The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1918, Page 14

¢ EoeMig SAari0, ESTARLS: Published Daily Except Sundoy by the Preas Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Pork Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. IAW, “Treasurer, '63 Park Row. JOSEPH PL cK, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park How. MARR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, to the pase for rapubll paper and also the local Jatt exvtited Bee ae VOLUME 58.....ss00005 tion of atl ney Arata om peblioheet hereaas «NO. 20,624 THE LOSS OF THE TUSCANIA. T was bound to come, sooner or later, The record made in the transporting of American troops safely across the Atlantic was already sufficiently amazing. Germany was certain to make an extra effort to eink troopships coming from the United States with more thousands to be added to the hundreds of thousands of American fighters that all the world Washington had warning of an intensi- fied submarine campaign to be directed against American transports. now knows to be in France. The torpedoing of the Tuscania means the loss of American soldier lives and the destruction of a valuable troopship. Later reports, however, indicate that of 2,179 American troops— officers and men—on board, more than 2,000 were saved. This is in itself notable testimony to the success of life-saving devices, and to the efficiency of convoys in rescuing men from: tor- pedoed vessels, In facing the first serious loss on sea, Americans will be quick to seize upon the encouraging aspect of it. Men are more precious than ships. We can be tireless in replacing the latter, so long as there jal fair assurance that all but a very small percentage of the former ean be somehow brought to land in safety. WHAT BETTER TRAINING GROUND? CURIOUS line of Senatorial reasoning persists. In the course of the cross-eyamination of the Secretary | of War before the Senate Committce on Military Affairs yesterday Senator McKellar brought up the question of the wisdom of sending untrained troops to lrance—“men who have never seen artillery or machine gun Declaring that the plan of the War Department is to give a3 much training in this country as possible, Secretary Baker neverthe- Jess stated his belief that it is not wrong to send untrained men: “I do not think It would be right to send untrained men into combat, but 1 would not hesitate, if the necessity ehould arise, to send raw recruits to France to be trained there and adequately trained, if Gen, Pershing thought it the wisest thing to do. They can be trained in France as well as here. As conditions are now, the Secretary of War went on to explain, “Qen. Pershing knows exactly what is needed to make a finished ‘soldier for this kind of warfare.” “He sends us his priority schedules, whether for shipment of artillery, infantry, signal corps or other arms of the ser- vice. It depends on the length of time he wants them to have additional trainin, In the year 1918 Americans are being sent to France to fight the Germans on French soil, where the war has been going on unin- terruptedly since 1914. Can any United States Senator suggest better training places for these American fighters than schools organized behind the French front where the experience and lessons of three and a half years of this particular war are available at first hand, and where American officers can be constantly in touch with the actual conditions for which they prepare their men? From the earliest days of the Nation's entrance into the conflict ite Allies have urged: Send troops. On his visit to this war-awakened country Gen. Joffre earnestly voiced the same, Missions and envoys have echoed it. Without neglecting either indispensable training or equipment, the War Departin dd to feel the sound wisdom of getting men safely across the Atlantic and on the spot as fast as pot it has never c: le, For this war, exists for h ehortest road to the fr to be looking at least, Wrance is the best finishing school that f-traincd American troops. It supplies a part of that t for which even Senate Committees profess 1 Senators need have no fear that American authority over Ameri- can soldiers ceases in France or that any one will rush this Nation’s fighters to the firing line faster than they become fit. Letters From the People Please limit communications to 150 words, I EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, February 7 Cupra. te The Brew met Oo, nk Rey York Greate toe.) By Sophie 1018, ba the trea Pub bitter cold, The car was crowded as we tried to get on tt The conductor with an Irish browue said: “Come o: Jady, I'l help you up," almost lifting an old lady onto the car as I followed her, The Corgrtant, platform jammed, He opened the door and called into the ear, “Won't you all ploase move up into the front wn no ome of tho car and give a little space to tho peoplo on t very, very cold? beginning to move ‘on now, that's good; much. 46 good enough to move up a Uttle and give this lady and child a seat,” he urged a man, who was occupying three neats. ‘To another woman he calle “Please, dear lady, don’t choke up the entrance. There aro five other tired ladies ike yourself who can't get in- aide.” 9 platform who are Asx he saw them he sald, “Come thank you v 1 gently, AM Boldiers Not on Sevem Blanket | charge. The men are not allowed Basin. the hospital To the Falter of The Byening World | ‘ hand, tf a man ts I read jn your paper a note from a} so Uh t leave his cot it ts girl, signed “F. D," saying that her|| Tent ana ipnat a paieeal tee | brothers in the army each have aeven| 1; ho carried on ‘ blankets and that the on who|t mental hospital complain ure not true ana L ! two pills disagree with the young lady aad| ( inti), «If the man| think she is entirely unj. her etines res | criticism, Merely because : tal, Dut never ers happen to have everything til ¢ rt on made at | are patistied, perhaps through kind mental } upparently | ness of their relatives and friends, \# ty not sick* and only | no reason why whe should not bei | other boys who are not so fortunate | ow: as her brothers, A Camp Wadsworth Scored Aguin, ht . To the Haitor of Mo Hveuing W ' nny con- May I challenge the t p ning hin “Maid of Ame and "Sch ont Lune of his eriticiam also of our righteous young| &f My article he “No Sacrifices friend, “Priv amp Di ‘rho | Bee But 1 must two former I iss on the ground | “8S > &@ grandstand pl favor in 4 Whit Brot, Gurtien eyes of “The Man Higher Up.” Ir t transportation ral! hie tent at Camp Dix, ean nee Jon aa a Tu ing Na Cann: Phin peat 1—What Prof, Garflold Paes ff Cao ’ it nana ny great bus Phare tole 44 manufacturer or of CoM Shek anawet th—Now, why did Mr. Wilson toy cer in t thie Prof, Gurfeld as Genera) nA strator of this great coun lery) to report eet nag hie | Pek rot. Gartleld accept ene poointinent when he wis waiting befor Witkon'aprolnuciw ste ttrct It ts th la AN ; arrivals to stand } f dollars, ‘Tne should be cal men, W, O, cald wvathe nto An vay 1 e@ eacred presence of the docioy im tn the hands of practi Nems ! { IG The Congenial Conductor | ng Co, (The New York Evening World), Irene Loeb makes them smile they'll do it wil- lingly; but get a crowd ot people to- gether In a car and tf you've got a grouch on they'll get it, They sort of tighten up and want to go at you the first chanco. “I know conductors who have nothing but an everlasting fight with passengers {rom morning until night, | from tho timo they get on until they got off, and for no real reason what- | over, It's just as well to have the day pleasant,” he concluded. And I thought to myself, what good lesson for w coming conductor— @ lesson in dealing with the human | equation, The car had an atmosphere | of good natura all tho way on ac- count of tho attitude of the con- ductor, Everybody smiled and nis remarks were always accompanted | by some bit of cheer, In a word, he made them understand that {t was up to each and every one to make the uncomfortable condition less difti- cult to endure, ‘That conductor will most Mkely get somewhere some day. Ho ta the fel- low that knows how to take responsl- bility. It 1s HIS car and he ts to comfuct It Just as happily as possible. Ag I allghted T could not help re- markdyg to him, “You have a cheer- ful disposition,” to which he an-| swered, “Isn't It good business? It helps moe and the company and the people that ride.” It med to me protty good business. In fact, I, Uke the other had forgotten about the colt and tho crowd—and I concluded that the example of this man might Be that that was! bo copied by conductors In other en- torprises, who have to deal with passersby Tho trouble with many such workers ia that they think they will never see the passengers again and | why worry? | But everything he sald was sald with a generous smile, And every- body seemed willing to follow his Jenthusiasm, Pretty y the entire car was filled and the 4 rm was empty, Ile stood alone out in the fr@ezing tomperature, with tha ox- ception of the novies ho was "break ing tn." Once as ened the door I heard him say to the beginnor, “You see, it's tho way you handle them, Now t's bitter to-day and everybody's diskruntied anyway “You could make them all mad If you had # mind to, and you can make them all glad the same way,” he added with @ knowing twinkle a ve mu Nike ohtl- dren went on p shically. “ follow a It ho ako notice, Mr, ts, the oar) | was on Kighth Avenu 3 for stroe used to Pall was first London, 111 years fow export mental gas isiy been used in Golds ane t was not untll @ few yours r that the new form of ilumination was generally adopted In Lent treet The ist6. Phe 4 ul In 1822 jt wa 1 in Moston, The Bint (Gas Street Licht !to salon. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Coprright. 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New Yor Brening Wort), HIS paper states that the | Slavinsky, the glazier, and Muller, Antl-Saloon League expects | the grocer, were vehemently of the to close all the saloons in the | opinion that the simpler ways of country before the war 1s over," re-|clder days were more conducive to marked Mrs, Jarr. sounder health and longevity; while “That doesn't worry me,” replied | such modernists as Mr. Michael An- Mr, Jarr. “Everything changes, noth-|gelo Dinkston and Mr. John W. ing passes, They shut down the big | Rangle held that the findings of the distilleries and the manufacture of | bacterlologist’s microscopic investi- home-made whiskey begins, If ‘they close up the saloons other sorts of | night schools and debating clubs will “cé health tn general and a lower death rate In particular, ‘Tt ain't so at all!" Gus declared finally, “Less people used to die tn the old times because there wasn't :o many diseases, Nowadays new dls- eases 18 being inwented all the time. | People reads of them new diseases, finds out they are fashionable and nmediately at onct they want to get them and dio mit them!" You must admit, however," re- marked Mr. Michael Angelo Dink- ston, “that the introductions of serums and anti-toxins have lessened Infec- tion and mortality as proved in many peelfle cases in camps and hospitals in the present war. In consequence, infection has become locally re- such @ statement by any protest in! stricted and contagion ts now neither rebuttal, She simply rocked back! endemio nor epidemic.” and looked her scorn, ( “You may @neer,” Mr. Jarr con-|, tinued, “but there 1s so much discus- ight schools and debating clubs, indeed!" erled Mrs, Jarr. “Do you mean to compare corner saloons with night schools and debating clubs?" “I do indeed," replied Mr, Jarr, “The average cafe is an auxiliary educational institution, Do you think | men frequent such places simply for the wares they purvey, or for the Ughts or warmth or to, satisfy their | gregarious or social instincts? 2» at all, It 4s mainly the desire for | enlightenment through tho profound discussions that obtain in such places. Mrs. Jarr did not choose to dignity | ‘Some day," sald Gus wearily, ome day I'll crack that feller Dinks- isolation of germ and microbe les- ed the death rate?" 9," sald Gus, warmly axed that of Berry, the undertaker, and he said that as everybody who ts born 19 kot to die, nothing ain't going to re- duce the death rate, Getting insured on your life don't even do It, although it seoms a long time to you that you don't collect. So germs don't do no ou wish to get me in an argu- ment on this ridiculous statement, ro you may rush out to confirm It," she sald, . if you wish, but reme you are under no obligation to me to establish such @ gilly statement, It you wish to visit such places, go to! them, but please do not liken saloons Mr, Jarre murmured something to ood one way or anothe the effect that ho knew ho couldn't | 80° ORO Way OF Ano prove it, but still a fact was a fact, | Mr. Jarr reported this edifying dis~ streets were lighted by gas. ‘The 8y¥8-| A tow minutes later he greatly re. |cussin to Mra, Jarr upon his return, Jtom did not prove successful, how- tted he had no gecording phono. |and it was Mrs, Jarr’s opinion that | Jever, until 2 use of g88! graph with which to confound Mrs,|When men foregathered in soda wator | |spread rapidly to other cities in the | Jarr on his return home, for when he palaces instead of saloons, in the |} United States and Canada, Rosin | entered us's educational institution days of reform after the war, they and ofl were used for producing | on the corner he found its erudite | wouldn't talk #0 foolishly Jas in Amortea in the early days|frequenters profoundly and eyen| eatin manned of the Industry, but jater » New-|nheatedly debating whether the public | ON THE SKY LINE, castle coal and the Albert coal of large was any healthier, ¢ HE highest railroad In the world Nova Scotia we ‘ yed, Until y or individually, et 1 T is the Central Rallway of Peru, half a century ago the price per| theory of disease had been estab whoso rails reach af altitude of [thousand feet ranged up to 97%, the | lished 885 fect and which has its pgbest jand jn the following your New York average being about 63,60, The conservatives, such ag Gus, station at 1,605 Leet, { gations were responsible for better | Aa lg claret over the noodle mit the bung- — ORMetore. # " Snatance Gus at th, ititter Just to see how the big words After marriage the most difficult thing ts for a man to live up to bis corner, beine the final arbiter of ai) CO inside bis bean, J’ bet that | reputation as a reckless daredevil, and for a woman to keep up her pose as” Nee oe “\ scatter all ower the place like that . such queationa at these open forums & dangerous elren, such questions at these open forums, | ai nanet macoront that is put ip 4) always have at hand two ‘argument |), — ARNIS Hf 4 Past aria the World| «put wo are getting away from the A magazine suggests the “conservation of wit and humor” as @ war Lalonde SrA S subject,” Mr, Ranglo protested. “The | measure. Oh, wel!, a day of pointless Jokes would be perfectly easy to most Atte arr waa moved fo Eitter scom-| jiestion is: ‘Has the discovery and| of us! lly. Americans fas Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Copsright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Gresing World), No. 70.—SHERIDAN’S RIDE. \ HB rich Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia, had long been a favored highway for the Confederate armies, Through it led the road to Washington and to the | North. The valley's crops and natural resoure made it a splendidly convenient Mne of mareh fo the hungry Southerners in their occasional effor' to seize our country’s capital or to invade Pennsyl- vania, In 1864 Gen. Grant was promoted to full come mand of the Union forces. For the first three years of the Civil War one Union General after another had failed to crush the Confederacy. ‘ant, in a single year, achieved this great task. One of his moves was to chy k any future raids on Washington and avert all chances of another in- vasion of the Union States. Ho did this by wrecking the Shenandoah Valley and turning Its richness into desolation, so that it could no longer feed an army passing through it, He chose for this task the dashing cavalry leader, Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, Sheridan promised to lay waste the valley to such an extent that “a crow could not fly across it unless he carried along his own rations.” Barns, mills, factories, crops and farming tools were destroyed. Cattle and all other livestock were selzed and driven off. No longer could the, Shenandoah serve as a feeding ground for a Southern army, It was @ desert. : Naturally, before Sheridan could devastate the valley, he had to secure posacasion of it. And the Confederates gave him a hard struggle for every, A mile of ground. The Southern General, Parly, took up a strong ah eld Moved position at last on the west bank of Opequan Creeks gainst Foe $ guarding the town of Winchester. Here, on Sept, 19% rn? Sheridan attacked him. After a fierce all-day battle the Confederates were dislodged from their position and were driven baclg in disorder through Winchester and on up the valley to the passes of the Blue Ridge, beyond Staunton and Harrisonburg This done, Sheridan posted his main army on the north bank of Cedar Creek, near Strasburg, while he himself went to Washington on official dusiness. As soon as possible he hastened back toward Cedar Creek, He had gotten as far as Winchester (“twenty miles away") when word cameto} him that the Confederates had rallied from thelr defeat and had attackedy his arm Gen. Early, reinforced by Longstreet, advanced upon the troops that had recently thrashed him. At dawn on ‘Oct. 19,,he moved forward, hidden, by a thick fog, until he was within a half mile of the unsuspecting Union | Army. Then, with the wild “Rebel yell,” the Southerners flung themselves, upen their foes. Taken wholly by surprise, the Union troops offered pitt fully poor resista: After a short defense the whole army was in retreat, pouring back toward Winchester, They fled so hurr that they left their provisions and luggage and ammunition for the pursuing Confederates to loot. : Sheridan, at first news of the clash, jumped on his horse and galloped down from Winchester at top speed. He reached the scene of disaster at about 10 o'clock in the morning, At t of the first retreating Union regiments he shout “About face, boys! We're going back! The rallied army turned as one mun, cheering, and following its leader into the thick of the fight., . The Confederates had expected no such tnove, They were busily pluns dering the hu e and the provision wagons left bee hind by the } rners in their flight. « ‘ Down upon them crashed the Union army, ——rrrrrr Union Forces Strike Hard. P eeereneeeecry withs "4 force as had not scattered, attack as best they could, but onrush of the Union troops could not be halted. The struggling Confederates were borne backward—at first in retreat, but presently in panic rout. ‘And this was a flight too complete to permit of any rallying or return, Hard pressed by the victorious Sheridan, the & vs fled. Nor did they slacken their speed until they reached the saf: Staunton, long after the Union army had ceased its pursutt, Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland The Now York Evening World), Ooprrigst, O18, by the Press Publishing € OST people marry for life—-and divorce for Hberty and the pursult of happiness. ‘ | un’s Judgment appears to be ocatoa ) {a man’s, in his digestion The seat of a W fn her heart or her vanity— or bis pocketbook. In the school Jove a man fs constantly taking up a brand new “study,” and discovering that all@he old loves were nothing but “experimental practl Perhaps, with the proper training, a woman might sf make as good @ soldier as a man, as far as the fighting iN Wena goes; but no natural-minded woman would ever be able to pack all ber clothes and her face creams {n one small kit-bag. 4 > ( Once a day think of something to be happy about. A lot of this war fe going to be won by the canons of faith and the armor of undaunted optimism. ‘ A woman can Ilve with a husband for twenty years without ever know. ing the make of hls collar button, the stze of hfs belt, or his favorite shade of hair. But, dear me, a man can Ilve with his wife longer than that with+ out even knowing the color of her eyes, Don’t marry a man simply beciuse you are perfectly sure that he loves you—walt until you find out that HE fs perfectly sure of it. When a man knows how to make love {t 1s so easy for a girl to mle take his bravado for bravery, his gall for gallantry and tils audacity for devotion. How Africa Gets as Wa News HE war hi brought right The four German c: from the first, beer) tory, says the Africs.| er Y : ! Experimenta ¢ home to " lonies, in over ira Desert 9 mow) tho war extended, have 0) partly beltod by @ telegraph line, @ more than four tines ax great) Preach enterpr With wireless ex= as Germany; and there has been tong | tension ty 20, Thus this once and hard fighting {n all of them ex-| mysterious Gity of tho Sudan te now cept in go, Outside and wi hin| in touch with the t events of the these areas of actual warfare live) d het &o Is eMelent. thousands of whites who are intens’ rved by the ly French eat ‘ ing ch cable to Lay ly interested in the Buropean strug: | breyi abe lind line to Staniey gle, It may surprise many to kiuow! Pool, naviga ft the U; | that not a few of these whites, « Congo beg 1 news is vee e depths of Africa, are receiy-| wired up the Cor o the mous t Jin the depths of Africa, are reoeiy- | wired h to the mouth 0, jing the cssence of the news every auth a ‘ove the & day and are well informed as to the] wireless Stanley and then by ~» most vital facts of the day’a War Old- wbove the Kasai, Falls, 870 sndleg