The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1917, Page 10

ox The Cvening Gior.”. ’ Petes ity tay & nan 9 — Dirtered ot the Bee ed 7 ond Cerese ge i= ’ =_ VOLUME & have ee Evening World Daily Magazine Monday. | Nobody Home! or in Ger THE PRUSSIAN GRIP WEAKENS. ITHOUT trying to fathom, off hand, Matthias Birebe the German ( . * repor te that ave the we } e by @ fow houre with I Geor ¢ Mr. Balfour, it ie worthy of note that despite all dine gem ” ¢ clement in Germany ie with Bre berger in the de nat to have Dr Michaela, the new Imp German Chancellor, regarded ae primary « peace Chancellor Whatever Prusso-Machiavelliem may be beb recent political Ghanges in Berlin, the fect remains that official utterances Many continue to imply increasing pressure from a body of German public sentiment which fer that “it would certainly use words ¢ a crime pot to do prevent a fourth winter campaigs ” redited all that is esible t to Errberger, The Prussian war lords may be playing @ close and enigmatic) game, but they are playing it face to fave with @ growing popular) desire for peace that is anything but enigmatic The very de ious! Ress of Prussian politics at the present moment euggeste the frank | force of 4 peace movement with which the K ean no longer refuse to reckon, It is no time for the Allies to relax their efforte—rather to re- @ouble them. But they can take grim satisfaction in signs that Prussianism is more and more put to it to keep up the illusion that ite grip upon German minds and hearts is complete and everlasting. + er and his counsellors BE READY FOR AIR DRIVES. HE recommencement of German air raids on Paris, with the reported bombardment of a Red Cross hospita strengthen the determination of this country that American tir fleets on a scale bigger than any yet dreamt of shall speedily Dear down on the barbarian and his strongholds, It is eighteen months since Zeppelins made the last air attack on the French capital. The Zeppelin is now a discarded murder tool. But the Germans apparently have hopes of using air planes for the Gaughter of non-combatants in France as they have employed them for the same purpose in England. It matters little that this sort of terrorization has utterly failed to terrorize. For the Teuton, fright- fulness has come to be its own reward, England the enemy's lines, and France too, may see fit to avenge their di insure a larger degree of safety for the living by reprisals in kind. ‘America’s air legions, however, need set thems¢lves no programme which involves the deliberate killing of women, children and wounded. There is plenty of genuine war work for aircraft on and close behind The nature of that work was pointed out by Con- @teesman Murray Hulbert to The World: “A fleet of 256,000 planes along the Belgian front, a second on the Champagne, @ third of 26,000 on the Italian front and a fourth on the eastern front would shower havoc upon the armies of the Central Powers. Starting from their several bases, the stupendous air fleets could cau untold wreckage to the enemy and with immeasurably less loss of Life to our forces than would result from one great trench battle, A fleet of 10,000 planes flying at great height, every machine loaded with high explosives, could wipe from the earth every muni- tion plant and fortification for miles into the enemy country.” point where superiority is certain and lasting. That is where America must come promptly forward. With one| hundred factories at work on air machines, Great Britain admits it no workmen to spare. Italy cagerly awaits the coming of American air forces, convinced n send no more telling aid to attain a quicker vic- cannot keep up with its demand, that America “ tory.” To American plants and American machinery the Allies look for quantity in airplane production, It is up to American resource to France h see to it they do not look in vain, en WHY NOT CO-OPERATIVE CENSORSHIP? A chose to give it out. The despatch, which contained only the broadest, most general statement, without detail or military information of any kind, was passed by the censor abroad. If the bare facts it conveyed were fully available for German spies and agents in any capital of Europe, what earthly good could be accomplished by keeping the news from the| people of the United States? If the Committee on Public Information at Washing! out to establish ri some sort of working agreement with censorship abro: finding itself repeatedly in the ridiculous position of trying out of sight of Americans some piece of news which to. Europe has appeared quite harmless? should only Germany’s air strength, present or contemplated, is obviously Impossible to state in trustworthy figures. The German authorities give ont only such as they wish to have believed. But whatever it is, the air strength of the Allies must be brought to and maintained at a N April 6, a8 we all know, ‘O the United States declared a GAIN American rejoicing over the safe landing of more United States troops on European shores is attended with black looks on the part of the Washington authorities because the news was not withheld from the public in this country until they ton is setting s of censorship for all the allied nations, that is| another matter. But in any case, should it not be able to point to| ad, instead of to hustle h to the censor in and By J. H. Cassel ii ; eee sayings o! n Ante ’ eae " d, upon & wie * le! on toe MENT of seven # 1 Boner! And it bad white paint end ope couthern exposure, « he ruses And the price thereot war PO) ‘ And when 1 AWOKE 1 departs vision of my Greame, for uty ta th eae strong Ot in me. Yet, alas, afier many weeks of vielen: and efter much climbing of stairs and much ty gots ing of mucb « fe 1 wae otf) #itheut & home For lo, 1 found places ehich advertined “b service,” b boy whereot r And, Vkewilse, p r garden. And p! For, m, who possesseth the the figure of a mounted policema Yet, after many yea eI LEER TIED OME fectly contented. Yea, she 1s glad to GET him! | For a hon bath. Selah. et itting and my war rel pieatitigs and everything that I haven't had time to think, and so 1 ‘TS teen so busy with my war | Wearing a Khaki Dress Won’t Win the War | ibble are t that Mr. and Mrs. Gr! ° Dine to call on us this evening! refi ‘Mra, Jarr commenced to put the Some Women Seem to Suit of Military Cut Is By Nixola G Copyright, 1917, by the Prew Publishing state of war with the Imperial German Govern- ment. It was April 12 that my young friend Ve- nelope appeared ta her uniform, the firat possible mo- ment that Penel- ope's tallor could mobilize her, and it was, of course, out of the question for Penolops to appear in one of those horrid, {ll-fitting ready-made things. To-day, at the beginning of August, Penelope still hesitates as to which of half a hundred organizations she will join in order to most effectively “do her bit.” Penelope lov phrase as muc louthe it, She loves her uniforn wears it at the country club dances, shops in it, motors in it, plays golf init, She has seemed to fee) that in some mysterious way her appearance in a plain khaki two-piece Kown with @ choker collar Is helping the Allies to sinash the Kalser, “Aren't you ever golng to wear a uniform?” asked Penelope, reproach- fully, the other day. It was the teath | ayking, and I feared that In her pa that trite and allly | as I have come to) She | To-Day’s Anniversary |] | PENN, the Quaker 1LLIAM and founder of Pennsylvania, | died on July 80, 1718, in Eng~ Crush the Kaiser—But That Is a Feeble Way of Showing Patriotism. as a sartorial slacker, Think That Donning a the Surest Method to reeley-Smith Co, (The New York Evening World), triotic fervor she might touch me with a white feather to show me up “Why should I wear a uniform, Penelope?" 1 asked, “I'm not going to war,” “Why, to be patriotic, to inspire eople, to keep the idea’ of the war before’ the public," she answered, “Don't you suppose tt must be very Inspiring to our young n olng off to war to see that women too are dolag thetr part?" “Lam sure tt 1s," T replied, “but I'm equally sure our young men would be much more Impressed by you if they tion will be fired by the thought of a girl wearing khaki? Penelope, do you really think that hot, uncomfort- able gown is becoming to you?’ Penelope made a sudden plunge into her vanity bag for a mirror and at- tempted to Judge the becomingness of the criticised uniform from the tip of her nose and the immediate section of face surrounding, it nich the tiny mirror reflected. "I ‘are whether it's becoming or not,” she answered, m doing my bit." ‘ow, the only thing Iam sure you are doing is to cause the discharge of employeos in scores because you insist on wearing one dress all sum- mer,” I answered. "If it were only that you wanted to hy around lookin, ke a freak 1 shouldn't argue with What wom: cares how she looks in the country’s hour of peril?” replied Penelope nobly. Every woman should care—should care MORE now than ever,” I ai swered, “because every woman to-day will typify to some man who goes to saw you in one of the little white dresses you wore last summer than in @ pointless Bmitation of thetr own Karb, Don't You suppose these men are storing their brains now with stures to look at when they He tn trenches and haven't seen a pretty h woman for a month? “Do you think any man's tmagina- Bu | “cc UCH has been eald and M written about the advance in ofitelency as regards ufacturing,” remarked an expert. “But, at the same tine, great strides have been taken in retatlin, “Only recently I was inspecting the system employed in a retail shoe store, which had been introduced by the manufacturer from whom the owner buys. Hecause of the nature of the product handled, more exact results can be attained in @ store of this character than in most lines, aloe inte sat : There 1s no waste in the shape of eo Jang, & disappointed | ire Venn's| over-lengths, long-welghts, shortage — = - Jehicf fault, anc he ony wWhichlerom petty pilfering or from. the ) . iy air most of his troubles, lay | Popular Superstitions t him mont of his troubles. 14y'| cence tema which plague the grocer ——— == z aracter. ‘Those whom he sent to| or dry geods man. 2 opresent him and earry on fy he Diner DANG: 0 a HORSE with more than one/"One whito foot, ride him for your | Heae a tits ware (oo, ORBN. eiitier 7 ape tb bes : reat a ie Tears white foot is looked upon with lite; eee wicked. His” son, William, | t¥!@ bas become creasin, m- suspicion both in the United! two white feet, give } vee | was arrested in @ brawl in Ph pl. | portant factor in the ahi 0 business. N © your | fellowship orte of wranglings | the res at unless the proprietor here is: Liste |broke out in. the province and the| Four « jorone 9 | exert reat caution he ma ¢ - One white foot, buy him; Four white Hhin If you can.” | whole state of affairs became so mix- serie Fi nay find him PL ylbkid dle idl If @ hors roll over, do not | aii that Penn was cast into the [aclt loaded with out-of-date goods at Thre ae tia: ' t him in th It Meever st humber of times he |deepest despair and. thought seri. | the season's end, ree white feet, put him in the ove be the number of hun- | ously of selling the Governorshp for ‘The basis of this dealer's »: fe tape Pied ry ‘ rf i yi 8 dea yatem rei | dred doltars he tx worth 00, Hiness alone prevented the|is a binder full of properly ruled Four white fect, give him away; | wate tan AREA 10 THE LOE SUN Ce | ee ivine At Rumsoaa: In rues (AReeeL OHA Bheet for every modal Gr 7 off his hide and give him to If the first robin you see in the 4 followed soon afierw , te crows, fnrnE flew up you will have good spent his declining years walking | varte ae Be siled ‘eerinat luck ‘during the year; it down, bad pbout hls garden, and finally died|top of the spaces covering \ ‘ é / amounts, dates of arrival and costs siness Efficiency. A Store System That Works. France the tdeals he will fight for. ‘There never was a war before in which the tasue between Might and ight was go clean cut, the duel between force and justice so defined. Everything that women hope for from civilization hangs in the balance. If the Prussians win you might as well learn how to polish boots or get ready to be @ con- of shipments; also for amounts sold, when and at what pricy, and other data, Below this iy the usual checked board, ruled at the left for widths and at*the top for sizes, one square for each side and width, “When a pair of a certain size Is ordered, this man indicates the fact by entering a dot in the proper square, When it arrives, with « stroke of a pen he converts this dot into a vertical line, and, when it 1s | sold, draws @ line through it, making & cross, “Dally knowledge of what ts or- dered, what has arrived in the re- ceiving room, and what has been sold is all that 1s required to keep| this system up to the minute, It may require an hour a day of the book- keeper's time, When the merchant |takes his annual inventory he starts) }a new set of sh entering in red} ink all stock ci dover from a previous season “Now th Just system supply? Tt pr pieture of what 1 takir store, not merely asx regard’ gross gales but as regards each model or atyle number, The merchant can turn the leaves of this binder and note just what shoes are selling slowly, It 4s then a simple matter to offer the clerks an extra commission for pushing these particular items If a shoe 13 a quick seller, he can see how fast it sells, show | what does this place when it is née t ish, Still further, he goes to | market he can in some degree depend ; By upon this record in placing orders for ting room in order. . oartoble te a queer duck, but he's got a good heart” said Mr. Jarr. TGot lots of money and is making more with his chemical works, now that the war has stopped the tmpor- tation of chemicals from Germany. But Gribble told me the other day that he won't fear competition by tm- ported chemicals, even when the war 1s over—if it ever Js.” «pon't talk ke that!" remarked Mrs, Jarr. “I wish it were over—It's dreadful, All the people one meets have sons enlisted or in the draft. It's terrible, 1 think. And everything Is no high, and we are not making money out of It, ike the Btryvers are or the Gribbles, Oh, dear, war is dreadful!” “Going to put the children to bed before the company comes?” asked Mr, Jarr. “No, Lam not!" was the reply. “Mr, Gribble may take @ fancy to our Wil- He and give him a fine position in his chemical business when Willie grows up.” Mr. Jarr was about to say this would be some years hence, but wha the use to argue? So he only r marked that Gribble was @ good fel- iow. “He'd lend me money, I think, if I asked {t," Mr. Jarr added, “Well, for goodness sake, ask it!” sald Mrs, Jarr, “If you only knew what my bills were every week you'd ded by his trade, try to get me a little extra money, “Phe plan acts as a perpetual in-| some way!” ventory, @ valuable factor in accur-| «would only have to pay it back, SO oe ae and TAC Ie dw penor | APG 2 Wouldn't be able to do Shaw ficable in evidenced by the fact that|#o what's the use?” sighed Mr, Jarr. this merchant's footings from sheets) But the Idea was @ good one, and vary from his actual physical inven-| ytp, Jarr thought he might Just as tory only $6 or $8 each year. | script mother, because that is what @ Prussian world would mean for every Woman; eventually it might m state lethal chamber in which all women past the axe of child bearing could be put out of existence because obviously tt would not accord with Prussian notions of efficiency to keep & lot of useless females alive and eat- ing their heads oft “What has all this gdt to do with my uniform?" asked Penelope petu- lantly, “Just this: That if men are Soing out to fight for you, you might as well let them take away with them the memory of some one who LOOKS worth fighting for. You know, when a Frenchman # back home from the trenches his wife or sweetheart tries to appear her prettiest, and is smiling and gay and frivolous, quite as If there were no war going on, She seeks to give the man something to remember afterward by making him forget NOW." Penelope made another dive for vanity box before she answered hated these horrid things all @ Just despised them—and now, tf you really insist that it 18 my patriotic duty, I'll go right uptown to buy the loveliest violet linen I saw on Fifth Avenue yesterday. I really think T will be worth remembering In that, she added. H the new season, And last but not least, an analysis of the sheets as a whole tells him what sizos are de- the tip Bee eet ig be in| Well keep it in mind, tf the worst . retail store, Of, came to the worst. course, aware man's problem| ate, and Mra, Gribble arrived in Burohn a Bat ihe pring. |@ue time, and being ehildiess them- plo of watching the progress and|selves, they paid particular attention n item or group of ttema|tg the Jarr children, not reallzing hout this information a ; ld 1 eka that youngsters are seldom aa Koo¢ blindly | roi ne Wier | as they behave—at first. Being told how good they were and ia sound. merchant ts it, he knows where he Is and In what direction he 1s bound." “Windjammers” ‘Return to Their Own ————— HEATER than‘the need for men, {now carrying cargoes that in ordinary food or ammunition at the pres-| ree woe be handled by big ent moment, {9 the need for|* vessels among the nations fighting the | Central Powers of Europe. Every | ‘« paps Fn bag el dll ¢ , .| These are the vesse ca care available ship 1s being drawn Into ger-| NCs6 Are te vee trines all over Vice, and hulks which @ few years ag | the world, and gave thé United States ere considered ugeless are being| maritime power for many years. So nd upon to do duty in transatlantic | to-day up and down the Atlantic coast On the New England coast | you will find these ships of happier “la of ancient rig are being | times, with th e carved figure- overhauled and converte into ocean | new wd yuk where carriers, Whaling barks, some of them | years ago the greyhounds of the ocean, built as far back ag 1867, have been| huge funnelled giants, swept majes- sold to France and England and are! tically past he “windjammer,” pride of Amer- ”& in the middle of the nineteenth tury, 1s coming Into tts own again. July 89, ——-——— Solomon Mrs ined secreted tn the cellar or hidden bel ertined windows whereof opened onto @ beautiful car track or @ gay end feoth which offered “artist! atmorphere the fragrant pipe smoke and the fruit of Bermuda | And it came to pass that, fn the end, my heart fell within me, and ¥ joyfully accepted apartment of FOUK rooms and ONL bath—and the price thereot was SEVENTY DOLLARS! ’ Then I said in my heart: “Oh, what's the rily, verily, how like is a woman that seeketh the house of her | dreams unto a damsel that seeketh the HUSBAND of her dreams. For in the visions of her girlhood days EVERY damse) seeth the | Ideal Husband for whom she yearneth pedals of an aviator, the manners of John Drew, |the profile of # movie actor, the tenderness of a Robert Chambers bere, motor cars and a house on Riverside Drive. of her squabhood have been spent in the search for such an one, she accepteth, peradventure, a shipping clerk {n a Palm Beach suit, possessing an incipient bald spot, a tendency to plumpness, @ flat in Yonkers and @ salary of sixty-five shekels a month fs a HOME, even though it be but four rooms and one ‘And a husband {s a HUSBAND, whatsoever he may bet ‘And what 1s life without either of these? Verily, verily, this 1s a world of compromises! ‘And a little philosophy 1s a wonderful thing! Coprriaht, 1017, by the Prem Publishicg Co, (The New York Evening World), Kowla “delightful o c atmosphere,” but whereof the only even an Adonis in a khaki umi- the brililancy of Gen. Joffre, three and is per- how bright they were and how won« derful they were by the visitors, the children were soon stirred to outdo themselves in goodness, brightness and wonderfulness, Master Wille especially running the gamut of all ha accomplishments, including plays ing @ tune with his teeth that set the nerves of all on edgo, On her part, little Emma, impressed by Mrs, Gribblos's siecle made sundry forays upon {t and broke the clasp of a bracelet and got an emerald out of its setting. There was some trouble in finding this are tele, but all hints at punishment of the ttle dears were vetoed emphatls cally by the visitors, But after Master Willle had ems barrassed his mother by bringing out Ms tron toy bank and demanding vontributiona, and had then dropped the heavy object on Mr. Gribble's pet corn, and after Iittle Miss Jarr, in admiration of Mrs, Gribble's hair, bad detached her false “transforma. tion," the visitors no longer protested when they were rescued from the in- fantile persecution and the offenders were exiled from the room, “T suppose ft 1s our fault, Gribble, after adjustments teen made. “We have no little lambs of our own, and we spoil all children, Don't say another word, Mrs, Jarr, I pend give anything if we were plessed with suc! ees h darlings, eb, Mr. Gribble, who had bee: keep back a Iittle aati bith 3 at the pain of his injured corp, felt he was blessed 1f he thought #8, but he murmured, “Oh, to be sure!" “T never saw them behave go," Jarr declared, “Thetr father aot them, and, anyway, children are so excited about the war and wanting to be soldiers, and all they hear about spies, that, really, they can hardly be kept quiet at all, these days!" “They have gone to bed, just as you told them, the angels!" Mrs, Gribble + opined. “Don't be too hard on them, and do not punish them after er We go, pleas » At this juncture the door flew open and the children entered imitating a fife and drum corps, Willie Jarr wore Mr. Gribble's costly Panama hat, which fell off his head and which be stepped on, cutting the straw, After this cala the Gribbles said they really £0, and Mra, Gribble, relentir ed litte Miss Jarre to kiss her. ‘© on home, I don't like you!" 5: d the angel child saucily, “He's stingy, he only put pennt my bank! when fo whimpered Master Jarr, he was summarily ished, And he pointed an accusative flanger at the Wealthy chemical man, On the way home Mr, and Mra, Gribble agreed that If Providence tm ity wisdvin lad deuied diem tne dame ury and blessing of offspring, perhaps Providence knew its business!