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EDIT “PAGE Saturday, February 6 Americans a Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune Relig on, By J. H. Cassel "The New York Lrening Published Daily Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos, 63 te 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF ED PRnss, ‘ ‘ nice Waits Fhe Shyoriated Pri fe, exctuetrely . for, rom nowy Acsratches Conwright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Prening q wots Wt oF not otbermue credited tp jocal fi 71.—THE VIRGINIUS AFFAIR, HE Virgintus affair to-day is all but forgotton. Forty- odd years ago it was the centre of more furious ex- citement than was the sinking of the Lusitania in 1916 and came nearer to bringing on an immediate war Spain ruled Cuba. The Cubans were forever re- belling against their Spanish masters. The flame of VOLUME 58..... renege ieee gh oT yet the new stringency of MERICANS will note with appre precautions taken by Federal authorities in the case of a Duteh liner that arrived at an Atlantic p warfare—open or smouldering—wi seldom wholly Special vigilance was main landing of epi de Thus it had been for many years. And thus seeiet. cs sabes set mad Goris 5 it was to continue unti) our country, In 1898, ehonid set Cuba free. Tales of Spain's crueity to the Cubans were cealously circulated in the United States, and popular feeling ran high. By the beginning of 1873 there was }a@ strong faction here which thought {t our humene duty to put an end to | Spanish rule in Cuba. | But such a move would of course mean war with Spain. Our country » hele s examination , magazines, notebooks or diaries—was allowed | n innocent looking flower bulbs from; Forty passengers g in the uature of paper—bo to be taken from the pier. Bi Holland were to be subjected to expert scrutiny dangerous destroyer of crops. t they contair Such measures are the only adequate means of guarding again pod | Was just recovering from the drain of the Civil War. And President the revealed methods of the enc | Grant would not listen to such @ proposition. So nothing official was The epy peril is one which vople of the United Stat 2a a done, And popular feeling ran high and higher. Americans secretly sent money and men and arms to the Cuban revo~ ita true seri lutiontsts, Spain objected. Our Government declared strict neutrality and whole have been slow to estimate s isness. Despite} earlier experiences with German plots and propaganda at their sinister ad | forbade the supplying Lehi ayers oe That ts alk N ‘ 7 : ee a aa * © Di tion iMbustering went morrtly worst, Americans have not, even since this Nation enter id the war, ; i og =_ ‘Arme Shipment on as before. And Spain decided to put a violent grasped the full menace of w spy aystem conducted on the scale to} , i . i evry ‘oh —— a is Forbidden. ee it. Gare tal, : i 7 } ‘ vent ol i daa! ‘ , 6 steamship irginius, owned by a cfttsen which the Imperial German Government long since developed it BE Ff . —— * of the United States and flying a United States Millions of dollars’ worth of American food, munitions, war eup- plies and shipping facilities have been mysteriously destroyed in the iast ten months. Important information has found its way to Ger-! many by unknown channels. Yet only recently has even the United States Government itself moved to set an extra guard over accummln- | tions of war supplies on docks and in warehouses or to tighten the restrictions uppn enemy The truth is, the we flag, satled from New York in the early fall of 1873, She headed for Southern waters, carrying a big number of passengers with an unusual number of adventurous men among them. She also was laden with a heavy cargo, The cargo was packed tn boxes of various wires | and shapes; some of it labelled “farm machinery.” | The Virginius was cruising the high seas off Jamatoa on Oct, 81 when , she was elghted by the Spanish cruleer Tornado. The Tornado gave chase and forced her to surrender, The American stp was in no shapo to fight @n armored man-of-war’ so her captain, Joseph Fry, had no choice but to yield, Ills ship was taken to Havana. There every one on board was selzed and thrown {nto a Spanish prison. the news stirred up a hornets’ nest in the United States. A Spanish cruiser had actually se!zed a ghip that flew Old Glory! President Grant sent a stern remonstrance to the Spanish Government, demanding (trough our Ambassador, Gen, Sickles) the instant release of the Virginius and of her passengers, crew and cargo, The home Government, tn Spain, a Betore those inquiries could ba made, th took the iaw into their own hands, On Nov. 7, Capt. Fry and thirty-six members of bis crew wero lod out of their cells and shot. Next day, twelve of the passengers—American citi. rons—received the same treatment. The whole United States blazed with rage. For a time it looked as though the whirlwind of popular feeling would sweep our country headlong » ‘into war with Spain. President Grant onderet i Grant ‘Acts iA } the navy placed on a war footing. Ambassado> ens. mechanism of spies and’ agents which Gor-! man thoroughness } ou on extraordinary elaborateness is a thing foreign to Ain an experience. We } selves to understand the dangers of necessary to safeguard ourselves Indications that the U boat which sunk the Tuseania was lying fh wait for her have raised the question whether the German naval Authorities may not have received ¢ t information as to the sailing f the troopship from the United Stat The mere suggestion of that } Wouble the precautions taken by this N end inst enemy agents arriving at Atlantic ports on neutral vessels. ; + w ve to force our-| t and take the severe measure: ed for time to make inquiries, panish authorities in Havana lity should be enough to re-| tion against enemies within | Crisis. Sickles sent for a ship to take him from Spain. Indignation meetin; eee street corner. ‘The Spanish Government, tn haste, doclared the shooting had been un- | authorized, and gladly agreed to set free the Virginius and lier survivors at once, Ample reparation was promised, Spatn further offered to salute tho 4 4s tlag—lf it could be proved the Virginius had a legal ri fly thot flag, | But the salute was never given vecause our State Department, af 8 were held noisily on every Many of the American soldiers on the Tuscania Lad vefore been to sea, But they had a big notion of the man shonld behave there oe | f v m4 j Investigating, found that the Virginfus had bad no right to call under our OTEL and restaurant men in New York look with little favor} & al. z 25 a a re { clasi) with Spain for another quarter century, on t contemplated reduction of the amount of meat per-| mitted jn portions served their customers. They point to the injustice of a rule which can be enforced my Fables of Everyday Folk J a r r F a m 1 y | B | 0) n d e S) in public eating places and which therefore discriminates against thou- By Sophie lrene Loeb | By Roy L. McCardell By Helen Rowland eands of people who haven't anywhere ¢ to eat Comorig, 1918, te tho Preas Publisbine The New York Evening Word Censright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bresing Wort) Cone: 1918, Wo tho Paes Publiouing Co. (The New York Ereuing Wor They also hasten to explain that, of course, the public can’t y a y 4 han t finished So the ¢¢f WISH you'd go out and but Mr, Jarry heard thelr wild war EXT to a mouse or a rich widow there {s nothing on c hata ‘ : THE GREAT IDEA | woman with the ¢ yuk naked where the c are," said| whoops, and knew the 1 normal girl dreads so much as a blonde! ‘ s0 much | little white hopes were at thelr merry }wome questions, She 1 how | Mra. Jarr. 8 lan.|Kiduapping these days I'm worrled | inute the children stay out! whe woman with a great {dew This idea came to be reduced as much as portions because fixed charges NCE upon a time there was a n, china O Nevertheless the No matter how many brunet: a man may have married from time to time, you can always be perfectly © that verware, Waiters, ete., are constantly going up. | she Intended to carry out her p janslaughtering pranks somo- in the dark, ood Administration might call the attention | old | every miled graciously and glibl early. to ‘ 4 t q ” He reached th aoe aroun ts there has been a blonde !n his life, res + at th k Mail haw Ganianatraiad | y her tdea, had told it so many | when it gots dark, hed the avenue from the f restaurant men to what the Lackawanna Railroad has demonstrated payee tities that it rolled off her tongue ty the poor Black Hander'side street at about the wider thor- A woman with dark hair and eyes may make mon a dining cars and station restaurants. { » ulbl : - | without any imped! ‘ who'd kidnap our V said Mr. /oughfare's steepest portion, when, admire her, but in order to make one of them propose By offering its patr ‘war portions” one-third sm. in si but pees ‘ ad | Some more questions were asked. | Jovy ta with a rush and . roar a swift, black she must blondine her temperament down to the roots - 1 ’ + 1 - . oe | Ho © 3s groin, > fina € r ou never min bout ¢ Zec Be him 2 + ~ nd one-third less in price, the Lackawanna reports that it put it Into prac. | Mow see ae 4 as vas ¥ ‘ std vey ‘ ‘ Jace ost © Kidnap. He nea just fee on The dusky Cleopatra inay have succeeded in makiays ally inereased the average amount of the cheek paid by the trave MOG: “AIWAYS DO} ee ue aw few frundred: thousnnds |F would not take HIM, but little and save himself when another foois of a few men, but it took a dizzy, duly little ally ; d fore her was the) S blonde like Helen of ‘Troy to make @ lot of men make ferent, Anyway, th on. the nina, ‘¢ is | flew by him Iike a shot with a shrick for and a re hom it serves food and added substantia to its revenue fror dining car and restaurant service. + scheme in {and surely there y people |! hed form In| WN Would be willing to put up a| so ie {goodly sum for a great tira ohlidven, w| But she was asked how slic ex-| But Mr. 4 to work out problems in fon with he idea or meet t Jand that emergency, In a woman was asked so muc fools of THEMSELVES. In order to be popular with men, in fe da brunette must be ejther brilliant, interesting, rich or beautiful; but a blonde doesn’t have to be anything but a blonde. der a glaring are light fet You may fight a brunette, dearie, as woman to woman, but when you rsection of another cross street, @S%t 4 blonde you fight a cherished masculine tradition. clow, he saw the black ground pro- | Otherwise, why is it that in all the novels and motion picture PF) the door yelling | jcotiles just miss @ fat man, a street| ‘he vampires and adventuresses have dark hair and black eyes, while jaym when car and @ horse and cart. i ' home from work} MM», jarr ran down the steep de- r Then came anothe ound projec’ following them with his eyes, saw speed on and Into the dari mind's oye The restaurant men underestimate tho w otic American to spend money us free on his on- | herd his offer home in the I ruary gloamtn did not hear the the| test of his good lad t her| Out on the str ho saw no sig! of the ciildren, Yet they had be rness of the patri-| ove hero he feela that t ( ; TO AORS feels that) sain the p! those who take it are co-operating with lim instead of taking advan-| proportions. age of him. common symptom, They must be ox ry ; 1d, ROSE Saye project—so much to which ehe had 0 told. the woman told it. She a it | wiven ltt no consideration—that nent n ne ywhere, told it well, Bhe{the thing began to look somewhat | blithely at their It + | dierent in her ¢ Mr, Jare had ¢ grow and w One well known restaurant proprietor of this city holds that six ounces of meat isn’t enough for the meal of a hard-working man. lays the | ‘nuocent, persecuted angels are all blondes—whercas in real life most of the chorus girls and “affinities” come that way? The answer to that is that there are many Americans who have) eve nn eye ia } . 4 “ old i that every one who utes before. 5 t y never vet had a chance to discover how much harder they could tel 9° w | More questions brought out more] Het fifteen minu 70, clivity as fast as he could go, to be- Nee nkcive. ries sti i n i rider ould heard her had a vision o ; More aa nese bu nt antici. | Atound the corner in front of the| hold the black ground rockets or Generally speaking, there are two kinds of blondes—blondes by birth work if they ate less or devoted more thought to their diet | pleted product before the lene pie ie sa te the ques- |nelshborhood moving picture show, seventy-five centimetre projectile, or and blondes by preference. These are subdivided into golden blondes, dia- Among the useful things a nation learns from war is the realiza- It was all so real and toning by placing the burden of the, @ favorite rendezvous for the children whatever they seemed to be as they | Mond blondes, strawberry blondes—and undecided blondes; that {s, those tion that a well-nourished man is not 1 jfact, the woman had told he of the locality, Mr, Jarr be one who geis every- solution on associates who } whizzed past him, dissolve into Httl ho have not yet decided on their favorite shade. 1 good {dea fo often that she bel st. Differ ng from leopar SA A hog nl aina te ‘ 7 ‘ 2 hing he wants to eat. I ecreale: Ama the meen ane bel | reputations—but in other fiel NA aI niga: at dy change race calor gar tips Sometimes {lines turns a woman's hair gray, and sometimes {t merely . lie more linportant (t-became,, 1x In a word, for the first th y sioa up Under aN aires j turns it dark at the roots. A little peroxide {s a treacherous thing! rh eee | Se cacaatartien Hy th » t Mr. Jarr saw they were the : rs : veri, ie Recamie! so that| woman saw the #tuatlon eae gia searching to ranroe thanbanhorhood | All this tatk about the “yellow peril" {9 nonsence. There is no more hnat Inilkely wa aki’ Si . ; » had small th} develop when put into operation | Age Bate _ dren hen lange ermitting 4s € Coal Relief Unlikely Before Next Woel.—Houdline |tho lady had smail pat with sg Tae ta coy oven {find bis ehildre 1 they had chosen | 114), and girls of the nelghbor- Hs ng ete permitting your husband to employ a pretty blonde stenographer (To be continued.) lenrone who want f to « “ e is eee Tenant enn ene home themscives but that] pooq Mae heat) GOaRtit ian there ts in throwing a lighted match into the waste-paper basket Saas aaa “ deeper than the p f the tin e most portant co § or Gusaic mie he butcher's ian lava Aiea sket, = =i hy ea ate : $o long had she dwelt on he baat v eee : eon carey pest street in that po : When love files out of the window the tame cat and the sympatheti shed produc nwergrown eldest urchi dson to ‘ blonde tip-too in by t * _ ) aa ‘ fa that she eved jt done and) Over v in by opposite doors. His ette rs rom t h e i eop l e ag 2 pa a apt ; Y ee at oF the oa jpadale ity den!y we bust ne A natural-minded woman can forgive her rival for anythi Please timit communications to 150 words lare alwaye with us ‘Those faithful | ha thing. Shey Niyrhat’s the matter, Gussler” asked|viuct trrw end “Cheese, de copst” | °4rt® sooner than for being a blonde! TERE Ole en m 4 c of tle a 't Neen , ends formed a litt ran however, that) : i vied . —Y ‘ . jars Prof. Gua aside ood Bast the nioue y & Httle cold or friend Fe r ies Ae ne r ate vlong siinilar | Mx. Jarr a wal upon the frosty alt | NX. B—-You don't have to be @ blonde in order to learn all these Mo. the Ratton of the Kroying World Venlonced they og eee ee aiivecand’ 16, 40a | ea—othors who a vvinion, | “OW! Wow!" bawied the boy. "Ii a6. Jane found himself instinctive: | ‘ings about them, You have to bea brunette, { am all Certalniy the “ mt Brent idea alive and to tine AR OLABE . pd me beezer!" ly er . aaa nny | --— ae id i 1 wish to answer a letter from one : Y Bid nha ed would embark on (he cnterpriee,|a dreamy, but who Have & aense of | hosted mol beesett Lp ly grabbing a coaster Gnd running | Le of your correspondents signed "W. 0." aT werent ip ce t| Wo the groat idea became tulrty | ue to the realization of it) “ eas meont he badhuer Halt eee 1 ‘ne | e Sune . Me wants to know who Prof. Garfield yy, ; Sri * . a . havo put into success | M ¢ mca: Px Safe up the street and around te t F. {s and what he knows about mining eh ieee Satan eds rie tp pe Le Axaaie | nos or as He Se a he kept ®) commer Mr, Jarr was aware of the ie es elgning aml Ng railroads, &c, When Dr. Gartield wont | «, at isc Bis ieerdiha Ndi Py ed tht very dirty handkerchief to presence of hia son and heir and 2 Japanese celebrate this) Jimmu the G h ia And will have to get a taste an mot a practical pr The woman learned this wm 1m A ee your nose?” mide i 3 ireat forced the say to Washington to take his pres Blae ita tetera thee ney . edly md aiudied the anhioct ard Many a project looks weil on paper; “HOw ole you hurt your n er Izzy Slavinsky and, for eae the Seattval of the Ae | rie Raseest cure ta ago he renigned as director of the JeM ton | can't imaselt ma Hee | crekt idea—ono who woit turthor but works different in 5 asked Mr, Jarr, i sour Wittie {2,tht age of fominine equality, i" af the Emperor Jimmu,| extended hia benefi fons and Coa) Company of Ohio, He ted that & real man fussing Li Lice AN NR Aled aL all ———| “I was sitting front and your Willie; Jarr and Mary Rangle first monarch of the Empire of] | ° cent sway over company and bullt it up and also buite | “°F # Sold Tent and wuch things, | ‘ . | was atecring and he steered me risht, pecky glavinsky pon. ‘This te one of the three great | (N® Entire country. Ie estabilshod miles of railroad to reach it a AGS NEO SRS | The American Princess of Monaco into the lamp post,” sobbed the butea-! «tit tne cops get the other cor. days of the island empire, the | Ms capital at Kloto, He formulated business man he started the Cleveland |, .,. Vite 1m @ Meatless Tent, cr'n b Aas jer?" asked Mastor Slavinsky wi" others being the Emperor's birthday |® code of laws, blished courts, Trust Company, To-day jt has about} ys” gar! ™ Freie My A ea secant HE only American w to ens Alice Heine, Duchess of Riche Wy re: | Why did he do that?” asked Mr, 1 Mr. Jarr, jand New Year's Day, Per eae Intustry and, in fact, laid fifteen brancths and holds in trust} wig replied to a Camp Wadaw iss Joy the ¢ \ and suffer) ned a widow many a before | Jare, ; | ‘Then they ull ha 0 eroun | The present Japaneso dynasty is by the foundation for that marvellous one hundred and twenty millions, Not |, emcinint ake pope: r ied Alaitlualonment of being tho |2ho Was Woeed and won by the ae ial | uso there was tor truck and! sod. and Mr. Jarr told his wite wacu {fer the oldest in the world, for Yo-|#dvanco made by the Japanese dur such a bad business man at that, is he af Si glake doceaw Ulal wehane ace ; sseealgh Wks Alind Seine! (Cece ee ne rela}, qivery wagon right on the c:088- they got home that she needn't wor |Shihito claims to be the one hundred | 88 the nineteenth century [een wind i) \ rs wife of a # ie 4s Alico Heine, | pyinge of the tiny country ef Mona © ing,” replied tho jared urchin, "O%,/, avout thw ehidren ore {and twenty-second ch of an he title of ‘ f arm: vho porn in New Orleans sixty |—no' brine! pa fo. 7 \ yan iinoser'a Aro! boty wate. nla on the sidewalks | en U dat ej "Honorable Gate, Thinks Some Sold |yet to find a medical sorge who wis horn in New cll pore bod: (BEANCIARUY: reat) on, 1 know beceer's bok feotly safe playing on the sidew | unbro} line, d the | “Honorable G To the Editor of The Evening We tent ae , years ago. Her father was Michael| gambling 1 ‘ WAS! “where ty Willie?” asked Mr. J vont of the house, — seventh century re the Christian |Jimmu, From the T Neo that a good Oe in kee cont Heine, a Jewish b who mado a|not a bed of roses, and sho soon tived| spzere on the Av'nuo,” mouned the — 9, chs The early history of Nip as | Japanese powe peadors have hardly. cri oom eeee gah al fortune in Now Orleans and settled {of i linjured oaf, and he went on his way; COAL BY THE BILLION Late recorded In the hoiy book, Shinto, |creased. The who maid it waw time 3 i The in Parle after the Franco-Prussian Vanneetience holding his nove and sobbing. unlimited |. with the dynasties of the |tike the great emperor voldiers learned that t pee i War. His daughter, Altco, became RED MAN AIDS HIS UNCLE, =| This was « clue ut least, and Mr gods ond ig wholly mythical in na-| worshipped as gods : eo are seve e)ways baye ® woman tagging ar re ar . |ture. ‘The ehind them. But I think tha history bee! Women were not ox mu Tenno, | succoss’ te when the t Seal aeen! ided from the coal await om to the throne jon of an ancient French tne, and] who atte i € Indian javenue, which was a wi tnor- Treg | ens with the bride of the Duc de Kicholieu, W ig f che students] Jacr kept on his search toward tt r know con- Russia a nd there fast right, A great many 1 sitions hee anwwer wth’ Ceeomatet, enormously tat. & 1 a won} Schoo! fant 3 h the! oughfare some two blo 1 ntyefive | in} Whose mex by Ja any famous einpresses im. the aogustomed to complain at home t SERGEANT CAMP WADSWORTH, | and daughter, after he died army or There were no children in sight, tic Ruswlay @ sone of Nippon, ». hivtory of Japan ‘ f i