The evening world. Newspaper, October 23, 1917, Page 16

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One Month. seeee 06.00/One Year,, » .60/One Month sane —$EMRER OF THM ASSOOIATHD PREFS, Prose te exele evitied to the use for republication ented 10 Nee oo ee tas oaliel ts tue payer and also the bonal news pul VOLUME 58.. scccccccevccccccecccseeesesNOs 90.517 FORWARD OR BACK? | ORD BRYCE, distinguished British statesman and pol{tienl hervin, student, whose anything but favorable view of city government | in the United States and especially in New York will be remembered by readers of his American Commonwealth, is reported to have declared a marked change of opinion in this direction owing to what he has lately observed of New York’s municipal administration. “During a recent trip to England,” says the Rev. Dr. 8. P, Cadman of this city, former Chaplain of the 284 Regiment, “I met Lord Bryce, and he told me it was the way New York had been governed in the past four years that caused him to change his views on municipal government.” One of the revised chapters (Ohapter 88) in the third edition of the American Commonwealth is devoted to a study of Tammany history and Tammany methods—Tammany with its “august dynasty of bosses,” “its engines of power,” “its tentacles touching every point in a vast and amorphous city.” Conclusions reached by this shrewd, dispassionate observer twenty-four years ago still make pertinent reading for New Yorkers in their municipal campaign of 1917. “Strongly entrenched as Tammany is, Tammany could be overthrown if the good citizens were to combine for municipal reform, setting aside for local purposes those distinctions of national party which have nothing to do with ofty issues. * * *” “That the good citizens of New York should continue to rivet on their necks the yoke of a club which is almost as much a business concern as one of their own dry goods stores, by dividing forces which, if united, would break the tyranny of the last forty years—this indeed seems strange.” * * ° Stranger still—far stranger—if, having successfully combined four years ago to keep the clutch of Tammany from the city gov- ernment, New York voters who have the interests of the city at heart should be so divided and beguiled by factional politics as to neglect their best defense, letting Tammany push its Mayor into the City Hall through a breach that they themselves have made. . — + + LIBERTY LOAN PARADE TO-MORROW. SEND YOUR DOLLARS MARCHING AHEAD TO BACK THE BOYS IN FRANCE. MONEY MUST HELP WIN THIS WAR. 1s SOME OF YOURS FIGHTING? CUBAN SUGAR PATRIOTS. RINTED elsewhere on this page will be found a letter from the President of the Cuban-American Sugar Company who de- fende the loyalty of the Cuban sugar planters. In the same connection a few facts gleaned from Moody’s Manual are not without interest: u The Cuban-American Sugar Company and the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation of New York, both with headquarters in this city, produce together at least one-fourth of the total raw sugar crop of Cuba. Of the sixteen directors of the Cuban-American Sugar Company thirteen are American citizens, not one of whom is of Cuban birth or descent. Only three of the directors are Cubans. The Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation of New York has seventeen directors. Fourteen of these are residents of New York and only three are Cubans living in Havana. Of the fourteen New, York directors of this corporation only two are Cubans, The other twelve are American citizens, Cubans neither by birth nor by descent. Now, then, where are we to think of the Cuban sugar patriots as chiefly concentrated? a ‘We agree with the French that a Zeppelin famine can de faced, Hits From Sharp Wits Some things are desired not #0] Knit and the world knits with you, much because they are really desir-|darn and you darn alone.—Toledo able, but because it is diMoult to get| Blade. them.—Albany Journal, i PR Paty icy | To make up her mind whether she would rather be clever than pretty a woman has to be mighty clever— Philadelphia Record, in Have you put your hay fever away in moth baila for the winter?—Phila- delphia Inquirer. Letters Cuban Sugar ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Under the caption “Cuban Pirates” you set up the service performed for Cuba by the United States Apart fyvom this thef® is not a word in your indictment of the Cuban people that is not founded on ignorance, ne w From the ere. People: any part of their product, and 95 per cent. of their entire crop of this year was sold under 41-3 cents as the average price for the season's out put, and your charge that they are “holding back the product for yet higher prices" 1s nonsense, The un- sold stock of sugar in Cuba to-day rl pes aE and suffered the saddest kind of pov- erty, The father of this family died, leav- and as the years went by another good man came along and ehe mar- ried him. children, but, alas! he became i) and could make very little money. the howling wolf from the door, the dread disease tuberculosis, and she saw the con, —out In the open, place in the country, and with great effort they managed to get there with pans eames Rieasmmaiee uein A Evening World Daily M\ _ [Them Was the Happy Days her great asset was one of cheer. Sometimes this quality of cheer is wisely given to the big burden bear- ers. For no sooner had she becothe settledswhen more disaster came, By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by the Prog Publishing Oo, * (The New York Evening World), OSTERDAY I received a barrel of apples and some pumpkins| and squash and carrots and| The only little boy—the idol of them pickles and other |#!l—was drowned. And then her farm stuff, spirit was tried indeed. But she per- severed and realized she must go on, fighting and conquering for her little children, + She learned how to get something out of the soll, and has been able to store up all they will need and send some to friends besides. That ts how 1 came to get my barrel of produce. I bave never read more wonderfu) let- ters of cheer than those sent me by this woman, who has conquered over- whelming forces. And now she herself ts menaced with disease, yet this I find in her let- ter of to-day: “I am convinced that we will have a lovely apple orchard next year, which ought to bring us fifty barre! of good fruit. The farm here prom- ises to be fine, too, and we have saved ever so much seed to put us over next year’s planting. And I am eure that I can make summer boarders pay. “This place holds more promise than any yet, and I feel almost en- thuslastic concerning the possibilities, They were sent | to me by a wom- an—@ very poor woman whd had conquered — con- quered over pov- erty and sickness and death, all A! with the spirit of Boon tine a Spartan, This family was very, very poor, having once been “well off.” g this woman with four little ones, He became a real father to his step- No sed to go into details how this oman did herculean tasks to keep She managed—managed somehow on his meagre earn- to scrape along ing of from $12 to $15 per we But | Another thing, too, is my health. The soon two of the little ones contracted | doctors, two of them, said that I could not live through September, and advised all here to prepare them- selves to face the inevitable, “I have gone right ahead, made my plans as though I was going to live indefinitely, and with the appearance of @ definite aim tn view, and racing sted city was no face in which to save thetr suffering. She reasoned that she must get out She found a little We are at war, as you state, @D4 | would not supply this country with | just a little help from a friend, back and forth all day, the sewing, think “at such @ orisis the United|ong week's oniinary consumption,| This woman did not want charity,|cooking, washing, ironing, and the States has @ right to expect from but @ chance; and always in the| thousand and one duties a house- and the entire stock there, most of it s0id to Europe and America, will not equal ten days’ requirements of this country alone. Cuba every aid.” Don't you know, doesn't the entire country know, that Cuba immediately followed the midst of the most troublesome trialskceper and mother must perform, I United States into the war and set) Je your statements were not taken the pace for every other Latin Amer-| at their correct measure you would | JT i part of @ polite education in| behind the hleroglyphics of the Exyp- joan Republic? Could theretbea tiner|onjy geceive and antagonize our own Japan to understand the art of| tians, and our own modern writing. example of grateful co-operation than eel againet a brave and loyal raco|,. *Mot tying: | Ip that land knots! nave quite as much meaning as the this instantaneous line-up of Cuba | take the place of buttons, hooks and| figure of an animal, Tied one way It jof men, whose patriotic adhesion to} eyes, buckles and other devices of/ might indicate victory and tled an- with our country? the United States is scarcely jess | civilization for fastening the compll- other tt would sizalty defeat, It was You further say, “One of our great: |ihan devotion to thelr own, cated clothing of to-day. ‘The Jap-| quire Rind nt knot as ryhuas & te | : E eet needs is sugar—time was when| We AR at war truly. aneso depend upon cords and knots| particular thing. And all languages, the Cuban sugar planters felt woll | at war truly, Then why | 1 stead, which is an equally satistace| Written and spoken, are merely @ col- Suh gar p a wns | ell} 4o you week to make enemies of| gactory way and permits of more|! ey" OF images. repaid if they receive. -4 cents a Se and allies? You our By 5 A Japanese sending a holiday stft and allie ought to | artistic effects Pan oechibes he ee : to a friend knots the cord In @ cer- pound for this staple in its raw fori. | know f and knowing them, | But tho knot has inuch greater ste-| tain way, signitying well wishes, ate Now they are not satisfied with 71 what you have said and ierp req Le ae vee t fection, A funeral wreath would be | t p hot has geome special mean 7 tied with another of knot, n : cents, and are plainly holding back p9 elu to the American and to the | of which go buck to the time when q with Bn pte d f Or, Rabans the product for yet higher prices.” Cuban people alike. history began. This also Is true of| atep between the two cases jilustrated Acai bs p RK. B. HAWLEY, the engens Chinese and Pernvian| would require @ particular sort of ey bave never asked any such |prenident ‘The Cuban-American Su- | TACO Which wrote thelr curlicst hia-| knot. So the study of this quaint art figure a you aame-71-2 centy—for gar Caupary, bused upod the same principle as (bat seem, by no meuns so easy as it might , 1917, blab dgaZine ‘By J. H. Cassel 4 h e Wo man Who Co nq uer ed | have gradually regained some of my strength, and not since before Rob- ‘bie’s death have I felt optimistic and well as now. “To some, and even to me, former- ly, it would have been a warning to beware, but I shall never adopt that attitude again, but defy fate and go forward. My course 1s clear and straight abead, and I am going to see it through. My only difficulty will be the winter—to secure two and a half tons of coal and a@ barrel of flour, which will do me throughout the win- ter, and when I get those I will feel that I have won out. For it will see me through, and with the coming of the spring I shall cry ‘Excelsior.’ ” And you, gentle reader, who think yow are very much abused and have not this or that bauble, or you who are weak and wan and weary apd are down in the dumps, reflect on this mother who !s looking forward to crying “Excelsior!” because she has met the opposing forces—and has conquered! Americans BR Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune i) — 1017, by the Hrees Publiauing Co. (it . 29—THE FIRST SEMINOLE CAMPAIGN. 8 soon as the War of 1812 was ended we found ourselve@ with another conflict on our hands, It was not ones thousandth as important as the clash with Englands but It was lively while it lasted., and it all but dragge® us into war with Spain In the Spanish province of Florida Ifes the myse terious and inaccessible region known as the Berm glades. This district swarmed with flerce Indiana known as Seminoles. They had a way of raiding the nearby State of Georgia—inurderine, burning, steal ing—and then of slipping safely back to the Everglades, New York Lvening World) To invade Floriag When Law Was Forgotten. Florida Becomes U, 8, Territory. eee whore punishment could not reach them. Georgfa was suffering terribly from the Seminole scourge. Parts of the rich State were turning to wile derness again. In 1817 President Monroe sent Gen. Andrew Jackson southy with @ little army to put an end to the Sem!nole raids. Tt was ike asking him to oatch a handful of buzzing hornets, bué Jackson apcepted the task. He had a queer way of tackling impossible job@ and of accomplishing what he set out to do—this lanky, long-faced fronties lawyer who had turned soldier. Jackson did not waste time in hanging around the Georgia frontier of the chance of meeting a Seminole raiding party. Instead he made up hi@ mind that theee raids were stirred up by certain Englishmen in Florida and were winked at by the Spanish Government. We were at peace with both England and Spain. was technically an apt of war. Jackson was a lawyer, and he knew all thim But he also knew that the only way to crush thd Seminoles was to forget all about law. ‘That also—on occasions—was a way Jacksow had. It hed enabled him, for instance, to win the battle of New Orleang and to drive the British out of Loulsiana. 80 once more he turned lawless, He knew how useless it would be to negotiate with Spain or to appeal to the British Governméht to make its subjects in Florida stop inoiting the Seminoles to warfare against Georgia, All this would take too mucly time and accomplish too little. Jackson, therefore, invaded Florida at the head of his small army, He captured the Spanish forts at Pensacola and at St. Mark's, ang made himself master of both those towns. He packed their civil and milte tary authorities off to Cuba and warned them not to come back. Next he hunted out two British subjects whom he suspected of causing the Seminole raids. These men he tried by drumhead court martial, cone victed and sentenced them, and had them both hanged. In brief, he committed acts that would have justified both Spain an@ England in declaring war on the United States, ‘All over America he was alternately praised and blamed. Jingotens went rampant and hailed him asa hero. More cautious people declared his acts should be disavowed and that he should be punished. This mingled applause and abuse did not interest Jackson in the very least. He was there to teach the Seminoles the stn and folly of invading Georgia. And he kept on until he had done it. He tnfiicted such fearful punishment on the Indians that ten passed before they dared to take the warpath again. (A later article wilt tell of this second Seminole war.) Meantime Jackson's campaign was having far bigger results than the mere whipping of the Seminoles. Spain protested. Bo did England. The latter’s ® complaint was readily settled. But there were many notes and prolonged conferences between our Gove ernment and Spain's. Diplomacy took up the works where Jackson left It off. Tho final result was a compromise—a compromise by which Spaig sold Florida to the United States in 1819 for $5,000,000, Two years later the treaty was ratified, Florida thus became a United States Territory, with Andrew Jacksow as its first Gqvernor. | The arr Family By Roy L. McCardell. Copyright, 1917, by the Preas Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), RS. JARR met Mr. Jarr at the wifely casual kiss that signi- fles non-interest or fatigue, and then threw herself down in her favorite knitting chair, an armless rocker, and remarked: “Now, please don't ask me to get your slippers or anything, for it's Gertrud afternoon out, and I em certainly tired! And please don’t talk to me, because I am not tn- terested in anything. All I want is rest and silence!” To prove this she rocked vigorously and continued to talk. “And now the papers say we won't have any sugar! Why won't we have any sugar? Why will sugar be scarce? Are they shooting sugar at the Germans for ammunition? Aren't they making any more sugar in Cuba and Louts- ana? Are there submarine boats in Loutsiana and Cuba, sinking the sugar boats?” | By, Helen Bachelor Girl Reflections Rowland —and let some gross, unselfi her, After a man denly begin to fe to shatter his lo will die automat When a ma and complex me! chance for any According to the pacifists and just a place to which one comes in which to admire the country he left derly, some comfortably, some dutit him “how perfectly safe and nice ar ‘The railroads apply for a new as the average husband applies for with about the same hilarious suoce You may interest a man with charm bim hore le webbng luke ay Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World), N “idealist” 1s a man who {s content to worship a woman from afar sh materialist marry her. and support marries, al) his bachelor friends sud- vel exactly Mke the Northern neutrals, Never try to kill a man's love for you; just try ove for himself and his love for you eally, n chooses to use a woman's elusive thods in the love game there i# no women on earth to win against him, radicals, this country appears to be order to get a better perspective from behind, Some men love their wives poetically, some rapturously, some ten- ully, and some intermittently, Nothing hurts @ man's vanfty so much as for a pretty woman to tell nd reliable and comforting” he Is. freight rate advance almost as often and seem to meet an evening out 88, your charming conversatiou—but to interesting dead silence, door, admitted him with the bh Mr. Jarr said he didn’t know. “I saw the children down on the street and gave them a dime to get candy,” added. You shouldn't have done that,” said Mrs. Jarr. “With sugar as scarce as they say It is nobody should eat candy. What are you doing now? You make me nervous.” “T'm taking off my shoes. They are new shoes and they hurt,” replied Mr. Jarr, “You should be glad you have now shoes, even if they do hurt,” ssid Mrs. Jarr. “Leather is scarce, too— theré won't be any shoes before long, I suppose. Why is leather scarce? Are they shooting leather at the Ger- mans, too?” “No, I don’t think they are,” ven- tured Mr. Jerr, “But I supposo leather ts scarce because there are 60 many soldiers to furnish shoes for.” “They didn't go barefoot, before they went into the army,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, “I think the war ts just &n excuse to raise the price of every- thing. By the time we pay for things we need toeatand wear we have no money left, and then we haven't any money to buy Liberty Bonds, al- though everybody says ‘Buy Liberty Bonds,’ Mr, Jarr made no reply; tf Mrs. Jarr wanted rest and ailence he minds me that I never had a firelesg cooker, and everybody says they are splendid!" water and making some of the particular tea. “T'll take some lemon in it” she called, “that will save sugar—no milk, Well, it’s all the same, with mil costing fourteen eents a bottle ani the milk drivers going on strike! suppose we will have to use cong densed milk, and that has gone way up in price, too, Oh, dear!” “Cheer up, Uttle one,” advised Jarr. “Mr. Hoover says that food wil be cheaperfand that everything is ag high as it will be” “It's easy endugh for Mr, Hooveg to say that, he isn't on salary,” Tew marked Mra, Jarr wearily, as hq sipped her tea. “No, I understand he works nothing,” said Mr, Jar, patriotic of him, ten't it?” “I suppose 60," eaid Mre Jars wearily. “But only rich people cam afford to work for nothing. Rick people and wives. Wives can't afford to work for nothing, perhaps. Bue they have to do it, all the same” “Here's an interesting article tah this’evening’s paper,” began Mr. Jar, ‘Don't read it to me, then! 2 em, wasn't going to break tn either, me “Seo if you can make me a eup of ™ tea,” said Mrs, Jarr, breaking the|you were to tell me there was agi short silence herself. “I have to dojearthquake down the atreet M® all the work when Gertrude ts here, and now that she's gut I am not going to do @ thing, if I can help tt. It's easy enough for Mrs, Stryver or Clara Mudridge-6mith, who keep « lot of servants to wait on them hand and foot—why, they don’t even pick up their dwn handkerchiefs if they drop them, Don’t take the black tea. That's Gertrude’s tea. My tea is in the small canister by the little cracker jar that has the trading stamps on it and the advertisement for the fireless cooker. And that’ re- wouldn't interest me,” Just then the little Jarw gisé came. running in excitedly, “Ob, mammal” she oried “Mange Rangle's got @ ifttle aister at ber house!” “Get me my things!” excleteedy Mra. Jarr. “I'll have to run over ta, Mrs. Rang! and find out how she and the new little baby are!” And she rushed off, fo: = her excitement that she was int ested in nothing—except, as ft tn local vital statistic: What Other Wars Have Cost ¥ ECENTLY the Congress of the; ‘Tle Mexican War cost the United United States passed, almost] States about $10,000,000, @ comparae without debate, tho greatest | {!¥ely trifling sum. The Civil War t 5 8 very expensive af+ Ddudget tm the history of the world, | fair, entailing the oxpenditure of making available for Uncle Sarm| $8,000,000,000 from 1861 to 1865, The $7,000,000,000 in order to carry on the | Franco: Pruss| A the two 4 . nations engage $2,500;000,000, war upon a scale commensurate with | ‘The mecond on War, from his greatness. It {s interesting, there-|1900 to 1 st $1,500.000,000, ‘The fore, to compare with this the cost of| conflict between Russia and Japan other wars. @ Napoleonic wars,| consumed almost $1,000,000,000, while which raged over Hurope from 1793 to 1815, cost approximately §7,000,000,- 000, or the same amount that Con- grese provided for the United States to enter into the conflict, and that was only a beginning, the United States got off very cheap= ly in the Spanish-American War an expenditure of $175,000,000. The ostimates on the outlay for the prams ert war up to Oct. 1 of this year were $45.814.876.000. Ms & Mr, Jarr busted himself h /