The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1917, Page 14

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The Navy Department was Informed of {t three days later by « cable sent via Paris, Yet not until yesterday were the American people permitted to hear of it. Up to yesterday, moreover, the Navy Department must have re- garded it as news of great public interest—a substantial naval success, in fact, for as such it was firet given out. Only afterward was the bungled reading of the despatch detected. Why have “hesitated” over it three days? It ought to be understood by this time that not only does the cotintry want to know what is going on but that It is entitled to know. Americans will al be loath to believe that their Govern- ment can be in any way influenced by the British policy of silence, which has also been that of Germany. There is every evidence that his policy has proved harmful in ita,effecte even where peoples are used to governmental mystery and suppression. In the United States, where publicity is a matter of popular right, such an attitude must appear all the more irksome and indefensible. How much other war news has the Government put under paper- weights or filed in drawers to “hesitate” over? It is a singular fact that private letters from American sailors serving in our naval patrols abroad have described successful en- counters with submarines which the censor has not deemed it neces- sary to conceal but which the Navy Department has never taken the trouble to publish—profoundly interesting as all such reports are bound to be to the entire country. Six eubmarines sunk or one submarine sunk, Americans ought not to be made to fee] that the policy of their Government is to hide away war cables—only half read, at that—until circumstances compel it to produce them. The people of the United States have a right to expect different treatment. AN ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURE. 4 LONG TIME since financial and business circles in this city have received a shock like that of yesterday's statement from the Comptroller of the Currency declaring the late head of one of the biggest banks of New York to have been for sixteen years before his death last July, an embezzler and a forger. Why a bank president enjoying « large income, with apparently fo speculative or other secret uses for money, should have repeatedly Yound himself in need of comparatively smal] sums aggregating, even over this long period, only $300,000, is the mystery in the case so far ae the facts have yet been made known. ; Did he take and perhaps put back much larger amounts, so that the $300,000 represents only the final tell-tale balance to his discredit? Or was he one of the many who, starting wrong, find that how- ever mach their incomes incrense their outlay always keeps a pace or two ahead, and who therefore face the periodically recurring problem how to make good the difference? The latter seems not {mprobable. Let a man in such a plight ‘enee yield to temptation, take the easiest way and get through the » | Business Efficiency ed wed. Bateett Checks ana Check haisers NE day in February, 1909, @ well dressed mun entered & bank in Chicago, deposited u certified oheck for $27,000, signed by the President of the General Cement Construction Company, received pass book and a nifty little icather- bound check book and walked out. Seventeen thousand dollars was promptly withdrawn. Upon balancing his books a few days later the cashier of the Cement Company nearly experienced an at- tack of heart failure. The bank's statement showed that the concern Was just $26,978 short. That $27,000 check had been raised from §27, No chemicals had been used, no erasures had been made, The only alterations Pinch without being found out, and there is almost certain to be a next time and a next and many more, The bank in this instance {s in no way embarrassed by the loss. ‘The sum involved was long eince restored to the depositor from whose account {t was taken. The burden, such as it is, is distributed among those who can easily bear their share, No one will eufer, It was not a big theft as thefts of that class go nowadays, But because of the man and the position of trust he held New York has seldom beer more startled. _ oH Yesterday our venérable parent, The Morning World, dis- tinguished Itself by breaking all previous week-day morning advertising records for itself or any other New York newspaper by printing 141% columns made up of 8,737 separate an- nouncements, ‘This great total included 2778 Help Wanted Male and 3,806 Help Wanted Female—an unprecedented indication of fudustrial awakening in this community, N Sept. 13, 1642, Cing-Mars, the; On this date in 1688 the Sieme of favorite of Louis XIIL, was executed at Lyons by order of Cardinal Richelieu. He bad been fh- troduced at court as a spy on the king, whose favorite he soon became Enmity grew up between bim and Richelieu, against whom he entered inte @ conspiracy, He was arrested and executed at the of twenty- two, His history has formed the basis of plota for romance writers and dramatists, Vienna was raised. The olty bad been Desteged by the Turkish army Of 200,000, and was weakly garrisoned. But the King of Poland and the Duke of Lorraine hastened with armies to ite relief, and the Turks withdrew without fighting. This event saved Burope from the danger of being overrun by the Turks, The battle of Harper's Ferry was fought on Sept, 12, 1463, during th Otvt Wan, Pe Byery bride of two weeks is oom-; The ourrent berg to discourse knowingly of the| end of the month and oares incidental to the| lighting yoamagement of a family.—Chicago News, ‘ companies, strange to say, Beually nduoee gloom—Columbie, (8 t Itterature mafied at the by the electric y our. of ending ‘Qoraery required were the insertion of the letters “thou” before the “and,” of “and no-100," and the addition of three ciphers after the figures 37, The man who raised this check probably holds the world’s record for large re- turns on emal! capital. “A favorite method used by forgers for obtaining possession of checks vf reputable houses is as follows,” says the literature issued by a leading manufacturer of @ device for the pro- tection of checks by shredding and inking the paper. “The forger matla the concern @ cheok for some small sum, This, of course, is deposited in the regular After the lapse of days the forger writes the con- cern that the check was mailed by | mistake; that it was intended for an- other company of the same name, ‘woul@the recipient be kind enou..h Wat his cheek, payable to the writer, for an equal amount? “Compliance with this natural re- quest puts the criminal in possession of a check, which he, of course, promptly proceeds to raive,” ‘The cleverness of these gentry ts evidenced by photographic fac-sim les of checks which have actually been altered. Here are a few exam- $ vie ‘check for tt 40 rained to $840.40. 50 raised to $5,600, raised to $1,600, A check for $25 raised to $2,500, A oheck for $8.50 raised to $480.50, oheck for $3.55 raised to $870.40. nd the last crushing biow—the case already mentioned of $27, raised to $27,000 and suc: eee y cashed. The methods used by forge many and ingenious. "Cut-outs” are filled in and repunched; words are obliterated by acids and rewritten; often, in the case of th no radical changes are ne The activities of the c rious menac the The Amertcan 0 reported that 28 cases reported for the year ‘Avg. 30, 1918, 808 dealt with oneoKs, Banke’ and alteration of 2 eas, | Cer Ais ‘New Yor ectons Words 667M going fishing next Sunday,” said Gus, the proprietor of the popular cafe on the corner, “and @s you say you are a good fisb- erman, I'd like you to learn me some- thing new about it.” - “Well,” said Mr. Jarr, “I wanted to tell you the other day about my fish- ing experience down in Virginia®but you wouldn't listen to me, Now in Virginia, on the Chesapoake Bay, ali you need to fish is to get a boat built out of wormwood, and the fish jump tjeht in so fast that unless you pull or the shore mighty quick they swamp the boat.” “How swamp the boat?" “Do you fish in a swamp?” “Not in the swamp, in the bay,” Mr. Jarr explained, “And I suppose if you can't get a wormwood boat to fish in the bay you fisb from a bay winder and drink bay rum?” said Gus, who was these with the comedy, too, “You ask me about fishing and then you start to kid mo,” sald Mr. Jarr pationtly. “I told you down in Vir- ginia on the Chesapeake Bay the fish bite Uke mosquitoes. If you trail your hand In the water they'll bite all your fingers off, they're that hungry.” “They was s0 thick you gouldn't go in swimming, maybe?" sald Gus. “The jellyfish were. And that’s the truth,” Mr. Jarr asserted, “I've saw them Jollyfish,” eaid Gus. “They ain't no good, you can’t make Jelly out of them, even im these wa: umes.” “I don’t know," replied Mr. Jarr. “You've heard of preserved fish?’ Gus said he had, and Mr, Jarr re- marked that jellyfish and preserved fish were the same thing, “You will want to tell me they can Bird House Made of an Old Straw Hat BIRD HOUSD of an old straw hat 6 @ practical and eastly contrived affair, as @ cqn- tributor to Popular Mechanics demon- ft" Btrates, Simply cut / @ hole in the crow the hat. Then nail the hat against a board of Proper f ize, To protect the hat against the rain, put sked Gus. provided, bird house ca: trunk of @ tree, or nailed against @ the hat in its natural ing the rest a @ satietactory dark brown, produc The Jarr Family make butter out of butterfish, next,” eaid Gus. “Pickled herrings is pre- 8: ‘ved fish, too, what?” Mr. Jarr agreed that pickled her- rings should come under the head of vonserves also, “And what does it me about people drinking like @ fish?” asked Gus. “Fishes don't get drunk.” “Oh, don't they?” replied Mr, Jarr. “Didn't you r hear of a soused mackerel?” Gus’ regarded him sternly. “Some- times I think you come into my place (o pay me what you owe me, and sometimes I think you come into my place to insult me,” he sald, “Insult- ng in here is my business; ain’t I the boss” “Ob, I wasn't trying to insult you or joke with you,” sald Mr, Jarr, “You couldn't tell one from the vther, anyway." “Then I am glad you apologize,” said Gus, putting his hand across the bar, “I don’t care what you say to me, €o long as I know you are in earnest when you insult or joke mit me. I hate foolish tnsults and 1 Pate foolish jokes, But what was that you was telling me when I warn’ listening the other day, about ‘hem hungry relations you got down n Virginny what eat everything?” “I don’t remember that,” sald Afr, Jarr. “Why, yes you do,” Gus insisted, “Von was telling Slavinsky, the gla. By Roy L. McCardell | By J. H. Cassel sier, about your relatives & wooden-leg man by eating. “Oh, I remember now,” said Mr. Jarr, It wasn't relatives, it was ants. The ants are so bad down in Virginia in the tidewater counties that they are very destructive to all furniture and woodwork. They eat the porches off the houses and the furniture off the porches. A man with a wooden leg can't take a nap unless he puts his wooden leg in a pail of water. was telling Slavinsky about a farmer down there who always had to carry an extra wooden leg around with him because the ants always eat the other off him before his day's work in the fields was over.” “Sure,” eaid Gus. “I knew I beard you right when you was telling it, 1 guess it wouldn't do to go round on crutches down there, That won't be no location for war hospitals, will it? I can’t see how your aunts don’t get splinters in their teeth, but ma; they have false teeth, like an aunt | had in the old country, and my, she was @ terror to eat everything, too, But I never heard of her eating rippling wooden things. Still relations isire-| stomach.’ lations, and you often hear it eald they'll eat you out of house and home. But maybe them aunts of yours eat wood because they get so Ured of eating fish, Ash being so many down in that Chu@kpeak Bay, what ” ‘And in vain 414 Mr. Jarr spend a pouent half hour—when he should ve been home—trying to explain |? the difference between female rela- tives nad ome wonders of the insect avorld to Gus. But Gus hasn't been yet able to separate termites from one’s father and mother’s sisters in his imagina- tion. | Sayings of Mrs. Solome By Helen Rowland ee Ee Oe ome Pee Ce Oe Rew Hee Femiae Creme HILT, vertiy, My Deughter, the ware of & Women ore V epderrtan ding Por i Goth appear thet (he more he beth to make the more she enjorets being “mirerenie!™ Now, there came uate me o beautiful end fal ACTRESS A she pomeeseed money and jewel, Hmousine, and fame, and « geod figure, AND yea, ALA the things which her heart spell “Happiness Vet she wept apow @y aboulder and oom lorted Ana oe questioned ber sayiag, “Alea, ” domme thy tragedy he anewered bitterly, erring! “La, my Mother, | am THIRTY-FIVE “Nay, emile pot bebind thy band, Woman! what that meaneth unto actress? “Beboié it signifies that | shall some day be FORTY! “And is bot that o ‘tragedy! “Verily, it meaneth that if | do not coddie myself and feed upes ing viands and spend many bours in sleep, 1 ebail grow haggard and the beautiful contour of my face! “ané if 1 DO | shall grow fat and lose the contour of my Ggure “And s FAT sotress—who can bear one? “It meaneth that, if 1 do not continue to wear picture bate and frocks and to impersonate youthful heroines, people will say of me: “‘Poor Jane! She bath given up “And if 1 do continue to impersonate youthful heroines and te myself as @ bud and an ingenue they will say of me: “*Poor Jane! How she hangeth on!’ “If 1 do not continue to do bizarre things and to keep my name ta @ nowspapers the public will forget to talk about me, ” { “And if | DO they will talk about me scandalously as usual. “If 1 do not continue to pose as a delle and a star and o heartbreak and @ professiona) beauty they will call me ‘passe.’ “And if 1 do they will in time call me ‘a fool!’ “Alas, if 1 do not soon marry and retire and settle down I shall ney know @ real home and real contentment. “And if 1 DO I shall never again know the thrill of excitement and @ joy of triumph and applause upon which I have @o long subsisted! “Verily, verily, there are moments {p which I wish that 1 had marri at sixteen und never known nor done nor had ANYTHING—save @ bos and seven children and a husband who earned fifty dollars a week!” Go to, My Daughter! Didst THOU, too, ever sigh to be an actress? And doth not this console thee for having “given It all up” ip cook breakfast-bacon and eggs and sew on buttons for a Mere Man?” 4 For a contented matron may be comfortably and frankly Forty, but ts easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for an to pass from the limelight of youth into the valley and dhadow of Age!” Selah! : Yor kaowest thew rt Copyright. 1917, by the Urese Wublishing Co, (The N — —= ‘ ‘Lucile the Waitress | By Bide Dudley York Evening World.) ” gaid Lucile, the Waitress, sulted,’ be blurta out. “Why sbou ee the Friendly Patron per ay be Its beoause you look tu glanced over the bill ean 7 ar we across one oO! nk it's too ty aroul feller, who haa to take thelr ened-|/ais0" save the foley Sis te tas cine before eating, no matter where |)", ‘bash they're at?” re says to me. “Take th! “Ob, yes, I've seen the type you t something e! (3 in the hash!’ 1 says, hat? mean,” he replied. 1 ‘Something else.’ wOne of them comes in pere awhile! weil gir, it makes him . ago and orders hash. When I set the very delicacy before him be whips out @ little bottle and squares off to in- trid in the face and he gets up @ goes out followed by the man wi bil nats, oe course, both th checks, so the proprietor isn't dulge in some red liquid fluid in it. “*] want a spoon,’ be says. Now, try, © course, 1 see what's on the paeav ie “I got @ little headache,” sald but I get @ bit cranky at the cile, “but I know where I got It. from that tonic | took just before n with me.’ bunch of dish wranglers pesecte fiddlesticks!’ be says. ‘I want | away at it out there and IT may ba ‘a spoon to take my medicine.’ Eee eats eel een to make my stomach work,’ he tells * better take ay ted your hash.’ nothing. It's a great old life, ain't tt “Yes, indeed!” replied the Friend Patron. osh him a little. ene ae gays, ‘you'll bave to bunt ate my lunch. Are you going to ba uy ; Da cae You can't !c¢ cream to-day? Better ay ¢ other worlds to \ jword if you are, because I fy) OP comes from [ttle me ‘Fow|70e promrasditate too Kage aay got a touch of the eppigazcotics, veh = ” tta take this before my mi h 1 gotta i Texas the Lan of Bur me. well,’ I says, double shot of it if you want stomach to triumph over that “Ts it tough?” e “No, I says. just mean’ “Well, to briefen a long story into shortness, I get him the apogn ane he pours out seven drop: ane strong stuff,’ he says, drinking It. a “*You better look out,’ I suggest, ‘or it may eat the celluloid off your NE of the stories of bur treasure known to every ¢ Texan, and particularly Mexicans, {8 that relating to a w sum in Spanish gold and jewel burled at the root of a tree near wh is now Summit Place, “A little man with a big nove set~ ‘The story deals with the victorte earby—the man, not the B°8¢—| march of the Mexican t {ne Oat a Ha, hal’ and says: ‘Say, roops Aan¢ " ellu- lady, stomachs ain't lined with ce oid. ‘That's what they make fillums oUt ty genae of laughter comes to me quietly and gives me my reply. ‘Well, stomachs are made to fill ‘em, ain't T as! Santa Anna In 1836, when, after: Alamo and after Goliad, they vat meet the Little band of Texas patry at San Jacinto, On the march £ lowers of the Mexican leader are @ to have possessed themselves money and Jewelry tn large quan ties. Santa Anna ts declared to he confiscated all this wealth, intend! later to restore it to Its owners, But Santa Anna never had the ¢ portunity. Gen, Sam Houston met | Mexicans at San Jacinto and the sun had set on April 21 the be , friend and fellow citizen, I wisht you could ‘a’ been here. Halt a dozen other victims setting near gives old Nosey the laugh and he gets mnt never came in here to be in- of 110,000 men, It was then that we accepted Germany's chal- leage and declared @ state of war to exist, To-day our army numbers 760,000 men. In another month this force will have grown to 1,850,000 men, |owing to the mobilization of those selected by draft. That ts the bare outline of what has been accomplished in mustering our strength for the struggle with Germany, The work has been done with @ surprising absence of spread- eagle patriotism. Tho whole coun- try turned to the task, showing a singleness of purpose and quiet reso- lution that brought results almost over night. Fer months ago we had an army Whon it was seen that we tnevit- ably must take part In the war many Americans felt that our best service would be to supply the Allies with ships, munitions, money and other material things. We rather that the struggle had gone so far that our man power would not be needed, But the event has proved otherwise, It was not long unt!l we enw the need of a great National Army. That army is now in the bullding and U.S. Army Will Soon Pass equal to the best, plus something for American spirit. Just four months after we went in the Regular Army had been expand- ed from that first 110,000 to its full war strength of 293,000 men. And every recruit came of his own accord, In the meantime and down to the present day the Navy and Marine Corps were busily filling thelr ranks. On April 28 Congress adopted the ao- lective draft measure, ing avail- able 9,000,000 men from which to draw new forces. Then things began to move rapidly. Five thousand future officers entered training camps May 1, this vanguard being followed by other thousands as the months passed. June 5 was the day of registration for the nation’s young manhood. Scarcely had the country got over the thrill of this dedication to Mberty when news came from France that Pershing was there and a whole army division with him, Who can forget the tug at their hearta when we read the news? It meant that we were 1 olng over. th Ae i dates are milestones along a new historical road. July 20 witnessed the drawi of numbers in Washington for our citizen army. promises (© be @ fighting maching The oext morning every youns man M ans had routed the Mexicana, Anna and a large part of his were tuken prisoners, but not The treasure-bearers nid started fort sf al at Ban Ant re news of the decisive defeat ili rk | WiHon ark | fm the country knew epproximately when to lay aside the pursult of peac unta Anna had been recety and join the colors, Just five Saya ¢ afraid to venture te before, and again on AUS, 20, ion Nee | thelr precious burden, ; tional Gua unita of the co! Beside a gnarled oak to mustered into the Federal ser-|san Antonio, soma distanee Hae Camino Real, the men are said to Toward the end of August New| buried the treasure. Thia pad York had the war brought closer to/known to many, and even at this bi {ts beart than ever before when te |date gold hunters Lave dug in sea old Sixtv-ninth Regiment ag Be the pile, dered to camp as part of the Ratn-| On Salinas Street, San A: bow Division, first of the Guard d'vi-|two ramshackle huts petits. gh sions to go abroad, The men are now | holding a fortune in gold and sily tn camp, learning some final phases/Qno of them, at least sevent; of of a soldier's business. years of age, was once the hai It was on the last day of August|band of French freebooters, a: that the War Department ordered 6|¢..der wore a huge black beard, Th per cent, of the drafted men to m-|inen, the legend says, used to abs San Antonio port. Thirty-two cantonments have|themselves from been established in various parts of|days at a time, and thelr return the country for tho training of this|ways colncided with stories of w: citisen soldiery and the old National |trains being held up and tosted. 4 Guard. There are twenty-two addi-|report says they buried much of tb tional camps where officers-to-be are | loot in tho floor of the adobe hut, 4 undergoing instructions. Four other |searchers for lt have appeared off camps have been given over to the{on for half a century, ‘The most medical corps. Many aviators are in{cent was a@ halt-Indian “medic training here and abroad. It would jman” who came there from San M be interesting to know what Germany )cos about threv years ago, Thad thinks of this massing of forces. Five|carric. a divining rod and pale months have passed since she drove | jocate the troasure by its mear us into the breach, and the tide is) Various holes he and others Just beginning to rise. pu v' ible, , 4