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ane ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZmN, Bx: ‘Bu by the Press Publishing © 4 Published Dally Except inday, by ie, Frese Publishing Company RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row if J. ANGUS HHAW rer, 63 Park Row. JOBEPH PULITZBR, Jr., Becret 3 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ABAOOIATED PISS. eet Se Sa eee aT eM iar Mie ose iy Bs VOLUME 58....00s00e an + NO, 20,612 BEAT THEM TO THEIR KNEES! _ O HOPE of peace is to be found in the Imperial German Chan-} cellor’s answer to President Wilson and the British Premier. | On the contrary, Count von Hertling’s speech before the | Main Committee of the Reichstag yesterday strikes little save the Lard note of German arrogance. On the four general propositions—open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, economic equality, reduction of armaments—haughty agree ment. 8 to Belgium, condescensior Bat whon it comes to the evacuation of Russian and French ter- fitory, the readjustment of Italy's frontiers, the independence of Balkan states—the German Chancellor bruaquely demolishes the Supposition that Germany can | Wllies. The United States and England are given to underetand that German occupation of French or Russian territory is no concern of} n to common proposals from the theirs. The restoration of Alsace-Lorraine will not even be con-| the answer of a Government that deems itself in a position fot to make terms but to dictate them. It is the answer of a Government that sti!l holde itself, whatever | has liappened, the conqueror. It is the answer of militarism, daunted but deaperate, and there- fore the more dangerous. For the Allies it can mean but one thing: To the firing line and beat them to their kne Americ » more speed, more speed! — = THE KIND THE COUNTRY NEEDS. HE appointment of Edward R. Stettinius to the newly-created position of Surveyor General puta in charge of all Army buy- ing a man whose executive grasp and practical experience | fiepire the utmost confidence. Before the United States entered the war, the Allies made Mr.) Ftettinius, who is a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., con- trolling agent for their purchases of war supplies in the United States Dis work in that capacity and his enbeequent servic f National Defense @tecutives of the da: Mr. Stettinius is the kind of official the country needs t ey it through this war. Mr. J. D, A. Morrow, who yesterday assumed full control of the gart of Fuel Administration which relates to the apportionment and istribution of coal, is another appointment eure to be widely @pproved. Mr. Morrow knows al] about coal and the handling of it. He is fn experienced coal man, organizer of the National Coa) Association, former Assistant Secretary of the Federal Trade Commission and the type of calm, level-headed American who, when he puts hia mind end hand to things, makes them more, Mr, Morrow is the kind of official the countr trough this war. Following the accentuated criticism directed of late upon the Mar Department and the Fuel Administration, these two appoint- | mients can hardly fail to ecem in some measure a result of that! criticism, | It may be that President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker} have long had it in mind to create an office of Surveyor General for ull Army buying ond to eelect a man as fit as Mr. Stettinius for the job, | Tt may be in the Council ye made him one of tho best equipped war Pp needs to help see t attacks upon the conduct of the War Department s-which, in so far as they have been the work of partisans and mal contents, the country has condemned plated readjustment. It may be that Fuel more expert assistance even before industry, shocked by his admission of failure, demanded to know what he and his aids had been doing to relieve the coal situation, In any case, what mainly interests the American people is that eomething has promptly happened whereby they gain the best man! that conld have heen found to handle the procurement and production ave only hastened a contem-| Administrator @. the need of of war supplies and a capable coal expert to take a fresh grip on tribution t fauit-finding hasn't put us much behind vet practical problems of coal Hon : ay Letters From the People Please mit communications to 150 words Bad Conditions. \r > te Yas The Eveaiag Word Can we not have Gwtribution of the It la evedtiv + quent upon the lack of Rar ine y wondered at, { oiMce building in which | am k me that people Uke fs without an adequate coal {Matd of Amertey fap ‘th and the offices are almost at the Ueimns of our soldiers in (ng point, This is not an unusual oc- Of the people of the United currence in this or in hundreds of] How A Maid public buildings with pre y Waites Of course, 1 realize the diMculty of |comnm ind i th getting coal under present conditions average Roos but that does not alter the fact that] They are not ensut the tenants are suffering while the| state frankly the existing con} landiords are saving thousands upon |i camps. How is the world thousands of doliars in the cost of | Wise to know and fuel. Why should the entire burden | fictencies? fell upon the tenants? If this co: Would Kill Wild Pow! dition in to continue, the tenants|To the waiior of Tue bienicg \ ould recelye some reduction in their] In consideration of tho hie ronte. JACK FROST, all food i ally: products, Thinks War Is Kun 0. K, &c., why can't wo Do the Kaivor of The Exenicg World wild fowl for food? ara th ‘The letter in your column headed | #nda of wild fowl that gather in “No Sacrifices Because of Bungling” | bays, lakes and rivers inthe spring and signed W. O. has roused my tre. | of the year, that would give hundreds "The writer evidently is a putriot who | of families moat, of wiich thoy now tekea It out in shouting, lore effort | have to deny themselve And less idle criticiem would do some| Personally, I think that this should Peal good in these times, As to able|be a war measure only, and not jaen for office, I think the writer of|allowed after food and pric t that letter had best leave his or her back to nor ain I ft n armachair and open his or her eyes, that all good by The Pro bibl o>, (The New York Krening Werld,) By]. Hassel] Americans ®& ES | The Patriotic Wife The Jarr Family By Sophie . By Roy L. 1018, by the Breas Pol ene Loe women asking for advice as to how they can do thelr “bi "in| the effort toward your Javr under his igh, for Mra ard him and waa properly shocked may go to the front rations ope | hicsaplebeinptaccirle "1 do not wish to hear you speak that mands for workers on all sho sald, “it ts irreverent 1f not} so rather than sacrilegious. |found their friend in furs and tears “Never you mind how "I have old-f ious prejudices” reads as follows: twenty-five years 1 would like to enitst, but there ia no income other than what T would love to bave him | | Join the colors and would do what I but T have al- n taken care of, ere are many previous expe {ot age spoke sltghting’ * Mr. Jarr protested, nee trying to| nal Visiting Days to con- serve food and co. or our exper remain on he f time she should feet for any lenrth where there was require her to ¢ it leaves me | rylces are a0 age of twenty-one, In choosing her wise woman friends or acquaintances | to start owt now, always been well, © can remember doctors have been as- ated with my life, have red cheeks and ad my eyes aro ¢ ‘And was living in the suburbs one George! If tho Ola Boy had to do| ho certainly had ear as erystal, Id you that T do not wish you in that Nght ple expect a Jot from ma. is whore L become afraid » keep on the therwise lose out My father served in ¢ 11 don't want my jJust as we unexpectedly visited the 1 multitude of sins,” do you mean by that?" snd support | mured Mrs, Mudridge-Simith, “And as | samo problem and 0 save one-half » my husband can answer | the country’s call.” joular situation, eral things |and how much in its behalf. and warmth, we w this woman, some way can = where there is neit WAR'S TERRI nor anything to eat CCORDING demand for } BLE SACRIFICE. ebildren and the w pugh che ts not so strc READER, with me, mutter, Aud it were betier to guive is [nave eying down. former seas money aad Lives io an} & Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Copriight, 1018, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), No, 65—A LOST HAT THAT LED TO A BATTLE. NE of the Confederacy’s most dashing cavalry leaders was Gen. “Job” Stuart. And one of “Job” Stuart's most cherished possessions was a handsome gray felt cavalry hat (worth perhaps $20 in United States money and several hundred dollars in Confederate currency), In the skirmishing that kept Northern Virginia agog in the summer of 1862 Stuart spent a night at a farmhouse beyond the Confederate lines. He had only a handful of men with him. A regiment of Union cavalry learned of his presence there and gal loped down upon the farmhouse, Stuart was warned, just in time to escape by riding for his ilfe, But in the burry he lost his precious hat. And he swore he would get it back, or another as good line of Union men, under Gen. Pope, was holding the whole © army biy behind rdonsville, along the Rappahannock, was s\unding his ground, in the hope of preventing Lee and Jackson ading a Confederate attack against Washington lan, | forced marches f A thin Confede der of the Union Army of the Potomac, was hurrying by the Virginia Peninsula to reinforce Pope. In the meantime Lee hesitated to sacrifice men needlessly in Pha’ hvanes & wholesale advance upon Pope, not knowing how Dalia, weak the latter's army was, and being delayed also 3 > by @ long stretch of bad weather. So, for a time, the two hostile armnies rested a few miles from each other, while McClellan was seeking to come up to Pope's aid, which brings us back to Jeb Stuart and his lost bat. One morning Stuart, at the head of a party of raiders, set out for a dagh around the Union lines. At Catlett's Station, behind the Union centre, Gen, Pope had bis headquarters, and Stuart planned to capture Pope, "Where are you going?” asked Col, Mosby, as Stuart left the Confeder- ute camp. “I'm going after my hat,” answered Stuart grimly. Ky a cireuitous route the raiders rode beyond the farthest flank of the Union Army; then, inside the enemy's Iines, they made a dash for Pope's headquarters, The weather favored the wild project. Night had fallen, pitch black, as Stuart neared Catlett's Station, but as he reached the edge of the village a thunderstorm set in, By a blinding glare of lightning a Union sentinel saw tho stealthily advancing Southern riders and gave the alarm. Throwing secrecy away, Stuart led his men in a helter-skelter rush through the streets to the hous Pope had established his headquarters. »t out of the way in time to avoid capture, but he left behind us study table his gold-braided hat. Stuart pounced delightedly upon this hat and clapped it on his own head, The score at last was evened, But had left behind him something far more important. Tho portfolio containing all his official papers fell into Stuart's hands, One glance through these papers told Stuart the size and disposition of Pope's |army, its weakness and the fact that McClellan was on the way to rein- jforee it. A half-finished letter written by Pope added the news that the | Union forces must surely be beaten if Leo should attack in force before McClellan could arrive. | Stuart wasted no e in getting this portfollo to Lee. Lee wasted no time in acting on its Information. On Aug, 25, 1862, he sent “Stonewall” kson, with thirty-five regiments and much light ‘oP him on rrr around Pope's lines to fall upon the Union Leo rater i rear, Under cover of this manoeuvre Lee crossed to A the Rappahannock to attack Pope's centre. The stirring events that followed belong to the story of © Second Battle of Bull Run, A cynical "military observer,” reviewing mpaign, said lat would have been cheaper for the United States if Congress had 4 Joh Stuart a hat cut out of a solld diamond to make up for the one ~~ War Medals McCardell Of the Fighting Nations ne Co, (The New York Evening World) ; got. 1028. by the ress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wold Prpanaiys Canartnent Roe No. I.—UNITED STATES. Arriving at the High Cost Arms, [FORE m months have passed American armies will assume thee the Jarrs found that the eleva B full share of the burden along tho battle line in France, When this were not running because a patriot! day arrives every soldier under the Stars and Stripes may cherish landlord was doing his bit, at MS) tne hope of winning a Medal of Nonor. It may snants’ expense and dis ft, tO to commanding General or private for some serve fuel picuous gallantry, at risk of life, above and beyond th Mr. and Mrs, Jarr walked up nine! call of duty flights of marble stairs. They came oN high and were very tiresome Jestablished by the United ates, It was tnstituted in Arriving breathless at Mrs. ach See Seman Sek wanes vine BF. B08 00 * = sae ned officers and men of the Navy and Marine ¢ Mudridge-Smith's apartments, they! 14 not long afterward a Medal of Honor was wuthori for all ra the Army, This token of courage devotion ts not awarded hastily, but only after the “Oh, I'm so glad you came SHO! of the War or Navy Departments are satisfied that the erled, “We have no ight and no heat act for which it {s recommended fully merits the distinc. and the elevator isn’t running, Oh, I'm tion, so glad you have come to see me!" Strangely enou it was r t until 1915 that offic “T suppose you wouldn't be so glad | of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard were made to see us if the place was light, bright, |clkible to this high reward of merit, So carefully has comfortable and easy of access!" re- | bee em oe euaried that up to June $0.68 that year F of our fighting men ashore and 706 of thoso marked Mrs, Jarr. afloat have won this decoration, For the Army, t “My husband, the old wretch, 18 com-| Kodi) of Honor int five notnte ver atar, goldplated r Smith went on, not heeding Mrs. Jarr’s| pack bears the inscription, “The Congress to —-." The’ vavy Medat we remarks, "He 1s to meet me at the five-pointed, brong® star and both are suspended from a Hote] St. Croesus for dinner.” | blue ribbon with thirteen white stars, “We'll go along with you,” sald| While his army was encamped at Newburgh, Washing- Mm. Jarr, “For wo might as wel! n established the first decoration for gallantry in action tell you, Clara, that our presence r awarded to American aoldiers, the Order of the Purple here ie not an accldont. We are r American commanders followed his example beginning a plan of mine which will and various badges and medals for service in wars, good save one-half the fuel and foc of conduct and military efficlency have since been authorized. the Nation, One-half the people tn Hut the Medal of Honor ts America’s one decoration for the country will unexpectedly visit] supreme courage and self sacrifice and its bestowal ts an | occasion of great dignity, It ds usually only awarded after other half—just as we have un : ; nuch delay and so thero is lost inspiring effect upon a expectedly visited you to-day, And nent of seeing a gallant comrade honored on the field of sitle by his e¢ nding General. Congress 1s considering the establish a new decoration so that a herole « will meet with prompt reward, But whether our soldiers ri ive their Insignia of courage at the fighting front or aftor they return home, we know that they will leave behind tn » a record of intrepldity and devotion to duty worthy of the bes! ditions of American armi dal of Honor was the first military decoration ra and darkness. 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