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

ee cre pee The ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. y by the Press Published Daily Kacept Sun ia ark Row, New Yo RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Parl J. ANGUS 8H + Treasurer, 6% Pari JOSEPH PULITZ Jr, Secretary, 63 Row. OW. Row. i } L ‘tered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, | Subscription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and World for t inited States All Countries in the International and nada, Postal Union, One Year... $6.00/One Year......666+ $15.40 One Month. .60|One Monti 1.30 n ( VOLUME 57...... secewevseboeedsrcccssaccesse NO, 20,865 CONGRESS. FFICIENCY now climbs to an international plane and calls for , a centralized purchasing power vested in one man, who, with ion and a corps of experts, shall spend tome $10,000,000,000 a year on the war needs of the Allies, including the help of a comm: the United States. What does Congress say to that? ¥ Already so fearful of dictators and autocrats that it hesitates “even to create authority strong enough to protect American con- sumers from food speculators and profiteers, would it ever consent to delegate these enormous powers to an inter-allied ageat? The struggle between an instinctively jealous Congress and the hasty and multiplying demands of efficiency for centralized, auto- cratic handling of war problems has only just begun. Its progress must be watched with patience and with confidence that this democratic nation can work out ways to carry on efficient warfare without Prussianizing itself or its departments. Americans had much better make up their minds that though Congress is often an exasperating obstacle it can also, on occasions, be a useful check. Invariably jealous, it is sometimes rightfully jealous—in directions in which the Constitution plainly meant it to be jealous. This is not saying for a moment that Congress does not invite & major part of the abuse it gets. In crises through which we have recently passed Congress at times has shown itself inexcusably slow, petty, pusillanimous, unfit to represent the nation when confronted by the insults and defiance of an enemy. But reviling Congress will neither get rid of it nor radically change it. For better or worse, there it is, an integral, inseparable part of the National Government. It cannot be detached for greater freedom and convenience jn making war. Therefore Americans might as well fix their attention, 6o far as may be, on its usefulness—above all, on its value in holding them and their Government, even in war, to the broad principles of repre- sentative democracy in which, as a people, they have put their faith and for which they are in fact fighting. Those principles demand that every dictator or special adminis- trator created in this country for purposes of war shall derive his authority solely from the American people through their repre- And that is what Congress is at this moment resolutely, though it may be clumsily and obstructively, maintaining. If American democracy is to demonstrate that efficiency in war does not necessarily depend upon autocratic power, it can only be with the co-operation of Congre: That co-operation must to no small extent continue to consist in putting a needful check upon dictatorships. Efficiency has the floor. But, though it may come hard, there is nothing to be lost and @ good deal gained by trying to see just now a use for Congress, ———_-+>-—____ TO ENACT FOOD LAWS FOR NEW YORK. OV. WHITMAN will call an extra session of the Legislature #4 this summer to give the State food laws and regulations aimed to meet the extraordinary needs of war. Some comprehensive measure of the sort should have been passed before the close of the regular session. Nevertheless there may be an advantage in having tho attention of the State’s Legis- lators concentrated upon this highly important problem without the distraction and hurry due to a thousand and one lesser bills clamor- ing for notice. The State of New York, with its 10,000,000 people, includes in its southern section the most densely populated area in the United States. Nowhere are questions of food production and distribution more complicated or more pressing. If any commonwealth in the couniry needs full and carefully considered legislation for food con- trol in time of war it is the Empire State. ef es A bwo-cent transfer only means the gradual transfer of millions of dollars from pockets to pockets. The traction com- panties will explain, Letters Mens With Dependant tn Firet Deate. To the Editor of The Brening World Can they take a young farmer of 24 for the army who works his own i} farm and has his aged mother suppert? 8. T. Neo Pap From the People Not Wanted August of this year. Will I have to register on June 5? F. B. Rei To the Béitor of The Prening World: I was born on the 26th of Decem- | Der, 1896, Will I have to register? i} M. WwW. = Needed. Brening World the FAltor 1 came to this country at the age|™ ventng Worl of two years, Tam 26 years old and) Kindly tet me know If I am Mable to ave been voting these last few be called for service if I was born in ears. Would like to know if it is the ited States and my parents were zens not Am twenty-two years of age READER. | Apply No. 100 Sixth Avenue, To tho Kalivor of The Kvening World ecessury for me to get cit'zen pap t been voting on my fath who was a citizen for fft H of Miltary Age Must! sow can I get particulars about the Register, Rallroad Workers’ Battalion being ' ba { The bven World formed for service in France? H. PLR was is i on April 15, but the date ieee ind eo ok t o- land's f the assembling of the legisiators| 4 ‘nado mare demain mane e was fixed for July 4, ne bands suonths later. This long int sid ie yeals the singular lack of eagerness} on the part of the Preside: to have Congress on his hands.—The New| Repubtic | ie found tobe hot Prom Washington to ue tea "008 bear” tes Twas Congrem on his bande Bome day when at th Where goats mut pe’ A chown sertbe ahall patient wait His faithful roll mm beep ween-eyed Petar ever stands He'll woe 8 saint w diwmayel oerpiexed 4 hy arecnce of 2 quorum Wiih Congrem on ble hands ' (eo ) Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to rk. | | 1917 Thursday, May 24, Vip wees Fifty Failures | Who Came Back By Albert Payson Terhune ‘Copyright, 1917, ly the Crees Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), No. 31.—CHARLES XII. of Sweden: The Failure Who Twice “Came Back.” N awkward, uncouth young fellow, stupid of face and boorlsh of A manner, became King of Sweden in 1697 under the title of Charles XL. Those were stirring times in northern Europe. A few yeare earlier King Gustavus Adolphus, “the Lion of the North,” had lifted Sweden to world greatness. And patriotic Sweden looked to Charles to do mu for his country. | The new King disappointed these hopes. He hated politics, He shunned | all business of state that he could possibly avoid, He stole away fro | councll meetings in order to go hunting. In fact, hunting and athletic sports were the only things he cared for He dressed like a tramp, slept on the hard ground, and lived chiefly coarse bread and water. € From the very start he scored a ludicrous failure as a King. And he | blasted the high expectations of his people. Foreign enemies openly de« clared the King was an imbecile, And they decided this was an Ideal moment to loot and destroy Sweden, Yes, Charles XII. was a Failure, His best friends could not deny that. Russia, Poland and Denmark promptly formed a triple alliance against Sweden. With a fool on the Swedish throne, conquest seemed easy. ‘Then, all at once, in face of this national peril, Charles awoke, He | put away forever his beloved stag hunting and took to the wilder sport of hunting men. $ ind ° At the head of a tiny army he drove an invading A Whirtwin force of Danes out of Sweden. With only 20,000 Awakening. men he attacked a Russian army of 80,000 at Narvay After less than fifteen minutes of headlong fighting | he had not only defeated the Russians, but had killed or captured almost their whole army. Next he thrashed a Saxon army sent against him, and finished the war by beating Poland to its knees, All the world stared in amaze at the unbelievable tactics of the Failure who had 80 dramatically “come back.” By 1703 Charles had dictated hig own peace terms to the trembling triple alliance that had set out te destroy him. Then he proceeded to score his second and greater failure | Not content with what he had done he kept on fighting, His firs€ move was a campaign to crush the mighty Empire of Russia, With only | 37,000 men he invaded Russian territory and marched against Moscot It was a disastrous move, One mishap followed another. In the d ee | olsive battle of the campaign Charles was wounded, his troops, thinkin him dead, retreated before a far mightier Russian force. Beaten and with only the merest remnant of his army, Charles sought | refuge in Turkey. The Turks, incited by Russia, sought to capture him, | With 300 followers he took refuge in a house and defended it against | pmemnnrnrrennng, several ‘Turkish regiments until the roof wa ie inal 3 burned over his head. Then he tried to fight 3 Ley. } his way through the enemy, but was wounded and ' Return. captured, ® This second failure was far more disastrous than had been the first. For Charles was alone and a prisoner in a far land at the mercy of the merciless. His army was gone. His freedom was gone Danish and Russian hosts were advancing on Sweden, Charles's case seemed totally hopeless. Yet he escaped from prison, fled in disguise to Sweden and again took up the reins of government.eThe Allies outnumbered and defeated him in a pitched battle in December, 1715, His power apparently was gone. Instead of yielding, he formed a new plan of conquest—a plan that might well have led him to world empire, He formed an alliance with Russia to conquer Norway, then to descend upon Great Britain and thence turn his attention to continental Europe, Charles drove his enemies out of Sweden, invaded Norway and began to conquer It. The Failure had once more come back, ‘At the flood tide of his success tn this new venture and while he was besteging Frederikshall his skull was crushed by a cannon shot, This was on Nov, 80, 1718, | By the way, there has always been a rumor—unverified yet persistent —that Charles was not a man at all, but a woman, The Jarr Fa mily a cCardell | Copyright, (The New York Brening World.) OME time ago I wrote an article, is the Modern Girl Minus Mod- esty?” In answer to a man who signed ‘Southerne: stating that he had not found any mod- est girls in New York City; and now comes an- other letter from a man, signing “Northener,” say- ing: had wenty years | ago I started life | as a boatswain's boy and to-day I am @ manager of | & large social club here in New York, “1 am single, and as I ewore I'd) never marry any but a pure girl, to- | day I remain single and belleve| everything written by Southerner. | “No gentleman cares to marry inert owe a} that the modern girl is minus mod- esty, also virtuousness, “I have courage and every day pray that I may find a good girl, but I doubt it, especially in New York City. I have approached many | whom I would gladly have married but when I ask them to tell me of their past it does not meet with what 1 think a wife should I sincerely hope this man goes on gir! or woman who appears in public | as a painted siren, and I am sure | » © by to the end of his life without love. |By Sophie Irene Loeb. | fe ‘isomn't deserve tt WIT, by The Pree Publishing Oo, He is fishness personified. He sets himself up as a judge of the purity of every girl he meets. Just how far would he measure up it the girl were to judge him? How many questions could he answer as to his “purity” in travelling around the world? How “virtuous” 1s he? How much temptation has he had to thrust aside in his path, in comparison to the girls he scoffs about? What sore of a saint 1s he that he may decide the sins of his mother's sex? Instead of this man praying to God for a virtuous girl he should pray to God that he might be a little more human, a little more earthy, that he himself might actually merit a love that he does not now deserve. It 1s a rare man, indeed, that can set himself up as a judge of even the very worst woman The trouble with most men like this is that they are looking for some one to have and to hold 4s @ part of the household furniture. Such men are usually the jealous, narrow individuals who make the lives of women miserable, and wish they had never been born. Such men expect that they are chief custodians of the soul and body of the wom: They n they would call wife. forget that the world has HE skeleton of a creature half human and half fish, which entists more than Re say \s struggled Mrs, Ja : = ee = | 4,000 years old, has been found on the] civilization and brings to. the fore This is the psychological moment at which the|nauseous punaceg *tministered the | To-Day’s Anniversary |] | coast of China, Its discovery, m- ene more th Ueno pe OF on eekee dressmaker stops working on the triumphal robes of| Master Willie, who had been drawn -* ~* | bedded deep in a sandy shore, has) Tr ie ne aia: intae Paseenta this year’s brides and begins making summer ammu- upon the scen by the noise, laughed | JN 1686 the New England Colonists | revived the old question of whether | origin, corresponding with — triton nition for those who hope to be next year's brides, | tment and health) Mra zr eve hie |] rained the sum of $2,000 to found| mermaids ever existed, This skele- O58 siren as used in antiquity. The i a doxe also, and also by fore shoole or colledge" for training | ton 1s accepted in some quarters as|Chaldeans called this creature | “Where's your father?” d inet enn ue) pone oe ed pvc is i ae eo tnerd were auen (O&MHes, the Chinese named her Wim- Most husbands deal out pocket money to their wives exactly as| gaye’ Your futher?” she agked sigh and Indl outh in| conclusive proof that there were suc r nd finishec 5 pus, and even our own Am n In- |, ; var loaD | ; ‘deg | Jsknowiedge and godiynes.” The site| creatures, long famed In the lore of| Gang have a legend ot the mermaid, | tough It were a war loa [ue Mr qed. Mrs Jarr chosen was “New Towne,” or New- | ny lands. jin which they term her Ottawes, orton | matter of ca: by ton, three miles fom Boston, and}, The str Mie whieh hae gome) Fe Ren bore he of toe Masapinln. Nothing makes a woman feet so fascinating as the knowledge that] Fi wer ocean from this small beginning has grown | 0 HEME after centurits had & Dundes | eit so many peoples in such diatent| She has @ bureau drawer full of frivolous lingerle and frilly negligecs sled to Mr. dare, famous instit » of Jearning, | wont 18 proved by the formation parts of the globe believed in the] that she never puts on ies eS 2 nimsale, as he arvard University | of the ‘and skull, The lower| reality of a creature half woman and ear apt | le street, “maybe married , wh | half of iy became petrified, and| half fish. It would be bard to tm- F be selected first tor the gc 9 eg ye a He of} tn all respects was like the tall of | aging, two races further apart than A man's {dea of @ really efficient wife {8 oue that can make strawberry] fry ruay Mmajolty aut @titles, know Rev. Jo! arvard, who, dying | ash, with several fing, On the head] the Chaldeans and the Indians. But awe berry, a little flour and a can of conde: MeL ete) MP ics palit My AAR LN 2 a | In 1688, willed his Ubrary and one-| and the upper portion of the body a! both knew of the mermaid shortcake out of one berry, and a can of condensed milk, come in the moment they are asked! half of his estate, amounting to about | shriveled skin was found, similar to| The skeleton found in China 1s poseetanns xaaaenicecs $4,000, to this youthful seminary, The | that of an Egyptian muminy, It furs considerably smaller tha the pro- There is no use trying to rouse any tender sentiment in a bachelor| THE POWER DERIVED FROM 000, to | se ary th proof were needed, would | portions of a mermaid, according to 4 “i ry name of the town was changed to| seem FA be supplied by a few strands| popular conception, which invests between thirty-five and forty, because that is the “!ron age” at which ONE GALLON OF GASOLINE. Cambridge, for the university city of| of hair on the head. Dermatologists | her with a form much the sane as|he has discovered that woman {1s not infallible and hasn't yet found HE power of gasoline ts generally 4, where b _|have decided that’ this was once| that of a woman, It ts pointed out, he is indispensable, rated by the distance it will | Bngland, where he had deen edu- | paxen and grew abundantly. however, that this skeleton might] Ut that she 4 mi propel aa automania, mak cated, Later the aoe mine D-| “Every story of a mermaid pictured have belonged toe dwart of the — same energy, if directed to other ana parent for an appropriate home for! goddess-ltke creature sitting upon| species, or to a kind of fish which te ‘, a man wenids he x Y u - the college presidents and $9,000 was/a rock in the sea, combing her halr,| said to have been common in Chinese No doubt many 4 be almost willing to go below after|more varied purposes, Popular Sel hi Or The dedi. | Almost every one of the ancient races! waters about 6,000 B, C. And it is death if he was sure that the waste baskets were made of asbestos and|ence Monthly figures, wiil’ milk 300 voted dor this. purpose, . She eft bebind them accounts of the mer-| concolvablo that the creature might] thet he could throw lighted matches in them all day long without hearing|(O%S, Dale four tons of nay, mix cation, which occurred May 24, 1726,| maid. ‘These ve been diseredited| have grown to larger size in a differ- thirty-five cuble yards of cement, wos an important occasion, and was for ages, being grouped with other|ent clime, Whatever the truth, the| @ Protest. plow three-ffths of an acre of grot ag ground, followed in the evening by 4 supper,|myths su the Greeks enter-| finding of this skeleton opens anew ees or it will generate enough eivctrielty whe psalms were sung and prayers!tained. pent and dragonlone of the most fascinating chapters ike | 1 e ete Q be; |te light a large farinhouse for tb of \vankeglving offered. oft such (esribie aspect as dewcribed ju tue love of mankind, Alas, spring, like love, bas almost ended before it bas begun leone ve Scientists. Believe moved on apace; that the spirit of nocracy ix alive on the hearth- well as in the public halls. no longer owned, They y ties of love as well as The divorce courts most institutions. The great are ma law, merciful thinkers have learned that what God i hath Joined together, no man can|™ put asunder; neither may any man decide what is “purity” for every woman, The man who tnalsts on knowing every little affair up to the time of his riage to the woman of his cho’ only stores up needless sor- row and discontent. Certainly each ‘should tell the other the big things In thetr lives, If it is desirable; but the past should be forgotten if the future would hold happiness. Leastwise, no man should hold up against a woman any offense forever and a day, if she has agreed to turn the leaf of life side by side with him In the last analysis, he may_ well con sider how he might like to be judged in her place. No, Mr. Northerner, the world ir not for you. Better build yourself a little cloister on a high hill, The modern girl doesn’t want or need you; you are entirely too good for this earth, You set up such a standard that only saints in heaven will fill the bill, You'd better wait until you die. At least you will save some girl a siege of sorrow. eally Lived, ir by writers of old were ranked with the mermaid as a figment of tmag- ination, But the discovery of this skeleton discredits all the theories of Coparight, my eyes are full of soap and the ; T 1917, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Prening World.) ROM the bath room came an angry bellow. ‘Where's a towel? Where's a towel? Gee, n't a towel!” “Here's some clean towels, run ith them to your father!" said Mra. Jarr to the little girl, Little Miss Jarr hastened with the towels but fell in the hallway and bumped her forehead, “Now see what you have done!" cried Mrs, Jarr, as though speaking to both Mr, Jarr and the child, “I done?” cried Mr, Jarr, coming o th. hallway and wiping his smarting eyes with his knuckles, \ herself!” “Yes, but you have the children so terrified with your outbursts of tem- per that they run when you speak and don’t see where they are going,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Maybe the Httle dear's collar bone 1s broken, ko Johnny Rangle’s when he fell down the basement steps!” “Oh, pshaw!" remarked Mr. Jarr, seeing the little girl had ceased cry- ing. Children are petted too much these days. A few falls won't hurt them. I always used to be falling when I was a kid and tt didn’t burt mo, Only made me tough.” “I'm glad to know what it was that made you tough,” remarked >» Jarr icily, “but I do not care for my children to be tough.” And “Kissing 19 all right for comfort, but witch hazel would help more.” “Why don't you hand me the witch f hazel then?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “ae” for the comfort of kisses, the poor child would wait a long time for that sort of comfort from you!" At this the child wailed louder than ever, but this may have not been fri her realizing parental neglect on father’s side as much ae noting that in his excitement Mr, Jarr had handed over the castor ofl instead of the witch hazel bottle, In her perturbation Mrs. Jarr ap- piled the castor of! to the bruise, al- Cy q . 4 here she began potting the fittle girl again and telling her not to cry. Whereat the child, who had stopped crying, began to weep afresh, “Why don't you put some witch hazel on the bruise?” asked Mr. Jarr. though the little girl struggied and screamed, being adverse to castor oll either externally or internally, “There, see what you have done!” exclaimed Mrs, Jarr, “It might have been poison! “Why do you talk to me Ike th asked Mr, Jarr, “Castor oll is boon = : ing, and here I am with my. eyes \ B h ] G ] R fj t BAe Bae pT gal cares,” | Dacheior Gir erections thintet Is 40 soothing!” retorted. Mew | Jarr, “You get | By Helen Rowland Coppright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HE best matrimonial “liberty bond” is the kind which guarantees a wife the right to open her own letters and a husband the privilege of an occasional evening out. The average razor, call him smokes, ask him or beat his golf place where nobody will touch his pipe, borrow his man’s idea of Heaven is probably a for breakfast, count the cigars he for money, make him mow the lawn, score, this house so upset that Lam a nervous wreck!” hia “Try the castor oll yourself then,” advised Mr, Jarr angrily, “it may be good for nervousness too!” The iittle girl, seeing her hurte were being forgotten, began to scream again, “Why don't you do somethi tho poor child’ instead of takiag ie all out on me?" asked Mr, Jarr. “Stop your crying!” cried Mra, Jarr, giving the ilttle girl a shake. “You are not hurt a dit. ‘That bruise ts from where you fell off the chair the other day, Now just for that :f am going to give you a dose of castor oll!” And while the child kicked and | / i} . 4