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' ’ ¢ ' ’ ' , ' a : . , a 4 5 ! 3 a “ “ 4 a a 5 a e ue at ie al are EDITORIAL PAGE nig Wiarid, ESTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No 63 Park Kow, New York. RALPH PULITZER, 1 63 Park Mow, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Tr 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Be ry, 63 Park Kow. “——Gatered at the Post-Office at New York an Hecond-Ciass Matter, Bubdseription Rates to T Fvening |For England and the C World for the United Btates ‘All Countries if) the Int and Canada One Year . $6.90|Ono Yoar. One Month 50!One Mont ¥ THE ABsoC The Associated Prem ely ontinied te exetitad to thot otherwise ils paper b8. .NO. 20,609 THE AMERICAN WAY. HICH is the better fighter? The duty to obey, nevertheless appreciates and longs to ree VOLUME , who, while ho obeys those whom it is his an efficiency in a!] who command him; or the man whose interest in his superior officers begins and ends in the fact that he is bound to execute their orders? | The man who reasons out why he {s submitting to authority and | thereby strengthens himself with a zeal to ~hicn that authority must) itself measure up; or the man who takes reasons ready mado and) asks only that the voice of command ehall be sufficiently loud and; emphatic? | For Americana there {s but one answer. There is only one way they can fight. They are going to fight and win that way. You| can drill them into perfect obedience and discipline. But you can’t put their intere and intelligence to sleep, And at home the same is going to apply. with one great differ- | ence. Things can’t be done here with anything like perfect order and} erietude. The fault-finding, rowing ond swearing for which The Evening Post begs indulgence, inasmuch as “thut is our democratic way of conducting a war,” is nothing the Republic need apologize for. | It’s an old national habit—that hasn't lost Americans euch a| Jot, either—of going about a big job wide awake, with plenty of iran talk and an eye on everybody. | —— | KULTUR-COLORED MAPS. | MONG news despatches from Washington this week ‘appeared | quoted passages from an article credited to August Thyssen, | who is described as “one of the wealthiest members of Ger-} iwany’s business community and a leader of tho republican move- inent.” The article, which was suppressed by the German Government, | Geclares that 6ix years ago the Hohenzollerns, convinced that the mil: tary system upon which depend their power and prestige could only naintain itself by conquest, began bidding for the support of wealthy German merchants by promising huge trade rewards in countries where the Imperial man Government should later establish its uscendency, The writer of the article quotes from speeches the Kaiser ia eaid! to have made to private gatherings of German business men during the years 1912 and 1913, and in which ho dwells specifically upon the | vast revenues of India which “will, after our conquest, flow in a golden stream into the Fatherland.” Plans were likewise mado for | the exploitation of Australia and-Canada | In the lig ances of this eort from the Kaiser months before the war seem en urely in character, | Apropos of which we submit a char Kultur: Tn a German standard two-volume atlas of the world published in Germany eight years before the war (Andrees Handatlas: Verlag ! von Velhagen und Klasing: Bielefeld und Leipai, of each of the ¢ cht of other well-known Imperial indiscretions, utter acteristic apecimen of applied 1906), the map *f countries is a ompanied by a smaller outline saplatenie bar Sees t ig [SIAL OL me, LO looned at it a ony | oNey mesh, iy dba, von | decorations reward. world map whereon the country’s colonies are indicated in deep pink the nd) time, He said nothing, but bia eyesjor 1f I wanted to drop into Gua's! EER One. TY GAOr) NOP eee Ee es a But for Ger hie { _-, ae bymn bial filed. with tere | @ near-sneer,” said Mr, Jur. “What's tut for Germany this is not enough. The German colonies are weokly secular] Motmer went about alt her duties (Place to see what time It was andthe big idea? Shoot!” { all there. But there is another shade of pink to show the “Verbreit paper, and With cheerfulness and alacrity, She maybe take a hand at auction pin-| “Oh, ft {sn't about shooting,” re- | e e ae (ole) ung der Deutschen” (spread or expansion of the ¢ } monthly religious| Wa richly eudowed with all the ochle, you t like it. Why, even) plied Mrs. Jarr. “It's about food sav- | a J : pread or ansion of the Germans), And this [Receanly Ibaabta- anal e teens She when 1 am going to work you al-! {ng and coal saving and gas saving, | ‘ . i is made to cover Enstern Australia, goodly portions of South » was a man|and myst among ne: cvnildren— | Ways Say to me ‘Now, be home early!’ and everything.” By Bide Dudley America, a slice of Southern Canada and—save New Mexico and unimpeachs+| Wanted mo to go to schvol und was And yet when I have to stay ho “Fine!” wald Mr. Jarr. “Let's have sree Gh sTbp New Tor Arizona—the WNTIRE UNITED STATES! . GIN DURE Ged Seat ee et at ane RST Ton "tHeeO GAKASIA bollnaya You) Obs 1h. Tou eeimel meal exolieae no Enea Bim | atood with bowed hog one read eas ; : we ted and tntoler= | y eased at hon rking on tho |!°ct” “Well, you can make fun tf you | 66 ina { Collewing original peut, ee ee eed we wonder it took time to hammer out of the German mind ant in bly ree} fann in summer jing to rehuer, “How do we eave coal by your! want to, but I have solved the prop- | ‘ ; he notion that many of the pa of ¢ PD conquest wore . stot rollt views, but a) Mowinter until t seventeen staying home-—-how do we save fats, tein.” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “You will t andl amoothed? f Aqneat wero alraady pated aukon a 8 3 fathe worthy), From the time f was fourteen Lor food or sugart” asked Mrs. Javr mit that ff, all over the country, |om lis old busey horse Tipsy. curve thed? od nely had had a desire to go uway to wcbook |myyait, though, Pve an ident" If the food ged in one day, aud| On tho front porch of a aie citizen, a fond husband. * CON- | Many Roxbury 1) made their fi erit = eB. He member of hia chu! Hel first start in the world by going to) Mr Jarr looked at his good lady tn) half the coal used 'n o ay, was|house sat a girl writing, Neape oved hile ' pald his de ray! Istey County to woh ow country pr “Docs burt you?" be NOT used—that would end all the|earbed in a Sowing morn ‘yd ha seboul, Latte M ( shortages? j pink alleged trimmed with gen- > rs FF ’ ? ! > faith, He had no senrte| 8c ue 1 | shortages? p Letters From the J] cople and kept ie uth, Mo had no mule ub tite eh or seen Ie SHANE sae gillitah. panties | Please Umit communications to 15¢ a REISER BE cataract sya ia oa Mis, Jarr, haug! for Just one day the coal and food the May sted « an we se ce eee What kaVe my intid a atart In the) “'m not trying to be emart; yoo| ued all over the land was cut ‘o ooked up dreamily, Her! ? mms btw Soldiers ‘ An't Complain: |w y did) for| “The primrone by th # brim” | right direction for i are,” replied Jar “You ex-/ half the average amount, would air showed sho was AS Miow Dooljitle retired, the or hy 5 Oe oe eats we for [could mot have been seen by tee that T got it tt a Jaimed in a tone of wild surprise! mean we would catch up with the a deuve of @ timo with her) (urned and looked at P. Silas Potts . : 2 r , | This is true of mos im ere, hei Rewari ia iny “ that you had an {i deticlency im everything. Even tho! writi; r rament stood out all | ¥one, the tonsorial artist, He coughed c : | plough and the and the scythe doje Sixth your to W “And o | have!” cried Mra, Jarr.| congestion of transportation. What's! over ior, ere ened Suk of the. root.) Ee f b hat | not deve renaibile att Let me think tt out, for it's the mosi| your plan to cut consumption im) ws. Atavor of our lovely cit Bai, em Neo up the eof) u q ? the of Liga oft x 5 1 ‘ y AYO shes hse e 1 A pl Baer és Pa: 918 SeuNioUs aa thine aes WONDERED, $4 i she responded in dulcet tonea, |, “Pris he sald, “you bave i A Narre u an- | view the beauties of this world were |the main things “Never mind thinking {t out" ad-| “Let ine ask you @ question before, Sry Lohomien |heard @ wonderful poem, It was ite n no ‘net fury Mt ivain and foolish, He did not Mikel icy hag had much te vised Mr, Jarr, I tell you," replied Mrs, Jarr, “Waoat etoba wan read to reform you, You aH ian soldiers Vl my tendency to books; he was aftald, | reeling of kiuship w ou keep still and don't bother! do we do when company comes un- She was Miss Wilabella Mae Loo-| have been punished enough, Get out \ ' them jas I learned tater, that 1 would be-| things, me!" commanded Mrs. Jarr. “We expectedly and we only have, say, little, the poetess, pride of Delhi anal val ; oy ner 8 j for ihemmanives Jeome a Method ter—his pet] As | Klow oldymy subsequent dave! vomen will have the vote, and we! one chicken for dinner for the whole| “I'm on my way to bear the caso} Tan ihe wok peieie we : Saiyan laws OL IRD. fayerston, He never alluded to my | hy i have will show the mon we have the brayns, famtly, company included?” of # man arrested for boozi suid Then he left. The mem- , om Keep thety tem ause of une! ierary works appar loft Ht out youth as ar ng pe to use the ballot. If the Preswent; “Make it do for all," replied Mr.|the Mayor, for he also served as dience applauded with | A MAID OF AMERICA, {fet Aine 4 | He knowatl held for ¢ P onde es a ave, and t owners ts MES ae oi te k Exchange t . ap eruahe We Juertaesaa « in A sand : a ‘ As am Girt Sees the Soldiers’ Lor, anne toath had the wry tor Evenind World Daily Magazine — [wee | To the Rescue! / af fi Coprriant. 1916, Crees Publiantag © Tes New York Eveut What My Parents The Jarr Family Wanted Me to Be No, XVI.JOHN BURROUGHS Great Naturalist’s Pather Was an Unbending Puritan, Who, Distrusted His Son’s Fondness for Books. Cons ria’ Y father, Chauncey Burroughs, born tn 1803, recetved a fair schooling for those tinies—the three R's of his estimate of me. My aspirations were a sealed bot and} ot my writings, my sister Ac tuught school one | tod me that when soe ahi or two winters. magazine with some a Hig reading was)in it and accoum by oe ~ —_ and Congress will listen to me and| Jarr, Police Juc “Won't you coine along |F° Ai) Wire please " * m ¢ uw uphold my idea, ¢ r hen,” cried Mrs, Jarr ex-/and teach bim a lesson with a poe ——— S 1e 7, make a law to ypbold my dea, this! “Well, t Our Miners May Serve In France. ountry will not be in the mudd citedly, "That's my Mdea? Let every | about the horrors of getting s'ewed?" |Raw RECRUIT GIVES OFFICER O one say when the fight: begin the work of restoration the mo-/is i now, with meatless days family have just enough coal and!) “For yo, Mayor yo, yeot” ESS 1 ; | L ON IN GOOD MANNERS. tig t Germaas out Ment tout the advance ef the Allted | wheatlces days and all that sort of] fuel for itself for ono day and have) ‘Tho poctess leaped to ber fec'. Into| Huring somo recent territorial of the cos! fields of Northern vie Las x Sis yr a | CT. | vistors, : : |the bou sho went, k king t th | manoeuvres, ® row recrult had beca Pranee, of » Lens is the most ‘aod i ie dratta, wi ‘AX KR md of fact, half the wom. | hat ig, let one-half the country | family dog lying on the “Welcome’’| told off ay an orderly y productive e, Wh crowned ed by exnert-|en 1 know were dieting so us to| Visit the other half and spend theday mat. ‘Two minutos later she emerged! Oy reaching the marquee where with succers, ask hat y of on | kee ff fut ayo ng day, Then Jet the other half of | wud climbed Into tha buggy |the officer waa, he poked his howl American 6 4 will fol rvi gtarchy food a \d,| the population return the vielt the| “Giduap, 7 Whey were off, |{2,4nd bluntly ingy Kts : “ . | "Have yo anything for mo to dy, luw close « he ; and bread ts 11 t. So that} next day, | se 8 mister?” {toriouw Allies, 6 a uh W ess days, Uther] erat tehe tira ete red Hod Baker atood before His Honor |e tgustediy laying down his cigar, troops a ton tt 5 men 1 kne not ext any red} Whole cou: t al op Just] ine sayor, toting @ vulesd Hanes! OMR YN ther Getke: Gane “s of th meat, and that 8 porkiess duya| Hal€ the food and coal it would te Mayon is Fae ey oul a ta once keane 4 would be taben- land beefiosy daym And chicken otherwise consume, Yes, call them) anes a and to | Sit dow Be he added, “and 1 wit show Iveren iminers,|so dear, anyway, her inybody | National Visiting Days—evory Mon- arn gun PRS, ee Tote Tarrier sented ites each in Whe i aF |the hoose-gow. I'd rather go Were! + a impelf and the us would be| could afford But, be st as t| Say and Fr . jofficer, pre ing to the entrance, a ton of COB! | may 1 hava the thet lat — ~ |than face the old woman. | walke i briekly to the tent, saluted, i ee ai tar {sible solution of the whole dimeutt FROM AWAY BACK! | ‘The Mayer Menaliog with Uie left) air, Mave quipment of the Vast amount| ‘Well, what te the Idea?" asked MAIND drafted soldier on his! hand. From the anteroom came Miss) you fOr $03 compelled to retreat, no an ar ip across the | Mr. Jorn, way to camp for the firet time Doolittle, The crowd i the courtroom! 4) nthe ables an mont is now gc made ho at abi pa rhe only have some varcastic| in his fe rode {mn a train and murmured in awe, She took her place tw. y replied aie ORs - raul Fy he W ve ott, ) make concerning it eaid|an automobile and saw his first elec beside the Mayor ree pe aeing te enmenty ub engineers | of other vital supplies, Myre Jee bide pol pay you wii tle sie and moving pictures! Ang Wnedethes Filly tied User wits 1918. by the Brees Publishing Go, (The New Yoru Evening World), Although father never spoke to me | By Roy L. McCardell Con 1018, by the Press Publislog Co. (The New York Brening World), GET very nervous at these claim {t as your own idea, but I holidays I didn't expect and| Know you'll sneer and try to say something sarcastic.” “I won't say anything sarcastic till | “Having YOU) ] know what itis,” ventured Mr. Jarr. hese days, when your office is| “Oh, 1 dont know about that!" Mrs. alms and! syut up to suve coal, may be pleasant | Jarr retorted, “If a man had thought Ok TOBIN. | roe vou, but It lett for mel” of \t, you would have sald it was a lesa i GREAT {dea. But when a woman Yeas," said Mr. Jarr, “But before | overg a solution of the great prob- ued to want me) lems that confront us, even if that | ut to shoot Woman 1s your own wife, you'll “| jmarked Mra, Jar also that 1 do not want,” re- home pigali once | owed hin le of mi a phot this you always see home If | tried to get » little gamo of poul at Sam Grusn’s, | | blamed If he guns captured In the Crimean Wa lthe members of a group of men for a bril What Every Man ‘Expects By Helen Rowland H yes! O It ts perfectly easy, For any woman to learn to COOK! ‘ All in the world you need ‘ Ig the “right SPIRIT, my dear! And a stove and a cook-book, And @ bungalow aproa, AND The genius of a Newton, ‘The science of a Savartn, The patience of a Griselda, ‘The agility of a Charlle Chaplin, { ¥ The Judgment of Solomon, , “wees wom The skill of Ariel, The tmagination of Jules Verne, r | ‘The persistence of Deillab, ‘The versatility of Mrs. Fiske, F Sak | ‘The sure alm of Christy Mathewson, The coolness and composure of “Central,” ‘The calm decisions of Harounal-Raschid, The thumbs of a blacksmith, ‘The skin of a salamander, The batting average of Ty Cobb, ‘The bluff of Cagllostro, The nerve of Jess Willard The self-assurance of the Kalser. The faith of Joan of Arc AND— The meekness of a— WORM! W ar M Cc d a | } of the Fighting Nations In earlier d actaof gallantry in battle were sometimes re- warded by the bestorcat of orders of hobility or chivalry. Medale are now given without regard to rank or station; noble and com- moner alike must face the test, and to the best man goes the prize. In thia new series of articles The Bvening World will give the origin of the war medaty and decorations of the nations in the present ' world war and will explain the manner in tehich each must be carned, ry Coprright, 1019. by the Pras Publiating Co. The New Tork Lroning World: NO. 1—GREAT BRITAIN ' ON service in many of ber long succession of colonial wars, special medals have been awarded by Gre: ‘ ’ Britalu, more than by any other nation, but th t lors may supreme honor w hope to gain is the Vic » It ts awarded without regard to rank, birth or station, for courage and self-sacrific ways “in tho presence of the enemy,” tn somo venture so desperate that a man cou not bo Hel to undertake ft, The Victoria Cross tsa bronze M so cross made from aud it was {nstituted in 1856. With It, to crs, Goes a yeurly n cane of need, to by royal warrant of Queen Victor privates and non-vomuilssioned pension of $50, sometimes ine! 259, It hay been awarded to ¢ d in action, and t those who win it more than once weur a clasp for each Vtctorte Crees, ime the great honor {9 conferred. Soldiers wear {t on & red ribbon, sailors on b! ter thelr name been awarded up to 1914, and it has been ed in the great war, in spite of the } sand vourage of tho men euga that It ier honor than before, Vor officers in army and navy tho next great prize Is Distinguished & ed by the in- flials D.S.@. It tac nieritorlous or distingul der fire, but vometine ship behind the battle Diatinneished ser-!*3%, 18 of gold and Is below the rank of maj i Order. . bial . Por captains, commissioned off and warrant oMcers in tho present flict a new ration, the Military Cross, M. ©, has been establish: by King Geor; It ty of oilver and ty awarded for great personal courage. For the rank and file tne D. C. M. (Distinguished Con~ duct Medal), established in 1895, and which Is as high an honor as the D. 8, ©., 19 presented for unusual ser- vice in the field. ‘The Military Medal is a new honor for enlisted men for “individ bravery in the field." It (a sor rentow brillant strat The D. 8. 0. often or leader- inatituted tn towed on officers not rs under that grade ant achieve. 4 sailors are willingly sof bronze, silver and chieve nts which these ment. Day by day soldiers a risking their lives for theso 1 kold rather, for the herolc