The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1917, Page 8

| teram Daly Race 6 Rarn ore ay : some eels THE END OF THE JOY RIDE. BGULATION font skyrocketing « t been plundering the Ar wing of the great Furopean wart Whether this regulation Seundly economic remaing to be # Gamage in it for the price r stabilizing pric @ permanent condition more favor Precarious speculation But while there may be misgivin inary emergency makes the experiment worth trying Meanwhile we cannot but be the great conflict away. The joyous gallop is over. It may be noted also as more * which has thrived similarly upon the war—being in yet out of it—has We mean, of course, Japan, The indi tions are now that Japan will be forced to uphold the hands of falter The accumulations which Japanese industry and thrift have made during a period when markets were begging for goods and trade competitors crippled seem likely to be # So it goes, The billions war has given it suddenly turns to exact , with billions more and a nation’s blood beside. If any people thinks still to be permanently enriched by the great + ome to the same turn. ing, failing Russia. oge struggle it had best boast softly. of even the biggest he THE SPIRIT OF Avenue property owners M*«« GEN. O’RYAN’S appeal to the patriotism of Fifth a the families of departing soldiers a better chance to see next ‘Thursday’s great send-off parade of the National Guardsmen should not go unheeded. whose sacrifice is to let them go. * great city should overflow with k * soldiers. Space in a window or on a marble doorstep ought to con- stitute the smallest part of such . willing gift of patriotism. erican pea re than would at first appe at what is even at out of which we remained so long and #0 profitably to ourselves—with the prospect that the moncy made out of the / needs and the submissiveness of American consumers will all be taker It is going to be one of the great days in the history of New York. ‘The memory of it and the honor of it belong not only to the boys who march away but «!so in equal part to those nearest and dearest to them, On that day, as The Evening World has already insisted, this SOP PULET RON : under way at Washington to « part of the pillagere who have ie ever eince the begin ret gave them the excuse. prove in practice permanently a It may turn out to hi oon lens r. Vor best @ high level may bring about able to profit-grabbers than one of as to the outcome, extraor conscious that we are now deep in liew’ Nies The golden era is at an end than probable that another nation ot away, The leveller can make short work SEND-OFF DAY. who have it in their power to give indness for families of the State's kindness and a most natural and . —_—_——t——— * MR. REYNOLDS’S MISFORTUNE. A017, by the rw Publi Co, oe ITHOUT attempting to 4 counter-allegations that Where it has been a question ~ public purposes, the record of Brooklyn real estate interests with » which Mr. Reynolds '»s been associated has been by no means dis- tinguished for open dealing or a securing to the city what it needed interes| that at such periods conclusions are case, how Hits From Still, {t doesn't cost you anything— except _money—to be kind to your wife—Binghamton Press. ee: 8 ‘The reason that time and tide wait for no man is because they would always be late.—Memphis Commercial Appeal, eee Kanras has given up pie as a meas- ure of food conservation, Also, per- haps, in order to conserve her man- powéz.—Charleston News and Courier, Some men are born great and most men believe they are-~Deseret News. The dogs days are here again, to way rothing of the cat nights,—Pitts- burgh Gazette, oO ERY few of us would ever think of ordering orchid ice cream without a little tremor of the pocketbook, knows that the orchid is the most expensive of flowers. But there are thousands of persons who eat orchid ice cream daily. Although they prob- ubly have not been aware of the dis- tinction, it is none the less a fact, rchid Ice Crea @ered by the aristocratic name of or- @Bid4. On the contrary, it bears the and deeper the real facts of the Neponsit land case, it must © be admitted that the indictment of ex-Senator William H. Reynolds » on @ charge of perjury in connection with ono of the transactions “ involved throws a darker shadow of doubt upon the deal, circumstance is bound to be unfortunate for Mr. Reynolds whenever the accuracy or veracity of his statements becomes a matter of public At the same time New Yorkers have been through too many sea- sons immediately preceding a municipal election not to have learned faster than any orderly mind can grasp them, The perjury charges against Mr. Reynolds will undoubtedly lead to a more prompt ayd thorough handling of the Grand Jury investiga- tion of the Seaside Park case. That is a matter that ought to be cleared up, and it is well that something has happened to accelerate the process. As to any wider, more serious bearings of the Reynolds , the sensible attitude is: One thing at a time. ee for every one ) Of course, the ice cream is not or- New York Krening World.) 66] T seems to me,” said the head polisher, “that these soap box agitators who » © creating 80 much trouble now ougiit to be given credit for the courage of thelr con vietions.” “Quite right,” agreed the laundry man, “They should be given credit for the courage of thelr convictions it they had any courage. You ad- mire the guy who stands off from th majority and opposes what he doesn’: think 1s right if he goes the limit in his opposition. ‘These street ¢orner pacifists and revolutionists who are attacking the United States every evening, and the writers who are lampooing the war in various larg: and small, clever and stupid publica- tions, are not going the limit; they are under wraps, “Before we declared war on Ger- many the New York opponents of war, most of whom sympathize with Germany, were allowed to rave. They had no influence-as the develop- mente after war was declared estab- Mahed—and while their remarks and writings were unpatriotio and de testable, patriotic folk did not bave to hear or read them. “As s00D @# War was declared the blabbing and soribbling enemies of the country lost no time in discerning a new condition of affairs, The fact that the country had entered a state of war and that all who are not loyal are disloyal didn’t influence them, but the prospect of jail or of becoming a target for governmental bullets did. pass upon the allegations and have only seemed to bury deeper of transferring land to the city for spirit of disinterested fairness in at a just and equitable price, This » frequently urged upon them much Sharp Wits Tt is long about this time of the |¥ear when mother pauses in the mid- dle of a fruit canning job and remem- bers that last year father promised her a vacation this year,—Paterson | Cu oan ow did they do then? What Iee cream is good tc Wane 0 fomile hiearth« Milwaukee Newne | everybody that deliberately eontem- ; eels ital plates a crooked act does—they con- Trying to make money without] sulted a lawyer. work keeps some men busy and poor Albany Journal, tf e € “Pacifists who had loudly pro- aa claimed that they would willingly ead men tell no tales, but dup and be shot n epitaph nt a ne their | stand up shot rather than oe A good memory {8 less desir: than the fi ae rxetfulness of injurles,— re allow themselves enrolled in the army Your Tongue iS CoaTep ——— ee HE NEEDS A VACATION HE |S TIRED OUT ‘Your STOMACH IS ON THE Buinis Km | upon the American Continent—the British force, best Americans Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune eer Ht te Tie Pree Pemaaming Um The Row Vert pmmming Wert) No. 4-OUR FIRST GREAT VICTORY ON FORBIGN SOTL, OR more then two pears the War of 1012 bed @ragged On, and, in lend conficts at leat, it hed been @ eonies Of almost unbroken defeats for our country, Them, July 26, 1814, @ tattle, fought on Canadian sotl, ended tn @ glorious victory for the disheartened United Otte ermics atthe of Lundy's Lane About 2,000 American soldiers, commanded ty Gen Brown and Prig dion. Beott, crossed the Chippews River and camped near Queenstown, Canada, aot (ar from Niagara Palle. The British General, Rial, eM @ force of regulars, was also near Queenstown, whither he had come to join bis army with that of hie eg league, Gen. Drummond. While he waited for Dram mend to come up Mall stationed bie army on @ BM at the head of Lundy's Lane Meanwhile Gen, Sent who had no tdea where the British were was sent on advance duty ehea@ of Hrown's main army with 1.290 men. At sunset of Juty 25 he found Rim self at the foot of the hill, whose top was crowned by Riall's troops, The Hrittsh opened fire on the little American fores, Scott sent Gaak to Brown for reinforcements, and held hie ground, Rial mean thme sent word tor Drummond to come up with the rest of the British to overwheke the outnumbered contingent of Americans, Thus be wren fin one of the most epectacular and atubbornly fought | A Day of battien of our history, Boott replied as best he could Surprises. to the galling fre from the British on the bill ebeve peeereeeees him, And he sent Major Jesup with an infantry Bat. talion to make a flank attack on the enemy's teft (This flank attack, by the way, was one of the many surprises of that dag of murprises, For Jesup not only turned the British flank but be very cleverly captured Gen. Riall and all tho latter’a staff.) While this was going on Scott's remaining men were exposed te full fire of the British; especially of a strong battery of hewiltsers 24-pounders wifich capped the hill. It was around thig battery that hottest phase of the battle later surged. The Americana held their o Presently ap came Brown's menta, Hut at almost the same time up came Drummond’a, too, fooluding heavy guns for the strengthening of the British hiMtop battery, There were now about 4,000 British to the American 8,000, and the former had the e@- Vantage of position and of artillery, Brown saw his one hope of victory lay in silencing the British battery. He sent for young Col. Mier and asked him if he could achteve this fearful task, “I'll try, sir,” said Miller, Up the hill he went, at the head of the ‘Twenty-third Infantry, in face of a murderous fire waist wee er ‘the Twenty- stasgering back. But the Twenty-first kept on, Closing {te ranks as volley after volley raked them, this hero-regiment hurl battery, led itself bayoneted the British artillerymen in # deadly hand-to-band stroggine and hilltop was won. And there drove them from their guns, Up came American reserves, now that the attacked in forva A battery, Then the was Instant need for them, for the British back. Half an hour later they returned to minute confilct raged about the captured the asmault, ————w® = but were again driven back An ho! they A Battle Won } turned for a third and last assault, core hatiy preased by Sheer Valor.’ than either of the others. But, for the ¢hird thme, they were driven away. Thus ended the battle, oe Searcely an American officer wae left unhurt, Yankee and Redcoat dead lay piled tozether all over th The American losses, in kille: U8 te ae ee ad and wounded, were 743 to 'the ‘a of the Lundy's Lane engagement: “In this battle—the most obstinately contested, Perhaps, of ides greatly any fought and placed in a position where they mig!t be called on to shoot a Ger- man brother, became gun-shy over night. Writers who had been bold and free in their criticisms suddenly adopted the tactics of the bed bug. The whole crew went under cover. “Lawyers then got busy and formu- lated rules for promulgating treason and sedition within the law. Speak- rs and writers were taught how to ry on their campaign for Germany hind @ combination shield of the Star Spangled Banner and the Con- stitution of the United States. ‘Play safe and sidestep’ was the advice ol the lawyers, but go as far as you like by innuendo and indirect mis- statements.’ "So there is the state of these fiery, untamed revolutionary spirits. In or- der to avoid the danger of going to uil they sift the courage of their nvictions through a legal sieve. Many of them have become quite adroit tn proceeding right to the edge of violation the law and then jum) game of 1g backward to safe ground. A lot they are, these allies of the enemies, but more gamey than game. the head polisher, “think that William Randolph Hearst will enter the primaries and probably beat Judge Hylan for the nomina- having is possible when Mr. Hearst ie considered as coupled with politics,” said the laundry man, “but it takes an optimistic party indeed to anticipate what you outline, In the firat place Judge Hylan is the or- ganization nominee and he ts very strong in Brooklyn, No antl-organi- zation candidate has ever been able to make a dent in a ‘Tammany primary, so the chances are over- wheliningly against Mr. Hearst should bh ec to oppose Judge Hylan, nd should he happen to beat Hylan for the nomination some of the candidates on the ticket would immediately withdraw, because the issue would be Germany agains the United States, with the Hearst ticket “ee Soe people I know,” remarked \Chicago News, Woman Helps OR the first time tn England's F history @ woman is helping to govern conquered territory, This woman is Miss Gertrude Lawthian Bell, who ts acting as Assistant Po- tical Officer at Bagdad, She is the eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, the great ironmaster and coal owner, No woman has ever filled such a post before, and no one could have been chosen who Is better qualified to fill it than Miss Bel, She has travelled in Hyria, Asia Minor and Arabia for many years, learning to know the people, their customs, their language and their political history, @he journeyed trom us to m V ery Popular | very plebeian name of vanilla, _Mhere are said to be no less than 15,000 varieties of orchid scattered over the earth. All of them have the peculiar artifielal beauty and the haunting odor that seem inseparable j from this flower, which looks almost | 48 though it were a product of an unhealthy condition in nature, Of all these 15,000 varieties, only one has practical value, and that ts the from which vanilla comes, ‘The plant grows abundantly in South and Central America, and has been transplanted to other tropical coun- tries where it 9 now Gourishing, Bagdad and back only a few months before the war broke out, and was the first European to visit Havil, the Shammar capital, in Central Arabia, for more than twenty years, In 1909 she was robbed by Kurdish brigands of her horses and baggage during @ trip through Asia Minor, but she emerged from that adventure, as from ny others, without harm, and suc- ded in gingering up the Turkish Government suffictently to have the property recovered and restored to her. This in itself was a feat of daring, and those who have had deal- jing with the Turkish Government will testify that it is almost worth one's life to hold a to what one hai let alone recover that which has be taken away, By Martin Green | on the German side, It isn't likely that Sheriff Smith or Frank Dowling, the nominee for President of the Bor- ough of Manhattan, would run on the ticket with Hearst, They have fu- tures in politics, as have candidates in other boroughs, and if they con- sented to run on a pro-German ticket they might as well give their politi- cal futures a long, lingering goodby kiss." ee “that while the Government fs to control the price of coal, steel and wheat, there ts to be no ontrol over the price of cotton,’ “There are several reasgns,” ox- plained the laundry man, "The first Is hat cotton is grown only below the Mason and Dixon line, and the Con- gress is controlled by ‘members from below the Mason and Dixon line and SEE,” sald the head polisher, from the great agricultural regions of | J the middle and north west, and the second reason is that the minimum price of wh has been set $2 a bushel, ‘The other reasons are imina- terial.” 1917, by ti nese Copyright lishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) “ HATS going on, are we W being evicted for non- payment of rent or other patural causes?” asked Mr. Jarr, when he came home the othef eve- ning and found the house in con- fusion and the wearing apparel of the family scattered all over the No, we are not going to moye,” replied Mrs. Jarr, heatedly, for she was tired and nervous. “But we are going away for @ week or so to the country before the summer !s entirely over, and I'm seeing what clothes I can pack." “Ob, all right, all right,” said Mr. “No, you cannot,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “but you can go to the stor room and get the trunks, And, by the way, What do you want me to Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland 17, ty The Preaw Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Copyright, 101" UTUAL ftaith matrimony, 4s the only lovepreserver on the stormy sea o Even when a before he 1s reall The difference blind infatuation. of-promise suit, man knows that he wants to marry @ woman, she has to prove it to him with @ diagram ly convinced of it, between democracy and anarchy 1s something ke the difference between real love and Summer {s the season !n which a bachelor spends half his time struggling to get into a Palm-Beach sult, and the other half struggling to keep out of a breach- Oh, yes, there is a vast difference between a savage and a civilized man, but it is seldom apparent to their wives before breakfast, A crest 1s something which is a luxury to a woman {n an aristocratls country, and @ necessity to @ woman in a democratic country, It 1s cruel to Interfere in a quarrel between husband and wife. of the time married life 1s so dull occasional red-hot quarrel to give it Mos and monotonous that it requires au life and color. The test of true love is not absence, but propinqulty. enough to “muse on an absent fac morning and evening, without being That look of pained surprise on It is easy e,” but to muse on the present one bored, is a feat of genuine devotion, a man’s face when a girl refuses to be kissed, nowadays, 1s not so much one of chagrin as of astonishment that she should be so blind to her own feelings. For men will flirt, and women must cheat—so runs the world away! pack for you?” “Oh, just some old duds to go fish- ng in and a few changes of lingerie and my second best haberdashery,” sald Mr, Jarr. “You'll want your dress sult,” sug- gested Mra, Jarr. “I will not want my dress suit. T never want my dress suit, especially in summer, and doubly especially in the wilds,” remarked Mr, Jarr, vampire accomplice, she has betraye mansion and { chokes her to d white throat w feat that when he deems d him in the haunted n the fifth reel, and eath, marking her fair ith bis crue) talons, A brings a; saine Way, if th “be you thin, sees a dress » worn in movin, ey only dared,” i Uncle Henry never uit except when tt le “You may need your dress sult, | has progressed in elvilteatine eon f and I'm going to pack it," retorted | ist few years, yau forger thett Pei Mrs. Jarr, firmly. serious nd atts, Jerr added 1. with @ “What for?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I'm | tho nations of the wetg? gine WAY all aot going fishing at night, Still, if|ing and starving ‘egy “te,murder- you insist, you may put in a pleated shirt and my Tuxedo, although I be- lieve ‘dinner jacket’ 1s the proper te-m, While down on the old farm | Uncle Henry and Abner, the hired | man, and I niay go gigging for eels ; other, one sometimes doubts if th i thing as civilization any mate & "Civilization isn't nied evening attire in the eyes and of Uncle Henry and his neighbora,” remarked Mr. Jarr. ‘Their ‘idea ot civilization is the $300 flivver auteme bile and the high pric a pre by torchlight in the old horse pond.|ucts that permit thom, hy my - In such @ case, it being a purely stag | !i##les. Be Warned in time, Unsie and tnformal affair, it will be de|{{@2F¥ and his frien ds cannot see a in jorting to lynch law.” 8” Without VA lving man?” echoed Mrs, Jerr, dresi iH rigeuer to wear @ dinner jacket, I|rasortine een & Hy dare say.” “] “Yes, @ living man,” T dare cay you think you are! Jerr, “They are all for wen ete Me funny, but you are not,” replied Mrs.|of attire as in evening Jarr, “But we may go to some big | ‘ress in the matter of jules, They social event, there may be = Red| iii) sand for the white tle and the Cross Fund benefit or bridge party,| shroud; Dut, “asides tem form’ s or @ reception at the parsonage or}occasions, or when the Loyal Order something Uke that while we are visiting Uncle Henry and Aunt Betty and it will not do us any harm among our relatives to be properly Attired for the occasion,” “I've known those rural regtons, man and boy, for many years, and if you pack any dress suit for me and| if I am compelled to wear It, an out- raged community will arise in arm, said Mr, Jarr, “All that Uncle Henry and his compeers know of a dress sult is that it 1 the costume always worn by @ fiend in human form, with a black moustache, when the heroine calls at his rooms @t midnight to de- fend her honor—or when the sald fiend in human form turns upon his To-Day’s A of Moose holds its annual treet Hay Corners, they ave ta male person in it shi ign at to do wea wer “Why, they expect evenin, afternoon and all other phe “4 to be worn by the lecturer Congress of Human Curlosities eald Mr. Jarr, “They will stand fore man so attired to address them on the in- timate physteal facts concerning Eliza, the Fat Lady; George, the Tur- tle Boy; and Ozog, the Armless Wonder; but for a friend or relative to come among them in a decollete vest and a swallowtail coat ts but to a yee atrocities.” Yell, Just the same, I'm gon; pack your dress sult," sald Mrs. Bes “Aunt Hetty has a phonograph and I know we'll have some porch dances!” RIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, who F died at Weimar, Germany, sev- enteen years ago to-day, was the first to devise a philosohical sys- tem based on the idea that “might makes right-" Nietzsche was a mad- man for twelve years before his death, at the age of fifty-six, and he was suffering [rom mental trouble during the period when he wrote most of his wild but brilifant essays. | Nietzsche's philosophy has had a, profound effect upon the world, es- pecially upon the Gersnans, and there) tring of the “Uebermensch” or “overs are those among Germany's many) man," has been elaborated by many enemies who believe they see in the, later German writers and philoso. present war the philosophy of the| phers great iconoclast expressed m Uo. Nietzsche was an Anarchist, bat he had no use for democracy, ‘and ex- pressed supreme contempt for the “common herd.” He exalted the aristocratic “superman,” to whom he would give the power to ruthlessly trample upon and exploit the weak, He held it was the duty of the sus perior man, and of the superior na~ tion, to gain and hold power by sheer foree, and to disregard all laws de- signed to protect the weak and Mmit the activities of the strong, Hits doo 4