The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 26

fare ee PerTantsenio Wt J08nP PeMaded Paliy Keeee Honte ” Rate ree 1 AS ror _— . fared at the Post « e ‘ One Tour One Teor “ue One ™ wrMnne of THE ANfOClATED Paene Oa ts SPS SC ee DT a THROUGH THE HINDENBURG DEFENSE! LL INDICATIONS point to the Britiah attack on the thr A two front between St, Quentin and the Searpe as a success of the first magnitude A four to five mile advance along a line of euch length, emash- ing straight into the vaunted Hindenburg defense, is iunmensely en-| couraging to the A t it shows what can be accomplished againat even the ent concentration of German resiet- ance, A striking feature of the Britieh official report is the statement that “the attacks were carried out without previous artillery prep- aration” and that “in each case the enemy was completely surprised,” If one thing had been impressed upon the world as to the settled character of the warfare on the weatern front, it was that only the heaviest preparatory and barrage fire could hope to insure even a short push of infantry ahead across those dug-in trench lines and cemented gun shelters. Nevertheless the attacking British forces under Lieut. Gen. Sir Tuiian Byng appear to have stormed the German front and trundled their tanks straight throngh and beyond to the enemy's second syatem of Acfenses—al] without previous help from the artillery and possibly without even the customary curtain of fire advancing by jumps ahead of them. More detailed accounts of the attack should prove of particular interest as indicating whether open fighting on a large scale in the west has been a guess or a prediction. At a moment when the Allied nations are making a special effort “to secure better co-ordination in their combined fighting strength, this highly successful drive through the Hindenburg line comes as a confirmation of their confidence and a stimulus to their energies. The effect should be to broaden, not to narrow tho attitudes of , Aled Governments. The fact that the credit goes to a British Gen- eral need only be counted as putting added weight in the scale for that central controlling war council which the Government of the United States has from the first deemed necessary and for which the British Premicr is now the strongest individual advocate across the Atlantic. aint strongest pre ° ; ‘ ; + CLOSER WATCH ON ENEMY ALIENS. FORMIDABLE tightening of the nation’s grip on enemy aliens within will be noted with relief and satisfaction by Americans who have been in a position to know better than others the seriousness of this menace, Arrangements for rigid registration through local post offices, police departments or United States marshals, tho definite barring * from the District of Columbia of German male “transients” who have appeared there since the United States entered the war and the rounding up of hundreds of suspected Teutons who have prowled “about important shipping areas, like the Hoboken water front, are the only efficient measures of protection against spies, incendiaries and bomb planters, The Government is wise to delay no longer in laying aside con- sideration and adopting a eafety-first programme. Careful behavior with absolute conformity to laws and regulations—or internment, | should be the plain alternative kept constantly before every German @ubject or sympathizer in the United States, ‘ The stress of three years’ war experience has tanght France what her new Premier put into his eloquent Ministeria! declaration before the Chamber of Depaties last Tuesday: No more pacifist campaigns, no more German intrigu neither treason nor sem!-treason—war, nothing but war, The United States is already fast mastering that lesson. Hits From Sharp Wits You never can tell. Just because a Man rushes headlong into things !s no Indication that he is long-headed. Philadelphia Record. ee In tho Interest of economy Great Britain proposes to abolish the walst- cont Another blow at the vested in- terests!—Roston Transcript, Caras A Nittle money can be made to go a| Oh, well, it's ay easy to lick a three. long way toward making children|cent’ stamp as a two!—Baltimore bappy.—Albany Journal, American, aoe 8 see When two or more women get to-| A man can love any kind of a ther one of the things you don't/{f there's a girl back of tSaing® ear is silence. —Chicago News. hamton Press. Letters From the People Please Umit communications to 150 words. More About the To the Editor of The « World In the articles and letters in your) columns relative to the shortage of sugar, one of the unexplained points Is) the fact that so many grocery stores have a packers ugar at prices rang- ‘hank the Evening World, cf he Hvening World We are sure that this belated letter is not necessary for the Evoning are the women of New York to its fino and consistent support of the Suffrage amendment. With ita wide ing conside above the price fixed| reading public this must have been by the local missioner of Markets, | Of the greatest value in securing the namely, ten nts, and not to exceed | 4 did majority Nov, 6, by far the eleven cents a pound for loose sugar. |\Mrgest ever given for woman suf. Why is it possible in the fact of the | frage, shortaxe of sugar. for so many stores| The movement is now entering to ave this package sugar to sell at | Upon Its last stage, the fight for an advanced prices when they are unable |amendment to the i Federal Constitu- tion, This does not mean that the method of amending State Conastitu- tons will be abandoned, ag four cam- lready scheduled for nex’ uth Dakota, to offer the consumer loose sugar te which he might purchase at the price set by the local Commissioner of Markets? Dees it seem right tn times auch as these, when the Government ts exert ing every effort to conserve food and keep prices at a minimum, that the eonsumer should be compelled to pay “for that which @ large corporation 4s trying to butld up, namely, the es- / tadlishment of a name that means mean that as soon women shall heavy patena, be spared from th burden of these D State cam- will make @ careful study of the situ. World to know how deeply indebted) Nebraska, | and Michigan—but it does un possible the We trust that the Evening World Evening World Daily Magazine © Under Fire Albert Payson Terhune Tee See Tore Reening Woray, & By No. 42-THE SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON, INTORY makes too little of cbis bit of Civil War hiatory, Yet (t le worth the tlliog Not se much tor ite great feaulte an for the fleree, daantioss courage of he wee who fought on either aide. Port Hudson nethened by « line of defenses nearly three miles in length—on the left bank of the Minelasipp ending not only along the top of w high biaff, but along the river's edge at the bluffs foot, The batteries fringing the bluff were et, the x artiliery The Confeders held Port Hudson. And ite possession made them able to held the river againet Federal assault. ant tauisiana —« heaviest clear the Minvienipp! of its Confederate defenses amd to gain control of the all important waterway. Fort Hudson, in Loulsiama, and Vicksburg. farther north, were among the chief obstacles to this plaa’e Ho while Grant was thundering away at Vicksburg, « Unies army under Gen, Hanks moved against Port Hudson, It wea n Vederala had tried to capture the Port Hut ne bet. 1th On May 24, 1963, Hanks laid 9 His jand forces wore mupported success, t the fleat time t Ie #0 determined an attempt as now, rt Hudson, by several guns, &c,, which blocked all river egress trom the beleaguered place. eee |} The Nut That On May 27 Hanks ordered a general assault by land and by water, For hours his cannon hammered wway at the fortifications, The Confederates eagerly fusillade. And a sharp artillery duel tole en the Union troops were hurled against the lowed. Confederate defenses !n one desperate charge after another, only to checked again and again. Yet each charge brought them a little farther forward than the last They had reached almost to the heart of the Confederate position in this nd-back fashion when a@ cleverly executed flank counter-attack from the defenders sent them reeling back at last with @ loss of all the ground they had gained. This ended the first clash between besiegers and besieged. The Union losses that day in killed and wounded were 1,842 against the Confederate lows of 800, (It must be remembered that the Confederates were sheltered behind their fortifications, while the Federals were obliged to fight in the open.) For the next two weeks Banks did not risk a second trial at carrying the place by storm, He contented himself by a ceaseless artillery bombarde ment in the hope of wearing out the garrison or pounding their defenses to dust. But the Confederates fought on unaft running low and an epidemic of illness had set in, vigor and ferocity that did not abate for a moment, Then on June 11 Banks tried to storm the Confederate works, The attempt was a failure. The assailants were beaten back with heavy losses. On June 14 a general assault was made, Another murderous hand- hand battle waged (as on May 27), and the Union troops were Sverrouasl repulsed, The! Barr im Siege Ends ' Yet they fought witha loss this time was about 700, The siege continued, “The fortitude of the half-starved garrison,” wrote war correspondent, “daily enduring the affliction of missiles from the land and water, was wonderful, Guu after gun on the Confederate works was disabled until only fifteen remained on the land side and only twenty rounds of ammunition for smal! arms were left.” Famine was fighting the Union soldiers’ battle for them in gradually reducing this hero garrison to submission, when, on July 7, the Confederate Commander, Gen, Gardner, learned that Grant had taken Vi 3 Gardner had b hoping against hope that Confederate reinforcements might come to his aid. Now, with Vicksburg captured, he saw this hope was vain, The river and the river country were {n Federal hands, To resist longer would be to sacrifice his brave men for no purpose, The forty-flve-day siege had cost Banks 8,000 ne of tho surrender, had lost but 800, tas, the river in Surrender. Dee On July 9 he surrendered. men, Gardner, up to the t of Port Hudson left the President Lincoln si The fall/ ppl River wholly in Union contro. As enceforth ‘went unvexed to the sea.” By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), N answer to “Tho Married Man{I'll be shot first! But 1 just wish to Who Would Be a Soldier” in these| enter a plea in behalf of my siien columns a few days ago comes| partner, Three years’ honorable and the following let-| faithful service ip the ‘Regulars’ and ter from a soldier| tree more In the ‘Guard’ should count asking for a a in my favor in a cage jike this. gestion In @ ca: “As you so truly stated, "here are quite opposite, In]Mary, many things @ man can do to the previdus ar-| 4d his country and stay at home,’ in ticle a woman de- |Your reply to ‘Mrs, Brokenhearted,’ plored the fact| Did her husband feel the affection to- that her husbana| Ward her that I feel for my wife he w despondent | ¥°Uld show no anxiety at betng de- Decause he coula|PMVed of the opportunity to get & not go to war on| “ck at the Boches.” account of his dependent family, I My dear soldier, there ts one thing suggested that the husband in euch a! that both you and your wife and case had much to dd right here, even| ™4PY others overlook in thia great as much as at the front. struggle. It 1s this; There ts some- This soldier seemingly wishes that| "6 bigger to be considered than ho could stay at home to care for his| *%® 80Frows and sufferings of you or family. me or any Individual. “1 am a married man with @ wite| Th? Very protection that you would and bab’ he ways. “My wife tm just give your wife by being at home with twenty—very young, you'll admit, 1|"¢F #8 In Jeopanty. You are fighting am elght years her senior, Our boy ts | f0F that very protection of the wife reven montha old. In our oightoon| YOU Cherish. If your forefathers had months of wedded bliss it has been) "7% made tt possible through thelr my miatortune to spend only about| *#¢tifices for you to live lawfully and twelve months with my family—or in freedom as you do now, think what rather my wif and four with my|™lsbt have been your condition. So son, Not very comforting, ts it, con- that your very birthright makes it sidering that I love them as intonsoly |mperative that you uphold those ta in possible for @ man to lover ‘Yo| Principles which wero made for your add to our atrugsties comes the world | Penefit: In 4 word you are helping to war calling me to the colors, pay now for tho great privilege that “My wite and #00 are now in Now| as been yours and also preserving York living under conditions that are| ‘at Privilege for your child and his lanything but pleasant. Asa gugges.|CDaren. To sum it up, the ery of tnt tulght add that the rentives| the human nothing compared to | the ery of humanity, . fe livin natives | a j with whom she ne Aro Natives) your wife should leave her rela- of and partial in their sentiment to| tives if she ts unbuppy, If she has Germany. It 19 easy Co suggest that! geon only as far as her own hearthe jehe change her residence. But why stone it is high time that she gee be- | should sho be put to all the inconven-| J ona—that there | " rin eat y ero is something greater fences of moving & baby! than the family circle, and that is to from place to place depending in al conserve the circle of democracy |measure on the sympathies and! around the world, | charity of others to quarter her when] yt 43 for your wife to strengthen \y nave indase to love, honor and] nor backbone in the belief that she 1s | protect her | taking a part, a great p: n | "1 would gladly and wmilingly taco| not erly for hurait tay Nipuranneee firing squad were I assured that it| others the right to f, om and just would benefit the welfare of my wife|taws and future peace, She is more and baby. But knowing that my ab-| pleased than many who cannot do a sence is a source of constant worry] part in Hke measure, After all it ts and grief to my wife, I feel a cor-| much easier to f death with the responding depression of spirit, Knowledge thit you have done your tom a mene oe Hi ' “Well, t get out? ‘There's! share in shoulder! : nothing to him, but puts thousands and] ation and be led. to the cone Well, why no e'a| share tn ring the responsibil Possibly millions of dollars into the|that this Federal amendment ta fon | the Mitch! ‘All men with depondenta| ity of your race than to face life } epatd Se sney carnerelien in the shape | evitat nd that no good can be ac.) WhO have no other Means of support] with the de at you have ; ra pro complished through — preventin jen Idiers’ pay will not ris : F P We are in the midst of times when | wibimiasion by the prevent. conerese | eae Saaly er ia ot, be dlss| not sisen Bs jimot only individuals but also corpora-| ‘The women will be a grateful te tho ig tho substance of the Coy. | Yea, my there is Wiohs whould do that which will be of | Bvening World for ite assistance na | order in the matter, ny] something | bes ndividual Breateat mood to the largest number,|this respect ws they now feel for {tn between my pay tn ctyt) ify | Somfart fo De § he who in that spirit of patriotism |help in the State campal ‘ Sepa sacrific y final Ghat this letter is written, just closed oo glorlousive, Vee bas and my Army pay 1 Dring paid to my | achieve fier all the fittest, | , Ww. & ina ‘HUSTED HARPER, . though be bas not survived in the “A quitter or @® squirmer? Never) feah, The Soldier and His Family| Bachelor Girl Reflections The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1017, by the Pree Publishing Co, “ce OMETHING tells me that some- S thing 1s going to happen to somebody!" sald Gus, the pro- prietor of the cafe on the corner. “Something tells me that something is going to happen to him to-day!” “Something happens every day, for these be parlous times,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “I don't mean for other peoples, 1 mean for bim and us,” said Gus, “Is) it Thanksgiving Day yet?" “Suppose Thanksgiving Day comes on a meatless day and I get stuck with all the dressed pys 1 have, what| will I do then?” asked Bepler, the butcher, “Never mind that," sald Gus. “El- ™ look in the almanac and tell mo what day It is.” Elmer, the bartender, got out the almanac and started to read the tide table and the phases of the’ moon, “No, look in the days, look in the days!" cried Gus. “What do we care about the tides when the fishing sea- son isover? Look in the days!" “There's a lot of days here,” said Elmer, perspiring with the effort it took him to read the fine print. “And here 1s the poperlation of Asia." “Never mind the poperiation of Asia. I don't care how popler he is. I wouldn't wote for him,” remarked Gus testily. "What I want to find out ts what can be done to a feller who comes into my place wearing a fur skin overcoat and gives us uckets to 4 theatre show, and tells us we must wear full suits, and then Ket stung the way did, Look in| By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by the Pres Wublishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ARKIAGE is the point at which the bachelor who thinks life fs one long Joyride skids off the glad, gay highway into the straight and narrow path, (m was!" York Evening World), said Mr, Slavinsky, the glaster, “Iam glad I didn’t rent no full dress sult But I was lot in just the same, my ticket neither.” “Why, it was a good show,” said Mr. Jarr, “Of course, as the playnill No, dearie, no woman ever “walked right into a man’s heart;" ehe has w pry it open by inches and toe In when he isn’t looking. In the modern debutante’s theory of life marriage c has nothing more to do with love than night has to do 3 with sleep or nature with a good complexion, “I tell you there wasn't any trie) angle; nobody even blew a horn!” de« clared Gus, “But that was @ very strong scene Where the heroine went to the vile Jain's rooms at midnight to defend Aa honor, The critics admitted t hh y | sated LEW omen ous excitement of trying to hold onto a woman with one hand and onto his freedom with the other, A bachelor's whole existence is spent in the peril. “I don't care what the crikets ad- mitted,” said Gus. “Why should « lady go to what seemed a respectable place in beautiful clothes ike that and then have @ loafer tear them off her? Them clothes cost @ lot of money, and If he was @ gentleman he wouldn't have done it, He wasn't her husband; he didn't have to Pay for | the clothes," “Maybe that was the reason be | tore them,” suggested Mr. Jarr, “Aha” cried Gus, “That makes it worse and worse, And why did ber husband bite himself when he found it out? Why didn't he beat the loafer up himself and up Big make bim pay for the He did not want to compromise his wife, although he dee: ° explained Me. darn es Cer Bulltyy “And thats what they go around in fur skin overcoat and give away tickets that cost you twenty cents to get in the theatre with to see!" ied Gus. “Look up the almanac, After a married woman has been reading the weather forecasts every | morning and listening to a man's “explanations” every evening for a few years her credulity has been so educated that fortune tellers and, bargain- day advertisements sound perfectly plausible and convincing to her, The average husband seems to fancy that no matter which side of a question his wife takes he is bound to take the other side just to keep {t from tipping. Oh pshaw! No man really wants to deceive the woman he loves—he simply can't find any other way of keeping her from finding out things. A woman hater fs not justified in hating the whole sex merely because he didn't succeed in marrying one of them—or even because he DID, A man doesn't see any use in following his wife's advige as long as he knows it will always follow him, Airplanes Treble Speed in Tas Years | in th dress we | air t HEN the war began the high-|and superiority swing toward the Ge Then the | 5 ro op ‘ould thn Rlntoanl to asa what aay Att est type of aeroplane cou! |French quickly Introduced — three | (1° 4!manac to see what day it would ; there must be something in not be depended upon to doliyicy of machines that were all of a| be lucky to kill such a guy if we} anac that tells you what can much more than fifty miles an hour./match and something better for the| ever get a crack at him!" one to people like thats" needie anes make|Fokker. The British adopted these] 4, Well, I don't care,” sal ip aaa oe pete een pea laohines ana aga in were on an easy ‘Oh, you mean Harold Dogstory,|the street sweeper. phere tit 120 miles an hour in long Mente. /oocting, with perh Ndet to| the press agent?” said Mr. Jarr, |givon to-night by the attaches of gee Where tho best machines formerly | spare, “Tea machines pushed up the| “Did you fellows take tickets to} ity Department of Canine Captivity carried two men, or their equivalent|speod mit to about 115 miles an! his show, “Phe Shrines of Reno or {2?!! I'm going to hire this drese auit in weight, the larger machines of the/hour. — But they were monorlanes, |.) fio Pan ianeneee 4) sately carry @ ton or|!!iMicult to handie and always dan. | the Erernal ee: PEARCE SA AY lxerous, Now the biplane is in almost| “We did! said Gus emphatically more of cargo, universal use because of Its superior | “Skinner what he was! Thero wasn’t ‘At the beginaing of the confiiet the | stability, ‘ aiaved tn thi standard army machine of the Brit-| Asiin the Germans forged forward | h F a “ capable of doing ffty-eight| With ® two-seated machine doing| Why, there wasn't even an ¢ tox {eh wae capable of doing ‘wht! 190 miles an hour French came| “And we had to pay 20 cents api miles an hour at its best, Ry August, | ‘ ay 5 ule Fea na, tome Sia a 1915, a new aeroplane with 100-horse- | por hans | hat show,” sold Albert, mower had been developed, But tt] qj atreot sweoper, “and me having ¢ ¢ st pt 130 miles an was heavy and not much faster than|hour, Meantime the British had | hire this dress suit," the other type, though somewhat |). “4 somewhat and di Kiy| Sureenoush, Albert was arre city. ook heavy toll amon a al outt pa tay, 1916, the British brougnt | (re, Ger Bat the British Bla red necktie and a blue flannel forth a 120-horsepower machine that Sa AWia’ ake sous fould make seventy-five ae as hour, It had great Diltt an excellent fighting plan ao Me type still are in-use. But in the} tember of 1, gpring of 1916 the Germans suddenly |odentaily th produced the Fokker, which could dota machine of api ninety-five miles an hour. This Fok-|gpeed, There the ¢ ker also carried the first machine gun|the present. time to fire through the propelle The | machines crawl up to @ spe! Fokker outclassed the Brideh planes! wiles ag hour, a eee ae ran to} we langle?’ |Siam Sending Students | To the United States | BOUT fifteen | A have registered at American | educational institutions this | year, to qualify In the professions of law, medieine and eivil engineerin, Several such students have in. the past 5 ated from American cole engineering schools, and mpl by their own Gov- i nt publle works, ve been the merican ma- whole plac eh dents from Siam the to din with the German around ® and got on an r Fr evening a hired asked t for was low y to county, Mts who left for the 1 August were four h icholarabips, and neae 3 1 Will be educated at the expense of the Slames: She: © Goverme + vid Albert lar and a half it cost met nda at tlonal | (wenty-four “& dol ) rent it f but the twenty- ur hours ain‘t up yet.” | same hours, Jers Some “Xow! And such @ theatre that , ¥ ¢ ‘The Union leaders were atralning every nerve @ T be’ y aid, Their provisions were? k . a icksburg. | And I didn’t pay no twenty cents for , said, it was another phase of the eters nal triangle.”” , | « ) “te