites the people of the United States to become the partners and sup- porters of their Government even as the farmers and humbler workers of Franoe are its readiest and most enthusiastic financial backers. The terms of payment, guarantees as to interest, conversion, &e., announced by Secretary McAdoo make the Liberty Loan of 1917, even leaving patriotism out of the count, a most sound and attractive investment. It remains for citizens of the United States and others who have prospered under Uncle Sam’s protection to show that they consider his interests and his credit the best established and tho safest in the world, The Imperial German Government is certain to scrutinize this first war loan of the United States with the hope of finding indica tions that the American people are not behind it, It is up to Americans to show that any such hope is only more German delusion, Letters From An Amewer for a Veteran, Te the Editor of Wwe Evening World ent Voteran” the People sixth shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! MERE CITREN, Praise for Ald in School ht, + of ‘The Evening World » President of the Alumni Associa- n of Public School No, 62, in be- alf of its 15,000 graduate members, | all of whom represent families in| “Seventh Regir sug- gests that the “Flag of Democracy” be made up as follows: “So that Old Glory gets half of {t and the Tricolor of France and the Union Jack of Eng- land a third each." I'm not much of a mathematictan, that neighborhood, wish to t but Sylvester Worth; The Evening World for the Ed taught me aright in the little old| ##sistance rendered in the fight to retain the lot on Essex Street oppo- | white school house forty years ago,|site P. 8. 187 a9 a playground for the| Mr, Veteran is suggesting not one flag, “D!dren of the COLEMAN SIYF, but a flag-and-one-sixth, Ho eays| Me ict one-half plus one- UR ORD a. nau ut the Deees te ‘urd, Ian't that one and one-sixth? — icindly let me know if thero ts any Good for him. 1 euggest: premium on a ($1) one dollar gold Ané the Star Spangled Banner-and- piece dated 18656, BM, “2 | Chattanooga and elsewhere. is pe nies) Pte eg al Thursday, May 10, 1917 Fifty Failures - Who Came Back By Albert Payson Terhune Copyrigit, 1917, by the Prem Publishiag Co, (The New York Drening World) | * No. 28—CARL SCHURZ; the German “Failure” Who Be- came a Great American. wale 1B was Carl Schure, a German, who dreamed of liberty. But ie A H dreamed of it too early and in tho wrong country. ‘ In 1846, while, ho was still a mere lad, he entered the Uni} versity of Bonn, There he fell under the influence of Gottfried _ Kinkel, who was a professor of rhetoric at tho University. Kinkel had strong “Liberal” views on the subject of democracy, These views ho to young Schurz. \ The student became an ardent disciple of freedom and of repul government and a hater of oppression. Hoe studied deeply in his chosen political subjects, and presently he sought to ald the cause of liberty by Bist a writings, i In 1848 Schurz and Kinkel formed a liberal newspaper. Schurz alse threw all his energy and brilliant intellect into the social revolution which was beginning to sweep over Germany. He had high hopes of freedom and of reforms and of all the Governmental improvements for which he had been pleading in his newspaper. He even entered the Revolutionary Army and fought desperately for liberty. Schurz staked everything on the Revolution’s success. and ambition, And the Revolution was crushed. It was crushed with aa iron hand. The Prussian Government stamped out the embers of revolt and quenched them in blood of many a luckless patriot. Tt was his lite ——~~“~"~— A Ponniless Schurz was forced to flee for his very life “Outlaw.” managed to eludo pursuit and made his way tnto % Switzerland, He had failed, The Revolution was at an ‘end All Schurz’s hopes were blasted, He was a penniless outlaw, barred from his native land, dead to all his old friends and his early surroundings. ever a young man can be calléd a Failure, the term surely applied Just then to Carl Schurz, But there was one thing he could still do for tho lost cause, though it must be done at grave risk to his own life. Kinkel had been captured afd was imprisoned in the grim fortress of Spandau, Schurz returned by stealth to Germany to ald his friend. By mingled daring and cleverness ho effected Kinkel’s escape Troni’ prison, After which, his life still hanging In the balance, ho made his way to the nearest seaport and thence took passage to Leith. oJ For the next few years he wandered through France and Great Britain, picking up a livelihood as best he could with his pen. In 1852 he came to the United States, settling first in Philadelphia, then going to Wisconsin. Gradually he won fame in his adopted land, not only as a writer, but as an orator, Ho became a power in Western politics, For his marked ability President Lincoln chose him as United Stites Minister to Spain. Then the Civil War broke out, And Schurz felt he could serve America pettor in the fleld than in diplomacy. Hoe resigned his post in Spain and joined the army. He fought for the Union as gallantly as once he had battled for German freedom. Swiftly he rose to the rank of Major General, giving splendid account of himself at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and The war over, he turned back to his earliest pro~ ® fession—newspaper wo! And speedily he became & High Reward mighty force in American Journalism, . His geniug, for at Last. politics found wide scopo in this line. In 1869 hé Was made United States Senator. . All this within twenty years from the time when he had fled for his life—a hopeles# and penniless Fatlure—from his mative | bart 1817 he Joined President Hayes's Cabinet as Secretary of the Interten, And in 1884 he was in the foremost rank of the party that elected Groyer Cleveland to the Presidency. To the day of his death Carl Schurz served the United States with pen and with voice as too few nutive-born citizens had served It, The Ger- men “Failure” had made himself a great American, The Woful Wall-Flower | By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) YOUNG woman deplores the fact that she ts like the hid- den flower “left to blush un- seen and waste its sweetness on the desert air,” saying: “I am consider- ed pretty and at- tractive looking, and go to parties quite often, But I seem never to be paid any at- tention, and I am left sitting alone while the other girls are asked to dance. 1 go, to high schoo! and there am treated the same way. * “Kindly tell me the cause of this, and suggest what I ought to do.” There is one prescription for your ailment. It 1, forget yourself, Get interested In others and other things. ‘As soon as you do this, you will be- come interesting, and you will receive the attention you now crave, Not even the homely alsters need be wall-flowers these di In fact, enter any Broup of young people and you will rarely find the pretty girl the most popular. It ts usually the girl who Is alive with life, whd sees something to love ‘m each of her friends; who never forgets the personal equation and has something pleasant in the way of greeting or comment for each who comes her Way. If you are considered pretty and attractive, you are doubly blessed, and somehow you are at fault if you have no friends, Perhaps you hug your grievance close to your heart, Anniversary HIS {s the anniversary of Stone. uA bs wall Jackson's death on M 10, 1863. A man of the highe: Christian type, he was one of the ablest among tho many able leaders of the Confeder His campaigns in which he defeated Union forces three and four times as large as his own, have become textbook classica for Buropean military institutions, It was at the first battle of Bull Run that Jackson received the nan which has mado him one of the world’s herolo Qgures, later he} participated in many battles ana when fatally wounded In mistake by his own men, he sald: “Lot us go over the river and rest.” “ and your face reflects your disup- pointinents, This always tells, Perhaps as you sit there in the dance you look with envy at the girl who hag partners and she hesitates to introduce you. If you forget to be jealous of the girl who has part- ners and reflect the smile rather than the frown, she may bring her friends around you. Your manner may be stiff and un- inviting. Or you may not meet peo- ple half way, which Is always neces- sary if you would be a purt of the party, The only way to overcome this ts not to think of your loneliness, Be- come absorbed in things to do, Cul- A beautiful blossom of a girl is ver) often a wall-flower because beauts '# not attract for long. Ther: something besides, Som call {t char it is, at jeast it ts a 4 as well as Interesting. TI ybe you are bashful. This too 1 banished by thinking less of yo self, The wall-flower feeling 1s usually born of conceit—concelt that some- thing in you ought to attract without your making the effort. This is folly. As I have stated many times in these columns, if you. would draw t that tries to be inter- | uvate girl friends by being gracious, by doing the kind, unexpected thing. Doubtless you hold aloof and are people to you you must extend the right end of the horseshoe, You must lose everlasting thought of yourself in thinking of those about you, In a word, be yourself and remem- ber others, so self-conscious that those who do come to you find themselves strained In your soclety and #0 keep away. Bachelor Girl Reflections _By ‘Helen Rowland HE discovery of rice powder on his coat lapel makes a college boy swagger, a bachelor blush, and a married man tremble, Never.marry @ man because you love him to mad- ness, but because you like him in all sanity. Some men look upon marriage a sort of jitney- bus, in which they expect a wife to furnisb Itmousin: comforts on a trolley car income, : When you meet an old flame, after some years, you can't help wondering if he is thinking of what he missed—or of what he escaped, ‘ REDE ROW Ane So long as a man remains a bachelor he WILL peralst in regarding himself as a universal “temptation” no matter how often he haf beg refused, J By June most of the brave and fearless men of the country’ will* be marching to the tune of Yankee Doodle; but some of them will be mare). ing to the tune of Lohengrin, as usual. Now that modern apartments bave shrunken to the size of a Merry Widow hat, and the new spring hats are getting to be about the size of an average apartment, where will we keep the dog? Somehow a man seems to consider {t a mark of “feminine superiority’ in a woman to be unable to buy her own railway ticket, carry her own grips and check her own trunks, As far as a woman Is concerned, every man {8 a Gulliver, who can’t be lassoed, but must be caught off his guard and tied to her with a thousand Uny threads of patience and long-suffering until he Mes helpless, When an engaged pair begin enumerating the things they are going to “glye up” In orde parry, they are taking the firsi step toward divorce, he Jarr Family Conrriaht. 1917, by ‘The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) 50) D of cheering and the steady tramping of feet came Up from the street below. “I wonder if it i» the foreign e>- 1% from the All’ s?”" cried Mrs. |Jarr, running to the window, “Per- | haps they are going to parade up this way “Maybe It's a fir cried Gertrude, the fait! ul servitor, she ran to the | ‘ « window and leaned out over t's burgeoning flag of our country, ke a Darbara F. stohie of all work, “If a fire I a hope Claude won't get hurted!" she added, For the conscience of Gertrude | emote her. In the war excitement, she had bee, passing up her hero of clvil life, Claude the fireman, for the | milk, an, who had enlisted, and had fant his early morning route to show bh’ sit around to admiring maids in his khak! uniform. collegs ys,” sald Mrs, Jarr. At «...0 pranks of choking fre: 1 with t* ‘r own class colors neckties, I suppose? But no, they are too orderly to be college - oy! . But that .. was a body of soholastic youth, despite the military orderl.ne. 4 of thelr , ree, was self-evident. Cor, sighting Mrs. Jarr and Gertr ‘e at the window, they began to chant: ‘ome out of the kitchen, Mary nal” Which, by the way, neither mistress ror maid took as a compliment, Evi- dently noting this, the leader of the syuadron halted and called loudly: “Three cheera for the wrens!" which were given with o will, “Come away from there, Gertrud: Jhut down the window!" cried Mrs. Jarr, “Where are the police?” “Oh, don't get mad,” remarked Mr, Jarr, who came in at this point, “It's only a lot of college boys who bave formed a military company and are practising marching.” “I'm pure | have helped in the en- \istment work as well as anybody, but I do not countenance their being rud Mrs. Jarr declared, “It. will ye a good thing if they ure all court~ nartialled, That might frighten hem, 1 don’t want them shot or Im- jelsoned, but some general should them + scolding.” “Fine bunch of young fellows, I cali them. It's only. their larks, you snow," remarked Mr, Jarr, “y don't like such larks—espectally when they allude to well-behaved women—for I am sure Gertrude didn't A “distinguished man” is usually one who never spend any time try. ing to look that way flirt with them, she hadn't been at the window long enough — as ‘wrens said Mrs, Jarr iclly. “The wren ‘s a nice little bird,” re. any remarks, They just marched and sang patriotic songs, and they looked plied Mr, Jarr, “You must not take 4 little fun so seriously.” “That's right, encourage such be- havior!” Mrs, Jarr rejoined severely.| “That's why they didn’t need ‘to “The pacifists are right in saying}mako any remark: said: Mr, Jétepyy’) that the war spirit leads to Mcense.|"I’m sure they were so admired that But maybe that is the way you older|they did not need to say a thing themselves,” “IUs aWery good thing Mrs, Rangle and I were standing with you watch. ing that parade!” remarked Mri Jarr, “But maybe you and that man Rangle thought the marching college men behave too, You joined that Home Defense League, didn't you? Well, does that mean that you and that man Rangle and all the rest of you will march through the streets and allude to respectable ladies at the windows as ‘wrens?'" “1 hope not,” said Mr. Jarr, “but if any one of the Irrepressibles—there's iris were ‘wrens,’ too. Mr. Jarr rushed to his own defense and that of his absent friend. They had never thought of such a thing, be leclared, This was true eno 1, for when the college girls had marched Past - Rangle had discreetly. whispered, “Some chickens!" And Mr, Jarr had as discreetly whispered back, “Yea, bot" a@ lot of bachelors in the Home De fense League—does anything like that in sheer exuberance, 1 hope you won't blame it on me.” “I don't know about that,” re- marked Mrs. Jarr. “I noticed when the college girls marched in the big Preparedness Parade they didn't make Perfect Woman Must Be 40) | and Mother of Five PEE of English teach- to remove the causes of sufféfing among the poor, She Is a delightful companion and has a gift for friends ship, She is a religious woman 4 tries to fulfil her duty toway@ fer and toward other people, 3 a bicycle, nees, skates, rows “She take walks, ric climbs, swims, She can ride. and drive a motor car, She nt in any branch ot je teal learning, She can do anything and everything about the house. Bho has some knowledge of the law, knows how to In can use @ type. writer, She t reader; every day she reads somo serous book a ers employed in schools for giris has just decided what consti- tutes the perfect woman, Hero 1s their official definition: “The perfect woman t{s forty, 1s married and is the mother of five children, She is In happy circum- stances, Itving in a beautiful part of the country a few miles from a big town, She ts the centre of a good home, in which there tg a high stand- ard of cleanliness und comfort and where good taste is everywhere vis- ible in furniture, carpets, curtains, wallpaper, ornaments and clothes, “The {deal woman 1s sensible and business like and her home is a place of peace, She Is patriotic and inter- ested in politica and does all she can Well as a newspaper and @ novel, speaks three languages besides hey own and reads foreign books, She ts fond of gardening and has learned several crafts—wood carving, metal work, bookbinding and embroidery,* DER a plan advocated by the lows: business men and interests rep=| Clty: resented in the Philadelphia | xe), Bourse, a new grouping of the terrl-) W torlal United States should be made, | }}*!t¢ for economic reasons, by erasing | ficial divisions of Sta present State lines and creating “The | it 5: United Regions of America.” ‘This| nate ditions whi plan would divide tho country into] @!lons.w six great regions according to “com-| nized by munity interests," with pectal regard | for gion, New Atlanta, Ga.; Lake, Central, 01 stern, Dal iy alt Lake City 8, Tex., and tah, It fs t y advocates of the 1 country has outgrown, the arnt ines, and that ccording to nomic eons Interstate Com- zones railre -y plan to the Importance of railroad co-op-| Calls for f an econom! eration and the character of the im-|iinder wh ited Reglang,’ dustries and general conditiong of| Commerce ¢ lon would Kenan each, says Popular Mechanics, ‘The|P!etely reorganized. It is tho inten. regions proposed, with their sug-!{/0" of the Philadelphia Boursd to submit the plan to Con; gested regional capitals, are as fol- yeplent opportunity. ress at @ con.