The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1918, Page 8

Pree a Che ef ining eAMorld, ¢ PSsTanus i PULITZER, poetics Dally Ex shing Company, Nos. =D HY Jos pt Sunday } st nt, 63 Park Row, r, 63 Park Row, ary, 63 Park Row, at New York as Second-Class Matter. r Evening |For England and the Continent and i Biatos All Countries in the International a ‘oatal Union, One Yoar .. One Movth.. i ASHOCIATED RBA, Aaa 3 exetnstr Ved to t eatin dnspettins eeetitad io FUL at od "hie "ha otal "tem peated Berean THE SPELL BROKEN. Gers, UPRAGEOUS ond unnecessary as the Garfield onder fa, perhaps O it has served a purpose in breaking the spell of @ too naive o. belief that there fs magte in government or superhuman ed- giinistrative skill in Dictators and Directors General. Despite suffering and loss, industry will accept the strangling tt Feoelves from an incompetent Fuel Administration in a epirit of law. @iding Americanism. But whatever he may be able to do to Industry and business, fo administrator can impose a shut-down, for five days and nine Mondays following, upon the normal working of American reason and intelligence. No Prussian system has yet trained the American people to submit to the consequences of bureaucratic bungling under the de- lusion that such things are God-directed, Citizens of the United States bow before no class of office-holding Junkers whose in- eapacity is shielded by their position, When, in the presence of a great national emergency, Americans @onsent to the creation of executive offices invested with new and extraordinary powers, they demaud that men appointed to fill those effices shall give both initial and continuing proof of their fitness to exercise such power. There is no war need which can weaken the justice of that @emand. i In his cowardly backdown before the consequences of his own inefficiency, Fuel Administrator Garfield has at least shocked the gountty into a realization that no amount of seal in creating, oo-ordi- ~ VOLUME — «NO, 20,608 nating and centralizing governmental functions for purpoves of war | ean make up for lack of calibre in men selected to eee that the funo- tloning goes on. The last two days have shown how Congress, how commerce and “industry, how the general public, feel about the wisdom and necessity of the Garfield order. During the next f daye—with 40,000 industrial plants and Braye workers affected in the New York metropolitan ares alona, i 4 at SE and with an estimated waxe love for the entire country of between $160,000,000 and $200,000,000—are certain to come in from all sides reports of privation and suffering that will sorely try the nation’s cheerfulness and courage. “What's the use of piling up food and ooal,” is pertinently asked, “If at the suine time you deprive the working people of the money it takes to buy?” Dvidence accumulates meanwhile to prove that there need never have been the question of such « staggering blow to industry if fue) edmiriigtration hud been in the hands of experienced ooal men who By Sophie «know something of the commodity and the ways of handling it, or if ‘Dr, Garfield and his staff bad heeded the oft-repeated warnings of ooa) experts, Americans will obey the Federal decree, But they can have no further faith in the Fuel Administration while Dr. Garfield remains at ite head. Furthermore, they have had a rude awakening from any dream that their Government, provided It fs left to itself, Is capable of carrying them through this war with supreme efficiency, both at home and in the field. The American people have been taught to believe that their affai—to prosper—require their personal attention. Maybe it is just as well—before they surrender atill more of their authority—that they should have this sharp reminder, Letters From the People lease limit communications to 150 worda, to me as “follows: “1 am « map fitty-nine years of age and very. muob In love with & woman at least twenty-five years younger, 1 heei- tate to declare my love for sov-| eral reasons, but I think she would accept me if I proposed. “I hesitate because in ten years or go my earning capacity will be impaired and I will be close to ‘old age,’ while she will atill be compara- tively young. “1 fee) there is an element of risk for her, and I care too much |for ber to want her to anmime any | auch risk, although as far as 1 possi-« bly can I shall never be old. | “My earnings average $8,000 per annum and I am worth about $40,000, |I¢ in the next ten yours my jcontinue at this rate 1 can amount which would put us on ‘easy street,’ but if before that time some- thing should happen and 1, like 40 many othera, bad to give up, I would not be able to stand it—to know that i bad made Iife bard for her, “Bhe does not know it, but I have made @ will leaving ber everything, and I eball continue to work and save ao that ber future will be pro- tected just as if she was my own in tac “L ould marry @ome one about my own age, but 1 do not want to marry excepting for love, and while my orles out for @ home there Suggestion for Mr, Garfield. Fewer Te the Hdior of The Kvening World ‘Dy the Eatiion of Ina oh as the Buel Administration eho UFO War Clines aud oonserva- fp States bas now ordered | MON is the order of the day—partiou. : + na a Nattonal Fuel) “*1¥ col conservation, It seems to ? Fe on ht iike to pro- | 2@ Mat the lights on the front of ‘ apartinent houses and other bulldings pose t y te adopted instead. | night well be ordered out, We can nduvtries observe Bat- | ceaily get along with the atreet Lights. ‘8 f-hollday even | |f Hecoasary it wouldn't be @ great ' rie urday | 24rdenip if all show windows were w, « tha ‘ ordered out. Interior Hmhting could wis a‘ nul Fuel Conserva-| te inate to do—and with all on the 4 1 Monday this| same level no one would be seriously Be, ro pativfactory to all, | fected nor would trade suffer. In I, | the aggregate this would save an ap- ees Precluble anount of coal, with no ao- J a ual discomfort to any one, ‘a bs hh National | orga 1 © to extend the > Pe t r the cartoon eo Uat the Westminster Kennel by J, u published 5 to hold an exhibition of duge " ie ‘von Square Garten from Feb, re if to 4 for whieh prizes maid to bad C 1 bu y te ale 1 $50,000 have been offered, i iw 0 lok it te right for the rich es ~ Aur 4, Peor f New York to have Dog a: Reseaithats tne when the rest of the United is ‘ i ig it Diates ts etinting: itself tn all the ore a8 . ; things of Utd Do you think wer: t @ it is fair to waste money which ta so ay . ted I the Hed Crosa and o ae 1 ha lta! the ¥ ust think of what pag pla’ s sary ould do in these days It ; ¢ \ pay 200,000 thrift stamps w V secure It woulda buy 1,000 Liberty Bonds It Re 1 of room, Mr, W purchase 60,000 subscriptions to LA ‘ very much atruck by it, te Red Gross and st would get 2,000 pater 5 eb eeuee Uy te j sto the Y MGA v rr K Phe Ked Crome needs the money for vatiable re @ provf on worthy cause than these Ne marian have ever dreamed money fram) adler in the offtce siving sway tthe 1: Bureau? OUrAges Ox ein these J.C, W., Director, sly @ crimel must be true love there also, which | would not be the case with ady other won, aod eo IT will remain @ingle unless 1 can #0 my way clear not become a burden for her, “It 1 should marry her there would |be those who would critiolee her be- cause she would take a man. ‘old enough to be her father. You know how some people talk and how such talk hurta @ sensitive person, 1 want to spare her that hurt If possible, “In the event our marriage doe: not take place, leaving her all 1 poi sess will cause tongues to wag and! ugiy things to be said which will hurt, too, I do not want to hurt her! while 2 ve, and sur would not want to do #0 from my ve. T have no family nor any one dependent on me, and I want her so much, but don't know what to do, Will you help mer The man has summed up the prod- lem clearly and honestly, Ae a Ken. “Still in the Rin | eral thing the marriages of "May and | December" are rarely happy ones. It fs unnatural. Old age and youth were never intended for Cupid's realm. When he ts looking at life go The Man Who Would The Marry a Young Woman Irene Loeb 018, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Drentag Word), with « Ured vision she is seeing it through rosy glasses, When the mus comes to « of existence where he wants to “settle o is usually energetio and to be up and doing, In a word, they are not in tune with each other. After a while they get on each other's nerves, The inevitable happens. They are pound to grow apart even though they remain to~ gether, Such marriages geaady the girl Is very young. the marriage often beca: flattered, or longs for the of life and marries for money, Meving that #he will overcome the most necessary thing tn the world— love—because she has everything elas, She awakens to realize that nothing can take the place of love However, long, long time there comes al case, where the worst more than her years would tndicate, where gne un- derstands the various 6! that enter Into the thing and realizes what she will have to meet in the future. Haying thus welghed all facts carefully she gues into me riage not blindly; and by such full knowledge does her part to continue happy. If this {# such a woman, the case this man writes about might be the “unusual” one. ‘The one way would be to tel the woman al) that you have told me— and more, Point out to her the full risk she takes, and who knows?—It may de the best thing for both, even if {t tf the rare cas Newest Things in Science For use on shallow water a motor-| riven boat bas been designed that Uteralty ridea on a cushion of alr and ts propelled by alr Jot beneath ite bull, ooour when No agrees to ie sho is o- That he produces one horse power for each pound hie engine weighs ts claimed by the French inventor of @ motor utlliting the explosive power of gunpowder, | ee Every ounce of coal handled te) automatically weighod and recorded by a New York inventor's shovel that has @ scale and recording mech- anism inside the handle ; wo A Frenchman has! ted an eleo- trio sign in y {ters are made to scintillid volving col- | ored eons between incandescent lamps and glass 5 s A Double tread w 5 have been tn- yented for motor trucks, the inner treads, which are stly smaller than the Ure-carrying ones, being formed to fit ad tracks, | oe Fresh milk 19 shipped long dla- | tances tn perfect condition in Brasil in sealed cans with tr blocks of frozen milk be it to keep ite temperature arr Family By Roy L. McCardell Coprrget, U1, by the Prom Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World), HEN Mra Jarre oalled Mre. Rangie wee not too ill to re- eelve her friend. fm fact, she wee woeartng @ beautiful new em broidered kimono and had her bats: done up #0 neatly—evidently the re- gult of & recent visit of the neighbor- hood hatrdresser—that Mra. Jarr feit as though she had been trapped But Mre. Jarr had her revenge, She re- solved not to be aware of the new kimono or to even ask if it had been 4@ bargain at an euction sale of the @ift of @ friend returning from the Oriem. Mra. Jarr also felt a grim satisfaction that ahe had not brought flowers, “1 intended stopping in at the for. Ist's and bringing you some roses,” remarked Mra. Jarr, “But I don’t think flowers are proper in the «ick room, and (hen they are #0 suggestive of tunerals—for even tf you are oon- valescent, my dear, you might have @ relapse. Who knows?” “Oh, don't say that, please!” said Mra, Rangle, “I am so afraid of a relapse.” And she placed her hand against her side aa though in pain, But it really wae that Mre. Jarrs eyes might rest on the embroidered fight of storke—not symbolic in the case of Mra Rang! indlaposition, however, “Dr, Smerk,” Mra, Rangle went on, “says my case is & most remarkable ons. I don’ asem phystoally il, and yot he says it is @ nervous reflex ac- tion here"—and Mrs, Rangle indi- cated the embroidered water lilies, Just then the doorbell rang, halting Mrs. Rangtle's description of her ner- yous reflexions, and interrupting Mra. Jarr’s nervous reflexions that such « kimono must have oost #0 if it cost @ cent, “Wil you go see who & is, my dear?” said Mra, Rangie, languidly, “The maid ts #o stupid she lets in anybody, the tradesmen, bores*—— Mrw. Jarr went to the door with an- other nervous refleotivn, the serwas reflection that the stupid maid had admitted her and that she was not « tradesman, Neither waa it tradesmen this time. It was Mra, Sope and Mrs. Bopp, the latter a lady from Brooklyn. “Ig she better?” whispered the new. comers in tense and tragic voices, “Bho appears @o, but you never can tell,” replied Mra. Jarr, “Her oolor [ts bad,” ahe added in tones that wore not too low but what the oonvaleacent could als. fear tnem, “But that may not be due her complexion, it may be the crude shade of the wrap she is wearing.” speak, for the icimona, “We won't take off our furs or rub- vera,” gald Mra, Bope, atill spouking o @ ghastly whisper, “we don't be- | ileve in long visits wher i It gets them excited and has bad Greadful consequences at times.” “Won't you please come in, my dears?” oried the patient peevishly, “You are standing right in that open door and there ie an awfully chilly draught blowing right in!* “That's just how irritable Kitty Grimshaw waa before they suspected it wae consumption,” whispered Mra. Bope, so the lady in the kimono could hear the cheerful tidings “It's & bad sign when they haven't ambition to put on their oorseta and want to Ife around In those hideous Chinese things,” whispered Mra, Bopp, modulating her voloe for the conval- eovent's benefit also For the late |comers sensed at a gianoe they were expected to be envious of the gor- geous new kimono, and had tnstino- tively resolved to be compassionate concerning tt. ‘Come in! Come in! dawdling In the doorway; you make me nervous!" whimpered Mra, Ran- gle, noting that her visitors intended to \gnore her sickroom aplendor, "My, how Irritable the poor dear ts!” said Mrs, Sope. “and how dreadful you look, Helen Rangie!” erfed Mra. Bopp of Brook- lyn. “Don't mind my plain speaking, my dear, For you wouldn't look hal as ghastly as you do if it wasn't for the reflection from that wrapper you are wearing, Since the war with Gor- many they seem to get the most terri- ble purple dyes, don't you think!” “This is an old temple kimono,” #aid Mra, Rangte spitefully, “They are very rare and cost"——~ “But we mustn't stay; we'll get you all upset, you poor dear,” ald Mra Bop “You won't mind if we don't kine you—not that I think it's infeo- tious, you know. But «ick people ahouldn't be kissed, Goodby!" And Mins, Rangle cried for five min- utes after they were gone, and told Mra, Jarr that she, Mra, Jarr, was her only real, sweet and sympathetic friend, apd if she, Mrs. Range, died, Mrs, Jarr would be willed the kimono, ———_——_ NEW YORK DIRECTORY GROWS. BW YORK'S latest directory con. tains more than 1,100,000 names of individuals, The city’s fret directory, published in 1786, recorded 854 names. A copy of this ortwinal directory brought $2,275 at a book sale This was @ double wrap, #o $9 | soverm years oc ce RET, Americans & B UnderFire By Albert Payson Terhune Coprrie’'. 1018, by the Press Publishing ve New York Frening Wortd), No. 62.—THE BATTLES FOR MATAMORAS, {118 ts the story of two battles fourht In two days for the possession of a greacy little Mexican clty—two battles im which American soldiers thrashed an army more tham twice the size of their own. The United States annexed Texas, which had ones belonged to Mexico, Tho Moxtcans resented the enmex {ng and prepared to {nado Texas, Our Gove: @ent Zachary Taylor—grirzied old Indian fighter Grande to guard the Texas border, early spring of 1846, When Taylor and his raw recruits reached the Rie Grande they found the Mexicans had chosen the city of Matamoras, on the opposite side of the river, as a relly ing point end wero massod there in foro, Taylor ontmty decided to remove this menace by crossing the river and capturing | Matamoras, He had a way of deciding things first and working out thelr Cotatls later, Taylor's first step wae to build a ride fort just across the Rio Grande from Matdmorns and to garrison the place, He named it Fort Brown, ‘The Mexican President sent word commanding Taylor to withdraw at ones, Taylor sent back the ourt message: by order of the United States Government, and here I am 1 ¢ | down with these suppiles, he started back to the fort, But on the first day's march he was met by scouts who brought him direful tidings. The moment Taylor’s back had been turned the Mexican batteries at Matamoras had begun a heavy bombardment of Fort Brown. The fort's commander had been killed and the garrison was fighting for its very Me against desperate odds. To prevent Taylor from relieving the beleaguered fort the Mextoan General, Arista, had crossed the river with 6,000 regulars and was now between him and Fort Brown, The situation seemed hopeless, The fort could not be expected to bom out long, Nor, presumably, could Taylor's 2,288 militiamen cut their wag | through 6,000 Mexicans to {ts reltef, | A council of war was called. Bvery one of Taylor's officers voted for tating back upon Point Isnbel and defending that base against the advange This was in the Taylor had atready established a base of supplies at Point Isabel, thirty miles away, and as soon as Fort Brown was built and garrisoned he marched back to this base with The Man W: jan Whe § 3.288 men to get extra food and munitions, Loaged Wouldn't Go, farmer—at the head of 4,000 militiamen to the RIC ¢ 4 we ing foe, Taylor gruffly overruled this prudent suggestion, saying? “Tl go through to Fort Brown or stay in my shoes!” (“Stay in my shoes” border slang for “Ie tn my tracks"), . s Foe's Attacks Futile. And he went ahead, At dawn next day—May 8, 1846—the Americans went forward until they were halted by a salvo of artillery from Mexioan batteries on high ground ahead of them. At the same time the vanguard of Arista’s army sprang up from the thick chapparal and attacked them, All day the Mexicans sought to crush the handful of Americans, Ail day Taylor's men fought back the overwhelming assaults, At nightfadl the enemy retreated. Next morning Taylor continued his advance, But once more his march was blocked by the Mexi- cans, who had taken up a strong position in front of him amid hills covered with thorn bushes, Their artillery crowned a line of hills. Taylor this time did not walt to be attacked, His infantry changed through the tmpeding thorn bushes, hurling themselves at the Mexican | infantry. They drove back their opponents, after a bloody fight. | But they could not dislodge the Mexican batteries that still scourged | enetr ranks. Nor could they continue their march toward Fort Brown until those batteries were silenced. Taylor ordered a cavalry charge, The American horsemen rode up the hillslope unchecked by the artillery fire, They cut down the Mextcan artillerymen at their guna and selzed the bate tery. The Yankee infantry rushed on ia the cavalry'’s bloody wake and Mexican defeat Into @ ro’ _ Se ese in those two battles lost more than 1,000 men, to the Americans’ loos of 49, The Mexicans scurried back across the Rio Grande, leaving the way olear to Fort Brown, All the fight was knocked out of them. Nine Gnye later they evacuated Matamoras without striking a blow, leaving Taylor to take peaceadle possceston of the city, il nan . Putting Out Household Fires 8 under-| If this cannot be done make bim up- he public| et the bed and throw the mattress writers have warned the D on the floor, It will burn slower aguinst the danger of @ DI@Z6 thers and the broom and water oan Here re! be used to the best advantage. TT Fire Department and | lin thie present situation, people are | Don't stand | \a fow hinte from a member of the | department that every woman should commit to memory, for they are #0) easy to carry out that if universally known and put in pr.ctice they would sve much valuable property that now goes up in smoke, not to mention the lives lost in many of | theee confugrations. | A wet broom forms an effective) | ishers for all small house- phe peed If the curtain blowe over) [the gaa jet or lamp and biazes up, | use @ broon Wet it in a pail of | | water or at @ faucet. One can throw \a solid sheet of water or just @ spray with this from a@ pail. It ts almost aa good a8 @ hose, It ts possible to| beat out @ fire with a wet broom or pull down a blazing curtain or por-| tere, On discovering flames in any) room close the door and window | also, If possible, to stop the draught, Never try to extinguish burning grease by throwing water on the blaze, as this only epreads it, Suoh fires must be emothered. Put flour, salt, sand, or even baking powder on the flames. It Is often best to let = pao of grease burn itself out and sim- ply see that tt sets nothing else on , five, Don't throw the flour or salt on it, as this will make the burning fat splash in all directions, Use @ long stick or poker to mix the flour or other substance with the burning grease, Thia will quickly put out the fire, If a lamp or ofl heater takes fire handle it very quickly or let it alone, Toss @ rug or heavy blanket over it or empty salt or flour on it, bug not sugar, or it will only make a bad mat- ter worse, If the lamp explodes or upsets the best thing to do 1s to close the doors of the room and turn in @ fire alarm, Remember these four rules, They hen run for the broom and pail.| may help save your life aa well as it |My taking this precaution and keep-| those of others. Never pass close to ing cool the chances are that the fire) a fire, Do not go above a fire, for will be out long before the firemen| flames travel upward. Do not go | arrive, | back for valuables after reaching a If the bed catches fire because of| place of safety, Lone no time in get- the bad habit some men have of read-| ting every one out of the house, ing and amoking in bed, beat out the| If your clothing catches fire don't fire with a wet broom, If the fire] run out of doors but le down on the | spreads to tho mattress get the man floor and roll over, throwing Fug of the family, who 1s probably the; around the body, if possible, | tq cause of euch a confiagration, to roll| smother the flames and protect the it up and throw ft out of the window. | face. Inventors Strive to Help Win the War NP of the bustest places in the) may not attempt to mine the air? O world Just now Je the United|erhups this inventive man i @ mew (| States Patent Ofloe, where)” you, tue inventor also 1s some- thousands of inventors are striving to|thing of a poet, and certainly « show the Government just how the/ dreamer. It 1s given to such men to see things. Their visions have been , war can be won. Hecrotary Dantels| it tones on the road of olviligation, , of the navy has 40,000 separate SUs-| Ard tho stubby fellow with the soiled gestions along thie Mne and Becre-| collar who looks at you out of child's tary Baker of the army long since| eyes may have an idea in, bie Besis | | that will sen ne world forws a jlost count, Bome of them are highly | |i hd yeara in a single night, But \nteresting, that could hardly be expected of the There was the Ohio man who a4-| }rre nan who went to the War | vised that millions of potato bugs be| Office in Paris with a guaranteed sprinkled over Germany from aero-| scheme for breaking the German Mne, planes, Thiy suggestion ts not half| He proposed to corral all of the fo futile as {t might seem. Germany| that could be found, and set them ot the potato from America and ft] take the German trenches, First he ) fae beet hor mainstay in this war.| Would have fi » each dog's \Phen why should we not send Amer-|head an automatic pistol with @ {ean potato buge to destroy the Ger-| muzzle arrangement fitting over the man vines and so starve the foe? | a h, Then, each time the Another man hit upon a method of | automatic would have vuarding Lonaon against air raida. | And when an army le advocated that thousands of tiny| corps was sent against the balloons, each carrying several| Germans, all barking a Jounces of high explosives, be sus-| ously, the foe could have done no leas pended above the city by means of| than retreat. But this Inventor failed strings. The moment that a bold|in one particular, He neglected to Zeppelin er oF aeronnut ran into fy how the dogs were to be this barrage he would set off the ex-| made to bark at the right moment, plosives and be dashed to pleces.| Which wae very similar to the man And no one can say that the Idea ts} who invented the train that would / ‘ not logical. Tt ts based upon the game principle ag mining @ harbor. | Wee Knowe that tp future ware we run without motive power, He de- verthed everything In detall, save the way to drive his train, ed