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7 EDITORIAL PAGE aan ’ JAN aw, # perry ' bole ed oF * Post ihe of New ¥ oe fecend (ace Matver Cderription Notes te The Frenne on Were @ end One Teor tn Th ewer Fe ot meee VOLUME bs A MATTER OF PLAIN JUSTICE. USTICE GOFF has little use for liens who for years take every benefit the lews and the protection of the United States cou give them but ecoept the responsibilities of citizenship only in time of crisis when safety urges it: “It te @ very discreditabie thing for @ man to live in this country for @ great number of years and evell himeeif of |! te advantages and ali ite opportualt’ to make @ livelibeot and not assume the duties of citisenship; in tact, shirk the ties of citizenship bere aud shire the duties be owes his native country.” Be it added that for American citizens it continues to be @ most trying thing to see them draft, marching away to train for the nation’s defense, while aliens of long residence smile pityingly and go on with their affaires in saug seourity. | In sections of the country where the unnaturalized in large! numbers have lived and thrived for yeare it ls no wonder that the, injustice of the situation has come to seem almost intolerable. Why should « man who owes everything to the United States be absolved! of his debt because he deliberately chooses not to become a citizen? | Congress has gone part way with this matter. In fairness and| justice to American citizens who are doing or who are prepared to do| their duty by the nation, some provision for drafting aliens of settled residence should speedily be incorporated in the law, In view of what the recount of the ballots cast in the recent primaries hae revealed, the public schools of this city should do some heavy concentrating on that part of Arithmetic | which used to be known as Simple Addition. | yo | HAZING AT WEST POINT. | HIS is not a moment when officers in charge of the United 7 States Military Academy at West Point should be forced to give time and attention to the old evil of hazing. The public supposed hazing obsolete in up-to-date American in- efitutions until it read yesterday that twelve upper class men at West Point were to be court-martialled on the charge of having compelled first class cadets to stand on tiptoe with their heads drawn back until some of the victims fainted, Somehow, with all the grim and terrible suffering which the war has made and will continue to make inevitable, college boy cruelties— the gratuitous infliction of minor tortures in a epirit of alleged dis- cipline or fun—seem particularly wanton and ill-tlmed, What is more, the nation in the present crisis ought to be able to look to West Point for its finest apecimens of woll-balanced, gallant American manhood. Cadets and their instructors at this institution should have no time or thought for anything save how to contribute the best that is in them to meet their country’s needs, This is no moment for a revival of the epirit of hazing at West Point or anywhere else. Cruelty is no prerequisite of courage. Nor are American officers supposed to train themselves, Prussian fashion, to treat those under them like dogs. a A As for Dreamland Park, a Tammany Board of Aldermen asked for its purchase on @ resolution ofttered by Frank L. Dowling.—-The Morning World. To be accurate, the Dreamland Park project in its original . form was put forward by The Evening World, Following the fire which destroyed the olf Dreamland, this newspaper at once urged the purchase of the whole prop- erty by the city, to be turned into a much-needed free play- ground for the public among the private pay-as-you-enter reservations which threatencd to leave no part of Coney Island for the poor, It was in this original form, be {t emphasized, that The Evening World backed the plan—not as ft was later twisted to permit the private interests that owned the land to keep a | portion more valuable than the part the city was to get. ———————E An enemy alien caught in the dragnet on Wednesday had & map of Brooklyn in his possession. Doudtless the man should have been taken up, but any one who has tried to penetrate the fastnesses of Darkest Brooklyn will have a certain sympathy for him. on the first horse, together with four | gallons of petrol and a quart of lubri- cating of}, tools, spare parte and a telescoping driving shaft. Tho second | horse carries the transformer-—which | H everal forma of wire- less equipment used on the western front, and under favor- able conditions a range of 160 to 200 miles is possible with one of them. The most easily handled wireless|changes the current to a Uehter or) “station however, 4s the cavalry |lower voltage—in a wooden case, and type, which welghs about 640 pounds,|in another wooden case the receiver, | and js carried In equal proportions by | while the third horse carries the masts, | four horses. Its range is not very| which, in some cases are in sections | great; it works over @ distance of|and in othera are made on @ tele- from twenty-five to thirty miles, scopic principle, — The fourth horse carries halyards, stays and the aerial wires, which are wound round drums and packed away in a fibre case, Sharp Wits ~ | ‘The engine and dymano are mou ed on opposite sides of @ rigid saddle Hits From Tact is the art of dropping a man wound judgment -- Philadelphia se he can't feel the bumy — Ling- hecord bamton Press, Shee . . . Send the p> bo: rator to the As long as the earth ts Inhabited! laundry.—Memphis Cc pmercial Ap-| men And women Will continue to ate) peal. up trouble for cach other,—Chicaga ee oor | News. he average man’s regard for his ida ®& great deal on how nent stood when he left it, Paterson Call, o 8 Sot much camouflage element 4 ae ter rgetto crepe,—Memphis Con Many a man keops a hat in the ring | mercial Appeal who never had much head in the bat reer Columbia (8, C.) State, et 4 | You never can tell. A man may be} ss deaf as & post and atill bave oe & Versatility 1s sometimes the high: brow name given to the quality that makes @ jack of all trades—Albany Journal, The chronte borrower is apt fo take things for granted, or in any, other way he can get them.--Philadelphia Record, es es or their sons, when selected under the| Fvening World Daily Magazine ee “We Will Return Belg um!” xe. Miee., By J. H.Cassel AP RTE AS cteney ForWhomthe Army Camps By James _ Were Named _ C. Young Copyright, 1017, by the Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), America's former National Guard trained im thirty-two camps that be and her new National Army are being ‘ar the names of men who hold high rank in the country's history. This series of articles will endeavor to tell what these men did to merit auch honors, * 5—GEORGE G. MEADE, T was the pecullar genius of George Gordon Meade in handling large bodies of men that made the bat- tle of Gettysburg @ victory for the Union. Long be- fore that he had demonstrated high qualities of lead- ership, But Get- tysburg was the supreme test ‘There he had op posed to him a master strategist Robert FB. Lee. Move for move Meade met the Con- federate Commander's tactics, and broke the heart of the South when he drove Pickett back. From this soldier the army camp at Annapolis Junction, Md,, takes its name, Not far away lle some of the fields on which he gained his fame, Gro. G@ MRAOR Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain, |‘ Dec, $1, 1815, the son of a Philadel phia merchant lving there, After ward the family returned home and Meade was educated In American schools, graduating from West Pol at the age of twenty He to Florida with an artillery command and saw his first service tn nole Indian War Later Meade re- signed from the army on account of il health and was ted with a was 5 number of engineering p i The beginning of hostilities aso at Mexico caused his return to the ser- vice. In Beptember, 1845, he joined the staff of Zachary Taylor and fol- lowed that hardy old warrior through his memorable campaign, For bril- ant conduct at Monterey he was brevetted First Lieutenant, When the short conflict came to an end Meade was ansls to the Engineer Corps, where he continued until the beginning of his third war —that against the South, On Aug, received th $1, 1861, hi app. tment ot Brigadier General, v. Throughout the ensuing campatgns Meade bore a share in all of the fighting, rising rapidly from rank wo rank, The month of 1848, found a large Federal Army encamped about Fredericksburg, Md. June, Lee began a forward movement, coming up the Cumberland Valley, Joseph Hooker had command of the Union forces. Suddenly, the order came displacing him and elevating Meade. This step used @ national surprise, The whole country wondered if the new commander would prove more suo- cessful than those who had gone be- fore, The war was dragging on, Much ay the Germans are holding out to-day, the South balked every move of the Federal Armies, despite inferior numbers and economic strength, Mende felt the necessity of a toll ing stroke, He began to manoeuvre for @ position to invite battle, Hight days after receiving his command the engagement at Gettysburg opened, The first day was a bad one for the eral troops, Gen, Keynolds, who had the immediate command, was Killed, and two army corps falled to hold the Confederates, On the after- noon of July 2 Meade himself reached Gettysburg and assumed direction of He struck back promptly, third day of the engagement opened with a success on the right of the line, ‘Then Lee concentrated the fire of his 145 guns on Meade's tre, For hours the fusillade lasted, Misewhere the battle raged, with veither side able to gain, Now the time had come, Lee selected Pickett for the final test, Word was passed and this leader placed himself at the head of his Virginians, Slowly they be feb mo’ uch from the rid acro thi 8 the deep valley towa the helg where Meade’s army jwalted, “Never was a finer slight, ‘This division of picked men went for- | fearlessly under fire of every arm that the Union forces could bring Men fell upon all aides: 1 y came on, Even their enemy cheered them as they started up the heights, This high tide of the Confederacy reached the crest, faltered, and foil back. Again and again waves of men surged up, But they could not win, Toelrs was a lost cause, HE first Englishman to attempt to introduce @ new philosophy of education was Thomas Day, now chiefly remembered the au- thor of “Sandford and Merton," who died on Sept. 28, 1789, Day's educa- tonal ideal combined the hardihooa of the Spartan and the stolcism of the Indian, To demonstrate his scheme he adopted two orphan girls, one of whom he purposed to make his wife when properly educated One of them, Lucretia, soon rebelled and married a draper, but Sabrina | By Roy L. “The Jarr Family McCardell RS. JARR was laboring awk- wardly at tying up @ bundle. She tied the bundle in the true feminine style—that 1s, with several kinds of cord and twine formed into one continuous string by many knots, Tho bundle was wrapped tn old news- papers, of course. A few pins here and there kept flapping ends and edges together “Anybody could tell at @ glance that this bundle was wrapped any- where in America by a woman,” sald Mr. Jarr, more in pity than scorn, “Then if you don't like {t you wrap said Mrs, Jarr, But, my dear, it won't hold to- gether till it gets around the corner,” ventured Mr, Jarr, “If 1t will only hold together that far is all I care,” remarked his guod lady, “It’s only going to Mra, Stry- ver's Ladies’ War Reading for Sol- diers Committee, It will be repacked there.” Mr. Jarr picked up the bundle to tighten the string, but it broke in his grasp and spilled contemporary Mterature all over the floor, “There! cried Mrs. Jarr, “I hope you are happy! And after I had fastened It so nico and secure, too! Now you ean fix it up yourself!" Why, what's this?" asked Mr, Jarr, “You are not sending soldiers “The Perfect Ladies’ Journal’ for reading matter in the trenches?” “Why, yes, I am; what ts the mat- ter with it?” asked Mra Jarr, “If soldiers never read anything worse than "The Perfect Ladies’ Journal’ they'd be all right! “But it's mostly women's fashions,” Mr. Jarr objected, “Now I submit that sitting in the wet trenchos awaiting @ liquid fre attack or a polson gs attack or @ deadly germ attack or any form the Germans have of Killing time and their ad- versaries—well, I say, if I was Tommy or & Sammy or a potllu or was kept under Day's care for eral years. In order to enabi attain the Spartan ideal of self con- trol Day dropped molten sealing wax on poor Sabrina’s arms and fir. pis. tol near her ears. Sabrina aiways screamed, much to Day's discomfiture. When he told her pretended secrets she always divulged them to othe and was in & constant state of re- pellion against wearing the plain and simple clothing provided for her, At ledgth Day gave up his plan in dis punt and permitted Sabrina to wed the man of her choloe, Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) an Italian Alper or anything like that I really don't think @ perusal of ‘The Perfect Ladies’ Journal’ would keep my mind off the battling Huns, Look here: ‘The shirred brim of black malines, pointing skywards, is hold down with the round crown of black lemonade straw. I leave it to you that this is hardly the sort of reading matter & soldier would care for.” “He wouldn't have to read the hat descriptions, although it would do him good,” remarked Mrs, Jarr. “The sol- dier would then understand why ohto, imported hats cost eo much. In fact, {t would do every man good, whether married or single, whether @ soldier or not, if he read the fashion news.” “I mppose #0," Mr. Jarr admttted. “But we are not sending reading mat- tor to the soldiers to reform them— we are sending it to them to interest, amuse and instruct them.” “There are @ lot of good articles tn ‘The Perfect Ladies’ Journal’ besides the fashions,” eaid Mra. Ja “Here is the ‘June Bride Number,’ with a beautiful girl on the cover and de- scription of the cost of a millionaire’s daughter's wedding. It 1s very inter- esting, and it shows what's the very latest in wedding favors among the very wealthy. Why is it everything the rich do 1s so very interesting? And then there ts a pioture of the honeymoon limousine, the honey- moon camp in the Adirondacks, the honeymoon bungalow in Californta, the honeymoon yacht in the Pa- cific" —— “What's the matter with a honey- moon submerine in the Atlantic?” 4 Mr, Jarr, ever you mind that!" sald Mrs, Jorr. “Here are very interesting ar- ticles on the nursery and how to hygtentcally feed the baby, how to Gaintily decorate the table with paper ornaments on Thanksgiving and other holidays, and here are wonderful cookery recipes, ‘One Hundred Cool and Delictous Salads,’ ‘Camouflage Ragouts’ "—— “Camouflage ragouts?’ repeated Mr, Jarr, “That is something new, Let me see the chemical analysis of Camouflage ragout. He read the recipe carefully, “It's only our old friend of civil life, the common or breakfast variety of hash, donning a uniform and being drafted into mill- tary life,” he said, “You garnish it with a military button, or a miniature swagger stick, and {t's then ‘Camou- flage ragout.’ But send these gja- srossing periodicals to the soldier ail means—they may run out of cl Br ette pape | an inspiration,” I went on, “or you can What EveryWoman Thinks Ky Helen BR owland © Peolfiels ergume o the overage . e one Yeomee Bur tage . , wee be allowee . be shone wear @ @riet ‘ of ove (he tot wore? Dear we Wowan bas ALWAY Mav Pould pot know what t with jest wore wt @ we gare it be Me bee not re 4 that stage of feminine Can appreciate ite full significance, Its | Give @ man the right to the “last word” and be would m die of tt, And the result would de al! sorts of w upheavals io the domestic affairs of the country, | Te eay mothing of the fact that it would merely DOUBLE the number of “last wor im every home and in every quarre!! Besides, Man doesn't really WANT the last word | He only THINKS be wants it, bin ental devel ont where be acred importance, on awful muéd- ad | And on woman's attitude toward him! | Would it not UNSEX men, eventually? Good heavens! |The first thing we Know they will be oarrying (heir handke: eleoves, And drinking tea with rose leaves in it instead of cocktalls, And insisting on doing the cooking aud holding office around the house--* If we grant them the t word!” Besides, Could any true, womanly woman respect » wan who took advantage of the last word? | Where would be that tender reverence that he now feels for man? Where would be that masouline charm, that sweet illusion, that perfumed mystery that now hangs about the Stronger Sex? | Should we any longer care to marry them, te cook for them, to be guardians of their digestion, the keepers of their conscience and the } valets to their vanity? | Nay, alas! ell that sweet, sacred romance between the sexes would be lost forever, . Men would lose more by the acquisition of the Jast word than they would i ever gain by It. | Besides, as wo have said before, | Men do not really WANT the last word. ‘When they DO, they'll get it! | But, at present, nine true, manly men out of ten Prefer to bang the front door and rush off to the clu», Leaving their wives triumphantly shouting the last word Through the keyhole! i *° Ma’ ' Sunday @ Intimate Talks With Girls THE GIRL WHO WAS TRIED BY FIRE, always dragging you down, Ne vie- ; tory !s worth while unless you have to fight for it. And the more of you: life-blood and soul-agony that you pour out, the greater will be your re~ turn in the end.” She thanked me with » tire smile, almost as though #he "t dare to hope. But two months later I had o letter from her which teld me that the seed of my suggestions had taken fruit, She 1s now not only happtly mar« ried to @ well-known young bustnens man of her city, but has developed into one of the most beautiful ¢ham acters I have ever seen, We can make great sorrow @ (dad OR the past two years, it seemed, F indeed, as though Ida had un- dergono far more than her . rightful ebare of troubles, First, her father— whom she had al- most idolized—had been killed sud denly in an auto- mobile accident, At this time she had been engaged for a number of months to # young man, to whom ehe had given all of the {dealistic devo- tion of a young woman to whom real love has come for the first time. 8!x| wave, drowning our lives, or we ann months after the death of her father | make {t an inspiration tor the forget Ida bad discovered that the young fulness of self in service te those man was not worthy of the love of|/about us, any good, pure-minded girl. There ts no antidote for great griet ‘Then, as though this eecond blow |ax powerful as that of trying to bring was not enough, less than a year af- | happiness to others, even although we terward Ida's mother, her only re-|may consider our own lives reduced maining parent, and practically her |to cold ashes from which nething ean only near relative, had been snatehed | arise, ? from her after a comparatively short | \Covrrtstt, 1917, by the Bat Gyndtoater ned illness, The devotion between the mother and daughter had been beautiful—al- most {dyllic. They had been like eisters, and I could understand it was the mothor's caressing voice that had helped to soothe the great hurt, when the daughter found the man to whom she had given her heart, was not worthy. And now her mother, her one gr friend, who could understand and comfort her, bad also been taken away. "Ith fone anything to deserve it!” Ida burst out suddenly. “If I had been @ bad girl, if I had done any wrong, I could think all my trouble was @ punishment for my sin, But I have been @ good girl. I have never knowingly injured @ single person in this world, If only my mother oould have been spared to me—she under- stood everything.” “Suffering 1s not always @ punish- ment,” I told her gently. “It 1s some- times @ test that will either purity and ennoble us or make us hard and|selze a man caught with fifty pounds pitter and cynical, The test has come|of meat brought from an tMegal |to you, It depends on you entirely! slaughter house. The man escaped, whether it will leave you a dull-eyed| leaving the burden behind, but was wreck of @ Woman, dragging through| tracked to @ hay loft by police dogs. lite, or whether it will make of you! When the officer returned to the spot an idealized, more sympathetic, more| where tho meat had been left he lovable woman, found the meat gone. The police dogs “You oan make of your own sorrow| were again called upon and pag be cated the meat in a how it had been hidden by a woman. German Dogs Detect Food Hoarders HE prospects of famine tn @er- many @re so serious that food hoarding 1s growing among the wealtby to an extent that has given the Government no end of trouble. The German police have exhausted every means of detecting the hoard- ers except one, and that is to use highly trained police dogs on their trail, This !s now being done, and the dogs are proving themselves invalua- ble in running down violators of the food laws, Near Berlin, according to one story, the dogs recently located a man who had been piifering from vegetable patches of truck gardeners. The dogs led the police to the house where the stolen vegetables were hid- den, In Munich a constable attempted to make it @ millstone abeut your neck, eee Because @ few “restioss, unsexed, fanatical um who are of (he “semth ' mentally unemployed” and have nothing else to do, | And aren't attractive to women—and al! that— Have started the bue and cry for “Last Words for Meni" | ‘ MAN'S PLACE 18 IN THE OFFICE! Why should he desire to usurp woman's place and woman's prerogatives io ber own domaita—the home? Ant, aoywey, ‘Think of the effect which the granting of the “last word" to man would ab on HIM— ” y U

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