The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1918, Page 16

reer _ Evening World Daily Magazine i|Americans A: | A Under Fire ESTABLISHED BY JOS: . H PULITZES, PadMshed Dally Hxcept Sunday by tho Press Publishing Company, r a mrretnititkn By J. H. Cassel Row, New Yor | RALDT PULITZER, Prenldent, (68 Park, Row. J d '. Treasurer, ¥. A SOSEAN PULATZA Sry Beorelary, 68 Bark Ro By Albert Payson Terhune . Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, Cnmisie Paw feu Drentag Wertd, ription Rates The Eventng|For Tngiand and the Continent and earthed! Ain Baebes A z World for the United states AU Countrion In the International q No. 68—A JOKE THAT CAUSED A BATTLE, Pe | ‘ nada. al Union ; | + $6.00 One Yea~ ¢ 0} One Mor ch. HH Civil War's third year was beginning. On opposite banks of the Rappahannock River the Union and the Confederate armies faced each other in grim tnection through the first weeks of 1 But cavalry detach- ments of both armies kept busy with an endless suc- cession of raids and skirmishes and minor battles, It is with one of these fierce little batties that this story deals Gen, Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Gen. Robert B. Lee, } and most daring cavalry leader in the South, crossed oe 81540 + 1,30 MEMBER UF THE ASSOCIATED PREBS, f eats Se Sen Stheric ceded [athe paver and alee De focal ‘sows veblichel seria ' / VOLUME 58...cccccsseccccscevescevcevceseees+NO, 20,596 y; | pee NO COAL TO HELP NEW YORK. | HE flat refusal of the Federal Fuel Administrator to relieve, | , j . ‘ ‘ the river at the head of a body of cavalry and fell bf the serious coal shortage in New York by granting this city upon Gn taprepered Pennsylvania fegtinent seat priority orders sufficient to bring it 1,200 carloads of coal Leedstown, Va. He put the Pennsylvanians to rout, ey daily will cause grave injury and loss. | oo with great slaughter, seizing their camp. ‘ | New York is receiving only one-third of the supply of soft coal | ‘ éé Outen tera Lee pr Bigic Meh kr ee Pecsrcoes he TY ¥ part of @ on 6 comman y his o! ‘oint classmate any and one-half the amount of anthracite it needa, chum, Gen, Averil, By way of @ joke he wrote the following note to his he If these supplies, thus estimated by the State Fuel Adminiatra- ee friend: ) Hen, cannot be increased, hospitals will not have the heat they require, | “Dear Averill: I wish you would put up your sword and leave my State } mere schools must close their doors, public utility corporations will be| iite rensing aay. Ged on ever tap ot conve.” a eat ee ' forced to give half service or come to a standstill, factories will have This note rankled hotly in Averiil's memory, especially the sneer about 7 ildi likely “running away,” and he vowed to get even with the joker. He bided his to shut down and office buildings and apartment houses are ly tine Gnd he leatned er Piubten Leva ehish Wale to become little more habitable than cold storage planta. . .” @bouts, then he planned to settle the score. Another cold spell or a heavy snow, blocking railroad ttaffic, hail ga Ge pierre Day, pee eee eae ae ; . § ; ymen| e caval ments at would under such conditions bring the city intense suffering, prrmmnnonnnnnnmy <ariving back the local Confederate outposts and sharp- ! All this might be borne if it were certain that only at the cost | full speed, Averitt fireeed on (aware wiishugs Leste an of them. Then, Bf rs , a ‘8 army. of such privations could transports and supply ships be coaled and Lee, belatedly warned of the enemy's approach, collected such forces as other urgent needs of war be met. he had in camp and rode forth to meet the advancing Union cavalrymen. ¢ ' A mild or so beyond the ford the two forces clashed, But is there any such certainty? Lee, in front of his men, charged upon the Union riders, Many of these “ Are American resource and energy yet so sorely strained that Thunsured Up hiss Wan adenale carton fie beaten y oth Py =ans tre ; " e e 5 ured into thelr ran! this metropolis of 5,000,000 people, situated only twenty-four hours | behind this wail that not only halted the Confederates but sent tem sout- F a eh ; ting back in fast retreat. by rail from the country’s richest coal fields, must assume, because Lee rallied his men and led the famous Third Virginia Cavalry tn @ it is refused coal, that executive authority has in vain tried to the headlong charge against the stone wall. This charge, like the first, was utmost limts of efficiency to furnish it coal? halted. As the Virginians paused, irresolute whether to advance or to with« , . draw, the First Rhode Island Cavalry hurled itself bodily the C - The time has hardly come for any such assumption. Fuel Ad- erate flank. The Southerners were completely routed, sent. fytcg hs ministrators are at work on an unfamiliar job, and the present short- Seng on La ag oeaboed hsp Red bppiteain in this smashing P * » t : Py a . a ole crack regiment age of coal in New York and in other sections is due quite as much Back fell Lee's whole force, and Averill's light feild artillery coolrpoa to their inexperience and lack of grasp of the situation as to the the retreating Southern ranks, all but demolishing them. Lee, fearing utter destruction, led one last desperate charge at his pur- pressing requirements of war. | suers. The charge was hammered to a standstill and The Inspector of the Railway Division of the Ohio Utilities Com |$ “How's That $ Feansyivanta regiment fell upon the Confederate Sas . 2 co . 4 Horse Now? flank—with the same terrific results that the Rhode mission directly charges the Federal Fuel Administration with having Island regiment had achieved by the same tactics, caused the Ohio coal famine by letting thousands of cars of coal go Lee's whole shattered and beaten command fled ’ in hopeless defeat until {t reached a high wall, behind which it sought to to jam lake ports where there were not enough ships to carry it to make a final, hopeless stand, But night was closing in. The Union troops the Northwest. Meanwhile New England {s getting the coal which, under the orders of the Federal Fuel Administrator, New York is denied, Is this because Mr. Storrow, Fuel Administrator for New Eng- land, has made drastic fuel-saving rules for Massachusetts, requiring business houses to open at 9 A. M. and close at 5 P. M., theatres, bars and places of amusement to close at 10 P. M., ands“evening activities” generally to end at the same hour, while churches are to consolidate and schools to be placed on a one-session achedule? Maybe if New York showed a fuel-saving programme like this {t could be graciously permitted to have coal. were in the enemy's country and far from thetr own lines. So Averill did not press this last advantage, thus saving Lee's remnant of survivors annihilation, Instead, he sent one of his prisoners to Lee with a ba ten of coffee and the following note: bag “Dear Fitz: Here's your coffee, Hope you enjoyed my retu: How's that horse now? i: ir viet, The Jarr Family , By Roy L. McCardell : n Copyright. 1918, by the Press Pubitsbing Co, (The New York Evening World), 7 66] DO believe your hair te getting | evening he bought a bottle of dog f == thin,” said Mra, Jarr, as she | ™@Uge cure and doused his hair with —EEE- \ ¢ rose on her toes to give Mr. |" sr.4 yarn ings 1 . sted he al on the Bashful Y oun I e€o le Bachelor Girl Reflections Jarniile soodhy morsing Miss sofa behind closed doors at the frat FOR FUTURE LIBERTY LOANS. "Gee whist hy do women atwara] Gilt "ahe yor ot the mapaeecure | i walt till they kiss a man to hand bim | When she earned John W. 4 ‘ancl . 53 if ommended it she sent Mr, OMPLAINTS are heard from country banks that money with- By Sop h 1¢ Ir ene L oe b By Helen Rowland some bad news?” asked Mr. vary te out to have his head abampooed, red drawn to pay for Liberty bonds fails to flow back, and that Copyright, 1018, bey the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), Conrright, 1918, by the W'ress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), mlantly. res bbe re papery page tule ct seated entice nee uae | the irregularity of such payments tends to add to the hardshiy acs pete bare come to) bie) 1e ai es NO Se Tecan Ee ae seer sig hab chek; seee, tol ton ieee nan aay unpleasant com-| ‘at man Rangle, SHE wouldn't be, | 4 : from youn, awful to them, divinity, it is not love but imagination. ane Of course Fred, th ‘ting barber, caused by slow readjustment. dificult We he oes ia weeare In a word, they try too hard to be sf pliments, But a thought in time eaves | saw alarming symptoms of baldness, a 4 a agreeable They ome artificial Leama 4 a lot of trouble. as he shampooed the mange cure from A plan to safeguard and at the same time systematize the han backward and| without realizing it. This ¢ sily “Give me the man who sings at his work”—even {f it 1s only in order “But your hair js getting Means and ell psd Ot-all-at-that-time am. you should use some of that what's | "yo Por this dope ont in . its-name stuff that d!@ so much good | sald Fred, the sporting barber, f for Mra, Kittingly’s hatr before she | would burn your halr—what | uttle bleached {t and ruined It,” remarked] Yon? we Peek id PET inh Mrs, Jarr, scrutinizing the husbandly | tunic 1 put up myself, Then me bashful. A typicai|be overcome by trying to be tnter- communication fol- | €#ted more than being intere People do not have to be lows: order to be sociables In fact, when “I find it very dif-| they attempt to be lively tt is always ficult to make my-| forced, as it were, and Is readily eelf sociable with |Sustd 4s such. | dling of instalment payments in future Liberty loan issues has been proposed by W. HI. Clarke of the banking house of Clarke Brothers in this city. \ Briefly, this plan provides that the instalment buyer of Liberty to cover up his cries of agony when he is working the cold shower in the morning. ively” in “Tell the truth and shame the devil,” may be a men's motto before marriage, but afterward he sort of bonds shall file with his application a draft on the bank in which he people. Lam twon-|jimenes ao ty Lee eee cnet eee sates art nor Piet at ae be @ case) sip earnestly. “It was wonderful, me three times a. Week for electrtoal —{ has a deposit, or upon any other bank he may designate, accompanied ty-one, and I al- Bile nee is rather to be " 7” 4 that stuff, fia He sialged ate Ada betere e ouknns ae 7 mur bar Bow, tl ‘ . , and very often is the means — ais ch your al Ns rh good q by a notification that he wishes the draft charged to his account or SA psec Ard nae of reviving ideas whereby something | ‘gt ¥ The difference between a sweetheart and a wife is rate dni ioe te Eat foe Aaked Quechee pa * i ; m e dis ere: ome u * re oo 5 > i e z Cafe i ; : P A : er-dinner glow, , 7 : . [clined to belleve t This draft calls upon the bank to honor forty-eight future weekly|# on one who doos not possess the Foe ey MUEES Gs Seether ts Gallen eke oman Relirabcosetnes ary we and at the latter through B19! 114 jook nice in sy Se Connie Paella’ aleve. Late yas ene. same i A ; 7 3 » | Joyable ¥ efore-break! 0 his, n't 17" | & ture drafts drawn by the Liberty Loan Committee, and covering, with the Peau Rapier Bhle to‘ meet: people If you haye to keop up « continual a fable eons Gaene Gait Jas ony made 5 . t © friends, chatter you're not enjoying yourself, . PP - = owled Mr. . many. If. firet draft, the total payment for the bond or bonds. When the last| “It is just beginning to get a hold| because you wre making ico uch Aa unhappy marriage ts the polson gas which chokes out all w man's |".0" aac gay YOU were going to his halr till the war was over and the | | draft has been paid the Liberty Loan Committee will deliver the bonds| 9" me and I am trying my hardest | “ort to enjoy your orppgiree tiga Mleail Morphis, wBlon mbes often Geadeas ch your hair, I eald Mrs.*Kit- rived that Mr, Jarre i ae) to the bank to fight it off, but it seems to be in] ice wh interest in the word nd ie | alt @ woman's, Ungly bleached her hair, You think | yet be spared, } ne (eh vain, The direct cause Hos in my not| work, even though ho be of a uulor rene ; she's a blonde, but she isn't. But you| Jenkins, the bookkeeper, advised Mr, Clarke’s idea is that the whole process shall be simplified by| being of a lively nature, 1 am not] nature, will find some means of ex- The cleverest step which a girl can take ia winning any man’s love ts mind what I say and do something |r. Jarr to havo his head shaved. “Of ; on | oreasio en the subject comes up| @ step backward. course in this weather you the use of numbers instead of names, so that, as between the Liberty | B&turally of the lively type and often] ression when th ject comes up| @ step backward. gee Bye lack nerve. with which he is faniil a for your batr." SPE pasuniotiia added Jenkins, “and if Loan Committee and the banks, neither the name of the bank nor| “Then. too, my consciousness nneran | oie Gone eee out meeting peo Alas, those New Year's resolutions would not be crashing about our} Mr. Jarr rather prided himself on a |you don’t get pneumonia peopie will 4 e of the everlasting self. \ Saal bike weie ii ¢ vad of hair, no matter that he|think you are an escaped lunatie, | the name of the individual purchaser will be necessary on the drafts| to act on me, and that especially ex mis iy con. | €ars Just now if only one’s pet foibles were Ike one’s appendix and could ta paren doubts as to his head be- | They shave thelr heads in the asyluma, rt a | themselves. ercises @ big Influence on my atate o: | UM be “cut out,” never to grow again! ahead pee red a know, Still, anything to eave E ' ne 7 ing fu i se. + | your hair. mind and affects my mood to a greac! \)*) 4 pet a \ our ih In the case of employees who have no bank accounts, each em-| extent, with Tatbik win fae A wouan's way of easing her consctence when she has done some-|Jarr’s remark worried him. Meeting) “Anything but that!" Mr. Jar de- Floyee will sign the application and at the same time request that| “What can I do to overcome these tieen ete egal ; ‘ j : “4 ie 088 Who would be most his employer authorize the committee to draw weekly on a designated | eecNOnMty, InAuences? When I am introduced to one I will converse with bank the amount of the drafts, to be taken weekly from the om-| hima short while and then, as though 4 ed. “Yor y Ke thing her husband wouldn't like 18 to be especially sweet and tender; a| "8 friend John w. Bangs eer, one Sue Pidout inte erie tie ¢ man's way of justifying himself for doing something his wife wouldn't | Mt Jarr remarked casually that be | (19%, ike 8 to pick @ quarrel with her and then go out and persuade himeelt | thought bis hair was getting thin and) “tq crude petroleum,” advieed ig thing ts to for hate ja “mtavnderstaod” asked Rangle if he could suggest any- | Fritz, the s ng clerk. “Of course ly talk when ther ning. you can't get any now, ¢ ployee’s salary. my speech had been cut off, 1 will thing to talk about. seieaca ‘isure,” said Mr, Rangle, “Z know | war; but it's fine "They nae chee peli 4 4 . ey : oma. é * ‘ ersation for the sake it 4s ople t 00 ne co 3) 6 ing. Its what all the os yorking ai } Obviously, besides eliminating the possibility of fraud in handling | srarante. poets aie ulnaeat necessary and futile in order to over. Bore 9800 ribs Sox r cr entree t0 Porerty: and some deltber pS eo ta Py course tuey can't peeve ate bald Prt ele hae, won ; Acquaintance speaks, ° se feoitr ely go down and rent a studio apartment near Was 84 soutien 4 e r Liberty loan payments, such a plan would immensely simplify and| as little to say, or expects me to con- ately gi near Washington Square, get it In France ull they look like wild men of Ror- in not going to France, o tell me | neo. ¢ fou should try crude petro- | concentrate the work of the Liberty Loan Committeo, enabling it,| i8¥e } bewin to feel In a sullen moo what all the soldier boys use. Shoot!” |jeum."" y aia ent . fienra for L cannot find any subject that 1| ( “Well, don't laugh,” eaid Mr, Ran- | sollowipg the advice of & Mr. Clarke points out, to “figure out the amount that could bel can discuss with Line that will make am p C ome d Lés By Alma Woodward veridusly., “But you go to ® OFUB |frienda’ Me. Jace tet ypc ft Jarr tried nage tea, one- uring » yea ie cheme & ting ay id ge cure, You know, |tor oil and bay > “ ¢ gotten during the year under this scheme and make one drive things interesting and have bim cao- | _ store and get mange cure, You roll and bay rum, tallow and witch ” ive for) jo hy company | Covreient, 19 Press Publishing Go, (The New York Bvening World). B (leading him on)—Teli | mange cure for dogs. Thats the atuf’ hazel, and fifty patented nostrume that amount | * = s on)—Tell us abou vill stop yt hair from falling | 0; kay he doc dpi 4 ' Whet ig ime athe Sanka a gatintt [act Have had to sncrifion | meoting BOY—-PAGE JOHN SMITH. Chari wn en a that, wil stop your One day ho deol 1 not to worry s f nore, giving the bank definite notion o | eon! y because si -Whe: ‘as hoi out . a ' ty ; ; J @ notion of what they! gould not sociable, It in BCENE—Camp Upt Prat Bocdflarmnon ®, an aunt of mine gave a dinnes|. Mr. Jarr recoiled. But be reflected as {t aid not ap he have to take care of from week to week would go a long way toward | ‘stressing uly 1 just] iM i y Donor, At that dinner was a|that if {t was good enough for our| And now Mrs, Jarr tolla everybody mr keeping steady that flow of money which t Reece aoe feel th meoting people (A chap tn uniform ts er rutted, frozen fleld—stumtling now | la an old friend of my family’s.|soldier boys, who were fighting to/that Mr. Ja ping steady that fl ¥y Waieh the country banks claim jg| on that accou | and again—but fo in a vacunt way, as though aintessly | ben she heard I was down here at| make the world safe for democracy, | teopathy, h thought and an X now disturbed. “| greauy parrassed and | searching for s anata nigh Pe ttle distance.) | 1 begged me to bring a|\t was good enough for him. That ray photograph of his brain, \ affected. At times I blush, capeciall watch Kime from. Hetle to her grandson w : eave sie hana Hl f and at the same time widen the} were 1 am introducad to girls, and there isn’t Cha 1|_ A Gtarting on a run)—Well, I'm] for the bolidaye ns cant Et oft The Other Side of War appeal of future Liberty loans, why not let th Post offices take a| important po nin @ large reta haven't scou bin ne got] ver and see for myselt. Ne | A Gnquisitively)—Well, what ald * and and permit instalment purchasers of bonds to meet*futur pay. aise where me in contact with | back from icave a week ago, I like|tad except. be ee reclectoln |e eee OU wouldn't think that mon, hest to be intelligible. He pate the ] @ pay-| seores of men, he saretnnae . * of course would go to war to learn how to|Hun on the back, hands him oh te with drafts on Postal Sav Sunk sits? | “O€ course, knowing my work woll|{M4t Kid. Vin going over and speak) (phe two soldiers male time over ‘ hee | * 000 apne With « Clit # Bank deposits? | onablen ma 9 wet slong very smooehiy | $0, Bit. He Aighblg Sale, catuRe te keene Gk jt mie and teamee? (eel be kind, but they do, 1s the ob-|Jate and cigarettes, oxchanges eous _— — - ee with Trades 1 eam atk business aie ent arin) — Look they Ko.) He pretng eo p ith her | servation of a Canadian soldier, who/venira and shares with bim his laat f L'could but ire that ability to as & ques: (coming up, es ello, plankly)—Well, wnat's we 8 ai Phare‘ |i cans d | friends I would feel happy everybody's remarked [ink he's ou since you get back from at éant no kind Ve Hl , 7 : : _ ic a to SNR ARI Be MrcEE can ti Pg | can't find the boy.| world than the average Tommy. He|they come to the cagb where the Please limit communtoations to 15 worda, mo ety due Taek Me eae eee te tet Pint De 4 y)—Lello, Allen! Awfuny |= of his ¢! and| fakes a friend of any stray animal| prisoner has to be handed over, the More Pro-German B cfeney of the wo-k + mare ee rel Tore weGitt e's always Stumoling uround lookin: you , w* | he ar le#—and | he can find, He shares his last franc! farewells of these companions wh WW the KAitor of Tr World ¥ of the wo be One| Aoubdtedly affect my future ambition * sOGKIne | his name's John Who can | with bap who isn't bis pal. He! acquaintance has been mado at the tue of The Evening Wor be 14 that he didn’ tn business and my standing | “ hing at Bo owith scorn)—| 4 ° 0c ec with & Ol ; . ne be ac the 2 oaw in your paper that @ work: | joys sine nat he didn't care if the| tlety What can Todo Te oe eee ee eakiig him off)—Nonse Salve: looking areal ChAMIO’ reel [oe enfin sedtalred, freckled | Jobo | risks bis life quite inconaequently to| hayonet-polnt are often aa absurd as : ie . nips were Dever built, and whenover| The one big thing to do ta to cultt- |Charlie Adams daft? I guess y all tight aince you're back eee te A fe pongt re £0000 Fed-haired, | rescue any one who's wounded. When they are affecting, I suppose one only fagman in the Navy Yard had found | he read that a ship had been sung, | Yate a habit of forgetting yourself, gone binky in the watch tower to) @ (his brow clouding)—I fect alll a ¢ hantly)—-See? It's gust | he's gone over the top with bomb and | learns the value of kindness when he the bosses end peity bosses there to|be wore a xmile all day As t "| The main trouble w bashful peo. suggest it. That boy's us keen as @! right—only there's been a Hitle some- voriying over nothing--| bayonet for the express purpose of| feels the need of it himsecif, The mei he pro-German; that is nothing— | enemies emzloyed 2 the | plo is that they keep ombering Lawk-—and 48 square and conascten- | thing bothering me since I came back.| just because you're too blamed con. | “doing in” the Hun, be makes a com~-/cut there have aaid “Goodby” rman; t Nn sioved in ebipywnia, there | how bashful they are, They are wore | tlous aa=-t09 conscientious, in fact— | (it giv" A & vindictive poke In tho| sicntinme Jeon let the package |rade of the Fritzie he captures, You'll/ everything they loved, but si, ) Spmpared with my experiences as a/are many of them earning good| ried about the impression they are| 13 (#ooth'ngly)—1 know—L know. | ribs.) lin unt you stumble across, him |see bim coming down the battered got to love some one, ao they give t [worker in some shipyards, The o0- | wages who ridicule the American ay. | makt But just the same something's bap-| A (gently)—What ts It, old chap?) some day by acctdent jtrenches with some scared lad of a|uffections to captured Fritsies, etn |} @alled bosses are not only pro-'thorities a incapable, &o. ‘They are ao afraid the conversation pened to bin since he's back. He! Can't | do something to help you out? (in terrible doubt)—That's just |German at bie aide, He's gabbling dogs, follows who've collected & pi, German, but indifferent to the efi WORKIN: will stop that they blunder over doesn't walk around Uke that for hia} C (dreamtly)—No, I don’t think go|:he trouble. 1, don't think I can away making throat-nolses and signs, uf a shell—in fact, to any one whoe 4 Ria . ORKINGMAN, | things and realize that they will have heulth, you know, it seems almost @ bopeless task, —{t Jay. I think It's egeal jemiling and doing bie inarticulate @ Little wore off ‘than themselves, wey,