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a eae een ete =a mon [errenras rsex] Freping World Daily Ma Hep! Hep! Hep! tant 4 Se PATARTANng WT JONErT PULSTEEN. . Puwtenet ~ : Con Nee iy Fac owggeg i ire yee Fagawe Compan ° Bal LIT ee ident, 08 Ladd TED Srectis: eM ee stern PULIT Jr, Pecvatary a) Retest af (he Poet-Otfics ot Mew Tort a0 Recend Clase Matter, , hates (to The Viventng |For Posten and the Continent end arid for ina Celtel niaiee All Countrige in [he Internationa: ond anaie Postal Union 7” 490 Ce TOF reece es lapth $0 | ne Month. eeccee —_—- MIMRER OF TITER AteorlATEn Prmne Tish MNES ole A MD Soat SS Come ee ae ore et STL: vot M Fa NO, 20,658 TRAINED ON HIM. 8 A RESULT of The Evening Wor demand for @ prompt demonstration of what can be done to protect consumers in thie city from the outrageous profiteering of retail dealers in meat and other foodstuffs, Federal and State Food Administra tone have got together and put forward the beginnings of @ pro gramme. Bo far the plan inclades: (1) Publication in the newspapers, dally or at least three times @ week, of the prices which retailers should be expected to charge their customers for some twenty common | articles of food; (2) plentiful publicity for any butcher or grover who attempts to deceive or gouge the public. It remains to be seen whether the Federal Food Administration, which has again demonstrated its authority over the meat packers by| refusing to increase the 9 per cent. maximum profit fixed on the basie| of their pre-war oarnings, will also use that authority, ae urged by The Bvening World, to discipline the retail meat profiteer by inalsting | that the packors and wholesalers shall stop his supplies, | How much of this discipline will be needed, and whether legisla- then providing for the licensing of all retail food dealers is an indie- pensable part of the remedy, can best be found out by losing no time im bringing to bear upon the retail profiteer every ounce of pressure food administrators, press and public have it already in thelr power to exert. ‘A particularly promising sign is the readiness of falr-dealing | butchers and grocers, both wholesale and retail, to come forward and oo-operate with the food regulators in assuring the maintenance of just ecales of current food prices in every New York shop. Organiza- tions of scrupulous food dealers can do much toward bringing the unscrupulous to terms. | Already The Evening World’s nail-’em-and-nail*em-now cam- paign has entirely changed the situation for the food profiteer in this city. é He no longer heara only the booming of food-contro! generalities | ate vague, safe distance. He can now see close at hand awakened | and determined forces with their batteries trained on HIM. at Tt was “an immensely popular verdict,” we are told, that @ jury announced at Mineola, L. 1, Saturday night No doubt. But in the case of an attractive young woman who, in a moment of blackness and demen'ia, has shot and killed her divorced husband, although the slower processes of the law might have equally wel) procured her the one thing she sought—more of the compantonship of her child—ts It too By J. H. Cassel much to expect that twelve good men and true should acquit her otherwise than with smirks and pats on the shoulder? Ie there no way of keeping up the good old flluston that Justice is blind? Are You In Love? | By Nixola Greeley-Smith HIL.—FORBIDDEN LOVE HENRY M. LEIPZIGER. \No Man's Heart Is Large Enough to Be Divided in Two, HE name of Henry M. Leipziger will always be associated with! and Half a.Heart Is Not Better Than None at All— | the beginnings of one of the greatest educative, broadening | A Wife Is the Unit of a Man’s Love, and the and Americanizing influences in the life of this city. | Women Who Come After Her Are The free public lecture system of which he was for more than a Just So Many Zeros quarter of a century the efficient directing head is monument enough Cooyriait, 1917, be the Prem pre ne pone Now Tork Brensea Word.) to keep any man’s memory forever honored in the civic history of VERY little while some young| from the rich woman's table, A wife New York. woman writes pto me that aho|'s the unit of a man’s love, and ‘he Py 5 5 knows about @ man who ia bril-| Women who come after her are tm ne of The Evening World’s earliest and most far reaching Mant, good and no-| otherwise, but If you can put zeios achievements was its campaign which secured the use of public school ble but who has a after a unit and do anything with heuses for the broader purposes which Dr. Leipziger ao deeply be- Meved in and so admirably carried forward to lasting results. hateful wife who them save add to unit's value, Year after year, under his direction, free evening courses in ave work uiracie 1 him. And the young Ristory, literature, art and music have opened untold treasures of new interest, knowledge and opportunity for self-improvement to workers The Jar By Roy L. NG a quick glance up the atreet and noting Mra. Jarr was not on picket duty at the front window, Mr, Jarr slipped behind the camouflage of Tony's bootblack stand, jand through the side entrance to Gus'a dugout. The corner cafe in such non-pro- hibition towns where it still ob- tains, comes in for much adverse criticism, but be tt ever so humble there is no place like those where men go when they ought to be home. In Gus's cafe this clears cold day, the hot water urn glistened and steamed cheerfully, The mahogany fittings and bright glassware gleamed hospitably. ‘The place was warm cozy and pleasant. was ho one to scold tf the floor was No man's heart Js large enough to woman wants to be divided in two, and hale a bi know if thoretaany| !4 Not bettey than none at aly harm in appreciat- strongest Ue t ing bim herself a) hourly as 4@ man and ation to Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, r Fam ily McCardell (The New York Evening World.) and I got canned. My work was taken too seriously, 8o I resolved to #0 to war in the Camouflage Corps. You know, the painters and artificera Mr. Jarr nodded to indicate he un-| | derstood. Gus, who thought the talk | was about camels or cabbages, he was not sure which, was also greatly interested, “Yes, I got canned on the paper I was working for, In the first place I violated every canon of comic art. I never would draw @ comedy strip, in the last picture of which one of the jcharncters did comedy back fall with | strange news, Nor could I ever seem |to be able to work over old vaude- d tracked up or the furniture disar-| ying ey j i co 0) i cannot gage in my comic picture who command neither the time nor the money the more fortunate ba a it exist outst In mars |ranged, One might smoke, sing, be] strips, ean spend on these things. Well, there Isn't) ice it #8 t/untidy or boisterous, This 19 the anyeharm—to him.| pe xpoct Ae for her—it has always been diffi-) an unbr cult for me to hit people over the that i ful a igea | marriage a abi head with the Commandments, so 1) ii) clock was burned. y never have been able to tell her about) coming in and out of The World build- all the harm that might result to| ing I had glanced ¢ my shou der nan at the full round face of the City Hall clock to see the time, ‘The clock A time comes in the Iifo of every) jou: ite tace elght months ago, yt I Whether as a founder of manual training, technical and trade eohools or as an organizer of free libraries, Dr. Leipziger was all his life seeking practical answers to the question how the alien worker may be made an American worker—an integral, increasingly contrib- utive part of the nation’s industrial and social life, Since the war began the use of public school buildings in New bait of the man trap. It is too good to be true, but im the end it addeth thing. “Gimme a hot Bcotch,” Jarr, “Don't take a hot Scotch,” said Gus said Mr, woman—sometimes before she ts mar-| ytil] look over my shoulder as I go| "BY Sollies, Scotch is go dear I'm York has been—again through the efforts of The Evening World— ried, sometimes after sho has been alin and out he he audio at tne|ashamed to take the money, es- . “4 jel r tine: which 4 oe extended by law to provide Americanization Forums where those of ¥!t for yeara, when she confronts care sige n Was once 6} pecially ap there eine mo proAt on and ts confronted by Forbidden Love. She may have gone along dully to! twenty-elght or thirty in a humdrum | occupation without meeting any man who wanted to marry her or, at least, foreign birth may come into yet more frequent and familiar contact with American institutions and American ideals. This city can set itself no sounder programme for Americanizing aliens through a fuller utilization of the public schools than by In Just that way men and women look toward their homes, and even | they are ily married and find no love or peace in thelr homes, automatically they turn their feet into the paths they travelled when “You let me have what I want,” re- plied Mr. Jarr, "Gimme a hot Sootch, You've got Scotch, you say.” “Yes, I've got everything but my " n ©X- any man she wanted to marry. Ines| love was youn own way in my own liquor store, tending and broadening the work to which Henry M. Leipziger Haynes Irwin plotures such a girl in wen derbeiaes ton ae {s|that I never geti” Gus declared brought the best of a deep humanity, a tireless energy and a profound ber latest novel “The Lady of King-| break the tles of habit and testily, So saying he went about pre- ommon ; A dome"—a girl who decides that her| interest. Men and women will go on| paring Mr. Jarr’s order, but most intelligence. | Fight to have children should not be| telling time by the slock of matri- | reluctantly, = inl dependent upon her capacity to charm | Mony even after it hag lost its faco, | weg ty that gloomy individual i (an some man into marrying her and who Hits From Sha Tp W Its jects upon this belief, Mra, Irwin has A married man cannot watve his| walk and the banana skin that throws |@rawe & type of whom there are many rights to exemption without his wife's| 4 man in the same place,—Philadel- | 90 far as their plight is concerned but over there?” asked Mr, Jarr, indicat ing ® most miserable young man who sat im the corner morosely biting bis Newest Things in Science I nails, consent. Some fellows are going to| #%!® Record, of whom very few would care to “Sesh,” whispered Gus, “I think ef 4 Although bullt early in the Chris- s ° hard sl ore | ny ou! 6 ‘1 ade nas time ing. f ela An anthracite mine in Pennsylvania | 4.4% tne unmarried women who! tian era without mortar, a scone | he's ® Russian apy, but he says he eae an they expec ed.—Pittsburg | has been burning for 68 years and yet | pave not found mates who ure tempt- | church in Ireland atill is in excolient |is an artist, @ comiker artlat, but I cor # Of Us are unable to keep fire in| ed by forbidden love, there are wives | condition poaneal ¢ furnace over night don’t in| ‘ Indianapolis entered the doldrums of Le a 7 —y Ridicule is gniy dangerous where | News. OHS) RO DAYS Soe tite, Pataimad in bores | One. of the sew fold) ‘Ask him if he'll have something? Girected aguinst the thin-skin, And! | 2» @ \dom, Sooner or later these women | cups made of water; remarked Mr, Jarr, “Let's see if we {hie Is almost extinot.—Milwaukee | Wirelons telegraphy does not seem | awake to the strange but rel lapses into a tube no jean’bring aome Joy into his life.” Gus > » have it very much on the woman | fact that no love that men give lead pencil, the stranger who came Mciiaa sill ce we | Who made @ specialty of talking over | of marriage 18 worth while, Men ! cee called to rs ead will be merely the staft| the back fence to her nelghbor— Of Ife camouflaged enboF rian American. Onee it , to "show off” women they has been 6. 4 if a man loves a woman | phonograph has to keep quiet about it, he ts | (we disconcerted as a woman who hag n that she can't woar, or a © at the pawn- a wife acquir yes merely fru | being married to him that no othe An exchange says that mosquitoes | woman can attain, and babies are the "Voices of the| It ts surely not mournfully forward. “I ain't felling exactly cheerful,” the stranger admitted, ‘ been trying to enlist, but they won't take me in the branch of the army I want to get in.” “What branoh ts that?” asked Mr, Jarr. started automatic # records of the cytt: one after another : Baltimore | Angeles Times, . see If you play the fool, you can't blame folks if they think you are one.—Bing hamton Press. | Rave your anem tn temporartly suspended. —Los Angoles Times, ar ar) une Gowstp 18 the skeleton key to every | broker's. family closet.—Toledo Blade Ja valu . ee A steel for safes that breaka best bits and defies hydrogr |lene blow pipe flames has be | fected in Europe. (Soar the a | L-Acety= Phe difference between money and success is that man can tnherit| Money.—-Detroit Free Press . . . worth while for Inside the ornamental r i ” e night.” How about™Yhom. Jany women to languish like another|new watch fob ie a revolve a| “The Camouflage Corp! replied Bt’'a a toss-up between the mon whol back yard fence?—Memp! mer- | Lazarus befege a female Di bearing numbers faip/ the stranger. “You see, I was on thfews a banana skin on the side- cial Appeal, lie for the crumbs of love tha serve as a calendar, * newspaper doing » daily comio atrip like an adder, and all that sort of “All the other comio artists seem to be able to do those things without fiinchin, remarked Mr. Jarr, “Yes, I know," sald the stranger with a sigh, “and the papers bid for ‘om on ten-year contracts at ten thousand a year, I was thinking of getting a rubber stamp mado with one of my characters doing a back~ fall and exclaiming ‘Flop,’ for the last picture on the etrip, but I couldn't bring myself to do it, Be- sides, the art editor was sore at me because when I drew a picture of « trolley oar I had the trolley pushing the car instead of pulling it on the wire, I drew typewriting machines in my comlo office pictures that were real typewriters, I never drew pic- tures of people getting badly mangled and beaten up, but the worst of i all was—but I hate to tell you.” “Don't mind me,” sald Mr. Jarr, “go ahead.” “Well, I wouldn't use slang in my captions, | wouldn't draw vomety characters with feet as big av hams and bands as big a® bunches uf ban- anas,” “You weren't a comio artist,’ eald Mr. Jarr. You were an {llustrator, You should have drawn pictures of beautiful male and femaie persons tn evening dress surrounded by potted palms and grand pianos, even to ilus- trate Jack London's atories.”” “Yoo, I know,” murmured the gloomy | stranger, “Once I drew @ barber) standing on the wrong side of the man | he was shaving, and every parbes tn| the country wrote in and criticised, and now I'm blacklisted,” | “That's real camouflage,” aaid Mr, Jerr. “I've got influence, I'll see what) I can do for you.” | ee eee By Helen Rowland Correa MNT Wy the Pree Patiianing On (Phe Bow Vor Reening Wowid M Y DAUGHTER, | charne thee the Marble @e Two Virides Yor which, among y*, doth wo ve make on heed happy, that thy days ma ain (he Land otye and Mienty? Now, behold, there dwelt two damacts in Me 7, AO4 onoh of them rowed a VOW to Hymonpe @be WONIA find domenio happinew And the first dameel mid to, | ahall earn wo 1 to troll age bake and to pew anid to ene md to mend, Ot may be mine husband's yriwe iAkewlee, bit cultivate my MIND. vd shell duvvle in art age Yamal eetence and in polition, t ima Ww any mas} tolieetial equal and susban t's rulmate “Moreover, | ahall become an expert wot 7 bridge om dancing, that I may be also mine hustmnd’s p I whall be ALL things to one man! nate, Vou, verily, 99, ‘of that ie what every man requir from the woman whom he weddeth” Hot the second dameel yawned “Werlly, 1 shall concentrate all tology and the cultivation of a SWEET DISPOSITION. behind her band, eaying: MY energy upon the study of é@ And the oniyt which I shall follow te the art of pleasing!” Now in time ft came to pass that both damaola attained their de and were winners in the Husbind-hunt And when the husband of the first damsel discovered how accompli she wee he was delighted beyond monsure and declared himself excesg (lucky to have won such « treasure. And because her cooking was good he would eat no other; ané- cause she could make her own garments he encouraged her to do a0,4 aw no reason to buy her new ones, And because he found her so amusing and inspiring he spent alls evenings at home, and permitted her to entertaln him and to help hia his intellectual labors, | But while the husband waxed fat and happy and rich the wif thin and sad and dolorous; and ® her tongue became tho tongue @ | Shrew, and her temper the temper of Xantippe. And in her prime she died of dand bereaved—yet relieved. nervous prostration, and left her } For one way to die for love of a man ts to marry him and WO thyself to death for him. But the second damsel sat DOWN upon her wedding day and 4 mitted her husband to pack her trunk, and to assort his own iaundry, ¢ to fix his own bath and find his own collar-button and his own paper and to valet for himself tn genera). And when he waxed wroth or flew Into tantrums she amoothed forehead, and smiled upon him sweetly and called him “Poor boy!” And never {n all the days of her life did she offer him a sharp we or oppose him in anything, for her emile and her complexion were 4 kind that will not come off. Neither did she lift her hand to work. And the man declared himself mightily blessed for having marri | euch an ANGEL, and labored night and day that he might cover her wi | Imported clothes and diamonds, | And when at last he died of brain-fag he stil! adored her, though sl | weighed two hundred pounds! Yet, verily, verily, I say unto thee, despise her not, nor deny her t) fruit of her labors. | For, whatsoever the moralists may say, to be any man’s “Little Su beam” is a Iifework in {tself, and, peradventure, more profitable than 1 be his “light-running domestic!” Selah. | * By James C. Young | ) was to the Confederacy what Washington was to the Revolu- tion and Napoleon to the First Empire. In him Fcentred the strength, the ge- nius and inspira- L | a handful of whole power of His campalgns were masterly in their strategy and | boldly carried out. Lest of all, there | (2, Word ‘Flop,’ at recelving some ‘The final retreat before Richmond has|hold in Virginia. become a classic of military science, As citizen, soldier and leader he typi- fled the finest American traits, In | proof that old wounds have been healed the Government has bestowed jhis name upon the army camp at Petersburg, Va, on the very site where he once commanded, To-day |the 80th Division ts being mobilized there for service abroad, made up of troops from Virginia, Maryland, Dela- ware, the District of Columbia and Now Jersey, Originally an engineer officer, Lee first won prestige in the Mexican War, being brevetted three times for tion that enabled | For Whom the Army Camp | Were Named Coppright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, No. 30.—CAMP LEE, PETERSBURG, VA. (Tue York Erenlog World,) |signal services and raised to tha |grade of Colonel. From 1853 to 1868 he was in command of the military | academy. at West Point, and placed jit upon a plane with similar institu. |tUons of Europe, The coming of the Civil War brought with it a tem rible struggle for him—the question: of where his loyalty lay. To # man of bis noble mould this was @ prob-. lem almost beyon Btates to fight eal st beyond decision. When Virginia seceded, that décided him. | He threw his aword into the the Union for al-/ and took command of the Virginia most five years. | forces. The war was @ year old before he came into supreme command of the Southern troops. Immediately he demonstrated brilliant leadership, |The Federal army had gained a foot- Lee quickly ase sumed that offensive-defensive policy which the Germans have so sealously |followed. Ho struck the army of | McClellan a blow that sent it reeling jand forced a Federal retreat. From, |then until the close of the war that was the history of Lee's leadership, Under’ many generals the Union forces showed varying strength and uncertain direction, Lee was al sure of himself, the place to-strike . and how to wield the blow. He won mmny battles, but these very vio- | tories cost him defeat. For every battle meant fewer men to fight the |next one. And the Confederacy was running dry, while the Union grew stronger. He did all that one man {could have done and met with the fortunes of war. “White Lady of the Hohenzollerns” Always Foretells Evil MONG superstitious persons in) ferred to his parents, but she mis- Germany the present war has revived the fearsome tales of | the “White Lady of the Hohensol- lerns,” the private ghost of the Ger- m:. imperial family, whose visita- tions always augur impending ill for- ‘tune. This spook of 11] omen is sald to have paid her last visit to earth eighty-two years ago, and the death of the sister of King Frederick L. of Wurttemberg tmmediately followed. {The “White Lady” of the Hohengol- | lerns does not confine her mismons as bearer of bad tidings to the mem- bers of the imperial house, but also warns Germany's foos of impending evil. It 1s declared that she cailed on Napoleon while he was quartered in the palace at Bayreuth, shortly be- fore he set out upon his ill-fated Rus- stan expedition, ‘The legend of the Prussian “White Lady” dates back @ix centurtes or more, The original “White Lady” is said to have been a beautiful Count- sof Bayreuth, who, when a widow h two children, formed an irreg- ular alliance with a Hohenzollern Prince, At length she appealed to understood and, thinking he dren, were the obstacles, murdered thane This deed was so shockin; Prince t he refused henvetort Ke see his mistress, who died of a brehes heart. ‘Thereafter the shade of the woman haunted the palaces of the Hohengollerns, always appearing be- fore some tl] was to befall the or the enemies of the family, Vicomte d'Ariincourt, in hig Pelerin,” tells of @ conversation he had with the Prince of Montfort, in which the latter told of the last ‘ap- pearance of the “White Lady.” The Vicomte quotes the Prince as sayl, “My mother, sister to King Fredes ick I. of Wurttemberg, lay ill at Laus sanne, but was not supposed to be in a serious condition, The doctors reas- sured us, 80 We Were not worried, On, night in the anclent castle of the Duke of Wurttemberg I was awakened from sleep by @ loud noise as of som, one stirring about the room, 7 White Lady had come along a gall had passed the sentinels, who were frozen with fear, and had knocked at my door, When I told my uncle, King Ferdinand, of the visitation he bade him to marry her, but he replied that two people stood in the way and made their union impossible, He re- me set forth at once for Switzerland. I started at once and reached Lausanne, only to hear my mother’ last sigh. *She died Noy. 28, 1985,"