The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1918, Page 16

Che CHA sions, ESTABLISHED BY JOS Pudlished Dally Except sun, by tho Press PubMahing Company, Nos. 62 to 6 Row, New York. Amoniated Prom | eredited to it or sot ott RAL PULATZDR, Prestdent, 63 Park Tow. 3 S SHAW, “Preasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZEK, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park How, MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, SY wk tae Sad et Used wes hea Bea IN JUSTICE TO MR. MURPHY. URING tho recent municipal campaign, on Oct. 22, 1917, Tho D Evening World reprinted in ite editorial columns, with coin- mente, certain charges that were made against Charles | Marphy, the leader of Tammany Hall, in the campaign of 1903, and published at that time. These charges were in the form of alleged statements of former Chief of Police William Devery, and were to the effect that Mr. Murphy had been interested in poolrooms and other illegal resorts, and had been engaged in transactions which re- flected upon his civic and personal integrity. Investigation by The World’s Bureau of Accuracy and Tair Play has shown that there is no basis of truth whatever for theso allega- tions, and that in so far as they affect Mr. Murphy’s integrity they are wholly false. The man who originally made them admits that he has no evidence of any kind to sustain them. Honce the charges and the eources of the charges must be dismissed as equally irre eponsible, The World’s Bureau of Aconracy and Pair Play waa instituted for the objects that its title implies. Mr. Murphy is entitled to an équa] measure of justice with any other citizen. In this cage the fact that The World has consistently opposed Mr. Murphy’s leader- ship of Tammany Hall is only an added reason why thero ehould be scrupulous and willing fairness in relieving him from any burden of false accusation. | The Evening World, desiring at all times to be fair, wishes now to publicly express, both to Mr. Murphy and ite readers, ita sincere regret that these unfounded charges were published. VIA AUSTRIA? T IS just as well to bear in mind that when Count von Hertling, I the German Chancellor, talks in the open his tones must be tho} tones of confident Prussianism. When be whispers through a| side door it may be different, A despatch from Rome quotes from the Germania, a Berlin news-} paper which ig called tho organ of Chancellor von Hertling, an| article expressing confidenco not only that Count Czernin’s recent} speech was deliberately intended to prepare the ground for peace porleys between Austria and the United States, but that-—what is) more—the epeech could not have been made without the consent) of Berlin. ‘The latest utterance of the President of the United States leaves | the possibility of peace standing very close to the Austrian door. It may be that is where the German Chancellor wants to eee it To eave the face of militarism before an outraged Junker party in Germany it might be very convenient to be able to point out that it) was Austria that stopped the fight and let in the white-robed stranger. —————— DOWN THE RETAIL FOOD-PROFITEER.| A $ AGAINST profiteering on the part of retail food dealers, consumers in this city will ehortly have the protection of a price-card system put into effect by the Federal Food Ad- ministration along lines long urged by The Evening World. The plan will give constant publicity to food prices, wholesale and retail. The latter will be under the strict supervision of the Federa) Food Board. The retail food dealer will not be permitted to take more than fair profits nor to charge prices higher than are war- ranted by location, cartage distance from the source of supply, ete. Consumers will be asked to co-operate by noting the card prices and making due complaint of overcharges or of deficiencies in the quality of food sold. In their campaign for food conservation Food Administrators will find that nothing is more certain to increase the patriotio will- ingness of housekeepers to heed the recommendations of the food eonservors than daily evidence that Food Boards are effectively at work to prevent profiteering in the articles to which demand is directed. Consumers have been dismayed to find that the kinds of food which they are specially urged, in the nation’s interest, to eat, are straightway advanced in price al a rate for which there appears to be no check. The price-card system can do much to convince the public that the Food Administration—supported by honest food dealers, who are 4n the majority—is doing what can be done to keep the rise of all food prices within economically determined limits which the Price) sincerely, whan all the boosters cannot exceed without promptly being called to account. Rabs wanted to fuel in any of their parties, his chum, Babs paiyed off, always loaving BIly to make love to me. I F at EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, February 18 | My Matrimonial Chances Recording the Experiences of a Young Girl of Thirty By Wilma Pollock Cowright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. (i1.—The “Substitute.” UGENB EVANS has never mar- ried because his heart was set op winning Eliza- beth Hunter for his wife. Gene, who was about fifteen years older than Bubs, had waited reach able n he began to court her But she knew she would not marry him, and so did everybody eles except Gone, who made her life one continu. ous Joy ride, and be on, Whew me, her chum Geno Invited Billy Ward, Gene and © often ondered how he managed to do It ao he mus | among all these happy cou! But Geno was my devoted Galahad. He} behaved Itke @ foolish lover, It was really have been longing to be with | The Evening World calls upon the members of its Housewives’| Habs. Fer Gono adored Babs, Billy | Protective Association to help make the price-card system the strong- ata ; 2 ane er rae alt est protection yet against the profiteer, oy caonees iia (Waal SiRKE) penta SS ey THE GREAT RUSSIAN DRAMA. 1.—Mobillzation, Mub-Iization, Demoralization, Act IV.—-Disintegration. Hits rom Sharp Wits Those thrift stamps shew |, Dont tell Ra) you know, but its cult to be 2h-cent younger than Geno handsome, and tn time she deci her admirably as a busband, fused Gene, he bega the dog In the manger who was keep- ing tho tw But he was ¢ ‘ous amb! and suc ed he would They played the game honorably and as long as Geno was etill in the ring, Rilly kept out. Whon Babs for the tenth tir seo was lovesick iidren apart Babs, we happened never to mest. We mot again Friday evening at the celebration of the Wards’ tip wedding, at Tarrytown, Most of the suests went back on a late train, but Babs's alster Katherine and her fance, Hugh Carr, the newly wed trowr J... and Maud Rivers, Bob ind Sybil King, Gene's married sla- ter and her husband, and Gene and T remained with Babs and Billy for the week end, I expected to feel quite out of tt wonderful to be adored so, although J almost wished bo would be a little more reserved and conceal bis ardor & little from the others, In the soft lamp lighted room after 4 strenuous day out of doors he sat at my foet before the fire, gazing worshipfully up at mo and audibly whispering the tenderest nothings. The others were all vastly inter- ested and exclied 10 was oblive lous to everybody and everything but me On Monday 1 © mon left on an early train—all but Gene, who devotedly waited to go to town with ne. The Kindergarten is closed on Mondays, so there was no neod ot my burrying. Babs drove us to the station In her car and made us promise to come jsoon aguin, taking it quite for granted in ree | that we would only want to come to her. . We were no sooner on the train than heaving @ great sigh, sald: “'Chank God, that's over. 1 am #o weary of haying people pity ai Bill in love with Geno, use 1 Even bee me my own olster says t around Babs too much, 1 thought | would cure them of the tdea, Think | succeeded, don't you? For even Baba was fooled. I knew you would not take seriously. 1 made you the g but you're alwaya game and unders 1 assured Gene 1 knew al} the time he was playing, For if tt mado him happier 1 do not toind being hurt and disappointed and made a fool of in the eyes of my friends, Yor was J not born eanaible? Have | 1 mot achieved being “game?” and ba. not being "made the gowt” heen thrust upon me? t the Governmont refuses to use| 4% close-mouthed with] he packed up and went West. His famous slogan, “No quarter,—|YOUr dentist Philadelphia Record. | eoing was aa KOO! as a “God bless Milwaukee News, |, ‘There ts much talk about food and| you, my children,” for after Gone! oe |fuel shortage, but there te quite ag! jeft, Billy never called on me again Bome me bieity and| Ruey scare Se ascarcity—Dosaret| ti concentrated on Babs, and in tw tmagine that it ts | * 8 6 | montha’ time they ar their Journal, The man who saws wood and says| engagement. . 2 8 {nothing has aleo th 7a | ennnes! eae rah if Count thet day lost whore low de-| could n Gene came back not a lover “pale! poending sin sees no fresh scrap tn} “Albany Jour-| and wan," but apparently heart | Russia's realm begun. — Cleveland a | whole, in time to be be an at the Plain Dealer, | News presents the in- | welding. I fades dothoncr, That teresting theory that juge was in. ia ae near as | have ovor got to mar- vented by a muatolan who “attempied rying. to ploy }!s Chinese Jaundry tick: ; mislake,"—-Taledo Blade oN PY) Gone came to aro mie a tow times, 8 an. then until Inat wook I had not L's getting #0 nowadays that you him sinoe Babe and ni ; can't turn” your Back on ony SOOn iN Aue den waddl IY: ale 8 without facing unother.—Bos. brat Lig oe AL ton Transeript. Unoug) me and | freqgueally visited A By Roy L. 6 ILL you be late this eve- 1 ag?" sked Mrs. Jarr. ‘Why do you always ask | that?” {aquired the best of husbands, @omewhat petulantly, “You know | where I work, you know what the of- fice bours are, you know how long it takes to get home when my day's work 1 done, yor know" — “I know a lot of things,” Mrs, Jarr | interrupted, “but I do not know what |time you'll be home this evening, so |I'm asking. Simply because you say | you've stopped smoking ts no reason why you should be cross es 4 bear! If you are going to be un old crank | Just because you don’t waste all your |money on tobacco, why, start emokiog again!” “The great mystery fs," mused Mr. Jarr, bis thoughts going off on a | aide track at Mrs. Jarr’s remark about all the money he wasted on smoking, “the great mystery in ‘What becomes of all tho money we |do not spend when we swear off our expensive habits and pastimes? | used to spend,” (here Mr. Jarr checked himself as he started to ay “a dollar Ja day”) “a dime a day on cigars ot tobacco. Where {ty that money I |don’t spend on smokes now? | “Well, I'm eure I haven't st! Mrs, Jarr, “but J want to know If | will be home carly this event {cause I want you to look after th children at dinner, as I am going with Clara Mudridge-Smith and = Mra Stryver to the training camp to take Smileage Books to our soldier boys,” “Fine!” cried Mr. Jarr. “Thoso are the coupon theatre tickets used at the soldier entertainments, aren't thoy? It's a great idea, and It is one that the | theatrical managers should copy. W: may do away with tho theatrte: ‘ticket speculator that way, | heatres ewild sell comedy ovupons | and musica, show meal tickets.” ould “How could we afford to »uy such | things unles they were sold on the instalment plan?” asked Mrs, Jarr 3ut our Wartime Ladies’ Knitung League bought a lot of Smileage | Books we are going to take them Jout to camp As it is quite + jour. ney, I do not know what time I will |pe bome, ard we may have dinner |gomewhere; no I want you to be | nome early and look after the oh. dren and the house,” | “Anything to please you," replied lyr, Jerr, ‘Just what am I to do?” | See thac Wililc is neat at the eat thelr svup—thia te wheatlerss or meetiess day, | forget whion; but, anyway, we Dave fish for dinner, and | table and see that both the ob Copyright, 1019, by the Press Publishir McCardell A Peaceful Understanding wmv, By J. H.Cassel mm Coney The Jarr Fa mily Co, (Tue New York Bresing World), that they eat it." way,” said Mrs. Jarr. if Mr, Hoover vices for my country. Mr, Jarr, vo," sald Mrs, Jur. mo to the moving } oka to the soldiers, wore Smileage Books for torn out Jarr inquired, “You coul Mrs, Jarr replied, geod one, Why shouldn't | ben hee that you get as much enjoy. | thelr voices. It In said thut the peas own when troops drilled und vient eut of the coupons as Ido,” ante were amazed and startled at ew system met in sham bat (ee Mrs. Jarr wasn't #o sure of the first sight of half-naked warriors, |an equa ieveloped by the ol this, because, as she said, even ff the coming at top speed from a bit of|method. Tho umpire's dectstan w, supposititious Family Smileage Book’ woodland period of vielent| thet they oad lost four “deat? anc ail coupons walle De roe ores aE). exercise Is followed by one of qulet,|few “wounded.” against 900 “ar binochie or corner eafes? ean) movew, At the end, in alfor thelr opponents, 4 £ the childria do not Uke fish, uo see “Anything they do not Ike they! trimmed with must take, what they do not W@Dt/ ajthough the programme did not so y can have?” asked Mr, Jarr, wish you wouldn't put it that “I only know knew how much trouble I had trying to follow his) ways to win the war at the dinner table, he would appreciate my I simply can't| make the children eat corn muffins or oatmeal bread on wheatless day “Can I take them out to the mov-| ing pictures if they are good?” asked | ? “Vhey wore naughty yesterday after J let them pictures, I them to stay home and go to bed ear-| ship and, likewise, it smooths over ly to-night, so they vill not be late) to gchoo! to-morrow, for this 19 euch | 4 short month and there are so many 20lidays tn it that they forget what they are taught between times,” “You are going tu take Smileage | but if famille: couldn't I have few movie coupons for our youngstors {f they deserved “Buu that reo me that your suggestion is a very there Family Smileage Books? If the eb. |' dren were good they could be given coupons for the moving pictures or|!t bas for lee cream soda or candy.” | ined| Planned to tnerease thelr fight > Ks q tal than physical, and that strained ‘And @ man could get Ap evening |'A) rae ee restful slumber impos Amann whe, thrsnanprane out on bis Smileage Book trom hty| Mer ie mma wens at (oneal 1s acquired agility whileety v! Bb a? ‘g sible when th 10 a i bak Neuen had been good?” suggested |Prm the trenches to @ rest camp fOr B prostrate, hue a better chang : “ | h ife In a sudden en Mra: Jarr considered ihe euepestion (MONAT) Sere oe stoners fear naceae ge tauunter at ni tow ts “y he suggestion | "4 remarkably successful method)!” 3s Land, and ronp Rep dliepaeprsag wat "Well,| oe getting the soldiers back Ito cous | Jump and climblng inake him coupons might be used that way | ion ceuta hae, been cevieed by |i ubonent arte “ nt a tae of a“ aeorae and Tiout, Hebert of the French navy.) adi aol Mate eight veo them for trading | Without pausing to rest, they are The new method has entirely @ a et Stamps vent | marched from the trenches {nt the | placed tho old system of training g i stamps or Thrift Stamps,” ventured | | country back of the line, ‘There |eruits Just culled to the colors, % mr BATE: ve uown pou would they@ure put through a course of} French sold now taught © ‘ “L might have known you would say | ‘he roe A 4 mie A | a! ., o hat,” plhed strenuous ph . ? | en hae a and per eae tripped tothe wilal che mae. & thoro t Moreen atat poot mother jg (out for a cfoss-country Tun, over instruction in throwing hand grenad { aoe ae aie hereclt by axvine| fences and ditches, up hill and down, | and the use of the bayonet, ‘The o} if ae nega Bersele OF #AVIDE | god along winding forest paths, They |alr exercise te me the ana deere remarked Mr, Jarr,| Jump. climb trees, crawl like snakes | hardens tge skin and fits a man ome Fomily Smileage Book basn'y|throust srasey places, all the while| withstand exposu ail weathan been Invented yet, and ff tt ever Is War Medals Of the Fighting Nations Courant, 1918, by the Boe (ow New York Breaing World), 0. 5.—-ITALY AND MONTENEGRO. Ubbitug Co, i he ining, the war oven for Italy truly am uphill 6 the summits of the mountains witch marked her frontiers enemy territory and tieavily f Progreas could only be m ay by scaling the peaks, warfure u (bo most difficul circumstances, ‘Tho peaks were conquered and feats of tilllary elill and daring had been record when there came the disaster of the late autumn an for a timo all hope seeriod lost. Hut the Ltallans mad " stand and are atti! standing; they have “come back, and to such an army all things are bie. The proudest | hope to win ts the Medal of V: oliver, and of bronze, worn ov ta awarded for acts ¢ ple and men alike, The distinction; that of silver is t insignia of courage ts re or which these ting mon mi: r. Itls made of gold, of ribbon of light blue, am lantry to officers Medal of Valor Is @ hi to win, but the go for acts of herot Indeed, it ts usual warded only to those who have esucrificed thelr Ws ( {nm some venture which meant certain death The Military Order cf Savoy was egtablished in 1515 and {s of fh asece, the award of even the lowest of them cov- lt fs @ white crovs, the ral stripe of bias, t cor which esto and ro that country st for oil Ttallans, ‘The lttis Mountain kingdom, fa{thful to ite ally, Serbia, entered the Great conflict after but a brief period of recupera- tle es in the Balkap wars. Her hardy {era put up the gallant defense that was to be ex- sl of them, but without ava y were crushed by th Teutonic wave. The Order of Danilo, a general order of merit, ts the reward bestowed by the sovereign for faithful and gallagit service, It com. memorates the Independence of Montenegro, {s of blue el, with a white and red ribbon, and was es- din 1852, holda a ean- from its los Dan! (Fourth class.) Ellabelle Mae Doolittle By Bide Dudley 3018, by tho Pres sila Co, (The New ¥ of the x Ereatug World), uvational Section Ar now," Miss Doolittle D Women's let us see if we cannot write Leagues held a meeting at site poem. I will start it Hall Tuesday afternoon t « @ pencil and a pad ure by Lllabelle Mao L poetess, on the sub- 4 "Miss and wrote, Then sbe read? little, Love ty tn each woman's heart.” ‘pect “That ty our tntreductury {Doolittle had promised to givo th b dies a leyson in the art of rhyaitn) id, a9 w result, the bull was packed, Don't let the horse get before ti Q. Pe Promptress, called the meeting to order at 2 o'clock and all was expectancy. “It bas always been my keen | young wowun on the stage. “Lovel: desire,” sold tho Promptress in ber|she sald. “Now for another ki | opening addre: to be able to write | uy: poetry, Once I tried It, writing a | rhyme about my uncle, Josiah Greer, |} but he didn't Ike it because I made his name rhyme with ‘beer.’ So I \nung off of poctry after that, To- day wo bave a treat tp store A noted poetess ts to tell us how to write the muse, and I am sure we will relish her talk. I have the honor bad tn the Bogs ace of the fam Into love we'll fall some da Mrs, Skweter O'Brien leaped to h test shouted “Boom ta ra ra, boom te aye." Very good!" eald Miss Doollt ‘ow IT will finish the rhyme fo you and the first lesson will be over! She sat down at the promptre: table and se 4 just two minut to present Miss Lilubelle Mao|The jadies awaited the fints breat! Doolittle. lessly. “A concerted sigh of exp Miss Doolittle stepped to the front /tancy weut up when she arose. Imei of the rostrum. She was becomingly | medi Miva Doolittle read the fine ™y gowned in Swiss cheesecloth, draped | shou duct an follows: Paviowa style and ps of cotton batting. | Jaround her io woman's heart: fot before the cart, Into love we'l) fall some day, Reo ta ra ra, boon te eye, ‘Tme love comes but only once. Cupid dom some funny stunie; Do not let him «et you crazy About some poker player who's lay, state, tho gown was by Smudge, the well known Delhi ladies’ tallor. She bowed and smiled in all directions. It was truly a moment of artistic expectation. “Dear friends,” she began. “Un- Lage re Phd fale, . ot Mt you will wurely F-|doubtedly the poetic Instinct Hes) iM ite i eet smoutdering im your souls, We are| — yay ctr our fence ant broke Put of Ie in t that One of sour Dusbande {0 Chicago T kaoe Went t ee several burlesque shows, The last Jes dumb wondered if guilty one, {ttle began here to-day to awaken it that It may speak and, mayhap, continue to spouts.” | “Beautiful,” was the comment of | Mrs, Cutey Boggs. “T intend,” continued the noted pocless, “to tead you In poetry com- position. Poetry helps one tn court two for lines struck ¢ the nonce, her husband was th However, o9 Misa Doo to back up stage thi all found thelr voices, A great ob went up and then the ladles a: want one’s troubles when all ts drear.” me speech!” murmured Mra. Peloo Brown, wife of Constable |plauded with greut gusto, Brown. | All were pleased — there Strenuous Athletics Revive Exhausted French Fighters 1 would naturally be supposed that| fine glow ond with mind dive: soldiers on returning, plustored | sound, refreshing sleep ts easy, with mud, ebilled and exhausted, one object of the new from a period of trench duty, would | tem t Uring back :o top form mem 49 allowed to turn in and sleep un-| Gone stale from trench life, the faa leit they could sleep no longer. But] that they are soldiers ts always the been found that the fatigue] first consideration, and each of the of this type of warfare ts more men-| ¢xercisea prescribed {9 carefaligy be shouting and singing at the tops of} The great benefits of auch traint