The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1917, Page 18

The eHAy world, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Guages, PULITZER, President, 63 Row. HALT GUS SHAW: Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 re How. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Case aiatten jubec: The Evening| For Enelan ‘ontinent a Supeciorid: forthe. United states ‘Au Countriga in the International rr inion. ‘ark Row, New York, and Caneda. One Year.. 00) One Year...orseee +00 15.40 One Month .60|One Month 1.00 MINDER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREM eoaTtg Lats, Pree stata cite a tas ae foe aw eel bee VOLUME 58......- siwemmeees NO, 20,510 THE MIGHT OF THE NATION. ESIGNATING Oct. 24 as Liberty Day, for the fuller awak- ening of Americans to the duty of pledging financial support to the Government through the Second Liberty Loan, the President reminds them: The might of the United States is being mobilized and organized to strike @ mortal blow at autocracy in defense ot outraged American rights and of the cause of Mberty, “The might of the United States.” If that might is anything, it fiers on hg oe vaca country’s millionaires, more than the might of its 6, more the might of its great corporations, more even than the might of the armies it raises and the ships it mans. The might of this dernocracy is also the might of Its millions of workers and wage-earners, the might of their toil, the might of their loyalty, the might of their partnership with their Government in the present great task. That loyalty, that partnership, now urgently require proof which shall convince the nation’s enemies that this is indeed a war waged by the WHOLE American people, armed with a power and an endurance that are nothing less than the FULL POWER AND ENDURANCE OF THE REPUBLIC. That proof the wage-earner can help to give by lending part of his current and future earnings to the Government—by buying Liberty Bonds. Let him remember this: The stronger he makes that proof now the shorter he makes the war. The more speedily it can bo impressed upon the Imperial German Government and the German people that he stands not for five million Americans, nor for fifty million Americans, but for one hundred million Americans fighting with every dollar and every ounce of strength demanded of them, the sooner may we look for a dismayed, defeated autocracy, a new Germany—and By every hour he helps to bring that day nearer each Ameri- can saves American lives—among them perhaps lives specially dear to him. The cost of the war to the United States in burdens and in blood can be lessened in no way more surely than by speedy, over- whelming demonstration of the might of the United States. The dollars of American wage earners in Liberty Bonds can be the most formidable factor of that might in striking low Impe- rial German confidence and hope. ——-+-——__—- ENCOURAGEMENT BADLY NEEDED. N ACTIVE CAMPAIGN for food conservation is now under A way in New York City as part of the general plan inaugu- rated by Commissioner Hoover. District workers in each Assembly District will make a house- to-hcuse canvass asking housewives to sign pledges aimed to insure the eaving of food. It is announced on behalf of the local committee that it will not concorn itself in any way with problems related to the cost of Hving— which continues, meanwhile, to mount mercilessly. In theory, of course, the effective carrying out of such conser- vation pledges should automatically bring about a reduction in house- hold expenses and at the samo time lower tho cost of articles of food throngh a lessening of demand. Here, however, modern merchandizing steps in to defy and defoat, the ancient law of supply and demand. For example: Yesterday’s newspapers printed @ report made public by the Federal Bureau of Markets to the effect that on Oct. 1 there was 80 per cent. more frozen beef in stock in the United States than a year ago, On the same day holdings of cured beet showed an increase of 46.4 per cent. Reports from 298 stofiges indicated that there were 137,806,561 pounds of frozen beef and 82,644,559 pounds of cured beef on hand. In the face of food figures of which the above are only a sample, it would seem plain that the people of the United States, instead of being forced to pinch themselves, should be able to count on plenty at moderate prices—prices that would go far to hearten citizens and put new courage and energy into them for the prosecution of the war. Food saving will prove @ dismal business if consumers are com- pelled to recognize that the profiteer is still the profiteer, with the storage interests as ever at his service, If the hope and purpose of conservation are to be fully realized, Americans must be cheered by concrete evidence that they are going to be able to buy of the vast quantities of food their country pro- duces at prices no longer subject even indirectly to the boostin touch of the exploiter. * English Feasts Begun Long ‘Ago | year sixty-five fishermen, with the vicar at the head of the table. The HERE is scarcely an old city or village in England that, before the war disrupted everything, number at the table was. strict! did not have an annual banquet of | limited to sixty-five, except the va some sort, designed to advertise the; and was never more or loss, At ware Particular products for which the|mouth, the home of tha far-famed Place is famous, Colchester had its!Yarmouth bloater, the annual her annual oyster feast, which wan siven|ring dinner Was quite an event. The every October, usually at the begin-| menu consisted entirely of herring of ming of the month, But that was 4/4) agos from infant sprats to ana comparatively modern festival, Much) mote anciont was the yearly Whitel roront ways, Poterbo , belt; dinner at Greenwich, which at] ginner woe Pha pei es i one time was almost as great a soci | Mayor and | tion of the town, ever‘ as the dinner given by the Lord y ct musees heen Mayor of London. t the guests, Another The fish ple dinner at Gorteston, ed" was the venison din- Farnham by the B user Larmouth, had as ite guesis each of Winchester, ne ther herring, prepared in many dit- | by the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 ee es a itbaisabaliinarantieaed a, a aa ENTE & ‘br the (The New York Kromin right, 1917, Biome Putiis), By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wort@, THE MONEY QUESTION N these columns I have set forth Three Rocks that Wreck Marriage, taking the commonest elements that make for un- happiness, The two preceding articles dealt with two ways by which married couples bave maintained the happiness of both over many years, The first step was Hobbies and Habits, a toleration that should be shown by both husband and wife, The other told of stepping on the green- eyed monster—jealousy. And now the money question—one of the commonest causes that either make or mar the happiness of the married couple. There is the woman who gfows entirely too soonomical. It almost amounts to stinginess, so that when ber husband has money ehe ts unable to live up to his in- come. They grow apart as @ conse- quence. On the other hand, the divorce courts are filled with testimony of the over-extravagant wife who insists upon Hving beyond her income and that of her husband. But there 1s always @ happy me- dium, and its chief watchword ts consideration. I know an old couple who are getting just the best there is out of life every minute, ‘They have a comfortable income and the spirit of youth ts still alive in both. They have children and grand- children, but are independent of them as to money. uch of the happiness of married life,” sald this woman, “te in the handling of the money question. Many, many times in the early days when I was young I wanted this, that and the other folble and fancy that my neighbor had. But I never purchased a thing unless I knew 1 could pay for it easily, Right at the start we agreed that there should be no secrets as to money matters, “While John did not troublé me with petty business trials, I always knew, in the main, what we could or could not afford. I made it my busi- ness to study Just how far the dollar would go, and we always looked ahead. We paid for our home and during that period we were very care ful ln our expenditures, “I have my own little bank account made up of savings from the house- hold expenses. I never had to go to my husband for every trifling thing. We figured out approximately what it would cost to run the house, and I had a certain sum weekly at my dis- posal. If something unusual came up I told Jobn about it and we ad- Justed the difference, “But, as I say, while we did not burden each other with petty details, as @ general thing, each knew what the other was doing with his money. At the same time we realized that there was something to be had out of fe besides skimping and saving. Therefore we did not become penuri- ous and deny ourselves small, inex- pensive pleasures, “In a word we kept the spirit of joy alive along with our interest in sav- ing and accumulating for the impor- tant things. Many times, in case of aickness our exchequer was very low, indeed, but we adapted ourselves to circumstances and each sacrificed willingly for the other, “We ‘grew up’ together in joint in- terest.” And there is the secret of it all—the joint interest. The woman who really loves her husband will spend his hard earnings judiciously She will make no demands that may be @ strain on his purse, She will not oe unreasonable when he explains that he can't afford this or that thing sbe longs for. Many @ man bas gone bankrupt be- cause of his anxiety to please his wife when she has failed to under- stand that he could not afford certain things, Many a woman has herself to blame for consequent sorrows, be- cause she haa refused to believe that the money could not be spared. Wise is the wife who will know definitely the extent of her husband's dollars and deal with them accord- ingly Also there fs something to be sald about the scrooge of a husband who ts so busy making his pile that he be- comes old before he has learned to live. A woman often learns to hate & husband of this kind because he denies her things that she knows ho can well afford, such as creature com- forts and methods of alleviating her burdens. He fails to see how he ts losing her Jove, Not so much because of the money but because of his disinterest in her wishes, being too busy with his bank deposits avery woman should know enough Jof her husband's Income and pros- pects so that she may spend wisely and not too well, And when a hus- band is too indulgent to give her full information on this subject he pays heavily later on. The bapry medium tw struck when each fe fully informed, and adjusts | bimself and herself accordingly. 66(7\H, dearl™ remarked Mrs, Jarr, mournfully. “It's an old saying, but @ true one, that one-half the world doesn’t know how the other half gets along—or some- thing like that, “Heie we think we have @ herd time of it because this war is 80 ter- rible and everything is so dear and 80 many young men are joining the army and navy and wearing uni- forms and then complaining because they are not permitted to have a glass of beer, while visiting French and English soldiers and sailors can, and yet Miss Pruyne quit our Women’s War Time Knitting League because she found that sweaters were to be sent to soldiers along with cigarettes” —— “What has this got to do with one- half of the world not knowing how much credit the other half has or whatever it was?” Interrupted Mr. Jarr, “| was coming to that,” sald Mrs. Jerr, “Mrs, Dinkston was here to borrow two dollars from me and she have no money, she can't get any work to do, and her husband ts « poet, and even if he had any work to do he wouldn't be paid for it, They are to be put out of their apartment because they can’t pay their rent, their furniture has been taken away from them, and they have nothing to eat in the house, and they have n0 credit anywhere, 60 Mrs, Dinkston cried, and told me she supposed she'd have to take in boarders.” “Let her cheér up,” replied Mr, Jarr, “I eee that they are going to put women on the street cars as conductoresses and motorwomen, and if the shipbullders and the steamboat men and the miners and the tugboat crews and railroad men and plumbers land carpenters and janitors and every other sort of workingmen go on strike, as they threaten to, there will be lots of work at good wages for strong and willing wives who have husbands to support.” I suppose so,” sald Mrs, Jarr A GOOD WAY OUT oF IT, T a certain Northern military A depot an obvious malingerer | attended the regimental doctor |for examination. His tale of woe | was, however, laid on too thtck— | what with a weak heart, corns, lum- bago, &e., &e. ‘The shrewd doctor, patting him on the shoulder, said to him: “My poor fellow, go to France and get shot out of your misery.” Phila jdelpbia Ledge, was telling me all her troubles, They | doy oe Copyright, LIT, by the Press Pwblishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), “But Mrs. Dinkston wants something refined to do. Anyway, I do not be- eve women will get along as street car conductors, No woman likes to| pay carfare for another woman, and 1 feel sure no woman will want to Pay carfare to @ woman, It is bad enough now when one has to quarrel with men conductors as to whether one’s ttle children are old enough to pay fare or not, and also I know motorwomen will not stop their cars if they see some woman they don't Uke waiting.” “Maybe it will be eome time yet be- fore we have women street car opera- tives, but they are putting women elevator opemgtors to work in some of the big apartment houses,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Mrs. Dinkston could ap- ply for @ job as elevator attendant.” “She isn't looking for work like that,” eald Mrs. Jarr, “She thinks she will either run @ boarding house for artistic and literary people, or she will follow out eome of those instruc” tions in the Perfect Ladies’ Journal that tell you how to buy an old dilap- idated house and fix it up if one ts at all handy with tools. By putting on @ new roof for @ few dollars, painting it in quiet tones, papering it artistic- ally, adding @ fireplace and a Grecian pergola, one can often sell it at a handsome profit.” “It's @ grand idea,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “but won't Mrs, Dinkston need some capital, a few thousand dollars at least, to buy the dilapidated old house?” I asked her that,” said Mrs, Jarr, “and she said she thought she could take some old house for the taxes or because nobody wanted it, like those abandoned farms one reads about, which are taken over by brok- en down bookkeepers who are in- valida, and by scientiflo farming they raise @ million dollars’ worth of strawberries at a time when nobody else can raise any strawberries on | ‘ount of the war, or something like “The very thing,” remarked Mr. | Jarr, “But do you think this is the| time of year to rebuild an old house | somebody wishes on you, or even to| raismg winter wheat!” ee tre Jarr said she had work | enough to do in a flat house apart- ment without having to abandon her- self to an abandoned farm. | “still,” she added, “we might took | for on’ | Americans | | Bm Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune ty Covsright, 1817, by ue Pree Pablidhing Co, (The New Yor Evening World), UY No. 26.—THE ATTACK ON WASHINGTON (Part I1.).4 HE preceding article told how Gen. Ross and Af Cockburn led 6,000 British veterans of the Napoleor| wars against our capital city of Washington in 181 News reached President Madison that the can Army (drawn up at Bladensburg to halt the davif} | sion) had been defeated, and that the British: marching straight on Washington, There wae:aet ther hope of defending the city. So Madison @ family and his Cabinet took fight Ma Late on the afternoon of Aug 24 the i marched into shington. It is sald they were on from roofs and windows. This has never i Droven, and the story may have been invented by as excuse for what followed. | ‘The whole British force seamed to regard the expedition as « ff Cockburn, at their head, was the leading spirit in this frolic. He | etrong man—part a genius, part mischievous schoolboy. And now i), schoolboy, not the genius, was at the fore. He caught a bony white mare with a newborn colt on the outskirts |{)|| the city. Hoe clambered onto the mare's back and rode thus into Ws | " ton at the head of his men, the colt frisking along beside its mother. i cracked Jokes with his followers and incited them to foats of daredevil fay Immediately the British began to steal or destroy everything in They set fire to the homes along their route and vied with each other # | deeds of wanton destruction, i Cockburn cantering along at their head upon his grotesque steed, reached the Capitol. This building was still unfinished, although it already cost about $800,000. It also contgs: the Congressional Library. Cockburn sds ‘The Mad Pranks his mate in front of the Capitol, and in # of Coskburn. nasal drone of an old-time political anmmmnmnnnn OD he called to his men: “Shall we burn it or not? All in favor"—— ( A thunderous chorus of “Aye!” drowned hie words, And fifty torah were applied to the beautiful building. , urn was having an uproariously happy time. Joking, singing #) the top of his lungs, reeling with laughter, he cantered on, ti whoopta denen men eprang at tt torch is hand. With the Tat of these ead burn drove them back, shouting: pe lene alone! Bome of these Ferkeo inventions may be of use trom loss. tne. iors of ioe Gaplal euie tier here oe ihe Pare OfBee with ite wealth of ingenious devices. Presently But again Cockburn interfered. Von ane Oee nereaa ane sang, éwabing piace ta case We aNeuie one Tore nant Oe eat er HUcdieaaier Su none ate the barracks, the White Ho of the city was in flames. peewee: 6 ' un the food they sould lay Mande oer emneny Sa nad Tew They stole everything of value. The 6. y smashed the furnttu They wrapped themselves tn Mrs. Madison's ball gowns and tn ‘nes velvet curtains and capered about tn a crazy dance. Then they set The Flame of Fury Is Kindled, fleete prepared for service.” |have distinguished | many occasions, hen rent it as a golf inks A torch to what was left of the house. faving sacked our capital city and burned muc President and his Cabinet into hiding, the British Went BARS a On the way back to the Chesapeake they passed by Mount Vernon the tomb of George Washington. Here Cook | burn halted his men and made them. stand! reverently with bared heads while the British standards were “dipped,” in memory of the, Yes, Cockburn was a stran; oma * ze man, This act enemy's grave was as much in keeping with his costatlya a wore't mad’ pranks during the sacking of the city. mae rhe British tmd done wh y neon sctously, they had done much more Fer ar theigty oo gp Bits wave of fury swept our country. Former Be T pacitists whole nation Was ablaze with righteous wrath, Becta Hoenn fh sande to snltsy and fo wine out the disgrace. From that hour the tide of wide awake naan Sv" The long slumbering spirit of ‘76 was at By Helen Rowland Coorigis, 1911, ty the Press Pebiishing Oo, (The New i . New York Eveniug World), BREAKFAST TABLE PHILOSOPHY. 48 muffins were not very good, The chops a trifle toug: They plunged Sir Bluebeard in @ mood— well pleased with their pleasant Uttle outing. to tie Father of His Country. ich more. .For at the news of the outrage a | Bachel 1 I ‘ ‘i _ Bachelor Girl Reflections They put him in a buff! “Heigho!" he sighed, “Another dun! It'e very dull—this life! The Kalser's having all the fun. I think I'll kill a wife!” they will endure almost as much as the German pliment now and then. A “sweet, womanly woman,” according to most men, !s one w wouldn't even permit herself to think {f she suspected it would make }) wrinkle on her brain, What 1s it that is always with you, watching over your slightest ac and stopping you when you are tempted to do something foolish or seli No, dearte, i indulgent that you would not want the whole world to know? {s not consclenoo—tt ts the still, small voice of HOOVER! Somehow the arguments against Woman Suffrage are getting mind one of those dear, old, crocheted lambrequins and Victorian “what nots” covered with sea shells, that grandmother used to treasure go. A woman can go about boasting to her friends of what @ pertehtid wonderful, noble, self-sacrificing husband she has, unt!) she almost to believe ft herself. bits. ss } Most men fall tn love as they would fall tnto @ trap door, and monks in @ frantio effort to scramble out of it. A man’s club fs the death chamber In which he drowns his sorrows, buries his secrets and burns up his money. To-Day’s Anniversary exhausts the s for the HE marine ts entitled to shore enate an wbandoned farm?” | 4 a little celebration marines are also TT ae ee eee itrcould pot be| eee eae eens syed on [Z10KeTS And guards, Tn the @ PG day, t ‘ of tho marines of ba pesca cy pe ee ksto first body of marines. ‘ought with rifles in. se: Jar. “Of course Mim road fare toveo|_ ‘The British marine corps originated | close quarters, n sea battles to California or Flo But you | Under the terms of an order 1) coun-| "The ‘traditional enmity bet must admit It 14 a splendid tdea* [cll dated Oct, 16, 1664, wiles SOG |eallors and marines dates from | ive a. wonderful idea!” satd Mr,|manded that "200 late mu laity os | creation of the latter body, since | arr, “Let us go out and look for an | forthwith raysed to be in hlcaens| of thelr jobs was to keep order | ybandoned farm and make @ fortune|to de distribut the tars and suppress mutiny. naturally the sa disciplinary duty ¢ “follies,” as the marines of Britain are popularly called, themselves on and the same is true of the marines of Uncle Sam, who were organized nearly 120 years ago. “Goldier and satler, teo,” by go means | The Great Fesgrdn & take advantage of every 01 ity to make things unplt marine nthe . Some women are so meck and impressionable th from & man who goes about pinning medals on him: and condescendingly handing them an tron cross pe of their activi ne marines, although the cause of the enmity long since vanished, {t is still 9 @ part of a sailor's jo! ) to re