The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1917, Page 14

| a aa ——_——— ee The Cena siorld. ferar Pwerened Daly Bao 4 —_ oe 2s nan} t~ P . — ’ ’ - Pure One * ' 18.9 « VOLUN 4 WHERE THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHOULD LEAD. VPEWRITTEN reports and pen and ink theories are not bringing food within reach of men, women and children who need it The mass-smeeting held by The Evening World's Houee- wives’ Protective Association at City Hall yesterday brushed aside ell flubdub on the food question and drove straight to the point: The only way to bring down food prices is to tackle firot- hand conditions that foster them. Instead of discussing a hundred things that might be done, DO half a dozen that can and ought to be done. PROVIDE storage at reasonable rates for the farmers’ record crops. FIX BY LAW the maximum price at which milk can be sold to the poor who need it most. BEGIN WORK on the terminal markets that the experts agree every large city should have. ESTABLISH the commissions that shall keep prices at just levels by buying and selling in the public interest common articles of food that every one requires. These are some of the things a State must DO if it means intelligently to co-operate with Federal authority in protecting Americans at war from ruinous food prices fixed by profiteers. These are some of the things the Legislature of the State of New York which meets in special session next Tuesday must DO AND DO AT ONCE if it means to do its duty by the 10,000,000 people of this commonwealth and by the Nation. a -+- MORE B. R. T. TACTICS. N EXAMPLE of the entrenchment methods by which a publi eervice corporation can defy for an indefinite length of time the just demands of the public is again furnished by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The two hundred and fifty new cars which the Public Service Commission ordered the B, R. T. to add to its surface lines, where they are badly needed, have not yet been procured, Ther thing but certainty that even the coming winter will see them oper ating to relieve notorious and intolerable conditions of overcrowding which grow steadily worse. | B. R. T. officials long since admitted the need of these new cars. The company some months ago filed plans and specifications with the Public Service Commission. Orders for the cars were un-| derstood to have been placed. | But instead of keeping faith, the B. R. T. made a sly trip to the courts and obtained writs of certiorari on which no hearings can be had before October and‘ which, as the chief counsel for the Public Service Commission points out, “were sought only to procure a post- ponement which would in itself defeat the purposes of the proper order of the commission.” | is any The situation is, as the commission counsel sets forth in asking a dismissal of the writ, @ peculiarly flagrant {Illustration of a condition which greatly weakens the fair workings of the Public Service Commissions law, A condition, he might have added, which is also constantly in- tensifying instead of allaying public irritation against public service corporations and which tends to deepen a distrust which these cor- porations profess to deplore. Can the B. R. T. figure out that, in the long run, there is any thing to be gained by playing false with a publie whose power in- creases with each succeeding year? + RUSSIAN WOMEN ON THE FIGHTING LINE. | OW that the women have found their way to Russia’s battle front, maybe things will go better, Yesterday's reports described Vera Butchkareff and her feminine battalion, the “Command of Death,” as fighting valiantly at Krevo and furnishing inspiring examples to the men, After all it once took a Maid on horseback, with sword and armor, to pull France out of a desperate plight. And thou revolntiommry fi de Mericourt not have pre« a Madame Roland, the energy of the former nevertheless won her the per f corps of the so-called army of the fauboury days of June, To go further back, there was Artemisia, Queen of Mali who fitted out help who proved herself so fighter at monarch said after the h among gures a Theroigne stride a cannon may} ly the attractions al command of the third during the eventful Paris 9 aArnassus, five gal Xerxes against the Greeks, and Salamis that the Persian The men fought like w Penthesilea, Boudicea, Deborah Sampson a American Revolutionary fan Agustina, “Ma will set to work and draw up the dist women down to Ver jen and the nen like men, ul Molly Pitcher of d list of who embattled a Butchkareff? Letters From Womanly Patriotinm, x the People “ slat, To the Editor of The Eveuing World s vt ese The selective drafting which bas) Pious ert) went ee Just taken place brings home to each But dees in a women's and everyone of us the full rea ait tion of War and the part we At i i i cuns as a Nation have t6 take in The word |ife means and repre gents service; service to God, coun wr ww long try and humanity, Just now waen| ! . era our boys ate called by their ry|Y “ to service, let pray for strengt | phi not to 1 going hard fory) They ne ; them, Rather let us sanctify our} oy, ye» j sorrow by silence, and when we speak | And yo M our fur Is let us smile bravely, |! (ei @ speaking words of cheer to our loved| \* me nes, Oh, God, help us to be brave, | ° & wotna or brave, ax’ becomes the mothers, wives | Goh ais as and ‘sweethearts of our American) tie Kingicet Warrior men! | Why can't we all try to be warriors A pewm written by Joaquin Miller) of thia sort? It is as typifies the bravery of women under| sacri rept conditions of this sort, and I give it| and while our ris are heavy. let jus kneel and with bowed heads com- mend our armies to the protection of Jour Heavenly Father, MALEL 8, HEATH, | ' floes, but & @ nobility, tie that ever was fought! You where and when? maym Of the world you will find it not; jaa fuugln by the mothers of med, ' | The Meddling Mother-in-Law |Two Is Company and a Mother-in-Law Is a Crowd in Herself When a Young Couple Starts Housckeeping, Says This Writer. by the Frew Publ aig MAN writes me telling of trou-| that 1 bles with a meddling mother in-law. He says that his wife is still In her teens, Yet this ts her second marriage, which the mothe in-law, according to the husband, Is now attempting to destroy. He says: “This man to whom she was married she loved, but her mother was against him and kept her daughter ur her influence just like a hypnotic spell and forced her awa from him by annulling the marriage “Sho introduced her daughter tom and made arrangements for her to meet me, In the mean time she ob Muued the annul rut three months later we got married, He goes on to teil how this marriage has pr in-law finally separa unhappy ved, his mother shim from his wite and child, breaking up thei home and causing his appeal to the courts In the interest of the baby, He | lds, however: “Personally Lb hav hing against my wife, for she is a good Httle woman “It is too much influence from her mother that caused us to break up our Httle home. Her mother was live | ng with us, From the very first day To-Day’s Anniversary A erected sey- MONUMPN' was eral years ago ¢ Farm in Columbiana County Ohlo, whieh marks t farthest horthern point reached by the Con- | federate forees durin vil War it also marks the spot w Gen, John H, Morgan, the fam nuth- | ern leader, purrendered Y many years an old ik tree marked Uh place of surrender, but the tree died a few years ago, and after it had been cut down the stump was token t b very O, for eping in| the public Hbrary It was the of the late W Thompson, the # writer, who lived | hear tho scene of the fight, to erect a | monument to mark the spe He had f@ fund well started wh suddenly died, but his friends to » the work and carried tt through © granite Jbowlder was put in’ place and upon this is a bronze tablet bearing the inscription: "This stone marks the spot where the Confederate raide Gen, John H. Morg hie ‘cammand to M pared Rue, July 26, 1868, and is tho farthest point north ever reaches by any body onder chance of being alone with my in the home, to I disec me. Had she been a sen she would Bachelor Girl Reflections of Confederate troops during the | Chil War," ence of her predecessors and has be me a better type of woman, reall: that hen two they should be left their own saly mm she 1 to understand that two Co, (Dae New York Kvening World), and three 4a.a crowd, 0 was married L never had a ‘a tactions mother-in-law wife in herself, 2 We who has reall best to let the young coupl 8 far a: “Her mother did not teach her how ad married life, but simply aged her, urging her to leave| has been hers as t ple mother | woman of her time, An¢ d her} miliar figure as things a have ence daughter not to make second | funnily to- . riage a failure. We had all| — Thut that tiere are oceasional casos wnces of being happy had not this} like the one recorded her vider mother-in-law interfered with us." Many a young girl oc. trace her Ata time when finances were lt-| troubles, Her broken heart and hom tle low t min explains how slowly | to a mother’s dabbling in her dones~ and surely the mother-in-law turned | tice duties. his wife against hin . When, oh when, will such a w Although there may be faults else-|learn the folly of 1 Vays? where, since We have not all sides of | will she busy! the story, yet there is something to| the ho husband? be said about th fering mother-| When, of will she come to se to » of her child’: when, in-law. Many times I have pointed | understand that marriage is an In- wut that the average mother-t stitution which has rules and regu- wot to-day has profited by t lations for happiness, or misery, and By Helen Rowland Co yHaht, WIT, by the Pram Publishing Co, (the New York Evening World) | ie an egotist needs a woman's love—if only as @ mirror, in which to behold a perfect image of himself, highly flattered and retouched. Perhaps the reason why a man finds it so difficult to please a woman 1s because he is usually busy trying to please half a dozen of them instead of concentrating on one at a time, ‘The first cigarette and the first love affair always make a boy suffer; after that they come y and merely soothe his nerves or his vanity, as the case may be, ven being unhappily married 1s preferable to being miserably single. At least, you have the comfort of knowing that somebody is sharing your sufferings, On Boma A man’s love {8 like an orchid, which requires careful and constant cultivation; a woman's Tove is like ‘an air plant, which can subsist en- trely upon hot air and imagination, After you have been wearing yourself to a frazzle trying to awakex little human interest in the average bachelor, It Is almost pathetic how easily a married man is entertained and flattered by your slightest ! attentions, i} Funny, how a “love pirate’ goes to so much trouble to steal another | woman's husband, when so often she could have him for the asking, if bis wife only knew she would take him. When a husband and wife begin to look for flaws in each other they | are no longer in love; they aro merely “married”—in the deadliest sense of the word. To be optimistie In this sort of weather one must be either a hero or @ hypocrite—or @ Uttle of both, to see |! | were thos | that a wife's first duty 1s to her hus- band and her children? If mothers would only thelr gaughters how to married life instead of encourage live their breaking it up, how m wfore lives would be saved sorrow, and how many dl- Vorces: wow it The exa mother told about to-day Is certainly one for every would-be meddler in the ma ried partnership to consider serl- ously : a eceia as foolish ¢ one? mothers-In-law as es, Why not be a w wise ne How I Helped My Husband This Doctor’s wife Collected His Bills, 66] REALLY ought to have a car, John said to me one day when we had een married about six nonths, “sut L can't possibly afford it, always hard up and yet I'm busy most all day long, “Isn't the owing you?” I ed “Well, I suppose there Is, I always send out my bills quarterly, but if they are not paid Iam too busy to ittend to it again and I can't afford to dun people. A country doctor mui not make enemies And so saying whipped up his horse and was otf un emergency call six miles away Now [ understood a little something about bookkeeping, for I had often helped my father to straighten out the ints in his sture, So T hunted up husband's a nt books and found Hat many people in the nelghboraocod had been owing him bills for the last six year, When my for dinner I husband returned home had a long list of ac- counts to consult him about, and ound that, as [ had suspected, not one of then had been paid. John told IT could do as t liked with them, ut to areful not to offend any of ationts. 1 sat down and wrote polite notes calling the attention of the debtors to the length of tine the had been runt them Just how necessary an autos le was to a dogtor, and that h heeded the money’in order to buy one one of the grocers in town who ed us money 1 got b to last us all wi and tell- Y, From a Y I bought butter, potatoes and supply of egsa which I put 1 for tuture use sed two barrels and ¢ a chick very week for our Sunday dinner To all people T gave recs 1 bills nen the amount owed us had been In this way I offended nobody nd saved a ad deal of money that Would otherwise have been spent for upplics. Hnough came in from my n that payment on t John could mal » car he r a first | colirse, like all doctors, he did a great deal of ¢ put su only ace urity work, DUL AS he never 1 cases down in Lis books the unts of which [| had charge of people who were able to bey, and I made them pay. 4 & good deal of money srpcertes | Famous Heroes of the U. S. Navy By Albert Payson Terhune Caeergh bit to tan Pea Puttneng im (The Nee Vad Binns Bort No, NICHOLAS BIDDLE, the Sea Here of the Revolition eles Gan be Gee able 1eUNe Hot be tived bong ugh t © bie mark on history and to rare @ weme for rect end lowe for dane He on ¢ Nicholas Biddle, @ Phthedet prions w arphee ome wake Philadephia His adventurous life bemau ib early best, when be chose the see af bie ce , ‘? be bis West Indies, 1766, the ‘ was put eshore OB on uninhabited tele an tame thee * © And there, ter ha, be manage . way to herp eegh ac chip rescued him, That was the beginning of bis series of bairbreadth . . At twonty be reo bert midship ERAS SOM wan in the Br Rather fe on bie own ship was too dull, or cleo because he made pica lively, be pree y deserted As the sea e 74 him he eb tase co r m other vease!, Horatio Nelson (later the tT fret - », thle ship. He wow the ’ whom From Midshipman} Mitiie deleiie : : te ler. | Hut hie t = 4 ™ — tee Snare commen P : Me feremast ' ' ship was about to forth from England ‘ F a lone Hulse that promiacd ex vent and d rt “ 1 + the | Then came rumore of a « hetwoen England and A 4. Widate hesitate for a mome m ef would At ones on his arrival edt his ot 1s fame ad preceded him, And tt woo hiin the capta f thet gn brig Andrea Dorta, carrying a crew of Admiral" Hopkins had just been put in charge of the tiny United tates Navy, which was made up of elght converted hips. Hop. kins wet off for a cruise in southern waters sand guns and m the Britiah naval bases there. t along as one of Hopkins's fleet captains: 1 the young nturer Gid splendid service tn the attacks on the £ na forts which ‘ etted our country su ass wal f munition. On the return tr al Brushes with British warships, ending in’a fight with the Gloucester Gloucester escaped. Hopkina and Biddle were accu f carelessness in letting such a ¢ rich prize get away from them, Instead of su! ng meekly to Congress's censure Biddle made fierce demand f a court-martia His vid was granted and he was triumphantly acquit Not only was he clea uly prowess by search of Brit shipping. This was the sort of work Biddle loved, Fight after fisht he won, and Pap prize after prize he seized up there among the Taking Supplies } Newfoundland fogs. Among his captures were two Gh hes RAaGy; Great transports, both laden with valuable stores < § and one of them carrying a Highland regiment which aN? had been sent out for service against the patriot army. Early in 1777 Biddle was placed in command of the thirty-two-gun frigate Randolph. With this frigate he fearlessly tackled the sixty-fo 8 man-of-war Yarmouth, j pico While the (wo vessels were locked in a death gr: wounded, Just then shot from the Yarmouth re | powder magazine, | The Randolph was blown to atoms. were kil a of bl nding him ao # showed {ts trust in Newfoundland Banks in \ apple Riddle was ied the Randolph's All but four of the men aboard he dd by the explosion—among them Nicholas Biddle, sedadigh The dJarr Family By Roy L. McCardell i | thought would be of interest York Evening World), treated with silent contempt,” replied Mr, Jarr, “don't blame {t on me," “I am not blaming anything om to the hi circle, but Mrs, Jarr sat] you, I don't understand your ace silent at her knitting, tions, that's all,” said Mrs, Jarr, with | “What's the matter with you?"|@ sigh, “but I am sure I am not jasked Mr. Jarr finally. solng to quarrel, if that is what you “Me? There's nothing the matter| Want.” . |with me,” sald Mrs, Jarr, but In a] “Why wouldn't you speak to me jtone that indicated a good deal was|this morning” asked Mr, Jarr sud« the matter with her, denly, Mr, Jarr searched his recollection if he had committed any ain | of Omission or commission that would |have put him in bad, but other than | hts usual little failings, generally ac- cepted and borne with, he could re- member nothing, Had Mrs, Jarr heard |anything, and if so what? He de- |termined to ascertain and know tho | worst, At least it fs @ good thing to find out what the war ts about, any- wal “I did speak to you, and then you walked out without a word,” retorted Mrs, Jarr, “You didn't speak to me, I asked you what was the matter, and you sald ‘Nothing, ” “Well, there was nothing the mat ter with me, what else should I have said?" Mrs, Jarre inquired, Feellng sure by this time that bis good lady had nothing on him, that none of his sins had found him out, So he remarked, in an Injured tono,| Mr. Jarr waxed virtuously indige “Oh, very weil!” and stalked out, nant. When he came home tn the even-| “Do you mean to tell me that there Mrs. Jarr did not meet him at the | was nothing the matter with you thig door, and he sat down to read about| morning at all, and yet you wouldn't submarines and the antl-conscription |iook at me or speak to me, when I vsitation, and other pleasant toptes,|spoke to you #0 nicely—as I alwaye all enleulated to depress him further. he asked, |, “Dog gone it!" he sald to himself.| “I had a headache," sald Mra.“Jarr, “What gets into the women, any-| ‘I haven't been feeling good for some ;Way? I haven't done anything, have} time, and I didn’t think you cared to It T work lke. dog, and I don't have| Reet me complain, so I only said any fun or freedom, and when ihe Me petinsiors inti fact that his little boy was|,.\Wh¥. 1 didn't know you were not sing at his coat and asking if he fooling wel gy dear!” sald Mr. Jare in a changed tone, “Why didn’ could go see the moving pictures, and fone eee WAY Sas ae that his lttle girl was to tell me?” You might have askec limbing on you would jhis lap and asking him for his lead have asked it you os was the pencil, did not alter his opinion as ta] Rly, {And then you hed Hane house goodby, and I nout Kissing me his marttal isolation, d how T would At is point Mrs, Jarr came in| be neglected if 1 id become an and quietly asked If he was ready for Invalld, and tt hurt me!" And now iia supp © Was a tear in the other eye. At these words the little boy looked “What do you care it Tam ready] Yery olesnn and the little git hema for my supper or not?" asked the to whim per at her father for being | martyr moodily, M se dap ; 2 Mr, Jarr begged forgiveness fo | “Now, that's a nice way to speak in| thouxhtlessness, and sarrenderey, oe ront of the children!" replied Mra,| ON the battlefields of hom ory. Jarr, In an injured tone, pve’ ms i era Heh isband and ather neve $a battle _— A GAME FIGHTER, ASSING through a military hose pital, a distinguished visitor “L notice you don't res! self on account of the grumbled Mr, Jarr, rain your- children,” Why, what has come over you?" asked Mrs, Jarr, “Has anything gone noticed a private in one of the wrong at the office?” Irish regiments who had been tere ' ribly Injured, m, you never mind!” retorted] "ro the order BI 4 » the orderly the visitor sald: Mr, J You know what's the mat- nat’s a bad cage, What are way What are you peer Boing to do with him'? “He's going bac “Indeed 1 do not, except that youlordely, ee YA°% SiN" replied the are cross as a bear, and for no rea-| “Going back!" sald the visitor ty son that I can see! Still Tam usea| SUpriaed tones, : a, "Yes," said the orderly, “He to t sald Mrs, Jarr, he knows who dtd it-cBurteie wes @m the one that's used to being pr 8.