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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. t Su dy th bit " _ Published Daily Bxcep' ingeg by FR J Fublishing Company, Kos, 63 to) President, 63 ayer PULITZ: Row. . IGUS SHAW ‘rensurer, 63 JO8«i PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 ow. | ——$— Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, | Rates to The Evening| For England ‘un th ‘orld for the United States All Countries in the fracas and Canada, Postal Union. + $6.00) One Year.. + .60/One Month. Year..... Month. VOLUME 57.. WITHOUT PREJUDICE. | Tr is no feeling of general hostility or mistrust on the part | of the New York public at this time toward the police. On the contrary, the force as a whole has never raised | itself to a level where it inspired more confidence and respect. No! one has the slightest desire to reopen old scandals or resurrect old| charges which the police have lived down and put behind them. ! This moment is, therefore, a particularly fortunate one for an} inquiry which aims to get to the bottom of a specific piece of bungling or worse which concerns one corner of the Police Departinent,| without any suggestion whatever of a general “rip up” in the interest) of sensationalism or politics. The detective work done by the police following the disappear- ance of Ruth Cruger was wretchedly incompetent. Whether it was at the same time deliberately lax, whether friendships growing out of dealings between Cocchi and motorcycle policemen were in any degree the causes of that laxity, are questions for which Commissioner} of Accounts Walistein’s investigation, District Attorney Swann’s investigation and Police Commissioner Woods's investigation muay,| between them all, reasonably be counted on to find answers. Where! punishment is deserved it will fall, and where reorganiza it will be effected. But the Police Department is not yet “shaken to its founda- tions,” nor has the white slave traffic suddenly emerged as something more powerful than all forces of law and order in New York. The public will watch the pending inquiries with interest, but it will watch them without excitement and without prejudice. Until the contrary is proved it would rather believe that the police of this) city have grown strong enough to guard their own standards, struggle| with their own faults and throw out their incompetents and their! traitors. ion is needed The motto of the Italian Revolution of 1849 was fara da se (“Italy will do it by herself”). Few peoples are taking that motto these days. Littalla THE BEST THING RUSSIA COULD DO. Arent will be only too glad to put all the faith they can in the optimistic assurance of Special Ambassador Bakh- metieff, who says “there is not the slightest doubt that! Russia is decided as to the necessity of fighting German autocracy | until the conditions for a genera) and stable peace in Europe are} established.” The whole American attitude toward Russia has been one of éympathy and helpfulness, We believe the new Russia will eventu- ally strike out under the guidance of its sounder elements rather than| lat itgelf be hustled hither and thither by liberty-mad extremists. | Nevertheless we cannot forget that Russia at this moment is not | asked to raiso armies or to rouse itself for a fight. Its armed forces| are already in the field trained by three years’ actual participation in the struggle. Russia has great armies. She has good generals. If she wishes to inspire her allies with new confidence in her intentions, nothing she could possibly do could have greater and more immediate effect than to announce that Russian forces on the eastern war front are ready to resume an offensive strong enough to set the Kaiser sorting and shifting troops again. That would dispel all doubts. —— ‘The Government has jun action against a group of bic fish companies in Boston, charging them with unlawfully com bining to contro! the fish industry and asking that they be dissolved and receivers appointed, So {t goes. Food products of the boundless deep, Inex- haustible, free to all, gathered by men who get little enough for the hardships and perils of the job—yet when It comes to ‘ ' | / What the Chinese The Allies’ Newest Ally Almost Wrecked by Schem- ing of Provincial Governors—How Their Striving for Power Imperilled China’s Liberty. cay By James C. Young m7 Drene Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HIS political upset, with which their will is enforced, And Con vriatit new democracy, |" 1 “many @ nation before Hut it is nonethe/China had a troublesome Premie loss a grave situ-|Tuan Chi Jul. ie was strongly sus- ation, in- | Bee ted of ®elng a Jupanese hireling, her, whose and was so accused by Peking’s fluence extends | aries editor, Eugene Ch’en, The even to this eoun- | Premier put the editor in jail. But t was not the end of the Premier's Both the President above and the Parliament below him resident | tha troubles, hi try, Witness the efforts of Pi Wilson to bring peace out of conten- | tion among the Chinese factions, called for his political head. He re- China has her monarchical party,| fused to resign, and was dismissed snother which is truly republican, *| from office, mmediately the old third that is largely soctalistic, Premier set about organizing a revo- fourth group, made up of adherents | lation. te the cid order of things, is the most| "That is the personal side of the dangerous, Its members are not) controversy. Here is the political and particularly interested in the returh | more deely significant side: China Bt the Ming rulers nor the erection | gaw in the European war a chance to of a new monarchy, But they are) ajly herself with the Entente nations very much interested in holding On| and thereby gain some measure of ‘The end is not yet in sight. to the power in their hands, and | protection against Japanese ageres- gaining a stronger grip wherever | sion, China reasoned that after a con- Faanibie, In this roup are the pro- | flict “to make the world safe for de- Mineial Military Governors who have | mocracy" she could not be left wholly almost wrecked the Republic. lin the cold @hould she take @ hand, China is such @& vast country and | China's President, China's Pariiament Y authority so relatively | and all of her clearest thinkers fav- the military Governors | ered war with Germany, China’ rulers over millions of | Premier and others of the military provincial | class also wanted war, But they equipped, wanted it on terms that would How London’s Policewomen Are Doing Their Bit | distributing them somebody is on hand to set up monopolies and squeese out fat profits, | There may be just as good fish in the sea as ever came out. But for the consumer they don't come out as cheap. | not if the fish distributors can fix It. a NO TIME TO NAG. NE need bear no ill-will toward the woman suffrage movement O to be glad the suffragist pickets at the White Mouse gates have been finally dispersed. Since the banners borne by the pickets began to be inscribed with arraignments of the President and appeals to foreign sympathy so offensive to the feelings of most Americans that unseemly rows and scufflings have resulted, the suffrage cause has derived scant good| from this method of advertising. When Great Britain went to war the militant suffragettes of} England practiced heroic self-control and ceased to harass their| Government. Surely their American sisters who have always con- ducted themselves with far more self-respect can now do as much, With the serious business of war upon us, the cause of suffre is certain to be advanced much further by the women who forget all else to help the nation than by those who see only an extraordinary chance to nag it. ; Hits From Sharp Wits What passes for courage is some Never throw anything at a lady times the predominance of the fear/even if she has diMculty In reaching called a coward over the fear| tho high street car steps don't throw —Albany Journal, @ glance at her—not even a glance! . . * Paterson Call. Tt takes a woman with nerve to carry * @ $10 purse with nothing in tt but a safety pin_and a dozen dry goods Chicago News. o 2 8 We don't see how the young men in the underwear advertisements are Going to escape being called to the colora.—Toledo Blade oe. Lota of people purmie a career, but mighty fow of them catch up with It Memphis Commercial-Appea! 8 8 A lot of folks who get a blessing in Aewuise never me through: the dis gulse,—-Binghamton Press, Some factory pie tastes as if the employees might have been careless when oiling the machinery.—Tolodo eee One good thing about an air fleet \ can't underm!ne it.—Colum- Maa C676) Bate i HOUND the corner from Scot-| that they must keep @ sharp eye for, A land Yard, London's famous cigarettes, matches, alcohol and other) Police Headquarters, ave the| ‘hinge which are barred from the baie peg ants, but which are frequently Mfices of the Women's Police Service suggled in, \'rhey wear a uniform that 18 as much| ‘The polleewomen also have taken ; hand In keeping the fect of soldiers’ | | ke shat of @ ¥ ular Bobby a skirts wives on the path of good behavior. | | w permit, And the policewomen) Por a time after the war begun there| jaddress their feminine officers 48) was much intoxication among women | Sir!" For they simply can’t assume) whoge men folk had gone to tho) {a Kk, military alr end say nt. Worry and loneliness con-| | Madan according lo the head of] tyibuted to this tendency, Here the} the foree. woman stepped in with an un- Ithough without offetal standing, anding that no policeman could Women's Police Force ts looking: have had, and did much to meet the J to the day When its members | situation. trol a beat and push citizens; But they not only have handled the [around in the namo of the law. At] problema of women and those of a present the force 1s composed of vol-| pacific or helpful sort, but have un- |unteera, and they have done some| dertaken to deal with some of the ly excellent work since the war|ugher phases of the criminal ques- |began, In fact, the force had its In-| tion, In this attempt they bave yet ception at the time the conflict|to meet with harm from men who started would attack thelr own kind at alight Its members have been much tn] provocation, But to the policewoman evidence at. munition plants where| even the underworld has accorded numbers of women are employed. | consideration. Because of this consid- ‘Yhey look after the feminine muni-|eration the pollcewoman may be able ‘tion workers, endeavoring to keep! to accomplish regults by suasion that them out of harm, and also give an| the real policeman could never obtain Revolution R sustain thelr position. charged that the Premier was ready | upon the opr to sell out bis country and so en 5 gineer things that Japan would 4 sume her cherished role of protec for allied Kast. t to be caught. moned the powerful Military Gover- It has been | interests throughout the In this trap the President refused So the Premier sum- \¢ i, China ts mere- © to maintain their posl- |nors to Peking, Between them they | c ly a backwash of ter what may come. It 1%] undertook to force a war of their 4 ati armies which have made | making upon Parliament. Parila- | the old struggle) President Li Yuan Hung almost @|ment and the President clung to between the im-| prisoner in Peking, and which have] their determination, and Li Yuan perlalists and the |SeFlously threatened the future of the | Hung refused to prorogue Parlla- ment at the demand of the Governors. For a time it looked as though the Republic would fall of its own weight, Rebellion thrust up its ugly head in many places. ‘Pho very men | who should have sustained tho Prest- | dent were ready to unseat him that | they might seize a fuller measure of) power for themselves, Not only did the attitude of the Military Governors imperil the State, eally M | ready to sweep things before them. ern eans but the Radicals or Soctalists seized yortunity to grind their voral provinces seceded, es of the Governors were Just when Democracy seemed lost, he situ took a turn for the bet This was due partly to recov red strength by the Republican gov nt, and langely to the divid uncils of the Governors themsel a camp where cach man 6 little Dut his own Interest, division was bound to come. The rift spread | to a definite breach and the Gover- nors took themselves off, each to his own army, ‘This gave the President a breathing spell and the outlook 1s now much | better than tn some months. Several of the provinces which seceded are ready to discuss terms, and the Presl- | dent has called for the election of a| new Parliament. It would seem that | the struggling democracy of China| has been saved by the barest of| margins. In | to tell people what they already know. He isn't a teacher. His knowledge | situation.” Coors. 1917, tbr the Pris Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening oe (aces are they going to lodge the soldiers in at camps, mansions?” asked the head polisher, “It's hard to say,” replied the laundry man, ot housing soldiers is generally in the hands Quartermaster’s Department of the United ing so-called cantonments for our new army. A com mittee of experts bearing the brief and convineing title of “The Committees on Emergency Construction and Engineering Works of the Advisory Commission hand and seems to be bent on choking it to death, “Advices from Washington state that one group of experts is strong for two-story barracks and @m+) other group insists on one-story barracks. Some of the experts think the soldiers ought to have separate rooms and private baths and others ere clamoring for sets of shower bath systems that will expeditiously cleam 2,000 soldiers at @ time. Contracts have been let for the construction #f barracks in Gouthern camps, but the contractors have not been told what sort of barracks they are to build. “There might be some excuse for this confusion but for the fact thet the United States, of all the nations at war, has had the most compre hensive and satisfactory experience with the construction of sanitary quarters for workmen and soldiers !n all sorts of diMmates, There never was anything like the collection of buildings put up for the use of the great army of workmen employed on the Panama Canal and of the soldiers | stationed there, “The death rate in the Panama Canal Zone during the height of the ; construction period, embracing a considerable population of Spaniards and / West Indian negroes, who were hard to handle from @ sanitary viewpoint, was lower than the rate in United States cities and away below any rate | ever registered in any tropical city. The good health of the men was due solely to their clean and airy lodgings, thelr excellent bathing tactities, the wholesome food and the absence of mosquitoes and files. “Possibly the plans of Col. Gorgas, who designed and built the Panama Canal sanitary lodgings, are not on file in Washington; perhaps the O. en B. ©. @ EB. W. of the A. C. of N, D, has never heard of the Panama Canal, A few inquiries about it might settle this barracks question in a hurry.” Wen sae ot JA “W “I think it will brace up the membership of a number of churches that were on crutches,” replied the laundry man, “but as far as having any lasting effect on the city as a whole the campaign was about as effective as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. While Mr. Sunday was herg he entertained and stirred hundreds of thousands of people who heard him, ‘but his influence did not extend beyond his audiences. Most of the people he railed at as sinners holding through tickets to hell are just as good as he is. “Mr, Sunday is a wonderful evangelist for several reasons, He is earnest, he has the nerve to George Ade the Bible, he realizes the value of the unusual in the delivery of a sermon and he takes particular pains HAT do you think of the effect of Billy Sunday’s work in New York?” asked the head polisher. of human nature, which tells him that the great majority of the proletariat refuses to think, influences him to tell his audiences self evident truths which will not compel thought and the people say ‘Isn't he just simply wonderfull’ He's a pretty worldly nh cone Billy Sunday.” . . “ce I investigating the police handling of the Cruger case.” “Well,” sald the laundry man, “if there 18 anything in the re ports of financial transactions in which Cocchi and motorcycle cops figured the Commissioner of Accounts ought to be the right bird to handie the Your Daughter’s Bathing Suit By Sophie Irene Loeb Canrava. 1017, by the Preee Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), UMMER is here in full blast and| women recetve their first advance the seashore from now on will]/advances of unscrupulous men, And be crowded, ‘Thousands of giris| what ts usually the cause of these at- will be found! te’ s? They are most often in- | there —all sizes | Vited and encouraged by the style of and complexions. | bathing sult your girl wears. What about your| I know a mother who is weeping to- daughter? day at the downfall of a sweet, tnne- Have you ever| cent girl, who owes her misfortune to stopped to think,| tho Kind of bathing sult she wore mother or guard-| Being young and inexpertenced, she fan, that the sum-| ‘Was first led on by the flattery of @ mer resort--the| man as to her appearance in « bath- seashore 1s one| ing sult, this mother told me. of the most dan-| Tho girl listened and belleved, to hee gerous places for later regret. ‘The mother explained her, not so much on account of set to me how the girl had pleaded} dangers, but land dangers? wear @ one-piece sult that she “swim more freely,” and ther youn It 1s here most often that young gan the whole trouble, While we do not need to % Seoerin inure Wem The Ja ee ee 66] NOTICE you haven't much to ] say these days, Gus," said Mr, Jarr as he dropped into the cafe on the corner. “There ain't much to say,” replied Gus. “Anyway, the German dialogue ain't popular these days, and I don't know how to talk mit a Irish accl+ dent.” “It would be an Irish accident If you did," sald Mr. Jarr. “As for your German dialect, I guess you speak it from a good American heart.” “You bet Ido!” said Gus, "I bought Liberty Bonds, and I got my place full of them ‘YOU Enlist!’ pictures, | And I'm ready to form a patriarch association right now.” “That's a good idea!” sald Rafferty | the bullder, who was among those present. “We'll get up an association | for patriotism and to free Ireland, Now's the time.” “Or to fix it so all Americans what | has relations back in Russta can go wisit them,” suggested Slavinsky, the | glazier. “I couldn't go back to wisit if 1 wanted to.” “It's all right now since the Rus- stan revolution,” said Mr, Jarr. “But let's listen to what's Gua's plan.” “Nut enough money ain't .being| spent,” said Gus. “If you knew| what case goods cost me these! should have a nice place to} meet,” said Slavinsky, “In the back of my shop 1s plenty room. And if anybody fell up against any plate glass the club should pay for It,” rr Fa days” Ww eye to their conduct with respect tol by the kind of persuasion that be the safety of the plant. This means best understands, “But, say"—— began Gus nervous- ly. mily - By “There's a lodge room what ain't used over my store—it ain't a big one, but it would do,” suggested Mul- ler, the grocer, "If we are to be) patriarchtic and have out flags I want the business what !t will bring me.” “But wait a minute!” erfed Gus. “Do you think I am going to give the idears of my brains for other| people to use? Am I to get up a patriarehtle club to use Slavinsky's shop or a lodge room over Muller's? | Ain't I got a nice back room where| there ain't no glass to fall against? Maybe you want to meet in Bepler's| butcher shop, because in the hot} weather he closes his ice box between | one o'clock and four in the afternoon?! Do L close my ice box any time? No?" | “But if it's to be patriotic there | should be no connection with acafe,” Mr, Jarr, who saw Gus was “sure, this is @ tough joint Gus keeps," ‘said Bepler, the butcher, “Hey, do 1?" erled Gus, “It's you what keeps the tough joints, or rather you sell them!” And then It dawned upon Gus that this was a feat reproot for the butcher, end he suggested the latter was due to treat all present. “Is it to be all patriarchtic or part. ly social?" asked the butcher, to turn the conversation “It should be something mit death ef ‘said Slavinsky, "I ain't ing well, anyway; and I got @ fo large family.” ‘No, it should be a singing society, suggested Mr. Rangle, who prided himself on his baritone voice, ‘We could be patriotic and at the same timo sing the old songs. And Mr. Rangle cleared his throat and started to sing “Seeing Nelly Home." “Here,” sald Mr, Jarr, “we want the new organization to be all har- Roy L. McCar false modesty in the practical ot to-day, yet a girl reol throws away her whole future sisting on a so-called “f: extreme of dress. People who throw conventior tlrely to the winds are usuall; the chickens who come home to jand' cry for sympathy when realize they are “outside the all because of their ini ence to tle the world's decrees and dost: While swimming {s @ delightf ercise and clothing should be ao. as to insure ease of motion, yet unnecessary to make one’s self over- conspicuous in enjoying the port. Besides, she who really wants te learn to swim might better learn how while considerably clothed, People usually run the most risk of drown club,” said Gus. “We should have coniforms, like the Home Guards which I belong to." ; “Mit a death benefits my lungs ain't) good,” persisted Slavinsky. ‘That's my idear, something patriarehtlc and jolly with a death benefit, and every- body fined a dollar if he don't go to} everybody's funeral what belongs ‘That's what 1 call having a good! time.” “Let's make {t a machine gun com- pany,” suggested Mr. Jarr. “We could get the Government to give us a machine gun, and we could go out in the park to dril | “Na,” sald Gus, “that would take all you fellers too far from home. Let it be something in my place 80} your vifes will all know where to find you just like now.” And it was so carried. dressed. Leastwioe, the extremist never get anything but criticiem and ridiculs and trouble, I am confident that the girl who wears flashy bathing suite Who discards her stockings, and other wise ties to make herself different from the others as to bathing costume does {t for one purpose—to draw @t- tention to herself. She usually accomplishes her desire and ls sorry ever after, The man, he who 1s worth having, rarely think seriously about a girl or ask her to meet his sister, or mother, or to become his wife, when he knows that she has so forgotten modesty as (o invite attention to her bodily at- tractions. Besides, the immodest suit is usually an incentive for further vulgarism, ivery mother should see to it that her girl's bathing suit ts within the hundred and sixty years 060 to-day the foundation was latd | for British rule tn India, On June 23, 1757, a little band of Eng- lighmen, at whose head was Robert | Clive, a young clerk of the East India | Company, prepared for to be a hopeless battle against powering odds on the fleld of F In 1756 Calcutta had been captured | by Suraj ud Dowlah, who imprisoned more than one hundred iH in the "Black Hole,” suffocating al- most every one of them, ‘This time the gods of battle decided not to fight on the side of the heav- test artillery, ‘The battle which took place was short, sharp and decisive. Buraj “ud Dowlah'e force of 66,000 | range of refinement, ‘There are many was @oon thrown into confusion by | beautiful ways of making’ these gar- the few British guns and by British | ments pleasing and Comfortalte and determination and valor, The In- dians broke in headlong rout before decent Besides, it were wise to make her mony, so we won't permit any sing- ing, especially by you, Rangl "it should be something like @ sol- ier company to be & patriarchtio the repeated charges of the English- men. Thus Clive wrought vengeance for the crime of the "Black Hole of Calcutta,” young daughter understand that the seashore 1s a public place for ewim- ming and bathing and not @ private bathroom or boudoir, of the Council of National Defense’ has the problem ta + SEE,” said the head polisher, “that the Commissioner of Accounts is ( ing when they fall in the water fully”