The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1917, Page 14

{ EDITORIAL PAGE ' The Eve World. Ss Lan . ‘ =. Yor pa iz ; th 7 4* ’ -~ ie ~ ‘ os One Ve a fm ¥ toe ine ¥ “ a ee ee ee se tek came peneinnet termem oe toe few © © oe whee wmiiint VOLUME 58 NO, 90,481 _~ —— — eh “(N THE SPIRIT OF THOSE WHO ENLIST!” MEMICANS to t cort what has been happening ¢ the pr untry. Footwear long since » tor acing unfortunate consumer's ‘ now t t 1 that, uh there ie abundance . ‘ ertain to fall ¢ in mediate future, t ' buy frow ent cxorbitunt prices he has to pay the retailer Why? Because manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers in the shoe industry are determined that the war profits they have made in the last three years shall continue henceforth to be usual profits for as long as the country will stand for it. “There ia plenty of in the market,” a leading shoe man assures The World, “but the packers and importers feel they cannot afford to sell it at the present price without a loss on their invest- ment, They bought their hid th the expectation of making a eather w large profit and consequently paid high pric Meanwhile it js admitted that, althpugh before the beginning of the summer the profits of retail shoe deale much as 27 per cent., th same retailers now consider themselves justified in reaching for 32 and even 35 pe cent, in the near future. Again, what becomes of the President's solemn reminder, addressed to all handlers of “the products of our milla and factories”: , “The country expects you, It expects all others, to forego unusual profits * * © In the spirit of thone who enlist in the ranks, for thelr people, not for themselves. Patriotism and service to the nation apart, what is going to happen if this pyramiding of profits is permitted to go on until it has piled up a loud that the consumers of this prosperous country cannot carry and the whole structure comes crashing down, | carrying the confidence and courage of industrial America with it? Government control and councils of national defense have not yet made it clear to profiteers that the standardizing of war, profits into a permanent rising scale to be maintained by pillaging cannot and will not be “SEA BARRAGE.’” AST week's official report of the British naval authorities describing the effectiveness of “depth” bombs and seaplanes in fighting submarines lends added interest to an article in the current number of one of our own newer magazines, “The Navy and Merchant Marine.” In this article an American, Mr. Percy Adams Hutchison, member of the Secretary’s Committee of the United States Naval Consulting Board, outlines a plan for protecting veesels from submarine attack by barrage or curtain fire from deck guns of high muzzle elevation, hurling depth-exploding shells into} the near vicinity of approaching boats, scouting aeroplanes to aid by hunting out the submarines, “Here,” Mr. Hutchison maintains, ‘is the method for turn- ing the tables on the submarine, and with a vengeance, for it ia by no means necessary that the shell fired tn the manner | described should actually strike {te target. If the shell Is charged with a sufficiently powerful explosive, and fitted with a delay fuse for detonating, so that the explosion may be | timed not to occur until after the shell ls at some depth below | the surface, the explosion may be at some distance from the submarine and the destructive effect be no less complete.” Tho scheme requires naval howitzers for high-angle firing and a kind of spoon-nosed “diving” shell which will not ricochet when it strikes the water. Patents for a shell of this sort, Mr, Hutchison assures us, were taken out some time ago in both England and America. Obviously the idea is to convoy a vessel or group of vessel Hl through a fleet of attacking submarines in much the same* manner, as land forces are moved forward in a charge from the trenches! under cover of curtain fire. ‘Tle point is that an area is created into which the enemy cannot penetrate It will be readily seen that Mr. Hutchison’s plan calls for lavish use of shells—expensive ones, it would appear—and also for a con- siderable sacrifice of cargo space to carry the large quantities of pro- jectiles that might be required. On the other hand, expense would have to be very great indeed to be unwarranted if it could provic ships and additional protection ‘for our must cross in ever increasing perilous seaway to France. we all, for onr troops who numbers the To-Day s Annivers ary - | eee # had risen to as, is __ Adoption Whereby Divorce Would umbled! ‘A Plea for the Legal _ of Husbands | Be Abolished and Vam- pires Sent to Jail. By Nixola ¢ Couyriaht, 1937, by the Prees Wubllahl OR the tenth time my excitable F friend Mabel had informed m+ that she would stand it no longe: in addition to alimony, And, of course, sho wanted mo to tell her how to earn this sum, beginning Monday! @ron and if Mra, Kathleen Norris’ mnothers of $00 a qwpin per caiu earning an excellent income ti) uuent or technique. in which Mabel wage-earner, Nod had (o think of another way out, can to got rid of them by legal process to fo exchange thom for other Mute girl Now Mabel has five charming cbil- ‘project of & Slate oudowment for could be carried out she would be! 18 only business for which she bas either But under pre T vailing conditions, 1 know of no way quality as & little girls are It nover occurs te you “Even tf you should adopt a little boy from an asylum you would not think 4 = ieeley-Smith ig Co, (The New York Evening World.) Aisy it Would brug every Husband unuer the protection waich his wile velieves he nevas of the laws agains think slanapping. © A siren would but would tak. | wice vefore luring « legally adopte. the children to- | sUsband away from bis pome by the Sea hak vromise of A penny or a peppermint yy Morrow and Ol Aick if sho knew soo would ge back to fathe OUT chirty years in the penitentiary when permanently, off apprehended, A vampire would see ‘ cuurse—that, she] WeF lawyer before despulling & mld- : . : die-aged woman who had put all nes is ‘ has gathered from) i iuuna in her husbund's hame ol te club lectures, would everything that made life tolerable et Z bo untair, No, she Husbands and wives are pretty gen is sat ‘ erally agreed that It is always the Reis yigt aa ee oana (Other woman's fault when a ure ke . her own living, 884) broken up. ‘Taere is no age of con- DES who | thinks §=— SBE) went for bushy How much better could get along nicely on $40 a weos | It would be for public and private morals if love pirates and maiefactors of great beauty could be sentenced | for Kidnapping. Verhaps for life, Years ago when | was younger and wiser than Iam now I wrote that the ideal wife Is merely a woman who | succeeds in being a mother to a hu- man being whom she permits to treat her like a child For this reason IL believe men and women would live more happily together if husbands could be adopted. those women—if there are any whu believe that men are grown up—d say go oA baseball game, study a crowd on Election night, Or, if that ls too much tre study your father, hus- bund or brother when he has a tooth 1 notice that you never come and} 0, Then if you still believe men tell mo that you wou't stand Johny ao” ioe need the protection which jr, any longer,” TE remarked 0 bet )ioga) adoption would insure, I shall Hand that however exasperating Your | ee eee set ely HIRTY-BIGHT yeara ago to-] Kenlun to bear upo of taking him back, Why not adopt | Gay Pelton Otte Bau Leos | tating tha ates the tank of tso-| Sour husband? Hémay be unreason 4 Kee wAg Cy public and rendering her! able, tyranil very thing bis bold von arck-Schoen-| incapable of forming anti-German | mother and you and a lot of ot ‘“ ice trench warfled, with hausen wet out for Vienna. It was} alliances. ‘The Dual Alliance be- | women plus the ces, have conapl N authern exposure,” 008 © memorable date, a momentous) tween Germany and Austria, con | $e, Dane Nah, bUL you , may bo the way advertlae- Journey. As the result of tt Europe | summated in 1879, remained a socret | {rey did not exist. Why | ments will read, Health seekers also ie now weltering In blood and Amer-|to the world at large until 1888. In| him aimply @# an extra child around| may crowd to the army enlisting fon hax been drawn into the macl-|the mean strom It was in the development of |in 18K2 his great game of world power that] Alliance and the Dretbund, or ame into being, ‘Triple Bismarck found it necessary to vis! The rift in the Triple Alltance » the Austrian capital, There h | wan tn 1896, when & and Italy, Count Julius Andrassy, the Hungar-| pefore eatranged, mado ¢ t lan ptutesman, and together they ne-| toward friendship In. 1901 bt . goiiated the terms of the Dual Al-| agreed to give Italy a free hand in Nance. From that time on the trail) prpoli, and ttaly reciprocated b that leads to the present {8 #0 plat) withdrawing all objections to my that he who wuns may read. And yet! operations in Morocco. Tho Franco- strangely enough. it was this treaty |qtatian reconciliation was completed Of allignee that Jed the shortsighted | ton yeare ago when the Nalian King to give to Bismarck the title ofl ang President Loubet exchanged “Peacemaker of Europe," | visite. ‘This was the firat indica The tron Chancellor, hating and|of the erumbling of Bismurck’s ine, Italy was won over! the house—the most unruly the most weful since he is Jook out for all the others but fearing Wrance fete #il bis! Triple Alliance, ALIS to oe AN | to reach the Aghting static , clamoring for the privilege » for that is The Fighting Line in France World’s Best Health Resort | A ee ee - By J. H. Cassel The Jar Copsright, 1917, by the Pree Publiadl BEING his mother had company S in the person of the majestic Mrs, Stryver, Master Willie Jar, took off his cap at the door, knocked with diffident politeness and entered Master Jarr could be a regular Little Lord Fauntleroy—so long as no one attempted to attire him as such, especially when he wanted » dime to go to the moving pletures, “My, what a little gentleman!” cried Mrs. Stryver, Master Jarr, ser Ing he had made an effective en trance, was guing to ask for thi time, but just then another visitor was announced, It was Mrs, Clara Mudridge-Smith, “Why, how are you, my dears erled the opulent young matron, "I want you to my new cards!" and she fished in her handbag, while Master Jarr, doomed for the time to be a perfect little gentleman with- out getting paid for it, turned away his head to scowl like a young pirate, Mra. Jarre and Mrs. Stryver regard- ed the cards with interest. ‘what is this on it—your hus- band’s yacht pennant? I didn’t know he had @ yacht—and Isn't it late in the season to go yachting? Did he buy © speed boat in the hope of selling it to the Government for twice what he pald for it? The Gov- ernment !s buying up speed boats for submarine chasers, You know.” Mrs, Stryver asked this because her hus- band had done that very little thing tne more common causes of de Last summer there were but twen- ty-two cusea of typhoid among the British troops tn France. "In turmer days,” comments an official report, “with the same number of men in th feld there would have been at leas 80,000 cases.” Down on the Mexican border we By Roy L. r Family McCardell | | { | ing Co, (The New York Evening World.) early in the summer. “FP maw" — Jarr, Master But his mother was gazing at the new engraved cards, began “Oh, no; that isn't a yacht pen- nant,” sald Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, ‘That's the Service Flag. One star hows I furnished a soldier to make he world safe for peace, and all that ort of thing.” “Why, Clara Mudridge-Smith, you ‘ever had a child—you never had a “oy to raise to be a soldier!" And “irs, Jarr looked admiringly at ber youthful son, |. “Of course, I haven't,” said Mri Mudridge-Smith. “But didn't my chauffeur go? Bo I got a Service | Flag,’with one star, to hang from my window, and I had {t engraved on my cards, Isn't it cute?” ‘ | “Very cute,” replied Mra, Jarr, “considering that your chauffeur was offered his choice of enlisting or being prosecuted for embezzling ures.” “Do you think {t would be proper for me to have a Red Cross engraved on my card? asked Mrs, Stryver, “You know what sacrifices 1 have made for the Red Cross.” “Won't people think you are a lady doctor or something of that sort?” jasked Mrs. Mudridge-Smith, who did }not wish her visiting card display of | Vicarlous military service to be even imitated. “Ob, not at all, not at all, I should | say," suld Mrs, Stryver. “And I have |asked more people to contribute | money to the Red Cross than any one | know of, and my time is valua- | bi Master Jarr felt that his time was valuable too. Already he had missed the first part of the pictures—possi- bly the comedy, where, according to che posters, the comedian was to en- counter a very tornado of custard piesa and to fall down @ stairway at the same time He remar | Kill @ cat. it, and Tony, "I geon a bulldog He grabbed it and shook the bootblack, could you as well! [know a» woman who| the bealttuwst piace in the world to-] demonstrated what may be done in} only make bim let go of the dead cat gets along with her husband as well | day protecting largo bodies of — men|by spitting tooacco In his eyes! i aa she dé her children, Th Livery year there are about four-lagainst disease and ill health, From! "Oh, borro cried both refined | may b & husband is com. | teen deaths to 1,000 population In this, May to October, among 170,000 men,| lady vistors in chorus, “What paratively a new jnstitution, ‘The| country. Over in France there are| not @ single death was due dreadful things do occur!” mother and the child constitute the| only tree deaths a year among the| typhold There were but twenty-four} “And Gussie Bepler, who's father natural unit of all species and it is] samp Number of soldiera due to/ cases during that time, in « climate | rung a butcher shop, took the cat only in the human family that the] natural causes, TI is a net gain| where fever is the commonest peril to| began Master Jarr, father haw any MANENE standing | of nine lives to ev thousand men, | life, | Sut his mother silenced bim by a ut all." and the improved fealth of troops| tn the Spanish-American war, with| ook, ‘Here is the ten cents you have But at any rate P told Mabey T have! in the field is past ¢ tation, This} something less th 160,000 men in n annoying me for to go to the reached the conclusion that a ¢ sa sirong argument f big out-| the field, and un ar con hoving pictur sho said {many of the ditheuith 1} doors and th *, but a good | ditlo: had 2 typhoid) Master Jarr (ook the backsheesh friends would be share Hitt ri to medi-| and feaths, Such ia the glory of ny J ran out, whistiing ahrilly, And other overcome, if cul systematic aitention | medical and hygienic progr: in| in boyish mind he was convinced their husban s we to the rs, inoculation| may indeed come to pass that many| that the polley of frightfulness ts marry thew T t ind rigid} of us will be sceking a comfortable) most efficient, If at frst 1 don't solve the div ' maul luvs, the} trench wherein to mend wasted| succeed, ewpecially with’ ladies, try cally. health the rough stuff, mpnated | | RUGS along. Savings of Mrs. Solomon Hy Wels Re 1 eK r u. . ‘ * i | V ’ om of « ge . oo@ \onere ond 4 . . . wt against OLY ; ‘ S . ‘ ‘ vecls with oe sod tareeth = * , «ud etme a io & ‘ id ‘ 1 bate the b moter wind ste borncce bite . . afterward ide . 4 vend which I de sous, senanen vn ") 1 bate (be sweet woman Irie w » merry nekiog 4 eitteth tm the front reat be ‘ 1 | beside the AT TRACTIVE man, while she ‘ me t © back seat bende thé discard” For the bark e+ fo rca ‘ tute to the , Vianket whereon t Roma 4 th bhen Martyrs amet! thelr bones were eh pleces I bate the noble philanthropist e reth me forth for “a afee Metle 7 drive” on an autumn of , ee hme shivering and shaking te ath neglected to bring aay the winter bias r ney are, ause he I hate the itght-learted ho findeth I amustag to Mates unto my eries of terror when be hurleth me forward and toeseth me ip out among trucks and farm wagons, while my r streameth fn the as Ophelia’s tn the mad scene. I hate the gentle sou! who tnvtteth me to motor out to « “darll inn” for dinner and warneth me to need all my appetite and then etopp while he mendeth a tire or searchet! and my bead whirleth, and th wehing vold within me, I hate the cheerfu eth me unto his country place en@ offereth “to send the car” for me—and at the last moment gatly telephenet ™e sayin, “Ob, just hop upon a train, for the carbureter hath struck, am@ the chauffeur ts out of order, and besides the roads are too muddy to take the car out.” Yea, vertly, verily, 1 hate ALL PEOPLE WHO OWN MOTOR CARS For lo, they MAY ¥ do not appear eo, ' And why because a man owneth a motor car should he assume th ttle NO luncheon, saying that I ball th upon the road for three hours or gasoline until my heart fainteth fs an person who It be human, but alas, th divine right to regulate the lives, and ruta the health, and wreck the happiness of all his friends? : Selah! . ‘ — ‘*Ma’”’ Sunday’s Intimate Talks With Girls THE STORY OF A SILVER THIMBLE. WO years ago last springayoung|and from how many homes these woman in Bngiatd who was thimbles must have come, . » gowing|,t¢. “48 4 splendid service, not only doing a bit of family sowing! trom the purely financial results, but suddenly toox off| in a larger and higher way, from the the old-fashioned | inspiraion it proved to be to thoes stiver thimbie| women of England who wanted to from her finger, a aan crag oa Dan dn't see the way op ° relic from her! y Sv ey opeD ee ee & r and mother's days, and gazed |!" this country, I understand, an@ I Al fe with anoud-| 2 glad to see ‘it, I have several thimbles at home= den insplratton, one of them a cherished heirloom For months she| ffom revolutionary days—which I am had been racking eure wall Five El far greater pleas~ AA re if melted up for the boys im the Geax her brain for 4) trenches than if left in my sewing definite, practica-| table. And I am confident there a! blo way in which she could ald her| thousands of other women Ike me. country In the great World War, wet not the amount of the service jollars and cents 4 It seemed to her that she was such tha opine age tic: tase The movement is being started now i is the spirit and the inspiration of a helpless, petty untt in tho great|the service. It would be a splendidl: mass of men and women » had | Patriotic idea If the sowing elreles dt every American church would devote & special neeting for the ecection of thimbles for th® boys at the front, tt would be staggering to appre- clate the results that would really nat been called upon to face the stirring personal and national crisis of their lives, Bho felt ho ought to be doing SOME. | ciate the reauilis that wo THING—and yot just what could she] tional in its scope. | ore TORU do? A Thimble Day" for the women of Tho sight of the thimble on her] our nation, who want to do somethin; Anger suggested the opportunity that | {07 {N¢ gallant men they are givin she had been secking for months, thing even besides the national olioe The thimble was of silver. There] of the knitting needle rere ioe hundreds of suc ast to count! deans > thimbles in ber town, and thousands,| I would lke to se ~ perhaps hundreds of thousands, in| ment started, It would bean’ tne soe country, spiration for the individual mi Why not organize a movement, first| fur their communities and, above among the women of her co,amunity | for the boys at the fgont, who and later, if that were suce thus have a definite evidence it the nation, for the donation »| they are not being forgotten by 6he thimbles that could be melt dear ones they have left behind, money for the aid of the men who) It has been suggested the proceeds Were giving thelr lives for the pres-|of a movement like this be used f ervation of their flag? * | the education and training of reoruits It was a wonderful idea and for our aviation corps, which braneh no time in carrying it out. of the service will take such an astive cessful did the movement resulting] part In our war with Germany, from this thought prove that a short) It ix said by experts the winning time ago It was reported nearly one| this war may almost wholly hundred thousand dollars had been|on the assembling of a great Amerie raised by the donation of apparently | can air fleet, properly manned, If small trinkets which bad been melted | this use of the proceeds of the sued up into money. Of course, now and then a more wealthy patron of the fund gave dia- monds and other Jewels, but for the most part the entire fund came from such apparently small and Insignifi- cant trinkets ay thimbles, It is startling to figure how many t cc sult even than the more sentim personal motives of bringing Perr extra ¢ and comfort to the boys in the trenches, Tm any event, it aeema to . me j® suxRestion to which the Peg Hs) m-|ed, great-vistoned women of America blea must have entered into the great| should rally in splendid! national melting pot that ylelded al-| numbers. y thrilling most one hundred thousand dollars—! (Corts, 19:7, by The Bett Syndicate, twef Efficiene J. Barrett Business By H. Canvassing Methods Sold 1his Gas heater, 66D) ILL, we have a world-beater| An offer of a rate drawing here {n this gas heater,” said/A°voUnt plus & Mberal commission Tom Winslow to his partners| nose prominin gone eueanta, | The Bill Murray, “but sales are not run-| from ‘t Promptly called crowd and the campaign arated Mun was first thoroughly is| Was Ina ning as they should, Somethir ua iy chs: wrong. Our store window pulls con- siderable business, our advertising | Mays, on the heaters Wwiking polntiy, returns are satisfactory, our distri-| ha @ only heater oh the mage bution through the hardware and de-| Which does not exhaust the oxygen, partment stores is thoroughly per- | {) Indicated the fected. But in spite of all this, 2c), a class by. our- there's @ vast public which should| though our heater’ come i tas be buying our heater and which ap- | again atitore by te parently doesn't realize its exist sale, And emphar ence.” ment ‘i've been wo: lown use-to- | ering if a house crew of canvassers couldn't stir} The tr results were disap. up business" su te Murray, | pointing i) \ssers Were not “Send wagonloads of heaters out with |) Tu following day couple of good men to pull th f in. By the end Was evident that the 2 company maintaly canvassing crews In many large cite jes. It sells more heaters by this method than by any other, joor bells. W instalments works.” “It sounds mighty good to 1 the reply, "I wonder we di of it long a offer the how heate that Week tt t think and yet whe; might have a far more important few { !