The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1918, Page 18

“eveniiy Moris, She 4 Lb BY JOSEPH PULITZ sa y # v hy the Prase Publishing Company, Nés 3 te Published Daily Except & EN tee Sore RALPH, PUUITZUR, ent, 63 Park Tow. \ AW, ‘Treasurer, 61 Park Row, ha Seeretary, 2 Park How. MEME OF THE ASSOCIATED PRMBS ‘iy envied ‘9 the wee foe rpulication of atl newp deanatehen TS afer Sadao ine Tioce | howe pat listed Berea: Asoc eval oR VOLUM .NO. 20,625 THE BRIDGE THAT MUST NOT FAIL US. ITH the t spirit, the Nation ought to be quick to reepond to Gen. | Pershing’s urgent message: “Make a bridge of ships to Franc Brought to this country by Major Frederick Palmer, chief) censor on Gen. Pershing’s etaff, the appeal comes straight from the Commander of American Forces in France, who of all Americans is na position to know how the war must be won. | “Build ships,” urges Major Palmer, “and let every woman and child in the land think ships.” We ought to be weartng little metal ships in our batton- holes, Children ought to play with toy ships. The woman who turns from knitting to encourage a ehip's rivetter to do more rivets a day ts serving her country, and every time you bink ships you are thinking of our men fighting for you In France. Would you have them want for food, for clothes, for ammunition to answer the Germans? “Toward our shipyards, for the power they mean during and after the war, the German General Staff strains {ts vision. Build, build and continue to build ships. Make a bridge of ships to Pershing.” The enemy has at last succeeded in sinking a troopship which was carrying more than 2,000 United States soldiers to reinforce the Allied battle lines in Europe. That brings home to Americans what they have not hitherto wly realized: The tremendous task they must be prepared to see through, not only in prod }'urope more wa supplies than German U boats can poasibly send to the bottom, bu also in closing up br which ferry across the Atlantic wpon which its Allies frank! In his ¢ hefore fall, Sec wholly upon the s ks in the chain of transports | ng war strength of this Nation ectation of hi » million American troops in France| r vor admits t! y of American shippi | Yet the million must he thete, and more millions later, if need be, even though Ger y hinarine warfare continues to take toll | of the tonnage ¢ and though the United States is le to re} » shipping of its Allies. Now that the Imperial Gorn grim cerionencss of Americ rotary of War it le was “not relying) | arries ther less and less oa in Government is convinced of the! ‘s contribution to the conflict, a concen: tration of U boat activity upon American transports and munition chips is to be expected, Besides destroying U boats lw every method that can be devised, thi likely to dismay the Imperial German Government than the production of a merehant fleet on a scale and at a rate warranted far to outstrip the utmost potentialities | ¢f submarine destructiy Vortunaie the nation that finds itself at the end of tle war in command of a snug balance of shipping. The latest reports of the 'Tuscania disaster cut down the number of tho missing still further. They also show that even when a troop- ship is torpedoed, discipline, special preparations for life saving and the presence of other vessela may reduce the loss of life to a sur- prisingly small percen On the enemy infested ocean over which we must constantly come and go and carry if we are to do our part at the front, survival, eafety and victory lic in the there. We can afford to spend billions more, if need bi We cannot afford not to. ——_-+-___ THE ANTIQUATED PORT OF NEW YORK. Nation can take no ¢ Irs 1 numbers of ships we can keep in motion on that bridge, Depth Bomb to Follow! ng of the Tuscania to challenge ita fighting | ng and shipping in ceascless atreams to} a elena PEM es 11.—THE ARWIN YORKE, a millionaire mine vowed I would marry him, and I went ver all the nice thingy { could do for Sybil when I was @ milllonairo's wife. Mr. Yorke suid o was very fond of So after dinner we went to] jr, those Broadway cabarets has w big deal on, was in town last 'T IS to be hoped the war will do one thing for New York. When it comes to terminal facilities this great port is about eeventy-five years behind the times, tn, Every day now the pressure of war traffic, the urgent need for| the rapid coaling of ships, for the prompt unloading and reloading of war supplies, for the expeditious handling of fuel and food for home consumption, reveals the deplorable inadequacy of New Yo: methods of receiving and moving freight, : he head of the Federal Food Board's Transportation Bureau. Cyrus C. Miller, declares that he is unable to find even a covered and properly heated pier at which to unload a million pounds of Spanish onions which have just arrived and which must spoil and go hore under the right conditions a to waste unless they can be put Mr. Miller also points out that this unusually severe winter in New York Harbor has disclosed the fact that the « ity does not even own an ice-breaker! Surely now, if ever, is the time f. its port facilities worthy of t) holds, or New York to begin to make te great commercial position which it All such improvements are more than aids to the conduct of war. They will remain solid, enduring assets {o prosperity and prestige long after the war is over increase the city’s - Letters From the Peo ple Please limit communications to 150 ‘ More Pratne for Soldiers. ‘To the Evlitor of The Evening World: Would Nike to say a words in| thing, and the m ensver to the letter signed LH, C. ing it willingly, W. Iain not a wife, mother, sister, daughter or sweetheart of a soldier, therefore am not speaking on behalf of myself, but I feel that thie le Mo) 1 read u letter in you time for us to criticise our soldier! y, p, saying that her “4 paper signed boys because they may be Been UPON) aim, >,, Srottisrs in the the streets with a woman on thelr! would like to pny thee 1 f oech, arm. Why does J. 1. C. W. with torbrothorn have om pe if her deny them the liberty they enjoy soreentoent ee am ay from on dtvidi anh thers up prope My son ts in {Bpartauburg, 8. ©, and had to send {home for one blanket, 1 think that 1 give one of his words, of these men," fons of us who have There are mill- done the same aJority of us are do- not grudgingly. MRS. C. BB. Would Divide the Blankets Equally To the Editor of The Even! World 1 peven [then the ¢ * 1 do not think} © ig & finer lot of men anywhere on this earth than our American soldiers, Let I. H.C. W. remem- er ve ist purchased 11 are “being thi a true patriot wou the on one ho has} rty Bonds, and who |ag to make him «a warmer pat i d for the housing and MRS. Wednesday night. invited Bob where there was a splendid Jaze band. And then I suffered tortures Prov- |) ably no woman who marries for money can escape paying some pen- Mr, Yorke is not as tall as 1 am, and very heavy, ‘The musiclans gti, started a fox trot. His short arm en- my Waist, His large, moist | economical." hand gripped the back of my bodice. We began to dance. His trod on my dalntily elad burt me unspeakably About 1 o'vlock Mr, Yorke took mo home In a tax Al the way to 98th told me } first minute ho saw me, and that he | know I would love the West, aud chat I Was very sweet and T was going to| muko a wonderful wife, I began to | ike lim pow that we were not danc- out with him and darlings, ately thought of m*, Although Mr. Yorke has the two as- Bets of being wealthy a was greatly disappointed in him, He tw not at all “wild and woolly,” but well fed and prosperous, and kind d Western, J However, no man could h more to please woman thin be party revolved about me. Hoe made mo say where I wanted to quickly and finally suggested the Asdorf, becuuse most out-of-town people like to say As we drove up to my door ho said; doeg a man good to seo other besides his wife It will entertain Matilda and} | the girls when I tell them 1 dunced." llow Ured I was tb when I had to got up in tine for kin And how my feet ached! 1 asked Sybil why she had not told mo that Mr. Yorko is florist stand In the lobby of , before we went in to dinner, Mr. Yorke bought 4 great quantity of orchids and a lovely lets—not too small to look puny and red-cabbagy. =a ———— | Sybil told hin she thought the violets | kindly said would show off my pale blue georg bunch of vio- | might spoll a perfec orchids, and 1 sald the orchids would look ravishing on By If she had told me she undor Vo rpiby chiffon | would have velvet, because J knew she preferred | event he eaid no matter about our drensey, orchid personally and he wanted me to wear Mr. York¢ expects to make a great His attentions were Everybody always makes more of a fuss over Sybil thy told myself 1 would have + to occupying TRENCH WEATHER VANES, NE would not expect weather vanes in embarrassing, thinking that, ever the direction of the « |time to learn to | He answered in no w ag {hel wan = wolicitous for my wetild love hin for lischarged into think Mr, Yorke wasa My Matrimonial Chances) The Jarr Family And INSIST on bing "wkd Recording the Experiences of A ‘Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Coprtight, 1918, by Uhe Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Erentog World) FROM THE WEST Wartimo Mrs, Stryver'a, Mudridge-Smitbh bstantially liked me the Becaus ly boiled ay a be seen Ament, It is ¥ when thea idk 88 to blow from | | Ly, for this ie] " » GAs 4 ‘ ko s may give | be hat w possible Fes MAeKs c dead B y R oy te ‘na Co, (The New York Bening World), i ie "ear, ales mater aoe om ott wa SENCE Makes Work Easy so I'll tell you the | ¢ “W that we had a va ie ime at th onion and te dare in Your Kitchen «| Clussed with coal that was burned or} Saves Work: and Clothes. | ot toward the bottom The um of that was perfectly stun- food that was ¢ , and that the she got it at one of those} only way that nomy could be! I think |Practised with it uw would be to} like Clara Mudridge-Smith start to econ- | Cost as much, and then not buy the| they |Yase, That would be saving that/,° . ars alll 35 ectrio Flats Bea ee aeeie tc ant | muuch eaoney. “Bur Mire, Biryver aia| Worcs Cheeses Place one of those Protects the Electrio Flatiron the| Hot appreciate the suggestion, al-| , and made to omter|though I think it was @ aplendid shoes cost 4 pretty penny these days, | one.” {t all shows that Clara Mud-| “You think tt @ epiend!d eusges- to be! on?” repeated Mr, Jarr, ttle dre: ning—y little shops off tt omize, realizing how wasteful shoes cheap Mttle dve made to order to match ridge-Smith is doing her bit put it strikes ine as a very ittio| “Sty two thousand dollars bad been bit," remarked Mr, Jar. ‘Luxuries /{ Mra, Stryver went out and bought | h made us| *MOther vase at the same price she) ex.| Would be spending two thousand dol- per read a paper, Wo Can Do Without,’ wh seriously penditure these although I've never had any to) ‘4° she would be saving the two} Jarr inquired “Well, then there was an accident,” replied Mra, Tarr. an automatic press @ button and it stu motor, and that makes the ence in @ Wyagon go across the room circle if you wish it to, Mrs, Stryver | 7! sd fis, Stryver Las trio tea table, You| Jt tri a started it across tho room to me ang OSC INOFPNINE | then somebody sald “There goes Mrs Kittingly one of her we all ran to the window | arried and she | motor tea wagon ran into a pedestal | 1 thought it/ang knocked it over and shattered | good evening jrare old Chinese vase is it} woman present whose husband was | feW Pirces at & time, sw when they pan does away with the stains And {i tho shipbuilding business, of/|have bol ed sumiciently the whole) ~ & wooden racks and slimy And} ira, if our husbands had been| drainer is removed at onco and get | rubber mats which are now used by vilders it would have been help- | where the water may drip from the |some In an endeavor to wash dishes - all of us to promise we would | clothes. in the white porcelain sink, says the Stry.| 98 at dinner and breakfast, ‘My Milk Bottle Openers. Hiustrated World, Ch fond of and which bi paid several thousand dollar good | But, as Clara Mudridge-* Het (hen Bob /ed out, that was a luxury that ¢ and it wasn't 1 auld at money | be through him, so 1am glud sie did not done without, coal or sugar. “Still, as Mrs. Stryver sald, coal or! ytydridge-Smith’s husband 1s?" sugar or food are consumed and are! +4 wil) all help." gone, but 4 valuable vase ts not con-|“Mr, Stryver can promote the finan- worth some-| cing of new shipbuilding companies, » could not nee why wel and old man Smith can invest some J regard (he breaking of the vase] of his surplus funds tn shipbuilding when coi! and sugar used they aro used, and| ‘i'm sure it 1# all vi to find | sumed the trenches, | thing. but there are many t and they are 1 Mportant to kn wed Mr, Jarr to th you replied ses that] each, #0 ne Wh New Yorkers By J. H. Cassel y | Are “VW/ild” By Helen Rowland Poorrigh) 1918 or the Prom LIVE in New York | I have lived in “wicked, wanton. wa 1, mad. bad. glad New York® for fifteen years! Rut € give you wv 1 of houer T sheatd stil be a, eveet, noble, au ated on,” (The kind my mot Hed ay a) if tt weren't Podunk! Yes, and from Whilad ton, and everywhere-—except Now Yo Temptations? Yes, and visita You koow what | mean Just as you are « morning's work, One of them rings you on the telephone and says Jovially: “Hello! Can't guess who this is—can you? Well, John! Yer | Ul Johnny Jones from ‘back home.’ We're stopping at the Giitmere for a come fron fown to Juncheon after @ few days. Of course, we'd LOVE to dine with youl” . | | And yoo know what THAT means! as i | You know that !f you dared offer them a luscious home-cooked meall / | ta your quiet, respectable, comfortable apartment, »} They simply wouldn't understand rou > 4 | And if you took them downtown to sour favorite little restaurant om ) lower Fifth Avenue, 4 Where there is no cabaret, or dancing, or faze bend. 7 Or tnvited in a few of your nice, chuminy, congenial friends to meal 4 ) them, They would feo! terribly hurt, and blue. and disappointed % And would sit around and yawn, and act as though you were trying | to keep something from them, And wonder when the PARTY was going to begin! toe we And so—you fall! iia: You struggle into your most conspicuous and extremely-cut evening gown, and dab on a little extra “girlish color,” And telephone for a “honk-hon| And filvver downtown to a gilded nightmare, and Jad them to @ table near a terrible jazz oand, And order lobster and terrapin and champagne as though you never | ate anything else, And get up and try to dance around like a Droadway soubrette, And pretend to join in the chorus of a}! the nowest, naughty songs, And say “Ha-ba” to all the antique jokes and canned wit, And try to keep from rubbing your eyes or falling asleep. And, after awhile your old schoolmate Johnny grows mellow | sentimental and tries to hold your hand, 1; And expects you to introduce him to the Uttle blond cabaret dancer, | And acts hurt when she refuses to flirt with him. A | And Mrs, Johnny can't understand “why you don’t know everybody on Broadway. You've lived here so long!" And you go on to a midnight show—and honk-honk home at 2 A. My with your eyes aching, and your head splitting, and your ideas all museed up, and Johnny singing “The wild, wild women.’ And the thought of to-morrow morning's work looming black before! yrou.—— And Mr, and Mrs, Johnny go “back home” and tel! all the nefghbors, and the deacons, and the minister, and everybody, That they wouldn't “live your LIFE for anything on earth!” “New York ts such @ WICKED place!” The average New Yorker would never “see life,” nvr find out any~ thing about the pitfalls of his own town If it weren't for the Johnny Joneses from “back home,” The wild, wild thing! McCardell a What was Mrs, Mudridge-Smith's was broken past mending it could be sail] the cap meanwhile takes place aa 1%" ERP are two tips that may make wash day leer cncindeants sides Up the Incline of the proms, / ‘A useful clothes drainer, re-|°2P/alne Popular Sctence Monthly, cently introduced for use in the oe the contents of the Bottle are home, ta described in the Ilustrated | NOt spilled on tho hand. » look at another vase that would| Cord. NB of tho latest developments in elcctrio home appliances ts a hinged cord-protector, which the manufacturers claim will prevent the breakage of tho cord so come |monly occurring in connection with “Why, certainly,” said Mra, Jarr, pent on that vase. It was broken. That two thousand dollars was gone, irs more, But if s e didn't get the electric fiatirons, A spiral spring t# attached to a slide-hinge joint on tho upper part of a metal cap plug, ‘The jcord passes through this spring and tho flexibility of tho spring allows free movement, prevents sharp bends’ and kinks, which commonly occur and tend to weaken and finally prea the cord.—Ilustrated World, Chica, thousand dollars, wouldn't she?" What else did the Koonomy League | to save?” asked Mr. Jarr, a lot of things,” said Mra, ady Alderney of Cowes gave beausiful talk, telling us to build! Clothes drainors tn th hips, What was needed was ships,| Wash Holler, It will pre + ruld Amd thea more ships and| Dl tecorehing b permitting a free | circulation of alr beneath the clothes. ren at ° wit was all very stirring, but T don't | By the old method the clothes were Sink-Protecting Dishpan. soo what good It did, There wasn't @| lifted out of the boiler with # stick, a lie new vink-protecting dishe ‘Ol bottom of your entany possi- Phe ne ear, did you le a ship to-day, and MILK-BOTTLE opener which 4 why no doe ot | e lic hh ir ‘hut what good will It do us to tare | ZX ser ES fanaa d to our husbands about shipbuilding man. The sharp pointed prong juts when our husbands are in Wall) ean vou Street, as Mrs, Stryver's husband ta, /00e M or in wholesale woollens, as Clara y pan ix mado in reetangu- an le from a@ iittle the prong plerces the replied Mr, Jarr, io sizes so that it ) Without wabbling, 1t erybody can help.” 'y confusing | logs to prevent ut atching or marin, to me," sighed Mrs, Jarr, “The only aaroel of the way I know to really economize is not The ou enti bv "What reply coulg| to buy anything, B ut if everybody . = ie 6 of the tops spending tnoney nobody will b J » Jittle strainer any better off. Do you know what I 1 t ru 4 Wanized " | . " think?” on vy “No, what do you think?” asked | nd vefune SAAN rr Jar. ORD) it.doca eo In anialmont scntal sy Filly “L think economy is a luxury on ! é i bs & enables you to thee ee esorcan afford,” sald Mrs,{direction, The Is thus pressed |drain it as often ax you doyite ana b discuss! Jarr. [against the oi f the bottle and| waste pipes w bot become clogged,