The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1918, Page 16

Che eseritg orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘WreAMimed Dally Except Sunday dy the Frese Publishing Company, 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Ir, Seere ‘y, 63 Park Row. CIATED PRES Now. AS’ MEMBER OF THE ory VOLUME 58 NO. 20,615 | THE FIRST HALF MILLION. ONFIRMED critics of the War Department were given a sal tary folt yesterday when they learned that there wil! shortly be half a million United States troops in France, while above Baaillion more are equipped and ready to be sent as fast as transports fem take them. Beoretary of War Baker appears to have gone before the Sanate Military Affairs Committee d ! the inside facts for which it lias, in true American fashion, thireted. ermined to give the country some of he biggest of his facts are big indeed. y his statement of the total to which the nation has ralaed its, fghting strength on land in less than (on months since it entered the war, Secretary Baker makes much of the fault-finding aound Ike the barking of a two-pound dog behind a ten-ton motor truck. Mistakes have been made, Mr. Baker admits, both in rushing eqnipment and in hastening work on campa that they might be avail- able at the earliest moment. But the War Department, he insists, hae learned by its mistakes, end is entitled to be judged by the aum total of what it hae done to Gate toward turning the most peaceful nation on earth Into a form) | bble fighting power. Most Americans so judge it. The thought of thore half million American fighters already close} bo tho firing line, with twice as many more ready and waiting to go, thrills the conntry with a pride that takes into acconnt the planning and effort that have made possible the result. The War Department may have fallen into minor errors. It has not failed the nation in the major task. ' Who can doubt that the Imperial German Government knows as much? Seoretary Baker may be right In saying thet the German Gen: era) Staff has been ignorant of the exact number of American troops! in Franoe, But the Imperial German Government no longer even pretends to belittle the force it has to reokon with—and reckon with | far sooner than it dreamed possible—in the impact of American armies on {te battle fronts. | At the present moment there is a reported outburst of rage in Germany at tho news that the Austro-Hungarian Premier has von: | tured to make separate peace overtures to the President of the United | Btates, Yet for the Prussian war lords, deeperately anxiou —though the} ——_ bigger game {s up—to save the face of militarism, Austria, which is| tragically anxious for peace, might well serve as a protoxt and) mpology for a hitherto unheard of spirit of reasonableness in Berlin, Tho United States has ready an argument for such reasonableness which we may be sure the Imperial German Government has not ‘“ entirely overlooked. It is probably a much stronger argument, how- ever, than that Government has suspected. It is an argument that can speedily be opened with the first half} millon troops of the U. 3. A. in full action on the Western war front | et Mra, Ellen A. O'Grady, New York's first woman Deputy Police Commisstoner, begins her new job with the bellef that “there 1s plenty for @ woman to do in @ great city Nke Now York which {s filled with women. There is. And most of it oan be better done by a Mrs OGrady with the sanity and balance of ten years’ experience *0 @ probation officer than by any round dozen of enthusiastic amateur woman-savers. ES ee The Kaiser again commemorates with thankfulness great deeds of God for the German people.” To most of the world, the Kaiser's appropriation of God stil] etands as the most colossal piece of camouflage the Dey! ever tried to put over, ‘the Letters From the People Please itmit communications to 160 words, o Hear From the Soldiers./be known is that medical officers are! ‘0 the Léttor of The Evening World more kindly tn army life than in ctvil- Burely “Maid of America” must pos- | lin life. F ite thi n one} arse the parrot (ype of mind, to judge | Po thinks that Vuole Sam's army ts ; é oyance | th beat treated In world, by her letter oxprese! annoyed PRIVATR, CAMP [ at the fust complaints of soldiers, Al Coy Wadeworth Comt Made in America” type of woman 18) \ the zaiter of Toe Peeing Word possessed of so much real womanil-| In response to several letters in ness that she feels it her first duty to] your paper from individuals eigning|the statement “that J fook out for the comfort of the brave) themselves "Maid of America” and "A ¥ expensive furnished house in the vi- cit who was "a very busy man” was “off on a trip’ a W Covrrlght, 1918, Press Publishing SUPPOSE that Is what you call ‘camouflage, sald a friend of mine ihe other day She was k about a an who 1 ft her neigh wor ju bort It seems the newcomer had arrived in the midst from “some where in tho We he exact locats was somewba “vague as “they a Permian reareiaw jou back on It She made x nice appearance, dressed ery beautifully, and hired the most husband too, and who for a considerable There was @ ity part of the time Agresable und was herself very usked" every- The woman made In a word, she Was @ strani) where and they (ouvk ber in, And now they ire all comparing notes and tgur- se up Several of the men had gone in with he husband “on a quiet Little that looked so good. Some had ey so far as to intrust him with money to buy bonds which never | were delivered, But that js not al. ‘The woman \had borrowed @ considerable sum of money from several of the ladies on hn was 4 careless,” Ho had gone off on a trip @oldiers who will defend her ooun- hoolgirl,” permit me to enlighten! and pad forgotten put a kk to ry. Please don’t spoil your paper by m regarding the army, fr er ore Erey t ing any more such stu a8 the | iigted man’s point of ie pre 1 ie ers of “Maid of Am: “and the)’. OF "view. | mind? ‘childish prattle of “A Schoolgirl,” Now York folks are well aware of} And now they are bot gone, The THH SOLDIERS FRIHND, |the conditions existing at Camp| furnished house is vacant, the maid ‘Thanks Dr, Gartiolda, Wadaworth, especially in the hoapt-|nasn't been paid for months, &e | Whe Gee Bakitor of The Kreving Word |tals, Inasmuch ae the New York | Yeu, it 1m camouflage, ny dour, But Our uel Adivinistrator, Dr. Gar-| papers have remarked the poor ef-| 1: hax been going of aluce world febd, does not know how thankful we| fictency with whioh they have been| began, It ie oply a seemingly now mall candy store keepers are to him, | un. word with a very old meaning, And He gives us a chanoo to reat halt al, Futhermore, we have been sleeping | there ure many “camouftoury” en ‘ ; “lunder canvas through numberiess| gaged in practice, Sometimes te day on Monda,, which otherwise we storn nd until quite recently have Gey Tosrativa That (a phe or could not afford to take, being en-| had few binn , these being of very a Eventually it ted, glaved for soventeen hours a day 865/inferior quality,’ Until Jen. 6 we) Yet you can recogm Avance year, If only the order wae en-|never had wooden floors and have only look for it. In tor i diye « more strictly jt would be bone- | been compelled to sleep with our cote mouflet” waa a small m ‘ar W. K. | upon the damp ground, | diowing in the alte er Praises Army Life. When taken sick we are compelled | suffocating or cutting off tiners, ae ison 4 to report to a fleld hospital, where we|—also called a “stiNer” ‘That's it If ‘To the Editor of The kvening World smal eosive two pi : 3 | vovally ve two pills and are) stifles the real thing whieh | laden Being @ constant reader of your| marked for duty, Kindly, then, adel ty the smoke raised i paper, | would like to voloe my opin-|vise ue how we are to recover’ At| ‘Here are @ few Ways by: w One fon op the modical aticntion received |'hi# writing we have no wood, nor| may find camouflage,” woich ts only 2 meana by which to keep warm, the old time “hot alr by the drafted man eg ig ol AGN! in my tent three men, including ‘The husband who prote be If Mr, Drafted Man would stop fak-|mynelf, are unfit for active duty ow- 2 w slow ing itess, by which be thinks to|!x to wicknese | 8 ale ori end drilling, be in conolusion, wa fee) that auch jet ‘ avoid w 4 t Wil NOt /tore aw you have printed trom ie zeoeive any more pills, No man in|two tgnorant young women should be. When a man telle « woman he un Unele Sam's army or navy ia made to stopped, for the New York volunt } oere perform his duties when 1) I way|have given up more than three two this becuure of my own personal ox- girs can raniize or appreciate pearance, Anotlor fact which glould CAMP WADBWORTH MAN, Geratands her perfect When @ strange salesiady calla you “deere.” while waiting on you ‘The eating place that decreases the hat Is Camouflage? By Sophie Irene Loeb | Co, (The New York & portion and the plea of When w lovely sofa Wien ast ich he ts res pc wn Wher te dressed mon rive Aynaate rhe individua you on what a fit fathor waa and Ww velp middle age reus just te or's Little boy The city uplifter wh ~ The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell — a, brewing W Copyright. 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) | cases the price on] 6¢PQOYS.” said Mr. Jarr, as he/the trenches, There was immediate B slipped into Gus's place on | protest. | ror nnenena = the corner and found some! “All right,” sald Gus, “your own] tell. you bow Of the old guard assembled, “boys, Way have it! But an old deck costs) a own home I'm going to unreform, Ever since | You nothing, and a new deck costs ip Gall Wospe taike New Yoar's, when I awore off smok- dou 30 cents, Ht Kops talks ing, I've been ao good that its a| “A quarter!” protested the others. we wonder T didn't have to hold onto! “Never more than a quarter, and) ope st ists, something solid to keep from going | they only cost you 1) cents, at that!” | ily Ww t® right up to heaven, But what's the! “They used to cost me 10 cent Rehece s about Use of being good if you are NOT|sald Gus. “But now cards is gone} y he came from, happy up on account of the high cost of| whit home “You've got your nerve with you!’ |chatging for everything, Even re- Wha coneratulates remarked Mr. Joba W, Rangie, "The wers and poison and everything ww man your grand. | idea of ‘you coming in among @ ,DO00r people could use these days is ants to borrow five! bunch of buriness men of good re-| Sone up In price. I forgot what 1 pute and taking an attitude that|pald for that pinochle deck, and if I implies you are delighted at joining | didn’t forget you w ‘rin't believe me, again with evil companions!” , or use the old fellers.”” exclaimed Mr, Rangie. A chap who goes to ) aMuUse the netgh- goes to the ont car t | farmer's wile to tel! her how to can| “! don't care what he thinks 0f| ant are the industrious poor to do trait us, I'm glad to see him,” said Gus, | | nis docks, q necessity, of Gt fhe landlord who ia shiver-| "¥en" sald Mz. Jarr, "I'm tired off Dinochle decks, # necesalty of lite, tenants how long and hard he z th |have gone up 60 per cent. in pric fenanta. ie blue Monday and war tale and | jo wos Oe me ite 60 per cept The climbe i Vites. news- Knitting and the sugar scarcity and | ( Casket Com- paper reporters to her “exclusive’| coal famine and bigh prices end La tee Natasa pink tea iow spirita’=— La —_ “ he woman w Seek | “Never mfnd the National Vaskel iS serve he t “Sure,” sald Gus. know what Company, or the Nationa) Biscuit she is buving her 6 means. He war > play |Gompany, or the National League, or The salesma cn you to, pinccble and Ja giving himself an any otber of those sporting associa linner bechus: "| 1y"* and | Oxcoose. yng,” said Mr. J “Are we OF ribet tn is. vm, érom whom "That's i" eplied Me dare gre we not gving to play pinochie? \ briskly. “And why is it that we ) ir ie 7 (pronounces ‘pea-knuckle.’ ") feral me urch who have to slwaye formidable, gure, we are!” said Rafferty, the ' fo: mort. % explain we want to builder, “Pinochle is the poor mans on the home of widow and | do anything we enjoy? If we want|pustime, and I read where my on the widow and | 4 anything y so) yt i e want | pastime, snd & wap, tbo ateel Ww hubby tells hin » hag | t2 (ake A little drink we say we do! agnate, says tho whole world will rae aihereant anne! nas i because we are sick or cold or by changed by the war. He saya the © or must wit n sick blue Or just to be sociable and 90 | working classes will rule end on. It's the same way with any), "I'l be gle ter rpmasked aA r! ow in the party who te very| other enjoyment. We always want |Jatm “it Trotsky could, do 1 a Bory When the waiter | | ' : Ant) Russia, I can do tt bere, ? a prove an allbi on it, But for any-| "yout" cried Mr. Rangle with sar- The man Who 19 alWaye “in @ con-| thing We do not enjoy, from going |castic Inflection, "Me! = When it ference” whon you telephone, to places we should go to, being|comes to thie Bolshevik stuff, Tit signs a lette tated, but! en gy Sa vanoulaiene | he the old original Bolshevik weovil! st a; with people we ebould be with and | oe ae ot eee tne new pinocble Meee icnitting bag curried tn doing the things we should do, well, | feck and began to deal to the others I notice we make no excuses about | of the proletariat telan who tells newly en-! :nom,"' eae ED franchised women that bis party se- “ . MBOAT. pared the: Or thom “We use up a lot of valuable time THE FIROT STEA! oltice rs and t OrAD ducit Ph thing A Myaed thin ve All parasite On the Trolley. T's And ga t y Hig felle Ain't got No business Op «@ trolley! OHN FITCH, inventor of one of the sitting in sky-| though,” suggested Mr, Rangle, "But , g how they are re- RNa pad Blo, But) Pe seat atoamboats, was born in East y [if pinochle be wicked or not, it's eco- | at of living, eal, 8 daict j Windsor, Conn, and founded the ‘wha eis you that | Bomical, Suppose you are addicted to ie 1188. He k for is not being | playing polo, You have to keep q| first ateamship company tpt stable of polo ponies, with grooms| Fae an armorer suring the Amerie and trainers, and you must belong | ReVUOD a cted a mteambont, to & swell polo club and pay your |g! lar built another, Which WAs own travelling expenses from Florida] propelled by #ix paddies on eac side, to Callfornia, and then to Homp.|Fitch convinced several Philadelphia san siead, New York. And tho travelling |Capitalists that his boat could be mit commercially profitable, and a com- any was formed to run the steam sald Mr Jarr,| packer ‘on the Delaware River, For a expenses stable of ponies war ing ‘ts differ-| short time teh'a steam cratt made \ decent newa.|remular trips between Philadelphia ma) now 2 cents." and Trenton, but the venture Was ca - Tha af tied on at a loss, and the first atea the ‘seme transportation proved a failure, Fitch nent, howeve later went to France to start a atmiiay the butlder but there too he met only with remained for Wili- d and Roo ent, It = m Symington in & pinochie deck | Ratton in America that jogked &s though {t bad deem im! the practicability of eteam oavisation, Barren | bombar Americans & m Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Conrritht, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The N@ York Breoin No. 66—THE BATTLE OF MONTEREY. OU have read tn this serles of how Zachary Taylor, at the head of # pitifully small force, thrashed a Mex can army three times the size of his own, early im 1846, and invaded Northern Mexico, In spite of later reinforcements the grim old sel dier had less than 7,000 men in all, With this puny force he undertook to thrash the veteran armies of Mexico on their own ground, and to selae every stronghold and fortified city in his path. It was a task absurdly Impossible to achle Mex- ico knew that. Everybody knew it. Hverybody ex cept old Zachary Taylor himself. And, because be could not be made to understand the meaning of the word Failure, he and Faflure never met, It wae in May of 1846 that Taylor crossed the Rio Grande, seizing Matamoras, and beginning his hotly contested march inte the very heart of Mexico, It was late in August that le came to the sup posedly Impregnable fortress-city of Monterey. ‘Taylor had with him only 6,625 men, moatiy raw militia, ‘Ten thousand Mexican regulars, under Gem, Ampudia, defended the ¢ Monterey’s hills bristled with Mexican batte . Its walls were heavily arded. The whol surrounding hill. terns & country awarined Will) Mexican guoriilas and hot The Foe Strong at All Points. hash cakchien Taylor, on Sept. 9. the city, and spent soltring and in completing hia plans for stor army, safe behind tts walis and batteries the pitiful encamped three miles from the next ten days in recon- Ing the place, The Mextean waited In scornful amusement for y small force of Yankees to advance and be cut to pieces, It wax on Sept. 19 that lor began bis assault, He sent Gen, Worth wich a militia division to march around a fortiffed hill crowned by a bishop's palace, and to clear away the enemy's battertes from the Saltillo Road be hind the hill, ‘The main body ef the army was moved forward at the same time te throw up earthworks directly in front of the Mexican left and centre. Thia atter advance was made by night By morning the American earthworks were ready and the American | es in position there At dawn Taylor opened ¢ fire on the city. From the eitadel nd other high forts the Mex ‘ cannon responded, and a flerce artillery ; began. Ampudia had expected something of this kind, and he was ready for it. Me knew the light Am n field pieces could never batter lown the Monterey walls. He prepared for a comfortable long-range ary y battle, ier th \fferent. centre and left he nned som vammer! ng quite ig at the Mexic: While his cannon were sm Quitman to storm the strongest and most dangerous ef the bri While Quitman's with final success), de was doing this (with nother American contingent , ond Gen. Butler, with the batteries. but hill difficulty much forced ita way into the lower part of the ci First Ohio Regiment, fought a bloody path tato PSage et Enemy f Monterey from another quarter. Meantime Gen. Worth had cleared the Saltifleg Are Taken. > oad of the foe and turned tho captured Mexican manner cng against Bishop's Palace Hill. A half day's ment, followed by an Irresistible charge, brought Worth's men to the summit of the hill, and sent its defenders fying, ‘Yhough the outworks were taken, as well as half the city, yet the Aght- ng wan by no means done. The houses of Monterey were of thick signe, Every house was ® miniature fort, full of desperately battling Mexi- can soldi ‘hus Taylor’a men were obliged to fight their way, step by step, house ly four days before the last resistance was crushed. By ix yitght, Sept. 24, the citadel alone held out. And during the morning that davngurrendered.. The whole city was now in Taylor's hande—at @ cost in hitfed and wounded of 488 Americans. Its thrashed defenders feared a killed and oraslor was nota murderer. He forbade hie men to kill or to mansacte (ton let the surrendered Mexican army march out of Monterey with “honors of war. Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland coneright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) RA may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the hap- F piest divorces in the world are “made !n America.” i Guns of Enemy hy house, for nm No matter what a man's reputation as a philanderer may be, every girl fancies that she 1s a Christopher Columbus, as far as discovering bis “real heart” Js con- cerned. A man’s wife is like a suburban lot: he knows consciously that she is always there, so naturally he seldoff bothers to look at her & 7 Yhe three greatest enemies to love are colds, wa onions and time. One bad cold, one ouion or one year's separation will do more to kill a beautiful romance than the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Strange how a man who Is whispering the same old sweet fairy tales to the forty-seventh gir! always believes in bis childlike simplicity that the look and the blush with which she listens are brand new. A sentimental artist is a woman who can kiss each man as though be were positively the first or a man who can kiss each woman as though she were positively going to be the last. Only a woman “falls in love,” a man merely sinks into it little by little so slowly and unconsciously that he doesn't notice it until he feel the quicksand around bis neck. Oh, yes, a man may be a loyal patriot in public and still be @ chronic ‘conscientious objector” around the house; that is, bis conscience would burt him if one day passed in which he couldn't find something in the domestic regime to object to. ‘Ah, love, the world {s a kind old world, It will forgive you for « thousand things for which you will never be able to forgive yourself! Love |s the password to the Vale of Contentment—the key to the Garden of Life, “Wake Up, Your Coffee Is Ready!” Says This Clock-Stove AA ten tote t Sa oree wakes you up when it ts ready, has been invented by @ It is an ordi- Brooklyn § \nary gas stove having a pilot Mgt, to which !# attached a clock mechanism, says Popular Bclence Monthly A dial over {the clockworks serves to tell the time. A r dial ts used to set the alarm, igniting and extinguishing devices When thet ander the ¢ matica mined al flee pot w rner Auito- coffee for! The coffee Is now ready \four or five min flame will|if you are not aware of then lower of tts own accord for slow | #/arm will notity | polling for another five minutes, after (ere to pe Possibility OF the Gals ; holling over unless you dlsre; which it will shut !teeif off entirely.|aiarm and go to sleep again. for you, amd tthe trusty you of the fact,