The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1917, Page 14

| ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH Puurrzen. , h bitshing Company Published Dally Except Ler i ny she Pry ubishing pan RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Row. U8 BHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, sos AY PuLireEn, ‘Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Tntered at the Post-Office at New York as Becon4-Ciase Matter, — Bul ip tl Rates to Evening | Zor England ona bed goes La eae? ge ebicwes” I” agen tss| ne Hewat sens meade Sorts net Ee Sere Sree eat slate Se WOLUME 66.....cscscscocescccccvseccecsccceeo NO, 90,688 RESOLVED: Whereas, four years ago some of the best civic forces in the City of New York forgot party lines and com- bined to keep out of the City Hall, by « plurality of 124,000, a typical Murphy candidate for Mayor in the shape of Edward BE. McCall of “Yellow Dog Fund” fame, who wes subsequently removed by Gov. Whitmen from the Chair- « _ manship of the Public Service Commission of this district because he violated the law by holding that office and sundry shares in the Kings County Electric Light and Power Com- pany at the same time, and Whereas, the same Murphy has this year dug up a yet worse specimen of Tammanyized Mayoralty candidate in the shape of a pettifogging lawyer whose professional record has been as sordid as it has been obscure, and who thinks Murphy, speaks Murphy and hopes Marphy, although his name happens to be Hylan, Resolved, That it would bean infamous shame if self-respecting voters in this city were so foolishly to mis- judge the situation as to divide their votes next week, in- stead of concentrating them, thereby permitting Murphy to trundle his little Mayor into the City Hall through a door they themselves had opened and proving that the boss sized them up correctly when he decided Tammany could risk this time even a Hylan. | .———___24=2-_____ FIRST SHOTS. : fired the first American shots on the French front camo, the certainty that the ever-to-be-counted-on rallying power | of the American people had carried the Second Liberty Loan well beyond the $5,000,000,000 mark—$2,400,000,000 and more ahead of the figure first proposed. There is every indication that when the subscription returns are! tabulated the number of buyers will furnish triumphant proof of the! popularity of the loan. With a final rush of half a billion on Satur- day, this district awept its subscription total a quarter of a billion ahead of its $1,500,000,000 allotment. City and country may be proud of the result. But no pride Americans may feel in the success of this loan can. mt their eyes to the fact that these dollars are no more certainly the last that will be needed than were the shells fired by those bat- teries of American artillery on a recent historic morning that dawned on the battlefields of France. Those helmeted American fighters, whom America herself has not yet seen in their complete war equipment, are eure to cheer and fire faster, with yet surer aim, when they hear that American patriot- ism has backed them with another great war loan, the subscriptions far exceeding, perhaps nearly doubling, the minimum called for. | They know they can count on the full mpport they need to ‘finish their great task—even thongh it has just begun, They know that if the war loans of Germany already total &18,000,000,000, if the war loans of Great Britain have mounted to $28,460,000,000, the American people will not reclton $7,000,000,000 as more than a first instalment of what they can afford to insure ‘themselves against the menace of surviving Prussianism, On a day destined to be memorable in history, the land forces of the United States on foreign soil fired the first power which has betrayed and outraged civilization, On the same day their fellow citizens at home were in the midst of mn Bd the millions needed to multiply those shots, Wi x by saving, by loans or by taxation, that piling must go wn—putting into the hands of American fighters inexhaustible eup-| plies of arms and munitions, into their hearts unfailing ground for| courage, confidence and determination, So can the nation best guard the lives for which it P: A LMOST abreast of the news that American artillerymen had| Letters From the People Please Kintt communtoations to 160 words, \ Liberty Bond, ‘Wo we Editor of Tue Drentng World It doesn’t require 800 worde to tell how I am waving enough to buy a Liberty Bond, I simply watch the bargains offered by the various ad- vertivers in The Evening World, and by taking advantage of them am able to save a couple of dollars every week. This solely on necessities, to gay nothing of luxuries, M. H. sented to me in « atriking manner While viewing the pictures of the “Retreat of the Germans.” The ait. ferent motor devices used attracted my attention, and the fact of the vast emount of gasoline needed for war- fare waa borne upon my mind, If each family in America owning car for pleasure purposus pledged | themselves to save just one @allon of fas @ trip, think what that would} mean! ‘The posstbuiti , and the tine ta rt r the furthers ance of this plan, those who desire money aayed for Evening World is surprining that your paper should print an editorial that at the least rumor of a coul or sugar sbort- age people begin to fll! thelr cellars and pautries, You fallod to say that} aa tine mec it is the cap!talista and men of money |To :b6 kaltor of The Brering Werte who do the hoarding, mort assuredly! Now that so many young men are not the laborer or meohantc who is|in uniform, a man out of uniform je living on @ hand-to-mouth wage and/often snubbed and called a “sleeker has nothing put by. |by the young folk. Don't you think| 1 know that there are some families |!t is wrong to act that way? In mens) pe'for the further- | A® @ side issue, could donate the Use in the present N. 8 Mt vice, which have 2” pounds or more of| cases tho person ac used is doing sugar, and a workingman having | Valuable service for our country, | eight child can't get two pounds! | have been in the steamship servica for the last year, y ship has been torpedoed twice, | and es I work in the engine room tt was very dangerou from the samo store that sold the 200 to the moneyed man One way to cheapen the high cost of living would be to throw out @ few Stl we work | bundred food commissioners, sanitary) Without a AN a at ly Pleasant! ; “ wuilles, except trom our mothers und {nepegtora, investigators and a lot of! fathers and k But when our men | others who are useless. =F. AL. 8, P Apt to be hu ve a button or| Save = Gallon of Gas, iy adopted In ‘Lo the Editor of The Brewing ya Italy, for men T wish to wtart £ movement to “Bave down on whon We dacone rimoomed @ Gaelon of Gus ‘The idea was pre- a few days? { OILER, shots againet the | | | ping World Daily Magazine 17 o Work By J H Cassel ‘ForWhom th By James Copyright, 191 NO. 18.—CAMP DODG RANTS army lay in the swamps about Vicksburg and suffered all that the European armies of the present day have experienced in the trenches. ‘There was fight- ing every day, and the cold and fever were worse than tho fighting. In the beginning the Confedefates had all the best of it, Then one min bogan to de- Uver telling blows, making raids that the enemy dear. Grant, with his usual capacity for recognising ability, recommended this man for promotion. And so It cost | was that Grenville M. Dodge became Major General of Volunteers. Now the United States Government has bestowed bis name on the army can- tonment at Des Moines, la, and there the #8th Division ts being assembled It will include troops from Mt nesota, Jowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota. During bis youth Gen. Dodge at- tended a Vermont inilitary school Ho, was graduated ns a civil engineer and the outbreak of tho war found him a figure of some promt lowa. A fow years before he gone West, helped to surve nee in had the first |ratiway line to the coast. fought In- dians and did a bit of mining. the coming of hostilities Gen With Dodge 1O-DAY {e the anniversary of the launching of the first steam war vease!, the mother of all those gigantic death-deuling ma- chines which Now roam the seven; as, Vivery super-dreaduought of to-day is the descend nt of that Ut- tle craft which #as launched on Oct. | During that time| 29, 1814, Just 108 yours ago to-day, at) tion was apt, f the shipyard of Adam and Noah Brown in New York, and which was christened the Demologos. This plow “peer ship of the wor mm navies was the creation of Hobert Pulton and flew the Stars and Stripes of Infant republic. It was in 1s the United States Groat Bri the building __ Were Named by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). eArmyCamps C. Young ' DES MOINES, IOWA immediately raised a regiment of yol- unteers and went to the front as their Colonel. He saw @ good deal of hard service throughout the western the- atre of war and was sent with Grant to help take Vicksburg. ‘That city was a tower of strength to the Con federacy, commanding the Mississip |Pl and serving as a base for it: armies operating in the West. Finally Vicksburg fell and th | South groaned. It was a dofeat that) | foreshadowed grave events, But be- fore its fall Grant had lost many thousands of men and tho inhabitants were starving, Soup was made of saddle leather and all of the cats) mysteriously disappeared After Vicksburg Gen. Dodge joined Sherman in the invasion of Georgta. He commaniled an army corps at At- lanta and was severely wounded there. It was three months before ho could resume his duties, and the var was almost over, Upon its con- clusion he resigned from the army and returned to the railroad fleld. In succeeding years Dodge held high executive positions with some of the principal Ame: nm railway sys- | toms. He went to Congress in 1967, | but refused a second term and con- fined himself to railway and engi-| neering problems. | Gen, Dodge was the descendant of old stock, founded tn New England when the country was young. The| of his family came over from | England in 1630, and succeling gen- erations bore au honored part In up- building the nation |His plans were accepted by the Washington authorities, din June of 1814 the keel of the Demologos was hd, housands of witness the | vessel, people gathered to launching of the queer | which was described as a| | “Moating Yattery," and the designa- | or, 26 One commenta- tor eald, her “bulk and unwieidly i form seemed to render her as unfit “for tlon as the land whic saluted On tripe, however, he is aald ‘moved with remarkab! This “remarkable celerity” was at e rat ur and a hi ¢ miles per id Porter was so ) her that he de- uld not change her if he Je The Jar [ | Coprright, 1917, by the Pies Publish next business morning aftor T the Rafferty Political Rally, in which Mr. Jary had figured so conspicuously, that gentleman arrived at his office, to be greeted by Fritz, the shtpping clerk, affably. John, the porter, shining the office brass signa, also touched ‘is hat, The boss, alighting from his car nd entering, took Mr. Jarr by the ru and conversed with him earnestly most 1s to how long the embargo on cer- tain staples to last. “I have been thinking, Mr. Jarr, of sending you down to Washington to Scandinavia would seo if your personal influence would not do us some good tn high quar- ters there,” said the boss. “Come into my office—or, better still, come out to luncheon with me when I go, and we'll discuss the matter, Johnson, the cashier, greeted Mr, Jarr most aeffably from his cage. “Don't worry about that little advance you had last week," he sald. "T can hold it out for you till you éay—that is, for any time within reason," added, his cashterly caution cropping up slightly. ° Mr. Jarr was not wholly startled when the shipping clerk and porter head ated him Itke an equal, even though they were unton men, and hence scorned all cleridal individuals, with no organization to safeguard their rights, He had been treated as a human being by his boss upon pre- vious occasions, and he could stand another experience of that, but to have the cashier act human when onco within his cage, this was strange in- deed. A cashier pays you over the money due you from the firm with every facial and manual reluctance to show you that, in his private optn- jon, thus covertly expressed, you are wronging the establishment by betng grossly overpaid, although he 1s pow- to prevent ft, 41 thought you might be under some extra expense, buying a Liberty Bona or something, this week.” sata the cashier, 88 camouflage to cover his previous uneashierly attitude “Oh, no, it's all right,” sata Mr, Jarr. “You can take out the advance this week “I can week and } son, “Be § modation t Ke out part of tt this the next,” said John. to, if it's any accom. By Roy L. r Family McCardell | ing Co, (The New York Evening World), | Jenkins, the bookkeeper, approached Mr. Jarr, hooked a friendly arm nrough his and led him aside. have a bundred pounds of suga: began, “Then all life must be sweet to you," interrupted Mr. Jarr. “But why break the glad tidings to me?” “Why, I thought 1t might interest you,” satd Jenkins, “You see, out at yur Uittle place in the country, at Gast Maluria, we have a lot of fine fruit. crab apples. They ain't good to eat, but they look pretty. And the missus was told they'd make fine jelly. So, on account of the war, she thought ‘d make jelly of all those crab apples, and as sugar wasn't 50 dear at that time we bought a hun- dred pounds to make that crab apple Jelly, But the next Sunday, we picked the crab apples, some friends called in a filvver and took us Joy riding. “It cost me the price of a fiivver to pay the check for dinner at the road- house, of course; and when we got back home some other parties with |Mvvers, seeing our crab apple trees, land noting there was nobody home, ad swiped them all!" he} | “But why tell all this tome? rm |sorry your crab apples were swiped, and that your wife ts deprived of the asure of jelly making, but where does it concern me?” asked Mr. Jarr, ) “Why,” replied Jenkins, “you know there is a sugar famine in this town now, and as I told you we have a hun. dred pounds of the best granulated on hand. Bo I wanted to tell you that We will let you have as much ag you |want, half of ft, at the price we paid jfor it, You ought to be thanking me, |T can get five cents a pound for tt— jmaybe much more than that—over what we paid for it, Why, man sugar is jewelry these days!” An Fritz, the ehipping clerk, haa been the first grecter who had been suspiciquely pleasant to him, Mr, Jarr slipped “out and demanded ex- planations. “You was seen with a bunch of go- rillas and political hicks electioneer- ing the other night on a truck," ex- plained Fritz, "I seen you myself, It begins to look as though the criminal element tn politics will win this year, so we are all playing safe with you, We mny want political favors, getting friends out of jail or being permitted | to clutter the street here with packing cases, Somebody hi to stand In with poe criminal element. | THAT ts Grandmamma—to-<day! | And carryipg lozenges in her pocket, and complaining ebout her rhea | But, nevertheless, | Heaven bless Grandmamma! | Heaven bless her for not torturing us with daly accounts of her aches jon OUR faces, i] And the ehocking immodesty of our modern evening gowns! before | Why Grow Old? _By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publidhing Co, (Thy New York | HERE {fs Grandmamma? , W Why, THERE she fs, my dear! The The scintillating, slender person in the pium-colored frock, with the very short ekirt, : And the chio little flowered toque above her fully aubura hair, No, that tan’t @ chost protector he Is wearing; tee bunch of orchids from her latest admirer, ’ ‘ And that {s NOT @ burning brand. in ber hand; it's her xold-tipped cigarette— ; The kind she always used, you know—scented and, monogrammed, ‘ And that haunting perfume that clings ebout her is not the aroma of peppermints and cough syrup, %¥ It Is tne fragrance of imported Bouquet d'Amour, at $4 an ounce, She {s trying to keep up with Grandpapa—and jolly well succeeding? Oh yes, ‘That ts the four-flush of youth upon her deficate pink cheeks, And those dainty I!ttle French slippers aro @ eise too amall fof her, - And nobody remembers the original color of her batr, ¥ ‘ And of course she OUGHT to be wearing black bombasine, and Sonnets tied under her chin, ; matism, and losing her epectacles, and nagging her oh{idren and spetiiag her grandchildren——. Heaven bless her for not flaunting her age in our faces, or keeping the) spectacle of wrinkles and gray hair forever before us! 4 and illnesses, Or incessantly reminding us thet ehe “has lived longer” than we have, And hence can tell us just how everything OUGHT to be done, From bringing up our own children to managing our husbands! i Heaven bless her for not nagging us about the touch of rouge we put i And the sin of soaking ourselves {n sachet, Heaven bless her for enjoying her little game of bridge, And all her other little pastimes and frivolities, And permitting us to enjoy OURS, in the meantime! Heaven bleas her for banting and dieting, and keeping her figure and her DIGESTION in trim, s | Instead of settling down by the fireside and cultivating dyspepsia an@ | elephantiasis! : Heaven bless her for being a “good sport” and attending to her own business! | And filling her lfe so full of work and study, and dancing, and tea parties—yes, and filrtations, That we, who are In the glow of the morning of life Can go happily on our care-tree way without the black cloud of Granny's disapproval forever darkening our horizon! Heaven bless @er for her fads, and her pretty clothes, and her massage, and her mental science, and her eternal youth y And her DETERMINATION never to grow OLD! | Never, never to permit her illustons to fade, or her Leart to dry up, or her artertes to ossify—— 7 Never, NEVER to “dle at the top! | Yes, . , | ; 49 Grandmamma for a BRICK and a thoroughbred! Heaven bless Gran Te oli" is stupid and unnecessary, It Isn't “being done” now, It went out of fachion with hoopskiris, and pomede and eldeburns! Heaven bless Grandmamma for refusing to be a “Granny!” Taking the Kiel Canal ‘ and ante? “ST how difficult| formidable array that eny attacking an attack on the! force must confront. sie) Canal might| A bit south of the Libe, the River prove be is In- | Weser pours into the North Sea, It f es ‘= guarded by the two strongholds of dicated by the) Semerbaven and Cuxhavem, both impressions of | Practically impregnable. All of these neutral naval off-| points and inany of leaser iinportance cer but recently! @re linked up by a eystem of de- \ om Ger-| (@nses that is known to be one of mo from the most highly developed in exist. ‘This oftt- | ence cer attached) Below the mouth of the Weser is nembasay in| the fourth great German of to's and bad an Wilbelmenaveni from which subma- , in for several years and hac riney most frequently etart on their Berlth fot ssertaity to atudy the Ger+| piratical oxpeditions: because of tite unusual opportunity jheariess to England. In discussing the Germans’ pre- Ppuredness for an assault from the Sea, officer marshals a truly amazing array of figures r lly its whole length, with corre [cae EVRA SR feed Legis of ee be cally its le le} eo Wh | could be brought to bear spondingly whallow water off shore | fortifications. The main 4 at | f course, makes {t difficult OF Whelmshaven are given ag thirteen This, 9) , ieee to get|or fourteen great fortresses, moun! impossible ; The warbora On| ing guns up to 17-inoh calibre, These within close range is | fortresses are located in a flat thia shoreline are approached bY| marshy country, dotted with ponds, Pieper vhich cannot! and any assaulting force would have narrow channels, wh be navigated without experienced | {2, crore an, expanse of mud befare pilots, Needless to say that ne Not satisfied with the practical per- hannele have deen wkilfully mined) fection of her fortress system, Ger. chan! a | many has at command a considerable from end to ont Sion that | number of heavy guns mounted upon Tho officer in questio levery harbor, fort lookout ate and large gun on Germany's coast 18 specially construc cara enue could be moved to any point by | connected with all other points of de- fense by a atrategical railway, mak- mea f the railway already menq tioned. There are said to be scores ing {t easy to shift forces, ammunl- \tion or other supplies in the shortest of these movable guns, ranging A system of canuls many mans’ sea defenses. Here then is the problem North Sea shoreline of Germ: d flat and eandy throughout pre the The erat says station small to heavy: ibre, Defensively and offensively ¢he German coast and navy are such that any plan to take thorh {n band may possible time x als | Sell “ive the Allies pause. eonple nents the railway, Kiel is the loentre, vt heme. = —— centre of the whole sch | < j ; | qt ts the general impressio fat!] French Measures Germany's war craft have clung fast | lio their harbors, except for an occ But this officer asser that German patrol ships are on con-) ‘stant duty in the North Sea, often \teaving thelr coast 100 miles behind | them, Hoe states as & fact known to |him that the usual patrol ray ts) about slaty miles from Heligoland, the great taland stronghold that guards the mouth of the River Elbe: Tt is this River Elbe that leags to the Kiel Canal, and the canal In tura affords access to the Baltic, giving |German warehips an casy means of reaching either that body of water)" A0 Vii cish engineering Journal, in or the North Sea. supporting the plan, states that since | On this sixty-mile line, says the ob- | 1840 Be i de coun ising have given Aiea up thelr standards of measurement to |nerver, torpedo boats do duty sight | OR The trreneh Guia rement Se and day, Hehind them Is a lino of noe, single nation has adanted the fast crulseré, always on guard. Back) english method in all of that ‘of the cruisers is @ third line of {It ulso is potnted out that no heavy armored cruisers, then Heligo- [system of measurement hes land and finally the Kiel Canal, brought forward. The French V ts so exact and easy of man! where the great high seas fleet lay» enugly at anchor, It would Supplant English sional raid. ECENTLY we have been atrong- ly urged to adopt the Freneh system of measurement in this Jcountry, a3 opposed to the Engiteh Je now tn us ho war has made us familiar with such terms as mie meter, centimeter, Kilometer, and eo on, It is urged that the metrie tem of the French iy much to the Engl The English them- selves are awake to this fact, amd there has been a similar movement Ip England thet has gained more strength than its counterpart in America. that {t leaves little chance of im be this | prewmernen t. /