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the Continent jhe Beternow: wewnes q@ewiis: ies S'S is ee THEY WILL HAVE CHOSEN. EGUN 9 0 war between governments unable to reconcile the conflicting policies of cabinets and foreign ministerh, the international conflict is shaping itself more and more into a, war of peoples. | Our own entrance into the struggle began as « Government act With which at first the people seemed to have strangely little con-' corn. Even conscription, eo Jong abborred in this country, went through ite preliminary etages as 4 rather dull matter of course \ But now that the conscripted men are putting on their uniforms and joining the ranks of those who have gone earlier, we are begin-' ning to feel the impulse which means the people have taken the affair im band. War cannot be one sided. There are indications that the Ger-| fan Government's war may also be shifted, despite all our efforts to avert it, into a definitely declared war of the German people. Hopes that there would be a repudiation of the present German Government in some early revolutionary movement have not been realized. Having had a chance to escape from the further evils of ‘war, the German people have so far failed to respond with any effective action. Is it possible that they are ready to accept fall blame and take Bpon themselves the hatred of the world, hitherto concentrated upon their rulers? If 80, it will become necessary to make the German people,’ regarded up to now with kindness, bear full responsibility for all that has occurred and al! that is to come. We shall find ourselves do- manding ruthless warfare, closer blockades, assaults upon cities, stern @ealings with everything that bears a German name and stands for German aims. Our tolerance has endured long and reached far. It will not) stretch much further. pri ———— THE SURE WAY. OLLOWING The Evening World’s campaign of protest against the excessive cab charges which privileged cab companies are permitted to exact from the public on the terminal premises of | railroads entering this city, the Public Service Commission announces | that it will begin next Friday a public inguiry into the methods em- ployed by the Westcott Express Company in operating its cab service | from the Grand Centra] and Pennsylvania Stations. Prompt response and action from this quarter are to be wel- At the same time, it should not be forgotten that it was the’ Public Service Commission of this district which two years ago this month assumed the right to exclude station cabs from those oper- ating under city license and supervision and to permit these station) cabs to charge zone rates in excess of the legal taxi schedules, It was the Publi Service Commission which, ignoring the ob- vious meaning and intent of the municipal taxicab ordinance, claimed full jurisdiction over cab companies holding contracts with railroad corporations to take passengers from railroad terminals in this city. It was the Public Service Commission that sanctioned these very, station cab charges which public familiarity with the lower taxi rates! provided by the ¢ity’s licensed service has repeatedly brought into question. We may recall also that this attitude of the Public Service Com- thission in September, 1915, was not allowed to pase without severe condemnation from city officials. Following the action of the Public Service Commission permit- ting the Westcott Express Company to put into operation a zone tariff for its gab service from the Grand Central Station, Judge Wenry "1. Curran, then Alderman and at that moment Acting Mayor, declared in a public statement: “It is with regret and astonishment that I tind the Public Service Commission, without consultation with any of the city Officials, taking upon itself the right to establish taxteab rates in the city, For over one hundred years the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York have regulated cab fares in this olty.” “I intend to ask the Corporation Counsel for an opinion @s to how far this order of the Public Service Commission ts controlling, and when the Board of Aldermen meets in a few daye I intend to take up this matter and see {f further amend- ments to the taxicab ordinance cannot be made, ao that one rate of fare will be charged throughout the city for the general taxicab business.” That was two years ago. To-day, whatever the Public Service Commission may or may| not do, an amendment to the present taxicab ordinance which shall require all vehicles operating from railroad terminals to be classified| and licensed as public hacks is the simplest, surest way toward giving the city power to protect the public by securing to all, including trav- ders, the bencfits of uniform taxicab service at rates within the legal maximum. Let the Aldermen pass such an amendment as soon as practicable! after they next convene, and we shall hear no more complaints of excessive cab charges at New York terminals, | | To-Dav’s Anniversary | war time, Goop NEWS AMAN'S COMING | Theme tb A VAN COMING DAY Creer up| Re 1 MUST Go and Te MY Dauqwrer | : LOOK ‘Your BésT AND MAKE A KILLING CAN You BEAT IT | she im FiRsr —~— Don "Ty Ler IR, SE TAN ACL FLUSTRATED ! | | | ledge of rock and earth..peeping out of the water, Om } | Americans Bm ‘Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune ne + Oe Fem Ponting Ge (he hee Tet Gemeng Oem, 40--THE FIRST SHOT OF THE CIVIL WAR. NARLABTON, # C, lay atlent amid tte eenédiete ant eramps, in the darkness before dawn, on April $8, 161. There wee outward eigen to show thet prem ently our country’s direst tragedy was about to begin bere The city, with tte “wattery” of Ivecsks and oe fesbioned mansions, looked out on @ barber, In the harbors narrowest part was « tiny islend—« mere the Island stood @ newly built fort—tilehapen, ematl, as Unromantioally ugly as @ derrick It was Fort Sumter, garrisoned just then by only seventy-five United States soldiers, der command of Major Robert Anderson. Though Charleston seemed asleep, yet at that moment thousands of eager eyes among its dark houses were staring at the fort Gray dawn crept up over the ocean. With the first dim ray of light A. Mo-the breathless etiliness was rent « by the report ef & gun, Instantly from all along the eilent shore a bediam of racket burst forth, A whirlwind of shot and shell tore across the water and whissed about the tiny fort, ‘The marshes and sand-barrens echoed back the reverberation of the salvo, The echoos rolled far out to era. Those echoes were never to die down unti! four terrible years had dragged by and —=—~~_»_—_~_—~_> >> until our country was drenched tn the blood of tte a He a } own bravest sons. For the first shot fired at Fort 9 Sumter ushered in the Civil War, For eeveral years this war had been coming on. For months those who best knew the conditions had expected !t to begin at any hour, When South Carolina seceded from the Union, the Confed- erates sought to seize all Government property within the Stal borders, Major Anderson, with his seventy-five men, was in command of Fort Moultrie, at Charleston, He knew what was coming. ‘The port was too weak to defend, So he destroyed all of {ts guns and munitions that couldn't carry away. And he moved hts little garrison to Fort Sumter in the harbor. There aeemed a bare chance that he might hold Sumter againet the Confederates, if reinforcements could reach him in time, Anderson sent to Washington asking for such reinforcements, They did not arrive, And he was left stranded, to hold the fort as beat he could with a mere handful of men, and with a shortage of food and ammunition against the whole State of South Carolina, The Confederates ordered him to April 12 the Confederates opened fire The war was on, surrender, He refused. At dawn of on the fort, on the United States flag. For a day and @ half every available gun in Charleston harbor was brought to bear on Fort Sumter, dered, Day and night the bombardment thun- Breaches were pounded in the fort's walls. Its best cannon were smashed. The flagstaff was struck eight times. A ball, better aimed than the rest, knocked off the upper part of the pole. Peter Hart, a sergeant, climbed tho broken staff amid a hail of shots, and nailed Old Glory to the splintered staff, At the end of thirty-six hours Sumter’s walls were full of gaping holes. The fort was on fire, % Government. A Heroic t get int j Surrender, { Anderton wa PALA AAA AA AAA Anderson but to surrender, But he would not surrender the flag. The defenders had used up all their scanty stock of ammunition. And no relief had come from the (Relief ships had been sent but cou! the harbor), Nothing was left for He yielded Sumter, And he and his hero soldiers marched out of the wrecked fort with colors flying. The news of Sumter’s fall flashed across the whole world. It ellenced the last hopeful peace talk. It made war {nevitable, It set brother against brother and rent the nation with the most deadly civil strife in all history. Four years afterward, when our country was once more reunited, Major Anderson, with his own hands, raised the flag again above Fort Sumter, It was the same flag he had rescued when the fort was surrendered—the same flag which later served him as a Durlal sheet, The Beginning of School Days. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copsright, 1917, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). EXT Monday tho public schools open once more. ‘Thousands of children will be enrolled. Every year this young army of future citizens begins a new epic of their existence on the first day of school, Never in the history of the world has there been such a mo- mentous winter to look forward to as the present one, Every family will have Its particular problem. ‘These problems will include tho children as never before. It {8 a great opportunity for pre- paredness on the part of tho parents —preparedness and to conserve the many things affecting children so as to make them lose the least in the For example, one of the big ques tions is that of food. Never before have prices been so high. And yet Whatever else must be saved or| sacrificed, the child must have suff ciently nourishing food in order to} take the education mea! that Is pre- pared for It. We get all knowledge through tho} five senses; seeing, hearing, tasting touching and smelling. And when these ve senses won't work Doe cannot digest the mental meal that és expected of him. Thgrefore, it behooves every mother and guardian to study the substitute th save the strength and provide proper food and nerve tissue. It tg not diMcult, For he who runs may read. There are thousands of pamphlets printed on the subject of | food substitutes that are cheaper than those we have heretofore enjoyed. We may decry the high cost of living, Johnny the ‘Russian Revolution | have done during the day; w the remedies of which may not be forthcoming soon, we may rebel against substitutes, but the conditions are here and must be met. In many schools the penny lunches have been installed, as a result of The Evening World campaign, Every ef- fort will be made this winter to pro- vide the best food at the least cost— the most nutritious meal for children. ‘This will be done by experts, For the mother who cannot prepare the lunch at noon, or for the child who lives at some distance, here at least one meal may be assured, In its research work thia newspaper found that over 86,000 children were suffering from malnutrition, Many of them went to school breakfastless. It 1s apparent that much considera- tion must be given to the food ques- tion, Take your child into your confidence. Talk to him as you would toa grown- up, Explain that the penny you give nim must not be wasted for highly colored candy, but that he ts doing his as a soldier if he purchases hing that will be of value to wth, n there ts the question of sclt- rellance. Many male members of the family will have gone to the war, and more responsability will come to women in the direction of the ehil- dren. You should make tt a point each night to ask the children what they their where they have The wise mother will keep companions were; been, &e. in touch with the child's activities It te the little secrets kept from mother, the confidence that ts not dn. vited and given, that cause the little tragedies that result in police inves. tigation, It 1s a gooh time to inspire the soldier-spirit moral stamina period tc of self-defense Also It 1s a gor promote an appreciation » things—simple dress, sim- sures, simple food, simple and manner. Explain to the children that tt is war time and that everything they dc to save money and expense will hel; some suffering little child on thr other side in the war zone Truly beautiful inspirations may be {instilled in the child's mind durine ———— a Thieves’ Harvest | HE first permanent European) and “gentlemen,” while flags waved, settlement in the United States| Cannons roared, drums beat and was founded on this date, Sept,| tumpets sounded. Monendes planted 4, 665. Monendes de Aviles had ar-| {Re Poy4! standard in the sands, be- side which the chaplath placed the large cross he had carried, With such consecreation Menendez latd the foundation of the city of St. Augus. tine, Only a human sacrifice was needed to give the city a proper tart, Bo the niarde salded forth and slew Jean Ribault and his com- piny of French Huguenots. St. Au- guetine now has 4 population of about 6,000 and is known chiefly as & winter resort, rived on the coast of Florida on St. Augustine's Day in that year, and accordingly he gave the name of that aaint to the city he founded. The Younding was accompanied by much | Pomp and display. Accompanied by hie chaplain, arrayed in rich sacer- robes, Menendos went ashore, by numerous ecdlesiastice ce URING all great revolutions, when law and order have be- come temporarily upset, there! have been those who immediately| abused their newly won privileges and have robbed, pillaged and mur- dered, So it was during the Russian revolution, | The police of the new Russian Re. | public are still looking for the thieves | who looted the Senate Building at Petrograd, carrying off silver statues valued at almost @ million dollars, No sooner had the revolutionary dis bers appeared before the bullding and anounced that the statues of the Romanoff familly offended their revolutionary sentiments, They knocked down the porter, tied him up and put a bag over his head. Then they entered the famous Cath. erine Hail and took away the silyer statue of Catherine II, valued at 500,000 rubles, and another statue representing Russta at prayer, Those and others were taken to a waiting automobile, and the robbers, some of whom were disguised as’ soldiers. orders begun than six armed rob- made off and haven't been seen or rd of since, the coming school days. Also the school-house will be open for many recreations and community centres in the Interest of the adult. A new law has been passed in this connection. Parents should avail them- selves of this splendid opportunity to come in touch with the world’s work, as much for thelr own benefit as in the interest of the children. Mothers need not be ignorant of the community Interest and civic ac- tivities, The schoolhou: is being wiven its widest possible use. It is plainly up to the grown-ups to take advantage of it. When people meet on a mutual ground such as the schoolhouse there is great opportunity for constructive, common interest, Certainly the coming school term looms up large and significant. There ‘gs much to be done to get the best out of it and avoid suffering. The great- est concern ‘of every parent in this of the children, be The Week’s W ash By Martin Green: Copyright, 1917, by the Prew Pablishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), 66]TROM tho figures of killed and injured by vehicl on the streets of New York during the month of August,” remarked the Head Polisher, “it would appear that the New York boys who are going into the trenches will be safer than if they remained at home.” “Plainly,” sald the Laundry Man, “the danger to life and limb on the streets of this city 1s increasing rather than diminishing, despite the multi- plication of traffic laws and motor operation license regulations, The trouble is that the traffic regulations are not enforced, the’licensing regula- tions are not rigid enough and there are too many ol ylinder minds operating four, six and elght-cylinder car: Jor are pedestrians blameless. particular period {s to save the strength There should be a law prohibiting anybody from crossing @ street in the middie of the block, and a law pro- viding for the arrest of any pede trian who attempts to cross a stre at a crossing when the traffic police- mi signal 1s set against vehicular traffic bound in the same direction, Under present police conditions such laws would not be enforced, but per- enforcement will become @ matter of course. A “Speaking as one who has had ex- perience In operating a car in traffic in the streets of New York and the suburbs, 1 am free to say that driver who attempts to comply strict- ly with the motor vehicle regulations has a heartbreaking time., He is crowded, , hooted and re- viled by the professional taxicao and private chauffeurs and drivers of trucks, and not infrequently ts made the subject of sarcastic comment by traffic policemen. Under such di. couraging conditions hoe naturally be- comes a lawbreaker. “The street traffic regulations of The Jarr Family L. M cCardell Prem Publishing Co, rening World), H, don't forget to do some- thing for mo when you get down to the office to-day!” said Mrs. Jarr, as Mr. Jarr was mak- ing his morning getaway, ‘Tele- phone Mrs, Rangle that {f I am not at her house at eleven o'¢lock this morning, I'll be there about half-past one. If you don't, she won't wait for me, and we were to go downtown to- gether to-day shopping!" “Why don’t you telephone to her yourself?” asked Mr. Jarr, “You know why well enough,” re- plied Mrs. Jarr. “Every call out ¢ his house costa mo five cents, and lve cents saved is five cents earned, as Shakespeare or somebody says, or| he Bible, | forget which, And that neans a lot in these war times when five cents is no good to any one, everything is so dear. Down at that ‘ld office of yours it doesn't cost you inything to telephone.” “Oh, you think not?" sald Mr, Jarr. ‘put It does. The other day the boss got mad when ho tried to use the elephone and found all the lines busy with the employees using them on their private affairs, so he gave or- ters that hereafter all personal calls by tho office force are to cost ten cents.” “How mean of him!" cried Mrs. Jarr, ‘Well, you won't miss ten cents from your money and I will miss five cents from mine, and five cents saved {3 five conts not spent, as the poet says, or John D. Rockefeller, I suppose after all it was John D, Rockefeller, for did you ever notice phew the very rich people who bave Joan't think what it 1s, millions and millions are always ad- vising the very poor people to be economical? And the only pleasure the poor really have is to spend what \lttle money they can get hold of. Somet 3 I think the rich people advise the poor people to stint theim- selves and put money in the bank or in life insurance companies because the rich own the banks and life tn- surance companies and take the money out that poor people put in However, you telephone Mrs. Rangle for me when you get in the office, just 18 T tell you.” “Anything else?” asked Mr. Jarr. rtalnly, there's something else, but I have so much to look after I Oh, yes, get off at any one of the big stores and ce If there 1s a sale of school shoos. children need school shoe I have so many things to do when I get downtown, tt will help me if you telephone me where there {i school shoes, and if they seem ser- viccable, for there 18 no economy in buying shoes made of cheap materia! for children," “Anything else?” asked Mr, Jarr, patiently, “Yes, you can walk over to the furrier's where I left my furs to be It's elther Jashinsky's or I forget which, but fixed over, Las! iky’s, you'll find the place. Tell them I want my furs by next Wednesday for sure, and you can pay for the repairs while you are there.” “And is that all?” asked Mr, Jarr agal me In that tone of voice, as though I were imposing on you or taking uD and a sale of ’, that's all, and please don't ask your time! Suppose you were drafted in the army and had to go away to one of those detention camps for months at only $35 @ month, then you'd wish you were as well off as you are now!" “Oh, all right,” sald Mr. Jarr, “but I'd better be starting, But isn’t there anything else I can do for you while m idling at the office all day?” 'm glad you admit it,” eaid Mrs. Jarr, “You men have it easy doing nothing all day but adding up figures and writing to people to please remit —I'm sure that as soon as [ see one of those letters with transparent win- dows in it with my name showing through in typewriting, | know it's @ bill, and I say, ‘Well, {Us a pity that men have nothing else to do but send people bills'—for they are eager enough for you to open accounts and take things when you really don’t need them!" “[ guess you're right,” eald Mr, Jarr with a sigh, “But remember, [ have nothing to do all day long but hard labor, and if I am an hour or two late in reaching the office be I stopped off to shop for you, the won't say a thing to me, not a thing “L suppose you are sarcastic," sald Mrs, Jarr, “But Lam used to sarcasm. Still, you might take this letter and stop somewhere and get a money order for three dollars. It's for those books I was to pay a dollar a month on, and I get the awfullest letters from those people—and yet their agent had the nicest manners and told me he was working his way through college, Do that for me, won't!” sald Mr, Jarr firmly. “You not only are filching the boss's time, but you are cadging the few little dollars I may have in my jeans.” “You needn't make such a fuas over said Mrs, Jarr, “You spend both your time and your money foolishly, and just for that I won't kiss you woodbyl" haps the time will come when their) hal New York are a joke. The: = forced « few horse day while the paren are on duty, © minute the cops pear— and belleve mo they wate no tee to disappearing when the whistle blows announcing the end of their day of toll—the streets are virtually turned over to thousands of speed maniacs protected by insurance policies, “In the hours when there are no traffic policemen on duty unproteae ted streets such as Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth and Ninth Avenues are race courses for cars driven by boneheaded youths wearing coster- mongers caps and shirtsleeved graduates from the seats of horse drawn trucks, You wouldn't trust most of them alone with a sew! machine, but the State of New York turns them loose in the streets of the elty driving machines wer- ful as locomotives, gif va The Legislature should pass new vs regulating motor license utd also pass a drastic law iimiee ing to & nominal sum the amount of insurance an automobile owner can buy In the matter of personal injury. ery driver would be more cautious if ho didn't have an insurance com. |pany riding tn his car. “Furthermore, the ladles, God blew ‘em, as the saying goes, shouldn't be allowed to drive cars in city streets until they have passed a thorough examination. The place for the ladies is In the tonneau, As for the bus drivers and truck drivers adequate jcomment on their street performances [could not possibly be printed in « family newspaper.” AR be it from me,” sald the Head Polisher, "to criticise the sacrosanct and supernal Herbert Hoover, but when he saya he has no power to fix prices, where does he come tn to cost us all that money?” “Mr, Hoover,” explained the Laune dry Man, “after a long period of silence, has begun to talk, now th the Food Bill has been passed. He wasn't any more noisy than a dias connected telephone while the bill was before Congress and nobody connected, with him ventured toedispute state ments that he would have arbitrary price fixing powers and control over food products, “Now, Mr. Hoover has discovered that working for the Government and working for the Rockefeller Founda- tlon are two different jobs, As time goes on you will find that Mr. Hoover is quite a conservative bird, He says his problem ts to increase production and that at best we must expect slow development toward the end we seek. So, If you were thinking of taking @ more expensive flat this fall because | Mr, Hoover would save you the extra expense on your grocery bi had better take another think.’ SEE," sald the Head Polisher, “that Senator La Follette of | Wisconsin did not march with | his colleagues in the Washington pee foP the harsh with Ben- “cs jrade of the men selected National Army," “You must not be ator La Follette," admon| Laundry Man, emember tee we neutral, He doesn't ¢; ‘licked, Juat wo Mt isn't Gormanns RY